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unusual facts about Two Women


Elsa Morante

Towards the end of World War II, Morante with her husband, novelist and film critic Alberto Moravia, fearful because both were half Jewish, fled to the area around the Ciociara region near Rome, a flight that inspired Morante's "La storia" and Moravia's "La Ciociara" (translated into English as "Two Women" and later made into a film with Sofia Loren).



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Ania Szado

The story is told through the remembrances of two women, his wife Consuelo de Saint Exupéry and the fictional young fashion designer Mignonne Lachapelle, who comes from Montreal to make her name in the early days of American haute couture.

Anna Elizabeth Klumpke

The two women were soon living together at Bonheur's estate in Thomery, near Fontainebleau, and their relationship endured until Bonheur's death in 1899.

Bangladesh at the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games

The Bangladeshi delegation consisted of four officials and four competitors: two men and two women, who took part in three different sports—athletics, boxing and swimming.

Bemba people

They crossed the Safwa rapids, and the Luchindashi river, where there was a quarrel between two women, and part of the group stayed behind, forming the Bena Nona (Mushroom Clan), the royal clan of the Bisa people.

Berry Berenson

She also was a great-grandniece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer who believed he had discovered the supposed canals of Mars, and a second cousin, once removed, of art expert Bernard Berenson (1865–1959) and his sister Senda Berenson (1868–1954), an athlete and educator who was one of the first two women elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Bill McKinley

In 1960, two men from Washington, DC attempted to extort money from McKinley and fellow umpire Ed Runge using a photo of the two umpires with two women in a motel room.

Bob Benge

In one of his early raids, in spring, 1777 he is said to have captured two women while operating around Fort Blackmore, Virginia.

Brita Pipare

In September 1593, two women were accused of witchcraft in the city of Stockholm in Sweden; the first one was a woman known as "Margareta from Norrsunda", and the second was Brita.

Doing Time, Doing Vipassana

Doing Time, Doing Vipassana is a 1997 Israeli independent documentary film project by two women filmmakers from Israel, Ayelet Menahemi and Eilona Ariel about the use of Vipassana as a rehabilitation method and its impact on foreign and Indian prisoners.

Dudley Park, Rangiora

Two Women's One Day Internationals have been played at Dudley Park, the first came in the 1982 Women's World Cup when New Zealand Women played Australia Women, while the second saw Australia Women play England Women in the 1991/92 Shell Tri-Series.

Eva Coo

On 14 June 1934, the two women drove Wright to an isolated location outside Oneonta, New York.

Fake passport

In May 2001 Kim Jong-nam (the eldest son of the former leader of North Korea Kim Jong-il) was arrested on arrival at New Tokyo International Airport (now Narita International Airport), accompanied by two women and a four-year old boy identified as his son.

Fatemeh Javadi

Javadi was one of two women (along with Nasrin Soltankhah) in the Iranian cabinet and replaces Masoumeh Ebtekar, who was the Vice-President and head of the DoE in the cabinet of President Khatami.

Glenda Hood

The two women, along with state senator (and future lieutenant governor) Toni Jennings and Dianna Fuller Morgan (Walt Disney World's Senior Vice President for Community and Government Relations), were recognized as the leaders of the local "old girl network."

Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig

The documentary's director, James Moll, an associate of Steven Spielberg's, helped bring the two women together to make the film for PBS.

Judgment of Solomon

According to the Midrash, the two women were sisters-in-law, both of whom had borne sons, and whose husbands had died.

June Diane Raphael

The two women, who had first met in a clowning class during their freshman year at NYU, went on to win the ECNY Award for "Best Comedy Duo" in 2005.

Karen L. Nyberg

While in orbit, Nyberg was one of only two women in space on the 50th anniversary on June 16th 2013 of Vostok 6, the first spaceshot by a woman, Valentina Tereshkova, the other being Wang Yaping aboard the Tiangong-1 on the Shenzhou 10 mission.

Legal status of polygamy

One of them, in Tupã, São Paulo, was registered as including a man and two women, as reported in August 2012.

Linda Chapin

The two women, along with Jennings and Dianna Fuller Morgan (Walt Disney World's Senior Vice President for Community and Government Relations), were recognized as the leaders of the local "old girl network." They formed closed friendships despite surface political differences, and even took annual Christmas shopping trips to New York City together.

Lovieanne Jung

She was a standout player in college, appearing in two Women's College World Series.

Madame Aema 8

Following the multiple-Aema theme started in Madame Aema 6, this entry in the series has two women named Madame Aema.

Mary Gaunt

She was educated at Grenville College, Ballarat and the University of Melbourne, being one of the first two women students to enroll there.

Mary Kinder

Along with Pearl Elliott, she was one of two women listed by the Chicago Police Department's Public Enemies list in 1933.

Modern pentathlon at the 2011 Pan American Games – Qualification

There is a quota of 40 athletes (24 male, 16 female) (however one spot over quota for each gender was allowed); Mexico as the host country is guaranteed a full team of four athletes (two men and two women).

Moon in the Gutter

Two women: Loretta (Nastassja Kinski), a wealthy amateur photographer who prowls the docks in her early '60s Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder looking for handsome men, and Bella (Victoria Abril), a poor but beautiful woman who is probably a prostitute, share affections for a dock worker named Gerard (played by Gérard Depardieu).

Motherpeace Tarot

It was created in the late 1970s by two women from Berkeley, California, Karen Vogel and Vicki Noble.

Nancy McKinstry

In 2009 McKinstry was ranked number 43 on the Forbes list of 100 Most Powerful Women, on which she represented one of the two women from the Netherlands (the other being Neelie Kroes).

Nashville Rhythm

On January 29, 2005, while coaching a one-point comeback win over Kansas City, Ashley McElhiney was fired by the team's co-owner Sally Anthony after an on-court dispute between the two women.

Nerina Shute

Visiting her mother in Rottingdean, Sussex, she met two women: “Andy” Sharpe and, somewhat older, Helen Mayo, respectively a gynaecologist and one of the first female dental surgeons.

New Zealand at the 1968 Winter Olympics

New Zealand had seven competitors (five men and two women) at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France.

Pakistan at the 2008 Summer Olympics

The country sent 21 athletes, including two women (Sadaf Siddiqui in athletics and Kiran Khan in swimming).

Queenwood School for Girls

The two women had met in 1918, at the Glennie Memorial School in Toowoomba, Queensland, where Lawrance was Principal, and Rennie first assistant-mistress.

Regatta Hotel

A famous protest took place in the public bar in 1965, when two women, Merle Thornton (mother of Australian actress Sigrid Thornton) and Rosalie Bognor, chained themselves to the bar in protest of Queensland's restriction of public bars to men only.

Rotrude

The two women authored a letter to Alcuin of York, who was at Tours at the time, requesting that he write a commentary explaining the Gospel of John.

Shoshana

It is the name of at least two women in the Bible, and via Σουσάννα (Sousanna), it developed into such European names as Susanna, Susan, Susanne, Susana, Susannah, Suzanne, Suzie and Sanna.

St Clement, Cornwall

There are two notable monuments: to Samuel Thomas (d. 1796), the work of John Bacon, 1799, has two allegorical figures; the other is to Rear-Admiral Robert Carthew Reynolds, from the studio of Micali, Livorno, and shows a young soldier and two women, the soldier points to a monument with a naval battle, above is the portrait medallion.

St. Valentine's Day at Girton

The cartoon which depicted two women students of Girton College, Cambridge on their preference of a Valentine in ancient Greek rather than English, reflected the uneasiness of contemporary society about a woman with the "power and privileges" of Greek Studies at a time when classical scholarship was mostly restricted to upper-class males.

The Kentuckian

Along the way, they run into two women who take a liking to the pair, indentured servant Hannah (Dianne Foster), who wants to go with them, and schoolteacher Susie (Diana Lynn), who would rather have Big Eli marry her and settle down.

The Spirit International Amateur Golf Championship

The competition consists 20 countries represented by teams of four (two men and two women) and takes place at the Whispering Pines Golf Club, located 80 miles outside of Houston in Trinity, Texas.

Ubisort

In 2008 two women belonging to the Trique people were shot dead by the Ubisort militias in what is thought to be a government-funded attack.

Un Soir du Paris

"Dua Perempuan dengan HP-nya" ("Two Women and Their Cell Phones") was written by Seno Gumira Ajidarma in Jakarta on 18 August 1997.

Valentina Ponomaryova

Ponomaryova established herself one of the leading candidates with Valentina Tereshkova and Irina Solovyova, and a joint mission profile was developed that would see two women launched into space, on solo Vostok flights on consecutive days.

White woman of Gippsland

There were two women aboard, the wife of the Captain and a woman sailing to Sydney to join her fiancé, Mr Frazer.