A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 0-9 m ... Mabley, Moms m (from the article "Romance languages") An archaic feature that does recur in Vulgar Latin is the loss of word-final m, ... M (from the article "applied logic") These foundational alethic systems differ by virtue of the different axioms and rules adopted for ... M band (from the article "muscle") ...a narrow, lightly stained region that contains bare thick filaments without cross bridges and is ... M bridge (from the article "muscle") ...Sections through the H zone contain only thick filaments arranged in the same hexagonal pattern ... M'ba, Leon first president of independent Gabon, whose regime, after an abortive 1964 coup, came to depend ... [1 Related Articles] M'banza Congo city, northwestern Angola. It is situated on a low plateau about 100 miles (160 km) ... [1 Related Articles] M'Barek, Sghair Ould (from the article "Mauritania") ...of state: President Col. Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya and, from August 3, Chairman of the ... M'Carthy, Justin Irish politician and historian who first made his name as a novelist with such successes ... M'Carthy, Sir Charles (from the article "Laing, Alexander Gordon") Serving with the British army in Sierra Leone (1822), Laing was sent among the Mande ... M'Clure Strait eastern arm of the Beaufort Sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is about 170 miles ... M'Goun, Mount (from the article "High Atlas") ...for 460 miles (740 km), from the Atlantic Coast to the Algerian border. Many peaks ... M'Naghten's Case (from the article "Cockburn, Sir Alexander James Edmund, 10th Baronet") ...in Britain and in the United States as well, where it stood until rejected in ... M'Sila town, north-central Algeria. It is situated on the Plains of Hodna between the saline lake ... M'zab region containing five towns, one of the major groups of oases of the Sahara, central ... M'zabite member of a Berber people who inhabit the M'zab oases of southern Algeria. Members of ... [2 Related Articles] M-20 (from the article "rocket and missile system") Beginning in 1971, France deployed a series of solid-fueled SLBMs comprising the M-1, M-2 (1974), ... M-4 (from the article "rocket and missile system") Beginning in 1985, France upgraded its SLBM force with the M-4, a three-stage MIRVed missile ... M-class asteroid (from the article "Asteroid taxonomic classes") ...surface. As pointed out above in the section Composition, at least two asteroids with basaltic ... M-mode echocardiography (from the article "human cardiovascular system") ...refers to a group of tests that use ultrasound (sound waves above frequencies audible to ... M-scan (from the article "ultrasonics") ...uses a single transducer to scan along a line in the body, and the echoes ... M-theory (from the article "string theory") By the mid-1990s, these and other obstacles were again eroding the ranks of string theorists. ... M-type star (from the article "stellar classification") ...spectral lines caused by metals. The Sun is a class G star; these are yellow, ... M. H. de Young Memorial Museum (from the article "Libraries and Museums") Following a five-year closure, San Francisco's M.H. de Young Memorial Museum celebrated its 110th anniversary ... M.G. (from the article "British Leyland Motor Corporation, Ltd.") ...(later 1st Viscount Nuffield) founded a garage in Oxford, which after 1910 became known as ... M.S. Hershey Foundation (from the article "Hershey, Milton Snavely") ...refusal to advertise its products. The company town of Hershey received many public amenities under ... M103 (from the article "tank") For a time the U.S. Army also subscribed to a policy of developing heavy as ... M113 (from the article "tank") In 1955 the M75 began to be replaced by the M59, which was similar in ... M13 (from the article "star cluster") Though several globular clusters, such as Omega Centauri and Messier 13 in the constellation Hercules, ... M14 rifle (from the article "small arm") ...To fire this new round, the United States produced an improved version of the M1 ... M15 (from the article "nebula") Among nebulae so far discovered, two are particularly deviant in chemical composition: one is in ... M16 rifle assault rifle adopted as a standard weapon by the U.S. Army in 1967. The M16 ... [1 Related Articles] M16A1 rifle (from the article "small arm") ...air force purchased the AR-15, renaming it the M16. Six years later, with units in ... M16A2 rifle (from the article "small arm") ...a standard 5.56-millimetre NATO cartridge. This fired a brass-jacketed projectile that, having a heavier lead ... M1911 Colt pistol (from the article "small arm") ...and breechblock continued back, ejecting the spent case and cocking the hammer, until a spring ... M1A1 (from the article "tank") ...S-tank, the Japanese Type 74, and the Mark 1 and 2 versions of the Israeli ... M2 (from the article "half-track") ...half-tracks had shorter tracks and tended to be capable of faster road speeds. Some types ... M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle (from the article "tank") Another tracked armoured infantry vehicle was the U.S. M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle, introduced in ... M2 machine gun (from the article "small arm") ...infantry missions until foot soldiers encountered armoured vehicles. During the 1930s, many higher-powered weapons were ... M20 (from the article "bazooka") ...penetrate as much as 5 inches (127 mm) of armour plate. To escape backblast, the ... M22 (from the article "star cluster") ...patches of light, attention was paid to them only after the invention of the telescope. ... M3 (from the article "Milky Way Galaxy") ...of this peak in the data is related to the richness of the horizontal branch, ... M3 (from the article "submachine gun") ...the British 9 mm Sten gun; the Soviet 7.62 mm PPSh M1941 and PPS M1943; ... M3 General Grant (from the article "tank") ...German and Soviet tanks. As a result, during 1943 and 1944, British armoured divisions were ... M30 (from the article "artillery") ...owing to the spin imparted to the bomb. The difficulty here was to arrange for ... M32 Tank Recovery vehicle (from the article "Sherman tank") ...equipped with extendable and collapsible skirts that made it buoyant enough to be launched from ... M33 (from the article "Members of the Local Group of galaxies") M33 in the constellation Triangulum-a spiral galaxy with thick, loose arms (an Sc system in ... M47 (from the article "tank") ...tanks. But the heavy M103 tank, armed with a 120-millimetre gun, was only built in ... M48 (from the article "tank") ...But the heavy M103 tank, armed with a 120-millimetre gun, was only built in small ... M60 (from the article "tank") ...guns. After the mid-1950s the M47 tanks were passed on to the French, Italian, Belgian, ... M60A2 (from the article "tank") ...launchers. These were to provide tanks with a combination of the armour-piercing capabilities of large ... M67 (from the article "star") ...colour-magnitude array. These clusters contain a number of white dwarfs, indicating that the initially most ... M72 (from the article "bazooka") ...their short effective range (about 120 yards [110 metres]). For this reason, beginning in the ... M75 (from the article "tank") In the postwar era the U.S. Army led in developing fully tracked carriers with all-around ... M79 (from the article "small arm") ...accuracy remained poor. An effective answer was a shoulder-fired grenade launcher developed in the 1950s ... M9 pistol (from the article "small arm") ...was picked up from a seven-round magazine in the grip. The M1911 Colt did not ... Ma (from the article "Anatolian religion") ...by musicians. Her name and her association with the lion cannot be separated from the ... Ma Chih-yuan (from the article "Chinese literature") ...Yuan Chen, renamed Chang Chun-jui in the play. Besides its literary merits and its influence ... Ma Chung-ying (from the article "Kansu") ...shrank substantially when Sinkiang, Tsinghai, and Ningsia became independent provinces in 1928. During the 1920s ... Ma clan (from the article "Ningsia") ...continued well into the 20th century. After 1911 the region came under the control of ... Ma Duanlin Chinese historian who wrote the Wenxian tongkao ("General Study of the Literary ... [2 Related Articles] Ma Ho-chih (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...legitimize their necessary but technically unlawful assumption of power by supporting works illustrating the ancient ... Ma Junren (from the article "Wang Junxia") Born to a peasant family, Wang took up long-distance running as a teenager. She was ... Ma Lin (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...the primacy of landscape painting was reasserted. The tradition of Li T'ang was turned, however, ... Ma River river, northern Vietnam, one of the longest of the region, rising in the northwest. It ... [1 Related Articles] Ma Ying-jeou Hong Kong-born politician who was chairman of the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang; 2005-07) and who in ... [3 Related Articles] Ma Yuan Chinese general who helped establish the Dong (Eastern) Han dynasty (25-220 CE) after the usurpation ... [1 Related Articles] Ma Yuan influential Chinese landscape painter whose work, together with that of Xia Gui, formed the basis ... [3 Related Articles] Ma'adi, Al- predynastic Egyptian site located just south of present-day Cairo in Lower Egypt. The settlement at ... Ma'afu (from the article "Fiji") ...of Bau, a tiny island off the east coast of Viti Levu, ruled first by ... ma'amadot (Hebrew: "stands," or "posts"), 24 groups of Jewish laymen that witnessed, by turns of one ... Ma'an town, southern Jordan. It is a regional trade centre for the sparsely settled southern part ... Ma'anshan city and industrial centre in southeastern Anhui sheng (province). Ma'anshan is situated ... Ma'arri, al- great Arab poet, known for his virtuosity and for the originality and pessimism of his ... [4 Related Articles] ma'ase bereshit (from the article "Ishmael ben Elisha") The literature of the tanna period dealing with mysticism mentions Ishmael, and a number of ... ma'ase Merkava (from the article "Ishmael ben Elisha") ...Ishmael, and a number of mystical works are attributed to him, including several of the ... Ma'bad (from the article "Islamic arts") ...of Persian ancestry; Ibn Surayj, son of a Persian slave and noted for his elegies ... Ma'bar (from the article "India") Ma'bar, the first among the rebel states to emerge in south India, was founded at ... Ma'dan (from the article "Iraq") ...northwest of Baghdad, were traditionally inhabited by nomadic Bedouin tribes, but few of these people ... Ma'dan-e Karkar (from the article "Afghanistan") Petroleum resources have proved to be insignificant. Many coal deposits have been found in the ... Ma'in (from the article "Arabia, history of") The Minaean kingdom (Ma'in) lasted from the 4th to the 2nd century BC and was ... Ma'in ancient South Arabian kingdom that flourished in the 4th-2nd century BC in what is now ... [5 Related Articles] Ma'lula village in southern Syria about 30 mi (50 km) north of Damascus. The houses are ... Ma'mun, al- seventh 'Abbasid caliph (813-833), known for his attempts to end sectarian rivalry in Islam and ... [16 Related Articles] Ma'n (from the article "Lebanon") ...there grew up families of notables who controlled the land and established a feudal relation ... Ma'nu VII (from the article "Osroene") ...the other. Finally, the Roman emperor Trajan deposed Abgar VII, king of Osroene, after quelling ... Ma'rib town and historic site, north-central Yemen. It is famous as the location of the ancient ... [3 Related Articles] Ma'rib dam (from the article "dam") The Assyrians, Babylonians, and Persians built dams between 700 and 250 BC for water supply ... ma'yong (from the article "Southeast Asian arts") The ma'yong, a dance drama that probably dates back more than 1,000 years, was introduced ... Ma, Yo-Yo French-born American cellist known for his extraordinary technique and rich tone. His frequent collaborations with ... [2 Related Articles] Ma-an Mountains (from the article "Shansi") ...output. Proven reserves of anthracite and high-grade coking coal have supported the development of heavy ... Ma-ch'uan River (from the article "Tibet") ...flows west to become the Sutlej River in western India; the K'ung-ch'ueh River flows into ... Ma-Enyo (from the article "Comana") ancient city of Cappadocia, on the upper course of the Seyhan (Sarus) River, in southern ... Ma-hsi field (from the article "Hopeh") ...speeded the development of the iron and steel industry. In the 1960s the emergence of ... Ma-ubin town, southern Myanmar (Burma). The town is a river port on the west bank of ... Ma-wei (from the article "Fukien") ...the islands off Fukien. There was some revival of the economy in the mid-19th century ... Ma-Xia school group of Chinese landscape artists that used a style of painting named after Ma Yuan ... [5 Related Articles] Maa (from the article "Vietnam") ...and Roglai-speak Austronesian languages, linking them to the Cham, Malay, and Indonesian peoples; others-including the ... maa-alused in Estonian folk religion, mysterious elflike small folk living under the earth. Corresponding to these ... [1 Related Articles] Maal, Baaba One of the leading names in popular music in his native Senegal, singer and instrumentalist ... maar (from the article "lake") ...of the roofs of underground magma (molten silica) chambers and those caused by explosion of ... Maar, Dora French photographer and painter who was one of Pablo Picasso's mistresses for eight years in ... maarib ("who brings on twilight"), Jewish evening prayers recited after sunset; the name derives from one ... [1 Related Articles] Maas, Peter American writer (b. June 27, 1929, New York, N.Y.-d. Aug. 23, 2001, New York), had ... Maasai nomadic pastoralists of East Africa. Maasai is essentially a linguistic term, referring to speakers of ... [13 Related Articles] Maasina Rule (from the article "Solomon Islands") Another result of the war was to stimulate political consciousness among the islanders and so ... Maass, Clara American nurse, the only woman and the only American to die during the yellow fever ... Maastricht gemeente (municipality), southeastern Netherlands. It lies along the Maas (Meuse) River at the junction of ... [4 Related Articles] Maastricht Treaty international agreement approved by the heads of government of the states of the European Community ... [8 Related Articles] Maastricht, Treaty of (from the article "Spain") Spain's defeat in war cost it many of its possessions outside Iberia. The treaties of ... Maastricht-Liege Canal (from the article "canals and inland waterways") ...the Gent Ship Canal, cut through to Terneuzen, was opened in 1827, giving a shorter ... Maastrichtian Stage uppermost of the six main divisions in the Upper Cretaceous Series, representing rocks deposited worldwide ... Maat in ancient Egyptian religion, the personification of truth, justice, and the cosmic order. The daughter ... [2 Related Articles] maat (from the article "Egyptian religion") The concept of maat ("order") was fundamental in Egyptian thought. The king's ... Maathai, Wangari Kenyan politician and environmental activist who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize for Peace, the ... [3 Related Articles] Maazel, Lorin conductor and violinist who, as music director of the Cleveland Orchestra from 1972 to 1982, ... [1 Related Articles] Mab in English folklore, the queen of the fairies. Mab is a mischievous but basically benevolent ... Maba (from the article "Gambia, The") ...opposition at home and in the Gambia foiled these plans. Complicating matters was the series ... Maba (from the article "Ouaddai") ...caravans linking the Sahara with equatorial Africa and by Muslim pilgrim routes from West Africa ... Maba cranium fossil fragments of an ancient human skull found in 1958 near the village of Maba ... Maba language (from the article "Maban languages") group of related languages spoken in the border area of Chad, The Sudan, and the ... Maban languages group of related languages spoken in the border area of Chad, The Sudan, and the ... [2 Related Articles] Mabanckou, Alain (from the article "Literature") The Prix Renaudot crowned the year's African trend, going to another foreign-born writer, Alain Mabanckou ... Mabillon, Jean French monastic scholar, antiquarian, and historian who pioneered the study of ancient handwriting (paleography). [4 Related Articles] Mabini, Apolinario Filipino theoretician and spokesman of the Philippine Revolution, who wrote the constitution for the short-lived ... Mabinogion collection of 11 medieval Welsh tales based on mythology, folklore, and heroic legends. The tales ... [5 Related Articles] Mabley, Moms American comedian who was one of the most successful black vaudeville performers. She modeled her ...

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