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3 unusual facts about Maggie's Centres


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It is increasingly integrated with the surrounding community and is now also home to other facilities, including day cares, a Maggie's Centres'style facility and urban gardens.

Maggie's Centres

Like her husband, architectural writer and critic Charles Jencks, she believed in the ability of buildings to uplift people.

Completed in 2011 Piers Gough's imaginative and bold building for Nottingham's Maggies offers a " light, peaceful and non-institutional design (to) be a sanctuary for all those who walk through the door.


Aisling O'Sullivan

In 2011 and 2012, she toured Ireland again with Druid, playing the titular character in Big Maggie by John B. Keane and was consequently nominated for Best Actress in the Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards.

Albert D. Nortoni

Nortoni married twice, first in 1892 to Maggie Lina of Bevier, Missouri, and again in 1906 to Emma Belcher of Boone County, Missouri.

Alec Devon Kreider

The victims, Thomas Alan Haines (age 50), an industrial-supplies salesman, Lisa Ann Haines (age 47), a preschool teacher, and their son Kevin, a high school sophomore, were found on May 12 at their house in Manheim Township after their daughter Maggie, a student at Bucknell University, was awakened by a noise in the middle of the night, "smelled blood", and was told by her mother to go for assistance.

Benjamin Farjeon

Farjeon married Margaret Jane "Maggie" Jefferson, daughter of the American actor Joseph Jefferson, on 6 June 1877.

Carol Peletier

Sophia is left in a catatonic state as the news reaches her, and has since attempted to repress all memories of Carol by pretending that Maggie and Glenn are her biological parents.

Charles K. Harris

From his early fascination with the banjo, he wrote his first song "Since Maggie Learned To Skate" for the play The Skating Rink by Nat Goodwin in 1885.

Elisha Kane

In 1852, Kane met the Fox sisters, famous for their supposed powers as mediums, and became enamored with the middle sister, Margaret (Maggie).

Funny Face

Maggie Prescott (Kay Thompson) is a fashion magazine publisher and editor, for Quality magazine, who is looking for the next big fashion trend.

Thompson, who usually worked behind the scenes as a musical director for films, makes a rare appearance on camera as Maggie Prescott, a fashion magazine editor loosely based on Diana Vreeland.

Gallery 37

Gallery 37 is a job training program and was created in 1991 by Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs' Lois Weisberg and Maggie Daley, wife of the city's former mayor, Richard M. Daley.

Gallus Mag

A composite female street gangster character of "Hell-Cat Maggie" in the Martin Scorsese film Gangs of New York, played by Cara Seymour, is based on Mag, Sadie the Goat, and the real-life Hellcat Maggie.

Hangin' In

In the show's final season, Cadeau left the series and was replaced by Fiona Reid as Maggie.

Hell-Cat Maggie

A composite character based on Hell-Cat Maggie, Sadie the Goat and Gallus Mag was played by Cara Seymour in the 2002 film adaptation of Herbert Asbury's Gangs of New York directed by Martin Scorsese.

Howie Gordon

Howie eventually had to choose between two friendship members in terms of who won the prize money, and he voted for Maggie, telling her of his regret that he had to choose between America's two most hated houseguests, instead of their two favourites - his friends Janelle Pierzina and Kaysar Ridha.

Inveraray

The Inverarary Maritime Heritage Museum is based on the iron sailing ship Arctic Penguin, moored at the pier, along with the Clyde puffers VIC 72, Eilean Eisdeal, renamed Vital Spark, and VIC27 Auld Reekie, renamed Maggie.

J. K. Annand

Born at Edinburgh to plumber William Annand and his wife Maggie Gold, educated at Broughton Secondary School, he graduated from Edinburgh University in 1930 and later taught at schools in Edinburgh and Whithorn.

Jennifer Falls

The series follows Jennifer Doyle (Jaime Pressly), a single mother who, after losing her high salary job, has to move back in with her mother, Maggie (Jessica Walter).

Joan Sydney

She remains remains best known for her long-running Logie Award winning television role between 1983-1990 as Margaret "Maggie" Sloan', the matron and patriarch of the fictional Wandin Valley Bush Nursing Hospital, in A Country Practice on the Seven Network.

Joel Crothers

From 1966-1969, he played Joe Haskell, boyfriend of Carolyn Stoddard (Nancy Barrett) and later boyfriend of Maggie Evans (Kathryn Leigh Scott).

Josetxu Obregón

Selected this season as principal cellist of the European Union Baroque Orchestra, he has played under Lars Ulrich Mortensen (Concerto Copenhagen), Cristina Pluhar (L'Arpeggiata) and Maggie Faultless with great success, also appearing as soloist of Vivaldi concerto for 2 cellos in concerts in 13 countries.

Let's Start a War

Let's Start a War, or Let's Start a War... (Said Maggie One Day), is the third album by the punk band The Exploited, released in 1983 through Pax Records.

Luis Alejo

He received his Juris Doctorate (JD) from the University of California, Davis School of Law (King Hall), where he won the “Maggie Schelen” scholarship for public service.

Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile

In the second season episode "Unintended Consequences," written by series creator Aaron Sorkin, producer Maggie Jordan (portrayed by Alison Pill) reads the story many times to Daniel, a young Ugandan boy (portrayed by Demoze Talbot) in a remote orphanage while on assignment.

Maggie Blue O'Hara

Maggie Blue has appeared in many television series and TV movies produced in Vancouver, including X-Files, Da Vinci's Inquest, Hope Island, Neon Rider and three years as a regular on the CBC TV series Northwood.

In Hong Kong, Maggie provides voices for name-brand electronic toys such as VTech, and cartoon series such as Hello Kitty and Friends.

Maggie Butt

It tells the story of the internees through black and white photographs, the paintings of internee George Kenner, extracts from memoirs and letters, and Maggie Butt's own poems.

Maggie dela Riva

Maggie was homeward bound (No. 48, 12th Street, New Manila, Quezon City) from the ABS-CBN Studio on Roxas Boulevard, Pasay City, driving her bantam car with her maid Helen Calderon, when the 4 accused, using a Pontiac 2-door convertible car, waylaid her.

Maggie Flynn

Maggie Flynn is a musical with a book by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, and George David Weiss (in collaboration with Morton DaCosta) and music and lyrics by Peretti, Creatore, and Weiss.

Maggie Greene

Talking Dead refers to Maggie as Glenn's wife at this point.

Maggie Hall

Maggie Hall (December 26, 1853 - January 17, 1888) was a prostitute originally from Dublin, Ireland in early Murray, Idaho history.

Maggie Millar

Maggie Millar (born 6 January 1941) is an Australian actress, who trained in England she has appeared in Pantomine and Theatre and is best known for her many TV appearances like Bellbird, Matlock Police, Homicide and A Country Practice.

Margaret Burke Sheridan

Born in Castlebar, Co Mayo, Ireland, she was known as Maggie from Mayo and is regarded as Ireland's second prima donna (after Catherine Hayes (1818-1861)).

Mark Zaslove

In 1998, Palisades Films optioned feature rights to Zaslove's script Sincerely Maggie based on the life of singer/songwriter Maggie Louie but the film was never produced.

Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

They have two granddaughters, Ramona (b. 2006) and Gloria (b. 2012), born to Maggie Gyllenhaal and husband Peter Sarsgaard.

Old Man of Stoer

In the Channel 4 television programme Hidden Talent, 45 year-old Maggie Reenan climbed the stack after 18 days of intensive training, after her natural aptitude for climbing was discovered.

Shauna Cross

Cross herself was involved in the early days of the TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls league, Cross skated under the pseudonym "Maggie Mayhem" in the Los Angeles Derby Dolls team.

Shirley Washington

She appeared in two episodes of Mission Impossible playing a Stewardess in the 1970 TV episode Flight and as a Travel Agent in the 1972 TV episode The Puppet and as Maggie in a Wonder Woman TV episode, Chinese Puzzle.

Susan Scarf Merrell

She is the daughter of best-selling journalist Maggie Scarf and economist Herbert Scarf, and the sister of Martha Samuelson.

Teeth 'n' Smiles

In a 1979 production in the USA, Maggie was played by Ellen Greene.

Helen Mirren's interpretation of Maggie was based on Janis Joplin.

The Lincoln Lawyer

A film adaptation, starring Matthew McConaughey as Haller and Marisa Tomei as Maggie McPherson, was released on March 18, 2011.

The Simpsons Arcade Game

As the Simpson Family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, take a stroll through town, they encounter a jewellery store being robbed by Waylon Smithers, who bumps into Homer, leading a precious diamond he stole to land in Maggie's mouth.

The game allows up to four players to control members of the Simpson family, as they fight various enemies in order to rescue the kidnapped Maggie.

Theatre Passe Muraille

Other notable productions produced at Passe Muraille include O.D. on Paradise and Maggie and Pierre by Linda Griffiths; Fire by David Young and Paul Ledoux; The Stone Angel, James Nichol's adaptation of the novel by Margaret Laurence; Judith Thompson's The Crackwalker; and Lilies by Quebec playwright Michel Marc Bouchard.

Valemont

The show follows Maggie Gracen (Kristen Hager), who after visiting the morgue to help identify the supposed burnt body of her brother Eric (Eric Balfour), decides to infiltrate Valemont University, an exclusive, historic and secretive college in rural Massachusetts from where some of the world’s greatest leaders have graduated, that her brother attended before disappearing mysteriously.

Welcome to the Tombs

Glenn (Steven Yeun) and Maggie (Lauren Cohan) offer to help guard the prison in case The Governor returns, while Rick decides to finish off The Governor's forces at Woodbury and gives chase, accompanied by Michonne and Daryl.


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