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Arkwright, Richard. 1732-92. Invented power spinning machine, 1769.
Avila Camacho, Manuel. 1897-1955. Mexican President 1940-46. Befriended US, rallied Latin America vs Axis.
Borgia, Cesare. 1476-1507. Ruthless Italian Machiavellian statesman. Son of Pope Alexander VI.
Callimachus. 5C BC Greek sculptor. First Corinthian columns.
Cayley, George. 1773-1857. Flying machine 1796. First manned glider flight 1853.
Fénelon, François. 1651-1715. French theologian. Quietism 1696. Telemachus 1698.
Futurism. 1909-1915. Italian artistic movement founded by Marinetti. Glorified machine age, war and violence. Exemplified by simultaneity of images like strobe effect. Boccioni, Balla.
Gibbon, John. First heart-lung machine 1953.
Grands Rhétoriqueurs. 15-16C. French poets. Deschamps, DeMachaut.
Heathcoat. Invented lace machine 1809.
Howe, Elias. 1819-67. US inventor: sewing machine 1845. Thimmonier.
Jonah. Hebrew prophet who spent three days in the stomach of a whale.
Le Corbusier. 1887-1965. Swiss Functionalist architecht, urbanist. -“A house is a machine to live in”.
Leibniz, Gottfried. 1646-1716. German philosopher, mathematician. Invented differential and integral calculus1675, binary arithmetic 1703. Multiplication machine 1671.
Luddites. 1811-16. Workers who destroyed machines to stop the Industrial Revolution. Led by mythical Ned Ludd.
Lysimachus. 385-281BC. Alexander’s General. Macedonia satrap 323-.
Mach, Ernest. 1838-1916. Founded Scientific Positivism 1905. Relates physics and psychology. Vienna Circle.
Machado de Assis, Joaquim. 1839-1908. Brazilian writer. Small Winner 1881.
Machaut, Guillaume de. c1300-77. French composer of secular and church music in Ars Nova style.
Machiavelli, Niccolo. 1469-1527. Florentine amoral cynic, statesman, historian and writer. The Prince 1513. -“End justifies the means”. -“Appear virtuous, act to maintain power”.
Machu Picchu. c800 Inca city in Andes.
Maxim, Sir Hiram. 1840-1916. US inventor, machine gun, 1884 in Britain.
Mentor. Greek tutor of Telemachus, Odysseus’ son.
Muromachi Period. 1338-1573. Japanese Ashikaga shoguns. Prosperity, foreign trade, Zen Buddhism.
Saint, Thomas. British sewing machine inventor, 1790. Singer.