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The Mabinogion as translated by Patrick Ford In 1849 Lady Charlotte Guest translated into English a group of 11 Welsh tales and dubbed the ensemble The Mabinogion, a convenient, if inaccurate, title that has come to designate the 11 as a wh...
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Kamo Mabuchi (1697-1769) was a Japanese writer, poet, and scholar and one of the major figures in the school of National Learning. Kamo Mabuchi was born Masanobu, or Masafuji, the son of the superior (Kannushi) of the Kamo shrine in Totomi...
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(2002 est. pop. 465,000). A Portuguese colonial outpost in southern China for more than four centuries (1557–1999), the territory of Macao (Macau), or as it is known in Chinese, Aomen, consists of a narrow peninsula in southern Guan...
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I don't even get an allowance....
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Macbeth (died 1057) was king of Scotland from 1040 to 1057. Although he is best known through the Shakespearean drama bearing his name, his historical importance lies in the fact that he was the last Celtic king of Scotland. The career of ...
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Welles's approach to Macbeth was bound to be unusual. First of all, he imposed upon it a theme which has no parallel in the text, and announced it himself at the beginning of the film…. The words were spoken over shots of the witches seen...
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Roman Polanski's Macbeth [is] all but the worst Shakespeare ever filmed. If it wasn't as Now as Tony Richardson's Hamlet or as West-Side-Storyish as Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet … it was more blatant than either and distilled even less p...
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Well known as an Ottawa literary personality and the first woman president of the Canadian Authors' Association, Madge Hamilton Lyons Macbeth was born in Philadelphia, 6 November 1880, the elder daughter of Bessie Maffit and Hymen Hart Lyo...
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Maccoby, Eleanor Emmons (1917 Social Development: Psychological Growth and the Parent-Child Relationship. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, 1980. Maccoby, E., and C.N. Jacklin. Psychology of Sex Differences. Stanford: Stanford Unive...
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Cynthia Macdonald is best known for the grotesque imagery and sardonic tone in her poems. She is the author of five collections of poetry, as well as a contributor to numerous anthologies of contemporary verse. Both her subject matter and ...
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Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982) was an editor, journalist, essayist, and critic of literature, popular culture, films, and politics. Dwight Macdonald was born in New York City on March 24, 1906, the son of Dwight and Alice (Hedges) Macdonald....
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Eleanor Josephine Macdonald (born 1906) has been a pioneer in the field of cancer epidemiology. Over the course of forty years, she made several significant contributions to the understanding of cancer and was a strong advocate for early t...
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Philip MacDonald, one of the leading British writers of formal or Golden Age detective stories, remained until his death on 10 December 1980 one of the most mysterious figures in the world of detective fiction. Born in London on Guy Fawkes...
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A relatively minor poet known for being romantic, ornate, and rhetorical, Wilson Pugsley MacDonald retains a small coterie of enthusiasts even to the present. Known mainly in his own time for his considerable platform abilities in a series...
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Former Yugoslav Republic of MacedoniaRepublika Makedonija CAPITAL: Skopje FLAG: The flag consists of a gold sun with eight rays on a red field. ANTHEM: Denec Nad Makedonija (Today over Macedonia) MONETARY UNIT: The currency in use is the d...
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The Republic of Macedonia is a country slightly larger than the state of Vermont and measures 25,333 square kilometers. Located on the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe, Macedonia is bordered on the north by Yugoslavia, on the south...
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Proverbs in the modern Macedonian language , the official language of the modern Republic of Macedonia . Што една будала ќе заплетка, илјада мудреци не можат да отплеткат. Što edna bud...
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The Australian virologist and physician Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet (1899-1985) made important contributions to virology, immunology, and human biology. On Sept. 3, 1899, F. Macfarlane Burnet was born in the country town of Traralgon. He w...
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“Mac Flecknoe” by John Dryden Critic, playwright, poet, and translator, John Dryden (1631-1700) so dominated the literary scene of the later seventeenth century that it is often referred to as “the Age of Dryden.”...
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MacGyver (1985–1992) was a television series about the adventures of a laid-back, extremely resourceful ex-secret agent named Angus "Mac" MacGyver, whose main asset is his practical application of scientific knowledge and inventive use o...
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The older brother of Antonio Machado, Manuel was the more famous poet during the early years of the twentieth century. After a stay in Paris he brought the full force of modernism home to Spain with his adaptations in Spanish verse of symb...
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During the second half of the nineteenth century, Agnes Maule Machar (occasionally writing as Fidelis) was an important literary and reformist figure in Victorian Canada. Described in 1892 as "our most gifted authoress," Machar wrote more ...
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Machinal (1928) is a play written by early 20th Century playwright and journalist Sophie Treadwell. It was inspired by the real life case of convicted and executed murderess Ruth Snyder. The play stands out as one that calls for a vast arra...
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Quotes regarding Machine . Unsourced "All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness." - Mark Kennedy "Do ...
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Machine code is the sequence of binary-coded machine instructions specifically written to be used within machine language. Machine language is the low-level programming language that is directly read and interpreted by a computer's central...
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A few automatic weapons patented in the United States in the 1820s and 1830s were called organ or machine guns, consisting of multi-barreled weapons loaded on carts. These bear little resemblance to today's machine gun, which fires a conti...
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Machine Gun Kelly (George Barnes) Born: 1897 Died: 1954 A likable—although none-too bright—small-time crook, Kelly became a legend in his own time. With the prodding of his image-conscious wife, Kathryn, the non-violent bootlegg...
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Ever since I wrote The Machine-gunners (and in spite of the fact that my last three books have been fantasies) people keep consulting me about realism in children's books. Rather as if I'd been appointed high priest and was being asked to r...
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E. M. Foster has a very particular way of showing, from my point of view, what will happen in an unknown future, and this is expressed through words. Although the story has been written in a very basic, or let's say, easy vocabulary, readin...
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Machine tools are used in the construction of other tools and instruments. They are fundamental implements that change the shape, surface, or properties of an blank object made of metal, plastic, wood, or other material. In a basic sense t...
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Language translators convert programming source code into language that the computer processor understands. Programming source code has various structures and commands, but computer processors only understand machine language. Different ty...
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Macho Camacho’s Beat by Luis Rafael Sánchez Luis Rafael Sánchez was born on November 17, 1936, in Humacao, Puerto Rico. Sánchez spent his childhood in Humacao and his adolescence and youth in San Juan. After rece...
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While little is known of the life of Roland MacIlmaine, he figures prominently in the development of English Ramism because his was the first translation of the Ramist dialectic into English. Just two years after the Huguenot reformer Petr...
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Colin MacInnes established his reputation as a new voice in fiction during the late 1950s and early 1960s by introducing fresh subject matter for the serious novel. His London novels investigated the contemporary worlds of immigrant blacks...
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Maciu Navakasuasua is Fijian explosives expert, who was imprisoned in 2001 for offences related to the Fiji coup of 2000 . He has since professed a change of heart. Interview, 11 January 2006 Source: Fiji Sun , 11 January 2006. "With the m...
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Mack Gordon turned out musical hits for Hollywood with almost machine-like regularity. In the 1930s, with composer Harry Revel, and in the 1940s, with composers Harry Warren and Josef Myrow, he wrote lyrics to nearly 120 hit songs, more th...
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The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it. The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it....
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Although Mack Reynolds has been a prolific science-fiction writer since 1950, having published more than fifty novels and collections as well as hundreds of short stories and articles, none of his works has proven permanently popular or ac...
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The American silent-screen producer and director Mack Sennett (1884-1960) is frequently considered the originator of film comedy. He perfected the art of silent-screen slapstick in his "Keystone" series. Mack Sennett was born Michael Sinno...
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Maynard Mack has accomplished what was thought by twentieth-century scholars to be Herculean task, a definitive biography of Alexander Pope. Alexander Pope: A Life (1985) has been unanimously praised for its remarkable breadth of informati...
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On 21 September 1924 the New York Herald Tribune began publishing a Sunday book review supplement which included a column called "Notes for Bibliophiles." Leonard Leopold Mackall, a collector and independent scholar living most of the time...
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Isabel Ecclestone MacKay is one of a group of Canadian literary women whose phenomenal output and active public lives are a testimony to the considerable energy that characterized the early twentieth-century female literary community. Alth...
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Because of the unrivaled popularity of her novels from 1886 to 1924, Marie Corelli (pseudonym for Mary "Minnie" MacKay) demands attention of both social and literary historians. Full and accurate sales comparisons do not exist for the late...
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Shena Mackay has created one of the most distinctive bodies of work in late-twentieth-century British fiction. Beginning at an early age, she specialized in writing about the raffish, the eccentric, and the abnormal, sometimes heightening ...
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When Walter Macken died in 1967, Ireland lost one of her most respected and successful novelists and short-story writers, an author who enjoyed a wide reputation as a fiction writer not only at home but also in the United States and (throu...
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The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today....
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Kenneth Mackenzie is the least known but the first of the "precocious" literary talents to come out of Western Australia. Like Randolph Stow and Tim Winton, he wrote a major work at a remarkably young age: the first draft of his best-known...
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William Mackenzie collected books for the sake of their rarity, age, or beauty. By the time he died in 1828, he had assembled one of the largest private libraries in the United States. It was the most valuable collection of antiquarian boo...
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