"was a Hebrew hero known for fighting the Philistines. Having fallen in love with Delilah, who has been bribed by the Philistines, Samson tells her the secret of his great strength: his uncut hair. Without his strength, Samson is captured by the Philistines. Rubens portrays the moment when, having fallen asleep on Delilah's lap, a young man cuts Samson's hair. Samson and Delilah are in a dark room, which is lit mostly by a candle held by an old woman to Delilah's left. Delilah is depicted with all of her clothes, but with her breasts exposed. Her left hand is"
"Henriette DeLille Mother Venerable Henriette Díaz DeLille (March 11, 1813 – November 16, 1862) was an Afro-American French Créole woman from New Orleans, Louisiana, who founded the Roman Catholic order of the Sisters of the Holy Family in that city. Composed of free women of color, the order provided nursing care and a home for orphans, later establishing schools as well. They taught slave children when such education was prohibited by law. The order grew in number in the late 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries, reaching a peak of 400 sisters in 1950. They taught numerous"
"Delilah (TV series) Delilah is a Canadian situation comedy television series which aired on CBC Television from 1973 to 1974. ""Delilah"" marked the CBC's first situation comedy in prime-time, having aired its previous sitcom ""Toby"" in daytime. Delilah (Terry Tweed) moves out of the city and becomes a small community's first female barber. Her barbershop was intended to be given to her younger brother Vincent (Miles McNamara), but he must first graduate from school. Other series characters include Delilah's Aunt Peggy (Barbara Hamilton), the town's newspaper editor T.J. (Eric House), family friend Franny Tree (Peter Mews), Frances (Kay Hawtrey), Mavis"
"Delilah is an Evangelical Christian. Her on-air persona is said to be remarkably similar to her real personality. She lives near Port Orchard, Washington.. In 2007, the show was nominated for the Syndicated Personality/Show of the Year award by ""Radio & Records"" magazine. In May 2012, Delilah received a Gracie Award, which is given to influential women in media, for Outstanding Host - Entertainment/Information in Radio. Delilah was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2016, after having been nominated for it in 2015 as well. Delilah received the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Marconi Award for Network/Syndicated"
"Delilah (radio host) Delilah Rene Luke (born February 15, 1960, North Bend, Oregon) is an American radio personality, author, and songwriter, best known as the host of a nationally syndicated nightly U.S. radio song request and dedication program, with an estimated 8 million listeners. She first aired in the Seattle market as Delilah Rene, though she is now known mononymously as Delilah. Delilah's family moved from Coos Bay, Oregon to neighboring, Reedsport, in 1969 where she attended school. In 1974 she won a middle-school speech contest judged by owners of the local AM radio station. Delilah began her radio career"
"organization of African-American women. She also served as president of the Daughters of Zion, as well as a women's group affiliated with the Freemasons, to which her husband belonged. They often supported community education and health projects. Delaney belonged to the Col. Shaw Woman's Relief Corps, No. 34, a women's auxiliary to the Col. Shaw Post, 343, Grand Army of the Republic (GAR). The veterans' group was named after the white commanding officer of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, the first of the United States Colored Troops and a unit that achieved renown for courage in the Civil War. Delaney dedicated"
"Delilah encourages the girl to take pride in her black ""race."" Eventually, after living in Seattle for several years as a white woman, Peola severs all local ties. She marries a white man and moves to Bolivia to pass permanently. Heartbroken, Delilah dies soon after. Bea falls in love with Flake, who is eight years her junior. Jessie, by now in her late teens, comes home for a visit just as Bea is planning on selling the ""B. Pullman"" chain to marry Flake. The three are mired in a love triangle in the last dozen or so pages, resulting in"
"Delia Weber Delia Weber (23 October 1900–28 December 1982) was an Afro-Dominican teacher, artist, poet and film actress, as well as a feminist and supporter of women's suffrage. Through her writing and painting, she portrayed the world in which she lived and the restrictions placed upon her life. Founding several cultural and feminist clubs, Weber successfully navigated the Trujillo years, helping to gain both civil and political rights for women. Delia Mercedes Weber Pérez was born on 23 October 1900 in the Santa Bárbara neighborhood of Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic to Dominican, Enriqueta Pérez and Curaçaoan, Juan Esteban Weber"
"Delilah Pierce Delilah Williams Pierce (1904 – 1992) was an African American artist, curator and educator based in Washington, District of Columbia. Pierce was best known for upholding the African American art in her model figure and genre painting, abstraction. Pierce lived her life as an educator, artist and curator. After graduating from Miner Teachers College and Howard University (BS), and Teachers College-Columbia University (MA), Delilah went on to earn the Agnes-Meyer Fellowship (Europe, Middle East and Africa study), where she traveled and was influenced by the cultures and landscapes of London, Paris, Holland, Rome, Greece, Lebanon, the Holy Land,"
"of Beulah was portrayed by Ethel Waters and Louise Beavers. Often overlooked in modern times were regional dialects that were not directly based on ethnic humor. Hillbilly humor was a somewhat common form of dialect comedy during the radio era, with shows such as ""Lum and Abner"" using the genre to full effect. Southerners (especially haughty aristocrats from the South and their distinctive accents) were another target of dialect comedy, with one of the most famous examples being fictional U.S. Senator Beauregard Claghorn from ""The Fred Allen Show"". Occasional use of dialect comedy continued even after political correctness led to"
"Matters"", ""Arms Full of Love"" and ""One Heart At A Time"", all published by Rosetta Books. Delilah (radio host) Delilah Rene Luke (born February 15, 1960, North Bend, Oregon) is an American radio personality, author, and songwriter, best known as the host of a nationally syndicated nightly U.S. radio song request and dedication program, with an estimated 8 million listeners. She first aired in the Seattle market as Delilah Rene, though she is now known mononymously as Delilah. Delilah's family moved from Coos Bay, Oregon to neighboring, Reedsport, in 1969 where she attended school. In 1974 she won a middle-school"
"discovered an absence of laughter from the audience when he attended a taping of an episode. Delilah (TV series) Delilah is a Canadian situation comedy television series which aired on CBC Television from 1973 to 1974. ""Delilah"" marked the CBC's first situation comedy in prime-time, having aired its previous sitcom ""Toby"" in daytime. Delilah (Terry Tweed) moves out of the city and becomes a small community's first female barber. Her barbershop was intended to be given to her younger brother Vincent (Miles McNamara), but he must first graduate from school. Other series characters include Delilah's Aunt Peggy (Barbara Hamilton), the"
"stratified social order of a Hispanic country, de Mena was able to empathize with Afro-Latina discontent in her travels through Latin America for UNIA and she spoke their language. De Mena's identity shifted as needed. When she was denied a berth on a Pullman car, de Mena used her Nicaraguan passport to gain one. On ship passenger manifests, she claimed to be African, colored, Negro, Spanish American, West Indian, and white on various voyages and was known to travel on both a Nicaraguan and British passport. On the other hand some men in the UNIA challenged her leadership as a"
"Americans on tribal lands. She also served in the 2016 Democratic National Convention as one of the platform committee members representing Bernie Sanders, where she ""helped to ensure that Native policy initiatives were ultimately rolled into the party's larger platform."" Deborah Parker is a member of the Tulalip Tribes of Washington and is of Tulalip, Lummi, Yaqui, and Apache descent; her native name, Tsi-Cy-Altsa, extends back multiple generations on her mother's side. Her grandfather, who was of Lummi heritage, was from Cowichan Bay; her grandmother was from the Snohomish River area. Born in 1970 as the daughter of a Tulalip"
"the inspiration composer Frederick Delius received from Black native music in Florida as well as various local fishermen, turpentine tappers, preachers, and other characters who lived in the rural area. Jahoda also included hundreds of descriptions of flora and fauna. Jahoda is also the author of ""Annie, Delilah's Mountain"" (novels) ""Trail of Tears"" and ""The Road to Samarkand: Frederick Delius and His Music"". Her ""River of the Golden Ibis"", part of the Rivers of America Series, was voted ""Best History Book"" in 1973 by the Society of Midland Authors. She was born in Chicago and graduated from Northwestern University with"
"was published. Goodrich was the first husband of actress Olivia de Havilland. The union produced one child (Benjamin), who died in 1991 following a long battle with cancer. Delilah (novel) Delilah is a novel by Marcus Goodrich first published in 1941. It revolves around the activities of the fictional American destroyer, the USS ""Delilah"", and her crew in and around the Philippines in the time period from 1916 to 1917. The novel is loosely based on Goodrich's own experiences as a sailor on board the , a destroyer. Much of the book constitutes detailed descriptions of various characters, punctuated by"
"Lily Delissa Joseph Lily Delissa Joseph (""née"" Solomon; 24 June 1863 – 27 July 1940) was a British artist and social campaigner active in the English suffrage movement. Joseph was born in Bermondsey in London into a wealthy, cultured Jewish family. Her elder brother was the artist Solomon Joseph Solomon, and Flora Lion would be a cousin. Joseph attended the Ridley School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London. She painted portraits, interiors and urban landscapes in a style clearly influenced by Impressionism but often with a limited palette. Joseph was also an activist in both the"
"Del Dingle Delilah ""Del"" Dingle is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera ""Emmerdale"", played by Hayley Tamaddon. She made her first on-screen appearance during the episode broadcast on 15 July 2005. On 1 June 2005, Kris Green of Digital Spy reported Delilah, the 30th Dingle family member, would be introduced the following month. Calling her an ""impulsive newcomer"", Green said Delilah would arrive in the village wearing her wedding dress, after she jilts her fiancé. Tamaddon was cast in the role of Delilah and she said ""I'm really excited to be playing Delilah. She is an ambitious"
"Saints gave its formal assent on June 22, 2010, for the commencement of the cause of beatification with the declaration of ""nihil obstat"" (nothing against). Delille was given the title of Servant of God. A claimed miracle by her intercession was being investigated in 2005 and by 2017 other miracles attributed to her were under medical scrutiny. Henriette DeLille Mother Venerable Henriette Díaz DeLille (March 11, 1813 – November 16, 1862) was an Afro-American French Créole woman from New Orleans, Louisiana, who founded the Roman Catholic order of the Sisters of the Holy Family in that city. Composed of free"
"""free citizens and aliens"" and could not be used to ""overturn property rights"" in slaves, as previous precedent had established that Moors, Negroes (Africans), and mulattoes, all non-Christian, had been brought into the territory only as slaves. The court observed that witnesses had testified to Wright's grandmother Hannah's appearance: copper complexion and straight hair, as well as what was described as a ""noble character,"" as proof she was not black. Legal historian Ariela Gross wrote in her 2008 book, a study of court cases and other means of defining race in America, that the court's ruling confirmed that ""Indians were"
"Delphine Red Shirt Delphine Red Shirt (born 1957) is a Native American author and educator, who is an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation. Delphine Red Shirt is Oglala Lakota from the Pine Ridge Indian reservation. She attended Holy Rosary High School (now Red Cloud Indian School), and Regis College (now Regis University), with a major in Accounting and a minor in History. She received her Master of Arts in Liberal Studies in Creative Writing from Wesleyan University, and her doctorate in American Indian Studies from the University of Arizona. Red Shirt has been"
"""Mason Miller Report"", an evaluation of minorities and higher education, which became the model for analyzing participation of minorities in colleges and universities throughout Michigan, leading to a state bi-lingual education law. When she lost her sight, due to diabetes, Vorhauer became an advocate for the blind. She was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 1990, the first Latina to be honored in the hall. Delia Villegas was born on April 17, 1940 in El Paso, Texas to Consuelo (née Olivares) and Dr. Bernardo Villegas. Her father was an optometrist, as had been his father, and the"
"Delia Villegas Vorhauer Delia Villegas Vorhauer (April 17 1940 – June 1, 1992) was an American Latina social worker, who successfully ran programs to assist the Hispanic communities in Illinois, Ohio and Michigan. She was awarded a presidential medal for her efforts in development. She founded Mujeres Unidas de Michigan as an advocacy group for Spanish-speaking women and as a result of their activism the group sent six delegates to the 1977 National Women's Conference, which was a part of the UN International Women's Year programs. Vorhauer served as vice chair of the delegation to the conference. She authored the"
"born to the Rt. Rev. Henry Beard Delany (1858–1928), the first black person elected Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States, and Nanny Logan Delany (1861–1956), an educator. H.B. Delany was born into slavery in St. Mary's, Georgia. Nanny Logan Delany was born in a community then known as Yak, Virginia, seven miles from Danville. Bessie Delany was born and raised on the campus of St. Augustine's School (now University) in Raleigh, North Carolina, where her father was the Vice-Principal and her mother, a teacher and administrator. Delany was a 1911 graduate of the school. In 1918, she"
"Dessa (artist) Deborah Petroz-Abeles (born Deborah Sharon Abeles on 20 December 1948 in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe), known professionally as Dessa, is a Swiss artist. Dessa was born into a Jewish family in Southern Rhodesia, the daughter of a Polish mother and a Hungarian father, who completed his medical training in Italy. Her father established the first private medical practice in Bulawayo for Black Africans. As a young child, Dessa had instruction in ballet and piano, the latter playing a central role in her art. After matriculating she lived in Israel from 1965 to 1976, where she studied occupational"
"a complex ancestry. Both of Hughes' paternal great-grandmothers were enslaved African Americans and both of his paternal great-grandfathers were white slave owners in Kentucky. According to Hughes, one of these men was Sam Clay, a Scottish-American whiskey distiller of Henry County, said to be a relative of statesman Henry Clay. The other was Silas Cushenberry, a Jewish-American slave trader of Clark County. Hughes's maternal grandmother Mary Patterson was of African-American, French, English and Native American descent. One of the first women to attend Oberlin College, she married Lewis Sheridan Leary, also of mixed race, before her studies. Lewis Leary subsequently"
"Deloria to receive more speaking engagements, as well as funding to support her continued important work on native languages. In 1940, she and her sister Susan went to Pembroke, North Carolina to conduct some research among the self-identified Lumbee of Robeson County. The project was supported by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the federal Farm Security Administration. Since the late 19th century, these mixed-race people, free before the Civil War as free people of color had been recognized as an Indian tribe by the state of North Carolina, which allowed them to have their own schools, rather than requiring"
"Philip S. Deloria Philip S. (Sam) Deloria is a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and active in Native American politics. He is of Yankton Dakota descent. Deloria attended Yale University as an undergraduate and for law school. For 35 years, he served as the Director of the American Indian Law Center, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He also served as the director of the American Indian Graduate Center in Albuquerque until 2015. In addition to his law work, Deloria was a founder and first Secretary-General of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples and was one of the founders"
"Delia Tetreault Délia Tétreault, M.I.C., also known as Mother Marie of the Holy Spirit (), (February 4, 1865–October 1, 1941) was a Canadian Religious Sister. Though she never left her homeland, she felt called to serve the needy of the world, for which purpose she founded the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception in 1902, the first missionary congregation of Canadian origin. The cause for her beatification is under study by the Holy See. She was born in Marieville, Quebec, on 4 February 1865. She and her twin brother Roch were among the nine children of Alexis Tétreault, a farmer,"
"on 28 December 1982 at the family home on Calle Arzobispo Meriño. She was buried in Christ the Redeemer Cemetery after a ceremony for family and friends. Delia Weber Delia Weber (23 October 1900–28 December 1982) was an Afro-Dominican teacher, artist, poet and film actress, as well as a feminist and supporter of women's suffrage. Through her writing and painting, she portrayed the world in which she lived and the restrictions placed upon her life. Founding several cultural and feminist clubs, Weber successfully navigated the Trujillo years, helping to gain both civil and political rights for women. Delia Mercedes Weber"
"Marissa Gibson Marissa Gibson (born c. 1995) is an Australian actress. She played the central role of Delilah in the 2009 film ""Samson and Delilah"". The film won the Caméra d'Or award at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and Best Film at the 2009 AFI Awards. Gibson attended high school in Alice Springs, where she lived with her uncle, aunt and grandmother, Mitjili Napanangka Gibson, who portrayed her grandmother in the film. She left school in Year 11. Gibson speaks three languages, Warlpiri, Luritja and English, and learned some Japanese. Gibson lived previously in Kintore where she experienced first hand"
"the African-American community beginning in the 1960s. He also taught at San Francisco State University and the University of California, Berkeley. Dellums was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. He was also a member of the fraternity's World Policy Council, a think tank whose purpose is to expand the fraternity's involvement in politics, and social and current policy to encompass international concerns. Dellums was married three times. He married his second wife, attorney Leola ""Roscoe"" Higgs, in 1961. The two divorced in 1998. He married his third wife, Cynthia Lewis, in 2000. One son, Michael, was convicted of a"
"(Sully) Bordeaux Deloria and Philip Joseph Deloria, the family having Yankton Dakota, English, French and German roots. (The family surname goes back to a French trapper ancestor named ""Francois-Xavier Delauriers"".) Her father was one of the first Sioux to be ordained as an Episcopal priest. Her mother was the daughter of Alfred Sully, a general in the US Army, and a Métis Yankton Sioux. Ella was the first child to the couple, who each had several daughters by previous marriages. Her full siblings were sister Susan and brother Vine Deloria Sr., who became an Episcopal priest like their father. Deloria"