Machala
capital of province of El Oro, Ecuador, 70 miles south of Guayaquil, on the Gulf of Guayaquil. The agricultural resources of the district are considerable, the principal product being
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Each of these 12 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
Machete
a cutlasslike tool or weapon, half knife, half cleaver, used either as a tool or a weapon in Cuba and other tropical countries.
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Macionica
Slavonic name for a witch. (See Slavs .)
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Mackay
JOHN WILLIAM, American capitalist; born in Dublin, Ireland, Nov. 28, 1831. He came to New York City when a boy. After a miner's life in California, in 1852, he went to Nevada. In 1872 he was one of the discoverers of the Bonanza mines, of which he owned two-fifths. Their production . In 1884, in has been enormous in partnership with James Gordon Bennett, he laid across the Atlantic. He died two cables in 1902.
CLARENCE HUNGER- FORD, American financier; born in 1874, son of John Mackay. He succeeded his father as president of the Commercial Cable Co. Later he was also president of the Commercial Cable Co. of Cuba, the Commercial Pacific Cable Co., the Pacific Postal Telegraph Cable Co., and the Mackay Companies. He has shown interest in dramatic art and was one of the chief supporters of the New Theater of New York. an
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Mackay, Gallatin
A disciple of Albert Pike (q.v.) and one of the leaders of Masonry in Charleston, U.S.A. who was charged by Miss Diana Vaughan, Dr. Bataille and others with the practice of Satanism and sorcery-charges entirely without foundation. (See Waite, Devil-Worship in France .)
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Mackaye
PERCY, dramatist and poet; born in 1875 in New York, graduated from Harvard in 1897, and became a student at Leipsic, after traveling in Europe, he taught privately in New York and from 1904 has been engaged in dramatic work. His works include "The Canterbury Pilgrims," a comedy (1903); "A Modern Rendering into Prose of Chaucer's Tales" (1904); "Fenris the Wolf," a tragedy (1905); "Jeanne d'Arc," a tragedy (1906); "Sap- ; "The Scarepho and Phaon" (1907) a tragedy of the Ludicrous" 26, 1898. crow: (1908); "The The Playhouse and the Play" (1909); "The Civic Theater" (1912); Caliban" "The Present Hour" (1914); " (1916); "Christmas Masque" (1917); "George Washington" (1920).
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Mackenzie Blower
The fan-blades in this blower are supported by a shaft, and caused to revolve by the revolutions of a cylinder contained in the shell. The fan-blades are loosely joined to the shaft and arranged so that they adapt themselves to a continuous alteration of the angle as they pass through the cylinder. Half-rolls in the cylinder act as guides for the fan-blades, allowing them to work smoothly in and out as the cylinder revolves. At each revolution the entire space back of the cylinder between two blades is filled and emptied three times, that being the number of blades contained. See BLOWER.
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Mackenzie River
in North America, a stream having its origin, as the Athabasca, in a Rocky Mountain lake in British Columbia, flowing over 600 miles to Lake Athabasca, and 240 as the Slave river to Great Slave Lake, where it assumes the name of Mackenzie river, conveying the waters of the Great Slave Lake to the Arctic Ocean at Mackenzie Bay, after a final course of 1,045 miles, making a total river system of nearly 2,525 miles. It drains an area of little less than 600,000 square miles. The mouth of the river is closed from October to June by ice. The Mackenzie district itself is desolate and unfit for colonization; but its great tributaries, the Laird and the Peace and Athabasca rivers, drain an immense fertile country, with abundance of petroleum (the fields have more than once been reported to be the largest in the world), and some coal and lignite. The Mackenzie received its name from Sir Alexander Mackenzie, by whom it was discovered and first navigated in 1789. Sir John Franklin descended it in 1825.
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Mackintosh
a long, loose waterproof garment worn by both men and women. It takes its name from Charles Mackintosh, the English inventor of the cloth. Mackintosh cloth is prepared by spreading several layers of India rubber paste on the surface of a cotton or worsted fabric. Sometimes the coated surfaces of two fabrics are united by pressure, forming a double-faced cloth.
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Macklin
CHARLES, an English actor and dramatist; born in Ireland, May 1, 1697 or 1699. In 1733 was engaged for small parts at Drury Lane, London. He steadily rose in the public favor, till in 1741 he appeared in his great character, Shylock. From this time he was accounted one of the best actors, appearing with nearly equal success in tragedy or comedy, in passion or buffoonery, for nearly half a century. His last performance was at Covent Garden in May, 1789, when he broke down; but he survived, with an annuity of $1,000 for eight years longer. In 1735 he killed a brother actor in a quarrel over a wig, and was tried for murder. He wrote a tragedy and several farces and comedies; of these "Love à-la-Mode" (1759) and "The Man of the World" (1781) have been printed. He died in London, England, July 11, 1797.
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Macle
in mineralogy, a variety of andalusite, occurring in long, tapering crystals in clay-slate. They have the axes and angles of a different color from the rest of the crystals, owing to a regular arrangement of impurities in the interior. In transverse section they exhibit a cross or a tassellation, the outlines of which are frequently rhombs.
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Macleod
FIONA, pen-name of WILLIAM SHARP (1856-1905), q. v., a secret well preserved until after Mr. Sharp's death. The works under this name had a strong Gaelic flavor. His other style was to a marked degree different from this and he was a voluminous writer. As Fiona Macleod, besides magazine work, he published: "Pharais" (1895), a romance; "The Mountain Lovers" (1895); "The Sin-Eater and Other Tales" (1895); "The Washer of the Ford" (1896); "Green Fire" (1896); a modern version of the old Celtic romance, "The Laughter of Peterkin"; "The Dominion of Dreams" (1899); "Forthcoming, an Historical Jacobite Romance"; "The Highland Year"; etc.
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