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Three Women

3 Women, a 1977 American film directed by Robert Altman



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158th New York State Legislature

For the first time there were three women in the Legislature: Ex-Assemblywoman Rhoda Fox Graves (Rep.), of Gouverneur, a former school teacher who after her marriage became active in women's organisations and politics, was the first woman elected to the State Senate; Assemblywoman Doris I. Byrne (Dem.), a lawyer from the Bronx, was re-elected; and Jane H. Todd (Rep.), of Tarrytown, was also elected to the Assembly.

1682 in England

25 August - Following the Bideford witch trial, three women become the last known to be hanged for witchcraft in England, at Exeter.

Adelaide Hanscom Leeson

The design, in a colorful Arts and Crafts movement style, portrayed three women representing Seattle (right), Alaska (middle) and "the Orient" (left) all extending their hands to each other while holding representations of each area's economic strengths (respectively, railroad commerce, mineral resources and ship-going commerce).

Chen Liting

After moving to the Kunlun Film Company, a new private studio, Chen directed Women Side by Side (also translated as Three Women or Female Fighters) in early 1949.

Devonshire MS

The Devonshire MS (British Library, MS Add. 17492) is a verse miscellany from the 1530s and early 1540s, compiled by three women who attended the court of Anne Boleyn: Mary Shelton, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), and Lady Margaret Douglas.

Edinburgh International Television Festival

The media commentator Maggie Brown has criticised the event for featuring only three women as speakers (Christine Ockrent, Verity Lambert and Janet Street-Porter) in the course of its history.

Feelin' Fine

The video features the same three women as in the Pretty Green Eyes video, and they are at Blackpool beach.

HM Prison Armagh

Three women in Armagh took part in the 1980 hunger strike: Mairéad Nugent, Mary Doyle and Mairéad Farrell, who was shot by the SAS in Gibraltar in 1988.

Jody Folwell

In 2009-2010 the Heard Museum featured works by all three women in their "Mothers & Daughters: Stories in Clay" exhibit.

John Wallowitch

During the 1960s he met three women who would become his greatest champions: singer-pianist Blossom Dearie for whom Wallowitch's song "Bruce" is a favorite standard; Dixie Carter of Designing Women who recorded a collection of Wallowitch songs in 1984; and Joanne Beretta.

Kristian Gravenor

He spent several years writing news and city columns for the Montreal Mirror where his articles shed light on often sensational yet little-known stories about Montreal, including the reputed Montreal demises of Veronica Lake and Maurice Duplessis, the trial of three women accused of beating rock star Serge Fiori and the ongoing tragedy of the Duplessis Orphans.

Marilyn Suzanne Miller

She was one of only three women on the staff, along with Anne Beatts and Rosie Shuster.

Nelly Erichsen

During the years of the First World War and especially after the intervention of the United States, the three women became organisers of aid work for the families of soldiers, particularly after the huge losses of the Battle of Caporetto (now Kobarid, Slovenia) in 1917.

Raja Habib al-Khuzaai

Raja Habib al-Khuzaai was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council, created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq, and one of only three women on the twenty-five-member governing body.

Sabiha Sumar

Sabiha's first documentary, Who Will Cast the First Stone, about three women in prison in Pakistan under Islamic law won the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco Film Festival in 1998.

Sharon Keogh

Later Sharon moved to CBC television and produced Three Women, an acclaimed 90 minute documentary music special featuring performers Maureen Forrester, Pauline Julien, and Sylvia Tyson.

Sheba Chhachhi

Chhachhi was also a part of the 1998 documentary, 'Three Women and a Camera' directed by Sabina Gadhioke, about three women photographers in India, Sheba Chhachhi, Dayanita Singh and Homai Vyarawalla.

Sophie Bryant

She was the first woman to receive a DSc in England; one of the first three women to be appointed to a Royal Commission, the Bryce commission on Secondary Education in 1894–1895; and one of the first three women to be appointed to the Senate of the University of London.

Susan Goatman

Susan Goatman, born 5 February 1945 in Thanet, Kent, is a retired cricketer who has played three women's Test matches for England and 21 women's one-day internationals including the 1973 Women's Cricket World Cup in England, 1978 Women's Cricket World Cup in India and the 1982 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand.

Table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics

As hosts Great Britain qualified six athletes automatically; a team of three men, one of whom competed in the singles, and a team of three women, one of whom competed in the singles.

Takako Akasaka

Ms. Akasaka remains one of three women to have eaten more than 20 hot dogs at Nathan's (Carlene LeFevre is the other).

The Bingo Club

Starring Paula Wilcox and John McArdle, The Bingo Tales relates the story of three women facing romantic hardship and growing old.

The Three Marys

What may be the earliest known representation of three women visiting the tomb of Jesus is a fairly large fresco in the Dura-Europos church in the ancient city of Dura Europos on the Euphrates.

William Edwin Franklin

Four priests were named Chaplains to His Holiness, eight lay men were honored as Knights of St. Gregory the Great, three women received the honor of Dames of the Order of St. Gregory the Great and 11 men and women received the Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice.