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Roger Maris
Roger Maris hit 61 home runs in 1961 to break baseball's single-season record of 60, set by Babe Ruth in 1927. Maris set the new record after a spirited season-long duel with fellow New York Yankee…Mary Wollstonecraft
English author Mary Wollstonecraft is the author of 1792's A Vindication for the Rights of Woman, one of the earliest treatises to advocate equal rights for women. She began publishing in the late…Mary Lincoln
Mary Todd Lincoln was the wife of President Abraham Lincoln and the First Lady of the United States from 1861 until her husband's assassination in 1865. Born into a prosperous family in Kentucky,…Mary Shelley
Name at birth: Mary Wollstonecraft GodwinEnglish author Mary Godwin Shelley wrote Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus and was second wife of the great poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary Godwin was…Marie Stopes
Marie Stopes was a palaeobotanist who became the United Kingdom's greatest advocate for birth control after the 1918 publication of her book Married Love. Trained in biology and geology, she had her…Mary Rowlandson
Name at birth: Mary WhiteMary Rowlandson was an English colonist in Massachusetts when she was captured by warring natives and held for eleven weeks in 1676, an experience she recounted in her book,…Mary Leakey
Mary Leakey was one of the most famous names in archaeology in the 20th century. In 1978 she discovered fossilized footprints in volcanic ash that proved humans were walking on two feet 3.6 million…Mary Pickford
Name at birth: Gladys Louise SmithSilent film star Mary Pickford was once the biggest movie star in the world, a diminutive blond known at the time as “America’s Sweetheart.” Pickford was also a…Mary, the mother of Jesus
(Encyclopedia) Mary, in the Bible, mother of Jesus. Christian tradition reckons her the principal saint, naming her variously the Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Lady, and Mother of God (Gr., theotokos).…Mary of Guise
(Encyclopedia) Mary of GuiseMary of Guisegēz [key], 1515–60, queen consort of James V of Scotland and regent for her daughter, Mary Queen of Scots. The daughter of Claude de Lorraine, duc de Guise,…Trending
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