Mary
There have been a number of important women who have gone by the name Mary:Biblical Marys:
- Mary, the mother of Jesus
- Mary Magdalene
- Mary, sister of Lazarus
- Mary, mother of John Mark
- Mary (biblical, Romans 16:6)
Historical Marys:
- various Queen Marys
- Mary I of England
- Mary II of England
- Mary, Queen of Scots
- Mary of Hungary
- Typhoid Mary
See also:
Mary is Miriam in the Hebrew language.
In Japanese, Mary means, "eternal truth".
Quotation
In 1905, George M. Cohan wrote a song called "Mary" [1] (http://www.rienzihills.com/SING/mary.htm) which ended:
- For it is Mary, Mary,
- Plain as any name can be
- But with propriety,
- Society will say Marie
- But it was Mary, Mary,
- Long before the fashions came
- And there is something
- There that sounds so fair,
- It's a grand old name
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city," replied the high-priest of Alexander, who as a Roman had kept his
follow the prefect, noble Caesar."
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Theocritus in choosing a new head for the town-guard, and Timotheus and
informing the emperor that it had come to his knowledge that this coward,
into prison a painter who was undoubtedly one of the first of living
good here, and petty aggravations will only stir their bile and increase
pine for the open air, but the wind blows the rain against the windows."
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portrait which would be an ornament to the Pinakothek in your baths. The
weather as this, we might find ourselves afloat even under cover of a
room is more favorably situated, and the large window there will serve
of the imprisoned artist?"
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Caracalla awaited, with Philostratus, the arrival of the painting, his
dressed his thin hair. The sovereign sighed deeply, and pressed his hand
and there was warm sympathy in his tone as he asked:
"What ails you, Bassianus? Just now you bore all the appearance of a
same way been tortured with pain.
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scarcely carry me. Curiosity--and they were waiting for me; and some
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