Marprelate Tracts. 1588-9. Anonymous seditious Puritan pamphlets for which Penry was executed.

Married Women’s Property Act. 1882. UK. Abolished women’s property passing automatically to husband on marriage.

Martha. Sister of Mary and Lazarus. Symbol of active life.

Master of the Revels. 1300-1737. English court official who arranged festivities, acted as censor.

Materialism. All nature is describable as moving particles. Mind is the result of physical activity in the brain. Büchner. Diderot. Hobbes. Marx. Epicureans.

Matsuoka, Yosuke. 1880-1946. Japanese foreign minister 1940. Tripartite Pact with Germany, Italy.

Maurras, Charles. 1868-1952. French political theorist. Founded Action Française 1899.

Mayflower Compact. 1620. Basis of Plymouth gov’t.

Menzies, Robert. 1894-1978. Australian Liberal Prime Minister 1939-41, 49-66. ANZUS. SEATO.

Mers-el-Kébir. 1940 British sink French fleet so Axis can’t seize them. French bomb Gibraltar.

Messerschmidt, Willy. 1898-1978. German plane designer and manufacturer, WWII.

Miró, Joan. 1893-1974. Spanish surrealist painter. Pure colors, abstract shapes. Bird, star themes. Dog Barking at the Moon.

Molière, Jean-Baptiste. 1622-73. French comedy actor, playwright. School for Wives 1662. Tartuffe 1664. Don Juan 1665. Misanthrope. Died in role of Malade Imaginaire.

Mondrian, Piet. 1872-1944. Dutch neoplastic abstract De Stijl movement painter. Composition with Yellow and Blue 1929. New York City 1943.

Montagu-Chelmsford Report. 1919. Basis of India Act.

Moore, Henry. 1898-1986. English semi-abstract organic sculptor. Mother and Child 1924. Reclining Figure 1951.

More, Thomas. 1477-1535. English humanist, statesman. Utopia 1516, described ideal cooperative democracy. Executed by Henry VIII for opposing Act of Supremacy. Catholic saint.

Morley, Thomas. c1557-1603. English madrigal composer. Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Music 1597.

Motherwell, Robert. 1915-91. US Abstract Expressionist painter. Created New York school. Elegy to the Spanish Republic 1949-59.

Mugwumps. 1884. US Republican reform faction. In England, politically neutral voters.

Mutual Assistance Pact. 1950. USSR supports China, sends arms to N Korea.

Nabis. 1890s. French painters opposed to Impressionism. Bold colors. Influenced Abstract Art. Bonnard. Denis.

National Security Act. 1947. Formed US National Security Council, CIA.

Native Land Acts. 1862, 65-92. New Zealand abolishes tribal land ownership, destroying traditional Maori society.

Navigation Acts. 14-19C. Limited trade to England and colonies to British ships.

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