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Margo (given Name)
Margo or Margó is a female given name, a form of Margaret. In Estonia, it is also a male given name. Notable people or characters named Margo include: Given name * Margo Barton, New Zealand fashion designer and milliner *Margo Dydek (1974–2011), Polish basketball player *Margo Erlam (born 2002), Canadian diver * Margo Feiden (born 1944), American art dealer and author *Margo Glantz (born 1930), Mexican writer, essayist, critic and academic *Margo Guryan (born 1937), American singer/songwriter *Margo Harshman (born 1986), American actress *Margo Hayes (born 1998), American rock climber *Margó Ingvardsson (born 1941), Swedish politician * Margo Kõlar (born 1961), Estonian composer *Margo Lion (1899–1989), French chanteuse, parodist, cabaret singer and actress *Margo MacDonald (1943–2014), Scottish politician *Margo Maeckelberghe (1932–2014), Cornish bard and artist *Margo Martindale (born 1951), American actress *Margo Price (born 1983), American singer/songwriter * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret
Margaret is a female first name, derived via French () and Latin () from grc, μαργαρίτης () meaning "pearl". The Greek is borrowed from Persian. Margaret has been an English name since the 11th century, and remained popular throughout the Middle Ages. It became less popular between the 16th century and 18th century, but became more common again after this period, becoming the second-most popular female name in the United States in 1903. Since this time, it has become less common, but was still the ninth-most common name for women of all ages in the United States as of the 1990 census. Margaret has many diminutive forms in many different languages, including Maggie, Madge, Daisy, Margarete, Marge, Margo, Margie, Marjorie, Meg, Megan, Rita, Greta, Gretchen, and Peggy. Name variants Full name * (Irish) * (Irish) * (Dutch), (German), (Swedish) * (English) Diminutives * (English) * (English) First half * ( French) * (Welsh) Second half * (English), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margo Scharten-Antink
Margo Sybranda Everdina Scharten-Antink (September 7, 1868 – November 27, 1957) was a Dutch poet. She was born in Zutphen and died in Florence, Italy. In 1928 she and her husband Carel Scharten won a bronze medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for their "De nar uit Maremmen" ("The Fool in Maremma The Maremma (, ; from Latin , "maritime and) is a coastal area of western central Italy, bordering the Tyrrhenian Sea. It includes much of south-western Tuscany and part of northern Lazio. It was formerly mostly marshland, often malarial, bu ..."). References External links profile * 1869 births 1957 deaths Dutch women poets Olympic bronze medalists in art competitions People from Zutphen Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics Olympic competitors in art competitions {{netherlands-poet-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fujiko Mine
is a fictional character created by Monkey Punch for his manga series ''Lupin III'', which debuted in ''Weekly Manga Action'' on August 10, 1967. She is a professional criminal who regularly uses her attractiveness to fool her targets. Unlike the rest of the ''Lupin III'' cast, Fujiko's physical appearance changes for most installments in the franchise. She is the star of the fourth ''Lupin III'' anime television series, 2012's '' The Woman Called Fujiko Mine'', making it the first to not star Arsène Lupin III as the protagonist. Creation As the ''Lupin III'' series was made to be published in a magazine targeted at adults, Fujiko Mine was created to add a female presence. Her name is derived from the title . Monkey Punch saw a picture of Mt. Fuji on a calendar and in less than a minute decided on Fujiko Mine; omitting "rei" from "reihō", changing the reading of to "mine", and adding "ko" to "fuji" to make it look more pleasing when spelled. She was developed from the inten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meet The Spartans
''Meet the Spartans'' is a 2008 American parody film written and directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. The film is mainly a parody of the 2006 film ''300'', although it also references many other films, TV shows, people and pop cultural events of the time, in a manner similar to previous films that Friedberg and Seltzer had been involved in such as ''Scary Movie'', ''Date Movie'' and ''Epic Movie''. The film stars Sean Maguire, Carmen Electra and Kevin Sorbo. ''Meet the Spartans'' opened at 1 in the United States. Despite receiving extremely negative reviews and appearing on several lists of the worst films ever made, it was a box-office success, grossing $84 million on a budget of $30 million. Plot A Spartan elder inspects three babies. The first, an ugly, talking baby ogre (''Shrek the Third''), is abandoned to die for its deformity; while Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie adopt the second, who is Vietnamese. The third, Leonidas, is accepted as a Spartan for his a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fear (1996 Film)
''Fear'' is a 1996 American psychological thriller film directed by James Foley and written by Christopher Crowe. It stars Mark Wahlberg, Reese Witherspoon, William Petersen, Alyssa Milano and Amy Brenneman. It revolves around a wealthy family whose seemingly perfect life is threatened when their teenage daughter begins dating an attractive and mysterious young man. The film was largely derided by critics upon its release, but became a sleeper hit in the spring of 1996, grossing $20 million at the U.S. box office. It has since become a cult film, while at the same time launching teen idol status for its two young leads, who were romantically linked at the time of the movie's premiere. Wahlberg was nominated for the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain. The film's own producer, Brian Grazer, described it as "''Fatal Attraction'' for teens". Plot Sixteen-year-old Nicole Walker lives in the suburbs of Seattle with her father Steven, his new wife Laura, and Laura's son Toby. At a bar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margo (singer)
Margo (born Margaret Catherine O'Donnell; 6 February 1951) is an Irish singer. She rose to prominence during the 1960s in the Irish country music scene and has had a long career since. Background Margo was brought up in the small village of Kincasslagh, in The Rosses area of County Donegal, Ireland. She grew up in a Catholic family, with her parents Francis and Julia (née McGonagle) O'Donnell, and her siblings: John (the eldest), Kathleen, James; and the youngest Daniel, who is also a singer. Her father died of a heart attack when she was seventeen. Career Margo started performing country music at a young age in 1964 with a local showband, The Keynotes. She recorded her first single in 1968, "Bonny Irish Boy/Dear God", and followed this with a second single, "If I Could See the World Through the Eyes of a Child/Road By the River", released in 1969. In the next five decades, Margo sold over 1 million records, and performed with Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton. She pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margo (magician)
Margo is the screen and stage name of Margo Timon (née Tucker), a magic performer and actress who had a starring slot in the NBC network television special ''The World's Most Dangerous Magic II''. She worked with the duo The Pendragons. Life and career Margo is the offspring of an established magic family. Her mother is award-winning magician Frances Willard. Margo's father is Texan newspaper editor Glenn Tucker. Her younger sister Hannah is married to close-up magic specialist and lecturer Michael Ammar. As an assistant with The Pendragons, Margo appeared on ''The Tonight Show'' and the ''World Magic Awards''. In 1999 she was picked by producer Gary Ouellet to be one of the stars of the second of his ''World's Most Dangerous Magic'' specials. Ouellet and his team created for her the predicament escape trick "Rat Attack", in which she was shackled into a coffin-like box which was then filled with rats and she then magically escaped. She studied acting and had small roles in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margo (actress)
Margo (born María Marguerita Guadalupe Teresa Estela Bolado Castilla y O'Donnell, May 10, 1917 – July 17, 1985) was a Mexican-American actress and dancer. She appeared in many American film, stage, and television productions, including ''Lost Horizon'' (1937), ''The Leopard Man'' (1943), ''Viva Zapata!'' (1952), and ''I'll Cry Tomorrow'' (1955). She married actor Eddie Albert in 1945 and was later known as Margo Albert. Early life and career Margo was born into a musically talented family in Mexico City in 1917. As a child, she trained as a dancer with Eduardo Cansino, the father of Rita Hayworth. Margo travelled to the United States as a child, living in New York City with her aunt, singer Carmen Castillo. While accompanying her uncle's band during a performance at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, Margo was noticed by producer and director Ben Hecht and screenwriter Charles MacArthur, who cast the 17-year-old performer as the lead in their film ''Crime Without Pas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Durrell
Margaret Isabel Mabel "Margo" Durrell (4 May 1919 — 16 January 2007) was the younger sister of novelist Lawrence Durrell and elder sister of naturalist, author, and TV presenter Gerald Durrell, who lampoons her character in his Corfu trilogy of novels: ''My Family and Other Animals'', ''Birds, Beasts and Relatives'', and ''The Garden of the Gods''. She wrote a book, ''Whatever Happened to Margo?'', giving a humorous account of her experiences as a Bournemouth landlady in the late 1940s. It includes details about the lives of her family, particularly Leslie, Gerald, and her mother Louisa Durrell following their time on Corfu. The manuscript was apparently written in the 1960s and was discovered in the attic by a granddaughter nearly 35 years later. It was published in 1995. Early life Durrell was born in Kurseong, Bengal, in British India and brought up in India and England. In 1935, along with her brothers Gerald and Leslie, she accompanied her mother to a new home on Corfu, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margo Vliegenthart
Anne Margot (Margo) Vliegenthart (born 18 July 1958 in Utrecht Utrecht ( , , ) is the List of cities in the Netherlands by province, fourth-largest city and a List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality of the Netherlands, capital and most populous city of the Provinces of the Netherlands, pro ...) is a Dutch former politician. ReferencesA.M. (Margo) Vliegenthartat www.parlement.com 1958 births Living people State Secretaries for Health of the Netherlands Members of the House of Representatives (Netherlands) Labour Party (Netherlands) politicians Politicians from Utrecht (city) People with multiple sclerosis Utrecht University alumni {{Netherlands-PvdA-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margo Stilley
Margo Stilley (born November 20, 1982) is an American actress. Early life Stilley was born in Conway, South Carolina, and grew up between there and Swansboro, North Carolina. She was raised in a strict Baptist household in America's Bible Belt. After her 16th birthday, she moved out of her family home and lived on her own. She put herself through high school working as a telemarketer and a lifeguard until she graduated a year early from Conway High School with Honors in Art and History. She was voted "The Funniest" in the class of 2000. Stilley has been a long time supporter of hands-on charitable acts. In high school, she volunteered at local nursing homes feeding and reading to the elderly. She was offered a full scholarship to Savannah College of Art and Design, which she declined. Career She left the rural South as a teenager to begin working briefly as a model in Milan with Elite Model Management in February 2001, before moving to London by the end of the year, at the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margo Taft Stever
Margo Taft Stever is an American poet, whose poetry collections include ''The End of'' ''Horses'' (Broadstone Books, 2020), winner of the Pinnacle Achievement Award in Poetry, 2022; ''Cracked Piano'' (CavanKerry Press, 2019), shortlisted for Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize; ''Ghost Moose'' (Kattywompus Press, 2019); ''The Lunatic Ball'' (Kattywompus Press, 2015); The ''Hudson Line'' (Main Street Rag, 2012); ''Frozen Spring'' (Mid-List Press First Series Award, 2002) and ''Reading the Night Sky'' (Riverstone Press Poetry Chapbook Competition, 1996). Biography Stever is a graduate of Harvard University, and is a recipient of an Ed.M from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and an M.F.A. in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. Stever co-authored the book ''Looking East: William Howard Taft and the 1905 U.S. Diplomatic Mission to China'' (Zhejiang University Press, 2012). Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, including ''Verse Daily'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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