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  Agatha Barbara at AllExperts
Agatha Barbara (March 11, 1923 – February 4, 2002) was the first female President of Malta.
Barbara was born in Żabbar, Malta, and was educated at the grammar school in Valletta.
Barbara was elected President for a 5-year term in 1982.
en.allexperts.com /e/a/ag/agatha_barbara.htm   (344 words)

  
 Department of Information
Miss Agatha Barbara was elected President of the Republic of Malta on Tuesday 16th February, 1982 during the Second Sitting of the First Session of the Fifth Legislature of the House of Representatives.
Agatha Barbara was born in Zabbar on 11th March, 1923, the eldest daughter and the second of the nine children of Joseph and Antonia.
Miss Barbara was also awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy in Pedagogy, Honoris Causa by the Universtiy of Beijing, China, besides the many honours bestowed on her by foreign and public, cultural, scientific and educational institutions.
www.doi.gov.mt /EN/islands/presidents/barbara_agatha.asp   (1672 words)

  
 Zabbar community pays tribute to Agatha Barbara
Agatha Barbara was born at Zabbar on 11th March, 1923.
Barbara represented the Labour Party in several international meetings and conferences and led official Government delegations to various countries.
Agatha Barbara died on the 4th of February 2002 at her residence in Zabbar.
www.di-ve.com /dive/portal/portal.jhtml?id=228447   (379 words)

  
 Agatha Christie and Archaelogy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The house in which Agatha Christie and her husband for a while lived as guest in 1930.
The house of Agatha Christie is in a field that belongs to Mr.
In the summer of 1930, after becoming engaged to Agatha, Mallowan decided that the next excavation season at Ur was to be his last.
www25.brinkster.com /agathachristie/agatha_christie_and_archaeology.asp   (575 words)

  
 Former President Agatha Barbara dies
In the Second Labour Government of 1955, Miss Barbara was appointed Minister of Education and Culture thus become becoming the first Maltese woman to hold a ministerial portfolio.
On the international scene, Miss Barbara has pursued her life-long policy of international friendship, visiting many countries, thus further re-enforcing Malta's stand as a non-aligned and Neutral state.
Miss Barbara has been awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy in Pedagogy, Honoris Causa by the University of Beijing, China, besides the many honours bestowed on her by foreign and public, cultural, scientific and educational institutions.
www.di-ve.com /dive/portal/portal.jhtml?id=46188   (1479 words)

  
 Agatha Barbara
The passing away of Agatha Barbara came at a time when I was writing her biography.
Agatha was at the heart of politics from the very start.
Agatha Barbara will remain famous for her involvement in politics and social welfare.
www.maltatoday.com.mt /2002/0210/l7a.html   (781 words)

  
 Agatha Carubia - Bio
Agatha Carubia is acknowledged as being a singer with a voice of rare beauty and soulful expression.
With the composition and release of her new CD "Terranova, Ascension of our Planet," Agatha has created a genre of music that is being met with great excitement.
Agatha was trained in Western Classical Music and received her Bachelor and Masters degrees in music from the Juilliard School.
www.sevensouth.com /recordshop/CarubiaA/bio.php   (300 words)

  
 The Lurker in the Lobby: A Guide to the Cinema of H.P. Lovecraft
Agatha tells Dr. Munos that she has read all his letters to her father and has become fascinated with his theories about overcoming death through a mystical application of will power.
She tells Agatha that the only person who has seen Munos in the last week was a repairman who came to work on the refrigeration system.
He still won't admit Agatha but tells her to get a mechanic quickly; the temperature in his room is rising dangerously.
www.thelurker.com /tv/coolair.htm   (1247 words)

  
 TCGEN - pafg83 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Barbara HOLTZ OR KOLTZ was born 1616 in Mittelstadt, Swartzwald, Wuertemberg, Germany.
Agatha BAUR [Parents] was born 11 May 1631 in Haeslach, Swartzwald, Wuertemberg, Germany.
Agatha married Jakob HEIM on 24 Aug 1647 in Waldorf, Swartzwald, Wuertemberg, Germany.
share.geocities.com /Heartland/5637/pafg83.htm   (478 words)

  
 allmalta.com - Maltese Falklore
Miss Barbara contested successfully every election held, and represented the Labour Party in several international meetings and conferences and led official Government delegations to various countries.
Miss Agatha Barbara became President of the Republic of Malta on Tuesday 16th February 1982 during the second sitting of the first session of the fifth legislature of the House of Representatives.
Agatha Barbara died in February 2002, she will remain famous for her involvement in politics and social welfare, yet her service to the nation, will remain in our memories.
www.allmalta.com /folklore/p_047.html   (422 words)

  
 Agatha Barbara
No wonder that as a young woman, the former Labour education and social security minister and President of the Republic, Agatha Barbara, was looking for a vehicle that would enable her to help make the changes and reforms that post-war Malta so desperately needed.
Ms Barbara, now in her seventies, smiles as she recalls a heated conversation she had at the time with a Dominican monk, who, like she, was a teacher.
Ms Barbara is wistful as she remembers the unfairness of the situation, but she manages a wry smile with her final comment.
www.maltatoday.com.mt /2001/0401/people.html   (1580 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death (Agatha Raisin Mysteries (Paperback)): Books: M.C. Beaton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley by M.C. Beaton
Agatha is a suspect for only a short while because Detective Constable Bill Wong asks her to show him how she made her quiche and is soon quite certain that the irascible Mrs.
Agatha decided to take on the village the same way she had the business world years before, she decided to go right for the top, in this case entering the local cooking contest by making a quiche.
www.amazon.com /Agatha-Raisin-Quiche-Mysteries-Paperback/dp/0804111634   (2381 words)

  
 SOS, Missouri - Wolfner Library ( Agatha Awards )
Agatha Awards named after Agatha Christie, are presented to novels in which the characters know each other, an amateur detective is featured, and there is no explicit violence, sex, or gore.
Malice Domestic, a mystery lovers' group, awards Agathas each year at their convention in Washington, D.C. Novels are both nominated and the winners chosen by the participants of the year's convention.
Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth Earl of Asherton, and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers are investigating the murder of a Yorkshire man. Obese Roberta Teys was found sitting by the headless corpse of her father.
www.sos.mo.gov /wolfner/bibliographies/agathaawards.asp   (1268 words)

  
 Agatha Carubia - Terranova: Ascension of our Planet
Agatha has been enjoying her life with her husband Solomon and her family, living near the beach, and teaching a studio of fine young singers to realize their potential.
Also a well-known voice teacher, his students continually receive awards and can be heard in the world's Opera houses, on the Broadway stages and in film and television.
Val and Agatha are long time friends, performing together for many years.
www.sevensouth.com /recordshop/CarubiaA/01.php   (331 words)

  
 AGATHA CHRISTIE
Agatha Miller was born in Torquay in 1890 to an English mother and American father; she spent her childhood and teen years mainly in Torquay in a large home called Ashfield.
During the war, Agatha was a volunteer nurse for soldiers sent to Torquay to be treated for their battle wounds; later she was promoted to the dispensary where she picked up a knowledge of poisons that was to stand her in good stead in her mystery stories.
Agatha Christie is about to break new ground in the new millennium as her novels become available as ebooks and updated versions will be made into new films.
users.bestweb.net /~foosie/agatha.htm   (2047 words)

  
 Statue in commemoration of Agatha Barbara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A statue was unveiled in Zabbar under the Sunday sunshine in commemoration of Malta’s late president Agatha Barbara.
Agatha Barbara was the third president of the Republic.
She died in 2003 at the age of 78.
www.maltamedia.com /news/2005/ln/printer_9748.shtml   (60 words)

  
 WIRED TEMPLES - Malta on the Web: Monument to Agatha Barbara
Il-komunità Zabbarija l-bierah inghaqdet biex tat gieh lil Agatha Barbara li bla dubju ta’ xejn tibqa’ mfakkra bhala l-akbar personalità li harget minn hdanha, l-aktar minhabba li dejjem iddistingwiet ruhha bil-kisbiet kbar li ghamlet bhala mara li kienu lahqu l-qofol taghhom bil-hatra taghha bhala President tar-Repubblika ta’ Malta.
Agatha Barabara, il-mara mill-misrah ta’ Haz-Zabbar kif hi stess kienet thobb issejjah lilha nnifisha, kienet l-ewwel Maltija li qatt harget taghmel meeting fil-berah f’Malta, u l-ewwel li resqet quddiem l-elettorat Malti fi zmien meta l-politika kienet tehtieg aktar kuragg, morali u fiziku, minhabba d-diskriminazzjoni tal-klassi u tas-sess li kienet tezisti f’kull sfera tal-hajja.
Il-memorja ta’ Agatha Barbara issa se tibqa’ hajja kif jixraq, anke fost il-generazzjonijiet futuri, permezz ta’ monument li sarilha fi Triq is-Santwarju f’rahal twelidha.
www.maltamedia.net /wt/2006/04/monument-to-agatha-barbara.shtml   (351 words)

  
 THE IRANIAN: Features, Agatha Christie, Cyrus Kadivar
In the autumn of 1928, at the age of thirty-eight, Agatha Christie, recently divorced from her estranged husband and writing for a living, was at a low point in her life, and in need of a holiday.
Life with Max took Agatha to worlds she had not known and in Room 5 my Baghdad born wife pointed at the notebooks and letters and novels exhibited around the place showing how stimulating Agatha had found these new experiences.
Agatha Christie as far as we were concerned had in her lifetime held a certain dialogue with civilizations different from hers and yet rooted in antiquity and humanity.
www.iranian.com /CyrusKadivar/2001/November/Agatha/index.html   (1519 words)

  
 Descendants of Jacob Meyer (1592 - 11 Mar, 1664)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hugo MEYER was born on 22 Dec 1772 in Ruemlang, Zurich, Switzerland, was christened on 27 Dec 1772 in Ruemlang, Zurich, Switzerland and died on 12 Dec 1845 in Ruemlang, Zurich, Switzerland.
Barbara MEYER was born on 14 Aug 1841 in Rümlang, Zurich, Switzerland, was christened on 20 Aug 1841 in Ruemlang, Zurich, Switzerland and died on 8 May 1874 in Rümlang, Zurich, Switzerland.
Agatha Barbara Mangold FARNER was born on 23 Aug 1867 in Rümlang, Zurich, Switzerland and died on 11 Dec 1934 in Stuart, Nebraska.
home.att.net /~kkkeener/meyer01.html   (5002 words)

  
 The Malta Independent Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Miss Agatha Barbara was born in Zabbar on 11 March, 1923 and started her career as a teacher.
In 1946 she began to take an active part in politics and was the first woman to be elected to the House of Representatives.
In 1955, Ms Barbara was appointed Education and Culture Minister, becoming the first Maltese woman to hold a ministerial portfolio.
www.independent.com.mt /news2.asp?artid=31611   (168 words)

  
 Descendants of Jacob Meyer (1592 - 11 Mar, 1664)
Hugo MEYER was born on 22 Dec 1772 in Ruemlang, Zurich, Switzerland, was christened on 27 Dec 1772 in Ruemlang, Zurich, Switzerland and died on 12 Dec 1845 in Ruemlang, Zurich, Switzerland.
Barbara MEYER was born on 14 Aug 1841 in Rümlang, Zurich, Switzerland, was christened on 20 Aug 1841 in Ruemlang, Zurich, Switzerland and died on 8 May 1874 in Rümlang, Zurich, Switzerland.
Agatha Barbara Mangold FARNER was born on 23 Aug 1867 in Rümlang, Zurich, Switzerland and died on 11 Dec 1934 in Stuart, Nebraska.
www.kkeener.com /meyer01.html   (5002 words)

  
 Catholic Culture : Document Library : Stories of the Korean Martyrs
While Han A-gi Barbara was undergoing torture, Kim Ob-I Magnalene have witnessed her faith by explaining Catholic doctrine to the police commissioner.
At the age of thirteen Kim Barbara was sent as a servant to the wealthy Catholic family of Hwang Maria.
Barbara was arrested in March, 1839, and subjected to torture, but she refused to apostatize or reveal the name of other Catholics.
www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=4740&longdesc   (5884 words)

  
 History [aboutmalta.com]
A total of six letters were written, five of which praise the work of Miss Helen Buhagiar, and appeal to vote for her, both for her work in favour of the vote for women, as well as, as a candidate of D.A.P..
Reference to women was also made in a report on the M.L.P. meeting in Bormla where Miss Agatha Barbara made an appeal to women to use their vote well, for better living conditions.
Miss Agatha Barbara was elected whilst Helen Buhagiar was not, although she obtained a relatively large amount of votes in her district.
www.aboutmalta.com /history/womenvote.shtml   (3522 words)

  
 AROUND THE WORLD; Woman, 59, Is Elected The President of Malta - New York Times
Agatha Barbara, 59 years old, was elected President today, the first woman to hold the office.
Miss Barbara, a former teacher, was elected by the House of Representatives for a five-year term in the largely ceremonial post.
Miss Barbara was the first woman elected to Parliament, winning a seat in 1947.
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CE4D8123BF934A25751C0A964948260   (177 words)

  
 Department of Information
Lil Agatha Barbara tista' tiddeskriviha fi tliet kelmiet: mara ta' l-azzar.
Agatha Barbara baqgħet sa l-aħħar nifs ta' ħajjitha b'saqajha ma' l-art.
Agatha Barbara għamlet dak kollu li setgħet biex iben il-ħaddiem ikollu l-istess opportunita' ta' iben is-sinjur fejn tidħol l-edukazzjoni.
www.doi.gov.mt /EN/commentaries/2002/02/ori06.asp   (329 words)

  
 Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts - Holy helpers: male saints and female saints
Agatha protects against breast cancer and she helps rape victims.
Saint Barbara was locked up in a tower by her own father because of her disobedience.
Saint Barbara became patroness to all kinds of builders, not just to those who make towers.
www.kb.nl /kb/manuscripts/highlights/11H_uk.html   (437 words)

  
 MYSTERY! | Miss Marple | Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie is the world's best-known mystery writer.
She was born Agatha Miller in Torquay, England on September 15, 1890, the daughter of Frederick Alvah Miller and Clarissa Miller.
Agatha was educated at home; her mother encouraged her to write from a very early age.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/mystery/marple/christie.html   (1080 words)

  
 ASU Libraries: St. Agatha Church
Mission Santa Barbara may have inspired the design of the church, which Perschl built in 1920 and dedicated to St. Maurice.
At that time, the exterior of the church was a yellowish-cream color; the pediment on the façade a dark pink.
The building burned in 1940 and a new church, St. Agatha, rose on the foundations and was dedicated on May 16, 1949.
www.asu.edu /lib/archives/schwarz/stagatha.htm   (133 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Agatha Christie Mysteries (Death on the Nile / Evil Under the Sun / The Mirror Crack'd): DVD: John ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Synopsis Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot has a set of murder suspects on a boat in the Nile after a rich heiress is killed.
This blockbusting film adapted from Agatha Christie's novel is the very archetype and acme of her detective stories, at least those using the services of the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot from Brussels.
Agatha Christie always considered her as the ideal Miss Marple; she shows this through her reserve savvy.
www.amazon.com /Agatha-Christie-Mysteries-Mirror-Crackd/dp/B00008DDWU   (2516 words)

  
 Curtain: Poirot's Last Case: Hercule Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Agatha Christie's genius for detective fiction is unparalleled.
Agatha Christie's ginius for detective fiction is unparalleled.
The rise and fall of media tycoon Conrad Black and his journalist wife, Barbara Amiel, is one of the great stories of the modern business world.
www.harpercollins.com /book/index.aspx?isbn=9780060849597   (526 words)

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