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2013 Serena Williams tennis season

It was the first time Serena was able to defend a US Open title while also becoming the oldest women's US Open champion in the Open Era, surpassing the previous record set by Australia's Margaret Court.

2013 WTA Tour Championships

Serena Williams started the year with high expectations after finishing the 2012 season strongly.

Acraea serena

Aurivillius (1898) considers that manjaca Boisduval is a variety of Fabricius' serena which had, in turn, been put in synonymy with terpsicore Linnaeus by Butler (1894), and which then was thought to be eponina Cramer (Le Doux, 1928, Carcasson, 1961).

Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development

Under the brand name Serena, TPS constructs and maintains a multitude of resorts, hotels and other tourist attractions that serve to stimulate local economic growth through increased employment, development of a skilled workforce, increased productivity of local businesses (particularly in the design and craft spheres) and the general development of given areas.

Anna Pujol Puigvehi

As archaeologist she has taught several technical courses in Empuries and with international Franco-Spanish teams has excavated at sites of scientific importance as the oriental palace of Cancho Roano, (Zalamea de la Serena, Badajoz, Spain) or the Gallo-Roman town of Bibracte (Mount-Beuvary, Nièvre, France ), and in numerous sites of different periods and types of Spain, Catalonia (Ullastret, Ampurias ...) and Europe (Saint-Remy-de-Provence, Bourges, Bordighera, Liguria ...).

Anthea Phillipps

She lives in Kota Kinabalu, the capital of Sabah, and is married to Anthony Lamb (with two children, Serena and Alexander Lamb).

Bison Dele

On 6 July 2002 Dele and his girlfriend, Serena Karlan, along with skipper Bertrand Saldo, sailed from Tahiti on Dele's catamaran, the Hukuna Matata.

Candy Samples

In 1979, she performed with John Holmes, Johnny Keyes, Serena, Uschi Digard, Kitten Natividad, and Kelly Stewart in the pornographic film John Holmes and the All-Star Sex Queens from Zane Entertainment Group.

Costa Serena

In 2009 Costa Serena and her crew was featured in the six-episode National Geographic Channel documentary series "Cruise Ship Diaries".

Dan Humphrey

In "The Dark Night," during the city-wide blackout, Dan and Serena talk about their problems while they were both trapped in an elevator.

Delores Ivory Davis

She has performed in the Broadway musical Porgy and Bess as Serena and in the televised performance of Treemonisha as Monisha alongside Obba Babatundé.

Édouard Loubet

His collaboration with the Prince Aga Khan has also led him to develop a menu of the Mandhari - Nairobi Serena’s restaurant-, and coach the Delagoa’s chefs, the restaurant Polana Serena in Maputo, Mozambique.

El Día

El Día (Chile), a newspaper published in La Serena, Chile serving the Coquimbo Region

Father and the Bride

Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively): Serena finds that she may still have feelings for Dan as they fake-date to protect Blair.

Gary Tello

Tello was promoted to La Serena's first team in the 2010 season, debuting on 9 May of that year against Palestino in a 3–0 away defeat at La Cisterna's Municipal Stadium.

Hi, Society

The episode opens with Blair and Serena discussing Cotillion.

Jean Georges

In the Season 2 episode of Gossip Girl, "The Magnificent Archibalds", Blair was telling Serena over the phone that Cyrus took her mother to Jean Georges for dinner.

Jenny Humphrey

Jenny has been living in Hudson with her mother since May due to the troubles that occurred in "Last Tango, Then Paris", where she caused an uproar with Serena and Dan when she sent a picture of the two of them in bed together, which lead to the breakup of both Dan and Vanessa & Serena and Nate.

Marquita Lister

During August 2011, Lister sang the role of Serena in Porgy and Bess at Tanglewood.

Monument to Nizami Ganjavi in Rome

Mehriban Aliyeva, the first lady of Azerbaijan and president of Heydar Aliyev Foundation and also Serena Forni, head of the Rome City Mayor’s Office International Department, representatives of Azerbaijani Embassy in Italy, deputy minister of Culture and Tourism of Azerbaijan and others participated in the opening ceremony of the monument.

NG Life

Keidai Saeki is a high school student with memories of his past life as Sirix Lucretius Fronto, a gladiator in Pompeii who lost his wife Serena in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Nissan Serena

In Taiwan a lengthened version of the Serena C24 has been manufactured by Yulon under the Nissan label.

Recombinant Immunotoxin Collaborative Group

The RICG was formed in 2005 and originally consisted of Dr Aldo Ceriotti and Dr M. Serena Fabbrini (IBBA, CNR, Milan), Professor Marco Colombatti (University of Verona), Professor Rodolfo Ippoliti (University of L'Aquila), Dr Alessandro Pini (University of Siena) and Drs David Flavell & Sopsamorn Flavell (University of Southampton Medical School & Leukaemia Busters).

Rhodes to Perdition

Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively): Serena gets closer to Max but Charlie warns her that he came to New York for an ex-girlfriend and that they may be moving too fast.

Serena Berman

In her later teen years, Serena focused more closely on her studies at Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, California, but did have a role in Just Peck.

Serena Bishop

At the school formal, Serena flirts with Taj Coppin (Jaime Robbie Reyne) but he tries to put her off by pretending to come on heavy with her.

Serena Lederer

Born in a rich Jewish family,(a relative of the U.S. journalist Joseph Pulitzer), Serena was known for being a beauty in her youth and later a Grande Dame.

Serena Sutcliffe

Serena Sutcliffe, Master of Wine, (born 1945), is the head of Sotheby's international wine department, as well as a prominent writer on wine.

Serena Valentino

Serena Valentino is a comic book-writer, based in San Francisco, who is known for work on Gloomcookie (Artist: Vincent Batignole) and Nightmares & Fairy Tales (Artist: Camilla D'Errico).

Serena van der Woodsen

In November 2012 concept music artist Marty McKay released a single called "Serena" featuring former Dr. Dre / Aftermath producer Focus....

Sonia Viveros

Her last marriage was to Professor Leopoldo Segovia, from la Serena whom she met while filming the TV series called Borrón y Cuenta Nueva (Clean Slate) and she settled in La Serena.

Stilicho

The marriage took place around the time of Stilicho's mission to Persia, and ultimately Serena gave birth to a son, who was named Eucherius, and two daughters, Maria and Thermantia.

The End of the Affair?

Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively): Serena is forced to bring back old feelings for Dan when she covers Blair's secrets by saying she is dating Dan.

The Ex Files

Isabelle Carreau, from TV Squad, continued to compare Serena and Dan's relationship to Rachel and Ross from Friends and also said that "Blake Lively delivered it with the right amount of attitude and bitchiness" her final lines in the episode.

The Serena Also Rises

In the midst of Fashion Week, a furious Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester) plans on sabotaging Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) after Serena claims her Queen Bee status and rejecting her for New York socialite Poppy Lifton (Tamara Feldman), during her mother's fashion show.

They Shoot Humphreys, Don't They?

Blair thinks her plans to take down Jenny may have worked out better if Chuck hadn’t cornered Blair and Serena (Blake Lively) in an elevator until they made up.

Williams sisters rivalry

The only match between the sisters to end in a third-set tiebreak, both Venus and Serena were, according to commentator and former player Tracy Austin "busting a gut to win".


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