Marcy
MOUNT, the highest peak (5,344 feet) in the Adirondacks, and the loftiest point in New York State. It is in Essex county, 10 miles south of Lake Placid.
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These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Marcy, Mardin, Mare Island.
Mardin
a town in the vilayet of Diarbekir in north Mesopotamia, strikingly situated on the S. slopes of the Mardin Hills. Pop. about 25,000, of whom half are Moslem Kurds.
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Mare Island
an island in San Pablo Bay, Cal., 28 miles N. of San Francisco. Here are located a United States naval arsenal and dockyard. These include wet and dry docks, marine barracks, ordnance yards, a hospital, and extensive repair shops. It is the station for the Pacific Fleet, and during the World War was the scene of many important naval activities.
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Mareia
LAKE. See MAREOTIS, LAKE.
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Maremma
a marshy region of Italy, extending along the sea coast of Tuscany from the Cecina river to Orbitello; area of about 1,000 square miles. In Roman times and earlier the Maremma was a fruitful and populous plain; but the decay of agriculture fostered malaria, which now reigns supreme in a great part of this district. Leopold II. of Tuscany directed especial attention (1824-1844) to the drainage and amelioration of the Maremma, and his efforts and subsequent measures have been attended with considerable success. Crops are now grown in the summer on the fertile soil of the infected area by the inhabitants of the adjoining hill country, who go down only to sow and to reap their crops. During winter the Maremma is healthier and yields good pasture. a village of MARENGO (ma-rengo Italy, in a marshy northern district, near the Bormida, 3 miles S. E. of Alessandria. Here on June 14, 1800, Napoleon, with 33,000 French, defeated 30,500 Austrians under Melas.
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Mareotis
or MA- REIA (ma-rē'yä), LAKE LAI (the modern El Mariut), a salt lake or marsh in the N. of Egypt, extending S. from Alexandria, and separated from the Mediterranean, on its N. W. side, by a narrow isthmus of sand. In the 15th and 16th centuries it was a navigable lake; in 1798 it was found by the French to be a dry, sandy plain; but in 1801 the English army cut the dikes of the canal that separated the Lake of Aboukir from Mareotis, to cut off the water supply of the French, and Mareotis became once more a marsh. The like happened again in 1803, in 1807, and in 1882; on the last occasion the sea was introduced directly through a cutting 15 feet wide and half a mile long.
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Margaret
a name of frequent occurence in European history. MARGARET (1045-1093), queen of Scotland, known as St. Margaret. She belonged to the line of Saxon kings driven from the throne by William the Conqueror. She was a granddaughter of Edmund Ironsides. She fled with her brother Edgar to Scotland for protection, and later married Malcolm, the Scottish king. She was a woman of devout piety who consecrated her life to the improvement of the manners of the rude Scottish court, the education of her children, and the instruction of the people in religious matters. She was a noted needlewoman. She taught the women of her court embroidery and similar arts. Her daughter, Matilda, married Henry I, son of William the Conqueror, thus uniting the Saxon and Norman lines of English kings. She was canonized by the church in 1250.
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Margaret (Queen of Norway Denmark)
Queen of Norway, Denmark , and Sweden, daughter of Waldemar IV., King of Denmark; born in Copenhagen, in 1353. In 1363 she was married to Haco, King of Norway, youngest son of Magnus Ericson. Magnus and his son were afterward deposed, and Albert of Mecklenburg placed on the throne. Margaret lost, in 1375, her father, Waldemar ; in 1380, her husband, Margaret narrowly escaped. It was a marriage of policy, and not of affection and was dissolved . Having returned to Paris Margaret lived in great splendor Mar. 27, 1615. Some very agreeable and dissipation till her death, in Paris, poems by her "Memoirs" are extremely curious. are extant, and her Haco; and in 1387, her son, Olave two years after whose death she became events which left her queen regnant in Norway, regent in Denmark, and in a situation to receive overtures from the Swedes. Margaret at once furnished her adherents with troops and supplies of war, and the victory of Felkoiping, won by the high marshal of Sweden, Eric Kielson, Sept. 21, 1389, threw open the kingdom to her. The union of the three kingdoms was concluded by the treaty of Calmar. She died in the port of Flensburg, Oct. 28, 1412.
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Margaret (Queen of Scotland born)
Queen of Scotland; born in Hungary, about 1045. From 1057 she was brought up at the court of her greatuncle, Edward the Confessor. In 1068, with her mother and sister and her boy brother, Edgar the Atheling, she fled from Northumberland to Scotland. Malcolm Canmore next year wedded her at Dunfermline. She did much to civilize the N. realm, and still more to assimilate the old Celtic Church to the rest of marriage at Paris that the massacre of Christendom. She built, too, a stately St. Bartholomew was perpetrated, and church at Dunfermline, and refounded Iona. She bore her husband six sons and two daughters, and died three days after him , in Edinburgh Castle, Nov. 16, 1093.
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Margaret of Anjou
daughter of René, King of Sicily, and wife of Henry VI., King of England; Eng of Navarre, and sister to Francis I., King
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Margaret of Navarre
Queen of France ; born in Angoulême, April 11, 1492. She was the daughter of Charles of Orleans, Duke d'Angoulême. In 1509 she married Charles, Duke d'Alençon, the wife of Henri d'Albret, King of bret, mother of Henri VI. Besides other Navarre, by whom she had Jeanne d'Alworks, she wrote the "Heptameron," a collection of tales, after the manner of Boccaccio. She died in Bigone, France, Sept. 21, 1549. istry, C17H34O2=C15 H31. CH2.CO.OH. Cetyl MARGARIC (-gar'-) ACID , in chemcarbonic acid. A name applied to an acid obtained by boiling cetylic cyanide with potassic hydrate solution. It resembles palmytic acid, forming white crystals, which melt at 59.9°, and boil at 277° under a pressure of 100 mm. v an MARGARINE. See OLEOMARGARINE. island in the Caribbean Sea, belonging to MARGARITA (mär-gä-rē'tä), Venezuela; area, 380 square miles; in the state of Nueva Esparta. Discovered by famous for its pearl fisheries. Columbus in 1498, Margarita was long England, in the isle of Thanet, Kent. It
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