African music: Musical bows: …other types, like the Swazi makhweyane, a noose or brace divides the string so as to yield two different “open” notes, and resonated harmonics are selected in the same way.

ʿAbd al-Muʾmin: ʿAbd al-Muʾmin’s government: …and a central administration (the makhzan) modeled on those of Muslim Spain, which was staffed largely by Spanish Muslims. A government land registry was improvised to assure the dynasty regular revenue. ʿAbd al-Muʾmin fully accepted the responsibilities of an art patron, but, remembering the puritanical austerity of Ibn Tūmart, he…

Fumihiko Maki was a postwar Japanese architect who fused the lessons of Modernism with Japanese architectural traditions. Maki studied architecture with Tange Kenzō at the University of Tokyo (B.A., 1952). He then attended the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (1952–53), and

maki-e, (Japanese: “sprinkled picture”), lacquer ware on which the design is made by sprinkling or spraying wet lacquer with metallic powder, usually gold or silver, from a dusting tube, sprinkler canister (makizutsu), or hair-tipped paint brush (kebo). The technique was developed mainly during the

raden: In the makigai-hō technique, shells are crushed into particles and scattered over the background.

Sōka-gakkai: …was founded in 1930 by Makiguchi Tsunesaburō, a former elementary-school principal, under the name Sōka-kyōiku-gakkai (“Value-Creation Educational Society”). Makiguchi stressed the pragmatic benefit of religion and set as his goal three values: bi (“beauty”), ri (“gain”), and zen (“goodness”). The society suffered from the government’s repressive policies toward religious groups…

makimono, in Japanese art, hand scroll, or scroll painting designed to be held in the hand (as compared to a hanging scroll). See scroll

Butaritari Atoll, coral atoll of the Gilbert Islands, part of Kiribati, in the west-central Pacific Ocean. Located in the northern Gilberts, it comprises a central lagoon (11 miles [18 km] wide) ringed by islets. The lagoon provides a good deep anchorage with three passages to the open sea. Most of

Blended families, in which spouses have remarried and bring children from previous marriages into the new family, face unique challenges in estate planning. Remarried spouses may have different assumptions about allocating expenses, managing individual debt, and how children from prior marriages

Charlie Chaplin: Early life and career: Though his first Keystone one-reeler, Making a Living (1914), was not the failure that historians have claimed, Chaplin’s initial screen character, a mercenary dandy, did not show him to best advantage. Ordered by Sennett to come up with a more-workable screen image, Chaplin improvised an outfit consisting of a too-small…

Steven Avery: …hugely popular TV documentary series Making a Murderer (2015 and 2018).

Ansel Adams: Maturity: …to commission Adams to create Making a Photograph (1935), a guide to photographic technique illustrated primarily with his own photographs. This book was a remarkable success, partly because of the astonishing quality of its letterpress reproductions, which were printed separately from the text and tipped into the book page. These…

Constance Wu: Making a Scene: Published in 2022, Making a Scene reveals that she had been sexually harassed by a producer on Fresh Off the Boat and that she had attempted suicide in 2019 following the backlash to her tweets. It also recounts other significant events from her life, including how she realized…

Penelope Lively: …memoir of Lively’s Egyptian childhood, Making It Up (2005) has been termed an “anti-memoir”: it is a series of narratives drawn from her own life that Lively rewrote so as to explore the manner in which her life might have differed had she made—or had forced on her—other choices. Life…

Arthur Hiller: Later films: In 1982 Hiller directed Making Love, a timid drama about a married doctor who discovers that he is homosexual. A string of forgettable comedies followed, including Author! Author! (1982), which starred Al Pacino as an overwhelmed playwright, and The Lonely Guy (1984), with Steve Martin and a scene-stealing Charles…

Laurie Metcalf: …Seeking Susan (1985) and in Making Mr. Right (1987), which starred fellow Steppenwolf member John Malkovich. In 1988 she was cast in the role for which she was perhaps most widely known, that of Roseanne’s slightly neurotic and underachieving sister Jackie in the sitcom Roseanne (1988–97). Metcalf won three Emmy…

David Halberstam: involvement there, The Making of a Quagmire (1965) reflected a growing disillusionment with the war, and its title became a byword for intractable military operations. Halberstam’s examination of power resulted in three volumes that were viewed loosely as a trilogy: The Best and the Brightest (1972) chronicled…

The Making of Americans, novel by Gertrude Stein, completed in 1911 and considered to be one of Stein’s major works. The novel was not published in book form until 1925 because of its lengthiness and experimental style. The Making of Americans lacks plot, dialogue, and action. Subtitled Being a

Tom Hanks: …Type (2017) and the novel The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece (2023), about the filming of a superhero movie.

Alice Stopford Green: In The Making of Ireland and its Undoing (1908), she contradicted the widespread English belief that Ireland had no civilization apart from what had been borrowed from other countries, particularly England. A supporter of the Treaty of December 1921 which gave Ireland independence, and by then…

Nigel Dennis: The Making of Moo, a satirical play on the psychological power of religious fervor, was performed in 1957 and was published, together with the stage version of Cards of Identity, as Two Plays and a Preface (1958). His knowledge of journalism sharpened the satire of…

E.P. Thompson: …particularly his most famous book, The Making of the English Working Class.

John Herman Randall, Jr.: (1924), revised and reissued as The Making of the Modern Mind (1926), Randall reconstructed the times and conditions, as well as the historical experience and traditions, that gave rise to certain philosophical systems. His Career of Philosophy in Modern Times, 2 vol. (1962–65), is an analysis of the historical context…

Theodore H. White: …the American scene in The Making of the President, 1960 (1961) and The Making of the President, 1964 (1965). Accepted as standard histories of presidential campaigns, these books present their subjects by intelligently juxtaposing events and treating politicians as personalities rather than as symbols.

Theodore H. White: …President, 1960 (1961) and The Making of the President, 1964 (1965). Accepted as standard histories of presidential campaigns, these books present their subjects by intelligently juxtaposing events and treating politicians as personalities rather than as symbols.

Aleksandar Hemon: The Making of Zombie Wars (2015) chronicles the quotidian difficulties of a workaday writer attempting to finish a screenplay about a zombie invasion.

The Makioka Sisters, novel by Tanizaki Jun’ichirō, originally published as Sasameyuki (“A Light Snowfall”). The work is often considered to be Tanizaki’s masterpiece. Serialization of the novel began in 1943 but was suspended by the military government; publication of the complete work was delayed

San Cristobal, island in the country of Solomon Islands, southwestern Pacific Ocean, 40 miles (64 km) southeast of Guadalcanal. The island is about 80 miles (130 km) long with a maximum width of 25 miles (40 km) and an area of about 1,230 square miles (3,190 square km). It is fairly rugged, with a

Native American religions: Calendrical practices: Notably, the Makiritare of the Orinoco River region in Venezuela tell how the stars, led by Wlaha, were forced to ascend on high when Kuamachi, the evening star, sought to avenge the death of his mother. Kuamachi and his grandfather induced Wlaha and the other stars to…

Islamic arts: Islamic art under European influence and contemporary trends: …the Iraqis Rifat Chaderji and Mohamed Makiya, the Jordanian Rasem Badran, and the Bangladeshi Mazharul Islam. A unique message was transmitted by the visionary Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy, who, in eloquent and prophetic terms, urged that the traditional forms and techniques of vernacular architecture be studied and adapted to contemporary…

Makiyivka, city, eastern Ukraine. The city was founded as Dmitriyevsk (Dmytriyivsk) in 1899 with the establishment of a metallurgical works; the nearby small village of Makiyivka was later absorbed into the city. Dmitriyevsk subsequently developed as one of the largest coal-mining and industrial

Mecca, city, western Saudi Arabia, located in the Ṣirāt Mountains, inland from the Red Sea coast. It is the holiest of Muslim cities. Muhammad, the founder of Islam, was born in Mecca, and it is toward this religious center that Muslims turn five times daily in prayer (see qiblah). All devout and

Abrāj al-Bayt, multitowered skyscraper complex adjacent to the Great Mosque of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Completed in 2012, it is the world’s fourth tallest building (as of 2024). The central clock tower (including its spire) rises to a height of 1,972 feet (601 meters). The Abrāj al-Bayt complex has

akriyāvāda: …Pūraṇa Kāśyapa, a radical antinomian; Gośāla Maskarīputra, a fatalist; Ajita Keśakambalin, the earliest-known materialist in India; and Pakudha Kātyāyana, an atomist. Gośāla’s followers formed the Ājīvika sect, which enjoyed some acceptance during the Maurya period (3rd century bc) and then dwindled.

al-Ḥallāj: …at-Tustarī, ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān al-Makkī, and Abū al-Qāsim al-Junayd, were highly respected among the masters of Ṣūfism. Studying first under Sahl at-Tustarī, who lived a quiet and solitary life in the city of Tustar in Khuzistan, al-Ḥallāj later became a disciple of al-Markkī of Basra. During this period he…

surah: …qualifies each surah as either Makkiyyah (“of Mecca”) or Madaniyyah (“of Medina”). According to some Muslim scholars, these labels indicate whether the surah was revealed to Muhammad while he was preaching in one or the other of those cities. In some cases an intermixture of verses is similarly designated; modern…

Vasily Alekseyevich Maklakov was a liberal Russian political figure and a leading advocate of a constitutional Russian state. Maklakov was the son of a Moscow professor. He was impressed by French political life during a visit to Paris in 1889 and spent most of his career attempting to establish a

Chagatai literature: For example, the Kokandian princess Mahlarayim (Māhilar), writing in the 19th century, created a Chagatai divan under the makhlaṣ (or takhalluṣ; pen name) Nādira and a Persian divan under the name Maknüna; she also used the name Kāmila in her Chagatai works. In her Persian divan she included mukhammas (imitative…

mako shark, (genus Isurus), either of two species of swift, active, potentially dangerous sharks of the mackerel shark family, Lamnidae. The shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) is found in all tropical and temperate seas, and the longfin mako (I. paucus) is scattered worldwide in tropical seas. Mako

Don Budge: …also the men’s doubles (with Gene Mako) and the mixed doubles (with Alice Marble). In the U.S. tournament at Forest Hills, New York, he won four titles: two singles (1937–38) and two men’s doubles (1936 and 1938, with Mako). For his feats in 1937 he became the first tennis player…

Makokou, town, northeastern Gabon, on the Ivindo River where it receives the Liboumba and Mounianghi rivers. Pygmies live in the surrounding forest. The town lies in the heart of a major lumbering region, and, although it is rather isolated from the rest of the country, transportation is improving:

Makokou, town, northeastern Gabon, on the Ivindo River where it receives the Liboumba and Mounianghi rivers. Pygmies live in the surrounding forest. The town lies in the heart of a major lumbering region, and, although it is rather isolated from the rest of the country, transportation is improving:

David Livingstone: Opening the interior: …in the midst of the Makololo peoples whom he considered eminently suitable for missionary work, Livingstone set out northwestward with little equipment and only a small party of Africans. His intention was to find a route to the Atlantic coast that would permit legitimate commerce to undercut the slave trade…

Makonde, Bantu-speaking people living in northeastern Mozambique and southeastern Tanzania. Their economy rests primarily on swidden (slash-and-burn) agriculture, supplemented by hunting; corn (maize), sorghum, and cassava are the major crops. Many Makonde have migrated to other parts of the East

Robert Mugabe: 2008 elections and aftermath: …finance minister and ZANU-PF stalwart Simba Makoni announced that he was running against Mugabe for the presidency, and the MDC, with Tsvangirai as its presidential candidate, saw its popularity increase throughout the country, even in areas that were typically ZANU-PF strongholds. Presidential, parliamentary, and local elections were held on March…

Haile Selassie I was the emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974 who sought to modernize his country and who steered it into the mainstream of post-World War II African politics. He brought Ethiopia into the League of Nations and the United Nations and made Addis Ababa the major centre for the

Shintō: Concept of the sacred: …truthful way or will (makoto) of kami. The nature of kami cannot be fully explained in words, because kami transcends the cognitive faculty of humans. Devoted followers, however, are able to understand kami through faith and usually recognize various kami in polytheistic form.

Japan: Commerce, cities, and culture: …Bashō proclaimed what he called makoto no (“true”) haiku, seeking the spirit of this poetic form in sincerity and truthfulness. He also introduced a new beauty to haiku by using simple words. Bashō essentially grafted the aristocratic conceptions of medieval poetry onto the more mundane feelings of Tokugawa urban culture,…

Shintō: Precepts of truthfulness and purification: …kokoro (“heart of truth”), or magokoro (“true heart”), which is usually translated as “sincerity, pure heart, uprightness.” This attitude follows from the revelation of the truthfulness of kami in humans. It is, generally, the sincere attitude of people in doing their best in the work they have chosen or in…

Russia: The 19th century: …socially oriented genre paintings of Vladimir Makovsky, Vasily Perov, and Repin arguably deserve an international reputation.

Makran, coastal region of Baluchistan in southeastern Iran and southwestern Pakistan, constituting the Makran Coast, a 600-mi (1,000-km) stretch along the Gulf of Oman from Raʾs (cape) al-Kūh, Iran (west of Jask), to Lasbela District, Pakistan (near Karāchi). The name is applied to a former

Makrān, division of Balochistān province, Pakistan. Administratively it comprises Turbat, Gwādar, and Panjgūr districts and has an area of 23,460 sq mi (60,761 sq km). It is bounded by the Siāhān range (north), which separates it from Khārān district, by Kalāt and Las Bela districts (east), the

Karachi: People of Karachi: …Black African ancestry, called “Makranis” and “Sheedis,” whose ancestors were taken from Africa to Karachi in the Indian slave trade.

Pakistan: Linguistic composition: …important dialect of Balochi, called Makrani or Southern Balochi, is spoken in Makran, the southern region of Balochistan, which borders Iran.

Makri rug, floor covering handwoven in or near the coastal village of Fethiye, southwest Turkey. These are rare, comparatively small rugs with rather simple, bold designs and rich, vibrant colours. Most show one, two, or three longitudinal panels, which may have different ground colours. Each panel

Hugo Winckler: …cooperation with the Turkish archaeologist Theodore Makridi Bey until 1912, revealing the remains of a city whose temples, palaces, fortifications, and gateways left little doubt that this was the site of a mighty capital. From his findings, Winckler was able to draw a preliminary outline of the history of the…

lime: Types: …fruit and leaves of the Thai lime, or makrut lime (C. hystrix), add distinctive flavour to the cuisines of Southeast Asia and are sometimes used in perfumery. Sweet lime (C. limetta), less tart than the Persian lime, is commonly cultivated in the Mediterranean region. The mandarin lime, also known as…

maktab, (Arabic: “school”), Muslim elementary school. Until the 20th century, boys were instructed in Qurʾān recitation, reading, writing, and grammar in maktabs, which were the only means of mass education. The teacher was not always highly qualified and had other religious duties, and the

Maktoum dynasty, ruling family of the emirate of Dubai of the United Arab Emirates. Part of the Āl Bū Falāsah, a constituent tribe of the Banū Yās confederation, the family was one of many to leave Abu Dhabi in 1833 to escape feuding within its ruling Nahyan family. The emigrants settled in Bur

Sheikh Rashid ibn Saeed Al Maktoum was an Arab statesman largely responsible for creating the modern emirate of Dubai and a cofounder (1971) of the United Arab Emirates. Rashid was the son of Sheikh Saeed ibn Maktoum Al Maktoum (ruler of Dubai, 1912–58) and his first wife Sheikha Hessa bint al-Murr

Sheikh Rashid ibn Saeed Al Maktoum was an Arab statesman largely responsible for creating the modern emirate of Dubai and a cofounder (1971) of the United Arab Emirates. Rashid was the son of Sheikh Saeed ibn Maktoum Al Maktoum (ruler of Dubai, 1912–58) and his first wife Sheikha Hessa bint al-Murr

Sheikh Rashid ibn Saeed Al Maktoum was an Arab statesman largely responsible for creating the modern emirate of Dubai and a cofounder (1971) of the United Arab Emirates. Rashid was the son of Sheikh Saeed ibn Maktoum Al Maktoum (ruler of Dubai, 1912–58) and his first wife Sheikha Hessa bint al-Murr

Paulo Coelho: The Alchemist and other works: …Globo into a volume titled Maktub (“It Is Written”) in 1994. It was translated into English in 2024 and promoted as a companion book to The Alchemist.

Shaykh Aḥmad Sirhindī: …works, the most famous is Maktūbāt (“Letters”), a compilation of his letters written in Persian to his friends in India and the region north of the Amu Darya (river). Through these letters Shaykh Aḥmad’s major contribution to Islamic thought can be traced. In refuting the Naqshbandīyah order’s extreme monistic position…

Maktoum dynasty, ruling family of the emirate of Dubai of the United Arab Emirates. Part of the Āl Bū Falāsah, a constituent tribe of the Banū Yās confederation, the family was one of many to leave Abu Dhabi in 1833 to escape feuding within its ruling Nahyan family. The emigrants settled in Bur

Sheikh Mohammed ibn Rashid Al Maktoum is the vice president (2006– ) and prime minister (2006– ) of the United Arab Emirates and emir of Dubai constituent emirate (2006– ). Mohammed was the third son of Sheikh Rashid ibn Saeed Al Maktoum, ruler of Dubai and head of the Maktoum dynasty from 1958

Sheikh Rashid ibn Saeed Al Maktoum was an Arab statesman largely responsible for creating the modern emirate of Dubai and a cofounder (1971) of the United Arab Emirates. Rashid was the son of Sheikh Saeed ibn Maktoum Al Maktoum (ruler of Dubai, 1912–58) and his first wife Sheikha Hessa bint al-Murr

African dance: Masquerade dancers: …dancers of the Yao and Maku peoples of Tanzania carry elaborate bamboo structures covered with cloth and raffia, which sway rhythmically while their Nteepana mask elongates to great heights as the embodiment of a powerful animal spirit.

Makú, any of several South American Indian societies who traditionally hunted, gathered wild plant foods, and fished in the basins of the Río Negro and the Vaupés River in Colombia. The Makú comprised small bands of forest nomads. The present-day Makú are remnants of an aboriginal population who

Mozambique: Languages: Makua and Lomwe are spoken by almost half of the population and dominate northeastern Mozambique except in two areas: the coastal strip north of the Lúrio River, where Swahili is typically spoken, and a large pocket on the Tanzanian border that is inhabited predominantly by…

Makua language, a Bantu language that is closely related to Lomwe and is spoken in northern Mozambique. The Bantu languages form a subgroup of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family. Makua had about six million speakers in the late 20th century, and Lomwe two

Japanese literature: Origin of the tanka in the Kojiki: …these songs, such as the makura kotoba (“pillow word”), a kind of fixed epithet, remained a feature of later poetry.

Pillow Book, (c. 1000), title of a book of reminiscences and impressions by the 11th-century Japanese court lady Sei Shōnagon. Whether the title was generic and whether Sei Shōnagon herself used it is not known, but other diaries of the Heian period (794–1185) indicate that such journals may have

pornography: Makura-e (pillow pictures) were intended for entertainment as well as for the instruction of married couples. This interest in very frank erotica reached its height during the Tokugawa period (1603–1867), when new technologies of colour woodblock printing allowed the easy manufacture and circulation of erotic…

Makurdi, town, capital of Benue state, east-central Nigeria. It lies on the south bank of the Benue River. Founded about 1927 when the railroad from Port Harcourt (279 miles [449 km] south-southwest) was extended to Jos and Kaduna, Makurdi rapidly developed into a transportation and market centre.

South American Indian: Tropical-forest farming villages: …Carib, the Taulipang, and the Makushí (Macushí); the Tupians of the coast of Brazil, such as the Tupinambá; and inland groups among whom were the Mundurukú, Kawaíb (Parintintín), and their neighbours.

Fox Islands: …contain several active volcanoes, including Makushin Volcano (6,680 feet [2,036 meters]) on Unalaska Island and Okmok Caldera (3,520 feet [1,073 meters]) on Umnak Island. The chain is sparsely populated, with fishing as the primary economic activity.

Oceanic literature: Early writings: …published novel from Oceania was Makutu (1960) by Thomas Davis, a Cook Islander, and Lydia Henderson, his New Zealand-born wife. Like their earlier autobiography, Doctor to the Islands (1954), it was written in English. The novel, which deals with the cultural conflict between Pacific and Western values in an imaginary…

Makua language, a Bantu language that is closely related to Lomwe and is spoken in northern Mozambique. The Bantu languages form a subgroup of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family. Makua had about six million speakers in the late 20th century, and Lomwe two

Guillén de Castro y Bellvís: …aspects of marriage, as in Los mal casados de Valencia (“The Unhappy Marriages of Valencia”). Attracted to the culture of Castile, he drew heavily upon the traditional ballads of the region, and three of his plays are based upon novels by Miguel de Cervantes. A haughty man, he antagonized his…

Agostino Bassi: …de segno (commonly known as muscardine), which was causing serious economic losses in Italy and France. After 25 years of research and experimentation, he was able to demonstrate that the disease was contagious and was caused by a microscopic, parasitic fungus. He concluded that the organism, later named Botrytis paradoxa…

French literature: Romanticism: The terms mal du siècle and enfant du siècle (literally “child of the century”) capture their distress. Alfred de Musset took the latter phrase for his autobiography, La Confession d’un enfant du siècle (1836; The Confession of a Child of the Century). Most French Romantics, whether they…

Luigi Pirandello: …an early volume of verse, Mal giocondo (1889), which paid tribute to the poetic fashions set by Giosuè Carducci. This was followed by other volumes of verse, including Pasqua di Gea (1891; dedicated to Jenny Schulz-Lander, the love he had left behind in Bonn) and a translation of J.W. von…

Malaita, volcanic island in the country of Solomon Islands, southwestern Pacific Ocean. It lies 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Guadalcanal across Indispensable Strait. The island is about 115 miles (185 km) long and 22 miles (35 km) across at its widest point. It is densely forested and mountainous,

Jean Paul Gaultier: …The Fifth Element (1997), and Bad Education (2004). In 2011 he launched his first international exhibition, “The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk,” in Montreal. The exhibition, which made its final North American stop in San Francisco the following year, was a 35-year retrospective…

Malaita, volcanic island in the country of Solomon Islands, southwestern Pacific Ocean. It lies 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Guadalcanal across Indispensable Strait. The island is about 115 miles (185 km) long and 22 miles (35 km) across at its widest point. It is densely forested and mountainous,

Gus Van Sant: Mala Noche (1985), his first feature-length film, centres on a drugstore clerk obsessed with a young Mexican immigrant. The theme of homosexual love apparent in the story would manifest with varying degrees of subtlety in many of Van Sant’s later films.

Prague: Medieval growth: …Hradčany, the community known as Malá Strana (literally, “Small Side”) was founded in 1257. Following the eclipse of the Přemyslids, the house of Luxembourg came to power when John of Luxembourg, son of the future emperor Henry VII, became king of Bohemia. His son, Charles IV, Bohemian king and Holy…

Khmer literature: French influence: …this period was Nou Hach’s Mala tuon citt (“Garland of the Heart”), published in 1972 but written some 20 years earlier; the novel portrays Cambodian society during World War II and reflects the author’s nationalism.

South Asian arts: Medieval temple architecture: North Indian style of central India: …temples was built, including the Mālā-de at Ḍyāraspur, the Śiva temples at Mahḱā and Indore, and a temple dedicated to an unidentified mother goddess at Barwa-Sāgar. The period appears to have been one of experimentation, a variety of plans and spires having been tried. The Mālā-de temple is an early…

Thomas Christians, indigenous Indian Christian groups who have traditionally lived in Kerala, a state on the Malabar Coast, in southwestern India. Claiming to have been evangelized by St. Thomas the Apostle, Thomas Christians ecclesiastically, liturgically, and linguistically represent one of the

cinnamon: burmannii), and Malabar cinnamon (C. citriodorum).

civet: …extinction; among these are the Malabar civet (Viverra civettina), which lives in the Western Ghats of India, and the Sunda otter civet, which is native to the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo.

Malabar Coast, name long applied to the southern part of India’s western coast, approximately from the state of Goa southward, which is bordered on the east by the Western Ghats range. The name has sometimes encompassed the entire western coast of peninsular India. It now includes most of Kerala

Malabar Hill, eminence in the city of Mumbai (Bombay), western India, that occupies the western prong of a forked peninsula separating Mumbai Harbour from the Arabian Sea. The western prong, Malabar Point, separates the Arabian Sea from Back Bay. Malabar Hill rises to 180 feet (55 metres) above sea

nightshade: Malabar nightshade, also known as Malabar spinach, refers to twining herbaceous vines of the genus Basella (family Basellaceae).

nightshade: Malabar nightshade, also known as Malabar spinach, refers to twining herbaceous vines of the genus Basella (family Basellaceae).

Asian tree mouse: The Malabar spiny tree mouse (Platacanthomys lasiurus) lives only in the old-growth rainforests of southwestern India. Nocturnal and arboreal, it builds nests in tree cavities and eats fruits and nuts. The animal is named for its flat, grooved spines and bristles, which are tipped with white and…

Malabarese Catholic Church, a Chaldean rite church of southern India (Kerala) that united with Rome after the Portuguese colonization of Goa at the end of the 15th century. The Portuguese viewed these Christians of St. Thomas, as they called themselves, as Nestorian heretics, despite their

Cochin Jews: …groups—the Paradesis (White Jews), the Malabaris (Black Jews), and the Meshuchrarim (Brown Jews). Whereas they once numbered in the thousands, only about 50 Cochin Jews remained on the Malabar Coast in the early 21st century.