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unusual facts about Maura


Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church

Largely as a result of his outspoken views, he was moved from his post as Bishop of Botucatu in 1937 and was redesignated as the Titular Bishop of Maura (an extinct diocese of North Africa).


Antonio Maura

Jorge Semprún y Maura, (grandson) novelist, Communist, and Cultural Minister of Spain during the premiership of Felipe González

Astronomical radio source

Rotating radio transients (RRATs) are a type of neutron stars discovered in 2006 by a team led by Maura McLaughlin from the Jodrell Bank Observatory at the University of Manchester in the UK.

David J. McDonald, Jr.

He is married to Maura McDonald and has two sons: Sean McDonald and Charles McDonald.

Dorothy Lyman

She appeared in the Tales from the Darkside television series in the 'In the Cards' episode (1985), in ALF as Maura Norris in the episode 'Tequila' (1988), Generations as Rebecca Whitmore (1990–1991), and in The Bold and the Beautiful as Bonnie Roberts (1991–1992).

Gabrielle Wolohojian

A lesbian, Wolohojian lives in Charlestown with her partner Maura Healey, a career prosecutor who has announced her candidacy for Massachusetts Attorney General in the 2014 election.

Gaili Schoen

Schoen composed a full orchestral score for the 2008 feature film Noble Things starring Michael Parks, Ryan Hurst, and country singer Lee Ann Womack, and scored the 2011 documentary The Ghost of War, featuring cello solos by Niall Ferguson, and clarinet solos by Maura Monagan and Scott Operman.

Guesch Patti

She made a brief appearance in Claude Lelouch's film Une pour toutes, and also played in Elles, by Luis Galvao Teles, alongside Miou-Miou, Marthe Keller, Marisa Berenson and Carmen Maura.

Karli-Eli

The 17th-century geographers Hajji Khalifa and Evliya Çelebi record that the province encompassed six kazas ("districts"): Santa Maura (Lefkada), Vonitsa, Angelokastron (in Turkish Enkili-Kastri), Xiromero (Tr. Eksemere), Valtos (Tr. Alto), and Vrachori (Tr. Imrahor).

Maura Davis

Maura Davis was the lead singer of the American indie rock band Denali from Richmond, Virginia, United States, active from 2000 to 2004 (with brief reappearances in 2008).

Maura Murphy

Maura Murphy, née McNamee (September 6, 1928 – October 5, 2005) was an Irish writer.

Maura Stone

Maura contributes her sense of humour in part to her third cousin Sam Levenson who was a popular American humorist, writer, television host and journalist.

Morea Eyalet

According to Evliya, at the time of his visit the eyalet comprised the sanjaks of Misistire, Aya Maura (Leucas), Aynabahti (Lepanto), Karli-Eli, Manya (Mani Peninsula) and Ballibadra (Patras), i.e. it encompassed also the portions of western and central Continental Greece.

Pedro Howse

Peter Howse was born in Aston, Birmingham, UK, to Geezer Butler's sister, Maura.

Radio Éireann Players

The cast was: Frank Dwyer (story-teller), Eamon Kelly (nailmaker), Thomas Studley (stone-breaker), Peggy Monahan (weaver's widow), Brendan Cauldwell (grave digger), Henry Comerford (grave digger), Arthur O'Sullivan (cooper), Maura O'Sullivan (weaver's daughter).

Úrsula Prats

Úrsula Prats began her career in the soap opera Secretos de confesión, one of her most memorable roles was Maura in the soap opera Tú o nadie with Lucía Méndez.


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