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Aisha bint Abi Bakr (c. 613/614 – July 678) was Islamic prophet Muhammad's third and youngest wife. Little is known about her childhood. A preponderance...

Ruby Dee (October 27, 1922 – June 11, 2014) was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and civil rights activist. Dee was married...

Saudi nationality law, officially called the Saudi Arabian Citizenship System, is the law that determines who is a Saudi citizen. Children born to a Saudi...

The Tunisian women's national volleyball team (Arabic: منتخب تونس لكرة الطائرة للسيدات), nicknamed Les Aigles de Carthage (The Eagles of Carthage or The...

Children's literature portal The Slave Dancer is a historical novel written by Paula Fox and published in 1973. It tells the story of a boy called Jessie...

The Drake Bulldogs women's basketball team represents Drake University, located in Des Moines, Iowa, in NCAA Division I basketball competition. Drake competes...

Daddy is a 1989 novel by American Danielle Steel. It is Steel's 25th novel. Secretly, though Sarah has always longed for more than to be just a mother...

Mary Wills (July 4, 1914 – February 7, 1997) was an American costume designer. Wills was born in Prescott, Arizona. In the 1930s, her family moved to Albuquerque...

The Marist Sisters are an international congregation or order of Roman Catholic women. The Marist Sisters recognise Jeanne-Marie Chavoin (Mother Saint...

Five on a Treasure Island (published in 1942) is a popular children's book by Enid Blyton. It is the first book in The Famous Five series. The first edition...

Margaret Crosland (July 27, 1939 – January 14, 2024) was a Canadian figure skater from Calgary, Alberta. She was the 1958 and 1959 Canadian national champion...

Treachery in Death by Nora Roberts writing as J.D. Robb is the thirty-second book in the In Death series. The plot is set in the future and follows Lieutenant...

Peony, published in the UK as The Bondmaid, is a novel by Pearl S. Buck first published in 1948. It is a story of China's Kaifeng Jews. Peony is set in...

Which Witch? is a children's novel by Eva Ibbotson published in 1979. The first U.S. edition was published by Dutton Children's Books in 1999 with illustrations...

"The Life That I Have" (sometimes referred to as "Yours") is a short poem written by Leo Marks and used as a poem code in the Second World War. In the...

Teresa Bracco (24 February 1924 – 28 August 1944) was an Italian Catholic from Savona killed during World War II after refusing to submit to the sexual...

The Shadow Speaker is a young adult, first-person novel by Nigerian-American writer Nnedi Okorafor, which takes place in the year 2070. It was a Booksense...

Humphrey III of Toron (died 1173) was the third in the line of succession for the lordship of Toron (modern Tebnine, Lebanon). He was son of Humphrey II...

Lady Molly of Scotland Yard is a collection of short stories about Molly Robertson-Kirk, an early fictional female detective. It was written by Baroness...

For Better, For Worse, Forever is a young adult novel by Lurlene McDaniel, published in August 1997. It continues the story of April Lancaster, which began...