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marine insurance: contract whereby, for a consideration stipulated to be paid by one interested in a ship or cargo that is subject to the risks of marine navigation, another undertakes to indemnify ...
marine phosphorescence: heatless light generated chemically by marine plants and animals. Bioluminescence is exhibited by a wide variety of oceanic organisms, from bacteria to large squids and fish. The light is emitted ...
marine sediment: any deposit of insoluble material, primarily rock and soil particles, transported from land areas to the ocean by wind, ice, and rivers, as well as the remains of marine organisms, ...
marine style: an innovation in the embellishment of Cretan pottery, developed around 1500 BC and characterized by the depiction of octopuses and other sea creatures. Possibly originating at Knossos, marine style pottery ...
marine terrace: a rock terrace formed where a sea cliff, with a wave-cut platform (q.v.) before it, is raised above sea level. Such terraces are found in California, Oregon, Chile, and Gibraltar ...
marine worm: any of the segmented worms constituting the class Polychaeta. See polychaete.
Marineland of Florida: world's first oceanarium, located about 20 miles (32 km) south of St. Augustine, Florida, U.S. The facility was opened to the public in 1938 and was originally called Marine Studios. ...
Marineland of the Pacific: former large, commercially operated oceanarium at Rancho Palos Verdes near Los Angeles. It was opened in 1954 following the overwhelming success of Marineland in Florida. The aquarium had the world's ...
Mariner: any of a series of unmanned U.S. space probes sent to the vicinities of Venus, Mars, and Mercury. Mariners 2 (launched 1962) and 5 (1967) passed Venus within 35,000 and ...
Mariners' Museum: museum in Newport News, Virginia, founded in 1930 by the author Archer M. Huntington and his wife, Anna, and devoted to the "culture of the sea." Its notable collections include ...
Marinette: city, seat (1879) of Marinette county, northeastern Wisconsin, U.S. It is a port of entry at the mouth of the Menominee River, opposite Menominee, Michigan, on Green Bay of Lake ...
Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso: Italian-French prose writer, novelist, poet, and dramatist, the ideological founder of Futurism (q.v.), an early 20th-century literary, artistic, and political movement.
Maring: city, northwestern Parana state, southern Brazil. It lies on the Parana Plateau, at an elevation of 169 feet (52 metres) above sea level. Maringa grew rapidly after its founding in ...
Marini, Marino: Italian artist who was instrumental in the revival of the art of portrait sculpture in Italy during the first half of the 20th century.
Marinid Dynasty: Berber dynasty that replaced Almohad rule in Morocco and temporarily in other parts of northern Africa during the 13th-15th centuries.
Marinism: (Italian: "17th century"), style of the 17th-century poet Giambattista Marino (q.v.) as it first appeared in part three of La lira (1614; "The Lyre"). Marinism, a reaction against classicism, was ...
Marinkovic, Vojislav: influential statesman and eloquent spokesman for Serbia and later Yugoslavia in the early 20th century.
Marino: town, Roma province, Lazio (Latium) region, central Italy, in the Colli Albani (Alban Hills) near Lago (lake) Albano, southeast of Rome. Near the site of the ancient Castrimoenium, the town ...
Marino, Giambattista: Italian poet, founder of the school of Marinism (later Secentismo), which dominated 17th-century Italian poetry. Marino's own work, praised throughout Europe, far surpassed that of his imitators, who carried his ...
Marinot, Maurice: French painter and glassmaker who was one of the first 20th-century glassworkers to exploit the aesthetic qualities of weight and mass and one of the first to incorporate bubbles and ...
Marinus I: pope from 882 to 884. He was a deacon when, in 869, Pope Adrian II sent him as emissary to the fourth Council of Constantinople, which condemned Patriarch St. Photius ...
Marinus II: pope from 942 to 946. He was a priest when nominated by the senator Alberic II, marquess of Spoleto. Marinus' pontificate was subsequently dictated by Alberic. He managed, however, to ...
Mario, Giovanni Matteo: Italian romantic tenor, known for his striking good looks, grace, and charm as well as for the beauty and range of his voice.
Mariology: in Christian, especially Roman Catholic, theology, the study of doctrines concerning Mary, the mother of Jesus; the term also refers to the content of these doctrines.
Marion: city, seat (1822) of Perry county, west-central Alabama, U.S. It is situated near the Cahaba River, about midway between Tuscaloosa (northwest) and Montgomery (southeast). Settled in 1817, it was known ...
Marion: county, eastern South Carolina, U.S. It is situated between the Little and Great Pee Dee rivers to the east and west, respectively; the rivers join at the county's southern tip. ...
Marion: city, seat (1824) of Marion county, north central Ohio, U.S., 45 miles (72 km) north of Columbus. Laid out about 1820, it was first called Jacob's Well (for Jacob Foos, ...
Marion: city, seat (1831) of Grant county, north-central Indiana, U.S., on the Mississinewa River, 67 miles (108 km) northeast of Indianapolis. Settled in 1826, it was named for General Francis Marion ...
Marion Island: one of the two Prince Edward Islands in the southern Indian Ocean, about 1,190 miles (1,920 km) southeast of Cape Town. In 1947 South Africa proclaimed sovereignty of the islands ...
Marion, Frances: American motion picture screenwriter whose 25-year career spanned the silent and sound eras.
Marion, Francis: colonial American soldier in the American Revolution (1775-83), nicknamed the "Swamp Fox" by the British for his elusive tactics.
marionette: any of several types of puppet figures manipulated from above by strings or threads attached to a control. In a simple marionette, the strings are attached in nine places: to ...
Mariotte, Edme: French physicist and plant physiologist who, independent of Robert Boyle, discovered the law that states that the volume of a gas varies inversely with its pressure. Although widely known as ...
mariposa lily: (genus Calochortus), tuliplike perennial plants of the lily family (Liliaceae), consisting of about 40 species native to western North America. They have simple or somewhat branched stems, 15 to 130 ...
Maris, Jacob: Dutch landscape painter who, with his brothers Matthijs and Willem, formed what has come to be known as the Hague school of painters, influenced by both the 17th-century Dutch masters ...
Maris, Matthijs: Dutch painter, brother of Jacob and Willem Maris, noted for his movement away from the Realism of the Hague school toward a more symbolic expression. He was without doubt the ...
Maris, Roger: professional baseball player whose one-season total of 61 home runs (1961) was the highest recorded in the major leagues until 1998. As this feat was accomplished in a 162-game schedule, ...
Mariscal Estigarribia: town, northern Paraguay. It lies in the sparsely settled Chaco Boreal region, on the bank of Mosquitos Creek, which drains into the Paraguay River. Until 1945 it was a military ...
Marisol: American sculptor of boxlike figurative works combining wood and other materials and often grouped as tableaux.
Marist Brother: a Roman Catholic congregation of teaching brothers founded near Lyon, Fr., on Jan. 2, 1817, by Marcellin Champagnat for the Christian education of French youth. In 1836 several brothers accompanied ...
Marist Father: a Roman Catholic religious congregation founded in 1816 in the diocese of Belley, Fr., by Jean-Claude Courveille and Jean-Claude-Marie Colin to undertake all ministerial works-parishes, schools, hospital chaplaincies, and the ...
Maritain, Jacques: Roman Catholic philosopher, respected both for his interpretation of the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas and for his own Thomist philosophy.
marital exchange: system of mate recruitment in which specific families, groups of families, tribes, or segments of a tribe are designated as those groups from which one must choose a spouse. See ...
Maritime: economic region, southern Togo, West Africa, bordering the Plateaux region on the north, Benin on the east, the Gulf of Guinea on the south, and Ghana on the west. The ...
maritime air mass: vast body of air of oceanic origin; also, an air mass (q.v.) that has had a long trajectory over water and has been so modified that it has the characteristics ...
Maritime Alps: segment of the Western Alps extending in an arc along the French-Italian border for 120 mi (190 km) between two passes, the Colle di Cadibona (east) and Colle della Maddalena ...
maritime law: the body of legal rules that governs ships and shipping.
Maritime Provinces: the Canadian Atlantic Coast-Gulf of St. Lawrence provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. With Newfoundland they form the Atlantic Provinces. During the French period much of ...
Maritsa River: river in Bulgaria, rising in the Rila Mountains southeast of Sofia on the north face of Musala Peak. It flows east and southeast across Bulgaria for 170 miles (275 km), ...
Maritsa River, Battle of the: (Sept. 26, 1371), Ottoman Turk victory over Serbian forces that allowed the Turks to extend their control over southern Serbia and Macedonia. After the Ottoman sultan Murad I (reigned 1360-89) ...
Maritz, Salomon Gerhardus: general and rebel who was an ardent believer in the Boer nationalist cause in South Africa. He fought against the British in the South African War (Boer War; 1899-1902) and ...
Mariupol: city, Donetsk oblast (province), Ukraine. It lies along the estuary of the Kalmius and Kalchik rivers, 6 miles (10 km) from the Sea of Azov. The original 18th-century settlement of ...
Marius, Gaius: Roman general and politician, consul seven times (107, 104-100, 86 BC), who was the first Roman to illustrate the political support that a successful general could derive from the votes ...
Marius, Simon: German astronomer who named the four largest moons of Jupiter: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. All four are named after mythological figures with whom Jupiter fell in love. He and ...
Marivaux, Pierre: French dramatist, novelist, and journalist whose comedies are, after those of Moliere, the most frequently performed in today's French theatre.
Marj 'Uyun: town, southern Lebanon, lying on a fertile plain east of Al-Litani River, at an elevation of 2,500 feet (760 m) above sea level. Marj 'Uyun is an agricultural market centre ...
Marj, Al-: town, northeastern Libya, on Al-Marj plain at the western edge of the Akhdar Mountains, near the Mediterranean coast. Site of the 6th-century-BC Greek colony of Barce, it was taken by ...
marjoram: (species Majorana hortensis), perennial herb of the mint family (Lamiaceae, or Labiatae) or its fresh or dried leaves and flowering tops, used to flavour many foods. Its taste is warm, ...
mark: former monetary unit of Germany.
mark system: penal method developed about 1840 by Alexander Maconochie at the English penal colony of Norfolk Island (located east of Australia). Instead of serving fixed sentences, prisoners there were held until ...
Mark The Hermit: theological polemicist and author of works on Christian asceticism notable for their psychological insight and for their influence on later monastic history and literature. To some scholars, elements of his ...
Mark, Mary Ellen: American photojournalist whose compelling, empathetic images document the lives of marginalized people in the United States and other countries.
Mark, Saint: traditional author of the second Synoptic Gospel. Data on his life found in the New Testament are fragmentary, and most of their historicity has been questioned by critical investigation. The ...
Mark, Saint: pope from Jan. 18 (?) to Oct. 7, 336. He is credited with having given the bishops of Ostia the right to consecrate new popes. He may have been the ...
Mark, The Gospel According to: second of the four New Testament Gospels (narratives recounting the life and death of Jesus Christ), and, with Matthew and Luke, one of the three Synoptic Gospels (i.e., those presenting ...
Markandaya, Kamala: Indian novelist whose works concern the struggles of contemporary Indians with conflicting Eastern and Western values.
Markelius, Sven: eminent Swedish architect who introduced the International Style into Sweden in the 1920s.
Marken: island and gemeente (commune), Noord-Holland provincie, west-central Netherlands, within the IJsselmeer. Lying some 11 miles (17 km) northeast of Amsterdam, Marken was separated from the mainland in the 13th century ...
marker bed: a bed of rock strata that are readily distinguishable by reason of physical characteristics and are traceable over large horizontal distances. Stratigraphic examples include coal beds and beds of volcanic ...
market: a means by which the exchange of goods and services takes place as a result of buyers and sellers being in contact with one another, either directly or through mediating ...
Market Harborough: town, Harborough district, administrative county of Leicestershire, England, on the River Welland. The part of the town north of the Welland, including the historic core, lies within the historic county ...
market research: study of the requirements of various markets, the acceptability of products, and methods of developing or exploiting new markets. A variety of techniques is employed, depending on the purpose of ...
market socialism: economic system representing a compromise between socialist planning and free enterprise, in which enterprises are publicly owned but production and consumption are guided by market forces rather than by government ...
marketing: the sum of activities involved in directing the flow of goods and services from producers to consumers.
marketing board: organization set up by a government to regulate the buying and selling of a certain commodity within a specified area. An example is the former Cocoa Marketing Board of Nigeria ...
Markham River: river in eastern Papua New Guinea. The swift but shallow and unnavigable stream rises on the Finisterre Range and receives the Erap River, coursing south from the Saruwaged Range, and ...