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  Martha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
According to one legend, Martha left Judea after Jesus's death, around AD 48, and went to Provence with her sister Mary (potentially Mary Magdalene) and her brother Lazarus.
Martha first settled in Avignon (now in France), then went to Tarascon, where a monster, the Tarasque, was a constant threat to the population.
Martha managed to tame the monster and eventually died in Tarascon, where she was buried.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Martha   (462 words)

  
 Martha Stewart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Martha Stewart (born August 3, 1941) is a business magnate, entrepreneur, and home-making advocate.
Born Martha Helen Kostyra in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA, she was the first daughter of Eddie and Martha Kostyra.
In October 2005, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia launched a line of houses that will carry her name to be built by KB Homes initially in Cary, North Carolina and various other locations nationwide.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Martha_Stewart   (1370 words)

  
 Martha Washington
Martha set up housekeeping on the Custis plantation, while her husband managed the estate which encompassed over 17,000 acres.
Martha was careful and conscientious in running her home, although she and her husband did not pinch pennies when it came to caring for their home.
Martha and her grandchildren were hailed with fanfare all the way to New York.
www.ushistory.org /valleyforge/served/martha.html   (1903 words)

  
 Times interview of Ralph and Martha Fiennes
Martha is naturally more chatty and open, with a stunning sense of humour that mixes winning girliness with acute intelligence.
Martha cites the principle of understanding, the shorthand between them, which they only really recognised when they did work together, surrounded as they were by others "who aren't quite with you." The reference points, she goes on, "are solid with us, which in turn makes the working relationship very solid.
Martha was attending full-scale meetings within eight days of the birth and managed to avoid any impression of juggling simultaneous brand-new motherhood and the making of a $14 million movie.
members.aol.com /Scott52791/maralph.htm   (2694 words)

  
 Save Martha: For Martha Stewart Fans
Martha recalls that before she went off to jail, she understood that her Apprentice was to be the only version, and said she was quite surprised after leaving Alderson that this was not the case.
Martha Stewart brought a whole new audience and level of attention to the Apprentice TV show and it is too bad that no one was able to capitalize on the amazing PR value that she created.
Martha's show was not theatre or camp--she took the search for an apprentice very seriously and to this day she draws from the talent of the winner and some of the also rans.
savemartha.com   (11599 words)

  
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Martha Graham was born in 1894 in a small city outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Martha Graham died in 1991, after a career that lasted 75 years and produced some of the greatest masterpieces of the American modern dance.
The Martha Graham Dance Company is still a vital force and can be seen in residence in New York City and on tour.
www.pitt.edu /~gillis/dance/martha.html   (1089 words)

  
 The bull in Martha Stewart's china shop - Salon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
"Martha Inc." depicts Stewart as a tireless businesswoman whose own life has little in common with the one she portrays in her magazine or on her TV show, outside of the accumulation of ultradesirable trowels and other luxury items.
The Martha Stewart message appeals to millions of women, and they're not likely to be dissuaded from it when they find that it bears no relationship to the real Martha Stewart.
Martha got there by steamrolling everybody who got in her way, just like everybody else on the Board of Governors did, just like Jack Welch, who's a neighbor of mine, too, out here.
dir.salon.com /story/tech/books/2002/04/19/byron_on_stewart/print.html   (888 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Martha: DVD: Margit Carstensen,Karlheinz Böhm,Barbara Valentin,Peter Chatel,Gisela Fackeldey,Adrian ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Martha gets back to Germany to find that Helmuth has rented them a new house, and she will not be able to return to her old home even to collect any of her things, which he says must be left behind her.
At first the naive and immature Martha believes that her husbands childish temper and selfishness, his domineering possessiveness, his lack of respect, and his violent sexual preferences are just a normal part of marriage.
Martha is a typical Fassbinder film of social criticism, this time focused on marriage, how people marry for the wrong reasons, and how this ruins the lives of both husband, wife, and children.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001A79DA?v=glance   (1963 words)

  
 Martha Stewart Stock Scandal - Full Trial Coverage on Courttv.com
Martha Stewart says in a new interview that her nickname in prison was M. Diddy, that house arrest is "hideous" and that her prosecution was about bringing her down "to scare other people."
A federal judge rejected Martha Stewart's bid for a new sentence Monday, saying she was not persuaded by the domestic diva's claim that the punishment was hurting her business.
Two weeks after being sprung from prison, Martha Stewart appeared in court Thursday to listen as her lawyers argued before a federal appeals court that her conviction on charges of lying about a stock sale should be reversed.
www.courttv.com /trials/stewart   (1156 words)

  
 Bright Lights Film Journal | Fassbinder: Martha
Martha, sick with fear, is forced by Helmut to ride on the roller-coaster with him and we are given repeated shots of the two together, Martha with her pale, ashen face, and Helmut with a broad, manic, almost psychotic, gleeful smile on his face.
Helmut’s humiliation of Martha as a means to control her and Martha’s acceptance of that is a direct repeat of their first formal meeting at the wedding of Martha’s boss and her colleague: there, Helmut took her aside, insulted her by detailing her physical failings, and Martha meekly accepted these and responded by kissing him.
Martha seems interchangeable with any other woman: on her return from Rome, she turns down an offer of marriage from her boss at work, who immediately proposes to her colleague.
www.brightlightsfilm.com /46/martha.htm   (1539 words)

  
 Amazon.com: MARTHA: Books: Agnes De Mille   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Martha rose from the dead, and verily, she was changed now.'' A loving, respectful, but always cleareyed account of the human Graham.
The mind and values of Martha Graham are exposed in detail by the author, and it serves its purpose in giving the curious reader insight into the life and dance technique of a woman who single-handedly developed one of the most original forms of movement to this date.
Martha Graham, as protrayed by the author, was an innovator and a determined individualist, and has given us a unique collection of traceforms, both in our memories and in books and videos, that will embolden us and refresh us always.....
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679741763?v=glance   (1775 words)

  
 Martha Stewart
Martha Kostyra's parents married when her mother discovered she was pregnant.
Her father was always a domineering nitpicker, never satisfied with anything his children did, and her mother was a school teacher who was, by most reports, emotionally distant from her family.
Martha in Her Place!" -- The prosecution's star witness spices up the trial of the domestic diva.
www.nndb.com /people/495/000023426   (674 words)

  
 Martha Stewart goes to work - Mar. 8, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Stewart visited her company early Monday afternoon to spread the message to employees, fans and investors that she's back and that Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (down $2.03 to $25.94, Research) faces a bright future despite heavy losses and a recent sell-off in the company's stock.
Martha Stewart Living, which publishes a monthly magazine of the same name and sells home furnishings mostly through Kmart stores, has suffered because of the damage the criminal case did to Stewart's reputation.
At Martha Stewart Living, she doesn't have the official power she used to have.
money.cnn.com /2005/03/07/news/newsmakers/martha_company?cnn=yes   (1164 words)

  
 Martha   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Martha dresses up then finds out that X needs a drive, so she picks X on her way and take her to Mohandeseen(60 minutes drive) before she goes to Maadi (total of 120 minutes drive since roads intersect).
When Martha and X arrive in Mohandeseen, Martha discoveres that she will leave X the car and go for her other errands with Hazem.
Hazem gets rid of Martha to Askoura who is her baby sitter for the rest of the evening cause Hazem had to leave.
martha.nomadlife.org   (2626 words)

  
 Martha Hix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Martha Hix -- author of 15 romance novels, one medieval novella, and a section of the Lair of the Wolf continuing story at Romance Communications that will soon be published by Leisure Books -- finds herself amazed that life can be this grand.
But since they are, so what?" On a trip to the Copper Canyon in Mexico, Martha and her traveling companion, Evelyn Rogers, put their Spanish to the test, asking everyone, "What famous person, living or dead, would you most like to meet?" We asked Martha the same question, and she replied, "Golda Mier.
Recently Martha became pals with multi-published author and cover model, the gorgeous and talented SUSAN PAUL.
www.eclectics.com /marthahix   (622 words)

  
 FreeMartha.Org - The Martha Stewart Portal from HELL - If its hand knit, you must acquit!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Martha Stewart's deal to sell merchandise to Macy's department stores raised questions about the future of her relationship with Sears Holdings Corp. (SHLD.O: Quote, Profile, Research), Sears Chairman Edward Lampert said on Wednesday.
Sears Holdings, which has sold Martha Stewart Everyday merchandise at its Kmart stores for years, decided not to carry the brand in its Sears chain for fear that the deal would not be renewed when it expires in four years, and the retailer would be forced to remove the goods.
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. swung to a fourth-quarter profit, helped by a continued rebound in advertising revenue at its flagship Martha Stewart Living magazine.
freemartha.org   (1205 words)

  
 Martha Stewart Biography -- Academy of Achievement
Martha Stewart's image as the personification of gracious living may lead some to imagine that she grew up in the sort of rural luxury pictured in her books and magazine.
Her parents, Martha and Edward Kostyra, were a schoolteacher and a pharmaceuticals salesman, respectively.
When Martha was three, the family moved to Nutley, New Jersey, where she grew up with four brothers and sisters in a close-knit Polish-American family defined by the father's intense ambition for his children.
www.achievement.org /autodoc/page/ste0bio-1   (810 words)

  
 Martha Martha Martha! - Editorial/Op-ed
The first sentence proudly points out, "Martha Stewart shares the creative principles and practical ideas that have made her America's most trusted guide to stylish living." In other words, she's better than you.
To say she is better than you is one thing, but to say she was better than you while she was still in diapers, is a whole other story.
The biography also mentions Martha was a model in her younger years.
www.hofstrachronicle.com /news/2005/11/17/EditorialopEd/Martha.Martha.Martha-1109291.shtml   (664 words)

  
 Martha Wainwright - Homepage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Martha is currently performing both as a solo club act, and opening for other performers.
You can view a video of Martha performing a song with her dad Loudon Wainwright III on the official website for the TV show undeclared.
Martha sang a duet titled "Father/Daughter Dialogue" with her father Loudon Wainwright III on his 1995 album Grown Man. She also sang on "The End Has Begun", another song from that album.
www.bradthegame.com /martha-wainwright   (800 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - Featured Article
According to the prosecution, Martha's broker faked the exonerating paperwork by using a blue pen that didn't match the blue pen in the rest of his notes.
Not that Martha's alleged decision to gild the phone logs with a dab of Liquid Paper was the smartest move.
Martha Stewart Paint is not paint in the sense that Sherwin Williams Paint (its distributor) is. If Sherwin had a serious crack habit and Williams was going out nights and cruising as a transvestite hooker, it wouldn't make much difference; you'd still have the paint.
www.opinionjournal.com /editorial/feature.html?id=110003597   (1084 words)

  
 Worth1000.com | Photoshop Contests | Are you Worthy™ | contest
The rules of this contest are simple: Show the after-effects of Martha's handiwork on any photo of a prison (or a prisoner, etc..).
I don't know if this is the effect on our society Martha would like to have...but at least she can still be part of our fun time.
Martha should be comfortable in her new home.
www.worth1000.com /cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=2487   (622 words)

  
 Stewart found guilty on all counts in obstruction trial - Mar. 5, 2004
Martha Stewart has been found guilty on all four counts.
Martha Stewart Living (MSO: Research, Estimates) stock rallied early Friday on hopes for a favorable verdict but then plunged 22.6 percent afterward on the New York Stock Exchange, where Stewart once served as a director.
Stewart quit as chairman and CEO of Martha Stewart Living after she was indicted last summer but stayed on as chief creative officer.
money.cnn.com /2004/03/05/news/companies/martha_verdict?cnn=yes   (1106 words)

  
 Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance
The Martha Graham Dance Company, founded by Martha Graham in 1926, is the oldest, most celebrated modern dance company in the world.
The Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance is the global center for instruction in the Martha Graham Technique and has provided instruction to thousands of students including such luminaries as Rudolf Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Madonna, and Betty Ford.
Martha Graham Resources oversees licensing of the Graham repertory, access to archives that comprise one of the world's great collections of dance history, and arts education programs that travel with the Company around the world.
marthagraham.org   (210 words)

  
 Martha Reeves' "Official" Website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
For her graduation Martha was presented at the HENRY FORD AUDITORIUM and performed BACH'S ARIA ALLELUJAH, before an audience of 4500 neighbors, parents, fellow students, and the general public.
POSTMAN", Martha had heard about all of the stars at MOTOWN RECORDS, like THE MIRACLE'S "SHOP AROUND, AND EDDIE HOLLAND'S "JAMIE", to name a few, and wanted to be a part of that company so badly that she quit her job at the local dry-cleaning plant, and showed up the next morning at secretary time.
There was no women in that department, and MARTHA REEVES became the first secretary all to visit with her in the private chat room Martha Reeves Chat
members.aol.com /mreeves653/martha.html   (593 words)

  
 Martha Stewart Lives: Rare Paparazzi Photographs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Martha Stewart always begins her day with a hearty power-packing breakfast ala her own distinctive, personal favorite, Fusion-Style of International Cuisine.
Martha Stewart's thoughts intently focus upon attending to her foul menagerie of backyard chickens...
Fortunately for us all, Martha Stewart's savvy agent knew that Martha was running particularly late to the televison studio for today's taping of "Living." So, he took control of the matter in the only effective fashion possible.
mrsmegabyte.tripod.com /everway.html   (351 words)

  
 KQED Food Blog: Bay Area Bites: Martha, Martha, Martha!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Following Martha's old baby, modeling, and Miss America photographs, the opening sequence additionally flashes the now-famous photos of her being led away to prison, as well as one of her ponchoed prison release.
After muffing a Martha Lesson on how to expertly fold a tee-shirt (something I intend to master, by the way), Marcia Cross shows just how unlike her character she is when Martha attempts to teach her how to make scrambled eggs in the huge studio kitchen.
In her opening monologue, Martha shows off her now-bare ankle, but notes that she was so taken with the method of keeping track of people that she decided to fasten one on every member of her staff.
www.kqed.org /weblog/food/2005/09/martha-martha-martha.jsp   (1761 words)

  
 CNN.com - Martha Stewart image coming under attack - June 25, 2002
"Martha, Inc.," Christopher Byron's biography of Stewart, painted a dim picture of Stewart as a person, portraying her as a driven, often abrasive CEO who alienated friends and employees even as her company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, was becoming a Wall Street darling.
Given her recent woes, Wall Street has not been kind to Stewart, a former stockbroker and current New York Stock Exchange director, even though she has not been charged with any wrongdoing by any authority to this point.
Stewart's holdings in her own company have taken nearly a $200 million hit, wiping out more than a quarter of her net worth, according to one estimate.
archives.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/News/06/25/martha.stewart   (392 words)

  
 Martha (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net
She seems to have been of an anxious, bustling spirit, anxious to be helpful in providing the best things for the Master's use, in contrast to the quiet earnestness of Mary, who was more concerned to avail herself of the opportunity of sitting at his feet and learning of him.
Afterwards at a supper given to Christ and his disciples in her house "Martha served." Nothing further is known of her.
To Martha life was 'a succession of particular businesses;' to Mary life 'was rather the flow of one spirit.' Martha was Petrine, Mary was Johannine.
www.christiananswers.net /dictionary/martha.html   (218 words)

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