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Adelyn
Adeline is a feminine given name meaning 'noble' or 'nobility'. It is of German origin and derived from Old High German "adal" which means noble. It lives on in the Modern High German words Adel (nobility), edel (noble) adelig (noble). It is a related to Adèle. Adeline was introduced to England by the Normans in the 11th century and was very common in the Middle Ages. Its variants include Adelin, Adelina, Adaline, Adalyn, Adalynn, Adelyn, Adalene, Adeleine, Aada, Ada, Alina, Aline, Adelita and Alita, Zélie. Notable people with the name include: * Adeline Pond Adams (1859–1948), American writer and wife of Herbert Adams * Adeline, Countess of Cardigan and Lancastre (1825–1915), wife of James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan * Adeline André, French fashion designer and the head of one of the ten haute couture design houses in Paris * Adeline Canac (born 1990), French pair skater, currently skating with Yannick Bonheur * Adeline Genée DBE (1878–1970), Danish/British ball ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelina (given Name)
Adelina is , Italian variant of Adeline, meaning 'noble' or 'nobility'. Its other variants are Adtelina , Adela, Adelia, Della, Adalyn, Adalynn, Adelyn, Alene, Aline, Delia, Aada and Ada. Notable people with the name include: Mononym * Adelina of Holland (c. 990 – c. 1045), Dutch noblewoman * Saint Adelina (died 1125), French Benedictine nun * Adelina, a character in '' Lorien Legacies'' * Adelina of Naples, a character in ''Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow'' Given name * Adelina Abranches (1866–1945), Portuguese stage actress * Adelina Adalis (1900–1969), Soviet poet, prose writer, and translator * Adelina Akhmetova (born 1998), Kazakhstani hurdler * Adelina Barrion (1951–2010), Filipino entomologist * Adelina Beljajeva (born 2003), Estonian rhythmic gymnast * Adelina Boguș (born 1988) Romanian rower * Adelina Budai-Ungureanu (born 2000), Romanian volleyball player * Adelina Catalani (fl. 1818–1832), Franco-Italian soprano * Adelina Chilica, Angolan politicia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old High German
Old High German (OHG; german: Althochdeutsch (Ahd.)) is the earliest stage of the German language, conventionally covering the period from around 750 to 1050. There is no standardised or supra-regional form of German at this period, and Old High German is an umbrella term for the group of continental West Germanic dialects which underwent the set of consonantal changes called the Second Sound Shift. At the start of this period, the main dialect areas belonged to largely independent tribal kingdoms, but by 788 the conquests of Charlemagne had brought all OHG dialect areas into a single polity. The period also saw the development of a stable linguistic border between German and Gallo-Romance, later French. The surviving OHG texts were all written in monastic scriptoria and, as a result, the overwhelming majority of them are religious in nature or, when secular, belong to the Latinate literary culture of Christianity. The earliest written texts in Old High German, glosses and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adeline Kerrar
Adeline Kerrar ("Addie") (August 31, 1924 – July 4, 1995) was an American infielder and catcher who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the season. Listed at , 130 pounds, she was a switch-hitter and threw right-handed. A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Kerrar entered the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1944 with the Rockford Peaches. A versatile utility, she caught and played at shortstop and third base. She had a brief career in the league because of assorted injuries.The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League In one game, Kerrar scored the winning run for her team by stealing home plate, but because she was not told to steal home she was fined by Rockford's manager Jack Kloza. She connected three hits in eighteen at-bats for a .167 career average in eight games. Following her baseball career, Kerrar went on to work as one of the first female postwomen in the United States. She later served as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adeline Yen Mah
Adeline Yen Mah () is a Chinese-American author and physician. She grew up in Tianjin, Shanghai and Hong Kong, and is known for her autobiography ''Falling Leaves''. She is married to Professor Robert A. Mah with whom she has a daughter, and a son from a previous marriage. Life Yen Mah had an older sister called Lydia (Jun-pei) and three older brothers, Gregory (Zi-jie), Edgar (Zi-lin), and James (Zi-jun). She has stated in ''Falling Leaves'' that she did not use the real names of her siblings and their spouses to protect their identities but she did, however, use the real names of her father, stepmother, aunt and husband, while referring to her paternal grandparents only by the Chinese terms 'Ye Ye' and 'Nai Nai'. Yen Mah also writes of her grandfather's younger sister (Yan Shuzhen), [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adeline Wuillème
Adeline Wuillème (born 8 December 1975 in Reims, Champagne-Ardenne), is a French foil fencer. She competed in three Olympic games The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var .... References 1975 births Living people French female foil fencers Fencers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic fencers of France Sportspeople from Reims Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for France Mediterranean Games medalists in fencing Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games {{France-fencing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adeline Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf (; ; 25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf was born into an affluent household in South Kensington, London, the seventh child of Julia Prinsep Jackson and Leslie Stephen in a blended family of eight which included the modernist painter Vanessa Bell. She was home-schooled in English classics and Victorian literature from a young age. From 1897 to 1901, she attended the Ladies' Department of King's College London, where she studied classics and history and came into contact with early reformers of women's higher education and the women's rights movement. Encouraged by her father, Woolf began writing professionally in 1900. After her father's death in 1904, the Stephen family moved from Kensington to the more bohemian Bloomsbury, where, in conjunction with the brothers' intellectual friends, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adeline Dutton Train Whitney
Adeline Dutton Train Whitney ( pen name, A. D. T. Whitney; September 15, 1824 – March 20, 1906) was an American poet and prolific writer, who published more than 20 books for girls. Her books expressed a traditional view of women's roles and were popular throughout her life. Her first venture was a ''Book of Rhymes''. Then followed: ''Mother Goose for Grown Folks'', ''Boys at Chequassett'', ''Faith Gartney's Girlhood'', ''Hitherto — a Story of Yesterday'', ''Prince Strong's Outings'', ''The Gayworthys'', ''Leslie Goldthwaite'', ''We Girls'', ''Holy Tides'', ''Real Folks'', ''The Other Girls'', ''Sights and Insights'', ''Odd and Even'', ''Bannyborough Whiten Memories'', ''Daffodils'', ''Pansies'', ''Homespun Yarns'', ''Ascutney Street'', ''A Golden Gossip'', ''Bird Talk'', and ''Just How''. Early life and education Adeline Dutton Train was born in Boston, Massachusetts, September 15, 1824. She was the daughter of Enoch Train and Adeline Train (née Dutton). With his cousin, Sam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Adeline Weitzel
Louise Adeline Weitzel (December 2, 1862 – May 6, 1934) was an American writer of German descent. She was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Her family moved to Lititz, Pennsylvania while she was still young. Given the socio-cultural context in which she was born and raised, her work is unique, not only because of the content of her writing per se but also because she produced and published her texts as a woman and in her native German dialect (''Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch'') in the United States. Her will, only 30 words long, left her $855 estate to the Moravian Home for Aged Women in Lititz. Education and professional life Louise A. Weitzel obtained her education at ''Sunnyside Kollitsch'' and at the ''Linden Hall Seminary'' for girls. Later she would work for local German-language newspapers where she ultimately found a vehicle to her voice as a poet. In 1908 she published the book ''A Quiver of Arrows: Poems by Louise A. Weitzel''. Religious life Louise A. Weitzel was an acti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Adeline Seward
Frances Adeline Miller Seward (September 25, 1805 – June 21, 1865) was the First Lady of New York and the wife of William Henry Seward, a senator in the New York legislature, Governor of New York, a senator from New York and United States Secretary of State under President Abraham Lincoln. Early life Frances Adeline Miller was born on September 25, 1805, in Cayuga County, New York. She was the daughter of Judge Elijah Miller (1772–1851) and Hannah Foote Miller (1778–1811), who was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She studied at the Troy Female Seminary (now known as Emma Willard School). Life Frances was deeply committed to the abolitionist movement. In the 1850s, the Seward family opened their Auburn home as a safehouse to fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad. Seward's frequent travel and political work suggest that it was Frances who played the more active role in Auburn abolitionist activities. In the excitement following the rescue and safe transport of fug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Adeline "Fanny" Seward
Frances Adeline Seward (December 9, 1844 – October 29, 1866) was the daughter of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward and his wife Frances Adeline Miller. The last of five children born to the Sewards, she was their only daughter to survive to adulthood. Early life Frances Seward was born in Auburn, New York on December 9, 1844. Her father was a prominent Whig who had served as Governor of New York, and would later become a United States senator, join the Republican Party, and serve as Secretary of State under Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. She was named for her mother, who was the daughter of a judge, and a stalwart abolitionist. Fanny received a progressive education and upbringing, and aspired to be a writer. Her mother was frequently ill and ill-disposed to travel and socializing, and chose to remain at home in Auburn while her husband served in the Senate and the cabinet. When her father began his term as Secretary of State in 1861, Fan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adeline Rittershaus
Adeline Rittershaus (29 July 1876 – 6 September 1924) was a German philologist, a scholar in old Scandinavian literature, and champion for the equality of women. She earned her doctorate in 1898, at the University of Zurich, being one of the first women to do so at that institution, and acquired in 1902, as the first woman, a ''Venia legendi'' at the Faculty of Arts of the same university. Her most famous work is a collection of Icelandic folk tales. Early life and education Adeline Rittershaus was born on 29 July 1876 in Barmen (now part of the city of Wuppertal). She was a daughter of the poet Emil Rittershaus and grew up in Barmen in the Prussian Rhine Province. Ferdinand Freiligrath, a friend of her father, was her godfather. As women were unable to acquire an ''Abitur'' in Germany until 1899, Rittershaus received private preparation by teachers of Barmer Real Gymnasium in 1894, and passed the Matura exam in Zürich. She then studied Germanic philology, Greek, and Sanskr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adeline Miller
Adeline Miller, alias Adeline Furman (1777 – August 24, 1859), was an American madam and prostitute. According to her contemporary George Templeton Strong, Miller was active in New York City prostitution from the late 1810s. By 1821, she was running a brothel on Church Street, where she had accumulated personal effects worth at least $500. Over Miller's 30-year career, she became quite wealthy. At one point or another, Miller ran houses on Duane, Elm, Orange and Reade streets. She owned, but did not manage, another brothel on Cross Street. Rumors suggested that, in the 1840s, she charged her girls $14 a week to stay in her brothels. By 1855, she had many personal residences; the one on Church Street alone contained effects valued at $5,000. Miller was a celebrity as well. Her name appeared in tourist guidebooks and in the diaries of rich New Yorkers. The ''Libertine'' opined that she and Phoebe Doty, another madam, should rent New York's Park Theatre and talk about their e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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