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Theda Bara In Salomé (1918) - 01
Theda is a feminine given name which may refer to: *Theda Bara (1885–1955), American silent film actress and sex symbol * Theda Marshall (1925–2005), player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League *Theda Skocpol (born 1947), American sociologist and political scientist * Theda Ukena (1432–1494), regent of the County of East Frisia from 1466 to about 1480 *Theda Funnie, fictional character from the animated television series '' Doug'' See also * Theodosia (other) *Theodora (other) Theodora may refer to: * Theodora (given name), a given name of Greek origin, meaning "God's gift" Historical figures known as Theodora Byzantine empresses * Theodora (wife of Justinian I) ( 500 – 548), saint by the Orthodox Church * Theodo ... {{given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theda Bara
Theda Bara ( ; born Theodosia Burr Goodman; July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955) was an American silent film and stage actress. Bara was one of the more popular actresses of the silent era and one of cinema's early sex symbols. Her femme fatale roles earned her the nickname "The Vamp" (short for ''vampire'', here meaning a seductive woman), later fueling the rising popularity in "vamp" roles based in exoticism and sexual domination. Born to a Jewish family in Cincinnati, Bara was the biggest star of Fox Studios, which concocted a fictitious persona for her as an Egyptian-born woman interested in the occult. She made more than 40 films between 1914 and 1926, most of which were lost in the 1937 Fox vault fire. She left Fox in 1919 and was unable to recapture her previous success. After her marriage to Charles Brabin in 1921, she made two more films and then retired from acting in 1926. Bara never appeared in any sound films. Early life Bara was born Theodosia Burr Goodman on J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theda Marshall
Theda Marshall (April 24, 1925 – October 13, 2005) was a first basewoman who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at , 133 lb., she batted and threw right-handed. Born in Canton, South Dakota, Theda Marshall was one of seven siblings. She started to play softball in school at age 12, and joined one of the two girls' softball teams in her town when she was 15. Then, in 1947 she was invited to attend the AAGPBL spring training held in Havana, Cuba, and after making the team she was assigned to the South Bend Blue Sox. Marshall struggled at the plate in 1947, going 51-for-362 for a .141 average while striking out 79 times to set an all-time single-season record. In five postseason games, she went 3-for-18 for a .167 average (including a double) against the Grand Rapids Chicks, eventually the Champion Team in the final round. Marshall opened 1948 with South Bend and was traded to the Chicago Colleens in the midseason, compiling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theda Skocpol
Theda Skocpol (née Barron; May 4, 1947) is an American sociologist and political scientist, who is currently the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University. She is best known as an advocate of the historical-institutional and comparative approaches, as well as her "state autonomy theory". She has written widely for both popular and academic audiences. She has been President of the American Political Science Association and the Social Science History Association. In historical sociology, Skocpol's works and opinions have been associated with the structuralist school. As an example, she argues that social revolutions can best be explained given their relation with specific structures of agricultural societies and their respective states. Such an approach differs greatly from more "behaviorist" ones, which tend to emphasize the role of "revolutionary populations", "revolutionary psychology", and/or "revolutionary consciousness", as determinant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theda Ukena
Theda Ukena (1432 in Oldersum – 16 November 1494 in Greetsiel) was from 1466 to about 1480 regent of the County of East Frisia. Biography Born into House of Ukena, ruling family of Neermoor and Leer, Theda was the granddaughter and heiress of the chief Focko Ukena (died 1436) and was born in 1432 in Oldersum as the daughter of Uko Fockena, Governor of Oldersum, and his wife, Hebe Attena von Dornum (1396-1449)https://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00104636&tree=LEO She was probably named after her grandmother Theda of Reide, the first wife of Focko Ukena. Her father was assassinated in June 1432. In 1455 she was second wife of Ulrich I Cirksena, who had been Count of East Frisia since 1454. Between 1457 and 1465, they had six children: Heba, Gela, Enno I, Edzard I ''the Great'', Ucko and Almuth. Theda brought, among other claims, Oldersum into the marriage, which considerably weakened the ruling chief Wiard of Oldersum. After Ulrich's death in 1466 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug (TV Series)
''Doug'' is an American animated sitcom created by Jim Jinkins and produced by Jumbo Pictures. It originally aired on Nickelodeon from August 11, 1991, to January 2, 1994, and on ABC from September 7, 1996, to June 26, 1999. The show focuses on the early adolescent life and zany hijinks of its title character, Douglas "Doug" Funnie, who experiences common predicaments while attending school in his new hometown of Bluffington. Doug narrates each story in his journal, and the show incorporates many imagination sequences. The series addresses numerous topics, including trying to fit in, platonic and romantic relationships, self-esteem, bullying, and rumors. Many episodes center on Doug's attempts to impress his classmate and crush, Patti Mayonnaise. Jinkins developed ''Doug'' from drawings in his sketchbook that he created over the course of the 1980s. ''Doug'', a mostly autobiographical creation, was largely inspired by Jinkins's childhood growing up in Virginia, with most char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodosia (other)
Theodosia can refer to: People *Theodosia (given name), a given name, including a list of people with the name *Theodosia of Tyre, 3rd century Christian martyr *Theodosia (fl. 6th century), first wife of Liuvigild, Visigothic King of Hispania and Septimania * Theodosia of Constantinople, 7th–8th century Byzantine nun, martyr and saint of the Eastern Orthodox Church *Theodosia, wife of Leo V (c. 775–c. 826), Empress consort of Leo V the Armenian * Theodosia Bartow Prevost, wife of Aaron Burr (c.1746- c.1794) * Theodosia Burr Alston, daughter of Aaron Burr. (c.1783 - c.1813) Places *Feodosiya, sometimes spelled Theodosia or Feodosia, a city in Crimea, Ukraine (currently occupied by the Russian Federation) * Feodosiya municipality *Theodosia, Missouri, a village in the USA *Theodosia Inlet, an inlet in the South Coast region of British Columbia, Canada **the Theodosia River, a river feeding that inlet *Dumbarton in Scotland, which was given the name ''Theodosia'' in the hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
