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Elisha Kent Kane (February 3, 1820 – February 16, 1857) was a United States Navy medical officer and Arctic explorer. He served as assistant surgeon during Caleb Cushing's journey to China to negotiate the Treaty of Wangxia and in the Africa Squadron.
Margaretta Tuttle was born in Cleveland, the daughter of lawyer and newspaper editor George Perkins (1847–1895) and Gertrude Withers Perkins (1853–1889) of Cincinnati. Margaretta's father committed suicide by poison, leaving a note complaining of ill health. [5] She was educated at the University of Cincinnati.
Margaretta is a feminine given name. It derives from Latin , where it came from the Greek word margaritari (μαργαριτάρι), meaning pearl, which was borrowed from the Persians. [ 1 ] It is cognate with Margaret , Marguerite , and Margarita .
Mephistopheles and Margaretta is a 19th-century wooden double sculpture featuring two images carved on opposite sides; it portrays two characters from German playwright Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1808 play Faust. The obverse depicts the demon Mephistopheles, and the reverse depicts a woman, Margaretta (Margaret, or Gretchen). A mirror placed ...
Mary Margaretta Fryer Manning (1844–1928) was an American social leader with wide experience in business, social, and philanthropic areas. [1] During the years that her husband, Daniel Manning, held the portfolio of the United States Secretary of the Treasury, their home in Washington, D.C. became a center of social and political affairs in Washington.
Margaretta Mary Winifred Scott [1] (13 February 1912 – 15 April 2005) was an English stage, screen and television actress whose career spanned over seventy years. [2] She is best remembered for playing the eccentric widow Mrs. Pumphrey in the BBC television series All Creatures Great and Small (1978–1990).
Polar the Titanic Bear is a children's book written by Margaretta "Daisy" Corning Spedden (née Stone) (19 November 1871 – 10 February 1950) and released in 1994. Spedden was an American heiress who survived the 1912 sinking of the Titanic, and her account of her family's trip and the eventual disaster, written as a tale to amuse her seven-year-old son, was published about 45 years after her ...
Portrait of Margarita is a 1968 children's book written by Ruth M. Arthur, illustrated by Margery Gill and published by Atheneum Books.The book - set in Oxfordshire and Lake Garda - tells the story of a young woman who loses her parents in a tragic accident, and in rebuilding her life finds resolution for her racial identity.