katherine

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Определение katherine в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь: A female given name, a popular spelling variant of Catherine
During her childhood she was a romanticized Katherine, dressed by her misty-eyed, fussy mother in dresses that looked like ruffled pillowcases. By high school she'd shed the frills and emerged as a bouncy, round-faced Kathy - - - At university she was Kath, blunt and no-bullshit in her Take-Back-the-Night jeans and checked shirt - - - When she ran away to England, she sliced herself down to Kat. It was economical, street-feline, and pointed as a nail.; a popular spelling variant of Catherine; {i} female first name; Katherine O'Flaherty Drexel Saint Katherine Dunham Katherine Mansfield Katherine Porter Katherine Anne Virginia Katherine McMath
Katherine Anne Porter: born May 15, 1890, Indian Creek, Texas, U.S. died Sept. 18, 1980, Silver Spring, Md. U.S. writer. She worked as a journalist in Chicago and Denver, Colo., before leaving in 1920 for Mexico, the setting of several of her stories. Her collections include Flowering Judas (1930), her first and most popular; Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939), a set of three novellas; and Collected Short Stories (1965, Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award). Her stories have a richness of texture and complexity of character delineation usually achieved only in the novel. Ship of Fools (1962) is her only novel
Katherine Dunham: born June 22, 1910, Joliet, Ill., U.S. U.S. dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist noted for her interpretation of tribal and ethnic dances. In 1931 she opened a dance school in her native Chicago. In 1940 she formed the U.S.'s first all-black dance company, for which she choreographed revues based on her anthropological research in the Caribbean; her early works included Tropics and Le Jazz hot. She later received a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago. Many well-known black dancers were trained in her studios in Chicago and New York City. In the 1950s she toured in Europe with her company. She also choreographed Broadway stage productions, operas, and movies
Katherine Dunham: {i} (1909-2006) United States dancer and choreographer, one of the first African Americans who attended the University of Chicago and earned bachelor and masters and doctoral degrees in anthropology
Katherine Hepburn: {i} (1907-2003) famous United States actress
Katherine Mansfield: a writer who was born in New Zealand but who lived in England. Her best-known collection of stories is The Garden Party (1888-1923). orig. Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp born Oct. 4, 1888, Wellington, N.Z. died Jan. 9, 1923, Gurdjieff Institute, near Fontainebleau, France New Zealand-born British writer. After moving to England at age 19, she secured her reputation with the story collection Bliss (1920). She reached the height of her powers in the collection The Garden Party (1922). Her delicate stories, which focus on psychological conflicts, are written in a distinctive prose style with poetic overtones that shows the influence of Anton Chekhov. Her last five years were shadowed by tuberculosis, of which she died at age 34
Katherine of Aragon: Catherine of Aragon
Saint Katherine Drexel: born Nov. 26, 1858, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S. died March 3, 1955, Cornwells Heights, Pa.; canonized Oct. 1, 2000; feast day March 3 U.S. missionary. The niece of banker and philanthropist Anthony J. Drexel, she inherited a vast fortune, which she used to fund her charitable enterprises. She built mission schools in Minnesota, South Dakota, Wyoming, and New Mexico, and in 1887 Pope Leo XIII asked her to become a missionary. In 1891 she founded the Blessed Sacrament Sisters for Indians and Colored People (now Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament), a congregation of missionary nuns dedicated to the welfare of Native Americans and African Americans. She founded several schools for minority students as well as Xavier University in New Orleans (1915). She was canonized in 2000