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Mary Bowerman Dr. Mary Leolin Bowerman (January 25, 1908 - August 21, 2005) was a botanist and author of The Flowering Plants and Ferns of Mount Diablo, California; Their Distribution and Association into Plant Communities, and co-founder of Save Mount Diablo helped to preserve tens of thousands of acres of her beloved mountain in the San Francisco East Bay, before dying at age 97 on August 21, 2005.
Mary Brant Koñwatsiãtsiaiéñni or Mary (Molly) Brant ( c.1736 – April 16, 1796 ) was a Mohawk leader and the older sister of Joseph Brant, both of whom wielded considerable influence during the American Revolution as British Loyalists.
Mary Burnett Talbert Mary Burnett Talbert (September 17, 1866 – October 15, 1923) was an American orator, activist, suffragist and reformer. Called "The best known Colored Woman in the United States," Talbert was among the most prominent African Americans of her time.
Mary Butts Mary Franeis Butts (December 13, 1890 - March 5, 1937) was a British modernist writer. Her work found recognition in important literary magazines such as "The Bookman" and "The Little Review", as well as from some of her fellow modernists, T.
Mary Caffrey Low Mary Caffrey Low Carver (1850- March 4, 1926) was one of the five founding members of the Sigma Kappa sorority and a pioneering advocate for women's education, along with being an accomplished library scientist and writer.
Mary Camden-Rivera Played by actress Jessica Biel, Mary Camden-Rivera is a fictional character from the longtime WB/CW drama 7th Heaven. Born in 1982, Mary is the oldest daughter of seven children born to Eric and Annie Camden, growing up in fictional Glen Oak, California.
Mary Campbell Cave Mary Campbell Cave, also known as Old Maid's Kitchen, is a small secondary cliff cavity cave in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. The cliff and cave roof are sandstone of the Sharon Formation, while the cave wall is shale of the Meadville formation.
Mary Caponegro Mary Caponegro is an experimental fiction writer whose collections include Tales from the Next Village, the Star Cafe, Five Doubts, and The Complexities of Intimacy. Her stories appear regularly in Conjunctions and in other periodicals.
Mary Carbery Mary Carbery (-1949), pen name of Mary Toulmin, who married first Algernon, 9th Baron Carbery of Castle Freke, County Cork, Ireland and second Arthur Wellesley Sandford of Frankfield House, County Cork, Ireland. Amongst her books are Hertfordshire Heritage, The Farm by Lough Gur, Happy World, and West Cork Journal (edited by her grandson, Jeremy Sandford.
Mary Carroll Mary Janet Carroll (née Hutchinson) was an elite netball player for Australia. She played for Australia in the early 60's playing with Norma Plumber the current head coach for Australia's record breaking team.
Mary Carter Reitano Mary Carter Reitano (born circa 1935) was a female tennis player from Australia. She won the singles title at the 1956 and 1959 Australian Championships and failed to reached the semifinals there only once in nine attempts.
Mary Cartwright Dame Mary Cartwright DBE (December 17, 1900 - April 3, 1998) was a leading 20th century British mathematician. She was born in Aynho, Northamptonshire where her father was the vicar and died in Cambridge, England.
Mary Cassatt Mary Stevenson Cassatt (May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists.
Mary Castillo Mary Castillo (born 1974) writes chick lit romances with Latina heroines. A graduate of the University of Southern California, Castillo once considered medicine as a career thinking it would allow her to one day retire and write novels.
Mary Catherine Small Long Mary Catherine Small "Cathy" Long (born February 7, 1924) is a former United States Representative from the state of Louisiana. She served from 1985-1987, the remainder of the term of her husband, Gillis William Long, after his death.
Mary Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire Mary Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (29 July 1895 Hatfield, Hertfordshire – 24 December 1988) was born Lady Mary Alice Gascoyne-Cecil, daughter of James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury. She was married on 21 April 1917 to Lord Hartington, who succeeded his father as 10th Duke of Devonshire in 1938, whereupon Mary became Duchess of Devonshire.
Mary Clinton Mary Frances Clinton (nee Deakins, born May 8, 1960 in Darfield, New Zealand) is a former field hockey player from New Zealand, who was a member of the national team that finished sixth at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. Eight years later she competed with The Black Sticks at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where the team ended up in eight position.
Mary Coustas Mary Coustas (born 16 September 1964) is an Australian television personality. Originally from Melbourne, Coustas often performs under the impersonation of "Effie": a stereotypical second-generation Greek Australian.
Mary Cover Jones Mary Cover Jones (September 1, 1896 - July 22, 1987) was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Within psychology, a scientific field dominated throughout much of the 20th century by male scientists, Mary Cover Jones stands out as a pioneer of behavior therapy.
Mary Crane Mary Crane is a politician of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island. On July 28, 2004, she ran for the Canadian House of Commons, representing the Conservative Party of Canada in Malpeque, but lost to Wayne Easter of the Liberal Party of Canada.
Mary Crow Dog Mary Crow Dog, also known as Mary Brave Bird (born 1953 on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota), is a Native American writer and activist. She is the author of two books, Lakota Woman and Ohitika Woman, and was the subject of the 1994 TNT and Jane Fonda produced movie Lakota Woman, Siege at Wounded Knee, starring Irene Bedard as Mary Crow Dog, depicting the events that occurred during the 1973 uprising of the AIM (American Indian Movement) organization and their stand-off at the grave site of the Wounded Knee massacre of December 1890.
Mary Cummings Mary Phelps Cowles (Hall) Cummings (August 5, 1839 in Elyria, Ohio – December 23, 1927) was the eldest daughter of Reverend John P. Cowles and Eunice Caldwell Cowles; he was a professor of Greek, Latin, Syriac, French, German, and Italian.
Mary Cummings Park Mary Cummings Park is a 200 acre public park in Woburn and Burlington, Massachusetts, which became a part of the city of Boston's park system in 1930 from the estate of Mary Cummings. Mary Cummings left the land to the City under the condition that it be "kept forever open as a public pleasure ground".
Mary Cunningham Agee Mary Elizabeth Cunningham Agee is an American former business executive, author, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Her well-publicized office romance with Bendix Corporation CEO William Agee torpedoed Bendix's 1982 attempt to acquire Martin Marietta and, in the process, destroyed Bendix, too.
Mary Curtis Richardson Mary Curtis Richardson (9 April 1848, New York City - 1 November 1931, San Francisco) was an impressionist painter and known as the "Mary Cassatt of the West". Her father, Lucien Curtis went overland to the gold fields of California in 1849.
Mary Curzon, 2nd Baroness Ravensdale Mary Irene Curzon, 2nd Baroness Ravensdale (January 20, 1896 - February 9, 1966) was the eldest child of George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston and Mary Victoria Leiter, a daughter of Levi Zeigler Leiter. She inherited her father's Barony of Ravensdale and was created a life peer as Baroness Ravensdale of Kedleston, of Kedleston in the County of Derbyshire in 1958.
Mary de Young Mary de Young is a professor of sociology at Grand Valley State University, and the author of The Ritual Abuse Controversy: An Annotated Bibliography and The Day Care Ritual Abuse Moral Panic. She lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Mary Daly Mary Daly (born October 16, 1928 in Schenectady, New York) is a radical feminist theologian. Before obtaining her three doctorates in sacred theology and philosophy from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, she received her B.
Mary Davis-Cates Mary Davis-Cates (March 30, 1951 - May 16, 2006) was chiefly known as the highest ranking woman in the international Cuong Nhu Oriental Martial Arts school, and as a popular trainer in self-defense in many venues, including the U.S.
Mary De Moss Mary Panton, née Mary De Moss, is a prominent member of the Church of Scientology and former head of AMC Publishing, a Scientologist-owned company. Panton continues to do occasional work with AMC as an assistant to Bennetta Slaughter.
Mary Delahunty Mary Delahunty (born June 7, 1951, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian journalist and politician with the Australian Labor Party. She represents the electorate of Northcote, but lives in the suburb of South Melbourne.
Mary Dennett Mary Coffin Ware Dennett (April 4, 1872 - July 25, 1947) was an American birth control activist and pacifist. She formed the Voluntary Parenthood League and the group lobbied until 1926 for a bill that would exempt birth control information and materials from federal censorship laws.
Mary Disraeli, 1st Viscountess Beaconsfield Mary Anne Disraeli, 1st Viscountess Beaconsfield (11 November 1792 - 15 December 1872), born Mary Anne Evans, married Wyndham Lewis and then, after her first husband's death, Benjamin Disraeli. It was as a reward for his services to the nation that Queen Victoria made Mary Anne a peeress in her own right, Viscountess Beaconsfield, of Beaconsfield in the County of Buckingham, years before Disraeli accepted the honour of becoming Earl of Beaconsfield.
Mary Dixon Kies Mary Dixon Kies (March 21, 1752 – 1837) was an early 19th-century American who was the first recipient of a patent granted to a woman by the Patent Office, on May 5 1809, which was for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
Mary Donaldson, Baroness Donaldson of Lymington Dorothy Mary Warwick, Lady Donaldson of Lymington, GBE DStJ (29 August 1921–4 October 2003), better known as Dame Mary Donaldson, was the first female Lord Mayor of London (serving in that office in 1983–1984).
Mary Dorcey Mary Dorcey is an Irish lesbian short story writer, poet and novelist. She won the Rooney Prize for Literature in 1990 and has been awarded three Art Council Bursaries for literature, in 1990 and 1995 and 1999.
Mary Draper Ingles Mary Draper Ingles (1732 - February 1815) was an American pioneer and early settler of western Virginia. She was abducted by Indians and later escaped, making a harrowing trek over hundreds of miles of rough terrain to return home.
Mary Duke Biddle Mary Duke Biddle (November 16, 1887-June 14, 1960) was an American philanthropist, the daughter of Benjamin Newton Duke, a co-founder with his brother of the American Tobacco Company. Born in Durham, North Carolina, Biddle went on to attend Durham's Trinity College, the institutional predecessor of Duke University, which was named in honor of her family.
Mary E. Switzer Mary Elizabeth Switzer (February 16, 1900 - October 16, 1971), was an American public administrator and social reformer. She notably shaped the 1954 Vocational Rehabilitation Act, which provided a great expansion of vocational rehabilitation service for people with disabilities.
Mary Easaw-John Mary Easaw-John is currently chief dietician and senior manager of Dietetics and Food Services at Institut Jantung Negara / National Heart Institute (IJN), Kuala Lumpur. She has been there for almost 13 years, having joined IJN in 1993.
Mary Edna Fraser Mary Edna Fraser is an artist working in batik, transforming aerial photographs into works on large fabric panels. Her work has been exhibited several times at the Air and Space Museum, at the National Academy of Sciences, and at many galleries and musuems nationwide.
Mary Edwards Wertsch Mary Edwards Wertsch is the author of the book Military Brats: Legacies of Childhood Inside the Fortress. This book is considered the seminal piece of literature dealing with the effects of growing up as a military brat.
Mary Elizabeth Frederica Mackenzie Mary Elizabeth Frederica Mackenzie (1783 - 28 November 1862), eldest daughter and heiress of Francis Mackenzie, 1st Baron Seaforth. Married twice, first to Vice Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, second to James Alexander Stewart on 21 May 1817.
Mary Elizabeth Maugham Mary Elizabeth Maugham (born Mary Elizabeth Wellcome, 1915 - 1998)Her birth name is given as Mary Elizabeth Wellcome in the immigration and naturalization files of ellisisland.org, wherein she is listed, along with her mother, then Syrie Wellcome, on the 21 July 1916 manifest of the HMS Baltic.
Mary Elizabeth McDonough Mary Elizabeth McDonough is an American actress (born May 4 1961 in Van Nuys California), most famous for her role as "Erin Walton" in the series The Waltons. In 1988 she married Rob Wickstrom, with whom she had a daughter Sydnee.
Mary Elizabeth Rollins Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner (9 April 1818 in Lima, New York–17 December 1913 in Minersville, Utah) is recognized as the ninth woman to marry LDS Church founder Joseph Smith, Jr.The Wives of Joseph Smith After Smith's death, she would go on to become the twenty-fourth plural wife of LDS Prophet Brigham Young.
Mary Ellen Pleasant Mary Ellen Pleasant (died January 4, 1904) was a 19th Century female entrepreneur of partial African descent who used her fortune to further abolition. She worked on the Underground Railroad across many states and then helped bring it to California during the Gold Rush Era.
Mary Ellen Smith Mary Ellen Spear Smith (October 11, 1861 or 1863 - May 3 1933) was a politician in British Columbia, Canada. She was the first female Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, and both the first female cabinet minister and the first female Speaker in the British Empire.
Mary Ellis Mary Ellis (June 15 1897 - January 30 2003) was a star of the British stage. She emigrated from America after appearing with the Metropolitan Opera, including opposite Enrico Caruso, and then acting on Broadway, and began acting in England.
Mary Everest Boole Mary Everest Boole (1832-1916) was a self-taught mathematician who is most well known as an author of didactic works on mathematics, such as Philosophy and Fun of Algebra, and as the wife of fellow mathematician George Boole. Her life is of interest to feminists as an example of how women made careers in an academic system that did not welcome them.
Mary Farkas Mary Farkas (1911 - 1992) was a Rinzai Zen Buddhist and longtime director of The First Zen Institute of America founded by Sokei-an in 1930 in New York City. Aside from Sokei-an, FZIA has had no formal teacher since and Mary was uncomfortable holding the title director (she preferred secretary).
Mary Fendrich Hulman Mary Fendrich Hulman (March 13, 1905 - April 10, 1998) was the wife of the late Indiana industrialist Anton "Tony" Hulman, Jr. and matriarch of the Hulman-George family which today controls Hulman & Co.
Mary Fitzgerald Square The 22000 capacity Mary Fitzgerald Square is in the heart of Newtown, a part of downtown Johannesburg earmarked for a number of urban renewal projects. Icons of the South African cultural scene surround the square: the Market Theatre — which played host to much of the 1980's 'struggle theatre' opposing the apartheid regime's discriminatory policies; Museum Africa; the old Turbine Hall, and the Worker's Library.
Mary Flagler Cary Mary Flagler Cary (1901-1967) was heir to part of the Standard Oil fortune and became a notable philanthropist, mainly through the charitable trust established at her death. She was the granddaughter of Henry Morrison Flagler, one of the founders of Standard Oil, and inherited 20,000 shares of Standard Oil from her father Harry Harkness FlaglerHarry Harkness Flagler on a local information website ("Dr Bronson and Friends") for City of St Augustine, FL accessed June 13, 2006 on his death in 1952 (valued then at $1,600,000).
Mary Flaherty (politician) Mary Flaherty (born 1953) is a former Irish Fine Gael Party politician. She was a Teachta Dála, or TD, (the title given to members of the lower chamber of Ireland's parliament) for 16 years, and seved briefly as a junior minister in her first year in Dáil Éireann.
Mary Foy Mary Emily Foy was the first woman head librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library, appointed to the job in 1880 at the age of 18. She had graduated the year before from Los Angeles High School She served for only four years but left a legacy for Los Angeles librarians to remember [http://thepaperink.
Mary Frances Berry Mary Frances Berry is Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and the former chairwoman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights.
Mary Fraser-Tytler Mary Seton Fraser-Tytler (married name Mary Seton Watts) (1849 – 1938) was a symbolist craftswoman, designer and social reformer. She was born in India, the daughter of Charles Edward Fraser-Tytler of Balnain and Aldourie, but spent much of her youth in Scotland and settled in England in the 1860s.
Mary From Dungloe (festival) The Mary From Dungloe International Festival is a popular Irish music festival held annually, usually at the end of July in the small town of Dungloe, County Donegal. The festival is centered around a pageant to find a young lady who is crowned “Mary From Dungloe”.
Mary From Dungloe (song) Mary from Dungloe was a song originally penned by a Donegal stonemason Padraig MacCumhaill in 1936, telling a tragic story of love and heartbreak. A modified version of the song was re-released by The Emmet Spiceland Ballad Group and reached number 1 in the Irish singles music chart on the 24th of February 1968.
Mary G. Enig Dr Mary Gertrude Enig (born 1931) is a nutritionist and biochemist of international repute for her research on the nutritional aspects of fats. She is a consultant, clinician, and the director of the Nutritional Sciences Division of Enig Associates, Inc.
Mary Gaitskill Mary Gaitskill (born November 11, 1954 in Lexington, Kentucky) is an American author of essays, short stories and novels. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories (1993 and 2006), and The O.
Mary Garden Mary Garden (born Aberdeen, February 20, 1874 - died Inverurie, January 3, 1967) was an important Scottish soprano with a substantial career in France and America in the first third of the 20th century. She was described as "the Sarah Bernhardt of opera".
Mary Garman Mary Campbell, nee Mary Garman (1898-1979) was the eldest of the Garman sisters, the seven daughters (and two sons) of Walter and Margaret Garman, an eccentric Victorian doctor, who lead notoriously high profile lives within mid 20th century artistic circles. Having grown up in the bleak surroundings of the 'Black Country' at Oakeswell Hall, Wednesbury, in England they were prominent in London's Bohemian Bloomsbury set, between the two world wars.
Mary Gauthier Mary Gauthier (born March, 1962, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is an American folk singer/songwriter. At age 15, she ran away from home and stole her parents' car, and spent the next several years in detox, halfway houses, and living with friends; she spent her 18th birthday in jail.
Mary Gibbs Mary Jessica Gibbs (born January 1, 1996 in Pasadena, California) is an American child voice actress and the daughter of Rob Gibbs. At age 3 she gave voice to the toddler Boo in the animated movie Monsters Inc..
Mary Gilmore Prize The Mary Gilmore Prize for the best first book of poetry, is given to a first book of poetry from the previous two years, prior to 1998 it was awarded annualy. It is conducted by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature and named after the writer and socialist Dame Mary Gilmore.
Mary Glasgow Miss Mary Glasgow, a missionary to Malaysia of the Plymouth Brethren tradition, was the founder of the Bukit Bintang Boys schools (primary and secondary) and one of the early principals Bukit Bintang Girls schools (primary and secondary) in Petaling Jaya and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Mary Goode Mary Goode (born May 15, 1979 in Dublin) is a field hockey goalkeeper from Ireland, who earned her first international senior cap for the Ireland Women's National Team in 2005 in a match against South Korea. She plays clubhockey for the Cork Harlequins.
Mary Grant Bruce Mary Grant Bruce (24 May 1878 – July 2, 1958), also known as Minnie Bruce, was an Australian children's author and journalist. While all her thirty-seven books enjoyed popular success in Australia and overseas, particularly in the United Kingdom, she was most famous for the Billabong series, focussing on the adventures of the Linton family on Billabong Station in Victoria and in England and Ireland during World War I.
Mary Green Mary Green is a British television presenter currently presenting Thames Valley Tonight on ITV Thames Valley, covering the Central South and Meridian West regions. Mary presented Meridian Tonight for Meridian West until December 1, 2006 when the Meridian West and Central South news services were combined to create Thames Valley Tonight/Today.
Mary Gross Mary Gross (born March 25, 1953 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American comedian and actress best known for her four-year stint on Saturday Night Live from 1981 to 1985. Her credits also include minor roles on Animaniacs and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.
Mary Gwendoline Caldwell Mary Gwendoline Caldwell bestowed the first donation to the Third Plenary Council of American Bishops that initiated the founding of The Catholic University of America. Although she was born in Louisville, Kentucky on October 5, 1863 to William Shakespeare Caldwell and Mary Eliza Breckinridge, Mary Gwendoline grew up in New York City, where she attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Manhattanville as a teenager.
Mary Had a Little Lamb (Paul McCartney song) Wings' version of the traditional nursery rhyme, recorded, according to Paul McCartney, in response to the BBC ban on their previous single, the political "Give Ireland Back to the Irish." Record logs actually reveal that the song was recorded before the latter had been banned.
Mary Hallaren Mary Agnes Hallaren (May 4 1907 – February 13 2005) was an American soldier, the director of the Women's Army Corps at the time that it became a part of the United States Army. As the director of the WAC, she was the first woman to officially join the US Army.
Mary Hallock-Greenewalt Mary Hallock-Greenewalt was an inventor and pianist who performed with the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh symphonies as a soloist. She is best known for her invention of a type of visual music she called Nourathar.
Mary Hamilton "Mary Hamilton" (aka "The Four Marys") is a Sixteenth Century ballad that tells the story of Mary Hamilton, one of the "four Marys", all of whom were ladies-in-waiting to Mary Queen of Scots. However, none of the historical "four Marys" was actually named Mary Hamilton.
Mary Hamman Mary Hamman (2 August 1907 – 18 November 1984) was an American writer and editor. She was an editor for Pictorial Review, Good Housekeeping, Mademoiselle, the modern living editor for LIFE, editor in chief for Bride & Home.
Mary Hansen Mary Hansen (November 1, 1966 - December 9, 2002) was guitarist and singer with Stereolab. Born in Maryborough near Brisbane in Australia, she moved to London in the late 1980s and became a backing singer with the Essex-based indie band, The Wolfhounds.
Mary Hanson Mary Hanson (born 1944) is an American television presenter and host of the The Mary Hanson Show. The show which is broadcast from the Twin Cities in Minnesota, premiered in 1980 and focuses on social and health issues.
Mary Harney Mary Harney (; born 11 March 1953) is an Irish politician and was the leader of the Progressive Democrats (the sixth largest political party in Ireland) between 1993 and 2006. A TD for Dublin Mid West she served as Tánaiste from 1997–2006, and as Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Employment from 1997–2004, and is the current Minister for Health & Children.
Mary Harrison McKee Mary Scott Harrison McKee (April 3,1858 – October 28,1930) was the first lady to her father President Benjamin Harrison, when her mother, Caroline Harrison, was seriously ill and then died. She was born in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Mary Hart Mary Hart (born November 8, 1950) is an American television personality and a long-time host of the syndicated gossip and entertainment round-up program Entertainment Tonight. She has been an anchor, or "hostess", of that program since 1982.
Mary Hay Mary Hay, 18th Hereditary Lord High Constable and Knight Marischal of Scotland, The 14th Countess of Erroll, was the Senior Great Officer Royal Office of Scotland and Chief of the King's Household in Scotland. She received these titles in 1717.
Mary Hayashi Mary Hayashi was elected to the California State Assembly in 2006. She represents the 18th Assembly District which includes San Leandro, Hayward, Dublin and the unincorporated areas of Ashland, Cherryland, and San Lorenzo.
Mary Higby Schweitzer Mary Schweitzer is a paleontologist at North Carolina State University known for leading the groups which discovered the remains of blood cells in dinosaur fossils and later discovered soft tissue remains in the Tyrannosaurus Rex specimen MOR 1125.as well as evidence that the specimen was a pregnant female when she died[http://www.
Mary Higgins Clark Mary Higgins Clark is a bestselling US novelist currently residing in New York City, New York. Her work has dwelled on a central theme: the psychological trauma endured and overcome by her strong female characters.
Mary Honeyball Mary Honeyball (born November 28, 1952 in Weymouth, Dorset) is a Member of the European Parliament for the Labour and Co-operative parties representing London. She has been a member of the European Parliament since 2000.
Mary Hunt Mary Hunt (1830-1906) became one of the most powerful women in the United States temperance movement promoting Prohibition of alcohol. As Superintendent of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union’s Department of Scientific Temperance Instruction she worked from the grass roots to the national level to ensure passage of laws requiring that textbooks teach every school child a curriculum promoting complete abstinence for everyone and alcohol prohibition.
Mary Hynes Mary Hynes is a Canadian radio and television broadcaster. Formerly associated with TVOntario, including the programs Imprint and Studio 2, which she co-hosted with Steve Paikin during its first two seasons (1994-95 and 1995-96), she currently hosts the weekly documentary series Tapestry on CBC Radio One.
Mary Chapin Carpenter Mary Chapin Carpenter (born February 21, 1958 in Princeton, New Jersey) is a five-time Grammy Award-winning country/folk singer-songwriter and guitarist, with a diverse musical style that is sometimes said to be "unclassifiable."
Mary Cheney Mary Claire Cheney (born March 14, 1969) is the second daughter of Dick Cheney, the Vice President of the United States, and his wife, Lynne Cheney. She currently lives in Conifer, Colorado and Alexandria, Virginia.
Mary Choksi Mary Choksi a founding partner of Strategic Investment Group, an investment and portfolio management group located in Rosslyn, Virginia. She is a key contributor to the development of Strategic’s overall investment policy, with extensive expertise in the area of non-U.
Mary Christian Mary Dorothy Perry Christian (June 12, 1889 - April 20, 2003) became the oldest recognized person in the United States upon the December 2002 death of Mae Harrington, and was, in turn, succeeded for this title by Elena Slough.
Mary Christmas Mary Christmas is a pseudonym of Emily O'HaraAP article on the Radical Cheerleaders, an activist and a former editor of $pread magazine, a New York-based magazine on sex industry workers' rights. She was also involved in Radical Cheerleaders, a group of leftist activists who cheer in squads at protests.
Mary Church Terrell Mary Church Terrell (born September 23, 1863 in Memphis, Tennessee - July 24, 1954 in Annapolis, Maryland) was a writer and civil rights activist. Both her parents, Robert Church and Louisa Ayers, were former slaves.
Mary I of Scotland Mary I of Scotland (Mary Stuart, popularly known as Mary, Queen of Scots); (December 8, 1542 – February 8, 1587) was the Queen of Scots (the monarch of the Kingdom of Scotland) from December 14 1542 to July 24 1567. She also sat as Queen Consort of France from July 10 1559 to December 5 1560.
Mary I, Countess of Menteith Maire inghean Mhuireadhaich or Mary, daughter of Muireadhach II, Mormaer of Menteith, was Countess of Menteith, successor to her sister Isabella (Iosbail). She inherited the title from her father, and married Walter Bailloch, son of Walter Stewart, 3rd High Steward of Scotland.
Mary II of England Mary II (30 April 1662–28 December 1694) reigned as Queen of England and Ireland from 13 February 1689, and as Queen of Scotland (as Mary II of Scotland) from 11 April 1689 until her death. Mary, a Protestant, came to the thrones following the Glorious Revolution, which resulted in the deposition of her Roman Catholic father, James II.
Mary Immaculate College, Limerick Mary Immaculate College, Limerick (Mary I or MIC) was established in 1898 in Limerick, Ireland. In 1975 it became a recognised college of the National University of Ireland and retained this relationship until it was linked to the University of Limerick in 1991.

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