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INDEX SEARCH RESULTS FOR: MADAME
 Madame Tussaud's
Maddermarket Theatre - Norwich
 Madeira - colonized by Portuguese
Madeira (wine and cake)
Madeleine, La - as copy of Parthenon
Madero, Francisco - president of Mexico
Madison, James - and the Bill of Rights
- president of the USA
- and the War of 1812
- presidents from Virginia
Madonna of the Long Neck - Parmigianino
Madras - and the East India Company
- captured by French in 1746
- shelled by the Emden
Madrid - and Tiepolo
- in 1808
Maecenas - patron of the arts
- and Virgil
- and Horace's Sabine farm
Maertens, Klaus - and Doc Martens
Maes Howe (Orkneys)
Mafeking - and the Jameson Raid
- in the Boer War
- brief account
Magadha - Indian kingdom
magazine - in the loading of rifles
 Magdalene Hospital - for 'penitent prostitutes'
Magellan
Magellan Straits - first discovered
Magenta - battle in 1859
Magi - Zoroastrian priests
- and birth of Jesus
magic - origin of word
Magic Flute - by Mozart
Maginot Line - in 1939
magma - and plate tectonics
Magna Carta - and Runnymede
- versions of 1215 and 1225
- brief account
Magna Carta of Gaeldom - in 1886
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) - history
magnetism - observed by the Greeks
- and William Gilbert
Magnus, St - and Kirkwall
Magyars - in 9th century AD
- defeated at Lechfeld in AD 955
Mahabharata - Indian epic poem
Mahaud, Jamil - president of Ecuador
Mahavira - and Jainism
- and monasticism
Mahayana Buddhism
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