Black Maria is usually pronounced using the archaic pronunciation Mariah, rhyming with 'pariah', and is therefore sometimes written as "Black Mariah". It may refer to: Mariah is a female name of Middle Eastern ancestry. ...

Vehicles

• A "Black Maria" or a Paddywagon, a vehicle used by the police to transport prisoners.
• A hearse, esp. horse drawn
• The "Black Maria" was a three-unit experimental diesel-electric locomotive set fielded by the American Locomotive Company.
• The Sopwith Triplane of Canadian WWI ace Raymond Collishaw was named "Black Maria".
• An all-black HH-3E Jolly Green Giant that was used during the Vietnam War by the CIA had the nickname "Black Maria".

American paddywagon, Duluth, Minnesota, 1909 Paddywagon and Black Maria are slang terms for either a police car, or a police vehicle used to transport large groups of people who have been arrested. ... Alco and ALCO redirect here. ... Sopwith Triplane Sopwith Triplane in the Aero Space Museum of Calgary. ... Air Vice-Marshal Raymond Collishaw (November 22, 1893 - September 28, 1976) was the highest scoring Royal Naval Air Service flying ace and the second highest scoring Canadian pilot of World War I. Raymond Collishaw was born at Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada on 22nd November 1893. ... The Sikorsky S-61R is a developed version of the S-61/H-3 Sea King, which was also built under license by Agusta as the AS-61R. The S-61R served in the United States Air Force as the CH-3C/E and the HH-3E Jolly Green Giant... Combatants Republic of Vietnam United States Republic of Korea Thailand Australia New Zealand The Philippines National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam Democratic Republic of Vietnam People’s Republic of China Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea Strength US 1,000,000 South Korea 300,000 Australia 48,000... The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ...

Media

• Black Mariah, an English electro-rock band.
• The Black Maria, a Canadian rock band.
• "Black Maria", a song by Todd Rundgren.
• "Big Black Mariah", a song by Tom Waits.
• Black Maria, a cartoon collection by Charles Addams
• The Black Mariah, a 1994 novel by Jay R. Bonansinga.
• Black Maria, the 1991 novel by Diana Wynne Jones.
• "Black Maria", a legend written on the side of the truck driven by the hero of the original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre movie.
• "Black Maria", the name of an independent film and video festival.
• Black Maria, an independent animation studio in Spain: http://www.blackmaria.es

The Black Maria is a rock band from Toronto, Canada. ... A song is a relatively short musical composition. ... Todd Harry Rundgren (born June 22, 1948 in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, USA), is an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. ... A song is a relatively short musical composition. ... Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. ... Charles Samuel Addams (January 7, 1912 - September 28, 1988) was an American cartoonist known for his particularly black humor and macabre characters. ... Diana Wynne Jones (born London August 16, 1934) is a British writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and adults, as well as a small amount of non-fiction. ... The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a 1973 American horror film, written, directed and produced by Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel, who had writing credits. ...

Other

• "Black Maria" juicy chewing tobacco that comes in a brick. Sold at Food Lion in sections of Soutwestern Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee.
• The "Black Maria" film studio created by Thomas Edison. See Edison's Black Maria.
• "The Black Maria" was the nickname of a guitarist from local Adelaide band "The Committee of Public Safety", Commonly Known as "C.O.P.S.".
• Black Maria is a card game, also called Black Lady, a British variant of Hearts, requiring slightly different tactics. Passing is always to the person on the right, hearts may be led at any time apart from the first round (which gives an advantage to the player with the 2♥) and the scores are Q♠ 15, A♥ 5, K♥ 4, Q♥ 3, J♥ 2, with all other hearts one each.
• The phrase "Black Maria" comes up in the song "The Guns of Brixton" by the British punk band The Clash: You know it means no mercy/They caught him with a gun/No need for the Black Maria/Goodbye to the Brixton sun.
• The song "Afterhours" by The Sisters of Mercy contains the lyrics "One more night spent on your mirror, Black Maria, in your eyes / This stuff so strange and lonely, England fades away, In your eyes".
• The song "The Edison Museum" by They Might Be Giants uses the phrase "Black Maria": "Just outside the gate/I look into the courtyard,/Underneath a gathering thunderstorm./Through the iron bars/I see the Black Maria/Revolving slowly on its platform."
• The song "Hang 'Em High" by My Chemical Romance contains the lyrics "The angels just cut out her tongue, call her Black Mariah"
• Referenced as a paddy wagon in "Saturday Night Fishfry" by R&B artist Louis Jordan.

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