Maru (given Name)
Maru is a given name. In Spanish it is a short form (hypocorism) of ''María Eugenia''. Notable people with the name include: * Maru Daba (born 1980), Ethiopian runner * Maru Díaz (born 1990), Spanish politician * Maru Dueñas (1967–2017), Mexican actress * Maru Nihoniho Maru Nihoniho is the founder and managing director of Metia Interactive, and is also the designer and developer of several Video game, video games such as Sparx (video game), Sparx. Life and career Nihoniho was born in New Zealand in 1973, and ... (born 1972), New Zealand entrepreneur * Maru Sira (1948–1975), Sri Lankan criminal Animals * Maru (cat) (born 2007), Japanese YouTube personality {{given name Spanish feminine given names ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Spanish Language
Spanish ( or , Castilian) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian peninsula. Today, it is a world language, global language with more than 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain. Spanish is the official language of List of countries where Spanish is an official language, 20 countries. It is the world's list of languages by number of native speakers, second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese; the world's list of languages by total number of speakers, fourth-most spoken language overall after English language, English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindustani language, Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu); and the world's most widely spoken Romance languages, Romance language. The largest population of native speakers is in Mexico. Spanish is part of the Iberian Romance languages, Ibero-Romance group of languages, which evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in I ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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]   |
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Maru Daba
Maru Daba (born 12 December 1980) is a retired Ethiopian long-distance runner, who specialized in the 3000 metres steeplechase. He represented Ethiopia at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics. His personal best time is 8:25.04 minutes, achieved in June 2003 in Rennes. At the 1998 IAAF World Cross Country Championships The 1998 IAAF World Cross Country Championships took place on March 21/22, 1998. The races were held at the Menara district in Marrakech, Morocco. Reports of the event were given in ''The New York Times'', in the Herald, and for the IAA ... in Marrakech Daba finished tenth in the short race and won a bronze medal with the Ethiopian team. External links *Girma Maru Daba Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2015-02-02. 1980 births Living people Ethiopian male long-distance runners Ethiopian male steeplechase runners Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Ethiopia World At ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Maru Díaz
María Eugenia "Maru" Díaz Calvo (born 30 April 1990) is a Spanish politician for the party Podemos. First elected to the Cortes of Aragon in 2015, she led the party in the 2019 election, and was subsequently made Minister of Science, University and Knowledge Society in the Second government of Javier Lambán. Biography Born in Tarazona, Province of Zaragoza, Díaz studied Philosophy at the University of Zaragoza. Elected to the Cortes of Aragon in 2015, she became Podemos's spokesperson in the legislature. In November 2018, Díaz ran to be Podemos's lead candidate for the 2019 Aragonese regional election. She defeated Erika Sanz in a tight primary decided by just 72 votes (51.4% to 48.6%). She was the youngest and only female lead candidate in the election. She ran on a platform of action against violence towards women, fighting climate change and reversing depopulation of rural areas through improving infrastructure. In the election, Podemos fell from 14 seats to five. I ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Maru Dueñas
Maru Dueñas (born María Eugenia Dueñas Posadas; October 3, 1967 – November 11, 2017) was a Mexican actress, director and producer. Dueñas studied at the Andrés Soleracademy and later at the Centro de Educación Artística of Televisa in 1986. Death Dueñas died in a car accident on November 11, 2017, when the truck in which she was traveling, owned by the Televisa company, hit a truck at kilometer 46 of the Mexico-Cuernavaca highway. The director Claudio Reyes Rubio, son of the Mexican actress María Rubio, also died in the accident. Filmography Television * ''Cenizas y diamantes'' (1990) as Cuquín * ''Ángeles blancos'' (1990/91) * ''Más allá del puente'' (1993) as Carmelita * ''La vida en risa'' (1994) * ''La chuchufleta'' (1995) * ''Todo de todo'' (1997) * ''La Güereja y algo más'' (1998) * ''Diversión desconocida'' (1998/99) * '' Las delicias del poder'' (1999) * ''La casa en la playa'' (2000) as Nina López * '' Mujer, casos de la vida real'' (2002/16) 2 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Maru Nihoniho
Maru Nihoniho is the founder and managing director of Metia Interactive, and is also the designer and developer of several video games such as Sparx. Life and career Nihoniho was born in New Zealand in 1973, and has indicated an interest in video games since the age of 11. In 2003, she founded the Metia Interactive company. Metia Interactive's debut game, ''Cube'', was released on the PlayStation Portable in 2007. Following ''Cube's'' release, Nihoniho was approached by the University of Auckland to develop a self-help game to combat depression. This game was specifically made with New Zealand's Māori and minority ethnic groups in mind. Sparx was the resulting product released in 2013. The game was developed and modeled on cognitive behavioral therapy. In 2017, during her last year at Tech Futures Lab, she developed ''Takaro'' as her key project. ''Takaro'' was an educational game aimed at children. In 2017, Maru Nihoniho finished her master's degree in Technological Futu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Maru Sira
Dedduwa Jayathungalage "D.J." Siripala ( Sinhala: දෙද්දුවා ජයතුංගලාගේ සිරිපාල; 1949 – August 7, 1975), also known by the pseudonym Maru Sira (''Maru: deadly, Sira'': Short form of Siripala), was a Sri Lankan young criminal and bandit active from the late 1960s until the mid 1970s. He was on death row following a conviction for a serial murder. His controversial execution (hanging) led to many debates by creating the popular question ''"kill by hanging or hang after killing"''. Siripala achieved fame through several prison escapes while his romance with Ranmanika made his story memorable. Early life Siripala was born to a native Sinhala-Buddhist family in Sri Lanka. D.J. David Appuhamai and L. Punchi Nona had seven children, five sons, and two daughters. D.J Siripala was the sixth child born in 1948, (''exact month and day of his birthday are unkonwn''). They lived in Milla Gaha Watta, Liyangoda, Pannipitiya in Colombo District ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Maru (cat)
Maru (born May 24, 2007) is a male Scottish Straight cat in Japan who has become popular on YouTube. Videos featuring Maru have been viewed over 479 million times, and at one point held the Guinness World Record for the most YouTube video views of an individual animal. Maru has been described as the "most famous cat on the internet". History Maru's videos are under the account name of mugumogu. His owner is rarely seen in the videos. The videos include title cards in English and Japanese setting up and describing the events, and often show Maru playing in cardboard boxes, indicated by "I love a box!" in his first video. Videos of Maru are collections of clips—usually around 3–7 minutes long—of Maru engaging in various activities, with most videos having a central theme or activity as indicated by the title card. Maru, during these videos, shows his fascination with boxes, his placid personality, his amusing antics, and an inventive intelligence and intuition. In Augu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |