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  • Don Delafield, 65, and his wife Verina, 52, were killed in their Noupoort farmhouse near Rustenburg.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • Don (65) and Verina (52), Delafield were bludgeoned to death with a steel rod on their Rustenburg farm, Palmietfontein on the afternoon of Saturday, May 16.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • Mogoba said news of the killing of Don Delafield, 65, and his wife, Verina, 52, had come as a great shock.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • It is a faulty spelling or variation of Verinopolis, so named in honour of Verina, mother-in-law of the Emperor Zeno.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

  • All these movements were instigated by his mother-in-law, Verina, who first proclaimed her brother Basiliscus emperor, and later Leontius, the leader of the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • Magister Officiorum who, in league with Verina mother of the empress, plotted his downfall; and while these intrigues were in progress the citizens of Constantinople were already taking sides against the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • Simultaneously there came ambassadors from Nepos, the Imperial refugee, the nephew by marriage of Verina.

    Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation Thomas Hodgkin 1872

  • Glycerius, succeeded him, and after fifteen months of rule was thrust from the throne by Julius Nepos, who had married the niece of Verina, the mischief-making Augusta of the East, and who was, therefore, supported by all the moral influence of Constantinople.

    Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation Thomas Hodgkin 1872

  • In most of these rebellions his mother-in-law, Verina, widow of Leo, an ambitious and turbulent woman, played an important part.

    Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation Thomas Hodgkin 1872

  • Now and then: Ron Raines and Bernadette Peters sing passionately of a less cynical time, while their younger selves Lora Lee Gayer and Nick Verina hover in the half-light.

    News 2011

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