Poppaea Sabina object of desire of Claudius, Nero, and Otho, each of whom served for a time as Roman Emperor, whose rivalries Agrippina attempts to leverage to her advantage. Once Poppaea sees through Agrippina's deceit, she responds in kind, but only in order to be united with Otho, portrayed as her one true love. Poppaea appears as a character in the several cinema and TV versions of Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel "Quo Vadis". In the 1951 film version - in which she is played by Patricia Laffan in a widely-praised performance - she is strangled to death by Nero, who blames her for
Assabe and Sabina Assabe and Sabina Assabe and Sabina was a regionally popular Pennsylvania German dialect radio program that was broadcast from radio station WSAN in Allentown, Pennsylvania in the United States from 1944 until 1955. The show centered on the relationship between "Der Assabe Mumbauer", a Pennsylvania German farmer, and his wife, "Die Sabina Mumbauer". The character of Assabe was a "humorous prankster who frequently was in difficulty with his wife or with his neighbors." Lloyd A. Moll created the program, and played the role of "Der Assabe" until his death, just a few weeks after the show's launch. Dr. Harry Hess