What is "martha"

fem. proper name, from Aramaic Maretha, literally "lady, mistress," fem. of mar, mara "lord, master." As the type name of one concerned with domestic affairs, it is from Luke x:40, 41. Martha's Vineyard discovered 1602 by English explorer Gabriel Archer and apparently named by him, but the identity of the Martha he had in mind is unknown now.

Martha of Bethany ( Aramaic: מַרְתָּא Martâ) is a biblical figure described in the Gospels of Luke and John. Together with her siblings Lazarus and Mary Magdalene, she is described as living in the village of Bethany near Jerusalem. She was witness to Jesus' resurrection of her brother, Lazarus.

Martha, oder Der Markt zu Richmond (Martha, or The Market at Richmond) is a romantic comic opera in four acts by Friedrich von Flotow set to a German libretto by Friedrich Wilhelm Riese and based on a story by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges.

Flotow had composed the first act of a ballet, Harriette, ou la servante de Greenwiche, derived from a text by Saint-Georges, for the ballerina Adèle Dumilâtre. This was first performed by the Paris Opera Ballet at the Salle Le Peletier on 21 February 1844. The time available for the composition was short, so the second and third acts were assigned, respectively, to Friedrich Burgmüller and Édouard Deldevez. The opera Martha was an adaptation of this ballet.

Martha is a solitaire card game that is played with a deck of 52 playing cards. It has a novelty of having half of the cards in the tableau faced down.

Martha, also known as The Martha Stewart Show, was an American variety talk show hosted by Martha Stewart. The series premiered on September 11, 2005, in syndication until it was picked up by the Hallmark Channel in September 2010 as part of a larger deal that turned over most of the cable network's daytime schedule to shows from Stewart's production company, MSLO Productions. ''Martha '' was taped before a studio audience at the Chelsea Studios in New York City, New York. It was distributed by NBC Universal Television Distribution in partnership with MSLO Productions. The series' production company came to a consensus with Hallmark to end Martha due to the rising costs. The last episode was shot on April 24, 2012, with it airing on May 11, 2012.

The syndicated broadcasts aired Monday through Friday at various times on broadcasting markets. Reruns also aired on Fine Living Network prior to the channels transformation into the Cooking Channel. On Hallmark, the series also aired Monday through Friday but at the same time of 10:00 am EST.

Martha, is a female given name ( Latin from Ancient Greek Μάρθα, from Aramaic מרתא (martā) "the mistress" or "the lady", from מרה "mistress".

Martha (c. 1885 – September 1, 1914) was the last known living passenger pigeon; she was named "Martha" in honor of the first First Lady Martha Washington.

Martha is a short film made by Walt Disney in 1923. It was black and white, and also silent. It was made in the United States.

Category:Disney animated short films, 1920s Category:American films Category:1923 animated films Category:1923 films Category:Films directed by Walt Disney Category:Films produced by Walt Disney Category:American black-and-white films

Martha was a schooner of 30 tons and a crew of four which was wrecked at Little Manly Cove in Australia in August 1800.

The Martha was constructed in Sydney in 1799 and travelled to Norfolk Island. Its master was William Reid. It was wrecked with a load of coal on its way from Reids Mistake to Sydney.

Martha (Original title: S/S Martha) is a 1967 Danish comedy film directed by Erik Balling and starring Ove Sprogøe. It enjoys a cult following.

Martha is a 1974 drama film made for German television which was directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It features Margit Carstensen in the title role with Karlheinz Böhm as her abusive husband. It is one of the earliest of Fassbinder's films to be influenced by the American work of Douglas Sirk. The plot was loosely based on a short story "For the Rest of Her Life" by Cornell Woolrich.

Martha are a four-piece DIY indie/ punk band from Pity Me, a village in County Durham in the North East of England. After singles on their own Discount Horse label and Odd Box Records, their debut album was released on Fortuna Pop! and Salinas Records in 2014.

They describe themselves as vegan, straight edge, and anarchist. They have no " lead singer" and all contribute vocals. "Two members of Martha also play in the band ONSIND, and another leads the band No Ditching.

Martha is a feminine given name (Latin from Ancient Greek Μάρθα, from Aramaic מרתא (martā) "the mistress" or "the lady", from מרה "mistress", feminine of מרי "master").

Variants in different languages:

• Maata (Maori)
• Марфа (Marfa) (Russian), formerly spelled "Мар ѳа" from the Greek version of the name, that the Russians assimilate in F
• Márta (Hungarian)
• Marta (Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Italian, Latvian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish)
• Марта (Marta) (Ukrainian)
• Marthe (French, German)
• Martta (Finnish)
• Mártuska (Hungarian)
• Moireach (Scottish Gaelic)
• Morta (Lithuanian)

A traditional English language nickname was Patty.

Martha is a layout engine used in enterprise applications to create HTML and XML editing and rendering applications in Java. The framework is used in all of the RealObjects applications: PDFreactor, Nimbudocs Editor, and edit-on NG.

The Martha framework is also made available for OEM and project-based licensing and is used by the U.S. Army, Vizrt, Objective Corporation Limited, Neota Logic, European Patent Office, Infoland a Dutch independent software vendor, Pulinco Engineering AG, SafeHarbor Technology, Gentleware AG, DZ Bank AG, DSV, and the University of Paderborn.

Martha uses the CSS vendor prefix -ro-.