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Magdalene (given Name)
Magdalene (derived from Hebrew "of Magdala") or Magda is a female name used in honor of Mary Magdalene in many countries including Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Georgia, Germany, Greece (Μαγδαληνή, Μάγδα), Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Croatia (Magdalena), Portugal, Romania, Scandinavia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain and may refer to: People *Magdalene of Bavaria *Magdalene of Brandenburg * Magdalene of Nagasaki * Magdalene Bärens, Danish artist * Magdalen Berns, British lesbian feminist activist * Magda von Dolcke, Danish actor *Magda Apanowicz, Canadian actress of Polish descent *Magda Davitt, Irish singer-songwriter formerly known as Sinéad O'Connor *Magda Gabor, American socialite *Magda Genuin, Italian cross country skier *Magda Goebbels, wife of Joseph Goebbels * Magda Faluhelyi, Hungarian actress * Magda Ianculescu, Romanian operatic soprano * Magda Ilands, Belgian long-distance runner *Magda Kun, Hungarian stage and film actress * Magda László, Hungarian opera sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hebrew Language
Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved throughout history as the main liturgical language of Judaism (since the Second Temple period) and Samaritanism. Hebrew is the only Canaanite language still spoken today, and serves as the only truly successful example of a dead language that has been revived. It is also one of only two Northwest Semitic languages still in use, with the other being Aramaic. The earliest examples of written Paleo-Hebrew date back to the 10th century BCE. Nearly all of the Hebrew Bible is written in Biblical Hebrew, with much of its present form in the dialect that scholars believe flourished around the 6th century BCE, during the time of the Babylonian captivity. For this reason, Hebrew has been referred to by Jews as '' Lashon Hakodesh'' (, ) since an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spain
, image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Madrid , coordinates = , largest_city = Madrid , languages_type = Official language , languages = Spanish language, Spanish , ethnic_groups = , ethnic_groups_year = , ethnic_groups_ref = , religion = , religion_ref = , religion_year = 2020 , demonym = , government_type = Unitary state, Unitary Parliamentary system, parliamentary constitutional monarchy , leader_title1 = Monarchy of Spain, Monarch , leader_name1 = Felipe VI , leader_title2 = Prime Minister of Spain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magda Ianculescu
Magda Ianculescu (30 March 1929 – 16 March 1995) was a Romanian operatic soprano and voice teacher. A leading singer in the Romanian National Opera for many years, she was known for her musicality and vocal technique. Her voice had a wide range and a timbre which critics compared to that of Maria CallasMaftei (2004) Biography Magda Ianculescu was born in Iaşi, a city in the Moldavia region of Romania, and was educated at the Oltea Doamna secondary school there before entering the Bucharest Conservatory of Dramatic Art in 1947. While in the final years of her studies at the conservatory, she became a member of the Romanian National Opera company in Bucharest. She made her stage debut as Rosina in Rossini's ''The Barber of Seville'', which became one of her signature roles. Between 1953 and 1955 she won singing competitions in Bucharest, Prague ( Prague International Singing Competition 1954), and Warsaw and went on to perform not only in her native Romania but also in Belgium, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magda Faluhelyi
Magda is a feminine given name, sometimes a short form (hypocorism) of names such as Magdalena, which may refer to: * Magda Apanowicz (born 1985), Canadian actress * Magda B. Arnold (1903–2002), Czechoslovakian-born American psychologist * Magda Danysz (born 1974), French art curator and art dealer * Magda Davitt, name in 2017 of Sinéad O'Connor (born 1966), Irish singer-songwriter * Magda Femme, Polish pop singer and songwriter born Magdalena Pokora in 1971 * Magdolna Magda Gabor (1915–1997), Hungarian-American actress and socialite * Magda Gerber (1910–2007), Hungarian-born early childhood educator in the United States * Magda Giannikou (born 1981), Greek-born composer, film scorer, singer, pianist and accordionist * Johanna Maria Magdalena Magda Goebbels (1901–1945), wife of Nazi Germany's Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels * María Magdalena Magda Guzmán (1931–2015), Mexican film and television actress * Magda Ianculescu (1929–1995), Romanian operatic sopran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magda Goebbels
Johanna Maria Magdalena "Magda" Goebbels (née Ritschel; 11 November 1901 – 1 May 1945) was the wife of Nazi Germany's Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. A prominent member of the Nazi Party, she was a close ally, companion, and political supporter of Adolf Hitler. Some historians refer to her as the unofficial "first lady" of Nazi Germany, while others give that title to Emmy Göring. With defeat imminent during the Battle of Berlin at the end of World War II in Europe, she and her husband murdered their six children before committing suicide in the Reich Chancellery gardens. Her eldest son, Harald Quandt, from a previous marriage, survived her. Early life Magda was born in 1901 in Berlin, Germany to an unwed couple, Auguste Behrend and building contractor and engineer Oskar Ritschel. The couple were married later that year and divorced in either 1904 or 1905. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magda Genuin
Magda Genuin (born 17 June 1979 in Agordo) is an Italian cross-country skier who competed from 1997 to 2011. Biography She finished sixth in the 4 × 5 km relay at the 2007 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo and earned her best individual finish of 12th in the 10 km event at those same championships. Genuin's best individual finish at the Winter Olympics was fifth in individual sprint at Vancouver in 2010. She has a total of eight individual victories at various levels at various distances up to 10 km since 2000. Genuin's best individual World Cup finish was second in Rybinsk Rybinsk ( rus, Рыбинск, p=ˈrɨbʲɪnsk), the second largest city of Yaroslavl Oblast in Russia, lies at the confluence of the Volga and Sheksna Rivers, 267 kilometers north-north-east of Moscow. Population: It was previously known as ... in 2010. Cross-country skiing results All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS). Olympic Games Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magda Gabor
Magdolna "Magda" Gabor (June 11, 1915 – June 6, 1997) was a Hungarian-American actress and socialite, and the elder sister of Zsa Zsa and Eva Gabor. Early life The eldest daughter of a jeweler, Jolie (1896–1997), and a soldier, Vilmos Gábor (1881–1962), she was born in 1915 in Budapest. Her parents were both from Jewish families. She is listed in ''Hungary: Jewish Names from the Central Zionist Archives'', under her first married name, as "Magda Bychowsky".The online database is based in Provo, Utah: The Generations Network, Inc. (2008); information accessed at http://www.ancestry.com on December 30, 2011. During World War II, Gabor was reported to have been the fiancée of the Portuguese ambassador to Hungary, Carlos Sampaio Garrido; another source claims she was his mistress and another claims she was his aide. After she fled to Portugal in 1944, following the Nazi occupation of Hungary, and, with Sampaio's assistance, she was reportedly the mistress of a Spanish nob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magda Davitt
Magda is a feminine given name, sometimes a short form (hypocorism) of names such as Magdalena, which may refer to: * Magda Apanowicz (born 1985), Canadian actress * Magda B. Arnold (1903–2002), Czechoslovakian-born American psychologist * Magda Danysz (born 1974), French art curator and art dealer * Magda Davitt, name in 2017 of Sinéad O'Connor (born 1966), Irish singer-songwriter * Magda Femme, Polish pop singer and songwriter born Magdalena Pokora in 1971 * Magdolna Magda Gabor (1915–1997), Hungarian-American actress and socialite * Magda Gerber (1910–2007), Hungarian-born early childhood educator in the United States * Magda Giannikou (born 1981), Greek-born composer, film scorer, singer, pianist and accordionist * Johanna Maria Magdalena Magda Goebbels (1901–1945), wife of Nazi Germany's Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels * María Magdalena Magda Guzmán (1931–2015), Mexican film and television actress * Magda Ianculescu (1929–1995), Romanian operatic so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magda Apanowicz
Magda Apanowicz ( ; Polish: ; born November 8, 1985) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her roles as Andy Jensen on the ABC Family series ''Kyle XY'', as Lacy Rand in the Syfy science fiction drama series ''Caprica'' and as Emily (born Maya Hartwell) on the science fiction series ''Continuum (TV series), Continuum''. Recently, she starred as Sandy in the Netflix thriller series ''You (TV series), You''. Personal life Apanowicz is of Polish people, Polish descent and spent a year in Poland in the ninth grade. She lived there with her uncle and attended a school in Jelenia Góra. She later studied at Vancouver Film School. Career She became interested in acting at the age of ten, after her brother introduced her to ''Pulp Fiction (film), Pulp Fiction''. She began her career in 2002 with brief appearances in the TV series ''Jeremiah (TV series), Jeremiah'' and ''John Doe (TV series), John Doe''. From 2007 to 2009, she played the role of Andy Jensen on ''Kyle XY''. In 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magda Von Dolcke
Magda von Dolcke (28 February 1838 in Åbenrå, Denmark – 1926) was a Danish stage actress and the director of a travelling theatre company, active in Sweden.Lars Elgklou (1978). Bernadotte. Historien – eller historier – om en familj.. Stockholm: Askild & Kärnekull Förlag AB. She is known for her relationship with King Oscar II of Sweden. She debuted in Denmark under the name Rosalinde Thomsen. In 1860, she had a well known relationship with Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. In 1873–1874, she was a guest actor at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. At this point, she had a relationship with the king, during which the queen, Sofia of Nassau, left for Germany, officially for her health. After 1874, she was active at Mindre teatern and from 1876 at Djurgårdsteatern and Folkteatern. August Strindberg admired her natural way of acting while Fritz von Dardel called her a beautiful but talentless adventurer who was given a place at the royal theatre because of her affair with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magdalen Berns
Magdalen Berns (6 May 1983 – 13 September 2019) was a British YouTuber, boxer, and software developer. Berns, a lesbian radical feminist, produced a series of YouTube vlogs in the late 2010s focusing on topics such as women's rights and gender identity. Berns's vlogs attracted attention from Transgender rights movement, transgender rights activists, some of whom characterized her as being transphobic and a TERF. Berns co-founded the non-profit organisation For Women Scotland, which campaigns against possible changes to the Gender Recognition Act 2004, among other things. Early life, education, and career Berns was born in London to Deborah Lavin, who helped found the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist), and Argentine-born Gustavo Berns; her parents separated after her birth. Berns attended Hampstead School in London Borough of Camden, Camden, London; as a teenager, she participated in activism, including campaigning against Huntingdon Life Sciences, distribut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magdalene Bärens
Magdalene Margrethe Bärens (née ''Schäffer'') (30 September 1737 – 6 June 1808) was a Danish artist. She was one of the first professional female artists in Denmark, and the first woman to be elected into the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. She was a flower- and still-life painter. Biography Bärens was born as the child of Elisabeth Hochkirch and the royal stable master and respected horse expert Johann Hermann Schäffer. She displayed an early talent in drawing, and her father, who assisted the sculptor Jacques-François-Joseph Saly in illustrating the anatomy of horses, encouraged this, while her mother was very negative about her becoming anything else than a wife. After her marriage to the official Johan Georg Bärens in 1761, she initially stopped all artistic activity. However, she resumed it encouraged by the painter Vigilius Erichsen. In 1779, her paintings of flowers in gouache where displayed for the Academy by a professor, and in 1780, she became the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
