Throughout the course of their career this experimental sound and occasionally unconventional recording techniques has allowed the band to work with a number of diverse artists including Elliott Smith, Beck, Solomon Burke, Steve Albini, Martina Topley-Bird and Ad Rock of the Beastie Boys.

Martina Franko, a Canadian women's national soccer team player and a member of the Canadian Olympic team that competed in Beijing 2008, joined Quest as the varsity women's soccer head coach in January 2008.

The Chief Executive of the Prince's Trust is Martina Milburn who joined the organisation in 2004.

With Martina Hingis as her partner, she won Grand Slam titles in Australia in 1999 and 2002.

Even more unusually, however, many of the solo songs on Maxinquaye featured little of Tricky's own voice: his then-lover, Martina Topley-Bird, sang them, including her reimagining of Public Enemy's militant 1988 rap " Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos ", while other songs were male-female duets dealing with sex and love in oblique ways, over beds of sometimes dissonant samples.

Martina was only fifteen years old, but her ' honey-coated vox ' impressed them and they recorded a song called " Aftermath " ( though The Face ' 95 mentions that the first song they recorded together was called " Shoebox ").

Martina intended to balance this setback with the coronation of her younger son the Caesar David ( Tiberios ) as emperor.

Upon Gabriéla's death in 1851, it was inherited by her daughter, Martina Castro de Alvarado, wife of Juan Bautista Alvarado, who was Governor of California from 1836 to 1842.

In July 2002 Chung interviewed tennis legend Martina Navratilova, who at that point had been a naturalized U. S. citizen for more than 20 years, about her recent criticisms of the U. S. political system.

She won 107 singles titles, which ranks her third on the WTA's all-time list after Martina Navratilova ( 167 titles ) and Chris Evert ( 157 titles ).

In Berlin, she extended her unbeaten streak to 66 matches ( second in WTA history to Martina Navratilova's 74 ) before losing the final to Monica Seles, 6 – 4, 6 – 3.

It took some time, however, for Graf to separate herself from her challengers, with four losses in her first six tournaments of the year: two to Arantxa Sánchez Vicario and one each to Seles and the 36 year-old Martina Navratilova.

Graf also won her fifth and final Chase Championships title with a five set win over Martina Hingis.

During her debut at the US Open, she lost the final to Martina Hingis after defeating Irina Spîrlea in a semifinal famous for " the bump " in which Spîrlea intentionally collided with Williams during a changeover.

She won her first Grand Slam singles title at Wimbledon, defeating World No. 1 Martina Hingis in the quarterfinals, sister Serena in the semifinals, and defending champion Lindsay Davenport in the final.

* 18 year old Martina Navratilova of Czechoslovakia announces her defection to the United States of America

Martina then took the name of her stepfather ( adding the feminine suffix " ová "), thus becoming Martina Navrátilová ().

During her career versus selected rivals, Evert was: 40 – 6 against Virginia Wade, 37 – 43 against Martina Navratilova, 26 – 13 against Evonne Goolagong Cawley, 24 – 0 against Virginia Ruzici, 23 – 1 against Sue Barker, 22 – 0 against Betty Stöve, 22 – 1 against Rosemary Casals, 21 – 7 against Hana Mandlíková, 20 – 1 against Wendy Turnbull, 19 – 7 against Billie Jean King ( winning the last 11 matches with a loss of only 2 sets ), 19 – 3 against Pam Shriver, 18 – 2 against Kerry Melville Reid, 17 – 2 against Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere, 17 – 2 against Helena Suková, 17 – 3 against Andrea Jaeger, 16 – 3 against Dianne Fromholtz Balestrat, 15 – 0 against Olga Morozova, 13 – 0 against Françoise Durr, 9 – 4 against Margaret Court, 8 – 9 against Tracy Austin, 7 – 0 against Mary Joe Fernandez, 6 – 3 against Gabriela Sabatini, 6 – 5 against Nancy Richey Gunter ( winning the last 6 matches ), 6 – 8 against Steffi Graf ( losing the last 8 matches ), and 2 – 1 against Monica Seles.

A rumor that Martina had him poisoned led first to the imposition of Constans II as co-emperor and then to the deposition, mutilation, and banishment of Martina and her sons.

But for Novotná ( seeded 8th ) to capture the title, her path would have to go thru Sabatini ( seeded 4th ), Martina Navratilova ( seeded 2nd ) and top-seeded Steffi Graf.

The final set proved to be a mirror image of the 2nd set, as Martina prevailed 6-3, handing Novotná her second loss in a Wimbledon Championship match.

At the 2001 Australian Open, the reinvigorated Capriati became the lowest seed to ever win the championship when she defeated Martina Hingis ( ranked number one in the world at the time ) in straight sets for her first Grand Slam championship.

Capriati made her professional debut as a 13 year old, reaching the finals of two of her first three pro events, losing to Gabriela Sabatini and Martina Navratilova at Boca Raton and Hilton Head, respectively, earning her first two wins over top ten players ( No. 10 Helena Suková and No. 5.

In 1806, a Roman hexagonal altar dedicated to Claudia Martina by her husband, now in the Guildhall, was found here together with a statue of Hercules.

The " winner " of this challenge eventually located a direct connection to Martina through her husband John McBride who knew someone, who knew someone else.

With his share of the profits, he built a combination residence / workshop / hotel on the Mission plaza and married Carmel ( Carmelita ) Castro Lodge ( 1827 – 1923 ), daughter of local landowner Martina Cota Castro ( 1807 – 1890 ) and her husband Michael Lodge, owners of Rancho Soquel.

Robert Graves, in his historical novel I, Claudius, blames the death of Germanicus on Plancina, the wife of Piso, who engaged a witch named Martina to haunt Germanicus ' household.

Then Forman married Martina Zbořilová on November 28, 1999.

Martina McBride and Connie Smith dueted on Smith's signature hit " Once a Day ," and other collaborations included Dierks Bentley and Del McCoury (" Roll On Buddy, Roll On "), Josh Turner and Lorrie Morgan (" Golden Ring "), and Montgomery Gentry and Charlie Daniels Band (" Devil Went Down To Georgia "), among others.

The other new tracks on the EP were revealed to be Tunde Adebimpe's " Pray For Rain ", Martina Topley-Bird's " Psyche " and Guy Garvey's " Bulletproof Love ".

For the week ending December 23, 2006, the Dean Martin and Martina McBride duet of " Baby, It's Cold Outside " reached # 7 on the R & R AC chart.

Billie Jean King said in 1999, " Steffi is definitely the greatest women's tennis player of all time ," although on other occasions King has said that Martina Navratilova holds that title.

Her total of 15 Grand Slam singles titles is sixth on the all-time list, and fourth in the open era, behind Steffi Graf ( 22 titles ) and Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova ( 18 titles each ).

* Paperinik, a superhero alter-ego of Donald Duck created by Guido Martina and Giovan Battista Carpi in 1969, is partly based on Fantômas.

NSEERS was probed in the documentary film " Aliens Among Us " by Martina Radwan, for the devastating affect it had on immigrant families of Arab origin.

A new rival to Evert's dominance emerged on the scene in the later part of the 1970s in the form of Martina Navratilova.

His supporters feared action against him on the part of Martina and Heraklonas, and the treasurer Philagrius advised him to write to the army, informing them that he was dying and asking for their assistance in protecting the rights of his children.

Nearby, in its former streambed, a small square hammered lead sheet was found, on which an enemy of someone named Martia Martina had inscribed her name backwards and thrown the token into the stream, in a traditional Celtic way of reaching the gods that has preserved metal tokens in rivers throughout Celtic Europe, from the swords at La Tène to Roman times.

At a cryogenic research institute in London, funded by the pharmaceuticals tycoon Martina Masdon ( played by Diane Ladd ), a group of scientists led by Dr. Emma Porlock ( Frances de la Tour ) is working on reviving the mind of the 20th century writer Daniel Feeld ( Albert Finney ), whose head was frozen after Feeld's death at the end of " Karaoke ".

In 2005, she performed on the Grand Ole Opry with Country singer, Martina McBride, performing a duet version of "( I Never Promised You A ) Rose Garden ".

The album also included four new songs, all of which made top ten on the country music charts between 2001 and 2003: " When God-Fearin ' Women Get the Blues ", " Blessed ( Martina McBride song )" ( her fifth number one ), " Where Would You Be " and " Concrete Angel ".

In July 2007, The ABC Television Network announced a special program called Six Degrees of Martina McBride where individuals from around the country were challenged to find their way to Martina McBride on their own connections and research using a maximum of six methods.

A compilation collection entitled Playlist: The Very Best of Martina McBride was released on December 16, 2008 as part of Sony BMG Playlist series.

At the Australian Open, Petrova was seeded 6th and defeated Sophie Ferguson, Martina Müller, Maria Elena Camerin and Elena Vesnina on her way to her first quarterfinal at the Australian Open.

* Valentine, a song by Martina McBride on the album Evolution

During the course of the quarterfinals, which took place on the same day, Martina competed in the first heat against seven other athletes.