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Penelope (given Name)
Penelope, often used in reference to Homer's character, is a female first name of Greek origin. It is of uncertain meaning but may be derived from the Greek word ''penelops'', which means ''duck'' or refers to another water fowl sacred to the Ancient Greeks. The name might also be derived from the Greek ''pene'' meaning ''web'' and either ''ops'' meaning ''eye'' or ''lepo'', meaning ''unraveled'', implying the meaning '' weaver''. The name was revived in the Anglosphere by the mid-16th Century and has since been in occasional use. Popularity The name has increased in popularity in recent years. It is among the most popular names for girls in Australia, Canada, England and Wales, Italy, New Zealand, Scotland, and the United States. People * Penelope, Lady Aitken (1910–2005), English socialite * Penelope Aubin, English novelist * Penelope Austin, Australian singer-songwriter * Penelope Blount, Countess of Devonshire (1562–1607), English noblewoman * Penelope Boston, America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penelope Boothby
Penelope Boothby (11 April 178513 March 1791) was a girl who has become one of the most famous child characters in British art. Her image inspired the paintings by Joshua Reynolds, Henry Fuseli, John Everett Millais, a sculpture by Thomas Banks, photographs of Lewis Carroll, sonnet of Brooke Boothby. According to art historians and historians, in the art of the 19th-20th centuries Penelope Boothby became a classic child of the Romantic era, the keeper of heavenly innocence, a symbol of “what we have lost and what we are afraid to lose.” The image of Penelope was actively exploited by popular culture throughout the 20th century. Biography She was the daughter of Sir Brooke Boothby (1744-1824), linguist, translator and poet, and his wife, Susanna Bristoe (1755-1822). Boothby highly appreciated the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and was the translator of his works. Penelope's father inherited the title in 1789, was also an amateur botanist, and collaborated in his research wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island country by area, covering . New Zealand is about east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. The country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps, owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland. The islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable land to be settled by humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the islands and then developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight and record New Zealand. In 1840, representatives of the United Kingdom and Māori chiefs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penelope Delta
Penelope Delta (; 1874, Alexandria, Khedivate of Egypt – 2 May 1941, Athens, Greece) was a Greek author. She is widely celebrated for her contributions to the field of children's literature. Her historical novels have been widely read and have influenced popular modern Greek perceptions of national identity and history. Through her long-time association with Ion Dragoumis, Delta was thrust into the middle of turbulent early-20th-century Greek politics, ranging from the Macedonian Struggle to the National Schism. Early life Delta was born in Alexandria, in the Khedivate of Egypt,"Conference about Penelope Delta at the BA" |
Penélope Cruz
Penélope Cruz Sánchez (; ; born 28 April 1974) is a Spanish actress. Known for her roles in films of several genres, particularly those in the Spanish language, she has received various accolades, including an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award, in addition to nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award, four Golden Globe Awards, and five Screen Actors Guild Awards. She is the first and only Spanish actress to be nominated for and to win an Academy Award, as well as the first to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Signed by an agent at the age of 15, Cruz made her acting debut at 16 on television, and her feature film debut the following year in ''Jamón Jamón'' (1992). Her subsequent roles included '' Belle Époque'' (1992), '' Open Your Eyes'' (1997), ''Don Juan'' (1998), ''The Hi-Lo Country'' (1999), ''The Girl of Your Dreams'' (2000), and ''Woman on Top'' (2000). She is also known for her frequent collaborations with Spanish director Pedro Almodóv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penelope Coelen
Penelope Anne Coelen (born 15 April 1940) is a retired South African actress, model and beauty queen who was Miss World 1958. She was the first major international titleholder to come from Africa. Early life Penelope Anne Coelen was from Durban, and attended Durban Girls' High School. Career In the 1958 Miss World pageant, a total of 22 contestants from Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa competed in the finals. Europeans dominated the semi-finals, but Penelope Anne Coelen, an 18-year-old secretary who played piano in the talent competition, was selected for the crown. She gained widespread international attention during her reign and received several lucrative modelling offers. The South African designer of her gowns, Bertha Pfister, also gained increased attention. After her reign as Miss World 1958, she tried her luck out in Hollywood with the help of James Garner, but failed her screen test. She later managed her own line of clothing and endorsed beauty products, pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penelope Chetwode
Penelope Valentine Hester Chetwode, Lady Betjeman (14 February 1910 – 11 April 1986) was an English travel writer. She was the only daughter of Field Marshal Philip Chetwode, 1st Baron Chetwode, Lord Chetwode, and the wife of poet laureate Sir John Betjeman. She was born at Aldershot and grew up in northern India, returning to the region in later life. Career She is best known for ''Two Middle-Aged Ladies in Andalusia'' (1963), her account of travelling through southern Spain on horseback in the summer of 1961. The book has been widely praised: ''The Independent'' called it "a classic work of adventure and humour" while Kate Kellaway, in ''The Guardian'', called it "a charming, intrepid story." In 2012, ''Two Middle-Aged Ladies'' was reissued by Eland Books. Chetwode travelled extensively in Himachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, India, and wrote ''Kulu: The End of the Habitable World'' (1972), an account of her trek from Shimla to the head of the Rohtang Pass. She was also keenly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penelope Casas
Penelope Casas (May 25, 1943 – August 11, 2013) was an American food writer, cookbook author and expert on the cuisine of Spain. Casas began authoring a series of English-language cookbooks focusing on the food of Spain during the 1980s, effectively introducing Americans to Spain's culinary heritage for the first time. Casas released her first cookbook, ''The Foods and Wines of Spain'', in 1982. Her first book is still in print, as of 2013. She would publish five more indepth books and cookbooks on Spanish cuisine. Her follow-up book, ''Tapas: The Little Dishes of Spain'', released in 1985, introduced a large American audience to the concept of tapas and tapas bars for the first time. Casas's last book was ''La Cocina de Mama: The Great Home Cooking of Spain'' in 2005. Casas was born Penelope Fexas to Greek immigrant parents, Antonia and Achilles Fexas, on May 25, 1943, in Whitestone, Queens, New York City. Her only brother, Tom Fexas, was a yacht designer. She met her husband, Lu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penelope Carwardine
Penelope Carwardine (1729–1804; married name Penelope Butler) was an English miniature painter. Life Penelope Carwardine was baptised on 29 April 1729 at Withington, Herefordshire, England. She was one of eight children born to John Carwardine of Thinghills Court and his wife, Anne Bullock of Preston Wynn. With her father having ruined the family estates, Carwardine took to miniature painting to generate an income for the family.Humphreys, Jennett. 'Carwardine , Penelope (1729–c.1801)', rev. Emma Rutherford, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 200accessed 11 May 2016/ref> According to the ''Dictionary of National Biography'' and other sources, she was instructed by Ozias Humphrey, and mastered the art in 1754. However, Humphrey was not born until 1742, and it must be considered whether historical sources have at some point been confused and that the teaching was in fact the other way round. Her mother was also a miniature painter, and the two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penelope Boston
Penelope J. Boston is a speleologist. She is associate director of the National Cave and Karst Research Institute in Carlsbad, New Mexico, and founder and director of the Cave and Karst Studies Program at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro. Among her research interests are geomicrobiology of caves and mines, extraterrestrial speleogenesis, and space exploration and astrobiology generally. In the mid-1980s, Boston (then a graduate student at the University of Colorado Boulder) was one of the founders of the Mars Underground and helped organize a series of conferences called The Case for Mars. She was the last director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute before the Institute was suspended. Biography She has a B.S. in microbiology, geology, and psychology, and a M.S. in microbiology and atmospheric chemistry. She completed her Ph.D. from University of Colorado Boulder in 1985. During 2002–2004, she was Principal Investigator on the Caves of Mars Project, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penelope Blount, Countess Of Devonshire
Penelope Rich, Lady Rich, later styled Penelope Blount (''née'' Devereux; January 1563 – 7 July 1607) was an English court office holder. She served as lady-in-waiting to the English queen Anne of Denmark. She was the sister of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and is traditionally thought to be the inspiration for "Stella" of Sir Philip Sidney's '' Astrophel and Stella'' sonnet sequence (published posthumously in 1591).Stephen, p. 1007 She was married to Robert Rich, 3rd Baron Rich (later 1st Earl of Warwick) and had a public liaison with Charles Blount, Baron Mountjoy, whom she married in an unlicensed ceremony following her divorce from Rich. She died in 1607. Early life and first marriage Born Penelope Devereux at Chartley Castle in Staffordshire, she was the elder daughter of Walter Devereux, 2nd Viscount Hereford, later 1st Earl of Essex and Lettice Knollys, daughter of Sir Francis Knollys and Catherine Carey, and sister of William Knollys, later 1st Earl of Banbu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penelope Austin
Penelope Austin is an Australian singer-songwriter. She performs electropop music. She released her debut extended play, ''The Beautiful Dark'' on 30 May 2013. She has co-written several tracks with United States record producer and songwriter, Robert Conley including "Smoke into Flames" (October 2012), "A Place to Call Home" (March 2013), and "Don't Rescue Me" (May). During 2013 "A Place to Call Home" was used for the Australian TV series of the same name. Austin and Conley co-wrote "The Dark Collide" with J. J. Abrams and Charles Scott. Austin's performance of "The Dark Collide" was used on the Australian version of the ''Star Trek Into Darkness'' soundtrack (April 2013). Early life Penelope Austin, Note: User may be required to click on 'Search again' and add details; e.g. at then 'Search again' for Penelope Austin was in born in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. After her mother died, when Austin was 14, she taught herself to play guitar. By the following year sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penelope Aubin
Penelope Aubin (c. 1679 – 1738?) was an English novelist, poet, and translator. She published seven novels between 1721 and 1728. Aubin published poetry in 1707 and turned to novels in 1721; she translated French works in the 1720s, spoke publicly on moral and political issues at her Lady's Oratory in 1729, and wrote a play in 1730. Aubin died in April 1738, survived by her husband until his death in April 1740. After the author's death, her works were gathered and published as ''A Collection of Entertaining Histories and Novels, Designed to Promote the Cause of Virtue and Honor''. Aubin's works have a long history after her death, being both plagiarised and published transatlantically. She is one of a number of eighteenth-century women writers whose works and biography is being more rigorously explored by modern scholars. Early life Penelope Aubin née Charleton's exact birth date remains unknown; she was the illegitimate daughter of Sir Richard Temple of Stowe and most likely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
