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INDEX SEARCH RESULTS FOR: MAHDI
 Mahdi - in Shi'ism
Mahdi, The - or Mohammed Ahmed
Mahmud II - destroys the janissaries
Mahmud of Ghazni - his empire
- and India
Mahmudiya canal - opened in 1820
 Maiden - Scottish guillotine
Maiden Castle (Iron Age fort)
Maid Marian
- and Robin Hood
maid of honour (tart)
Maids of Honour - by Velazquez
Maidstone (Kent)
Maid's Tragedy - Beaumont and Fletcher
Mail, Daily (in Britain)
mail coach - introduced in 1784
Mail on Sunday (in Britain)
Maimonides - Jewish philosopher
Mainassara, Ibrahim Baré - in Niger
Maine - statehood in 1820
Maine - US battleship in 1898
Mainz - and Boniface
- and archbishop Albert
Mainz psalter - first dated book
Maipu - battle in 1818
Maison Carrée - in Nîmes
maize - first cultivated
- transplanted from America
Majid - inherits Zanzibar
Maji-Maji rising - in German East Africa
majolica - tin-glazed earthenware
- origin of name
Major, John - British prime minister
- and the Downing Street Declaration
- and Stone of Scone
- brief biography
Major Barbara (Shaw)
Majorca - and majolica
major-domo - origin
Majuba - battle in 1881
majuscule - in manuscripts
Makerere college - and Nyerere
Makhosetive, Prince - later Mswati III
Makoko - and Brazza
Malabo - capital of Equatorial Guinea
Malacca - Muslim sultanate
- and the Portuguese
- and the Dutch
Malade imaginaire - by Molière
Malaga - battle in 1704
Malagasy republic - name adopted in 1958
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