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Justina M
Justina is an anglicised version of the Latin name ''Iustina'', feminine of ''Iustinus'', a derivative of ''Iustus'', meaning ''fair'' or ''just''. For the masculine version of the name, see Justin. Translations *Russian: Устинья, Юстина, Иустина *Belarusian: Юстына, Юсціна *Czech: Justina or Justýna *Croatian: Justina, Justa, Juste *Slovak: Justína *Romanian: Iustina *Hungarian: Jusztina *Finnish: Justiina *Greek: Ιουστίνη (Ioustine) *Indonesian: Justina, Yustina *Lithuanian: Justina, Justė *Polish: Justyna *Ukrainian: Юстина, Устина *Italian: Giustina *French: Justine *Portuguese: Justina *Spanish: Justina *Swedish: Justina *Arabic: يوستينا (Youstina) *Albanian: Gjystina People named Justina Ancient and medieval eras * Saint Justina of Cagliari (died 130), Christian martyr - see Justa, Justina and Henedina * Saint Justina of Padua (died c. 304), Christian martyr * Saint Justina of Antioch (died 304), Christi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Female
An organism's sex is female ( symbol: ♀) if it produces the ovum (egg cell), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete (sperm cell) 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 may be based on either sex chromosomes, or environmental conditions. Most female mammals, including female humans, have two X chromosomes. Characteristics of organisms with a female sex vary between different species, having different female reproductive systems, with some species showing characteristics secondary to the reproductive system, as with mammary glands in mammals. In humans, the word ''female'' can also be used to refer to gender in the social sense of gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justina Bricka
Justina Bricka (born February 14, 1943) is an American former tennis player from St. Louis, Missouri. In 1961 she was called up for the United States Wightman Cup team and had a win over Angela Mortimer. Bricka's best year of doubles came while the partner of Margaret Smith in 1962, with seven tournament titles and a runner-up finish at the French Championships. In 1965 she was a singles quarter-finalist at the Wimbledon Championships The Wimbledon Championships, commonly called Wimbledon, is a tennis tournament organised by the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in collaboration with the Lawn Tennis Association annually in Wimbledon, London. It is chronologically the .... Later in her career she competed as Justina Horwitz, from her then marriage to tennis player Dick Horwitz. Grand Slam finals Doubles (1 runner-up) References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bricka, Justina 1943 births Living people American female tennis players Tennis players from St. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justina Jovaišytė
Justina Jovaišytė (born 8 February 1998) is a Lithuanian racing cyclist. She rode in the women's road race event at the 2017 UCI Road World Championships The 2017 UCI Road World Championships were held in 2017 in Bergen, Norway. It was the 90th UCI Road World Championships and the second to be held in Norway, after the 1993 UCI Road World Championships, 1993 world championships in Oslo. Chantal Bl .... References External links * 1998 births Living people Lithuanian female cyclists 21st-century Lithuanian sportswomen Place of birth missing (living people) {{Lithuania-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justina Jeffreys
Justina Jeffreys (10 September 1787 – 1869) was a Jamaican-born British gentlewoman in Wales. She resided the majority of her life at Glandyfi Castle which was built by her husband. Early life Justina Jeffreys was born on 10 September 1787 in Jamaica and was baptised there at St. Andrew's Parish. She was mixed-race: her father was Scotsman Charles McMurdo (1744–1826), a captain of the British Army's 3rd Regiment of Foot and brigade major in Jamaica, while her mother Susan Leslie (1766–1812) was a free black woman. At the time, it was relatively common for military personnel stationed in Jamaica to take mistresses. When her father eventually left Jamaica, he moved to Canada where he married, before returning to Scotland, while her mother began a relationship with Scottish doctor John Wright, and had two sons with him. She spent her early childhood in Jamaica along with her younger brother Charles McMurdo Leslie (1790–1865), until she was sent to Wales at the age of 6 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justina Ireland
Justina Ireland (born February 7, 1985) is an American science fiction and fantasy author of young adult fiction and former editor-in-chief of the ''FIYAH Literary Magazine''. She received the 2018 World Fantasy Award for Non-Professional Work. Her ''New York Times'' bestselling novel '' Dread Nation'' won the 2019 Locus Award, and was nominated for the Andre Norton, Bram Stoker, and Lodestar Awards. Biography As a teen, Ireland had aspirations to become a historian. She enlisted in the military at nineteen, where she would serve as an Arabic linguistics expert. Now based in York, Pennsylvania, she works for the U.S. Navy as a director of logistics and weapon-systems support, and teaches creative writing at York College of Pennsylvania, where she is an adjunct lecturer in the department of Communication and Writing. Ireland holds a BA in History from Armstrong Atlantic State University and an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Hamline University, where she wro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justina Huff
Justina Huff (September 8, 1893 – June 29, 1977) was an American actress of the silent film era. Early life Justina Huff was born in Columbus, Georgia, in 1893. She was the oldest daughter of Thomas D. Huff and Lucinda (Salisbury) Huff. She had three older brothers; Thomas Salisbury, Mercer and Robert, one younger sister Louise Huff and one younger brother, T. D. Jr. Her grandfather was William Salisbury, the owner of the local newspaper The Enquirer-Sun. He was murdered in 1878 by a local man who was called out as a troublemaker in an editorial penned by Justina’s father, the city editor of that paper at the time. The family moved to New York City around 1906 after the company Thomas Huff worked for was sold. In 1908, Justina won a scholarship to attend Horace Mann Institute in Manhattan. Tragedy struck in 1910 when Thomas Huff died. Lucinda had no skills and no means of support. The children found it necessary to seek work. Justina’s younger sister Louise started act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justina Gringytė
Justina Gringytė (born 1986) is a Lithuanian operatic mezzo-soprano. A former Samling anJette ParkerYoung Artist, Gringytė trained as a pianist before commencing her studies at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre before joining the Royal Welsh College of Music and London's National Opera Studio. During her time as a member of the Jette Parker Young Artists programme, Gringytė's roles included Maddalena (''Rigoletto''), Flora Bervoix ( ''La Traviata''), Wood Nymph ( ''Rusalka''), Maddalena (''Il viaggio a Reims''), Innocent ( ''The Minotaur''), Albina (''La donna del lago'') and Suzy (''La rondine''). Gringytė made her house debut in the 2013/14 season as Maddalena in Giuseppe Verdi's ''Rigoletto'' before appearing with the Welsh National Opera as Fenena in ''Nabucco''. In 2014/15, Gringytė reprised the role of Maddalena at the Royal Opera House and The Bolshoi, and debuted the role of Hänsel in ''Hänsel und Gretel'' for the Vilnius City Opera. The 2014/15 season al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justina Gaspar
Justina Gaspar was a Mozambican politician. In 1977 she was one of the first group of women elected to the People's Assembly. Gaspar was a FRELIMO FRELIMO (; from , ) is a democratic socialist political party in Mozambique. It has governed the country since its independence from Portugal in 1975. Founded in 1962, FRELIMO began as a nationalist movement fighting for the self-determination ... candidate in the 1977 parliamentary elections, in which she was one of the first group of 27 women elected to the People's Assembly. She was killed on 30 March 1986 when an air force transport plane she was travelling in crashed during takeoff from an airport in Pemba airport.''AIM Information Bulletin'', issues 114–125, p10 References {{DEFAULTSORT:Gaspar, Justina Date of birth unknown FRELIMO politicians Members of the Assembly of the Republic (Mozambique) 20th-century Mozambican women politicians 20th-century Mozambican politicians 1986 deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justina Ford
Justina Laurena Ford (January 22, 1871 – October 14, 1952) was an American physician. She was the first licensed African American female doctor in Denver, Colorado, and practiced gynecology, obstetrics, and pediatrics from her home for half a century. Biography Justina Laurena Warren was born in 1871 in Knoxville, Illinois several years after the Civil War. She was one of many children and often accompanied her mother, a nurse, when she tended to patients. In 1892 she married Baptist minister John Ford and subsequently moved to Chicago, where she graduated from the Hering Medical College in 1899. Ford worked briefly at an Alabama hospital before relocating to Denver in 1902. There, she was given her medical license, although she was told by her examiner, "I feel dishonest taking a fee from you. You've got two strikes against you to begin with. First of all, you're a lady, and second, you're colored". Since African Americans were barred at the time from working in hospitals or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justina Eze
Justina Eze is a Nigerian diplomat and politician who was the member of the House of Representative for Uzo Uwani during Nigeria's Second Republic. Eze was a former Nigerian ambassador to Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde and a former Presidential Liaison Officer to the House of Representatives during Olusgeun Obasanjo's democratic rule. She was the first woman from the Eastern Region, Nigeria to get into the House of Representatives in 1979. She joined Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe and Chief Jim Nwobodo to build the National peoples party (NPP) and was one of the three women that made it to the Federal House of Representatives in 1979. She is also one of thfounding mothersof People Democratic Party(Nigeria). She has always encourage women and paved way for them in politics. She was born in Nimbo/Uzuwani Local Government Area of Nsukka senatorial zone of Enugu State Enugu () verbally pronounced as "Enụgwụ" by the Igbo indigenes is a state in the South-East geopolitical zone of Nig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justina Di Stasio
Justina Di Stasio (born November 22, 1992) is a Canadian wrestler of Italian and Cree descent. Career In 2015, Di Stasio won a gold medal in the 75 kg weight class at the annual Pan American Wrestling Championships. She also won the 2015 Dave Schultz Memorial. Later in 2015, on home soil, Di Stasio won silver at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto. In 2018, at the World Wrestling Championships in Budapest, Di Stasio won gold in the 72kg event. She spoke about pride in her Indigenous roots, thanking her Cree mother, from the Norway House Cree Nation in Manitoba, for working to give her opportunities leading to her success. Di Stasio won one of the bronze medals in her event at the 2022 Pan American Wrestling Championships held in Acapulco, Mexico. She won the gold medal in the women's 76kg event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham, England. She lost her bronze medal match in the 76kg event at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justina David
Justina David (born 1912, date of death unknown), sometimes credited as Justiniana David, was a Filipina film actress during the mid-20th century, often appearing as a martyred wife, a peasant, or a hopeless mother. Her career began before World War II and extended to the late 1960s. Born in 1912, she first appeared as a bit player in Sampaguita Pictures' '' Pasang Krus'' (Shouldered Cross), then progressed to various pre-war musical films at Sampaguita, including ''Magbalik ka, Hirang'' (Comeback, Darling), '' Gunita'' (Memory) with Corazon Noble, ''Carmen'' with Carmen Rosales, '' Balatkayo'' with Rudy Concepcion and '' Pagsuyo'' (Love). After World War II, in 1947, she made a comeback in the LVN Pictures films '' Backpay'' with Corazon Noble and Rogelio dela Rosa and '' Krus na Bituin'' (Crossed Star). In 1954, she returned to Sampaguita and made dozens of movies, including '' Pilya'' where she played the mother of Gloria Romero. In 1956, she moved to Larry Santiago Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
