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Helen of Troy, a famous beauty in classical Greek legend
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{i} female first name; Helen of Troy, beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda who was abducted by Paris which caused the Trojan War (Greek Mythology)
In Greek mythology, the most beautiful woman in Greece, who was the indirect cause of the Trojan War. She was a daughter of Zeus, either by Leda or by Nemesis. Her brothers were the Dioscuri, and her sister was Clytemnestra, wife of Agamemnon. Helen was the wife of Menelaus. When Paris, son of Priam, was asked to decide which goddess was the most beautiful, he chose Aphrodite, who rewarded him with the most beautiful woman in the world. Seducing Helen with the goddess's help, Paris carried her off to Troy, and the Greeks sent a military force to pursue them. At the war's end, with Paris dead, Helen returned to Sparta with Menelaus. Clark Helen Frankenthaler Helen Hayes Brown Helen Jacobs Helen Hull Keller Helen Adams Levitt Helen Lynd Robert Staughton and Lynd Helen Helen Merrell Helen Porter Mitchell Potter Helen Beatrix Helen Louise Leonard Suzman Helen Helen Gavronsky Tamiris Helen Helen Becker Taussig Helen Brooke Thomas Helen Wills Helen Newington Helen Newington Wills Moody Roark Helen Wills Moody Saint Helens Mount
(Greek mythology) the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda who was abducted by Paris; the Greek army sailed to Troy to get her back which resulted in the Trojan War

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born June 27, 1880, Tuscumbia, Ala., U.S. died June 1, 1968, Westport, Conn. U.S. author and educator who was blind and deaf. Deprived by illness of sight and hearing at the age of 19 months, Keller soon became mute as well. Five years later she began to be instructed by Anne Sullivan (1866-1936), who taught her the names of objects by pressing the manual alphabet into her palm. Eventually Keller learned to read and write in Braille. She wrote several books, including The Story of My Life (1902). Her childhood was dramatized in William Gibson's play The Miracle Worker (1959; film, 1962)
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born July 28, 1866, South Kensington, Middlesex, Eng. died Dec. 22, 1943, Sawrey, Lancashire English author and illustrator of children's books. In her childhood Potter spent holidays in Scotland and the English Lake District, which inspired her love of animals and stimulated her imaginative and technically superb watercolour drawings. The illustrated animal stories she sent to a sick child when she was 27 were published as The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902), which became one of the best-selling children's books of all time. More than 20 sequels followed, featuring such original characters as Jeremy Fisher, Squirrel Nutkin, Jemima Puddle-Duck, and Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle
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{i} P. L. Travers (1899-1996), Australian poet and writer, author of "Mary Poppins
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Helen of Troy
{i} (Greek Mythology) beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda who was abducted by Paris which caused the Trojan War
Helen of Troy
in ancient Greek stories, the wife of Menelaus, the king of Sparta. Helen was famous for her great beauty, and she is often mentioned in literature as a typical example of a very beautiful woman. When Helen's lover Paris took her away to Troy with him, he caused the Trojan War. The phrase "the face that launched a thousand ships" is often used about her, since the Greeks sailed to Troy to bring her back. Iliad, the
helen keller
Keller: United States lecturer and writer who was blind and deaf from the age of 19 months; Anne Sullivan taught her to read and write and speak; Helen Keller graduated from college and went on to champion the cause of blind and deaf people (1880-1968)
Robert ; and Lynd Helen Lynd
orig. Helen Merrell born Sept. 26, 1892, New Albany, Ind., U.S. died Nov. 1, 1970, Warren, Conn. born March 17, 1894, La Grange, Ill., U.S. died Jan. 30, 1982, Warren, Ohio U.S. sociologists. The Lynds taught for several decades at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College, respectively. In their collaboration on the studies Middletown (1929) and Middletown in Transition (1937), classics of sociological literature as well as popular successes, they became the first scholars to apply the methods of cultural anthropology to the study of a modern Western city (Muncie, Ind.)
Robert Staughton; and Lynd Helen Lynd
orig. Helen Merrell born Sept. 26, 1892, New Albany, Ind., U.S. died Nov. 1, 1970, Warren, Conn. born March 17, 1894, La Grange, Ill., U.S. died Jan. 30, 1982, Warren, Ohio U.S. sociologists. The Lynds taught for several decades at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College, respectively. In their collaboration on the studies Middletown (1929) and Middletown in Transition (1937), classics of sociological literature as well as popular successes, they became the first scholars to apply the methods of cultural anthropology to the study of a modern Western city (Muncie, Ind.)
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    () From Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helenē), possibly connected with ἥλιος (hēlios, “sun”).

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