Look up Maria or María in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Maria (given name) is a given name, usually for a female, but occasionally male.

Maria or María may also refer to:

• Maria (gens), a plebeian family of Ancient Rome
• Madia Gond or Maria, a people of Gadchiroli District, Maharashtra State, India
• María, Spain, a municipality of Andalusia, Spain
• Maria, Siquijor, a municipality in the Philippines
• Maria, Maevatanana
• Maria, Quebec
• Maria (daughter of Maurice), the name of a supposed daughter of Maurice, Byzantine Emperor
• Maria Prophetissa reputed founder of alchemy first mentioned by Zosimus.

Language and literature[link]

• Maria language (India)
• Maria language (Papua New Guinea)
• María (novel), a 1867 novel by Jorge Isaacs
• Maria (play), a 1935 play by Isaac Babel
• Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman, a 1798 unfinished novel by Mary Wollstonecraft

Science and technology[link]

• 170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877
• Lunar maria, large, dark basaltic plains on Earth's Moon
• Maria (reachability analyzer), a reachability analyzer, used in computer science for concurrent systems
• Maria reactor, a nuclear research reactor in Poland
• Maria (storage engine), a storage engine for MySQL (renamed Aria in 2010)
• MariaDB, a community-developed branch of the MySQL database
• Tropical Storm Maria (disambiguation), one of several named storms
• MARIA XML, a model-based XML language for User Interfaces

Ships[link]

• SS Maria, a number of ships with this name
• SS Maria Dan, a Danish cargo ship in service 1946-59

Music[link]

Songs[link]

• "María" (song), by Ricky Martin
• "Maria" (1956 song), from the musical West Side Story
• "Maria" (1959 song), from the musical The Sound of Music
• "Maria" (Blondie song), 1999
• "María" (Franco song), 1988
• "Maria" (US5 song), 2005
• "Maria", a 1980 song by Redgum from the album Virgin Ground
• "Maria (I Like It Loud)", by Scooter, a cover of "I Like It Loud" by Marc Acardipane
• "Maria", by Animal Liberation Orchestra from Roses & Clover
• "María", by Café Tacuba from Café Tacuba
• "Maria", by Gackt from Rebirth
• "Maria", a 1987 song by David Sylvian from the album Secrets of the Beehive
• "Maria", by Green Day from International Superhits!
• "Maria", by The Jacksons from 2300 Jackson Street
• "Maria", by Kim Ah-joong from the Korean film 200 Pounds Beauty
• "Maria", by Men at Work from Two Hearts
• "Maria", by Rage Against the Machine from The Battle of Los Angeles
• "Maria", by Robert Earl Keen from West Textures
• "Maria", by Wu-Tang Clan from Wu-Tang Forever

Performers[link]

• Maria (band), a Japanese all-female band
• Maria (Bulgarian singer) (born 1982), Bulgarian pop/folk singer
• Maria (Japanese singer) (born 1987), Japanese pop singer
• Maria (singer) (born 1978), Danish R&B singer

Other[link]

• Maria (Counting Crows), a recurring character in the songs written by Adam Duritz
• Maria (album), a 1995 album by Jane Siberry
• "Maria", a 1903-4 opera by Roman Statkowski (based on poem by Polish poet, Malczewski)

Other uses[link]

• Maria (Silent Hill), a character from the video game Silent Hill 2
• Maria biscuit, a type of sweet biscuit similar to a Rich Tea biscuit
• María (film), a 1938 Mexican film directed by Chano Urueta
• Maria (goose), a goose in Los Angeles, in the news in 2011
• Maria (Twelfth Night), a fictional character in the play Twelfth Night

See also[link]

• Marie (disambiguation)
• Mariah (disambiguation)
• Mary (given name)
• Ave Maria (disambiguation)
• Latin plural of 'mare': see lunar mare

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Michael Häupl
Mayor of Vienna
Incumbent
Assumed office November 7, 1994
Preceded by	Helmut Zilk
Personal details
Born	( 1949 -09-14) September 14, 1949 (age 62) Altlengbach, Lower Austria, Austria
Political party	Social Democratic Party of Austria

Michael Häupl (born 14 September 1949 in Altlengbach, Lower Austria) is the mayor of Vienna. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria. He is married to Barbara Hörnlein and has two children from his first two marriages.

Biography[link]

He studied Biology and Zoology at the University of Vienna and was an academic assistant at the Vienna Natural History Museum from 1975 to 1983. He was the State Chairman of the Socialist Students of Austria, the student organisation of the SPÖ from 1975 to 1978, a member of the Viennese Municipal Council from 1983 to 1988, and until 1994, the town councillor for the environment and sport. Häupl followed Helmut Zilk in 1993 as a state party chairman of the SPÖ and on 7 November 1994, he became the mayor of Vienna.

Häupl has won three elections since his appointment as mayor; each of them has led to increased majorities for the SPÖ. In the 1996 City Council election, the SPÖ lost its overall control of the 100-seat chamber with 43 seats on 39.15% of the vote. 1996 also saw a strong FPÖ, which won 29 seats (up from 21 in 1991), beating the ÖVP into third place for the second time running. For the period 1996-2001 the SPÖ governed Vienna in a coalition with the ÖVP. In 2001 the SPÖ regained overall control with 52 seats on 46.91% of the vote; it improved on this in October 2005 with 55 seats on 49.09%. However, Häupl has also presided over a period of increased voter apathy, with turnout dropping from 68.46% in 1996 to 60.81% in 2005.

Häupl is the Deputy Federal Party chairman of the SPÖ and is considered to be one of the most important internal supporters of the current chairman, Werner Faymann.

On 14 December 2004 Häupl was elected unopposed to succeed Valéry Giscard d'Estaing as President of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions.

External links[link]

• CityMayors profile

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Gerhard Haderer (born 1951, Leonding, Austria) is an Austrian cartoonist and caricaturist.

Biography[link]

Gerhard Haderer was born in 1951 in Leonding, in upper Austria. He studied at a technical art school in Linz for four years from 1965, and then studied engraving in Stockholm. He returned to Austria in 1971 and worked as an independent commercial artist and draughtsman. He developed his photo-realistic style working on advertising, illustrations, and even designing maps for the Salzburg tourist board. In 1985, after a cancer operation, he abandoned his commercial career to become a freelance caricaturist and satirical illustrator. His first satirical works appeared in the upper-Austrian magazines "Watzmann", "ORF-Ventil" and "Oberösterreichische Nachrichten". He soon began to appear regularly in the Austrian weekly “Profil" to which he still contributes. His work then began to appear in newspapers and magazines in other German speaking countries. Since 1991 his work has appeared regularly in Germany’s "Stern" magazine as “Haderers Wochenschau” ("Haderers weekly news"). From 1997 to 2000, and from 2008 he published his own monthly satirical comics magazine called "Moff". He has produced designs for several satirical puppet shows. He married his wife Margit in 1974. He has lived and worked in Linz since 1985.

Honours

• 2001: Deutscher Karikaturenpreis, Geflügelter Bleistift in Gold (German caricature prize, winged pencil in gold)
• 2008: Goldenes Verdienstzeichen des Landes Wien (Golden Merit of Vienna)

Religious Controversy[link]

His book Das Leben des Jesus (The Life of Jesus), a satire in which Jesus is portrayed as an incense-addicted hippy, caused international controversy. When it was published in 2002 it was violently attacked in Austria. The Catholic Church in Austria including the Archbishop of Vienna denounced the work as blasphemous. The Bishop of Salzburg demanded a jail term for the caricaturist for violating the blasphemy paragraph in the Austrian penal code, and Catholic schools in Austria boycotted the publishing house. When it was published in Greece in 2005, it was banned for blasphemy, Haderer faced extradition and a suspended six-month jail sentence in absentia. When the ban and sentence were reversed on appeal, Haderer celebrated the ruling with a Greek salad and two shots of ouzo.

In 2006 Haderer called the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten's cartoons of Mohammed "a stupidity". He said Islamic tradition opposes any pictorial depiction of the Prophet. "Given that I am not Muslim, and that I cannot comprehend the fervor associated with that religion, I have to accept its taboos".

Books[link]

• Sehr verehrte Österreicher (1987) ISBN 3-7015-0108-4
• Vorsicht, Aloisia (1989) ISBN 3-7015-0188-2
• Das große Buch vom kleinen Oliver (1991) ISBN 3-85463-109-X
• Haderers Wochenschau (1993) ISBN 3-570-19003-X
• Vorsicht, Haderer! (1994) ISBN 3-7757-0489-2
• Think positive - Die besten Cartoons aus 10 Jahren (1996) ISBN 3-8000-3751-3
• Die letzte Märchenprinzessin (1997) with texts by Elisabeth Menasse, Eva Menasse and Robert Menasse ISBN 3-458-40950-6
• Jörgi, der Drachentöter (2000) ISBN 3-8000-3792-0
• Die ersten zehn 10 Jahre im Stern (2001) ISBN 3-8303-3024-3
• Das Leben des Jesus (2002) ISBN 3-8000-3863-3
• Die glorreichen Drei (2003) ISBN 3-8000-7007-3
• Von Hunderln und Menschen (2003) ISBN 3-8000-3912-5
• Alles Liebe (2005) ISBN 3-8000-7100-2
• Alles Essen (2005) ISBN 3-8000-7099-5
• Danke gut (2005) ISBN 3-8000-7104-5
• Apropos Fußball (2006) ISBN 3-8000-7198-3

References[link]

• Leidig, Michael (2002-03-27). "'Jesus, the hippy friend of Hendrix' angers Catholics". London: The Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/1389027/Jesus-the-hippy-friend-of-Hendrix-angers-Catholics.html. Retrieved 2010-05-03. 
• Diver, Krysia (2005-03-23). "Cartoonist faces Greek jail for blasphemy". London: The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1443908,00.html. 
• "Greek court lifts ban on Jesus cartoon book". The Age. 2005-04-14. http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Greek-court-lifts-ban-on-Jesus-cartoon-book/2005/04/14/1113251690792.html. 
• "European Journalists Begin to Condemn Cartoons". IPS. 2006-02-08. http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=32084. 

External links[link]

• Cartoons by Gerhard Haderer for the Stern magazine (German language)

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Heinz-Christian Strache

Heinz-Christian Strache (born 12 June 1969) is an Austrian politician, member of parliament, former member of the Vienna city council and political leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). He is a right-wing politician and an efficient populist. He prefers to call himself just 'HC' Strache.

Rise to national party leader[link]

Strache, who by training is a dental technician, has been active in the politics of Vienna since 1991. In 2004, he replaced Hilmar Kabas as the leader of the Vienna FPÖ. He had been considered a disciple of long-time national party leader Jörg Haider, but began to oppose him as the result of increased strife within the party in January 2005. After a series of losses in state elections, rumours spread that Strache would run for the office of national party leader against Haider's sister, Ursula Haubner. The high risk of Haubner's defeat was probably one of the events that induced Haider to set up a new party, the Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ). After the split, Strache was elected national party leader of the FPÖ on 23 April 2005.

State elections and the campaign in Vienna[link]

Since the split, the FPÖ's results in state elections have been mixed. While it dropped out of the Styria Landtag and was reduced to 5.7% in Burgenland, it surpassed expectations in the Vienna elections of October 2005. Strache himself was the leading candidate in Vienna, and the party received 14.9% of votes. Strache's campaign, included slogans such as:

• Wien darf nicht Istanbul werden (Vienna must not become Istanbul). A variation on an FPÖ slogan from the Haider era: Wien darf nicht Chicago werden. Vienna has a significant Turkish minority, the FPÖ is opposed to Turkish EU membership and it refers to the defeat of the Ottoman empire in the Battle of Vienna in 1683, a symbolic historic victory of the West over Islam.
• Daham statt Islam ("at home" [i.e., folks who are native to Austria], not Islam)
• Deutsch statt "nix verstehen" (German, not "no understand")
• Pummerin statt Muezzin (Pummerin, not muezzin). Pummerin is the main bell in St. Stephan's Cathedral in Vienna, and so a religious Christian symbol in Vienna.
• Heimat im Herzen (homeland at heart)
• Arbeit statt Zuwanderung (jobs, not immigration)

Jörg Haider said about Strache that if he, Haider, had run such a campaign, the press would have been all over him.

2010 Vienna Elections[link]

In the 2010 Vienna elections for mayor, city council, and district councils, Strache's party received 26% of the vote and increased their number of seats in the city council to 27. ^[1] His support was strongest among young people under 30. ^[2]

The campaign included slogans such as:

• Zu viel Fremdes tut niemandem gut. (Too many foreigners [or more literally: Too much foreign] does no one good)
• Wir bewahren unsere Heimatstadt. Die SPÖ macht sie uns fremd. (We maintain our homeland. The SPÖ makes it foreign.)
• Wir glauben an unsere Jugend. Die SPÖ an Zuwanderung. (We believe in our youth. The SPÖ in immigration.)
• Wir schützen freie Frauen. Die SPÖ den Kopftuchzwang (We protect women's rights. The SPÖ protects the compulsory veil.)
• Mehr Mut für unser Wiener Blut (More strength for our Viennese blood.)
• Uns, geht's um die Wiener (To us, it's about the Viennese)

Strache was once again accused of xenophobia during his campaign and responded formally in the press to the allegations. ^[3]

Neo-nazi allegations[link]

Stills taken from a video shot in the late 1980s were published in January 2007 showing a uniformed Strache allegedly participating in paramilitary training activities. Other people on the pictures were claimed to be known neo-Nazis. Strache has denied the allegations, claiming the pictures are of him playing paintball as an 18-year old. In his initial reaction, then Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer referred to the incident as a "folly of youth" (Jugendtorheit)^[4].^[5]

At the end of January, further pictures were published, allegedly showing Strache performing a Nazi salute (the Kühnen salute). Strache denied the allegations prior to publication of the pictures. After publication, Strache argued that the picture showed him ordering three beers and was not a Nazi salute. Austrian Jewish community leaders criticized the government for its lack of response.^[5]

References[link]

External links[link]

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