Manya

Masha Shelestov was the youngest of the family; she was eighteen, but her family could not get used to thinking that she was not a little girl, and so they still called her Manya and Manyusa; and after there had been a circus in the town which she had eagerly visited, every one began to call her Marie Godefroi.

The Party Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

The donkey, an eight-year old female called Manya, was "still very friendly" and had not become frightened of humans as a result of her ordeal, according to those now caring for the animal.

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a son or a daughter the child might be called Manya, and the father would henceforth be known as Pan-Manya.

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She was also called 'Manya' by her family and friends.

Marie Curie - Frequently Asked Questions 1911

Manya Brachear, the author of the piece, rather accurately describes the reaction of Fr. Thomas Reese, S.J., to Obama at Notre Dame as "ho-hum."

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Manya of us who never had much to say are involved deeply now as we are fed up with the Congress and Gov't bankrupting us.

Gibbs: Obama to focus on 'specific' ideas for health reform 2009

Benenson died in 2005 and yesterday his daughter Manya, 35, lit the Amnesty candle, symbolically ringed by barbed wire, in his memory, along with Wai Hnin Pwint Thon, a Burmese refugee whose father is serving a 65-year jail sentence for organising peaceful protests against the military junta in 2007.

Amnesty International marks 50 years of fighting for free speech 2011

Usagi Inu at Manya Hompo suggests prepaid phones will solve all the problems.

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For Manya Benenson, the day was a chance to show her daughters, Ami and Daisy, what their grandfather achieved.

Amnesty International marks 50 years of fighting for free speech 2011

When she was young, Manya Benenson's dad told her a story of two frogs that fall into a bucket of cream and swim around and around.

Amnesty International marks 50 years of fighting for free speech 2011