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 Talk Talk - Communication terms
Category: General technical and industrial
Date & country: 28/05/2010, UK
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Lucretia
In Roman legend, the wife of Collatinus, said to have committed suicide after being raped by Sextus, son of Tarquinius Superbus, the last king of Rome. According to tradition, this incident led to the dethronement of Tarquinius and the establishment of the Roman Republic in 509 BC

Lucian
Greek writer. In his satirical dialogues, he pours scorn on religions and mocks human pretensions. His 65 genuine works also include rhetorical declamations, literary criticism, biography, and romance. Among the most interesting of his works are Dialogues of the Gods, Dialogues of the Dead, Zeus Confou...

Lucerne
(city) Capital and tourist centre of Lucerne canton, Switzerland, 45 km/28 mi southwest of Zürich, on the River Reuss where it flows out of Lake Lucerne; population (1994) city 61,700; canton 337,700. Manufactured goods include chemicals, metal products, and textiles. The city...

Lucas van Leyden
Dutch painter and engraver. Active in Leiden and Antwerp, he was a pioneer of Netherlandish genre scenes, for example The Chess Players (c. 1510; Staatliche Museen, Berlin). His woodcuts and engravings, often more highly regarded than his paintings, were inspired by Albrecht Dürer. Lucas was a pupil of...

Lublin
City in Poland, on the Bystrzyca River, 150 km/95 mi southeast of Warsaw; population (2002) 357,100. Industries include textiles, engineering, aircraft, and electrical goods. A trading centre from the 10th century, it has an ancient citadel, a 16th-century cathedral, and a university (1918). A council of workers and peasants proclaimed ...

Luce,
(Ann) US journalist, playwright, and politician. She was managing editor of Vanity Fair magazine 1933–34, and wrote several successful plays, including The Women (1936) and Margin for Error (1940), both of which were made into films...

Lubitsch, Ernst
German-born US film director. He worked in the USA from 1921 and became known for the `Lubitsch touch` – a combination of incisive social critique, witty humour, sophistication, and visual understatement, seen in, for example, Ninotchka (1939) and Heaven Can Wait (1943). Starting as an actor ...

lutetium
Silver-white, metallic element, the last of the lanthanide series, atomic number 71, relative atomic mass 174.97. It is used in the `cracking`, or breakdown, of petroleum and in other chemical processes. It was named by its discoverer, French chemist Georges Urbain, after his native city

lucerne
(plant) Another name for the plant alfalfa

lupin
Any of a group of leguminous plants (see legume) that comprises about 300 species. Lupins are native to Mediterranean regions and parts of North and South America, and some species are naturalized in Britain. Their spikes of pealike flowers may be white, yellow, blue, or pink. L. albus
luminescence
Emission of light from a body when its atoms are excited by means other than raising its temperature. Short-lived luminescence is called fluorescence; longer-lived luminescence is called phosphorescence. When exposed to an external source of energy, the outer electrons in atoms of a luminescent substance absorb energy and `jump...

Lumière
French brothers who pioneered cinematography. In February 1895 they patented their cinematograph, a combined camera and projector operating at 16 frames per second, screening short films for the first time on 22 March, and in December opening the world's first cinema in Paris. Their simple documentary short La Sortie des usines Lumi...

Luxemburg, Rosa
Polish-born German communist. She helped found the Polish Social Democratic Party in the 1890s, the forerunner of the Polish Communist Party. She was a leader of the left wing of the German Social Democratic Party from 1898 where she collaborated with Karl Liebknecht in founding the Spartacus Lea...

Luxor
Click images to enlargeTown in Egypt on the east bank of the River Nile; population (1996) 360,500, (2007 calc) 437,700. The temple of Luxor, built by Amenhotep III (c. 1411–1375 BC) is found here, and tombs of the pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings can be found on the west side of the Nile, n...

Luzern
German name of Lucerne, a city and canton in Switzerland

Luzon
Largest island of the Philippines; area 108,130 sq km/41,750 sq mi; capital Quezon City; population (2000) 39,500,000. The chief city is Manila, capital of the Philippines. Industries include rice, timber, minerals, sugar cane, and hemp. It has US military bases. In 1991 the volcanic Mount Pinatubo, 88 km/55 mi north of Manila, ...

Lubbers, Ruud
Dutch politician, prime minister of the Netherlands 1982–94. Leader of the right-of-centre Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), he was viewed by some as an ideological heir to UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher, campaigning on the slogan `more market, less government`. He was Dutch minister for economic affairs 1973–77, a...

lumen
SI unit of luminous flux (the amount of light passing through an area per second). The lumen is defined in terms of the light falling on a unit area at a unit distance from a light source of luminous intensity of one candela. One lumen at a wavelength of 5,550 angstroms equals 0.0014706 watts

lux
SI unit of illuminance or illumination (the light falling on an object). It is equivalent to one lumen per square metre or to the illuminance of a surface one metre distant from a point source of one candela

Luxembourg
(country) Landlocked country in Western Europe, bounded north and west by Belgium, east by Germany, and south by France. Government Luxembourg is a multiparty parliamentary democracy, with a prime ministerial political executive and a hereditary and constitutional monarchy as head of state. Th...

luminous paint
Preparation containing a mixture of pigment, oil, and a phosphorescent sulphide, usually calcium or barium. After exposure to light it appears luminous in the dark. The luminous paint used on watch faces contains radium, is radioactive, and therefore does not require exposure to light

lumbar puncture
Insertion of a hollow needle between two lumbar (lower back) vertebrae to withdraw a sample of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) for testing. Normally clear and colourless, the CSF acts as a fluid buffer around the brain and spinal cord. Changes in its quantity, colour, or composition may indicate neurological damage or disease

Luxembourg
(province) Province of southeastern Belgium, part of the French-speaking community and Walloon region; area 4,400 sq km/1,698 sq mi; population (1995 est) 240,300. The capital is Arlon and other towns and cities include Bastogne, St Hubert, and Bouillon. The province is situate...

Lucifer
In Christian theology, another name for the devil, the leader of the angels who rebelled against God. In Greek mythology, Lucifer is another name for the morning star (the planet Venus)

luteinizing hormone
Hormone produced by the pituitary gland. In males, it stimulates the testes to produce androgens (male sex hormones). In females, it works together with follicle-stimulating hormone to initiate production of egg cells by the ovary. If fertilization occurs, it plays a part in maintaining the pregnancy by controlling the levels of the hormones oe...

Lumet, Sidney
US film director. His films are concerned with social issues, and he evoked powerful performances from his actors in, for example, 12 Angry Men (1957), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Network (1976), Running on Empty (1988), and Q & A (1990). A prolific and...

Lugosi, Bela
Hungarian-born US film actor. Acclaimed for his performance in Dracula on Broadway (1927), Lugosi began acting in feature films in 1930. His appearance in the film version of Dracula (1931) marked the start of Lugosi's long career in horror films – among them, Murders in the Rue Morgue<...

Lucas, George
US film director, producer, and screenwriter. During the late 20th century, he created some of the most popular films of all time in his Star Wars series. He also produced a trilogy of adventure films beginning with Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). He wrote and directed Star Wars (1977) and wr...

Luria, Salvador Edward
Italian-born US physician who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1969 for his work on the replication mechanism and genetic structure of viruses. Luria was a pacifist and was identified with efforts to keep science humanistic

luminosity
In astronomy, amount of light emitted by a star, expressed as the rate at which it emits energy, as absolute magnitude, or as a ratio to the luminosity of the Sun. The apparent brightness of an object results from its luminosity and its distance from the observer

Luo
Member of the second-largest ethnic group of Kenya, living in the Lake Victoria region and numbering around 2,650,000 (1987). The Luo are a Nilotic people who traditionally lived by farming livestock. Many, however, now work as wage labourers throughout East Africa. Traditionally they had a strong clan system without centralized political autho...

lumen
(biology) In biology, the space enclosed by an organ, such as the bladder, or a tubular structure, such as the gastrointestinal tract

lung cancer
In medicine, cancer of the lung. The main risk factor is smoking, with almost nine out of ten cases attributed to it. Other risk factors include workspace exposure to carcinogenic substances such as asbestos and radiation. Warning symptoms include a persistent and otherwise unexplained cough, breathing difficulties, and pain in the chest or shoulde...

Lutherstadt Wittenberg
Alternative name for Wittenberg, a town in Germany, southwest of Berlin

Lubavitch
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect. Founded in the 18th century in Lubavich, Russia, as an offshoot of Hasidism by Shne'ur Zalman, it is now predominantly active in the USA and Israel; its rabbi is based in New York City, USA. Under the guidance of Rabbi Menachem Schneerson from 1950, the movement expanded worldwide, and its publishing division...

Lviv
Capital and industrial city of Lviv region (oblast), western Ukraine, 450 km/280 mi southwest of Kiev; population (2001) 732,800. Lviv is an important manufacturing centre and transport junction. There are chemical, metallurgical, and engineering industries in the city; manufactured goods include motor vehicles, agricultural equipment, ...

LW
Abbreviation for long wave, a radio wave with a wavelength of over 1,000 m/3,300 ft; one of the main wavebands into which radio frequency transmissions are divided

lx
In physics, symbol for lux, the SI unit of illumination

lysosome
Membrane-enclosed structure, or organelle, inside a cell, principally found in animal cells. Lysosomes contain enzymes that can break down proteins and other biological substances. They play a part in digestion, and in the white blood cells known as phagocytes the lysosome enzymes attack ingested bacteria

lychee
Alternative spelling of litchi, a fruit-bearing tree

lysis
In biology, any process that destroys a cell by rupturing its membrane or cell wall (see lysosome)

Lyra
Small but prominent constellation of the northern hemisphere, represented as the harp of Orpheus. Its brightest star is Vega. Epsilon Lyrae is a system of four gravitationally linked stars. Beta Lyrae is an eclipsing binary. The Ring nebula, M57, is a planetary nebula

lyrebird
Either of two species of large birds found in southeastern Australia. They have very stout beaks and short, rounded wings; the tail has 16 feathers, and in the males the exterior pair of feathers are curved in the shape of a lyre; the tail of the female is long, broad, and normal in shape. Lyrebirds nest on the ground, and feed on insects, ...

lynx
Wild cat found in rocky and forested regions of North America and Europe. About 1 m/3 ft in length, it has a short tail, tufted ears, and long, silky fur which is reddish brown or grey with dark spots. The North American bobcat or bay lynx (Felix rufus) looks similar but is smaller. Some zoologists place the lynx, the bobcat,...

lymph
Fluid found in the lymphatic system of vertebrates. Lymph is drained from the tissues by lymph capillaries, which empty into larger lymph vessels (lymphatics). These lead to lymph nodes (small, round bodies chiefly situated in the neck, armpit, groin, thorax, and abdomen), which process the lymphocyt...

Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich
Soviet biologist who believed in the inheritance of acquired characteristics (changes acquired in an individual's lifetime) and used his position under Joseph Stalin officially to exclude Gregor Mendel's theory of inheritance. He was removed from office after the fall of Nikita Khrushchev in 1964. As leader of the Soviet scientific world, L...

Lysippus
Greek sculptor. He made a series of portraits of Alexander the Great (Roman copies survive, including examples in the British Museum and the Louvre) and also sculpted the Apoxyomenos, an athlete (copy in the Vatican), and a colossal Hercules (lost)

Lynn, Vera
English singer. Known during World War II as the `Forces' Sweetheart`, she became famous with such songs as `We'll Meet Again`, `White Cliffs of Dover`, and in 1952 `Auf Wiederseh'n, Sweetheart`. She was made a DBE in 1975. She also made three films: We'll Meet Again (19...

lycanthropy
In folk belief, the transformation of a human being into a wolf (werewolf); or, in psychology, a delusion involving this belief

Lyly, John
English dramatist and author. His romance Euphues, or the Anatomy of Wit (1578), with its elaborate stylistic devices, gave rise to the word euphuism for a mannered rhetorical style. It was followed by a second part, Euphues and his England (1580). The story line of Euphues is little more tha...

Lysander
Spartan politician and admiral. He brought the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta to a successful conclusion by capturing the Athenian fleet at Aegospotami in 405 BC, and by starving Athens into surrender in the following year. He set up puppet governments in Athens and its former allies, and tried to secure for himself the Spartan kingshi...

Lyon
French industrial city and administrative centre of Rhône département in the Rhône-Alpes region, part of which lies on the long tongue of land between the Rivers Rhône and Saône, 275 km/170 mi north of Marseille; population (2002 est) 444,100, c...

lyre
Stringed musical instrument of great antiquity. It consists of a hollow soundbox with two curved arms extended upwards to a crosspiece to which four to ten strings are attached. It is played with a plectrum or the fingers. It originated in Asia, and was widespread in ancient Greece and Egypt. Tuned to a given mode, it provided a pitch guide for voc...

Lynch, Jack
(John Mary) Irish politician, Taoiseach (prime minister) 1966–73 and 1977–79, and leader of Fianna Fáil 1966–79. Lynch entered the Dáil (lower chamber of the Irish parliament) in 1948 and served in various ministerial capacities, before emerging as the surprise winner ...

lynching
Killing of an alleged offender by an individual or group having no legal authority. In the USA it originated in 1780 with creation of a `committee of vigilance` in Virginia; it is named after a member of that committee, Captain William Lynch, to whom is attributed `Lynch's law`. Later examples occurred mostly in the Sout...

Lyell, Charles
Scottish geologist. In his Principles of Geology (1830–33), he opposed the French anatomist Georges Cuvier's theory that the features of the Earth were formed by a series of catastrophes, and expounded the Scottish geologist James Hutton's view, known as uniformitarianism, that past events were brought about by the s...

Lydia
Ancient kingdom in Anatolia (7th–6th centuries BC), with its capital at Sardis. The Lydians were the first Western people to use standard coinage. Their last king, Croesus, was defeated by the Persians in 546 BC

Lyceum
(Athens) Ancient Athenian gymnasium and garden, with covered walks, where the philosopher Aristotle taught. It was southeast of the city and named after the nearby temple of Apollo Lyceus

Lycurgus
(Spartan lawgiver) Spartan lawgiver. He was believed to have been a member of the royal house of the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta, who, while acting as regent, gave the Spartans their constitution and system of education. Many modern scholars believe him to be at least partly legenda...

lymph nodes
Small masses of lymphatic tissue in the body that occur at various points along the major lymphatic vessels. Tonsils and adenoids are large lymph nodes. As the lymph passes through them it is filtered, and bacteria and other micro-organisms are engulfed by cells known as macrophages. Lymph nodes are sometimes mistakenly called lymph `gland...

lymphokines
Chemical messengers produced by lymphocytes that carry messages between the cells of the immune system (see immunity). Examples include interferon, which initiates defensive reactions to viruses, and the interleukins, which activate specific immune cells

lyric
Literary genre including any short, personal, and passionate form of verse, usually a meditation on a single idea or theme with the goal of evoking emotion. The term does not imply a particular rhythm, rhyme scheme, or technique but an interest in limiting experience to a single, emotional peak; in this way, lyric poetry can be distinguished fr...

lycra
Synthetic fibre composed mainly of elastomer and other stretch fibres. It was introduced as a fabric for underwear, such as girdles, bras, and support stockings, but it has now become a popular material for sportswear and casual wear

Lycos
In computing, search engine for the World Wide Web. Lycos is a database compiled by Web crawlers that comb the Internet for Web, FTP, and Gopher sites, indexing them by title, headings, keywords, and text. Lycos, named after a particularly voracious hunting spider, started as a research project at Ca...

mallow
Any flowering plant of the mallow family, including the European common mallow (M. sylvestris), the tree mallow (L. arborea), marsh mallow (A. officinalis), and hollyhock (A. rosea). Most mallows have pink or purple flowers. (Genera Malva, Lavate...

mallee
Any of a group of small eucalyptus trees and shrubs with many small stems and thick underground roots that retain water. Before irrigation farming began, dense thickets of mallee characterized most of northwestern Victoria, Australia, known as the mallee region. (Genus Eucalyptus, family Myrtaceae.)

maize
Tall annual cereal plant, Zea mays, that produces spikes of yellow grains that are widely used as an animal feed. Grown extensively in all subtropical and warm temperate regions, its range has been extended to colder zones by hardy varieties developed in the 1960s. It was domestica...

maidenhair tree
Another name for the ginkgo, a surviving member of an ancient group of plants

maidenhair
Any of a group of ferns, especially A. capillus-veneris, with delicately hanging hairlike fronds ending in small kidney-shaped spore-bearing lobes. It is widely distributed in the Americas, and is sometimes found in the British Isles. (Genus Adiantum, family Polypodiaceae.)

mahogany
Timber from any of several trees found in the Americas and Africa. Mahogany is a tropical hardwood obtained chiefly by rainforest logging. It has a warm red colour and can be highly polished. True mahogany comes mainly from S. mahagoni and S. macrophylla, but other types come from the Spanish and Australian ced...

magnolia
Any of a group of trees or shrubs belonging to the magnolia family, native to North America and East Asia, and cultivated as ornamentals. Magnolias vary in height from 60 cm/2 ft to 30 m/150 ft. The large, fragrant single flowers are white, pink, or purple. The southern magnolia (M. ...

macadamia
Edible nut of a group of trees native to Australia (especially M. ternifolia), and cultivated in Hawaii, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Malawi. The nuts are slow-growing; they are harvested when they drop. (Genus Macadamia, family Proteaceae.)

Maugham,
(William) English writer. His work includes the novels Of Human Bondage (1915), The Moon and Sixpence (1919), and Cakes and Ale (1930); the short-story collections Ashenden (1928) and Rain and Other St...

Matthias Corvinus
King of Hungary from 1458. His aim of uniting Hungary, Austria, and Bohemia involved him in long wars with Holy Roman emperor Frederick III and the kings of Bohemia and Poland, during which he captured Vienna (1485) and made it his capital. His father was János Hunyadi

Matthew, St
Christian apostle and evangelist, the traditional author of the first listed Gospel of the New Testament. He is usually identified with Levi, who was a tax collector in the service of Herod Antipas, and was called by Jesus to be a disciple as he sat by the Lake of Galilee receiving custom dues. His e...

Matterhorn
Click images to enlargeMountain peak in the Alps on the Swiss-Italian border; 4,478 m/14,690 ft. It was first climbed in 1865 by English mountaineer Edward Whymper (1840–1911); four members of his party of seven were killed when a rope broke during their descent

Matsuyama
Capital and largest city of Ehime prefecture, Shikoku island, Japan, facing the Inland Sea; population (2005) 514,700. Industries include agricultural machinery, textiles, and petrochemicals. Traditional cotton cloth is also produced locally. The city, which was the setting for the novel Botchan (1906) by Natsume Soseki, Japa...

matriarchy
Form of society where domestic and political life is dominated by women, where kinship is traced exclusively through the female line, and where religion is centred around the cult of a mother goddess. A society dominated by men is known as a patriarchy. Matriarchy and patriarchy are oversimplifications of the distribution of familial and political ...

Matisse, Henri Emile Benoît
French painter, sculptor and illustrator. Matisse was one of the most original creative forces in early 20th-century art. He was a leading figure in fauvism and later developed a style characterized by strong, sinuous lines, surface pattern, and brilliant colour. The Dance (1910; The Hermitage, St Petersburg) is character...

Matilda, the Empress Maud
Claimant to the throne of England as daughter of Henry I. In 1127 Henry forced the barons to accept Matilda, his only surviving legitimate child since the death of his son, as his successor as monarch of England. However, there had never been a woman ruler in either England or Normandy, and most of the barons, supported by the church, elected her c...

materialism
Philosophical theory that there is nothing in existence over and above matter and matter in motion. Such a theory excludes the possibility of deities. It also sees mind as an attribute of the physical, denying idealist theories that see mind as something independent of body; for example, Descartes' theory of `thinking substance`. ...

Mata Hari
Dutch courtesan, dancer, and probable spy. In World War I she had affairs with highly placed military and government officials on both sides and told Allied secrets to the Germans. She may have been a double agent, in the pay of both France and Germany. She was shot by the French on espionage charges

Matadi
Chief river port of the Democratic Republic of Congo on the south bank of the Congo River, 115 km/70 mi from its mouth, linked by rail with the capital Kinshasa; population (2004 est) 245,900. Matadi is the distribution point for all the country's oil products (except fuel oil), which are pumped via a 350 km/217 mi pipeline to Kinsh...

Matabeleland
Western portion of Zimbabwe between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers, inhabited by the Ndebele people; population (1992) 1,855,300. It is divided into two provinces (Matabeleland North and Matabeleland South); area 181,605 sq km/70,118 sq mi. Towns and cities include Bulawayo and Hwange. The region features rich plains watered by tributar...

Master of the Rolls
English judge who is the president of the civil division of the Court of Appeal, besides being responsible for Chancery records and for the admission of solicitors

Massorah
Collection of philological notes on the Hebrew text of the Old Testament. It was at first an oral tradition, but was committed to writing in the Aramaic language at Tiberias, Palestine, between the 6th and 9th centuries

Massenet, Jules Emile Frédéric
French composer of operas. His work is characterized by prominent roles for females, sincerity, and sentimentality. Notable works are Manon (1884), Le Cid (1885), and Thaïs (1894); among other works is the orchestral suite Scènes pittoresques (1874). He was pr...

Mass
(religion) In Christianity, the celebration of the Eucharist

Massawa
Second biggest town and main port in Eritrea, situated on a small sterile coral island in the Red Sea, 200 m/656 ft from the mainland; population (2002 est) 23,100. It lies 65 km/40 mi northeast of Asmara, the largest town of Eritrea. Activities within the port include salt production, fishing, fish and meat processing, and cement manuf...

masque
Spectacular court entertainment with a fantastic or mythological theme in which music, dance, and extravagant costumes and scenic design figured larger than plot. Originating in Italy, where members of the court actively participated in the performances, the masque reached its height of popularity at the English court between 1600 and 1640, with th...

Mashraq
The Arab countries of the eastern Mediterranean: Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and Iraq. The term is contrasted with Maghreb, comprising the Arab countries of northwest Africa

Mason–Dixon Line
In the USA, the boundary line between Maryland and Pennsylvania (latitude 39° 43' 26.3" N), named after Charles Mason (1730–1787) and Jeremiah Dixon (died 1777), English astronomers and surveyors who surveyed it 1763–67. It is popularly seen as dividing the North from the South

Maseru
Capital of Lesotho, on the Caledon River at the border with Free State in South Africa; population (2002 est) 169,200 (city), 483,100 (urban area). Founded in 1869 by the Basotho chief Mshweshwe I, it is a centre for trade in livestock, wool, hides, and grain, and for light manufacturing and food processing. The city, which retained its positio...

Masefield, John
English poet and novelist. His early years in the merchant navy inspired Salt Water Ballads (1902) and two further volumes of poetry, and several adventure novels; he also wrote children's books, such as The Midnight Folk (1927) and The Box of Delights (1935), as well as plays.
Masaryk, Tomáš Garrigue
Czechoslovak nationalist politician. He directed the revolutionary movement against the Austrian Empire, founding with Edvard Beneš and Milan Stefanik the Czechoslovak National Council. In 1918 he was elected first president of the newly formed Czechoslovak Republic. Three times re-elected, he resigned in 1935 in favour of Beneš. Afte...

Masai
Click images to enlargeMember of an East African people whose territory is divided between Tanzania and Kenya. They number about 250,000, and speak a Nilotic language belonging to the Nilo-Saharan family. Traditionally they are warriors and pastoral nomads, but much of their land was taken over by European colonists a...

Masada
Click images to enlargeRock fortress 396 m/1,300 ft above the western shore of the Dead Sea, Israel. Site of the Hebrews' final stand in their revolt against the Romans (AD 66–73). After withstanding a year-long siege, the Hebrew population of 953 committed mass suicide rather than be conquered and enslav...

Mary of Modena
Queen consort of England and Scotland. She was the daughter of the Duke of Modena, Italy, and second wife of James, Duke of York, later James II, whom she married in 1673. The birth of their son James Francis Edward Stuart was the signal for the revolution of 1688 that overthrew James II. Mary fled to France

Mary Magdalene, St
In the New Testament, a woman whom Jesus cured of possession by evil spirits. She was present at the Crucifixion and burial, and was the first to meet the risen Jesus. She is often identified with the woman of St Luke's gospel who anointed Jesus' feet, and her symbol is a jar of ointment. Her feast day is 22 July

Mary II
Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1688. She was the Protestant elder daughter of the Catholic James II, and in 1677 was married to her cousin William of Orange. After the Glorious Revolution of 1688 she accepted the crown jointly with William. During William's absences from England she took charge of the government, and showed courag...