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Mary Henrietta Kingsley (13 October 1862 – 3 June 1900) was an English ethnographer, writer and explorer who made numerous travels through West Africa and wrote several books on her experiences there.
Johnnetta Betsch was born in Jacksonville, Florida, [3] on October 19, 1936. [4] Her family belonged to the African-American upper class; She was a granddaughter of Abraham Lincoln Lewis, Florida's first black millionaire, entrepreneur and cofounder of the Afro-American Industrial and Benefit Association, [5] and Mary Kingsley Sammis.
Berke was a resident at Kingsley Hall, where he helped Mary Barnes, a nurse who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, emerge from madness. [2] Barnes later became an artist and writer. A stage play based on the book that Berke and Barnes wrote together ( Mary Barnes: Two Accounts of a Journey Through Madness ) was adapted as a stage play by ...
The Mary Kingsley Medal was instituted by LSTM co-founder John Holt in 1903 and is awarded for outstanding contributions in the field of tropical medicine. It is named in honour Mary Kingsley , a noted traveller and writer of the late 19th century, who had a powerful influence on the way Africa was perceived at the time, and who died in South ...
Joseph Martin II is the son of Dr. Joseph Martin and Ruth Martin, the half-brother of Bobby, Jeff, Tara Martin and brother of the adopted Thaddeus ("Tad") Gardner Martin. Formerly married to Emily Ann Sago and Gillian Andrassy , he had a romance with Greenlee Smythe, moved to Africa and married Cara Castillo (who left him).
The Physician (German: Der Medicus) is a 2013 German historical drama film based on the novel of the same name by Noah Gordon. [3] The film, co-written and directed by Philipp Stölzl, focuses on an orphan from an 11th-century English town whose mother died of side sickness.
It stars Ben Kingsley, Josh Peck, Famke Janssen, Olivia Thirlby, Mary-Kate Olsen, and Method Man. It revolves around a troubled teenage drug dealer who trades pot for therapy sessions with a drug-addled psychiatrist. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2008, where it won the Audience Award: Dramatic.
Alice Maud Arncliffe Sennett also known with the stage name of Mary Kingsley (born Alice Maud Mary Sparagnapane; 4 February 1862 – 15 September 1936) was an English actress and suffragist and a suffragette, arrested four times for her activism.