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Anne of Foix-Candale (1506), Bohemian princess, Queen of Hungary, mother of Anne of Bohemia and Hungary, who later died in childbirth. Anna of Bohemia and Hungary (1547), Bohemian Princess died while giving birth to Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, who later died in childbirth; Juliane Reichardt (1783), pianist
Orson Welles read the poem on an episode of The Radio Reader's Digest (11 October 1942), [9] [10] Command Performance (21 December 1943), [11] and The Orson Welles Almanac (31 May 1944). [12] High Flight has been a favourite poem amongst both aviators and astronauts. It is the official poem of the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Royal Air Force.
Women who died during, as result of childbirth or from pregnancy complications (e.g. eclampsia or puerperal fever ... List of women who died in childbirth; A.
The following is a list of women who have traveled into space, sorted by date of first flight. This list includes Russian cosmonauts , who were the first women in outer space. Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to go to space in 1963, very early in crewed space exploration , and it would be almost twenty years before another flew ...
Lucy Hutchinson is the first named translator of the full text of Lucretius's De Rerum Natura into English verse. She is likely to have begun her translation during the 1650s. [ 2 ] In 1675 she dedicated a manuscript copy of the translation to acquaintance and literary patron Arthur Annesley, earl of Anglesey , repudiating the work and ...
This is a list of feminist poets. Historically, literature has been a male-dominated sphere, and any poetry written by a woman could be seen as feminist . Often, feminist poetry refers to that which was composed after the 1960s and the second wave of the feminist movement.
‘I’ve seen and heard countless stories of women, particularly Black women, having near-death and fatal experiences’ | Opinion
In the science fiction film Contact (1997), a woman died giving birth to the film's protagonist Eleanor Ann "Ellie" Arroway, portrayed by actress Jodie Foster. Arroway's father died when she was nine years old. In Mi Familia/My Familia (1995), the wife of the character played by Jimmy Smits dies while giving birth to their son.