Maud Meyer

Maud Meyer was a Sierra Leonean Nigerian jazz singer who rose to prominence during the 1950s. She was born in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, in Nigeria. From an early age, Meyer was exposed to music and had learnt from her mother who had a band. Musically, she was strongly influenced by the sounds of Billie Holiday. "Meyer’s skills were unrivalled; she would listen to any kind of music and convert it to jazz instantly". According to Emeka Keazor, “She was one of the greatest female jazz singers of all time.”

Meyer garnered a massive following on the club circuits. She also performed with various popular bands across Africa.

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Maud (plaid)

A maud is a woollen blanket or plaid woven in a pattern of small black and white checks known as Border tartan, Falkirk tartan, Shepherd's check or Shepherd's plaid. It was in common use as an item of clothing in the southern counties of Scotland and the northern counties of England until the early twentieth century.

Etymology

The origin of the word ‘maud’ is uncertain. Writing in 1894, Miss Russell said that it came from the Gaelic maudal or maundal, a poetic synonym for plaid. Her view seems to be backed by an old poem in Gaelic, The Tale of Connal, recorded in Ross-shire in 1859, which has the line, “And wrapped my maundal around;” An alternate source is that the word derives from ‘maldy’, meaning a course grey woollen cloth, which in turn comes from ’medley’, meaning a parti-coloured cloth, by way of mispronunciation. However, the reverse is also said to be true, whereby ‘maldy’ was an early nineteen century noun for yarn and cloth used to make mauds, as in ‘a cloak of maldy’, where it was pronounced ‘mawdy’.

Maud Mulder

Maud Mulder (born 17 November 1981 in Nijmegen, Netherlands) is a Dutch singer who rose to popularity after placing second in Idols Netherlands 2, the Dutch version of Pop Idol, shown by RTL 4. She is also a professional field hockey player with hoofdklasse side NMHC Nijmegen.

On 12 March 2006, Mulder participated in the national Dutch Song Contest finals. However, the jury considered the three songs she performed to be without any potential for the Eurovision, since they were like many of The Netherlands' previous (unsuccessful) entries. Apart from that, her vocal performances were weak due to an inflammation of the throat. Maud became third out of three, only just beat by rock band Behave.

Idols performances

Top 27: White Flag by Dido
Top 10: Just Like A Pill by Pink
Top 9: Signed Sealed Delivered I'm Yours by Stevie Wonder
Top 8: Don't Say That You Love Me by Trijntje Oosterhuis
Top 7: Blame It On The Boogie by The Jackson 5
Top 6: Afscheid by Volumia!
Top 5: This Is How We Do It by Montell Jordan
Top 5: Dancing In The Street by Martha & The Vandellas
Top 4: Making Whoopee by Frank Sinatra
Top 4: Are You Gonna Go My Way? by Lenny Kravitz
Top 3: Thank You by Dido
Top 3: Ain't No Sunshine by Bill Withers
Top 3: Hole In The Head by Sugababes
Grand Final: Dancing In The Street by Martha & The Vandellas
Grand Final: When You Think Of Me by Mark Wills

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Adolf Bernhard Meyer

Adolf Bernhard Meyer (11 October 1840, Hamburg – 22 August 1911, Dresden) was a German anthropologist, ornithologist, entomologist, and herpetologist.

Biography

Meyer was educated at the universities of Göttingen, Vienna, Zürich and Berlin. He became director of the Anthropological and Ethnographic Museum in Dresden in 1874 and continued in that position until his retirement in 1905. He travelled in the East Indies at the end of the nineteenth century.

The brown sicklebill (Epimachus meyeri) was named after him when the species was discovered in 1884. He published a classification of birds, among them the Carola's parotia (Parotia carolae), the Stephanie's astrapia (Astrapia stephaniae), the red-capped flowerpecker (Dicaeum geelvinkianum), and the takahe (Porphyrio hochstetteri).

In addition to birds he made a study on primates. He gave the binomial name Tarsius sangirensis to the Sangihe tarsier, a small primate found in Indonesia in 1897.

Meyer's East Indies bird collection and beetles and butterflies collected in Celebes and New Guinea are in Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden.

Meyer (surname)

Meyer is a surname of English, German and Jewish origin, many branches of the Meyer(s) family trace their origins to ancient Anglo-Saxon culture. The name is derived from the Old English name maire, meaning Mayor, or an officer in charge of legal matters. The surname is also of German and Jewish origin deriving from the German word "meiger", meaning Mayor, the name likely traces its origins to a wealthy landholder. Among German Jews, "Meyer" converged with the etymologically unconnected name "Meir", which means "one who shines" in Hebrew.

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