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Hannah Hauxwell (1 August 1926 – 30 January 2018) was an English farmer who was the subject of several television documentaries.She first came to public attention after being covered in an ITV documentary, Too Long a Winter, made by Yorkshire Television and produced by Barry Cockcroft, which chronicled the almost unendurable conditions of farmers in the High Pennines in winter.
Lady Bowthorpe (foaled 22 April 2016) is a retired British Thoroughbred racehorse. She showed modest ability in her early career, finishing fourth on her only start as a juvenile and winning one minor race as a three-year-old in the following year. She improved in 2020, winning two races including the Group 3 Valiant Stakes.
Several of her foals achieved fame, especially her great daughter, Black Maria by her old rival American Eclipse. (Not to be confused with Lady Lightfoot's dam, also called Black Maria.) Many consider Black Maria a greater runner than her dam. Lady Lightfoot seems to have died soon after her last foal, making the date 1832 or 1833.
Variations of the name Baba Yaga are found in many Slavic languages.In Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Romanian and Bulgarian, baba means 'grandmother' or 'old woman'. In contemporary Polish and Russian, baba / баба is also a pejorative synonym for 'woman', in particular one who is old, dirty, or foolish.
Martha Stewart, 82, shares how she resists becoming an “old-fashioned old lady” in her new MasterClass, Think Like a Boss, Live Like a Legend, available now.
The horse and jockey were also accompanied by two singers, two attendants, and someone dressed as an "old woman" carrying a broom; when the company knocked on people's doors, it was the old woman's job to sweep the inhabitants feet away with her broom and to chase any girls until being paid off with money or refreshments. [55]
25 Best ‘Bridgerton’ Quotes from Lady Whistledown, Simon Basset & More. Nakeisha Campbell. March 22, 2023 at 7:00 PM.
The materials and images were to suggest that the horses were both figure and ground, merging external world with the subject." [3] As critic Grace Glueck wrote in The New York Times in 2004, "By now Deborah Butterfield's skeletal horses, fashioned of found wood, metal and other detritus, are familiar to almost a generation of gallerygoers. Yet ...