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Lake Louisa
Louisa may refer to: Places ;Australia * Louisa Island (Tasmania) ;Canada * Louisa or Lac-Louisa, a community in Wentworth, Quebec ;Malaysia * Louisa Reef, Sabah ;United States * Louisa, Kentucky * Louisa, Missouri * Louisa, Virginia * Louisa County, Iowa * Louisa County, Virginia ;Belgium * Louisa - Square in Brussels and metro station, next to Palace de Justice, see Avenue Louise Other * HMS ''Louisa'', the name of four ships of the Royal Navy * ''Louisa'' (ship), United States ship of the 1800s * ''Louisa'' (film), 1950 film starring Ronald Reagan People with the given name * Louisa of Great Britain (1749–1768) * Louisa, Countess of Craven, originally Louisa Brunton (1785?–1860), English actress *Louisa Adams (1775–1852), First Lady of the United States from 1825 to 1829 *Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), American novelist, short story writer and poet * Louisa Rose Allen, English singer and songwriter known as Foxes * Louisa Beaufort (1781–1863), Irish antiquari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisa Island (Tasmania)
Louisa Island is an island with a short sandy tombolo, located adjacent to the South West Tasmania, south-western coast of Tasmania, Australia. The irregularly shaped island is part of the Maatsuyker Islands, Maatsuyker Islands Group, and comprises part of the Southwest National Park and the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Site.Brothers, Nigel; Pemberton, David; Pryor, Helen; & Halley, Vanessa. (2001). ''Tasmania’s Offshore Islands: seabirds and other natural features''. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery: Hobart. The island's highest point is Australian Height Datum, above sea level and, at low tide, the island is joined to the mainland by a spit (landform), sand spit. Flora and fauna The central parts of the island are lightly forested with ''Eucalyptus nitida'' and ''Eucalyptus ovata'', with an understory, understorey of ''Leptospermum scoparium'' and ''Melaleuca squarrosa''. Bracken covers areas subjected to recent wildfire, fires. The island is part of the Maatsu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foxes (singer)
Louisa Rose Allen (born 29 April 1989), known professionally as Foxes, is an English singer, songwriter and model.Lester, Paul (2011)New Band of the Day: Foxes (No 1,142), ''The Guardian'', 4 November 2011. Retrieved 4 May 2013 Foxes's debut album, '' Glorious'', was released in 2014, and features the UK top 20 singles "Youth", " Let Go for Tonight" and "Holding onto Heaven". Her vocals were featured on Zedd's 2012 single "Clarity", which peaked at number eight on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and won a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording. Foxes's second album, '' All I Need'', was released on 5 February 2016. The album includes the top 25 single " Body Talk", as well as " Amazing". After a four-year hiatus from music, Foxes announced her return, releasing the single "Love Not Loving You" in May 2020. The single was included on her second EP, '' Friends in the Corner'', released on 1 April 2021 through PIAS. Her third studio album, '' The Kick'', was released on 11 February 2022 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisa Durrell
Louisa Florence Durrell (née Dixie; 16 January 1886 – 24 January 1964), was an Anglo-Irish woman born in India during the British Raj. She was the mother of Lawrence and Gerald Durrell. She was featured in Gerald Durrell's autobiographical Corfu trilogy, which tells about the Durrells' years in Corfu from 1935 to 1939 in a somewhat fictionalized way. Biography Louisa Florence Dixie was born in 1886 to an Anglo-Irish Protestant family in Roorkee, India, where her family were colonials in the years of the British Raj. Her father, George Dixie, was the head clerk and accountant of the Ganges Canal Foundry. In India, she met and married Lawrence Samuel Durrell, an English engineer also born in India. Together, they travelled all over India for Lawrence's engineering work. They had three sons and two daughters, one of whom died in infancy. Their second child, Margery Ruth, was born in November 1915 and died from diphtheria in April 1916. The surviving children were Lawrence ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisa Lane Drew
Louisa Lane Drew (January 10, 1820 – August 31, 1897) was an English-born American actress and theatre owner and an ancestor of the Barrymore acting family. Professionally she was often known as Mrs. John Drew. Life and career Louisa Lane was born in London, England, the daughter of Eliza Trentner (1796–1887), a singer and actress, and Thomas Frederick Lane (1796–1825), an actor and theatre manager.Billboard June 6, 1942 Louisa and her mother came to America when she was six years old. She proved to be a child prodigy playing five different adult roles within one play at the age of eight in 1828. As a young woman and strolling player, her theatrical travels took her, her mother and half sisters as far away as Jamaica, by sailing ship, where one of her step fathers died. She returned to the United States in 1847 to support Junius Brutus Booth. She appeared in several plays with both him and his son, John Wilkes Booth. She and her third husband John Drew were the par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisa Emily Dobrée
Louisa Emily Dobrée (c. 1852 – 1917) was a 19th-century-born French-Irish Catholic writer of novels, fugitive articles, short stories, and juvenile literature. Her non-fiction subjects ranged from home nursing, domestic and personal hygiene, etiquette, character sketches, and embroidery, to natural history. Biography Louisa Emily Dobrée was born in Tours, France, c. 1852. She was of Irish descent on her mother's side, while her father's family, of Guernsey, was originally French. Dobrée's first story was published when she was nineteen. This was followed by fugitive articles and short stories in magazines. She also wrote books for young people, among which are the following:— ''Loved into Shape'', ''Dreams and Deeds'', ''Terry'', ''One Talent Only'', ''A Knotless Thread'', ''Underneath the Surface'', ''A Lowly Life with a Lofty Aim'', and ''Turned to Gold'', as well as ''Hugh Templar's motto'', ''Underneath the Surface. A Sark Story'', ''Leon and the Lessons He Learned. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisa Knapp Curtis
Louisa Knapp Curtis (October 21, 1851 – February 25, 1910), (also known as Louisa Knapp), was an American columnist and the first editor of the ''Ladies' Home Journal'' from 1883 to 1889. It became one of the most popular magazines published in the United States and reached a circulation of one million within ten years. Curtis turned over the editorship to Edward Bok in 1889 but she continued to author a column and provide oversight. She was married to Cyrus Curtis, head of the Curtis Publishing Company, and took over from her husband as the author of the women's page monthly supplement ''Women at Home'' for the ''Tribune and Farmer'' weekly newspaper. Early life In 1875, Louisa Knapp married Cyrus Curtis when he was the publisher of ''The People's Ledger'' in Boston. They met while singing in a concert to celebrate the end of the Civil War. Louisa was working as a private secretary for Samuel Gridley Howe, a prominent Boston physician and husband of women's suffrage activist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Louisa Conolly
Lady Louisa Conolly (5 December 1743 – August 1821) was an English-born Irish noblewoman. She was the third of the famous Lennox Sisters, and was notable among them for leading a wholly uncontroversial life filled with good works. Biography Born Lady Louisa Augusta Lennox, she was the third of the four Lennox sisters portrayed in Stella Tillyard's book ''Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox'' and in the BBC television series based on it. The Lennox sisters were the daughters of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, and Lady Sarah Cadogan. The 2nd duke's father, the first duke, was an illegitimate son of King Charles II of England. Louisa was still a child when her parents died within a year of each other in 1750 and 1751. After this, Lady Louisa was brought up by her much older sister Emily FitzGerald, Duchess of Leinster, in Kildare. In 1758, aged 15, she married Thomas Conolly (1738–1803), grand-nephew of William Conolly, Speaker of the Irish House ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisa Clein
Louisa Clein (born 6 July 1979) is a British actress, known for portraying the role of Maya Stepney in the ITV soap opera ''Emmerdale''. Life and career Clein was born in Poole, Dorset to Jewish parents, Peter and Channa Clein (née Salomonson). Her mother is from Amsterdam, Netherlands and is a professional violinist. Her father is a doctor. She has a sister called Natalie, a professional cellist. She attended Talbot Heath School in Bournemouth, Dorset. In 2001, Clein made her television debut as Charlie Deed in the BBC series ''Judge John Deed'', which ran until 2007. In 2002, Clein appeared with her sister Natalie at the Holocaust Memorial Day concert and read extracts from her cousin Julia Pascal's ''Holocaust Trilogy''. She has also appeared in shows such as ''Holby City'', ''Doctors'', ''Casualty'', ''New Tricks'', ''Midsomer Murders'', ''Fanny Hill'' and played the role of Zelda Kay in ITV's ''Island at War'' in 2004. Clein's theatre performances have included ''A Mid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisa Chafee
Louisa Chafee (born September 24, 1991) is an American competitive sailor. She represented the United States at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in the mixed Nacra 17, where she finished 8th overall. She is the daughter of former Rhode Island governor and senator Lincoln Chafee Lincoln Davenport Chafee ( ; born March 26, 1953) is an American politician. He was mayor of Warwick, Rhode Island from 1993 to 1999, a United States Senator from 1999 to 2007, and the 74th Governor of Rhode Island from 2011 to 2015. He was a m .... References External links * 1991 births Living people American sailors Olympic sailors of the United States Sailors at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Nacra 17 Chafee family {{US-yachtracing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisa Cavendish-Bentinck
Caroline Louisa Cavendish-Bentinck (née Burnaby; baptised 5 December 18326 July 1918) was the maternal grandmother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, great-grandmother of Elizabeth II, and great-great-grandmother of King Charles III. Early life Caroline Louisa Burnaby was born at Baggrave Hall, near Hungarton, Leicestershire on 23 November 1832. She was a daughter of Edwyn Burnaby of Baggrave Hall and his wife, the former Anne Caroline Salisbury.''The Times'' Tuesday, 9 July 1918; no. 41837, p. col. A She was baptised on 5 December 1832 at Hungarton, Leicestershire. She was a sister of Edwyn Burnaby, a first cousin of Frederick Gustavus Burnaby, and an aunt of Algernon Burnaby. Marriages and issue Louisa Burnaby married the Rev. Charles Cavendish-Bentinck, as his second wife, on 13 December 1859.''Almanach de Gotha'' (1922) (Justus Perthes, Gotha); ''Almanach de Gotha'' (1904) (Justus Perthes, Gotha) Rev. Cavendish-Bentinck was the elder son of Lieutenant Colonel Lord Charl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisa Cavendish, Duchess Of Devonshire
Louisa Frederica Augusta Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, formerly Louisa Montagu, Duchess of Manchester (born Luise Friederike Auguste, Countess von Alten; 15 June 1832 – 15 July 1911), was a German-born British aristocrat sometimes referred to as the "Double Duchess" due to her marriages, firstly to the 7th Duke of Manchester and then to the 8th Duke of Devonshire. Early life Luise Friederike Auguste, Countess von Alten, was born 15 June 1832 at Hanover in what was then the Kingdom of Hanover. She was a daughter of Karl Franz Viktor, Count von Alten (1800–1879), and his wife, Hermine von Schminke (1806–1868). Her siblings included: Helene Charlotte Auguste, Countess of Alten, who married Andrei Bludov, Carl Friedrich Franz Victor, Count of Alten, who married Carolina Frederica Groeninx van Zoelen, and Guidobaldine, Countess of Alten, who married Graf August Grote and ''Don'' Luigi Maria Colonna, Prince of Stigliano, and Detlof von Bülow. Her paternal grandparents w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisa Burns
Louisa Burns ( 1869–1958) was an American osteopathic physician and researcher in osteopathic medicine. Education Burns was born in Indiana in 1869. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in 1892 from the Borden Institutehttps://www.aacom.org/docs/default-source/med-ed-presentations/history-of-osteopathic-research-ecop-spring-2011-published-abbreviated.pdf and subsequently became a school teacher. Her interest in osteopathic medicine developed after she contracted a debilitating case of spinal meningitis, whose disabling effects were successfully reversed by osteopathic treatment. She went on to receive an osteopathic medicine degree from the Pacific College of Osteopathy in 1903. She then went on to earn a Master of Science from the Borden Institute and a Doctor of Science degree from the Pacific College of Osteopathy. Career Burns was a prominent researcher in the field of osteopathic medicine in the early 1900s. Her research focused on viscerosomatic reflexes. Using ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
