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(Encyclopedia) Ma-na-ssu: see Manas, China.

(Encyclopedia) Ssu-ma Ch'ien so͝oˈmä chyĕn [key], 145?–90? b.c., Chinese historian; sometimes called the Father of Chinese History. He succeeded his father, Ssu-ma T'an, as grand historian (an office then deal...

(Encyclopedia) Hsia Kuei shyä gwā [key], c.1180–1230, Chinese painter of the Sung dynasty. Little is known of his life. He and his contemporary Ma Yüan were regarded as the greatest landscape painters of the da...

(Encyclopedia) Angell, James Rowland, 1869–1949, American educator and psychologist, b. Burlington, Vt., grad. Univ. of Michigan (B.A. 1890; M.A. 1891), M.A. Harvard, 1892; son of James B. Angell. After study abro...

(Encyclopedia) Calabrese, Il: see Preti, Mattia. ...

(Encyclopedia) Peshkov, Aleksey Maximovich: see Gorky, Maxim. ...

(Encyclopedia) Clemens, Samuel Langhorne: see Twain, Mark. ...

(Encyclopedia)  McCarthy, Gina (Regina McCarthy), 1954- , American environmentalist and government official, Brighton, Ma., Univ. of Ma., Boston (B.A., 1976), Tufts U...

(Encyclopedia) Ferguson, Miriam A. Wallace (Ma Ferguson): see under Ferguson, James Edward. ...