• Alvah Cecil Bessie (June 4, 1904 – July 21, 1985) was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter who was blacklisted by the movie studios for being...
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  • Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (the book) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Sadie and Bessie Delany...
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    Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (born Bessie Wallis Warfield, later Spencer and then Simpson; June 19, 1896 – April 24, 1986) was an American socialite and...
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    Juanita Horton, better known as Bessie Love (September 10, 1898 – April 26, 1986), was an American-British actress who achieved prominence playing innocent...
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  • contains the oral history of Sarah "Sadie" L. Delany and A. Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany, two civil rights pioneers who were born in the late 19th century...
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  • Annie Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany (September 3, 1891 – September 25, 1995) was an American dentist and civil rights pioneer. She was the subject, along with...
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    Choice Television Award nomination for playing Bessie Smith's sister Viola in the 2015 HBO film Bessie. Khandi Alexander was born in Jacksonville, Florida...
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  • Poehler, Cynthia True, and Erik Wiese for Nickelodeon. The series centers on Bessie Higgenbottom, an ambitious Honeybee girl scout who believes she will become...
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    Bessie Lillian Carter (née Gordy; August 15, 1898 – October 30, 1983) was an American nurse. Carter's son, Jimmy Carter, served as the 39th president of...
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  • among the Dead Woman from among the Dead Mr. Carter (Dead) Farmer McCarty Bessie – Howie Newsome's horse, visible to the characters, but not the audience...
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  • sister Bessie to English aristocracy and especially to eligible young bachelor Lord Harry Bleane. The glamour of high society seduces Bessie. When her...
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    Bessie Love (1898–1986) was an actress whose career began in silent films, and continued into sound films, radio, and television. She was also active in...
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  • Domestic Science at the high school level in the New York City public schools. Bessie was the second African-American woman licensed to practice dentistry in...
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    (film 1912)] (1912) Mary Has Her Way [it] (1912) Jasmine [it] (1912) Our Bessie [it] (1912) The Bachelor's Ward [it] (1912) The Editor and the Millionaire [it]...
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  • She was the subject, along with her younger sister Bessie, of the oral history biography, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years, by journalist...
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    Bessie Pease Gutmann (1876 – 1960) was an American artist and illustrator, most noted for her paintings of putti, infants, and young children. During the...
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  • Bill's Temptation A Night of Peril The Child Detective Phoebe of the Inn Our Bessie A Girl Alone The Blind Heroine His Actress Daughter Bill's Reformation...
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    Gentlewoman. 24 July 1915. p. 98. Bessie Watson: the youngest suffragette - Our Town Stories, Edinburgh City Council site. Bessie Watson - Whose Town? Edinburgh...
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    Tract Society, 1889) Lover or Friend? (London: R. Bentley & Son, 1890) Our Bessie (London: The Religious Tract Society, 1891) Averil (London: The Religious...
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  • Bessie Starkman (born Besha Starkman; June 21, 1890 – August 13, 1930) was an organized crime figure in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, in the early 20th century...
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    women's rights in Victorian times and also a poet, essayist and journalist. Bessie Rayner Parkes was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, daughter of...
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  • Old Windsor. Other works by her include the reredos at Our Lady, Ramsey. "Miss Frances Bessie Burlison". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture...
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  • for Chicago Review of Books, Bessie Taliaferro says the book "upends the self-help books on our nightstands as well as in our minds". She highlights the...
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    (Supplement). 1 February 1937. p. 698. "Napier's Bessie Spencer - the remarkable "forward thinking proto-feminist" who founded our Women's Institutes". v t e...
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  • caused many talented black women to go unnoticed or unheard of. Walker cites Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Roberta Flack, and Aretha Franklin to...
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    called as Elliot's Beach and popularly known as Besant Nagar Beach or the Bessie, is a natural urban beach located in the Besant Nagar neighbourhood of Chennai...
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    Spafford sent his wife, Anna, and their four daughters, Annie, Maggie, Bessie, and Tanetta, ahead while Spafford was delayed on business concerning zoning...
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    blues music increased, she became well known. Around this time, she met Bessie Smith, a young blues singer who was also making a name for herself. A story...
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  • Brown Bess (redirect from Brown Bessie)
    for it may be some browne bessie? But let a beautie fall a weeping, overpressed with the sicke passion; she favours in our thoughts, something Turnbull...
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    work with EMI Music Publishing who take care of our songwriting affairs. Next year we start working with our new record company to celebrate Queen's 40th...
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