Word: birthed
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...tumultuous time for Burns; in addition to his newfound success, it was also the year that his lover, Mary Campell - for whom he penned his famous "Highland Mary" - died while giving birth to his child. Not that he had much time to mourn; the previous year, he impregnated his family's servant girl and brought shame to her family by not marrying her. He then took up with a young woman named Jean Armour, but she became pregnant too. Burns tried to marry Armour, but her father wouldn't have it. Then the poems were published, Burns became famous...
...origins" movie, set long before the other two, in which war between the vampires and the werewolves had been raging for hundreds of years and Selene fell in love with the Lycan Michael (Scott Speedman), to the chagrin of her father Viktor (Bill Nighy). Lycans describes the birth and early career of Lucian, whom Viktor at first spares and nurtures, then chains and pursues when his daughter Sonya (Rhona Mitra) falls in love with the handsome lycanthrope. To Viktor, Lucian is suitable as a protector...
...years old, married to venture-capital consultant Jonathan Gillibrand. They have two sons, ages 5 years and 6 months. According to the New York Times, Gillibrand's colleagues in the House gave her a standing ovation for working until the day she gave birth to her younger son. She reportedly took the Washington Metro to work every day with her elder son, dropping him off at the congressional day-care center on her way to work...
Time and again these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked till their hands were raw so that we might live a better life. They saw America as bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions; greater than all the differences of birth or wealth or faction...
...mark this day with remembrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled. In the year of America's birth, in the coldest of months, a small band of patriots huddled by dying campfires on the shores of an icy river. The capital was abandoned. The enemy was advancing. The snow was stained with blood. At a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt, the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people: "Let it be told to the future world ... that in the depth of winter, when nothing...