Her parents, pious Roman Catholics, christened her Mary Anne Elizabeth Magdalene Steichen.

If, the editors sometimes, dozed and printed pretentious, New, York-mind, dross, they, also printed, Malraux,, Silone,, Chiaromonte,, Gide, Bellow,, Robert Lowell, Francis Fergusson, Mary McCarthy, Delmore Schwartz, Mailer, Elizabeth Hardwick, Eleanor Clark,, and a host of, other good writers.

The Church of England ( which until the 20th century included the Church in Wales ) initially separated from the Roman Catholic Church in 1538 in the reign of King Henry VIII, reunited in 1555 under Queen Mary I and then separated again in 1570 under Queen Elizabeth I ( the Roman Catholic Church excommunicated Elizabeth I in 1570 in response to the Act of Supremacy 1559 ).

Through him would come many other priests and prophets, including Anne, Elizabeth, Mary, John the Baptist and Jesus.

Anne had four pupils: Lydia, age 15, Elizabeth, age 13, Mary, age 12, and Edmund, age 8.

Anne retained close ties to Elizabeth and Mary Robinson, exchanging letters even after Branwell's disgrace.

* Mary Elizabeth McGlynn: U. S. Director / Writer / Editor of Digimon Tamers and Digimon Frontier.

The first death due to cholera occurred in 1866, but by then Elizabeth had already opened St. Mary ’ s Dispensary for Women and Children, at 69 Seymour Place.

Her half-brother, Edward VI, bequeathed the crown to Lady Jane Grey, cutting his two half-sisters, Elizabeth and the Catholic Mary, out of the succession in spite of statute law to the contrary.

His will swept aside the Succession to the Crown Act 1543, excluded both Mary and Elizabeth from the succession, and instead declared as his heir Lady Jane Grey, granddaughter of Henry VIII's sister Mary, Duchess of Suffolk.

Mary rode triumphantly into London, with Elizabeth at her side.

Mary, a devout Catholic, was determined to crush the Protestant faith in which Elizabeth had been educated, and she ordered that everyone attend Catholic Mass ; Elizabeth had to outwardly conform.

If Mary and her child died, Elizabeth would become queen.

When his wife Queen Mary fell ill in 1558, King Philip sent the Count of Feria to consult with Elizabeth.

On 6 November, Mary recognised Elizabeth as her heir.

On 17 November 1558, Mary died and Elizabeth succeeded to the throne.

When Mary returned to Scotland in 1561 to take up the reins of power, the country had an established Protestant church and was run by a council of Protestant nobles supported by Elizabeth.

In 1563 Elizabeth proposed her own suitor, Robert Dudley, as a husband for Mary, without asking either of the two people concerned.

The marriage was the first of a series of errors of judgement by Mary that handed the victory to the Scottish Protestants and to Elizabeth.

Mary escaped from Loch Leven in 1568 but after another defeat fled across the border into England, where she had once been assured of support from Elizabeth.

Elizabeth was interred in Westminster Abbey in a tomb she shares with her half-sister, Mary.

The Latin inscription on their tomb, " Regno consortes & urna, hic obdormimus Elizabetha et Maria sorores, in spe resurrectionis ", translates to " Consorts in realm and tomb, here we sleep, Elizabeth and Mary, sisters, in hope of resurrection ".

* Martha B. Gilbreth ( November 5, 1909 – November 15, 1968 ) ( age 59 ); married Richard E. Tallman ; four children ( Janet, Blair, Mary, Stephanie ).

* Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr. ( March 27, 1911 – February 18, 2001 ) ( age 89 ); married 1 ): Elizabeth Cauthen ( 1934 – 1954 ) 2 ): Mary Pringle Manigault ( 1954 – 2001 ); three children ( one from first marriage: Betsy ; two from second marriage: Rebecca, Dr. Edward Gilbreth ).

Attlee was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of Queen Mary College on 15 December 1948.

* The beginning of the nine-day celebration beginning December 16 and ending December 24, celebrating the trials which Mary and Joseph endured before finding a place to stay where Jesus could be born ( Christians of Spanish-origin ):

On 15 December, the Duchess of Suffolk wrote to Burghley describing a plan she and Mary had devised to arrange a meeting between Oxford and his daughter.

Mary Anne ( alternatively Mary Ann or Marian ) Evans ( 22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880 ), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

Kenneth Hawks and Mary Astor eventually married in February 1928, while Bill Hawks and Bessie Love married in December 1929.

The Church celebrates the Feast of the Immaculate Conception ( when Mary was conceived free from original sin ) on 8 December, exactly nine months before celebrating the Nativity of Mary.

On 6 December 1708, Pope Clement XI made the feast of the Conception of Mary, at that time still with the Nativity of Mary formula for the Mass, a Holy Day of Obligation.

In the Church of England's Common Worship prayer book, 8 December is designated a Lesser Festival of the Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary ( without the adjective " immaculate ").

Sigismund fled to his brother's court in Prague and, following Mary's abdication, Charles was crowned on 31 December, with Mary and her mother forced to attend his coronation.

Mary II ( 30 April 1662 – 28 December 1694 ) was joint Sovereign of England, Scotland, and Ireland with her husband and first cousin, William III and II, from 1689 until her death.

Although her will stated that she wished to be buried next to her mother, Mary was interred in Westminster Abbey on 14 December in a tomb she would eventually share with Elizabeth.

Mary Tyler Moore ( born December 29, 1936 ) is an American actress, primarily known for her roles in television sitcoms.

In ecclesiastical affairs, Sixtus IV instituted 8 December as the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.

On 19 December 1566, in Stirling Castle, Mary Queen of Scots gave a feast with 30 guests at an imagined replica of Arthur's round table during the masque-themed celebrations of the baptism of the future James VI.

On December 25, 1871, Edison married 16-year-old Mary Stilwell ( 1855 – 1884 ), whom he had met two months earlier ; she was an employee at one of his shops.

It was delivered in the university Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge on 21 December 1609, and in it he rebuked sharply " lusory lotts " and the " heathenish debauchery " of the students during the Twelve Days of Christmas.

* December 13 – Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States ( d. 1882 )

* December 8 – Mary Gordon, American writer

* December – Delhi Durbar held to mark the coronation of King George V of the United Kingdom and Queen Mary as Emperor and Empress of India and the transfer of the capital of the British Raj from Calcutta to Delhi.

* December 16 – Mary Russell Mitford, English novelist and dramatist ( d. 1855 )

* December 13 – Anna Mary Robertson Moses aka Grandma Moses, painter ( b. 1860 )