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Maclean, Donald: British diplomat who spied for the Soviet Union in World War II and early in the Cold War period. [3 Related Articles]
Maclean, George: Scottish-born council president of Cape Coast, West Africa, who laid the groundwork for British rule of the Gold Coast. [2 Related Articles]
Maclean, Sorley: (SOMHAIRLE MACGILL-EAIN), Scottish poet who was regarded as the 20th century's greatest Gaelic poet; with such works as the collection Dain Do Eimhir (1943; Poems to Eimhir, 1971), he brought ...
Maclear's Beacon: (from the article "Table Mountain") ...animal life includes tahrs (Himalayan goats) that are descended from escapees of a local zoo. There are a cableway (built 1929) and more than 350 classified routes to the top. ...
MacLeary, Donald: Scottish premier danseur noted for his strong finesse and natural romanticism.
Macleay, Alexander: (from the article "museums, history of") ...public by 1822. In South Africa a museum based on the zoological collection of Andrew (later Sir Andrew) Smith was founded in Cape Town in 1825. It is likely that ...
MacLehose of Beoch, Crawford Murray MacLehose, Baron: British diplomat (b. Oct. 16, 1917, Glasgow, Scot.-d. May 27, 2000, Ayrshire, Scot.), as the 25th governor of Hong Kong (1971-82), presided over the transformation of the British colony from ...
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. [2 Related Articles]
MacLennan, Hugh: Canadian novelist and essayist whose books offer an incisive social and psychological critique of modern Canadian life. [2 Related Articles]
MacLeod, Alistair: For his long-awaited first novel, No Great Mischief (2000), Canadian author Alistair MacLeod won the 2001 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; a superbly crafted work, the book chronicled the lives ...
MacLeod, Colin M.: (from the article "McCarty, Maclyn") American biologist who, with Oswald Avery and Colin M. MacLeod, provided the first experimental evidence that the genetic material of living cells is composed of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).
MacLeod, George: (from the article "Iona Community") missionary group of clergy and laymen within the Church of Scotland. It was founded in 1938 by George MacLeod, a parish minister in Glasgow who hoped to infuse a new ...
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 ... [2 Related Articles]
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. [1 Related Articles]
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: English-born 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
MacLise, Angus: (from the article "Velvet Underground, the") ...b. Oct. 16, 1938 Cologne, Germany-d. July 18, 1988Ibiza, Spain), Angus MacLise, and Doug Yule.
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 ...
Maclou: (from the article "Saint-Malo") Saint-Malo was named for Maclou, or Malo, a Welsh monk who fled to Brittany, making his headquarters on the island, in the 6th century and probably became the first bishop ...
Maclure, William: (from the article "New Harmony") ...who first went to the United States to found a cooperative community based on plans for humanity's salvation through "rational" thinking, cooperation, and free education. He was aided by William ...
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 Publishers Ltd.: British publishing house that is one of the largest in the world, producing textbooks, works of science and literature, and high-quality periodicals. It was founded in 1843 as a bookstore ...
MacMillan, Alexander: (from the article "Macmillan Publishers Ltd.") ...Scot.-d. June 27, 1857Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Eng.) and his brother Alexander Macmillan (b. Oct. 3, 1818Irvine, Ayrshire, Scot.-d. Jan. 26,...
MacMillan, Daniel: (from the article "Macmillan Publishers Ltd.") ...publishing house that is one of the largest in the world, producing textbooks, works of science and literature, and high-quality periodicals. It was founded in 1843 as a bookstore by ...
Macmillan, Harold: British politician who was prime minister from January 1957 to October 1963. [5 Related Articles]
Macmillan, John: (from the article "Cameronian") ...the Cameronians began in 1681 to organize themselves in local societies all over the south of Scotland, and by 1690 they numbered several thousand. Their three ministers left them, but ...
Macmillan, Kirkpatrick: (from the article "bicycle") There is evidence that a small number of two-wheeled machines with rear treadle drives were built in southwestern Scotland during the early 1840s. Kirkpatrick Macmillan, a blacksmith of Dumfriesshire, is ...
Macmillan, Sir Frederick: (from the article "publishing, history of") ...in 1895, and the Publishers Association was created in 1896. These two organizations then worked out the Net Book Agreement (1901), primarily through the efforts of Frederick (later Sir Frederick) ...
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. [3 Related Articles]
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. [1 Related Articles]
Macnamara, Jean: (from the article "polio") ...of telltale antibodies specific to the virus circulating in the blood of infected persons was discovered only two years later. In 1931 two Australian researchers, Frank Macfarlane Burnet and Jean ...
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 ... [2 Related Articles]
MacNeil, Hermon A.: (from the article "Savage, Augusta") ...young American women selected to attend a summer program at Fontainebleau, outside Paris, but her application was subsequently refused by the French on the basis of her race. The American ...
MacNeill, Eoin: (from the article "Easter Rising") ...the event, to Dublin alone. The British had learned of the planned uprising, and on April 21 they arrested the Irish nationalist Sir Roger Casement in County Kerry for arms ...
MacNeish's conjecture: (from the article "combinatorics") ...There was also the long-standing conjecture of Euler, formulated in 1782, that there cannot exist mutually orthogonal Latin squares of order 4t + 2, for any integer t. MacNeish's conjecture, ...
MacNeish, Richard Stockton: American agricultural archaeologist (b. April 29, 1918, New York, N.Y.-d. Jan. 16, Belize City, Belize), conducted fieldwork investigating the origins of corn (maize) and rice under the auspices of the ...
MacNelly, Jeffrey Kenneth: American cartoonist (b. Sept. 17, 1947, New York, N.Y.-d. June 8, 2000, Baltimore, Md.), won three Pulitzer Prizes for his editorial cartoons and created the popular daily comic strip Shoe. ...
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 ...
Macomb, Alexander: (from the article "Macomb") ...Fork La Moine River, about 65 miles (105 km) southwest of Peoria. Settled in 1829 by John Baker, a Baptist minister, and originally called Washington, it was renamed the following ...
Macomber, Mary Lizzie: American artist remembered for her highly symbolic, dreamlike paintings.
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: 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: (from the article "Tuskegee syphilis study") ...located in Macon county, Alabama. A group of 399 infected patients and 201 uninfected control patients were recruited for the program. The subjects were all impoverished sharecroppers from Macon county. ...
Macon, Council of: (from the article "church year") ...of Tours (reigned 461-490) of a fast before Christmas, beginning from St. Martin's Day on November 11. Known as St. Martin's Lent, the custom was extended to other Frankish churches ...
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 centralizing the government. Yet his integrity and ...
Maconochie, Alexander: (from the article "prison") The concept of personal reform became increasingly important in penology, resulting in experimentation with various methods. One example was the mark system, which was developed about 1840 by Capt. Alexander ...
Macovei, Monica: (from the article "Romania") ...not provide immunity from control for avaricious group interests. Basescu also condemned the defunct communist dictatorship as illegitimate and criminal. His closest ally, crusading Justice Minister Monica Macovei, was forced ...
MacPaint™: (from the article "graphic design") Software for Apple's 1984 Macintosh computer, such as the MacPaint™ program by computer programmer Bill Atkinson and graphic designer Susan Kare, had a revolutionary human interface. Tool icons controlled by ...
MacPherson v. Buick Motor Company: (from the article "Cardozo, Benjamin Nathan") ...as a reform candidate in 1913, he was quickly promoted to the Court of Appeals. During his tenure, the quality of this appellate bench was thought by many to exceed ...
Macpherson, James: Scottish poet whose initiation of the Ossianic controversy has obscured his genuine contributions to Gaelic studies. [3 Related Articles]
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.
MacPherson, Stewart Myles: Canadian-born British broadcaster and commentator who became one of the best-known voices on British radio during World War II (b. Oct. 29, 1908--d. April 16, 1995).
Macquarie Bank Ltd.: (from the article "Economic Affairs") ...Dutch, Belgian, and Portuguese securities markets-as well as Europe's second biggest derivatives exchange, Liffe, in London-also expressed interest, and in August Australian company Macquarie Bank Ltd. stepped into the ring. ...
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 ... [1 Related Articles]
Macquarie Ridge: (from the article "Pacific Ocean") Extending southward from the Tasman Basin (between New Zealand and eastern Australia) is the Macquarie Ridge, which forms a major boundary between the deep waters of the Pacific and Indian ...
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. [8 Related Articles]
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), ...
Macquarrie, the Rev. John: British theologian melded existential philosophy with orthodox Christian thought to create a structural and systematic analysis of Christian theology. Macquarrie studied philosophy (M.A., 1940) and divinity (B.D., 1943) at the ...
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 ... [1 Related Articles]
macrauchenid: (from the article "litoptern") The other litoptern group, the macrauchenids, resembled camels. The nasal opening was set high on the skull, which probably supported a short proboscis, or trunk. Some of the macrauchenids survived ...
Macready, William Charles: English actor, manager, and diarist, a leading figure in the development of acting and production techniques of the 19th century. [2 Related Articles]
Macrinus: Roman emperor in 217 and 218, the first man to rule the empire without having achieved senatorial status. [5 Related Articles]
Macro, Naevius Sutorius: (from the article "Caligula") ...restored treason trials, showed great cruelty, and engaged in wild despotic caprice, e.g., he bridged the Bay of Naples with boats from Baiae to Puteoli in the summer of 39. ...
Macro-Algonquian languages: major group (phylum or superstock) of North American Indian languages; it is composed of nine families and a total of 24 languages or dialect groups. The language families included in ...
Macro-Chibchan languages: (from the article "Table 63: South American Indian Language Groups") Macro-Chibchan languages, which form the linguistic bridge between South and Central America, are spoken from Nicaragua to Ecuador. Spread compactly in Central America and in western Colombia and Ecuador, they ...
Macro-Ge languages: (from the article "Table 63: South American Indian Language Groups") Macro-Ge is geographically the most compactly distributed of the big South American language families. Ge proper extends uninterruptedly through inland eastern Brazil almost as far as the Uruguayan border. There ...
Macro-Mayan languages: (from the article "Table 63: South American Indian Language Groups") In 1931 L.S. Freeland, a U.S. anthropological linguist, tried to show that Mixe (Zoque) is related to the "Penutian" languages, a superstock that up until then had been limited to ...
Macro-Pano-Tacanan languages: (from the article "Table 63: South American Indian Language Groups") Macro- Pano-Tacanan, a group more distantly related than a stock, includes about 30 languages, many of them still spoken. The languages are located in two widely separated regions: lowland eastern ...
Macro-Penutian languages: (from the article "Penutian languages") The Penutian languages are sometimes grouped into a yet larger stock, called either Penutian or Macro-Penutian, that includes several Meso-American Indian languages. The Totonacan, Huave, and Mixe-Zoque language families are ...
Macro-Siouan languages: major grouping (phylum or superstock) of North American Indian languages; it is made up of 26 languages, grouped into 5 families: Siouan, with 12 languages; Catawba, with 1 language; Iroquoian, ...
macro-tidal coast: (from the article "coastal landforms") ...of coasts is based solely on tidal range without regard to any other variable. Three categories have been established: micro-tidal (less than two metres), meso-tidal (two to four metres), and ...
macrobenthos: (from the article "benthos") ...inhabiting the seafloor. Benthic epifauna live upon the seafloor or upon bottom objects; the so-called infauna live within the sediments of the seafloor. By far the best-studied benthos are the ...
Macrobius, Ambrosius Theodosius: Latin grammarian and philosopher whose most important work is the Saturnalia, the last known example of the long series of symposia headed by the Symposium of Plato. [2 Related Articles]
macroburst: (from the article "thunderstorm") Sometimes thunderstorms will produce intense downdrafts that create damaging winds on the ground. These downdrafts are referred to as macrobursts or microbursts, depending on their size. A macroburst is more ...
macroclimate: (from the article "climate") ...schemes are intended for global- or continental-scale application and define regions that are major subdivisions of continents hundreds to thousands of kilometres across. These may be termed macroclimates. Not only ...
macrocomparison: (from the article "comparative law") ...family. By observing their differences, he will decide whether they are justified and whether an innovation made in one country would have value if introduced elsewhere. The researcher pledged to ...
macroconidium: (from the article "conidium") ...up the body of a typical fungus) or on special spore-producing structures called conidiophores. The spores detach when mature. They vary widely in shape, colour, and size, large ones being ...
macroconjugant: (from the article "protozoan") Specialized sedentary suctorian ciliates practice a modified form of conjugation. The conjugating individuals differ in appearance. The macroconjugants resemble the normal feeding individuals, and the microconjugants resemble the swarmers, although ...
Macrocystis: (from the article "Macrocystis") genus of brown algae, like Laminaria (but larger), commonly known as kelp (q.v.).ILLUSTRATIONrepresentative algaeRepresentative algae.Encyclop&ae
macrocyte: (from the article "pernicious anemia") ...These cells, called megaloblasts, are for the most part destroyed in the bone marrow and are not released to the circulation. Some megaloblasts mature to become large red blood cells ...
macrocytic anemia: (from the article "blood disease") Anemias are classified on morphological grounds. Macrocytic anemia, in which the average size of circulating red cells is larger than normal, results from impaired production of red cells-e.g., when vitamin ...
macroeconomics: study of national or regional economies in terms of the total amount of goods and services produced, the total income earned, the level of employment of productive resources, and the ... [8 Related Articles]
macroencephaly: (from the article "nervous system disease") Macroencephaly is a congenital malformation in which expansion of the brain usually results from a variety of disorders, including hydrocephalus. In Aarskog syndrome the eyes are set unusually far apart, ...
macrofauna: in soil science, animals that are one centimetre or more long but smaller than an earthworm. Potworms, myriapods, centipedes, millipedes, slugs, snails, fly larvae, beetles, beetle larvae, and spiders are ... [2 Related Articles]
macrogamete: (from the article "egg") in biology, the female sex cell, or gamete. In botany the egg is sometimes called a macrogamete. In zoology the Latin term for egg, ovum, is frequently used to refer ...
macroglossia: enlargement of the tongue, due to overdevelopment of the muscle or the accumulation of material within the tongue. Muscular hypertrophy may be congenital, as in Down syndrome, or may develop ...
macrolide: (from the article "drug") The macrolides (e.g., erythromycin, clarithromycin, azithromycin) are usually administered orally, but they can be given parenterally. These drugs, which inhibit protein synthesis, are valuable in treating pharyngitis and pneumonia caused ...
Macromedia: (from the article "Computers and Information Systems") Adobe Systems, creator of the Acrobat document-and-graphics software, acquired Macromedia, a multimedia firm, for $3.4 billion in stock. The deal promised a combined firm with both document-sharing and Web-design capabilities.
macromere: (from the article "annelid") ...four cells (blastomeres) give rise, by alternating clockwise and counterclockwise divisions, to a cap of smaller cells, called micromeres, at one end of the egg and a cap of larger ...
macromineral: (from the article "nutrition, human") As nutrients, minerals are traditionally divided into two groups according to the amounts present in and needed by the body. The major minerals (macrominerals)-those required in amounts of 100 milligrams ...
macromolecule: any very large molecule, usually with a diameter ranging from about 100 to 10,000 angstroms (10^-⁵ to 10^-³ millimetre). The molecule is the smallest unit of the substance that retains ... [9 Related Articles]
macronucleus: relatively large nucleus believed to influence many cell activities. It occurs in suctorian and ciliate protozoans (e.g., Paramecium). The macronucleus is associated with one or more smaller micronuclei, which are ... [3 Related Articles]
macronutrient: (from the article "nutrition, human") ...vitamins, minerals, and water. Carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins constitute the bulk of the diet, amounting together to about 500 grams (just over one pound) per day in actual weight. These ...
macrophage: (from the article "blood") ...move through the circulation, they are engulfed by phagocytes. Phagocytic cells form a part of the lining of blood vessels, particularly in the spleen, liver, and bone marrow. These cells, ...
macrophotography: (from the article "photography, technology of") Near photography to reveal fine texture and detail covers several ranges: (1) close-up photography at image scales between 0.1 and 1 (one-tenth to full natural size); (2) macrophotography between natural ...
macrophyte: (from the article "inland water ecosystem") ...Figure 4. Included are the plankton, which contains tiny floating plants (phytoplankton) and animals (zooplankton) as well as microbes (see marine ecosystem: Marine biota: Plankton); the shoreline macrophytes; the benthos ...
Macropipus: (from the article "photoreception") The third type of superposition eye, discovered in 1988 in the crab genus Macropipus by Swedish zoologist Dan-Eric Nilsson, has optical elements that use a combination of ...