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Sarah Wilson (footballer)
Sari, Sara, or Sarah Wilson may refer to: Writers *Sarah Wilson (war correspondent) (1865–1929), English war correspondent and aunt of Winston Churchill *Sarah Ella Wilson (1874–1955), American educator; pioneering black schoolteacher in 1895 *Sarah Wilson (art historian), British art historian; works published since 1980 * Sarah L. Wilson (born 1959), American jurist and member of ''Columbia Human Rights Law Review'' *Sarah Wilson (dog trainer) (born 1960), American author and dog trainer *Sari Wilson, American writer and editor; Stegner Fellow 1997–99 *Sarah Wilson (journalist) (born 1974), Australian TV presenter Others *Sarah Wilson (impostor) (1754–after 1780), English impostor of the non-existent sister of Queen Charlotte *Sarah Maria Wilson (before 1756–1786), English actress; stage names Mrs. Weston and Mrs. Wilson *Sarah Wilson (1922–1998), American winner of 10th Scripps National Spelling Bee The 10th National Spelling Bee was held at the National Museum in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Wilson (war Correspondent)
Lady Sarah Wilson, DStJ, RRC (born Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Spencer-Churchill; 4 July 1865 – 22 October 1929) became one of the first woman war correspondents in 1899, when she was recruited by Alfred Harmsworth to cover the Siege of Mafeking for the ''Daily Mail'' during the Second Boer War. Family Born on 4 July 1865 at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill was the youngest of the eleven children of John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough (1822–1883), and his wife, the former Lady Frances Anne Emily Vane (1822–1899), daughter of the 3rd Marquess of Londonderry. Her eldest brother was George Charles Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough (1844–1892), and another brother was Lord Randolph Churchill (1849–1895), father of the Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1874–1965), who also worked as a war correspondent during the Boer War, for ''The Morning Post''. Anne, Duchess of Roxburghe (1854–1923), was her elder sister. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Ella Wilson
Sarah Ella Wilson (April 7, 1874 – November 1, 1955) was an African American educator and clubwoman based in Massachusetts. Early life Sarah Ella Wilson was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, the daughter of George M. and Elizabeth Allen Wilson.John Russell Hawkins''Centennial Encyclopedia of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Volume 1''(AME Church 1916): 252-253. She was named for her parents' friend and teacher, abolitionist Sarah Chase. Chase mentored young Sarah, taking her on trips and teaching her to play piano. Sarah Ella Wilson was educated at Classical High School in Worcester, and at Worcester Normal School, finishing in 1894.Janette Thomas Greenwood''First Fruits of Freedom: The Migration of Former Slaves and Their Search for Equality in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1862-1900''(University of North Carolina Press 2010): 113-115. Career Sarah Ella Wilson was one of the first two African American schoolteachers in Worcester. She taught first grade classes at Belmon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Wilson (art Historian)
Sarah Wilson is a professor at the Courtauld Institute, London. In 1997, Wilson was made Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government for services to French art and culture. Selected publications *''The Visual World of French Theory: Figurations'', Yale University Press, 2010. *''Matisse, Barcelona'', Ediciones Poligrafa, 2009. (English and Spanish editions) *‘Pierre Klossowski, epiphanies and secrets’, Pierre Klossowski, ed. Sarah Wilson Whitechapel Art Gallery and Hatje Cantz. *‘Poststructuralism', Companion to Contemporary Art since 1945, ed. Amelia Jones, Oxford, 2005 Blackwell Companions to Art History. See also *Women in the art history field Women were professionally active in the academic discipline of art history in the nineteenth century and participated in the important shift early in the century that began involving an "emphatically corporeal visual subject", with Vernon Lee as a ... References External linksInterview with Professor Sarah Wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah L
Sarah (born Sarai) is a biblical matriarch and prophetess, a major figure in Abrahamic religions. While different Abrahamic faiths portray her differently, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all depict her character similarly, as that of a pious woman, renowned for her hospitality and beauty, the wife and half-sister of Abraham, and the mother of Isaac. Sarah has her feast day on 1 September in the Catholic Church, 19 August in the Coptic Orthodox Church, 20 January in the LCMS, and 12 and 20 December in the Eastern Orthodox Church. In the Hebrew Bible Family According to Book of Genesis 20:12, in conversation with the Philistine king Abimelech of Gerar, Abraham reveals Sarah to be both his wife and his half-sister, stating that the two share a father but not a mother. Such unions were later explicitly banned in the Book of Leviticus (). This would make Sarah the daughter of Terah and the half-sister of not only Abraham but Haran and Nahor. She would also have been the aun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Wilson (dog Trainer)
Sarah Wilson (born 1960) is an American author, dog trainer, and international speaker. She is the author of eight books about subjects related to pet ownership. Early life Sarah Wilson was born in 1960 in Wellesley, Massachusetts and raised in the western suburbs of Boston. She graduated from Amherst College with a liberal arts degree.http://www.linkedin.com/in/mysmartpuppy, My Smart Puppy Training and from Lesley University with a Master's degree focused on the human-animal relationship. She was formerly married to Brian Kilcommons, with whom she has written several books on various subjects related to pet ownership. , she lives in St. Louis, Missouri. Career Wilson began her professional career as a pet dog trainer in New York City teaching in Prospect Park. In the next two decades, she trained all dogs from celebrity pets to tracking dogs to service animals. Consulting for Guiding Eyes for the Blind since 1995, she presented for them at American Council of the Blind. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sari Wilson
Sari Wilson is an American novelist and writer. She has written prose and comics, and is the author of the novel ''Girl Through Glass''. Wilson's short fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in literary journals such as ''AGNI'', the ''Oxford American'', and ''Slice''. Her essays have appeared in ''The New York Times'', ''New York'' magazine, and ''Catapult''. Biography Wilson was born in New York City and grew up in Brooklyn Heights. She studied ballet for many years, including with the Harkness Ballet and Eliot Feld's New Ballet School. She attended Packer Collegiate Institute and Oberlin College,Davis, Rebecca"A Childhood Love Letter to Ballet: Author Sari Wilson Visits Northshire,"''Saratoga Today'' (Feb. 18, 2016). graduating with a BA in history. Wilson and her partner, the cartoonist Josh Neufeld, met at ''The Nation'' magazine. Later, they traveled through Southeast Asia and Central Europe, living for almost a year in Prague, the Czech Rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Wilson (journalist)
Sarah Wilson (born 8 January 1974) is an Australian journalist, television presenter, blogger, media consultant and author of ''I Quit Sugar''. Early life and education Wilson grew up in the bush outside Canberra, ACT with five younger siblings. She owned her first business at the age of 12 or 13, selling library-book bags, brooches, and gift cards. She has a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy, politics, gender studies and law from Australian National University which she undertook between 1992 and 1997. She also completed an online course with the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and describes herself as a health coach. Career Wilson's first job as a journalist was as a restaurant reviewer for News Ltd's ''Sunday Magazine''. At age 25 she had a weekly opinion column in News Ltd's ''Herald Sun''. Media roles She was the editor of Australian ''Cosmopolitan'' magazine from February 2003 to December 2007. During her time at the magazine, she interviewed former Australian Prime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Wilson (impostor)
Sarah Wilson (1745? – 1780) was an English impostor who traveled to America as a convict servant and pretended to be the sister of Queen Charlotte. Early life Sarah Wilson was probably born in London. She was a menial servant in the kitchen of George-Lewis Scott. In around 1762 or 1763, while still in her teens, she began her career of wandering around England “imposing on the compassion and credulity of different persons in town and country”. A newspaper report from Devizes in Wiltshire in 1767 said, “It seems this woman has, for some time past, been travelling through almost all parts of the Kingdom, assuming various titles and characters, at different times and places: she has presented herself to be of high birth and distinction, as well foreign and English, and accordingly stiling herself a Princess of Mecklenburgh, Countess of Normandy, Lady Countess Wilbrahammon, &c. &c. and under some or other of such names making promises of providing, by means of her weight and in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Maria Wilson
Sarah Maria Wilson (died 1786) was an English actress. Early life Her maiden name was Adcock. She acted in York, where, as Mrs. Weston, in the summer of 1773 she played Lucy Lockit in the ''Beggar's Opera'', Miss Notable in the 'Lady's Last Stake,' and other comic parts. The London stage After appearing in Leeds, where she became a favourite, and in Glasgow in 1774, she came to London. There she came to know Richard Wilson, and as Mrs. Wilson she played at the Haymarket Theatre on 19 May 1775, Betsy Blossom in ''The Cozeners'', and Lucy in ''The Virgin Unmasked''. She was seen in her first Haymarket season as Lucy in ''The Mirror'', Nell in the 'Devil to Pay,' Lydia in the 'Bankrupt,' Sophy in the 'Dutchman,' and Juletta (an original part) in 'Metamorphoses' (26 August 1775). On 30 April 1776 she was at Covent Garden, for Wilson's benefit, Hoyden in the 'Man of Quality.' In the summer of 1776 and that of 1777 she was in Liverpool. At Covent Garden she had played meanwhile Polly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
10th Scripps National Spelling Bee
The 10th National Spelling Bee was held at the National Museum in Washington, D.C., on May 29, 1934. Scripps-Howard would not sponsor the Bee until 1941. The winner was 12-year-old Sarah Wilson of Gray, Maine,Garrett,_Sarah_A._[Wilson(1921-1998)_Town_of_Gray_Maine_website,_Retrieved_2_July_2015_sponsored_by_the_''Portland_Press_Herald.html" ;"title="ilson(1921-1998).html" ;"title="ilson">Garrett, Sarah A. [Wilson(1921-1998)">ilson">Garrett, Sarah A. [Wilson(1921-1998) Town of Gray Maine website, Retrieved 2 July 2015 sponsored by the ''Portland Press Herald">Portland Evening Express'', correctly spelling the word ''brethren''. She had also competed in the finals the prior year. James Wilson, age 13, of Canton, Illinois, placed second after misspelling ''deteriorating'', followed by Helen Sullivan, age 13, of Connecticut.(3 July 1999)Maine speller advances in national competition ''Bangor Daily News''(8 June 1934)12-Year-Old Girl Wins $1,000 ''Nunda News'' (Nunda, New York) The pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Wilson (rugby Union)
Sari, Sara, or Sarah Wilson may refer to: Writers *Sarah Wilson (war correspondent) (1865–1929), English war correspondent and aunt of Winston Churchill *Sarah Ella Wilson (1874–1955), American educator; pioneering black schoolteacher in 1895 *Sarah Wilson (art historian), British art historian; works published since 1980 * Sarah L. Wilson (born 1959), American jurist and member of ''Columbia Human Rights Law Review'' *Sarah Wilson (dog trainer) (born 1960), American author and dog trainer *Sari Wilson, American writer and editor; Stegner Fellow 1997–99 *Sarah Wilson (journalist) (born 1974), Australian TV presenter Others *Sarah Wilson (impostor) (1754–after 1780), English impostor of the non-existent sister of Queen Charlotte *Sarah Maria Wilson (before 1756–1786), English actress; stage names Mrs. Weston and Mrs. Wilson *Sarah Wilson (1922–1998), American winner of 10th Scripps National Spelling Bee The 10th National Spelling Bee was held at the National Museum in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinderella Man
''Cinderella Man'' is a 2005 American biographical sports drama film directed by Ron Howard, titled after the nickname of world heavyweight boxing champion James J. Braddock and inspired by his life story. The film was produced by Howard, Penny Marshall, and Brian Grazer. Damon Runyon is credited for giving Braddock this nickname. Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger and Paul Giamatti star. This is the second collaboration for Howard and Crowe following 2001's '' A Beautiful Mind''. The film received generally positive reviews and grossed $108 million against a budget of $88 million. It received three Academy Award nominations, including Best Supporting Actor for Giamatti. Plot James J. Braddock is an Irish-American boxer from New Jersey, formerly a light heavyweight contender, who is forced to give up boxing after breaking his hand in the ring. This is both a relief and a burden to his wife, Mae. She cannot bring herself to watch the violence of his chosen profession, yet she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
