Metaphysical Poets. 17C. Witty English intellectual lyric poets. Donne.

Metastasio, Pietro. 1698-1782. Italian librettist for Gluck, Handel, Haydn, Mozart.

Metaurus, Battle. 207BC. Rome defeats Carthaginian invasion in 2nd Punic War.

Metaxas, Ioannis. 1871-1941. Greek dictator 1936-. Repelled Italian invasion 1940.

Metchnikov, Ilya. 1845-1916. Russian zoologist, microbiologist. Discovered phagocytosis 1886.

Metellus, Macedonicus. -115BC. Roman censor. Advocated compulsory marriage to increase birthrate 131BC.

Metéora. Built 12C-1458. Greece. Monasteries perched on 1000’ pinnacles and crags.

Métezeau, Clement. 1581-1652. French architect. Church of St-Gervais-St-Protais 1616.

Methodism. Protestant religious movement founded by Wesley 1729. Moravian, Calvinistic evangelical.

Methuen Treaty. 1703-1836. Reduced duty on port wine to England, textiles to Portugal. Hindered Portuguese industrial development.

Methusaleh. Biblical patriarch. Lived 969 years.

Métis. Mixed European/native race in Canada, N US. Riel.

Metric System. 1795 France.

Metternich, Fürst von. 1773-1859. Austrian prince, chancellor, defender of Absolutism. Quadruple Alliance vs Napoleon. Holy Alliance. Architect of Vienna Congress, 1814.

Monge, Gaspard. 1746-1818. French creator of descriptive geometry 1780.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. 1756-91. Viennese Classical composer. European tour at age 6. Seemingly effortless compositions of symmetry and melody with emotional feeling. Marriage of Figaro 1786. Don Juan 1787. Magic Flute 1791.

O’Neill, Eugene. 1888-1953. US playwright: Iceman Cometh 1946. Long Day’s Journey into Night 1956.

Ovid. 43BC-17 AD. Roman poet: Art of Love. Tristia. Metamorphoses.

Palladio, Andrea. 1508-80. Italian architect. Reintroduced Roman symmetry and proportion to Venetian villas. Suspension Bridge 1550. Architecture 1570.

Pascal, Blaise. 1623-62. French mathematician, Jansenist philosopher, physician. Calculator 1642.Barometer 1646. Syringe 1648. Hydraulics. Probability 1654. Pensées 1670.

Peel, Robert. 1788-1850. English Prime Minister 1834~46. London police force 1829. Income Tax 1842. Founded Conservative Party. Bank Charter Act. Repealed Corn Laws 1846.

Petrie, Flinders. 1853-1942. British archeologist. Sequential dating method.

Philip. Metacom. -1676. Led Massasoit in King Philip’s War.

Pickering, Edward. 1846-1919. US pioneer of stellar spectroscopy, photometry.

Pietism. 17-18C. Spener’s religious movement. Influenced Moravians, Methodists. Bible study.

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