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	Black Maria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Black Maria usually pronounced using the archaic pronunciation i.e.
		A "Black Maria" or a Paddywagon, a vehicle used by the police to transport prisoners.
		The "Black Maria" was a three-unit experimental diesel-electric locomotive set fielded by the American Locomotive Company.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black_Maria (168 words)

	Biography of Maria Martinez and San Ildefonso Pottery
		Through her hard work and generous sharing of her techniques, Maria reintroduced the art of pottery making to her people, providing them with a means of artistic expression and for retaining some aspects of the pueblo way of life.
		Maria's fascination with pottery-making started at a young age, when she would watch her aunt making pots, after her chores were done.
		Maria and Julian refined their pottery techniques and were asked to demonstrate their craft at several expositions, including the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, the 1914 Panama-California Exposition in San Diego, and the 1934 Chicago World's Fair.
	www.mariapottery.com /bio/bio.html (1264 words)

	Minecountry - AHJ - Black Maria
		During the mid to late 1800s, when people would see this Black Maria coming up the street, it brought shudders those wives of miners who knew that just maybe they were bringing home their husband or son.
		The Black Maria was the fl van which conveys prisoners from the police courts to jail.
		Maria Lee was a woman of such great size and strength that the unruly sailors stood in fear of her.
	www.minecountry.com /homeMine/dispart.cfm?id=28 (795 words)

	Questions & Answers: Black Maria
		The Boston story is about Maria Lee, a large fl woman who kept a boarding house in the 1820s with such severity that she became more feared than the police, who called on her to help them catch and restrain criminals.
		The story almost certainly became attached to her much later because she was well-known, fl, and was named Maria, but there’s no evidence that she was actually the source of the name for the police vans.
		Here is a fl racehorse whose most famous exploit is in New York in 1832, and only three years later her name is used for a police van in the same city.
	www.worldwidewords.org /qa/qa-bla1.htm (628 words)

	Black Maria Art Gallery
		Los Angeles — Black Maria Gallery announced the opening of a new exhibition, entitled “Black Market at Black Maria.” The exhibition will be featuring new and recent works by Los Angeles-area artists and will open from November 19 to January 5, 2006.
		The “fl market at Black Maria” exhibition will carry a bazaar theme, complete with some of the accoutrements of the shopping experience: paintings suspended on clothing hangers, displayed in shoe boxes and on display stands holding a variety of artworks.
		Sam Saghatelian (Saga), curator of Black Maria Gallery, adds: “Insofar as the acquired item can enrich our lives, by its sheer power to inspire awe or reflection, the inherent value of a work of art is established enough.
	www.blackmariagallery.com /skipthemall.htm (513 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Black Maria.
		The fl van which conveys prisoners from the police courts to jail.
		The French call a mud-barge a “Marie-salope.” The tradition is that the van referred to was so called from Maria Lee, a negress, who kept a sailors’ boarding house in Boston.
		She was a woman of such great size and strength that the unruly stood in dread of her, and when constables required help, it was a common thing to send for Black Maria, who soon collared the refractory and led them to the lock-up.
	www.bartleby.com /81/1956.html (136 words)

	University of Virginia News Story
		Among the subjects of these films are the visions of an Iraq war veteran, the fl man murdered at the Rolling Stones concert at Altamont, the outsourcing of telemarketing jobs to India and the Jewish origins of Barbie," said Herskowitz.
		The Black Maria Festival is an international juried competition and award tour, with a mission to exhibit and reward cutting edge works from independent film and videomakers.
		Sam Green gradually reveals the story of a young fl man who was murdered by Hell’s Angels because he was with a white girl at the infamous Rolling Stones Altamont concert.
	www.virginia.edu /topnews/releases2006/20060323BlackMaria.html (1026 words)

	purevolume™ \| The Black Maria (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Black Maria stand out from the pack by creating music of epic beauty and fierce power, transforming fear and psychic brutality into songs that explode from the speakers with a symphonic vengeance.
		A Shared History of Tragedy refers to the lives of The Black Maria, in a line pulled from the acclaimed drama "Six Feet Under".
		We shared in all of this together." The Black Maria assimilates the orchestral elements, electronics and off-beat song effect experiments on their 2005 debut, Lead Us To Reason, and marries them to their hard rock base, creating a gorgeous, layered musical framework that walks the razor edge of rock genres toward their own precise statement...
	www.purevolume.com.cob-web.org:8888 /theblackmaria (298 words)

	BlackFlight Models
		These Triplanes were Collishaw's Black Maria, Ellis Vair Reid's Black Roger, John E. Sharman's Black Death, W. Melville Alexander's Black Prince and Gerald Ewart Nash's Black Sheep.
		On June 28th the "Black Flight" again met the Red Baron's "Flying Circus" where Allmenroder was shot down and killed by Collishaw in the ensuing battle.
		Between June 1st and July 28th 1917, the formidable "Black Flight" shot down 87 enemy aircraft and was one of the most successful units of the war.
	www.blackflight.com /about.asp (249 words)

	The Black Maria - Nathan Coley (United Kingdom) - SCAPE - The Art and Industry Biennial 2002: The Physics Room : ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Exploring notions of the frontier, the facade and location, The Black Maria brings a distinctive icon of the Western to the urban centre of Christchurch.
		Stained fl, with its supporting scaffolding mechanism clearly visible, The Black Maria absorbs from its surrounds and offers back an elegaic and open ended proposition.
		Coley's project takes both its title and capacity to rotate in pursuit of the sun from the first film studio to be built, Thomas Edison's Black Maria of 1893.
	www.physicsroom.org.nz /gallery/2002/coley (612 words)

	National News : Prisons reform: ‘Green Maria to replace Black Maria’
		BLACK Maria used to transport suspects from prisons to the courts are to be replaced with a more human friendly vehicles in an attempt to reform the prisons and justice systems in the country.
		The Black Maria is simply too hot,” she said.
		We want them to be transported in ‘Green Maria’ not “Black Maria,” she added.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/nationalx/nr423012005.html (342 words)

	Black Maria Film Festival
		Over 70 institutions welcome the Black Maria Festival, and each individual program is custom tailored, ensuring an accessible and meaningful experience for varied audiences at theaters, museums, colleges, libraries, film societies, microcinemas, and community organizations from coast to coast.
		A technological marvel for its day, the Black Maria is an artifact from the dawn of moving pictures, a medium which revolutionized human expression.
		The Black Maria is recognized by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as an Academy Award qualifying festival for short films (documentary, animation, and live action) and was awarded the New Jersey Governor's Award for Excellence in 2002 and the New Jersey State Council of the Arts Certificate of Excellence in 2003.
	www.blackmariafilmfestival.org (566 words)

	Amherst College : News & Events : News Releases : Black Maria Film + Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Black Maria is a competitive festival judged by film curators from the Museum of Modern Art and the New York Film Festival, among others.
		John Columbus, the founder and director of Black Maria, teaches filmmaking at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
		The Thomas Edison Black Maria Film-Video Festival is sponsored in part by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
	www.amherst.edu /~pubaff/news/news_releases/00/blackmaria.html (288 words)

	1996 Black Maria Film + Video Festival Essay
		The Black List was becoming ineffective and the TV networks reeling from the quiz show scandals began to produce memorable documentaries although they would not buy the work of independents.
		By the 1980's Black filmmakers became an increasingly important voice articulating concerns and issues affecting African Americans and building on the pioneering work of William Greaves.
		They organized the Black Filmmakers' Foundation as well as festivals and also developed their own distribution through Third World Newsreel, a descendant of Newsreel of the sixties (an anti-Vietnam War group based in New York).
	www.njcu.edu /programs/taebmff/bmff/bmffes1996.html (2808 words)

	www.myspace.com/theblackmaria (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As a catalyst for generations of great art, music and literature, psychic pain and anxiety are not uncommon; under the relentless strain of the road, many a rock musician has battled crippling paranoia and dark thoughts.
		The Black Maria stand out from the pack by creating music of epic beauty and fierce power, transforming ugliness and fear into songs that explode from the speakers with a symphonic vengeance.
		The Black Maria takes the orchestral elements, electronic parts and off-beat song effects they experimented with on their 2005 debut, Lead Us To Reason and marries them to their hard rock base, creating a gorgeous, layered musical framework that walks the razor edge of rock genres toward their own precise statement....
	www.myspace.com.cob-web.org:8888 /theblackmaria (789 words)

	Amazon.com: The Black Maria (Mystery of Old Philadelphia): Books: Mark Graham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		"Black Maria" doesn't smell like 1877; it doesn't move like 1877; it doesn't sound like 1877; and it doesn't taste like 1877.
		THE BLACK MARIA is the third in a series about Wilton McCleary, a Civil War veteran employed as a detective in Philadelphia during the 1870's.
		Like the first two novels, THE BLACK MARIA is populated by fascinating, complex characters and a fast-paced (though occasionally convoluted) mystery.
	www.amazon.com /Black-Maria-Mystery-Old-Philadelphia/dp/0380800683 (2355 words)

	NPR : Black Maria Short Film Fest Marks 25 Years
		Edison originally called it the "rotating photographic building." It was covered in fl tar paper to keep out the rain, causing some performers to liken it to police paddy wagons, which were nicknamed Black Mariahs.
		It was in the original Black Maria that Edison shot some of his first motion pictures.
		John Columbus decided to name his festival the Black Maria in part because the works he was showing were all short.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5187124 (618 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Black Maria: Books: Diana Wynne Jones,Ursula Jones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Aunt Maria is very prim and very sweet, and makes a point of guilting people into doing what she wants.
		Aunt Maria is the most frighteningly real, from her outdated opinions to her pushy sweetness; she's horrified at girls wearing pants, eating fish'n'chips for dinner, and favors boys over girls.
		I read Black Maria perhaps 9 years ago when I was 10 years old, and as a child I loved it.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Black-Maria-Diana-Wynne-Jones/dp/0007113870 (1260 words)

	Poetry Daily Feature: David Young - Black Lab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		David Young is the author of nine previous books of poetry, including At the White Window (2000) and The Planet on the Desk: Selected and New Poems (1991).
		Mortality leaves its prints all over the page, like a big fl dog, and, gorgeous, unstoppable, pulls on its leash toward joy-in-the-moment, sorrow-in-joy.
		"In keeping with the whole heart of all his work, David Young's Black Lab draws from a variety of sources – a fellowship of poets, an intimacy of landscape, a celebration of the elegy – yet comes, in each of the poems, to a single, and singular, place of rest, calm, and clarity.
	www.poems.com /blackyou.htm (513 words)

	Black Maria Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Black Maria, a new gallery dedicated to non-mainstream and underground art, will open in Atwater Village on May 7.
		In selecting the artists for Black Maria, the criteria is a certain quality of raw, underground, personal works with a sense of social and political consciousness.
		Black Maria’s focus will be on works that reverberate with the shock of the content; not in a gratuitous sense, but in a way that initiates wonderment and self-reflection, and, ultimately, a measure of enlightenment.
	artscenecal.com /Announcements/0405/BlackMaria0405.html (192 words)

	Edison's Black Maria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Black Maria was, according to the staff who worked there, a small and uncomfortable place to work.
		Edison employees W.K. Dickson and Jonathan Campbell coined the name—it reminded them of police Black Marias, (also known as "paddywagons") of the time because they were also cramped, stuffy and a similar fl color.
		Widely referred to as "America's First Movie Studio", the Maria was covered in fl tarpaper and had a huge window in the ceiling that opened up to let in sunlight because early films required a tremendous amount of bright light.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edison's_Black_Maria (392 words)

	Pennsylvania Coal Mine History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Around the coal collieries during and after the turn of the century there was a fl covered wagon that was pulled by a team of horses.
		She was a women of such great size and strength that the unruly sailors stood in fear of her, and when constables required help, it was a common thing to send for Maria, who soon collared the refractory (person resisting control or authority) and led them to the lock-up.
		An interesting thing is that they used the "Black Maria," wagon to deliver both the injured as well as the dead miners to their homes.
	www.tccweb.org /penncoal.htm (21487 words)

	DECAPOLIS : The Black Maria- Lead Us To Reason
		The Black Maria sounds like just about every other band that Victory records has been signing recently.
		Musically, the band is tight and the vocals are decent, but there really is nothing to make the Black Maria stand out from the millions of similar bands vying for the next nano-second of the general public's attention.
		Reason #3- The Black Maria is not a bird.
	www.decapolis.com /music_/pages/TheBlackMaria-LeadUsToReas.shtml (546 words)

	MoMA.org \| Exhibitions Schedule \| Film \| 2006 \| Black Maria Film Festival: The Legacy of the Short Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Black Maria Film Festival was named after the American birthplace of the motion picture—Thomas Edison’s West Orange, NJ, laboratory—a revolving photographic studio called the Black Maria because it resembled a police paddy wagon.
		Haitian-Quebecois animator Martine Chartrand goes into the heart of Black culture via a whirlwind of defining moments in Black History.
		A reluctant transformation into the spirit world, drawn on fl paper with silver pencil.
	www.moma.org /exhibitions/film_media/2006/black_maria.html (864 words)

	Card Games: Hearts
		There is also an entirely different Finnish game called Black Maria (Mustamaija in Finnish; Svarta Maija in Swedish).
		In Black Maria there are usually 3 players; the 2 of clubs is removed from the pack and 17 cards are dealt to each player.
		Black Maria can also be played by four people, in which case all the cards are dealt out.
	www.pagat.com /reverse/hearts.html (3611 words)

	The Black Maria lyrics new album mp3 download song
		Like a phoenix rising from the ashes of Grade, Zyon and New Day Rising, The Black Maria present their new album, “Lead Us To Reason”.
		While each member of the band has a long history of success in music – The Black Maria has nothing to do with those stories, rather it is a group vision, evolving in the process of invention, and it is a story all its own.
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	www.the-black-maria.com (652 words)

	Black Maria Dirctors Citation Award
		The 25th Annual Black Maria Film and Video Festival will visit Monmouth University on Tuesday, March 21st, 7:30 - 9:30 pm in Pollak Theatre.
		The Black Maria Festival is an international competition which takes pride in promoting work which is experimental and "fiercely independent".
		The Black Maria Film and Video Festival is sponsored at Monmouth University by the Department of Communication.
	www.mhstudios.com /BTCL/black-maria.html (281 words)

	Black Maria Black Issues Book Review - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Black Maria by Kevin Young Alfred A. Knopf, February 2005 $24.95, ISBN 1-400-04209-7
		Black Maria, a slang term for a police wagon or hearse, draws on the images and lexicon of detective movies.
		Blending the spirit of the blues with elements of detective movies results in Young's hard-luck characters spinning stylized, entertaining narratives to spite their bruised experiences.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0HST/is_2_7/ai_n12937396 (286 words)

	The Black Maria - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music
		These five street-tough, fame-hungry kids are out to rule the emo roost with their melding of intricate instrumental passages and unbridled energy.
		While each member of the band has a long history of success in music The Black Maria has nothing to do with those stories, rather it is a group vision, evolving in the process of invention, and it is a story all its own.
		The Black Maria proves their versatility on the album, with delicate piano, harmonized vocals framing some of the harshest narrative on "The Lines We Cross".
	music.download.com /theblackmaria/3600-8735-100570809.html (604 words)

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