Czechoslovak-born British publisher who built an international communications empire. His financial risks led him into grand fraud and an apparent suicide.
a description of the statistical distribution of the energies of the molecules of a classical gas. This distribution was first set forth by the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell in ...
in medieval and modern Europe, holiday (May 1) for the celebration of the return of spring. The observance probably originated in ancient agricultural rituals, and the Greeks and Romans held ...
intellectual revolution and sociopolitical reform movement that occurred in China in 1917-21. The movement was directed toward national independence, emancipation of the individual, and rebuilding society and culture.
(1925), in China, a nationwide series of strikes and demonstrations precipitated by the killing of 13 labour demonstrators by British police in Shanghai. This was the largest anti-foreign demonstration China ...
German author of travel and adventure stories for young people, dealing with desert Arabs or with American Indians in the wild West, remarkable for the realistic detail that the author ...
Mesoamerican Indians occupying a nearly continuous territory in southern Mexico, Guatemala, and northern Belize. In the early 21st century some 70 Mayan languages were spoken by more than five million ...
(Sanskrit: "wizardry," or "illusion"), a fundamental concept in Hindu philosophy, notably, in the Advaita (Nondualist) school of the orthodox system of Vedanta. Maya originally denoted the power of wizardry with ...
family of Meso-American Indian languages spoken in southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize; Maya languages were also formerly spoken in western Honduras and western El Salvador.
range of hills mostly in southern Belize, extending about 70 miles (115 km) northeastward from across the Guatemalan border into central Belize. The range falls abruptly to the coastal plain ...
city and municipality, western Puerto Rico. Created in 1760 as Nuestra Senora de la Candelaria de Mayaguez, it was elevated to the royal status of villa in ...
British singer, pianist, organist, and occasional guitarist who was among the guiding lights of the British blues movement in the early to mid-1960s. Always a popular performer, Mayall was nevertheless ...
dating system of the ancient Mayan civilization and the basis for all other calendars used by Mesoamerican civilizations. The calendar was based on a ritual cycle of 260 named days ...
system of writing used by the Maya people of Mesoamerica until about the end of the 17th century, 200 years after the Spanish conquest of Mexico. (With the 21st-century discovery ...
ruined ancient Mayan city, located about 35 miles (55 km) southeast of modern Merida, Yucatan state, Mex. It became one of the most important cities of that region in the ...
perennial herbaceous plant of the family Podophyllaceae (order Ranunculales) native to eastern North America, most commonly in shady areas on moist, rich soil.
American architect whose work in California (from 1889) exhibits the versatility attainable within the formal styles of early 20th-century architecture.
ancient Egyptian site near Memphis on the west bank of the Nile River in Bani Suwayf muhafazah (governorate). It is the location of the earliest-known pyramid complex ...
river in northwestern France; its headwaters are west-northwest of Alencon in Foret de Multonne, Orne departement. It flows southward for 121 miles (195 km) to its confluence with the Sarthe ...
German astronomer who developed lunar tables that greatly assisted navigators in determining longitude at sea. Mayer also discovered the libration (or apparent wobbling) of the Moon.
most powerful motion-picture executive in Hollywood for 30 years. As the head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the largest and most prestigious film studio, he created the star system during the 1920s and ...
German-born American physicist who shared one-half of the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physics with J. Hans D. Jensen of West Germany for their proposal of the shell nuclear model. (The ...
village on the Schwechat River in eastern Lower Austria (Niederosterreich), 24 kilometres (15 miles) southwest of Vienna. It is the site of a hunting lodge (now a Carmelite convent) where ...
neighbourhood of the City of Westminster, London. Mayfair extends east of Hyde Park, south of St. Marylebone, and north of Green Park. It is a fashionable district that includes the ...
city, seat of Graves county, southwestern Kentucky, U.S., about 25 miles (40 km) west of Kentucky Lake and 25 miles south of Paducah. It was settled about 1820 and named ...
American singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer, and entrepreneur who was one of the principal architects of during the 1960s and '70s. Beginning with his earliest songs-such as
either of two spring-blooming wild flowers native to eastern North America. Podophyllum peltatum is more often called mayapple (q.v.) and Epigaea repens is the trailing arbutus (q.v.).
in American colonial history, the ship that carried the Pilgrims from England to Plymouth, Massachusetts, where they established the first permanent New England colony in 1620. Although no detailed description ...
(Nov. 21 [Nov. 11, Old Style], 1620), document signed by 41 of the male passengers on the Mayflower prior to their landing at Plymouth, Mass. The compact resulted from the ...
any slender, small to medium-size (up to 4 cm [1.6 inches]) insect of the order Ephemeroptera usually found around streams and ponds. The approximately 2,000 species are characterized by triangular ...
in Anglo-American law, offense against the person in which the offender violently deprives his victim of a member of his body, thus making him less able to defend himself. The ...
city and capital of the republic of Adygea, Krasnodar kray (region), Russia, on the right bank of the Belaya River. Maykop (from the Adyghian myequape meaning "valley of apple trees") ...
town, central Myanmar (Burma). It lies at the head of a shallow valley, at an elevation of about 3,450 feet (1,050 m). The town, named for Colonel (later Major General) ...
French poet, leading disciple of Francois de Malherbe and, like him, concerned with the clarification of the French language. He is commonly confused with Francois Menard (1589-1631) of Nimes, also ...
village, County Kildare, Ireland, situated 15 miles (24 km) west of Dublin. Historic remains in the locality include those of a castle built by Gerald FitzMaurice (died 1203) and an ...
Indian people centred in southern Sonora and northern Sinaloa states on the west coast of Mexico. They speak a dialect of the Cahita language, which belongs to the Uto-Aztecan language ...
county in the province of Connaught, western Ireland. Mayo is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean (north and west) and by Counties Sligo (northeast), Roscommon (east), and Galway (southeast and south). ...
the most famous group of physicians in the United States. Three generations of the Mayo family, pioneers in the practice of group medicine, established the world-renowned Mayo Clinic and the ...
Australian-born psychologist who became an early leader in the field of industrial sociology in the United States, emphasizing the dependence of productivity on small-group unity. He extended this work to ...
Irish politician and civil servant best known for his service as viceroy of India, where he improved relations with Afghanistan, conducted the first census, turned a deficit budget into a ...
active volcano, southeastern Luzon, Philippines, dominating the city of Legaspi. Called the world's most perfect cone, it has a base 80 miles (130 km) in circumference and rises to 7,943 ...
cold sauce originating in French cuisine, an emulsion of raw egg yolks and vegetable oil. As the yolks are continuously beaten, oil is added little by little until a thick ...
in modern usage, the head of a municipal government. As such, the mayor is almost invariably the chairman of the municipal council and of the council executive committee. In addition ...
municipal government in which a locally elected council is headed by a mayor, either popularly elected or elected by the council from among its members. In strict usage, the term ...
official of the western European kingdoms of the 6th-8th century, whose status developed under the Merovingian Franks from that of an officer of the household to that of regent or ...
town, in extreme northwestern Paraguay. The town, located on the Timane River, was the site of the last major battle in 1935 of the Chaco War, fought with Bolivia. Mayor ...
southeasternmost island of the Comoros archipelago and a French dependency, situated in the Mozambique Channel of the Indian Ocean, about 193 miles (310 km) northwest of Madagascar. Pamandzi, an islet ...
English chemist and physiologist who, about a hundred years before Joseph Priestley and Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, identified spiritus nitroaereus (oxygen) as a distinct atmospheric entity.
ceremonial folk dance performed around a tall pole garlanded with greenery or flowers and often hung with ribbons that are woven into complex patterns by the dancers. Such dances are ...
German-born American biologist known for his work in avian taxonomy, population genetics, and evolution. Considered one of the world's leading evolutionary biologists, he was sometimes referred to as the "Darwin ...
Italian operatic and liturgical composer of German origin who was one of the first composers to use the orchestral crescendo technique made famous by Gioacchino Rossini.
American professional baseball player who was exceptional at both batting and fielding. Mays played in major league baseball very soon after the colour bar ended, and he probably never received ...
city, seat (1848) of Mason county, northeastern Kentucky, U.S. It lies at the confluence of Limestone Creek and the Ohio River, there bridged (1931) to Aberdeen, Ohio. The town was ...
time division of the Ordovician period in North America (the Ordovician period began about 505,000,000 years ago and lasted about 67,000,000 years); the Maysvillian stage follows the Edenian stage and ...
town and Atlantic seaport of southwestern Gabon, central Africa, at the tip of a spit of land sheltering the long, narrow Mbanio Lagoon. The port handles lumber exports from the ...
volcanic ash deposit widely distributed in the northwestern United States and southwestern Canada. The ash was released by the eruption of Mount Mazama, the event that produced Crater Lake in ...
city, northern Afghanistan, 35 miles (56 km) south of the border with Uzbekistan, at an elevation of 1,250 feet (380 metres). The town derives its name (meaning "tomb of the ...
town and episcopal see, Trapani provincia, western Sicily, Italy, at the mouth of the Mazaro River south of Trapani city. Of Phoenician origin, the town was later ...
first minister of France after Cardinal de Richelieu's death in 1642. During the early years of King Louis XIV, he completed Richelieu's work of establishing France's supremacy among the European ...
river in north central Guyana. Its headstreams arise in the Pakaraima Mountains of western Guyana and flow generally northward. Descending from the Guiana Highlands, the river turns southeastward as far ...
Middle American Indians of northern Oaxaca in southern Mexico. The region is mostly mountainous, with small valleys, and its flora and fauna are diverse. The Mazatec language is most closely ...
town, southwestern Guatemala. It lies along the southward-flowing Sis River, on the southern piedmont of the central highlands, at an elevation of 1,217 feet (371 m) above sea level. Mazatenango ...
Pacific port and resort, southwestern Sinaloa state, western north-central Mexico. It occupies a peninsula overlooking Olas Altas Bay, on the Gulf of California. It is Mexico's largest Pacific Ocean port, ...
