Calpurnia
Americannoun
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Before “Happy Birthday” and “Fire From the Hip,” Wolfhard released a total of two records and an EP, plus a whole bunch of singles, with his previous bands, Calpurnia and the Aubreys.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
With Calpurnia I kind of used her to make the anti-white savior argument.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2022
The play’s power, though, resides in the dignified stoicism of its morally righteous characters, Yaegel T. Welch’s Tom and Atticus’s longtime housekeeper, Calpurnia.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 23, 2022
And the story’s most prominent black characters — Calpurnia and Tom Robinson — are allowed more opportunity in the play to voice their frustrations about racial injustice.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2020
The Romans would also have disapproved of Cleopatra’s relationship with Caesar, who already had a wife named Calpurnia.
From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby
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