renga: …melancholy Minase sangin hyakuin (1488; Minase Sangin Hyakuin: A Poem of One Hundred Links Composed by Three Poets at Minase), composed by Iio Sōgi, Shōhaku, and Sōchō. Later the initial verse (hokku) of a renga developed into the independent haiku form.

Minatitlán, city and river port, southeastern Veracruz estado (state), south-central Mexico. It is on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec on the Río Coatzacoalcos, 20 miles (32 km) from its mouth on the Gulf of Mexico and 210 feet (64 metres) above sea level. When founded in 1822 as Paso de la Fabrica, the

bridge: Ōsaka Harbor: In 1974 the Minato Bridge, linking the city of Ōsaka with neighboring Amagasaki, became one of the world’s longest-spanning cantilever truss bridges, at 502 meters (1,673 feet). In 1989 two other impressive and innovative bridges were completed for the purpose of carrying major highways over the port facilities…

Japan: The emergence of new forces.: Harbor towns (minato machi) such as Sakai, Hyōgo, and Onomichi on the Inland Sea, Suruga and Obama on the Sea of Japan, and Kuwana and Ōminato on Ise Bay also flourished as exchange centers. Sake brewers, brokers, and wholesale merchants were leading townsmen (machishu), and town elders…

minbar, in Islam, the pulpit from which the sermon (khutbah) is delivered. In its simplest form the minbar is a platform with three steps. Often it is constructed as a domed box at the top of a staircase and is reached through a doorway that can be closed. Muhammad originally delivered his khutbahs

Fujian: Cultural life: The Minbei, or northern section of Fujian focused on Fuzhou, was an early centre of Buddhism and, because of close contact with Japanese culture through the Ryukyu Islands, still shows some of those influences in culture and cuisine. As the seat of administration, the Minbei has…

China: Sino-Tibetan of China: …to the south, by the Fuzhou, or Northern Min, language of northern and central Fujian and by the Xiamen-Shantou (Amoy-Swatow), or Southern Min, language of southern Fujian and easternmost Guangdong. The Hakka language of southernmost Jiangxi and northeastern Guangdong has a rather scattered pattern of distribution. Probably the best known…

Minbu, town, west-central Myanmar (Burma), on the Irrawaddy River opposite Magwe (Magway) town. The river there is about 3 miles (5 km) wide but contains many islands and sandbanks, and in the dry season steamers can come no nearer than 4 miles (6.5 km) south of the town. Although much of the

fish processing: Minced fish flesh: The success of surimi-based products has stimulated the development of other products made from minced flesh. Minced fish products do not undergo the repeated washing cycles necessary for the production of surimi. Because of the presence of residual oils and sarcoplasmic enzymes…

Irish Travellers, a traditionally nomadic ethnic minority indigenous to Ireland. Irish Travellers live in Ireland and throughout Great Britain, with smaller communities in Canada and the United States. They have lived as a distinct ethnic group with their own culture, language, and values,

The Minch, Atlantic sea channel between the Outer Hebrides island group on the west and the mainland of Scotland on the east. The channel varies in width between 25 and 45 miles (40 and 70 km) and has both great depth and a rapid current. The Little Minch, its southerly extension, lies between the

minhah, (“offering”), in Judaism, the second of three periods of daily prayer. Minhah prayers are offered in the afternoon; to facilitate attendance at the synagogue, the afternoon service is often scheduled so that the evening prayers (maarib; Hebrew: maʿariv) can follow as soon as night has

minhah, (“offering”), in Judaism, the second of three periods of daily prayer. Minhah prayers are offered in the afternoon; to facilitate attendance at the synagogue, the afternoon service is often scheduled so that the evening prayers (maarib; Hebrew: maʿariv) can follow as soon as night has

pre-Columbian civilizations: The Chimú state: …him came six rulers before Minchançaman, who conquered the remainder of the coast from at least as far north as Piura and possibly to Tumbes, south almost to Lima. His triumph was short-lived since he himself was conquered by the Inca in the early 1460s.

typography: Typography as a useful art: …two typefaces to choose from—mincho, roughly equivalent to the West’s roman, and Gothic, functionally a Japanese sans serif. In the 1960s a group of Japanese designers produced a third typeface called Typos.

Kichizan was the last major professional painter of Buddhist iconography in Japan. He was a priest, associated with the Zen Buddhist Tōfuku-ji (temple) in Kyōto. Of the Buddhist paintings that he did for the temple, the best known is the portrait of Shōichi (1202–80), founder of the temple. The

Benedict (X) was an antipope from April 1058 to January 1059. His expulsion from the papal throne, on which he had been placed through the efforts of the powerful Tusculani family of Rome, was followed by a reform in the law governing papal elections. The new law, enacted in 1059, established an

Benedict (X) was an antipope from April 1058 to January 1059. His expulsion from the papal throne, on which he had been placed through the efforts of the powerful Tusculani family of Rome, was followed by a reform in the law governing papal elections. The new law, enacted in 1059, established an

Benedict (X) was an antipope from April 1058 to January 1059. His expulsion from the papal throne, on which he had been placed through the efforts of the powerful Tusculani family of Rome, was followed by a reform in the law governing papal elections. The new law, enacted in 1059, established an

Benedict (X) was an antipope from April 1058 to January 1059. His expulsion from the papal throne, on which he had been placed through the efforts of the powerful Tusculani family of Rome, was followed by a reform in the law governing papal elections. The new law, enacted in 1059, established an

mind, in the Western tradition, the complex of faculties involved in perceiving, remembering, considering, evaluating, and deciding. Mind is in some sense reflected in such occurrences as sensations, perceptions, emotions, memory, desires, various types of reasoning, motives, choices, traits of

Vilfredo Pareto: …Trattato di sociologia generale (1916; Mind and Society), in which he inquired into the nature and bases of individual and social action. Persons of superior ability, he argued, actively seek to confirm and aggrandize their social position. Thus, social classes are formed. In an effort to rise into the elite…

H.G. Wells: Middle and late works: …in the future, and in Mind at the End of Its Tether (1945) he depicts a bleak vision of a world in which nature has rejected, and is destroying, humankind.

Allen Ginsberg: …won the National Book Award; Mind Breaths: Poems 1972–1977 (1978); and White Shroud: Poems 1980–1985 (1986). His Collected Poems 1947–1980 appeared in 1984. Collected Poems, 1947–1997 (2006) is the first comprehensive one-volume collection of Ginsberg’s published poetry. The Letters of Allen Ginsberg was published in 2008, and a collection edited…

brainwashing, systematic effort to persuade nonbelievers to accept a certain allegiance, command, or doctrine. A colloquial term, it is more generally applied to any technique designed to manipulate human thought or action against the desire, will, or knowledge of the individual. By controlling the

James Harvey Robinson: Perhaps his most popular book, The Mind in the Making (1921) proposed that educational institutions in general and historians in particular approach social problems with a more progressive and a livelier view toward a just social order. During the 1920s he continued to teach and produce books, among them The…

Yvonne Rainer: …of a larger work called The Mind Is a Muscle (1966–68), consisted of a simultaneous performance by three dancers that included a difficult series of circular and spiral movements. It was widely adapted and interpreted by other choreographers. Rainer choreographed more than 40 concert works, including Terrain (1963).

mnemonic: Later developments: Luria suggested, in The Mind of a Mnemonist, that the field was worthy of deeper psychological study. Luria described a man with synesthesia—a neurological condition in which the stimulation of one the five senses results in the simultaneous stimulation of one or more of the remaining senses—who had…

Octavia E. Butler: …novels in the series are Mind of My Mind (1977), Survivor (1978), Wild Seed (1980), and Clay’s Ark (1984).

Franz Boas: Career in America: In 1911 Boas published The Mind of Primitive Man, a series of lectures on culture and race. It was often referred to in the 1920s by those who were opposed to new U.S. immigration restrictions based on presumed racial differences. In the 1930s the Nazis in Germany burned the…

W.J. Cash: …known for his single book, The Mind of the South (1941), a classic analysis of white Southern temperament and culture.

Colin Wilson: …works are Necessary Doubt (1964), The Mind Parasites (1967), A Casebook of Murder (1970), Starseekers (1980), The Quest for Wilhelm Reich (1981), and Poltergeist! (1981).

mind reading, a magician’s trick involving various silent or verbal signals that cue a conjurer to answer a question as though with second sight. Philip Breslaw, the first magician of note to feature mind reading, played in 1781 at the Haymarket Theatre in London to appreciative audiences. In 1784

mental health: Developments in the 20th century: …account of what he endured, A Mind That Found Itself, continues to be reprinted in many languages, inspiring successive generations of students, mental health workers, and laypersons to promote improved conditions of psychiatric care in local communities, in schools, and in hospitals. With the support of prominent persons, including distinguished…

Oliver Sacks: The Mind’s Eye (2010) investigated the compensatory mechanisms employed by people with sensory disorders, including himself (in the wake of vision loss in one eye as a result of ocular melanoma). Hallucinations (2012) inventoried conditions and circumstances—from epilepsy to drug use to sensory deprivation—that can…

philosophy of mind, reflection on the nature of mental phenomena and especially on the relation of the mind to the body and to the rest of the physical world. Philosophy is often concerned with the most general questions about the nature of things: What is the nature of beauty? What is it to have

Confucianism: The Song masters: …and implicitly rejecting Cheng Hao’s School of Mind, developed a method of interpreting and transmitting the Confucian Way that for centuries defined Confucianism not only for the Chinese but for the Koreans and Japanese as well. If, as quite a few scholars have advocated, Confucianism represents a distinct form of…

analytic philosophy: The theory of mind: In the theory of mind, the major debate concerned the question of which materialist theory of the human mind, if any, was the correct one. The main theories were identity theory (also called reductive materialism), functionalism, and eliminative materialism.

psychotropic drug, in pharmacology, any agent that induces changes in awareness, behaviour, mood, perception, or sensation. Most psychotropic drugs are classified as one of five different types: antianxiety agents, antidepressants, antipsychotics, hypnotics, or mood-stabilizing drugs. Psychotropic

mind-body dualism, in its original and most radical formulation, the philosophical view that mind and body (or matter) are fundamentally distinct kinds of substances or natures. That version, now often called substance dualism, implies that mind and body not only differ in meaning but refer to

mind-body problem, in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics, the problem of explaining how mental events arise from or interact with physical events. Historically, three types of theory have been most influential: psychophysical monism, property dualism, and psychophysical dualism. According to

William Kingdon Clifford: …two phrases he coined: “mind-stuff” (the simple elements of which consciousness is composed) and “the tribal self.” The latter gives the key to his ethical view, which explains conscience and moral law by the development in each individual of a “self” that prescribes conduct conducive to the welfare of…

Susanne K. Langer: In the three-volume work Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling (1967, 1972, and 1982), Langer attempted to trace the origin and development of the mind.

Mindanao, island, the second largest (after Luzon) in the Philippines, in the southern part of the archipelago, surrounded by the Bohol, Philippine, Celebes, and Sulu seas. Irregularly shaped, it measures 293 miles (471 km) north to south and 324 miles (521 km) east to west. The island is marked by

Philippine Trench, submarine trench in the floor of the Philippine Sea of the western North Pacific Ocean bordering the east coast of the island of Mindanao. The abyss, which reaches the second greatest depth known in any ocean, was first plumbed in 1927 by the German ship Emden. The reading

gymnure: The Mindanao gymnure (Podogymnura truei) resembles Asian gymnures. The body is 12 to 15 cm (4.7 to 5.9 inches) long, with long, dense, soft fur that is chestnut brown. It lives at 1,600–2,400 metres (roughly 5,200–7,900 feet) in the mountains of Mindanao. The Dinagat gymnure (P.…

Mindanao River, main river of the Cotabato lowland, central Mindanao, Philippines. It rises in the central highlands of northeastern Mindanao (island) as the Pulangi and then flows south to where it joins the Kabacan to form the Mindanao. It meanders northwest through the Libungan Marsh and

Bohol Sea, section of the western North Pacific Ocean. Measuring about 170 miles (270 km) east–west, it is bounded by the islands of the Philippines—Mindanao (south and east), Leyte, Bohol, and Cebu (north), and Negros (west). It opens north to the Visayan Sea through Bohol and Tañon straits and

Philippine Trench, submarine trench in the floor of the Philippine Sea of the western North Pacific Ocean bordering the east coast of the island of Mindanao. The abyss, which reaches the second greatest depth known in any ocean, was first plumbed in 1927 by the German ship Emden. The reading

Davao City: …is the site of the University of Mindanao (1946), the Philippine Women’s College of Davao, and other colleges. Talomo Beach, the Bago Iñigo fish farm, and the pearl farm on Samal Island are nearby. Inc. city, 1936. Area 854 square miles (2,212 square km). Pop. (2010) 1,449,296; (2020) 1,776,949.

Mindaugas was a ruler of Lithuania, considered the founder of the Lithuanian state. He was also the first Lithuanian ruler to become a Christian. Mindaugas successfully asserted himself over other leading Lithuanian nobles and tribal chiefs, including his brother and his nephews, in 1236. The state

Mindel Glacial Stage, major division of Pleistocene time and deposits in Alpine Europe (the Pleistocene Epoch began about 2.6 million years ago and ended about 11,700 years ago). The Mindel Glacial Stage is part of the early geologic scheme (c. 1900) that first recognized the importance of multiple

Mindel-Riss Interglacial Stage, major division of Pleistocene time and deposits in Alpine Europe, part of the classical geologic scheme demonstrating the importance of glaciation during the Pleistocene Epoch (about 2,600,000 to 11,700 years ago). The Mindel-Riss Interglacial is also known as the

Mindelo, city and main port of Cape Verde, in the Atlantic Ocean. It lies on the northwest shore of São Vicente Island, about 560 miles (900 km) off the West African coast. The city’s deepwater harbour on Porto Grande Bay is an important refueling point for transatlantic freighters. Mindelo port

Minden, city, North Rhine–Westphalia Land (state), northwestern Germany. It lies along the Weser River, near a defile known as the Westfalica Gate where the river leaves the mountains and enters the North German Plain, west of Hannover. The emperor Charlemagne organized a military bishopric there

Minden, city, seat (1876) of Kearney county, south-central Nebraska, U.S., about 15 miles (25 km) southeast of the city of Kearney. Founded in 1876 and named for Minden, Germany, it was settled by German, Swedish, and Danish immigrants and became a service point for a farming area. Agriculture

George Sackville-Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville: At Minden (Aug. 1, 1759), after the British and Hanoverian infantry had routed the cavalry forming the French centre, he disregarded repeated orders by the allied commander, Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, to exploit this success, and the French retreated unpursued. Temporarily disgraced by and court-martialed for…

Milo Minderbinder, fictional character, a black marketer in the satiric World War II novel Catch-22 by American writer Joseph Heller. Minderbinder, who equates profit with patriotism, exploits his connections as a U.S. Army lieutenant and mess officer to amass personal power and wealth. Corrupt and

Gregory Corso: In 1989 Corso published Mindfield, which included along with several of his best-known poems 23 not previously published. His poetry, often lyrical and aphoristic, is notable for its directness and for its startling imagery. Corso also wrote plays and a novel.

mindfulness, concept originating in Buddhism that refers to sustained awareness of bodily sensations, emotions, and mental states. It is closely associated with meditation, particularly among monastics, and it is the seventh step of the Buddha’s Eightfold Path. In the 20th century Buddhist

meditation: …example, the practice of “mindfulness meditation,” an adaptation of Buddhist techniques, was popularized in the United States beginning in the 1980s. Its medical use as an adjunct to psychotherapy was widely embraced in the late 1990s, leading to its adoption in many psychiatric facilities.

David Fincher: …project was the Netflix series Mindhunter (2017–19), about the first criminal profilers at the FBI; Fincher directed several episodes of the show and served as executive producer. He then helmed Mank (2020), a biopic about Herman Mankiewicz and his struggles to write the screenplay for Orson Welles’s classic Citizen Kane.…

Maeve Binchy: It was followed by Minding Frankie (2010), which centres on a single father who enlists the aid of his neighbours to help raise his infant daughter. The posthumously published A Week in Winter (2012) chronicles the vicissitudes of an Irish innkeeper and those of her guests.

differential geometry: Curvature of surfaces: As corollaries to these theorems:

differential geometry: Shortest paths on a surface: About 1830 the Estonian mathematician Ferdinand Minding defined a curve on a surface to be a geodesic if it is intrinsically straight—that is, if there is no identifiable curvature from within the surface. A major task of differential geometry is to determine the geodesics on a surface. The great circles…

chemical bonding: Computational approaches to molecular structure: …Method 1) and MINDO (Modified Intermediate Neglect of Differential Overlap), which are two popular semiempirical procedures.

Mindon was the king of Myanmar from 1853 to 1878. His reign was notable both for its reforms and as a period of cultural flowering in the period before the imposition of complete colonial rule. Mindon was a brother of Pagan (reigned 1846–53), who had ruled during the Second Anglo-Burmese War in

Mindoro, island, west-central Philippines. It lies across the Verde Island Passage from Luzon (northeast) and between the Mindoro (southwest) and Tablas (southeast) straits. Unlike the majority of its sister islands, Mindoro has no deep coastal embayments or fringing islets. A mountainous core

Philippine crocodile, (Crocodylus mindorensis), relatively small species of crocodile that lives primarily in freshwater rivers, ponds, and marshes on the islands of Dalupiri, Luzon, and Mindanao in the Philippines. The Philippine crocodile is considered to be one of the world’s most endangered

Mindaugas was a ruler of Lithuania, considered the founder of the Lithuanian state. He was also the first Lithuanian ruler to become a Christian. Mindaugas successfully asserted himself over other leading Lithuanian nobles and tribal chiefs, including his brother and his nephews, in 1236. The state

John Searle: The Chinese room argument: …paper published in 1980, “Minds, Brains, and Programs,” Searle developed a provocative argument to show that artificial intelligence is indeed artificial. Imagine that a person who knows nothing of the Chinese language is sitting alone in a room. In that room are several boxes containing cards on which Chinese…

LEGO: Building worlds: …1998 the company launched LEGO MINDSTORMS, combining traditional building elements with programmable robotics technology. (MINDSTORMS were retired in 2022.) Capitalizing on Christensen’s notion of children discovering the joy of creation, LEGO also appealed to schools and educators, and LEGO became a staple in many classrooms, teaching engineering, problem-solving, and programming.

József Mindszenty was a Roman Catholic clergyman who personified uncompromising opposition to fascism and communism in Hungary for more than five decades of the 20th century. Politically active from the time of his ordination as a priest in 1915, Mindszenty was arrested as an enemy of totalitarian

Mindy Kaling: The Mindy Project, Never Have I Ever, and The Sex Lives of College Girls: …developed the innovative TV show The Mindy Project, which centered on the life of Mindy Lahiri, an obstetrician-gynecologist who is fixated on finding a romantic partner. The character Mindy is self-involved, impulsive, and prone to romantic delusions and has a great fondness for designer clothing. The half-hour show premiered in…

mine, in military and naval operations, a usually stationary explosive device that is designed to destroy personnel, ships, or vehicles when the latter come in contact with it. Submarine mines have been in use since the mid-19th century; land mines did not become a significant factor in warfare

arms control: Recent efforts: …to Ban Landmines (ICBL), a treaty prohibiting the use of antipersonnel mines was negotiated; it went into effect in 1999, and, by the early 21st century, nearly 150 countries had signed it, though China, Russia, and the United States had not.

Peter Abrahams: His early work Mine Boy (1946) was the first to depict the dehumanizing effect of racism in South Africa on black and mixed-race people and was perhaps the first South African book written in English to win international acclaim.

mining: Delineation: This is called the mine cutoff grade. And, if the material has already been mined, there is a certain grade below which it is not profitable to process it; this is the mill cutoff grade. The grade at which the costs associated with mining and mineral processing just equal…

mine gas, any of various harmful vapours produced during mining operations. The gases are frequently called damps (German Dampf, “vapour”). Firedamp is a gas that occurs naturally in coal seams. The gas is nearly always methane (CH4) and is highly inflammable and explosive when present in the air

Carlo Goldoni: , Mine Hostess, 1928) and two fine plays in Venetian dialect, I rusteghi (performed 1760; “The Tyrants”) and Le baruffe chiozzote (performed 1762; “Quarrels at Chioggia”).

Nigel Balchin: Almost as successful is Mine Own Executioner (1945), a study of a psychiatrist unable to cure his own neuroses and of the tensions created in his marriage by his lack of self-confidence. The problems of the psychologically and physically disabled are a recurrent theme: the hero of A Sort…

tunnels and underground excavations: …opening is usually called a shaft. Tunnels have many uses: for mining ores, for transportation—including road vehicles, trains, subways, and canals—and for conducting water and sewage. Underground chambers, often associated with a complex of connecting tunnels and shafts, increasingly are being used for

armoured vehicle: Wheeled armoured vehicles: …thousands of Mine-Resistant, Ambush-Protected (MRAP) wheeled armoured vehicles. MRAPs are designed with a V-shaped hull to deflect explosions upward and away from the troop compartment. They proved to be twice as effective in safeguarding passengers as M1 Abrams tanks and more than three times as effective as the armoured…

armoured vehicle: Wheeled armoured vehicles: …(12-ton) MRAP all-terrain vehicles, or M-ATVs. M-ATVs can carry four soldiers plus a gunner who can man a top-mounted machine gun or grenade launcher.

Minecraft, open-world electronic game in which players manipulate an environment composed of virtual 3D blocks. With its simple graphics and relatively modest system requirements, Minecraft was designed to appeal to a wide audience. By 2023 Minecraft was the second highest-selling title in video

Jack Black: Superstardom: …appeared opposite Jason Momoa in A Minecraft Movie, based on the popular open-world electronic game. He followed it up by headlining the action-comedy Anaconda (2025) alongside Paul Rudd.

Menander was the greatest of the Indo-Greek kings and the one best known to Western and Indian classical authors. He is believed to have been a patron of the Buddhist religion and the subject of an important Buddhist work, the Milinda-panha (“The Questions of Milinda”). Menander was born in the

Minehead, town (parish), West Somerset district, administrative and historic county of Somerset, southwestern England. It is situated on a small embayment of the Bristol Channel. The town owes its origin and growth to its harbour. Minehead was first incorporated in 1558. Its older buildings include

Macarius: He composed the first Minei-Cetii, the first major collection of the lives of Russian saints for daily meditation and worship, arranging them in 12 volumes, one for each month of the year. His Stepennaya Kniga (“Book of Generations”) is a comprehensive history of Russian ruling families and a compendium…

Belo Horizonte: …Cándido Portinari, and by the Mineirão stadium, one of the largest football (soccer) stadiums in the country. Notable sights in the city centre include the Municipal Park, the broad tree-lined Afonso Pena Avenue, and the Liberdade Palácio (Portuguese: “Freedom Palace”), which houses the governor’s offices.

Exodus: Cobb as Ari’s father and Sal Mineo as a teenaged Holocaust survivor—compensate for Dalton Trumbo’s screenplay and the film’s lengthy running time. In addition, Ernest Gold’s Academy Award-winning score is generally regarded as a classic.

Mineola, village, mainly in North Hempstead town (township) with a small section in Hempstead town, and seat (1898) of Nassau county, Long Island, southeastern New York, U.S. It was settled in the 17th century by English and Dutch inhabitants of Connecticut who crossed Long Island Sound; it was

Myrtilla Miner: …Teachers College to form the District of Columbia Teachers College.

Myrtilla Miner: …Teachers College to form the District of Columbia Teachers College.

miner’s cat, carnivorous mammal, a species of cacomistle

occupational disease: Temperature: …muscular pain—a condition known as miner’s cramps—as a result of restoring their water but not their salt balance. When salt in the requisite amount was added to their drinks, workers no longer developed miner’s cramps. Heat exhaustion is characterized by thirst, fatigue, giddiness, and often muscle cramps; fainting can also…

Anne Michaels: Early life and poetry: …of Oranges was followed by Miner’s Pond (1991), which was nominated for the Governor General’s Award and won the Canadian Authors Association Award, and Skin Divers (1999). Poems (2000) combines Michaels’s first three books in one volume.

Rolf Boldrewood: …Robbery Under Arms (1888) and A Miner’s Right (1890), both exciting and realistic portrayals of pioneer life in Australia.

Oracle Corp.: Origins and early growth: …1977 by Larry Ellison and Bob Miner, computer programmers at the American electronics company Ampex Corporation, and by Ed Oates, Ellison’s supervisor at Ampex. Inspired by a research paper written by British-born computer scientist Edgar F. Codd that outlined a relational database model, Ellison and his colleagues saw commercial potential…

Jack Miner was a Canadian naturalist, author, and lecturer who won a reputation as a leading bird conservationist and who conducted extensive research into migratory patterns. Miner moved to Essex county, Ont., in 1878. In 1904, on his farm at Kingsville, he established a bird sanctuary that became