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Margie Zeidler
Margie is a feminine given name, usually a short form (hypocorism) of Margaret, Marjorie or Margarita. Margie may refer to: People * Margie Ackles (born 1939), American retired figure skater * Marjorie Margie Alexander (1948–2013), American gospel and soul singer * Margie Velma Barfield (1932-1984), American serial killer * Margie Bowes (1941–2020), American country music singer * Margie Rasri Balenciaga Chirathiwat (born 1990), Thai actress and model * Margie Day (1926–2014), stage name of Margaret Hoffler, American R&B singer * Margaret Dingeldein (born 1980), American water polo player * Margie Evans, American blues singer and songwriter born Marjorie Ann Johnson in 1940 * Margie Gillis (born 1953), Canadian dancer and choreographer * Margie Goldstein-Engle (born 1958), American equestrian * Margie Harrison, first ''Playboy'' Playmate of the Month (January and June 1954) * Margaret Hart Ferraro (1913–2000), American burlesque strip tease artist better known as Margie H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypocorism
A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek: (), from (), 'to call by pet names', sometimes also ''hypocoristic'') or pet name is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as ''Izzy'' for Isabel or ''Bob (given name), Bob'' for Robert, or it may be unrelated. In linguistics, the term can be used more specifically to refer to the morphological process by which the standard form of the word is transformed into a form denoting affection, or to words resulting from this process. In English, a word is often Clipping (morphology), clipped down to a closed monosyllable and then suffixed with ''-y/-ie'' (phonologically /i/). Sometimes the suffix ''-o'' is included as well as other forms or templates. Hypocoristics are often affective in meaning and are particularly common in Australian English, but can be used for various purposes in different semantic fields, including personal names, place names and nouns. Hypocorisms are usually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margie Joseph
Margaret Marie Joseph (born August 19, 1950) is an American R&B, soul and gospel singer. Her greatest success came in the 1970s with a duet with Blue Magic on " What's Come Over Me" and her versions of Paul McCartney's " My Love" and The Supremes' "Stop! In the Name of Love". Life and career Margie Joseph was born in Gautier, Mississippi, and sang in her church choir. In 1967, during her time attending Dillard University in New Orleans where she studied speech and drama, she recorded some demos at the Muscle Shoals Sound Studios. This led to her debut on the Okeh label, "Why Does a Man Have to Lie?". In 1969, she signed with Volt Records, a subsidiary of Stax, and recorded the single "One More Chance" with producer Willie Tee. Her next single, "Your Sweet Lovin'", produced by Freddy Briggs, became her first hit, reaching # 46 on the ''Billboard'' R&B chart. Its follow-up, a version of The Supremes' "Stop! In the Name of Love" also became a minor hit on the pop chart (# 96 pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margie Singleton
Margaret Louise Ebey (born October 12, 1935), known professionally as Margie Singleton, is an American country music singer and songwriter. In the 1960s, she was a popular duet and solo recording artist, working with country stars George Jones and Faron Young. Singleton had her biggest hit with Young called "Keeping Up with the Joneses" in 1964. She managed a successful solo career in the 1960s. Biography Early life and rise to fame She was born in Coushatta, Louisiana, United States. As a young child, she was influenced by blues and gospel music. In 1949, at the age of 13, she married Shelby Singleton. They worked at a munitions plant near Shreveport, Louisiana during the Korean War. She began to play guitar and write songs as a teenager after the birth of her first child, Stephen Singleton, in 1950. She had her second son, Sidney Singleton, in 1955. In 1957, she signed with Starday Records, and released her first single that same year called "One Step (Nearer To You)". The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margie Santimaria
Margie Santimaria (born 18 February 1989), is an Italian professional triathlete, National U23 Champion of the year 2010 and number 4 in the National Elite Ranking 2010. Biography In Italy, Margie Santimaria represents ''Atlectica Bellinzago'' and ''Gruppi Sportivi Polizia di Stato Fiamme d'Oro.'' In 2010, Santimaria also took part in the prestigious French Club Championship Series ''Lyonnaise des Eaux'' representing ''TriClub Nantais'' like her country fellow Charlotte Bonin. Santimaria took part in only one of the five triathlons of this circuit and placed 22nd at Beauvais (13 June 2010), thus being the second best of her French club, which could not nominate any French triathlete. In 2008 Margie Santimaria concluded the secondary school ''ISIS A. Omodeo'' in Mortara, close to her native town Vigevano Vigevano (; lmo, label=Western Lombard, Avgevan) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Pavia, Lombardy in northern Italy. A historic art town, it is also renowned for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margie Ruddick
Margie Ruddick is a New York-based landscape architect. In 2013 she won the National Design Award for landscape architecture. Her projects include designs at Queens Plaza Dutch Kills Green, Urban Garden Room, New York Aquarium The New York Aquarium is the oldest continually operating aquarium in the United States, located on the Riegelmann Boardwalk in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City. It was founded at Castle Garden in Battery Park, Manhattan in 1896, and move ... Perimeter Project, Shillim Retreat and Institute, Casa Cabo, Baja California, and Bay Garden, Florida. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ruddick, Margie American landscape architects National Design Award winners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margie Reiger
Margie Reiger was a silent movie actress. Reiger was the leading lady in Charlie Chaplin's 1915 film '' By the Sea''. This one-reel short film was filmed in one day in the vicinity of the pier in Venice, California. The BBFC The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC, previously the British Board of Film Censors) is a non-governmental organisation founded by the British film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of fi ... turned down '' A Woman'' when it was submitted in March 1915, although they later relented and the film was shown in the UK in July 1916. This was either for Chaplin's transvestitism, appearing disguised as a woman, or for Charles Inslee's pursuit of Reiger in a park, the "premeditated seduction of a girl". She acted opposite Bernard "Ben" Turpin in ''The Wrong Coat'', also in 1915. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margie Rayburn
Marjorie Helen Orwig (June 3, 1924 – June 14, 2000), better known as Margie Rayburn, was an American traditional pop singer. Rayburn was born in Madera, California, United States, and sang as a member of The Sunnysiders, who had a Top 40 hit in the United States in 1955 with the song "Hey! Mr. Banjo".Joel Whitburn, ''The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits''. 7th edn, 2000 Rayburn married Norman Malkin, also a member of the Sunnysiders. She also had a Top Ten hit of her own in 1957 with the song "I'm Available", which was written by Dave Burgess. The single, released on Liberty Records Liberty Records was a record label founded in the United States by chairman Simon Waronker in 1955 with Al Bennett as president and Theodore Keep as chief engineer. It was reactivated in 2001 in the United Kingdom and had two previous revival ..., reached No. 9 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in November 1957. As a songwriter she co-wrote with Malkin the 1963 song "Roman Holiday". Unable to find a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margie Profet
Margaret J. "Margie" Profet (born August 7, 1958) is an American evolutionary biologist with no formal biology training who created a decade-long controversy when she published her findings on the role of Darwinian evolution in menstruation, allergies and morning sickness. She argued that these three processes had evolved to eliminate pathogens, carcinogens and other toxins from the body. Career A graduate of Harvard University, where she studied political philosophy with Harvey Mansfield and graduated in 1980, and University of California, Berkeley, where in 1985 she received a bachelor's degree in physics, Profet returned to school in 1994, studying mathematics at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she was awarded a "visiting scholar" position in the astronomy department, an allied discipline. Several years later, she returned to Harvard, once again to study math. When Profet won a MacArthur Fellowship in 1993, international media took notice. ''New York Times'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margie Palatini
Margie Palatini is the author of many popular books for young children. She was born in Edison, New Jersey, and today lives in nearby Plainfield, New Jersey. Margie is a graduate of the Moore College of Art and Design. According to her website, all of her books cannot be published if they do not pass her son's "giggle test". Books * ''Piggie Pie'' (1995, illustrated by Howard Fine) * ''Zak's Lunch ''Zak's Lunch'' is a children's book written by Margie Palatini and illustrated by Howard Fine. Published by Clarion Books, it is about a boy named Zak who refuses to eat the ham and cheese sandwich his mother made for him for lunch and goes into ...'' (1998, illustrated by Howard Fine) * ''The Web Files'' (2001, illustrated by Richard Egielski) * ''Tub-Boo-Boo'' (2001, illustrated by Michael Koelsch) * ''Earthquack!'' (2002, illustrated by Barry Moser) * ''The Three Silly Billies'' (2005, illustrated by Barry Moser) * ''Lousy Rotten Stinkin' Grapes'' (2009, illustrated by Barry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margie Orford
Margie Orford (born 30 September 1964) is a South African journalist, film director and author of crime fiction, children's fiction, non-fiction and school text books. Biography Orford was born in London and grew up in Namibia and South Africa. She was detained during the 1985 State of Emergency while a student at the University of Cape Town, taking her final examinations in prison. After travelling widely, she studied under J. M. Coetzee John Maxwell Coetzee OMG (born 9 February 1940) is a South African–Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in ... before embarking on a career in publishing in the newly emerged Namibia. She returned to live in South Africa in 2001. Works Crime fiction * * * * * Children's fiction Non-fiction School textbooks Journalism * * References External links Margie Orford's website.Margie Orfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margarita Moran-Floirendo
Maria Margarita Roxas Moran-Floirendo (born 15 September 1953), professionally known as Margie Moran (), is a Filipino beauty queen, actress and peace advocate who was the president of Ballet Philippines and is the chairperson of the Cultural Center of the Philippines. She is best known for winning the second Miss Universe crown for the Philippines as Miss Universe 1973. Early life and education Moran was born on 15 September 1953 in Manila, Philippines, to lawyer Francis Gonzalez Morán and Rosario McIlvain Roxas. Her father Francis Morán was the son of Chief Justice Manuel Morán and Nieves Gonzalez de Morán, a granddaughter of Don Francisco Gonzalez y Reinado, owner of the legendary 39,000-hectare '' Hacienda Esperanza'' that included the municipalities of Santa Maria, Santo Tomas, Rosales and San Quintin, extending through the rest of Pangasinan and the provinces of Tarlac and Nueva Ecija. Her mother Rosario "Charo" Roxas is one of three children born to Manuel Roxas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margit Evelyn Newton
Margit Evelyn Newton (born Margit Gansbacher in 1962) is an Italian actress who appeared in fourteen films between 1979 and 1990. Newton is perhaps best known for her performance in the 1980 zombie film '' Hell of the Living Dead'' (also known as ''Zombie Creeping Flesh''). Newton used the name Margie Moreau in her first two films, 1979's '' La Vedova del trullo'' and 1980's ''The Iron Hand of the Mafia''. She also appeared in ''The Last Hunter'' (1980, also known as ''L'Ultimo cacciatore'' and ''Hunter of the Apocalypse''), billed as Margi Eveline Newton, and in ''The Final Executioner'' (1984) and '' The Bronx Executioner'' (1989), billed as Margie Newton. She had a cameo appearance in Claude Chabrol's '' Quiet Days in Clichy'' (1990), her most recent film to date. In addition to her acting work, Newton also modeled in the Italian men's magazines '' Playmen'' and '' Ginfilm'' between 1984 and 1987. She retired from show business in the 1990s to marry and raise a family. Filmo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
