* Mara ( folklore )

He was the second of nine children born to Jean Mara ( Giovanni Mara ), a native of Cagliari, Sardinia, and Louise Cabrol, a French Huguenot from Castres.

** Matilda ( film ), a 1996 adaptation of the novel starring Mara Wilson

" Gang Activity in the U. S. Armed Forces Increasing ", dated January 12, 2007, states that street gangs including the Bloods, Crips, Black Disciples, Gangster Disciples, Hells Angels, Latin Kings, The 18th Street Gang, Mara Salvatrucha ( MS-13 ), Mexican Mafia, Norteños, Sureños, and Vice Lords have been documented on military installations both domestic and international although recruiting gang members violates military regulations.

At the hearing, District Attorney Thomas Mara ( Jerome Cowan ), whose wife accused him of " persecuting " ( rather than prosecuting ) Santa Claus, gets Kris to assert that he is in fact Santa Claus and rests his case, believing he has prima facie proven his point.

* Mara ( Tagin ), a tribe in Arunachal Pradesh

* Mara ( name ), list of people with this name

* Mara ( SS ), a commune on the Italian island of Sardinia

* Mara River ( Iza ), a river in Romania

* Mara ( torrent ), a stream of Italy and Switzerland

* Mara ( goddess ), from Latvian mythology

* Mara ( Hindu goddess ), the goddess of death according to Hindu mythology

* Mara ( demon ), a " demon " of the Buddhist cosmology, the personification of Temptation

* The Mara ( Doctor Who ), an evil being in two Doctor Who serials

* Mara ( supermarket ), a Romanian supermarket chain

* Mara ( mammal ), a species of the cavy family

* Mara ( album ), a 1995 album by Scottish band Runrig

* Paul Mara ( born 1979 ), National Hockey League defenceman for the Montreal Canadiens formerly of the New York Rangers, was born in Ridgewood but was raised in Belmont, Massachusetts.

The Rani appears in two Doctor Who classic series serials, The Mark of the Rani ( 1985 ) and Time and the Rani ( 1987 ), portrayed both times by Kate O ' Mara.

Though still a top-10 show, Dynasty dropped from # 1 to # 7 in the ratings for its sixth season, which featured a lookalike woman named Rita who poses as Krystle ( with both roles played by Evans ), introduced Alexis ' sister Caress ( Kate O ' Mara ), and launched the spin-off The Colbys.

* “ Hofoperntheater-Ferdinand Hummel, Mara ,” Neue Revue, Jahrgang 5, Band 2 ( 1894 ), p. 475ff.

* The Nativity ( 1978 ), with Kate O ' Mara playing Salome.

Playing the sister of Alexis Colby ( Joan Collins ), O ' Mara appeared in 17 episodes of the sixth season and 4 episodes of the seventh.

Mara decides to stop for the night and is then swiftly attacked by another predatory creature.

He manages to grab his lightsaber from Mara and he attacks the creature and kills it.

Mara Elizabeth Wilson ( born July 24, 1987 ) is an American former child actress and playwright, known for her roles as a child star, particularly in Mrs. Doubtfire ( 1993 ), Miracle on 34th Street ( 1994 ), Matilda ( 1996 ), and Thomas and the Magic Railroad ( 2000 ).

Among the most recognized places in the town centre, particularly nearby the Gopeng Bus Station is the Alif Cafe Restaurant, the local post office, the police station, Giat Mara Gopeng, Padang Bandaran Gopeng, Pasaraya Ku and the Goodyear Tyre Workshop.

However, this edict particularly offended Mara Salvatrucha because they said the money they earned was theirs and not the Mexican Mafia's.

This was a response to the ominous growth of violent gangs, particularly the Mara Salvatrucha.

< center > O ' Mara as Lohengrin in Richard Wagner | Wagner's Lohengrin ( opera ) | Lohengrin, 1894-5 </ center > From 1893 to 1894 he toured Britain and Ireland with Sir Augustus Harris's Italian Opera Company to sing the principal tenor roles in Cavalleria rusticana, Faust, I Pagliacci, Carmen, Lohengrin and Die Meistersinger, among others, his strong Heldentenor voice being particularly appropriate for the latter two roles.

The business community strongly supported Mara, largely because of Schwartz's bill requiring businesses to allow paid sick leave for employees, a bill of which Schwartz was particularly proud.

In other countries ( and in some, particularly smaller, British and North American universities ), anthropologists have also found themselves institutionally linked with scholars of folklore, museum studies, human geography, sociology, social relations, ethnic studies, cultural studies, and social work.

In Greece, there was since the 19th century a science of the folklore called laographia ( laography ), in the form of " a science of the interior ", although theoretically weak ; but the connotation of the field deeply changed after World War II, when a wave of Anglo-American anthropologists introduced a science " of the outside ".

The name is related to the modern Welsh word gof ( blacksmith ), and so is also associated with the Welsh smith Gofannon from folklore.

album title ", writes Greg Kot in The Chicago Tribune ( published September 11, 2001 ), " the myths, mysteries and folklore of the South as a backdrop for one of the finest roots rock albums ever made.

However, over time, many artists have begun to focus more on topics like the seasons ( particularly winter ), nature, mythology, folklore, philosophy and fantasy.

* Bloody Mary ( folklore ), a ghost said to appear in mirrors when summoned

Caymanian folklore explains that the island's first inhabitants were a Welshman named Walters ( or Watler ) and his companion named Bawden ( or Bodden ), who first arrived in Cayman in 1658 after serving in Oliver Cromwell's army in Jamaica.

A 2006 and 2007 study on superstition by the University of Iceland ’ s Faculty of Social Sciences supervised by Terry Gunnell ( associate folklore professor ), reveal that natives would not rule out the existence of elves and ghosts ( similar results of a 1974 survey by Professor Erlendur Haraldsson, Fréttabladid reports ).

There are many forms of folklore that are so common, however, that most people do not realize they are folklore, such as riddles, children's rhymes and ghost stories, rumors ( including conspiracy theories ), gossip, ethnic stereotypes, and holiday customs and life-cycle rituals.

In addition, folklore can also serve to validate a culture ( romantic nationalism ), as well as transmit a culture's morals and values.

* German ( mythology ), a male spirit in the folklore of Serbia and Bulgaria

* Kappa ( folklore ), a Japanese river imp

It is not known how the name " knapsack problem " originated, though the problem was referred to as such in the early works of mathematician Tobias Dantzig ( 1884 – 1956 ), suggesting that the name could have existed in folklore before a mathematical problem had been fully defined.

After returning home he went on a lecture circuit and wrote The People of the Polar North ( 1908 ), a combination travel journal and scholarly account of Inuit folklore.

Additionally, both the terms strigoi and moroi are traditionally closely associated with both pricolici and vârcolaci, and while modern fiction makes a clear distinction between the terms ( with strigoi and moroi being in usage more a reference to the vampiric than the lycanthropic, and the latter in turn referring more to " living " as opposed to undead vampires ), older folklore leaves them not always so easily differentiated, especially with regional variants.

In German folklore and old fairy tales, toads are often depicted sitting on toadstool mushrooms and catching, with their tongues, the flies that are said to be drawn to the Fliegenpilz, a German name for the toadstool, meaning " flies ' mushroom ") This is how the mushroom got another of its names, Krötenstuhl ( a less-used German name for the mushroom ), literally translating to " toad-stool ".

By the time of Sabine Baring-Gould's A Book of Nursery Songs ( 1895 ), folklore was an academic study, full of comments and foot-notes.

It was the machine that made time-sharing common ; it looms large in hacker folklore because of its adoption in the 1970s by many university computing facilities and research labs, the most notable of which were MIT's AI Lab and Project MAC, Stanford's SAIL, Computer Center Corporation ( CCC ), and Carnegie Mellon University.

Despoina, ( the mistress ) the goddess of the Arcadian mysteries, is the daughter of Demeter and Poseidon Hippios ( horse ), who represents the river spirit of the underworld that appears as a horse as often happens in northern-European folklore.

* Puck ( mythology ), a folklore character

Countries and continents explored in the Games are Spielburg ( Game 1 ; German folklore ), Shapeir ( Game 2 ; Arabia of 1001 Nights ), Fricana ( Game 3 ; African mythology, esp.

A feature of Romanian Television after 2000 was the boom of specialized channels-such as soap opera and telenovela channels ( Acasă TV, Romantica, Antena 4-Euforia lifestyle TV ), sport channels ( such as Sport. ro and Telesport ), talk channels ( Antena 2 ) news channels ( Realitatea TV, Antena 3 and N24 ), different movie genres or documentary types, and even specializing on different musical styles ( UTV Romania and MTV being geared toward club, dance and hip-hop music, whereas Favorit TV and Etno TV towards folklore, and Taraf TV towards manele ).