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Perdita (Hebblethwaite)
Perdita (Italian for "loss", from Latin for "lost woman"), may refer to: People * Perdita (given name), the history and usage of the name *Perdita Barran, English chemist *Perdita Buchan (born 1940), Anglo-American author *Perdita Felicien (born 1980), Canadian track athlete *Perdita Huston (1936–2001), American women's rights activist *Perdita Stevens (born 1966), British mathematician and computer scientist *Perdita Weeks (born 1985), British actress Science * ''Perdita'', a genus of North American native bees *Perdita (moon), a minor satellite of the planet Uranus Fiction * Perdita (''The Winter's Tale''), the heroine of Shakespeare's play ''The Winter's Tale'' *Perdita Boyte, a character from the 1936 novel ''And Berry Came Too'' by Dornford Yates *Perdita Hyde-Sinclair, a character from the British soap opera ''Emmerdale'' *Perdita Nitt, aka Agnes Nitt, a character in the ''Witches'' subset of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series *Perdita Willoughby-Lloyd, a minor character ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perdita (given Name)
Perdita is a feminine given name derived from ''perditus'', meaning ''lost''. It was used by William Shakespeare for an abandoned princess, the heroine of his 1610 play ''The Winter's Tale'', and for a canine heroine of Dodie Smith's 1956 book ''The Hundred and One Dalmatians'' and the Walt Disney Pictures 1961 film adaptation of the book, '' One Hundred and One Dalmatians''. Women *Perdita Barran, English chemist *Perdita Buchan (born 1940), Anglo-American author *Perdita Felicien (born 1980), Canadian track athlete *Perdita Huston (1936–2001), American women's rights activist *Perdita Stevens (born 1966), British mathematician and computer scientist *Perdita Weeks (born 1985), British actress Fiction * Perdita (''The Winter's Tale''), the heroine of Shakespeare's play ''The Winter's Tale'' *Perdita Boyte, a character from the 1936 novel ''And Berry Came Too'' by Dornford Yates *Perdita Halley Reisden, a character in Sarah Smith's historical mystery series''The Vanished Child'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
And Berry Came Too
''And Berry Came Too'' is a 1936 collection of comic short stories by the English author Dornford Yates (Cecil William Mercer), featuring his recurring 'Berry' characters. Plot The book consists of eight short stories, mostly set in Hampshire. According to an introductory note by the author, the action of the book may be presumed to have taken place during the summer between the events of chapters 1 and 2 of '' Berry and Co.'', ie some 16 years earlier. In addition to the regular "Berry & Co" characters this book also features the family's two-year-old Alsatian "The Knave", and a visiting American, Perdita Boyte. Background All of the stories in ''And Berry Came Too'' had originally appeared in '' The Windsor Magazine'' between May and December 1935. They were written while Mercer was settled at Pau with his second wife, Elizabeth (whom he thought of as 'Jill', and to whom the book was dedicated). Chapters Four of the stories were serialised in ''Woman's Home Compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
101 Dalmatians (other)
101 Dalmatians may refer to: * ''The Hundred and One Dalmatians'', a 1956 novel written by Dodie Smith * 101 Dalmatians (franchise), a Disney film franchise based on the novel ** ''One Hundred and One Dalmatians'', a 1961 animated film based on the novel ** ''101 Dalmatians'' (1996 film), a live-action remake of the 1961 film ** '' 101 Dalmatians: Escape from DeVil Manor'', a 1997 video game based on the 1996 film ** '' 101 Dalmatians: The Series'', a Disney television series that aired from 1997 to 1998 ** '' 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure'', a 2003 direct-to-video sequel to the 1961 film ** ''101 Dalmatian Street'', a 2019 television series that focuses on the descendants of Pongo and Perdita * ''The 101 Dalmatians Musical ''The 101 Dalmatians Musical'' is a musical produced by Luis Alvarez, directed by Jerry Zaks, and sponsored by Purina Dog Chow. The music written by former Styx member Dennis DeYoung, who also co-wrote the lyrics with the musical's book author ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hundred And One Dalmatians
''The Hundred and One Dalmatians'' is a 1956 children's novel by Dodie Smith about the kidnapping of a family of Dalmatian (dog), Dalmatian puppies. It was originally serialized in ''Woman's Day'' as ''The Great Dog Robbery'', and details the adventures of two dalmatians named Pongo and Missis as they rescue their puppies from a fur farm. A 1967 sequel, ''The Starlight Barking'', continues from the end of the novel. Plot Pongo and Missis are a pair of Dalmatian (dog), Dalmatians who live with the newly married Mr. and Mrs. Dearly and their two nannies, Nanny Cook and Nanny Butler. Mr. Dearly is a "financial wizard" who has been granted lifelong tax exemption and lent a house on the Outer Circle in Regent's Park in return for wiping out the government debt. The dogs consider the humans their pets, but allow the humans to think that they are the owners. One day, while walking Pongo and Missis, Mr. and Mrs. Dearly have a chance meeting with an old schoolmate of Mrs. Dearly: Crue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Justice (TV Series)
''Young Justice'' is an American superhero animated television series developed by Brandon Vietti and Greg Weisman for Cartoon Network and Distributed By Warner Bros. Domestic Television. Despite its title, it is not a direct adaptation of Peter David, Todd Dezago and Todd Nauck's ''Young Justice'' comic series, but rather an original story set in the DC Universe with a focus on teenage and young adult superheroes. The series follows the lives of teenage superheroes and sidekicks, namely Robin, Kid Flash, Aqualad, Superboy, Red Arrow, Miss Martian, and Artemis, who are members of a fictional covert operation group. Within the show, "the Team" is a group of young heroes attached to the famous adult team, the Justice League, but operating outside of the bureaucracy that constrains the more established superhero team. The main setting is a fictional universe apart from the previous DCAU and other continuities, designated at one point as Earth-16, during a time period in which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Haunting Of Bly Manor
''The Haunting of Bly Manor'' is an American gothic romance drama streaming television miniseries created by Mike Flanagan, and released on October 9, 2020 by Netflix. The second entry in Flanagan's '' The Haunting'' anthology series, it mostly acts as an adaptation of the 1898 novella ''The Turn of the Screw'' by Henry James, but also includes other elements either based on James' other works or created for the show. It features much of ''Hill House''s crew and some of the same cast, such as Victoria Pedretti, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Amelia Eve, T'Nia Miller, Rahul Kohli, Tahirah Sharif, Amelie Bea Smith, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, and Henry Thomas, though Pedretti, Jackson-Cohen and Thomas returned from ''Hill House'' as different characters, as did Kate Siegel, Carla Gugino, and Catherine Parker in recurring roles; the two series' narratives are not connected. Following a nonlinear narrative, ''The Haunting of Bly Manor'' follows the events occurring in the eponymous countryside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Witches (Discworld)
A major subset of the ''Discworld'' novels of Terry Pratchett involves the witches of Lancre. The three main witches introduced in 1988's ''Wyrd Sisters'' — crone Esme Weatherwax, mother Nanny Ogg and maiden Magrat Garlick — are a spoof on the Three Witches in Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'', and a tongue-in-cheek reinterpretation of the Neopagans' Triple Goddess. The three witches are portrayed as more sensible and realistic than the often-foolish residents of the Discworld, and Granny Weatherwax "especially tends to give voice to the major themes of Pratchett's work." Overview Witch magic is very different from the wizard magic taught in the Unseen University, and consists largely of finding the right lever that makes everything else work. Witches rarely do any magic, in fact, relying more on common sense, hard work, and a peculiar brand of psychology known as ''headology''. This can be taken very far—a witch's way of magically setting fire to a log of wood consists of stari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perdita Hyde-Sinclair
Perdita "Perdy" Hyde-Sinclair (also Hyde) is a fictional character from the British soap opera ''Emmerdale'', played by Georgia Slowe. She made her first on screen appearance on 1 March 2006. Casting In March 2006, ''Inside Soap'' announced Slowe and Christopher Villiers had joined the cast of ''Emmerdale'' on a regular basis, playing Perdita and Grayson Sinclair. The characters move into Oakwell Hall, after previously appearing in the run up to Sadie King (Patsy Kensit) and Alasdair Sinclair's (Ray Coulthard) wedding. Perdita was initially described as being similar to Sadie, with an ''Emmerdale'' spokesperson saying "Like Sadie, Perdy loves money, men and getting her way. She'll turn heads straight away, but whether she'll risk her marriage and status for a fling remains to be seen." In December 2007, Slowe told Graham Young of the ''Birmingham Mail'' that her introduction to ''Emmerdale'' had been quiet and for the first six months she and Villiers had nothing to do. Slowe e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perdita (The Winter's Tale)
Perdita ( ) is one of the heroines of William Shakespeare's play ''The Winter's Tale''. She is the daughter of Leontes, King of Sicilia, and his wife Hermione. The Winter's Tale Perdita was very small when she was thrown in to prison, where her father has sent her mother because he wrongly believes she has been unfaithful to him. Paulina takes the baby to Leontes to try to convince him that it is his daughter, but he refuses to believe it, even with the striking similarity between the two. He thinks instead that she is the result of an affair between Hermione and Polixenes, King of Bohemia. He sends Antigonus to leave the infant Perdita in a remote place, who leaves her on the seacoast of Bohemia. In a dream, Hermione appears to Antigonus and tells him to name her child Perdita, which means "the lost one" in Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perdita Barran
Perdita Elizabeth Barran is a Professor of Mass Spectrometry at the University of Manchester. She is Director of the Michael Barber Centre for Collaborative Mass Spectrometry. She develops and applies ion-mobility spectrometry–mass spectrometry to the study of molecule structure and is searching for biomarkers for Parkinson's disease. She co-leads the mass spectrometry theme for the Rosalind Franklin Institute. She was awarded the 2009 Joseph Black award from the Royal Society of Chemistry Analytical Division. Education and early career Barran went to Godolphin and Latymer School. She moved to the University of Manchester to study chemistry, graduating in 1994. She joined the University of Sussex for her graduate studies, working with Harry Kroto and Tony Stace. Research and career Barran stayed with Stace for three years after completing her PhD in 1998. In 2001 Barran joined the University of California, Santa Barbara, working as a postdoctoral fellow with Mike Bowers. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perdita (moon)
Perdita is an inner satellite of Uranus. Perdita's discovery was complicated. The first photographs of Perdita were taken by the ''Voyager 2'' spacecraft in 1986, but it was not recognized from the photographs for more than a decade. In 1999, the moon was noticed by Erich Karkoschka and reported. But because no further pictures could be taken to confirm its existence, it was officially demoted in 2001. However, in 2003, pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope managed to pick up an object where Perdita was supposed to be, finally confirming its existence. Following its discovery in 1999, it was given the temporary designation of S/1986 U 10. It was named Perdita (Latin for 'lost') after the daughter of Leontes and Hermione in William Shakespeare's play ''The Winter's Tale''. The moon is also designated Uranus XXV. The moon orbits between Belinda and Puck. The above-mentioned Hubble measurements prove that Perdita does not follow a direct Keplerian motion aro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perdita (bee)
''Perdita'' is a large genus of small bees native to North America, particularly diverse in the desert regions of the United States and Mexico. There are over 600 currently recognized species of ''Perdita'', plus more than 100 additional subspecies and many more species that remain undescribed. ''Perdita'' are usually quite small (2.0 mm to 10.0 mm) and often brightly colored with metallic reflections and/or yellow or white markings, and among the few lineages of bees incapable of stinging. The genus was extensively treated by P.H. Timberlake who, in addition to T.D.A. Cockerell, described most of the known species. Most species are extreme specialists ( oligoleges) with respect to pollen and will only collect pollen from a few closely related species or genera of plants. Many species in this genus are called fairy bees. They may be parasitized by ''Neolarra'' cuckoo bees, which lay eggs in their nests given the opportunity. See also * List of Perdita species Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
