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Macina: region, the middle course of the Niger River in Mali, between Segou and Timbuktu (Tombouctou), where its braided channels form a vast inland delta extending 300 mi (480 km) northeast-southwest. ...
MacInnes, Helen Clark: Scottish-born American novelist, known for her taut, realistic espionage thrillers.
Macintosh, Charles: Scottish chemist, best known for his invention in 1823 of a method for making waterproof garments by using rubber dissolved in coal-tar naphtha for cementing two pieces of cloth together. ...
MacIver, Robert Morrison: Scottish-born sociologist, political scientist, and educator who expressed belief in the compatibility of individualism and social organization. His creative power to make distinctions between state and community led to new ...
Mack von Leiberich, Karl, Freiherr: (Baron) Austrian soldier, commander of the defeated forces at the Napoleonic battles of Ulm and Austerlitz.
Mack, Connie: American professional baseball manager and team executive, the "grand old man" of the major leagues in the first half of the 20th century. He managed the Philadelphia Athletics (A's) from ...
Mackay: city, eastern coast of Queensland, Australia, at the mouth of the Pioneer River. Its deepwater artificial port has one of the world's largest bulk-handling installations. The centre of Australia's sugar ...
Mackay, Clarence Hungerford: U.S. communications executive and philanthropist who supervised the completion of the first transpacific cable between the United States and the Far East in 1904.
MacKaye, Percy: U.S. poet and playwright whose use of historical and contemporary folk literature furthered the development of the pageant in the U.S.
MacKaye, Steele: U.S. playwright, actor, theatre manager, and inventor who has been called the closest approximation to a Renaissance man produced by the United States in the 19th century.
Macke, August: German painter who was a leader of Der Blaue Reiter ("The Blue Rider"), an influential group of Expressionist artists.
Macken, Walter: Irish novelist and dramatist whose tales combine an honest and often harsh reflection of the realities of Irish life with a love of Ireland and a compassionate respect for its ...
Mackensen, August von: German field marshal and one of the most successful commanders in World War I.
Mackenzie Mountains: northern extension of the Rocky Mountains, in the Yukon and in Inuvik and Fort Smith regions (Northwest Territories), Canada. The range extends northwestward from the British Columbia border for approximately ...
Mackenzie River: seasonal tributary of the Fitzroy River, eastern Queensland, Australia. Formed by the junction of the Comet and Nogoa rivers, which rise in the Eastern Highlands, it flows for 170 miles ...
Mackenzie River: major river system in the drainage pattern of northwestern North America. Its basin is the largest in Canada, and it is exceeded on the continent only by the Mississippi-Missouri system. ...
Mackenzie, Alexander: Scottish-born politician, the first Liberal prime minister of Canada (1873-78).
Mackenzie, Charles Frederick: Scottish-born Anglican priest and the first bishop in the British colonial territory of Central Africa.
Mackenzie, Compton: British novelist who suffered critical acclaim and neglect with equal indifference, leaving a prodigious output of more than 100 novels, plays, and biographies.
Mackenzie, Henry: Scottish novelist, playwright, poet, and editor, whose most important novel, The Man of Feeling, established him as a major literary figure in Scotland. His work had considerable influence on Sir ...
Mackenzie, John: British missionary who was a constant champion of the rights of Africans in South Africa and a proponent of British intervention to curtail the spread of Boer influence over the ...
Mackenzie, Sir Alexander: Scottish fur trader and explorer who traced the course of the 1,100-mile Mackenzie River in Canada.
Mackenzie, Sir Alexander Campbell: Scottish composer who, with Sir Hubert Parry and Sir Charles Stanford, was associated with the revival of British music in the late 19th century.
Mackenzie, Sir George: Scottish lawyer who gained the nickname "Bloody Mackenzie" for his prosecution of the Scottish Presbyterian Covenanters; he was founder of the Advocates' Library in Edinburgh, now the National Library of ...
Mackenzie, Sir James: Scottish cardiologist, pioneer in the study of cardiac arrhythmias. He was first to make simultaneous records of the arterial and venous pulses to evaluate the condition of the heart, a ...
Mackenzie, Sir Morell: English physician who was at the centre of a bitter international controversy over the death of Emperor Frederick III of Germany.
Mackenzie, Sir Thomas: Scottish-born explorer, businessman, and politician who was for a short time prime minister of New Zealand (1912) and who later served as High Commissioner in London during World War I.
Mackenzie, William Lyon: Scottish-born journalist and political agitator who led an unsuccessful revolt against the Canadian government in 1837.
mackerel: any of a number of swift-moving, streamlined food and sport fishes found in temperate and tropical seas around the world, allied to tunas in the family Scombridae (order Perciformes). Mackerels ...
mackerel shark: (genus Lamna), any member of a group of sharks in the family Isuridae. The name is also used as a collective name for the family, which includes, in addition, the ...
Mackinac Bridge: one of the longest and strongest suspension bridges in the world, spanning the Mackinac Straits from the Upper to the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, U.S. Designed by David B. Steinman ...
Mackinac Island: summer resort, Mackinac county, northern Michigan, U.S. It is situated in Lake Huron near the Straits of Mackinac, and has ferry connections to St. Ignace and Mackinaw City. The island, ...
Mackinac, Straits of: channel connecting Lake Michigan (west) and Lake Huron (east), and forming an important waterway between the Upper and Lower peninsulas of Michigan, U.S. Spanned by the Mackinac Bridge (opened 1957) ...
Mackinaw City: village, Cheboygan and Emmet counties, northern Michigan, U.S. It lies on the Straits of Mackinac opposite St. Ignace, with which it is linked northward by the 5-mile- (8-kilometre-) long Mackinac ...
Mackinder, Sir Halford John: British political geographer noted for his work as an educator and for his geopolitical conception of the globe as divided into two camps, the ascendant Eurasian "heartland" and the subordinate ...
MacKinnon, Catharine A.: American feminist and professor of law, a controversial but influential legal theorist whose work primarily took aim at sexual harassment and pornography.
MacKinnon, Roderick: American doctor, corecipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2003 for his pioneering research on ion channels in cell membranes. He shared the award with Peter Agre, also of ...
mackintosh: waterproof outercoat or raincoat, named after a Scottish chemist, Charles Macintosh (1766-1843), who invented the waterproof material that bears his name. The fabric used for a mackintosh was made waterproof ...
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie: Scottish architect and designer who was prominent in the Arts and Crafts Movement in Great Britain.
Macklin, Charles: Irish actor and playwright whose distinguished though turbulent career spanned most of the 18th century.
Mackmurdo, Arthur Heygate: English architect, designer, and a pioneer of the English Arts and Crafts movement.
MacLaine, Shirley: outspoken American actress and dancer known for her deft portrayal of charmingly eccentric characters and for her interest in mysticism and reincarnation.
Maclaren, Charles: Scottish journalist, editor of the 6th edition (1820-23) of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and cofounder and editor of The Scotsman (1817), Scotland's first independent Liberal paper. He also performed editorial services ...
Maclaurin, Colin: Scottish mathematician who developed and extended Sir Isaac Newton's work in calculus, geometry, and gravitation.
Maclean's: semimonthly news magazine published in Toronto whose thorough coverage of Canada's national affairs and of North American and world news from a Canadian perspective has made it that country's leading ...
Maclean, George: Scottish-born council president of Cape Coast, West Africa, who laid the groundwork for British rule of the Gold Coast.
MacLeary, Donald: Scottish premier danseur noted for his strong finesse and natural romanticism.
MacLeish, Archibald: American poet, playwright, teacher, and public official, whose concern for liberal democracy figured in much of his work, although his most memorable lyrics are of a more private nature.
MacLennan, Hugh: Canadian novelist and essayist whose books offer an incisive social and psychological critique of contemporary Canadian life.
Macleod, J.J.R.: Scottish physiologist noted as a teacher and for his work on carbohydrate metabolism. Together with Sir Frederick Banting, with whom he shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in ...
Macleod, Mary: Gaelic Mairi Nighean Alasdair Ruaidh Scottish-Gaelic poet who is a major representative of the emergent 17th-century poetical school, which gradually supplanted the classical Gaelic bards.
Macleod, Norman: influential liberal Presbyterian minister of the Church of Scotland who took advantage of the controversy over church reform during 1833-43 to implement policies advocated by the Free Church of Scotland ...
MacLiammoir, Micheal: actor, scenic designer, and playwright whose nearly 300 productions in Gaelic and English at the Gate Theatre in Dublin enriched the Irish Renaissance by internationalizing the generally parochial Irish theatre.
Maclise, Daniel: Irish historical painter whose fame rests chiefly on a series of lithograph portraits of contemporary celebrities and on two vast frescoes that he painted in the Royal Gallery in the ...
Maclure, William: Scottish-born American geologist who is known for his geological map-the first true geological map of any part of North America and one of the earliest such maps compiled.
Maclurites: extinct genus of Ordovician gastropods (snails) found as fossils and useful for stratigraphic correlations (the Ordovician Period lasted from 505 to 438 million years ago). The shell is distinctively coiled ...
Macmillan, Daniel; and Macmillan, Alexander: Scottish booksellers and publishers who, in 1843, founded Macmillan & Co., a bookshop that grew into one of the largest publishing firms in the world, producing textbooks, works of science ...
Macmillan, Harold: British politician who was prime minister from January 1957 to October 1963.
MacMillan, Sir Kenneth: British ballet choreographer who created more than 40 ballets during his career and helped revive the tradition of full-length ballets in Britain.
MacMurray, Fred: American film and television actor.
Macnaghten, Sir William Hay, Baronet: British interventionist agent in Afghanistan during the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-42). He was created a baronet in 1840.
MacNeice, Louis: British poet and playwright, a member, with W.H. Auden, C. Day-Lewis, and Stephen Spender, of a group whose low-keyed, unpoetic, socially committed, and topical verse was the "new poetry" of ...
Macocha Gorge: gorge in Jihomoravsky kraj (region), Czech Republic. It is the best-known and most frequently visited feature in the Moravian Karst region and contains a labyrinth of caves and galleries and ...
Macomb: city, seat (1830) of McDonough county, western Illinois, U.S. It lies along the East Fork La Moine River, about 65 miles (105 km) southwest of Peoria. Settled in 1829 by ...
Macomber, Mary Lizzie: American artist remembered for her highly symbolic, dreamlike paintings.
Macon: city, seat (1823) of Bibb county, central Georgia, U.S., on the Ocmulgee River at the fall line. Its incorporated area extends into Jones county to the northeast. The original settlement, ...
Macon: town, capital of Saone-et-Loire departement, Bourgogne region, east-central France, north of Lyon. On the right bank of the Saone River, it is a communications centre skirted by France's main motorway, ...
Macon, Nathaniel: U.S. Congressional leader for 37 years, remembered chiefly for his negative views on almost every issue of the day, particularly those concerned with a central form of government. Yet his ...
Macpherson, James: Scottish poet whose initiation of the Ossianic controversy has obscured his genuine contributions to Gaelic studies.
Macpherson, Jay: Canadian lyric poet, member of "the mythopoeic school of poetry," who expressed serious religious and philosophical themes in symbolic verse that was often lyrical or comic.
Macpherson, Sir David: Scottish-born politician and railway builder who served as Canadian minister of the interior from 1883 to 1885.
Macquarie Harbour: inlet of the Indian Ocean indenting western Tasmania, Australia. A fault valley modified by glaciation, it extends 20 miles (32 km) northwest-southeast and is about 5 miles (8 km) wide. ...
Macquarie Island: island lying about 900 miles (1,450 km) southeast of Tasmania, Australia. It forms, with associated islets, a sub-Antarctic part of Tasmania. Macquarie, a volcanic mass with an area of 47 ...
Macquarie, Lachlan: early governor of New South Wales, Australia (1809-21), who expanded opportunities for Emancipists (freed convicts) and established a balance of power with the Exclusionists, large landowners and sheep farmers.
Macquarie, Lake: seaboard lagoon, New South Wales, Australia. It lies 60 miles (97 km) northeast of Sydney. Measuring 15 miles long and 5 miles wide (24 km long and 8 km wide), ...
macrame: (from Turkish makrama, "napkin," or "towel"), coarse lace or fringe made by knotting cords or thick threads in a geometric pattern. Macrame was a specialty of Genoa, where, in the ...