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- river in southwestern Montana and northwestern Wyoming, U.S. The Madison River rises in the northwestern corner of Yellowstone National Park at the junction of the Gibbon and Firehole rivers. It ...
- Madison Square Garden
- indoor sports arena in New York City. The original Madison Square Garden (1874) was a converted railroad station at Madison Square; in 1891 a sports arena was built on the ... [4 Related Articles]
- Madison Square Theatre
- (from the article "theatre") ...were seeking a means of effecting scene changes that would not require an intermission. In 1879, MacKaye filed a patent for a "double stage," a feature he subsequently introduced in ...
- Madison, Dolley
- American first lady (1809-17), the wife of James Madison, fourth president of the United States. Raised in the plain style of her Quaker family, she was renowned for her charm, ... [2 Related Articles]
- Madison, Guy
- (ROBERT OZELL MOSELEY), U.S. film and television actor who starred as television's Wild Bill Hickok (1951-58) and in some 85 motion pictures, mostly westerns (b. Jan. 19, 1922--d. Feb. 6, ...
- Madison, Helene
- American swimmer, the outstanding performer in women's freestyle competition between 1930 and 1932. She won three Olympic gold medals and at her peak held every American freestyle record. [1 Related Articles]
- Madison, James
- fourth president of the United States (1809-17) and one of the Founding Fathers of his country. At the Constitutional Convention (1787), he influenced the planning and ratification of the U.S. ... [17 Related Articles]
- Madiun
- kotamadya (municipality) in East Java (Jawa Timur) propinsi (province), Java, Indonesia. The city lies on the east bank of the Madiun River. The population is mostly Indonesian and Chinese. The ...
- Madiun Affair
- communist rebellion against the Hatta-Sukarno government of Indonesia, which originated in Madiun, a town in eastern Java, in September 1948. The Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) had been declared illegal by ...
- Madl, Ferenc
- (from the article "Hungary") Area: 93,030 sq km (35,919 sq mi) | Population (2005 est.): 10,078,000 | Capital: Budapest | Chief of state: Presidents Ferenc Madl and, from August 5, Laszlo Solyom | Head ...
- Madlala-Routledge, Nozizwe
- (from the article "South Africa") ...Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang had a liver transplant early in the year, and soon after her return to the job, a furor erupted over Mbeki's dismissal in August of Deputy ...
- Madler, Johann Heinrich von
- German astronomer who (with Wilhelm Beer) published the most complete map of the Moon of the time, Mappa Selenographica, 4 vol. (1834-36). It was the first lunar map to be ... [1 Related Articles]
- Madness
- (from the article "ska") ...a significant influence on British pop culture, and so-called 2-Tone groups (whose name derived from both the suits they wore and their often integrated lineups) such as the Specials, Selector, ...
- Madog Ab Owain Gwynedd
- legendary voyager to America, a son (if he existed at all) of Owain Gwynedd (d. 1170), prince of Gwynedd, in North Wales.
- Madog ap Maredudd
- (from the article "Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr") outstanding Welsh poet of the 12th century, court poet to Madog ap Maredudd, prince of Powys (d. 1160), and then to Madog's enemy Owain Gwynedd, prince of Gwynedd (d. 1170). ...
- Madonie, Le
- mountain range in Palermo provincia, northwest-central Sicily. The range extends for 30 miles (48 km) between the Torto River and the Nebrodi Mountains. Of limestone formation, its highest peaks are ...
- Madonna
- American singer, songwriter, actress, and entrepreneur whose immense popularity in the 1980s and '90s allowed her to achieve levels of power and control unprecedented for a woman in the entertainment ... [10 Related Articles]
- Madonna
- in Christian art, depiction of the Virgin Mary; the term is usually restricted to those representations that are devotional rather than narrative and that show her in a nonhistorical context ... [9 Related Articles]
- Madonna and Child
- (from the article "painting, Western") ...space in his paintings, and he was above all concerned with his actors as humans carrying out some purposeful human activity. The only extant work by Masaccio that can be ...
- Madonna del Sasso
- (from the article "Locarno") ...the Pretorio, or law court, in which the Pact of Locarno, an attempt to guarantee the peace in western Europe, was initiated in 1925; and several old churches, including the ...
- Madonna dell'Orto
- (from the article "Tintoretto") Tintoretto's works for the Madonna dell'Orto, which occupied him for approximately a decade, also give an idea of the evolution of the idiomatic elements of his art; the
- Madonna di San Biago
- (from the article "Sangallo Family") Antonio da Sangallo the Elder (1455-1535), a military architect in his younger years, is best known for the major work of his life, the pilgrimage church of the Madonna di ...
- Madonna lily
- (from the article "lily") ...bulbs, usually narrow leaves, and solitary or clustered flowers. The flowers consist of six petallike segments, which may form the shape of a trumpet, with a more or less elongated ...
- Madox, Thomas
- English legal antiquary and historian whose critical studies of medieval English documents establish him as the virtual founder of British administrative history and the precursor of modern English historical scholarship. [1 Related Articles]
- Madras
- (from the article "India") The Kekayas, Madras, and Ushinaras, who had settled in the region between Gandhara and the Beas River, were described as descendants of the Anu tribe. The Matsyas occupied an area ...
- Madras
- capital of Tamil Nadu state, India, on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal. [6 Related Articles]
- Madras Music Academy
- (from the article "Madras") Cultural institutions include the Madras Music Academy, devoted to the encouragement of Carnatic music (the music of the historic region between the southern Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal ...
- Madras Presidency
- (from the article "Tamil Nadu") ...a trading post at the fishing village of Madraspatnam (now Madras) with the permission of the local ruler. The history of Tamil Nadu from the mid-17th century to 1946 is ...
- Madras, University of
- state-controlled institution of higher learning located in Madras, India. One of three affiliating universities founded by the British in 1857, Madras has developed as a teaching and research institution since ... [2 Related Articles]
- madrasah
- in Muslim countries, an institution of higher education. The madrasah functioned until the 20th century as a theological seminary and law school, with a curriculum centred on the Qur'an. In ... [17 Related Articles]
- Madrazo y Agudo, Jose de
- (from the article "Western sculpture") The principal Neoclassicists in Spain were the painter Jose de Madrazo y Agudo and the sculptor Jose Alvarez de Pereira y Cubero.
- Madrazo, Roberto
- (from the article "Mexico") The PRI's candidate-selection process was the most conflictive. Former PRI president Roberto Madrazo, a former governor of Tabasco (1994-2000) who had held the party together in the wake of its ...
- Madre de Dios River
- headwater tributary of the Amazon in southeastern Peru and northwestern Bolivia. It flows from the Cordillera de Carabaya, easternmost range of the Andes, in Peru, and meanders generally eastward past ... [1 Related Articles]
- Madre e Maestra Catholic University
- (from the article "Dominican Republic") ...business leaders, and the national and U.S. governments. Apec University (1965) is also located in Santo Domingo, whereas Central del Este University (1970) is in San Pedro de Macoris. The ...
- Madre, Laguna
- narrow, shallow lagoon along the shore of southern Texas, U.S., and northeastern Mexico, sheltered from the Gulf of Mexico by barrier islands, of which Padre Island (a national seashore) in ...
- madreporite
- (from the article "circulation") ...system consists of a series of fluid-filled canals lined with ciliated epithelium and derived from the coelom. The canals connect to the outside through a porous, button-shaped plate, called the ...
- Madrid
- comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of central Spain, coextensive with the provincia (province) of the same name. It is bounded by the autonomous communities of ...
- Madrid
- city, capital of Spain and of Madrid provincia (province). Spain's arts and financial centre, the city proper and province form a comunidad autonoma (autonomous ... [11 Related Articles]
- Madrid
- (from the article "Madrid") comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of central Spain, coextensive with the provincia (province) of the same name. It is bounded by the autonomous communities of ...
- Madrid (Hurtado), Miguel de la
- president of Mexico from 1982 to 1988. [3 Related Articles]
- Madrid bombing
- (from the article "Spain") ...the U.S.- and British-led war to oust Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq despite opposition by some 90 percent of Spain's citizens (see Iraq War). On March 11, 2004, 10 bombs ...
- Madrid Codex
- together with the Paris and Dresden codices, one of several richly illustrated glyphic texts of the pre-Conquest Mayan period to have survived the mass book-burnings by the Spanish clergy during ... [1 Related Articles]
- Madrid Conference
- (from the article "broadcasting") ...The Washington Conference of 1927 widened the area of cooperation in respect to radiotelegraph, broadcasting, and the international allocation of wavelengths, or frequencies. It was followed by the Madrid Conference ...
- Madrid Fashion Week
- (from the article "Fashions") ...Fashion Week moments after being applauded by spectators; she later died from heart failure. News emerged that she had fasted to lose weight as she readied for the show. As ...
- Madrid, Club of
- (from the article "Campbell, Kim") ...From 1996 to 2000 she served as the Canadian consul-general in Los Angeles. Afterward, she resumed her fellowship at Harvard, and from 2004 to 2006 she served as secretary-general for ...
- Madrid, Complutensian University of
- institution of higher learning founded in 1508 at Alcala de Henares, in the province of Madrid, and moved in 1836 to the city of Madrid. [3 Related Articles]
- Madrid, Treaties of
- (from the article "John III") ...Emperor and king of Spain, while Charles married John's sister Isabella. These marriages paved the way for the eventual succession of Philip II of Spain to the Portuguese throne in ...
- Madrid, Treaty of
- (Jan. 14, 1526), treaty between the Habsburg emperor Charles V (Charles I of Spain) and his prisoner Francis I, king of France, who had been captured during the Battle of ... [6 Related Articles]
- madrigal
- form of vocal chamber music that originated in northern Italy during the 14th century, declined and all but disappeared in the 15th, flourished anew in the 16th, and ultimately achieved ... [13 Related Articles]
- madrigal comedy
- Italian musical genre of the late 16th century, a cycle of vocal pieces in the style of the madrigal and lighter Italian secular forms that are connected by a vague ... [3 Related Articles]
- Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley
- (from the article "Andorra") Andorra consists of a cluster of mountain valleys whose streams unite to form the Valira River. The Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley, which occupies about one-tenth of Andorra's land area and is characterized ...
- madrona
- (from the article "Arbutus") A. menziesii, variously known as the madrona, Pacific madrona, laurelwood, and Oregon laurel, occurs in western North America from British Columbia to California. It grows about 23 metres (75 feet) ...
- Madsen, Michael
- Haitian business executive and politician became a powerful figure in Haiti as the founder of the Haitian National Brewery, which introduced the country's first national beer (Prestige), and as the ...
- madtom
- any of several North American catfishes of the genus Noturus, of the family Ictaluridae. They are sometimes classified in two genera, Noturus and Schilbeodes. Generally about 5-7.5 cm (2-3 inches) ...
- Madura
- island, Jawa Timur provinsi (province), Indonesia, off the northeastern coast of Java and separated from the city of Surabaya by a narrow, shallow channel. The island, which ... [1 Related Articles]
- Madura foot
- fungus infection, usually localized in the foot but occurring occasionally elsewhere on the body, apparently resulting from inoculation into a scratch or abrasion of any of a number of fungi: ...
- Madurai
- city, south-central Tamil Nadu state, southeastern India, bounded on the west by Kerala state. It is the second largest, and probably oldest, city in the state. Located on the Vaigai ... [1 Related Articles]
- Madurese
- native population of the arid and infertile island of Madura, found today on Madura, the Kangean Islands, and the adjacent coast of northeastern Java in Indonesia. Of Deutero-Malay stock, the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Madurese language
- an Austronesian language of the Indonesian subfamily, spoken on Madura Island, some smaller offshore islands, and the northern coast of Java, Indonesia. Dialects include Eastern, or Sumenep, and Western, including ... [1 Related Articles]
- Maduro, Ricardo
- (from the article "Honduras") Area: 112,492 sq km (43,433 sq mi) | Population (2006 est.): 7,329,000 | Capital: Tegucigalpa | Head of state and government: Presidents Ricardo Maduro and, from January 27, Manuel ...
- Madvig, Johan Nicolai
- classical scholar and Danish government official who published many works on Latin grammar and Greek syntax and helped to lay the foundation of modern textual criticism; his exemplary edition of ...
- Madyan al-Ghawth, Shu'ayb Abu
- (from the article "North Africa") ...Mahdi was slowly being superseded by the spread of Sufism (Islamic mysticism) and the veneration of Sufi holy men. Sufism had a prominent representative during the Almohad period in the ...
- Mae Hong Son
- town, extreme northwestern Thailand, in the Daen Lao Range. Mae Hong Son has an airport with scheduled flights to Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Lampang, and Phrae.
- Maebara Issei
- Japanese soldier-politician who helped to establish the 1868 Meiji Restoration (which ended the feudal Tokugawa shogunate and reinstated direct rule of the emperor) and who became a major figure in ...
- Maebashi
- capital, Gumma ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, on the Kanto Plain. An old castle town, in the Muromachi period (1338-1573) it was called Umayabashi. It was the seat of the Matsudaira ... [1 Related Articles]
- Maecenas, Gaius
- Roman diplomat, counsellor to the Roman emperor Augustus, and wealthy patron of such poets as Virgil and Horace. He was criticized by Seneca for his luxurious way of life. [6 Related Articles]
- Maecht, Philip de
- (from the article "tapestry") James I established in 1619 by royal charter a factory of tapestry weaving at Mortlake near London. It was staffed by 50 Flemings. Philip de Maecht, a member of the ...
- Maeda Family
- the daimyo, or lords, of Kaga Province (now part of Ishikawa Prefecture) in central Japan, whose domain was second only to that controlled by the powerful Tokugawa family. [1 Related Articles]
- Maeda Seison
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") Maeda Seison (1885-1977), prominent in the next generation of nihonga artists, which also included Imamura Shiko (1880-1916), Yasuda Yukihiko (1884-1978), Kobayashi Kokei (1883-1957), and Hayami Gyoshu (1894-1935), employed an eclectic ...
- Maeda Toshiie
- (from the article "Maeda Family") Having become the dominant warrior family in west-central Japan sometime before the 16th century, the Maeda gained national prominence, as well as enlarged domains, when Maeda Toshiie (1538-99), head of ...
- Maeda Toshinaga
- (from the article "Maeda Family") When trouble developed among the five co-regents, Toshiie's son, Maeda Toshinaga (1562-1614), sided with Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was attempting to usurp the central power. As a reward for their services ...
- Maehara, Seiji
- (from the article "Japan") DPJ leader Katsuya Okada resigned even before the vote counting ended. He was replaced by Seiji Maehara, who at the age of 43 became the youngest Japanese politician ever selected ...
- Maejima, Hisoka
- (from the article "postal system") ...of communications had existed in Japan from ancient times, it was not until 1870 that the creation of a comprehensive government-operated postal service was proposed. The idea was put forward ...
- Maekawa Kunio
- Japanese architect noted for his designs of community centres and his work in concrete.
- Maelius, Spurius
- wealthy Roman plebeian who allegedly tried to buy popular support with the aim of making himself king. During the severe famine of 440-439, he bought up a large store of ...
- Maelstrom
- marine channel and strong tidal current of the Norwegian Sea, in the Lofoten islands, northern Norway. Flowing between the islands of Moskenesoya (north) and Mosken (south), it has a treacherous ... [2 Related Articles]
- Maelzel, Johann Nepomuk
- (from the article "keyboard instrument") ...with bellows pumped by the player's feet were being manufactured in Europe and the United States. Occasionally free reed stops appeared as an adjunct to pianos and in mechanical instruments ...
- Maenad
- (from the article "Orpheus") Orpheus himself was later killed by the women of Thrace. The motive and manner of his death vary in different accounts, but the earliest known, that of Aeschylus, says that ...
- maeniana
- (from the article "amphitheatre") ...from it by a high wall topped by a metal screen, rose the spectator seats. These were divided by passageways running around the amphitheatre into several sections (
- Maerlant, Jacob van
- pioneer of the didactic poetry that flourished in the Netherlands in the 14th century. [2 Related Articles]
- Maes, Nicolaes
- Dutch Baroque painter of genre and portraits who was a follower of Rembrandt.
- Maesaceae
- (from the article "Ericales") Maesaceae are evergreen lianas to shrubs or trees found in the Old World tropics to Japan, the Pacific, and Australia; there is one genus, Maesa, and about 150 species. The ...
- Maeshowe barrow
- prehistoric chambered mound located northeast of Stromness on Mainland (or Pomona) in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. The mound, probably built as a tomb for a chieftain family, was in the ...
- maesta
- (from the article "Madonna") ...in the 14th century, painted altarpieces became common, the Madonna enthroned, derived from the nikopoia, was a favourite subject for a time; it was particularly popular in Italy as the ...
- Maestlin, Michael
- (from the article "Kepler, Johannes") ...guard the gates of the temple in which Copernicus makes sacrifices at the high altar." It helped also that, at Tubingen, the professor of mathematics was Michael Maestlin (1550-1631), one ...
- Maestra, Sierra
- mountain range, southeastern Cuba. The range extends eastward from Cape Cruz, at the southern shore of the Gulf of Guacanayabo, to the Guantanamo River valley. The heavily wooded mountains rise ... [1 Related Articles]
- Maestrazgo
- (from the article "Fugger Family") ...election expenses of 852,000 guilders, Jakob Fugger alone raised almost 544,000 in order to eliminate Francis I of France. By skillful negotiations he arranged to have this debt repaid out ...
- maestri comacini
- (from the article "Como") The city's name was part of the term maestri comacini ("masters of Como"), applied to itinerant guilds of masons, architects, and decorators who spread the Lombard style ...
- Maetambe, Mount
- (from the article "Choiseul") ...Strait. Choiseul is 83 miles (134 km) long and 20 miles (32 km) across at its widest point and is largely surrounded by barrier reefs. The island is densely wooded ...
- Maeterlinck, Maurice
- Belgian Symbolist poet, playwright, and essayist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911 for his outstanding works of the Symbolist theatre. He wrote in French and looked mainly ... [4 Related Articles]
- Maetsuyker, Joan
- governor-general of the Dutch East Indies from 1653 to 1678. He directed the transformation of the Dutch East India Company, then at the very height of its power, from a ... [1 Related Articles]
- Maewo
- island of Vanuatu, in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, 65 miles (105 km) east of the island of Espiritu Santo. It is volcanic in origin and is some 35 miles (55 ...
- Maeztu, Ramiro de
- Spanish journalist and sociopolitical theorist.
- mafenide
- (from the article "burn") ...is admitted to a burn centre, he is usually placed into a special tub, where the wound is cleansed with mild soap solutions. The wound is then dressed. Derivatives of ...
- Maffei I and II
- two galaxies relatively close to the Milky Way Galaxy but unobserved until the late 1960s, when the Italian astronomer Paolo Maffei detected them by their infrared radiation. Studies in the ...
- Maffei II
- (from the article "Maffei I and II") two galaxies relatively close to the Milky Way Galaxy but unobserved until the late 1960s, when the Italian astronomer Paolo Maffei detected them by their infrared radiation. Studies in the ...
- Maffei, Francesco
- (from the article "painting, Western") ...of Johann Liss (or Jan Lys) the groundwork was laid for the flowering of the Venetian school of the 18th century. Venetian painting was also enriched by the pale colours ...
- Maffei, Francesco Scipione, Marchese di
- (marquess of) Italian dramatist, archaeologist, and scholar who, in his verse tragedy Merope, attempted to introduce Greek and French classical simplicity into Italian drama and thus prepared the way for ... [3 Related Articles]
- Maffei, Paolo
- (from the article "Maffei I and II") two galaxies relatively close to the Milky Way Galaxy but unobserved until the late 1960s, when the Italian astronomer Paolo Maffei detected them by their infrared radiation. Studies in the ...
- Maffia
- (from the article "Czechoslovak region, history of") ...Council was created under Masaryk's chairmanship. Its members were eager to maintain contacts with the leaders at home in order to avoid disharmony, and an underground organization called the Maffia ...
- Mafia
- hierarchically structured society of criminals of primarily Italian or Sicilian birth or extraction. The term applies to the traditional criminal organization in Sicily and also to a criminal organization in ... [7 Related Articles]
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