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Bridget McManus
Bridget is an Irish female name derived from the Gaelic noun ''brígh'', meaning "power, strength, vigor, virtue". An alternate meaning of the name is "exalted one". Its popularity, especially in Ireland, is largely related to the popularity of Saint Brigid of Kildare, who was so popular in Ireland she was known as "Mary of the Gael". This saint took on many of the characteristics of the early Celtic goddess Brigid, who was the goddess of agriculture and healing and possibly also of poetry and fire. One of her epithets was "Brigid of the Holy Fire".Todd (1998), p. 23 In German and Scandinavian countries, the popularity of the name spread due to Saint Bridget of Sweden. In the Irish language, the name is spelled ''Brighid'' or ''Bríd'' and is pronounced "breed" or "breej". In the Scottish Gaelic language, the name is spelled ''Brìghde'' and is pronounced "breej-eh" At one time the name was so popular for Irish girls that Bridey was used as a slang term for an Irish girl in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Language
Irish ( Standard Irish: ), also known as Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, which is a part of the Indo-European language family. Irish is indigenous to the island of Ireland and was the population's first language until the 19th century, when English gradually became dominant, particularly in the last decades of the century. Irish is still spoken as a first language in a small number of areas of certain counties such as Cork, Donegal, Galway, and Kerry, as well as smaller areas of counties Mayo, Meath, and Waterford. It is also spoken by a larger group of habitual but non-traditional speakers, mostly in urban areas where the majority are second-language speakers. Daily users in Ireland outside the education system number around 73,000 (1.5%), and the total number of persons (aged 3 and over) who claimed they could speak Irish in April 2016 was 1,761,420, representing 39.8% of respondents. For most of recorded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridget Archer
Bridget Kathleen Archer (born 18 May 1975) is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2019 federal election. She is a member of the Liberal Party and represents the Division of Bass in Tasmania. Early life Archer was born in Hobart, Tasmania. Her father died when she was eight years old, after which her family moved to Ravenswood, a suburb of Launceston. Archer attended Ravenswood Primary School and Launceston Church Grammar School before moving back to Hobart to attend the University of Tasmania, although she soon dropped out. She worked at the Tasmanian Herbarium from 1995 to 1999, as a botanical curator. She later worked in "a variety of mostly casual administrative and hospitality jobs", including at the 2000 Summer Olympics, before returning to university. She completed a Bachelor of Arts in English and political science, followed by a graduate certificate in international politics. Local government Archer was elected to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridget Breiner
Bridget Breiner (born 1974) is an American dancer and choreographer. Since 1991, she lives and works mainly in Germany. Breiner was born in Connecticut and brought up in Columbus, Ohio, where she received her early dance training. At 17, she furthered her dance studies in Munich, Germany, at the Heinz Bosl Foundation. Her first engagement was with the Bayerisches Staatsballett before she joined the Stuttgart Ballet in 1996 and became First Soloist there in 2001. From 2006 to 2008 Breiner was a member of the Semperoper Ballet. Since 2008, she was artist-in-residence at the Stuttgart Ballet, but she also worked as a freelance choreographer. In the 2012/13 season she became artistic director of ballet at the Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen where she created the choreography for the world premiere of '' Charlotte Salomon: Der Tod und die Malerin''. In the 2019/2020 she moved to become ballet director of Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. Breiner received the German theatre a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridget Boland
Bridget Boland (13 March 1913 – 19 January 1988) was an Irish-British screenwriter, playwright and novelist. Life Bridget Boland was the daughter of Irish politician John Pius Boland and Eileen Querin Boland ( Moloney). Born in London, Bridget Boland was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Roehampton and at Oxford University, where she studied philosophy, politics, and economics, graduating B.A. in 1935. In 1937 she became a film writer. From 1941 to 1946 she served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, producing plays for the troops to boost morale from 1943 to 1946. Ronald Hayman, 'Bridget Boland', in K. A. Berney, ed., ''Contemporary British Dramatists'', Gale, 1994, pp. 81-83 Boland reflected on her life and work in 1987: Works Selected filmography * '' Laugh It Off'' (1940) * ''Gaslight'' (1940) * ''Freedom Radio'' (1941) * ''He Found a Star'' (1941) * '' This England'' (1941) * ''Prelude to Fame'' (1950) * '' The Fake'' (1953) * ''The Prisoner'' (1955) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridget Boakye
Bridget Boakye is a Ghanaian entrepreneur, data scientist and writer. She co-founded TalentsinAfrica, one of Africa's fastest-growing skills accelerator and recruitment platforms. Her company was among the top 20 companies selected in October 2019 for the Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. Her company also emerged as one of the top three start-up companies at the Oxford University Africa Innovation Fair. Early years and education Bridget was born and raised in Ghana. She moved to the United States to live with her parents when she was ten years old and completed her her tertiary education at Swarthmore College, graduating with a bachelor's degree in economics. Works After completing her tertiary education at Swarthmore College, she worked in development and education before moving to Ghana. She was an editor at She Leads Africa where she mostly debated on African history, women, economics and entrepreneurship. In Ghana, she co-founded Talentsin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salem Witch Trials
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused. Thirty people were found guilty, 19 of whom were executed by hanging (14 women and five men). One other man, Giles Corey, was pressed to death after refusing to enter a plea, and at least five people died in jail. Arrests were made in numerous towns beyond Salem and Salem Village (known today as Danvers), notably Andover and Topsfield. The grand juries and trials for this capital crime were conducted by a Court of Oyer and Terminer in 1692 and by a Superior Court of Judicature in 1693, both held in Salem Town, where the hangings also took place. It was the deadliest witch hunt in the history of colonial North America. Only fourteen other women and two men had been executed in Massachusetts and Connecticut during the 17th century. The episode is one of Colonial America's most no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridget Bishop
Bridget Bishop ( 1632 – 10 June 1692) was the first person executed for witchcraft during the Salem witch trials in 1692. Nineteen were hanged, and one, Giles Corey, was pressed to death. Altogether, about 200 people were tried. Family life Bridget's maiden name was Magnus. She, her sister Mercy, her father John, and her mother Rebecca adopted the last name Playfer, Bridget's paternal grandmother's maiden name. She was married three or possibly four times. She married her first husband, Captain Samuel Wesselby on 13 April 1660, at St. Mary-in-the-Marsh, Norwich, Norfolk, England. She had two sons and one daughter from her first marriage: John, Benjamin and Mary. Her first husband died in 1666. Her second marriage, on 26 July 1666, was to Thomas Oliver, a widower and prominent businessman. She had another daughter from her marriage to Thomas Oliver, Chrestian Oliver (sometimes spelled Christian), born 8 May 1667. She was earlier accused of bewitching Thomas Oliver to death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridget Bevan
Bridget Bevan (née Vaughan; baptised 30 October 1698 – 11 December 1779), also known as Madam Bevan, was a Wales, Welsh educationalist and public benefactor. She was the chief supporter of Griffith Jones (priest), Griffith Jones and his system of circulating schools. Life Bridget Bevan was born at Derllys Court, Llannewydd, in Carmarthenshire, Wales, in 1698. She was the youngest daughter of the philanthropist John Vaughan (Carmarthenshire), John Vaughan (1663–1722), a patron of the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge (SPCK) schools in the county, and his wife, Elizabeth Thomas (d. 1721). On 30 December 1721 at Merthyr church, she married a local lawyer and Member of Parliament for Carmarthen (UK Parliament constituency), Carmarthen, Arthur Bevan (1689–1743). She was the heiress of her uncle, John Vaughan of Derllys. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridget Benenate
Bridget Benenate is an American songwriter. She first found success in her song "Permission To Shine", which was performed by the band Bachelor Girl. The same year Bridget's song "Everything Changes" was featured on ''Dawson’s Creek''. In 2001, Benenate met music producer Matthew Gerrard. They started to collaborate. One of the first songs they wrote together was "Hold On" for the girl group B*Witched, which was featured in the movie ''Princess Diaries''. In 2003 the duo penned several songs for Christian artists Nate Sallie and Jaci Velasquez. Jaci’s album, ''Unspoken'', included the song "" Lost Without You," which was later released as the US debut single for the Australian pop idol Delta Goodrem. Bridget Benenate appeared as guest vocalist for the track ''Ever Since We Met'' on Chris Botti's 2003 album A Thousand Kisses Deep. Botti, Benenate and Gerrard were co-writers on the track. It was not until 2004 that Benenate found her biggest success to date by penning the nu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridget Bendish
Bridget Bendish (née Ireton) (1650–1726), was a daughter of General Henry Ireton and Bridget, Oliver Cromwell's eldest daughter. She was born in Attenborough, Nottinghamshire, England. She married Thomas Bendish, a distant relative of Sir Thomas Bendish, 2nd Baronet, in 1670.Her husband Thomas Bendish (1643–1707) was a son of Sir Thomas Bendish, 2nd Baronet (Andersop. 383 Bridget died early in 1726 at age 76 and was buried in Great Yarmouth. Life In 1652, her mother, also named Bridget Ireton (born July 1624), married General Charles Fleetwood after being widowed by the death of Henry Ireton. In 1662, her mother died; and Bridget lived with her stepfather at Stoke Newington, Middlesex, until she was 19. On 24 August 1669 a license was granted for her to marry Thomas Bendish (bap. 1645, d. 1707) of Gray's Inn; in 1670 they married. They moved to Southtown, near Great Yarmouth, where Bendish owned salt marshes and a saltworks on Cobholme. In 1672, he was charged with landi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridget Bedard
Bridget Bedard is a television writer and producer who has garnered four Peabody Awards, a Golden Globe, both Writers and Producers Guild awards, as well as multiple Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. Life and career Bridget Bedard grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah. She graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in Film Studies then earned her MFA in Directing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. While at Tisch, Bedard received grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, Screen Gems Inc., The Wasserman Awards, and was named Best Female Student Director by the Directors Guild of America – East. Her thesis film, ''BABY'', premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2001 and aired on the Sundance Channel and cable networks worldwide. Bedard taught screenwriting and directing before making her television writing debut in 2007 on ''Mad Men'', for which she won a Writers Guild of America Award for Best New Series and a Peabody. Following ''Mad Men'', she was a writer and pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridget Becker
Bridget Becker (born 1 January 1981 in Ranfurly, Otago, New Zealand) is a New Zealand female curler. On international level she is runner-up of 2010 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, runner-up () and four-time bronze medallist (, , , ) of Pacific Curling Championships. On national level she is nine-time New Zealand women's curling champion (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2017, 2018), seven-time New Zealand mixed doubles curling champion (2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2016, 2017). Teams and events Women's Mixed doubles Personal life Becker's family is well known in New Zealand as a curling family. Becker's mother, father, two brothers and grandfather have all represented New Zealand on an international scale. Becker's father, Peter Becker, is known as one of the first curlers to represent New Zealand internationally. He was also the coach of the women's team as well as the Secretary of the New Zealand Curling Association. Bridget's older brother, Sean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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