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Mira (given Name)
Mira is a feminine given name with varying meanings. In the Romance languages, it is related to the Latin words for 'wonder' and 'wonderful'. In South Slavic languages, it means 'peace' and is often used as part of a longer name, such as Miroslava (masculine form: Miroslav), Mirjana, or Sławomira (masculine form: Sławomir). In Albanian, it means 'goodness' or 'kindness'. In Sanskrit, it means 'ocean', 'sea', 'limit', or 'boundary'. It is sometimes also a short form of other given names. People with the given name include: *Mira Aroyo (born 1977), Bulgarian musician *Mira Awad (born 1975), Palestinian-Arab actress and musician *Mira Bai or Meera (1498–1547), Hindu mystical singer and poet * Mira Bellwether (born 1981/1982), author of the 'zine ''Fucking Trans Women'' *Mirjana Mira Banjac (born 1929), Serbian actress *Mira Craig (born 1982), Norwegian rhythm and blues singer and songwriter * Mira Dancy (born 1979), American painter * Míra Emberovics (born 1988), Hungarian handb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Female
Female (Venus symbol, symbol: ♀) is the sex of an organism that produces the large non-motile ovum, ova (egg cells), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the Sperm, male gamete during sexual reproduction. A female has larger gametes than a male. Females and males are results of the anisogamous reproduction system, wherein gametes are of different sizes, unlike isogamy where they are the same size. The exact mechanism of female gamete evolution remains unknown. In species that have males and females, Sex-determination system, sex-determination may be based on either sex chromosomes, or environmental conditions. Most female mammals, including female humans, have two X chromosomes. Female characteristics vary between different species with some species having pronounced Secondary sex characteristic, secondary female sex characteristics, such as the presence of pronounced mammary glands in mammals. In humans, the word ''female'' can also be used to refer to gender i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mira Aroyo
Mira Aroyo ( bg, Мира Аройо, ; born 11 July 1977) is a Bulgarian singer, musician, songwriter, DJ, and geneticist. She is best known as the keyboardist, co-lead vocalist, and co-songwriter of the electronic band Ladytron, which she co-founded in Liverpool in 1999. She writes and performs her Ladytron lyrics in both Bulgarian and English. Early life Aroyo was born in Sofia on 11 July 1977, the daughter of Jewish parents. She moved with her family to Israel when she was 10, and later to England. The first musical instrument that she played was the guitar, having also played the accordion when she was younger. Although her parents were cautious about her decision to pursue music, they were nevertheless supportive and respectful. Career Scientific career Following the completion of her undergraduate education, Aroyo pursued postgraduate research studies in genetics; she was a D.Phil. student in the Division of Molecular Genetics at the Department of Biochemistry of the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mira Hoteit
Mira Hassan Hoteit ( ar, ميرا حسن حطيط; born 20 September 2000) is a Lebanese footballer who plays as a defender for English club London Seaward. Club career Hoteit joined Safa in 2019; she played 10 games in the 2019–20 season. She left the club to join London Seaward in the FA Women's National League Division One South East (fourth tier) ahead of the 2022–23 season. Honours Zouk Mosbeh * Lebanese Women's FA Cup runner-up: 2018–19 Safa * Lebanese Women's Football League: 2020–21 Lebanon * WAFF Women's Championship third place: 2019 See also * List of Lebanon women's international footballers This is a non-exhaustive list of Lebanon women's international footballers – association football players who have appeared at least once for the senior Lebanon women's national football team. Players Born outside Lebanon The followin ... References External links * * 2000 births Living people 21st-century Lebanese women 21st-century L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mira Gonzalez
Mira Gonzalez (born May 28, 1992) is an American poet.Anisse Gross, September 15, 2015, ''Publishers Weekly''Four Questions for...Poet Mira Gonzalez Retrieved September 23, 2019 Her first collection, ''i will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together'', was published by Spencer Madsen of Sorry House press on January 31, 2013. According to Liza Darwin in ''Nylon'' magazine, Gonzalez is part of a "whole new crop of cool girl poets" whose work is "clever, totally unfiltered, and peppered with twisted insight and refreshing humor." She has been published in magazines including ''Vice'', ''Hobart'', and ''Muumuu House''. In 2015, Gonzalez and Tao Lin released ''Selected Tweets'', a collaborative double-book featuring selections from three of her Twitter accounts, as well as visual art and "extras". In 2015, the singer Lily Allen posted an image of her hand above Gonzalez's ''i will not be beautiful enough...'' book of poems, which led to speculation that the singer's marri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mira Golubović
Mira Golubović ( sr-Cyrl, Мира Голубовић; born 15 October 1976) is a retired volleyball player from Serbia. She played for national team and various clubs in Europe last being Voléro Zürich from Switzerland.http://www.ossrb.org/sve-vesti/internacionalne-kategorija/fivb/6234-mira-golubovic-zavrsila-karijeru.html Mira Golubović završila karijeru Clubs Achievements ;Domestic championships: *Serbia and Montenegro Championship (4): 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 *Azerbaijani Championship (3): 2011, 2012, 2013 *Romanian Championship (2): 1999, 2010 *Swiss Championship (2): 2007, 2014 *Spanish Championship (1): 2006 ;Domestic Cups: *Serbia and Montenegro Cup (3): 1994, 1996, 1997 *Swiss Cup (2): 2007, 2014 *Copa de la Reina (1): 2006 *Romanian Cup (1): 2010 ;Domestic Super Cups *Italian Super Cup (1): 1999 *Spanish Super Cup (1): 2005 *Swiss Super Cup (1): 2006 ;International: *FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship The FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mira Gojak
Mira Gojak is an Australian artist who was born in Adelaide in 1963 and now works in Melbourne. Her sculptures are like linear drawings in space, tracing the forces of gravity and suspension that we can feel. They create a sense of inside and outside space. Gojak is also known for her drawings. She has been awarded several times and has exhibited widely in Australia as well as Hong Kong. Biography and education In Adelaide, Gojak's immigrant parents were active in the Catholic Slovenian and Croatian community. Mira has said that she felt she grew up in two different cultural and social worlds. Her mother wanted her to be a doctor, and Mira achieved First Class Honours and a Bachelor of Science in Zoology and animal behaviour Psychology, but Mira found during practical work that she was not happy in the world of zoology. She began to think that art would give her freedom so she went to Melbourne to study Art. In 1989 she finished an advanced Certificate in Art and Design at Pra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mira Furlan
Mira Furlan (7 September 1955 – 20 January 2021) was a Croatian actress and singer. Internationally, she was best known for her roles as the Minbari Ambassador Delenn in the science fiction television series ''Babylon 5'' (1993–1998), and as Danielle Rousseau in ''Lost (TV series), Lost'' (2004–2010), and also appeared in multiple award-winning films such as ''When Father Was Away on Business'' (1985) and ''The Abandoned (2010 film), The Abandoned'' (2010). Early life Furlan was born on 7 September 1955 to an intellectual and academic family that included a large number of university professors in Zagreb, Socialist Republic of Croatia, PR Croatia, which was part of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia at the time. She was born to a Jews in Croatia, Jewish Croatian mother, Branka Weil and a father of mixed Slovenes, Slovene-Croats, Croat descent, Ivan Furlan. As a child, Furlan was obsessed with American rock and roll music. She became interested in acting as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Míra Emberovics
Míra Emberovics (born 29 July 1988 in Pécs) is a former Hungarian handballer. Emberovics previously played for Veszprém Barabás KC, having joined the club in the summer of 2010, after agreed a mutual termination over her contract with Ferencváros in June. Achievements *Magyar Kupa The Hungarian Cup ( hu, Magyar Kupa) is the Hungarian cup competition for football clubs. It was started by the Hungarian Football Association, the ''Magyar Labdarúgó Szövetség,'' in 1909, eight years after the commencement of the Hungarian ...: **''Silver Medalist'': 2010 References External linksCareer statistics at Worldhandball 1988 births Living people Sportspeople from Pécs Hungarian female handball players Hungarian expatriate handball players in Germany Fehérvár KC players {{Hungary-handball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mira Dancy
Mira Dancy (born 1979) is an American painter. Dancy is known for her paintings on plexiglass of nudes, often executed in bright fluorescent colors. Since her January 2015 show at Night Gallery in Los Angeles, her work has been in demand from Hong Kong and Paris to MoMA PS1's "Greater New York" show, and her name has appeared on any number of annual top-ten lists of artists to watch. Her work is held in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. In addition her work "No Man's Land" at the Rubell Family Collection (traveled) and "Unrealism" an exhibition organized by Jeffery Deitch and Larry Gagosian, Yuz Museum, Shanghai (2016); and Galerie Hussenot, Paris (2015). Her work is included in the collections of LACMA, Los Angeles; Columbus Museum of Art The Columbus Museum of Art (CMA) is an art museum in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Formed in 1878 as the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts (its name until 1978), it was the first art museum to register its charter with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mira Craig
Mira Scherdin Craig (born 31 July 1982) is a Norwegian R&B artist. Early life Craig's father is Ronaldo Craig an African American from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She was born in 1982 in Oslo, and at the age of twelve, Craig performed the Whitney Houston hit "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" on the Norwegian youth TV show ''Midt i smørøyet''. By the age of 15 she had started writing her own songs, and by 17 she was singing back-up vocals for Noora Noor. Career In 2000, she made headlines at " Quartfestivalen", a Norwegian music festival, when Wyclef Jean pulled her up on stage. American rap artist Snoop Dogg also took interest in her in 2005 at the same festival, and has since used one of her songs on his compilation '' Welcome to tha Chuuch: Da Album.'' On 21 January 2006 Craig won the Newcomer of The Year award at "Alarm-prisen," a Norwegian music awards show. The same year, readers of Norwegian publication ''Mann Magazine'' voted her "Female of the Year". While op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mira Banjac
Mira Banjac ( sr-Cyrl, Мира Бањац; born 4 November 1929) is a Serbian actress. She won a number of awards, including an award for her work in Mamaroš from Brasil and Golden Medal for Merits of Republic of Serbia. Selected filmography * ''Beach Guard in Winter'' (1976) * '' Do You Remember Dolly Bell?'' (1981) * ''The Elusive Summer of '68'' (1984) * ''72 Days'' (2010) * ''When Day Breaks'' (2012) * ''Mamaroš'' (2013) * ''The High Sun'' (2015) * ''Requiem for Mrs. J. ''Requiem for Mrs. J.'' ( sr, Реквијем за госпођу Ј., italic=yes) is a 2017 Serbian Drama (film and television), drama and comedy film directed by Bojan Vuletić (director), Bojan Vuletić. It was screened in the Panorama secti ...'' (2017) References External links * 1929 births Living people People from Erdevik Serbian film actresses Golden Arena winners Laureates of the Ring of Dobrica Žanka Stokić award winners {{Serbia-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
