A person's Grandmother is the mother of one of that person's parents. A Grandmother is rarely addressed or referred to as "Grandmother" and a number of familiar nicknames are used instead. Common names in the United States include Grandma, Gramma, Grams, Nana, and Bubba. Common names in the UK include Grandma, Gran, Granny, Nana, and Nan-Nan. Grandmother nicknames are usually culturally specific and taught to children through baby talk. Other related archivesUnited States, baby talk, parents<

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A symbol of knowledge and wisdom, as well as security and protection.

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When I was small, my grandmother told me there was only one main rule in life upon which all others rested. Then she looked me in the eye and with quiet conviction pronounced, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." It is with delight that I discovered over the years that this basic spiritual law can be found at the heart of many religious and spiritual teachings.

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Granny may refer to: a slang word for grandmother. Granny, a Looney Tunes character Granny Goodness, a character published by DC Comics Granny Smith, a type of apple. Other related archivesDC Comics, Granny, Granny Goodness, Granny Smith, Looney Tunes, apple, grandmother, slang

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Yellowstone and Voice is a band formed in 1965 in London, England. Their two main musical hits are Philosopher and Grandmother Says. Other related archives1965, England, London, band

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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall Boettiger Halsted (May 3, 1906 – December 1, 1975) was the first child of Eleanor Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt. She was named for her mother and grandmother, Anna Roosevelt and was usually called Anna. Caught in a triad of three strong willed persons--her father FDR; her mother; and her grandmother, the domineering Sara Roosevelt--young Anna Eleanor had to grow up quickly. Anna's father later became the 32nd U.S. president, her mother the famous first lady. She was married 3 ti ...

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For Edda 'great-grandmother' as the ancestress of serfs see Ríg. Edda művek is a popular Hungarian rock group The Edda are collections of poetically narrated folk-tales relating to Norse Mythology or Norse heroes. These are fragmentary parts of a (presumably) much larger scaldic tradition of oral narration which has been written down by scholar ...

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39 BC - Events. 39 BC - Births. Antonia Major, daughter of Mark Antony, grandmother of Nero and Messalina Julia Caesaris, daughter of Caesar Augustus 39 BC - Deaths. Quintus Labienus (murdered) Category: 39 BC ...

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Barbara Pierce Bush and Jenna Welch Bush (born November 25, 1981, in Dallas, Texas) are the fraternal twin daughters of U.S. president George W. Bush and Laura Bush. Barbara is the elder sister. They are arguably the first First Twins, as the first twin children of a sitting President. Jenna, the blonde, is named after her maternal grandmother and attended the University of Texas at Austin. Barbara, the brunette, is named after her paternal grandmother and attended her father's and grandfather's alma mater, Yale U ...

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Gloria Watkins (September 25, 1952 –), better known as bell hooks or Bell Hooks, is an African American professor specializing in social criticism focused on groups distinguished by established differences in social power. She was born Gloria Watkins in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, but uses the name bell hooks to honor her mother and grandmother. She asserts that the correct c ...

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Aida D. Fariscal (1940? - ) is a former policewoman and watch commander in the Manila Police Department in the Philippines. She is now a retired grandmother living on pension in a one bedroom apartment. Fariscal spent seventeen years as a homemaker before enrolling in the police department in 1977. The widow of a slain police officer, she rose through the ranks of the Manila Police Department, and in 1983 won an award fo ...

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Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933) was one of the most successful female comedians on American television, thanks largely to her eponymous variety show that ran on CBS from 1967 through 1978. Burnett was born in San Antonio, Texas to two alcoholic parents, Jodie and Louise Burnett, who left her with her grandmother. Carol moved to Hollywood, California with her grandmother where she graduated from Hollywood High School and then attended University of California, Los Angeles and worked her way up through bit parts on ...

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Bob Bellear (1944 — 2005) was the first Indigenous Australian judge. Bellear was born in the far north-east of New South Wales, and grew up near the town of Mullumbimby. His grandfather was a Vanuatuan man who was blackbirded to Australia to work on a sugar plantation, and his grandmother was an Aboriginal Australian woman from Minjerribah (also known as Stradbroke Island) in Queensland. His other grandfather had been blackbirded from the ...

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In Greek mythology, Aegina was the daughter of the river-god Asopus and the nymph Metope. She bore at least two children: Menoetius by Actor, and Aeacus by Zeus. Both of her offspring had gone on to become kings. Menoetius was king of Opus, and was counted among the Argonauts. Aegina was the grandmother of Patroclus (Achilles' best friend or lover), whom was Menoetius' son. Aeacus was the king of Oenone, and was known to have contributed help to Poseidon and Apollo in building the walls of Troy. Aegina was the great gra ...

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Chen Yuanyuan (Chinese: 陳圓圓; pinyin: Chén Yuányuán; WG: Ch'en Yüan-yüan) (1624 - 1681), born Xing Yuan (邢沅), a Ming Chinese, was a concubine of Wu Sangui, who broke into the fortress of Li Zicheng to rescue her. Her courtesy name was Wanfen (畹芬). Chen's parents died early, and she grew up tending her maternal grandmother Chen-shi in Taiyuan, Shanxi. She was sold as a performer ...

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Veena Dhanammal (1867-1938) was a highly accomplished Carnatic musician, and the torchbearer of the school of Carnatic music that goes by her name. She was a vocalist and a performer of the Veena. The prefix 'Veena' in her name is an indicator of her exceptional mastery of that instrument. Dhanammal was born in George Town, Madras (now Chennai), in an artistically inclined family. Her grandmother Kamakshi was a reputed dancer, and her mother was a pupil of Subbaraya Sastri, the son o ...

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In Greek mythology heavily influenced by cultures from the East, Cybele was a goddess pursued by Zeus who raped her after she disguised herself as a rock called Agdistis. The result was a hermaphrodite named Agdistis. Another version claims that Agdistis was born when Zeus dropped his semen upon the ground in his excitement over an unknown Goddess that resisted his attentions, causing a rock or a mountain to become pregnant. Or perhaps Zeus's grandmother Gaia herself became pregnant. Either way, Adgistis was the result. It was ...

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Satyavati is the great-grandmother of the Pandava and Kaurava princes, principal characters of the Mahabharata, one of the principal texts in Hindu mythology. She is nevertheless a commoner, daughter to a ferryman or fisherman. As a young woman, she met the wandering rishi Parashara, by whom she had a son, Vyasa. His birth took place in secret on an island in the river Yamuna. Later, King Santanu of Hastinapura saw her and asked her to marry him. She agreed on condition that their children would inherit the throne. Their ...

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The Vogons are a fictional alien race from the planet Vogsphere in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams: Here's what to do if you want to get a lift from a Vogon: forget it. They are one of the most unpleasant races in the galaxy. Not actually evil, but bad tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous. They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, s ...

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"Chimes of Freedom" is a song by Bob Dylan. It has been covered many times by various artists including Bruce Springsteen, The Byrds, and Roger McGuinn. Dylan reportedly based the song on "Chimes Of Trinity," a song passed along by Dave Van Ronk from his grandmother. Chimes of Freedom is also the title of a book, subtitled The Politics of Bob Dylan's Art, by Mike Marqusee (The New Press, NY, 2003) - the book's purpose, (according to reviewer Mike Davis), is to rescue Dylan's early ...

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