Mancini, Pasquale. 1817-88. Italian Risorgimento leader, statesman. Triple Alliance 1882.

Mandela, Nelson. 1918-. South African anti-Apartheid ANC leader. Jailed 1962-90. President 94-99.

Manin, Daniele. 1804-57. Risorgimento leader. Venetian Republic president 1848-9.

Mann, Horace. 1796-1859. US educator. Modern public education system.

Mao Tse-tung. 1893-1976. Chinese Communist leader 1935-. Long March. Cultural Revolution.

Marat, Jean-Paul. 1743-1793. Bloodthirsty French revolutionary, murdered by Charlotte Corday.

Maratha. 1674 Kingdom in India. 1761 Confederacy. 19C British.

Maratha Wars. 1775-1818. British defeat Maratha Confederacy in India.

Marathon, Battle. 490BC. Athenians defeat Persian invaders.

Marmont, Auguste. 1774-1852. French Marshal. Surrendered Paris 1814 causing Napoleon to abdicate.

Maronite. Syrian Roman Catholic Church. 7C Settled Lebanon. 1182- Under Vatican. 1860 Druze massacre Maronites. 1920 Lebanon. Phalangists.

Marryat, Frederick. 1792-1848. English adventure writer of energetic seafaring stories. Midshipman Easy 1836.

Martov, L. 1873-1923. Russian Menshevik leader.

Masaryk, Thomas. 1850-1937. Founder, first President of Czechoslovakia, 1918-35.

Mason-Dixon Line. 1763-7. MD-PA border named for its 2 surveyors. 1820- Separated slave/free states.

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

Maurice, Friedrich. 1805-72. English theologian. Christian Socialist founder.

Maurice of Nassau. 1567-1625. Prince of Orange 1618-. Dutch military leader. Fought Spanish 1590s.

Mausolus. Persian Satrap c377-353BC. Tomb at Halicarnassus was one of Seven Wonders.

Mavrokordátos, Aléxandros. 1791-1835. Greek revolutionary leader vs Turkey. Prime Minister 1833,44,54-55.

May Fourth Movement. 1915-21. Chinese intellectuals for modernization, westernization, freedom for women.

Mboya, Tom. 1930-69. Kenyan Nationalist leader. Assassinated.

McAdoo, William. 1863-1941. Founded US Federal Reserve Board 1913. Raised $18B for war effort.

McClure, Robert. 1807-73. British naval commander. First Northwest Passage crossing by boat and sledge 1853-4.

McCrae, John. 1872-1918. Canadian physician/poet. In Flanders Fields.

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