Lady and Her Cook is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch, created c. 1660. It is part of the collection of the Hermitage Museum...
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Alma Reville (section Early life and career)
Hitchcock. She collaborated on scripts for her husband's films, including Shadow of a Doubt, Suspicion, and The Lady Vanishes, as well as scripts for other...
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Eleanor Roosevelt (redirect from First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt)
American political figure, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving first lady of the United States, during her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt's...
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Other paintings of de Hooch may also feature almshouses, including: Lady and her Cook c. 1660 Company in a Courtyard Behind a House c. 1663 – c. 1665 The...
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Florence Nightingale (redirect from Lady with the Lamp)
personally intolerable and admirable in her achievements. Cecil Woodham-Smith, like Strachey, relied heavily on Cook's Life in her 1950 biography, though...
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Captain James Cook (7 November 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer, and cartographer famous for his three voyages of exploration...
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Usha Vance (category Second ladies and gentlemen of the United States)
said her husband has "adapted to my vegetarian diet and learned to cook food from my mother—Indian food." The Vances reside in Cincinnati, Ohio, and have...
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Nancy Reagan (redirect from First Lady Nancy Reagan)
first lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989, as the second wife of President Ronald Reagan. Reagan was born in New York City. After her parents...
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Downton Abbey series 5 (section Cast and characters)
sons' disparaging comments over her status as a commoner. Lady Flintshire employs underhanded schemes to derail Rose and Atticus's engagement, including...
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Michelle Obama (redirect from First Lady Michelle Obama)
Robinson; born January 17, 1964) is an American attorney and author who served as the first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017, being married to...
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focused on the need for a male heir to the Grantham estate, and the troubled love life of Lady Mary as she attempts to find a suitable husband. The device...
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media related to Albert Ruskin Cook. Cook, Sir Albert Ruskin (1870–1951) and Cook, Lady (Katharine). mundus.ac.uk "Cook, Albert Ruskin (CK889AR)". A Cambridge...
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1779, Elizabeth Cook received an annual pension of £200 from the Admiralty. In 1788, she moved to Clapham, Surrey. Outliving her husband and children, she...
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Lunch lady, in Canada and the U.S., is a term for a woman who cooks and serves food in a school cafeteria. The equivalent term in the United Kingdom is...
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Diana, Princess of Wales (redirect from Lady Diana Spencer)
She later described her childhood as "very unhappy" and "very unstable, the whole thing". She became known as Lady Diana after her father later inherited...
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List of Downton Abbey characters (redirect from Lady Mary Crawley)
hospital that her husband had set up for charitable purposes. She lives in the dower house with her own cook, lady's maid, house maid and butler, away...
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Fleet. On her voyage back to Britain she was the first European vessel to pass by the Kermadec Islands, and the Penrhyn Atoll in the Cook Islands. She...
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Lady Isabel's Tragedy, or "The Lady Isabella's Tragedy; or, The Step-Mother's Cruelty" is a broadside ballad, which dates from, by estimation of the English...
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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt soon nicknamed her "Tommy". Franklin won the election, and Eleanor became the First Lady of New York. As Franklin had been left...
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who was traditionally presented as a very buxom lady. Her farewell scene lasts almost twenty minutes and leads directly to the finale of the whole Ring...
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Veronica Maclean (redirect from Veronica Lady Maclean)
which was the universal style in hotels and restaurants in the 1960s. Her first book, Lady Maclean's Cook Book (1965), was enlivened by such dishes...
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Depression, closing due to setbacks and Eleanor's need to focus on her duties as First Lady. Thrilled with FDR's victory, Cook and Dickerman found it difficult...
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Lorena Hickok (section Early life and career)
Hickok struck up a close relationship with the soon-to-be First Lady, and travelled with her extensively. The nature of their relationship has been widely...
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Phantom Lady is a 1944 American film noir directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, and Alan Curtis. Based on the novel of the...
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Downton Abbey series 4 (section Cast and characters)
and Braithwaite is replaced by Phyllis Baxter. Lady Mary mourns Matthew's death. Matthew's newly-found letter states Mary is to be his sole heir and thus...
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Lucy Show and Here's Lucy. Her best known film roles include The Incredible Mr. Limpet, American Gigolo and Sixteen Candles. Mildred Frances Cook was born...
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Trap (2024 film) (redirect from Lady Raven)
drive off with Lady Raven, his family escapes and distracts him long enough for her to flee into her limousine. The police arrive and Cooper flees the...
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Thao Suranari (redirect from Lady Mo)
accepted version is that, when the Lao invaders ordered the women to cook for them, Lady Mo requested knives so that food might be prepared. That night, when...
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Linda Calvey (redirect from Ronnie Cook)
armed robberies and serving a life sentence for the murder of her lover Ronnie Cook. She was known as the "Black Widow" because all of her lovers ended up...
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Cook, p. 195. Aronson, pp. 128, 147; Cook, p. 202. Aronson, p. 147; Cook, p. 191. Cook, pp. 192–194. Cook, pp. 204–205, 211–212. Cook, p. 205. Cook,...
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