Germanic religion and mythology: German and English vernacular sources: …are two charms, the so-called Merseburg Charms, found in a manuscript from circa 900, in alliterating verse. The charms appear to be of great antiquity, and the second, intended to cure sprains, contains the names of seven deities. Four of these are known from Scandinavian sources—namely, Wodan (Odin), Friia (Frigg),…

Louis II: …Louis and Charles by the Treaty of Mersen (Meerssen), under which Louis received Friesland and an extremely large expansion of this territory west of the Rhine.

number game: Perfect numbers and Mersenne numbers: Most numbers are either “abundant” or “deficient.” In an abundant number, the sum of its proper divisors (i.e., including 1 but excluding the number itself) is greater than the number; in a deficient number, the sum of its proper divisors is less than…

Mersenne prime, in number theory, a prime number of the form 2n − 1 where n is a natural number. These primes are a subset of the Mersenne numbers, Mn. The numbers are named for the French theologian and mathematician Marin Mersenne, who asserted in the preface of Cogitata Physica-Mathematica

sound: Mersenne’s laws: From equation (22) can be derived three “laws” detailing how the fundamental frequency of a stretched string depends on the length, tension, and mass per unit length of the string. Known as Mersenne’s laws, these can be written as follows:

Marin Mersenne was a French theologian, natural philosopher, and mathematician. While best remembered by mathematicians for his search for a formula to generate prime numbers based on what are now known as “Mersenne numbers,” his wider significance stems from his role as correspondent, publicizing

British Invasion: Kramer and the Dakotas—launched “Merseybeat,” so named for the estuary that runs alongside Liverpool. The Beatles first reached the British record charts in late 1962 (shortly after the Tornados’ “Telstar,” an instrumental smash that sent word of what was in store by becoming the first British record to top…

River Mersey, river formed at Stockport, England, by the junction of the Goyt and Tame, two headstreams that both rise at about 1,600 feet (490 meters) on the west side of the Pennines, the upland spine of northern England. The Mersey lies entirely below 150 feet (45 meters), draining large areas

River Mersey, river in northern Tasmania, Australia, rising in the lake district near Mount Pelion East on the Central Plateau. Fed by the Dasher and Fisher rivers, it flows 91 miles (146 km) north, east, and again north before entering its estuary at Latrobe, the head of navigation, and emptying

Forth River: …the central river of the Mersey–Forth power project. Water from Lake Mackenzie on the Fisher River and Rowallan Dam on the Mersey River is diverted west to the Forth above Lemonthyme power station. Downstream, a diversion tunnel enters from the Wilmot River (west). The combined flow is then impounded behind…

British Invasion: Kramer and the Dakotas—launched “Merseybeat,” so named for the estuary that runs alongside Liverpool. The Beatles first reached the British record charts in late 1962 (shortly after the Tornados’ “Telstar,” an instrumental smash that sent word of what was in store by becoming the first British record to top…

Merseyside, metropolitan county in northwestern England. It is situated on both banks of the lower reaches of the River Mersey estuary and centred on the city of Liverpool. The metropolitan county comprises five metropolitan boroughs: Knowsley, St. Helens, Sefton, Wirral, and the city of Liverpool.

Mersin, city and seaport, south-central Turkey. It lies along the Mediterranean Sea at the extreme western end of the Cilician Plain, 40 miles (65 km) west-southwest of Adana. Mersin stands near the site of an unidentified ancient settlement. The ruins of the Roman harbour town of Soli-Pompeiopolis

Mersin, city and seaport, south-central Turkey. It lies along the Mediterranean Sea at the extreme western end of the Cilician Plain, 40 miles (65 km) west-southwest of Adana. Mersin stands near the site of an unidentified ancient settlement. The ruins of the Roman harbour town of Soli-Pompeiopolis

Mersing, port, Peninsular (West) Malaysia (Malaya). It lies along the South China Sea at the mouth of the Mersing River. Its predominantly Malay residents live in coastal and riverine fishing villages. There are some local tin-mining settlements and rubber estates. An embarkation point for Pulau

Merta, town, central Rajasthan state, northwestern India. It lies on the dry Rajasthan Steppe upland, about 45 miles (70 km) southeast of Nagaur. It was founded about 1480 and was at one time an important trade centre. The surrounding area was the scene of several battles, including the victory of

Pierre Mertens is a Belgian novelist known for his novels about crucial public events written chiefly in a bold, direct style free of textual and philosophical complexity. While maintaining a career as an international lawyer, Mertens became a prominent figure in Belgian literary life. His first

Mertensia, genus of about 50 temperate North American and Eurasian species of plants in the family Boraginaceae, including the Virginia cowslip, or Virginia bluebell (M. virginica), a popular spring-blooming garden and wild flower with drooping, bell-shaped, pink flowers that turn blue. The

Mertensia: Northern shorewort, oyster plant, or sea-lungwort (M. maritima), a fleshy, grayish-leaved plant, is about the same height as Virginia bluebell but has smaller flowers that bloom in summer. It grows along pebbly coasts of northern North America and northern Europe. Languid ladies (M. paniculata), from…

Mertensia: Languid ladies (M. paniculata), from western North America, is smaller, hairy, and summer blooming, and it has smaller, more nodding blooms.

Mertensia: …the family Boraginaceae, including the Virginia cowslip, or Virginia bluebell (M. virginica), a popular spring-blooming garden and wild flower with drooping, bell-shaped, pink flowers that turn blue. The Virginia cowslip is native in moist woods and wet meadows in eastern North America and has smooth, elliptical leaves and reaches approximately…

Caudata: Life cycle and reproduction: …of the genera Salamandra and Mertensiella (Salamandridae) may retain the fertilized eggs in the reproductive tract for a variable amount of time. The fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra) deposits relatively advanced larvae in the water. In the alpine salamander (S. atra) and Mertensiella, fully metamorphosed individuals are born. One individual develops…

thimerosal, mercury-containing organic compound with antimicrobial and preservative properties. Thimerosal was developed in the 1920s and became widely used as a preservative in antiseptic ointments, eye drops, and nasal sprays as well as in vaccines, particularly those that were stored in

Merthyr Tydfil, industrial town and county borough, southern Wales. It is named after a 5th-century Welsh Christian princess (Tydfil the Martyr) who was slain there. The county borough includes both sides of the deep valley of the River Taff and the surrounding steep hills. The town of Merthyr

Merthyr Tydfil: county borough, southern Wales. It is named after a 5th-century Welsh Christian princess (Tydfil the Martyr) who was slain there. The county borough includes both sides of the deep valley of the River Taff and the surrounding steep hills. The town of Merthyr Tydfil is…

Merthyr Tydfil, industrial town and county borough, southern Wales. It is named after a 5th-century Welsh Christian princess (Tydfil the Martyr) who was slain there. The county borough includes both sides of the deep valley of the River Taff and the surrounding steep hills. The town of Merthyr

Merton, outer borough of London, England, located south of Wandsworth. Merton is part of the historic county of Surrey. The present borough was established in 1965 by amalgamation of the boroughs of Mitcham and Wimbledon and the urban district of Merton and Morden. It includes such areas and

tapestry: 19th and 20th centuries: …established a tapestry factory at Merton Abbey in Surrey near London. For about 15 years he and his associates had been designing not only for looms but also for pictorial wall decorations and stained-glass windows. They were well prepared professionally, therefore, to design tapestries. Morris and the painter-illustrator Walter Crane…

analysis: Models of motion in medieval Europe: …it is sometimes called the Merton acceleration theorem. A very simple graphical proof was given about 1361 by the French bishop and Aristotelian scholar Nicholas Oresme. He observed that the graph of velocity versus time is a straight line for constant acceleration and that the total displacement of an object…

mathematics: The universities: …Bradwardine, who was active in Merton College, Oxford, in the first half of the 14th century, was one of the first medieval scholars to ask whether the continuum can be divided infinitely or whether there are smallest parts (indivisibles). Among other topics, he compared different geometric shapes in terms of…

sigillography: Religious seals: The seal of Merton Priory (1241), considered the finest English medieval seal, had the Virgin and child on one side with St. Augustine of Hippo on the other.

analysis: Models of motion in medieval Europe: …it is sometimes called the Merton acceleration theorem. A very simple graphical proof was given about 1361 by the French bishop and Aristotelian scholar Nicholas Oresme. He observed that the graph of velocity versus time is a straight line for constant acceleration and that the total displacement of an object…

folk dance: William John Thoms and folkloristics: ) The English antiquarian William John Thoms (using the pseudonym Ambrose Merton) coined the English word folklore in August 1846, taking credit in a letter to the periodical The Athenaeum.

Robert C. Merton is an American economist known for his work on finance theory and risk management and especially for his contribution to assessing the value of stock options and other derivatives. In 1997, Merton shared the Nobel Prize for Economics with Myron S. Scholes, whose option valuation

Robert K. Merton was an American sociologist whose diverse interests included the sociology of science and the professions, sociological theory, and mass communication. After receiving a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1936, Merton joined the school’s faculty. In his first work in the sociology of

Robert K. Merton was an American sociologist whose diverse interests included the sociology of science and the professions, sociological theory, and mass communication. After receiving a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1936, Merton joined the school’s faculty. In his first work in the sociology of

Thomas Merton was a Roman Catholic monk, poet, and prolific writer on spiritual and social themes, one of the most important American Roman Catholic writers of the 20th century. Merton was the son of a New Zealand-born father, Owen Merton, and an American-born mother, Ruth Jenkins, who were both

Aristotelianism: From the late 13th century through the 15th century: …a keen critical sense, the Mertonians, a group of logician-philosophers based in Merton College, Oxford (e.g., Thomas Bradwardine, William of Heytesbury), and encyclopaedists, scientists, and philosophers in France (e.g., Jean Buridan and Nicholas Oresme) made laborious efforts to express science wholly in terms of mathematics, to quantify changes in quality,…

Meru, town, central Kenya, located about 110 miles (180 km) northeast of Nairobi. Situated in the Eastern Highlands at an elevation of about 5,300 feet (1,600 metres), in a region known for its dense oak forests, Meru lies midway between Mount Kenya to the west and Meru National Park to the east.

Banyuwangi: …is the Sukameda beach and Meru Betiri, a national park that was one of the last refuges of the now-extinct Javan tiger. Baluran and Alas Purwo national parks are also located nearby. Pop. (2010) 106,000.

Mount Meru, volcanic cone (14,978 feet [4,565 m]), northern Tanzania. It is situated 42 miles (68 km) west-southwest of Mount Kilimanjaro, near the Kenyan border. Its extinct crater is easily accessible from Arusha town, which lies at the mountain’s southern base. The mountain’s densely populated

Mount Meru, in Hindu mythology, a golden mountain that stands in the centre of the universe and is the axis of the world. It is the abode of gods, and its foothills are the Himalayas, to the south of which extends Bhāratavarṣa (“Land of the Sons of Bharata”), the ancient name for India. The roof

Hebrew alphabet: …Hebrew and the Classical, or Square, Hebrew. Early Hebrew was the alphabet used by the Jewish nation in the period before the Babylonian Exile—i.e., prior to the 6th century bce—although some inscriptions in this alphabet may be of a later date. Several hundred inscriptions exist. As is usual in early…

Hebrew alphabet: …Hebrew and the Classical, or Square, Hebrew. Early Hebrew was the alphabet used by the Jewish nation in the period before the Babylonian Exile—i.e., prior to the 6th century bce—although some inscriptions in this alphabet may be of a later date. Several hundred inscriptions exist. As is usual in early…

dry rot, symptom of fungal disease in plants, characterized by firm spongy to leathery or hard decay of stem (branch), trunk, root, rhizome, corm, bulb, or fruit. See bulb rot; crown gall; fruit spot; heart rot;

toccata: …composers as Giovanni Gabrieli and Claudio Merulo wrote organ toccatas (many with such titles as Fantasia and Intonazione), often achieving a majestic virtuosity by means of florid scale passages, embellishments, unsteady rhythms and harmonies, changes of mood, and freedom of tempo. Merulo initiated the later common practice of alternating fugal…

Anglo-Norman literature: Religious and didactic writings.: …and most attractive being the Merure de seinte église (“Mirror of Holy Church”) by St. Edmund of Abingdon. In the 13th–14th century countless treatises appeared on technical subjects—manuals for confession, agriculture, law, medicine, grammar, and science, together with works dealing with manners, hunting, hawking, and chess. Spelling treatises produced in…

Merv, ancient city of Central Asia lying near the modern town of Mary, Mary oblast (province), Turkmenistan. Mentioned in ancient Persian texts as Mouru and in cuneiform inscriptions as Margu, it was the seat of a satrapy of the Persian Achaemenid empire. Under the Arabs in the 7th century the city

Television in the United States: The late shows: …Cavett Show (ABC, 1968–75), and The Merv Griffin Show (CBS, 1969–72)—but none could compete with The Tonight Show. In 1973 NBC introduced The Midnight Special (1973–81), a rock music variety show that ran from 1:00 am to 2:30 am on Fridays following The Tonight Show, the latest regularly scheduled network…

Mont-Saint-Michel: …of the splendid Gothic monastery La Merveille (built by 1228) combine the powerful characteristics of a military fortress and the simplicity of a religious building. The most striking sections are the refectory, with its high, narrow windows, and the magnificent cloister, with its fine sculptures. There is a panoramic view…

Target Corporation: …two more retailers: the California-based Mervyn’s in 1978 and Marshall Field and Company in 1990.

Meher Baba was a spiritual master in western India with a sizable following both in that country and abroad. Beginning on July 10, 1925, he observed silence for the last 44 years of his life, communicating with his disciples at first through an alphabet board but increasingly with gestures. He

Merovech was the king of the Salian Franks from whom Frankish tradition held the Merovingian dynasty to have taken its name. He was the father of Childeric I (d. 481/482) and grandfather of Clovis I (c. 466–511). Nothing definite is known of Merovech’s life, but an early myth made him the son of a

Rhine River: Navigational improvements: Nearer the Rhine’s mouth, the Merwede Canal (enlarged 1952) south of Amsterdam provides another route to the sea for ships displacing as much as 4,300 tons.

Gelderland: …is watered by the Rhine, Waal, and Maas (Meuse) rivers. In the east are some isolated hills and a sandy, wooded stretch south of Nijmegen, the province’s largest town. The fertile marshy area of the Betuwe (“Good Land”), between the Rhine and the Waal, supports orchards (cherries and apples), market…

Mnevis, in ancient Egyptian religion, sacred bull deity worshipped at Heliopolis. As one of several sacred bulls in Egypt, he was most closely associated with the sun god Re-Atum. Although not attested with certainty until the Middle Kingdom (1938–c. 1630 bce), the Mnevis bull may be that which is

Merovech was the king of the Salian Franks from whom Frankish tradition held the Merovingian dynasty to have taken its name. He was the father of Childeric I (d. 481/482) and grandfather of Clovis I (c. 466–511). Nothing definite is known of Merovech’s life, but an early myth made him the son of a

W.S. Merwin was an American poet and translator known for the spare style of his poetry, in which he expressed his concerns about the alienation of humans from their environment. After graduating from Princeton University (B.A., 1947), Merwin worked as a tutor in Europe and as a freelance

W.S. Merwin was an American poet and translator known for the spare style of his poetry, in which he expressed his concerns about the alienation of humans from their environment. After graduating from Princeton University (B.A., 1947), Merwin worked as a tutor in Europe and as a freelance

Merychippus, extinct genus of early horses, found as fossils in deposits from the Middle and Late Miocene Epoch (16.4 to 5.3 million years ago). Merychippus descended from the earlier genus Parahippus. The tooth pattern in Merychippus is basically the same as that in the modern horse; the teeth

artiodactyl: Evolution and paleontology: …New World family was the merycoidodonts (or oreodonts), which lasted until the early Pliocene (about 3.6 million years ago). They had somewhat piglike proportions, short faces, a large upper canine and a caniniform first lower premolar, and selenodont molars. A close relative, Agriochoerus, had clawed feet, the function of which…

artiodactyl: Evolution and paleontology: …New World family was the merycoidodonts (or oreodonts), which lasted until the early Pliocene (about 3.6 million years ago). They had somewhat piglike proportions, short faces, a large upper canine and a caniniform first lower premolar, and selenodont molars. A close relative, Agriochoerus, had clawed feet, the function of which…

Charles Méryon was a French printmaker whose etchings romantically depicted the life and mood of mid-19th-century Paris. Included among Méryon’s earliest works were drawings of the New Zealand coast that he executed while he was in the French navy. He subsequently employed these studies for

Friedrich Merz is a German lawyer, lobbyist, and politician who has served as leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party since 2022. With the CDU’s win in Germany’s February 2025 election, Merz was expected to become the country’s next chancellor. Merz worked as a lawyer before

Western painting: Germany and Italy: Joseph Beuys and Arte Povera: …Luciano Fabro, Giovanni Anselmo, and Mario Merz preeminently—were united in attempting to shake off their nation’s tradition-bound view of aesthetics, but they were also deeply engaged with social issues and with reinstalling a metaphysical content into art. Like Beuys, they often made use of unusual, organically based materials. In Pistoletto’s…

Kurt Schwitters: …built this three-dimensional assemblage, called Merzbau (“Merz building”), into his house in Hannover and continued to add to it for 16 years until there was little room left in the house for anything else. Unfortunately, it was destroyed during World War II.

Paul Verlaine: Life.: …of which appeared in 1886; Mes Hôpitaux, accounts of Verlaine’s stays in hospitals; Mes Prisons, accounts of his incarcerations, including the story of his “conversion” in 1874; and Confessions, notes autobiographiques helped attract notice to ill-recognized contemporaries as well as to himself (he was instrumental in publishing Rimbaud’s Illuminations in…

Paul Verlaine: Life.: …of Verlaine’s stays in hospitals; Mes Prisons, accounts of his incarcerations, including the story of his “conversion” in 1874; and Confessions, notes autobiographiques helped attract notice to ill-recognized contemporaries as well as to himself (he was instrumental in publishing Rimbaud’s Illuminations in 1886 and making him famous). There is little…

Mesa, city, Maricopa county, south-central Arizona, U.S. The name is Spanish for “tabletop” or “tableland.” A southeastern suburb of Phoenix, the site was settled and founded in 1878 by Mormons who used ancient Hohokam canals for irrigation. Laid out on a grid plan with 130-foot- (40-metre-) wide

mesa, (Spanish: “table”), flat-topped tableland with one or more steep sides, common in the Colorado Plateau regions of the United States; a butte is similar but smaller. Both are formed by erosion; during denudation, or downcutting and stripping, areas of harder rock in a plateau act as flat

infertility: Treatment options: …in a procedure known as microsurgical epididymal sperm aspiration (MESA). Eggs that are successfully fertilized are placed in the woman’s uterus.

Mesa: …is the site of a Mormon Temple (1927), Mesa Community College (1965), and the University of Arizona’s Agricultural Experimental Station. Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community is across the river to the north. The Chicago Cubs have their spring training camp there. In 2007 commercial air service began at the Phoenix-Mesa…

Mesa Central, high plateau region in central Mexico. The Mesa Central comprises the southern section of the Mexican Plateau extending south from the Zacatecas Mountains to the Bajío, a fertile region at the northern base of the Cordillera Neo-Volcánica. Lying at elevations of 6,000 to 7,500 feet

Mesa Central, high plateau region in central Mexico. The Mesa Central comprises the southern section of the Mexican Plateau extending south from the Zacatecas Mountains to the Bajío, a fertile region at the northern base of the Cordillera Neo-Volcánica. Lying at elevations of 6,000 to 7,500 feet

Mesa Central, high plateau region in central Mexico. The Mesa Central comprises the southern section of the Mexican Plateau extending south from the Zacatecas Mountains to the Bajío, a fertile region at the northern base of the Cordillera Neo-Volcánica. Lying at elevations of 6,000 to 7,500 feet

Mesa del Norte, the northern section of the Mexican Plateau, sloping gently upward to the south for more than 700 miles (1,100 km) from the U.S.–Mexico border to the Zacatecas Mountains. Mesa del Norte largely spans the country from coast to coast and is bordered by the Sierra Madre Oriental on the

Mexico: Physiographic regions: Farther northeast is the Mesa del Sur, with numerous stream-eroded ridges and small isolated valleys some 4,000–5,000 feet (1,200–1,500 metres) above sea level. The picturesque Oaxaca Valley is the largest and most densely settled of these, with a predominantly indigenous population. It is one of the poorest areas of…

Evo Morales: …a concession from his successor, Carlos Mesa Gisbert, to consider changes to the highly unpopular U.S.-backed campaign to eradicate illegal coca production.

I.M. Pei: Founding of I.M. Pei & Associates and projects from the late 1950s to the early ’80s: …Luce Memorial Chapel, Taiwan; the Mesa Laboratory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, which, located near mountains, mimics the broken silhouettes of the surrounding peaks; and the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, which consists of four buildings joined by bridges. For the U.S. Federal Aviation…

Mesa Verde National Park, national park in southwestern Colorado, U.S., established in 1906 to preserve notable prehistoric cliff dwellings; it was designated a World Heritage site in 1978. Occupying a high tableland area of 81 square miles (210 square km), it contains hundreds of pueblo (Indian

Titanic: Final hours: At approximately 9:40 pm the Mesaba sent a warning of an ice field. The message was never relayed to the Titanic’s bridge. At 10:55 pm the nearby Leyland liner Californian sent word that it had stopped after becoming surrounded by ice. Phillips, who was handling passenger messages, scolded the Californian…

Mesabi Range, largest of three iron ranges in northern Minnesota, U.S. (the others are Vermilion and Cuyuna). It extends 110 miles (180 km) from Babbitt (northeast) to Grand Rapids (southwest) at heights varying from 200 to 500 feet (60 to 150 metres), with a high point of 2,000 feet (610 metres).

Mesabi Range, largest of three iron ranges in northern Minnesota, U.S. (the others are Vermilion and Cuyuna). It extends 110 miles (180 km) from Babbitt (northeast) to Grand Rapids (southwest) at heights varying from 200 to 500 feet (60 to 150 metres), with a high point of 2,000 feet (610 metres).

Umm Saʿīd, town and port situated in Qatar, on the east coast of the Qatar Peninsula, in the Persian Gulf. It was established in 1949 as a tanker terminal by the Qatar Petroleum Company on an inhospitable, previously uninhabited site, along the sabkhah (salt flat) terrain characteristic of the

Georgia: National revival: …but it paled before the Mesame Dasi, or Third Group, an illegal Social Democratic party founded in 1893. The Third Group professed Marxist doctrines, and from 1898 it included among its members Joseph Dzhugashvili, who later took the byname Joseph Stalin. When the Mensheviks—a branch of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers…

Central African Republic: Political process: The Social Evolution Movement of Black Africa (Mouvement d’Évolution Sociale de l’Afrique Noire; MESAN), founded in 1946 by Barthélemy Boganda, was the first political party. It won control of the first territorial assembly elections in 1957 and was the party of the first president, David Dacko.…

renal system: Glomerular filtration: …the glomerular walls are called mesangial cells. These lie between loops of the glomerular capillaries and form a stalk or scaffolding for the capillary network. They are themselves embedded in a matrix of glycosaminoglycan similar to that of the glomerular capillary basement membrane and may be responsible for its formation.…

history of Mesopotamia: Emergent city-states: …southern Babylonian rulers, such as Mesannepada of Ur and Eannatum of Lagash, frequently called themselves king of Kish when laying claim to sovereignty over northern Babylonia. This does not agree with some recent histories in which Kish is represented as an archaic “empire.” It is more likely to have figured…

Cyprus: Relief: …the two ranges lies the Mesaoria Plain (its name means “Between the Mountains”), which is flat and low-lying and extends from Morphou Bay in the west to Famagusta Bay in the east. Roughly in the centre of the plain is Nicosia. The plain is the principal cereal-growing area in the…

Aegean civilizations: The Early Bronze Age (c. 3000–2200): …tombs were characteristic of the Mesara region of southern Crete. They were built above ground, with low massive stone walls perhaps covered with logs and thatch or slabs. Some of the largest tombs, however, with a diameter of 40 feet (12 metres) or more inside, may have been vaulted in…

Aegean civilizations: The Early Bronze Age (c. 3000–2200): …tombs were characteristic of the Mesara region of southern Crete. They were built above ground, with low massive stone walls perhaps covered with logs and thatch or slabs. Some of the largest tombs, however, with a diameter of 40 feet (12 metres) or more inside, may have been vaulted in…

cephalic index: …oval; such skulls are called mesaticephalic and are typical of Europeans and the Chinese. A skull having an index of over 80 is broad and short, and is called brachycephalic; such skulls are common among Mongolians and the Andaman Islanders.

perissodactyl: Limbs: This is called the mesaxonic condition and is contrasted with the paraxonic condition of the Artiodactyla, in which the axis passes between the third and fourth toes.

mezcal, distilled alcoholic beverage derived from the fermented juice of the baked core of the agave plant and traditionally made in Mexico. The word mezcal comes from the Nahuatl word mexcalli, which roughly translates to “cooked agave.” Although mezcal has traditionally been used to refer to any

Paul Mescal is an Irish actor whose career was launched by his lead performance in the acclaimed television miniseries Normal People (2020). Mescal then starred in a series of critically praised films, including Aftersun (2022), for which he received his first Academy Award nomination for best

peyote, (Lophophora williamsii), species of hallucinogenic cactus (family Cactaceae). Peyote is found only on limestone soils of the Chihuahuan desert of southern Texas and northern Mexico. Averaging about eight centimetres (three inches) wide and five centimetres (two inches) tall, the body of the

Mescalero, tribe of the Eastern Apache division of North American Indians. Their name is taken from the mescal (peyote) cactus (Lophophora williamsii), which provided fibre, food, and drink to these predominantly foraging people. Before colonization the Mescalero lived in what are now south-central

Otero: Lincoln National Forest and the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation cover much of eastern Otero county. Parklands include Three Rivers Petroglyph National Recreational Site, the Sunspot Solar Observatory, Oliver Lee State Park, and the Cloudcroft Ski Area.

mescaline, naturally occurring alkaloid, the active principle contained in the flowering heads of the peyote cactus (species Lophophora williamsii) of Mexico and the southwestern United States, that has been used as a drug to induce hallucination. The mescaline molecule is related structurally to

Michael Meschke is a German-born puppeteer who was the founder and producer of the Marionetteatern (“Marionette Theatre”) in Stockholm. When Meschke was seven years old, his family fled to Sweden from Danzig, Germany, which had elected a Nazi government. In his school years he became interested in