French national anthem, composed in one night during the French Revolution (April 24, 1792) by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, a captain of the engineers and amateur musician.
city, capital of Bouches-du-Rhone departement, France, and also the administrative and commercial capital of Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, one of France's fastest growing regions. Located west of the French Riviera, Marseille is one of the major ...
tin-glazed earthenware made in Marseille in the 18th century. The Joseph Clerissy factory, active in 1677-1733, produced wares usually in blue with purple outlines. The Fauchier factory excelled in trompe l'oeil work and landscapes. The factory of the Veuve Perrin ...
type of wetland ecosystem characterized by poorly drained mineral soils and by plant life dominated by grasses. The latter characteristic distinguishes a marsh from a swamp (q.v.), whose plant life is dominated by trees.
any of the 70 plant species of the genus Rorippa of the mustard family (Brassicaceae). Most members of the genus are found in the Northern Hemisphere. The genus has at times been included with the genera Nasturtium and Radicula. Iceland ...
any of several hundred insect species of the family Sciomyzidae (order Diptera), notable because the larval phase preys parasitically on slugs, snails, and other mollusks. These medium-sized flies occur worldwide; about 500 species are known, each associated with certain types ...
(Rana ridibunda), large aquatic frog (family Ranidae), similar in appearance and habits to the closely related pool frog (R.lessonae) and the edible frog (R. esculenta). In Europe they are all called green frogs. The marsh frog inhabits marshes, river ...
(Althaea officinalis), perennial herbaceous plant of the mallow family (Malvaceae), native to eastern Europe and northern Africa. It has also become established in North America. The plant is usually found in marshy areas, chiefly near the sea. It has strongly ...
any insect of the family Hydrometridae (order Heteroptera), so named because of its slow, deliberate manner of moving as it walks along the surface of a pond or crawls among shore vegetation. Marsh treaders, worldwide in distribution, are usually found ...
New Zealand author known especially for her many detective novels featuring Inspector Roderick Alleyn of Scotland Yard, and, in later novels, his wife Troy.
American paleontologist who made extensive scientific explorations of the western United States and contributed greatly to knowledge of extinct North American vertebrates.
scholar, civil servant, and art collector who influenced the development of contemporary British art by patronizing unestablished artists. He was also an editor, translator, and biographer who was well-known in British literary circles of the early 20th century.
in some past and present armies, including those of Britain, France, Germany, Russia or the Soviet Union, and China, the highest ranking officer. The rank evolved from the title of marescalci (masters of the horse) of the early Frankish kings. ...
city, seat (1842) of Harrison county, northeastern Texas, U.S. The city lies 34 miles (55 km) west of Shreveport, Louisiana, and is part of a metropolitan and industrial area centred on Longview. Founded in 1841 by Isaac Van Zandt, it ...
a department store chain whose flagship store on State Street in Chicago was for a time the largest in the world, comprising 73 acres of floor space and having larger book, china, shoe, and toy departments than any other department ...
country of the central Pacific Ocean. It consists of some of the easternmost islands of Micronesia. The Marshalls are composed of two parallel chains of coral atolls-the Ratak, or Sunrise, to the east, and the Ralik, or Sunset, to the ...
(April 1948-December 1951), U.S.-sponsored program designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries in order to create stable conditions in which democratic institutions could survive. The United States feared that the poverty, unemployment, and dislocation of ...
public, coeducational institution of higher learning, with its main campus in Huntington, West Virginia, U.S., and a graduate college in South Charleston. Marshall University offers associate's, bachelor's, and master's degrees, as well as a doctorate in biomedical sciences, an Ed.D. ...
Australian physician who won, with J. Robin Warren, the 2005 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discovery that stomach ulcers are an infectious disease caused by bacteria.
general of the army and U.S. Army chief of staff during World War II (1939-45) and later U.S. secretary of state (1947-49) and of defense (1950-51). The European Recovery Program he proposed in 1947 became known as the Marshall Plan. ...
fourth chief justice of the United States and principal founder of the U.S. system of constitutional law, including the doctrine of judicial review. The first of Marshall's great cases in more than 30 years of service was Marbury v. Madison ...
English director general of the Indian Archaeological Survey (1902-31) who in the 1920s was responsible for the large-scale excavations that revealed Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, the two largest cities of the previously unknown Indus Valley Civilization.
lawyer, politician, and statesman who was prime minister of New Zealand (1972) and a leading figure in the economic planning of the Commonwealth for more than two decades.
Presbyterian minister and popular Puritan leader. He was an influential preacher to the English Parliament and a participant in the formulation of his church's creed.
28th vice president of the United States (1913-21) in the Democratic administration of President Woodrow Wilson. He was the first vice president in almost a century to serve two terms in office. A popular public official, he was heard to ...
lawyer, civil rights activist, and associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1967-91), the first African American member of the Supreme Court. As an attorney, he successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court the case of BrownBoard ...
a prison formerly existing in Southwark, London, on the south bank of the Thames and attached to the court of that name held by the steward and marshal of the English (later British) king. It existed as early as the ...
aerated candy that originated as a versatile medicinal syrup and ointment; it was made from root sap of the marsh mallow (Althaea officinalis), sugar, and egg white.
ancient people of Italy, located on the eastern shore of Lake Fucinus (now drained) in the modern province of L'Aquila. They are principally known for their prominent part in the Social War against Rome. In 304 BC the Marsi and ...
only family of the fern order Marsileales. The three genera and about 70 species of small aquatic ferns root in mud or grow in shallow water. The family is typified by spore-bearing structures (sporangia) in hard cases (sporocarps) produced at ...
Italian political philosopher whose work Defensor pacis ("Defender of the Peace"), one of the most original treatises on political theory produced during the Middle Ages, significantly influenced the modern idea of the state. He has been variously considered a forerunner ...
(July 2, 1644), the first major Royalist defeat in the English Civil War. In June 1644, King Charles I ordered a force under Prince Rupert of the Palatinate to relieve the Royalist garrison at York, then under siege by the ...
English dramatist, one of the most vigorous satirists of the Shakespearean era, whose best known work is The Malcontent (1604), in which he rails at the iniquities of a lascivious court. He wrote it, as well as other major works, ...
any of more than 250 species belonging to the infraclass Metatheria (sometimes called Marsupialia), a mammalian group characterized by premature birth and continued development of the newborn while attached to the nipples on the lower belly of the mother. The ...
either of the two species of small marsupial mammals of the genus Notoryctes, comprising the family Notoryctidae. Found in hot sandy wastes of south-central and northwestern Australia, the 18-centimetre (7-inch) N. typhlops and the 10-centimetre (4-inch) N. caurinus (by some ...
any of many small rat- or mouselike animals, belonging to the family Dasyuridae (order Marsupialia), found in Australia and New Guinea. The species vary in body length from 5 to 22 cm (2 to 9 inches), and all have tails, ...
legendary Greek figure of Anatolian origin. According to the usual Greek version, Marsyas found the oboe that the goddess Athena had invented and, after becoming skilled in playing it, challenged Apollo to a contest with his lyre. When King Midas ...
Greek painter of the late Classical period, known for a pelike (wine container), now in the British Museum, of "Peleus Taming Thetis," and for a "Nuptial Lebes" (the bringing of gifts to the newly wed bride), now in the Hermitage ...
