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Molly (name)
Molly (also spelled Molli or Mollie) is a diminutive of the Hebrew feminine name Mary. It may less commonly be used as a diminutive for feminine names that begin with M, such as Margaret, Martha, Martina or Melinda. People Women * Mollie Arline Kirkland Bailey (c. 1844–1918), American circus musician, singer, wartime nurse and alleged Confederate spy * Molly Bang (born 1943), American Illustrator * Martina "Molly" Beck (born 1979), German retired biathlete * Molly Bee (1939–2009), stage name of Mollie Gene Beachboard, American country music singer * Molly Bish (1983–2000), American murder victim * Molly Brant (c. 1736–1796), prominent Mohawk woman in the era of the American Revolution * Margaret "The Unsinkable Molly" Brown (1867–1932), survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, philanthropist and activist * Molly Burch (born 1990), American musician * Molly Burnett (born 1988), American actress and singer * Molly Carlson (born 1998), Canadian high diver * Molly C ... [...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] |
Molly Carlson
Molly Carlson (born September 22, 1998) is a Canadian high diver. She is a member of Canada's senior national high diving team and placed second at the 2022 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series. Carlson uploads videos of herself diving on TikTok. Early life and education Carlson was born in Fort Frances, Ontario. She grew up in Thunder Bay. She has a younger sister, Megan. Carlson did gymnastics as a small child and began diving in 2008 at age nine. She began training with the Thunder Bay Diving Club in 2008. During her final year of high school, Carlson relocated from Thunder Bay to Toronto to focus on diving and training to make the 2016 Olympic team. She graduated from Florida State University in 2020 with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology. After graduation, Carlson relocated to Canada. Carlson is currently enrolled in a Masters of Arts in counselling psychology at Yorkville University. Career Junior and university (2013–2020) At age 10, Carlson qualified for the 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molly Johnson
Margaret Leslie "Molly" Johnson, OC is a Canadian Juno Award-winning singer-songwriter of pop and jazz. Biography Johnson began as a child performer, receiving formal training from the National Ballet School and the Banff School of Fine Arts. Johnson's brother Clark Johnson, an actor and director ('' Homicide: Life on the Street'', ''The Wire''), and sister Taborah Johnson, an actor and singer, are also noted Canadian performers. Raised in Toronto, Ontario, as the child of a white mother and a black father, Johnson started her career in the mid-1960s when, as a young grade schooler, she and her brother were tapped by Toronto producer Ed Mirvish to appear in ''Porgy and Bess'' at the Royal Alexandra Theatre. In time ''Porgy and Bess'' was followed by '' South Pacific'', ''Finian's Rainbow'' and other musicals."Molly Johnson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mollie Johnson
Mollie Johnson was a 19th-century madam in Deadwood, South Dakota. Johnson was born in Alabama, and migrated west due to the demand for working prostitutes. Indications are that she began working that trade in her early teens, around the age of 15 or 16 by some reports. However, definite information on her early life is unconfirmed. She first appeared in Deadwood shortly after the gold rush, and was first mentioned in public writing in February, 1878, when she married Lew Spencer, an African American comedian who was performing at the time in the '' Bella Union Theater''. Although married, Johnson continued to work in her chosen profession, both as prostitute and madam. Reportedly a widow before her arrival in Deadwood, and in her early to mid-20s, Johnson was described as being a pretty woman, and a very good businesswoman. She was also a known supporter of Irish Famine Relief. The competition for brothel owners in Deadwood was light, as there were very few ''girls'' to choose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molly Ivins
Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivins (August 30, 1944 – January 31, 2007) was an American newspaper columnist, author, political commentator, and humorist. Born in California and raised in Texas, Ivins attended Smith College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She began her journalism career at the ''Minneapolis Tribune'' where she became the first female police reporter at the paper. Ivins joined ''The Texas Observer'' in the early 1970s and later moved to ''The New York Times''. She became a columnist for the '' Dallas Times Herald'' in the 1980s, and then the ''Fort Worth Star-Telegram'' after the ''Times Herald'' was sold and shuttered (1991). Her column was subsequently syndicated by Creators Syndicate and carried by hundreds of newspapers. A biography of Ivins, ''Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life'', was co-written in 2010 by PEN-USA winning presidential biographer Bill Minutaglio and W. Michael Smith. The ''Forbes Media Guide Five Hundred, 1994'' said: Earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mollie Hunter
Maureen Mollie Hunter McIlwraith (30 June 1922 – 31 July 2012) was a Scottish writer known as Mollie Hunter. She wrote fantasy for children, historical stories for young adults, and realistic novels for adults. Many of her works are inspired by Scottish history, or by Scottish or Irish folklore, with elements of magic and fantasy. Life Born and raised near Edinburgh in the small village of Longniddry, her final years were spent in Inverness. A portrait of her hangs in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Hunter's debut was ''Patrick Kentigern Keenan'', published by Blackie and Son in 1963 with illustrations by Charles Keeping. In the U.S. it was published in 1963 as ''The Smartest Man in Ireland''. Awards For ''The Stronghold'' Mollie Hunter won the 1974 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. The same novel, published in The Netherlands as "Een toren tegen de romeinen" won the "Zilveren Griffel" (Sil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Vivian Hughes
Mary Vivian Hughes (2 October 1866 – May 1956), usually known as Molly Hughes and published under M. V. Hughes, was a British educator and author.'Miss M. Hughes: Pioneer women teacher', ''The Times'', 5 June 1956 Life The daughter of a London stockbroker, she was born Mary Thomas and passed most of her childhood in Canonbury, under the watchful eyes of four older brothers. Her father, a modestly successful stockbroker, was discovered dead on a train line in 1879. His death remains a mystery. She attended the North London Collegiate School and the Cambridge Training College for Women, and was later awarded her BA in London. As head of the training department at Bedford College (London), Bedford College from 1892 until 1897, she played an important role in expanding and rationalising the teacher-training curriculum. Molly Thomas married a barrister, Arthur Hughes (1857–1918), from Garneddwen, in 1897, after an engagement of nearly ten years. They had one daughter, Mary Yetta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molly Haskell
Molly Clark Haskell (born September 29, 1939)Aitken, Ian, ed. (2006)''Encyclopedia of Documentary Film, Volume 2'' New York: Routledge. p. 541. . is an American feminist film critic and author. She contributed to ''The Village Voice''—first as a theatre critic, then as a movie reviewer—and from there moved on to ''New York'' magazine and ''Vogue''. Her most influential book is '' From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies'' (1974; revised and reissued in 1987). She co-hosted Turner Classic Movies' '' The Essentials'' with Robert Osborne in 2006 for one season. Early life Molly Haskell was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, and grew up in Richmond, Virginia. She attended St. Catherine's School, Sweet Briar College, the University of London and the Collège de Sorbonne before settling in New York. In the 1960s, she worked for the French Film Office, where she wrote a newsletter about that country's films for the New York press and served as an interp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molly Hawkey
Molly Driscoll Hawkey (born August 28, 1978) is an American actress, photographer, and comedian. She portrayed Lacey Wilcox in the horror comedy ''Brain Blockers'' (2007), Molly in the drama '' Higher Ground'' (2011), and voiced Orro Oxslayer in the fantasy video game ''Guild Wars 2'' (2012). In 2016, she became known for editing herself into episodes of '' The Bachelor'', which she made into a web series titled ''Molly on The Bachelor''. Early life Hawkey was born and raised in Ossining, New York. She is the youngest of five children born to Penelope "Penny" (née Sharp), an advertising executive who wrote the famous Coca-Cola commercial "Hey Kid, Catch!", and William Stevenson "Bill" Hawkey, who also worked in advertising. Her parents now own and operate Sundial Farm, a plant nursery in Ossining. She has four full brothers: Adam, a film compositor and colorist, Robin, a chiropractor, Renn, a musician and film producer, and Timothy, a marketing managing director. Hawkey also h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molly Harrison (curator)
Molly Harrison ( Hodgett; 23 September 1909 – 7 August 2002) was an English museum curator and author who was curator of the Geffrye Museum from 1941 to 1969. She added the museum's first modern room in her belief history did not end at the Victorian era and came up with hand-written and illustrated information items. Harrison was an extensive publisher of children's and adult books and frequently gave lectures at universities in the United Kingdom and abroad. She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1967 and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts a year later. Early life Harrison's birth was on 23 September 1909, at the Old Thatched Cottage, Great Wymondley in Hertfordshire. She was the daughter of the bank manager Ernest Charles Hodgett and his wife Ethel Alma. Since her parents worked on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Harrison was primarily raised by relatives. She went to the Friends' School, Saffron Walden, and was heavily influenced by her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mollie Hardwick
Mollie Greenhalgh Hardwick (7 March 1916 in Prestwich, Lancashire – 13 December 2003), also known as Mary Atkinson, was an English author who was best known for writing books that accompanied the TV series '' Upstairs, Downstairs''. Hardwick began her career as a radio announcer at the BBC in the 1940s, and following the Second World War worked in the corporation's drama department until 1962. As well as writing ''Upstairs, Downstairs'', '' Thomas & Sarah'' and ''The Duchess of Duke Street'', she was also the creator of the ''Doran Fairweather'' novels and wrote three ''Juliet Bravo'' books. Hardwick also wrote many books and plays based on the Sherlock Holmes stories, and a couple of biographies on Lady Emma Hamilton and Mary Anne Disraeli. She married fellow author Michael Hardwick in 1961 and together they co-wrote numerous books, mostly relating to Sherlock Holmes but also a number on Charles Dickens. The couple lived in a medieval house in a village in Kent. She died ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mollie Evans
Mollie Evans (8 April 1922 – 1 July 2016) was "one of the most influential British antique dealers of the latter part of the 20th century". She was born Mary Isobel Simpson, into a large farming family of longstanding in Eamont Bridge Eamont Bridge is a small village immediately to the south of Penrith, Cumbria, England. The village is named after the bridge over the River Eamont and straddles the boundary between the historic counties of Cumberland and Westmorland. One ..., Cumberland. Her shop in Richmond was called "Mollie Evans, Antique Furniture, Books, and Interesting Items". References {{DEFAULTSORT:Evans, Mollie 1922 births 2016 deaths Antiques experts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
