Sentences with phrase «warrior queens in»

Surprised by this find, Reese - Taylor returned from her trip wondering, «Was it possible that there were warrior queens in ancient Maya societies?

It is the feminine form of Camillus, and also represents a warrior queen in Roman mythology.

Not exact matches

«A great and courageous beacon, warrior and queen of Africa has passed on, but the challenge to succeeding generations to reach for the aspirational goals that her exemplary life attained, in significant measure, lives on in the hearts of the sons and daughters of Africa,» the former First Lady stated.

Reese - Taylor combed through hundreds of published inscriptions and royal portraits housed at university libraries in Canada and the U.S., looking for imagery of other warrior queens from the Maya lowlands around Naachtun.

Ardren has «brought together studies from throughout the ancient Maya world to show that women were not sidebars in Maya society, but significant actors in their own right,» says Reese - Taylor, who is now building on Ardren's work as she looks for clues about powerful queens who were also fierce warriors.

She determined, by identifying characters in loose beaded skirts, that the lowland Maya had many warrior queens.

Prepare for success by shopping on Sunday and preparing Sheena - Lauren's fit food recipes - there are more in her e-book, Eat like a Warrior Queen.

We've had the privilege of attending the Firenze4Ever event in Florence in the last two years (our favorite Style Lab shoots — Gathered Tulle & Warrior Queen), and deeply appreciate Luisa Via Roma's friendship and support.

FORTUNE MAGAZINE — Nov 7 — In early October, at Fortune's annual Most Powerful Women Summit, blog queen Arianna Huffington led a panel called Understanding the Internet's Future, with Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker, Motorola CTO Padmasree Warrior, and Marissa Mayer, Google's VP of search products and user experience.

With Freya's ability to freeze any enemy, the young ice queen has spent decades in a remote wintry palace raising a legion of deadly huntsmen — including Eric (Chris Hemsworth) and warrior Sara (Jessica Chastain)-- only to find that her prized two defied her one demand: Forever harden your hearts to love.

A last job will see him take the final step towards island isolation; however when the bronzed warrior takes up the cause of war - torn Thrace at the insistence of Ergenia (Rebecca Ferguson, TV's The White Queen), daughter of King Cotys (John Hurt, Snowpiercer), he finds more than just a city in combat with insurgents.

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In African culture they feel as if there is no king without a queen, and I think this story highlights the queen, the warrior, the general and the young sister

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Amanda Seyfried as a M.K., a young girl who goes to live with her father and is magically shrunken and caught up in a battle with the Leaf Men, who are dressed in green (obviously), live in the forest and fly around on hummingbirds; Beyoncé Knowles as the queen of the forest people; Christoph Waltz as the villainous leader of the forces of forest decay out to destroy all that lovely green stuff; Steven Tyler as a fumbling caterpillar; Colin Farrell as Ronin, a hardened warrior and leader of the Leaf Men who is a big sweetheart underneath it all; Josh Hutcherson, of Hunger Games fame (Team Peeta!)

But this world did, in fact, exist, and the subject of Kirstin Downey's fascinating new biography, Isabella: The Warrior Queen, maneuvered through it with unlikely and thrilling success.

The Room of the Dons has nine seven - foot - high murals depicting aspects of California's history, including Queen Califia accompanied by two of her warriors (the state's name comes from the mythical Island of California, which was first described by Spanish writer Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo, who created Queen Califia's character in the same novel).

Calling her work «a tribute to the goddess, the warrior, and the queen in every woman,» Fontaine explores the femininity and attitude of her characters through shapes, colors, and emotionally strong subjects.

«Aunt Jemima, I see you in your true light, a transplanted African Queen, a survivor, a nurturer, a free spirit, a warrior who transmitted to us the urge to battle indifference and ignorance and gave us the courage to slay the demons of racism.»

Warrior, launched in 1860, was the pride of Queen Victoria's fleet and she was the largest, fastest and most powerful ship of her day.