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Mary Previte Mary Evelyn Previte (born September 7, 1932 in Kaifeng, China) is a Democrat who served in the New Jersey General Assembly representing the 6th legislative district from 1998 to 2006. She is the great-grand-daughter of James Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission.
Mary Price Mary Wolfe Price was an American citizen and secretary to journalist Walter Lippmann of the New York Herald. Sometime prior to March of 1941, Mary Price allegedly agreed to furnish Jacob Golos, controller of the secret apparatus of the Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA) on behalf of the Soviet Union, with all the information she could concerning the material Lippmann was writing and his contacts.
Mary Pride Mary Pride (born 1955) is an American author and magazine producer on homeschooling and Christian topics. She is best known for her homeschooling works, but has also written on women’s roles, computer technology in education, parental rights, and new age thought from a conservative evangelical perspective.
Mary Pynenburg Mary Pynenburg (born 1956 in Perth, Ontario) is an urban planner and Liberal Party politician in British Columbia, Canada. She is the Liberal candidate in the riding of Burnaby—New Westminster in the 2006 federal election.
Mary Ranken Jordan Mary Ranken Jordan (1869-1962) was a prominent American philanthropist and an advocate of many charitable organizations. Mary Ranken was born in Northern Ireland in 1869 and moved to the United States in 1885 after the death of her parents.
Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews (1860-1936),Was an american writer. Best known for the widely read short story about Abraham Lincoln, often printed as a small volume, The Perfect Tribute, she was born at Mobile, Alabama,and married Charles S.
Mary Redmond Mary Redmond (1863 to 16 January 1930) was a sculptress, born in Nenagh County Tipperary in 1863 and raised in Ardclough County Kildare, Ireland where her father came to work in the limestone quarries. At school in Ardclough NS she showed talent in modelling the soft clay from a sinkhole near her home into clay figures.
Mary Renault Mary Renault (pronounced Ren-olt"She always pronounced it 'Ren-olt', though almost everyone would come to speak of her as if she were a French car." ) (4 September 1905 – 13 December 1983) born Mary Challans, was an English writer best known for her historical novels set in Ancient Greece.
Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center The Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center (MRRMAC) is a two-screen theatre located on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus that commonly shows a wide variety of documentaries, independent cinema, and international films. It is also commonly used for class lectures in the Fine and Performing Arts program.
Mary Richards Played by Mary Tyler Moore, Mary Richards was the main character in the long-running television sitcom, Mary Tyler Moore. In real life, there is a statue of Mary (as Mary Richards) throwing her tam up in the air, as she did on the series, on Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis.
Mary River cod Mary River Cod (Maccullochella peelii mariensis) are a Maccullochella cod found in the coastal Mary River system of southern Queensland, Australia. Mary River Cod are significant because they are the most northerly of the four Maccullochella cods found or once found in coastal river systems of eastern Australia.
Mary Roach Mary Roach is the author of such books as Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (2005) and Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003). She holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Wesleyan University and currently resides in San Francisco, California.
Mary Robinson (poet) Mary Robinson, née Darby (1757 - 26 December 1800) the English poet and novelist, was also known for her role as Perdita (heroine of Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale) in 1779. It was during this performance that she attracted the notice of the young Prince of Wales, later King George IV of Great Britain and Ireland.
Mary Rockefeller Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller (June 17 1907 – April 21 1999) was the first wife of Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller a Governor of New York who served, after their divorce, as 41st Vice President of the United States.
Mary Rowlandson Mary White Rowlandson (1635 – January 5, 1711) was a colonial American woman, who wrote a vivid description of the nearly three months she spent living with Native Americans. Her short book, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs.
Mary Roy Mary Roy is an Indian educator and women's rights activist, who became famous after filing a lawsuit against the inheritance legislation of her Keralite Syrian Christian community in the federal court system. Roy is the founder and director of the experimental Pallikoodam school (formerly Corpus Christi High School), and the mother of novelist Arundhati Roy.
Mary S. Metz Mary S. Metz is Chair of the Board of Trustees of American Conservatory Theater (a nonprofit nationally renowned theater and an accredited conservatory), San Francisco, California, and has served in this capacity since November 2004.
Mary S. Peake Mary Smith (née Kelsey) Peake (1823-February 22, 1862), a teacher and humanitarian, is best known for having taught children of former slaves under the Emancipation Oak tree in 1861, the first educational effort from which grew Hampton University.
Mary Sadler Mary Sadler was born on 2 May 1941 in the Netherlands and emigrated with parents to South Africa while still a child. Grew up in Upington at the Orange River (Gariep), the setting of her historical novel, SAND.
Mary Scott, 3rd Countess of Buccleuch Mary Scott, 3rd Countess of Buccleuch and Countess of Tarras (August 31 1647–March 11 1661) was a young Scottish peeress, the daughter of Francis Scott, 2nd Earl of Buccleuch. Mary succeeded to her father's titles aged 4, when he died in 1651.
Mary Shaw Mary Shaw (1854-1929) was an American suffragette, early feminist, playwright and actor. She was involved in the woman's movement since the early 1890s, and in 1892 she became a member of the Professional Women's League.
Mary Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English romantic/gothic novelist, the author of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. She was married to the notable Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (video game) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game that is based on the novel by Mary Shelley. The player controls Frankenstein, the monster, as he stomps through a medieval village looking for someone to love and accept him for who he is.
Mary Schiavo Mary Fackler Schiavo, JD, is the outspoken former Inspector General of the United States Department of Transportation (DOT), where for six years she withstood pressure from within DOT and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as she sought to expose and correct problems at the agencies. In 1997, after her stormy tenure at the DOT, Schiavo wrote Flying Blind, Flying Safe, which summed up her numerous concerns about the FAA's systemic flaws.
Mary Schryer Mary Schryer is a Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in New Brunswick, Canada, representing the constituency of Quispamsis. Schryer was elected in the September 18 2006 general election for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick.
Mary Simon Mary May Simon was born in Kangirsualuujuaq (George River) in Nunavik (Northern Quebec). She was the Ambassador for Circumpolar Affairs at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade from 1994 to 2003.
Mary Slessor Mary Slessor (2 December, 1848 - 13 January, 1915) was a Scottish missionary to Nigeria. Her determined work and strong personality allowed her to be trusted and accepted by the locals, spreading Christianity and promoting women's rights.
Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort Victoria Constance Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort CStJ (née Princess Mary of Teck and later Lady Victoria Constance Mary Cambridge) (June 12 1897–June 23 1987) was the daughter of the 1st Marquess of Cambridge and Lady Margaret Evelyn Grosvenor.
Mary Spear Mary Frances Spear (born 11 September 1913 in Bath, Somerset, England; died 10 April 2006 in Crickhowell) was an English cricketer. She played in the first four Test matches against Australia and New Zealand in 1934-35, and helped England win the Ashes.
Mary Stanford Lifeboat The worst disaster for many years occurred on 15th November 1928 when the whole of the 17 man crew of the Mary Stanford Lifeboat were drowned, practically the whole male fishing population of the village. The Lifeboat was launched in a south-west gale with heavy rain squalls and heavy seas to the vessel "ALICE" of Riga.
Mary Stanton Mary Stanton (b. 1947) is an American author most famous for her series Unicorns of Balinor; an eight volume series about a young princess who must return to her kingdom to regain all of her memories, her throne, and return peace to her world.
Mary Starrett Mary Starrett (born 1954, Brooklyn, New York) is the National Political Communications Director of the Constitution Party.Previously, she was a candidate for Governor of Oregon] (with the [[Constitution Party of Oregon), and a commentator and talk show host.
Mary Stavin Mary Ann Catrin Stävin (born 20 August 1957 in Örebro, Sweden) is a Swedish actress. She is a former Miss World, and an ex-girlfriend of George Best, the late acclaimed Northern Ireland-born football player and also Don Shanks a footballer with QPR.
Mary Stewart Mary Stewart (born 12 September 1916 in Sunderland, County Durham) is a popular English novelist, best known for her trilogy about Merlin, which straddles the boundary between the historical novel and the fantasy genre.
Mary Stewart (swimmer) Mary Stewart-McIlwaine (born August 12, 1945 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a retired freestyle swimmer from Canada, who twice broke the world record in the women's 100m butterfly in the early 1960s. She represented her native counry in two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1960 in Rome, Italy.
Mary Stewart, Baroness Stewart of Alvechurch Mary Elizabeth Henderson Stewart, Baroness Stewart of Alvechurch, née Birkinshaw, JP (8 May 1903, Bradford-28 December 1984) was a British politician and educator. She was the wife of Labour Foreign Secretary, Michael Stewart.
Mary Stott Charlotte Mary Stott (nee Waddington), (born Leicester, 18 July1907-16 September2002) was a journalist and the founding columnist on the Guardian's Women's Page. She was its main contributor from 1957 to 1972, setting its unique but moderate feminist tone, to be succeeded by Jill Tweedie.
Mary Strong Mary Strong (born September 15, 1973 in Tarzana, California) is an American sports journalist. She graduated from Loyola Marymount University, where she was a full scholarship athlete on the women’s Division I volleyball team, and later spent time on the AVP pro-beach volleyball circuit.
Mary Stuart, Countess of Bute Mary Stuart, Countess of Bute and 1st Baroness Mount Stuart (February 1718-6 November 1794) was the daughter of Edward Wortley-Montagu and Lady Mary Pierrepont (the daughter of the 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull).
Mary Sue Mary Sue (sometimes shortened simply to Sue) is a pejorative term for a fictional character who is portrayed in an overly idealized way and lacks noteworthy flaws, or has unreasonably romanticized flaws. Characters labeled Mary Sues, as well as the stories they appear in, are generally seen as wish-fulfillment fantasies of the author.
Mary Sue (fan fiction) A Mary Sue is an original character in a piece of fan fiction. The Mary Sue character has special powers, exceptional beauty and other characteristics that set her above and make her superior to canon characters.
Mary Sumner Mary Sumner (31 December 1828 – 9 August 1921) was the founder of the Mothers' Union, a worldwide Anglican women's organisation. She is commemorated in a number of provinces of the Anglican Communion on 9 August.
Mary Surratt Mary Elizabeth Eugenia Jenkins Surratt (May/June 1823 in Waterloo, Maryland, USA – July 7, 1865 in Washington, D.C), was a member of the Abraham Lincoln assassination conspiracy and the first woman executed by the United States federal government, for her role in the conspiracy.
Mary Synnøve Kvidal Mary Synnøve Kvidal (1943-) was the Norwegian Minister of Education and Church Affairs 1988-1989, state secretary to the Minister of Industry and Energy in 1996, and state secretary to the Minister of Finance 1996-1997.
Mary Tamm Mary Tamm (born 22 May 1950 in Dewsbury, Yorkshire) is a British actress, perhaps best known for being the first actress to play the character of Romana in the science fiction television series Doctor Who, opposite Tom Baker as the Doctor, from 1978 to 1979. She is a graduate and an associate member of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Mary Tavy Mary Tavy is a village with a population of around 600, located four miles north of Tavistock in Devon in south-west England. It used to be home to the world's largest copper mine Wheal Friendship, as well as a number of lead and tin mines.
Mary Teresa Norton Mary Teresa Norton (March 7 1875 – August 2 1959) was an American politician. The sixth woman in the United States Congress, she was the first from an Eastern state (New Jersey), and the first non-Republican (she was a Democrat).
Mary Travers (singer) Mary Travers (born 9 November 1936 in Louisville, Kentucky) is a member of the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, the other two members being Peter Yarrow and Noel "Paul" Stookey. Together they formed one of the most successful folk-singing groups of the 1960s.
Mary Van Cott Mary Van Cott was the daughter of John Van Cott, and the forty-eighth woman married to Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints church leader Brigham Young. They were married in 1865, and she bore him one child.
Mary Victoria Hamilton Lady Mary Victoria Hamilton1 (December 11, 1850 – May 14, 1922) was the Lanarkshire-born, Scottish-German-French great-grandmother of Prince Rainier III of Monaco, the fashion designer Egon von Fürstenberg, and the socialite and actress Ira von Fürstenberg.
Mary Vinton Folberg Mary Vinton Folberg is a teacher and former dancer. She founded the dance program at Jefferson High School in Portland, Oregon, USA, as well as The Jefferson Dancers, which is the performance company of the school's dance department.
Mary Virginia Taylor Mary Virginia Taylor (born March 3, 1950) is a bishop in The United Methodist Church in the USA, serving the South Carolina Conference. She was Elected in 2004 on the 34th ballot, receiving 354 of 549 votes cast at the Southeastern Juridictional Conference.
Mary Walsh: Open Book Mary Walsh: Open Book is a weekly book club on CBC, based on the Oprah book club, where friends and employees of Mary Walsh and other celebrities can gather and discuss books Mary would like people to read. Michael Donovan is the creator of Open Book.
Mary Walter Mary Walter (1908 or 1912 — February 25, 1993) was a Filipino actress whose film career spanned 8 decades which saw her transformation from a romantic lead in the silent film era into a wizened fixture in horror movies in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Mary Wambui Mary Wambui a Kenyan businesswoman and alleged second wife of Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki. The Wambui family claim that Mwai married Mary in 1972 under African customary law and that they have a daughter, Winnie Wangui.
Mary Wells Lawrence Mary Wells Lawrence (born Mary Georgene Berg, 25 May, 1928, in Youngstown, Ohio, USA) is a retired American advertising executive, founder of the Wells, Rich, Greene (WRG) advertising agency (1966-1990), and the first woman CEO of a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Mary Werbelo Mary Werbelow is considered to be Jim Morrison's first love and the inspiration behind such songs as "The End" and "The Crystal Ship". She met Morrison on Clearwater Beach, Florida during the summer of 1962.
Mary Wesley Mary Aline Mynors Farmar, CBE (June 24, 1912 - December 30, 2002), better known as Mary Wesley, was a British novelist. During her career, she became one of Britain's most successful novellists selling three million copies of her books.
Mary White (ship) The connection of Broadstairs with the saving of life at sea goes back to at least 1851, such was the bravery displayed by the Lifeboat crew on this occasion that it excited a great deal of enthusiasm throughout Kent and a ballad was composed to honour the men involved.
Mary Whitebird Mary Whitebird is the pseudonym of a writer who has long had an interest in the life of the American Indian in the late 20th century. Her/his famous short story "Ta-Na-E-Ka" was published in the early 1970s.
Mary Whitehouse Constance Mary Whitehouse CBE (13 June 1910 – 23 November 2001) was a British campaigner for the values of morality and decency in which she believed, particularly in broadcast media, that were derived from her Christian religious beliefs. She was founder and first president of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association.
Mary Williamson Averell Mary Williamson Averell (22 July 1851 - 7 November 1932) was born in New York City into a prominent New York family, she was tutored at home and completed her education at a finishing school with the “…expectation that one day she would become a fine wife and mother for some young man of equal or greater social standing than the Averells”. Mary’s father, William J.
Mary Willing Byrd Mary Willing Byrd (September 10, 1740-March 1814) was the second wife of Colonel William Byrd III, a colonial American military officer at the time of the American Revolution and son of the founder of Richmond, Virginia. Her father, Charles Willing, was the mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1748 to 1754, and her great-grandfather, Edward Shippen, was the second mayor of Philadelphia from 1701 to 1703.
Mary Wills Costume designer Mary Wills (1914 - 1997) worked on a wide variety of feature films. She was nominated for an Oscar seven times, earning the Academy Award for her colourful designs for "The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm" in 1962.
Mary Wilson (singer) Mary Wilson (born 6 March 1944 in Greenville, Mississippi) is an American singer best known for her work as a member of the Motown soul and pop group The Supremes. Wilson was the only Supreme who remained in the group from the very beginning in 1959, when the group was known as The Primettes, until the very end, when the group was dissolved in 1977.
Mary Wimbush Mary Wimbush (March 19 1924 in Kenton, Middlesex — October 31 2005) was an English actress, whose career spanned sixty years from the 1940s to the 2000s. Active across film, television, theatre and radio, she was perhaps best known for her role as the character of Julia Pargetter in BBC Radio 4's popular soap opera The Archers, a part she played from 1992 until her death.
Mary Winkler Mary Carol Winkler is charged with first degree murder in the shooting death of her husband, Matthew Winkler, the pulpit minister at the local Fourth Street Church of Christ in the small town of Selmer, Tennessee. She was arrested and incarcerated on March 23, 2006.
Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft (April 27, 1759 – September 10, 1797) was a British writer, philosopher, and early feminist. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book.
Mary Worth (comic) Mary Worth is a newspaper comic strip syndicated by King Features and created by writer Allen Saunders and artist Dale Connor in 1940, under the pseudonym "Dale Allen". The title character, a 60-year-old former teacher and widow of a Wall Street tycoon, lives in the Charterstone Condominium Complex in fictional Santa Royale, California.
Mary Zimmerman Mary Zimmerman is a member of the Lookingglass Theatre Company and is an Artistic Associate of the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. She received her BS, MA and PhD from Northwestern University, where she is currently a faculty member in the Performance Studies department.
Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care is a comprehensive health care provider seeking to build better futures through health care, education, and social services that embrace the culturally diverse community of the Washington, D.C.
Mary's Danish Mary's Danish were an alternative rock band that was formed in Los Angeles, California in the late 1980s and released a series of albums until 1992. The band creatively blended of rock, funk, country and soul elements.
Mary's room Mary's room (also known as Mary the super-scientist) is a philosophical thought experiment proposed by Frank Jackson in his article "Epiphenomenal Qualia" (1982) and extended in "What Mary Didn't Know" (1986). The argument it is intended to motivate is often called the Knowledge Argument against physicalism—the view that the universe, including all that is mental, is entirely physical.
Mary-Claire King Mary-Claire King (1946- ) is an American human geneticist. She is professor at the University of Washington, where she studies the genetics and interaction of genetics and environmental influences on human conditions such as HIV, lupus, inherited deafness, and also breast and ovarian cancer.
Mary-Jo Fetterly Mary-Jo Fetterly is a Canadian yoga instructor. She is also the founder of Trinity Yoga, a style of yoga teacher training that draws from Ashtanga, Hatha and Iyengar Yoga traditions as well as the work of Western teachers of human potential - Caroline Myss is a primary influence, to form a series of principles for body-mind-spirit practice.
Mary-Kate and Ashley in Action Mary-Kate & Ashley in Action was a television Cartoon that ran on the ABC network from October, 2001 through June, 2002. Special Agents Misty and Amber (Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen) fight evil-doers around the globe in this action packed animated series.
Mary-Kate and Ashley's Magical Mystery Mall Mary-Kate and Ashley's Magical Mystery Mall is a video game that stars actresses Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. It was produced by Dualstar Interactive for the PlayStation system in 2000 and it forms part of a varied line of things that have been produced with The Olsen twins's names on them.
Mary-Kate And Ashley In Action Mary-Kate And Ashley In Action was an animated television series by DiC Entertainment, featuring the voices and likeness of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. It is also a series of books that spun-off, from the show.
Mary-Woo Sims Mary-Woo Sims (沈明麗) is a Canadian politician and social justice activist. Best known as a former chief commissioner of the British Columbia Human Rights Commission, Sims was also a candidate for the New Democratic Party in the electoral district of Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam in the 2006 federal election.
Mary, mother of John Mark Mary (Hebrew מרים Miryām, Miryam "Bitter") the mother of John, surnamed Mark, was one of the earliest of Jesus' disciples. She was the sister of Barnabas (Colossians 4:10), and joined with him in disposing of their land and giving the proceeds of the sale into the treasury of the early Christian Church (Acts 4:37; 12:12).
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood The Princess Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary Lascelles, née Windsor; 25 April 1897 – 28 March 1965) was a member of the British Royal Family. She was the sixth holder of the title of Princess Royal.
Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange-Nassau (4 November 1631 – 24 December 1660) was the eldest daughter of King Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland and his queen, Henrietta Maria. She was the wife of William II, Prince of Orange-Nassau (27 May 1626–6 November 1650) and the mother of King William III of England, Scotland, and Ireland (14 November 1650–8 May 1702).
Mary, Queen of Scots (1969 book) Mary, Queen of Scots is a 1969 biography of Mary, Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser. Fraser's two aims in writing the biography, as she herself enumerated in the book's Author's Note section, were firstly to test the truth or falsehood of the many legends surrounding the subject, and secondly to set Mary, Queen of Scots in the context of the age in which she lived.
Mary, Queen of Scots (film) Mary, Queen of Scots is a 1971 film based on the life of Queen Mary I of Scotland. Like the play on the same subject by Friedrich Schiller and the opera on the same subject by Gaetano Donizetti, it takes considerable liberties with history in order to achieve increased dramatic effect.
Mary, Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley Mary, Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley is a book by historian Alison Weir, published in 2003. It is the biography of a popular historical figure, Mary, Queen of Scots, and her second husband Lord Darnley, the parents of King James I of England (VI of Scotland) who became king of both countries in 1603 and who fathered Charles I of England.
Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral The Cathedral-minor basilica of Mary, Queen of the World (French: Cathédrale Marie-Reine-du-Monde) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, is the seat of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Montreal. It is the third largest church in Quebec after St.
Mary, sister of Lazarus In the Gospel of John, Mary of Bethany (Hebrew מרים Miryām, Miryam "Bitter"), the sister of Lazarus appears in connection with the visits of Jesus to Bethany and the death and rising from the dead of her brother Lazarus (John 11:20,31,33).
Mary: A Fiction Mary: A Fiction is the first and only complete novel written by Mary Wollstonecraft. It was published in 1788 by Joseph Johnson and tells the tragic story of the friendship between Mary and Ann and the romance between Mary and Henry.
Marya Hornbacher Marya Hornbacher (born 4 April 1974) is an American author and freelance journalist. Her book Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, is an autobiographical account of her struggle with eating disorders, written when she was only twenty-two.
Maryam d'Abo Maryam d'Abo (born December 27, 1960 in London, England, to a Georgian mother and Dutch father) is an actress. Her first notable performance was as Kara Milovy in the 1987 James Bond film, The Living Daylights.
Maryam Hatoon Molkara Maryam Hatoon Molkara was an early campaigner for the rights of transsexuals in Iran. Formerly known as Fereydoon, which is a male name, she was instrumental in obtaining a letter which acted as a fatwa enabling sex change operations to exist as part of a legal framework.
Maryam Namazie Maryam Namazie is a Communist activist of Iranian descent. She is mainly known for her activities for women's rights, asylum seeker's rights and for her fight against the Islamic republic and political Islam internationally.
Maryam Rajavi Maryam Rajavi (born Maryam Azodanlu in 1953 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian political and feminist activist. Currently she is President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, an umbrella coalition of which the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (also known as People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, PMOI) are a member organisation.
Maryann Mann Maryann Mann is a socio-political and cinematic freelance writer. A popular columnist, Mann is contributer to a host of respected media outlets including (but not limited to): Raw Story, Film Fodder, Populist America, Atlantic Free Press and COA News (the media arm for the Center for Information Awareness), etc.
Maryanne Amacher Maryanne Amacher (born February 25, 1943) is an American composer of sound installations. Her pieces are almost exclusively site specific, the psychoacoustic illusions she creates being determined by the acoustics of the architecture.
Maryanne Trump Barry Maryanne Trump Barry (born 1937) or The Honorable Maryanne Barry, is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She is the daughter of Mary MacLeod Trump, who hails from the small town of Stornoway, Outer Hebrides (Na h-Eileanan Siar) in Scotland.
Maryannu Maryannu is an ancient word for the caste of chariot-mounted nobility which dominated many of the societies of the Middle East during the Bronze Age. The word is believed to derive from the Indo-European root mary, or "noble".
MaryAnn Johanson MaryAnn Johanson is a film critic whose reviews are characterised by a casual but literate style. Her website, The Flick Filosopher, maintains an archive of all her reviews as well as her film-related articles, and has been itself reviewed by Time and Variety.
Maryborough City Council Maryborough City Council is a Local Government Area (LGA) in Queensland, Australia. The City area contains the urban locality of Maryborough, the administrative centre of the LGA as well as the southern half of Fraser Island.
Maryborough, Queensland Maryborough is a city located on the Mary River in South East Queensland, Australia, approximately 300 kilometres north of the state capital, Brisbane. The city is serviced by the Bruce Highway, and has a population of approximately 26,000 (2004).
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