Several years earlier, DOB founders Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon similarly relegated sexual acts as unnecessary in determining what a lesbian is, by providing their definition: " a woman whose primary erotic, psychological, emotional and social interest is in a member of her own sex, even though that interest may not be overtly expressed ".

* Martin, Del, Lyon, Phyllis ( 1991 ).

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Dorothy Louise Taliaferro " Del " Martin ( May 5, 1921 – August 27, 2008 ) and Phyllis Ann Lyon ( born November 10, 1924 ) were an American lesbian couple known as feminist and gay-rights activists.

Martin and Lyon met in 1950, became lovers in 1952, and moved in together on Valentine's Day 1953 in an apartment on Castro Street in San Francisco.

In 1955, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon had been together as lovers for three years when they complained to a gay male couple that they did not know any other lesbians.

The gay couple introduced Martin and Lyon to another lesbian couple, one of whom suggested they create a social club.

Martin and Lyon recalled later, " Women needed privacy ... not only from the watchful eye of the police, but from gaping tourists in the bars and from inquisitive parents and families.

The name was chosen for its obscurity ; even Martin and Lyon did not know what it meant.

Soon after forming, the DOB wrote a mission statement that addressed the most significant problem Martin and Lyon had faced as a couple: the complete lack of information about female homosexuality in what historian Martin Meeker termed, " the most fundamental journey a lesbian has to make.

" When the club realized they were not allowed to advertise their meetings in the local newspaper, Lyon and Martin, who both had backgrounds in journalism, began to print a newsletter to distribute to as many women as the group knew.

Martin was the first president and Lyon became the editor of The Ladder.

In the 1970s, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon reflected that by contemporary standards, the early ideals of the DOB for integration and adjustment of the lesbian into society were outmoded, but they remembered that in the 1950s and early 1960s many gay men and lesbians considered those ideals unreachable, and this approach radical.

In 1964, Martin and Lyon began to control less of the organization, saying, " We felt that if the organization had any validity at all it couldn't be based on two people, it had to be able to stand and grow on its own.

" Martin and Lyon joined the newly formed Council on Religion and the Homosexual ( CRH ) to develop a dialogue between organized religion and gays and lesbians.

The Homophile Movement was influenced by the successful activism of the Civil Rights Movement ( in 1960 the DOB's national president was Cleo Bonner, an African-American ), and higher profile members of the DOB such as Barbara Gittings, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon began to picket the White House, the State Department, and other federal buildings in 1965 and 1966 with members of the Mattachine Society.

In 1966, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon joined the National Organization for Women, and urged readers of The Ladder to do the same, even reporting they got a family discount.

When Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon discovered its loss, they assumed the police or FBI had confiscated it.

Previous editors Martin, Lyon, Gittings, and Sandoz considered the act a theft.

The complete surviving organizational records of the national office and the San Francisco Chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis are available to researchers as part of the Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin Papers at the GLBT Historical Society, a nonprofit archives and research center in San Francisco.

* Martin, Del and Phyllis Lyon.

** Martin Sauer ( producer ), Kent Nagano ( conductor ), Kenn Chester, Jerry Hadley, Samuel Ramey, Cheryl Studer, & the Orchestre of Opera De Lyon & Chorus for Floyd: Susannah

In July 1960, Missiles and Rockets reported Martin N. Kaplan, Senior Research Engineer, Electronics Division, Ryan Aeronautical Company, San Diego, had conducted experiments that justified planning for a more comprehensive research program.

In the film Ocean's Thirteen, a " Billy Martin " is used as a nickname for a second chance, presumably to make amends and do the right thing before being pursued in justified retaliation.

After investigation, the Press Complaints Commission ruled that the payment was justified and in the public interest because Martin " had a unique insight into an issue of great public concern ".

After Volpe threatened a libel suit, Martin said that his initial accusation was an overstatement but maintained that his call for an investigation was justified.

Martin stated that while Wright exaggerated the certainty with which they regarded Hollis's guilt, Peter Wright was justified in saying that Hollis was the most likely candidate, for the reasons Wright had given.

The payment was justified by the BBC on the basis that Fearon was the only person who could provide specific information on what happened during the Tony Martin break-in.

In a similar way, acts of aggression will often be seen as ' reasonable, well justified, even necessary ... rationalizing their self-interest in these ways '; so that, to cite ' Martin Luther King, Jr ...." It seems to be a fact of life that human beings cannot continue to do wrong without eventually reaching out for some rationalization to clothe their act "'.

The polygamous relationship, justified by Martin as common practice among frontiersmen operating among the tribes, caused considerable consternation to General Martin's son, Col. William Martin.

The most common is Martin Waldseemüller's deriving it from Americus Vespucius, the Latinised version of Amerigo Vespucci's name, the Italian merchant and cartographer who explored South America's east coast and the Caribbean sea in the early 16th century.

The company name is derived from the name of one of the company's founders, Lionel Martin, and from the Aston Clinton Hillclimb near Aston Clinton in Buckinghamshire.

They had planned to sell this engine to motor manufacturers, but having heard that the Aston Martin car was no longer in production they realised that they could capitalise on the reputation of the Aston Martin name ( what we would now call the brand ) to give themselves a head start in the production of a completely new car.

The name Île de la Passion () was officially given to Clipperton in 1711 by French discoverers Martin de Chassiron and Michel Du Bocage, commanding the French ships La Princesse and La Découverte.

In 1507, Martin Waldseemüller produced a globular world map and a large 12-panel world wall map ( Universalis Cosmographia ) bearing the first use of the name " America ".

One of the most famous was The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) from critically acclaimed Bengali film director Satyajit Ray, whose films had a profound influence on world cinema, with directors such as Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, James Ivory, Abbas Kiarostami, Elia Kazan, François Truffaut, Steven Spielberg ,< ref name = unmaderay >

Apart from the end credits ( where he is listed as Steven Martin ), Raymond Burr's character is never referred to by his full name, only as " Mr. Martin " or simply " Martin ", for the entirety of the US version.

Some scholars, such as Martin West, claim that " Homer " is " not the name of a historical poet, but a fictitious or constructed name.

In 1851, Samuel Martin Kier began selling kerosene to local miners, under the name " Carbon Oil ".

*" Old Kinderhook ", a name applied to U. S. President Martin Van Buren

Martin Goodman founded the company later known as Marvel Comics under the name Timely Publications in 1939, publishing comic books under the imprint Timely Comics.

This version, which may have been by Martin himself, is the first to attach a name to the figure, indicating that she was known as " John Anglicus " or " John of Mainz.

When Martin IV died on 28 March 1285, at Perugia, Cardinal Savelli was unanimously elected Pope on 20 May and took the name of Honorius IV.

Without their opposition, Simon de Brion was unanimously elected to the papacy, taking the name Martin IV, on 22 February 1281.

When the second Pope to take the name Martin was elected, there was confusion over how many Popes had taken the name before.

Popes Martin IV – V were actually the second and third popes by that name.

Thus, when the new Pope in 1281 took the name Martin, he became Martin IV.

Thus, when the new Pope in 1281 took the name Martin, he became Martin IV.