Martin has played Wanda the Word Fairy in numerous short segments on Sesame Street She appeared in one episode from Season 5 ( 1988 ) titled " UNICEF ".

* In her 2008 book Queen of the Oil Club: The Intrepid Wanda Jablonski and the Power of Information, Anna Rubino wrote that Martin had a love affair with oil journalist Wanda Jablonski on a visit to Beirut, Lebanon in the 1950s.

* Key Backgrounds: Bogumilia Ciosek, Stefania Dabrowieka, Martin Forte, Robert Gentle, Wanda Kudla-Niezreka, Kazimierz Ledzki, Phil Lewis, Andy Phillipson, Bill Proctor, Jeff Richie, Gloria Wood

Under the influence of Arnold Dolmetsch, the harpsichordists Violet Gordon-Woodhouse ( 1872 – 1951 ) and in France, Wanda Landowska ( 1879 – 1959 ), were at the forefront of the instrument's renaissance.

* 1879 – Wanda Landowska, Polish harpsichordist ( d. 1959 )

* 1895 – Wanda Hawley, American actress ( d. 1963 )

* 1978 – Wanda Rutkiewicz is the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

* UKS Wanda – synchronized swimming

* March 18 – Wanda Hawley, American actress ( b. 1895 )

* March 11 – Wanda Gag, American children's author and artist ( d. 1946 )

* January 12 – Wanda Beach Murders: The bodies of two 15-year-olds, Christine Sharrock and Marianne Schmidt, are found at Wanda Beach, Sydney.

* July 5 – Wanda Landowska, Polish harpsichordist and musicologist ( d. 1959 )

1988's A Fish Called Wanda achieved near cult status – while showcasing her as a comedic actress ; she was nominated for a BAFTA as best leading actress.

* Wanda Gág ( 1893 – 1946 ), writer

* Wanda Gág ( 1893 – 1946 ), artist and author of children's books ( Millions of Cats ).

* December 7 – Wanda Toscanini, daughter of Arturo Toscanini and wife of Vladimir Horowitz ( died 1998 )

* Wanda Hawley ( 1895 – 1963 ), actress

* Wanda Day – drums ( 1989 – 1992 )

* 1920 – Held by the Enemy, Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, Paramount Pictures – Director: Donald Crisp ; Writers: William Gillette and Beulah Marie Dix ; Release Date: October 24, 1920 ; Starring Agnes Ayers as Rachel Hayne, Wanda Hawley as Emmy McCreery, Lewis Stone as Capt.

* August 31 – Wanda Guenette, volleyball player

* Wanda the Witch – A witch ( played by Amanda Bynes ) that comes to school and cast spells on the students, always insisting that she is simply Canadian, not a witch.

Wanda Orlikowski applied her critique of the duality of structure to technology: " The duality of technology identifies prior views of technology as either objective force or as socially constructed product – as a false dichotomy.

Los Angeles poets: Leland Hickman ( 1934 – 1991 ), Holly Prado ( born 1938 ), Harry Northup ( born 1940 ), Wanda Coleman ( born 1946 ),

Harpsichordist Wanda Landowska was a resident of Lakeville from 1949 until her death in 1959.

Barbie now lives in an apartment block inhabited by her best friend Wanda, a pre-operative trans woman ; the lesbian couple Hazel and Foxglove ; the witch Thessaly ; and a quiet man named George.

Howser initially has a girlfriend, Wanda Plenn ( Lisa Dean Ryan ), but they break up after she leaves for college ; he also begins a trauma surgery fellowship and moves into his own apartment.

Otto is leaving just as Archie runs into the building ; Otto steals Archie's car, taking Wanda with him.

Magneto snatched Wanda from her battle with her fellow Avengers and brought her to Genosha, where he asked Xavier to restore the Scarlet Witch ’ s sanity-but to no avail.

Michael Palin's character in Fierce Creatures, however, is a chatterbox that is difficult to keep quiet, the opposite of his personality in A Fish Called Wanda, where he was a stutterer unable to say anything easily.

Wanda, who was planning to double-cross Otto as well, decides to seduce George's unhappily married lawyer, Archie Leach ( John Cleese ), to find out where the diamonds are located.

The X-Men and the Avengers meet to decide what should be done, and when some of the members suggest killing Wanda, Quicksilver informed Magneto of this development, before convincing Wanda to warp reality into the House of M. In the new reality, where the New Avengers, the X-Men, and the members of Wanda's family all received their ' heart's desires ', Magneto was attacked by Sentinels over Manhattan in 1979, and revealed an alleged international anti-mutant conspiracy involving Richard Nixon.

Quicksilver features with the Inhumans and Fantastic Four against the villain the Sphinx in a Fantastic Four annual, and the siblings ' origin is explored in the title Avengers when gypsy Django Maximoff kidnaps Pietro and Wanda and returns to Mount Wundagore in the country of Transia, where they were born.

Quicksilver plays a pivotal role in the limited series House of M, convincing his now mentally unstable sister Wanda to use her abilities to warp reality and create a world where mutants are in a majority and humans are the minority-with Magneto established as absolute ruler-while also giving their fellow heroes their own greatest desires-having abducted Professor X to read the minds of the heroes-to discourage them from trying to restore history and stop them from killing Wanda.

The name has long been popular in Poland where the legend of Princess Wanda has been circulating since at least the 12th century ; in 1947 Wanda was cited as the second most popular name from Polish secular history given to Polish girls.

Wanda June and several other deceased connections to Harold Ryan ( including his ex-wife Mildred who drank herself to death because she couldn't stand Harold's premature ejaculation, and Major Von Koningswald, The Beast of Yugoslavia, Harold Ryan's most infamous victim ) speak to the audience from Heaven, where Jesus Christ, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, and Judas Iscariot are happily playing shuffleboard.

The negative reviews reflected the action at the box office ; where it grossed $ 15, 122, 000, suffering from competition with Who Framed Roger Rabbit, A Fish Called Wanda, Bambi ( of which was being reissued at the time ) among other summer movies.

In 1907, Brinkley settled with his wife in Chicago, where they celebrated the birth of a daughter on November 5 – Wanda Marion Brinkley.

The Fairly OddParents is a humorous cartoon where the fairies Cosmo and Wanda are ( rather incompetent ) godparents.

In 1947, the Penick family moved to Erlanger, Kentucky, where Skeeter met Betty Jack Davis and Wanda Rose Rader at Dixie Heights High School, becoming instant friends.

She and her sister, Wanda Kosakiewicz, are fused together to make one central character in de Beauvoir's first novel L ' Invitée ( She Came to Stay, 1943, Gallimard ), which was dedicated to Olga ( where her name appears as Kosakievicz in the Norton translation ).

After being thrown out of the bar, Henry goes to another establishment where he meets Wanda ( Faye Dunaway ) a fellow alcoholic and a kept woman, who, lonely in her own right, invites Henry to drink with her, with booze she buys on her lover's account at the liquor store.

In a letter dated December 17, 2009, Wanda A. Scott, an Assistant Inspector General of the United States Department of Education reported on an inspection of the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools ' ( HLC ) standards for program length and credit hours, and " identified a serious issue " wherein HLC had found problems in American InterContinental University's ( AIU ) assignment of credit hours where bachelor's courses were inflated relative to common practice, yet HLC granted full accreditation to AIU.