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Mahmudi, Al-Baghdadi Ali al- (from the article "Libya") ...facto) Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi; (nominal) Secretary of the General People's Congress Zentani Muhammad al-Zentani ... Mahmudiyah Canal (from the article "Damietta") ...called Damietta 4 miles (6.4 km) inland on the present site. During both the Mamluk ... mahogany (from the article "conservation") Similar cases of overharvested species are found in terrestrial ecosystems. For example, even when forests ... mahogany any of several tropical hardwood timber trees, especially certain species in the family Meliaceae. One ... [5 Related Articles] Mahon, Derek Northern Irish poet and translator who explored contemporary themes through verse with classical formal structure. Mahone, William American railroad magnate and general of the Confederacy who led Virginia's "Readjuster" reform movement from ... 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AD 51-80) founded the city Vologesias, near Seleucia, as his ... mahr (from the article "Yemen") ...practice of marrying someone from within one's own kin group) is common, the preferred marriage ... Mahra (from the article "Arabia") ...emigrants to the gulf in the early 9th century, but the Baloch, whose ancestors immigrated ... Mahra Sultanate former semi-independent state in the southern Arabian Peninsula, including the island of Socotra in the ... Mahri (from the article "South Arabic language") ...group of Semitic languages, along with Ge'ez, Amharic, Tigre, Tigrinya, and the other Semitic languages ... Mahsati (from the article "Persian literature") ...the English writer Edward FitzGerald translated Omar's poetry as The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859), ... mahseer any of several species of edible game fishes of the genus Barbus, in the carp ... [2 Related Articles] Mahuad Witt, Jamil (from the article "Ecuador") ...of his erratic and controversial behaviour, and in early 1997 Congress removed him from office ... mahuang (from the article "ephedrine") alkaloid used as a decongestant drug. It is obtainable from plants of the genus Ephedra, ... Mahuyeh (from the article "Iran") ...in 642 completed the Sasanids' vanquishment. Yazdegerd fled to the empire's northeastern outpost, Merv, whose ... mahzor originally a Jewish prayer book arranged according to liturgical chronology and used throughout the entire ... [2 Related Articles] Mai-chi-shan one of three major sites in northern China's Kansu sheng (province) where rock-cut Buddhist caves ... [1 Related Articles] Mai-Mai (from the article "Congo, Democratic Republic of the") ...There was fighting in January between dissident soldiers and members of the Congolese army in ... Mai-Ndombe, Lake lake in western Congo (Kinshasa), east of the Congo River and south-southeast of Lake Tumba. ... Maia (from the article "Pleiades") in Greek mythology, the seven daughters of the Titan Atlas and the Oceanid Pleione: Maia, ... Maia (from the article "Pleiades") ...several hundred stars, of which six or seven can be seen by the unaided eye ... Maia (from the article "Mercury") ...Greek Hermes, fleet-footed messenger of the gods. His worship was introduced early, and his temple ... Maia, Manuel da (from the article "Lisbon") ...reconstruction-a good deal of foreign aid was forthcoming-was achieved by Joseph I's prime minister, Sebastiao ... Maia, Sebastiao Rodrigues Brazilian singer-songwriter whose mixture of samba and soul made him a major force in Brazilian ... Maiao (from the article "Vent, Iles du") ...French Polynesia, in the central South Pacific Ocean. The group is composed of volcanic islands ... Maiasaura duck-billed dinosaurs (hadrosaurs) found as fossils from the Late Cretaceous Period (99 million to 65 ... Maidan (from the article "Calcutta") More than 200 parks, squares, and open spaces are maintained by the Calcutta Municipal Corporation. ... Maiden Castle (from the article "Dorchester") ...was a sizable Roman British centre, and many remains of the period (including mosaics and ... maiden over (from the article "cricket") ...players in the field. If a bowler delivers a complete over without a run being ... maidenhair fern (from the article "plant") ...and photosynthetic; sperm motile; between 9,000 and 12,000 species; representative genera include Maidenhead town, Windsor and Maidenhead unitary authority, historic county of Berkshire, England, on the River Thames. ... Maidenhead Bridge (from the article "Brunel, Isambard Kingdom") ...railway lines in Italy and was an adviser on the construction of the Victorian lines ... Maidhyairya (from the article "Gahanbar") ...of Tir; 75 days later, Paitishhahya (Harvest-time), in the month of Shatvairo; 30 days later, ... Maidhyaoizaremaya (from the article "Gahanbar") ...the seasons and possibly the six stages in the creation of the world (the heavens, ... Maidhyoishema (from the article "Gahanbar") ...world, the animal world, and man). Each lasting five days, the Gahanbars are: Maidhyaoizaremaya (Midspring), ... Maidstone (from the article "Maidstone") town and borough (district), administrative and historic county of Kent, southeastern England, astride the River ... Maidstone town and borough (district), administrative and historic county of Kent, southeastern England, astride the River ... Maidstone Iguanodon (from the article "dinosaur") ...too fragmentary to permit a clear image of either animal. In 1834 a partial skeleton ... Maidu North American Indians who spoke a language of Penutian stock and originally lived in a ... 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Maihofer, Werner (from the article "law, philosophy of") It has been tempting for many to seek kinships between natural law and Existentialism, as ... Maikala Range mountain range in Madhya Pradesh state, central India, running in a north-south direction and forming ... [1 Related Articles] Maiko National Park reserve in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, about equidistant from Bukavu, in the great ... 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Main Island (from the article "Bermuda") ...with the West Indies, which lie more than 800 miles (1,300 km) to the south ... main memory (from the article "computer memory") The earliest memory devices were electro-mechanical switches, or relays (see computers: The first computer), and ... main motion (from the article "parliamentary procedure") Motions may be classified as main motions, which introduce a proposition, or as secondary motions, ... Main Office for the Control of Presentations and Public Performances (from the article "Poland") Under the communist government, the Main Office for the Control of the Press, Publications, and ... Main Range mountain range in West Malaysia, the most prominent mountain group on the Malay Peninsula. Composed ... Main Ridge (from the article "Trinidad and Tobago") The island of Tobago is physiographically an extension of the Venezuelan coastal range and the ... Main River river, an important right- (east-) bank tributary of the Rhine in Germany. 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Main-Danube Canal commercial waterway in the southern German state of Bavaria. Completed in 1992, the canal is ... [4 Related Articles] Maina peninsula of the southern Peloponnese (Peloponnisos), in the nomos (department) of Laconia, Greece. The area ... Mainassara, Ibrahim Bare soldier, diplomat, and politician who orchestrated a coup in 1996 that overthrew Niger's first democratically ... [3 Related Articles] Maine historic region encompassing the western French departements of Mayenne and Sarthe and coextensive with the ... Maine constituent state of the United States of America. The largest of the six New England ... [19 Related Articles] Maine de Biran, Marie-Francois-Pierre French statesman, empiricist philosopher, and prolific writer who stressed the inner life of man, against ... [2 Related Articles] Maine River river, Maine-et-Loire departement, western France, 7 mi (12 km) long, formed by the confluence of ... 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Maine-Montparnasse (from the article "Paris") The centrepiece of the Maine-Montparnasse district is a 59-story office tower on the site of ... mainframe (from the article "electronics") ...discrete pieces of equipment used primarily for data processing and scientific calculations. They ranged in ... Mainichi shimbun national daily newspaper, one of Japan's "big three" dailies, which publishes morning and evening editions ... [1 Related Articles] Mainit, Lake lake on the border of Surigao del Norte and Agusan del Sur provinces, northeastern Mindanao, ... Mainland (from the article "Shetland Islands") ...km) north of the Scottish mainland, at the northern extremity of the United Kingdom. They ... Mainland central and largest of the Orkney Islands of Scotland, which lie off the northern tip ... [1 Related Articles]

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