Nin appeared in the Kenneth Anger film Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome ( 1954 ) as Astarte ; in the Maya Deren film Ritual in Transfigured Time ( 1946 ); and in Bells of Atlantis ( 1952 ), a film directed by Guiler under the name " Ian Hugo " with a soundtrack of electronic music by Louis and Bebe Barron.

The next day he took part in Poetry And The Film, a recorded symposium at Cinema 16, with panellists Amos Vogel, Arthur Miller, Maya Deren, Parker Tyler, and Willard Maas.

* Deren, Maya.

** Maya Deren, Russian-born filmmaker ( b. 1917 )

Meshes of the Afternoon ( 1943 ) is a short experimental film directed by wife-and-husband team, Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid.

Directors Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid portrayed the role of the woman and the man.

" — Maya Deren on Meshes of the Afternoon, from DVD release Maya Deren: Experimental Films 1943 – 58.

: Maya Deren was a key figure in the development of the New American Cinema.

Maya Deren.

It follows a woman, played by Maya Deren, who walks to her friends house in Los Angeles, falls asleep and has a dream.

" Maya Deren washes up on the shore of the beach, and climbs up a piece of driftwood that leads to a room lit by chandeliers, and one long table filled with business men smoking in suits.

When Maya Deren decided to make an ethnographic film in Haiti, she was criticized for abandoning avant-garde film where she had made her place, but she was ready to expand to a new level as an artist.

All of the original wire recordings, photographs and notes are held in the Maya Deren Collection at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.

Maya Deren had a passionate sense of social commitment and moral purpose that distinguished her from the less favorable values of the entertainment industry ; from the indifferent, ironic attitudes of her surrealist and dada predecessors ; from the cool, hip attitudes of her Beat successors ; from the passive aesthetic of stylized filmmakers ; and from the pretentious attitudes of contemporary film theorists.

In 1986, the American Film Institute created the Maya Deren Award to honor independent filmmakers.

The Legend of Maya Deren, Vol.

* In 1987, Jo Ann Kaplan directed a biographical documentary about Deren, titled Invocation: Maya Deren ( 65 min )

* In 2002, Martina Kudlacek directed a feature-length documentary about Deren, titled In the Mirror of Maya Deren ( Im Spiegel der Maya Deren ), which featured music by John Zorn.

Malinalli was introduced to the Spanish in April 1519, when she was among twenty slave women given by the Chontal Maya of Potonchan ( in the present-day state of Tabasco ) after the Spaniards defeated them in battle.

The Maya returned, however, and in April 1870, Canul and his men marched into Corozal and occupied the town.

Maya Angelou (; born Marguerite Ann Johnson ; April 4, 1928 ) is an American author and poet.

Although the war had been declared over many times before in previous decades, records show that the last time the Mexican army considered it necessary to take by force one of the area's villages which had never recognized Mexican law was in April 1933, when five Maya and two Mexican soldiers died in the battle for the village of Dzula – the last skirmish of a conflict lasting over 85 years.

The couple have two children, Mason Tru ( born July 21, 1999 ) and Maya Rose ( born April 14, 2002 ).

Jessica and her husband David Tomaszewski have two daughters, Maya, born in April 2001 and Vivian, born in April 2003.

* Maya & Miguel: Cinco de Maya ( April 18, 2006 )

On April 8, 2012, in Pax East 2012, they presented the four new characters in Borderlands 2: Maya, Salvador, Zer0, and Axton.

* Maya Jaggi, " Bitter crumbs and sour milk-a nation betrayed " ( profile of Nuruddin Farah ), The Guardian, 18 April 1993.

From April to June 2008 he filmed Away We Go, directed by Sam Mendes and co-starring Maya Rudolph.

*" Lost King of the Maya ", Nova, PBS series, accessed April 8, 2006

Linda Schele ( 30 October 1942 – 18 April 1998 ) was an expert in the field of Maya epigraphy and iconography.

* Maya Balakirsky Katz, “ An Occupational Neurosis: A Psychoanalytic Case History of a Rabbi ,” AJS Review 34. 1 ( April 2010 ): 1-31.

*: In April 1999, Maya Jakic's body was found covered under leaves and hidden in bushes out the front of an unused police patrol station in Adelaide, South Australia.

* Mark Rust: Murdered Maya Javic in April 1999 near Adelaide and Japanese student Megumi Suzuki in 2001.

* Katz, Maya Balakirsky, " Trademarks of Faith: " Chabad and Chanukah in America "," Modern Judaism, 29, 2 ( 2009 ), 239-267.

As an associate in charge of archaeological investigations ( 1927 – 29 ) and as chairman of the division of historical research ( 1929 – 50 ) at the Carnegie Institution, Kidder conducted a broad-scale multidisciplinary research program in Kaminaljuyu in the Guatemalan highlands which established the framework of Maya stratigraphy.

Teoberto Maler or Teobert Maler ( 12 January 1842 – 22 November 1917 ) was an explorer who devoted his energies to documenting the ruins of the Maya civilization.

This mirrored a general growth of interest in poetry by African Americans including Gwendolyn Brooks ( born in 1917 ), Maya Angelou ( born in 1928 ), Ishmael Reed ( born in 1938 ), Vim Karénin, Nikki Giovanni ( born in 1943 ), and Detrick Hughes ( born in 1966 ).

* Many films by Maya Deren ( 1917 – 1961 )

* 1981 – Maya Dunietz, Israeli pianist, singer and composer

* 1976 – Maya Nasri, Lebanese actress and singer

* 2007 – Hurricane Dean makes its first landfall in Costa Maya, Mexico with winds at.

* 1524 – The Kaqchikel Maya rebel against their former Spanish allies during the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.

An early Classic ( 460 – 480 AD ) period Mayan tomb from the site of Rio Azul, Guatemala, had vessels with the Maya glyph for cacao on them with residue of a chocolate drink.

The Guatemalan region of Mesoamerica was dominated by the Maya civilization ( 2, 000 BC – AD 250 ), before the Spanish arrived in the 16th century ; although most of the great, Classic-era ( AD 250 – 900 ) Maya cities of the Petén Basin region, in the northern lowlands of Guatemala, had been abandoned by the year AD 1, 000 ; however, the states in the Guatemalan central highlands, flourished until the arrival of Pedro de Alvarado, the Spanish Conquistador who began subjugating the Indian states of Guatemala in 1525.

* 1693 – Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Mexico.

* 1979 – Maya Nasser, Syrian journalist ( d. 2012 )

* 1972 – Maya Rudolph, American actress, singer, and screenwriter

* 1562 – Fray Diego de Landa, acting Bishop of Yucatán, burns the sacred books of the Maya.

incomplete list – for further information, see Maya civilization

* Chichen Itza – This ancient place of pilgrimage is still the most visited Maya ruin.

* Calakmul – One of two " superpowers " in the classic Maya period.

* Naachtun – Rediscovered in 1922, it remains one of the most remote and least visited Maya sites.

Cortés took Marina to quash a rebellion in Honduras in 1524 – 26 when she is seen serving again as interpreter ( suggestive of a knowledge of Maya dialects beyond Chontal and Yucatán.

* 1975 – Maya Kulenovic, Canadian painter

* 1981 – A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously selects Maya Ying Lin's design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial from 1, 421 other entries.

* 1925 – Maya Plisetskaya, Russian ballet dancer

* Yaxchilan Lintel 24 – Ancient carving showing a Maya bloodletting ritual involving a rope with obsidian shards.

* 3114 BC – According to the proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started.

* September 1 – A group of Icaiche Maya under Marcos Canul attack Orange Walk Town in British Honduras ; the British send troops against them.

* May 6 – A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously selects Maya Lin's design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial from 1, 421 other entries.