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  Cornelia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
As a daughter of a hero, wife of an aristocrat, mother of the champions of the Roman people, Cornelia was admired for her virtue, fidelity, and especially for her intelligence.
Cornelia was born the younger daughter of Publius Scipio Africanus, renowned for defeating Hannibal, and his wife Aemilia in the late 190s BCE.
.........Cornelia is reported to have borne all her misfortunes in a noble and magnanimous spirit, and to have said of the sacred places where her sons had been slain that they were tombs worthy of the dead which occupied them.
cornellia.fws1.com /cornelia.htm   (955 words)

  
 Cornelia Connelly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Cornelia Peacock was born in Philadelphia on January 15, 1809.
Cornelia was pregnant with their fifth child, and urged her husband to consider his proposal yet again, but added characteristically that if God asked it of her, she would make the sacrifice -- and with all her heart.
Cornelia, hoping to join the Society of the Sacred Heart, went with her children to stay with the sisters in Rome, but finding no peace there, she prayed to know God's desires for her.
www.shcj.org /shcj.nsf/pages/cornelia   (638 words)

  
 Feminae Romanae: The Women of Ancient Rome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Cornelia was the daughter of legendary warrior-hero Publius Scipio Africanus (who defeated Hannibal in the second Punic War).
It is arguable whether Cornelia actually wrote the letter, or whether later writers simply wished to invent her approval for their own positions due to the reverence in which she was held.
Cornelia herself would become an icon to later women who, like Livia, wanted her reputation as well as genuine power.
dominae.fws1.com /Influence/Cornelia/Index.html   (1079 words)

  
 Cornelia, daughter of Scipio Africanus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Cornelia bore 12 children, however only three lived to adulthood, the famous brothers Tiberius and Caius, who died championing the rights of the common people, and daughter Sempronia, wife of Scipio Aemilianus (Scipio the Younger) the destroyer of Carthage.
Cornelia's husband, Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus died in 154-153 BCE, leaving her to raise her daughter and two sons on her own, with Tiberius being around the age of nine and Gaius being an infant.
Cornelia lived in a period of political turmoil, of which her family was often the center.
www.barca.fsnet.co.uk /cornelia-africanus.htm   (1447 words)

  
 Cornelia Powell Online Magazine - Meet Cornelia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Cornelia viewed the store as a way of honoring the depth of inspiration felt by artisans of the past who often channeled suppressed energy into creating beauty.
Cornelia's sentimental nature, love of history, and interest in how the past influences the way we live presently, led her on a journey to study the relationship between people, clothing, and cultural rites-of-passage.
It was at this time Cornelia coined the phrase "grown-up bride" and she realized the challenges that grown-up brides face when planning an elegant wedding.
www.corneliapowell.com /meetCP/meetCornelia.htm   (375 words)

  
 Cornelia on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
When a wealthy patrician woman spoke of her jewels, Cornelia pointed to her two sons, saying, “These are my jewels!” Whether she supported the revolutionary tendencies of her sons or tempered them is debated by historians.
Cornelia Marvin and Mary Frances Isom: leaders of Oregon's library movement.
New York socialite Cornelia Guest is the new spokesperson for La Prairie firming masks, moisturizers and eye wrinkle creams.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/c/cornelia.asp   (615 words)

  
 Cornelia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Ancient Rome, Cornelia was the name of the women born in all the branches of the Cornelii family.
Cornelia Africana, mother of Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus
Cornelia, Free State is a town in South Africa
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cornelia   (85 words)

  
 ';'Cornelia'
'Cornelia' can be trained as a moderate climber or, left to its own devices, it will form a 4' high by 7' wide shrub with graceful arching canes.
'Cornelia' is a vigorous climbing Hybrid Musk rose with long gracefully arching canes and small coral buds that open to distinctive small (2"), double, apricot-pink flowers with prominent golden stamens.
The natural form of 'Cornelia' is a large spreading shrub 4' high and 7' wide with graceful arching canes.
www.ph-rose-gardens.com /01107.htm   (363 words)

  
 Cornelia Elementary School - Edina, MN
Cornelia Elementary School is one of six elementary public schools within the Edina School District.
Cornelia is offering all day kindergarten starting in the 2005-06 school year.
Cornelia students, staff and parents joined together to help the Biloxi Misssissippi Public Schools that were devastated after Hurricane Katrina.
www.edina.k12.mn.us /cornelia   (221 words)

  
 Biography of Cornelia Connelly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
From this anguish Cornelia's lifelong devotion to Mary as Mother of Sorrows was born.
Cornelia was pregnant with their fifth child and urged her husband to consider his proposal yet again, but added characteristically that if God asked it of her, she would make the sacrifice – and with all her heart.
Cornelia, hoping to join the Society of the Sacred Heart, went with two of her children to stay with the sisters in Rome, but finding no peace there, she prayed to know God's desires for her.
www.mayfieldsenior.org /aboutus/connelly.html   (588 words)

  
 Kidsreads.com - Cornelia Funke
The German author, Cornelia Funke was born 1958 in Dorsten, Westphalia.
Cornelia Funke's own success is now international, demonstrating the universal appeal --- and power --- of her storytelling.
Cornelia Funke lives in Los Angeles, CA, with Rolf, her husband of 25 years, their 14-year-old daughter, Anna, and 9-year-old son, Ben (Benjy).
www.kidsreads.com /authors/au-funke-cornelia.asp   (393 words)

  
 Cornelia, Primary Sources
This was very acceptable and pleasing to the people, who had a great veneration for Cornelia, not more for the sake of her father than for that of her children; and they afterwards erected a statue of brass in honour of her, with this inscription, Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi.
They say also that on this occasion his mother, Cornelia, joined in the sedition, and assisted him by sending privately several strangers into Rome, under pretence as if they came to be hired there for harvest-men; for that intimations of this are given in her letters to him.
It is reported that as Cornelia, their mother, bore the loss of her two sons with a noble and undaunted spirit, so, in reference to the holy places in which they were slain, she said, their dead bodies were well worthy of such sepulchres.
lamar.colostate.edu /~jgaughan/courses/309/docs/AboutCornelia.htm   (2230 words)

  
 BBC Radio 4 - Factual - Desert Island Discs - Cornelia Parker
Cornelia grew up in the country where she lived on a small holding looked after by her father.
Cornelia liked the idea of her work being ephemeral and didn’t worry about it’s existence beyond an exhibition.
After a car accident in 1994 Cornelia began to realise the importance of keeping some of her work and she began to be represented by a gallery.
www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs_20030216.shtml   (420 words)

  
 Cornelia Rau: A case of neglect
Sent to NSW Police, this photo enabled Cornelia's parents and sister to finally identify her in February this year, the end of a tortuous road for the 39 year old German-born Australian.
She was under the overall care of the Federal Department of Immigration for much of that missing 10 months, yet its hard not to conclude that a number of state and federal departments failed in their duty of care and trampled on her rights as an Australian.
Cornelia was not sent to hospital, staying in Baxter for a further three months.
sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/cover_stories/article_1731.asp   (4306 words)

  
 Cornelia Cook Menefee Biographical Information
Cornelia stayed on with her mother in the "new" family home at 407 Vista Avenue in Portland.
Cornelia and P.L. had three children: Bruce, born in 1924, and the Twins, Towner and Cornelia, born in 1926.
Cornelia remained in Pasadena where the children were enrolled in nursery school and kindergarten.
homepage.mac.com /galaher/heritage/granny/granny_facts.html   (1183 words)

  
 Manhattan User's Guide > Archives > Cornelia Street   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Cornelia Street is always a good answer, at least when the question is 'where should we eat tonight?' This small, West Village block is New York's Best Little Restaurant district.
Named in 1794 after Cornelia Herring, whose grandfather owned the farm where the street came to be, it has been home to W. Auden, James Agee, and Cafe Cino, which was the first theater dubbed (by the Village Voice) as off-off Broadway.
Cornelia Street Cafe, 212.989.9319, is the eminence gris of the block (it's been around since 1977), but keeps its youthful appeal with no-nonsense Mediterranean food, fairly-priced, and with its popular cabaret.
www.manhattanusersguide.com /archives_content.php?contentID=050603&category=food   (449 words)

  
 No blame, just relief and concern for Cornelia - Immigration - www.theage.com.au
Cornelia Rau's sister Chris Rau writes about the sibling she thought she had lost.
Before Cornelia became mentally ill she was a vibrant, gregarious, empathetic person who loved her work as a Qantas flight attendant because it fulfilled her restless nature.
The nurse said she could understand how Cornelia could be mistaken for a German because she spoke English with an accent (not usually the case) and insisted she wanted to return to Germany.
theage.com.au /news/Immigration/No-blame-just-relief-and-concern-for-Cornelia/2005/02/06/1107625064860.html   (758 words)

  
 Cornelia Biography
Cornelia is back with her second album No Dancing Queen produced together with her husband Eric Gadd (platinum selling Artist & Producer in Scandinavia).
Cornelia debuted in 1998 with the album Before The Pain, in reviews compared with Massive Attack and Everything But The Girl.
Cornelia is all about strong melodies and multifaceted pop music with an electronic sensibility, melancholic yet available, organic yet electric.
www.cornelia.se /?sid=article&pid=read&id=1702   (1520 words)

  
 Cornelia Funke, For Kids & the One Within   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Cornelia Funke is burst upon the reading world out side of her native Germany last year with her book Thief Lord, translated to English from her native German.
And readers alike child and adult raved and were enamored in the world of orphans in Venice Italy, the story she told.
Cornelia designed both board games and illustrated the covers of children's books, which she said inspired her to write.
www.anovelview.com /cornelia_funke1.htm   (889 words)

  
 Cornelia de Lange Syndrome
Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS) is a rare genetic disorder that is apparent at birth (congenital).
Associated symptoms and findings typically include delays in physical development before and after birth (prenatal and postnatal growth retardation); characteristic abnormalities of the head and facial (craniofacial) area, resulting in a distinctive facial appearance; malformations of the hands and arms (upper limbs); and mild to severe mental retardation.
Infants with Cornelia de Lange syndrome may also have feeding and breathing difficulties; an increased susceptibility to respiratory infections; a low-pitched "growling" cry; heart defects; delayed skeletal maturation; hearing loss; or other physical abnormalities.
my.webmd.com /hw/raising_a_family/nord30.asp   (626 words)

  
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Cornelia Adele Strong is primarily known as Cornelia Adele Strong Fassett
Cornelia Fassett was born in Owasco, Cayuga County, New York.
She was hurrying from a Washington party to a later reception with one of her daughters when she was struck by a heart attack at age sixty-seven.
www.askart.com /artist/S/cornelia_adele_strong.asp?ID=87748   (934 words)

  
 Cornelia De Lange Syndrome Gene Discovered, May 16, 2004 Press Release - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
A team of researchers has discovered a gene for Cornelia de Lange Syndrome, a disorder consisting of mental retardation, heart defects and a number of physical abnormalities.
The first author of the study was Ian Krantz, M.D., of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Individuals with Cornelia de Lange Syndrome also have distinctive facial features, such as thin eyebrows that meet in the middle of the forehead, long eyelashes, thin, down-turned lips, and excessive body hair.
www.nih.gov /news/pr/may2004/nichd-16.htm   (514 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Daughter of the Air: Brief Soaring Life of Cornelia Fort   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The first woman pilot to die on active duty in U.S. history, Cornelia Fort (1919-1943) was a member of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS), a civilian unit established during WWII to transport newly manufactured military planes from the factories to U.S. air bases.
Cornelia Fort overcame all the barriers that were put in her way growing up female to be a pilot.
Cornelia was flying trainers the day Pearl Harbor was attacked and was luckey to survive/ When the US government allowed women to fly Cornelia was there and gave her life for her country.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0871136880?v=glance   (1237 words)

  
 CORNELIA DE LANGE SYNDROME : Contact a Family - for families with disabled children: information on rare syndromes and ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS) is rare and affects between 1 in 15,000 and 1 in 50,000 babies born.
Individuals with Cornelia de Lange syndrome show great variability in their behaviour, but there are common features.
The latter is particularly common in Cornelia de Lange syndrome; it tends to be stereotyped and repetitive for a given individual and may have a compulsive quality.
www.cafamily.org.uk /Direct/c72.html   (986 words)

  
 Cornelia's Roosterant - Chicago, IL, 60657-2409 - Citysearch
During the warmer months, Cornelia's sidewalk patio is a relaxing place to take a load off.
Cornelia's makes specialty cocktails with their own house-infused vodkas, including mango, blueberry, strawberry and peach.
Cornelias used to have the greatest pork chops I had ever tasted, friendly service, and great drinks.
chicago.citysearch.com /profile/3734944   (452 words)

  
 Connelly, Cornelia --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
née Cornelia Augusta Peacock Roman Catholic abbess who founded the Society of the Holy Child Jesus and became the subject of an acrimonious ecclesiastical controversy.
Cornelia Peacock was orphaned at an early age and reared in the strongly Episcopalian household of her older half sister.
The author of more than 30 children's books, Cornelia Meigs is best known for writing historical fiction and biographies.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9025893?tocId=9025893   (551 words)

  
 Cornelia News
Local news for Cornelia, GA continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.
We are very fortunate to have someone of his caliber in house." Kimbrell started with the department in 1991, but not before serving at departments in Cornelia and Habersham County.
Paul Woods Homes of Cornelia has announced that Charles Hunter and his company, Charles Hunter Painting, have earned the Sub of the Month award for July.
www.topix.net /city/cornelia-ga   (676 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In fact, Cornelia came to live in the Caesar household and Aurelia served as mother and mother-in-law to the young girl.
Not until Cornelia was sixteen or seventeen did she and Caesar live as man and wife.
All accounts agree that Cornelia was the wife Caesar loved and was devoted to (although he continued to heed his mother’s advice about other women).
wizard.hprtec.org /builder/worksheet.php3?ID=29024   (95 words)

  
 Cornelia Day Resort Announces New Managing Director
Located on the 8th and Penthouse floors of the newly-redesigned Ferragamo flagship building, at 663 Fifth Avenue, the 21,000 square foot Cornelia Day Resort encompasses 14 treatment rooms and includes a staff of 120 aestheticians, massage therapists, hand and nail technicians, hair stylists and colorists, make-up artists and guest relations professionals from around the globe.
Cornelia is a preeminent luxury spa located at 663 Fifth Avenue in New York City.
It was founded and inspired by Cornelia Zicu, the world-renowned skin care expert whose visionary approach to beauty has set a new standard in the industry.
www.internetnewsbureau.com /archives/2005/july/marxer.html   (516 words)

  
 Gene discovered for Cornelia de Lange syndrome, a disabling genetic disease   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
An international team of researchers has discovered the gene for Cornelia de Lange syndrome, a disabling, multisystem genetic disease that affects an estimated one in 10,000 children.
The finding is expected to lead to a genetic test, enabling rapid and definitive diagnosis of the syndrome, as well as prenatal testing for families who already have one child with the disease.
Named for a Dutch physician who first described it in 1933, the syndrome often includes mental retardation, impaired growth, heart defects, gastroesophageal reflux and feeding problems, impaired vision, hearing loss, and upper limb abnormalities, including missing fingers or hands.
www.brightsurf.com /news/may_04/EDU_news_051704_b.php   (995 words)

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