Masaniello
the commonly received name of TOMMASO ANIELLO, a fisherman of Naples; born in Ar Amalfi, in 1623. He headed the populace in their revolt against the Spanish viceroy in 1647, when only 24 years of age. His career lasted but nine days, in which time he had 150,000 men under his orders, and was elevated to sovereign authority. He was murdered by four ington, D. C., and gradually gained the assassins armed with arquebuses at Naples, July 16; and, as the resistance he commenced never ceased till the Spanish yoke was broken, he has since been venerated as the liberator of his country.
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Masaya
a town in Nicaragua, 10 miles from Lake Nicaragua. Tobacco, lagu coffee, and sugar are products of the vicinity. Has large hat factories. Pop. about 13,000.
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Masbate
an island of the Visayan group in the Philippine Islands, → constituting a province; area, 1,732 square miles; pop. (1920) about 30,000, including 66 dependent islands. It is under a civil government in accordance with the provincial organization act of 1901. Lignite and gold are found, and a leading industry is the manufacture of sugar sacks.
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Mascagni
PIETRO (mäs-kän'yē), an Italian composer; born in Leghorn, Tuscany, Dec. 7, 1863. He produced, after a somewhat irregular musical education, the brilliantly successful one-act opera "Cavalleria Rusticana" (Rustic Gallantry) in 1890, in competition for a prize, the plot being taken from a story by Verga. Later operas were "Friend Fritz" (1891); "The Rantzaus" (1892); "Amica" (1905); "Isobel" (1911); "L'Alodoletta" (1913). He made a financially disastrous tour of the United States in 1905.
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Mascalonge
a fine North American fresh-water fish of the pike genus, inhabiting the St. Lawrence basin, but also introduced into other waters.
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Mascara
a town in Algeria, picturesquely situated on the S. slope of Mount Atlas, 48 miles S. E. of Oran. It was a stronghold of Abd-el- Kader, and was taken by the French in 1835 and 1841. Pop. about 25,000. MASCARENE (mäs-ka-rēn') ISLANDS, the islands of Bourbon, Mauritius, and Rodriguez, so called from Mascarenhas, a Portuguese navigator, who discovered Bourbon in 1545.
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Mascot
one who or that which is supposed to bring good luck.
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Masefield
JOHN, English poet; born in 1875. Spent much of his early life on the sea, and engaged in different occupations in New York and London. ill JOHN MASEFIELD He began to write verse when young, winning prizes. In 1913 was elected member of Academic Committee. His poems based on his experience at sea have made him best known. Works include: "Salt Water Ballads"; "A Mainsail Haul'; "A Tarpaulin Muster"; "Ballads"; "Captain Margaret"; "The Tragedy dy of of Man"; "The Tragedy of Pompey the Great"; "Multitude and Solitude"; "The Street of To-Day"; "Poems and Ballads"; "William Shakespeare"; "The Everlasting Mercy"; "The Widow in the Bye-Street"; "Dauber."
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Mashonaland
a country in the interior of Africa. It forms part of British Rhodesia, and is situated N. E. of Matabeleland. It consists of very fertile plateaux and plains, watered by_numerous rivers flowing partly to the Zambezi and partly to the Sabi. See RHODESIA. MASON AND DIXON'S LINE in United States history, a line popularly regarded as dividing the slaveholding from the non-slaveholding States, and to have run due E. and W. In reality it ran for more than one-third of its length between two slave States, Maryland and Delaware, and a small part of it is an arc of a circle. It was run by two English engineers, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, between the years 1764 and 1767, for the purpose of settling the disputed boundaries between Maryland on the one side and Pennsylvania and Delaware on the other.
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Masinissa
A king of a small part of Africa, who at first assisted the Carthaginians in their 176 IÓOO CLASSICAL CHARACTERS wars against Rome, but who subsequently became an ally of the Romans. After his defeat of Syphax he married Sophonisba , the wife of Syphax, which gave offense to the Roman general, Scipio , on which Masinissa induced Sophonisba to end her life by poison. In the battle of Zama , Masinissa greatly contributed to the defeat of Hannibal. died in his ninety-seventh year, 149 years before the Christian era. He Massilia or Massalia (Marseilles). A Greek city in Gallia Narbonensis, on the coast of the Mediterranean, in the country of the Salyes, founded by the Phocaeans of Asia Minor about B. C. 600. Matrona (Marne). A river in Gaul, falling into the Sequana, a little south of Paris. Matuta or Mater Matuta. The goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Leucothea.
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Mask
or Masque, a form of dramatic entertainment popular in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It was introduced into England from Italy. The mask took its name from the fact that the performers, who were usually amateurs, wore masks. It was presented at a castle to celebrate some special event or honor some noble. The mask was allegorical in character. It was usually short, with little action and few characters, but with much dancing and singing, elaborate costumes and spectacular scenes. One presentation sometimes cost thousands of pounds. The roles were often taken by lords and ladies or even members of the royal family. Milton's Comus is regarded as the finest example of a mask in the English language. See Comus
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Masleh
The angel whom the Jews believed ruled the Zodiac. According to one of their rabbinical legends, Masleh was the medium through which the power and influence of the Messiah was transmitted to the sphere of the Zodiac. Massey, C. C.: (See Psychological Society.)
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Mason
DANIEL GREGORY, musician; born in Brookline, Mass., in 1873; graduated from Harvard in 1895; received his musical education in Boston, New York, and Paris, and became assistant professor of music at Columbia University. Lectured on music generally. His compositions include an elegy (for the piano); sonata for violin and piano; "Country Pictures" (piano); quartet for piano and strings; symphony, and other works. His other publications include: "From Grieg to Brahms" (1902); "Beethoven and His Forerunners" (1904); "The Romantic Composers" (1906).
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Mason Bee
a small wild bee. It constructs a solitary nest of sand or gravel fastened together with a sticky saliva manufactured by the bee. The nest is placed in the sheltering angle of a wall, under a stone, or even in a place hollowed out in the pith of a leaf or twig. The queen bee usually constructs a number of cells in the same fastness, each of which contains a single egg and a store of honey for the young larva to feed upon. See Bee ; Wasp
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