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ALFRED THAYER (mahan'), an American naval officer and writer; born in West Point, N. Y., Sept. 27, 1840; was graduated at the United States Naval Academy, in 1859; served in the Civil War; was president of the Naval War College, Newport, in 1886- 1889 and 1892-1893. He was retired at his own request Nov. 17, 1896. During the war with Spain he was a member of the Naval Board of Strategy; and in 1899 was appointed by President McKin- MAHI KANTHA the Universal Peace Conference at The Hague. His chief work "Influence of Sea Power upon History" (1890), with its continuation, "Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire" (1892), gave him a world-wide reputation. He published also: "The Gulf and Inland Waters" (1883); "Life of Admiral Farragut" (1892); "The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future" (1897), a compilation of his magazine articles; "Life of Nelson" (1897); "Lessons of the Spanish War" (1899); "Armaments and Arbitration" (1910); "Major Operations of the Navies in the 'War of American Independence (1913). He died in 1914.
MAHANADI (mä-hä-nud'i) ("the great river"), a river of India, rising in the Central province, in lat. 20° 10' N., lon. 82° E. After an E. course of 520 miles, 300 miles of which are navigable, having divided into several branches at or near the town of Cuttack, which forms the head of its delta, it flows E. and S. E. through the district of that name, and falls by several mouths into the Bay of Bengal.