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Cordelia Capulet
Cordelia is a feminine given name. It was borne by the tragic heroine of Shakespeare's ''King Lear'' (1606), a character based on the legendary queen Cordelia. The name is of uncertain origin. It is popularly associated with Latin '' cor'' (genitive ''cordis'') "heart", and has also been linked with the Welsh name Creiddylad, allegedly meaning "jewel of the sea", but it may derive from the French ''coeur de lion'' "heart of a lion". Notable people with the name * Cordelia of Britain, legendary queen of the Britons, youngest daughter of King Leir * Cordelia Agbebaku (1961–2017), Nigerian academic and former vice-chancellor of Ambrose Alli University *Cordelia Botkin (1854–1910), American murderer *Cordelia Bugeja (born 1976), British actress * Cordelia Cameron, Australian actor-manager *Cordelia Camp, American educator *Cordelia Candelaria (born 1943), American educator and writer *Cordelia Throop Cole (1833–1900), American social reformer *Cordelia Elizabeth Cook (1919–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Frederick Yeames
William Frederick Yeames (; 18 December 1835 – 3 May 1918) was a British painter best known for his oil painting, oil-on-canvas ''"And When Did You Last See Your Father?"'', which depicts the son of a Cavalier, Royalist being questioned by Roundhead, Parliamentarians during the English Civil War. Biography Yeames was born in Taganrog, Russian Empire, the son of a British consul (representative), consul based in the Russian Empire. After the death of his father in 1842, Yeames was sent to school in Dresden where he began studying painting. After a change in the fortunes of his family, Yeames moved to London in 1848, where he learnt anatomy and composition from George Scharf and took art lessons from F. A. Westmacott. In 1852 he journeyed to Florence where he studied with Enrico Pollastrini and Raphael Buonajuti. During his time there he painted at the Life School at the Grand Ducal Academy, drawing from frescoes by Andrea del Sarto, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Ghirlandaio and Beno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genitive
In grammar, the genitive case ( abbreviated ) is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun—thus indicating an attributive relationship of one noun to the other noun. A genitive can also serve purposes indicating other relationships. For example, some verbs may feature arguments in the genitive case; and the genitive case may also have adverbial uses (see adverbial genitive). The genitive construction includes the genitive case, but is a broader category. Placing a modifying noun in the genitive case is one way of indicating that it is related to a head noun, in a genitive construction. However, there are other ways to indicate a genitive construction. For example, many Afroasiatic languages place the head noun (rather than the modifying noun) in the construct state. Possessive grammatical constructions, including the possessive case, may be regarded as subsets of the genitive construction. For example, the geni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cordelia Fine
Cordelia Fine (born 1975) is a Canadian-born British philosopher of science, psychologist, writer, and science communicator, who lives in Australia. she is a full professor in the History and Philosophy of Science programme at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Fine has written several popular science books on the topics of social cognition, neuroscience, and the popular myths of sex differences. She is especially known for '' Testosterone Rex'', which won the Royal Society Science Book Prize in 2017. Early life and education Cordelia Fine was born in 1975 in Toronto, Canada. She is the daughter of writer Anne Fine and Kit Fine, a philosopher. She was educated at St George's School for Girls in Edinburgh, Scotland. She was awarded a bachelor's degree in experimental psychology with first-class honours from Oxford University, a Master of Philosophy in criminology from Cambridge University, and a PhD in Psychology from University College London. Career Since compl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cordelia Edvardson
Cordelia Maria Edvardson (née Langgässer; 1 January 1929 – 29 October 2012) was a German-born Swedish journalist, author and Holocaust survivor. She was the Jerusalem correspondent for ''Svenska Dagbladet'', a Swedish daily newspaper, from 1977 to 2006. Edvardson reported extensively on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, remaining a columnist for ''Svenska Dagbladet'' after leaving her post in 2006. Background Edvardson was born in Munich, Germany, in 1929. She was raised Catholic. However, since her father, Hermann Heller, was Jewish, Edvardson was arrested by the Nazis and deported to the Theresienstadt and Auschwitz concentration camps during the Holocaust. Her maternal grandfather had also been Jewish, and converted to Catholicism. After immigrating to Sweden after World War II, Edvardson began her journalism career. In 1984, she published an autobiography (''Bränt barn söker sig till elden'' ('Burnt child seeks the fire')Swedish original title copied from the Dutch t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cordelia Adams Crawford
Cordelia Adams Crawford (1865–1943) was a pioneer and healer in Arizona. She was known for her generosity to multiple, often conflicting, factions. Biography Cordelia Adams was born on February 27, 1865, to Emily and John Adams in Willow Creek, a town near Lampasas, Texas. She was the youngest of five children, a sister named Saphrona, and brothers James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, and Jefferson Davis. John Quincy Adams had been a Confederate soldier and lost his land in Texas due to the war. In 1867, the Adams family joined a wagon train going to California, and peeled off to investigate the new Phoenix settlement. Shortly after arriving in Phoenix, another Crawford child was born. In 1869, the Adams family continued to California, where they stayed until 1877. John established a cattle ranch. Cordelia went on to marry her father's assistant, Bushrod Foley Crawford on August 8, 1880. Al Sieber served as a witness to their wedding and remained a family friend. The Crawfords liv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cordelia Elizabeth Cook
Cordelia Elizabeth Cook (March 17, 1919 – June 19, 1996) was an American combat nurse in the United States Army Nurse Corps during World War II. She was the first woman in the U.S. Army to receive both the Bronze Star Medal award and the Purple Heart. Early life Cook went by the name "Betty". Military duty Cook attended the Christ Hospital School of Nursing in Cincinnati, Ohio. She continued her nursing duties in World War II in the Presenzano Presenzano (Campanian: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Caserta in the Italian region Campania, located about north of Naples and about northwest of Caserta. Presenzano borders the following municipalities: Conca della Campani ... sector at the Italian front. She received a Bronze Star Medal award for her service, being the first woman to receive the award. Footnotes Bibliography * * * Further reading * * * * * ''Columbus Dispatch'' newspaper (Columbus, Ohio) - Thursday, June 20, 1996 - obitu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cordelia Throop Cole
Cordelia Throop Cole (, Throop; November 17, 1833 – April 29, 1900) was a 19th-century American social reformer, who lectured, wrote, and edited on behalf the temperance crusade and social purity movement. She made valuable contributions with her writing to the work of temperance and social purity, and frequently addressed large audiences on these subjects. She took a most conspicuous part in the temperance crusade of her state, riding many miles on her lecture trips, and sometimes holding three or four meetings at different locations within a day. In 1885, she was made the Iowa superintendent of the "White Shield and White Cross" work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). She was one of the managing editors of the ''Dial of Progress'' of Mount Pleasant. Cole died in 1900. Early life and education Cordelia Throop was born in the town of Hamilton, New York, November 17, 1833. Her parents were George A. and Deborah (Goldsmith) Throop. Her mother died in March 1836, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cordelia Candelaria
Cordelia Chávez Candelaria (born September 14, 1943) is an American educator and writer of Hispanic descent. Early life and education Candelaria was born on September 14, 1943, in Deming, New Mexico, to Ray J. Chávez and Eloida Trujillo. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Fort Lewis College, where she studied English and French. She then earned a Master of Arts in English and a PhD in American literature and structural linguistics from the University of Notre Dame. Career From 1975 to 1978, Candelaria was an associate professor of English and Chicano literature at Idaho State University. She was also a program officer for the Division of Research at the National Endowment for the Humanities from 1976 to 1977. From 1978 to 1991, she was an associate professor of English and head of the Chicano Studies Program at the University of Colorado Boulder. During her time at the university, she also founded the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race in America. In 1991 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cordelia Camp
Cordelia Camp (May 22, 1884 – July 10, 1973) was an American educator. She was a prolific writer and was president of Delta Kappa Gamma in 1942. She was also the director of student teaching at Western Carolina College for twenty-three years. In 1965, Western Carolina College dedicated the Cordelia Camp Laboratory School to her. Early life Cordelia Camp was born in Rutherford County, North Carolina on May 22, 1884, to Merrick Rickman and Letitia Morrow Camp. She was the oldest of five children. After she graduated school, she worked as a teacher for a few years before entering the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She graduated from the university in 1920. She later got her master's degree from Columbia University in 1925. Career Camp worked for twenty-three years as the director of student teaching at Western Carolina College before retiring from that job in 1950. After moving to Asheville, North Carolina, Asheville in 1952, she taught at the local Plonk School fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cordelia Cameron
Cordelia Ann Cameron née Bouchier (1809-1892), was an Australian stage actor and theatre manager. She was the first woman theater manager in Australia. Life Cordelia Cameron was married to her colleague, the actor-manager Samson Cameron, and managed a travelling theater company with him. The Camerons arrived with their company of actors to Tasmania in 1833. They introduced professional theatre in Tasmania with their performances in Hobart in December 1833 and in Launceston beginning June 1834, only one year after the introduction of professional theatre in Sydney in the Australian mainland. They also sent for a number of professional actors from England, many of whom came to play an important part in the history of Australian theatre, such as Anne Clarke (theatre manager) Anne Clarke née Remans (born 1806), was a pioneering actress, singer and theatre manager in Tasmania, Australia, significant as the first woman to manage an Australian theatre, being director of the Theatre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cordelia Bugeja
Cordelia Bugeja (born 5 March 1976) is a British actress, best known for her roles as Julie in ''Not Going Out'', Nikki in ''EastEnders'', Melanie Hart in ''Family Affairs'', and sex worker Kate in '' Respectable''. Career From 1993 to 1994 she appeared in the ITV sitcom '' Conjugal Rites'' as Gillian Masefield. In 2006, she appeared briefly in an episode of the sitcom ''Not Going Out'' as waitress Julie. (The producers had said in an interview that they had promised Bugeja a role after she stood in for someone at a read-through, but were forced to give her only a small part as ''Respectable'' was taking up most of her time.) She appeared in over two dozen British TV commercials, most notably the award-winning campaign for Sure antiperspirant with the punchline "Thank god you dumped him first!", and a hugely successful campaign for Yakult yoghurt drink. She had guest roles in ''The Bill'' once in 2005, where she appeared as the girlfriend of a man who was holding his dad an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cordelia Botkin
Cordelia Botkin (1854 – March 7, 1910) was an American murderer who sent a box of poisoned candy to her ex-lover's wife. This was the first American prosecution for a crime which took place in two different jurisdictions, as Botkin had sent the poison from California, but it was received in Delaware. Background Botkin was born in Polk County, Missouri in 1854. She later moved with her family to California, where she married her husband, Welcome Botkin. They were the parents of one son. In 1895, Botkin met John Preston Dunning while he was bicycling in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. At the time she was 41 years old, nine years his senior. Both of them were married, but Dunning was smitten with her. Dunning was a highly regarded reporter for the Associated Press, having completed overseas assignments in Samoa and Chile. He had been promoted to superintendent of the Associated Press's Western Division bureau in San Francisco. In 1896, Dunning's wife, Mary Elizabeth (Penington) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
