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Mildred (name)
Mildred /ˈmɪldɹəd/ is a female given name. It is an Anglo-Saxon name of Old English origin, composed of "mild" ("mild") + "þryð" ("power, strength", also present in the last syllable of the name Audrey), meaning "gentle strength". It reached the rank of the sixth most popular name for girls in the United States in 1912 and maintained that popularity through 1920, but then its popularity dropped quickly afterward. Familiar forms include Milly and Midge. Notable people People with the name Mildred include: * Mildred Barber Abel (1902–1976), American politician * Mildred Adams (1894–1980), American journalist * Mildred Albert (1905–1991), American fashion show producer and radio and television personality * Mildred Aldrich (1853–1928), American journalist * Mildred Allen (physicist) (1894–1990), American physicist * Mildred Allen (soprano) (born 1932), American operatic soprano * Mildred Ames (1919–1994), American writer * Mildred Anderson, American singer * Mi ... [...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] |
Mildred Barya
Mildred Kiconco Barya is a writer and poet from Uganda. She was awarded the 2008 Pan African Literary Forum Prize for Africana Fiction, and earlier gained recognition for her poetry, particularly her first two collections, ''Men Love Chocolates But They Don't Say'' (2002) and ''The Price of Memory: After the Tsunami'' (2006).Barya, M. K. (June 2008)"Bio" MildredBarya.com. Retrieved 14 June 2008. . "Writing Contest Results", PALF. Retrieved 14 June 2008. Barya has also worked as journalist and travel writer. From August 2007 to August 2009, she served as Writer-in-Residence at , a Pan-African foundation based in [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mildred Clingerman
Mildred McElroy Clingerman (March 14, 1918 – February 26, 1997) was an American science fiction author. Clingerman was born Mildred McElroy in Allen, Oklahoma, and her family moved to Tucson, Arizona, in 1929. She graduated from Tucson High School and attended the University of Arizona. She married Stuart Clingerman in 1937. Most of her short stories were published in the 1950s in ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'', edited by Anthony Boucher. Boucher included her story "The Wild Wood" in the seventh volume (1958) of ''The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction'' and dedicated the book to her, calling her the "most serendipitous of discoveries." Her science fiction was collected as ''A Cupful of Space'' in 1961. She also published in mainstream magazines like ''Good Housekeeping'' and ''Collier's''. Her story "The Little Witch of Elm Street" appeared in ''Woman's Home Companion'' in 1956. Married women are portrayed in stories like “The Wild Wood” (January 1957 F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mildred Cleghorn
Mildred Imoch Cleghorn (December 11, 1910 – April 15, 1997) was first chairperson of the Fort Sill Apache Tribe. Her Apache names were ''Eh-Ohn'' and ''Lay-a-Bet'', and she was one of the last Chiricahua Apaches born under "prisoner of war" status. She was an educator and traditional doll maker, and was regarded as a cultural leader.Everett, Dianna"Cleghorn, Mildred Imoch (1910-1997)" ''Oklahoma Historical Society's Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture.'' (retrieved 1 February 09) She worked as a home extension agent and as a home economics teacher. She served as tribal chairperson from 1976 until 1995 and focused on sustaining history and traditional Chiricahua culture. Mildred Cleghorn and her dolls were participants at the 1967 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. On June 10, 1996, Indian plaintiffs including Elouise P. Cobell, Mildred Cleghorn, Thomas Maulson and James Louis Larose, filed a class action lawsuit against the federal government for its failure to properly ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mildred Cable
Alice Mildred Cable () (21 February 1878 – 30 April 1952) was a British Protestant Christian missionary in China, serving with the China Inland Mission. Early life and career Born in Guildford. the daughter of John Cable, a prosperous draper in Guildford, Cable early decided to become a missionary and studied pharmacy and human sciences at London University. She was engaged to a man who had also declared his intention to become a missionary, but he changed his mind and said he would not marry her unless she abandoned her ambition. She broke off the engagement, declined to take her final examination to graduate, and joined the China Inland Mission in 1901, meeting Evangeline (Eva) French who was returning to China following her first home leave. They worked together for the rest of their lives. Cable and French were stationed in Huozhou, Shanxi, and often traveled in the surrounding area. Eva's younger sister, Francesca, joined them in 1910 (although some sources say 1908), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mildred Buxton, Countess Buxton
Mildred Anne Buxton, Countess Buxton (''née'' Smith; 29 June 1866 – 7 December 1955) was a British social activist and philanthropist. Biography Buxton was born in St George Hanover Square, London, the daughter of Hugh Colin Smith of Mount Clare. London and Constance Maria Josepha (''née'' Adeane). She was baptised 23 July 1866 Saint Thomas Church in Portman Square, Westminster.''London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1917'' She married politician Sydney Charles Buxton, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, in 1896, and had three children. She was extremely active in social work when her husband was Governor-General of South Africa from 1914–20. In 1917, their only son, 2nd Lt. Hon. Denis Buxton, was killed in action during the First World War. In Cape Town, she and her husband founded a children's hospital in memory of their only son who was killed in action in France. When they returned from South Africa, the Buxtons settled in Newtimber Pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mildred Anne Butler
Mildred Anne Butler (11 January 1858 – 11 October 1941) was an Irish artist, who worked in watercolour and oil of landscape, genre and animal subjects. Butler was born and spent most of her life in Kilmurry, Thomastown, County Kilkenny and was associated with the Newlyn School of painters. Mildred Anne's en plein air style is dominated by the theme of nature and reflects scenes of domesticity around the family home in Kilmurry. She achieved distinction in her lifetime and exhibited in major galleries in Ireland and England. Among her patrons were Queen Mary of Teck and Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse. She became a member of the Royal Academy in 1893. In 1896, Butler's ''Morning Bath'' was exhibited at the Royal Academy. It was the first work by a female artist to be purchased by the trustees of the Chantrey Bequest and was then presented to the Tate. She became an associate member of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1896 and was granted full membership in 1937. She was on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mildred Burke
Mildred Burke (August 5, 1915 – February 18, 1989) was an American professional wrestler. She is overall a three-time women's world champion under different incarnations and recognitions. Burke's heyday lasted from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s, when she held the NWA World Women's Championship for almost twenty years. Burke started out in 1935, wrestling men at carnivals. She was managed by her second husband, promoter Billy Wolfe. She is a charter member of WWE Hall of Fame's Legacy Wing, Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame, and the ''Wrestling Observer Newsletter'' Hall of Fame. Early life Born Mildred Bliss on August 5, 1915, in Coffeyville, Kansas, at age 15 she dropped out of school and began to work as a waitress on the Zuni Indian Reservation in Gallup, New Mexico. She lived there for three years, before leaving for Kansas City after agreeing to marry her boyfriend. He took her to a professional wrestling event, which sparked her interest in the sport. Burke, who was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mildred Brown
Mildred D. Brown (December 20, 1905–November 2, 1989) was an African-American journalist, newspaper baker, and leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Omaha, Nebraska. Part of the Great Migration (African American), Great Migration, she came from Alabama via New York City, New York and Des Moines, NE. In Omaha, she and her husband founded and ran the ''Omaha Star'', a newspaper of the African-American community. After 1945, Brown continued to run alone what was the only African-American newspaper in Omaha. It became the only newspaper of the African-American community in the state. She used its influence for education, community building, supporting the national civil-rights movement and opening up jobs for blacks. In the 1960s President Lyndon Johnson appointed her as a goodwill ambassador to East Germany. Brown was the first African American and one of only three women inducted into the Omaha Business Hall of Fame. She also has been posthumously inducted into the Nebraska Jou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mildred Edie Brady
Mildred Edie Brady (June 3, 1906 – July 27, 1965) was a freelance writer for ''The New Republic'' who is mostly known for writing the May 26, 1947 article ''The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich''For the article, see ; reprinted in (with the subhead, "The man who blames both neuroses and cancer on unsatisfactory sexual activities has been repudiated by only one scientific journal") about psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich's controversial "cosmic energy" research. Writings on Reich Wilhelm Reich had quit lecturing on medical psychology at the New School for Social Research, after having been invited to teach there in 1939. Brady was curious about his orgone accumulator and its purported ability to concentrate orgone energy. In 1947 Brady approached Reich for an interview at his home in Forest Hills, Queens. She intended to gain evidence to portray Reich as a conductor of a confidence trick, but did not get any special information from her visit. Shortly thereafter Brady wrote two articles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mildred Benson
Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson (July 10, 1905 – May 28, 2002) was an American journalist and writer of children's books. She wrote some of the earliest Nancy Drew mysteries and created the detective's adventurous personality. Benson wrote under the Stratemeyer Syndicate pen name, Carolyn Keene, from 1929 to 1947 and contributed to 23 of the first 30 Nancy Drew mysteries, which were bestsellers. Personal life Mildred Benson was born Mildred Augustine in Ladora, Iowa, to Lillian and Dr. J. L. Augustine. Benson earned her degree in English from the University of Iowa in 1925 in just three years. She later returned to the University and in 1927, became the first student there to earn a master's degree in journalism. In 1928, she married Asa Wirt, who worked for the Associated Press. The couple had a daughter together, Peggy Wirt, who was born in 1936. After Asa Wirt's death in 1947, she married George A. Benson, (in 1950) editor of the ''Toledo Blade'' newspaper of Toledo, Ohio. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mildred Bendall
Mildred Bendall (27 November 1891 – 27 December 1977) was an active force of the avant-garde in Bordeaux, and instrumental in building a real exchange with Paris.GALLIANO - DES GARETS Françoise, ''La Vie culturelle à Bordeaux 1945-1975'', Bordeaux, pp. 32-35, 81-82 and 112-114E. BÉNÉZIT, ''Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs''; Vol. 2, Gründ, Paris, 1999, p. 281 Early years Born in Bordeaux in 1891, Mildred was the third and youngest child of Manley Forbes Bendall, a highly successful English merchant, and Marie-Blanche-Elisabeth Chrisman. Bendall trained as a painter during 1910–1914 at the atelier of local fashionable painter Félix Carme and her work ''Coin de Salon Bordelais'' won a first in the 'Peinture au Palmarès de l'Union Féminine de Bordeaux'. Bendall's early paintings emulate the 'Chardinesque' style of her tutor, but nonetheless, show her solid grounding in drawing, technique and composition, which later e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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