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Marais (surname)
The surname Marais (Marsh in French) may refer to: "Marais" from France: * Jean Marais (1913–1998), a French actor * Joseph Marais (presumably deceased), a French Olympic fencer * Marin Marais (1656–1728), a French Baroque music composer * Matthieu Marais (1664–1737), a French jurist and writer * Paul Godet des Marais (1647–1709), a French Bishop of Chartres * Roland Marais (c. 1685 – c. 1750), a French Baroque composer "Marais" from the UK: * Richard Marais, an oncologist "Marais" from the United States: * Anthony Marais (born 1966), an American writer "Marais" from South Africa: * Erik Marais (living), a South African politician * Eugène Marais (1871–1936), a South African lawyer, naturalist, poet and writer * Hannes Marais (born 1941), a South African international rugby union player and captain * Jaap Marais (1923–2000), an Afrikaner nationalist and the leader of the far-right South African political party, the Herstigte Nasionale Party * Jan S. Marais (1919 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marsh
A marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous rather than woody plant species.Keddy, P.A. 2010. Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 497 p Marshes can often be found at the edges of lakes and streams, where they form a transition between the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. They are often dominated by grasses, rushes or reeds. If woody plants are present they tend to be low-growing shrubs, and the marsh is sometimes called a carr. This form of vegetation is what differentiates marshes from other types of wetland such as swamps, which are dominated by trees, and mires, which are wetlands that have accumulated deposits of acidic peat. Marshes provide habitats for many kinds of invertebrates, fish, amphibians, waterfowl and aquatic mammals. This biological productivity means that marshes contain 0.1% of global sequestered terrestrial carbon. Moreover, they have an outsized influence on climate resi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Marais
Joseph Pessach (November 17, 1905, Sir Lowry's Pass Village – April 27, 1978, Los Angeles), better known by his stage name Josef Marais, was a folk-singer from South Africa. Biography Marais left South Africa in the 1920s to study violin and viola in Europe, finally settling in London. He toured as a concert violinist for several years and when he heard that His Master's Voice was eager to record songs in Afrikaans for the South African market, he offered his services. The very successful recordings were heard by the BBC who approached Marais with the request that he translate and perform the songs for British audiences. These broadcasts were heard by the British representative of NBC and Marais was invited to New York in 1939 to do a radio show for NBC. In 1945, he started singing with Rosa de Miranda, a Dutch immigrant with whom he had worked for a few years. They performed for more than 30 years as Marais and Miranda, recording many South African traditional folk ballads a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surnames Of French Origin
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name, as the forename, or at the end; the number of surnames given to an individual also varies. As the surname indicates genetic inheritance, all members of a family unit may have identical surnames or there may be variations; for example, a woman might marry and have a child, but later remarry and have another child by a different father, and as such both children could have different surnames. It is common to see two or more words in a surname, such as in compound surnames. Compound surnames can be composed of separate names, such as in traditional Spanish culture, they can be hyphenated together, or may contain prefixes. Using names has been documented in even the oldest historical records. Examples of surnames are documented in the 11th ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarie Marais
"Sarie Marais" (also known as "My Sarie Marais", ) is a traditional South African folk song, created possibly during the First Anglo-Boer War (c. 1880) or (more likely) the Second Anglo-Boer War (ca. 1900). The tune was possibly taken from a song dating back from the American Civil War called "Carry me back to Tennessee" or " Sweet Ellie Rhee" with the words roughly translated into Afrikaans. In the English translation, the song begins: "My Sarie Marais is so far from my heart but I hope to see her again. She lived near the Mooi River before this war began..."; and the chorus is: "Oh, take me back to the old Transvaal, there where my Sarie lives, down there among the maize fields near the green thorn tree, there lives my Sarie Marais." It continues about the fear of being removed far, "over the sea" (in fact, of the 28,000 Boer men taken prisoner by the ruling British authorities, over 25,000 were transported overseas). As well as becoming very well known in South Africa, the so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marais (other)
Marais (, meaning "marsh") may refer to: People * Marais (given name) * Marais (surname) Other uses * Le Marais, historic district of Paris * Théâtre du Marais, the name of several theatres and theatrical troupes in Paris, France * Marais (company), a heavy equipment manufacturer based in Durtal, France * ''Marais'', also known as The Plain, a political group during the French Revolution * Marais, Louisiana, a fictional town in the 2019 TV series ''Swamp Thing'' See also * * Grand Marais (other) * Little Marais (other) * Marai (other) * Marais des Cygnes (other) Marais des Cygnes (Swans marsh in English) may refer to: * Marais des Cygnes massacre prior to the American Civil War * Marais des Cygnes Massacre Memorial Park a Kansas state historic site near that commemorates the 1858 massacre of the same nam ... * Desmarais {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herstigte Nasionale Party
The Herstigte Nasionale Party (Reconstituted National Party) is a List of political parties in South Africa, South African political party which was formed as a Far-right politics, far-right splinter group of the now defunct National Party (South Africa), National Party in 1969. The party name was commonly abbreviated as HNP, evoking the Herenigde Nasionale Party, although colloquially they were also known as the Herstigtes. The party is, unlike other splinter factions from the Nasionale Party, National Party, still active but politically irrelevant. History Formation The HNP was formed in 1969 by Albert Hertzog (son of former Prime Minister General James Barry Munnik Hertzog, JBM Hertzog) in protest against the decision by Prime Minister B. J. Vorster, B.J. Vorster to authorize the presence of Māori people, Maori players and spectators during the tour of New Zealand rugby union team in South Africa in 1970. He was also against Vorster's re-establishment of diplomatic relation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willie Marais
Willie Marais (10 August 1928 – 26 December 2007) was an Afrikaner nationalist and the leader of the far-right South African political party, the Herstigte Nasionale Party, from 2001 until his death. In 1969, when he was MP for Wonderboom, he resigned from the National Party in sympathy with the expelled Albert Hertzog. He died on 26 December 2007 from a heart attack while on holiday. References External links "Meet the HNP"(Afrikaans Afrikaans (, ) is a West Germanic language that evolved in the Dutch Cape Colony from the Dutch vernacular of Holland proper (i.e., the Hollandic dialect) used by Dutch, French, and German settlers and their enslaved people. Afrikaans gra ...) 1928 births 2007 deaths Afrikaner nationalists Apartheid in South Africa Herstigte Nasionale Party politicians {{Gauteng-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wessel Marais
Wessel Marais B.Sc., M.Sc. (1929-2013) was a South African botanist and plant collector. Wessel was born in Colesberg, Northern Cape Province, on 28 December 1929, the youngest of the ten children of Barend Pieter Marais, the last blacksmith and wagon builder of Colesberg, who was of French Huguenot descent. He studied at Pretoria University (1947-1951) where he obtained an M.Sc. in Botany for the thesis 'A Morphological study of an indigenous species of rice, ''Oryza barthii'' A. Chev.'. He then (1952) joined the National Herbarium (PRE) where he undertook fieldwork during an internship in Kruger National Park and in Namibia. From 1953 to 1955 he was director of the Albany Museum Herbarium (GRA) in Grahamstown, where he studied South African Cruciferae for the Flora of Southern Africa. He carried out collecting trips to the Southwestern Cape Province, Natal, Lesotho, the Transkei, Pondoland, Griqualand East and other localities. He collected over 1,500 specimens jointly with Va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanus Le Roux Marais
Stephanus Le Roux Marais (1896 – 25 May 1979) was a South African composer. Marais was born in Bloemfontein district, Orange Free State. He studied at the South African College of Music in Cape Town and at the Royal College of Music in London. In the subsequent 32 years he held various positions as church organist and teacher. He was a pioneer of the Afrikaans art song. In 1928 his "Vier Afrikaanse Sangstukke" (Four Afrikaans Song Pieces) was published. In the five years following, he was awarded 23 diplomas at the Cape Town Eisteddfod In Welsh culture, an ''eisteddfod'' is an institution and festival with several ranked competitions, including in poetry and music. The term ''eisteddfod'', which is formed from the Welsh morphemes: , meaning 'sit', and , meaning 'be', means, a .... He composed the music for the well known songs "Die Roos" and "Kom dans Klaradyn".C. J. Rex, 25 JAN 2017 Stephanus was married to Edith Johanna Rex. She was the daughter of Mortimer Fred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SP Marais
Sarel Petrus Marais (born 16 March 1989) is a South African professional rugby union player for the in Super Rugby and in the Currie Cup. His position he plays is Fullback. Career Youth and Varsity rugby Marais played for the in youth competitions and was part of the 2009 Vodacom Cup squad, without making a senior appearance. He then moved to Potchefstroom in 2010, where he played four matches for the in the 2010 Varsity Cup competition. Marais also played for the team during the 2010 Under-21 competition. Leopards Although Marais didn't play any games for the during the 2010 Currie Cup season, he made his first class debut in the Leopards' first relegation play-off match against the , scoring his first try within a minute of his debut when he came on as a first-half blood replacement and a second try right before the end of the match. He maintained his try-scoring exploits in the following match, scoring another try in the return leg to help keep the in the 2011 C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Marais
Petrus Jacobus "Peter" Marais (born 4 September 1948) is a South African politician who is currently serving as a Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament. He previously served as the inaugural Mayor of Cape Town from 2000 until his dismissal in 2001. He was soon appointed Premier of the Western Cape and served from 2001 to 2002. He has been a member of multiple political parties and movements. Marais joined the Freedom Front Plus in January 2019 and consequently became the party's Western Cape Premier candidate for the 2019 election. He returned to the Western Cape Provincial Parliament in May 2019. Political career Marais was the leader of the People's Congress Party and represented the party in the House of Representatives from 1984 to 1994. He joined the National Party in 1994, and was elected to the Western Cape Provincial Parliament later in the same year. In 1998, the newly-elected Premier of the Western Cape, Gerald Morkel, appointed Marais to the post of Provi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nic Marais
Nic Marais (born 6 June 1980) is a former South African radio personality. Marais hosted Kfm Breakfast from January 2002 to June 2008. His remains the most listened-to breakfast show in Cape Town's history with 1.3 million weekly listeners. During his time on radio, he conducted numerous high-profile interviews with local and international politicians and celebrities. These included Nobel Prize laureates Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu and F.W. de Klerk, and movie stars Charlize Theron and Morgan Freeman. He is a member of the Yale Law School class of 2011. In 2011, he took top honors in the final round of the Thomas Swan Barristers' Union Mock Trial Competition at Yale Law School; he was awarded the John Fletcher Caskey Prize for best presentation of a case on final trial. Marais now resides in San Francisco, California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
