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The name originated in the Netherlands, where it is known as tijgerbrood [5] or tijgerbol (tiger bun), and where it has been sold at least since the early 1930s. [citation needed] The first published reference in the USA to "Dutch crunch" bread was in 1935 in Oregon, according to food historian Erica J. Peters, where it appeared in a bakery advertisement.
Clara Phillips (born Clara Anne Weaver, June 23, 1898 – 21 June 1969), nicknamed the Tiger Woman, was an American showgirl and chorus girl who, in 1922, murdered 19-year-old bank teller Alberta Meadows based on rumors that her husband, Armour L. Phillips, had been having an affair with her. [1]
The Tiger's Wife was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 2010. [13] It is a novel set in an unnamed Balkan country, in the present and half a century ago, and features a young doctor's relationship with her grandfather and the stories he tells her. These concern a "deathless man" who meets him several times in different places and never grows ...
The Tiger Woman may refer to: The Tiger Woman, a film starring Theda Bara; The Tiger Woman, a film serial starring Linda Stirling; The Tiger Woman, a ...
Winnie Ruth McKinnell was born on January 29, 1905, to the Reverend H.J. McKinnell, a Methodist minister, and his wife, Carrie, in Oxford, Indiana.At age 17, she married Dr. William C. Judd, a World War I veteran more than twenty years her senior, and moved to Mexico with him.
After six months and "hundreds" of attempts to perfect the recipe, she was satisfied. Artisan bread was then largely unknown in Los Angeles, and within weeks, sales were up to $1,000 a day at the bakery. On Thanksgiving in 1990, the line to buy bread stretched around the block and partway down a side street. [8] [9]
Irene Schroeder (February 17, 1909 [1] – February 23, 1931) was an American criminal who became the first woman to be electrocuted in Pennsylvania and the fourth woman to be executed by electrocution in the United States.
Mabel Stark (December 10, 1889 – April 20, 1968), whose real name was Mary Ann Haynie, [1] was a renowned tiger trainer of the 1920s. She was referred to as one of the world's first women tiger trainers/tamers. In its belated obituary, The New York Times lauded Stark as "one of the most celebrated animal trainers in a field dominated by men." [2]