• movie theatre (building)

    motion-picture technology: Wide-screen and stereoscopic pictures: …radical attack was made on wide-screen projection in the form of the Cinerama, which used three projectors and a curved screen. The expanded field of view gave a remarkable increase in the illusion of reality, especially with such exciting and spectacular subjects as a ride down a toboggan slide. There…

  • Movie Trust (American company)

    Motion Picture Patents Company, trust of 10 film producers and distributors who attempted to gain complete control of the motion-picture industry in the United States from 1908 to 1912. The original members were the American companies Edison, Vitagraph, Biograph, Essanay, Selig, Lubin, and Kalem;

  • Moviegoer, The (novel by Percy)

    The Moviegoer, novel by Walker Percy, published in 1961. It won a National Book Award. The story is a philosophical exploration of the problem of personal identity, narrated by Binx Bolling, a successful but alienated businessman. Bolling undertakes a search for meaning in his life, first through

  • Movilă, Petru (Orthodox theologian)

    Petro Mohyla was an Orthodox monk and theologian of Moldavian origin who served as metropolitan of Kiev and who authored the Orthodox Confession of the Catholic and Apostolic Eastern Church. He reformed Slavic theological scholarship and generally set doctrinal standards for Eastern Orthodoxy that

  • Movimento Armorial (Brazilian cultural movement)

    Ariano Suassuna: …the prime mover in the Movimento Armorial (“Armorial Movement”) in northeastern Brazil, an intellectual and folkloric group devoted to the discovery and re-creation of the historic roots of Luso-Brazilian culture in that region.

  • Movimento das Forças Armadas (Portuguese political movement)

    Portugal: The Revolution of the Carnations: …300 officers calling themselves the Armed Forces Movement (Movimento das Forças Armadas; MFA), led by Francisco da Costa Gomes and other officers, planned and implemented the coup of April 25, 1974, which came to be known as the Revolution of the Carnations.

  • Movimento Democrático Brasileiro, Partido do (political party, Brazil)

    Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (PMDB), centrist Brazilian Christian Democratic political party. The Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (PMDB) was founded in 1980 by members of the Brazilian Democratic Movement, which had been created in the mid-1960s as the official opposition

  • Movimento dos Jovens Intelectuais (Angolan literary movement)

    African literature: Portuguese: The Movimento dos Jovens Intelectuais (Movement of Young Intellectuals) in 1947 and 1948 emphasized Angolan traditions and folklore, influencing such writers as Agostinho Neto, Mário Pinto de Andrade, and Viriato da Cruz.

  • Movimento dos Sem Terra (Brazilian social movement)

    Landless Workers Movement (MST), Brazilian social movement seeking agrarian reform through land expropriation. The Landless Workers Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra; MST) is one of the largest and most-influential social movements in Latin America. Thousands of Brazilian

  • Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (Brazilian social movement)

    Landless Workers Movement (MST), Brazilian social movement seeking agrarian reform through land expropriation. The Landless Workers Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra; MST) is one of the largest and most-influential social movements in Latin America. Thousands of Brazilian

  • Movimento para a Democracia (political party, Cabo Verde)

    Cabo Verde: Political process: …to the formation of the Movement for Democracy (Movimento para a Democracia; MpD), which won the democratic elections of 1990.

  • Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (political organization, Angola)

    Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, Angolan political party that has ruled the country since 1975. It began as a liberation movement that engaged in a bloody war for independence during the time that Angola was a colony of Portugal. The Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA)

  • Movimento Sociale Italiano (political party, Italy)

    National Alliance, former nationalist anticommunist political party of Italy. Historically, some of its members held neofascist views. The MSI was formed in 1946 by supporters of former Italian leader Benito Mussolini from elements of the defunct Uomo Qualunque (Average Man) Party that had appeared

  • Movimiento 19 de Abril (Colombian history)

    M-19, Colombian Marxist guerrilla group that coalesced in 1973–74 and demobilized in 1990, transforming into a legitimate political party, Alianza Democrática M-19. The group was founded by dissident members of the Gustavo Rojas Pinilla-led Acción Nacional Popular (Anapo), disaffected communists,

  • Movimiento 26 de Julio (Cuban history)

    26th of July Movement, revolutionary movement led by Fidel Castro that overthrew the regime of Fulgencio Batista in Cuba (1959). Its name commemorates an attack on the Santiago de Cuba army barracks on July 26, 1953. The movement began formally in 1955 when Castro went to Mexico to form a

  • Movimiento al Socialismo (political party, Bolivia)

    Luis Arce: Arce was the candidate of Movement Toward Socialism (Movimiento al Socialismo; MAS), the leftist party that Morales had helped to found. He had been the architect of the economic transformation during Morales’s presidency, which renationalized Bolivia’s thriving petroleum industry, redistributed agricultural land, increased taxes on the wealthy, and lifted countless…

  • Movimiento al Socialismo (political party, Venezuela)

    Movement Toward Socialism (MAS), leftist Venezuelan political party. (Read George Bernard Shaw’s 1926 Britannica essay on socialism.) The MAS was formed in 1971 following a split the previous year in the Venezuelan Communist Party over the dismissal of its leader, Teodoro Petkoff, for remarks

  • Movimiento Bolivariano Revolucionario–200 (political party, Venezuela)

    Movement of the Fifth Republic (MVR), nationalist Venezuelan political party established to support the presidential candidacy of Hugo Chávez in 1998. MBR-200 was secretly established within the Venezuelan military in the 1980s by Chávez and his fellow military officers. The movement rejected

  • Movimiento Comunal (political party, Peru)

    Manuel Scorza: …year he also joined the Movimiento Comunal and supported a peasant revolt that was raging in the Cerro de Pasco. He became secretary of the movement and wrote its political manifestos.

  • Movimiento de la Quinta República (political party, Venezuela)

    Movement of the Fifth Republic (MVR), nationalist Venezuelan political party established to support the presidential candidacy of Hugo Chávez in 1998. MBR-200 was secretly established within the Venezuelan military in the 1980s by Chávez and his fellow military officers. The movement rejected

  • Movimiento de Liberación Nacional (guerrilla organization, Uruguay)

    Tupamaro, Uruguayan leftist urban guerrilla organization founded in about 1963. The group was named for Túpac Amaru II, the leader of an 18th-century revolt against Spanish rule in Peru. The chief founder of Tupamaro was Raúl Sendic, a labour organizer. The earliest Tupamaro efforts were a mixture

  • Movimiento de Participación Popular (political party, Uruguay)

    José Mujica: Political career: …a legal political party, the Movement of Popular Participation (Movimiento de Participación Popular; MPP), for the 1989 elections. Mujica became one of the MPP’s leading voices. Meanwhile, he moved to a farm outside Montevideo with his longtime partner and fellow former Tupamaro member, Lucía Topolansky, who also remained active in…

  • Movimiento Nacional (Spanish political movement)

    Spain: Franco’s Spain, 1939–75: …Falange lost power in the National Movement, the sole legal political organization; its attempts to create a Falangist one-party state were defeated in 1956, though tensions between the Falange and the conservative elements persisted.

  • Movimiento Nacionalista Justicialista (Argentine history)

    Peronist, in Argentine politics, a supporter of Juan Perón, a member of the Justicialist Party (Partido Justicialista; PJ), or an adherent of the populist and nationalistic policies that Perón espoused. Peronism has played an important part in Argentina’s history since the mid-1940s. The Peronist

  • Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (political party, Bolivia)

    Bolivia: The rise of new political groups and the Bolivian National Revolution: …the middle-class and initially fascist-oriented Nationalist Revolutionary Movement (Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario; MNR) and the Marxist and largely pro-Soviet Party of the Revolutionary Left (Partido de la Izquierda Revolucionaria; PIR). Both groups established important factions in the national congress of 1940–44. In 1943 the civilian president Gen. Enrique Peñaranda was overthrown…

  • Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (political party, Mexico)

    Morena, major political party in Mexico. It was founded in 2014 when populist Mexican political leader Andrés Manuel López Obrador mobilized politicians from across the political spectrum in Mexico to form a new political party. The platform of Morena emphasizes an anti-corruption agenda, supports

  • Movimiento Revolucionario Liberal (political party, Colombia)

    Alfonso López Michelsen: …party of dissident Liberals, the Liberal Revolutionary Movement (MRL), to oppose the National Front. The National Front was a coalition of Liberals and Conservatives established in 1957 to end a decade of violent civil strife. The pact between the two major established parties had guaranteed the peaceful alternation of presidential…

  • Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru (Peruvian revolutionary group)

    Túpac Amaru, Peruvian revolutionary group. Founded in 1983, the group is best known for holding 490 people hostage in the Japanese embassy in Lima (1996) in an effort to gain the release of jailed comrades. After a standoff of several weeks, Peruvian troops stormed the embassy and killed all the

  • Movimiento V República (political party, Venezuela)

    Movement of the Fifth Republic (MVR), nationalist Venezuelan political party established to support the presidential candidacy of Hugo Chávez in 1998. MBR-200 was secretly established within the Venezuelan military in the 1980s by Chávez and his fellow military officers. The movement rejected

  • Movin’ Out (musical by Tharp)

    Billy Joel: Other projects, concert tours, and brain disorder diagnosis: Movin’ Out, a dance-focused musical based on two dozen songs by Joel and conceived, choreographed, and directed by Twyla Tharp, premiered in 2002. In 2006, having earlier undergone treatment for alcohol abuse, Joel released 12 Gardens Live, a concert album. In July 2008 he performed…

  • moving cluster (astronomy)

    star cluster: Open clusters: …few clusters are known as moving clusters because the convergence of the proper motions of their individual stars toward a “convergent point” is pronounced. The apparent convergence is caused by perspective: the cluster members are really moving as a swarm in almost parallel directions and with about the same speeds.…

  • moving cluster parallax (astronomy)

    Milky Way Galaxy: Moving groups: Together with nearby parallax stars, moving-group parallaxes provide the basis for the galactic distance scale. Astronomers have found the Hyades moving cluster well suited for their purpose: it is close enough to permit the reliable application of the method, and it has enough members for deducing an accurate age.

  • moving fire zone (clay)

    brick and tile: Firing and cooling: …arrangement is known as the moving fire zone. In the more modern fixed fire zone, dried bricks are placed on cars carrying as many as 3,000 or more bricks; the cars start at the cool end of a long tunnel kiln and move slowly forward through gradually increasing temperatures to…

  • moving group (astronomy)

    star cluster: Open clusters: …few clusters are known as moving clusters because the convergence of the proper motions of their individual stars toward a “convergent point” is pronounced. The apparent convergence is caused by perspective: the cluster members are really moving as a swarm in almost parallel directions and with about the same speeds.…

  • Moving Image, The (poetry by Wright)

    Judith Wright: …her several books of poetry, The Moving Image (1946), was followed by Woman to Man (1949), The Gateway (1953), The Two Fires (1955), The Other Half (1966), and Alive (1973). Much of her poetry was marked by restrained and lyric verse that decried materialism and outside influences on native cultures.…

  • Moving On (novel by McMurtry)

    Larry McMurtry: Urban Houstonians are featured in Moving On (1970), All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers (1972), and Terms of Endearment (1975; film 1983).

  • moving picture (art and medium)

    film, series of still photographs on film, projected in rapid succession onto a screen by means of light. Because of the optical phenomenon known as persistence of vision, this gives the illusion of actual, smooth, and continuous movement. A popular form of mass media, film is a remarkably

  • moving picture experts group (technology)

    data compression: …as do various standards of MPEG (moving picture expert group) for videos.

  • moving sidewalk

    escalator: …ramps or sidewalks, sometimes called travelators, are specialized forms of escalators developed to carry people and materials horizontally or along slight inclines. Ramps may have either solid or jointed treads or a continuous belt. Ramps can move at any angle of up to 15°; beyond this incline the slope becomes…

  • Moving Sidewalks (American musical group)

    ZZ Top: …formerly of the blues-rock band Moving Sidewalks, united with Hill and Beard, who had previously performed together in the band American Blues. Taking its sonic cues from such blues artists as John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters, the band built a following with ZZ Top’s First Album (1970) and Rio…

  • moving staircase (transportation)

    escalator, moving staircase used as transportation between floors or levels in subways, buildings, and other mass pedestrian areas. An inclined belt, invented by Jesse W. Reno of the United States in 1891, provided transportation for passengers riding on cleats attached to the belt, which was

  • Moving Target, The (novel by Macdonald)

    Harper: …was based on the novel The Moving Target (1949) by Ross Macdonald, and the screenplay was written by William Goldman.

  • Moving to a new state: A practical guide for what to do before, during, and after your move

    Moving to a new state is often about something big—a new job, a lower cost of living, or simply a fresh start. But once the move is underway, you’re left to deal with the mundane details: getting a new driver’s license or ID, updating your insurance policies, and setting up utilities. Although

  • Moving Windmills Project (Malawi organization)

    William Kamkwamba: Projects and adaptations of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: …2008 Kamkwamba had cofounded the Moving Windmills Project, an organization that works with residents of the Masitala area on such projects as drilling wells for clean water and installing solar panels at schools and community centers to provide consistent electricity. The organization also works with young Malawians to create simple…

  • moving-belt conveyor (technology)

    mass production: Manufacturing pioneers: …Company, where in 1913 a moving-belt conveyor was used in the assembly of flywheel magnetos. With it assembly time was cut from 18 minutes per magneto to five minutes. The approach was then applied to automobile body and motor assembly. The design of these production lines was highly analytical and…

  • moving-boundary method (electrophoresis)

    electrophoresis: Tiselius originated the moving-boundary method of observation, in which a layer of pure (i.e., without particles) fluid is placed over a quantity of the same fluid containing colloidal particles; the boundary between two layers of fluid is visible and moves at the speed of electrophoresis of the particles.

  • moving-coil meter

    frequency meter: …electrically resonant circuit is a moving-coil meter. In one version, this device possesses two coils tuned to different frequencies and connected at right angles to one another in such a way that the whole element, with attached pointer, can move. Frequencies in the middle of the meter’s range cause the…

  • moving-coil microphone (electroacoustic device)

    electromechanical transducer: Types of transducers: Either a moving-coil or a moving-magnet system may be employed, depending on which element is connected to the moving diaphragm; the moving coil is used more often. The dynamic microphone is rugged and has reasonably good linearity, so that high-quality models are useful in recording. Because a…

  • moving-magnet microphone (electroacoustic device)

    electromechanical transducer: Types of transducers: Either a moving-coil or a moving-magnet system may be employed, depending on which element is connected to the moving diaphragm; the moving coil is used more often. The dynamic microphone is rugged and has reasonably good linearity, so that high-quality models are useful in recording. Because a moving-coil microphone and…

  • moving-target-indication radar

    Henri-Gaston Busignies: …participated in the development of moving-target indication (MTI) radar, which allows detection of a moving object, such as an aircraft, when its echo is masked by large, unwanted echoes from land or sea clutter. Busignies retired from ITT in 1975 as a senior vice president.

  • Moviola (cinematic device)

    motion-picture technology: Editing equipment: …the Hollywood standard was the Moviola, originally a vertical device with one or more sound heads and a small viewplate that preserves much of the image brightness without damaging the film. Many European editors, from the 1930s on, worked with flatbed machines, which use a rotating prism rather than intermittent…

  • Moviola (novel by Kanin)

    Garson Kanin: Screenplays, theatrical work, and novels: …A Thousand Summers (1973), and Moviola (1979); Cast of Characters (1969), a collection of short stories; and nonfiction such as Tracy and Hepburn: An Intimate Memoir (1971), Hollywood (1974), and Together Again! The Stories of the Great Hollywood Teams (1981). His brother, Michael Kanin, was also a noted screenwriter.

  • Mowat, Oliver (premier of Ontario)

    Ontario: History of Ontario: …Ontario’s government was headed by Oliver Mowat, the Liberal premier who won a boundary dispute with Manitoba and the federal government that doubled the size of Ontario and helped to confirm the supremacy of provincial governments within their constitutionally assigned powers.

  • Mowatt, Anna Cora (American writer)

    Anna Cora Mowatt was an American playwright and actress, best known as the author of the satirical play Fashion. Born in France to American parents, Anna Ogden moved to New York City with her family when she was seven. As a child she exhibited a talent for acting and a precocious interest in

  • Mowbray, George (American chemist)

    explosive: Dynamite: …United States is attributed to George Mowbray, a chemist of considerable ability who had followed the work of Sobrero and others in Europe with great interest. Mowbray published an advertisement offering to supply nitroglycerin. This led to an invitation to manufacture it for completion of the Hoosac Tunnel at North…

  • Mowbray, Mary Ann (British serial killer)

    Mary Ann Cotton was a British nurse and housekeeper who was believed to be Britain’s most prolific female serial killer. She allegedly poisoned up to 21 people. Mary Ann grew up in Durham county, northeastern England. According to some sources, she left home at age 16 to work as a nurse but

  • Mowbray, Thomas (English noble [1366–1399])

    Thomas Mowbray, 1st duke of Norfolk was an English lord whose quarrel with Henry of Bolingbroke, Duke of Hereford (later King Henry IV, reigned 1399–1413), was a critical episode in the events leading to the overthrow of King Richard II (reigned 1377–99) by Bolingbroke. The quarrel dominates the

  • Mowbray, Thomas (English noble)

    Henry IV: …of the 1st duke of Norfolk, and Richard Scrope, archbishop of York, executed for conspiring with Northumberland to raise another rebellion. Although the worst of Henry’s political troubles were over, he then began to suffer from an affliction that his contemporaries believed to be leprosy—it may have been congenital syphilis.…

  • Mowgli (fictional character)

    Mowgli, fictional character, an Indian boy raised by wolves who is the central figure in Rudyard Kipling’s collection of children’s stories included in The Jungle Book (1894) and its sequel (1895). A character by the name of Mowgli first appeared in Kipling’s story “In the Rukh” (1892; collected in

  • Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (film by Serkis [2018])

    Christian Bale: …the avuncular panther Bagheera in Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018), an adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s collections of stories. In 2019 Bale starred with Matt Damon in Ford v Ferrari, a drama about the 24 Hours of Le Mans race in 1966. He also played the villainous Gorr the God…

  • Mowinckel, Johan Ludwig (prime minister of Norway)

    Johan Ludwig Mowinckel was a Norwegian prime minister during the 1920s and ’30s and a shipping magnate considered to be the outstanding statesman of his time in Norway. Educated at Oslo University, Mowinckel entered public life as a town councillor and then as president of the council of his native

  • Mowinckel, Sigmund (Norwegian biblical scholar)

    Sigmund Mowinckel was a Norwegian biblical scholar and the founder of the Scandinavian school of Old Testament studies. Educated at the University of Oslo (then Kristiania), Mowinckel spent his life from 1917 teaching there. His greatest contribution was in cultic-religious history. He conducted

  • Mowlanā Nūr od-Dīn ʿAbd or-Raḥmān ebn Aḥmad (Persian poet and scholar)

    Jāmī was a Persian scholar, mystic, and poet who is often regarded as the last great mystical poet of Iran. Jāmī spent his life in Herāt, except for two brief pilgrimages to Meshed (Iran) and the Hejaz. During his lifetime his fame as a scholar resulted in numerous offers of patronage by many of

  • Mowrer, O. H. (psychologist)

    frustration-aggression hypothesis: Background and assumptions: Leonard Doob, Neal Miller, O.H. Mowrer, and Robert Sears—in an important monograph, Frustration and Aggression (1939), in which they integrated ideas and findings from several disciplines, especially sociology, anthropology, and psychology. Their work was notable for its eclectic use of psychoanalysis, behaviourism, and

  • MOX pellet

    uranium processing: Oxide fuels: …procedures are employed to fabricate mixed uranium-plutonium dioxide (MOX) pellets for use in fast-neutron breeder reactors. Unirradiated MOX fuel typically contains 20 to 35 percent plutonium dioxide.

  • moxa treatment (medicine)

    moxibustion, traditional medical practice that originated in China and thence spread to Japan and other Asian countries. It is performed by burning small cones of dried leaves on certain designated points of the body, generally the same points as those used in acupuncture. The term moxibustion

  • Moxeke (archaeological site, Peru)

    pre-Columbian civilizations: Chavín monuments and temples: At Moxeke and Pallca in the Casma Valley to the south, there are terraced, stone-faced pyramids with stone stairways. The first has niches containing clay-plastered reliefs of mud, stone, and conical adobes showing felines, snakes, and human beings of Chavinoid character painted in polychrome. Also in…

  • moxibustion (medicine)

    moxibustion, traditional medical practice that originated in China and thence spread to Japan and other Asian countries. It is performed by burning small cones of dried leaves on certain designated points of the body, generally the same points as those used in acupuncture. The term moxibustion

  • Moxie (film by Poehler [2021])

    Amy Poehler: Producing and directing: …and produced the Netflix film Moxie (2021) and the documentary Lucy and Desi (2022). In 2023 Poehler and Fey teamed up yet again, this time for a comedy tour of the United States.

  • Moxotó River (river, Brazil)

    São Francisco River: Physiography: …Francisco is joined by the Moxotó River and forms the border between the states of Sergipe to the south and Alagoas to the north.

  • Moxy and Flea Show, The (American animated program)

    Cartoon Network: History: …Moxy Pirate Show (later called The Moxy Show and The Moxy and Flea Show), which featured a computer-animated dog (Moxy) and flea (Flea) in interstitial segments between cartoons from the network’s library. The next year Cartoon Network began airing its first fully produced animated series, Space Ghost Coast to Coast,…

  • Moxy Pirate Show, The (American animated program)

    Cartoon Network: History: …Moxy Pirate Show (later called The Moxy Show and The Moxy and Flea Show), which featured a computer-animated dog (Moxy) and flea (Flea) in interstitial segments between cartoons from the network’s library. The next year Cartoon Network began airing its first fully produced animated series, Space Ghost Coast to Coast,…

  • Moxy Show, The (American animated program)

    Cartoon Network: History: …Moxy Pirate Show (later called The Moxy Show and The Moxy and Flea Show), which featured a computer-animated dog (Moxy) and flea (Flea) in interstitial segments between cartoons from the network’s library. The next year Cartoon Network began airing its first fully produced animated series, Space Ghost Coast to Coast,…

  • Moy Sand and Gravel (poetry by Muldoon)

    Paul Muldoon: Poetry: Moy Sand and Gravel (2002) reaped both the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Griffin Poetry Prize for an international writer in 2003.

  • moya (Japanese room)

    shinden-zukuri: The moya, or main room of the shinden, was surrounded by a secondary roofed veranda, or hisashi. The moya was not partitioned, privacy being secured by low portable screens. Mats on the floor served for seating. Across the court from the moya was the pond garden,…

  • Moya rodoslovnaya (poem by Akhmadulina)

    Bella Akhmadulina: The long poem Moya rodoslovnaya (1964; “My Family Tree”), the title of which alludes to a poem by Aleksandr Pushkin from 1830, is marked by ambitious but assured experimentation in both theme and technique. The creative act was a recurring theme in her work. Subsequent volumes include Uroki…

  • Moyano Law (Spain [1857])

    Spain: Education: …plan was contained in the Moyano Law of 1857. It remained basically unchanged until 1970, when the General Law on Education was passed. Since then many other education reforms have taken place.

  • Moyano, Sebastián (Spanish conqueror)

    Sebastián de Benalcázar was a Spanish conqueror of Nicaragua, Ecuador, and southwestern Colombia. He captured Quito and founded the cities of Guayaquil in Ecuador and Popayán in Colombia. Going to the New World in 1519, Benalcázar became an officer in the forces of Pedro Arias Dávila and in 1524

  • moyen âge, le (historical era)

    Middle Ages, the period in European history from the collapse of Roman civilization in the 5th century ce to the period of the Renaissance (variously interpreted as beginning in the 13th, 14th, or 15th century, depending on the region of Europe and other factors). A brief treatment of the Middle

  • Moyen Atlas (mountains, Morocco)

    Middle Atlas, mountain range in central Morocco, Africa, lying between a plateau and plain region (northwest) and the main part of the Atlas Mountains (southeast). Many peaks exceed 8,000 feet (2,400 metres), with the highest being Mount Bou Nasser (Bou Naceur; 10,958 feet [3,340 metres]). Covered

  • Moyen-Congo (African territory)

    Moyen-Congo, (French: “Middle Congo”), one of the four territories comprising French Equatorial Africa, the origins of which derive from the establishment in 1880 by the explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza of a station at Ntamo. From 1934 Moyen-Congo was directly administered by the

  • Moyeni (Lesotho)

    Quthing, town, southern Lesotho. The surrounding area, which borders South Africa (southeast and west) and the Orange River (north), is predominantly agricultural (with subsistence farming of wheat, corn [maize], and sorghum) and pastoral. Livestock (sheep, cattle, and goats) raised in the area

  • Moyers, Bill (American journalist and commentator)

    Bill Moyers was an American journalist who was especially known for his television programs that aired on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Moyers originally trained for the Baptist ministry; he was ordained in 1954 and received a master of divinity degree from the Southwestern Baptist

  • Moyle (former district, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom)

    Moyle, former district (1973–2015) within the former County Antrim, now in Causeway Coast and Glens district, northern Northern Ireland. Situated along the northern coast of Ireland, Moyle included Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland’s only populated island, and had 42 miles (68 km) of bays,

  • Moyne Commission (British history)

    Anguilla: History of Anguilla: …commission (popularly known as the Moyne Commission) to examine social and economic conditions in the islands. The commission advocated political and social reforms, and its findings hastened the democratization of the political process. Anguilla was granted universal adult suffrage in 1952. Further changes occurred in 1956—with the dissolution of the…

  • Moyne d’Iberville, Pierre Le (French-Canadian soldier and explorer)

    Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville was a French-Canadian naval hero and explorer, noted for his exploration and battles on behalf of the French in Hudson Bay and in the territory of Louisiana. The son of prominent Montreal fur trader Charles Le Moyne, Iberville spent his young manhood in raids against

  • Moyne de Bienville, Jean-Baptiste Le (French explorer)

    Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville was a French explorer, colonial governor of Louisiana, and founder of New Orleans. Jean-Baptiste was the eighth son of Canadian pioneer Charles Le Moyne. He entered the French navy at age 12 and served with his noted elder brother, Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville, in

  • Moyne, Simon Le (Jesuit clergyman)

    Syracuse: The Jesuit missionary Father Simon Le Moyne in 1654 was the first European to note the site’s brine springs (later the basis of a salt industry). A mission and Fort Sainte Marie de Gannentaha were established nearby in 1655–56, but Indian hostility and the swampy location (notorious for summer…

  • Moyne, Walter Edward Guinness, 1st Baron (British official)

    Stern Gang: …beyond Palestine: two members assassinated Lord Moyne, British minister of state in the Middle East, at Cairo (November 1944). Later the Stern Gang attacked airfields, railway yards, and other strategic installations in Palestine, usually with success, though at heavy loss in members killed or captured. After the creation of the…

  • Moynihan of Leeds, Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, 1st Baron (British surgeon)

    Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan was a British surgeon and teacher of medicine who was a noted authority on abdominal surgery. Shifting his interests from a military life to a career in medicine, Moynihan studied at Leeds Medical School and the University of London. In 1890 he

  • Moynihan Report (work by Moynihan)

    Daniel Patrick Moynihan: …the Department of Labor, cowrote The Negro Family: The Case for National Action, popularly called the Moynihan Report, which held that many of the educational problems of American blacks resulted from the instability of black urban families. The report caused a storm of controversy and made Moynihan famous. He became…

  • Moynihan, Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, 1st Baron (British surgeon)

    Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan was a British surgeon and teacher of medicine who was a noted authority on abdominal surgery. Shifting his interests from a military life to a career in medicine, Moynihan studied at Leeds Medical School and the University of London. In 1890 he

  • Moynihan, Daniel Patrick (United States senator and sociologist)

    Daniel Patrick Moynihan was an American scholar and Democratic Party politician, U.S. senator from New York state from 1977 to 2001. Moynihan grew up in poverty in New York City and, after service in the U.S. Navy in World War II, attended Tufts University (Medford, Massachusetts) on the GI Bill of

  • Moyo, Dambisa (Zambian economist and writer)

    Dambisa Moyo is a Zambisa economist and writer whose books, articles, and public lectures centre on the creation of wealth and the perpetuation of poverty in a global economy. Much of her writing focuses on the dynamic interrelationships between impoverished states of her native Africa, emerging

  • Moyobamba (Peru)

    Moyobamba, city, north-central Peru. The city sits on a bluff overlooking the Mayo River, at 2,820 feet (860 metres) above sea level, in the humid, tropical region known as the selva (jungle). The second oldest Spanish town east of the Andes, Moyobamba (from the Quechua mayupampa, meaning “a

  • Moyse, Heather (Canadian athlete)

    Kaillie Humphries: …who, with her brakewoman partner Heather Moyse, was the first Canadian to win an Olympic gold medal in the women’s bobsled event; they won in 2010 and 2014. She won a bronze medal, with new partner Phylicia George, in 2018. She later attained U.S. citizenship and in 2022 won gold…

  • Moyse, Marcel (French musician)

    James Galway: …while also studying privately with Marcel Moyse, who was widely regarded as one of the finest flutists and teachers of the 20th century.

  • Moytura (Celtic mythology)

    Mag Tuired, mythical plain in Ireland, which was the scene of two important battles. The first battle was between the Fir Bolg and the Tuatha Dé Danann, or race of gods. In this battle the Dé Danann overcame the Fir Bolg and won Ireland for themselves, but Nuadu, the king of the gods, lost his hand

  • Moyzisch, L. C. (German official)

    Cicero: Moyzisch, who transmitted all communications between Cicero and Papen. A motion picture, Five Fingers (1952), was based on this book. Ich war Cicero (1962; I Was Cicero) was written by Bazna himself (under his real name) in collaboration with Hans Nogly.

  • Mozabite (people)

    Mʾzabite, member of a Berber people who inhabit the Mʾzab oases of southern Algeria. Members of the Ibāḍīyah subsect of the Muslim Khārijite sect, the Mʾzabites are descendants of the Ibāḍī followers of ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān ibn Rustam, who were driven from Tiaret (now Tagdempt) and took refuge (probably