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- (from the article "eastern Africa, history of") ...including more powerful rulerships. The most notable of such developments were, in the first place, among the Hehe, where, under Munyigumba and then on his death, in 1879, under his ...
- Mlada Boleslav
- city, north-central Czech Republic. It lies northeast of Prague, at the confluence of the Jizera and Klenice rivers. Occupied in 995 and founded as a city in 1334, it was ... [1 Related Articles]
- Mladen, L. M.
- (from the article "heraldry") ...including a grant of arms, which were the same as those of the emperor as king of Bohemia but with changed tincture: or a lion rampant with two tails gules. ...
- Mladenov, Petar Toshev
- Bulgarian politician (b. Aug. 22, 1936, Toshevtsi, Bulg.-d. May 31, 2000, Sofia, Bulg.), served as Bulgaria's foreign minister for 18 years (1971-89) until he engineered the bloodless overthrow of Pres. ... [1 Related Articles]
- Mladic, Ratko
- (from the article "Law") ...his prison cell. (See Obituaries.) The trial had been delayed multiple times owing to the defendant's poor health. Two indicted former Serbian officials who remained at large, ...
- Mlambo-Ngcuka, Phumzile
- (from the article "South Africa") ...corruption. Zuma also recused himself from all ANC activities at the request of the organization's national working committee. He was replaced as deputy president by the first woman to have ...
- mlechchha
- people of foreign extraction (i.e., non-Aryans) in ancient India. A Sanskrit term, mlechchha was used by the Aryans much as the ancient Greeks used barbaros, originally to indicate the uncouth ... [1 Related Articles]
- Mlozi
- (from the article "Karonga") town, northern Malawi, situated on the western shore of Lake Nyasa. By 1877 Karonga had become the stronghold of the notorious Arab slaver Mlozi. The modern town was founded, however, ...
- Mlynar, Zdenek
- Czech politician who sought to institute reforms during the Prague Spring of 1968. In the years after the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia, Mlynar helped to found the dissident group ...
- Mmabatho
- town, North-West province, South Africa. It was formerly (until 1994) the capital of the republic (never internationally recognized) of Bophuthatswana. Mmabatho is situated between Mafikeng (formerly Mafeking) and the Botswana ...
- MMR vaccine
- (from the article "infectious disease") Live attenuated rubella vaccine is available in combination with measles vaccine (MR) and in combination with measles and mumps vaccines (MMR). For routine infant immunization, MMR is given one time ...
- MMT Observatory
- one of the world's largest astronomical telescopes, located on top of 2,600-metre- (8,530-foot-) high Mount Hopkins, 60 km (37 miles) south of Tucson, Ariz. When it was built in 1979, ... [3 Related Articles]
- MN series
- (from the article "Major human blood group systems") ...It can be described by citing the frequencies of the alternative genetic constitutions. Consider, for example, a particular gene (which geneticists call a locus), such as the one determining the ...
- Mnacko, Ladislav
- (from the article "Slovakia") ...and the further expansion of Slovak education, Slovak writings multiplied. The difficulties of World War II and its aftermath of communist rule found vivid, personal expression in the work of ...
- mnemonic
- any device for aiding the memory. Named for Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory in Greek mythology, mnemonics are also called memoria technica. The principle is to create in the mind ... [5 Related Articles]
- Mnemosyne
- in Greek mythology, the goddess of memory. A Titaness, she was the daughter of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea (Earth), and, according to Hesiod, the mother (by Zeus) of the nine ... [2 Related Articles]
- Mnesicles
- Greek architect known (from Plutarch) to have been the designer of the Propylaea, or the entrance gateway to the Acropolis at Athens. [2 Related Articles]
- Mnevis
- in ancient Egyptian religion, sacred bull deity worshipped at Heliopolis. As one of several sacred bulls in Egypt, he was most closely associated with the sun god Re-Atum. Although not ... [1 Related Articles]
- Mnium
- (from the article "plant") ...capsule with peristome and operculum, columella, and stomata present, but elaters absent; between 10,000 and 14,000 species; representative genera include Polytrichum, Mnium,
- Mnong
- (from the article "Vietnam") ...Jarai, Chru, and Roglai-speak Austronesian languages, linking them to the Cham, Malay, and Indonesian peoples; others-including the Bru, Pacoh, Katu, Cua, Hre, Rengao, Sedang, Bahnar, Mnong, Mang (Maa), Muong, and ...
- Mnong language
- a language of the Bahnaric branch of the Mon-Khmer family, itself part of the Austroasiatic stock. The terms Mnong and Phnong cover a large group of closely related dialects spoken ... [1 Related Articles]
- Mnouchkine, Ariane
- (from the article "directing") In the second half of the 20th century the chief development in the art of directing has been a strengthening of international influences. Ariane Mnouchkine, for example, directing her own ...
- Mnyampala, Mathias E.
- Tanzanian poet, scholar, jurist, and author of short fiction who wrote in Swahili.
- mo
- (from the article "dress") ...of this period being called kinu, the men's trousers hakama, and the women's skirts mo.
- Mo Yan
- Chinese novelist and short-story writer renowned for his imaginative and humanistic fiction, which became popular in the 1980s.
- Mo'ed
- (Hebrew: "Festival"), second of the six major divisions, or orders (sedarim), of the Mishna (codification of Jewish oral laws), which was completed early in the 3rd century AD by Judah ... [2 Related Articles]
- Mo, Timothy
- Anglo-Chinese writer whose critically acclaimed novels explore the intersection of English and Cantonese cultures. [1 Related Articles]
- Mo-ch'ou Hu
- (from the article "Nanking") ...to the northeast is the extensive Hsuan-wu Hu ("Mystic Martial Lake"), containing five islets linked by embankments, and on the other side of the Ch'in-huai Ho to the southwest is ...
- moa
- any of several extinct, ostrichlike flightless birds native to New Zealand and constituting the order Dinornithiformes. The number of different species is in dispute, with estimates varying from 13 to ... [4 Related Articles]
- Moab
- (from the article "Moabite") In Old Testament accounts (e.g., Genesis 19:30-38), the Moabites belonged to the same ethnic stock as the Israelites. Their ancestral founder was Moab, a son of Lot, who was a ...
- Moab
- city, seat (1890) of Grand county, southeastern Utah, U.S. Located on the western flank of the La Sal Mountains alongside the Colorado River, the city was originally a Mormon mission, ...
- Moab Plateau
- (from the article "Dead Sea") ...faults along a tectonic plate boundary that runs from the Red Sea-Gulf of Suez spreading centre to a convergent plate boundary in the Taurus Mountains. The eastern fault, along the ...
- Moabite
- member of a West-Semitic people who lived in the highlands east of the Dead Sea (now in west-central Jordan) and flourished in the 9th century BC. They are known principally ... [4 Related Articles]
- Moabite alphabet
- eastern subdivision of the Canaanite branch of the early Semitic alphabet, closely related to the early Hebrew alphabet. The best-known example of the Moabite alphabet is from the Mesha', or ...
- Moabite language
- (from the article "Canaanite languages") group of Northern Central or Northwestern Semitic languages including Hebrew, Moabite, Phoenician, and Punic. They were spoken in ancient times in Palestine, on the coast of Syria, and in scattered ...
- Moabite Stone
- (from the article "Dibon") One of the most important finds at Dibon was the discovery in 1868 of the so-called Moabite Stone, bearing an inscription of Mesha, king of Moab, about the 9th century ...
- moai figure
- small wooden statue of uncertain religious significance, carved on Easter Island. The figures, thought to be representations of ancestors who live on in the form of skeletons, are of two ... [2 Related Articles]
- moai kavakava
- (from the article "moai figure") small wooden statue of uncertain religious significance, carved on Easter Island. The figures, thought to be representations of ancestors who live on in the form of skeletons, are of two ...
- moai paepae
- (from the article "moai figure") ...religious significance, carved on Easter Island. The figures, thought to be representations of ancestors who live on in the form of skeletons, are of two types, moai kavakava (male) and ...
- Moama
- (from the article "Echuca") ...of the old port facilities as a museum and tourist attraction with restored river paddle steamers. Revived by the Goulburn River irrigation project, Echuca now serves (with the adjacent town ...
- moat
- (from the article "castle") ...strength of the sites they occupied, often diverging greatly at different points of the site. The defense of the enceinte, or outer wall, of the castle was generally by means ...
- Moawad, Rene Anis
- (from the article "Lebanon") Parliament subsequently convened on Nov. 5, 1989, in Lebanon, where it ratified the Ta'if Accord and elected Rene Moawad to the presidency. Moawad was assassinated on November 22, and Elias ...
- mob
- (from the article "marsupial") ...social organization among most marsupials beyond the short-lived pair bonds during mating. Many of the grazing marsupials, such as the kangaroos and wallabies, move in feeding groups called mobs, but ...
- Mob Convention
- woman suffrage meeting, held September 6-7, 1853, in New York City, that earned its popular label owing to the numerous disruptions to it by protesters.
- Mobarez od-Din Mohammad
- (from the article "Mozaffarid Dynasty") ...of the dynasty was Sharaf od-Din Mozaffar, a vassal of the Il-Khanid rulers of Iran, who was governor of Meybod, a city lying between Esfahan and Yazd. In 1314 his ...
- mobbing
- (from the article "social behaviour in animals") ...and spirited attacks upon predators occur in most animals that protect their young and are a regular phenomenon in gull and tern colonies, in baboon troupes, in bees and wasps, ...
- mobed
- (from the article "Iran, ancient") ...furthermore, were developed between religion and the state, and an ecclesiastical organization was set up in which every local district of any importance had its own mobed ...
- mobedan mobed
- (from the article "Iran, ancient") ...mobed ("priest"; originally magupat, "chief priest"). At their head stood the mobedan mobed ("priest of priests"), who, in addition to his purely religious jurisdiction, ...
- Mober
- (from the article "Niger") ...of Air. The Tuareg people are also found in Algeria and in Mali. The Kanuri, who live to the east of Zinder, are divided into a number of subgroups-the Manga, ...
- Moberg, Vilhelm
- Swedish novelist and dramatist, best-known for his novels of the Swedish emigration to America but concerned primarily with the people of the countryside from which he came and with the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Mobil Corporation
- former American petroleum and chemical company that joined with Exxon in 1999 to form Exxon Mobil Corporation. [3 Related Articles]
- Mobile
- city, seat (1812) of Mobile county, southwestern Alabama, U.S. It lies on Mobile Bay (an arm of the Gulf of Mexico) at the mouth of the Mobile River and is ...
- mobile
- abstract sculpture that has moving parts, driven either by motors or the natural force of wind. The word mobile was initially suggested by Marcel Duchamp for a 1932 Paris exhibition ... [2 Related Articles]
- mobile army surgical hospital
- (from the article "Advances in Battlefield Medicine") The mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) was used by U.S. forces during the Korean War in the 1950s and was still in service during the Persian Gulf War (1990-91). MASH ...
- Mobile Bay
- arm of the Gulf of Mexico, extending 35 miles (56 km) north from its outlet to the mouth of the Mobile River in southwestern Alabama, U.S. It is 8-18 miles ...
- Mobile Bay, Battle of
- (August 1864), in U.S. history, triumph of Admiral David Farragut in sealing off the port of Mobile from Confederate blockade runners. [2 Related Articles]
- mobile cellular telephone
- (from the article "Computers and Information Systems") The number of Internet services delivered to cellular telephones continued to grow. The main developers of wireless Internet software were Symbian, Microsoft, Palm, and Research in Motion, plus some smaller ...
- mobile phase
- (from the article "analysis") ...consists of a large group of separatory methods in which the components of a mixture are separated by the relative attraction of the components for a stationary phase (a solid ...
- Mobile River
- river formed by the confluence of the Tombigbee and Alabama rivers, southwestern Alabama, U.S. It enters Mobile Bay after a southerly course of 45 miles (72 km) through the delta ... [2 Related Articles]
- mobile starting gate
- (from the article "harness racing") ...racing under lights was introduced at Roosevelt Raceway in New York City in 1940 (there had been occasional night racing in the 1890s and under the lights in Toledo, Ohio, ...
- Mobile Tactical High Energy Laser
- (from the article "Military Affairs") ...of a vehicle with a hand-held mirror. The 18-kg (40-lb), 10-cm (4-in) ODIS allowed troops to conduct vehicle inspections from more than 100 m (330 ft) away. A joint U.S.-Israeli ...
- mobile telephone service
- (from the article "telephone and telephone system") In the United States, interconnection of mobile radio transmitters and receivers (transceivers) with the PSTN began in 1946, with the introduction of mobile telephone service (MTS) by AT&T. The MTS ...
- mobile telephone switching office
- (from the article "telephone and telephone system") ...controller automatically reroutes the call from the old cell to the new cell without a noticeable interruption in the signal reception. This process is known as handoff. The central controller, ...
- mobile-lounge system
- (from the article "airport") ...concept derived from much older designs (such as that at Linate in Milan, where ordinary apron buses are used), passengers are brought directly to the aircraft by a specialized transporter ...
- Mobilian Jargon
- pidgin, or trade language with limited vocabulary, based on Choctaw and Chickasaw, languages of the Muskogean family that were originally spoken in what is now the southeastern United States (see ...
- mobility
- (from the article "logistics") The potential effectiveness of a military force derives from three attributes: fighting power, mobility, and range of movement. Which of these attributes is stressed depends on the commander's objectives and ...
- mobility
- in solid-state physics, measurement of the ease with which a particular type of charged particle moves through a solid material under the influence of an electric field. Such particles are ... [2 Related Articles]
- mobilization
- in war or national defense, organization of the armed forces of a nation for active military service in time of war or other national emergency. In its full scope, mobilization ... [1 Related Articles]
- mobilization of the transmitter
- (from the article "nervous system") ...approximately 0.05 millisecond. Second, the response of the postsynaptic receptor takes about 0.15 millisecond. This leaves 0.30 to 3.80 milliseconds for other processes. A third process, called mobilization of the ...
- Mobius inversion theorem
- (from the article "combinatorics") In 1832 the German astronomer and mathematician August Ferdinand Mobius proved that, if f and g are functions defined on the set of positive integers, such that f evaluated at ...
- Mobius strip
- a one-sided surface that can be constructed by affixing the ends of a rectangular strip after first having given one of the ends a one-half twist. This space exhibits interesting ... [3 Related Articles]
- Mobius, August Ferdinand
- German mathematician and theoretical astronomer who is best known for his work in analytic geometry and in topology. In the latter field he is especially remembered as one of the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Mobius, Karl August
- German zoologist who is chiefly known for his contributions to marine biology.
- Mobley, Hank
- African-American lyric jazz tenor saxophonist. Noted for his melodic fluency and rhythmic sophistication, the prolific Mobley was important in defining the hard-bop idiom.
- Mobridge
- city, Walworth county, north-central South Dakota, U.S. It lies along the Missouri River (there broadened to form Lake Oahe), about 110 miles (175 km) north of Pierre. Arikara and, later, ...
- Mobu, Norio
- (from the article "Literature") In the second half of the year, the Akutagawa Prize was given to Norio Mobu's "Kaigo nyumon" ("Introduction to Caregiving") from the June 2004 issue of Bungakukai. The story involved ...
- Mobula diabolis
- (from the article "manta ray") The smallest of the manta rays, species Mobula diabolis of Australia, grows to no more than 60 cm (2 feet) across, but the Atlantic manta, or giant devil ray (Manta ...
- Mobutu Sese Seko
- president of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), who seized power in a 1965 coup and ruled for some 32 years before being ousted in a rebellion in ... [10 Related Articles]
- Moc Chau Plateau
- (from the article "Vietnam") ...elevation. Among its outstanding topographic features is Fan Si Peak, which at 10,312 feet (3,143 metres) is the highest point in Vietnam. South of the Black (Da) River are the ...
- Moca
- city, north-central Dominican Republic. It lies just east of Santiago. Founded in 1780, the city retained its Indian name, referring to moca (partridgewood), an indigenous cabbage palm ...
- Mocambique
- town, northeastern Mozambique. Located on a small coral island at the mouth of Mossuril Bay (on the Mozambique Channel of the Indian Ocean), it is an important commercial centre and ... [1 Related Articles]
- Mocambique, Banco de
- (from the article "Mozambique") The Banco de Mocambique issues the national currency, the metical (plural meticais). In 1978 Mozambique nationalized most of its banking assets, but by the mid-1990s the banking sector had been ...
- Mocamedes Desert
- desert, southwestern Africa, extending north along the Atlantic coast of Angola from the Angola-Namibia border for about 275 miles (450 km) and constituting the northernmost extension of the Namib Desert. ...
- Mocatta, Frederic David
- British philanthropist, historian, bibliophile, and patron of learning who subsidized the publication of a number of major works of Jewish literature.
- moccasin
- either of two venomous aquatic New World snakes of the viper family (Viperidae): the water moccasin (Agkistrodon piscivorus) or the Mexican moccasin (A. bilineatus). Both are pit vipers (subfamily Crotalinae), ...
- moccasin
- heelless shoe of soft leather, the sole of which may be hard or soft and flexible; in soft-soled moccasins, the sole is brought up the sides of the foot and ... [1 Related Articles]
- Mocenigo Family
- one of the most renowned patrician families of the Venetian Republic, to which it supplied military leaders, scholars, churchmen, diplomats, and statesmen, including seven doges.
- Mocenigo, Andrea
- (from the article "Mocenigo Family") The next outstanding Mocenigo was Giovanni's grandson Andrea (1473-1542), who added literary lustre to the family name with a verse history of the Turkish war of 1500 and a prose ...
- Mocenigo, Giovanni
- (from the article "Bruno, Giordano") In August 1591, at the invitation of the Venetian patrician Giovanni Mocenigo, Bruno made the fatal move of returning to Italy. At the time such a move did not seem ...
- Mocenigo, Pietro
- (from the article "Mocenigo Family") ...and he is best remembered for a deathbed address in which he described with many details the flourishing commercial state of Venice and admonished against military adventures. Tommaso's nephew Pietro ...
- Mocenigo, Tommaso
- (from the article "Italy") ...a major European power. Its overseas empire expanded with the inheritance of Cyprus from the French Lusignan family in 1489, and its economy still generated large profits. In 1423 the ...
- Mocha
- town, southwestern Yemen, on the Red Sea and the Tihamah coastal plain. Yemen's most renowned historic port, it lies at the head of a shallow bay between two headlands, with ... [2 Related Articles]
- Mocha Island degu
- (from the article "degu") ...in areas where thicket habitat is common. Bridges's degu (O. bridgesi) dwells in forests along the base of the Andes from extreme southern Argentina to central Chile. The Mocha Island ...
- Mochalov, Pavel Stepanovich
- Russian tragic actor with a Byronic flair who relied principally upon inspiration and intuition to lend force to his performances.
- Moche
- civilization present on the northern coast of what is now Peru from the 1st to the 8th century AD and dominant during the Early Intermediate Period (c. 400 BC-AD 600). ... [5 Related Articles]
- Mochi, Francesco
- (from the article "Western sculpture") ...considerable influence on his son Gian Lorenzo. The first breath of the new Baroque spirit, however, is to be found in the immense vitality of the equestrian monuments in Piacenza ...
- Mochihito-o
- (from the article "Minamoto Yoritomo") In 1180 Minamoto Yorimasa, another member of the Minamoto clan, joined in a rebellion with an imperial prince, Mochihito-o, who summoned the Minamoto clan to arms in various provinces. Yoritomo ...
- Mochlos
- (from the article "Aegean civilizations") ...of this period, mostly from Crete, includes bracelets, necklaces, earrings, headbands, and hair ornaments of various kinds. Some of the finest of this early jewelry was found in communal tombs ...
- Mochnacki, Maurycy
- early Polish Romantic literary critic who passionately advocated Romanticism and was the first Polish critic to define the part literature might play in the spiritual and political life of society. [1 Related Articles]
- Mochudi
- village, southeastern Botswana. It lies 23 miles (37 km) northeast of Gaborone, the national capital. Settled by the Tswana people in 1871, Mochudi is the administrative seat of the chief ...
- mock privet
- any shrub or small tree of the genus Phillyrea in the olive family, Oleaceae. The four species of mock privet, native to the Mediterranean area, sometimes are grown as ornamentals ...
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