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Maren (name)
Maren is a Germanic feminine given name. Originally, it has been a Danish variation of the name Marina. It has also been used as a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Maren Ade (born 1976), German film director, screenwriter and producer * Maren Elisabeth Bang (1797–1884), Norwegian cookbook writer * Maren Baumbach (born 1981), German handball player * Maren Brinker (born 1986), German volleyball player * Maren Derlien (born 1975), German rower * Maren Eggert (born 1974), German actress * Maren Hammerschmidt (born 1989), German biathlete * Maren Hassinger (born 1947), African-American sculpture artist * Maren Haugli (born 1985), Norwegian long track speed skater * Maren Jensen (born 1956), American model and actress * Maren Juel (1749–1815), Norwegian landowner * Maren Knebel (born 1985), German sprint canoer * Maren Kock, (born 1990), German middle-distance runner * Maren Kroymann (born 1949), German actress and singer * Maren Lundby (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germanic Languages
The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania and Southern Africa. The most widely spoken Germanic language, English, is also the world's most widely spoken language with an estimated 2 billion speakers. All Germanic languages are derived from Proto-Germanic, spoken in Iron Age Scandinavia. The West Germanic languages include the three most widely spoken Germanic languages: English with around 360–400 million native speakers; German language, German, with over 100 million native speakers; and Dutch language, Dutch, with 24 million native speakers. Other West Germanic languages include Afrikaans, an offshoot of Dutch, with over 7.1 million native speakers; Low German, considered a separate collection of Standard language, unstandardized dialects, with roughly 4.35–7.15 million native speakers and probably 6.7–10 million people who can understand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maren Meinert
Maren Meinert (born 5 August 1973) is a German Association football, football Manager (association football), coach and former player who played as a midfielder and Striker (association football), striker. She was most recently the head coach of Germany women's national under-20 football team. As a player, Meinert played for German clubs FCR Duisburg and FFC Brauweiler Pulheim, as well as Boston Breakers (WUSA), Boston Breakers in the United States. She also represented the Germany women's national football team. Club career Meinert was the first player inducted into Boston Breakers' "Pillars of Excellence" during a ceremony held at half-time of the 17 May 2009 game between the Breakers and Washington Freedom. International career Meinert played for the Germany women's national football team, German national team between 1991 and 2003, making appearances at three FIFA Women's World Cup finals and the 2000 Summer Olympics. Germany won the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup, 2003 Worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Maren
Michael Maren (born November 15, 1955) is an American journalist, screenwriter, and director. He spent seventeen years as a foreign correspondent based in Africa, writing for magazines like,''The Village Voice'', ''Newsweek'', ''The New Republic'', '' Harper's'', '' GQ'', and ''The New York Times''. In 2012 he wrote and directed his first feature film, '' A Short History of Decay''. His newest feature film, ''A Little White Lie'', was released in March 2023. Early life and education Maren grew up in Andover, Massachusetts and graduated from Northfield Mt. Hermon in 1973. As an undergraduate he attended Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York. In 1984, Maren earned his master's degree from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. Career Aid work Maren joined the Peace Corps in 1977 and served for two years teaching English and Physics at a secondary school in rural Kenya. He remained in Kenya, running the food-for-work program with the Catholic Rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Marén
Juan Luis Marén Delis (born August 20, 1971) is a Cuban wrestler (Greco-Roman style) who has won three Olympic medals. He was born in Santiago de Cuba Santiago de Cuba is the second-largest city in Cuba and the capital city of Santiago de Cuba Province. It lies in the southeastern area of the island, some southeast of the Cuban capital of Havana. The municipality extends over , and contains t .... References External links * 1971 births Living people Wrestlers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Cuban male sport wrestlers Wrestlers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic wrestlers for Cuba Olympic silver medalists for Cuba Olympic bronze medalists for Cuba Olympic medalists in wrestling Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Pan American Games gold medalists for Cuba Pan American Games medalists in wrestling Wres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Maren
Jerry Maren (born Gerard Marenghi; January 24, 1920 – May 24, 2018) was an American actor who played a Munchkin member of the Lollipop Guild in the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film '' The Wizard of Oz.'' He became the last surviving adult Munchkin following the death of Ruth Duccini in 2014, and was also the last surviving cast member with a specifically identifiable speaking or singing role. Early life Gerard Marenghi, eventually known as Jerry Maren, was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, the youngest of eleven or twelve children. His father, Emil Marenghi, worked at a shoe factory. His four brothers were six feet (c. 182 cm) or taller by 1939. At the age of 12, Maren started taking dancing lessons with his sister. He toured around New England with his dance instructor with an act called ''Three Steps and a Hop'' and was noticed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer scouts who were looking for three little guys who could sing and dance. Career Maren received a telegram, just after graduating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murders Of Louisa Vesterager Jespersen And Maren Ueland
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought. ("The killing of another person without justification or excuse, especially the crime of killing a person with malice aforethought or with recklessness manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life.") This state of mind may, depending upon the jurisdiction, distinguish murder from other forms of unlawful homicide, such as manslaughter. Manslaughter is killing committed in the absence of ''malice'',This is "malice" in a technical legal sense, not the more usual English sense denoting an emotional state. See malice (law). brought about by reasonable provocation, or diminished capacity. ''Involuntary'' manslaughter, where it is recognized, is a killing that lacks all but the most attenuated guilty intent, recklessness. Most societies consider murder to be an extremely serious crime, and thus that a per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maren Skjøld
Maren Rotstigen Skjøld (born 29 September 1993) is a Norwegian retired alpine skier. At the 2014 Junior World Championships she participated in five events, with an 11th place in super combined as her best result. She made her FIS Alpine Ski World Cup debut in January 2016 in Flachau, where she didn't manage to qualify for the second run, and collected her first World Cup points with a 24th-place finish in February in Crans Montana. She won the 2015-16 Alpine skiing Europa Cup The FIS Alpine Ski Europa Cup is a second level international alpine skiing circuit organized annually by the International Ski Federation (FIS) beginning with the 1971-1972 season. Although held in Europe, these races are also open to non-Euro ... overall title. She represents the sports club Gjøvik SK. World Cup results Results per discipline : World Championship results Olympic results References External links * * * 1993 births Living people Sportspeople from Gjøvik Skiers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maren Seidler
Maren Elizabeth Seidler (born June 11, 1951 in Brooklyn, New York) is a retired American track and field athlete. She dominated the shot put from the mid 1960s through 1980. She won the event at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships eleven times starting in 1967, including nine in a row from 1972 to 1980. She was the American champion indoors nine times, 1968-9, 1972, 1974-5 and 1977 to 1980. She won her event at the United States Olympic Trials four straight times 1968-1980, a feat only equalled by only one woman, Madeline Manning, Edwin Moses is the only man to achieve four. Jackie Joyner Kersee is the only woman who has won more events at the Olympic Trials, split between the long jump and heptathlon. She competed in the Olympics three times, making the final twice. Her 1980 selection was quashed by the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott. Seidler did however receive one of 461 Congressional Gold Medals created especially for the spurned athletes. Seidler spent most of h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maren Schwerdtner
Maren Schwerdtner (born 3 October 1985) is a German heptathlete. Born in Hanover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany .... Achievements References * 1985 births Living people German heptathletes Sportspeople from Hanover 20th-century German women 21st-century German women {{Germany-heptathlon-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maren Sars
Maren Cathrine Sars (née Welhaven; 17 August 1811 – 27 December 1898) was a Norwegian socialite. Personal life She was born in Bergen as a daughter of priest Johan Ernst Welhaven (1775–1828) and Else Margrethe Cammermeyer (1785–1853), the daughter of Johan Sebastian Cammermeyer . She was a sister of Johan Sebastian and Elisabeth "Lise" Welhaven. In August 1831 in Bergen she married priest and professor Michael Sars (1805–1869). She had several notable children; historian Ernst Sars, zoologist Georg Ossian Sars and singer Eva Nansen. She had a total of fourteen children, nine of whom reached adulthood. Through Eva she was the mother-in-law of Fridtjof Nansen, and through another daughter Mally she was the mother-in-law of Thorvald Lammers. She was also an aunt of Hjalmar and Kristian Welhaven. Career She grew up in Bergen, and after marrying she moved to Kinn and Manger where her husband was a vicar. In 1854 the family moved to Christiania where her husband had beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maren-Sofie Røstvig
Maren-Sofie Røstvig (27 March 1920 – 24 January 2014) was a Norwegian literary historian. Her doctoral thesis from 1950 treated English poetry from the 17th century. Early life and World War II She was born in Melbu in Hadsel, a daughter of Olaf Røstvig and Sigrid Elise Larsen. Røstvig was a student during the German occupation of Norway, and took part in the civil resistance. She was arrested in October 1943, and was incarcerated in Bredtveit Prison for about six weeks. From August 1944 to May 1945 she published the illegal weekly newspaper ''Frihet og fred'' (34 issues), along with two other women. Career Røstvig obtained a doctorate in historical treatise on English poetry in the 17th-century from the University of California. Her treatise was later expanded and published as the first volume of ''The Happy Man'' (1954). The second volume, which covers the 1700s, was published in 1958. Røstvig has also conducted research on text structures in Renaissance literature and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maren Ord
Maren Whitney Ord (born February 28, 1981) is a Canadian singer-songwriter of rock and pop music. Early life Ord was born and grew up in Edmonton, Alberta, the eighth of ten children. She grew up in a musical family; her father was a professor of music, her mother taught voice and piano, and the family toured and performed as the Ord Family Singers. Maren sang, learned piano from her mother, and taught herself guitar at age 14. At a 1998 audition for Lilith Fair, Ord met Canadian music impresario Terry McBride of the Vancouver-based record label and management company Nettwerk. She would be showcased at the music festival, and eventually take McBride as her manager. In 1999, after her sister told her about a talent contest from Edmonton contemporary hit radio radio station Power 92, Maren entered four songs she had written that night, and two of them—"Eternity" and "Falling Slowly"—were recorded on the station's compilation CD, ''Power Picks Volume II''. Career The Nettwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
