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Myra (given name) The name Myra was created by the 17th-century poet Fulke Greville 1st Barone Brooke (1554–1628). Its origins are unknown, though some speculate the created name is an anagram of the name Mary, a variant spelling of the Latin word myrrha, meaning myrrh, a fragrant resin obtained from a tree, or derived from the Latin mirari ...
Myra (Ancient Greek: Μύρα, Mýra) was a Lycian city, then captured by Ancient Greece and lived under their rule, then the Roman Empire and then the Ottoman in Lycia, which became the small Turkish town of Kale, renamed Demre in 2005, in the present-day Antalya Province of Turkey.
DuBois has been a guest on The John Bishop Show, a panellist on Big Brother’s Bit on the Side, [4] appeared on Dom Jolly ’s Fool Britannia, and in 2023 was a contestant on Richard Osman's House of Games. She made a guest appearance in the film adaptation of Everybody's Talking About Jamie. [5] In 2021, DuBois played Lady Von Fistenberg in ...
Years active. 1947–2000. Known for. All My Children. Elizabeth Lawrence (September 6, 1922 – June 11, 2000) was an American actress, best known for her role as Myra Murdock Sloane in the soap opera All My Children from 1979 to 1991. [3]
Saint Nicholas of Myra[a] (traditionally 15 March 270 – 6 December 343), [3][4][b] also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of Greek descent from the maritime city of Patara in Anatolia (in modern-day Antalya Province, Turkey) during the time of the Roman Empire. [7][8] Because of the many miracles attributed to his ...
Myra Breckinridge is a 1968 satirical novel by Gore Vidal written in the form of a diary.Described by the critic Dennis Altman as "part of a major cultural assault on the assumed norms of gender and sexuality which swept the western world in the late 1960s and early 1970s", [1] the book's major themes are feminism, transsexuality, American expressions of machismo and patriarchy, and deviant ...
Myra Hess. Myra Hess, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, in 1937. Dame Julia Myra Hess, DBE (25 February 1890 – 25 November 1965) was an English pianist best known for her performances of the works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms. [1]
Myra. (painting) Myra is a 1995 large painting created by Marcus Harvey which is a reproduction of the mugshot of Myra Hindley shortly after she was arrested for her participation in the Moors murders. It was displayed at the Sensation exhibition of Young British Artists at the Royal Academy of Art in London from 8 September to 28 December 1997.