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- 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. Constitution and collaborated with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay in ... [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 city was the scene of a short-lived communist rebellion, 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 the Dutch following uprisings in 1926-27; it was officially reestablished ...
- 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 of government: Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany | BRITANNICA BOOK ...
- 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 Health Minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge. Critics argued that her dismissal had ...
- 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 divided into quadrants, and it remained unsurpassed in its detail ... [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, and Madness brought punk and more pop into ska. Madness's ...
- 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). Cynddelw was also court poet to Owain Cyfeiliog (d. c. ...
- 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 Antenna Peak, 6,480 feet (1,975 m), and Carbonara Peak, 6,493 ...
- 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 industry. [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 and emphasize later doctrinal or sentimental significance. The Madonna is ... [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 clearly dated is the Pisa altarpiece of 1426 (the central ...
- 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 pilgrimage church of Madonna del Sasso (founded 1480, extended 1616). ...
- 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 Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple (1552) was, ...
- 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 San Biago at Montepulciano, a tiny but important cultural centre ...
- 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 tube, as in the Madonna lily (Lilium candidum) and Easter ...
- 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 to the southwest of present-day Delhi. The Kuru-Pancala, still dominant ...
- 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 and the Deccan Plateau). The Kalakshetra is a centre of ...
- 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 the story of the Madras Presidency in relationship to the ...
- 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 the 1920s. By the mid-1970s the university comprised 11 postgraduate ... [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 addition to Islamic theology and law, Arabic grammar and literature, ... [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 historic defeat in the 2000 presidential election, won the party ...
- 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 Puerto Maldonado to the Bolivian border. There it turns northeastward ... [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 e Maestra Pontifical Catholic University (1962) is based in ...
- 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 Texas is the most notable. The lagoon is divided into ...
- 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 madreporite, which is united via a duct (the stone canal) ...
- 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 Castile-Leon to the north and west and Castile-La Mancha to ...
- 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 community) in central Spain. [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 Castile-Leon to the north and west and Castile-La Mancha to ...
- 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 exploded on four trains in Madrid, killing some 200 people ...
- 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 the 16th century. The Madrid Codex is believed to be ... [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 of 1932, which codified the rules and established the official ...
- 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 a result, coordinators of Madrid's Fashion Week soon banned from ...
- 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 the Club of Madrid, a group she helped found, which ...
- 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 1580. By the Treaty of Madrid (1529), Portugal secured the ...
- 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 Pavia in February 1525 and held prisoner until the conclusion ... [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 international status in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. ... [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 plot or common theme. Madrigal comedies were sung in concerts ... [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 by glacial landscapes, steep valleys, and open pastures, was designated ...
- 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) tall. The dark, oblong, glossy leaves are from 5 to ...
- 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 founder in 2004 of the Haitian Liberal Party, which he ...
- 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) long, madtoms are the smallest ictalurids and are characterized by ...
- 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 covers an area of 2,042 square miles (5,290 square km), ... [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: Penicillium, Aspergillus, or Madurella, or actinomycetes such as Nocardia.
- 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 River and enclosed by the Anai, Naga, and Pasu (Elephant, ... [1 Related Articles]
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