“Waiting for the Floods” is the first and only studio album by the British band The Armoury Show. The album was released in September 1985 and reached number 57 on the UK Albums chart during that month.
For Real is an American R&B and soul group made up of four members. The group was formed in 1990. During the late 1990s, they received nominations for a Billboard Music Award and a Soul Train Music Award.
Alexis Hall is an English author who writes urban fantasy, science fiction, and romance stories about LGBTQ characters. His books include Boyfriend Material, The Affair of the Mysterious Letter, and other works. Hall’s books have been nominated for the Lambda Literary Awards three times in the Gay Romance category, specifically for the 26th, 28th, and 29th awards.
The garden pansy (Viola × wittrockiana) is a colorful, large-flowered plant grown in gardens. It was created by crossbreeding several species in the Melanium group of the Viola genus, especially V. tricolor, a wildflower from Europe and western Asia called heartsease.
Alexis Hall is an English writer who creates stories in the genres of urban fantasy, science fiction, and LGBTQ romance. His books include Boyfriend Material, The Affair of the Mysterious Letter, and others. Hall’s books have been nominated for the 26th, 28th, and 29th Lambda Literary Awards in the Gay Romance category.
Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan (2 March 1877 – 6 December 1964) was an American socialite. She belonged to the Vanderbilt family and was the only daughter of William Kissam Vanderbilt and Alva Erskine Smith. Her first marriage to Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough, is a famous example of the beneficial but loveless marriages common during the Gilded Age.
Katharine Parnell, born Katharine Wood on January 30, 1846, and died on February 5, 1921, was an English woman from a political family. Before her second marriage, she was known as Katharine O’Shea and was popularly called Kitty O’Shea. She had an affair with Irish nationalist Charles Stewart Parnell.
No Man of Her Own is a 1950 American film noir drama directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Phyllis Thaxter, Jane Cowl, and Lyle Bettger. Produced and released by Paramount Pictures, the film was the second movie Stanwyck made with director Mitchell Leisen. The story was based on Cornell Woolrich’s 1948 novel I Married a Dead Man.
In Greek mythology, sirens are female human-like beings with very attractive voices. They appear in the story of the Odyssey, where Odysseus helps his crew avoid the sirens’ dangerous songs. Roman poets described them living on small islands known as Sirenum Scopuli.
Persuasion is the last novel completed by the English author Jane Austen. It was published on December 20, 1817, along with Northanger Abbey. This happened six months after Austen’s death, even though the title page lists the year as 1818.