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    The Irish Widow is a play by David Garrick first staged at Drury Lane Theatre on 23 October 1772. It was written in less than a week by Garrick and resembled...
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    Latrodectus (redirect from Widow spiders)
    as the true widows. This group is composed of those often loosely called black widow spiders, brown widow spiders, and similar spiders. However, the diversity...
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  • from a screenplay by Erin Dignam and Christopher Monger based on the book The Widow Clicquot by Tilar J. Mazzeo. It stars Haley Bennett, Tom Sturridge...
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    mistaken for the black widow and other spiders in the genus Latrodectus. It is often referred to as the false widow, although "false widow" is a more general...
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  • Ireland and Norway. In 2022, Rolling Stone named the remix the 109th-greatest dance song of all-time. "Professional Widow" is rumored to be about the...
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  • woman as she befriends a lonely widow who becomes disturbingly obsessed with her. Greta held its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival...
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    Steatoda (redirect from False widow spider)
    on the floor underneath the web. Many spiders of the genus Steatoda are often mistaken for widow spiders (Latrodectus), and are known as false widows. The...
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  • The Pregnant Widow is a novel by the English writer Martin Amis, published by Jonathan Cape on 4 February 2010. Its theme is the feminist revolution, which...
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  • to: Widows' Peak, a 1994 British-Irish film Widowspeak, an American band Widowspeak (Widowspeak album), 2011 Widowspeak (Lydia Lunch album), 1998 "The Widows...
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  • The Playboy of the Western World is a three-act play written by Irish playwright John Millington Synge, first performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on...
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    Northern Ireland to remain within the United Kingdom. Irish nationalists and republicans, who were mostly Irish Catholics, wanted Northern Ireland to leave...
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  • Pat Finucane (category Irish solicitors)
    other IRA and Irish National Liberation Army hunger strikers who died during the 1981 Maze prison protest, Brian Gillen, and the widow of Gervaise McKerr...
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  • Widows' Peak is a 1994 British-Irish mystery film directed by John Irvin and starring Mia Farrow, Joan Plowright, Natasha Richardson, Adrian Dunbar and...
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    Sati or suttee was a Hindu historical practice in which a widow sacrifices herself by sitting atop her deceased husband's funeral pyre. It has been linked...
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    Irish Americans (Irish: Gael-Mheiriceánaigh) are ethnic Irish who live in the United States and are American citizens. Most Irish Americans of the 21st...
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    demolished. The name Quinpool dates from at least 1808 and is believed to come from an Irish widow named Quinn who lived by a stretch of water in the Northwest...
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  • The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper and online digital publication. It was launched on 29 March 1859. The editor is Ruadhán Mac Cormaic...
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  • "Black Widow" is a song by Australian rapper Iggy Azalea featuring British singer Rita Ora. Released through Def Jam Recordings, the song impacted on...
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    Barrymore, who reprised her role in the play's film adaptation, The Divorcee. In the play, Lady Frederick is an Irish widow, seriously in debt; she must deal...
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    place as a result of the Great Irish Famine), the Battle of Ballingarry or the Battle of Widow McCormack’s Cabbage Patch. As with the earlier United Irishmen...
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    deceived, and the Widow Tillane knows nothing about the deal. Sean, unschooled in Irish customs, professes no interest in obtaining the dowry; but to...
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    Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland. The establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922 led to the remainder later being renamed the United Kingdom of...
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  • The Field is a 1990 Irish drama film written and directed by Jim Sheridan and starring Richard Harris, John Hurt, Sean Bean, Brenda Fricker and Tom Berenger...
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  • Widows is a 2018 neo-noir heist thriller film directed by Steve McQueen from a screenplay by Gillian Flynn and McQueen, based upon the 1983 British television...
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  • Lewthwaite or the White Widow, is a British terrorist who is one of the Western world's most wanted terrorism suspects. Lewthwaite, the widow of 7/7 London...
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    Maeve (redirect from Maeve (Irish name))
    Higgins (born 1981), Irish comedian Maeve Hillery (née Finnegan), retired Irish doctor, the widow of Patrick Hillery, President of Ireland 1976–90 Maeve Ingoldsby...
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  • 1772 in literature (category Years of the 18th century in literature)
    Richard Cumberland – The Fashionable Lover Samuel Foote – The Nabob Vicente Garcia de la Huerta – Raquel David Garrick – The Irish Widow Gotthold Lessing...
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    the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army during the Easter Rising in Ireland, which began on 24 April 1916. In it, the Military Council of the...
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  • Fritz in Tammany Hall (category Musicals set in the 1900s)
    the Irish widow Mrs. Hart-Judson singing the hit song "I'm a Woman of Importance"; a recording of which is included in the CD anthology Music of the New...
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    County Down, Northern Ireland, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created on 30 July 1800 for Dame Dorcas Blackwood, widow of Sir John Blackwood...
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