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Cicely (other)
Cicely is an herb, ''Myrrhis odorata'' Cicely may also refer to: * ''Osmorhiza'', a genus of plants referred to as cicely in North America People * Cicely Mary Barker (1895–1973), English illustrator of books, greeting cards, and postcards noted for ''The Flower Fairies of the Spring'' * Dame Cicely Courtneidge (1893–1980), English actress, comedian, and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE); granddaughter of singer and actress Cicely Nott * Cicely Hamilton (1872–1952), English actress, feminist, journalist, writer, and, most notably, suffragist * Cicely Mayhew (1924–2016), first British woman diplomat * Dame Cicely Saunders (1918–2005), English nurse, physician and writer, member of the Order of Merit and DBE * Cicely Tyson (1924–2021), African-American actress known for ''The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman'', ''Roots'', and ''Diary of a Mad Black Woman'' * Cicely Pearl Blair (1926–2005), British dermatologist Other * Cicely, Alaska, the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cicely
''Myrrhis odorata'', with common names cicely (), sweet cicely, myrrh, garden myrrh, and sweet chervil, is a herbaceous perennial plant belonging to the celery family Apiaceae. It is the only species in the genus ''Myrrhis''. Etymology The genus name ''Myrrhis'' derives from the Greek word myrrhis υρρίς an aromatic oil from Asia. The Latin species name ''odorata'' means ''scented''.M. Grieve A Modern Herbal/ref> Description ''Myrrhis odorata'' is a tall herbaceous perennial plant growing to 2 m ft 6 intall, depending on circumstances. The leaves are fern-like, 2-4-pinnate, finely divided, feathery, up to 50 cm long, with whitish patches near the rachis. The plant is softly hairy and smells strongly of aniseed when crushed. The flowers are creamy-white, about 2–4 mm across, produced in large umbels. The flowering period extends from May to June. The fruits are slender, dark brown, 15–25 mm long and 3–4 mm broad. Distribution and habitat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osmorhiza
''Osmorhiza'' is a genus of perennial herbs, known generally as sweet cicely, sweetcicely, or sweetroot. Most species are native to North America, but some grow in South America and Asia. Some species are used for medicinal purposes, but have dangerous lookalikes. The fruits of this plant have barbs on the end allowing them to stick to clothing, fur, or feathers. American Indians used the roots of sweet cicely as a panacea. It was used as a tonic for upset stomach and to ease childbirth. The root was poulticed on boils and wounds, and a root tea was used as an eye wash. Folk medicine Traditional medicine (also known as indigenous medicine or folk medicine) comprises medical aspects of traditional knowledge that developed over generations within the folk beliefs of various societies, including indigenous peoples, before the ... list uses of the plant as an expectorant and as a tonic for coughs and for stomachaches.Peterson Field Guides (Eastern/Central Medicinal Plants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cicely Mary Barker
Cicely Mary Barker (28 June 1895 – 16 February 1973) was an English illustrator best known for a series of fantasy illustrations depicting fairies and flowers. Barker's art education began in girlhood with correspondence courses and instruction at the Croydon School of Art. Her earliest professional work included greeting cards and juvenile magazine illustrations, and her first book, ''Flower Fairies of the Spring'', was published in 1923. Similar books were published in the following decades. Barker was a devout Anglican and donated her artworks to Christian fundraisers and missionary organizations. She produced a few Christian-themed books such as ''The Children’s Book of Hymns'' and, in collaboration with her sister Dorothy, ''He Leadeth Me''. She designed a stained glass window for St. Edmund's Church, Pitlake, and her painting of the Christ Child, ''The Darling of the World Has Come'', was purchased by Queen Mary. Barker was equally proficient in watercolour, pen an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cicely Courtneidge
Dame Esmerelda Cicely Courtneidge, (1 April 1893 – 26 April 1980) was an Australian-born British actress, comedian and singer. The daughter of the producer and playwright Robert Courtneidge, she was appearing in his productions in the West End by the age of 16, and was quickly promoted from minor to major roles in his Edwardian musical comedies. After the outbreak of the First World War, her father had a series of failures and temporarily withdrew from production. No other producers offered the young Courtneidge leading roles in musical comedies, and she turned instead to the music hall, learning her craft as a comedian. In 1916 she married the actor and dancer Jack Hulbert, with whom she formed a professional as well as a matrimonial partnership that lasted until his death 62 years later. They acted together on stage and screen, initially in a series of revues, with Hulbert frequently producing as well as performing. Courtneidge appeared in 12 British films in the 1930s, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cicely Hamilton
Cicely Mary Hamilton (née Hammill; 15 June 1872 – 6 December 1952), was an English actress, writer, journalist, suffragist and feminist, part of the struggle for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom. She is now best known for the feminist play ''How the Vote was Won'', which sees a male anti-suffragist change his mind when the women in his life go on strike.Lisa Shariari, "Hamilton, Cicely" in Faye Hammill, Ashlie Sponenberg and Esme Miskimmin (ed.), ''Encyclopedia of British Women's Writing, 1900-1950''. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. (pp. 105-6) She was also the author of one of the most frequently performed suffrage plays, ''A Pageant of Great Women'' (1909), which featured the character of Jane Austen as one of its "Learned Women." Biography Born in 1872, Cicely Hammill in Paddington, London, she was the eldest of the four children of Maude Mary and Denzil Hammil. She was educated in Malvern, Worcestershire and in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe. Hammill was raised ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cicely Mayhew
Cicely Elizabeth Mayhew, Baroness Mayhew (''née'' Ludlam; 16 February 1924 – 8 July 2016) was a British diplomat. She was the second woman to work for the British Foreign Office, and its first female diplomat. Early life She was born on 16 February 1924. Her father, C.S Ludlam, was a metallurgist and artisanal miner who made his money in copper in Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia. He mined and produced around 1,523 tonnes of blister copper containing about 70,000 oz. (2,170 kg) of silver in the Mumbwa district. She grew up in Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa. She attended Loreto Convent School, Pretoria from 1929 to 1932. Her formal education was interrupted for two years while she and her mother accompanied her father on prospecting expeditions in Tanzania and Uganda, helping him to pan for gold near Entebbe. At age 10 she returned to Britain to be educated and did not see her mother again until her twenties. She attended Sheffield High School, living with her aunts. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cicely Saunders
Dame Cicely Mary Strode Saunders (22 June 1918 – 14 July 2005) was an English nurse, social worker, physician and writer. She is noted for her work in terminal care research and her role in the birth of the hospice movement, emphasising the importance of palliative care in modern medicine, and opposing the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia. Early life and education Saunders was born in Barnet, Hertfordshire, to Philip Gordon Saunders, a chartered surveyor and landowner, and to Mary Christian Knight. She had two younger brothers, John Frederick Stacey Saunders and Christopher Gordon Strode Saunders.''1939 England and Wales Register'' After attending Roedean School (1932–37), Saunders began studying politics, philosophy, and economics at St Anne's College, Oxford in 1938. During the war, she decided to become a nurse and trained at Nightingale School of Nursing based at St Thomas's Hospital from 1940–44. Returning to St Anne's College after a back injury in 1944, she t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cicely Tyson
Cicely Louise Tyson (December 19, 1924January 28, 2021) was an American actress. In a career which spanned more than seven decades in film, television and theatre, she became known for her portrayal of strong African-American women. Tyson received various awards including three Emmy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Tony Award, an Honorary Academy Award, and a Peabody Award. Having appeared in minor film and television roles early in her career, Tyson garnered widespread attention and critical acclaim for her performance as Rebecca Morgan in '' Sounder'' (1972); she was nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Actress and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for her work in the film. Tyson's portrayal of the title role in the 1974 television film ''The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,'' based on the 1971 novel of the same name by Ernest J. Gaines, won her further praise; among other accolades, the role won her two Emmy Awards and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cicely Pearl Blair
Cicely Pearl Blair FRCP (née Hopton; 20 May 1926 – 14 February 2005) was a British dermatologist. She discovered that people who had albinism did not get blackheads, as they did not produce melanin, the pigment that makes the comedones black. She also wrote about rashes caused by brown-tailed moth caterpillars. After her retirement, she turned her hand to art and especially silver smithing, fashioning a "chain of office" for the president of the British Association of Dermatologists. Early life Blair was born Cicely Pearl Hopton on 20 May 1926 in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Her father, John Isaac Hopton, and her mother were both teachers. She attended Greenhead High School in Huddersfield before studying at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine in London. In 1951, she qualified as a medical practitioner, gaining posts first at the Royal Free Hospital and then at the London Jewish Hospital. In 1954, she married Henry Blair and the couple moved into general practice in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Exposure
''Northern Exposure'' is an American Northern comedy-drama television series about the eccentric residents of a fictional small town in Alaska that ran on CBS from July 12, 1990, to July 26, 1995, with a total of 110 episodes. It received 57 award nominations during its five-year run and won 27, including the 1992 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, two additional Primetime Emmy Award The Primetime Emmy Awards, or Primetime Emmys, are part of the extensive range of Emmy Awards for artistic and technical merit for the American television industry. Bestowed by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS), the Primetime ...s, four Creative Arts Emmy Awards, and two Golden Globe Award, Golden Globes.Awards for ''Northern Exposure'' from IMDb Critic John Leonard (American critic), John Leonar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Groovy Girls
Groovy Girls were a line of fashion dolls manufactured by the American toy company Manhattan Toy and launched in 1998. Each year new dolls were produced until 2019. History Groovy Girls launched in 1998 as a funky alternative to Barbie. Each doll had different skin tones, hair types and facial features, reflecting the ethnic landscape of the world. The brand's lifestyle aspects were fashion, friendship and self-expression and represents a wholesome alternative to dolls such as Bratz, Flavas, My Scene, and Barbies. Groovy Girls were initially sold in specialty toy stores such as Zany Brainy and Noodle Kidoodle. Beginning in early 2005, the dolls were launched in Target stores. Following the economic crisis of 2008, they were pulled from Target's shelves and begun to only be sold at specialty stores and online from then on out. As of 2005, more than eight million Groovy Girls dolls were sold since its inception. As of 2020, Groovy Girls continue to be sold but no new models are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecily (other)
Cecily is a given name, one of the English forms of Latin Cecilia. Notable people with the name include: * Cecily Adams (1958–2004), American actress, casting director, and lyricist * Cecily Bonville, 7th Baroness Harington (1460–1529), English peeress * Cecily Brown (born 1969), British painter * Cecily Lefort (1900–1945), British World War II agent * Cecily Neville, Duchess of York (1415–1495), mother of two English kings * Cecily Norden (1918–2011), South African author and equestrian * Cecily Maude O'Connell (1884–1965) Australian trade unionist and religious social worker * Cecily O'Neill, American theater educator * Cecily Polson, Australian actress * Cecily Sash (1924–2019), South African painter, professor * Cecily Strong (born 1984), American actress and comedian * Cecily Tynan (born 1969), Philadelphia broadcast personality * Cecily of York (1469–1507), sister of King Edward V of England * Cecily von Ziegesar (born 1970), American author of novels w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
