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INDEX SEARCH RESULTS FOR: MAES
 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
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
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