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Malay language: member of the Western, or Indonesian, branch of the Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) language family, spoken as a native language by more than 33,000,000 persons distributed over the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, ...
Malay Peninsula: in Southeast Asia, a long, narrow appendix of the mainland extending south for a distance of about 700 miles (1,127 km) through the Isthmus of Kra to Cape Balai, southernmost ...
Malayalam language: language of the Dravidian family, spoken in southwestern India; it is the official language of the state of Kerala. Malayalam has three important regional dialects and a number of smaller ...
Malayan Emergency: (1948-60), period of unrest following the creation of the Federation of Malaya (precursor of Malaysia) in 1948.
Malayan lar: species of gibbon (q.v.).
Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army: guerrilla movement formed originally to oppose the Japanese occupation of Malaya during World War II. In December 1941 a rapid Japanese invasion commenced, and within 10 weeks it had conquered ...
Malaysia: country of Southeast Asia, composed of two noncontiguous regions: Peninsular, or West, Malaysia on the Malay Peninsula and East Malaysia on the island of Borneo. Malaysia has a total area ...
Malbone, Edward Greene: painter generally regarded as the greatest American miniaturist.
Malbork: city, Pomorskie wojewodztwo (province), northern Poland. It lies on the Nogat River, the easternmost distributary of the Vistula River delta. The town was founded on the site ...
malcoha: any of several species of cuckoos of southern Asia, especially members of the genus Rhopodytes (often placed in Phaenicophaeus). Malcohas are noted for having a long tail, a stout bill ...
Malcolm I: king of the Picts and Scots (Alba).
Malcolm II: king of Scotland from 1005 to 1034, the first to reign over an extent of land roughly corresponding to much of modern Scotland.
Malcolm III Canmore: king of Scotland from 1058 to 1093, founder of the dynasty that consolidated royal power in the Scottish kingdom.
Malcolm IV: king of Scotland (1153-65).
Malcolm X: black militant leader who articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the early 1960s. After his assassination, the widespread distribution of his life story-The Autobiography of Malcolm X ...
Malczewski, Antoni: one of the first Polish Romantic poets. His single, superb poem gave him a lasting reputation in Polish literature.
Malda: town, north-central West Bengal state, northeastern India. It lies just east of the confluence of the Mahananda and Kalindri rivers and is part of the English Bazar urban agglomeration. The ...
Malden: city, Middlesex county, eastern Massachusetts, U.S. A northern suburb of Boston, it lies along the Malden River, a branch of the Mystic River. Settled in 1640, it became a part ...
Malden Island: coral atoll in the Central and Southern Line Islands, part of Kiribati, southwestern Pacific Ocean. It is situated 1,700 miles (2,700 km) south of Honolulu. A level formation with a ...
Maldives: independent island nation consisting of a chain of about 1,200 small coral islands and sandbanks (some 200 of which are inhabited), grouped in clusters, or atolls, in the Indian Ocean. ...
Maldon: town and district, administrative and historic county of Essex, England. The town site, on the south side of the Blackwater estuary, was occupied in prehistoric times, and a burgh was ...
Maldonado: town, southeastern Uruguay. It lies near the Atlantic coast, 67 miles (107 km) east of Montevideo, and just northwest of the resort city of Punta del Este. Founded in 1757, ...
Male: island and atoll, capital of the Maldives, Indian Ocean. It lies on Male Atoll, about 400 miles (645 km) southwest of Sri Lanka. As the seat of government for the ...
Malebo Pool: lakelike expansion of the lower Congo River above Livingstone Falls, between the Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) to the west and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa) to the ...
Malebranche, Nicolas: French Roman Catholic priest, theologian, and major philosopher of Cartesianism, the school of philosophy arising from the work of Rene Descartes. His philosophy sought to synthesize Cartesianism with the thought ...
Malecite: Algonkian-speaking Indians who occupied the Saint John valley in what is now New Brunswick, Canada, and also extended into the northeastern corner of what is now the U.S. state of ...
Malegaon: town, northwestern Maharashtra state, western India, on the Girna River, part of the Nasik urban agglomeration, on the Bombay-Agra highway. An important market for agricultural produce, it was an early ...
maleic acid: unsaturated organic dibasic acid, used in making polyesters for fibre-reinforced laminated moldings and paint vehicles, and in the manufacture of fumaric acid and many other chemical products. Maleic acid and ...
Malenkov, Georgy Maksimilianovich: prominent Soviet statesman and Communist Party official, a close collaborator of Joseph Stalin, and the prime minister (March 1953-February 1955) after Stalin's death.
Malesherbes, Chretien Guillaume de Lamoignon de: lawyer and royal administrator who attempted, with limited success, to introduce reforms into France's autocratic regime during the reigns of Kings Louis XV (ruled 1715-74) and Louis XVI (ruled 1774-92).
Malet, Claude-Francois de: French general who conspired against Napoleon and attempted an almost successful coup d'etat on October 22-23, 1812.
Malevich, Kazimir: Russian painter, who was the founder of the Suprematist school of abstract painting.
malformation: in biology, irregular or abnormal structural development. Malformations occur in both plants and animals and have a number of causes.
Malherbe, Daniel Francois: South African novelist, poet, and dramatist whose work helped establish Afrikaans as the cultural language of South Africa. He published many volumes of poetry and drama but is known primarily ...
Malherbe, Francois de: French poet who described himself as un excellent arrangeur de syllabes and theoretician whose insistence upon strict form, restraint, and purity of diction prepared the way for French Classicism.
Malheur River: river rising in the Strawberry Mountain Wilderness on the southern slopes of the Blue Mountains in the Malheur National Forest, Oregon, U.S. It flows southeast, north, and northeast to join ...
Mali: trading empire that flourished in West Africa from the 13th to the 16th century. The Mali empire developed from the state of Kangaba, on the Upper Niger River east of ...
Mali: town, northern Guinea. Located on the Fouta Djallon plateau at an elevation of about 4,600 feet (1,400 m), it is the chief trading centre for the cattle, rice, millet, oranges, ...
Mali: landlocked state in central western Africa. Bounded on the north by Algeria, on the east by Niger and Burkina Faso, on the south by Cote d'Ivoire and Guinea, and on ...
Mali Federation: short-lived union between the autonomous territories of the Sudanese Republic and Senegal in West Africa. The federation took effect on April 4, 1959, achieved complete independence on June 20, 1960 ...
Mali River: river, rising in the hills near the northern border of Myanmar (Burma) and flowing about 200 miles (320 km) south to unite with the Nmai River and form the Irrawaddy ...
Mali, history of: history of the area from prehistoric and ancient times to the present.
Malibran, Maria: Spanish mezzo-soprano of exceptional vocal range, power, and agility.
Malibu: city and beach community in Los Angeles county, southern California, U.S. With 21 miles (34 km) of coastline, Malibu lies along the Pacific Coast Highway just west-northwest of Santa Monica. ...
Malik ibn Anas: Muslim legist who played an important role in formulating early Islamic legal doctrines.
Malik, Adam: Indonesian statesman and nationalist political leader.
Malik-Shah: third and most famous of the Seljuq sultans.
Malikiyah: in Islam, one of the four Sunni schools of law, formerly the ancient school of Medina. Founded in the 8th century and based on the teachings of the imam Malik ...
Malinke: a West African people occupying parts of Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal, The Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau. They speak a Mandekan language of the Mande branch of the Niger-Congo family.
Malinovsky, Rodion Yakovlevich: Soviet marshal prominent in World War II.
Malinowski, Bronislaw: one of the most important anthropologists of the 20th century who is widely recognized as the founder of social anthropology and principally associated with field studies of the peoples of ...
Malipiero, Gian Francesco: Italian composer whose music represented a fusion of modern techniques with the stylistic qualities of early Italian music.
Mall, the: in Washington, D.C., broad promenade and greensward extending westward from the Capitol to the Potomac River beyond the Lincoln Memorial. The Mall is as wide (in the north-south dimension) as ...
mallard: abundant "wild duck" of the Northern Hemisphere that is the ancestor of most domestic ducks. Breeding throughout Europe, most of Asia, and northern North America, mallards winter as far south ...
Mallarme, Francois-Rene-Auguste: French revolutionist, briefly president of the Convention in 1793.
Mallarme, Stephane: French poet, an originator (with Paul Verlaine) and a leader of the Symbolist movement in poetry.
Mallas: tribal people in the time of the Buddha (c. 6th-4th century BC), who settled in the northern parts of modern Bihar state, in India. Their two most important towns were ...
Malle, Louis: French motion-picture director whose eclectic films were noted for their emotional realism and stylistic simplicity.
Mallea, Eduardo: Argentine novelist, essayist, and short-story writer whose psychological novels won critical acclaim.
mallee: a scrubland vegetation found in southern Australia. It is composed primarily of woody shrubs and trees of the genus Eucalyptus. These evergreen plants have leathery, thick leaves that prevent water ...
Mallee: region of northwestern Victoria, Australia. It occupies about 16,000 square miles (41,000 square km) between the Wimmera and Murray rivers, and its climate is semiarid, with only 10-12 inches (250-300 ...
Mallet-Joris, Francoise: Belgian author, of French nationality by marriage, one of the leading contemporary exponents of the traditional French novel of psychological love analysis. Her father was a statesman and her mother, ...
Mallet-Stevens, Robert: French architect known principally for his modernistic works in France during the 1920s and '30s.
Malleus maleficarum: detailed legal and theological document (c. 1486) regarded as the standard handbook on witchcraft, including its detection and its extirpation, until well into the 18th century. Its appearance did much ...
Mallin, Harry: British boxer, the first man to successfully defend an Olympic boxing title. Mallin was one of the dominant middleweight fighters of his generation. In addition to his Olympic triumphs, he ...
Mallory, George: British explorer and mountaineer who was a leading member of early expeditions to Mount Everest. His disappearance on that mountain in 1924 became one of the most celebrated mysteries of ...
Mallory, Molla: Norwegian-born U.S. tennis player who was the only woman to win the U.S. singles championship eight times. She defeated Suzanne Lenglen of France for the U.S. title in 1921, the ...
mallow: any of several flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae, especially those of the genera Hibiscus and Malva. Hibiscus species include the great rose mallow (H. grandiflorus), with large white ...
Mallowan, Sir Max: British archaeologist who made major contributions as an excavator and educator.
Malmedy: commune, Liege province, eastern Belgium. It is situated in the northern Ardennes, along the Warche River, southeast of Liege. Malmedy was established in the 7th century around a monastery founded ...
Malmesbury: town ("parish"), North Wiltshire district, administrative and historic county of Wiltshire, England. It is situated on a ridge between the River Avon and a tributary. The town, one of the ...
Malmo: city and port, seat of Skane lan (county), southern Sweden. It is located across The Sound (Oresund) from Copenhagen, Denmark. The city was the capital of Malmohus ...
Malmohus: former lan (county) of extreme southern Sweden, bounded by the Baltic Sea, The Sound (Oresund), and the Kattegat (strait). Founded as a county in 1719, it was merged with the ...
malnutrition: physical condition resulting either from a faulty or inadequate diet (i.e., a diet that does not supply normal quantities of all nutrients) or from a physical inability to absorb or ...
Malo: island of Vanuatu, in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, 3 miles (5 km) south of Espiritu Santo. Volcanic in origin, it has a circumference of 34 miles (55 km) and occupies ...
Malolos: town, south-central Luzon, Philippines. It lies at the head of the Pampanga River delta, near the northern shore of Manila Bay. During a revolt against U.S. administration, the insurgent congress ...