Mariposa Grove
tract of land in Cal., famous for its sequoias.
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These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Mariposa Grove, Mariposa Lilies, Maris.
Mariposa Lilies
a beautiful genus of western plants corresponding in our flora to the tulips of the Old World. Mariposa tulip would be a better name. They are found throughout a wide reach of territory, extending from Montana, Wyoming, and New Mexico to the Pacific coast, and from British Columbia to Mexico. The most easterly species is found in Nebraska. The typical mariposa takes its name from a valley of California. Like the Old World tulip they spring from coated corms. Some species are woodland flowers; some grow in meadows; others in the crevices of crumbled rock; and yet others give variety to arid deserts. The flowers are usually bell-shaped, erect, drooping or nodding. The coloring is exquisite. There are delicate tints, creamy whites, and rich reds, yellows, browns, purples, lilac, and lavender. These flowers are the delight of Western florists and collectors. See Tulip
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Maris
JAKOB (mä'ris), a Dutch painter; born in The Hague, Aug. 25, 1837. He studied in France, and was one of the greatest modern Dutch painters of landscape and genre. He died in Carlsbad, Aug. 8, 1899. Less famous was his brother MATTHIJS (born 1839; settled in London), a genre a younger brother WILLEM (1844-1910) was a landscapist. MARITIME ALPS. See ALPES-MARI- TIMES.
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Mariupol
the seaport for the S. Russian coalfield, on the Sea of Azov, 65 miles W. of Taganrog; it was founded in 1779 by Greek emigrants from the Crimea, and exports coal, wheat, linseed, etc. Pop. about 53,000.
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Mark
a Pope and saint, succeeded Sylvester I. in 336, and died the same year. There passed under his name an epistle addressed to St. Athanasius.
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Mark
a silver coin of Germany. MARKETS. See FOOD.
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Mark Twain
. See Clemens
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Markham
SIR CLEMENTS ROB- ERT, an English geographer; born in Stillingfleet, England, July 20, 1830. He accompanied an Arctic expedition in 1851; visited Peru in 1852-1854; visited Peru and India as commissioner to introduce cinchona plants into the latter country in 1860; was secretary of the Royal Geographical Society in 1863-1868; accompanied the Abyssinian expedition in 1867- 1868. He wrote: "Travels in Peru and India" (1862); "History of the Abyssinian Expedition" (1869); "History of Peru" (1892); "Richard III" (1906); "The Incas of Peru" (1910). He edited a number of reprints of works on South America for the Hakluyt Society, and, for several years, the "Geographical Magazine." He was president of the Royal Geographical Society and of the International Geographical Congress (1894-1899), and was created a K. C. B. in 1896. He died in 1916. MARK TWAIN. See CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE.
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Markham (CHARLES EDWIN an American poet)
(CHARLES) EDWIN, an American poet; born in Oregon City, Ore., April 23, 1852; settled in California in 1857, and worked there during hood principally as a blacksmith. He worked his way through the San José Normal School and Santa Rosa College; became a writer of verse and stories for papers and magazines, and principal and superintendent of California schools. He was the author of "The Man with the Hoe, and Other Poems" (1899); "The Man with the Hoe, with Notes by the Author" (1900); "The End of the Century" (poem 1899); "Lincoln, the Great Commoner" (1900); "The Mighty Hundred Years"; "Lincoln and Other Poems" (1901); "The Poetry of Jesus" (essays) (1909); "The Shoes of Happiness and Other Poems" (1914); "California the Wonderful" (1914).
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Markham, Edwin
Edwin (1852-), an American poet. He was born in Oregon City, Oregon. He was educated at Christian College, Santa Rosa, California. He studied law, but devoted himself to work in educational lines. He first won attention as a writer through the poem, The Man With the Hoe, published in the San Francisco Examiner. The poem was suggested by Millet's picture of the same name. After this poem had made him famous, Markham removed to Brooklyn, New York , and engaged in literary work. His writings in book form include The Man With the Hoe and Other Poems, Lincoln and Other Poems, and Field Folk, Interpretations of Millet. See Millet ; Jean Francois
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Marlborough
a provincial district of New Zealand, in the N. E. corner of the South Island, 130 miles long by 30 broad; area, 3,000,000 acres, of which 200,000 are agricultural land and 1,300,- 000 suitable for pastoral occupation. There are important dairying and lumbering industries. Among the minerals are gold, antimony, copper, and coal. Pop. about 17,000.
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Marlborough (City in Middlesex co Mass)
a city in Middlesex co., Mass., on the New York, New Haven, Boston and Maine and Hartford, and the railroads; 30 miles W. of Boston. It contains a city hospital, public library, St. Ann's convent and school, high school, soldiers' monument, Grand Army of the Republic Building, waterworks, National banks, and street railroad and electric plants; and has extensive boot and shoe, box, automobile and carriage factories, and electrical supply works. Pop. 1910) 14,579; (1920) 15,028. (
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Marlitt
EUGENIE, the pseudonym of E. JOHN, a German novelist; born in Arnstadt, Thuringia, Dec. 5, 1825. After some years on the stage she spent her time in writing romances, interesting enough, but with strong didactic tendencies and somewhat unreal. Of these the most successful was "Goldelse" (1866); "The Old Maid's Secret" (1867); "Princess of the Moor" (1871); "Second Wife" (1873); "Countess Gisela" (1869), and "Thuringian Stories" (1869). She died in Arnstadt June 22, 1887.
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Marlowe
CHRISTOPHER, an English dramatist; born in Canterbury about 1564. Soon after graduating at Cambridge (1583), he became dramatist to the "Lord Admiral's Company," London, which produced most of his plays. Among them were the tragedies "Life and Death of Dr. Faustus" (1601); "The Jew of Malta" and "Edward II." (1593), his best work. Many believe him to have been the author of the second and third parts of Shakespeare's "Henry VI." He wrote also the first part of a narrative poem, " Hero and Leander," completed afterward by George Chapman. He died June 1, 1593. to the archipelago; but its navigation is by no means difficult. During the World War the Sea of Marmora had great strategic value, as the only means of procuring supplies from Russia. To open this route the disastrous attempt to open the Dardanelles to the Allies was largely due. genus Hapale, from the tropical region
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