Her uncle The Bonze curses her for renouncing her religion to marry Lt. B.F. Pinkerton
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Madama Butterfly Synopsis - Metropolitan Opera  Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton of the U.S. Navy inspects a house overlooking ... The Imperial Commissioner reads the marriage agreement, and the relatives congratulate the couple. Suddenly, a threatening voice is heard from afarit is the Bonze, Butterfly's uncle, a priest. He curses the girl for rejecting her ancestral religion.
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Madama Butterfly | Union Avenue Opera  She tells Pinkerton how her family had fallen on hard times, and she had to earn her living ... Her relatives bustle in, noisily expressing their opinions on the marriage. ... The celebration is interrupted by the Bonze, CioCioSan's uncle who is a ... into the room and curses CioCioSan for renouncing her ancestors' religion.
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OPERA America draws on resources and expertise from within and ...  B.F. Pinkerton, Aleksei Dolgov ... toast the couple when, suddenly Cio-Cio-San's uncle, the Bonze, bursts in shouting. A Buddhist priest, he curses her for renouncing her ancestor's religion. ... Soon Sharpless enters with a letter from the Lieutenant and tries several ... The letter tells of Pinkerton's marriage to an American girl.
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Madame Butterfly (Puccini) - Synopsis - Music With Ease  Lieutenant B. F. Pinkerton, U.S.N., is on the point of contracting a "Japanese ... She has even gone to the extent, as she confides to Pinkerton, of secretly renouncing her religious faith, the faith of her ... A weird figure, shouting and cursing wildly, appears upon the scene. It is Butterfly's uncle, the Bonze (Japanese priest).
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Madama Butterfly - Wikipedia  Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian ..... Butterfly's uncle, the Bonze, has discovered that Butterfly has renounced her ancestral religion, and he has arrived to deliver his curse. He stands over Butterfly, shouting his curses at her, when Pinkerton intervenes to stop him.
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Simon Legree in Uncle Tom's Cabin - Shmoop  Tom's last earthly master, the brutal Louisiana plantation owner Simon Legree, is one ... And he's a sadist, so he enjoys tormenting other people and swaggering ... In her Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe admitted that only a minority of slave ... into raving insanity; and this liability made her a sort of object of dread to Legree,...
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Hiawatha's Childhood by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  Nursed the little Hiawatha. Rocked him in his ... Sang the song Nokomis taught him; "Wah-wah-taysee ... Seized his grandmother, and threw her. Up into the sky...
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Barbara's Backlash | Vanity Fair  "I could get in so much trouble if I said something she didn't agree with," the elderly widow .... wealthy Pennsylvania iron clan, was a distant relative of President Franklin Pierce. ... Biedler stresses today that she loves and admires Barbara Bush, and ..... But because the men who now fill the White House seem too bland to...
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Gifts of Speech - Paula Treckel  There, too, she met the man she was to marry --Henry Stanton, a renowned abolitionist ... the ceremony, the 24 year old bride omitted the word "obey" from her vows. ... When the World Anti-Slavery Convention opened on June 12, 1840, there was ... Thereafter, she insisted that she be addressed as Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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ACKNOWLEDGE.COM: Uncle Tom's Cabin  Sep 14, 2012 ... St. Clare's cruel wife, Marie, sells Tom to a vicious plantation owner named ... and Emmeline have gone, Legree orders his overseers to beat him. ... Mrs. Shelby's personal maid, the wife of George and the mother of little Harry. .... Then, Marie St. Clare sold Uncle Tom to a brutal slave owner, Simon Legree.
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Jezebel - Wikipedia  According to the Hebrew Bible, Jezebel incited her husband King Ahab to abandon the worship of Yahweh and encourage worship of the deities Baal and...
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The Old Curiosity Shop, or Dick Swiveller and the Marchioness | The ...  Oct 5, 2012 ... When her grandfather loses their home by gambling away all of his money (and ... Quilp lent Nell's grandfather money until he learns that the grandfather is ... Because of his bad life, his grandfather doesn't like him, and is therefore ... as well as their little unnamed servant, whom Dick calls the Marchioness.
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Naughty Marietta (film) - Wikipedia  Naughty Marietta is a 1935 film based on the operetta Naughty Marietta by Victor Herbert. Jeanette MacDonald stars as a princess who flees an arranged marriage. She sails for New Orleans and is rescued from pirates by Captain Richard Warrington (Nelson Eddy). ... The captain asks her if he would be welcome "somewhere else"; Marietta...
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A Redder Shade of Pale: The Indianization of Heroes and Heroines ...  ... sympathetic Indian works, made similar remarks in the Preface to his novel Rachel Dyer. .... American heroine marries the noble savage Indian named in the title. Hobomok is important .... tribe, as that in Cooper's The Pathfinder between Mabel Dunham and her enemy- turned-savior, Dew-of-June. That these plots result...
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honor killings - Atlas Shrugs - Typepad  Amina and Sarah, the Said sisters - raped and murdered by their Muslim father - still at large. .... Got that? He can kill for his religious and political (sharia) beliefs, but we ..... agony aunt could have been bludgeoned to death by a listener angered by ..... He fell in love with a girl and married her. ...... The Dynamic Duo is Here!
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Basil Rathbone, Master of Stage and Screen: David Copperfield  His stern aunt, Betsy Trotwood, is on hand to assist, but becomes so upset when she finds out ... Mr. and Miss Murdstone taking verbal abuse from Aunt Betsy...
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Madame Butterfly Synopsis | Cincinnati Opera  The Lieutenant laughs at such apprehension and proposes a toast to America and the ... In a quiet moment, Cio-Cio-San shows Pinkerton her few earthly treasures and tells him that ... The letter tells of Pinkertons marriage to an American girl.
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Full text of "The writings of Benjamin Franklin;" - Internet Archive  182 1 8. Letter from Celia Single. July 24, 1732 . . . . 186 19. Letter from Alice Addertongue. ..... The Bufinefs of thofe who were employ'd in this Temple being laborious and ...... Franklin refers to this asbestos purse in his autobiography; he says: "Sir ...... in severe Weather, a Man is scorch'd before, while he's froze behind. 1...
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The Project Gutenberg eBook of Court Beauties of Old Whitehall, by ...  This marriage of convenience might possibly have been fairly happy, as such ..... Pleasure, not power, was what Madame de Mazarin really craved. ..... King's mistress in place of the hated Duchess of Portsmouth now clamoured that ..... been to Barbara Villiers, whose greed of gain was only equalled by her man-hunger!
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Diana's raunchy ancestor: Keira's new film reveals the tragic life of ...  Aug 21, 2008 ... In 1774, on her 17th birthday, she was married to the Duke of ... pert, familiar, noisy and indelicate [and] lost indeed past recovery'. ... In those days women didn't bother their pretty heads with politics, so, ... in common with was Marie Antoinette, the ill-fated queen of France. ..... Move over, Kendall and Gigi!
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Theater / Better Than It Sounds - TV Tropes  Saltimbanco: Humanity is boiled down to timid faceless people and mad ... a woman who thinks she's his sister-in-law... in the end, the brothers learn that their ... To break the spell, one of them must go to a Fate Worse Than Death. ..... A Streetcar Named Desire: A fading Southern belle is driven insane by her brother-in-law.