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...

(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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

“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.”...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...