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- (from the article "Latin American art") ...dramatic landscapes in the British Romantic tradition; Karl Nebel, a German who showed-primarily through his lithographs-the variety of social and ethnic populations across Mexico; Edward Mark, an English foreign-service officer stationed in Colombia, whose amateur watercolours render not only landscapes ...
- Mark, Herman Francis
- Austrian American chemist who, although not the world's first polymer chemist, was known as the father of polymer science because of his many contributions to polymer science education and research.
- Mark, J. Carson
- Canadian-born American scientist who, as head of the theoretical division at the Los Alamos (N.M.) Scientific Laboratory, was instrumental in the development of the hydrogen bomb (b. July 6, 1913--d. March 2, 1997).
- Mark, Jan
- British children's author (b. June 22, 1943, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, Eng.-d. Jan. 15, 2006, Oxford, Eng.), was admired for the high quality of her prolific output of more than 80 works for children, ranging from picture books to young-adult novels, many ...
- Mark, Mary Ellen
- American photojournalist whose compelling, empathetic images document the lives of marginalized people in the United States and other countries.
- Mark, Saint
- pope from Jan. 18 (?) to Oct. 7, 336. He is credited with having given the bishops of Ostia the right to consecrate new popes. He may have been the founder of the present Church of San Marco, Rome, and ...
- Mark, Saint
- traditional author of the second Synoptic Gospel. Data on his life found in the New Testament are fragmentary, and most of their historicity has been questioned by critical investigation. The only unquestionably reliable information is in Philemon 24, where a ... [3 Related Articles]
- Mark, The Gospel According to
- second of the four New Testament Gospels (narratives recounting the life and death of Jesus Christ), and, with Matthew and Luke, one of the three Synoptic Gospels (i.e., those presenting a common view). It is attributed to John Mark (Acts ... [10 Related Articles]
- Marka
- (from the article "Western Africa") ...the Wolof of Senegal, the Serer to the south, and the Mande-speaking peoples to the east, comprising such subgroups as the Malinke, the Khasonke, the Bambara (Bamana), the Wasulunka, the Dyula, the Marka, and the Soninke (Serahuli). The Songhai are ...
- Markac, Mladen
- (from the article "Croatia") ...war crimes allegedly committed during and after Operation Storm, the 1995 military action to regain the Krajina-Croatian territory seized by Croatian Serbs-two retired Croatian generals, Mladen Markac and Ivan Cermak, left for The Hague on March 11. On April 5 ...
- Markandaya, Kamala
- Indian novelist whose works concern the struggles of contemporary Indians with conflicting Eastern and Western values. [1 Related Articles]
- Markaryan, Andranik
- (from the article "Armenia") ...control since 1993. | Population (2007 est.): 3,002,000 (plus 138,000 in Nagorno-Karabakh) | Capital: Yerevan | Chief of state: President Robert Kocharyan | Head of government: Prime Ministers Andranik Markaryan and, from April 4, Serzh Sarkisyan | BRITANNICA BOOK ...
- Markaz Al-Mamlakah
- (from the article "Riyadh") ...strip development. Two of the city's dominant tower buildings are Al-Faysaliyyah (Al-Faisaliah) centre, which contains office space, a number of restaurants, and a luxury hotel, and the Markaz Al-Mamlakah ("Kingdom Centre"), which offers an expansive complex of office, retail, dining, ...
- markedness
- (from the article "linguistics") The notion of markedness was first developed in Prague school phonology but was subsequently extended to morphology and syntax. When two phonemes are distinguished by the presence or absence of a single distinctive feature, one of them is said to ...
- Markel, Lester
- (from the article "crossword puzzle") ...given prefix, suffix, or part in common, and only the rest of the word will actually fill the spaces in the diagram: (rat)ion, (rat)chet, etc.; unc(tion), cap(tion), etc.; qu(it)e, cr(it)ic, etc. Lester Markel, Sunday editor of The New York Times, ...
- Markelius, Sven
- eminent Swedish architect who introduced the International Style into Sweden in the 1920s.
- Marken
- island and gemeente (municipality), west-central Netherlands, within the IJsselmeer. Lying some 11 miles (17 km) northeast of Amsterdam, Marken was separated from the mainland in the 13th century during the formation of the Zuiderzee. The 2-mile- (3-km-) long island has ...
- marker
- (from the article "clothing and footwear industry") Cutting involves three basic operations: making the marker, spreading the fabric, and chopping the spread fabric into the marked sections. The marker, or cutting lay, is the arrangement of patterns on the spread fabrics. When hides are cut the lay ...
- marker bed
- a bed of rock strata that are readily distinguishable by reason of physical characteristics and are traceable over large horizontal distances. Stratigraphic examples include coal beds and beds of volcanic ash. The term marker bed is also applied to sedimentary ... [1 Related Articles]
- Markerwaard Polder
- (from the article "IJsselmeer Polders") ...square km]) were completed in 1930, 1942, and 1957, respectively. The South (Zuidelijk) Flevoland Polder (166 square miles [430 square km]) was completed in 1968. A fifth potential polder is the Markerwaard Polder in southwest IJsselmeer. Under construction since 1963, ...
- market
- a means by which the exchange of goods and services takes place as a result of buyers and sellers being in contact with one another, either directly or through mediating agents or institutions. [28 Related Articles]
- Market Anti-Inflation Plan
- (from the article "Lerner, Abba P.") ...known as the Lerner Index. Later in the 20th century, Lerner proposed a highly theoretical remedy for stagflation (a condition of high inflation and high unemployment) through what he called a Market Anti-Inflation Plan. The plan would have rationed the ...
- market conduct
- (from the article "monopoly and competition") It is helpful to distinguish the related ideas of market conduct and market performance. Market conduct refers to the price and other market policies pursued by sellers, in terms both of their aims and of the way in which they ...
- market economy
- (from the article "Croatia") Following the demise of communism in 1990, the Croatian government began a course of restructuring the economy from self-managed socialism to market-oriented capitalism. This required such measures as the sale of state-owned enterprises to private owners, the establishment of functioning ...
- Market Hall
- (from the article "Brugge") Medieval remains in the city include the old Market Hall (13th-15th century), with a famous 47-bell carillon in the belfry, and the Town Hall (1376-1420). The Chapel of the Holy Blood (14th-16th century) contains the Chapel of St. Basil (1150) ...
- Market Harborough
- town, Harborough district, administrative county of Leicestershire, England, on the River Welland. The part of the town north of the Welland, including the historic core, lies within the historic county of Leicestershire, while the part of the town south of ... [1 Related Articles]
- market order
- (from the article "security") The simplest method of buying stock is through the market order. This is an order to buy or sell a stated amount of a security at the most advantageous price obtainable after the order reaches the trading floor. A limit ...
- market performance
- (from the article "monopoly and competition") ...conduct refers to the price and other market policies pursued by sellers, in terms both of their aims and of the way in which they coordinate their decisions and make them mutually compatible. Market performance refers to the end results ...
- market research
- study of the requirements of various markets, the acceptability of products, and methods of developing or exploiting new markets. A variety of techniques is employed, depending on the purpose of the research: salesmen's expectations may be used as a guide ... [6 Related Articles]
- market socialism
- economic system representing a compromise between socialist planning and free enterprise, in which enterprises are publicly owned but production and consumption are guided by market forces rather than by government planning. A form of market socialism was adopted in Yugoslavia ... [4 Related Articles]
- Market Theatre
- (from the article "Johannesburg") ...operas and American musicals, many smaller companies nurture the talents of local actors and playwrights, white and black. A visit to Johannesburg is incomplete without a trip to the world-renowned Market Theatre, a multitheatre complex housed in the city's old ...
- market town
- (from the article "France") In addition to this large-scale commerce, there was agriculturally based local trade. The number of markets increased, and market towns began to appear alongside the former Gallo-Roman cities, which survived as fortresses and population centres and served as the basis ...
- market value
- (from the article "property tax") The three principal approaches to the contemporary assessment of property are rental value, capital value, and market value. In European countries the assessment of real property is commonly based on its capital value. The traditional thinking is that capital value ...
- market-extensional merger
- (from the article "merger") Mergers are of several different types: horizontal, if both firms produce the same commodity or service for the same market; market-extensional, if the merged firms produce the same commodity or service for different markets; or vertical, if a firm acquires ...
- market-share analysis
- (from the article "marketing") ...use five tools to monitor plan performance. The first is sales analysis, in which sales goals are compared with actual sales and discrepancies are explained or accounted for. A second tool is market-share analysis, which compares a company's sales with ...
- marketing
- the sum of activities involved in directing the flow of goods and services from producers to consumers. [13 Related Articles]
- marketing audit
- (from the article "marketing") The second evaluation tool is known as a marketing audit. This is a comprehensive, systematic, independent, and periodic analysis that a company uses to examine its strengths in relation to its current and potential market(s). Such an analysis is comprehensive ...
- marketing board
- organization set up by a government to regulate the buying and selling of a certain commodity within a specified area. An example is the former Cocoa Marketing Board of Nigeria (which, after 1977, functioned as the Nigerian Cocoa Board and ...
- marketing control
- (from the article "marketing") No marketing process, even the most carefully developed, is guaranteed to result in maximum benefit for a company. In addition, because every market is changing constantly, a strategy that is effective today may not be effective in the future. It ...
- marketing expense-to-sales analysis
- (from the article "marketing") ...Companies can express their market share in a number of ways, by comparing their own sales to total market sales, sales within the market segment, or sales of the segment's top competitors. Third, marketing expense-to-sales analysis gauges how much a ...
- marketing facilitator
- (from the article "marketing") Because marketing functions require significant expertise, it is often both efficient and effective for an organization to use the assistance of independent marketing facilitators. These are organizations and consultants whose sole or primary responsibility is to handle marketing functions. In ...
- marketing implementation
- (from the article "marketing") Companies have typically hired different agencies to help in the development of advertising, sales promotion, and publicity ideas. However, this often results in a lack of coordination between elements of the promotion mix. When components of the mix are not ...
- marketing intermediary
- (from the article "marketing") Many producers do not sell products or services directly to consumers and instead use marketing intermediaries to execute an assortment of necessary functions to get the product to the final user. These intermediaries, such as middlemen (wholesalers, retailers, agents, and ...
- marketing-effectiveness rating review
- (from the article "marketing") ...and its ability to maximize its strengths and market opportunities. Companies can use two types of strategic control tools. The first, which a company uses to evaluate itself, is called a marketing-effectiveness rating review. In order to rate its own ...
- marketing-mix planning
- (from the article "marketing") Having developed a strategy, a company must then decide which tactics will be most effective in achieving strategy goals. Tactical marketing involves creating a marketing mix of four components-product, price, place, promotion-that fulfills the strategy for the targeted set of ...
- markets, law of
- (from the article "Say, J.-B") French economist, best known for his law of markets, which postulates that supply creates its own demand.
- Markham River
- river in eastern Papua New Guinea, southwestern Pacific Ocean. The swift but shallow and unnavigable stream rises on the Finisterre Range and receives the Erap River, which courses south from the Saruwaged Range, and the Watut River, which flows north ...
- Markham, Beryl
- professional pilot, horse trainer and breeder, writer, and adventurer, best-known for her memoir West with the Night (1942; reissued 1983).
- Markham, Edwin
- American poet and lecturer, best-known for his poem of social protest, "The Man with the Hoe." [1 Related Articles]
- Markham, Gervase
- English poet and author of a number of popular treatises on country and sporting pursuits.
- Markham, William
- (from the article "Chester") ...the Chester area was granted by the Swedish crown to a bodyguard of Johan Printz, the governor of New Sweden, in 1644. After 1655 Dutch settlers joined the Swedes in establishing the town of Upland. William Markham, the deputy governor ...
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