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2 unusual facts about Widows' Peak


Widows' Peak

The character Doug from the TV series of the same name referenced the film in a daydream where he was a bodybuilder.

The film was mainly shot on location in the counties of Wicklow, Dublin and Kilkenny.


Adolph Diesterweg

In 1846, he established the Pestalozzi institution at Pankow, and the Pestalozzi societies for the support of teachers’ widows and orphans.

Al-Nour Party

The Salafi Al‑Nour reportedly did well in the election in part because of loyalty it won from voters with the many Salafi-sponsored charitable activities: help for the sick and the poor; financial assistance to widows, divorcées, and young women in need of marriage trousseaus; and abundant religious instruction.

Alexius Frederick Christian, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg

In 1826 he joined the German Zollverein and in 1829 created a civil fund for orphans, widows, and servants.

Anna Elizabeth Botha

She earned admiration from President Nelson Mandela for helping to arrange a luncheon that Mandela and widows of apartheid-era leaders attended.

August P. Teytand

The recipients were brought to New York City by Walter Winchell for a fundraiser for the Widows and orphans of New York City firemen and policemen.

Chaddleworth

Chaddleworth historically had tenants who held land by copyhold and enjoyed an unusual legal practice associated with widows' rights known as Free Bench.

Dan Brodie

Spanning eleven tracks, the album was recorded at Headgap Studios in Melbourne, Australia by Brent "Sloth" Punshon (Adalita) and for the first time showed off Brodie's newly formed backing band, the Grieving Widows, featuring Chris Brodie (Dallas Crane/Broken Arrows) on bass and Dave Nicholls (Ian Rilen/Spencer P Jones) on drums.

Emily Bancker

Later in the year Bancker joined Charles Frohman's comedy company playing one of the two widows (the other Georgiana Drew) in the Bisson-Carre-Gillette farce, Mr. Wilkinson's Widows.

Evelyn Barron

Prior to entering political office, she was president of the New South Wales Women's Justices Association; active in Civilian Widows' Association; a member of Good Neighbour Council; president of the (Australian) League of Women Voters; a member of New South Wales National Council of Women; and active in the movement for Australia Women's Charter.

Gordon Slynn, Baron Slynn of Hadley

He was a Trustee of The Loomba Trust, which cares for widows around the world, and Patron of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Institute for Indian art and culture.

Gruschenka Stevens

In 1999, she embodied a singer in Sherry Hormans “Widows“ and an overwhelmed, struggling mother in “Get away from here“ directed by Franziska Buch, which for this film was awarded the Max Ophüls Prize.

Henry Cadwallader Adams

After some time as a Commoner Tutor at Winchester, in 1855 he became chaplain of Bromley College, an almshouse for the widows of clergy.

International Widows Day

The first International Widows Day took place in 2005 and was launched by Lord Loomba and the Foundation’s President, Cherie Blair.

Jersey Girl

The Jersey Girls, or "Jersey Widows", the media name for four American women who lost their husbands in the September 11 attacks

Kathleen Margaret Brown

She is currently pastoral minister to the widows of clergy in the Diocese of Connor,

Lady Eleanor Talbot

Michael Hicks suggests that King Edward was liable to give "benefits" in exchange for sex: "Three young widows, Eleanor Butler, Elizabeth Lucy and Elizabeth Wydeville Woodville, may have bought concrete benefits from Edward IV with their sexual favours.

Ljubostinja

In Ljubostinja were buried Princess Milica, Lazar Hrebeljanović's wife and Nun Jefimija, which after the Battle of Kosovo here became a nun along with a number of other widows of Serbian noblemans who lost their life's in the battles on the river Maritsa and Kosovo Polje.

Macrina

Saint Macrina the Elder (before 270 – c. 340), saint and mother and grandmother of several saints, patron saint of widows

Maharshi Karve Stree Shikshan Samstha

On 14 June 1896, Maharshi Karve started "Home for widows" along with the school for widows in a small village named Hingne in Pune.

Martha Chen

She has undertaken four field studies in India: on household coping strategies during a prolonged drought in a village in Gujarat; on widows in 14 villages in seven states; on the membership of the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), and on the urban clients of the SEWA Bank.

Merry Widows of Joe Cain

The Huntsville-based band, The Pine Hill Haints, perform a song titled "The Merry Widows of Joe Cain" which, in its lyrics, pays homage to Joe Cain, Mardi Gras tradition, and the city of Mobile itself.

Morwell, Victoria

Born in Morwell, Savige founded Legacy Australia following World War 1 to assist widows and families of servicemen.

New York Police and Fire Widows' and Children's Benefit Fund

The New York Police and Fire Widows' and Children's Benefit Fund was created in 1985 by former New York Mets player Rusty Staub and Paddy Burns, who was then the Vice President of the New York Patrolmen's Benevolent Association.

Ngozi Olejeme

The foundation recently donated cash prizes to 200 widows in Asaba, Delta State to enable them go into any business of their choosing.

Nirjan Saikate

The leading 4 ladies of this film -the 4 widows, shared the National Film Award for Best Actress in 1963.

Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin

Amongst many commercial and criminal cases that Devlin tried, one of the most famous was the 1957 trial of John Bodkin Adams, an Eastbourne doctor indicted for murdering two of his patients – widows Edith Alice Morrell and Gertrude Hullett, one of them elderly.

Ramabai Ranade

In those days mostly widows took the nursing course sponsored by Seva Sadan.

Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent

He was tersely described by Richard Glover as a jovial and voluptuous Irishman who had left popery for the Protestant religion, money and widows.

Sir John Morden, 1st Baronet

In 1695, after serving two years as Treasurer of Bromley College, a home for clergy widows, he resigned to establish - at a cost of £10,000 - his own hospice or almshouse for 'poor Merchants...and such as have lost their Estates by accidents, dangers and perils of the seas or by any other accidents ways or means in their honest endeavours to get their living by means of Merchandizing'.

Soviet submarine K-159

Shortly after the loss of the submarine, the widows of four of the nine deceased submariners filed a lawsuit against the Russian Defence Ministry demanding compensation of one million rubles (about $37,500) each in moral damages, a lawyer acting for them said.

Statius

In the final book, the Argive widows go to Athens to ask Theseus to force Creon to allow their husbands' burial while Argia, Polyneices' wife, burns him illicitly.

Steatoda grossa

Unlike black widows, redbacks, and other Latrodectus species, S. grossa does not have a bright red hourglass pattern or any other bright markings.

Tampa Bay Derby Darlins

TRD was contacted by the movie Whip It, starring Ellen Page and directed by Drew Barrymore, in order to gain permission for the use of the Black Widows team name.

Vasey

Jessie Vasey (1897–1966), founder the War Widows' Guild of Australia; wife of George Alan Vasey

War Widows Association of Great Britain

In the 2003 New Year Honours, Mary Brailsford of Chesterfield, Derbyshire was awarded an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) "for services to the War Widows Association of Great Britain".

Widow

More recently, widows of political figures have been among the first women elected to high office in many countries, such as Corazón Aquino or Isabel Martínez de Perón.

William Ludwig Detmold

During the war, he introduced a knife and fork for one-handed men, which was put by Surgeon General Barnes on the supply list, under the name of “Detmold's knife.” In 1884, he was a founder and the first president of the New York County Medical Association, and at one time he was president of the Medical Relief Fund for Widows and Orphans.

Zainon Ismail C.N. Afghani

Even Abdul Hadi Awang, the man who started the Memali incident with his Amanat Hadi or Dictum of Hadi Awang was indifferent to the struggle of the widows and orphans of the Memali casualties that he proudly claim as martyrs.


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