lake fed and drained by the Shire River in southern Malawi. It lies in a broken depression running northwest from Lake Chilwa to Lake Nyasa, parallel to the Shire Rift ...
American basketball player, who owns the National Basketball Association (NBA) career record for free throws attempted (13,188) and made (9,787). He is also second in career points scored (36,928), field ...
American professional basketball player, who was the dominating centre and premier offensive rebounder in the National Basketball Association (NBA) during the 1980s. He led the Philadelphia 76ers to a championship ...
(HO2CCH2CO2H), a dibasic organic acid whose diethyl ester is used in syntheses of vitamins B1 and B6, barbiturates, and numerous other valuable compounds.
wojewodztwo (province), southern Poland. It is bounded by the provinces of Swietokrzyskie to the north, Podkarpackie to the east, and Slaskie to the west. The country of ...
English writer whose identity remains uncertain but whose name is famous as that of the author of Le Morte Darthur (q.v.), the first prose account in English of the rise ...
mountain range, northern Lesotho. The term as generally used outside Lesotho refers to a particular range that trends off to the southwest from the Great Escarpment of the Drakensberg Range, ...
arm of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, indenting the northwestern coast of Prince Edward Island, Canada. The inlet, 12 miles (19 km) long and up to 10 miles (16 km) ...
Italian physician and biologist who, in developing experimental methods to study living things, founded the science of microscopic anatomy. After Malpighi's researches, microscopic anatomy became a prerequisite for advances in ...
in insects, any of the excretory organs that lie in the abdominal body cavity and empty into the junction between midgut and hindgut. In species having few malpighian tubules, they ...
(Sept. 11, 1709), the duke of Marlborough's last great battle in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14). It was fought near the village of Malplaquet (now on the French ...
French novelist, art historian, and statesman, who became an active supporter of General Charles de Gaulle and, after de Gaulle was elected president in 1958, served for 10 years as ...
grain product that is used in beverages and foods as a basis for fermentation and to add flavour and nutrients. Malt is prepared from cereal grain by allowing partial germination ...
country located in the central Mediterranean Sea. It is a small archipelago but a strategically important group of islands. Throughout a long and turbulent history, the archipelago has played a ...
enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of the disaccharide maltose to the simple sugar glucose. The enzyme is found in plants, bacteria, and yeast; in humans and other vertebrates it is ...
breed of toy dog named for the island of Malta, where it may have originated about 2,800 years ago. Delicate in appearance but usually vigorous, healthy, affectionate, and lively, the ...
type of guipure lace (in which the design is held together by bars, or brides, rather than net) introduced into Malta in 1833 by Genoese laceworkers. It was similar to ...
Semitic language of the Southern Central group spoken on the island of Malta. Maltese developed from a dialect of Arabic and is closely related to the western Arabic dialects of ...
English economist and demographer who is best known for his theory that population growth will always tend to outrun the food supply and that betterment of humankind is impossible without ...
town, Ryedale district, administrative county of North Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, England. On the site of an early British settlement and later a Roman fort and town (Derventio) on ...
propinsi (province) of the Maluccas island group, eastern Indonesia. In 1999 the northern half of Maluku province was made into the separate North Maluku (Maluku Utara) province. The Moluccas group ...
French physicist who discovered that light, when reflected, becomes partially plane polarized; i.e., its rays vibrate in the same plane. His observation led to a better understanding of the propagation ...
the mallow family, a large group of flowering plants, in the order Malvales, containing about 95 genera of herbs, shrubs, and trees. Representatives occur in all except the coldest parts ...
mallow order of dicotyledonous flowering plants, a division of the subclass Dilleniidae. The plants grow in various habitats throughout much of the world, and a number of members are important ...
(1597), agreement made between the Portuguese and the native chiefs of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). The chiefs swore allegiance to the king of Portugal and, in return, were assured that ...
district, administrative county of Worcestershire, western England. The district lies almost entirely within the historic county of Worcestershire, except for a small area between Leigh Sinton and Acton Green that ...
prime minister of Southern Rhodesia (1933-53) and architect of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, which he served as its first prime minister (1953-56).
historic province comprising a large portion of eastern Madhya Pradesh state and parts of southeastern Rajasthan state, west central India. Strictly, the name is confined to the hilly tableland bounded ...
17th-century school of Rajasthani miniature painting centred largely in Malwa and Bundelkhand (in modern Madhya Pradesh state); it is sometimes referred to as Central Indian painting on the basis of ...
alluvial plains in central Punjab state, northern India, between the Ghaggar and Sutlej rivers south of the Bist Doab (plain). The Malwa Plains are named for the Malloi peoples (Malavas) ...
plateau in north central India, bounded by the Gujarat Plains on the west, the Vindhya Range on the south, the Madhya Bharat Plateau and Bundelkhand Upland on the north, and ...
village, Westchester county, New York, U.S. It is located on Long Island Sound, just northeast of New Rochelle, astride the border separating the towns (townships) of Mamaroneck and Rye. Although ...
American vocal quartet whose intricate harmonies brought them to the forefront of the folk rock movement of the 1960s. The original members were John Phillips (b. August 30, 1935, Parris ...
any of four species of large arboreal venomous snakes that live throughout sub-Saharan Africa in tropical rainforest and savanna. Mambas are slender, agile, and quick and are active during the ...
river in Indonesian Irian Jaya, northwestern New Guinea. Formed by the confluence of the Taritatu (Idenburg) and Tariku (Rouffaer) rivers, which converge in a large wild sago swamp, it flows ...
Italian poet and patriot of the Risorgimento and author of the Italian anthem "Inno di Mameli" ("Mameli Hymn"), popularly known as "Fratelli d'Italia" ("Brothers of Italy").
(from mamaruca, Indian for "half-breed"), in colonial Brazil, especially in the Sao Paulo district, a person of mixed Indian and white ancestry. The reputation of mamelucos for cruelty toward Indians, ...
band of mercenaries from Campania, in Italy, who, by a shift in alliances, touched off the First Punic War between Rome and Carthage (264-241 BC). Their name was derived from ...
Roman official, author of a panegyric on the emperor Julian delivered at Constantinople in AD 362 in the form of a gratiarum actio (thanksgiving) for the orator's elevation to the ...
American playwright, director, and screenwriter noted for his often desperate working-class characters and for his distinctive, colloquial, and frequently profane dialogue.
slave soldier, a member of one of the armies of slaves that won political control of several Muslim states during the Middle Ages. Under the Ayyubid sultanate, Mamluk generals used ...
any member of the group of vertebrate animals in which the young are nourished with milk from special mammary glands of the mother. In addition to these characteristic milk glands, ...
scientific study of mammals. Interest in nonhuman mammals dates far back in prehistory, and the modern science of mammalogy has its broad foundation in the knowledge of mammals possessed by ...
milk-producing gland characteristic of all female mammals and present in a rudimentary and generally nonfunctional form in males. Mammary glands are regulated by the endocrine system and become functional in ...
fruit of Mammea americana, a large, primarily West Indian tree of the garcinia family (Clusiaceae), with opposite, leathery, gland-dotted leaves; white, sweet-scented, short-stalked, solitary or clustered axillary flowers; and yellow ...
(genus Mammillaria), any member of a large genus (more than 200 species) of low-growing cacti, native to the Western Hemisphere but concentrated in Mexico. It includes pincushion, fishhook, snowball, bird's-nest, ...
(genus Mammuthus), any member of an extinct class of elephants found as fossils in Pleistocene deposits over every continent except Australia and South America (the Pleistocene epoch ...
national park containing an extensive system of limestone caverns, in west-central Kentucky, U.S.; it was designated a World Heritage site in 1981. The park, authorized in 1926 but fully established ...
(species Drepanis pacifica), Hawaiian songbird of the family Drepanididae (order Passeriformes), which became extinct in about 1898. About 20 cm (8 inches) long, it was black with yellow touches and ...
river in north-central Bolivia. It is formed by headwaters, chiefly the Grande River, which arise in Andean cordilleras and drain the Moxos (Mojos) plain, an ancient lake bed. The Mamore ...
town, west-central Guinea. Located on the Conakry-Kankan railway and at the intersection of roads from Kindia, Dalaba, Dabola, and Faranah, Mamou was founded in 1908 as a collecting point on ...
theatrical and motion-picture director noted for his contribution to the development of cinematic art at the beginning of the sound era. His achievements include the skillful blending of music and ...
a people who inhabit the area between the White Volta and Nasia rivers in northern Ghana. The Mamprusi speak different dialects of More-Gurma (Moore-Gurma) of the Gur (Voltaic) branch of ...
town, western Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). The town is situated along the Ko River, in a mountainous area (Massif de Man) on the eastern edge of the Nimba Range. There ...
(foaled 1917), probably the most famous American racehorse (Thoroughbred), overwhelmingly voted, in an Associated Press poll taken in 1950, the greatest horse of the first half of the 20th century. ...
(species Aceras anthropophorum), the only species in the genus Aceras, plant family Orchidaceae. It is native to grasslands of Great Britain, Eurasia, and northern Africa. The man orchid derives its ...
(Japanese: "Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves"), oldest (c. 759) and greatest of the imperial anthologies of Japanese poetry. Among the 4,500 poems are some from the 7th century and perhaps ...
one of the British Isles, located in the Irish Sea off the northwest coast of England. The island lies roughly equidistant between England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. The Isle of ...
city in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, China. It is situated on the border opposite the Russian town of Zabaykalsk and lies 100 miles (160 km) west of Hailar and ...
(species Nomeus gronovii), small marine fish of the family Nomeidae (order Perciformes; sometimes placed in family Stromateidae), noted for living unharmed among the stinging tentacles of the Portuguese man-of-war jellyfish ...
town, northwestern French Guiana, on the south bank of the Mana River, near its mouth on the Atlantic coast. It originated in 1830 around an orphanage founded by a French ...
among Melanesian and Polynesian peoples, a supernatural force or power that may be ascribed to persons, spirits, or inanimate objects. Mana may be either good or evil, beneficial or dangerous. ...
city, capital of Sulawesi Utara (North Celebes) provinsi (province), Indonesia, located near the tip of the north-northeastern arm of Celebes island on an inlet of the Celebes ...
application of economic principles to decision-making in business firms or of other management units. The basic concepts are derived mainly from microeconomic theory, which studies the behaviour of individual consumers, ...
city, capital of Nicaragua, lying amid small crater lakes on the southern shore of Lake Managua. One of Central America's warmest capitals, the city is only 163 feet (50 metres) ...
town, southeastern Madagascar. It is situated along the Indian Ocean and the Pangalanes Canal. An old fishing village, it became a thriving Indian Ocean port after a railway was constructed ...
the common name given to about 50 to 60 species of small, stubby, generally short-tailed birds abundant in American tropical forests. Manakins are short-billed birds that range in size from ...
