Heraklion, largest city, a dímos (municipality), and principal port of the Greek island of Crete and capital of the pereferiakí enótita (regional unit) Heraklion (Irákleio). It lies on the island’s north coast along the Sea of Crete, just northwest of the ancient Minoan capital of Knossos. The

delusion: …are delusions of persecution and grandeur; others include delusions of bodily functioning, guilt, love, and control.

sloth: Two-toed sloths: Both species of two-toed sloths (family Megalonychidae), also called unaus, belong to the genus Choloepus. Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth (C. didactylus) lives in northern South America east of the Andes and south to the central Amazon basin. Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth (C. hoffmanni) is

elopiform: Annotated classification: Family Megalopidae (tarpons) Swim bladder partially cellular, lunglike, and connected with the ear; scales large; 23–25 branchiostegal rays. Length to 2.5 metres (about 8 feet) and weight to 150 kg (about 330 pounds) in M. atlanticus; length to 1.5 metres (5 feet) in M. cyprinoides. 1…

Megalopolis, ancient and modern settlement and dímos (municipality), periféreia (region) of Peloponnese (Modern Greek: Pelopónnisos), southern Greece, just northwest of which lay an ancient city of the same name at 1,400 feet (427 metres) above sea level on the Akhíllion plain. Spreading

Great Lakes: The economy: Major urbanized areas include a band that extends from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, through Chicago and around southern Lake Michigan; a band that stretches southward from Detroit, Michigan, and then continues along the southern shore of Lake Erie; and the Toronto-Hamilton area on the northern shore of Lake…

Francis Ford Coppola: Later work: In 2024 Coppola released Megalopolis, a sprawling epic about an idealistic, ambitious architect (Adam Driver) who is seeking to remake and revive a great city. The long-gestating project—Coppola reportedly had devised the general plot in the early 1980s—was partly inspired by the unsuccessful insurrection of the aristocrat Catiline during…

Megalopolis, ancient and modern settlement and dímos (municipality), periféreia (region) of Peloponnese (Modern Greek: Pelopónnisos), southern Greece, just northwest of which lay an ancient city of the same name at 1,400 feet (427 metres) above sea level on the Akhíllion plain. Spreading

Sivas, city, central Turkey. It lies at an elevation of 4,183 feet (1,275 meters) in the broad valley of the Kızıl River. Although excavations at a mound known as Topraktepe indicate Hittite settlements in the locality, nothing is known of Sivas’s history prior to its emergence as the Roman city of

crustacean: Reproduction and life cycles: …zoea eventually changes into a megalops, which resembles a small crab with its tail extended behind it.

tarpon: The Atlantic tarpon (Megalops atlanticus; alternate name Tarpon atlanticus) is found inshore in warm parts of the Atlantic, on the Pacific side of Central America, and sometimes in rivers. Also called silver king, grand écaille, and sabalo real, it habitually breaks water and gulps air. It…

tarpon: The Pacific tarpon, M. cyprinoides, is similar.

tarpon: The Pacific tarpon, M. cyprinoides, is similar.

ethics: Aristotle: …a virtue whose Greek name, megalopsyche, is sometimes translated as “pride,” though it literally means “greatness of soul.” This is the characteristic of holding a justified high opinion of oneself. For Christians the corresponding excess, vanity, was a vice, but the corresponding deficiency, humility, was a virtue.

insect: Annotated classification: Order Megaloptera (alderflies, dobsonflies) Head prognathous (mouthparts located anteriorly on a horizontal head); biting mouthparts; filiform antennae; 2 pairs of large similar wings, at rest held rooflike or nearly flat over abdomen; larvae elongated, with biting mandibles.

Lepidoptera: Annotated classification: Family Megalopygidae (flannel moths) 240 species in Central and South America; larvae similar to those of Limacodidae, but with normal prolegs and traces of additional ones; setae very toxic and nettling. Family Zygaenidae (burnet and forester moths) More than 1,000 species, mainly in subtropical and tropical Asia

Megalosaurus, (genus Megalosaurus), carnivorous dinosaur and the subject of the first scientific description of a dinosaur ever published. Known from fossils of the Middle Jurassic Period (about 176 million to 161 million years ago) in Britain, it was described by William Buckland in 1824 on the

Will Ferrell: Elf, Anchorman, and Talladega Nights: …alien supervillain in the animated Megamind (2010). Although most of Ferrell’s film work was broadly comic in tone, he occasionally took on more serious roles, including a methodical Internal Revenue Service agent in Stranger than Fiction (2006) and an alcoholic selling his possessions in Everything Must Go (2010), an adaptation…

megamouth shark, (Megachasma pelagios), species of large filter-feeding sharks inhabiting the continental shelf and open-ocean regions of tropical and temperate oceans worldwide. The species is found between latitudes 40° N and 40° S from just below the surface to depths of as much as 1,500 meters

Megan Thee Stallion is an American rapper who rose to prominence in the 2010s as part of a growing cohort of women hip-hop artists. She is known for her bodacious lyrics and viral songs, including “Hot Girl Summer” and “Savage.” Journalist Lola Ogunnaike described Megan Thee Stallion’s charm in a

Megan’s law, any law requiring that law-enforcement officials notify local schools, day-care centres, and residents of the presence of registered sex offenders in their communities. It is named after Megan Kanka, a seven-year-old New Jersey girl who was brutally raped and murdered in 1994 by a

Sahul, paleocontinent made up of the present-day landmasses of Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea and the land bridges (which were composed of nearby emergent sea basins) that connected them during the Pleistocene Epoch (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago). Sahul existed from the onset of the

mask: Theatrical uses: …by means of a built-in megaphone device and, by exaggeration of the features, to make clear at a distance the precise nature of the character. Moreover, their use made it possible for the Greek actors—who were limited by convention to three speakers for each tragedy—to impersonate a number of different…

trichogrammatid wasp: Members of the genus Megaphragma are among the smallest known insects; M. caribea has a body length of about 170 μm (0.007 inch) and M. mymaripenne measures about 200 μm (0.008 inch). Trichogramma are important biological control agents. T. minutum, which is readily cultured in the laboratory, has been…

plant: Evolution of land plants from the Ordovician Period through the middle Devonian: …photosynthetic tissue produced leaves called megaphylls. There is evidence for the evolution of megaphylls in several plant groups of the late Devonian Period (about 382.7 million to 358.9 million years ago) and early Carboniferous Period (about 358.9 million to 323.2 million years ago). Although most of these groups have no…

digital camera: …marketed by their resolution in megapixels (millions of pixels)—for example, a 24.2-megapixel camera has a resolution of 6,016 by 4,016 pixels. Kodak developed the first megapixel camera in 1986; it could produce a film-quality 5 × 7-inch (12.5 × 17.5-cm) print.

megapode, (family Megapodiidae), any of 12 species of Australasian chickenlike birds (order Galliformes) that bury their eggs to hatch them. Most species rely on fermenting plant matter to produce heat for incubation, but some use solar heat and others the heat produced by volcanic action.

megapode, (family Megapodiidae), any of 12 species of Australasian chickenlike birds (order Galliformes) that bury their eggs to hatch them. Most species rely on fermenting plant matter to produce heat for incubation, but some use solar heat and others the heat produced by volcanic action.

humpback whale, (Megaptera novaeangliae), a baleen whale known for its elaborate courtship songs and displays. Humpbacks usually range from 12 to 16 metres (39 to 52 feet) in length and weigh approximately 36 metric tons (40 short [U.S.] tons). The body is black on the upper surface, with a

humpback whale, (Megaptera novaeangliae), a baleen whale known for its elaborate courtship songs and displays. Humpbacks usually range from 12 to 16 metres (39 to 52 feet) in length and weigh approximately 36 metric tons (40 short [U.S.] tons). The body is black on the upper surface, with a

Heracles: …Orchomenus in Boeotia and married Megara, daughter of Creon, king of Thebes, but he killed her and their children in a fit of madness induced by Hera and, consequently, was obliged to become the servant of Eurystheus. It was Eurystheus who imposed upon Heracles the famous Labours, later arranged in…

Megara, ancient and modern settlement and dímos (municipality), Attica (Modern Greek: Attikí) periféreia (region), southern Greece. Megara is located on the Saronikós Gulf. Modern Megara sits on the southern slopes of two hills that served as the acropolises (citadels) of the ancient town. The

Megara, ancient and modern settlement and dímos (municipality), Attica (Modern Greek: Attikí) periféreia (region), southern Greece. Megara is located on the Saronikós Gulf. Modern Megara sits on the southern slopes of two hills that served as the acropolises (citadels) of the ancient town. The

Megara Hyblaea, ancient city on the east coast of Sicily, 12 miles (19 km) north of Syracuse, founded about 728 bc by colonists from Megara in Attica. In 628 the city established a colony at Selinus but in 483 was destroyed by the Syracusan leader Gelon. The city had a brief independent existence

pottery: Hellenistic period (c. 330–c. 30 bce): …of hemispherical bowls, known as Megarian, was made in molds and bears relief decoration in imitation of metal bowls. More remarkable are the contemporary terra-cotta figurines; among the most accomplished are the draped women from Tanagra in Boeotia, whose artistic value is sometimes marred by excessive sentimentality.

Megarian school, school of philosophy founded in Greece at the beginning of the 4th century bc by Eucleides of Megara. It is noted more for its criticism of Aristotle and its influence upon Stoic logic than for any positive assertions. Although Eucleides was a pupil of Socrates and the author of

megaron, in ancient Greece and the Middle East, architectural form consisting of an open porch, a vestibule, and a large hall with a central hearth and a throne. The megaron was found in all Mycenaean palaces and was also built as part of houses. It seemingly originated in the Middle East,

sponge: Mineral skeletons: …siliceous spicules, consisting of both megascleres and microscleres, of the Demospongiae have an enormous variety of forms. The megascleres may be monaxons with both ends pointed (oxeas), with one end pointed and the other rounded (styles), or with both ends rounded (strongyles). If one end is swollen styles are called…

annelid: Annotated classification: Lumbricus (earthworm), Megascolides. Order Moniligastrida Male gonopores, 1 or 2 pairs on segment posterior to testes; clitellum 1 cell thick; 4 pairs of setae per segment; size, minute to 3 m; examples of genera: Moniligaster, Drawida. Order

coal: Macerals: , telinite (the brighter parts of vitrinite that make up cell walls) and collinite (clear vitrinite that occupies the spaces between cell walls).

rhinoceros beetle: The larvae of Megasoma spend three to four years between egg and adult, developing in large rotting logs. Like many species of rhinoceros beetles, they are threatened by the trade in exotic insects, and deforestation contributes to their increasing rarity.

arthropod: Size range: …is evidence that larvae of Megasoma actaeon, a type of rhinoceros beetle, can sometimes exceed 200 grams (0.44 pound). The beetle Goliathus regius measures 15 centimetres (5.9 inches) in length and 10 centimetres in width, while the butterfly Ornithoptera victoriae of the Solomon Islands has a wing span exceeding 30…

rhinoceros beetle: …specimen is the 13-cm (5-inch) elephant beetle (Megasoma elephas) of the lowland rainforests in Central and South America. The male’s head sports a long central horn that is split. Shorter, conical horns project forward from each side of the thorax. The American rhinoceros beetle (Xyloryctes jamaicensis) is a dark brown…

plant: Heterosporous life histories: Megasporangia (female sporangia) produce megasporocytes (megameiocytes) that yield megaspores. The sporangia may be borne in specialized structures such as sori in ferns, cones (strobili) in some pteridophytes and most gymnosperms, or flowers in angiosperms. The leaflike structures bearing microsporangia and megasporangia are called, respectively, microsporophylls…

spore: …rise to male gametophytes, and megaspores, which produce female gametophytes.

plant: Heterosporous life histories: Megasporangia (female sporangia) produce megasporocytes (megameiocytes) that yield megaspores. The sporangia may be borne in specialized structures such as sori in ferns, cones (strobili) in some pteridophytes and most gymnosperms, or flowers in angiosperms. The leaflike structures bearing microsporangia and megasporangia are called, respectively, microsporophylls and megasporophylls. In angiosperms…

cycadophyte: Sporophylls and strobili: …by leaf homologues known as megasporophylls. In all cycads, the microsporophylls are arranged spirally about a cone axis; in all cycads but Cycas, megasporophylls are similarly arranged. Megasporophylls of Cycas do not form a true cone but are arranged in two to three whorls at the stem apex. Later the…

bagasse, fibre remaining after the extraction of the sugar-bearing juice from sugarcane. The word bagasse, from the French bagage via the Spanish bagazo, originally meant “rubbish,” “refuse,” or “trash.” Applied first to the debris from the pressing of olives, palm nuts, and grapes, the word was

Megasthenes was an ancient Greek historian and diplomat, author of an account of India, the Indica, in four books. An Ionian, he was sent by the Hellenistic king Seleucus I on embassies to the Mauryan emperor Chandragupta. He gave the most complete account of India then known to the Greek world and

gymnosperm: General features: Female ovulate cones, called megastrobili, may be borne on the same plant that bears microstrobili (as in conifers) or on separate plants (as in cycads and Ginkgo). A megastrobilus contains many scales, called megasporophylls, that contain megasporangia. Within each megasporangium, a single cell undergoes meiotic division to produce four…

meteorite crater: The impact-cratering process: …inward-facing, widely spaced faults called megaterraces form well outside the initial excavation cavity. Craters with megaterraces are called impact basins.

Megatherium, largest of the ground sloths, an extinct group of mammals belonging to a group containing sloths, anteaters, glyptodonts, and armadillos that underwent a highly successful evolutionary radiation in South America in the Cenozoic Era (beginning 65.5 million years ago). The size of these

sloth: Classification and paleontology: …were small, but one, the giant ground sloth (Megatherium americanum), was the size of an elephant; others were as tall as present-day giraffes. The period of the ground sloths’ extinction coincides approximately with the end of the last Ice Age and the arrival of humans in North America. Sloths are…

river: Variation of stream regime: In the megathermal class, related to hot equatorial and tropical climates, two main variants occur; discharge is powerfully sustained throughout the year, usually with a double maximum (two peak values), but in some areas with a strong single maximum. In the mesothermal class some regimes resemble those…

nuclear weapon: …words kiloton (1,000 tons) and megaton (1,000,000 tons) to describe their blast energy in equivalent weights of the conventional chemical explosive TNT. For example, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945, containing only about 64 kg (140 pounds) of highly enriched uranium, released energy equaling about 15 kilotons…

Megaupload, popular file-sharing computer service created by entrepreneur Kim Schmitz that was shut down in 2012 by the United States government after its founders were charged for violating antipiracy laws. It was based in Hong Kong. In 2003 Schmitz, a native of Germany, moved to Hong Kong and

Megawati Sukarnoputri is an Indonesian politician who was the fifth president of Indonesia (2001–04) and the first woman to hold the post. The daughter of Sukarno, the first president of Indonesia, Megawati studied psychology and agriculture in college but did not take a degree. In 1987 she entered

fat: Uses of fats: …invented by the French chemist Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès, who in 1869 won a prize offered by Napoleon III for a satisfactory butter substitute. The modern hydrogenation process had its origin in research in the late 19th century that led to the establishment of the vegetable-oil-shortening industry and a variety of industrial…

herbal: …printed, a notable one being Konrad von Megenberg’s Das puch der natur (or Buch der natur, “Book of Nature”). When printed in 1475, it included the first known woodcuts for botanical illustrations. Very few original drawings were prepared for herbals before the 16th century: illustrations were copies and copies of…

Hebrew literature: Israeli literature: The novelist Aharon Megged’s Ha-Hai ʿal ha-met (1965; The Living on the Dead) casts a putative hero of the pioneer generation in an ironic light.

ohmmeter: …the instrument is called a megohmmeter, or “megger.”

Meghaduta, lyric love poem in some 115 verses composed by Kalidasa about the 5th century ce. The verse is unique to Sanskrit literature in that the poet attempts to go beyond the strophic unity of the short lyric, normally the form preferred for love poems, by stringing the stanzas into a

Meghalaya, state of India, located in the northeastern part of the country. It is bounded by the Indian state of Assam to the north and northeast and by Bangladesh to the south and southwest. The state capital is the hill town of Shillong, located in east-central Meghalaya. Meghalaya—alaya

Shillong Plateau, highland region in eastern Meghalaya state, northeastern India. It is a rolling tableland and the highest portion of the hill mass that comprises most of Meghalaya. The plateau’s western, northern, and southern escarpments are called the Garo, Khasi, and Jaintia hills,

Holocene Epoch: The Pleistocene–Holocene boundary: In contrast, the Meghalayan stage (4,200 years ago to the present) was determined using a speleothem, or cave deposit (in this case, a stalagmite from Mawmluh Cave in Meghalaya, India). The stalagmite captured a 200-year period of worldwide drought and cooling dating to about 4,200 years ago. The…

Meghan, duchess of Sussex is an American British actress and consort (2018– ) of Prince Harry, duke of Sussex and fifth in line to the British throne. She acted on television shows, notably in the legal drama series Suits, before her marriage to Prince Harry. In 2020 the couple gave up their royal

South Asian arts: Bengali: While Michael’s work Mēghanādavadh (1861; a long poem on the Rāma theme in which Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa become the villains and Rāvaṇa the hero) caused a stir, the literary event of the period was the appearance on the scene of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, whose first novel, Durgeśanandinī (“Daughter…

Meghna River, major watercourse of the Padma River (Ganges [Ganga] River) delta, in Bangladesh. The name is properly applied to a channel of the Old Brahmaputra downstream from Bhairab Bazar, after it has received the Surma (Barak) River. Flowing almost due south, the Meghna receives the combined

Michael Madhusudan Dutt: His most important composition was Meghnad Badh Kavya, a retelling of an episode from the Hindu epic the Ramayana in which Meghnad (also called Indrajit), son of the antagonist Ravana, is slain by Lakshmana, half brother of the epic’s main protagonist, Rama. Dutt also wrote the first Bengali play, Sarmistha…

Dussehra: Ram Lila and the burning of Ravana effigies: …Ravana—often along with those of Meghnada (Ravana’s son) and Kumbhkarana (Ravana’s brother)—are stuffed with firecrackers and set ablaze at dusk in open fields.

Megiddo, important town of ancient Palestine, overlooking the Plain of Esdraelon (Valley of Jezreel). It lies about 18 miles (29 km) southeast of Haifa in northern Israel. Megiddo’s strategic location at the crossing of two military and trade routes gave the city an importance far beyond its size.

World War I: The Turkish fronts, 1918: In this Battle of Megiddo, a British infantry attack swept the astonished defenders aside and opened the way for the cavalry, which rode 30 miles north up the coastal corridor before swinging inland to cut the Turks’ northward lines of retreat. ʿAfula, Beisān, and even Nazareth, farther…

biblical literature: The roles of Deborah, Gideon, and Jephthah: …this valley dominated by the hill of Megiddo (Armageddon)—a site of many later crucial military battles and which later became the symbolic name for the final battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil in apocalyptic literature—the Israelites met the Canaanites near the river Kishon in open…

Plain of Esdraelon, lowland in northern Israel, dividing the hilly areas of Galilee in the north and Samaria (in the Israeli-occupied West Bank) in the south. Esdraelon is the Greek derivation of the Hebrew Yizreʿel, meaning “God will sow” or “May God make fruitful,” an allusion to the fertility of

Megillah, in the Hebrew Bible, any of the five sacred books of the Ketuvim (the third division of the Old Testament), in scroll form, that are read in the synagogue in the course of certain festivals. The Song of Solomon (Song of Songs) is read on the sabbath of Passover week, the Book of Ruth on

Megillah, in the Hebrew Bible, any of the five sacred books of the Ketuvim (the third division of the Old Testament), in scroll form, that are read in the synagogue in the course of certain festivals. The Song of Solomon (Song of Songs) is read on the sabbath of Passover week, the Book of Ruth on

Book of Esther, book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. It belongs to the third section of the Judaic canon, known as the Ketuvim, or “Writings.” In the Jewish Bible, Esther follows Ecclesiastes and Lamentations and is read on the festival of Purim, which commemorates the rescue

Yom Ṭov Lipmann ben Nathan ha-Levi Heller: …written works are an autobiography, Megillat eyva (“Scroll of Hate”; first published in 1818), which documented the various communities in which he had lived and included accounts of massacres of Jews in Prague (1618) and Ukraine (1643). The most famous of his many religious works is his commentary on the…

Abraham bar Hiyya: …ethical conduct, and repentance; and Megillat ha-Megalleh (“Scroll of the Revealer”), in which he outlined his view of history, based on astrology and purporting to forecast the messianic future.

The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness, a Dead Sea Scroll, and one of the most important documents of the Essene sect of Jews that established a community at Qumrān in the Judaean desert during the first half of the 2nd century bc. The Essenes thought themselves to be the holy

The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness, a Dead Sea Scroll, and one of the most important documents of the Essene sect of Jews that established a community at Qumrān in the Judaean desert during the first half of the 2nd century bc. The Essenes thought themselves to be the holy

chronology: Jewish: Megillat taʿanit (“Scroll of Fasting”), although recording only the days and months of the year without the dates of the years, is nevertheless an important source for Jewish chronology. It lists events on 35 days of the year that have been identified with events in…

Megillah, in the Hebrew Bible, any of the five sacred books of the Ketuvim (the third division of the Old Testament), in scroll form, that are read in the synagogue in the course of certain festivals. The Song of Solomon (Song of Songs) is read on the sabbath of Passover week, the Book of Ruth on

mastic: …oil, mastic is known as megilp and is used as a colour vehicle. Mastic is also used as an adhesive in dental work.

Kastellórizo, easternmost of the Dodecanese (Modern Greek: Dodekánisa) group of islands in the Aegean Sea, Greece, lying on the edge of the Aegean, where it meets the Levantine Sea, just off the southwestern coast of Turkey. Kastellórizo has an area of 3 square miles (7.3 square km). Its present

pollination: Beetles and flies: …South African flies; for example, Moegistorhynchus longirostris, which has a tongue that is 60 to 70 mm (2.3 to 2.7 inches) long.

Vlach: The question of Vlach origins and how that affects their status: …the origin of Aromanian and Meglenoromanian (and Romanian) from Balkan Latin is beyond question, it is unclear to what extent contemporary Balkan Romance speakers are descended from Roman colonists or from indigenous pre-Roman Balkan populations who shifted to Latin. The question itself is of historical interest, but the potential answers…

Vlach: The question of Vlach origins and how that affects their status: …the origin of Aromanian and Meglenoromanian (and Romanian) from Balkan Latin is beyond question, it is unclear to what extent contemporary Balkan Romance speakers are descended from Roman colonists or from indigenous pre-Roman Balkan populations who shifted to Latin. The question itself is of historical interest, but the potential answers…

To Kill a Mockingbird: Cast:

ohmmeter: …scale is usually graduated in megohms (106 ohms), and the instrument is called a megohmmeter, or “megger.”

ohmmeter: …the instrument is called a megohmmeter, or “megger.”

frog and toad: Annotated classification: …about 6 inches); 2 subfamilies: Megophryidae (Southeast Asia, Indo-Australian archipelago, Philippines) and Pelobatinae (Europe and North America). Family Pelodytidae Eocene to present; 8 presacral vertebrae; coccyx free, bicondylar; astragalus and calcaneum fused; western Europe and southwestern Asia; 1 genus, 2 species.

Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi was a Libyan national who was the only person to be convicted in the 1988 Pan Am flight 103 bombing (also known as the Lockerbie bombing), in which 270 people died. Megrahi gained fluency in English through studying in the United States and Britain in the 1970s.

Mingrelian language, unwritten Kartvelian (South Caucasian) language spoken along the coast of the Black Sea in Georgia. Its speakers call it margaluri nina; in Georgian, it is called megruli ena. Some scholars believe Mingrelian and the closely related Laz language to be dialects of a single

fascism: France: In 1998 Le Pen’s associate Bruno Mégret split from the FN to form a new party, the National Movement (Mouvement National; MN), taking with him most of the FN’s departmental secretaries and city councillors. Nevertheless, Le Pen’s style and policies continued to attract significant support, and he served as an…

Mingrelian language, unwritten Kartvelian (South Caucasian) language spoken along the coast of the Black Sea in Georgia. Its speakers call it margaluri nina; in Georgian, it is called megruli ena. Some scholars believe Mingrelian and the closely related Laz language to be dialects of a single

Megillah, in the Hebrew Bible, any of the five sacred books of the Ketuvim (the third division of the Old Testament), in scroll form, that are read in the synagogue in the course of certain festivals. The Song of Solomon (Song of Songs) is read on the sabbath of Passover week, the Book of Ruth on

Hungary: The Christian kingdom: …was divided into counties (megyék), each under a royal official called an ispán (comes)—later főispán (supremus comes). This official represented the king’s authority, administered its unfree population, and collected the taxes that formed the national revenue. Each ispán maintained at his fortified headquarters (castrum or vár) an armed force…

Megyn Kelly: NBC: …year she launched the podcast The Megyn Kelly Show.

Mahābād, city, northwestern Iran. The city lies south of Lake Urmia in a fertile, narrow valley at an elevation of 4,272 feet (1,302 metres). There are a number of unexcavated tells, or mounds, on the plain of Mahābād in this part of the Azerbaijan region. The region was the centre of the