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Maastricht

Maastricht Treaty

Maathai, Wangari

Mabinogion

Macadamia nut

Macao

macaque

Macarthur, Douglas

Macaulay, Thomas

Macbeth

Macbride, Sean

Macdonald, Sir John

MacDowell, Edward (Alexander)

Macedon

Machen, Arthur

Mach, Ernst

Machiavelli, Niccolò

machine

machine tool

Machu Picchu

Mackenzie

Mackenzie, Sir Alexander

Mackenzie, Sir Compton

Mackenzie, William Lyon

mackerel

Mackinac

MacKinnon, Catharine

Mackintosh, Cameron (Anthony)

Mackintosh, Charles Rennie

MacLaine, Shirley

Maclean, Alistair

MacLeish, Archibald

Macleod, John James Rickard

MacMahon, Edme Patrice Maurice, comte de, 1808-1893

MacMillan, Donald Baxter

Macmillan, (Maurice) Harold

MacMillan, Sir Kenneth

MacNeice, (Frederick) Louis

Maconchy, Dame Elizabeth

Macquarrie, John

Macroeconomics

macular degeneration

Madagascar

Madame Bovary

madder

Madero, Francisco

Madhya Pradesh

Madison, James

Madison (Wis.)

Madonna of the Rocks

Madrid

madrigal

Maeterlinck, Maurice

Mafia

Magazine

Magdeburg

Magellan, Ferdinand

Magic

Magical realism

Magna Carta

Magnesium

magnetic moment

magnetic resonance

Magnetism

Magnetosphere

magnitude

Magritte, René

Magyars

Mahabharata

Maharashtra

Mahfouz, Naguib

Mahler, Gustav

Mahler, Herbert

Mahmud II

Mahy, Margaret

Mailer, Norman

Maintenon, Marquise de Françoise d'Aubigné

Mainz

Maitani, Lorenzo

Major, John

Malachite

Málaga

Malaria

Malawi

Malay

Malayalam language

Malay language

Malay Peninsula

Malaysia

Malcolm X

Maldives

male reproductive system

Malevich, Kasimir

Mali

Malkiel, Burton Gordon

Mallarmé, Stéphane

mallow

Malnutrition

Malory, Thomas, Sir (ca. 1410-1471)

Malpighi, Marcello

Malraux, André

Malta

Malthus, Thomas

Mamet, David

mammal

mammary gland

Mammoths

Management

Managua (Nicaragua)

manakin

Manatees

Man Booker Prize

Manchester

Manchuria

Mancini, Henry

Mandaeans

Mandalay

Mandela, Nelson

Mandela, Winnie

Mandelbrot, Benoit

Mandelson, Peter Benjamin

Mandeville, Bernard

Mandeville, John, Sir

Manet, Edouard

Manganese

Mango

mangrove

Manhattan

Manhattan project

Manifest Destiny

Manila

Manitoba

Mankowitz, [Cyril] Wolf

Manley, Michael

Mannerism

Mannheim, Karl

Mann, Heinrich

Mann, Horace

Manning, Henry Edward

Mann, Thomas

Mansart, François

Mansfield, Katherine

Manson, Charles

Mantegna, Andrea

mantid

Mantle (Geology)

manuscript

Manzoni, Alessandro

Maori

Mao Zedong

map

maple

map projection

Maradona, Diego

Maranhão

Mara, Ratu Kamisese

Marat, Jean Paul

marble

Marcantonio, Vito (Anthony)

Marcel, Gabriel

Marcet, Jane Haldimand

Marc, Franz

Marcion

Marconi, Guglielmo

Marcos, Ferdinand

Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD)

Marcuse, Herbert

Marcy, William

Mardi Gras

Margaret of Anjou

Margaret Tudor

Maria Theresa

Marie Antoinette

Marie de Medici

marine biology

marine engine

marine painting

Maritain, Jacques

maritime law

Marketing

Markowitz, Harry M.

Marlborough, 1st Duke of Marlborough John Churchill

Marley, Bob Robert Nesta Marley.

Marlowe, Christopher

Marmont, Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de, duc de Raguse, 1774-1852

marmot

Marquesas Islands

Marquette, Jacques Père Marquette.

Marrakesh

Marriage

Mars

Marsalis, Wynton

Marseilles

Marshall, Alfred

Marshall, Barry J

Marshall, George

Marshall Islands

Marshall, John

Marshall, Paule

Marshall, Thurgood

Marsilius of Padua

marsupial

Marten

Martí, José Julian

Martineau, Harriet

Martinique

Martín-Santos, Luis

Martinů, Bohuslav

Marvell, Andrew

Marx Brothers

Marxism

Marxism-Leninism

Marx, Karl

Virgin Mary

Maryland

Mary of Burgundy

Mary Rose

Masaccio

Masada

Masaryk, Tomáš Garrigue

Mascagni, Pietro

Masculinity

Masefield, John

maser

Mashhad

Maskin, Eric Stark

Maslow, Abraham

Mason-Dixon Line

Mason, George

Mason, James

Mason, Lowell

Massachusetts

Massachusetts Bay Company

Massenet, Jules

Mass extinction

Massey, William Ferguson

Massinger, Philip

Mass media

Mass murder

Masson, André

Materialism

Mathematics

Mather, Cotton

Mather, Increase

Math & Science

Matisse, Henri

Mato Grosso

Matriarchy

matter

Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor, 1557-1619

Maude, Francis Anthony Aylmer

Maudsley, Henry

Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965

Mauna Kea

Mauna Kea Observatories

Maupassant, Guy de

Mauriac, François

Maurice, Frederick Denison

Mauritania

Mauritius

Maurras, Charles

mausoleum

Mawson, Sir Douglas

Maxwell, James Clerk

Maya civilization

May Day

Mayer, Julius Robert von

Mayflower Compact

Mayhew, Henry

Maynard, Robert

Maynooth

Mayo

mayor

Mayr, Ernst

Mazarin, Jules

Mazzini, Giuseppe

Mbeki, Thabo

Mbuti (African people)

McAdoo, William Gibbs

McAnally, Ray

McCain, John Sidney III

McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-

McCarthyism

McCarthy, Joseph

McCarthy, Mary Therese

Mccartney, Paul

McClaren, Steve

McClelland, David

McClellan, George

McClintock, Barbara

McCosh, James

McCullers, Carson

McCulloch v. Maryland

McDormand, Frances

McDougall, William

McFadden, Daniel L.

McGillivray, Alexander

McGough, Roger

McGovern, George

McGuinness, Martin

McKay, Claude

McKenna, Siobhán

McKim, Charles Follen

McKinley, William, 1843-1901

McKinnon, Donald

McKinsey, James O(scar)

McLuhan, Marshall

McMillan, Margaret

McTaggart, John McTaggart Ellis

Meade, James Edward

Mead, George Herbert

Mead, Margaret

Measure for Measure

Measurement

meat

Meath

meatpacking

Mecca

Mechanics

Medea (Greek mythology)

Median

Mediation

Medical marijuana

Medicare

Medici, Cosimo de'

Medici, Lorenzo de’, 1449-1492

Medicine

medina

Meditation

Mediterranean Sea

MEDLINE

Medtner (or Metner), Nikolai Karlovich

Medusa (Greek mythology)

Meerkats

megachurch

Megalithic monuments

megapode

Méhul, Etienne Nicolas

Meiji

Meinong, Alexius

Meiosis

Meir, Golda

Meitnerium

Meitner, Lise

Mekong

Melbourne

Melbourne, 2nd Viscount William Lamb

Mellon, Andrew

Melodrama

melody

Melons

Melting point

Melville, Andrew

Melville, Herman

Memory

Mencius

Mencken, Henry Louis

Mendeleev, Dmitri

Mendelevium

Mendel, Gregor

Mendelssohn (-Bartholdy), (Jakob Ludwig) Felix

Menem, Carlos Saúl

Menéndez de Avilés, Pedro

Mengs, Anton

Meningitis

Menninger, Karl (Augustus)

Mennonites

Menominee

Menorca

Menotti, Gian Carlo

menstrual cycle

menstruation

Mental Health

Mental illness

mental retardation

Mentoring

Menuhin, Sir Yehudi

Mercantilism

Merchant of Venice

Mercouri, Melina

mercury (element)

Mercury poisoning

Meredith, George

merger

Merkel, Angela

Merleau–Ponty, Maurice

Mermaids

Mersey

Merton

Merton, Robert C.

meson

Mesopotamia

Mesozoic Era

Messerschmitt, Willy

Messiaen, Olivier

Messina

Metabolism

metabolite

metal

metallurgy

metamorphic rock

metamorphism

Metamorphosis

Metaphor

Metaphysics

Metchnikoff, Élie Ilya Mechnikov

meteor

meteorite

meteorology

meteor shower

Meter (Music)

methadone

Metric System

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Opera Company

Metz

Mexican War

Mexico

Mexico City

Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864

Meyerhof, Otto

mezzotint

Miami

Miami Beach

Mica

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Michelet, Jules

Michelson, Albert Abraham

Michigan

Michigan, Lake

Michoacán

Microcredit

microelectronics

Micro-organism

microphone

microprocessor

microscope

Microsoft

Mid-autumn Festival

Middle Ages

Middle East

Middle English

Middlemarch

Middlesbrough

Middleton, Thomas

Midgard

Midlothian

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Midwest

Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig

Milgram, Stanley

Milhaud, Darius

military government

military law

militia

Milk

Milken, Michael (Robert)

milkweed

Milky Way

Millais, John Everett

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Millennium

Millennium Dome

Miller, Arthur

Miller, Glenn

Miller, Henry

Miller, Merton H.

Millet, Jean François

Mill, Harriet Hardy Taylor

Milligan, Spike

Millikan, Robert

Mill, James

Mill, John Stuart

Mills, John Lewis Ernest Watts

Milne, A(lan) A(lexander)

Milne, (Edward) Arthur

Milošević, Slobodan

Miłosz, Czesław

Milroy, Lesley

Milstein, César

Milton, John

Milwaukee

Minas Gerais

Mindanao

Mind-Body Problem

Mindszenty, Cardinal József

mine

mineral

Ming

Mingus, Charles Charlie Mingus.

Minimalism

minimum wage

mining

Minneapolis

Minnelli, Liza

Minnesota

minnow

Minoan civilization

Minority

Minor, Robert

Minotaur (Greek mythology)

Minsk (Belarus)

Minsky, Marvin

Mintzberg, Henry

Mir

Mirabeau, Honoré-Gabriel de Riquetti, comte de, 1749-1791

Miracle Play

mirage

Miranda, Francisco de

Miranda v. Arizona

Miró, Joan

Mirrlees, James (Alexander)

Mishima, Yukio

Mishna

missile

Missionaries

Mississippi

Mississippi Delta

Mississippi River

Mississippi Scheme

Missouri

Mitchell, Arthur

Mitchell, Charles

Mitchell, George

Mitchell, Joni

Mitchell, Margaret

Mitchell, Warren

Mitchum, Robert

Mithra

Mithradates VI

Mitochondrion

Mitosis

Mitre, Bartolomé

Mitterrand, François

Miyazaki, Hayao

Mladic, Ratko

mobile phone

Mobutu Sese Seko

Moby Dick

modem

modern art

modern dance

Modernism (Art)

Modernity

Modern Languages

Modigliani, Amedeo

Modigliani, Franco

Modoc

Moeran, E[rnest] J[ohn]

Mogadishu

Mohawk

Mohegan

Mohican

Mohorovičić, Andrija

Moivre, Abraham de

Mojave

Moldavia

molding

Moldova

Molecular Biology

molecular weight

molecule

Molière

mollusc

Mollusca

Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich, 1890-1986

Moltke, Helmuth, Graf von, 1800-1891

Molybdenum

Mombasa

momentum

Monaco

Monarchy

Monastery

Mondrian, Piet

Monet, Claude

Money

Monge, Gaspard

Mongol

Mongolia

mongoose

monkey

Monk, Thelonious (Sphere)

Monmouth, Duke of James

Monmouthshire

Monod, Jacques

Monolith

Monopoly

Monotremes

Monroe Doctrine

Monroe, Marilyn

Monroe, James

Monsarrat, Nicholas

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de

Montana

Mont Blanc

Montcalm, Louis Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm Gezan de Saint Véran

Montenegro

Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755

Montessori, Maria

Monteverdi, Claudio

Montevideo

Montfort, Simon de

Montgomery, AL

Montgomery, Bernard Law

Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956.

Montmorency, Anne

Montpelier (Vt.)

Montreal

Montreal protocol

Montrose, 1st Marquess and 5th Earl of Montrose James Graham

Montserrat

Moody-Stuart, Mark

Moon

Moonies

Moonstones

Moore, Bobby Robert Frederick M.

Moore, Dudley (Stuart John)

Moore, G. E.

Moore, George

Moore, George Edward

Moore, Henry

Moore, Marianne Craig

Moore, Sir Roger (George)

Moore, Thomas

Moose

Morality

Moravia

Moravia, Alberto, 1907-1990

Moravian Church

Moreau, Gustave

Moreau, Jeanne

More, Hannah

More, Sir Thomas

Morgan

Morgan, Edwin George

Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont)

Morgan, Thomas Hunt

Morgenstern, Oskar

Morgenthau, Henry

Morita, Akio

Morley, 1st Viscount John

Morley, Robert

Mormon Church

Mormon fundamentalism

Morocco

morphine

Morricone, Ennio

Morris

Morris, Gouverneur

Morris, Mark

Morrison, Toni

Morrison, Van George Ivan

Morris, Robert

Morris, William

Morse Code

Morse, Samuel

Morse, Wayne (Lyman)

Mortimer, John

mosaic

Mosca, Gaetano

Moscheles, Ignaz

Moscow

Moses

Moses, Robert

Mosque

Mosquito

Mosses

motet

Moth

Motherhood

mother lode

Mother's Day

Motherwell, Robert

Motivation

motorcycle

Mott, Lucretia

Mound Builders

mountain

Mountain biking

Mountain climbing

Mountain goat

mountain man

Mount St. Helens

Mount Wilson Observatory

mouse

Moussorgsky, Modest (Petrovich)

Moynihan, Daniel

Mozambique

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

MRSA

Mrs Dalloway

Mubarak, Hosni

Much Ado about Nothing

mucopolysaccharide

Mugabe, Robert Gabriel

Muggeridge, Malcolm

Muhammad

Muhammad, Elijah

Muir, Edwin

Muir, Frank

Muir, John

mulberry

Muldoon, Sir Robert (David)

Mulisch, Harry

Muller, Hermann J.

Mullis, Kary Banks

Multiculturalism

multinational corporation

multiple sclerosis

Multiplication

Mumbai

Mumford, Lewis

mummy

Munch, Edvard

Mundell, Robert

Munich

Munich Pact

Munich Putsch

Munro, Alice

Münsterberg, Hugo

muon

Murad, Ferid

Murakami, Haruki

Muralitharan, Muttiah

Murder

Murdoch, Dame (Jean) Iris

Murdoch, Rupert

Murillo, Bartolomé Estéban

Murmansk

Murphy, Gardner

Murray, Henry

Muscat

muscle

muscular dystrophy

Muses (Greek deities)

Museum of Modern Art

Museums

Museveni, Yoweri

Musharraf, Pervez

Mushroom

Music

Musical

musical notation

Music education

Music therapy

Muskox

muskrat

Muslim Brotherhood

Muslim League

mussel

Musset, (Louis Charles) Alfred de

Mussolini, Benito

Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich

mustard

Muste, A(braham) J(ohannes)

Mutation

mutual assured destruction

Mutual funds

Myanmar

Mycenaean civilization

My Lai incident

Myrdal, Alva

Myrdal, (Karl) Gunnar

myrtle

Mystery

Mysticism

Mythology

Mythology, Classical