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Myra (given Name)
The name Myra was created by the 17th-century poet Fulke Greville 1st Barone Brooke (1554–1628). He possibly based it on Latin myrra meaning "myrrh" (a fragrant resin obtained from a tree). The name may be derived from Miranda as it can be the shortened version the name Mira. Origin and meaning * English meaning of the name Myra for a girl: poetic invention * Greek meaning of the name Myra for a girl: myrrh, an aromatic shrub. Myra is associated with the same "myrrh" that, according to Matthew, was brought as a gift to the infant Jesus by the Magi, along with gold and frankincense. * Latin meaning of the name Myra for a girl: variation of Miranda, admirable, extraordinary * Arabic meaning of the name Myra for a girl : Aristocratic Lady * Hebrew meaning of the name Myra for a girl : Seadew * Biblical meaning of the name Myra for a girl : I flow, pour out, weep * Sanskrit meaning of the name Myra for a girl : Beloved, Favorable, Admirable. * Japanese Kanji meaning of the na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miranda (given Name)
Miranda is a feminine given name of Latin origin, meaning "worthy of admiration". There are several variants. People * Miranda (born 1984), Colombian singer, winner of ''La Voz Colombia'' * Miranda Carter (born 1965), English writer and biographer * Miranda Chartrand (born 1990), Canadian singer * Miranda Connell (born 1938), English actress * Miranda Cooper (born 1975), English pop singer * Miranda Cosgrove (born 1993), American actress and singer * Miranda Devine, Australian columnist and writer * Miranda Fenner (1979–1998), American female youth who was murdered * Miranda Gibson, Australian environmental activist and school teacher * Miranda Grell, British Labour party politician found guilty of making false statements against her political opponent * Miranda Grosvenor, bored fan in the US who made a full-time hobby of calling stars * Miranda Hart (born 1972), English actress and comedian * Miranda Hill (1836–1910), English social reformer * Miranda Jarrett, pen name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myra Hess
Dame Julia Myra Hess, (25 February 1890 – 25 November 1965) was an English pianist best known for her performances of the works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schumann. Career Early life Julia Myra Hess was born on 25 February 1890 to a Jewish family in South Hampstead, London. She was the youngest of four children and began piano lessons at the age of five. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and at the Royal Academy of Music under Tobias Matthay. Her debut came in 1907, when she played Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 with Sir Thomas Beecham conducting. She went on to tour through Britain, the Netherlands and France. Upon her American debut in New York City on 24 January 1922, she became a favorite in the United States, both as a soloist and ensemble player. Second World War Hess garnered greater fame during the Second World War when, with all concert halls blacked out at night to avoid being targeted by German bombers, she organised almost 2,000 lunchtime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myra Crownover
Myra Ellen Robinson Crownover (born April 26, 1947) is a businesswoman and politician from Lake Dallas in Denton County, north of the city of Dallas. Originally elected in 2000 as a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 64, she retired after declining to seek re-election in 2016. Under the state's 2012 redistricting process, her district was located completely in Denton County, including much or parts of Denton, Lake Dallas, Corinth, and Hickory Creek. Crownover holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Southern Methodist University and a Master of Science from Texas A&M University at College Station, both in professional education. She was elected to the Texas House in 2000 to succeed her late husband, Representative Ronny Crownover. Elections When Crownover's husband, a Denton veterinarian, died of leukemia after the 2000 primaries, his wife took his place on the general election ballot and ran unopposed. Since that time, Crownover was reelec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myra Tanner Weiss
Myra Tanner Weiss (May 17, 1917 – September 13, 1997) was an American Communist following Trotskyism, and a three time U.S. vice presidential candidate of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). Biography Myra Tanner was recruited to the American Trotskyist movement in 1935, while at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. In 1942, she married Murry Weiss, also a member of the SWP. They were living and working for the Party in Los Angeles, and Myra Tanner ran for the mayor of Los Angeles in 1945 and 1949. Myra Tanner Weiss was the SWP's vice-presidential candidate in 1952, 1956 and 1960, with Farrell Dobbs running for President of the United States. Later in life, she and her husband Murry Weiss became political supporters of the Freedom Socialist Party The Freedom Socialist Party is a left-wing socialist political party with a revolutionary feminist philosophy based in the United States. It views the struggles of women and minorities as part of the struggle of the working class ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myra McDaniel
Myra McDaniel (December 13, 1932 – February 25, 2010) was the first African American to be the Secretary of State of Texas. Life McDaniel was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Eva and Toronto Atwell. She attended the Philadelphia School for Girls. In 1954, she went on to receive her bachelor's degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1975, she received her Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the University of Texas School of Law at Austin. She married Dr. Reuben R. McDaniel in 1955, who was a Professor Management Science and Information Systems at the University of Texas at Austin. Myra McDaniel died of lung cancer on February 25, 2010. Career After graduating in 1954 from the University of Pennsylvania, she worked at Baldwin Wallace College and Indiana University. She then went to the University of Texas School of Law, where she received her J.D. After receiving her J.D., she worked at the Texas Attorney General's office. She eventually became the Chief ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myra Ndjoku Manianga
Myra Ndjoku Manianga is the Minister of the Interior of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He studied at the University of Nanterre in France. He was Secretary General of the State Security Committee. He is from Kasai-Occidental Kasaï-Occidental ( French for "Western Kasai"; lua, Kasai Wa Mubuelu) was one of the eleven provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1966 and 2015, when it was split into the Kasaï-Central and the Kasaï provinces. History .... He became minister in 2001. Sources *https://web.archive.org/web/20041024131429/http://www.un.int/drcongo/disc14/0000001b.htm Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Government ministers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Place of birth missing (living people) Paris Nanterre University alumni 21st-century Democratic Republic of the Congo politicians Ambassadors of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to France {{DRCongo-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myra Freeman
Myra Ava Freeman (born May 17, 1949) is a Canadian philanthropist, teacher, the 29th and first female Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia. Freeman was born Myra Ava Holtzman in Saint John, New Brunswick, the daughter of Anne Golda (Freedman), a homemaker, and Harry Holtzman, a businessman. She graduated from Dalhousie University with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Education. In 1971, she started teaching with the Halifax Regional School Board until her appointment. She was appointed Lieutenant Governor in 2000 by Governor General Adrienne Clarkson, on the advice of Jean Chrétien Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien (; born January 11, 1934) is a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 20th prime minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003. Born and raised in Shawinigan Falls, Quebec, Chrétien is a law graduate from Uni .... She served as lieutenant governor until September 7, 2006. Freeman and her husband, Larry, have three children: Daniel M. Freeman, Jonath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myra Virginia Simmons
Myra Virginia Simmons (June 8, 1880 – March 16, 1965) was a California suffragist and leader of the Colored American Equal Suffrage League (CAESL). She was a prominent Bay Area community organizer who served as Chair of the Women’s Civic and Progressive League in Oakland. Suffrage work Simmons was a California suffragist who served as president of the Colored American Equal Suffrage League (CAESL). She was active in the Women's Christian Temperance Union and often organized events at her church to promote the suffrage cause. Simmons was politically active in the 1910s and her suffrage work was mentioned several times in the ''San Francisco Call'' newspaper. In 1911 she was the keynote speaker at a gathering of suffragists of color at the North Oakland Baptist Church. She was serving as President of the Colored Women's Suffrage League that year, which was the year women in California won the right to vote. Simmons served as a precinct captain on election day. Political ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myra Jehlen
Myra Jehlen is Board of Governors Professor of English at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She was awarded a Ph.D. from the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley for her dissertation on William Faulkner, directed by Henry Nash Smith, a founding scholar of the field of American Studies. She holds a BA from City College of the City University of New York. She has taught at New York University, Columbia University, The State University of New York, College at Purchase, and the University of Pennsylvania. She has been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Humanities Center, and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Publications * ''The English Literatures of America 1500-1800.'' (with Michael Warner Michael David Warner (born 1958) is an American literary critic, social theorist, and Seymour H. Knox Professor of English Literature and American Studies at Yale University. He also wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myra Barry
Myra Barry (born 30 June 1957) is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1979 to 1987. A national school teacher by profession, she trained at St Patrick's College, Dublin. She was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fine Gael TD following a by-election in 1979 for the Cork North-East constituency, following the death of Fianna Fáil TD Seán Brosnan. It was one of two by-elections in County Cork on the same day, both of which Fianna Fáil lost. The double defeat in Jack Lynch's native county was a factor in Lynch's resignation on 5 December 1979 as Taoiseach and leader of Fianna Fáil. Her father Richard Barry was a sitting TD in the same constituency at the time of the by-election. This is the only time a parent and child have represented the same constituency at the same time in the same Dáil. Barry was 22 years old at the time of her first election, and one of the youngest-ever TDs elected to the Dáil. She was re-elected at eac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicki Anderson
Vicki Anderson (born Myra Barnes; November 21, 1939) is an American soul singer best known for her performances with the James Brown Revue. She recorded a number of singles under both her birth and stage names. She is the widow of Bobby Byrd and the mother of Carleen Anderson. Life and career She was born in Houston, Texas. Anderson joined Brown in 1965, replacing Anna King, and stayed for three years as his main female singer, until replaced by Marva Whitney in 1968. She rejoined in 1969 after Marva departed, staying for a further three years until 1972, after which Lyn Collins took over from her. Brown claimed in his autobiography that Anderson was the best singer he ever had in his revue. In 1970, she released her most famous song, the feminist anthem "The Message from the Soul Sisters." A single on James' I-Dentify label by Momie-O appeared in 1975 featuring a cover of Rufus' hit " Once You Get Started" and Bobby Womack's "Stop On By". Anderson toured the UK with the Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myra Brooks Turner
Myra Brooks Turner (13 January 1936 – 7 October 2017) was an American composer, music educator, and writer, who composed for television commercials as well as for musical theatre, piano, and voice. Brooks was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, to Paul D. and Lillie R. Brooks. She began music lessons at the Juilliard School of Music when she was 12, then earned bachelor's and master's degrees in music from the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Her post graduate study in piano was with Paul Vellucci in Dallas. She married Ronald Joseph Turner in 1960 and they had three daughters: Stacy, Cheryl, and Teresa. Brooks taught music at Mercer University in Georgia, at the Maryville (Tennessee) College of Performing Arts, and at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She managed two businesses: MBT Productions and the Myra Brooks Turner Studio of Music in Knoxville, as well as two performance groups associated with her teaching studio: the Beethoven Society and the Chopin Soci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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