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Mitchell, Edgar D. (American astronaut)
American astronaut who took part in the Apollo 14 mission (Jan. 31–Feb. 10, 1971), in which the uplands region north of the Fra Mauro crater on the Moon was explored by Mitchell and Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr....
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Mitchell, Edgar Dean (American astronaut)
American astronaut who took part in the Apollo 14 mission (Jan. 31–Feb. 10, 1971), in which the uplands region north of the Fra Mauro crater on the Moon was explored by Mitchell and Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr....
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Mitchell, Elisha (American scientist)
...is within Mount Mitchell State Park and Pisgah National Forest. Known by the Cherokee as Attakulla and formerly called Black Dome, it was renamed for a University of North Carolina professor, Elisha Mitchell, who in 1835 surveyed it as the highest point in the eastern United States. In 1857 Mitchell fell to his death on the mountain and was buried at its top....
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Mitchell, George J. (American politician)
...he later received a 10-day suspension for steroid use under the major leagues’ new zero-tolerance policy). In March 2006, Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig named former U.S. senator George J. Mitchell to head up an independent inquiry into steroid use in baseball. Mitchell’s report was released in December 2007, and it mentioned 86 current and former players—incl...
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Mitchell grass (plant genus)
...form characteristic hummocks by trapping windblown sand at the bases of their tussocks. Heteropogon and Sorghum dominate grasslands in moister, northern areas, and Astrebla (Mitchell grass) is prevalent in seasonally arid areas, especially on cracking clay soils in the east. Other grass species are usually subordinate but may dominate in spots. Woody plants, particularly......
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Mitchell, Guy (American singer)
American singer who recorded some 40 hit records during the 1950s, including “Sparrow in the Treetop,” “She Wears Red Feathers,” and “Singing the Blues” (b. Feb. 22, 1927, Detroit, Mich.—d. July 1, 1999, Las Vegas, Nev.)....
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Mitchell, Helen (Australian singer)
coloratura soprano, a singer of great popularity....
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Mitchell, Jackie (American baseball player)
...baseball was largely an attempt to profit from the novelty of female players. An Ohio woman, Alta Weiss, pitched for the otherwise all-male semiprofessional Vermilion Independents in 1907. Jackie Mitchell became the first female professional baseball player when she signed a contract with the minor league Chattanooga Lookouts in 1931. Mitchell pitched in an exhibition game against the......
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Mitchell, James (Australian politician)
...in 1903, slowly declined. These trends were overshadowed by a great expansion of wheat growing. Building on Forrest’s policies, Liberal premier Newton Moore (1906–10) and his lieutenant James Mitchell pushed the farming frontier 200 miles (320 km) from the Avon valley (to the east of Perth) eastward to the 10-inch (250-mm) rainfall line. They were aided by recent advances in......
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Mitchell, James (prime minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
In July 1984 the New Democratic Party, under James Mitchell, won the general elections. Mitchell began a program of reorganizing agriculture and of lowering unemployment by encouraging the construction industry and facilitating land settlement among landless agricultural workers. Mitchell’s party won the next several elections. He remained in office until his retirement from the presidency ...
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Mitchell, James Leslie (Scottish author)
Scottish novelist whose inventive trilogy published under the collective title A Scots Quair (1946) made him a significant figure in the 20th-century Scottish Renaissance....
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Mitchell, Joan (American painter)
American painter who was a member of the second generation of Abstract Expressionists....
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Mitchell, John (American labour leader)
After a successful coal miners’ strike in 1897, John Mitchell became president (1898–1908) and led the union through a period of rapid growth—despite determined opposition by mine operators. Workers staged another successful strike in 1902. By 1920 the UMWA had gained about 500,000 members. Later in the decade the union lost members, strength, and influence because of the emer...
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Mitchell, John (attorney general of United States)
U.S. attorney general during the Nixon administration who served 19 months in prison (1977–79) for his participation in the Watergate Scandal....
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Mitchell, John (English inventor)
...century, when metallic pens and pen nibs (writing points) largely supplanted them. Such devices were known in Classical times but were little used (a bronze pen was found in the ruins of Pompeii). John Mitchell of Birmingham, England, is credited with having introduced the machine-made steel pen point in 1828. Two years later the English inventor James Perry sought to produce more-flexible......
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Mitchell, John (British musician)
British rock-and-roll drummer who was the powerful and innovative drummer of the legendary trio the Jimi Hendrix Experience from 1966, when he was hired to tour with guitarist Jimi Hendrix. Mitchell’s drumming underpinned the band’s debut single, “Hey Joe” (1966), and his jazz-inflected rhythms complemented Hendrix’s virtuoso guitar playing on the group’s ...
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Mitchell, John Newton (attorney general of United States)
U.S. attorney general during the Nixon administration who served 19 months in prison (1977–79) for his participation in the Watergate Scandal....
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Mitchell, John Thomas Whitehead (British consumer advocate)
dominant figure in the 19th-century English consumers’ cooperative movement....
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Mitchell, Joni (Canadian singer-songwriter)
Canadian experimental singer-songwriter whose greatest popularity was in the 1970s. Once described as the “Yang to Bob Dylan’s Yin, equaling him in richness and profusion of imagery,” Mitchell, like her 1960s contemporary, turned pop music into an art form....
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Mitchell, Joseph (American writer and journalist)
U.S. writer and journalist (b. July 27, 1908, Fairmont, N.C.--d. May 24, 1996, New York, N.Y.), chronicled the lives of New York City’s Fulton Fish Market vendors, Mohawk Indian construction workers, and eccentric denizens of Lower Manhattan saloons. His vignettes, which appeared mostly in The New Yorker magazine from the late 1930s through the early ’60s, were viewed as styl...
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Mitchell, Joseph (British engineer)
The first modern concrete roads were produced by Joseph Mitchell, a follower of Telford, who conducted three successful trials in England and Scotland in 1865–66. Like asphalt technology, concrete road building was largely developed by the turn of the 20th century and was restricted more by the available machinery than by the material. Problems were also encountered in producing a surface.....
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Mitchell, Lucy Myers Wright (American archaeologist and missionary)
archaeologist who, though self-taught, became an internationally recognized authority on ancient Greek and Roman sculpture....
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Mitchell, Lucy Sprague (American author)
...between world wars new trails were blazed in nonfiction with van Loon’s Story of Mankind and V.M. Hillyer’s Child’s History of the World (1922). The Here and Now Story Book, by Lucy Sprague Mitchell, published in the 1920s, was the first real example of the “direct experience” school of writing, but it is more properly part of the chronicl...
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Mitchell, Maggie (American actress)
American actress who, with her performance in a trademark gamine role, created a public sensation—and essentially an entire career....
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Mitchell, Margaret (American novelist)
American author of the enormously popular novel Gone with the Wind....
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Mitchell, Margaret Julia (American actress)
American actress who, with her performance in a trademark gamine role, created a public sensation—and essentially an entire career....
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Mitchell, Margaret Munnerlyn (American novelist)
American author of the enormously popular novel Gone with the Wind....
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Mitchell, Maria (American astronomer)
first professional woman astronomer in the United States....
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Mitchell, Maurice B. (American business executive and educator)
U.S. business executive and educator who served in such positions as president of Encyclopædia Britannica Films, president of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., chancellor of the University of Denver, Colo., president of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, chairman of National Public Radio, and chairman of the Pacific Basin Institute (b. Feb. 9, 1915--d. Nov. 30, 1996)....
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Mitchell, Mitch (British musician)
British rock-and-roll drummer who was the powerful and innovative drummer of the legendary trio the Jimi Hendrix Experience from 1966, when he was hired to tour with guitarist Jimi Hendrix. Mitchell’s drumming underpinned the band’s debut single, “Hey Joe” (1966), and his jazz-inflected rhythms complemented Hendrix’s virtuoso guitar playing on the group’s ...
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Mitchell, Mount (mountain, North Carolina, United States)
highest peak in North Carolina and in the United States east of the Mississippi River, reaching an elevation of 6,684 feet (2,037 metres). It is located in Yancey county, in the western part of the state, about 20 miles (30 km) northeast of Asheville in the Black Mountains. The peak, covered with a mantle of hardwoods, pin...
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Mitchell, Parren James (American politician)
American politician who was a liberal Democrat from Maryland who spent eight terms (1971–87) as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and was the first African American since 1898 to be elected to Congress from a state below the Mason and Dixon Line. Mitchell, who graduated (1950) from Morgan State College (now Morgan State University) in Baltimore, sued to gain admission to graduat...
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Mitchell, Peter Dennis (British chemist)
British chemist who won the 1978 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for helping to clarify how ADP (adenosine diphosphate) is converted into the energy-carrying compound ATP (adenosine triphosphate) in the mitochondria of living cells....
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Mitchell, R. J. (British aeronautical designer)
British aircraft designer and developer of the Spitfire, one of the best-known fighters of World War II and a major factor in the British victory at the Battle of Britain....
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Mitchell, Reginald Joseph (British aeronautical designer)
British aircraft designer and developer of the Spitfire, one of the best-known fighters of World War II and a major factor in the British victory at the Battle of Britain....
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Mitchell River (river, Queensland, Australia)
river in northern Queensland, Australia. It rises near Rumula on the Atherton Plateau section of the Eastern Highlands, 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Cairns, and flows for 350 miles (560 km) northwest across Cape York Peninsula to the Gulf of Carpentaria. Although the stream, fed by the Palmer, Walsh, and Lynd rivers, has the state’s largest discharge, it is intermittent and may be dry for...
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Mitchell, Roscoe (American musician)
In 1966 composer-woodwind player Roscoe Mitchell (b. August 3, 1940Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) began forming small Chicago jazz units that he called “art ensembles,” which included bassist Malachi Favors (b. August......
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Mitchell, S. Weir (American physician and writer)
American physician and author who excelled in novels of psychology and historical romance....
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Mitchell, Silas Weir (American physician and writer)
American physician and author who excelled in novels of psychology and historical romance....
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Mitchell, Sir Thomas Livingstone (British explorer)
surveyor general of New South Wales who explored and surveyed widely in Australia....
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Mitchell, Thomas (American actor and playwright)
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Mitchell, W. O. (Canadian writer)
writer of stories that deal humorously with the hardships of western Canadian prairie life....
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Mitchell, Wesley C. (American economist)
American economist, the world’s foremost authority of his day on business cycles....
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Mitchell, Wesley Clair (American economist)
American economist, the world’s foremost authority of his day on business cycles....
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Mitchell, William (United States Army general)
U.S. Army officer who early advocated a separate U.S. air force and greater preparedness in military aviation. He was court-martialed for his outspoken views and did not live to see the fulfillment during World War II of many of his prophecies: strategic bombing, mass airborne operations, and the eclipse of the battleship by the bomb-carrying airplane....
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Mitchell, William Ormond (Canadian writer)
writer of stories that deal humorously with the hardships of western Canadian prairie life....
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Mitchella repens (plant)
(Mitchella repens), North American plant of the madder family (Rubiaceae), growing in dry woods from southwestern Newfoundland to Minnesota and southward to Florida and Texas. It is evergreen, with nearly round, 18-millimetre (0.7-inch) leaves, often variegated with white lines; a slender, often whitish, trailing stem; and white flowers, often borne in pairs, which are replaced by scarlet,...
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Mitchelson, Marvin Morris (American lawyer)
American lawyer (b. May 7, 1928, Detroit, Mich.—d. Sept. 18, 2004, Beverly Hills, Calif.), established the concept of palimony—the right of a longtime, but unmarried, live-in partner to sue for alimony—in the 1976 California Supreme Court case Marvin v. Marvin. Mitchelson won fame as a divorce lawyer to the stars, but his Hollywood lifestyle drew the attention of...
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Mitchison, Naomi (British writer and activist)
British writer, feminist, and peace activist who was the prolific author of some 70 books—the best known of which was The Corn King and the Spring Queen (1931)—as well as numerous articles, essays, works of poetry and drama, and children’s stories; she was created C.B.E. in 1985 (b. Nov. 1, 1897, Edinburgh, Scot.—d. Jan. 11, 1999, Mull of Kintyre, Scot.)....
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Mitchum, Robert (American actor)
American film star whose roles as a cool, cynical loner combined with a notorious personal life and a sardonic, relaxed style to create a durable screen image as a fatalistic tough guy....
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Mitchum, Robert Charles Duran (American actor)
American film star whose roles as a cool, cynical loner combined with a notorious personal life and a sardonic, relaxed style to create a durable screen image as a fatalistic tough guy....
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mite (arachnid)
any of about 30,000 species of tiny arthropods, members of the mite and tick subclass Acari (class Arachnida), that inhabit a wide range of habitats, including brackish water, fresh water, hot springs, soil, plants, and (as parasites) animals, including human beings. Parasitic forms may live in the nasal passages, lungs, stomach, or deeper body tissues of animals. Some mites are carriers of human ...
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miter (ecclesiastical headdress)
liturgical headdress worn by Roman Catholic bishops and abbots and some Anglican and Lutheran bishops. It has two shield-shaped stiffened halves that face the front and back. Two fringed streamers, known as lappets, hang from the back. It developed from the papal tiara and came into use in the 11th century....
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Mitford, Jessica (American writer)
English-born writer and journalist noted for her witty and irreverent investigations of various aspects of American society....
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Mitford, Jessica Lucy (American writer)
English-born writer and journalist noted for her witty and irreverent investigations of various aspects of American society....
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Mitford, Mary Russell (British writer)
dramatist, poet, and essayist, chiefly remembered for her prose sketches of English village life....
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Mitford, Nancy (British writer)
English writer noted for her witty novels of upper-class life....
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mithan (mammal)
(Bos frontalis), one of the species of true cattle, belonging to the subfamily Bovinae (order Artiodactyla) and found in northeastern India and Myanmar (Burma). Considered a domestic form of the gaur, the gayal has larger dewlaps and thicker horns that extend outward without curving. Bulls stand 1.5 m (5 feet) at the shoulder and are blackish with white leg markings that...
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Mithat, Ahmet (writer)
The novel made its appearance in Turkish in the late 19th century, most notably with the works of Ahmet Mithat, who published prolifically between 1875 and 1910. During Mithat’s lifetime, both the novel and poetry assumed a strongly public, didactic orientation that would prove highly influential among many writers well into the 20th century. Tevfik Fikret became a major literary voice of t...
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Mithila school (philosophy)
...and logical apparatus that came to be used by, other than philosophers, writers on law, poetics, aesthetics, and ritualistic liturgy. The school may broadly be divided into two subschools: the Mithilā school represented by Vardhamāna (Gaṅgeśa’s son), Pakṣadhara or Jayadeva (author of Āloka gloss), and Śaṅkara Miśra (au...
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Mithra (Iranian god)
in ancient Indo-Iranian mythology, the god of light, whose cult spread from India in the east to as far west as Spain, Great Britain, and Germany. (See Mithraism.) The first written mention of the Vedic Mitra dates to 1400 bc. His worship spread to Persia and, after the defeat of the Persians by Alexander the Great, throughout the Hellenic world. In the 3rd ...
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Mithradates I (king of Parthia)
king of Parthia (reigned 171–138 bc); he succeeded his brother Phraates I....
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Mithradates II (king of Parthia)
king of Parthia (reigned 123–88 bc); he was the son and successor of Artabanus II....
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Mithradates III (king of Parthia)
king of Parthia (reigned c. 55/54–37/36 bc) who helped his brother Mithradates III murder their father, Phraates III, in about 57 bc and in turn supplanted Mithradates....
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Mithradates the Great (king of Pontus)
king of Pontus in northern Anatolia (120–63 bc). Under his energetic leadership, Pontus expanded to absorb several of its small neighbours and, briefly, contested Rome’s hegemony in Asia Minor....
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Mithradates VI Eupator (king of Pontus)
king of Pontus in northern Anatolia (120–63 bc). Under his energetic leadership, Pontus expanded to absorb several of its small neighbours and, briefly, contested Rome’s hegemony in Asia Minor....
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Mithradates VI Eupator Dionysus (king of Pontus)
king of Pontus in northern Anatolia (120–63 bc). Under his energetic leadership, Pontus expanded to absorb several of its small neighbours and, briefly, contested Rome’s hegemony in Asia Minor....
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Mithradatic wars (ancient history)
At the beginning of the Third Mithradatic War (74), Deiotarus drove the invading troops of Mithradates VI of Pontus from Phrygia. For this support, Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius) rewarded him in 64 with the title of king and with part of eastern Pontus. In addition, the Senate granted him Lesser Armenia and most of Galatia....
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Mithradatkirt (ancient city, Turkmenistan)
first capital of the Parthians, located near modern Ashgabat in Turkmenistan. Nisa was traditionally founded by Arsaces I (reigned c. 250–c. 211 bc), and it was reputedly the royal necropolis of the Parthian kings. Excavations at Nisa have revealed substantial buildings, many inscribed documents, and a looted treasury. Also m...
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Mithraeum (Mithraism)
...was a huge construction. The subterranean basilica near Porta Maggiore in Rome (used by an Orphic or Pythagorean society) was a strong and magnificent structure hidden in a large garden. The Mithraic sanctuaries were artificial caves illuminated from above by light shafts. They were built for communities of 50 to 100 persons....
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Mithraism (Persian religion)
the worship of Mithra, the Iranian god of the sun, justice, contract, and war in pre-Zoroastrian Iran. Known as Mithras in the Roman Empire during the 2nd and 3rd centuries ad, this deity was honoured as the patron of loyalty to the emperor. After the acceptance of Christianity by the emperor Constantine in the early 4th century, Mithraism rapidly declined....
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Mithras (Iranian god)
in ancient Indo-Iranian mythology, the god of light, whose cult spread from India in the east to as far west as Spain, Great Britain, and Germany. (See Mithraism.) The first written mention of the Vedic Mitra dates to 1400 bc. His worship spread to Persia and, after the defeat of the Persians by Alexander the Great, throughout the Hellenic world. In the 3rd ...
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Mithridate (play by Racine)
In 1673 Racine presented Mithridate, which featured a return to tragedy with a Roman background. Mithradates VI, the king of Pontus, is the aging, jealous rival of his sons for the Greek princess Monime. The rivalry between the two brothers themselves for the love of their father’s fiancée is another manifestation of the primordial tragic situation for Racine, that of warring....
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Mithridates: De differentis linguis (work by Gesner)
...and their important flowers and seeds were used by other authors for two centuries after his death. Although in his own lifetime, he was best known for his botanical works, Gesner also published Mithridates: De differentis linguis (1555), an account of about 130 then-known languages, and an edition (1556) of the works of the 3rd-century Roman miscellaneous writer Claudius Aelian....
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Mithridates, oder allgemeine Sprachenkunde (work by Adelung)
...Dictionary of the High German Dialect”) revealed an intimate knowledge of the history of dialects basic to modern German. At the time of his death, he was still at work on Mithridates, oder allgemeine Sprachenkunde, 3 vol. (1806–17; “Mithridates, or General Linguistics”), in which he affirmed the relation of Sanskrit and the major European......
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Mithridates the Great (king of Pontus)
king of Pontus in northern Anatolia (120–63 bc). Under his energetic leadership, Pontus expanded to absorb several of its small neighbours and, briefly, contested Rome’s hegemony in Asia Minor....
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Mithridates VI Eupator (king of Pontus)
king of Pontus in northern Anatolia (120–63 bc). Under his energetic leadership, Pontus expanded to absorb several of its small neighbours and, briefly, contested Rome’s hegemony in Asia Minor....
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Mithridates VI Eupator Dionysus (king of Pontus)
king of Pontus in northern Anatolia (120–63 bc). Under his energetic leadership, Pontus expanded to absorb several of its small neighbours and, briefly, contested Rome’s hegemony in Asia Minor....
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MITI (Japanese agency)
After World War II, Japanese design benefited from an active reconnection to Europe and the United States. Japan’s Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), formed in 1949, sent Japanese industrial designers for study abroad in an effort to upgrade the quality of the country’s products, which were considered, in the immediate postwar era, to be cheap imitations of Western ...
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Mitiaro (island, Cook Islands, Pacific Ocean)
island in the southern Cook Islands, a self-governing state in free association with New Zealand in the South Pacific Ocean. It is a raised coral atoll and is encircled by a reef. Its interior of fertile volcanic soil, ringed by swamps and limestone, supports the growing of copra, bananas, and citrus fruits. The centre of the island is almost flat and is quite swampy; it contain...
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miticide (insect control)
any chemical substance used to control mites or ticks (especially species that damage ornamental or food plants), which are not susceptible to commonly used insecticides. Azobenzene, dicofol, ovex, and tetradifon are commonly used miticides. Many miticides kill eggs and larval stages as well as adult animals. Some are also toxic to honeybees and other beneficial insects....
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mitigating circumstance (law)
circumstance that diminishes the culpability of one who has committed a criminal offense and so can be considered to mitigate the punishment....
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Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions, Society for the (British organization [1823])
...In 1823 he aided in organizing and became a vice president of the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions—again, more commonly called the Anti-Slavery Society. Turning over to Buxton the parliamentary leadership of the abolition movement, he retired from the House of Commons in 1825. On July 26, 1833, the Slavery Abolition Act was......
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Mitilíni (island, Greece)
(after its capital), largest island after Crete and Euboea in the Aegean Sea, forming with Lemnos and Áyios Evstrátios islands the nomós (department) of Lesbos, Greece. The capital of the nomós is Mytilene, chief town of the 629.5-square-mile (1,630.5-square-kilometre) island and seat of a Greek Orthodox bishop. Sometimes grouped with th...
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Mitilíni (Greece)
chief town of the island of Lesbos and of the nomós (department) of Lesbos, Greece. Mytilene, whose name is pre-Greek, is also the seat of a metropolitan bishop of the Orthodox church. The ancient city, lying off the east coast, was initially confined to an island that later was joined to Lesbos, creating a north and south harbour. Mytilene contested successfully w...
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Mitla (archaeological site, Mexico)
Mesoamerican archaeological site, Oaxaca state, southern Mexico. One of Mexico’s best known ruins, Mitla lies at an elevation of 4,855 ft (1,480 m) on the eastern edge of one of several cold, high valleys surrounded by the mountains of the Sierra Madre del Sur, 24 mi (38 km) southeast of Oaxaca city. It is generally believed that Mitla (Nahuatl: Place of the Dead) was established as a sacre...
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Mitla: Town of the Souls (work by Parsons)
...among Native Americans of the Great Plains and of Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and the Caribbean. The Zapotec Indians of the state of Oaxaca, in Mexico, are the subject of her widely acclaimed work Mitla: Town of the Souls (1936). The results of her Andean researches were published in Peguche, Canton of Otavalo (1945)....
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mitma (Inca policy)
He probably also began the policy of forced resettlement, or mitma, about this time, in order to ensure both loyalty to the state and better utilization of land resources, at least from the perspective of the Inca. This practice involved moving some members of an ethnic group from their home territory to distant lands. When a new area was conquered, loyal settlers were brought in from a......
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Mitnagged (Judaism)
member of a group of tradition-minded Jews who vigorously opposed the mid-18th-century Hasidic movement of eastern Europe when it threatened to encompass large numbers of Jews. Under the leadership of Elijah ben Solomon, called the Vilna Gaon, the Mitnaggedim excommunicated all Hasidic groups from Orthodox Jewish communities. The Hasidim were accused of espousing doctrines tinge...
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Mitnaggedim (Judaism)
member of a group of tradition-minded Jews who vigorously opposed the mid-18th-century Hasidic movement of eastern Europe when it threatened to encompass large numbers of Jews. Under the leadership of Elijah ben Solomon, called the Vilna Gaon, the Mitnaggedim excommunicated all Hasidic groups from Orthodox Jewish communities. The Hasidim were accused of espousing doctrines tinge...
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Mitnick, Kevin (American computer hacker)
One such criminal was Kevin Mitnick, the first hacker to make the “most wanted list” of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He allegedly broke into the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) computer in 1981, when he was 17 years old, a feat that brought to the fore the gravity of the threat posed by such security breaches. Concern with hacking contributed......
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Mito (Japan)
capital, Ibaraki ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, on the left bank of the Naka-gawa (Naka River). During the Heian era (794–1185) Mito developed around a Yoshida shrine, and its first castle was built during the Kamakura era (1192–1333). The city changed hands several times during the 15th and 16th centuries; in 1609 it became a fief of the Mito branch of th...
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mito (theatrical form)
...performances took place on the picket lines during the California agricultural workers’ strikes in the 1960s. Later, El Teatro Campesino explored Chicano mythology and history, inventing the mito, a form of ritualized exchange between performers. The debt of the alternative theatre groups to the earlier agitprop groups is immense....
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Mito school (Japanese history)
...school of Shintō under the leadership of such men as Kamo Mabuchi, Motoori Norinaga, and Hirata Atsutane. The Shintō revival, Kokugaku movement, and royalist sentiments of the Mito school all combined in the Meiji period (1868–1912) in the restoration of imperial rule and the establishment of Shintō as a state cult. ...
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mitochondria (biology)
Mitochondria and chloroplasts are the powerhouses of the cell. Mitochondria appear in both plant and animal cells as elongated cylindrical bodies, roughly one micrometre in length and closely packed in regions actively using metabolic energy. Mitochondria oxidize the products of cytoplasmic metabolism to generate adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the energy currency of the cell. Chloroplasts are......
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mitochondrial disorder
...class of congenital disorders includes inborn errors of metabolism. The causes are hereditary and usually biparental, but they may occasionally be due to mutations on the X-chromosome or in the mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondrial DNA and diseases due to mitochondrial mutations are inherited in a strictly matrilineal manner. The mother’s generally normal metabolism could, via the placenta,.....
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mitochondrial DNA (genetics)
...DNA (cpDNA) contains genes that are involved with aspects of photosynthesis and with components of the special protein-synthesizing apparatus that is active within the organelle. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) contains some of the genes that participate in the conversion of the energy of chemical bonds into the energy currency of the cell—a chemical called adenosine triphosphate (ATP)—...
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mitochondrial inheritance (genetics)
The transmission of genes that are located in mitochondria (i.e., not contained in the nucleus of the cell) is termed maternal (mitochondrial) inheritance. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), although much smaller than nuclear DNA, is critical in cellular metabolism. Most of the energy required by a cell to drive its metabolism is produced in mitochondria by proteins in a series of electron......
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mitochondrial myopathy (pathology)
Mitochondria are the cellular structures in which energy (in the form of heat and work) is produced from the oxidation of fuels such as glucose and fat. A number of biochemical defects in mitochondria have been discovered. There is no single entity that can be diagnosed as a “mitochondrial myopathy.” In those mitochondrial defects in which a defective oxidative metabolism exists, a.....
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mitochondrial respiratory chain disorder (pathology)
The mitochondrial respiratory chain consists of five multi-subunit protein complexes that produce the majority of energy driving cellular reactions. Dysfunction of the respiratory chain leads to decreased energy production and to an increase in the production of toxic reactive oxygen species. In addition, damaged mitochondria release apoptotic factors, which act as signals to induce cell death.......
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