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  2. Elizabeth Báthory - Wikipedia

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    Ecsed, the lake and the old castle. Elizabeth was born in 1560 on a family estate in Nyírbátor, Royal Hungary, and spent her childhood at Ecsed Castle. Her father was Baron George VI Báthory (d. 1570), of the Ecsed branch of the family, brother of Andrew Bonaventura Báthory (d. 1566), who had been ruling Voivode of Transylvania.

  3. Elizabeth Báthory in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    2010 – 30 Days of Night: Dark Days – (Steve Niles, Ben Ketai) - The queen vampire Lilith (Mia Kirshner) is based on Elizabeth Báthory as she is featured bathing in human blood in one scene. 2012 - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter , Blu-ray edition, has an animated deleted scene The Great Calamity , depicting Elizabeth Bathory, who does not ...

  4. Olga of Kiev - Wikipedia

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    [b] She is known for her subjugation of the Drevlians, a tribe that had killed her husband Igor. Even though it was her grandson Vladimir who adopted Christianity and made it the state religion, [7] she was the first ruler to be baptized. [8] [9] Olga is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church with the epithet "Equal to the Apostles".

  5. Murder of Girly Chew Hossencofft - Wikipedia

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    Girly Chew (August 27, 1963 – September 9, 1999) was a Malaysian-born woman who disappeared on September 9, 1999, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. [1] The investigation into the murder of Girly Chew revealed a conspiracy theory involving reptilian queens, UFOs and reports of cannibalism.

  6. Guinevere - Wikipedia

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    Alternatively, in what Arthurian scholars Geoffrey Ashe and Norris J. Lacy call one of "strange episodes" [34] of Ly Myreur des Histors, a romanticized historical/legendary work by Belgian author Jean d'Outremeuse, Guinevere is a wicked queen who rules with the victorious Mordred until she is killed by Lancelot, here the last of the Knights of ...

  7. Empress Elisabeth of Austria - Wikipedia

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    She developed a horror of fat women and transmitted this attitude to her youngest daughter, who was terrified when, as a little girl, she first met Queen Victoria. [ 26 ] In her youth, Elisabeth followed the fashions of the age, which for many years were cage-crinolined hoop skirts, but when fashion began to change, she was at the forefront of ...

  8. List of True Blood characters - Wikipedia

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    Shortly after, the Queen arrives at Bill's house in Bon Temps, expecting him to hand Sookie over. When he refuses, the two begin a duel to the death. By making a deal with Nan Flanagan, Bill has the Queen killed by snipers and becomes the new Vampire King of Louisiana.

  9. Nefertiti - Wikipedia

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    Nefertiti (/ ˌ n ɛ f ər ˈ t iː t i / [3]) (c. 1370 – c. 1330 BC) was a queen of the 18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, the great royal wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten.Nefertiti and her husband were known for their radical overhaul of state religious policy, in which they promoted the earliest known form of monotheism, Atenism, centered on the sun disc and its direct connection to the royal household.