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    Mary Mason Lyon (/ˈlaɪ.ən/; February 28, 1797 – March 5, 1849) was an American pioneer in women's education. She established the Wheaton Female Seminary...
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    evidence. Katherine and Sheila Lyon were born in Kensington, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C., to John and Mary Lyon. The girls were two of four children...
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    Mary Frances Lyon FRS (15 May 1925 – 25 December 2014) was an English geneticist best known for her discovery of X-chromosome inactivation, an important...
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  • Mary Lyon (1797–1849) was a pioneering American educator. Mary Lyon is also the name of: Mary F. Lyon (1925–2014), English geneticist Mary Lyon (writer)...
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    Mary Frances Elphinstone, Lady Elphinstone GCVO (née Bowes-Lyon; 30 August 1883 – 8 February 1961), was a British aristocrat. She was an elder sister...
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    Lyon Gardiner Tyler Sr. (August 24, 1853 – February 12, 1935) was an American educator, genealogist, and historian. He was a son of John Tyler, the tenth...
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  • Prize annually. Mount Holyoke was founded in 1837 by Mary Lyon as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. Lyon developed her ideas on how to educate women when she...
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  • Mary-Jo Wormell (born 1947), better known as Mary Lyons, was a popular British writer of 45 romance novels for Mills & Boon from 1983 to 2001. Wormell...
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    location):   Lônes et coteaux   Lyon-Centre (Lyon-Centre)   Lyon-Est (Lyon-East)   Lyon-Nord (Lyon-North)   Lyon-Ouest   Lyon-Sud   Lyon-Sud-Est   Ouest   Plateau...
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    and Kinghorne, chief of the Clan Lyon. Following the marriage in 1767 of the 9th Earl (John Lyon) to rich heiress Mary Eleanor Bowes, the family name was...
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    Mary Lyon Residence Hall was a three-story student dormitory on Western Campus at Miami University, demolished in 2016. It was a co-ed dormitory and only...
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    Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th and 1st Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, KG, KT, GCVO, TD (14 March 1855 – 7 November 1944), styled as Lord Glamis from...
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    X-inactivation (also called Lyonization, after English geneticist Mary Lyon) is a process by which one of the copies of the X chromosome is inactivated...
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  • Mary Lyon is an American columnist, reporter, political commentator, and jeweller. One of the first women to hired at television and radio stations in...
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  • Thomas Lyon (1741–1796). MP for Aberdeen Burghs. Married Mary Wren. Their daughter Charlotte Lyon (died 1871) married Revd Henry George Liddell (died 1872)...
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    Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver DSG (July 10, 1921 – August 11, 2009) was an American philanthropist and a member of the Kennedy family. She was the founder...
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    August 1942 the ship was acquired by the Navy and was renamed the Lyon after Mary Lyon, the founder of Mount Holyoke College (then Mount Holyoke Female...
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    Cavendish-Bentinck. He married Mary Pamela McCorquodale (b.1932) on 10 April 1956. They had three children:[citation needed] Michael Fergus Bowes-Lyon, 18th Earl of Strathmore...
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    English children's writer and novelist (d. 1844) Pope Gregory XVI (d. 1846) Mary Lyon, American women's education pioneer (d. 1849) Marie, Dowager Duchess of...
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  • 1823); Zilpah P. Grant Banister (Ipswich Female Seminary, 1828); and Mary Lyon. Lyon was involved in the development of both Hartford Female Seminary and...
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  • Mary Lyon Hall Built in 1916 and renovated in 2006, it is named after Mary Lyon (1797–1849), an American pioneer in women's education. In 2012, Mary Lyon...
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    Cecilia Nina Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne GCVO (née Cavendish-Bentinck; 11 September 1862 – 23 June 1938) was the mother of Queen Elizabeth...
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    Mary Nell Steenburgen (/ˈstiːnbɜːrdʒən/; born February 8, 1953) is an American actress, comedian, singer, and songwriter. After studying at New York's...
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    Mary Temple Grandin (born August 29, 1947) is an American academic and animal behaviorist. She is a prominent proponent of the humane treatment of livestock...
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  • Lyon is the surname of: A. Laurence Lyon (1934–2006), American music composer Alexander Lyon (disambiguation) Alastair Lyon (born 1979), South African...
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    biologist Susumu Ohno determined the Barr bodies were X chromosomes. In 1961, Mary Lyon proposed the concept of X-inactivation: when one of the two X chromosomes...
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    English Channel. History.com. Retrieved on May 20, 2014. Dahlberg, Time; Ward, Mary Ederle (2009). America's Girl: The Incredible Story of How Swimmer Gertrude...
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    Suellyn Lyon (July 10, 1946 – December 26, 2019) was an American actress who is most famous today for playing Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita in Stanley Kubrick's...
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    The family called upon noted women's educator Mary Lyon for assistance in establishing the seminary. Lyon created the first curriculum with the goal that...
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    Retrieved 2018-09-16. "Mary Lyon Medal 2017 - Petra Hajkova - Genetics Society". Genetics.org.uk. 2017-11-21. Retrieved 2018-09-16. "Mary Lyon Medal - Genetics...
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