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Margo
*** People * Margo (actress) (1917–1985), Mexican-American actress and dancer * Margo (magician), American magic performer and actress * Margo (singer), Irish singer * Margo (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name Places and jurisdictions * 1175 Margo, an outer main-belt asteroid discovered in 1930 * Dashti Margo, a desert in Afghanistan * Margo, Nicosia, a former village west of Pyrogi, Northern Cyprus * Margo, Saskatchewan, Canada Other uses * Margo (soap), an Indian brand of herbal soap * Margo, a compact version of Margolin MCM pistol * , a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918 * ''Margo'' (fly), an African genus of flies See also * Margaux (other) * Margot (other) * Marguerite (other) * 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 na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margot (other)
Margot (; ) is a feminine French given name, a variant of Marguerite. It is also occasionally a surname. Persons named Margot include the following: People with the given name Margot * Margot Asquith, countess of Oxford and Asquith * Marguerite de Valois, known as ''La Reine Margot'', queen of France and of Navarre * Margot Arce de Vázquez, Puerto Rican essayist and educator * Margot Bennett (1912–1980), Scottish screenwriter and crime author * Margot Boer (born 1985), Dutch speed skater * Margot Bryant, British actress * Margot Eskens (born 1939), German singer * Margot Fonteyn, British ballerina * Margot Franssen (born 1952), Dutch-born Canadian entrepreneur and activist * Margot Frank (1926–1945), sister of German World War II diarist Anne Frank * Margot van Geffen (born 1989), Dutch field hockey player * Margot Heuman (born 1928), German-born American Holocaust survivor * Margot Hielscher (1919–2017), German singer and actress * Margot Honecker (1927–2016), German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
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] |
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] |
MCM Pistol
The Margolin or (MCM pistol) Practice Shooting Pistol (russian: Пистолет Марголина Целевой Малокалиберный) is a .22 LR pistol primarily used for competitive target shooting in 25m Standard Pistol class under the rules of the International Shooting Sport Federation for bullseye round-target shooting at 25 m. The Margolin has been used since the 1950s, and complies with all international competition standards. History The pistol was designed by Mikhail Vladimirovich Margolin (1906–1975). It was produced since 1948 and made its international debut at the 36th World Shooting Championships held in 1954 at Caracas, Venezuela.В. А. Марьяновский. Он не был в Каракасе. М., "Молодая гвардия", 1965 A very accurate, reliable and economically priced pistol of functional and simple design. The designer himself was blind - he was fighting in the Red Army against the "bandits" (anti-communist rebels) in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1175 Margo
1175 Margo, provisional designation , is a stony background asteroid from the outermost regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 24 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 17 October 1930, by astronomer Karl Reinmuth at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory in southwest Germany. The meaning of the asteroids's name is unknown. Orbit and classification ''Margo'' is a non-family asteroid from the main belt's background population. It orbits the Sun in the outermost asteroid belt at a distance of 3.0–3.4 AU once every 5 years and 9 months (2,107 days; semi-major axis of 3.22 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.07 and an inclination of 16 ° with respect to the ecliptic. The body's observation arc begins with its first identification as at Heidelberg in November 1907, almost 23 years prior to its official discovery observation. Physical characteristics ''Margo'' has been characterized as a stony S-type asteroid by Pan-STARRS photometric surve ... [...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, Saskatchewan
Margo ( 2016 population: ) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Sasman No. 336 and Census Division No. 10. History Margo incorporated as a village on April 24, 1911. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Margo had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. In the 2016 Census of Population, the Village of Margo recorded a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016. See also * List of communities in Saskatchewan * Villages of Saskatchewan A village is a type of incorporated urban municipality in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. A village is created from an organized hamlet by the Minister of Municipal Affairs by ministerial order v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margo, Nicosia
Margo (; ) is an uninhabited village in the Nicosia District of Cyprus, located west of Pyrogi. It is under de facto control of Northern Cyprus Northern Cyprus ( tr, Kuzey Kıbrıs), officially the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC; tr, Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti, ''KKTC''), is a ''de facto'' state that comprises the northeastern portion of the Geography of Cyprus, isl .... Today it is uninhabited, as the village lies within military area and can only be visited with permission of the Turkish military. The village's entire population was made of Jewish Cypriot people who were running the Margo Farm. References {{Cyprus-geo-stub Communities in Nicosia District ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margo (fly)
''Margo'' is the sole genus of flies placed in the family Marginidae and referred to as margin flies. The genus comprises two species, both from Africa: ''Margo aperta'' from Zimbabwe and ''Margo clausa'' from Madagascar. They are restricted to dense moist forests and are thought to be endangered by habitat destruction. Very little is known of their distribution or biology. The family Marginidae is provisionally placed, on the basis of morphological characters, in the superfamily Opomyzoidea The Opomyzoidea are a superfamily of flies. Biology Opomyzoids show a range of lifestyles including mining plant leaves (many Agromyzidae), feeding in grass stems ( Anthomyzidae and Opomyzidae), forming plant galls ('' Fergusonina''), feeding .... References {{taxonbar, from=Q3847027, from2=Q14717693 Brachycera genera Endangered insects ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dashti Margo
Dasht-e Margo (Persian: دشت مارگو), also Dasht-e Mārgow or Dasht-e Margoh, is a desert region in the southern provinces of Nimruz and Helmand in Afghanistan. The desert is adjacent to the Dasht-e Khash and Registan Desert. It is the world's 20th largest desert at about 150,000 km2 in area with an elevation of 500–700 m. The desert consists mainly of sand masses and rocky-clayish plains with solonchaks, takirs, and rarely oases. The desert's name means "Desert of Death" in Dari, with ''dasht'' meaning "plain In geography, a plain is a flat expanse of land that generally does not change much in elevation, and is primarily treeless. Plains occur as lowlands along valleys or at the base of mountains, as coastal plains, and as plateaus or uplands ..." and ''margo'' meaning "death". References External links * Deserts of Afghanistan Geography of Helmand Province Geography of Nimruz Province {{Nimruz-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margo (soap)
Margo is a brand of soap manufactured in India. The soap has margosa ''Azadirachta indica'', commonly known as neem, nimtree or Indian lilac, is a tree in the mahogany family Meliaceae. It is one of two species in the genus ''Azadirachta'', and is native to the Indian subcontinent and most of the countries in Afri ... as its main ingredient. The soap was created and manufactured by the Calcutta Chemical Company under the stewardship of its founder, K.C. Das, khogen Chandra Das and was launched in 1920. In 1988, the soap was among the top five-selling brands in India, with a market share of 8.9%. As of 2001, the brand was worth 75 crores and belonged to Henkel-SPIC. As of 2003, the brand was relaunching new products focused on the younger demographic, and had a market share of close to 2% of the premium-soaps segment in India. In 2011Jyothy Laboratoriesacquired the rights to the brand following the acquisition of controlling stake in Henkel India. References External links P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
