These attract bees, hence the genus name Melissa ( Greek for ' honey bee ').

Another example is the TV movie Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, which launched the TV show of the same name, and used the same actress Melissa Joan Hart for the lead role in both.

" Melissa " is the name of a skull King Diamond used to carry on stage, and also a fictional deceased witch that appears in three songs.

Splendor in the Grass was re-made as a 1981 television film of the same name with Melissa Gilbert, Cyril O ' Reilly, and Michelle Pfeiffer.

Then fighting under her married name of Melissa Salamone, Del Valle won the New York state Golden Gloves title at 132 pounds in both 1996 and 1997.

Her maternal grandparents were Lebanese ; her middle name means little friend in Arabic ( rhyming with Lisa, rather than Melissa ).

On January 1, 2008, the YCJA's Privacy clause was tested when several users of the Internet social networking site Facebook posted the identities of murdered Toronto teenager Stefanie Rengel and her killers ( Melissa Todorovic and David Bagshaw ) in defiance of both the publication ban and the fact that the police had not yet received the consent of Rengel's family to release her name to the media.

IANA is a professional musical theatre company whose past performers have included Melissa O ' Neil ( Canadian Idol ), David Light ( Billy Elliot: National Tour ), and Loretta Bailey ( Original Canadian Cast of Les Mis ) to name a few.

He got engaged to Melissa, but she left him at the altar and left town when she realized he was cheating on her and using her to help clean up his name to further his political career.

30 Days of Night has been adapted into a film of the same name in 2007, starring Josh Hartnett and Melissa George, directed by David Slade and produced by Spider-Man director Sam Raimi.

Lissa is also a female given name, often foreshortened from Melissa.

The same thing happened to Melissa Duck who in now-aired The Looney Tunes Show has got the name of Tina Russo Duck.

Melissa is a given name for a female, meaning " honey bee " in Greek.

* Melissa Gallo, now uses the name Melissa Fumero

Phillips was a member in three influential area bands in the mid-eighties: the punk band Meat Joy ( with Jamie Lee Hendrix, Melissa Cobb Unit, John Hawkes-under the name John Boy Perkins, and Tim Pierre Mateer ), the rock band Girls in the Nose ( with Pam Barger, Kay Turner, Joanna Labow, and Darcee Douglas ), and the country / disco / rock / folk / pop band Two Nice Girls ( with Pam Barger, Laurie Freelove, Meg Hentges, and Kathy Korniloff ).

After the die-cast Binaltech and Binaltech Asterisk lines themselves were put on hold, the figure was re-solicited as part of Takara's new all-plastic Kiss Players line, restoring the Convoy name and partnered with the " Melissa " gashapon figure developed for the black Binaltech Asterisk redeco.

Melissa Duck first officially appeared by name in adult form in the original Looney Tunes short Chuck Jones ' The Scarlet Pumpernickel ( 1950 ) which was, in 1994, voted number 31 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field.

The girlfriend's design in this cartoon is markedly more stylized than Melissa's appearance in The Scarlet Pumpernickel, but a contemporary comics adaptation of Muscle Tussle carried the name Melissa on to this new design as well.

Her name was changed to Melissa Jordan after her stepfather's name ; she subsequently changed it to Stella Vine in 1995, inspired by Andy Warhol names, as " I didn't feel like I belonged to either of my fathers ' families.

" Melissa " was the name of a skull the band was using at the time in their shows, and it is possible that the skull on the cover of the album is a reference to this.

Using the ring name Mile High Melissa, Coates adopted a flight attendant gimmick and joined " Captain " Mike Flyte, with the pair collectively known as The Flight Crew.

With her newly-transformed powers, she resumed the use of her given name Melissa, and adopted the identity of Songbird as a member of the Thunderbolts, a new Masters of Evil group posing as superheroes to win the world's trust while secretly plotting world conquest under Zemo's direction.

The child, a girl, was put up for adoption and given the name Melissa Lewis.

That girl last night, what was her name??

For a blood-chilling ring of terror to the very sound of his name was the tool he needed for the job he'd promised to do.

No man's name brought more cheers when it was announced in a rodeo.

My lovely caller -- Joyce Holland was her name -- had previously done three filmed commercials for zing, and this evening, the fourth, a super production, had been filmed at the home of Louis Thor.

Her name was L'Turu and she told me many things.

Bill Doolin's ambition, it appeared, was to carve out his name with bullets alongside those of Jesse James and Billy the Kid, and Bill Tilghman had sworn he would stop him.

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

Neither was Henrietta hoydenish like Jo, who frankly wished she were a boy and had deliberately shortened her name, which, like Henrietta's, was the feminine form of a boy's name.

But neither was Lilian her baptismal name.

Though she did not then know its name, this strange new fruit was a banana.

It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that many of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions -- together with his grim posture when brandishing the hatchet in the name of Mr. Hearst -- were keyed with the tragedy which was to close over him one day.

An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that inside the envelope was a name for Mrs. Coolidge's first granddaughter.

The name inside the envelope was `` Cynthia ''.

Her name was Esther Peter.

Pike was stunned by the first blast against his character, which was published in the March 4th issue of The Gazette under the name `` Vale ''.

Under Fosdick the first executive officer of the CTCA was Richard Byrd, whose name in later years was to become synonymous with activities at the polar antipodes.

I had had my name taken out of the telephone book, and this was partly because of a convict who had been discharged from Sing Sing and who called me night after night.