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Marnie (given Name)
Marnie is a feminine given name sometimes said to be derived from the name Marina (given name), Marina. Marna (other), Marna is a Swedish variant of Marina and also used as a Danish and Norwegian variant of Maren (name), Maren, which is derived from Maria (given name), Maria or Marina. It has also been used as an English diminutive of names starting with ''Mar'' such as Margaret (name), Margaret and Scottish variant Marjorie, and of Mary (given name), Mary and its variants Marian (given name), Marian and Marion (given name), Marion. Marni can be either a spelling variant of Marnie or an independent name meaning ''rejoice'' in Hebrew language, Hebrew. Marni is also in use as a Danish and Faroese unisex variant. Marnina is an extended version of the Hebrew name. Awareness of the name in the Anglosphere increased due to the 1961 crime novel ''Marnie (novel), Marnie'' by Winston Graham and the 1964 psychological film thriller ''Marnie (film), Marnie'' directed by Alfred Hitchco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tippi Hedren
Nathalie Kay "Tippi" Hedren (born January 19, 1930) is a retired American actress. Initially a fashion model, appearing on the front covers of ''Life'' and '' Glamour'' magazines (among others), she became an actress after being discovered by director Alfred Hitchcock while appearing on a television commercial in 1961. Hedren achieved great praise for her work in two of his films, including the suspense-thriller '' The Birds'' (1963), for which she won a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year, and the psychological drama '' Marnie'' (1964). She performed in over 80 films and television shows, including Charlie Chaplin's final film ''A Countess from Hong Kong'' (1967), the political satire '' Citizen Ruth'' (1996), and the existential comedy '' I Heart Huckabees'' (2004). Among other honors, her contributions to world cinema have been recognized with the Jules Verne Award and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Hedren's strong commitment to animal rescue began in 1969 wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winston Graham
Winston Mawdsley Graham OBE, born Winston Grime (30 June 1908 – 10 July 2003), was an English novelist best known for the ''Poldark'' series of historical novels set in Cornwall, though he also wrote numerous other works, including contemporary thrillers, period novels, short stories, non-fiction and plays. Graham was the author's pseudonym until he changed his name by deed poll from Grime to Graham on 7 May 1947. Biography Graham was born in Victoria Park, Manchester, on 30 June 1908. As a child, Graham contracted pneumonia, and on medical advice was educated at a local day school rather than Manchester Grammar School which his father had in mind for him. Graham's father, Albert Grime, was a prosperous tea importer and grocer, but became incapacitated by a stroke. When he was 17 years old, Graham moved to Perranporth, Cornwall, where he lived for 34 years. He had wanted to be a writer from an early age and, following the death of his father, he was supported by his moth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marnie Hughes-Warrington
Marnie Hughes-Warrington is an Australian academic who currently serves as professor of history at the University of South Australia, where she has also served since 2020 as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise). She previously worked at the Australian National University. Her areas of expertise are the philosophy of history, historiography, and world history. Early life and education Hughes-Warrington was born in Victoria and grew up in Tasmania. She studied Philosophy and History at the University of Tasmania from 1988 to 1991, and graduated with a Bachelor of Education with First Class Honours with majors in history and philosophy in 1992. She was chosen as a Rhodes Scholar in 1992, and completed her DPhil at Merton College, Oxford, where she served as President of the Middle Common Room. Her thesis, completed in 1995, is entitled ''Historical imagination and education'', and focuses on the philosophy of history and education of R. G. Collingwood. Career After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marnie Hudson
Marnie Elizabeth Hudson (born 21 August 1988) is a former field hockey player from Australia, who played as a forward. Personal life Marnie Hudson was born and raised in Gold Coast, Queensland. Career Domestic hockey Club hockey Throughout her youth and senior career, Hudson has continued to play for her home club, Labrador. Located in her home town, the Gold Coast, Labrador has been Hudson's club since her introduction to hockey at age 5. AHL Marnie Hudson made her debut into Hockey Australia's premier domestic competition, the Australian Hockey League (AHL), in 2008. She played for her home state, as a member of the Queensland Scorchers. She represented the team on five occasions, spanning from 2008 to 2012. During this time, she won three consecutive silver medals, in 2008, 2009 and 2010. International teams Under–21 In 2008, Hudson made her first appearance for her country as a member of the Australia U–21 side. the Jillaroos, at the Junior Oceania Cup in Brisbane. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marnie Holborow
Marnie Holborow is Associate Faculty at Dublin City University. She is the author of two books on Marxism and language, ''The Politics of English'' (1999) and ''Language and Neoliberalism'' (2015). She has written articles on the home, women and paid employment and on the 2018 movement in Ireland for abortion rights, in which she was a leading activist. Her most recent book in this area is ''Homes in Crisis Capitalism'' (2024). She lives in Dublin, Ireland and is an activist of the political party People Before Profit and of the Socialist Workers Network The Socialist Workers Network (SWN) is an Irish Trotskyist organisation. It was founded in 1971 as the Socialist Workers Movement (SWM), before becoming the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in 1995. The SWP was a founding member of People Before .... Published works *''The Politics of English''. By Marnie Holborow. Sage Publications, 1999. *''Neoliberalism and Applied Linguistics''. By David Block, John Gray and Marnie Holbo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marnie Halpern
Marnie Halpern (born December 25, 1956) is the Andrew J. Thomson Professor and Chair of molecular and systems biology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College. She is a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences. and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Halpern's research has focused on studying how differences are established between the right and left sides of the developing brain. Her laboratory has performed screenings in order to identify the genes that control the asymmetry of the brain. The lab has also developed methods to perturb the laterality of larval and adult fish and developed methods to visualize the brains of altered and normal individuals. Early life and education Marnie E. Halpern grew up in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Her family was of Jewish descent and left Europe after the Second World War. Her father was a doctor. His practice was located in their house and Halpern helped him from an early age. Halpern studied at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marnie Gillett
Marian Newell "Marnie" Gillett (August 13, 1953 – December 3, 2004) was an American gallerist and arts administrator. She was executive director of SF Camerawork for 20 years. Early life and education Marian Newell Gillett was born in Glen Ridge, NJ, raised in Scarsdale, NY and the daughter of Ezra Kendall Gillett Jr. and Jean Newell McGraw Gillett (later Brookfield). She attended the Emma Willard School before she earned a BFA from the University of New Mexico and an MFA in photography from the University of Arizona. Career Gillett was an archivist at ''Aperture'' magazine after college. She was a curator and archivist at the University of Arizona's Center for Creative Photography as a young woman. While there, she worked on the Edward Weston collection and co-curated ''Reasoned Space'', an exhibition that toured the United States. She also worked at the Light Gallery in New York City and taught about photography at Columbia College Chicago. Gillett was executive direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marnie Fogg
Marnie Fogg is a media consultant in all aspects of the fashion industry. She has a Master’s Degree in Art and Design Advanced practice and theory. She has lectured in Visual Studies and the Culture of Fashion and the University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, England. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948. Nottingham's main campus (University Park Campus, Nottingh .... She is the author of over 25 books on fashion and related subjects including: The Dress: 100 Ideas that Changed Fashion Forever, Vintage Handbags: Collecting and Wearing Designer Classics, Vintage Weddings, Vintage Fashion Illustration from Harper’s Bazarr 1930 - 1970, and a series of books “Vintage Patterns” that cover the decades 1920’s thru 1980’s. Works * ''Boutique: A 60's Cultural Phenomenon'', published by Mitchell Beazley in 2003. * ''Print in Fashion'', published by Batsfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marnie Breckenridge
Marnie Breckenridge (born September 24, 1982) is an American singer. She is a soprano performing opera, classical music, cross-over, operetta, and classical sacred music. She graduated from Pacific Union College in Angwin, overlooking the Napa Valley, with a bachelor's degree in music in 1993. She went on to get a Master of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Celebrated for her roles in contemporary opera, she originated the role of Mother in David T. Little and Royce Vavrek's ''Dog Days'' in 2012. In 2020, she was awarded the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance by an Individual in the operatic field for her performance as Jacqueline du Pré in Luna Pearl Woolf and Royce Vavrek's world premiere presentation of ''Jacqueline'' presented by Tapestry Opera. Notable World Premieres * ''Dog Days The dog days or are the hot, sultry days of summer. They were historically the period following the heliacal rising of the star system Sirius (know ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marnie Blewitt
Marnie Blewitt is head of a division at WEHI, which focuses on X-inactivation, and is engaged in research on the role of polycomb-group proteins in hematopoietic stem cell function. Scientific career Education She completed undergraduate studies in 1999 at The University of Sydney, with honours and a double major of Molecular Biology and Genetics. As part of her doctoral research at the same institution under the supervision of Associate Professor Emma Whitelaw, she designed a sensitised mutagenesis screen to find new epigenetic modifiers in mice, for which she was awarded the Genetics Society of Australia DG Catcheside prize for the best PhD in genetics. She moved to Melbourne at the end of 2005 to accept a Peter Doherty post-doctoral fellowship in Doug Hilton's lab from 2005 to 2009, before becoming laboratory head in January 2010. Research interests Blewitt's lab focuses on molecular mechanisms behind epigenetic control of gene expression. Her lab has worked on one o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marnie Bassett
Flora Marjorie (''Marnie'') Bassett (30 June 1889 – 3 February 1980) was an Australian historian, biographer and travel writer. Her writing focussed on women's and family history, with particular attention to people from Australia. Early life Bassett was born in Melbourne to academic parents, Sir David Orme Masson, a professor of chemistry, and Mary Masson, née Struthers. Her brother was Sir James Irvine Orme Masson. She grew up in and around the University of Melbourne. During her childhood, she and her family went on three trips to Europe, which allowed for her love of history, literature and music to grow. Bassett received most of her education at home from governesses, although when she was 17 she attended the Church of England Girls' Grammar School for twelve weeks. She attended shorthand and typing lessons, allowing for her to become her father's secretary. She assisted him in organising the 1914 Melbourne conference of the British Association for the Advancemen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marnie Barrell
Margaret Louise Barrell (born 30 December 1952) is a New Zealand hymn writer and music teacher. Barrell was born on 30 December 1952 in Ashburton. She was educated at Timaru Girls' High School and Christchurch Girls' High School. She went on to study at the University of Canterbury, from where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology. At the University of Auckland, she earned a Bachelor of Theology degree. Barrell started writing hymns in 1986. She writes for Hymnary.org, and is a board member of the New Zealand Hymnbook Trust. In the 1980s or 1990, Barrell was a technician at Lincoln University. She teaches music, and is a lay preacher and musician at St Mary’s Anglican Church in Christchurch. In 2023, she estimated that she had written "50 or 60" hymns. In the 2024 New Year Honours, Barrell was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit The New Zealand Order of Merit () is an order of merit in the New Zealand royal honours system. It was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
