• Bertha for the World War I howitzer known as Big Bertha. Women named Bertha include: Saint Bertha of Kent (539 – c. 612), Queen of Kent Saint Bertha of...
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    Bertha Benz (German: [ˈbɛʁta ˈbɛnts] ; née Cäcilie Bertha Ringer; 3 May 1849 – 5 May 1944) was a German automotive pioneer. She was the business partner...
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    Bertha Sophie Felicitas Freifrau von Suttner (pronounced [ˈbɛʁtaː fɔn ˈzʊtnɐ]; née Gräfin Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau; 9 June 1843 – 21 June 1914) was...
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  • Boxcar Bertha is a 1972 American romantic crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and produced by Roger Corman, from a screenplay by Joyce H. Corrington...
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  • Big Bertha is a euphonious term for an unusually large example of a class of object; notable examples include: Big Bertha (howitzer), a heavy mortar-like...
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    Bertha Antoinetta Rochester (née Mason) is a character in Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre. She is described as the violently insane first wife...
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  • Bertha Alice Williams Graham Gifford (October 30, 1871 – August 20, 1951) was a farmwife in rural Catawissa, Missouri during the early 1900s who was accused...
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  • Bertha Gxowa, OLS, (née Mashaba; 26 November 1934 - 19 November 2010) was an anti-apartheid and women's rights activist and trade unionist in South Africa...
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    Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl (German: [ˈleː.niː ˈʁiː.fn̩.ʃtaːl] ; 22 August 1902 – 8 September 2003) was a German film director, photographer...
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    Bertha or Aldeberge (c. 565– d. in or after 601) was a Frankish princess who became queen of Kent. She influenced the 597 Gregorian mission, led by Augustine...
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    154 Bertha is a main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by the French brothers Paul Henry and Prosper Henry on 4 November 1875, but the credit for the discovery...
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  • The name Bertha has been used for ten tropical cyclones worldwide. In the Atlantic Ocean: Tropical Storm Bertha (1957), a moderate tropical storm that...
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  • Bertha of Sulzbach (1110s – 1159), also known as Irene, was a Byzantine empress by marriage to Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos. She was born in Sulzbach...
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  • Bertha Boronda (née Zettle; March 14, 1877 – January 18, 1950) was an American woman who sliced off her husband's penis in 1907. She was convicted of the...
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    Bertha Matilde Palmer (née Honoré; May 22, 1849 – May 5, 1918) was an American businesswoman, socialite, and philanthropist. Born as Bertha Matilde Honoré...
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    Bertha of Burgundy (964 – 16 January 1010) was Queen consort of the Franks as the second wife of King Robert II. Bertha was the daughter of King Conrad...
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  • Bertha Felix Campigli (1882–1949; née Bertha May Felix) was an American/Coast Miwok photographer from California. Bertha Felix was born in Lairds Landing...
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    Bertha of Swabia (French: Berthe; German: Berta; c. 907 AD – after January 2, 966), a member of the Alemannic Hunfriding dynasty, was queen of Burgundy...
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    The Bertha Rogers Borehole is a former natural gas well in Burns Flat, Dill City, Oklahoma, US. Today plugged and abandoned, it was originally drilled...
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    when Benz's fiancée, Bertha Ringer, bought out Ritter's share in the company, using her dowry. On 20 July 1872, Benz and Bertha Ringer married. They had...
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    Bertha of Blois (French: Berthe de Blois; c. 1005 — c. 1080), was a Duchess consort of Brittany and a countess consort of Maine. Bertha was the daughter...
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    Bertha of Holland (c. 1055 – 15 October 1094), also known as Berthe or Bertha of Frisia and erroneously as Berta or Bertrada, was Queen of France from...
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  • Bertha of Aragon (c. 1075 – bef. 1111) was a Queen consort of Aragon and Navarre. Nothing is known about her childhood or the names of her parents. She...
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  • Big Bertha is the name given by Callaway Golf to a number of its lines of golf clubs. The name was chosen to evoke the famous German Big Bertha howitzer...
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    years after Karl Benz drove the car in public in July 1886, Karl's wife Bertha demonstrated its feasibility in a trip from Mannheim to Pforzheim in August...
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    Bertha was a 57.5-foot-diameter (17.5 m) tunnel boring machine built specifically for the Washington State Department of Transportation's (WSDOT) Alaskan...
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  • Big Bertha (born Ashley Crawford and legally changed to Bertha Crawford) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created...
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    cannon), or Minenwerfer-Gerät (M-Gerät), popularly known by the nickname Big Bertha, was a German siege howitzer built by Krupp AG in Essen, Germany and fielded...
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    The Bertha Benz Memorial Route is a German tourist and theme route in Baden-Württemberg and member of the European Route of Industrial Heritage. It opened...
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    Bertha is a city in Todd County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 497 at the 2010 census. By the time of the 2020 Decennial Census the population...
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