query: what was alice walker famous for?

title: Alice Walker

text: Alice Walker Alice Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist. She wrote the novel "The Color Purple" (1982), for which she won the National Book Award for hardcover fiction, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She also wrote the novels "Meridian" (1976) and "The Third Life of Grange Copeland" (1970), among other works. An avowed feminist, Walker coined the term "womanist" to mean "A black feminist or feminist of color" in 1983. Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia, a rural farming town, to Willie Lee Walker and Minnie Tallulah

title: What Alice Found

text: What Alice Found What Alice Found is a Sundance award-winning feature film released in U.S. theaters in 2003/2004 and for U.S. home video in 2004. It has aired on the Sundance Channel, Lifetime Movie Network, IFC, Canal Plus in France and ABC affiliates across the U.S. The independently made film was the second feature film for writer/director A. Dean Bell. The film is a harrowing coming of age tale about a young woman who flees her poor New Hampshire hometown life to follow her wealthier and socially accepted friend down to college life in Florida. But her car breaks down

title: John Walker (grocer)

text: the blend that made Johnnie Walker whisky famous. As one writer put it: John Walker (grocer) John (Johnnie) Walker (1805–1857) was a Scottish grocer, who originated what would become one of the world's most famous whisky brand names, Johnnie Walker, despite the fact he was himself a teetotaller. Walker was born near Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, Scotland. When his father Alexander died in 1819 he was left £417 in trust. In 1820 the trustees invested in an Italian warehouse, grocery, and wine and spirits shop on the High Street in Kilmarnock. John managed the grocery, wine and spirits segment as a

title: Alice Walker

text: legally married interracial couple in Mississippi. They were harassed and threatened by whites, including the Ku Klux Klan. The couple had a daughter, Rebecca, in 1969. Walker and her husband divorced in 1976. In the late 1970s, Walker moved to northern California. Walker is the co-founder of Wild Tree Press, a feminist publishing company in Anderson Valley, California. She and fellow writer Robert L. Allen founded it in 1984. In the mid-1990s, Walker was involved in a romance with singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman, saying: "It was delicious and lovely and wonderful and I totally enjoyed it and I was completely in

title: Famous for being famous

text: argued that the graphic revolution in journalism and other forms of communication had severed fame from greatness, and that this severance hastened the decay of fame into mere notoriety. Over the years, the phrase has been glossed as "a celebrity is someone who is famous for being famous". The British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge may have been the first to use the actual phrase in the introduction to his book "Muggeridge Through The Microphone" (1967) in which he wrote:In the past if someone was famous or notorious, it was for something—as a writer or an actor or a criminal; for some

title: Alice Walker

text: consultant in black history to the Friends of the Children of Mississippi Head Start program. She later returned to writing as writer-in-residence at Jackson State University (1968–69) and Tougaloo College (1970–71). In addition to her work at Tougaloo College, Walker published her first novel, "The Third Life of Grange Copeland," in 1970. The novel explores the life of Grange Copeland, an abusive, irresponsible sharecropper, husband and father. In the fall of 1972, Walker taught a course in Black Women's Writers at the University of Massachusetts Boston. In 1973, before becoming editor of "Ms." "Magazine", Walker and fellow Zora Neale Hurston

title: Famous for being famous

text: define the celebrity as "human entertainment", by which he means a person who provides entertainment by the very process of living. "The Washington Post" writer Amy Argetsinger coined the term famesque to define actors, singers, or athletes whose fame is mostly (if not entirely) due to one's physical attractiveness and/or personal life, rather than actual talent and (if any) successful career accomplishments. Argetsinger argued, "The famesque of 2009 are descended from that dawn-of-TV creation, the Famous for Being Famous. Turn on a talk show or "Hollywood Squares" and there'd be Zsa Zsa Gabor, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Charles Nelson Reilly, so

title: Rebecca Walker

text: and resources they need to be leaders in their communities through activism and philanthropy. Walker does extensive writing and speaking about gender, racial, economic, and social justice at universities around the United States and internationally. In 1994, "Time" named Walker as one of the 50 future leaders of America. Her work has appeared in publications including "The Washington Post", "The Huffington Post", "Salon", "Glamour", and "Essence" and has been featured on CNN and MTV. She was born Rebecca Leventhal in 1969 in Jackson, Mississippi, the daughter of Alice Walker, an African-American writer whose work includes "The Color Purple", and Mel

title: Alice Walker

text: flotilla prompted an op-ed, headlined "Alice Walker's bigotry," written by American attorney and law professor Alan Dershowitz in "The Jerusalem Post." Dershowitz said, by participating in the flotilla to evade the blockade, she was "provid[ing] material support for terrorism." Walker is a judge member of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine. She supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel. In 2012, Walker refused to authorize a Hebrew translation of her book "The Color Purple", criticizing what she called Israel's "apartheid state." In May 2013, Walker posted an open letter to singer Alicia Keys, asking her to cancel a planned

title: Alice Walker

text: This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything." In honor of her mother, Minnie Tallulah Grant, and paternal grandmother, Walker legally added "Tallulah Kate" to her name in 1994. Minnie Tallulah Grant's grandmother, Tallulah, was Cherokee. "Beauty in Truth" (2013) is a documentary film about Walker directed by Pratibha Parmar. Alice Walker Alice Walker (born February 9,

title: Alice Leslie Walker

text: at the time she left Athens, led her to have her work finally published by a German publisher rather than the American School. Walker died in Santa Barbara June 25, 1954. Alice Leslie Walker Alice "Mopsie" Leslie Walker (June 26, 1885 – June 25, 1954) was an American archeologist and leading expert on the Neolithic Period in Southern Greece. She was a gifted linguist. Besides speaking English, she spoke French, German, Portuguese, Latin and Ancient and Modern Greek. She and Hetty Goldman were the first two women to direct an archeological dig in mainland Greece. Alice Leslie Walker was born

title: Alice Leslie Walker

text: Alice Leslie Walker Alice "Mopsie" Leslie Walker (June 26, 1885 – June 25, 1954) was an American archeologist and leading expert on the Neolithic Period in Southern Greece. She was a gifted linguist. Besides speaking English, she spoke French, German, Portuguese, Latin and Ancient and Modern Greek. She and Hetty Goldman were the first two women to direct an archeological dig in mainland Greece. Alice Leslie Walker was born on June 26, 1885 to Josephine Kinney and James Greig Walker in San Francisco, California. She attended Vassar College and obtained her AB degree with honours in Greek language and Greek

title: Alice Walker

text: In this book, Walker details her interracial relationship with Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal, a civil rights attorney who was also working in Mississippi. The couple married on March 17, 1967 in New York City, since interracial marriage was then illegal in the South, and divorced in 1976. They had a daughter, Rebecca, together in 1969. Rebecca Walker, Alice Walker's only child, is an American novelist, editor, artist, and activist. The Third Wave Foundation, an activist fund, was founded with the help of Rebecca. Her godmother is Alice Walker's mentor and co-founder of "Ms. Magazine", Gloria Steinem. In 2007, Walker donated her

title: Alice Walker

text: papers, consisting of 122 boxes of manuscripts and archive material, to Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. In addition to drafts of novels such as "The Color Purple", unpublished poems and manuscripts, and correspondence with editors, the collection includes extensive correspondence with family members, friends and colleagues, an early treatment of the film script for "The Color Purple", syllabi from courses she taught, and fan mail. The collection also contains a scrapbook of poetry compiled when Walker was 15, entitled "Poems of a Childhood Poetess." In 2013, Alice Walker published two new books, one of them entitled "The

title: What Alice Found

text: Angeles Times": "Sweet, suspenseful, funny, poignant and adult. Judith Ivey gives flat-out one of the year's best performances... a terrific showcase for lovely newcomer Emily Grace...an unexpected treat for sophisticated audiences". "Variety" had Ms. Ivey as a dark horse Oscar candidate. "What Alice Found" was awarded the Grand Prize at the 2003 Deauville Festival of American Cinema by Jury Chair Roman Polanski. The film is held in the collection of the UCLA film archive and the screenplay was invited into the collection at the library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. What Alice Found What Alice Found

title: What Alice Found

text: on the highway under mysterious circumstances and a middle-aged "snowbird" couple in an RV come to her rescue, offering a ride all the way south. Before too long we're wondering if it wasn't the seemingly good Samaritans who sabotaged her car in the first place. "What Alice Found" is a complex story about mothers and daughters and the "haves and have-nots" in American society as Alice is turned into a truck stop prostitute. Critically acclaimed, "What Alice Found" was selected by "The New York Times"' Stephen Holden as a "Critic's Pick" and was praised by Kevin Thomas in the "Los

title: Alice Walker

text: that the Earth is ruled by shapeshifting reptilian humanoids and "Rothschild Zionists." Jonathan Kay of the "National Post" described the book as "hateful, hallucinogenic nonsense." He wrote that Walker's public praise for Icke's book was "stunningly offensive" and that by taking it seriously, she was disqualifying herself "from the mainstream marketplace of ideas." In 2017, Walker published a poem on her blog entitled "It Is Our (Frightful) Duty To Study The Talmud", recommending that the reader should start with YouTube to learn about the evils of the Talmud. In 2018, Walker was asked by a "New York Times" interviewer, “What

title: What Made America Famous?

text: What Made America Famous? "What Made America Famous?" is a song written and performed by Harry Chapin. The song was included on his 1974 album, Verities & Balderdash. It has also been included on numerous posthumous compilation albums. The song inspired Chapin to write the award nominated Broadway musical, The Night That Made America Famous. The song shows a man, his girlfriend, and kids living in a rundown home. Eventually, a house fire starts, and they need rescue. It is continually asked in the song if anybody cares. It ends with the firefighters waiting to respond to "let them sweat

title: What Made Milwaukee Famous (band)

text: What Made Milwaukee Famous (band) What Made Milwaukee Famous (WMMF) is an indie rock band from Austin, Texas. In 2005, WMMF performed for Austin City Limits with Franz Ferdinand, making them one of the only unsigned bands to play for the show in its 43-year history. In 2006, the band signed with Barsuk Records, which re-released their 2004 debut album, "Trying to Never Catch Up". Their second album, "What Doesn't Kill Us", was released on March 4, 2008. Since forming, the band has played at the South by Southwest music festival, the Austin City Limits Festival, and Lollapalooza. They have

title: Horatio Walker

text: painting for the rest of his life. What happened with Walker during the two following years remains vague, but in 1878, he opened a studio in New York City. During the 1880s, Walker’s parents moved to Rochester, New York, and Walker participated in the founding of the Rochester Art Club. A further sign of Walker’s growing success was an invitation to join the American Watercolour membership in 1882. In 1883 he married Jeanette Pretty (d. 1938) of Toronto. They had two children, Alice (1884–1891) and Horatio Jr. (1886–1910). It was sometime during this period that Walker purchased a residence on

title: Ted Walker

text: of Lorna’s disfiguring illness, and his own grief at being robbed of their anticipated years of retirement together. The cancer also serves as a metaphor for what Walker saw as the unrelenting decay of the England so lovingly described in "The High Path". In 1997 Ted and Audrey Walker moved to the village of Alcalali near Valencia, Spain, where he died in 2004. Walker's early poetry won many prizes, including the Eric Gregory Award (1964) and the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize. He was the first winner of the Cholmondeley Award (1966). Walker was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society

title: What Made America Famous?

text: a little", and the plumber ends up saving everyone in the home. They spend the night in the plumber's home and realize that heroes are people who you'd never suspect, or ever know. The song was inspired when Chapin himself lived in Point Lookout in Long Island during the 1960s. There was a suspicious fire in a low-income residence. Although it is unknown how the actual firefighters responded, he imagined that they responded like in the song. What Made America Famous? "What Made America Famous?" is a song written and performed by Harry Chapin. The song was included on his

title: What Made Milwaukee Famous (band)

text: opened for The Smashing Pumpkins, Arcade Fire, The Black Keys, and Snow Patrol. WMMF has been featured on spots in "Billboard" and Rolling Stone bands-to-watch lists. The band's name comes from Jerry Lee Lewis's "What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)". What Made Milwaukee Famous (band) What Made Milwaukee Famous (WMMF) is an indie rock band from Austin, Texas. In 2005, WMMF performed for Austin City Limits with Franz Ferdinand, making them one of the only unsigned bands to play for the show in its 43-year history. In 2006, the band signed with Barsuk Records, which

title: What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?

text: old at the time during the film's production and release. Filming for "What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?" began on October 23, 1968 on location in Tucson, Arizona, with additional photography taking place at Aldrich Studios in Los Angeles, California. Principal photographer was completed on January 5, 1969. Robert Fuller, who had a support role, had been signed to a three-picture contract with the Associates and Aldrich. In November it was announced that Bernard Girard, who was directing the film, "has withdrawn due to differences in interpretation" and would be replaced by Lee Katzin. "What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?"

title: Alice Walker

text: was studying in East Africa and during her senior year at Sarah Lawrence College. Walker would slip her poetry under the office door of her professor and mentor, Muriel Rukeyser, when she was a student at Sarah Lawrence. Rukeyser then showed the poems to her agent. "Once" was published four years later by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Following graduation, Walker briefly worked for the New York City Department of Welfare before returning South. She took a job working for the Legal Defense Fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Jackson, Mississippi. Walker also worked as a

title: Alice Walker

text: Day, on the eve of the Iraq War, Walker was arrested with 26 others, including fellow authors Maxine Hong Kingston and Terry Tempest Williams, at a protest outside the White House, for crossing a police line during an anti-war rally. Walker wrote about the experience in her essay "We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For." Walker's specific brand of feminism included advocacy of women of color. In 1983, Walker coined the term "womanist" in her collection "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens", to mean "a black feminist or feminist of color." The term was made to unite women

title: Alice Walker

text: was published. "Meridian" is a novel about activist workers in the South, during the civil rights movement, with events that closely parallel some of Walker's own experiences. In 1982, she published what has become her best-known work, "The Color Purple". The novel follows a young, troubled black woman fighting her way through not just racist white culture but patriarchal black culture as well. The book became a bestseller and was subsequently adapted into a critically acclaimed 1985 movie directed by Steven Spielberg, featuring Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg, as well as a 2005 Broadway musical totaling 910 performances. Walker has

title: Alice Walker

text: mentors during her time at Spelman, but transferred two years later. Walker was offered another scholarship, this time from Sarah Lawrence College in New York, and after the firing of her Spelman professor, Howard Zinn, Walker accepted the offer. Walker became pregnant at the start of her senior year and proceeded to have an abortion; this experience, as well as the bout of suicidal thoughts that followed, inspired much of the poetry found in "Once", Walker's first collection of poetry. Walker graduated from Sarah Lawrence in 1965. Walker wrote the poems of her first book of poetry, "Once", while she

title: What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?

text: What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? is a 1969 American thriller film directed by Lee H. Katzin with Bernard Girard (uncredited), and starring Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon, Rosemary Forsyth, Robert Fuller and Mildred Dunnock. The screenplay by Theodore Apstein, based on the novel "The Forbidden Garden" by Ursula Curtiss, focuses on an aging Arizona widow who hires elderly female housekeepers and cons them out of their money before murdering them. The music score was by Gerald Fried and the cinematography by Joseph F. Biroc. The film was funded by American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Palomar

title: Alice Walker

text: Grant. Both of Walker's parents were sharecroppers, though her mother would work as a seamstress to earn extra money. Walker, the youngest of eight children, was first enrolled in school when she was just four years old at East Putnam Consolidated. At eight years old Walker sustained an injury to her right eye after one of her brothers fired a BB gun. Because her family did not have access to a car, Walker did not receive immediate medical attention, causing her to become permanently blind in that eye. It was after the injury to her eye that Walker began to

title: What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?

text: they would be releasing the film on Blu-ray and DVD featuring a 4K restoration. It was finally conformed on October 31, 2018, that the film would receive its Blu-ray and DVD release on January 8, 2019. In October 1969 Aldrich announced he would make a third "Whatever Happened to" film, "Whatever Happened to Dear Elva?" based on the novel "Goodbye, Dear Elva" by Elizabeth Fenwick. However the film did not result. What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? is a 1969 American thriller film directed by Lee H. Katzin with Bernard Girard (uncredited), and starring

title: John Hardeman Walker

text: John Hardeman Walker John Hardeman Walker (March 3, 1794 – April 30, 1860) was an early landowner in southeast Missouri, most famous for convincing the United States Congress to place the Bootheel in Missouri instead of Arkansas. Walker was born in Fayette County, Tennessee. He moved to the Bootheel area in 1810 and settled at Little Prairie, near what is now known as Caruthersville in Pemiscot County. When many citizens of the area left after the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811–12, Walker maintained his cattle operation in the area and steadily increased his holdings. When Missouri was added to the

title: Alice Walker

text: books are on your nightstand?” She listed Icke's "And the Truth Shall Set You Free," a book promoting an antisemitic conspiracy theory based on "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." Walker described the book as, "A curious person’s dream come true." In June 2013, Walker and others appeared in a video showing support for Chelsea Manning, an American soldier imprisoned for releasing classified information. In 1965, Walker met Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal, a Jewish civil rights lawyer. They were married on March 17, 1967, in New York City. Later that year the couple relocated to Jackson, Mississippi, becoming the first

title: George Walker (printmaker)

text: to an edition of 177 pieces, it was the first entirely Canadian edition of the book. It was followed up 10 years later with a 1998 Canadian edition of "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There", also limited to 177 numbered copies. Both were published by the Cheshire Cat Press, a partnership between Walker, Joseph Brabant and Bill Poole (one of Walker's professors at the Ontario College of Art, who also influenced his work). With the publication of the second book, Walker became the first Canadian artist to illustrate both "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass".

title: John Walker (grocer)

text: John Walker (grocer) John (Johnnie) Walker (1805–1857) was a Scottish grocer, who originated what would become one of the world's most famous whisky brand names, Johnnie Walker, despite the fact he was himself a teetotaller. Walker was born near Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, Scotland. When his father Alexander died in 1819 he was left £417 in trust. In 1820 the trustees invested in an Italian warehouse, grocery, and wine and spirits shop on the High Street in Kilmarnock. John managed the grocery, wine and spirits segment as a teenager in 1820. The Wash (Excise) Act of 1823 relaxed unduly strict laws

title: Blues for Alice

text: blues in F major with heavy use of the ii-V-I progression. Blues for Alice "Blues for Alice" is a 1951 jazz standard, composed by Charlie Parker. The standard is noted for its rapid bebop blues-style chord voicings and complex harmonic scheme which is a fine example of what is known as "Bird Blues". It is written in the key of F major and usually begins with an F major seventh or F sixth chord. Parker's first recording of the piece is from August 1951 for Verve Records. The lineup consisted of Parker, Red Rodney (trumpet), John Lewis (piano), Ray Brown

title: Blues for Alice

text: Blues for Alice "Blues for Alice" is a 1951 jazz standard, composed by Charlie Parker. The standard is noted for its rapid bebop blues-style chord voicings and complex harmonic scheme which is a fine example of what is known as "Bird Blues". It is written in the key of F major and usually begins with an F major seventh or F sixth chord. Parker's first recording of the piece is from August 1951 for Verve Records. The lineup consisted of Parker, Red Rodney (trumpet), John Lewis (piano), Ray Brown (bass) and Kenny Clarke (drums). The composition is a modified twelve-bar

title: Alice – A Fight For Life

text: Alice – A Fight For Life Alice – A Fight For Life is a documentary featuring 47-year-old Alice Jefferson, a British woman who developed malignant pleural mesothelioma thirty years after working for nine months at Cape Insulation's Acre Mill asbestos plant in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. The film also explored the health issues surrounding the manufacture and use of asbestos products. Described by "The Guardian" newspaper as "a momentous film", the programme also explicitly linked asbestos with cancer, and attacked what it perceived as the government's complacency in limiting the manufacture and use of asbestos in Britain. Alice died of

title: Famous for being famous

text: 1999 book "Disco Bloodbath", and Dianne Brill, who was crowned "Queen of the Night" by Andy Warhol. Famous for being famous Famous for being famous is a pejorative term for someone who attains celebrity status for no particularly identifiable reason (as opposed to fame based on achievements, skill, or talent) and appears to generate their own fame, or someone who achieves fame through a family or relationship association with an existing celebrity. The term originates from an analysis of the media-dominated world called "The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America" (1961), by historian and social theorist Daniel J. Boorstin.

title: Alice Walker

text: take up reading and writing. The scar tissue was removed when Walker was 14, but a mark still remains and is described in her essay "Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self." Because the schools in Eatonton were segregated, Walker attended the only high school available to blacks: Butler Baker High School. She went on to become valedictorian and enrolled in Spelman College in 1961 after being granted a full scholarship by the state of Georgia for having the highest academic achievements of her class. She found two of her professors, Howard Zinn and Staughton Lynd, to be great

title: Alice Leslie Walker

text: for women at the school. Being financially independent, she also became a major donor of the school. During the 1920s, Walker worked on the pottery uncovered at Corinth at Corinth's expedition headquarters. Working on excavations until 1935, Walker continued to add artifacts to her new finds of pottery of the Neolithic period. At this point in her career, she had become the foremost expert of the Neolithic Period in Southern Greece. There was a great deal of tension during this time period between Acting Director of the American School, Edward Capps and Walker. He had continued to press for publication

title: Famous for being famous

text: Famous for being famous Famous for being famous is a pejorative term for someone who attains celebrity status for no particularly identifiable reason (as opposed to fame based on achievements, skill, or talent) and appears to generate their own fame, or someone who achieves fame through a family or relationship association with an existing celebrity. The term originates from an analysis of the media-dominated world called "The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America" (1961), by historian and social theorist Daniel J. Boorstin. In it, he defined the celebrity as "a person who is known for his well-knownness". He further

title: Alice Walker

text: concert in Tel Aviv. "I believe we are mutually respectful of each other's path and work," Walker wrote. "It would grieve me to know you are putting yourself in danger (soul danger) by performing in an apartheid country that is being boycotted by many global conscious artists." Keys rejected the plea. In May 2013, Walker expressed appreciation for the works of the conspiracy theorist David Icke. On BBC Radio 4's "Desert Island Discs", she said that Icke's book "Human Race Get Off Your Knees" would be her choice if she could have only one book. The book promotes the theory

title: Alice Walker

text: love with her but it was not anybody's business but ours." Walker's spirituality has also played a great role in her personal life, and influenced some of her best known novels, like "The Color Purple." Her religious views have been defined through an unoppressive womanist perspective as a means to uplift black women. Walker's exploration of religion in much of her writing was greatly inspired by other writers such as Zora Neale Hurston. Some literary critics, such as Alma Freeman, have even said that Walker perceived her as a spiritual sister. Walker wrote, "At one point I learned Transcendental Meditation.

title: Alexander Walker (physiologist)

text: A great deal of what he wrote in this line is now considered to belong to the pseudosciences of physiognomy and phrenology. Alexander Walker (physiologist) Alexander Walker (1779—1852) was a Scottish physiologist, aesthetician, encyclopaedist, translator, novelist, and journalist. He was the founder and editor of "The European Review" (1824–26), a journal published in English, French, German and Italian, with many eminent contributors, such as Goethe and Cuvier. He was a friend of Benjamin Constant and translated his work. However he was most famous for his best-selling works linking physiology and aesthetics: "Physiognomy, founded on Physiology" (1834), "Beauty, illustrated chiefly by

title: Alice Neel

text: Alice Neel Alice Neel (January 28, 1900 – October 13, 1984) was an American visual artist, who was known for her portraits depicting friends, family, lovers, poets, artists and strangers. Her paintings have an expressionistic use of line and color, psychological acumen, and emotional intensity. Neel was called "one of the greatest portrait artists of the 20th century" by Barry Walker, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which organized a retrospective of her work in 2010. Alice Neel was born on January 28, 1900, in Merion Square, Pennsylvania to George Washington Neel, an

title: Alice (Avril Lavigne song)

text: Alice (Avril Lavigne song) "Alice" is a song written and performed by Avril Lavigne for "Almost Alice", the soundtrack to the 2010 film "Alice in Wonderland". An extended version was released as a hidden track on Lavigne's fourth studio album, "Goodbye Lullaby" (2011). The song is a mid-tempo ballad sung from the perspective of the film's lead character, Alice. Lavigne wrote the song after asking Disney executives and film director Tim Burton if she could write a song for the film. The song was produced by Butch Walker and mixed by Lavigne's former husband Deryck Whibley. In January 2010, Lavigne

title: Bradley Walker

text: championship several times. He was the boxing champion of Nashville in 1899. Walker also won the Tennessee State Amateur Golf Championship, and won his local club championship six times, during which he became a friend and confidante of sportswriter Grantland Rice who had just begun playing the game. Bradley Walker was born on October 14, 1877, in Columbia, Tennessee, near Nashville. His father was William Overton Walker, a farmer and a lumberman. His mother was Alice Cabler. His grandparents were William Walker and Elizabeth Bradley. Walker attended Columbia High School and later graduated from the University of Nashville's Peabody College

title: Alice Hart-Davis

text: Awards). She has also written guides to beauty for teenagers with both of her daughters. The first, co-authored with Molly Hindhaugh, is entitled Be Beautiful: Every Girl's Guide to Hair, Skin and Make-up (Walker Books 2009;) and the second, with Beth Hindhaugh, 100 Ways for Every Girl to Look and Feel Fantastic (Walker Books 2012;). Hart-Davis has also developed Good Things, a range of skincare and bodycare products designed for women in their teens and twenties, which is sold through Boots. She lives in Bayswater, London, is married and has three children. Alice Hart-Davis Alice Hart-Davis (born 1963) is a

title: What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?

text: delivers a bravura performance. Gordon, working crisply, offers a remarkable portrait of a brave woman. The two ladies play off each other relentlessly and audience reaps the rewards." Donald Guarisco of AllMovie wrote: "This Robert Aldrich production is a second-tier version of the thrills he pioneered in his self-directed film "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" The problem is simple: "What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?" has the stars right, but the material is underdeveloped. The script has an engaging premise that would be a perfect vehicle for all sorts of creepy thrills, but the story never capitalizes on the

title: Alice Leslie Walker

text: on the Corinth pottery and Walker continued to delay publishing her findings. In 1921, Walker's plan to dig at Halal in the fall had to be cancelled due to a recurrence of her illness. In 1924, she married her expedition foreman Georgios A. KosmopoulosIn. In 1924–1925 she was in Corinth working on prehistoric pottery. Walker continued to work on the Corinth Pottery thru the late 1920s and 1930s and also continued to delay publication. There were new conflicts between the American School's new director in 1936, Charles H. Morgan II over Walker moving the Corinth material that belonged to the

title: Miles Walker

text: of the pair as Harry plays for Colby A.F.C. and is a regular goalscorer for the Combination side. Also Joe who is a keen golfer at Port St Mary golf course. Miles Walker Sir Miles Rawstron Walker (born 13 November 1940) is a Manx businessman and politician, who was the first ever Chief Minister of the Isle of Man. Born on 13 November 1940 to George Denis Walker and Alice (née Whittaker), he was educated at Castle Rushen High School and the Shropshire Agricultural College. He later went on to become a company director in the farming and retail dairy

title: Alice Leslie Walker

text: and suffered ill effects from the disease for the rest of her life. In 1914 and 1915, Goldman and Walker were at Corinth excavating. Walker uncovered "the largest and probably still the most significant deposit of Early Neolithic pottery from Corinth." The archeological dig was interrupted by the beginning of World War I. She obtained her PHD at the University of California, Berkeley in 1917. Her dissertation was on "The Pottery of the Necropolis of Locrian Halae". It was never published. She worked diligently to improve the lives of women at the American School, encouraging the administration to provide housing

title: Miles Walker

text: Miles Walker Sir Miles Rawstron Walker (born 13 November 1940) is a Manx businessman and politician, who was the first ever Chief Minister of the Isle of Man. Born on 13 November 1940 to George Denis Walker and Alice (née Whittaker), he was educated at Castle Rushen High School and the Shropshire Agricultural College. He later went on to become a company director in the farming and retail dairy trade. He was an Arbory commissioner (a local government role) from 1970 until 1976, latterly as the chairman. In 1976 he was elected as MHK for Rushen and was successful. He

title: Alice Walker

text: written several other novels, including "The Temple of My Familiar" and "Possessing the Secret of Joy" (which featured several characters and descendants of characters from "The Color Purple"). She has published a number of collections of short stories, poetry, and other writings. Her work is focused on the struggles of black people, particularly women, and their lives in a racist, sexist, and violent society. Walker is a leading figure in liberal politics. In 2000, Walker released a collection of short fiction based on her own life called "The Way Forward Is With a Broken Heart," exploring love and race relations.

title: George Walker (printmaker)

text: 2011, Walker provided the illustration for another Gaiman broadsheet, "Making A Chair". In 2012, Walker did the woodcuts to accompany Neil Gaiman's poem "The Rhyme Maiden." Written by Gaiman on the night before his marriage to Amanda Palmer, the poem and woodcut were produced as a limited edition broadsheet to celebrate the couple's wedding. In 2008, Walker won a Bronze metal at the Independent Publisher Book Awards for "Images from the Neocerebellum". He was awarded for the Best Original Print at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition in 1995, 1997, 2002 and 2005. "A Is for Alice" was shortlisted for the

title: Annie E. A. Walker

text: the United States in late 1896, where she settled in Washington, D.C. She died in that city in 1929. Walker was noted especially for her pastels, which were compared with those of Alice Pike Barney, and which were shown at Howard University. Few of her works were known to exist in 1975. Two years after returning from Paris, Walker suffered a nervous breakdown and ceased her artistic work, remaining an invalid, homebound, until her death. Annie E. A. Walker Annie E. Anderson Walker (1855–1929) was an African-American artist, known for her portraits and for her work in pastels. Born in

title: Norma Ford Walker

text: Norma Ford Walker Norma Ford Walker (September 3, 1893 – August 9, 1968) was a Canadian scientist who pioneered the development of medical genetics as a research field. Though she began her academic career as an entomologist, working as an invertebrate zoologist at the University of Toronto, she became interested in medical genetics in the 1930s, and researched the medical genetics of the then famous Dionne Quintuplets. She was an original founding member of the American Society of Human Genetics and between 1947 and 1962, was the first director of the Department of Genetics at what was then the Toronto

title: Alice Leslie Walker

text: Archeologyin 1906 and an MA in 1908. Walker attended the American School of Classical Studies in Athens from 1909 to 1914 on a fellowship in archeology. In 1910 she worked on publishing all the pottery finds of the Byzantine era excavated at Corinth. In the spring of 1911, Walker and Hetty Goldman, both financially independent, excavated at Halae at Locris at their own expense. Goldman and Walker were the first two women to lead an excavation in mainland Greece. They established their field site at the city of Theologu, an area where relics were being sold by local villagers. The

title: Alice Estes Davis

text: marriage to Marc ended with his death in 2000. On May 10, 2012, Alice was honored with a window on Main Street, U.S.A. at Disneyland next to her husband's window. Alice Estes Davis Alice Estes Davis (born March 26, 1929) is an American costume designer. She is most famous for her work with Walt Disney, who employed her to develop costumes for films, television, and theme parks. She was married to Marc Davis, a Disney animator and Imagineer. Alice was named a Disney Legend in 2004. Alice was born Alice Estes in Escalon, California. She was a talented artist in

title: Alice Estes Davis

text: Alice Estes Davis Alice Estes Davis (born March 26, 1929) is an American costume designer. She is most famous for her work with Walt Disney, who employed her to develop costumes for films, television, and theme parks. She was married to Marc Davis, a Disney animator and Imagineer. Alice was named a Disney Legend in 2004. Alice was born Alice Estes in Escalon, California. She was a talented artist in high school and received a scholarship from the Long Beach Art Association to study at the prestigious Chouinard Art Institute. Alice wanted to study animation at Chouinard Art Institute but

title: William H. T. Walker

text: triangle of Atlanta currently marks the place where Walker was killed. Its front description plate reads: "In memory of Maj.Gen. William H.T. Walker, C.S.A." and the rear plate reads: "Born November 26, 1816; killed on this spot July 22, 1864." A bronze bust of Walker was dedicated in 1916, made by American sculptor Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson, and is located at Vicksburg National Military Park. Fort Walker and Walker High School, also in Atlanta, was named in his honor. However, Walker High School's name was changed in 1987 to "McNair High School" to honor astronaut Ronald E. McNair, who died

title: What Was Lost

text: for which O'Flynn received a prize of £2,500. It was BBC Radio 5 Live's Book of the Month in March 2007. What Was Lost What Was Lost is the 2007 début novel by Catherine O'Flynn. The novel is about a girl who goes missing in a shopping centre in 1984, and the people who try to discover what happened to her twenty years later. "What Was Lost" won the First Novel Award at the 2007 Costa Book Awards, and was short-listed for the overall Costa Book of the Year Award. O'Flynn found inspiration for "What Was Lost" while she was

title: Hiram Walker

text: and massive floral decorations, which was incredibly rare for the time. The flowers were donated by Hiram Walker & Sons, along with the Children's Free Hospital. Hiram Walker Hiram Walker (July 4, 1816 – January 12, 1899) was an American entrepreneur and founder of the Hiram Walker and Sons Ltd. distillery in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Walker was born in East Douglas, Massachusetts, and moved to Detroit in 1838. He purchased land across the Detroit River, just east of what is Windsor, Ontario, and established a distillery in 1858 in what would become Walkerville, Ontario. Walker began selling his whisky as

title: Gifford–Walker Farm

text: by auction in 1986 and purchased by William and Bonnie Perkins of Byron, NY for the purpose of renovation and resale. For four years the entire house was worked on: gutted and modernized without damage to any of the woodwork and character. The front porch steps were restored to the front porch. Their daughter, Jennifer Weaver, began renting the house in 1991 and eventually purchased the house in 2000. She currently lives there with her family. There have been no other changes to the house. Gifford–Walker Farm The Gifford–Walker Farm, also known as the Alice Walker Farm, is located on

title: What Was Lost

text: What Was Lost What Was Lost is the 2007 début novel by Catherine O'Flynn. The novel is about a girl who goes missing in a shopping centre in 1984, and the people who try to discover what happened to her twenty years later. "What Was Lost" won the First Novel Award at the 2007 Costa Book Awards, and was short-listed for the overall Costa Book of the Year Award. O'Flynn found inspiration for "What Was Lost" while she was working as an assistant manager in a record shop. She was interested in the difference in shopping centres by day and

title: Famous for being famous

text: talent or distinction or abomination. Today one is famous for being famous. People who come up to one in the street or in public places to claim recognition nearly always say: "I've seen you on the telly!" Neal Gabler more recently refined the definition of celebrity to distinguish those who have gained recognition for having done virtually nothing of significance—a phenomenon he dubbed the "Zsa Zsa Factor" in honor of Zsa Zsa Gabor, who parlayed her marriage to actor George Sanders into a brief movie career and the movie career into a much more enduring celebrity. He goes on to

title: Verlon Walker

text: Walker Leukemia Center at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, which still exists today as the Rube Walker Blood Center. Verlon Walker Verlon Lee Walker (March 7, 1929 – March 24, 1971) was an American catcher in minor league baseball and a coach for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball from 1961 through 1970. He was also known as Rube Walker, nicknamed after his more famous older brother Albert, who preceded him as a catcher in the Chicago farm system. Albert played 11 seasons in the Major Leagues with the Cubs and Brooklyn Dodgers, and was an MLB pitching coach for three

title: Alice Springs

text: Alice Springs Alice Springs (; Arrernte: Mparntwe) is the third-largest town in the Northern Territory of Australia. Popularly known as "the Alice" or simply "Alice", Alice Springs is situated roughly in Australia's geographic centre. The area is known as "Mparntwe" to its original inhabitants, the Arrernte, who have lived in the Central Australian desert in and around what is now Alice Springs for tens of thousands of years. The name "Alice Springs" was given by surveyor William Whitfield Mills after Alice, Lady Todd ("née" Alice Gillam Bell), wife of the telegraph pioneer Sir Charles Todd. Alice Springs had an urban

title: Alice Cogswell

text: world that not only are the deaf capable of being taught, they are also capable of the same level of intelligence that the hearing are. Alice stands as a perfect example of I. King Jordan's famous quote, "Deaf people can do anything hearing people can do, except hear." Alice Cogswell Alice Cogswell (August 31, 1805 – December 30, 1830) was the inspiration to Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet for the creation of the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut. At the age of two, Alice became ill with "spotted fever" (cerebral-spinal meningitis). This illness took her hearing and later she

title: Alice Japan

text: among the "indie" studios such as the Soft On Demand (SOD) group. In 2007, the company began re-releasing several of its old videos using a new thinner mosaic standard under the "Alice Pink" label. The Alice Japan Official Website contains a large searchable database of Alice Japan videos dating back to 1984 as well as a list of actresses and a section for Actress Blogs. In addition to the standard Alice Japan label, the following have also been used for adult videos: AV directors who have worked frequently for Alice Japan include: Some of the most famous AV Idols in

title: Alice Walker

text: Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way". The other was a book of poems entitled "The World Will Follow Joy Turning Madness into Flowers (New Poems)". Walker met Martin Luther King Jr. when she was a student at Spelman College in the early 1960s. She credits King for her decision to return to the American South as an activist in the Civil Rights Movement. She took part in the 1963 March on Washington. Later, she volunteered to register black voters in Georgia and Mississippi. On March 8, 2003, International Women's

title: What Happened Was

text: What Happened Was What Happened Was... is a 1994 American independent film written for the screen, directed by and starring Tom Noonan. It is an adaptation of Noonan's original stage play of the same name. It depicts two people, played by Karen Sillas and Tom Noonan, on a first date; their conversation gradually reveals their lonely lives and hidden personalities. "What Happened Was..." has an overall approval rating of 90% on Rotten Tomatoes. On the "Siskel & Ebert" show, Gene Siskel gave the film a thumbs up, stating that "For what is really just one long night of conversation, the

title: Alice Branning

text: says it was only once. Forensics confirm that a second stab wound was fatal, so Alice is charged and remanded. When Joey visits Alice, she is confused about what happened, saying she cannot remember it clearly, but suspects that Janine has lied. Janine visits Alice and says that Alice should plead guilty because her mind has created the scenario that she was defending Janine. Joey tries to convince Alice to plead not guilty, but she pleads guilty to murder. Although Janine is subsequently arrested for the murder, Alice is not released because of her plea. During the trial, Alice refuses

title: What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?

text: impromptu trip to attend a music festival in New Mexico the next morning. Alice asks if she can drive into town, claiming she needs to buy toothpaste and stockings for the trip; while she is gone, Claire finds a full tube of toothpaste in Alice's bathroom. Suspicious, she investigates further, and finds a new box of stockings in Alice's dresser. Claire finds a letter to Alice from Mike regarding Edna's bank account, confirming her suspicion that Alice is onto her. Claire confronts Alice, who admits that she is searching for Edna, and demands to know where she is before accusing

title: Alice Pashkus

text: of the 24 Paganini Caprices. These were the only professional lessons Renardy ever had. Alice Pashkus Alice Pashkus (1911–1972) was a famous violinist of the early and middle 20th century who became renowned as a pedagogue. Her most influential work was carried out in collaboration with her husband, Theodore; for many years the couple were considered two of the world's most outstanding violin teachers. Among their most famous pupils were Yehudi Menuhin and Ivry Gitlis. After World War II, the Austrian-born Ossy Renardy had a series of lessons with them. He had been self-taught and had already performed in many

title: Alice Pashkus

text: Alice Pashkus Alice Pashkus (1911–1972) was a famous violinist of the early and middle 20th century who became renowned as a pedagogue. Her most influential work was carried out in collaboration with her husband, Theodore; for many years the couple were considered two of the world's most outstanding violin teachers. Among their most famous pupils were Yehudi Menuhin and Ivry Gitlis. After World War II, the Austrian-born Ossy Renardy had a series of lessons with them. He had been self-taught and had already performed in many countries as a child prodigy, and in 1940 had made the world premiere recording

title: Automated Alice

text: Alice and Alice's doll Celia get lost in a world inhabited by "Newmonians", entities made from two objects combined, for example a zebra and a human. Automated Alice Automated Alice is a fantasy novel by British author Jeff Noon, first published in 1996. The book follows Alice's travels to a future Manchester city populated by "Newmonians", "Civil Serpents" and a vanishing cat. The book was written as both the third book in the Vurt series and the "trequel" to the famous Lewis Carroll books, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass". The story of "Automated Alice" tells of the

title: Alice Anderson

text: magazine, 2018 Elephant Magazine Alice Anderson, Centre Pompidou Document GLASS MAGAZINE, Allie Nawrat, 2017 UNIT 9 THE TRANSFORMATIVE OBJECT AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, 2017 Alice Anderson: Post-Digital, Paul Carey Kent, 2016 Time Capsules, Joanna S. Walker, 2016 Recording The Present, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton Paris by J. de Gonet, 2015 Notes on Sculptures, Olivier Lussac, 2015 The Art of Memory, Wellcome Collection by Kate Forde, 2015 The Science of Perception, by Israel Rosenfield, 2015 From Dance to Sculpture, James Putnam, 2013 Performing Life, Françoise Mamie, 2013 Studio International, Anna McNay, 2016 ARTPRESS, Alice Anderson by Annabelle Gugnon, October

title: Walker Bay

text: Walker Bay Walker Bay is a large bay located in the south-western Western Cape province of South Africa. It is the next major bay between False Bay near Cape Town and Cape Agulhas to the south-east. The bay is famous for having some of the best land based whale-watching in the world, which a town on its shores, Hermanus, has become famous for. Southern right whales visit the bay in the winter and spring months. Gansbaai on the shores of the bay has also become very famous for Great white shark diving. The shores adjacent to the bay are protected

title: Verlon Walker

text: Verlon Walker Verlon Lee Walker (March 7, 1929 – March 24, 1971) was an American catcher in minor league baseball and a coach for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball from 1961 through 1970. He was also known as Rube Walker, nicknamed after his more famous older brother Albert, who preceded him as a catcher in the Chicago farm system. Albert played 11 seasons in the Major Leagues with the Cubs and Brooklyn Dodgers, and was an MLB pitching coach for three clubs, most notably the New York Mets. Born in Lenoir, North Carolina, Verlon Walker never rose higher

title: What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?

text: "chilling". "The Guardian" said it was one of the author's best should be "read it one sitting". Film rights were bought by Robert Aldrich who had produced two successful horror films , "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" (1962) and "Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte" (1964). Both films dealt with aged women who become scheming or demented, resorting to violence and murder. In September 1967 Aldrich announced he would make the film under the title "Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice?" It would be made by his production company, The Associates and Aldrich. In October Aldrich announced the film would be part

title: What I Was

text: What I Was What I Was is Meg Rosoff's third novel for young adults. The book was published in 2007, and was shortlisted for both the Costa Children's Book Award and the Carnegie Medal. "What I Was" tells the story of a secret friendship between two teenagers, one an unhappy public schoolboy and the other living an independent and isolated life on the beach near the school. It is set on the East Anglian coast in 1962. The book is framed as the reminiscence of an old man recalling the year he discovered love. It is written as a first-person

title: Alice Springs

text: a few times a week to Brisbane. Two airlines serve Alice Springs: Qantas and Virgin Australia. Alice Springs is a base for the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. Alice Springs Alice Springs (; Arrernte: Mparntwe) is the third-largest town in the Northern Territory of Australia. Popularly known as "the Alice" or simply "Alice", Alice Springs is situated roughly in Australia's geographic centre. The area is known as "Mparntwe" to its original inhabitants, the Arrernte, who have lived in the Central Australian desert in and around what is now Alice Springs for tens of thousands of years. The name "Alice

title: James Walker (actor)

text: James Walker (actor) James Walker (March 31, 1940 – February 28, 2017) was an English actor active in films and on television between 1980 and 2006. His career highlights included a season between 1992 and 1994 with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon – including a foreign tour with "The Winter's Tale" – and taking the role of Albert Einstein in Terry Johnson's play "Insignificance", in Harrogate in 1999. Walker was born James S. Chalton in Bournemouth, and was later brought up in Leeds in Yorkshire. He was the son of Stuart Chalton, a chartered accountant, and his wife, Alice,

title: A'Lelia Walker

text: and retailer of cosmetic creams. A'Lelia grew up in St. Louis, Missouri and attended Knoxville College in Tennessee before entering the family business. A'Lelia Walker became president of her mother's company in 1919 and remained in that position until her death in August 1931. She initiated a number of marketing campaigns to promote the company -- including a competition among prominent ministers for a Trip to the Holy Land in 1924 -- and remained the face of the Walker Company after her mother's death, but the day-to-day operation was overseen by Attorney F. B. Ransom and factory manager Alice Kelly

title: Magnus Walker

text: 2015. She along with him designed for and managed Serious Clothing and had the idea of buying the property that would turn into his film venture. He is now romantically involved with Bloomberg cars editor Hannah Elliott. Magnus Walker Magnus Walker (born July 7, 1967), nicknamed the Urban Outlaw, is a British fashion designer and car collector. After emigrating to the United States in 1986, he established the Serious Clothing Brand, which was worn by the likes of Madonna, Alice Cooper, and Bruce Willis. Having been fascinated with Porsche since childhood, he started collecting and customising vintage Porsches, mostly of

title: What Was Lost

text: by night — crowded with shoppers during the day, but empty and bleak at night. She found ideas for her book from her job in the Merry Hill Shopping Centre near Dudley in the West Midlands. "What Was Lost" was rejected by 20 agents and publishers before being accepted for publication by Tindal Street Press, a small Birmingham publisher. "What Was Lost" is a mystery story about a missing girl. It is also a portrait of a changing community over twenty years. It examines modern life's emptiness, and society's obsession with shopping. "What Was Lost" is set in the city

title: Madam C. J. Walker

text: while Walker established a new base in Indianapolis in 1910. A'lelia also persuaded her mother to establish an office and beauty salon in New York City's Harlem neighborhood in 1913. In 1910 Walker relocated her business to Indianapolis, where she established the headquarters for the Madame C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company. She initially purchased a house and factory at 640 North West Street. Walker later built a factory, hair salon, and beauty school to train her sales agents, and added a laboratory to help with research. She also assembled a competent staff that included Freeman Ransom, Robert Lee Brokenburr, Alice

title: Matthew Walker Sr.

text: their home as Alice, a grand and generous cook, prepared magnificent meals for them. As earlier noted, Matthew Walker established a residency program for his future doctors that was quite stunning. As he was working at Meharry, Walker kept getting called to Taborian Hospital in Mound Bayou, Mississippi. Taborian, built by an organization of Black people called the Knights and Daughters of Tabor, was set up with an arrangement for its patients to be provided with health care services. These services were covered under the Taborian insurance premiums; and, were prepaid. With Taborian Hospital opening on February 12, 1942, this

title: Still Alice

text: on the floor and forgets what she was doing. John, unable to watch his wife continue to deteriorate, moves to Minnesota. Lydia, who has been living in California, moves back home to care for Alice. Lydia reads her a section of the play "" and asks her what she thinks it is about. Alice, barely able to speak, responds with a single word: "love". "Still Alice" is based on a novel of the same name published in 2007. The novel was written by Lisa Genova, a neuroscientist who was inspired by her grandmother's development of Alzheimer's disease to write about

title: Alice Underwood Fitch

text: Alice Underwood Fitch Alice Underwood Fitch (July 5, 1862 – August 1936)(verified through Ancestry.com) was an American painter born in Memphis, Tennessee. Fitch went to France in 1900 to study and paint. She became especially noted for her work as a miniature painter. For over 20 years, she was in constant demand as a copyist of famous paintings in the Louvre and other French galleries. Many of her original works and copies hang in collections of the most famous collectors of France and Europe; therefore, her works seldom come up for sale. In 1908, the French Government conferred the Ordre

title: Alice Henry

text: Alice Henry Alice Henry (21 March 1857 – 14 February 1943) was an Australian suffragist, journalist and trade unionist who also became prominent in the American trade union movement as a member of the Women's Trade Union League. A street in the Canberra suburb of Cook is named in her honour. Henry was born on 21 March 1857 in Richmond, Melbourne. She was the daughter of Charles Ferguson Henry, an accountant and his wife Margaret ("née" Walker), a garment worker. She had one brother, Alfred, who was born in 1859. Both of her parents were Scottish and moved to Australia

title: Val Walker

text: Val Walker Valentine Augustus Walker (15 February 1890 – 17 March 1969) (also known as Val A Walker and Val Enson) was an English magician, escape artist and illusion designer. He was born in Moseley, Birmingham to Joseph Walker, a landscape gardener, and his wife Emma. Val Walker worked as an electrical apparatus maker, later serving in the Royal Navy and was billed as the "Wizard of the Navy". Walker is credited as the designer of the "Radium Girl" illusion. His most famous escape was "The Tank in the Thames" where he was bolted into a steel tank lowered into

title: Alice Franklin

text: of feminism in the Townswomen's Guilds were further diminished. Alice was one of a generation of politically active Franklins. Her siblings were; in order, Jacob, Cecil, Hugh, Helen and Ellis. Hugh was one of the most prominent men in the women's suffrage movement, Helen became forewoman at the Royal Arsenal, where she was forced to resign for supporting female workers and attempting to form a trade union, and Ellis became vice-principal of the Working Men's College. Through Ellis, Alice was also the aunt of the famous crystallographer Rosalind Franklin. Alice never married, and according to Mary Stott was known in

title: Alice Mahoungou

text: Alice Mahoungou Alice Mahoungou, born Alice Badiangaba, was a Congolese (Brazzaville) politician and women's activist. She was a Congolese Youth Union (U.J.C) activist and a leader of the African Women's Union of the Congo (U.F.A.C). She took part in the 1958 World Festival of Youth and Students in Vienna. In 1960 she was, along with other U.J.C activists, imprisoned, accused of participating in a 'communist plot'. She became famous in Congo-Brazzaville for her role in the August 1963 revolution (the "Trois Glorieuses"), as she threw back a hand-grenade that soldiers had tossed into a crowd of demonstrators. She was the

title: Famous Studios

text: had their original titles restored, while "interim" logos were placed on those whose titles could not be found at the time. At the same time, in 1986, many of the B&W Famous Popeye cartoons were redrawn in color in South Korea, despite the availability of computer colorization, and , were still seen on Cartoon Network's sister channel, Boomerang. After the closure of Famous Studios, Paramount released eight animated features, all of which were produced by outside studios. These features included: "Charlotte's Web" (1973), "Aladdin and His Magic Lamp" (1975), "Alice in a New Wonderland" (1975), "Race for Your Life, Charlie

title: Alice Tisdale Hobart

text: Alice Tisdale Hobart Alice Tisdale Hobart (January 28, 1882 – March 14, 1967) born Alice Nourse in Lockport, New York, was an American novelist. Her most famous book, "Oil for the Lamps of China", which was also made into a film, drew heavily on her experiences as the wife of an American oil executive in China amid the turmoil of the overthrow of the Manchu Dynasty in 1912. Spinal meningitis in infancy and a fall when she was seventeen left Alice Nourse with frail health and back trouble which caused her to be semi-invalid at periods throughout her life. She

title: What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?

text: her of murder. The women begin fighting, and Claire chases Alice through the house. Claire beats Alice over the head with a phone receiver, rendering her unconscious. The next morning, Harriet stops by to tell Claire that George has been attempting to call, but has been unable to reach her. Inside, Harriet notices Alice is incapacitated in bed; Claire tells her Alice injured her head on a falling tree branch during a windstorm the night before. That afternoon, Claire dresses herself in Alice's clothes and wig, and drives the incapacitated Alice to a nearby lake and sinks the car. Shortly

title: Gifford–Walker Farm

text: Gifford–Walker Farm The Gifford–Walker Farm, also known as the Alice Walker Farm, is located on North Bergen Road (Genesee County Route 14) in North Bergen, New York, United States. Its farmhouse is a two-story Carpenter Gothic style structure built in 1870. It has remained largely intact since it was construction, and has only been owned by three families. In 1980 it and an accompanying barn and shed were listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the northernmost property in the county listed. The farm is located along the north side of North Bergen Road in the small rural hamlet