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Mary Fisher (other) (1931–2008), Australian politician
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Mary Fisher may refer to: * Mary Fisher (activist) (born 1948), American political activist * Mary Fisher (missionary) (c. 1623–1698), English Quaker pioneer, one of the ''Valiant Sixty'' * Mary Fisher (swimmer) (born 1993), New Zealand Paralympian * Mary Jo Fisher (born 1962), Australian politician * Mary Pat Fisher (fl. 1980s–2000s), writer and religious leader * Mary Stuart Fisher (1922–2006), American radiologist * Mary Winter Fisher (1867–1928), American physician * M. F. K. Fisher (1908–1992), American writer * Mary Fisher, fictional romance novelist played by Meryl Streep in the 1989 film '' She-Devil'' See also * Marie Fisher Marie Claire Fisher (9 June, 1931 – 17 August, 2008) was an Australian politician. She was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1978 to 1988. Fisher was born Marie Claire Callinan in Paddington, New South Wales, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Fisher (activist)
Mary Fisher (born April 6, 1948) is an American political activist, artist and author. After contracting HIV from her second husband, she has become an outspoken HIV/AIDS-activist for the prevention, education and for the compassionate treatment of people with HIV and AIDS. She is particularly noted for speeches before two Republican Conventions: Houston in 1992 and San Diego in 1996. The 1992 speech has been hailed as “one of the best American speeches of the 20th Century”. She is the founder of a non-profit organization to fund HIV/AIDS research and education, the Mary Fisher Clinical AIDS Research and Education (CARE) Fund. Since May 2006, she has been a global emissary for the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). Early life Fisher was born Lizabeth Davis Frehling on April 6, 1948, in Louisville, Kentucky, the daughter of Marjorie Faith (née Switow) and George Allen Frehling. Her parents were of Russian Jewish descent. Her parents divorced when she was fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Fisher (missionary)
Mary Fisher, also Mary Fisher Bayley Crosse, (c. 1623–1698) was among the first travelling Quaker ministers. She counts as one of the Valiant Sixty, the group of early itinerant preachers whose mission was to spread the spiritual message of the founder of the Quakers, George Fox. Early life Mary Fisher was born in Yorkshire, possibly at Pontefract, England. As a young woman she worked as a housemaid for Richard and Elizabeth Tomlinson at Selby, where in late December 1651 she heard the ministry to the Tomlinson family and servants given by George Fox. His message and fellowship resonated profoundly with her and as a result she became an active Quaker. Ministry and persecution In 1652, as a Quaker "Publisher of Truth", Mary Fisher publicly rebuked the vicar of Selby church in an address to his congregation after worship. She was imprisoned in York Castle and later that year she was confined there again with Elizabeth Hooton and four other Quakers, who joined in a pamphlet, '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Fisher (swimmer)
Mary Elizabeth Fisher (born 16 January 1993) is a New Zealand para swimmer. She represented New Zealand at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London and the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, combined winning two gold medals, two silver medals and a bronze medal. Fisher was born in Lower Hutt and grew up in the nearby Upper Hutt suburb of Silverstream. She was born with the rare genetic condition aniridia, resulting in low vision which deteriorated as a teenager. She attended Silverstream Primary School, Maidstone Intermediate and Heretaunga College. She is a student at the Wellington campus of Massey University. Fisher began swimming for enjoyment as a nine year old and trained at the Upper Hutt Swim Club until completing high school in 2010. Her goal of swimming at the London 2012 Paralympics was bolstered by meeting coach Luke Clark and she moved to Wellington city to train under his guidance. After his departure overseas Fisher relocated to the North Shore in Auckland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Jo Fisher
Mary Josephine Fisher (born 25 December 1962) is a former Australian politician. She was a Liberal member of the Australian Senate from June 2007, representing the state of South Australia, but resigned in August 2012, after twice being charged with shoplifting. Life Fisher was born in the Western Australian town of Beverley. She is a great-granddaughter of George Miles, a long-serving former member of the Western Australian Legislative Council, and a niece of former Nuclear Disarmament Party and Greens WA Senator Jo Vallentine. She worked as a barrister and specialist in industrial relations before the start of her political career. She subsequently served as a senior adviser to the then Industrial Relations Minister, Peter Reith. At the time of her selection, Fisher was General Manager of Business Services for Business SA. Mary-Jo Fisher is married to South Australian businessman, John Crosby. Political career Fisher was chosen on 6 June 2007 to fill a vacancy in the Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Pat Fisher
Mary Pat Fisher is an author, her books include the inspirational book ''Heart of Gold: The Light Within Life'' and ''Living religions : an encyclopedia of the world's faiths''. Qualifications Lives in the Gobind Sadan, an interfaith community in India, founded by Baba Virsa Singh. Bibliography * * * * * References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{India-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floruit
''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicating the time when someone flourished. Etymology and use la, flōruit is the third-person singular perfect active indicative of the Latin verb ', ' "to bloom, flower, or flourish", from the noun ', ', "flower". Broadly, the term is employed in reference to the peak of activity for a person or movement. More specifically, it often is used in genealogy and historical writing when a person's birth or death dates are unknown, but some other evidence exists that indicates when they were alive. For example, if there are wills attested by John Jones in 1204, and 1229, and a record of his marriage in 1197, a record concerning him might be written as "John Jones (fl. 1197–1229)". The term is often used in art history when dating the career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Stuart Fisher
Mary Stuart Fisher (August 12, 1922 – April 24, 2006) was an American radiologist who won the Marie Curie Award of the American Association for Women Radiologists. She spent the majority of her career as a professor of radiology at Temple University. Early life Mary Blakely was born on August 12, 1922, in Binghamton, New York, to Stuart Banyar Blakely and Miriam Brothers Blakely. After graduating from Bryn Mawr College and finishing first in her class, she went on to study medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, again finishing first in her class in 1948. Her father, a medical doctor himself, had wanted his daughter to become a nurse rather than a medical doctor, but Blakely persisted with her choice of a medical career with her mother's encouragement. Soon after graduating M.D., Blakely married George R. Fisher III, a classmate from medical school. Career Fisher worked as an intern at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital and completed her residenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Winter Fisher
Mary Winter Fisher (1867–1928) was an American physician known for her establishment of a medical practice in Pagosa Springs, Colorado. Early life and education Fisher was born February 10, 1867, in Lewistown, Illinois, Lewiston, Illinois to John S. Winter, a journalist who later became a judge, and Mary Winter. Six months after she was born, her mother died. Fisher attended medical school in Chicago; first attending classes at Rush University, then completing her education at the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, where she obtained a Doctor of Homeopathy and Surgery degree in 1895. Career Following medical school, Fisher began practicing in Lewiston, Illinois. In 1895 she moved to the San Juan Mountains of Southern Colorado as a single, 28-year old woman. She first settled in La Jara, Colorado, where she taught for a term in a public school that had been founded by her sister. She then moved to the small town of Pagosa Springs, between Durango, Colorado, and Chama, New M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
She-Devil (1989 Film)
''She-Devil'' is a 1989 American black comedy film directed by Susan Seidelman and written by Barry Strugatz and Mark R. Burns. It stars Meryl Streep, Roseanne Barr (in her film debut) and Ed Begley Jr. A loose adaptation of the 1983 novel ''The Life and Loves of a She-Devil'' by British writer Fay Weldon, ''She-Devil'' tells the story of Ruth Patchett, a dumpy, overweight housewife, who exacts devilish revenge after her philandering husband leaves her and their children for glamorous, best-selling romance novelist Mary Fisher. The second adaption of Weldon's novel, after the BBC television miniseries ''The Life and Loves of a She-Devil'' was broadcast in 1986, the film was shot amid the first season break of Barr's ABC sitcom ''Roseanne'', in New York City throughout spring and summer 1989. For a while, Streep, who was one of the first actresses to read the script, considered taking the part of Ruth herself but later opted to play Fisher instead, as she felt she had dealt with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
