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Muggie Maggie is a book written by Beverly Cleary that was published in the year 1990 revolving around the experiences of eight-year-old Maggie Schultz, and her refusal to learn cursive writing. It has been illustrated by Kay Life, Tracy Dockray, and Alan Tiegreen, and published as audiobooks narrated by Kate Forbes and Kathleen McInerney. It ...
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This is a list of nickname-related list articles on Wikipedia. A nickname is "a familiar or humorous name given to a person or thing instead of or as well as the real name." [ 1 ] A nickname is often considered desirable, symbolising a form of acceptance, but can sometimes be a form of ridicule.
In U.S. culture, despite its republican constitution and ideology, [4] royalist honorific nicknames have been used to describe leading figures in various areas of activity, such as industry, commerce, sports, and the media; father or mother have been used for innovators, and royal titles such as king and queen for dominant figures in a field.
The song is also considered as a standard of dixieland. [8] [9] The song was used by Seán O'Casey in his 1926 play The Plough and the Stars, but the name "Maggie" was changed to "Nora" because the character, Jack Clitheroe, was singing it to his wife Nora. [10] Johnny McEvoy recorded it as "Nora" in 1968 and had a number one hit in Ireland.
Maggie Haskins has been added as a partner at management and production company Artists First. Haskins began at Artists First as an intern 12 years ago. Since then, she has become an essential arm ...
Maggie, nickname for Margaret Thatcher, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990; Maggie, Australian magpie in Australian English; Maggie's, Scottish charity which runs Maggie's Centres; Maggie the Monkey (born 1991), a macaque at the Bowmanville Zoo; Maggie (astronomy), cloud of hydrogen gas located in our (Milky Way) galaxy
Some of the most notable nicknames and stage names are listed here. Although the term Jazz royalty exists for "Kings" and similar royal or aristocratic nicknames, there is a wide range of other terms, many of them obscure. Where the origin of the nickname is known, this is explained at each artist's corresponding article.