Mitford family Vanessa, Atalanta, and Jessica. A portion of Jessica Mitford's writing is used as a spoken-word introduction to the song "Last Act of Defiance", about the New Mexico State Penitentiary riot, on thrash metal band Exodus's 1989 album "Fabulous Disaster". Mitford sisters by William Acton Mitford family The Mitford family is a gentry (minor aristocratic) English family whose main family line had seats at Mitford, Northumberland. Several heads of the family served as High Sheriff of Northumberland. A junior line, with seats at Newton Park, Northumberland, and Exbury House, Hampshire, descends via the historian William Mitford (1744–1827) and were twice elevated
Sisters of Christian Doctrine of Nancy active in Italy since 1920, the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 1948 (in spite of the 1964 murders of seven Sisters), in South Korea since 1966, Côte d'Ivoire since 1947, Chile since 1967, Romania since 1993, and, since 2010, Cambodia. On 31 December 2005 the congregation had 572 religious in 130 houses. Its motherhouse is in Nancy. Sisters of Christian Doctrine of Nancy The Sisters of the Christian Doctrine of Nancy (French: "Sœurs de la Doctrine Chrétienne de Nancy") (D.C.) is a religious order of the Roman Catholic Church for women, whose primary mission is the teaching and nursing