Ralph Waldo Emerson: Mature life and works: …were supplemented by others in May-Day (1867), and the two volumes established his reputation as a major American poet.

Misty May-Treanor is an American beach volleyball player who, with her partner, Kerri Walsh Jennings, won Olympic gold medals in the event in 2004, 2008, and 2012. May grew up in California and played indoor volleyball at California State University, Long Beach, where she led her team to the 1998

Maha Maya, the mother of Gautama Buddha; she was the wife of Raja Shuddhodana. According to Buddhist legend, Maha Maya dreamed that a white elephant with six tusks entered her right side, which was interpreted to mean that she had conceived a child who would become either a world ruler or a buddha.

Maya, Indigenous people of Mesoamerica occupying a nearly continuous territory in southern Mexico, Guatemala, and northern Belize. In the early 21st century some 30 Mayan languages were spoken by more than five million people, most of whom were bilingual in Spanish. Before the Spanish conquest of

maya, a fundamental concept in Hindu philosophy, notably in the Advaita (Nondualist) school of Vedanta. Maya originally denoted the magic power with which a god can make human beings believe in what turns out to be an illusion. By extension, it later came to mean the powerful force that creates the

maya, a fundamental concept in Hindu philosophy, notably in the Advaita (Nondualist) school of Vedanta. Maya originally denoted the magic power with which a god can make human beings believe in what turns out to be an illusion. By extension, it later came to mean the powerful force that creates the

Nayanthara: Impact on film industry and Bollywood debut: …Kahaani (“Story”) starring Vidya Balan; Maya (2015), a neo-noir horror film in which she played a single mother; Kolamaavu Kokila (2018; “Kolam Powder Kokila”), about a woman who smuggles drugs to fund her mother’s cancer treatment; Netrikann (2021; “Third Eye”), in which she played two characters, one of which is…

M.I.A.: She released her third album, Maya, to mixed reviews in 2010. Matangi (2013) was more positively received and yielded the hit single “Bad Girls.” M.I.A. stated that AIM (2016) would be her final album. However, in 2020 she released a new song, “OHMNI 202091,” on a subscription-based Web platform.

Zoe Saldaña: Diverse roles in later works: …Miranda, and the TV miniseries Maya and the Three, about a Mesoamerican warrior princess. The following year she appeared in David O. Russell’s period satire Amsterdam, the action comedy The Adam Project, and the Netflix limited series romance From Scratch. In 2022 Saldaña portrayed an undocumented immigrant in the drama…

Maya Angelou: Career in film and television: The documentary Maya Angelou and Still I Rise (2016) depicts her life through interviews with Angelou and her intimates and admirers.

Maya calendar, dating system of the ancient Maya civilization and the basis for all other calendars used by Mesoamerican civilizations. The calendar was based on a ritual cycle of 260 named days and a year of 365 days. Taken together, they form a longer cycle of 18,980 days, or 52 years of 365

Maya hieroglyphic writing, system of writing used by the Maya people of Mesoamerica until about the end of the 17th century, 200 years after the Spanish conquest of Mexico. (With the 21st-century discovery of the Maya site of San Bartolo in Guatemala came evidence of Maya writing that pushed back

Yucatec language, American Indian language of the Mayan family, spoken in the Yucatán Peninsula, including not only part of Mexico but also Belize and northern Guatemala. In its classical (i.e., 16th-century) form Yucatec was the language of Yucatán, and it survives in its modern form with little

Maya Lin: In 1995 the feature-length film Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision (1994), written and directed by Freida Lee Mock, won the Oscar for best documentary. Lin was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2009 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016.

Maya Mountains, range of hills mostly in southern Belize, extending about 70 miles (115 km) northeastward from across the Guatemalan border into central Belize. The range falls abruptly to the coastal plain to the east and north but more gradually to the west, becoming the Vaca Plateau, which

Isabel Allende: Other novels and fiction: El cuaderno de Maya (2011; Maya’s Notebook) takes the form of a teenage girl’s diary, written in the wake of a disastrous episode of drug use and prostitution. In El juego de Ripper (2014; Ripper), Allende tells the story of a teenage girl tracking a serial killer.

Maya Angelou: Poetry and other works: …Frighten Me (1998), and the Maya’s World series, which was published in 2004–05 and features stories of children from various parts of the world. Angelou dispensed anecdote-laden advice to women in Letter to My Daughter (2008), although her only biological child was her son. She published other volumes of autobiography,…

Sri Lanka: The expansion of Portuguese control: Mayadunne, the king of Sitawake, was an ambitious and able ruler who sought to expand his frontiers at the expense of his brother at Kotte. Bhuvanaika Bahu could not resist the temptation of seeking Portuguese assistance, and the Portuguese were eager to help him. The…

Mayagüez: …city’s educational institutions is the Mayagüez Campus of the University of Puerto Rico. There are some nuclear research facilities associated with the campus.

Mayagüez, city, western Puerto Rico. Created in 1760 as Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria de Mayagüez, it was elevated to the royal status of villa in 1836 and to a city in 1877. In 1918 the city and port were ravaged by an earthquake and a tidal wave, but they were quickly rebuilt. Mayagüez has been

Gerald Ford: From congressman to vice president and president: …of the American cargo ship Mayaguez, Ford declared the event an “act of piracy” and sent the Marines to seize the ship. They succeeded, but the rescue operation to save the 39-member crew resulted in the loss of 41 American lives and the wounding of 50 others. Moreover, U.S. relations…

Kyshtym disaster, explosion of buried nuclear waste from a plutonium-processing plant near Kyshtym, Chelyabinsk oblast, Russia (then in the U.S.S.R.), on September 29, 1957. Until 1989 the Soviet government refused to acknowledge that the event had occurred, even though about 9,000 square miles

Pamirs: Physiography: …and east-west elements, rising to Mayakovsky Peak (19,996 feet [6,095 metres]) and Karl Marx (Karla Marksa) Peak (22,067 feet [6,726 metres]). In the extreme southeast, to the south of Lake Zorkul (Sarī Qūl), lie the east-west Vākhān Mountains.

Vladimir Mayakovsky was the leading poet of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and of the early Soviet period. Mayakovsky, whose father died while Mayakovsky was young, moved to Moscow with his mother and sisters in 1906. At age 15 he joined the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party and was

Vladimir Mayakovsky was the leading poet of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and of the early Soviet period. Mayakovsky, whose father died while Mayakovsky was young, moved to Moscow with his mother and sisters in 1906. At age 15 he joined the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party and was

John Mayall was a British singer, pianist, organist, and occasional guitarist who was among the guiding lights of the British blues movement in the early to mid-1960s. Always a popular performer, Mayall is nevertheless more celebrated for the musicians he attracted into his band, the Bluesbreakers.

Rik Mayall was a British comic actor and writer known for playing over-the-top, humorously unlikable characters. He is best known as a cast member and writer for the influential British situation comedy The Young Ones, which ran for 12 episodes from 1982 to 1984, and for portraying the title

Rik Mayall was a British comic actor and writer known for playing over-the-top, humorously unlikable characters. He is best known as a cast member and writer for the influential British situation comedy The Young Ones, which ran for 12 episodes from 1982 to 1984, and for portraying the title

Japanese literature: The modern drama: Mayama Seika wrote both traditional and modern works, but even in his most traditional, such as his version of the classic Kabuki play cycle Chūshingura, the dramatist’s stance was that of a modern man.

Maya, Indigenous people of Mesoamerica occupying a nearly continuous territory in southern Mexico, Guatemala, and northern Belize. In the early 21st century some 30 Mayan languages were spoken by more than five million people, most of whom were bilingual in Spanish. Before the Spanish conquest of

Maya calendar, dating system of the ancient Maya civilization and the basis for all other calendars used by Mesoamerican civilizations. The calendar was based on a ritual cycle of 260 named days and a year of 365 days. Taken together, they form a longer cycle of 18,980 days, or 52 years of 365

Mayan languages, family of indigenous languages spoken in southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize; Mayan languages were also formerly spoken in western Honduras and western El Salvador. See also Mesoamerican Indian languages. The Huastecan branch, composed of the Huastec and Chicomuceltec (extinct)

Mayan Procession Scene, Mayan fresco created by unknown artists about 790 CE in the ancient Mayan city of Bonampak, now in Chiapas state in Mexico. This fresco is part of the paintings that cover the walls of a three-room building on the first floor of a terraced acropolis. Mayan art and

divination: Nature and significance: …Etruscans in Italy and the Maya in Mexico as sacred; his concern was for the very destiny of his people. Divination has many rationales, and it is difficult to describe the diviner as a distinctive social type. He or she may be a shaman (private curer employing psychic techniques; see…

Mayapán, ruined ancient Mayan city, located about 35 miles (55 km) southeast of modern Mérida, Yucatán state, Mexico. It became one of the most important cities of that region in the early Postclassic period (c. ad 900–1519). The art and architecture of the city were imitative of, but inferior to,

Chichén Itzá: …political confederacy known as the League of Mayapán.

mayapple, (Podophyllum peltatum), perennial herbaceous plant of the family Berberidaceae (order Ranunculales) native to eastern North America, most commonly in shady areas on moist, rich soil. Its plant is 30 to 45 cm (12 to 18 inches) tall. Its dark green, umbrella-like leaves, nearly 30 cm

Maya Mountains, range of hills mostly in southern Belize, extending about 70 miles (115 km) northeastward from across the Guatemalan border into central Belize. The range falls abruptly to the coastal plain to the east and north but more gradually to the west, becoming the Vaca Plateau, which

Kumari Mayawati is an Indian politician and government official. As a longtime major figure in the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), she represented and was an advocate for people at the lowest levels of the Hindu social system in India—those officially designated as members of the Scheduled Castes,

automobile: The age of the classic cars: …the United States; the Horch, Maybach, and Mercedes-Benz of Germany; the Belgian Minerva; and the Italian Isotta-Fraschini. These were costly machines, priced roughly from $7,500 to $40,000, fast (145 to 210 km, or 90 to 130 miles, per hour), as comfortable as the state of the art would allow, and…

Wilhelm Maybach was a German engineer and industrialist who was the chief designer of the first Mercedes automobiles (1900–01). From 1883 Maybach was associated with Gottlieb Daimler in developing efficient internal-combustion engines; their first important product, a relatively light four-stroke

Ben Elton: Published novels and other works: …romantic comedy film he directed, Maybe Baby (2000), starring Laurie and Joely Richardson. Other novels of his include Dead Famous (2001), High Society (2002), Chart Throb (2006), Blind Faith (2007), Two Brothers (2012), and Identity Crisis (2019).

Colleen Hoover: Blockbuster books: It Ends with Us, It Starts with Us, and Verity: …Someday series: Maybe Someday (2014), Maybe Not (2014; novella), and Maybe Now (2018).

Colleen Hoover: Blockbuster books: It Ends with Us, It Starts with Us, and Verity: …Maybe Not (2014; novella), and Maybe Now (2018).

Colleen Hoover: Blockbuster books: It Ends with Us, It Starts with Us, and Verity: …wrote the Maybe Someday series: Maybe Someday (2014), Maybe Not (2014; novella), and Maybe Now (2018).

Bernard Maybeck was an American architect whose work in California (from 1889) exhibits the versatility attainable within the formal styles of early 20th-century architecture. Educated at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris (1880–86), Maybeck worked briefly in New York City and Kansas City, Mo., before

Bernard Maybeck was an American architect whose work in California (from 1889) exhibits the versatility attainable within the formal styles of early 20th-century architecture. Educated at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris (1880–86), Maybeck worked briefly in New York City and Kansas City, Mo., before

Chess Records: From Muddy to “Maybellene”: …Moonglows’ “Sincerely” and Berry’s “Maybellene.”

The Andy Griffith Show: (1964–69) and Mayberry, R.F.D. (1968–71). Griffith, a one-time comic monologuist who had appeared in motion pictures such as A Face in the Crowd (1957) and No Time for Sergeants (1958), later had another long stay on television as a lawyer in the title role of Matlock (1986–92,…

cockchafer, (Melolontha melolontha), a large European beetle that is destructive to foliage, flowers, and fruit as an adult and to plant roots as a larva. In the British Isles, the name “cockchafer” refers more broadly to any of the beetles in the subfamily Melolonthinae (family Scarabaeidae),

Damascus: Ottoman period: Al-Maydān, an entire district encompassing several quarters and villages, developed south of the walled city. The saturation of lucrative trades in the city center led to an increase in the building of khāns there. This construction boom culminated in two monumental khāns, erected south of…

Islamic arts: Architecture: …centre of Eṣfahān is the Maydān-e Shāh (now Maydān-e Emām), a large open space, about 1,670 by 520 feet (510 by 158 metres), originally surrounded by trees. Used for polo games and parades, it could be illuminated with 50,000 lamps. Each side of the maydān was provided with the monumental…

Islamic arts: Architecture: …centre of Eṣfahān is the Maydān-e Shāh (now Maydān-e Emām), a large open space, about 1,670 by 520 feet (510 by 158 metres), originally surrounded by trees. Used for polo games and parades, it could be illuminated with 50,000 lamps. Each side of the maydān was provided with the monumental…

distress signal: …or the spoken word “Mayday” (pronounced like the French m’aider, “help me”), by radiotelephone. Distressed vessels may also actuate alarms of other vessels by a radio signal consisting of a series of 12 four-second dashes or by a radiotelephone signal consisting of two tones alternately transmitted for 30 to…

Mia Goth: Early roles: Nymphomaniac: Volume II, The Survivalist, and Emma.: …women in the genre-bending fantasy Mayday (2021).

Maydūm, ancient Egyptian site near Memphis on the west bank of the Nile River in Banī Suwayf muḥāfaẓah (governorate). It is the location of the earliest-known pyramid complex with all the parts of a normal Old Kingdom (c. 2575–c. 2130 bc) funerary monument. These parts included the pyramid itself,

Drake Maye is an American football quarterback who plays for the New England Patriots. A star player with the University of North Carolina, he was picked third in the 2024 NFL draft, and in just his second season Maye led the Patriots in a historic turnaround. The team’s 10-win improvement tied a

Maekawa Kunio was a Japanese architect noted for his designs of community centres and his work in concrete. After graduation from Tokyo University in 1928, Maekawa studied with the architect Le Corbusier in Paris for two years. Returning to Japan, he tried in such works as Hinamoto Hall (1936) and

Mainz, city, capital of Rhineland-Palatinate Land (state), west-central Germany. It is a port on the left bank of the Rhine River opposite Wiesbaden and the mouth of the Main River. It was the site of a Celtic settlement where the Romans established (14–9 bce) a military camp known as Mogontiacum

Talmud and Midrash: Commentaries: …recorded by students of the Mayence (Mainz) Academy. Compilations of this kind, known as qunṭresim (“notebooks”), also developed in other academies. Their content was masterfully reshaped and reformulated in the renowned 11th-century commentary of Rashi (acronym of Rabbi Shlomo Yitzḥaqi), in which difficulties likely to be encountered by students are…

Pays de la Loire: … encompassing the western départements of Mayenne, Sarthe, Maine-et-Loire, Vendée, and Loire-Atlantique. Pays de la Loire is bounded by the régions of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté to the northwest, Normandy to the north, Centre to the east, and Nouvelle-Aquitaine to the south. The

Mayenne River, river in northwestern France; its headwaters are west-northwest of Alençon in Forêt de Multonne, Orne département. It flows southward for 121 miles (195 km) to its confluence with the Sarthe above Angers. The combined rivers, called the Maine River (q.v.), flow through Angers into

Charles de Lorraine, duke de Mayenne was a leader (1589–95) of the Holy League in France and opponent of Henry of Navarre’s claims to the French throne. During the first religious wars in France, Mayenne participated in several military actions against the Huguenots. After the assassinations (1588)

pre-Columbian civilizations: Social and political organization: …the social structure were the mayeques, or serfs, attached to private or state-owned rural estates. Within these three castes, a number of social classes could be differentiated, according to wealth, occupation, and political office. The Aztec system made a distinction between ascribed and achieved status. By a system of promotions,…

Louis B. Mayer was a Russian-born American businessman who, for nearly 30 years, was the most powerful motion-picture executive in Hollywood. As the head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), the largest and most prestigious film studio, he created the star system during the 1920s and ’30s and had under

zoology: Evolutionism: …American evolutionists, Theodosius Dobzhansky and Ernst Mayer, that the species is the basic unit of evolution. The process of speciation occurs as a gene pool breaks up to form isolated gene pools. When selection pressures similar to those of the original gene pool persist in the new gene pools, similar…

Helene Mayer: Fencing for the Führer: Helene Mayer, a talented fencer whose father was Jewish, was selected to represent Germany at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin only after considerable political wrangling. The International Olympic Committee insisted that a Jewish athlete be placed on the German team as proof that Jews…

Tournai porcelain: …Birds (1771), was painted by Jean-Ghislain-Joseph Mayer. The service consists of panels with naturalistically coloured birds that alternate on the rim of the plates with panels of dark blue, diapered with gold. The blue was similar to the bleu de roi (“royal blue”) of Sèvres. Flowers and insects were also…

Johann Tobias Mayer was a German astronomer who developed lunar tables that greatly assisted navigators in determining longitude at sea. Mayer also discovered the libration (or apparent wobbling) of the Moon. A self-taught mathematician, Mayer had already published two original geometrical works

John Mayer is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist whose melodic, often soft rock earned him a wide audience and a number of Grammy Awards in the early 21st century. Having taken up guitar playing as a teenager, Mayer briefly attended Boston’s Berklee College of Music but never completed

human intelligence: Cognitive-contextual theories: In 1990 the psychologists John Mayer and Peter Salovey defined the term emotional intelligence as

John Mayer is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist whose melodic, often soft rock earned him a wide audience and a number of Grammy Awards in the early 21st century. Having taken up guitar playing as a teenager, Mayer briefly attended Boston’s Berklee College of Music but never completed

history of science: The Romantic revolt: …that of James Prescott Joule, Robert Mayer, and Hermann von Helmholtz, each of whom arrived at a generalization of basic importance to all science, the principle of the conservation of energy.

Ashton Eaton: …when it was surpassed by Kevin Mayer of France.

Louis B. Mayer was a Russian-born American businessman who, for nearly 30 years, was the most powerful motion-picture executive in Hollywood. As the head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), the largest and most prestigious film studio, he created the star system during the 1920s and ’30s and had under

Louis B. Mayer was a Russian-born American businessman who, for nearly 30 years, was the most powerful motion-picture executive in Hollywood. As the head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), the largest and most prestigious film studio, he created the star system during the 1920s and ’30s and had under

Louis B. Mayer was a Russian-born American businessman who, for nearly 30 years, was the most powerful motion-picture executive in Hollywood. As the head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), the largest and most prestigious film studio, he created the star system during the 1920s and ’30s and had under

Maria Goeppert Mayer was a German-born American physicist who shared one-half of the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physics with J. Hans D. Jensen of West Germany for their proposal of the shell nuclear model. (The other half of the prize was awarded to Eugene P. Wigner of the United States for unrelated

Marissa Mayer is an American software engineer and businesswoman who greatly influenced the development of Google Inc., the world’s leading search engine company, in its early years. She later served as CEO and president of Yahoo! Inc. (2012–17). Mayer and her younger brother grew up in Wausau,

Marissa Mayer is an American software engineer and businesswoman who greatly influenced the development of Google Inc., the world’s leading search engine company, in its early years. She later served as CEO and president of Yahoo! Inc. (2012–17). Mayer and her younger brother grew up in Wausau,

Simon Marius was a German astronomer who named the four largest moons of Jupiter: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. All four are named after mythological figures with whom Jupiter fell in love. He and Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei both claimed to have discovered them, about 1610, and it is

Olympic Games: Turin, Italy, 2006: Coach Walter Mayer, who had been banned for suspicion of blood doping, was discovered in the Austrian camp, resulting in an investigation of 10 athletes.

Werner Egk was a German composer primarily of music for the theatre. Egk studied composition with Carl Orff in Munich, where he settled and composed music for puppet plays and radio plays. He conducted his own first opera for the stage, Die Zaubergeige (1935), in Frankfurt am Main. His operas and

transplant: The uterus: Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome (MRKH; also called Müllerian agenesis), characterized by underdevelopment or absence of the vagina and uterus, occurs in about 1 in 4,500 girls at birth. Women with MRKH cannot carry a pregnancy, though those who have functioning ovaries may choose in vitro fertilization (IVF)…

Mayerling, village on the Schwechat River in eastern Lower Austria (Niederösterreich), 24 kilometres (15 miles) southwest of Vienna. It is the site of a hunting lodge (now a Carmelite convent) where the Habsburg crown prince, Archduke Rudolf, and his paramour Mary Vetsera committed suicide under

Omar Sharif: …Prince Rudolf of Austria in Mayerling (1968), and revolutionary Che Guevara in Che! (1969). Sharif was also well known for his portrayal of Nick Arnstein, husband to Barbra Streisand’s Fanny Brice in Funny Girl (1968); he reprised the role of Arnstein in the film’s sequel, Funny Lady (1975).

Anatomy of a Murder: Production notes and credits:

Maat, in ancient Egyptian religion, the personification of truth, justice, and the cosmic order. The daughter of the sun god Re, she was associated with Thoth, god of wisdom. The ceremony of judgment of the dead (called the “Judgment of Osiris,” named for the god of the dead) was believed to focus

Hessian fly, (Mayetiola destructor), small fly in the gall midge family, Cecidomyiidae (order Diptera), that is very destructive to wheat crops. Though a native of Asia it was transported into Europe and later into North America, supposedly in the straw bedding of Hessian troops during the American

Mayfair, neighbourhood of the City of Westminster, London. Mayfair extends east of Hyde Park, south of St. Marylebone, and north of Green Park. It is a fashionable district that includes the most important retail shopping activity in the United Kingdom. From Oxford Street its main shopping

Mayfield, city, seat of Graves county, southwestern Kentucky, U.S., about 25 miles (40 km) west of Kentucky Lake and 25 miles south of Paducah. Mayfield was settled about 1820 and named for a local creek into which, according to legend, a certain George Mayfield had fallen after he was mortally

Tampa Bay Buccaneers: …and Tampa Bay signed quarterback Baker Mayfield. In 2023 the team posted a winning record, 9–8, and in the playoffs the Buccaneers won their wild card game but lost in the divisional round to the Detroit Lions.

Curtis Mayfield was a singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer, and entrepreneur who was one of the principal architects of Chicago-based soul music during the 1960s and ’70s. Beginning with his earliest songs—such as “Gypsy Woman” (1961), “It’s All Right” (1963), “Keep On Pushing” (1964), and

Jane Wyman was an American actor who had a long, distinguished career in film and television, but was perhaps equally well known as the first wife (1940–48) of former president Ronald Reagan. Wyman’s father died when she was a small child, and she was placed in the care of neighbours, whose last

mayflower, either of two spring-blooming wildflowers native to eastern North America or one of several plants that bloom in the spring in Europe. Podophyllum peltatum (family Berberidaceae) is more often called mayapple, and Epigaea repens (family Ericaceae) is the trailing arbutus. Crataegus

Mayflower, in American colonial history, the ship that carried the Pilgrims from England to Plymouth, Massachusetts, where they established the first permanent New England colony in 1620. Although no detailed description of the original vessel exists, marine archaeologists estimate that the

mayapple, (Podophyllum peltatum), perennial herbaceous plant of the family Berberidaceae (order Ranunculales) native to eastern North America, most commonly in shady areas on moist, rich soil. Its plant is 30 to 45 cm (12 to 18 inches) tall. Its dark green, umbrella-like leaves, nearly 30 cm

yacht: Kinds of power yachts: Conspicuous among these was the Mayflower (1897) of 2,690 tons, containing triple-expansion engines, twin screws, and a compartmented iron hull and manned by a crew of more than 150. The Mayflower, purchased by the United States Navy in 1898, was the official yacht of the president of the United States…

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez: …as Flor de mayo (1895; Mayflower, 1921), La barraca (1898; The Cabin, 1917), and Cañas y barro (1902; Reeds and Mud, 1966), is marked by a vigorous and intense realism and considerable dramatic force in the depiction of the life of Valencia. Later novels, such as La bodega (1906; The…

trailing arbutus, (Epigaea repens), trailing plant of the heath family (Ericaceae), native to sandy or boggy, acid woodlands of eastern North America. It has oblong, hairy evergreen leaves 2–6 cm (0.75–2.5 inches) long. The highly fragrant white, pink, or rosy flowers have a five-lobed corolla (the