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Marion (given Name)
Marion is a unisex name, unisex given name. As a ''feminine'' given name, it is a French diminutive of Marie (given name), Marie that has been in use by English speakers since the Middle Ages. It was also occasionally considered a form of Margaret (name), Margaret or Margery (name), Margery. As a ''masculine'' given name, it derives from the Latin given name Marianus, a form of the name Marius (name), Marius. It may refer to: Women *Marion Adams-Acton (1846–1928), Scottish novelist *Marion Adnams (1898–1995), English painter, printmaker, and draughtswoman *Marion Aizpors (born 1961), German swimmer *Marion Allemoz (born 1989), French ice hockey player *Marion Angus (1865–1946), Scottish poet *Marion Arnott, Scottish author *Marion Aunor (born 1992), Filipino singer-songwriter *Marion Aye (1903–1951), American actress *Marion Bailey (born 1951), British actress *Marion Bartoli (born 1984), French tennis player *Marion Bauer (1882–1955), American composer, teacher, wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unisex
Unisex is an adjective indicating something is not sex-specific, i.e. is suitable for any type of sex. The term can also mean gender-blindness or gender neutrality. The term 'unisex' was coined in the 1960s and was used fairly informally. The combining prefix ''uni-'' is from Latin ''wikt:unus#Latin, unus'', meaning ''one'' or ''single''. However, 'unisex' seems to have been influenced by words such as ''united'' and ''universal'', in which ''uni-'' takes the related sense ''shared''. Unisex then means ''shared by sexes''. Examples Hairdresser, Hair stylists and beauty salons that serve all genders are often referred to as unisex. This is also typical of other services and products that traditionally separated by sex, such as clothing shops or beauty products had traditionally separated. Public toilets are commonly sex segregated, but if that is not the case, they are referred to as unisex public toilets. Unisex clothing includes garments like T-shirts; versions of other garments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Bauer
Marion Eugénie Bauer (15 August 1882 – 9 August 1955) was an American composer, teacher, writer, and music critic. She played an active role in shaping American musical identity in the early half of the twentieth century. As a composer, Bauer wrote for piano, chamber ensembles, symphonic orchestra, solo voice, and vocal ensembles. She gained prominence as a teacher, serving on the faculty of Washington Square College of New York University, where she taught music history and composition from 1926 to 1951. In addition to her position at NYU, Bauer was affiliated with the Juilliard School as a guest lecturer from 1940 until her death in 1955. Bauer also wrote extensively about music: she was the editor for the Chicago-based ''Musical Leader'' and additionally authored and co-authored several books including her 1933 text ''Twentieth Century Music''. Throughout her life, Bauer promoted not only her own work but new music in general. Bauer helped found the American Music Guil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Frater
Marion Anne Frater is a New Zealand judge. She is Deputy Chair of the New Zealand Parole Board. In 2017, Frater was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the judiciary. Academic career Frater completed a Bachelor of Laws with Honours at Victoria University of Wellington in 1972. Interviewed in 2017, she estimated that there had been twelve women in the class of 120 enrolled law students, but only three women graduated. She practised in Wellington with Buddle Anderson Kent and Co. Frater said that she was not expected to become partner because "They just didn’t make women partners. It was an unspoken thing, and I didn’t push for it". She described the difficulty of taking maternity leave, and feeling pressured to come back afterwards, saying "It wasn’t the expectation that if you had children, you would be able to work". After taking two periods of unpaid maternity leave, and finding herself unable to discuss terms with the partners, sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NSDAR
The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (often abbreviated as DAR or NSDAR) is a lineage-based membership service organization for women who are directly descended from a patriot of the American Revolutionary War. A non-profit and non-political group, the organization promotes historical preservation, education and patriotism. Its membership is limited to direct lineal descendants of soldiers or others of the American Revolution era who aided the revolution and its subsequent war. Applicants must be at least 18 years of age and have a birth certificate indicating that their gender is female. DAR has over 190,000 current members in the United States and other countries. The organization's motto was originally "Home and Country" until the twentieth century, when it was changed to "God, Home, and Country". History In 1889, the centennial of President George Washington's inauguration was celebrated, and Americans looked for additional ways to recognize their pas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Moncure Duncan
Marion Elizabeth Moncure Duncan (December 19, 1913 – April 15, 1978) was an American businesswoman and civic leader. She served as the 25th president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution from 1962 to 1965. As president general, she testified before a United States congressional committee regarding proposed changes to immigration law, was a strong opponent of national socialism and American foreign policies with socialist countries, and condemned U.S. Supreme Court rulings prohibiting school prayer in the United States. Duncan also served as the president of the Order of the First Families of Virginia and as the vice president of the Northern Virginia Association of Insurance Agents. She was named as one of twelve leading women in the United States by ''Holiday'' in 1963. Early life and education Duncan was born Marion Elizabeth Moncure on December 19, 1913 in Alexandria, Virginia, to Ida Virginia Grigg Moncure and Robinson Moncure. Her father was a lawyer who la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Donovan
Marion O'Brien Donovan (October 15, 1917 – November 4, 1998) was an American inventor and entrepreneur. Recognized as one of the era's most prominent female inventors, she secured a total of 20 patents for her creations. In 1946, she created a reusable, impermeable diaper cover. Ultimately, this led to the invention of the disposable paper diaper, which was eventually commercialized by Victor Mills, the creator of Pampers. Donovan also innovated various solutions around the home and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2015. Early life and education Donovan was born on October 15, 1917 in South Bend, Indiana to Anne and Miles O'Brien. Following the death of her mother in 1925, Donovan was parented by her father. With his identical twin brother John, Miles O'Brien ran the South Bend Lathe Words manufacturing plant. Donovan's father and uncle were inventors as well, credited with inventing products such as the "South Bend lathe" for developing automobile gea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Dönhoff
Marion Hedda Ilse Gräfin von Dönhoff (2 December 1909 – 11 March 2002) was a German journalist and publisher who participated in the resistance against Nazism, along with Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, and Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. After the war, she became one of Germany's leading journalists and intellectuals, working for over 55 years as an editor and later publisher of the Hamburg-based weekly newspaper ''Die Zeit''. Early life and ancestry Dönhoff was born in East Prussia in 1909 into an old aristocratic House of Dönhoff at Friedrichstein Palace Kilian Heck / Christian Thielemann (eds.): Friedrichstein. The castle of the Counts of Dönhoff in East Prussia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin 2006 and 2019, ISBN 978-3-422-07361-6 (now in the Guryevsky District of the Russian oblast of Kaliningrad). She was the youngest daughter of Count August von Dönhoff, a diplomat and member of the Prussian House of Lords and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Davies
Marion Davies (born Marion Cecilia Douras; January 3, 1897 – September 22, 1961) was an American actress, producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist. Educated in a religious convent, Davies left the school to pursue a career as a chorus girl. As a teenager, she appeared in several Broadway musicals and one film, '' Runaway Romany'' (1917). She soon became a featured performer in the ''Ziegfeld Follies''. While performing in the 1916 ''Follies'', the nineteen-year-old Marion met the fifty-three-year-old newspaper tycoon, William Randolph Hearst, and became his mistress. Hearst took over management of Davies' career and promoted her as a film actress. Hearst financed Davies’ pictures and promoted her career extensively in his newspapers and Hearst newsreels. He founded Cosmopolitan Pictures to produce her films. By 1924, Davies was the number one female box office star in Hollywood because of the popularity of '' When Knighthood Was in Flower'' and '' Little Old New Yor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Cunningham (author)
Marion Cunningham (née Enwright; February 7, 1922 – July 11, 2012) was an American food writer. Cunningham was responsible for the 1979 and 1990 revisions of the '' Fannie Farmer Cookbook'', and was the author of ''The Breakfast Book'', ''The Supper Book'', and ''Cooking with Children'', among several others. She frequently traveled throughout America giving cooking demonstrations (some with James Beard); contributed articles to ''Bon Appetit'', '' Food & Wine'', and ''Gourmet'' magazines; wrote a regular column for the ''San Francisco Chronicle'' and the ''Los Angeles Times''; and hosted a television series, ''Cunningham & Company'', on the Food Network. In 1993, Cunningham received the Grand Dame award from Les Dames d'Escoffier "in recognition and appreciation of her extraordinary achievement and contribution to the culinary arts." In 1994, she was named Scholar-in-Residence by the International Association of Culinary Professionals. Early life She was born February 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Cotillard
Marion Cotillard (; born 30 September 1975) is a French actress who has appeared in both European and Hollywood productions. She is the recipient of List of awards and nominations received by Marion Cotillard, various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two César Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. She became a Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in France in 2010 and was promoted to Officer in 2016, the same year she was named a Legion of Honour, Knight of the Legion of Honour. Cotillard began her career at the age of seven. She had her first English-language role in the action series ''Highlander: The Series, Highlander'' (1993) at the age of seventeen, and made her feature film debut in ''The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed (film), The Story of a Boy Who Wanted to Be Kissed'' (1994). Her breakthrough came in the French film ''Taxi (1998 film), Taxi'' (1998), and she won the César Award for Best Support ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Corbett
The Misses Corbett were sisters Walterina Cunningham (died 1 April 1837) and Grace Corbett ( – 11 June 1843). They were Scottish authors who wrote a number of books, poems and songs in the early nineteenth century, most notably a series of anthologies called ''The Odd Volume'' (1826–1827). While their books were published anonymously, generally as "by the authors of ''The Odd Volume''", they were traditionally ascribed to "The Misses Corbett", "Misses M and — Corbett" or "Marion and Margaret Corbett". Biography Walterina and Grace (born around 1765 or 1770) were the daughters of John Corbett (died 20 January 1815) of the ancient Glaswegian family of Corbett of Tollcross. When only eleven years old, Grace was said to have composed the song "O Mary ye's be clad in silk", a new melody to a slightly altered version of the "Siller Crown". This was included in Peter Urbani's ''Selection of Scots Songs'' (1794), and James Johnson's ''Scots Musical Museum'' (1803). The sisters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley (June 3, 1930 – September 25, 1999) was an American author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels and is best known for the Arthurian fiction novel '' The Mists of Avalon'' and the '' Darkover'' series. She was noted for the female perspective in her writing, something before little-seen in Sword and Sorcery fantasy. Bradley began writing at the age of 17 and later graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hardin-Simmons University. She co-founded the Society for Creative Anachronism in 1966. She also served as the editor of the long-running '' Sword and Sorceress'' anthology series. She was posthumously awarded the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement in 2000. Though Bradley remained popular during her lifetime, her reputation was posthumously marred when in 2014 her daughter reported that Bradley had sexually abused her, and allegedly assisted her second husband, convicted child abuser Walter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
