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Mary Lyon
Mary Lyon , 1797-1849, American educator, founder of Mt. Holyoke College, b. Buckland, Mass. She attended three academies in Massachusetts; later she taught at Ashfield, Mass., Londonderry, N.H., and Ipswich, Mass. Interested in promoting the higher education of women, she won the aid of several... Read more |
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Mary Anderson
Anderson, Mary [Antoinette] (1859–1940), actress. Born in Sacramento, California, but raised in Louisville, she made her hometown debut at the age of sixteen as Juliet. After seasons in Louisville, St. Louis, and San Francisco, she first appeared in New York as Pauline in The Lady of Lyons in... Read more |
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Jean-Baptiste-Marie Saint Vianney
D'Ars, Curé (1786-1859) Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney, a French minister of deep religious beliefs and fervent faith whose life was replete with extraordinary psychic manifestations. Vianney was born May 8, 1786, in Dardilly, a village near Lyons, France. Although a poor student, who found it... Read more |
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Mount Holyoke College
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE. Located in South Hadley, Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College is the oldest institution of higher education for women in the United States never to have closed its doors and the first of the "Seven Sister" liberal arts schools. Founded as Mount Holyoke... Read more |
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Mosaicism
Mosaicism In 1961 Mary Lyon, an English scientist, hypothesized that one of the two X chromosomes in females becomes genetically silent early in a female embryo's development. To understand how she arrived at this idea, which has come to be known as "the Lyon Hypothesis," we need to understand what... Read more |
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edouard Herriot
Herriot, Édouard Marie (b. 5 July 1872, d. 26 Mar. 1957). Prime Minister of France 1923–4, 1926, 1932 He was Radical Mayor of Lyons from 1905 until his death, except for the period of World War II. Despite his intimate knowledge of the political system, as Prime Minister he failed to... Read more |
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Emma Lady Hamilton
Emma Hamilton, Lady 1765?-1815, mistress of the British naval hero Horatio Nelson . Born Emma Lyon, she became the mistress of Charles Greville, then of Sir William Hamilton , ambassador to Naples, whom she married (1791). She gained enormous influence with Neapolitan Queen Marie Caroline. Her... Read more |
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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes , 1824-98, French mural painter, b. Lyons. In 1844 he went to Paris, where he studied under Delacroix and Couture. His painting War (Amiens), purchased by the state in 1861, established his reputation. From that time on he lived in Paris and painted mural decorations... Read more |
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Claude III Audran
Audran, Claude III (b Lyons, 25 Aug. 1658; d Paris, 28 May 1734). The best-known member of a family of French painters and decorators. He was one of the leading decorative painters of the time, his output including such things as painted panelling and harpsichord cases, but most of his work has... Read more |
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Lyon, Mary
Lyon, Mary (1797–1849), educator, founder of Mount...Movements.Bibliography Elizabeth Alden Green , Mary Lyon and Mount Holyoke: Opening the Gates, 1979. Amanda Porterfield , Mary Lyon and the Mount Holyoke Missionaries... |
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Mary the Third
Mary the Third (1923), a comedy...husbands, William and Robert ( Ben Lyon). Now the granddaughter and...those girls, who is also named Mary (Huff), is courted by Lynn (Lyon). However, this third Mary is an ardent flapper who is dismayed... |
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Dickinson, Emily (Elizabeth)
...lawyer of Amherst, Mass., was educated at Amherst Academy and for one year at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, under Mary Lyon. Her life was outwardly eventless, for she lived quietly at home and for the last 25 years secluded herself from all... |
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Anderson, Mary (Antoinette)
Anderson, Mary [Antoinette] (1859–1940), actress. Born in Sacramento, California...San Francisco, she first appeared in New York as Pauline in The Lady of Lyons in 1877. Hailed as a promising but unfinished performer, she went on... |
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Anderson, Mary
Anderson, Mary (1859–1940), American actress who made her first appearance at the...Knowles's The Hunchback, Pauline in Bulwer-Lytton's The Lady of Lyons, and Parthenia in Mrs Lovell's Ingomar, in which she made her first... |
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Bateman, H(ezekiah) L(inthicum)
...emotional abandon.” She also won praise for her Pauline in The Lady of Lyons (1866) and for her interpretation as the falsely accused and imprisoned heroine of Mary Warner (1869). Meanwhile, H. L. Bateman's production of La Grande... |
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Cushman, Charlotte (Saunders)
...popular dramatization of Guy Mannering. Mary Anderson recalled, “When, in the moonlight...of men: Claude Melnotte in The Lady of Lyons. She continued to play actively until 1857...Bianca, and Pauline (in The Lady of Lyons) as well as important roles in contemporary... |
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George VI
...second son of the future George V and Queen Mary. It was the same day as the death of...fell in love with Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, young, spirited, and attractive...had two daughters: Elizabeth Alexandra Mary born on 21 April 1926 and Margaret Rose... |
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Booth, Edwin (Thomas)
...King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, The Lady of Lyons, and Othello (in which he played Iago...1869 with Romeo and Juliet. His Juliet, Mary McVicker, later became his second...members died insane; both his first wife, Mary Devlin Booth, and his second died young... |
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Lindsay of the Mount, Sir David
...the future James V (1513–42), a herald from 1530, and Lyon king-of-arms from 1542. His numerous works deal extensively...for the estates to serve the commonweal during the minority of Mary, queen of Scots (1542–67). The Monarche (1554) develops... |
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Marists
Marists. The ‘Society of Mary’ founded at Lyons in 1816 by the Ven. Jean Claude Marie Colin. The congregation comprises priests and lay brothers whose main activities are educational and... |
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George VI
...second son of the future George V and Queen Mary. He was christened Albert Frederick Arthur...fell in love with Lady Elizabeth Bowes‐Lyon, young, spirited, and attractive...had two daughters: Elizabeth Alexandra Mary born on 21 April 1926 and Margaret Rose... |
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Mount Holyoke Celebrates 200th Anniversary of Founder Mary Lyon
...anniversary of the birth of Mary Lyon, a -- if not the key figure...students at the College today. Mary Lyon died in 1849 and is buried...Buckland, Mass., where Lyon was born and launched her...and other events. The Mary ... |
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PLYMOUTH STATE UNIVERSITY'S MARY LYON HALL NAMED TO NEW HAMPSHIRE REGISTRY OF...
...State Registry of Historic Places. Mary Lyon Hall's iconic brick face and tall...Safety, Tammy Hill, noted Mary Lyon is the 'best of both worlds...to begin with," said Hill. When Mary Lyon was first built, the building ... |
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Obituary: Mary Lyon Miles
1909 ~ 2004 ST. GEORGE, UT - Mary Lyon Miles, beloved mother and grandmother...company in Overton. At a young age, Mary helped her father and mother in the...It was in these experiences that Mary developed the selflessness that characterized... |
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Educator Mary Lyon honored on stamp
...Postal Service will honor educator Mary Lyon with a two-cent blue stamp in the...Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass. Mary Lyon (1797-1849) organized Wheaton...envelopes to Customer-Affixed Envelopes, Mary Lyon Stamp, ... |
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Mary Lyon and the Mount Holyoke Missionaries.(Review)(Brief Article)
...ideal of a converted life. A portion of the book examines the life of New England educator Mary Lyon (1797-1849) and the religious culture of Lyon's Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which gave rise to strong missionary impulses among its... |
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Medical Research Council.(Movers & Shakers)(Mary Lyon of United Kingdom....
Mary Lyon, a geneticist with the Medical Research Council, has been presented with the Lewis S Rosenstiel Award for her pioneering work in genetics. Lyon uncovered the process of X chromosome inactivation where one of the two X... |
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CAMPUS CRIME ALERT: BURGLARY AT MARY LYON HALL
...3:30 p.m. on Friday April 1, and 4 p.m. on Sunday, April 3, an unknown person entered his unlocked room in Mary Lyon Hall and stole his prescription medication. No one was in the room at the time of the incident and nothing else was taken... |
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Mary L. Lyons
CASCADE, Iowa - Mary L. Lyons, 93, of Cascade, died at 1:15 p...Stachura, of Elgin, Ill., and Kenny (Mary) Lyons, of Anamosa; 35 grandchildren...Lyons; and a sister, Vivian Wagner. A Mary L. Lyons Memorial Fund ... |
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MARY FRANCES LYON TO RECEIVE ROCKEFELLER'S PEARL MEISTER GREENGARD PRIZE
...be presented to British geneticist Mary Frances Lyon on November 2. The prize, awarded...recognition for their accomplishments. Dr. Lyon, who spent most of her career in...environmental agents on genetic mutation. "Mary Frances Lyon is an ... |
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Mary Lyons Brunette
Mary Lyons Brunette, 94, died February 19, 2001 at Rolling Hills Manor...Patricia Zelenik of Franklin, Tenn., and sisters-in-law Barbara Lyons of Waukegan and Lucille Lyons of Birmingham, AL. Also nephews Gerald Lyons of Lake Forest... |
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