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Marijuana laws in Ann Arbor, Michigan During the last thirty years, the college town of Ann Arbor, Michigan has enacted some of the most lenient laws on marijuana possession in the United States. These include measures approved in a 1972 city-council ordinance, a 1974 voter referendum making possession of small amounts of the substance merely a civil infraction subject to a small fine, and a 2004 referendum on the use of medical marijuana.
Marijuana Policy Project The Marijuana Policy Project, or MPP, is an organization in the United States "working to minimize the harm associated with marijuana"MPP advocates taxing and regulating the possession and sale of cannabis, arguing that a regulated cannabis industry would separate purchasers from the street market for cocaine, heroin, and other hard drugs. In the late 1990s] and early [[2000s, public health officials expended unprecedented amounts of time and resources fighting legalization initiatives, igniting controversy over the proper use of American tax dollars.
Marijuana Reform Party The Marijuana Reform Party is a left-wing-progressive minor political party in the US state of New York dedicated to the legalization of cannabis. Founded in 1997, the Marijuana Reform Party ran a candidate for governor and other statewide offices in 1998 and 2002.
Marika Fingerroos Marika Fingerroos (born March 29, 1979 in Ruukki, Finland) is a Finnish model who together with Martina Aitolehti form the singer duo Salarakkaat. Known mainly for a number of scandals that were widely written about in the Finnish yellow press.
Marika Matsumoto is an actress and seiyū born on September 12, 1984 in Nakano, Tokyo, Japan. From 2001-2003, she was known as "Mini Stop-chan", acting as the mascot for the Mini Stop convenience store chain commercials in Japan.
Marika Vunibaka Marika "Dawainavesi" Vunibaka (born 3 November, 1974) is a Fijian rugby union footballer. He has represented the national team on numerous occasions, including at the 1999 Rugby World Cup in Wales and the 2003 Rugby World Cup in Australia.
Mariko Kōda (sometimes romanized Mariko Kouda) is a seiyū, J-Pop singer and radio personality born on September 5, 1969 in Miyashiro, Minami Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. She graduated from Kasukabe Kyōei High School and went on to major in Communications at Tamagawa University in Machida City, Tokyo, graduating in 1990.
Mariko Shiga was an idol star and seiyū born in either Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture or Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. She attended and graduated from Funabashi Municipal High School before enrolling in the University of California, Riverside in 1989.
Mariko Takahashi's Fitness Video For Being Appraised as an "Ex-fat Girl" Mariko Takahashi's Fitness Video for Being Appraised as an "Ex-fat Girl" (often referred to as Doggy Fitness or Poodle Fitness) is a short film by renowned art director and commercial film director Nagi Noda who has created spots for Nike and Coca Cola and starring Takahashi Mariko, a Japanese 2005 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships gymnast and jazz musician.. The film was created for Panasonic's Ten Short Movies – Capture the Motion series for the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Marilena Carpathia Marilena Carpathia is the mother of Nicolae Carpathia in the Left Behind series of books. The beginning of The Rising (Book #13 in the Left Behind series; #1 in the Before They Were Left Behind series) has her uneventfully married to her university colleague Sorin Carpathia.
Marilena ChauĂ­ Marilena de Souza ChauĂ­ (born September 4, 1941) is a Brazilian philosopher. She has been teaching political and modern philosophy in the Department of Philosophy of the University of SĂŁo Paulo since 1967, when she presented her dissertation on Merleau-Ponty.
Marilena Marin Wife of Franco Rocchetta, Marilena Marin was a founding member of the Liga Veneta in 1979 and party national secretary from 1984 to 1995. From 1994 to 1999 she was member of the European Parliament for the Lega Nord.
Marilita Lambropoulou Marilita Lambropoulou in Greek: Μαριλίτα Λαμπροπούλου born July 15, 1974 in Athens, Greece is a Greek actress. She is very popular with home audiences for her work in films like Athens Blues by George Panoussopoulos (2002) and The King by Nikos Grammatikos (2002), for which she won the "Quality Award".
Marilith (monster) A marilith (or Marilith, if a one-of-a-kind creature) is a type of monster found in some fantasy literature and games. Although there are variants, most have an upper body of a woman with the lower body of a snake, similar to a female nagas, but with the unique feature of having multiple arms.
Marillier shot The Marillier shot is a modern shot in cricket which involves reversing the grip on the bat and using it as a ramp to flick a ball backwards over the batsman's shoulder for a boundary. It is a rare, risky, ungrammatical and unorthodox shot but when successfully used can be devastating.
Marillion Marillion are a British Rock group. Formed in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England in 1979, their recorded studio output comprises 13 albums and is generally regarded as comprising two distinct eras, delineated by the departure of original frontman Fish in late 1988 after their first 4 albums, and the subsequent arrival of replacement Steve Hogarth ("h") in early 1989.
Marilu Henner Marilu Denise Cecilia Henner, commonly known as Marilu Henner, (born April 6, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) is an American actress and producer. She is best known for her role as Elaine Nardo in the television series Taxi.
Marilyn (hill) A Marilyn is a mountain or hill in the British Isles with a relative height of at least 150 metres, regardless of absolute height or other merit. The name was coined as a humorous contrast to the designation Munro, used of a Scottish mountain with a height of more than 3000 feet, which is homophonous with Monroe.
Marilyn Barrueta Marilyn Barrueta was inducted into the National Teachers Hall of Fame in 2005 after 48 years of teaching. Since 1978, "Señora Barrueta" has taught Spanish 1-6, AP Spanish, and Spanish for Fluent Speakers at Yorktown High School in Arlington, VA.
Marilyn Dease Johnson Marilyn Dease Johnson (born Liverpool, England) is an Author, Researcher, Investigator and Lecturer She attended Blairgowrie, Skerry's College and Liverpool University. Since the 1970s she has consulted for NATO, The Department of Defense, The Department of Agriculture, NASA, Action, VISTA, Peace Corps, White House Task Force and law enforcement agencies.
Marilyn Denis Marilyn Denis (born July 1, 1958) is a Canadian television and radio personality. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, she grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and received a bachelors degree in Radio, TV and Advertising from the University of Idaho.
Marilyn Eastman Marilyn Eastman (born in 1927) is an American actress best known for her role as Helen Cooper in the film Night of the Living Dead (1968). She also appeared in the films Houseguest (1995) and Santa Claws (1996).
Marilyn F. O'Grady Marilyn F. O'Grady was the unsuccessful Republican challenger to Carolyn McCarthy in the 2002 election for New York's 4th district in the United States House of Representatives, and the unsuccessful challenger from the Conservative Party of New York in the 2004 election for the Senate seat held by Charles Schumer.
Marilyn French Marilyn French (born November 21, 1929) is an American author known for her feminist novels and non-fiction. In her work, French asserts that women's oppression is an intrinsic part of the male-dominated global culture.
Marilyn Hacker Marilyn Hacker (born 1942) is an American poet, critic, and reviewer. Her books of poetry include Going Back to the River (1990), Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons (1986), and Presentation Piece (1975), which won the National Book Award.
Marilyn Harris Marilyn Harris(1924 – 1999) was an American child actor in several Hollywood productions of the 1930s. She will always be best remembered for her role as 'Little Maria' in the classic horror film Frankenstein (1931).
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School is film released in 2005, produced by Samuel Goldwyn Films and directed by Randall Miller. It is based on a 1990 short film by the same name also featuring Elden Henson.
Marilyn Churley Marilyn Churley (born May 7, 1948 in Old Perlican, Newfoundland) is a Canadian politician who represented the riding of Toronto—Danforth in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 2005. She is a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP), was a member of the Ontario cabinet during the Bob Rae government.
Marilyn Lloyd Rachel Marilyn Laird Lloyd (born January 3, 1929), also briefly known as Marilyn Lloyd Boquard due to a short second marriage, is a Tennessee businesswoman and 10-term former member of the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1975 to 1995, from Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Marilyn Mailman Segal Marilyn Mailman Segal (Marilyn Segal) is an American developmental psychologist, author and educator specializing in early childhood. She is the founder and dean emeritus of the Family Center at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Marilyn Manson (musician) Brian Hugh Warner (born on January 5, 1969), better known by his stage name Marilyn Manson, is the lead singer of the alternative metal band Marilyn Manson. His stage name is formed from the names Marilyn Monroe and Charles Manson.
Marilyn McCoo Marilyn McCoo (born September 30, 1943 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American singer. During the late 1960s and 1970s, she was one of the five singing members of the R&B group, The Fifth Dimension, the other four being Billy Davis Jr.
Marilyn McCord Adams The Reverend Professor Marilyn McCord Adams (1943 – ) is an American philosopher of religion, a theologian and a writer on medieval philosophy. She has since 1 January 2004 been the Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University.
Marilyn Milian Marilyn Milian (born May 1, 1961 in Queens, New York) is a former Florida circuit court judge and is the current host of the American television program The People's Court. Milian is the first female judge to preside over the preceding long-running show and the first Hispanic judge to sit on the bench of any English language television court show.
Marilyn More Marilyn More is a Canadian politician and member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly, representing the riding of Dartmouth South-Portland Valley for the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party. She was first elected in the 2003 election and re-elected in the 2006 election.
Marilyn Musgrave Marilyn Neoma Musgrave (born January 27, 1949), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing the 4th District of Colorado (map). The district includes most of the eastern portion of the state outside the Denver and Colorado Springs metropolitan areas.
Marilyn Pryor Marilyn Valeria Pryor (nee Lobb)(1937-2005) was a New Zealand conservative Catholic, anti-abortion activist, and served on the Executive Council of SPUC (the Society for Protection of the Unborn Child- now Voice for Life), as well as administrative roles for New Zealand's Thomas Cardinal Williams. She was also honoured for her services to her church through being made a Papal Dame of the Order of Saint Gregory the Great in 1996.
Marilyn Times Five Marilyn Times Five is a film by Bruce Conner, that is an exploration of how a film’s form can influence the way an audience perceives the film's content. Conner took some footage that is a little over a minute, from a film that purportedly contains Marilyn Monroe dressed only in panties.
Marilyn Warren Marilyn Louise Warren AC QC (1951 – ), Australian judge, is the eleventh and current Chief Justice of Victoria, the first woman to be appointed to the position, and the first woman to be appointed Chief Justice in any of the states and territories of Australia.
Marimar Marimar is a Mexican TV telenovela that was originally broadcast in 1994 on Televisa. Marimar is a remake of the telenovela La venganza, which aired on Televisa in 1977 and starred Helena Rojo and Enrique Lizalde.
Marimba Lumina Don Buchla's Marimba Lumina is one of many in the family of MIDI controllers consisting of specialized control surfaces which are manipulated by specialized controllers. More than one version exists, with similar characteristics.
Marimekko Marimekko is a Finnish company based in Helsinki that has made important contributions to fashion, especially in the 1960s and 1970s. They are particularly noted for brightly-colored printed fabrics and simple styles.
Marimo Marimo (Japanese: 毬藻 marimo), also known as Cladophora ball, Lake ball, or Moss Balls in English, is a species of filamentous green algae (Chlorophyta) found in a number of lakes in the northern hemisphere. The name though refers to a certain rare growth form of the species where the algae grow into large green balls with a velvety appearance.
Marin (wind) Marin is a strong wind in the Golfe du Lion blowing from a south-easterly direction, and is next in frequency and importance to the mistral in this region. It is generally warm, moist and cloudy, with rain and heavy weather, and is associated with depressions which enter the Gulf of Lions from the west or south-west after traversing southern France and northern Spain.
Marin Academy Marin Academy (familiarly known as MA) is a private college preparatory high school of approximately 400 students situated at 1600 Mission Avenue, San Rafael, California. Eleanor "Bodie" Brizendine is the head of the school.
Marin Alsop Marin Alsop (born October 16, 1956) is an American conductor. Born in Manhattan, New York City to professional musician parents, she later attended Yale University but then transferred to the Juilliard School, where she earned her bachelor's and master's degrees, both in violin.
Marin Barleti Marin Barleti (Latin: Marinus Barletius, Italian: Marino Barlezio; ca 1450, Shkodër - 1512 or 1513, probably Rome). Barleti was a humanist of Albanian descent, the first and greatest Albanian historian, and a Catholic priest.
Marin Barleti University Marin Barleti University (Universiteti Marin Barleti) is a recently established private institution of higher education in Albania which bears the name of the historian/humanist of the 15th century, Marin Barleti author of the influential historic account on the Skanderbeg epics.
Marin Boucher Marin Boucher (1587 or 1589-1671), was a pioneer of early New France and one of the most prolific ancestors of French Canada, being the ancestor of most of the Bouchers of North America, particularly in the Province of Quebec, Northern New Brunswick, Ontario and Western Canada. Estimates of the number of families in Canada and the United States descended from Marin Boucher run as high as 350,000, although most of them do not bear the name Boucher today because Marin's line produced more daughters than sons.
Marin Computer Center Opened in 1977 in Marin County, CA, the Marin Computer Center was the world's first public access microcomputer center. The non-profit company was co-created by David Fox (later to become one of Lucasfilm Games' founding members) and Annie Fox.
Marin County Civic Center Marin County Civic Center, the only public building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, is located in San Rafael, California. The building, completed in 1959 after Wright's death, is a national and state designated historic landmark.
Marin Drinov Professor Marin Stoyanov Drinov (, known in Russia as Марин Степанович Дринов) (1838-13 March 1906) was a Bulgarian historian and philologist from the National Revival period who lived and worked in Russia through most of his life. He was one of the originators of Bulgarian historiography and a founding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (then the Bulgarian Literary Society), as well as its first chairman.
Marin Getaldić Marin Getaldić (Latin: Ghetaldus, Italian: Marino Ghetaldi) (1568 - April 11, 1626, Dubrovnik (Ragusa), then independent city-state in Dalmatia, Croatia) was the most outstanding Croatian scientist of his time. A mathematician and physicist who studied in Italy, England and Belgium, his best results are mainly in physics, especially optics, and mathematics.
Marin Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Other Drug Problems The Marin Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Other Drug Problems is an organization that promotes reduction of consumption alcohol policies. These include increasing the taxes on alcoholic beverages, reducing the hours during which time alcohol can be sold, increasing the size of warning labels on alcoholic beverage containers, requiring warnings on all alcohol advertisements, restricting the content and placement of alcohol ads, and prohibiting alcohol sponsorship of athletic events.
Marin Karmitz Marin Karmitz (born October 7, 1938 in Bucharest, Romania) is a French movie director, producer, and executive producer. He also owns and runs the MK2 movie theater chain, which has the ambition of showing movies even when they are "guaranteed" to lose money.
Marin Marais Marin Marais (31 May 1656, Paris – 15 August 1728, Paris) was a pupil of Jean-Baptiste Lully and of the viol player Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe. He was hired as a musician in 1676 to the royal court of Versailles.
Marin Sais Marin Sais (August 2, 1890 - December 31, 1971) was an American motion picture actress whose career was most prolific during the silent film era of the 1910s and 1920s. Sais' acting career spanned over four decades and she is possibly best recalled for appearing in Western themed films.
Marina Abramović Marina Abramović (born 30 November 1946, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia) is a performance artist who began her career in the early 1970s. Active for over three decades, she has recently begun to describe herself as the “grandmother of performance art.
Marina Arismendi Ana Marina Arismendi Dubinsky (born 30 May 1949, Montevideo) is an Uruguayan senator and current minister of social development in the government of President Tabaré Vázquez. She is also the secretary-general since 1998 of the Communist Party of Uruguay (PCU), a constituent of the ruling Frente Amplio.
Marina Bai Marina Bai (born 1965) is a Russian astrologer who sued NASA in July, 2005 for US$300-310 million. She claimed that the NASA probe that crashed into the Tempel 1 comet will interfere with her astrology work because the comet would no longer be the same, claiming it "ruins the natural balance of forces in the universe".
Marina Baixa Marina Baixa is a comarca in Land of Valencia, Spain. It is bordered by the comarcas of Comtat on the northwest, Marina Alta on the northeast, AlacantĂ­ and AlcoiĂ  on the west and the Mediterranean Sea on the east.
Marina Barrage The Marina Barrage is a dam being built in Singapore across the Marina Channel between the reclaimed lands of Marina East and Marina South. The S$226 million project will be completed in 2007, and turn the Marina Bay and Kallang Basin into a new downtown freshwater reservoir.
Marina Bay Financial Centre The Marina Bay Financial Centre (Abbreviation: MBFC; Chinese: 滨海湾金融中心), located along Marina Boulevard at Marina Bay, Singapore, is a multi-phase development with its first phase targeted for completion by 2010. The largest office development to date in the city in terms of gross floor area when fully completed, its first phase will comprise of three towers, of which two are office buildings at 42 and 36 floors each, and the third residential tower, Marina Bay Residences, will rise to 55 floors and house 428 units.
Marina Bay MRT Station The Marina Bay MRT Station (NS27) is the southern terminal station of the North South Line in Singapore. This station is located on reclaimed land and there are no developments surrounding it, and hence contrary to what the name implies, there exists a slight distance between the station and the actual town of Marina Bay.
Marina Bay, Richmond, California Marina Bay, is located in Richmond, California's protected Inner Harbor, was developed in the mid 1980s in an effort to clean up what had been up to that point the defunct WWII-era Kaiser Shipyards. The area is home to many retail and industrial businesses and has been planned as a upper-scale residential waterfront community with condominiums and townhouses.
Marina Bay, Singapore Marina Bay is a bay near the Central Area in the southern part of Singapore, and lies to the east of the Downtown Core. An artificial bay, it was formed when land reclamation created the Marina Centre and Marina South areas, which form a body of sheltered waters of what was once open sea.
Marina Beach Marina Beach is one of the world's longest and broadest beaches situated along a 12 km shoreline in the city of Chennai, India. Unlike the short, rocky formations that make up the Juhu Beach in Mumbai on the west coast of India, the Marina is primarily sandy.
Marina Berlusconi Daughter of Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's billionaire former prime minister, Berlusconi, 40, holds several posts in her father's media empire. She is chairman of Italy's largest magazine publisher, Mondadori, and deputy chairman of the family's investment arm, Fininvest, the media holding company her father founded and built.
Marina Centre Bus Terminal Marina Centre Bus Terminal (Chinese: 滨海中心巴士终站) is a bus station located along Raffles Boulevard in Marina Centre, Singapore. The bus terminal does not allow boarding or alighting, and passengers have to alight before the bus terminates at the terminal.
Marina City Marina City is a mixed-use residential/commercial building complex occupying the entire city block at 300 North State Street in Chicago, Illinois, on the north bank of the Chicago River, directly across from Chicago's Loop district. The complex consists of two corncob-shaped 61-story, 587 foot tall residential towers, a saddle-shaped auditorium building, and a mid-rise hotel building all contained on a raised platform cantilevered over defunct railroad tracks adjacent to the river.
Marina Cooper Marina Nadine Cooper is a fictional character on the popular CBS daytime soap opera, Guiding Light. The character is the only child of police chief, Frank Cooper, and ex-wife, Eleni Andros and was born on-screen on May 8, 1993.
Marina del Rey, California Marina del Rey (Spanish for "Navy of the King", or "Seacoast of the King") is a census-designated place seaside community located in an unincorporated area of Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 8,176 at the 2000 census.
Marina Dimitrijevic Marina Dimitrijevic is the youngest member of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors. Her district is located in the northern half of Bay View, a small residential area on the southeast side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Marina District Development The Marina District Development Corporation, LLC is a joint venture of Boyd Gaming Corporation and MGM Mirage that was established to develop and operate The Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, New Jersey. After a competitive process, MGM Mirage was selected as the lead developer of government-owned vacant property in the "H-Tract" area, later renamed "Renaissance Pointe".
Marina District, San Francisco, California The Marina District is an affluent, picturesque neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The area is bounded to the east by Van Ness Ave, on the west by Lyon Street and the Presidio, on the south by Lombard St.
Marina Dorćol The Marina Dorćol project (Serbian Cyrillic: Mарина Дорћoл) in Belgrade, Serbia is a future city enter on the Danube, with residential and commercial areas as well as areas for sports objects, yacht club, hangar, workshop and many more.
Marina Finlay Marina Finlay is an Australian actress who played notable roles in television soap operas - Lucy Dunlop in The Young Doctors, Elizabeth Drysdale in Taurus Rising, Lainie Dobson in Prisoner and Laura Banning in Sons and Daughters.
Marina Freeway The Marina Freeway is a short freeway in southwestern Los Angeles, California and the nearby suburbs. It is the westernmost part of California State Highway 90, and links Marina Del Rey to the rest of Greater Los Angeles.
Marina Golbahari Marina Golbahari (born 1991) is an Afghan actress who was born in Kabul. She gained international fame with her role as the title character in the 2003 film Osama, playing a girl who had to dress and act as a boy to support her family during the Taliban years.
Marina Green The Marina Green in San Francisco, California is a 74-acre expanse of grass between Fort Mason and the Presidio. It is adjacent to San Francisco Bay, and this location provides good views of the Golden Gate Bridge, Angel Island, Alcatraz Island, and parts of Marin County.
Marina High School Marina High School (Marina) is a secondary school located in the southwest corner of Huntington Beach, California which first began operating in 1963. Marina is part of the Huntington Beach Union High School District, which includes several other area high schools.
Marina Karaseva Marina Karaseva (full Russian name: Marina Valerievna Karaseva, Russian: Марина Валериевна Карасёва, the erlier official Russian transliteration before 2005 in French: Marina Karasseva) (August 8,1958, Moscow) - Russian musicologist, Professor of Moscow Conservatory, Department of Music Theory, Grand Doctor in Art, Ph.D.
Marina Kuroki Marina Kuroki (黒木マリナ) is an actress best known for her appearances in the Sailor Moon Musicals Series). She starred in it as the lead role of Sailormoon at the age of 12 and finished her Sailormoon career at 16 in 2005.
Marina Lobatch Marina Vikentyevna Lobatch (Russian: Марина Викентьевна Лобач) (born 26 June, 1970 in Smolevicki, Belarus) was a Soviet Individual Rhythmic Gymnast. She currently lives in Minsk with her husband, Dmitry Bogdanov, and their daughter, Irina, Where she is a coach and judge for the Belarusian Gymnastics Federation.
Marina Manzanares Monjarás Marina Manzanares Monjarás is a political activist in El Salvador. She has long been with the main opposition party Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional).
Marina Matsushima Marina Matsushima (; ) (born December 24, 1980) is a Japanese adult film actress famous for her prodigious J cup (DD cup in American measurements) natural breasts. Marina was scouted from her OL (office lady) job by a talent scout for adult films.
Marina Ogilvy Marina Victoria Alexandria Ogilvy (born 31 July 1966) is the only daughter of Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy and the late Sir Angus Ogilvy. She was born in Thatched House Lodge, Richmond Park, Surrey.
Marina Ottaway Marina Ottaway is a specialist on democracy and post- conflict resolution with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is also the senior associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Project which analyzes the state of democracy across the globe and looks closely at efforts by the United States to promote democracy.
Marina Prusakova Marina Prusakova (Russian:Марина Прусакова) was born in Molotovsk on July 17, 1941. She lived with her mother and stepfather until 1957 when she moved to Minsk where she lived with her uncle, Ilya Prusakov, who worked at the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD).
Marina Raskova Marina Mikhailovna Raskova (March 28, 1912–January 4, 1943) was a famous Russian navigator, often referred to as the "Russian Amelia Earhart". She later became one of over 800,000 women in the military service in a huge way by founding three female air regiments which would eventually fly over 30,000 sorties in World War II.
Marina South Pier Marina South Pier (Chinese: 滨海南码头) is a pier that is located in Marina South, Singapore. It is used as a terminal for tourists and day trippers who boarded small boats and ferries heading for the Southern Islands.
Marina Square Marina Square (Chinese: 滨海广场) is a shopping mall in Singapore which opened in the late 1980s. It is part of the first building complex built on the reclaimed land at Marina Centre, and was the largest shopping mall in the country at the time.
Marina Tower The Marina Tower, currently under construction near the Marriot Hotel, in the Maritime Quarter, Swansea is set to be the tallest building in Swansea. When complete, it will comprise 26 storeys, double the current tallest building in Swansea, the BT Tower.
Marina Tsintikidou Marina Tsintikidou, in Greek: Μαρίνα Τσιντικίδου, is a Greek fashion model/presenter, who has appeared on the covers of numerous Greek fashion magazines such MAX. She won the title of B Miss Hellas (Greek: Β Μις Ελλάς) in the Miss Star Hellas Pageant in 1992.
Marina von Neumann Whitman Marina von Neumann Whitman, born March_6, 1935, is Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. She is also member of the board of directors at the Peterson Institute, and a member of the Group of Thirty think-tank.
Marina Watanabe Marina Watanabe (渡辺 満里奈 Watanabe Marina; born November 181970) is a Japanese actress, singer, and TV-personality. She was born in Ota, Tokyo, Japan and is currently married to Japanese comedian Jun Nagura.
Marina World Kuwait's largest shopping and entertainment complex, Marina World, opened its first phase to international acclaim in November 2002. The second phase of the complex followed in early 2004, and the third and final phase opened towards the end of 2005.
Marina, Princess of Naples Marina, Princess of Naples (nee Marina Ricolfi Doria) (born February 12, 1935is a Swiss-born water skier who married to Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples]. Although the titles and distinctions of the Italian royal family have been legally abolished, she is often styled "HRH Crown Princess Marina, Princess of Naples" out of courtesy, particularly by supporters of the former monarchy.
Marinas in Turkey Turkey boasts of increasingly favored ports of call for international and local yachtsmen. The country's popularity is certainly advantaged by her spectacular coastal straits, a past noted for the rich sea-faring literature, some of whose references are part of the everyday culture, as is the case for the Blue Cruise, and the search for the Golden Fleece.
Marination Marination, also known as marinating, is the process of soaking foods in a seasoned, often acidic, liquid before cooking. The origins of the word allude to the use of brine (aqua marina) in the pickling process, which led to the technique of adding flavour by immersion in liquid.

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