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Mischa (comics)
Mischa is a diminutive form of the name Mikhail. Men * Mischa Auer (1905–1967), Russian actor born Mikhail Semyonovich Unskovsky * Mikhail Mischa Bakaleinikoff (1890–1960), Russian-born musical director, Hollywood film composer and conductor * Mischa Berlinski (born 1973), American writer * Mischa Boelens (born 1995), Curaçaoan footballer * Mischa Cotlar (1913–2007), Ukrainian mathematician * Mischa Daniels, Dutch music producer * Mischa Dohler (born 1975), Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Royal Society of Arts * Mikhail Mischa Elman (1891–1967), Ukrainian-born Jewish-American violinist * Mischa Hausserman (born 1941), Austrian-American actor * Mischa Hiller (born 1962), British novelist * Mischa Keijser (born 1974), Dutch contemporary photographer * Mischa Maisky, Soviet-born Israeli cellist * Mischa Markow (1854–1934), pioneering Mormon missionary in Europe * Mischa Mischakoff (1895–1981), Ukrainian-born American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael (given Name)
Michael is a usually masculine given name derived from the Hebrew phrase ''mī kāʼēl'', 'Who [is] like-El', in Aramaic: ܡܝܟܐܝܠ (''Mīkhāʼēl'' ). The theophoric name is a rhetorical question – "Who [is] like [the Hebrew God] El (deity), El?", whose answer is "there is none like El", or "there is none as famous and powerful as God." This question is known in Latin as Quis ut Deus?. Although sometimes considered erroneous, an alternative spelling of the name is Micheal. While Michael is most often a masculine name, it is also given to women, such as the actresses Michael Michele and Michael Learned, and Michael Steele (musician), Michael Steele, the former bassist for the Bangles. Patronymic surnames that come from Michael include Carmichael (surname), Carmichael, DiMichele, MacMichael, McMichael (surname), McMichael, Michaels (surname), Michaels, Micallef, Michaelson (surname), Michaelson, Michiels, Michalka, Michels, Mihály, Mikeladze, Mikhaylov (surname), Mikhaylov, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mischa Portnoff
Mischa Portnoff (August 29, 1901 – May 15, 1979) was a German-born American composer and teacher. Introduction German-born American composer and teacher Mischa Portnoff's distinctive gift as a musician was the breadth of his mastery. His classical compositions, ranging from works for solo piano to symphony orchestra, blended romantic passion with contemporary innovation. His lighter music was performed both on the Broadway stage and in Hollywood films. Mischa's publications for piano students introduced innovative approaches to instruction and learning; they included material representative of different eras and cultures, as well as numerous arrangements of hit show tunes. His talent as a young pianist led to successful concert tours throughout Europe and North America. Mischa was born in Berlin in 1901. At the age of eight, he began learning to play the piano from his father, Leo Portnoff, a well-known violinist and composer. He later studied with Leo and others at Berlin's S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannibal (Harris Novel)
''Hannibal'' is a psychological horror novel by American author Thomas Harris, published in 1999. It is the third in his series featuring Dr. Hannibal Lecter and the second to feature FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling. The novel takes place seven years after the events of ''The Silence of the Lambs (novel), The Silence of the Lambs'' and deals with the intended revenge of one of Lecter's victims. It was adapted as a Hannibal (2001 film), film of the same name in 2001, directed by Ridley Scott. Elements of the novel were incorporated into the second season of the NBC television series ''Hannibal (TV series), Hannibal'', while the show's third season adapted the plot of the novel. Synopsis Seven years after the Buffalo Bill (character), Buffalo Bill case, Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI agent Clarice Starling witnesses her career crumble around her. During a botched drug raid, Starling kills a methamphetamine, meth dealer who was holding a baby. Fugitive serial killer Hanni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Flight From The Enchanter
''The Flight from the Enchanter'' is a 1956 novel by Iris Murdoch Dame Jean Iris Murdoch ( ; 15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her .... Plot summary The novel is a tale of a group of people caught by the spell of the mysterious and enigmatic Mischa Fox - the enchanter - possibly foreign, definitely wealthy, and said to have great, perhaps mystical powers. Peter Saward, a scholar, is in love with Rosa Keepe. Ten years previously, Rosa refused Fox's marriage proposal, and is currently engaged in an affair with two Polish immigrants, the Lusciewicz brothers. Rosa's brother, Hunter, edits a suffragette magazine. The fearsome Calvin Blick, Fox's despised agent, is attempting to buy the magazine for Fox, and performs other machinations. The adventurous, willful Annette Cockeyne, age 19, drops out of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroshi Sasagawa
is a Japanese creator of several anime and manga series. His name is romanized in some sources as ''Hiroshi Sasakawa''. Career Born in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, he is well known as one of creators of ''Time Bokan'' series (with Ippei Kuri, Mitsuki Nakamura and Yoshitaka Amano), he has directed several animation works in the fantasy and science fiction genre, many (though not all) of them with Tatsunoko Production. List of works * ''Space Ace'' (1965-1966) * ''Speed Racer'' (1967-1968) * ''Oraa Guzura Dado'' (1967-1968) * ''Dokachin the Primitive Boy'' (1968-1969) * ''The Genie Family'' (Hakushon Daimao) (1969-1970) * ''The Funny Judo Champion'' (Inakappe Taishou; original manga by Noboru Kawasaki) (1970-1972) * ''Hyppo and Thomas'' (1971-1972) * ''Science Ninja Team Gatchaman'' (1972-1974) * '' Demetan Croaker, The Boy Frog'' (1973) * ''The Song of Tentomushi'' (''Tentomushi no Uta''; original manga by Noboru Kawasaki) (1974-1976) * '' Tekkaman: The Space Knight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Story Of Cinderella
is an Italian-Japanese 1996 anime television series based on the fairytale of the same name by Charles Perrault and The Brothers Grimm. It was produced by Tatsunoko Productions and Mondo TV. The series originally aired from April 4 to October 3, 1996, comprising 26 episodes. Summary The Story of Cinderella opens as Cinderella's life changes for the worse when her widower father leaves on a business trip. No sooner is he out of sight than Cinderella's stepmother has unceremoniously moved her two own daughters into Cinderella's room, thrown out her things, handed her a servant's dress and put her to brutal harsh menial labor. The series covers Cinderella's trials and tribulations as she tries to adapt to her new life while suffering the abuse of her stepmother and her two stepsisters. All the while, her fairy godmother, Paulette, subtly watches her and tries to influence events to fix Cinderella's life without her noticing. One of her first acts in this is to grant several of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mischa Merz
Mischa Merz (born 1964) is an Australian boxer, painter and journalist and the owner of Mischa's Boxing Central in Footscray where she has been head coach since 2013. She became part of a pioneering cohort of female boxers when she started competing in 1998 long before women were included in the Olympics. Over the years she has been determined to help grow the female branch of the sport and has prepared and coached women and girls to enter competition as well as men. Career Merz won an Australian Amateur Boxing League national title in 2000 and silver in her first year of competing 1998 and in 2001 in Mackay Queensland. She resumed boxing in the Masters Division in the United States in 2009 where she won the National Women's Golden Gloves. She also won her fights at the Georgia Games and the Ringside World Championships, taking home the belt in the Masters Division at that tournament. Her last fight was in New York's famous Gleason's Gym in 2011 where she lost a close decision a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mischa Barton
Mischa Anne Marsden Barton (born 24 January 1986) is a British-American film, television, and stage actress. She began her career on the stage, appearing in Tony Kushner's ''Slavs!'' and took the lead in James Lapine's '' Twelve Dreams'' at New York City's Lincoln Center. She made her screen debut with a guest appearance on the American soap opera '' All My Children'' (1996), and voicing a character on the Nickelodeon cartoon series ''KaBlam!'' (1996–97). Her first major film role was as the protagonist of '' Lawn Dogs'' (1997), a drama co-starring Sam Rockwell. She appeared in major pictures such as the romantic comedy ''Notting Hill'' (1999) and M. Night Shyamalan's psychological thriller ''The Sixth Sense'' (1999). She also starred in the indie crime drama '' Pups'' (1999). Barton later appeared in the independent drama ''Lost and Delirious'' (2001) and guest-starred as Evan Rachel Wood's girlfriend on ABC's '' Once and Again'' (2001–02). She played Marissa Cooper in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mischa Finch
Mischa is a diminutive form of the name Mikhail. Men * Mischa Auer (1905–1967), Russian actor born Mikhail Semyonovich Unskovsky * Mikhail Mischa Bakaleinikoff (1890–1960), Russian-born musical director, Hollywood film composer and conductor * Mischa Berlinski (born 1973), American writer * Mischa Boelens (born 1995), Curaçaoan footballer * Mischa Cotlar (1913–2007), Ukraine mathematician * Mischa Daniels, Dutch music producer * Mischa Dohler (born 1975), Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Royal Society of Arts * Mikhail Mischa Elman (1891–1967), Ukrainian-born Jewish-American violinist * Mischa Hausserman (born 1941), Austrian-American actor * Mischa Hiller (born 1962), British novelist * Mischa Keijser (born 1974), Dutch contemporary photographer * Mischa Maisky, Soviet-born Israeli cellist * Mischa Markow (1854–1934), pioneering Mormon missionary in Europe * Mischa Mischakoff (1895–1981), Ukrainian-born American violinist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mischa Zverev
Mikhail "Mischa" Alexandrovich Zverev (russian: Михаил "Миша" Александрович Зверев, , ; born 22 August 1987) is a German professional tennis player born in Russia. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 25 on 24 July 2017. At the 2017 Australian Open – Men's singles, 2017 Australian Open, Zverev beat world No. 1 Andy Murray in four sets before losing in the quarterfinals to eventual champion Roger Federer. As a qualifier, he has also reached the quarterfinals of both the 2009 Italian Open – Men's singles, 2009 Italian Open and the 2016 Shanghai Rolex Masters – Singles, 2016 Shanghai Masters. Personal life Zverev was born in Moscow, Soviet Union, USSR but grew up in Hamburg, Germany when his parents emigrated there in 1990. He is the son of former Russian tennis player Alexander Zverev Sr., who is also his coach. Internationally, he represents Germany and resides in Monte Carlo, Monaco. His younger brother, Alexander Zverev, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markus Wolf
Markus Johannes Wolf (19 January 1923 – 9 November 2006), also known as Mischa, was head of the Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (), the foreign intelligence division of East Germany's Ministry for State Security (, abbreviated MfS, commonly known as the ). He was the Stasi's number two for 34 years, which spanned most of the Cold War. He is often regarded as one of the best-known spymasters during the Cold War. In the West he was known as "the man without a face" due to his elusiveness. Life and career Early life and education Wolf was born 19 January 1923, in Hechingen, Province of Hohenzollern (now Baden-Württemberg), to a Jewish father and a non-Jewish German mother. His father was the writer, communist activist and physician Friedrich Wolf (1888–1953) and his mother was the nursery teacher Else Wolf ( Dreibholz; 1898–1973). He had one brother, the film director Konrad Wolf (1925–1982). His father was a member of the Communist Party of Germany, and after the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mischa Spoliansky
Mischa Spoliansky (28 December 1898 – 28 June 1985) was a Russian-born composer who made his name writing cabaret and revue songs in the Weimar Republic of the 1920s and early 1930s, before he was forced to emigrate to London in 1933 when Hitler rose to power. He stayed in Britain for the rest of his life, re-inventing himself as a composer of film scores.David Kershaw. "Spoliansky, Mischa", in ''Grove Music Online'' (2001) Early life and education Spoliansky was born into a Jewish, musical family in Białystok, then part of the Belostok Oblast of the Russian Empire. His father was an opera singer and his sister would later become a pianist and his brother Alexander was a cellist. After the birth of Mischa the family moved to Warsaw, and later Kalisz. After the early death of his mother, the family moved to Vienna. Spoliansky's early musical education in piano, violin and cello began at the age of five and was continued in Dresden under Professor Mark Guensberg. He made his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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