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Hetty Hutter
Hetty or Hettie is a female first name, often a diminutive form (hypocorism) of Henrietta. Hetty may refer to: People * Hetty Balkenende (born 1939), Dutch former freestyle and synchronized swimmer * Hettie Vyrine Barnhill, (born 1984), American dancer and choreographer *Henrietta Hetty Baynes (born 1956), English actress * Hetty Burlingame Beatty (1907–1971), American sculptor, children's author, and illustrator * Hetti Bywater, English actress * Hetty Cary (1836–1892), a noted beauty of the Confederacy and one of the makers of the Confederate battle flag *Henrietta Hetty Green (1834–1916), American businesswoman and notorious miser * Hetty Goldman (1881–1972), American archaeologist, the first woman faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study * Hettie Inniss (born 1999), British Caribbean artist * Hetty Johnston (born 1958), Australian child protection activist and founder of the Bravehearts children's charity *Hettie Jones (born 1934), American poet and writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypocorism
A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek ; sometimes also ''hypocoristic''), or pet name, is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as ''Izzy'' for Isabel or ''Bob (given name), Bob'' for Robert, or it may be unrelated. Origins and usage Etymologically, the term ''hypocorism'' is from Ancient Greek (), from (), meaning 'to call by endearing names'. The prefix refers in this case to creating a diminutive, something that is smaller in a tender or affectionate sense; the root originates in the Greek for 'to caress' or 'to treat with tokens of affection', and is related to the words () 'boy, youth' and () 'girl, young woman'. In linguistics, the term can be used more specifically to refer to the Morphology (linguistics), morphological process by which the standard form of the word is transformed into a form denoting affection, or to words resulting from this process. In English, a word is often clipping (morphology), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hettie Macdonald
Hettie Macdonald is an English film, theatre and television director. Macdonald is known as the director of the Hugo Award-winning 2007 episode of ''Doctor Who'', "Blink". She has won numerous awards including one BAFTA Television Award for Best Single Drama, one Hugo Award, and a Grand Prix award. She has been nominated for numerous awards, including two BAFTA Television Awards. "Blink" is frequently named as the best episode of ''Doctor Who'' since the series' 2005 revival. In 2009, ''SFX'' named the episode's climax as the scariest moment in ''Doctor Who'' history, citing its "perfect direction". Macdonald would return to the series in 2015 to direct the year's opening story. She has also directed for the stage. She studied English at Bristol University, before training as a director at the Royal Court Theatre, and was formerly associate director at the Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich. Career Macdonald made her feature-length film directorial debut on 1996's '' Beautiful Thing'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harriet (name)
Harriet is a female given name. The name is an English language, English version of the French language, French ''Henrietta (given name)#Versions of the name, Henriette'', a female form of ''Henri''. The male name Harry (given name), Harry was formed in a similar way from Henry (given name), Henry. All these names are derived from ''Henrik'', which is ultimately derived from the Germanic languages, Germanic name ''Heimiric'', derived from the word elements ''heim'', or "home" and ''ric'', meaning "power, ruler". The male name Henry was first used in England by Normans. Popular nicknames for Harriet or Harriett include Hallie (given name), Hallie, Hattie, Hatty, Hetty, Hettie, Hennie, Harolda, Harry, Harri, Harrie, and Etta or Ettie. The name can be lengthened to Harrietta, Henriette, or Henrietta (given name), Henrietta. The name was the 73rd most popular name for baby girls born in England and Wales in 2007. It last ranked in the top 1,000 most popular names for girls in the Unit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghosts (2021 TV Series)
''Ghosts'' is an American television sitcom adapted for CBS from the original British series of the same name by Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, who were also its showrunners. It premiered on October 7, 2021 and was picked up for a full season that month. It was renewed for a second season in January 2022, which premiered on September 29, 2022. It was renewed for a third season in January 2023, which began filming in Montreal on December 2, 2023. The third season, of ten episodes, premiered on February 15, 2024. In March 2024, it was renewed for a fourth season which premiered on October 17, 2024. In February 2025, the series was renewed for a fifth and sixth season. Premise Married New Yorkers Samantha "Sam" and Jay Arondekar believe their dreams have come true when they inherit Woodstone Manor, a beautiful country house, from Sophie Brimble, Sam's great aunt, only to find that it is falling apart and inhabited by ghosts of people from different eras of American history who died ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
''Hetty Wainthropp Investigates'' is a British crime drama television series, starring Patricia Routledge as the title character, Henrietta "Hetty" Wainthropp, that aired for four series between 3 January 1996 and 4 September 1998 on BBC One. The series, spawned from a pilot episode entitled "Missing Persons" aired by ITV in 1990, was co-created by writers David Cook and John Bowen, co-starred Derek Benfield as Hetty's patient husband Robert, and Dominic Monaghan as her assistant and lodger Geoffrey Shawcross. It marked Monaghan’s acting debut. Other co-stars in the series include John Graham Davies as local chief of police DCI Adams; Suzanne Maddock as Janet Frazer, a feisty young auto mechanic; and Frank Mills as Robert's brother Frank. In the United States, episodes have broadcast as part of PBS's anthology series ''Mystery!''. A parody of the series, entitled ''Wetty Hainthropp Investigates'', aired on 12 March 1999 as part of the Comic Relief telethon starring Victo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hetty Sorrel
Hetty Sorrel is a major character in George Eliot's 1859 novel ''Adam Bede''. Beautiful but thoughtless Hetty lives in the fictional community of Hayslope — a rural, pastoral and close-knit community in 1799. Her home is on Mr. Martin Poyser's dairy farm as she is his niece. Because she is an extremely pretty girl, she is admired by Mr. Craig, Adam Bede as well as Captain Arthur Donnithorne. Aside from her great physical beauty, George Eliot takes care to make it clear that she does not have many attractive personal qualities. She is spoiled, cold, insensitive, indifferent to other people's problems, and almost comically vain and selfish. Even in love Hetty is relentless in her capacity to use others for her own gain. At first she is devoted to Arthur then after she realizes he will not make her a "great lady" she turns her affections to Adam. Hetty is a cousin by marriage of Dinah Morris, a fervent Methodist lay preacher. In contrast to Hetty, Dinah is depicted as comple ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Characters
LOS, or Los, or LoS may refer to: Science and technology * Length of stay, the duration of a single episode of hospitalisation * Level of service, a measure used by traffic engineers * Level of significance, a measure of statistical significance * Line-of-sight (other) * LineageOS, a free and open-source operating system for smartphones and tablet computers * Loss of signal ** Fading **End of pass (spaceflight) * Loss of significance, undesirable effect in calculations using floating-point arithmetic Medicine and biology * Lipooligosaccharide, a bacterial lipopolysaccharide with a low-molecular-weight * Lower oesophageal sphincter Arts and entertainment * ''The Land of Stories'', a series of children's novels by Chris Colfer * Los, or the Crimson King, a character in Stephen King's novels * Los (band), a British indie rock band from 2008 to 2011 * Los (Blake), a character in William Blake's poetry * Los (rapper) (born 1982), stage name of American rapper Carlos Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Road To Avonlea
''Road to Avonlea'' is a Canadian television series first broadcast in Canada between January 7, 1990, and March 31, 1996, as part of the '' CBC Family Hour'' anthology series, and in the United States starting on March 5, 1990. It was created by Kevin Sullivan and produced by Sullivan Films (later Sullivan Entertainment) in association with the CBC and the Disney Channel, with additional funding from Telefilm Canada. It follows the adventures of Sara Stanley, a young girl sent to live with her relatives in early 20th-century eastern Canada. It was loosely adapted from novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery, with many characters and episodes inspired by her stories. Some episodes were turned into independent books by various authors; around 30 titles have been released. In the United States, its title was shortened to ''Avonlea'', and a number of episodes were re-titled and re-ordered. The series was released on VHS and DVD there as ''Tales from Avonlea''. Background and development ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Worst Witch
''The New Worst Witch'' is a television series based on Jill Murphy's ''The Worst Witch'' books about a group of young witches at a Witch Academy. It ran for two series from 2005 to 2007. The series is a spin-off from ''The Worst Witch'' TV series that ran from 1998 to 2001 and follows the show's first spin-off Weirdsister College. The series follows Henrietta "Hettie" Hubble (Mildred's younger cousin), through her years at Cackle's Academy. Mildred is seen at the start of the first episode riding her cousin's broom close to Cackle's and she then disappears. Hettie quickly becomes best friends with Mona Hallow (who happens to be Ethel's younger sister) and Crescentmoon "Cressie" Winterchild. Hettie and her friends' new enemy is Belladonna Bindweed and her sidekick Cynthia Horrocks. Miss Hardbroom and Miss Cackle return, and are joined by new members of staff Caspian Bloom, Miss Swoop, and Miss Widget/Miss Nightingale. ''The New Worst Witch'' was initially planned to have a thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hetty Verolme
Hetty Esther Verolme (February 1930 – 9 July 2024) was an Australian writer, educator, and Holocaust survivor. She wrote about her experiences as a child in Bergen-Belsen, and was a founding trustee of Children of Belsen and the Holocaust Trust. Early life and family Hetty Esther Verolme was born in February 1930 in Antwerp, Belgium. In 1931 the Werkendam family moved to Amsterdam from Antwerp. Eight years later, World War II broke out and in May 1940 the Germans occupied the Netherlands. World War II In 1943, when Verolme was 12 years old, the Werkendam family was transported first to the Westerbork camp for a short stay, then to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. At Bergen-Belsen, Verolme and her brothers, Max and Jack, were sent to Barrack 211, also known as the Children's House. Sister Luba, a Polish prisoner, saved the children and took full responsibility for the group. Due to Verolme's age, she was tasked with supervising the small children there. She became known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrietta Tayler
Henrietta Tayler, known as Hetty (24 March 1869 – 10 April 1951), was a London-born Jacobite scholar and First World War Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse. Family life Helen Agnes Henrietta Tayler (known as Hetty) was born in London on 24 March 1869, to parents William James Tayler, Laird of Glenbarry and Georgina Lucy Duff and had an older sister, Constance and younger brother, Alistair Tayler (11 July 1870 – 8 November 1937) who was born at the family home in Rothiemay, Angus. Alistair and Hetty became Jacobite scholars and wrote about Scotland's history, in which their parents' forebears had played a large part. Through regular visits to the historical seat of her grandparents, Duff House, Hetty and her brother found historical materials that stimulated their interest to research and write about Scotland's past. The first book that Hetty and Alistair had published was in 1914 in two volumes and covered the Duff family history. Other families researched in their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hetty Perkins
Hetty Perkins ( – 8 December 1979) was an elder of the Arrernte people, Eastern Arrernte people, an Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal group from Central Australia. Several of her descendants have had prominent careers in various fields, both in the Northern Territory and in other states and territories. Biography Born in Arltunga, the "first substantial European settlement in Central Australia", Perkins was the daughter of Burke Perkins (known as Harry), a white miner originally from Broken Hill, New South Wales, and his wife, Nellie Errerreke, an Arrernte woman. Her father was employed on the Central Australia Railway, working on the construction of the line between Alice Springs and Oodnadatta.Lenore Coltheart (12 February 2011)Hetty Perkins (1905 ?-1979) – Australian Women's History Forum. Retrieved 5 August 2015. Perkins was raised in Arltunga, and began working at the Australian pub, hotel there at the age of 14, as a domestic servant. She later moved to "The Garden", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
