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Mexican prairie dog (rodent)
Prairie dogs excavate elaborate burrow systems with many entrances marked by low or volcano-shaped mounds. The common black-tailed (C. ludovicianus) and Mexican (C. mexicanus) species live in large, dense colonies that early explorers described as “towns.” Colonies are divided by topographic and vegetational features into......
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Mexican process (metallurgy)
method of isolating silver from its ore that was used from the 16th to early in the 20th century; the process was apparently commonly used by Indians in America before the arrival of the Europeans....
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Mexican Revolution
(1910–20), a long and bloody struggle among several factions in constantly shifting alliances which resulted ultimately in the end of the 30-year dictatorship in Mexico and the establishment of a constitutional republic. The revolution began against a background of widespread dissatisfaction with the elitist and oligarchical policies of Porfirio Díaz...
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Mexican Revolution, Party of the (political party, Mexico)
Mexican political party that dominated the country’s political institutions from its founding in 1929 until the end of the 20th century. Virtually all important figures in Mexican national and local politics belonged to the party, because the nomination of its candidate to a public office was almost always tantamount to election. Originally called the National Revolutionary Party (Partido R...
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Mexican Revolutionary Party (political party, Mexico)
Mexican political party that dominated the country’s political institutions from its founding in 1929 until the end of the 20th century. Virtually all important figures in Mexican national and local politics belonged to the party, because the nomination of its candidate to a public office was almost always tantamount to election. Originally called the National Revolutionary Party (Partido R...
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Mexican Riviera (region, Mexico)
...Sur. The crystalline mountains, which achieve elevations of 7,000–8,000 feet (2,100–2,400 metres), often reach the sea to create a rugged coastal margin, part of which is known as the Mexican Riviera. Several coastal sites, such as Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, Acapulco, and Puerto Escondido, have become alluring tourist destinations. However, the less-hospitable inland basins provide a......
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Mexican shrimp plant (plant)
...two-lipped flowers enclosed or accompanied by numerous reddish-brown leaflike bracts that suggest the shape and colour of shrimps. Some popular varieties include the false hop, shrimp bush, and Mexican shrimp plant....
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Mexican stonecrop (plant)
Mexican stonecrop (S. mexicanum), with yellow flowers, makes a handsome hanging basket, as do several related sedums, such as burro’s-tail, also called donkey’s-tail (S. Morganianum), and carpet sedum (S. lineare)....
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Mexican tiger heron (bird)
...with cryptic, often barred, plumage. The lined, or banded, tiger heron (Tigrisoma lineatum), 75 cm (30 in.) long, of central and northern South America is a well-known example. Another is the Mexican, or bare-throated, tiger heron (T. mexicanum) of Mexico and Central America....
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Mexican topminnow (fish)
...marine and freshwater, many genera. Many popular aquarium fishes; length to 15 cm (6 in.). Fossils in the Oligocene.Family Goodeidae (Mexican topminnows)Live-bearing, but male lacks elaborate intromittent organ found in poeciliids. About 10 genera, in rivers draining the Mexican Plateau; length to...
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Mexican tortoise (reptile)
...three to four years as a juvenile. The much larger common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina), at nearly 30 cm (one foot), takes 10 to 12 years to mature, and the slightly larger Mexican tortoise (Gopherus flavomarinatus) matures at 14 to 15 years. Age at maturity is also tied to a turtle’s rate of growth, which relates to both the quantity and quality of ...
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Mexican Tree Duck, The (work by Crumley)
...an Indian mother, a quartet of environmentalists, and a lustful cocaine dealer are among the women they meet. Sughrue hunts the mother of a vile-tempered drug dealer in the especially violent The Mexican Tree Duck (1993). In Bordersnakes (1996) Milo and Sughrue, former partners, reteam to hunt for missing money. Later novels include The Final......
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Mexican tulip poppy (plant)
ornamental perennial plant of the poppy family (Papaveraceae) native to southwestern North America. It is one of two species of Hunnemannia and has large, four-petaled, sulfur-yellow flowers about 5 to 7.5 cm (2 to 3 inches) wide, with a central puff of orange stamens (male reproductive structures). Golden cup grows to about 30 to 50 cm (12 to 20 inches) in height. The ...
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Mexican Ulysses, A (work by Vasconcelos)
...El proconsulado (1939; “The Proconsulship”), and La flama (1959; “The Flame”), is one of the finest sociocultural studies of 20th-century Mexico. A Mexican Ulysses (1962) is an abridgment....
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Mexican vanilla (plant)
The vanilla beans of commerce are the cured, unripe fruit of Vanilla planifolia, Mexican or Bourbon vanilla, which is native to Mexico, Central America, and northern South America; or Vanilla tahitensis, Tahiti vanilla, which is native to Oceania. The principal sources of vanilla are Madagascar, the Comoros, and Réunion, which together furnish about 70 to 75 percent of the......
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Mexican War (Mexico-United States [1846-48])
war between the United States and Mexico (April 1846–February 1848) stemming from the United States’ annexation of Texas in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande (U.S. claim). The war—in which U.S. forces were consistently victorious—resulted in the United States’ acquisition of m...
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Mexican west coast rattlesnake (snake)
...not be treated with antivenin because many people are allergic to the horse serum used in its production. The allergic reaction can result in shock and death. The most dangerous species are the Mexican west coast rattlesnake (C. basiliscus), the Mojave rattlesnake (C. scutulatus), and the South American rattlesnake, or cascabel......
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Mexican white pine (tree)
...watersheds than for the timber they produce. The whitebark pine (P. albicaulis) extends along mountain slopes from British Columbia to California and eastward to Montana and Wyoming. The Mexican white pine (P. ayacahuite) attains its northern limits in the southwestern United States....
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Mexican Workers, Confederation of (Mexican labour union)
...sector is about 45 hours. The right to engage in strikes (labour stoppages) is guaranteed by law, and a large percentage of Mexican workers are unionized. The largest and most powerful union is the Confederation of Mexican Workers, which has historically had ties with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)....
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Mexican-American (people)
...by overcrowded and segregated housing on the South Side and the return of former soldiers, exploded in July 1919 into one of the country’s worst race riots, which claimed 38 lives. Meanwhile, Mexican Americans, who had responded to the same wartime opportunities and who were exempt from the 1924 legislation, came by the thousands, attracted by jobs in railroading, steel, and meatpacking....
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Mexican-American War (Mexico-United States [1846-48])
war between the United States and Mexico (April 1846–February 1848) stemming from the United States’ annexation of Texas in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande (U.S. claim). The war—in which U.S. forces were consistently victorious—resulted in the United States’ acquisition of m...
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Mexicana Airlines (Mexican company)
oldest airline in North America, founded in 1924 in Tampico, Mex., and now headquartered in Mexico City....
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Mexicanero (people)
...the Cora located on the plateau and gorges of the Sierra Madre of Nayarit and the Huichol in similar country of northern Jalisco and Nayarit. A final member of this branch, locally called the Mexicanero, includes speakers of Nahuatl, remnants of central Mexican Indians introduced into the area by the Spaniards. The Mexicanero number only a few hundred and live in the mountains of Nayarit......
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México
country of North America and the third largest country in Latin America, after Brazil and Argentina. Although there is little truth to the long-held stereotype of Mexico as a slow-paced land of subsistence farmers, Mexican society is characterized by extremes of wealth and poverty, with a limited middle class wedged between an elite cadre of landowners and inv...
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Mexico (Missouri, United States)
city, seat (1837) of Audrain county, central Missouri, U.S. It is situated on the South Fork Salt River, 28 miles (45 km) northwest of Columbia. Founded (1836) by the Reverend Robert C. Mansfield and James H. Smith, it was named for a tavern sign reading “Mexico that-a-way.” Its commercial development was stimulated by the arrival (1858) of the railroad. Ulysses S. Grant was appointe...
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México (state, Mexico)
estado (state), in the central part of the country of Mexico, on its Mesa Central. It is bounded by the states of Michoacán to the west, Querétaro and Hidalgo to the north, Tlaxcala and Puebla to the east and southeast, and Morelos ...
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México (Mexico)
city and capital of Mexico, synonymous with the Federal District (Distrito Federal; D.F.). The term Mexico City can also apply to the capital’s metropolitan area, which includes the Federal District but extends beyond it to the west, north, and east, where the state (estado) of México sur...
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Mexico
country of North America and the third largest country in Latin America, after Brazil and Argentina. Although there is little truth to the long-held stereotype of Mexico as a slow-paced land of subsistence farmers, Mexican society is characterized by extremes of wealth and poverty, with a limited middle class wedged between an elite cadre of landowners and inv...
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Mexico, Bank of (bank, Mexico)
The Bank of Mexico issues the national currency, the peso, which is divided into units of 100 centavos. The country’s stock exchange plays only a minor role in providing capital. Most funds are secured through government bonds or bank securities....
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Mexico Basin (basin, Gulf of Mexico)
triangular-shaped ocean area covering a large portion of the floor of the Gulf of Mexico. The basin lies northwest of the Campeche Bank, approximately between 22° and 26° N and 89° and 95° W. Depths range beyond 11,000 feet (3,400 m) in much of the area, with Sigsbee Deep (17,070 feet [5,203 m]) being the deepest point. In the middle of the basin, the Sigsbee ...
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Mexico City (Mexico)
city and capital of Mexico, synonymous with the Federal District (Distrito Federal; D.F.). The term Mexico City can also apply to the capital’s metropolitan area, which includes the Federal District but extends beyond it to the west, north, and east, where the state (estado) of México sur...
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Mexico City earthquake of 1985
earthquake of a moment magnitude of 8.0 whose main shock occurred at 7:18 am on Sept. 19, 1985. The cause was a fault slip along the subduction slab under the Pacific coast of Mexico. Although 250 miles (400 km) from the epicentre, Mexico City suffered major building damage, and more than 10,000 of its inhabitants were reported killed. The highes...
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Mexico City Olympic Games (1968)
The 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City were the most politically charged Olympics since the 1936 Games in Berlin. Ten days before the Games were to open, students protesting the Mexican government’s use of funds for the Olympics rather than for social programs were surrounded in the Plaza of Three Cultures by the army and fired upon. More than 200 protesters were killed and over a thousand.....
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Mexico, flag of
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Mexico, Gulf of (gulf, North America)
partially landlocked body of water on the southeastern periphery of the North American continent. It is connected to the Atlantic Ocean by the Straits of Florida, running between the peninsula of Florida and the island of Cuba, and to the Caribbean Sea by the Yucatán Channel, which runs between the Yucatán Peninsula and Cuba. Both of these channels are about 100 miles (160 km) wide. ...
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Mexico, history of
It is assumed that the first inhabitants of Middle America were early American Indians, of Asian derivation, who migrated into the area at some time during the final stage of the Pleistocene Epoch. The date of their arrival in central Mexico remains speculative. The assertions of some archaeologists and linguists that early humans resided in Mexico some 30,000 to 40,000 years ago, before......
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Mexico, National Autonomous University of (university, Mexico City, Mexico)
government-financed coeducational institution of higher education in Mexico City founded in 1551. The original university building, dating from 1584, was demolished in 1910, and the university was moved to a new campus in Mexico City in 1954....
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Mexico, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de (university, Mexico City, Mexico)
government-financed coeducational institution of higher education in Mexico City founded in 1551. The original university building, dating from 1584, was demolished in 1910, and the university was moved to a new campus in Mexico City in 1954....
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Mexico, Valley of (valley, Mexico)
The average elevation of the state exceeds 10,000 feet (3,000 metres) above sea level, and the climate is cool; soils are fertile and rainfall plentiful. Much of the state lies in the intermontane Valley of Mexico, a formerly lacustrine basin that now includes only a few natural lakes—such as Zumpango, Texcoco, and San Cristóbal—and several artificial reservoirs. Wetlands and....
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Meydān-e Shāh (courtyard, Eṣfahān, Iran)
At the centre of Eṣfahān is the Meydān-e Shāh, a large open space, about 1,670 by 520 feet (510 by 158 metres), originally surrounded by trees. Used for polo games and parades, it could be illuminated with 50,000 lamps. Each side of the meydān was provided with the monumental facade of a building. On one of the smaller sides was the entrance to a large......
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Meyer, Adolf (American psychiatrist)
influential Swiss-born American psychiatrist, much of whose teaching has been incorporated into psychiatric theory and practice in the United States, Britain, and other English-speaking nations....
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Meyer, Adolph (German architect)
Gropius’ growing intellectual leadership was complemented by his design of two significant buildings, both done in collaboration with Adolph Meyer: the Fagus Works at Alfeld-an-der-Leine (1911) and the model office and factory buildings in Cologne (1914) done for the Werkbund Exposition. The Fagus Works, bolder than any of Behrens’ works, is marked by large areas of glass wall broken...
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Meyer, Annie Florance Nathan (American writer, educator, and antisuffragist)
American writer, educator, and antisuffragist, remembered as the moving force behind the founding of Barnard College, New York City....
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Meyer, Conrad Ferdinand (Swiss writer)
Swiss writer noted for his historical tales and his poetry....
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Meyer, Debbie (American athlete)
American swimmer who was the first woman to win gold medals in three individual swimming events in one Olympics....
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Meyer, Deborah Elizabeth (American athlete)
American swimmer who was the first woman to win gold medals in three individual swimming events in one Olympics....
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Meyer, Eduard (German historian)
...as formulated by the reformer Ezra (5th century bce) and his school. In Die Entstehung des Judentums (1896; “The Origin of Judaism”) the German historian Eduard Meyer argued that Judaism originated in the Persian period, or the days of Ezra and Nehemiah (5th century bce); indeed, he attributed an important role in shaping the em...
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Meyer, Eugene (American publisher)
influential leader in American political and social life and publisher of The Washington Post from 1933 to 1946....
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Meyer, Hannes (Swiss architect)
...educational, and residential quarters designed by Gropius), the department of architecture, central to Gropius’ program in founding this unique school, was not established until 1927; Hannes Meyer, a Swiss architect, was appointed chairman. Upon Gropius’ resignation the following year, Meyer became director of the Bauhaus until 1930. He was asked to resign because of his left-wing...
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Meyer, Hans (German geographer)
...although the news that there were snow-capped mountains so close to the Equator was not believed until more than a decade later. The Kibo summit was first reached in 1889 by the German geographer Hans Meyer and the Austrian mountaineer Ludwig Purtscheller. The Kilimanjaro region is one of Tanzania’s leading producers of mild coffee, barley, wheat, and sugar; other crops include sisal, co...
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Meyer, Harry Martin, Jr. (American virologist)
American pediatric virologist (b. Nov. 25, 1928, Palestine, Texas—d. Aug. 19, 2001, Kenmore, Wash.), was co-developer of the first vaccine against rubella (German measles), refinement of which resulted in the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine; he contributed to textbooks, published over 100 scientific papers, and achieved worldwide acclaim for his research on infectious diseases and...
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Meyer, Jeannette (American music patron)
American music patron who devoted her efforts to creating a government-funded music conservatory in the United States....
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Meyer, John W. (American sociologist)
...organizational problem is that of gaining and maintaining support from external constituencies. An important current in the institutional revival, represented in the work of the American sociologist John W. Meyer, argued that organizational designs, especially those aspects that are observable to outsiders, play an important “ceremonial” role. By adopting the organizational design...
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Meyer, Joseph (German author)
Brockhaus soon faced opposition, for his encyclopaedia was stronger on the humanities than on scientific and technical subjects. Joseph Meyer’s Der grosse Conversations-Lexikon (1840–52) rectified this imbalance and was the first of a highly successful series that competed vigorously with Brockhaus for 100 years. In addition, Herder’s......
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Meyer, Julius Lothar (German chemist)
German chemist who, independently of Dmitry Mendeleyev, developed a periodic classification of the chemical elements. Though originally educated as a physician, he was chiefly interested in chemistry and physics....
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Meyer, June (American author)
African American author who investigated both social and personal concerns through poetry, essays, and drama....
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Meyer, Jürgen Bona (German philosopher)
An initial attempt to interpret Kantian transcendentalism in psychological terms was made by the Friesian Empiricist Jürgen Bona Meyer in his Kants Psychologie (1870). Later, a more important contribution in this field was made by the Göttingen philosopher of ethics and law Leonard Nelson and published in the Abhandlungen der Fries’schen Schule (1904 ff; “...
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Meyer, Katharine (American publisher)
owner and publisher of The Washington Post, Newsweek magazine, and other American news publications....
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Meyer, Kuno (German scholar)
German scholar of the Celtic languages and editor whose translations made him the chief interpreter of early Irish literature for English and German readers....
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Meyer, Kurt (German chemist)
In 1926 Mark was invited by Kurt Meyer, the director of IG Farben’s polymer reseach laboratory, to be his assistant director. Mark worked on electron diffraction, a monograph (1928) with Meyer on cellulose that demolished the classic micellar theory of polymer formation, an equation relating the viscosity of a polymer solution to the molecular weight of the polymer (1929), and the synthesis...
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Meyer, Leonard (American music theorist)
...the nonreferentialist does not necessarily denigrate program music, though he makes a point of distinguishing between the extramusical program and the musical meaning. The contemporary U.S. theorist Leonard Meyer, in his Emotion and Meaning in Music (1956), speaks of “designative” and “embodied” meanings; he recognizes both kinds in music but appears to give e...
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Meyer, Lothar (German chemist)
German chemist who, independently of Dmitry Mendeleyev, developed a periodic classification of the chemical elements. Though originally educated as a physician, he was chiefly interested in chemistry and physics....
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Meyer, Lucy Jane Rider (American social worker and educator)
American social worker and educator whose activity within the Methodist church was aimed at training and organizing workers to provide health and social services for the poor, the elderly, and children....
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Meyer, Marie-Paul-Hyacinthe (French linguist)
French language and literary scholar and one of the great authorities on the Medieval French and Provençal languages, also noted for his literary histories and critical editions of many medieval works....
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Meyer, O. E. (German physicist)
...forgotten. The Scottish chemist Thomas Graham studied the flow of gases through long capillaries, which he called transpiration, in 1846 and 1849, but it was not until 1877 that the German physicist O.E. Meyer pointed out that Graham’s measurements had shown the independence of viscosity on density. Prior to Meyer’s investigations, the kinetic theory had suggested the result, so h...
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Meyer, Paul (French linguist)
French language and literary scholar and one of the great authorities on the Medieval French and Provençal languages, also noted for his literary histories and critical editions of many medieval works....
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Meyer, Ray (American coach)
U.S. collegiate basketball coach with the most team victories of active coaches in the early 1980s....
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Meyer, Raymond Joseph (American coach)
U.S. collegiate basketball coach with the most team victories of active coaches in the early 1980s....
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Meyer, Russ (American filmmaker)
American filmmaker (b. March 21, 1922, Oakland, Calif.—d. Sept. 18, 2004, Los Angeles, Calif.), brought exuberant sexuality into the Hollywood mainstream with films such as Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1966) and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970). He transcended the “sexploitation” label by introducing humorous dialogue, genuine craftsmanship, and an unmistak...
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Meyer, Starke (American engineer)
In about 1931, Starke Meyer of Milwaukee, Wis., designed a hull with the steering runner at the bow and the runner plank at the stern, instead of the other way around, as in most previous designs. The downward and forward thrust of the mast, located between the two points of support, served to increase rudder traction and reduce the tendency of the craft to spin on the ice. Meyer’s bow-stee...
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Meyer, Stephenie (American author)
American author known for the popular Twilight Saga, a series of vampire-themed novels for teenagers....
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Meyer, Viktor (German chemist)
German chemist who contributed greatly to knowledge of both organic and inorganic chemistry....
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Meyer-Eppler, Werner (German musician)
In 1951 a studio for elektronische Musik was founded at Cologne, W.Ger., by Herbert Eimert, Werner Meyer-Eppler, and others, under the auspices of the Northwest German Broadcasting Studio. While the composers associated with this studio used many of the same techniques of tape manipulation as did the French group, they favoured electronically generated rather than natural sound sources.......
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Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (Swiss-German linguist)
Swiss-German linguist whose comparative studies of the Romance languages and the popular spoken Latin from which they developed revolutionized Romance linguistics. Adhering to the tenets of the Neogrammarian school of linguistics, he advocated rigorous research methodology....
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Meyer-Womble Observatory (observatory, Denver, Colorado, United States)
...women. The Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute, the Infant and Childhood Research Center, and the Center on Rights Development are part of the university’s research facilities. The university’s Meyer-Womble Observatory on Mount Evans, at more than 14,000 feet (4,270 metres) in elevation, is one of the world’s highest. Total enrollment is approximately 9,300....
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Meyerbeer, Giacomo (German composer)
German opera composer who established in Paris a vogue for spectacular romantic opera....
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Meyerhof, Otto (German biochemist)
German biochemist and corecipient, with Archibald V. Hill, of the 1922 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for research on the chemical reactions of metabolism in muscle. His work on the glycogen-lactic acid cycle remains a basic contribution to the understanding of muscular action, despite revisions resulting from the later research of others....
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Meyerhold, Vsevolod Yemilyevich (Russian theatrical producer, director, and actor)
Russian theatrical producer, director, and actor whose provocative experiments in nonrealistic theatre made him one of the seminal forces in modern theatre....
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Meyers’ Creek (Ontario, Canada)
city, seat (1792) of Hastings county, southeastern Ontario, Canada, on the Bay of Quinte, an inlet of Lake Ontario, at the mouth of the Moira River....
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Meyers Enzyklopädisches Lexikon (German encyclopaedia)
German encyclopaedia published in 25 volumes in Mannheim, W.Ger., from 1971 to 1979. The encyclopaedia was first published in Leipzig as the Meyers Grosses Konversations-Lexikon in 46 volumes in 1840–52. Subsequent editions occupied fewer volumes, the 4th edition (1885–90), for example, appearing in 17 volumes. The 8th edition was strongly influenced by Nazi ideology and was ...
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“Meyers Enzyklopädisches Lexikon in 25 Bänden, mit 100 signierten Sonderbeiträg” (German encyclopaedia)
German encyclopaedia published in 25 volumes in Mannheim, W.Ger., from 1971 to 1979. The encyclopaedia was first published in Leipzig as the Meyers Grosses Konversations-Lexikon in 46 volumes in 1840–52. Subsequent editions occupied fewer volumes, the 4th edition (1885–90), for example, appearing in 17 volumes. The 8th edition was strongly influenced by Nazi ideology and was ...
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Meyerson, Émile (French chemist and philosopher)
Polish-born French chemist and philosopher of science whose concepts of rational understanding based on realism and causalism were popular among scientific theorists in the 1930s....
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Meykaṇṭatēvar (Indian author)
...but collected by Nambi (c. ad 1000) in a volume known as Tirumurai, Civa-ñāṉa-pōtam (“Understanding of the Knowledge of Śiva”) by Meykaṇṭatēvar (13th century), Śivācārya’s Śiva-jñāna-siddhiyār (“Attainment of the Knowled...
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Meymaneh (Afghanistan)
town, northwestern Afghanistan. It lies at the northern foot of the Torkestān Mountain Range at an elevation of 2,850 feet (870 m). The town serves an agricultural area irrigated from the Qeyṣār River and also handles the trade in Karakul sheep with nomads. Meymaneh is linked with neighbouring towns by highways, but they are impassable in places during sprin...
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Meynell, Alice (British author)
English poet and essayist....
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Meynell, Alice Christiana Gertrude (British author)
English poet and essayist....
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Meynell, Gerard (English publisher)
...mechanical composition appeared in 1912, when a new face based upon the old-style types of Caslon was produced for The Imprint, a short-lived periodical for the printing trade published by Gerard Meynell of the Westminster Press in London. Its contributors included Edward Johnston, who not only wrote for the magazine but designed its calligraphic masthead; and Stanley Morison, who......
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Meynell, Hugo (British sportsman)
Modern foxhunting took shape in the 19th century shortly after Hugo Meynell, the father of the modern English chase, started hunting, and it soon developed into a national upper-class pastime; Oscar Wilde famously called it “the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.” The sport often followed wherever the British Empire took root. Traditional procedure is still observed and......
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Meynell, Sir Francis (English designer)
English book designer particularly associated with the fine editions of Nonesuch Press, publications that were notable for the use of modern mechanical means to achieve results that rivaled the printing of handpresses....
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Meynell, Sir Francis Meredith Wilfrid (English designer)
English book designer particularly associated with the fine editions of Nonesuch Press, publications that were notable for the use of modern mechanical means to achieve results that rivaled the printing of handpresses....
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Meynell, Wilfrid (British publisher)
...medicine at Manchester, but not conscientiously, and began to take opium; he then went to London, where from 1885 to 1888 he lived in destitution. In 1888 the publication of two of his poems in Wilfrid Meynell’s periodical, Merry England, aroused the admiration of Robert Browning. Meynell and his wife, Alice, befriended Thompson, induced him to enter a hospital, nursed him through...
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Meza mate (deity)
A forest divinity, common to all Baltic peoples, is called in Latvian Meža māte and in Lithuanian Medeinė (“Mother of the Forest”). She again has been further differentiated into other divinities, or rather she was given metaphorical appellations with no mythological significance, such as Krūmu māte (“Mother of the Bushes”), Lazdu m...
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mezcal (distilled liquor)
...percent from blue agave. The drink takes its name from the town of Tequila in the state of Jalisco, the centre for its production and distilling. Yet another alcoholic drink derived from an agave is mescal, which is produced primarily in Oaxaca....
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Meždurečensk (Russia)
city, Kemerovo oblast (province), central Russia. It is located where the Usa River flows into the Tom River, in the upper Tom valley. Developed as the coal-mining settlement of Olzheras in the Tom-Usinsky region of the Kuznetsk Basin in the 1950s, it was renamed and incorporated as a town in 1955. In appearance it is a typical heavy-industrial “new town,” with coal mining as ...
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Mezen Inlet (gulf, Russia)
...known as the Solovets Islands. Many small underwater elevations are found in the Onega Inlet. Sandy underwater ridges, created by inflowing currents, prevail in the Gorlo Strait, Voronka, and the Mezen mouth. The sea’s chief hollow is separated from the Barents Sea by a sill 130 feet deep, which restricts deepwater exchange between the two bodies of water....
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Mézenc, Mount (mountain, France)
...years). They reach 6,184 feet (1,885 metres) at the summit of the Puy de Sancy, in Puy-de-Dôme, which is the highest point in central France. The Vivarais Mountains top out at Mount Mézenc, 5,751 feet (1,753 metres) above Haute-Loire, while in Cantal, an area of high plateaus, volcanic peaks rise to the Plomb du Cantal, at 6,096 feet (1,858 metres). In the north...
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Mezenskaya Bay (gulf, Russia)
...known as the Solovets Islands. Many small underwater elevations are found in the Onega Inlet. Sandy underwater ridges, created by inflowing currents, prevail in the Gorlo Strait, Voronka, and the Mezen mouth. The sea’s chief hollow is separated from the Barents Sea by a sill 130 feet deep, which restricts deepwater exchange between the two bodies of water....
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Mezentsev, N. V. (Russian official)
...who had gone into the countryside to improve conditions and agitate politically among the peasantry; it became a major target for revolutionary terrorists, who assassinated its head, Gen. N.V. Mezentsev, in 1878....
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mezereon (plant)
...in mild climates. Among them is the spurge-laurel (D. laureola), with thick, glossy leaves and small greenish flowers near the ends of the branches. It produces poisonous black berries. The mezereon (D. mezereum) is a larger shrub, up to 1.5 m (5 feet), with deciduous leaves and spicy-fragrant pink flowers; the entire plant, including its bright-orange berries, is poisonous. The.....
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Mezhdunarodny Investitsionny Bank
international bank founded in 1970 and operational in 1971, designed to provide long- and medium-term credit for capital construction in member states. The founding members were Bulgaria, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam. The bank was headquartered in Moscow, and its council met not less than twice yearly. It granted credits to t...
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