"In the 1824 edition of ""The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia"" there's a description of the rhyme and the game, giving the distance as ""six, seven or a lang eight"". The rhyme was originally accompanied by a singing game in which two lines face each other, with one player in the middle. At the end of the rhyme the players have to cross the space and any caught help the original player in the middle catch the others. The game seems to have fallen out of use in the twentieth century. In literature In film In music How Many Miles to Babylon?"
"Walton sextuplets The Walton sextuplets were born at Liverpool Maternity Hospital in Liverpool, England on 18 November 1983 and were the world's first all-female surviving sextuplets, and the world's fourth known set of surviving sextuplets. The children are Hannah, Lucy, Ruth, Sarah, Kate and Jennifer. The children were born to Graham and Janet (née Leadbetter) Walton (born 1952) who had been trying to have children for several years and had just been accepted as potential adoptive parents before their thirteenth attempt at fertility treatment bore spectacular results. The children grew up in the family's seven-bedroom home in Wallasey, Merseyside. On"
"in smaller towns, not larger cities. To make his model work, he emphasized logistics, particularly locating stores within a day's drive proximity to Walmart's regional warehouses, and distributed through its own trucking service. Buying in volume and efficient delivery permitted sale of discounted name brand merchandise. Thus, sustained growth from 1977's 190 stores to 1985's 800 was achieved. Walton married Helen Robson on February 14, 1943. They had four children: Samuel Robson (Rob) born in 1944, John Thomas (1946–2005), James Carr (Jim) born in 1948, and Alice Louise born in 1949. Walton supported various charitable causes. He and Helen were"
"following year. In 1980 she injured her quad, and returned in 1981 with the sprint double at the World Cup and the number one world ranking in both sprints. After an injury in 1983, she became double Olympic Champion in 1984. In 1987 a hamstring pull prevented her from competing at the World Championships, then a season later added an Olympic Silver and third Gold medal to her collection. On May 30, 1985 she gave birth to her daughter Raina Ashley Washington, and again came back for an excellent 1986, losing only once over both the 100 m and 200"
"2018. Newton married English writer, director, and producer Ol Parker in 1998. They have three children: daughters Ripley (b. 2000) and Nico (b. 2004), and son Booker Jombe (b. 2014). Her daughters were named after the character Ellen Ripley in the ""Alien"" films and the singer Nico. Newton had home births with all three of her children. She is vegan and was named PETA's ""Sexiest Vegan of 2014"" in the UK. In 2006 Newton contributed a foreword to ""We Wish: Hopes and Dreams of Cornwall's Children"", a book of children's writing published in aid of the NSPCC. In it, she"
"foetus into a bedside fireplace. She was told by doctors that she would never be able to have children, but in fact went on to give birth to twelve – the first born when she was 19 and the last born when she was 36. Her subsequent pregnancies went relatively smoothly, with the except of a third miscarriage in 1926; she had to carry the dead foetus for three months before it could be removed. All but one of her children survived to adulthood, and all those who did out-lived her. Her son Garnet, born in 1924, died from meningitis"
"Walton returned to London, where their daughter Emma Katherine Walton was born two months later. Andrews married Edwards in 1969; his children from a previous marriage, Jennifer and Geoffrey, were 3 and 5 years older than Emma. In the 1970s, Edwards and Andrews adopted two daughters; Amy in 1974 and Joanna in 1975. Andrews is a grandmother to nine and great-grandmother to three. Termed ""Britain's Youngest Prima Donna"", Andrews' classically trained soprano, lauded for its ""pure and clear"" sound, has been described as light, bright and operatic in tone. When a young Andrews was taken by her parents to be"
"which was also written into ""Eight Is Enough"". She gave birth to their daughter, Sarah, on February 27, 1980. After her pregnancy, a rumor was spread that Richardson would lose her job if she did not shed her pregnancy weight; she had gained . Finding it very difficult to slim down by normal means, she started using cocaine. After ""Eight Is Enough"", Richardson suffered a debilitating tailbone injury after doing a concert. In January 2013, ""The Huffington Post"" published a report from a ""National Enquirer"" interview with Richardson. She reported she had experienced extremely hard times, living in an unheated"
"Waneta Hoyt Waneta Ethel (Nixon) Hoyt (May 13, 1946 – August 13, 1998) was an American serial killer who was convicted of killing all five of her biological children. She was born in Richford, New York, and she died at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women. She dropped out of Newark Valley High School in the 10th grade, to marry Tim Hoyt, on January 11, 1964. James Hoyt died on September 26, 1968, only 28 months after he was born on May 31, 1966. All of her other children died before that mark: Eric (October 17, 1964 – January"
"tribute album was released in her honor on September 26, 2006, titled ""Help Me Make It Through the Night: The Memorial Album."" It featured all of her biggest hits from the 1970s. Her first husband was Hank Thompson's Brazos Valley steel guitarist Bob White. They had 3 children. Zenithapollostar born June 9, 1962, Robert Floyd White born November 26, 1963 and Snow Jewel White born December 9. Sammi and Bob soon divorced after their 3rd child. Sammi later had a third son with Willie Nelson's guitarist, Jody Payne. Waylon Malloy Payne was born April 5, 1972. Later she adopted two"
"Street in 1885. A foundation stone for a new facility in Oxford Street was laid by the Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles in March 1924 and it was officially opened by Christiana Hartley, the social and welfare rights activist, as the Liverpool Maternity Hospital in September 1926. Famous people born in the hospital included John Lennon who was born there in October 1940. It joined the National Health Service in 1948. The Walton sextuplets were born to Graham and Janet (née Leadbetter) Walton at the hospital in November 1983. After services transferred to the Liverpool Women's Hospital, the Liverpool Maternity Hospital"
"at first sight. It was more like friendship at first sight."" The couple married in 1989, and eventually had four sons, Marshall, Landon, Bolton, and Blake. It was not until the couple's second son was born that Mark Sanford announced his entry into politics. She later told ""The Greenville News"", ""It was quite a surprise to me. When he told me, I was in the hospital, and we had just delivered our second son. So we had a 15-month-old and a newborn, and he says to me, ‘I’m going to run for Congress.’"" In 1994, she managed her husband's successful"
"her maiden name thereafter. Its catalog covers 13 books she created from 1978 to 1984, all but one as an illustrator with another writer. That one was the self-illustrated picture book ""Fritz and the Beautiful Horses"", published by Houghton Mifflin in 1981. Beginning with ""Annie and the Wild Animals"" (Houghton Mifflin, 1985) she created numerous picture books as writer and illustrator. For a few years she continued to work with other writers, especially Eve Bunting, but she has rarely done so since 1990. On August 18, 1980 Jan Brett married bassist Joseph Hearne, a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra"
"My Real Children My Real Children is a 2014 alternate history novel by Jo Walton, published by Tor Books. It was released on May 20, 2014. In 2015, Patricia is 89 years old and living in a nursing home, with two mutually-exclusive sets of memories: one of a world where John F. Kennedy was killed by a bomb in 1963, and one of a world where Kennedy chose not to run in 1964 after an escalated Cuban Missile Crisis led to the nuclear obliteration of Miami and Kiev—and, on a more personal level, one in which she married a man"
"position once she became pregnant with her first child, who was born in 1954. She referred to that era of mandatory withdrawal from public life during pregnancy as the ""dark ages"" during a 2013 interview with Rutgers University. She had married Brendan Byrne in 1953, with whom she had seven children: Brendan (born 1954), Susan (born 1956), Nancy (born 1957), Timothy (born 1961), Mary Anne (born 1963), Barbara (born 1967), and William (born 1969). Brendan Byrne was twice elected Governor of New Jersey, serving from 1974 to 1982. As the state's First Lady, Byrne largely focused on issues related to"
"a second time, in 1943. Odets and actress Bette Grayson had two children: Nora, born in 1945, and Walt Whitman born in 1947. Odets and Grayson divorced in 1951. Nora Odets died at Long Beach, Long Island in 2008; Walt Odets became a clinical psychologist, author, and photographer residing in Berkeley, California. Odets also had relationships with actresses Frances Farmer, Kim Stanley and Fay Wray, among others. Odets had long been suffering from gastrointestinal distress and on July 23, 1963 was admitted to Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles to undergo treatment for stomach ulcers. During surgery, doctors discovered"
"two successful TV series, and was nominated for an Academy Award four times, winning once. Wyman married five times and had four husbands. Wyman married salesman Ernest Eugene Wyman (1906 – 1970) in Los Angeles, California on April 8, 1933. Wyman recorded her name as 'Jane Fulks' on the wedding certificate. She also listed foster parents Emma and Richard Fulks as her parents. In keeping with the tendency of making herself older than she really was, she gave her age as 19 on the document. Truthfully, she had turned 16 just 3 months prior. The couple would divorce after 2"
"out. They divorced in March 1981. Steel married for the fourth time in 1981, to vintner John Traina. Traina subsequently adopted Steel's son Nick and gave him his family name. Together they had an additional five children, Samantha (April 14, 1982), Victoria (September 5, 1983), Vanessa (December 18, 1984), a fashion stylist, Maxx (February 10, 1986) and Zara (September 26, 1987). Coincidentally, beginning with her marriage to Traina in 1981, Steel has been a near-permanent fixture on the ""New York Times"" hardcover and paperback bestsellers lists. In 1989, she was listed in the ""Guinness Book of World Records"" for having"
"York law because she died before her appeal. She was buried at Highland Cemetery in Richford, Tioga County, New York. Waneta Hoyt Waneta Ethel (Nixon) Hoyt (May 13, 1946 – August 13, 1998) was an American serial killer who was convicted of killing all five of her biological children. She was born in Richford, New York, and she died at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women. She dropped out of Newark Valley High School in the 10th grade, to marry Tim Hoyt, on January 11, 1964. James Hoyt died on September 26, 1968, only 28 months after he was"
"quintuplets known to survive infancy were the all-female Canadian Dionne Quintuplets, born in 1934. Quintuplets are sometimes referred to as ""quins"" in the UK and ""quints"" in North America. Born in Liverpool, England on 18 November 1983, the Walton sextuplets were the world's first all-female surviving sextuplets, and the world's fourth known set of surviving sextuplets. Another well-known set of sextuplets is the Gosselin sextuplets, born May 10, 2004 in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Reality television shows called Jon & Kate Plus 8 and later Kate Plus 8 have chronicled the lives of these sextuplets. In 1997, the McCaughey septuplets were born"
"1993 in Glasgow and were married in 1998. Madeleine was born in 2003 and the twins, a boy and girl, in 2005. The McCanns were on holiday with seven friends and eight children in all, including the McCanns' three. The nine adults dined together most evenings at 20:30 in the resort's tapas restaurant, as a result of which the media dubbed the friends the Tapas Seven. The group included Fiona and David Payne, both physicians, their two children, and Fiona's mother, Dianne Webster. The McCanns had known the Paynes for years; Kate had met Fiona in 2000 when they both"
"Helen and their four children. In 2002, as Helen Watson was the president of the Walton Family Foundation, a $300 million donation was made to the University of Arkansas, the biggest donation ever made to a public university in the United States. In the last eight years of her life, Helen suffered from dementia but gained peace painting watercolors. ""They're abstract but just lyrical and beautiful,"" said her daughter Alice in an October 2013 interview with ""Forbes"". ""I have two. One's very happy and…oh, whimsical, I guess you would say. Then there's one she did right before she died. I"
"scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1983 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1984 ! scope=""row"" style=""text-align:center"" | 1985 ! colspan=3| Career ! 264 ! 201 ! 138 ! 3356 ! 719 ! 4075 ! 1348 ! 0.8 ! 0.5 ! 12.7 ! 2.7 ! 15.4 ! 5.1 Knights had a son, Benjamin, in 1978 with his first wife Julie. He divorced and remarried Angela, a schoolteacher, and had two daughters, Sarah (born 1993) and Rebecca. In February 2015, Knights publicly revealed that Sarah had been struggling with a mystery illness that left her confined to a wheelchair. Sarah and her mother flew to Germany"
"appearance on 20 March 2014. Janine's storylines include prostitution, drug addiction, financial worries, becoming rich, becoming agoraphobic and being wrongly charged with the murder of Laura Beale (Hannah Waterman). The character marries four times, to Barry Evans (Shaun Williamson), David (Harry Towb), Michael Moon (Steve John Shepherd), all of whom die, and Ryan Malloy (Neil McDermott), whom she attempts to kill and later divorces. Janine also has a daughter with Michael, Scarlett, and the custody battle over her leads to Janine murdering Michael, facilitating her third and final departure. She killed three people during her time on the show, escaping"
"They married in 1956 and had two children: Christopher John Hall (TV producer) in 1957 and Jennifer Caron Hall, a writer, painter, and actress, in 1958. Caron had an affair with Warren Beatty (1961). When she and Hall divorced in 1965, Beatty was named as a co-respondent and was ordered by the London court to pay the costs of the case. In 1969, Caron married Michael Laughlin, the producer of the film ""Two-Lane Blacktop;"" they divorced in 1980. Her son-in-law is Glenn Wilhide, the producer and screenwriter. Caron was also romantically linked to Dutch television actor Robert Wolders from 1994"
"(five daughters and two sons). Watts met Eleanor Everett in 1936, when her mother, Ruth Fuller Everett, brought her to London to study piano. They met at the Buddhist Lodge, were engaged the following year and married in April 1938. A daughter, Joan, was born in November 1938 and another, Anne, was born in 1942. Their marriage ended in 1949, but Watts continued to correspond with his former mother-in-law. In 1950, Watts married Dorothy DeWitt and moved to San Francisco in early 1951 to teach. They began a family that grew to include five children: Tia, Mark, Richard, Lila, and"
"Kennedy married actor Bill Overton. They have four children: his daughter Cheyenne (1982) and their three daughters Savannah Re (b. November 20, 1985), Kopper Joi (b. May 17, 1989) and Zaire Ollyea (b. September 15, 1995). Jayne Kennedy Jayne Kennedy Overton (née Harrison; October 27, 1951) is an American television personality, actress, model, corporate spokeswoman, producer, writer, public speaker, philanthropist, beauty pageant titleholder and sports broadcaster. Kennedy won a 1982 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture award for her performance as Julie Winters in the 1981 film ""Body and Soul"" co-starring alongside her then–husband Leon Isaac"
"met John Howard at a Liberal Party function. They were married on 4 April 1971, at St Peter's Anglican Church in Watsons Bay. The Howards have three children, Melanie (born 1974, married Rowan McDonald in 2003), Timothy (married Sarah Mackintosh in 2010) and Richard; as well as three grandchildren, Angus (born 2007), Alexander (born 2012), and Ariah (born 2015). Janette Howard adopted a relatively low profile during her husband's tenure as prime minister; however, in 1999, a journalist alleged that she had intervened with the Prime Minister concerning an appointment to the board of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Janette issued"
"in 1954, the same year she married Willis Burr McDonald, with whom she would have 10 children. Her children are Mary McDonald (Hothan), Charles B. McDonald III, Nancy Hanks McDonald (Siefken), Christopher McDonald, Stephen McDonald, Gregory McDonald, Catherine McDonald (Binswanger), Elizabeth McDonald (died 2005), Brendan McDonald, and Mark McDonald. In 1975 she became active in the Texas Nurses Association in El Paso, eventually serving as president of the governmental affairs committee and forming a TNA political action committees. She also held membership in the National Organization for Women and took part in the 1980 march in Washington, D.C. in support"
"1966 issue of ""Playboy"" magazine. In 1965, she co-starred with Elvis Presley in ""Tickle Me"" and later appeared in several roles in Hollywood films, including as ""biker chick"" Cathy in ""Hell's Belles"" in 1969. She also made guest appearances on American television series. She retired in 1971 after marrying Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg in Marbella, Spain on 3 May 1973. Lane gave birth to Princess Arriana Theresa Maria of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, her only child, in 1975. In 1985, her marriage to Prince Alfonso ended in a divorce, and she received a million-dollar settlement. She claimed that the sum was ""not really"
"of Angie Hubbard. The series premiered on April 29, 2013 and was cancelled after single season. In November 2013, after ""All My Children"" was cancelled, Morgan was cast in Starz drama series, ""Power"", opposite Omari Hardwick and Naturi Naughton. In 2015, she co-starred alongside Richard Lawson and Vivica A. Fox in two TV One holiday movies: ""Royal Family Thanksgiving"" and ""Royal Family Christmas"". Morgan later played Toni Braxton's mother in the Lifetime biopic """". Morgan has been married four times: to Charles Weldon (1978–84), to actor Charles S. Dutton (1989–94), to photographer Donn Thompson (1997–2000) and to Jeffrey Winston (since"
"costs of £80m a year from 2020, amounting to more than £300,000 per college. So I want to reiterate our call on the government to give all schools and colleges the certainty they need and guarantee that their budgets will be protected from these stealth cuts."" In 2010 she married Mark Rayner, a UNISON official. She has three sons: Ryan, who was born when she was aged 16, Jimmy, and Charlie. Charlie was born prematurely at 23 weeks and Rayner says that the care he received demonstrates the importance of the NHS and education policy. Rayner lives in her constituency"
"by the time he was nineteen and had four children together. The couple separated in 1969 and later divorced. In 1974, White married singer Glodean James. They had four children together and collaborated on the 1981 album ""Barry & Glodean"". The couple separated many years prior to his death but never divorced. White had a daughter, Denise White, born in 1962 as Denise Donnell to Gurtha Allen. She did not discover who her biological father was until 1988. At the time of White's death, he was dating Katherine Denton, who had given birth to a daughter four weeks previously, claiming"