particularly rich and lavish style of architectural ornamentation indigenous to Portugal in the early 16th century. Although the Manueline style actually continued for some time after the death of Manuel I (reigned 1495-1521), it is the prosperity of his reign ...
legal concept or doctrine that holds manufacturers or sellers responsible, or liable, for harm caused by defective products sold in the marketplace. Manufacturer's liability is usually determined on any of three bases: (1) negligence, which is the failure to exercise ...
any industry that makes products from raw materials by the use of manual labour or machinery and that is usually carried out systematically with a division of labour. (See industry.) In a more limited sense, manufacturing denotes the fabrication or ...
city, Auckland local government region, northern North Island, New Zealand. It is the third largest city in New Zealand with about one-third of its population made up of Maoris and other Pacific Islanders. Manukau lies 12 miles (19 km) southeast ...
organic material that is used to fertilize land, usually consisting of the feces and urine of domestic livestock, with or without accompanying litter such as straw, hay, or bedding. Farm animals void most of the nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium that ...
in Roman law, autocratic power of the husband over the wife, corresponding to patria potestas of the father over his children. A daughter ceased to be under her father's potestas if she came under the manus of her husband. Marriage ...
largest of the Admiralty Islands, Papua New Guinea, 200 miles (320 km) north of the island of New Guinea in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. Measuring 50 by 20 miles (80 by 32 km) and having a total land area of ...
the leading figure of his time in printing, publishing, and typography, founder of a veritable dynasty of great printer-publishers, and organizer of the famous Aldine Press. Manutius produced the first printed editions of many of the Greek and Latin classics ...
breed of tailless domestic cat of unknown origin but presumed by tradition to have come from the Isle of Man. Noted for being affectionate, loyal, and courageous, the Manx is distinguished both by its taillessness and by its characteristic hopping ...
member of the Goidelic group of Celtic languages, formerly spoken on the Isle of Man. Like Scottish Gaelic, Manx was an offshoot of Irish, and it is closely related to the easternmost dialects of Irish and to Scottish. The earliest ...
site of a former city in Karnataka, India, about 85 miles (135 km) southwest of Hyderabad. The city was founded in the 9th century by the Rastrakuta ruler Amoghavarsa I and became the capital of the dynasty.
lake in northern Tanzania, 60 miles (100 km) west-southwest of Arusha. It is 30 miles (50 km) long and 10 miles (16 km) wide and contains salt and rock phosphate deposits. Lake Manyara National Park, founded in 1960 and covering ...
one of the cluster of Shona-speaking peoples inhabiting extreme eastern Zimbabwe and adjacent areas of interior Mozambique south of the Pungue River. The Manyika have existed as an ethnic group discrete from other Shona groups only since the 1930s.
internment facility for Japanese Americans during World War II. In March 1942 the U.S. War Relocation Authority was set up; fearing subversive actions, it established 10 relocation centres for persons of Japanese ancestry, located in California, Arizona, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, ...
city, eastern Cuba. Founded in 1784, Manzanillo lies amid swamplands at the head of the shallow Gulf of Guacanayabo. It is a commercial and manufacturing centre for the fertile agricultural district to the east and north, which produces sugarcane, fruit, ...
city and port, western Colima estado ("state"), west-central Mexico. It lies on the Pacific Ocean between Manzanillo Bay and Cuyutlan Lagoon. In pre-Columbian times the site was occupied by the town of Tzalahua, and ships for Hernan Cortes' expedition (1533) ...
any of about 50 species of evergreen shrubs and trees of the genus Arctostaphylos, of the heath family (Ericaceae), native to western North America. The leaves are alternate and smooth-edged. The small, urn-shaped flowers are pink or white and are ...
(1071), battle in which the Byzantines under the emperor Romanus IV Diogenes were defeated by the Seljuq Turks led by the sultan Alp-Arslan. It was followed by Seljuq conquest of most of Anatolia.
town, north-central Tunisia. It lies on the southwestern shore of Lake Banzart, 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Bizerte town and the Mediterranean Sea. Manzil Bu Ruqaybah, which is of modern origin, owes its development to the adjacent naval base ...
town, central Swaziland. The Great Usutu River flows south of Manzini on its way east toward the Indian Ocean, and the Malkerns irrigation scheme is to the north. It was originally called Bremersdorp, for a trader who established a store ...
Italian poet and novelist whose novel I promessi sposi (The Betrothed, 1952) had immense patriotic appeal for Italians of the nationalistic Risorgimento period and is generally ranked among the masterpieces of world literature.
Italian sculptor who, in the mid-20th century, revived the ancient tradition of creating sculptural bronze doors for ecclesiastical buildings. His sober realism and extremely delicate modeling alternately achieved austere severity and sensuousness of form and surface, lending a new spirit ...
city, northwestern Dominican Republic. It lies near the Yaque del Norte River in the fertile Cibao Valley. The city was formerly called Valverde. Mao is principally a rice-growing and milling centre, although a variety of other crops are grown in ...
Chinese scholar whose revision of and commentary on the great Confucian classic the Shijing ("Classic of Poetry") became so famous that for the next 2,000 years this text was often referred to as the Mao shi ("Mao Poetry"). His work ...
principal Chinese Marxist theorist, soldier, and statesman who led his nation's communist revolution. Leader of the Chinese Communist Party from 1931, he was chairman (chief of state) of the People's Republic of China from 1949 to 1959 and chairman of ...
city in western Kwangtung sheng (province), China. Mao-ming is situated some 16 miles (25 km) inland, 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Chan-chiang city. Little more than a small market town and minor administrative centre until the 1950s, the whole ...
("Mao Zedong Thought"), doctrine composed of the ideology and methodology for revolution developed by Mao Zedong and his associates in the Chinese Communist Party from the 1920s until Mao's death in 1976. Maoism has clearly represented a revolutionary method based ...
westernmost segment of the central highlands of New Guinea. It is located in the Indonesian part of New Guinea, known as Irian Jaya. The range extends for 430 miles (692 km), and much of it lies above 12,000 feet (3,660 ...
Polynesian people of New Zealand. Their traditional history describes their origins in terms of waves of migration beginning about 1150 and culminating in the arrival of a "great fleet" in the 14th century from Hawaiki, a mythical land usually identified ...
Eastern Polynesian subgroup of the Eastern Austronesian (Oceanic) languages, spoken in the Cook Islands and New Zealand. Since the Maori Language Act of 1987, it has been one of the two official languages of New Zealand. Estimates of the number ...
(1867), legislation that created four Maori parliamentary seats in New Zealand, bringing the Maori nation into the political system of the self-governing colony. The Native Representation Act was originally intended to be temporary. When Maori landholdings were converted from tribal ...
graphic representation, drawn to scale and usually on a flat surface, of features-for example, geographical, geological, or geopolitical-of an area of the Earth or of any other celestial body. Globes are maps represented on the surface of a sphere. Cartography ...
left-wing labour party in Israel and in the World Zionist Organization, founded in 1948 by the ha-Shomer ha-Tza'ir (Young Guard) and the Ahdut 'Avoda-Po'ale Tziyyon (Labour Unity-Workers of Zion), which were both Marxist Zionist movements. Mapam maintains a Marxist ideology ...
lake, in western Tibet, to the south of the Kailas Range. Lying nearly 15,000 ft (4,570 m) above sea level, it is generally recognized as the highest body of fresh water in the world. The lake is prominent in Hindu ...
enclosed depression in northern Mexico. Situated in the arid northern plateau region and averaging 3,000 ft (900 m) in elevation, it is structurally similar to the Basin and Range region of Arizona and New Mexico, in the United States. Although ...
(Acer), any of a large genus (about 200 species) of shrubs or trees in the family Aceraceae, widely distributed in the North Temperate Zone but concentrated in China. Maples constitute one of the most important groups of ornamentals for planting ...
town, southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada, on Maple Creek, in the northern foothills of the Cypress Hills on the Trans-Canada Highway, near the Alberta border, 193 mi (311 km) west-southwest of Moose Jaw. Named for the maple trees that line the banks ...
sweet-water sap of certain North American maple trees, chiefly the sugar maple, Acer saccharum, but also the black maple, Acer nigrum. It was utilized by the Indians of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River regions prior to the arrival ...
inherited metabolic disorder involving leucine, isoleucine, and valine (a group of branch chain amino acids). Normally, these amino acids are metabolized, step by step, by a number of enzymes, each of which is specific for each step in the metabolism ...
any prescribed way of assigning to each object in one set a particular object in another (or the same) set. Mapping applies to any set: a collection of objects, such as all whole numbers, all the points on a line, ...
American photographer who was noted for austere photographs of flowers, celebrities, and male nudes; among the latter were some that proved controversial because of their explicitly homoerotic and sadomasochistic themes.
in Japanese Buddhism, the age of the degeneration of the Buddha's law, which some believe to be the current age in human history. Ways of coping with the age of mappo were a particular concern of Japanese ...
author of the first Hebrew novel, Ahavat Ziyyon (1853; Annou: Prince and Peasant), an idyllic historical romance set in the days of the prophet Isaiah. Couched in florid biblical language, it artfully depicts pastoral life in ancient Israel; the book ...
the most numerous group of Indians in South America. They numbered more than 1,400,000 at the turn of the 21st century. Most inhabit the Central Valley of Chile, south of the Bio-Bio River. A smaller group lives in Neuquen provincia, ...
