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Rebecca Riots

In 1948 Dylan Thomas wrote the screenplay for a film, Rebecca's Daughters, which was published as a novel of the same name in 1965.


7th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment

His father and mother, John W. and Rebecca (Merritt) Robinson, were natives of Connecticut and had two sons, the only brother of Colonel Robinson being Andrew N. The father was a lieutenant in the War of 1812 and fought at Sackets Harbor, Plattsburgh and Stone Mill, being severely wounded in the last.

Autobody

All hail from (or subsequently joined) other arty post-rock/freeform acts like Caroliner, Dymaxion, Fly Ashtray, Job's Daughters, Wharton Tiers Ensemble, Flaming Fire, The Aerosols, Bare Flames, and Drumhead.

Barbara Bloom

She joined ABC Daytime in 1992 and was Vice President, Director, Daytime Programming, West Coast from 1994-2000 where she worked closely with Mary Burch and Rebecca Lane.

Becky Edelsohn

Rebecca Edelsohn, in contemporary sources often given as Becky Edelson, (1892–1973) was an anarchist and hunger striker who was jailed in 1914 for disorderly conduct during an Industrial Workers of the World speech.

Brian Wildsmith

From 1971 Wildsmith lived in France at Castellaras, a hill village near Cannes and Grasse, with his wife, Aurelie, and their four children, Clare, Rebecca, Anna and Simon.

Didn't We Almost Have It All?

Loretta Devine (Adele Webber), Diahann Carroll (Jane Burke), Tsai Chin (Yang's mother), Elizabeth Reaser (Rebecca Pope), Steven W. Bailey (Joe), Jack Yang (Walter) all reprised their role as guest stars.

Ekaterina Starshova

In 2007, the then 6-year old Starshova was given the role of Polina "Pugovka" Vasnetsova in the Russian TV series, Daddy's Daughters (Papiny docki), alongside Andrei Leonov, Nonna Grishaeva, Miroslava Karpovich, Anastasia Sinavaeva, Darya Melnikova, and Elizaveta Arzamasova.

Eric Schocket

In Vanishing Moments: Class and American Literature (University of Michigan Press, 2006), Schocket examined the way in which class-conscious American literature (such as by Herman Melville, Rebecca Harding Davis, William Howells, and Langston Hughes) confronted and addressed the typical American denial of issues of social stratification.

Farewell Baghdad

On the very day of her marriage, 29 March 2003 Rebecca (Pantea Bahram) lost her husband during the British-American attack on Iraq.

Francis Orpen Morris

Morris was the eldest son of the Royal Navy's Admiral Henry Gage Morris and Rebecca Orpen, youngest daughter of the Rev. Francis Orpen, vicar of Kilgarvan, co. Kerry.

Garden Key Light

Ernest Hemingway's 1932 short story "After the Storm" is about a shipwreck between Garden Key and Rebecca Shoal, to the east of Garden Key.

Gawler railway station

The station building has appeared in a number of television shows and movies including The Shiralee and McLeod's Daughters.

Hotchkiss family

Rebecca
(Maureen McCormick, 2000; Andrea Evans, 2000–08)
Rebecca seduced Jonathan as a young woman, stealing him away several other socialites.

Ira O. McDaniel

In the 1830s he lived in Monroe, Georgia with his wife Rebecca Walker (November 10, 1819 – April 19, 1854) where their son, Henry McDaniel, a future Governor of Georgia was born.

James Shears and Sons

Rebecca Shears (1786-?) was married to James Spurrell (1776-1840) and Hannah Shears (1790-1882) to Charles Spurrell – James and Charles were brothers and members of the Spurrell family of Norfolk; they were also senior employees at the Anchor Brewery, Southwark.

James Watney

On 15 October 1829, at St. Saviour's Church, Southwark (now Southwark Cathedral), James Watney married Rebecca Spurrell, elder daughter of the brewer and hop merchant James Spurrell, of Park Street, Southwark, who was employed by Barclay & Perkins's Anchor Brewery, Southwark.

Kevin Brockmeier

:Featuring stories by: Stephen King, Peter S. Beagle, Laura Kasischke, Jeffrey Ford, Lisa Goldstein, Paul Tremblay, Will Clarke, Thomas Glave, John Kessel, Kellie Wells, Ryan Boudinot, Rebecca Makkai, Martin Cozza, Chris Gavaler, Deborah Scwartzand, Shawn Vestal, and Katie Williams.

Kolbotn

Striker Rebecca Angus from Middlesbrough, England also played four seasons for Kolbotn in 2007-10.

Majority Rules!

The series revolves around Rebecca (Becky) Richards (Tracy Spiridakos), a fifteen year-old whose life is changed when she is elected mayor of her hometown of Mayfield.

Mario Millo

Millo recorded the track, "Rebecca" for the various artists' Australian Guitar Album released in 1979, it was issued as a shared single with Harvey James' "Let It Go".

Mary Silliman

Mary Fish was born on May 30, 1736 in Stonington, Connecticut to the Puritan Reverend Joseph Fish and his wife Rebecca.

Melvin Lorrel Nichols

Nichols was born in Dayton, Ohio, the son of Joseph Wiseman Nichols, a cabinetmaker, and Sarah Rebecca Heidelbaugh.

Momversation

Regular contributors to the Momversation show include Heather Armstrong of the website Dooce, Alice Bradley, Daphne Brogdon, Asha Dornfest, Jessica Gottlieb, Giyen Kim, Dana Loesch, Maggie Mason, Mindy Roberts, Heather Spohr, Karen Walrond, and Rebecca Woolf.

Music from McLeod's Daughters

McLeod's Daughters have had many different songs for their closing credits which are written by Posie Graeme-Evans & Chris Harriot and performed by singer Rebecca Lavelle who also had a guest role in series 6 as Bindi Martin

Pandora's Daughters

The Role and Status of Women in Greek and Roman Antiquity, 1987 book by Eva Cantarella

Performance Lab 115

The company was founded in 2005 by Columbia University School of Drama graduates Jeff Clarke, Rebecca Lingafelter, Shelley Gershoni and Elena Mulroney and has been a performer with the New York International Fringe Festival for several theatrical seasons.

Raphael Pumpelly

Her sister, Rebecca Kettell Shepard married author and publisher George Haven Putnam, the eldest son of publisher George Palmer Putnam and Victorine Haven Putnam.

Rebecca

Like Abraham before him, who called Sarah his "sister" rather than his "wife" so that the Egyptians would not kill him and take his wife, Isaac told the people of Gerar that Rebecca was his sister.

Rebecca Akufo-Addo

Rebecca Akufo-Addo (neé Griffiths-Randolph) is the daughter of judge and the Third Republic of Ghana speaker of Parliament, Jacob Hackenburg Griffiths-Randolph, and the wife of the leader of the Ghanaian New Patriotic Party and politician Mr. Nana Akufo-Addo.

Rebecca Akufo-Addo is the wife of lawyer, Mr. Nana Akufo-Addo who is running for presidency of Ghana in the 2012 Ghanaian presidential elections as the New Patriotic Party (NPP) candidate.

Rebecca Gratz

Gratz is said to have been the model of Rebecca, the daughter of the Jewish merchant Isaac of York, who is the heroine in the novel Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott.

Rebecca Harper

Roxy Olin, daughter of Patricia Wettig (the actress who plays Rebecca Harper's mother Holly) and Ken Olin, auditioned for the role of Rebecca.

Rebecca Horn

In 2005 the Hayward Gallery in London held a comprehensive Rebecca Horn retrospective; in conjunction with this exhibition, St Paul's Cathedral shoed show Horn's installation Moon Mirror.

Rebecca Lim

Rebecca was born to a Hokkien family.The second child of three children, Rebecca studied at CHIJ Saint Nicholas Girls' School (Primary and Secondary), Victoria Junior College and Singapore Management University (SMU).

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Most of the children have fanciful names, such as Marquis and Jenny Lind, influenced by the father's artistic background (Rebecca is named after both the heroines in Ivanhoe).

Shirley Temple played Rebecca in the more freely interpreted adaptation of 1938.

Rebecca Wight

Rebecca Wight -- a student, of Iranian and Puerto Rican heritage, who was working on her Master's Degree in Business Administration -- and 32-year-old Claudia Brenner -- a Jewish, Manhattan-born architecture student -- were partners for two years, after meeting over breakfast while both were students at Virginia Tech.

Rebekah Johnson

Rebecca has had major acting roles in two films, Barry Levinson's Liberty Heights and in the 2003 gay romantic drama Latter Days where she sings two themes: Another Beautiful Day and Tuesday 3:00am.

Rebecca began writing with John Legend and Alice Smith, and in 2010 was given the Abe Olman Award by the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Renovation Rescue

The show was presented by three hosts, Rebecca Harris, Scott Cam and Peter Everett.

Retro Productions

Their sixth nomination that year was for Outstanding Costume Design (Rebecca Cunningham) for their production of What I Did Last Summer by A.R. Gurney.

Rivkah

Rebecca (Rivka in modern Israeli Hebrew), a biblical matriarch from the Book of Genesis

Rosmersholm

Rosmer then asks Rebecca to prove her devotion to him by committing suicide the same way his former wife did--by jumping into the mill-race.

RRIICCEE

2007 with members Vincent Gallo, Eric Erlandson, Rebecca Casabian, Nikolas Haas, Corey Lee Granet (Japan, San Francisco)

Sonia Fowler

They visit Rebecca's guardian, Margaret Wilson (Janet Amsden), hiding their true identity but when Margaret realises who they are, she orders them to leave.

Sure Feels Good

The video stars Mike Di Scala and Chris Henry from Ultrabeat, Darren Styles, Rebecca Rudd, and Playboy model Lisa-Marie Bourke with other models as the strippers.

Thomas New

He was born near Studley, Warwickshire and arrived in Sydney on the Troubadour in June 1843 with his parents Cornelius and Rebecca New and his sister Emily.

Wells–Bennett–Grant family

He married seven wives: Eliza Rebecca Robison; Louisa Free, former wife of John D. Lee; Martha Givens Harris; Lydia Ann Alley; Susan Hannah Alley, sister of Lydia; Hannah Corrilla Free, sister of Louisa; and Emmeline Blanche Woodward

William Clapp House

The house was built in 1806 for the marriage of William Clapp (March 3, 1779 - February 29, 1860), son of Capt. Lemuel and Rebecca (Dexter) Clap who built the nearby Captain Lemuel Clap House.


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