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INDEX SEARCH RESULTS FOR: MAGNA
 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
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
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