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Mauritius: Year in Review 2004 ... Maximilian I

Mauritius: Year in Review 2004 In 2003 the Mauritian government continued to focus on developing the high-tech sector of its economy. The construction of a state-of-the-art business facility, or "Cyber City," outside the capital received international media attention. Mauritius: Year in Review 2005 The Mauritian government averted economic disaster in 2004 when it settled two lawsuits brought in February by U.S.-based Polo Ralph Lauren Corp., which alleged that a local manufacturer did not have permission to produce and sell clothing under the Polo label. The country's economy relied heavily on the textile manufacturing ... Mauritius: Year in Review 2006 In the wake of the massive Indian Ocean tsunami that occurred on Dec. 26, 2004, Mauritius hosted a meeting in early January 2005 of the Small Island Developing States (SIDS), a group of 51 small island countries and territories, to address plans for an early-warning system and other economic and ... Mauritius: Year in Review 2007 In 2006, cemented by a three-day state visit by Indian Pres. Kalam in March, partnership with India was the main focus of Mauritius's economic policy and international affairs. Following the inspection of several Indian-sponsored development projects and after meetings with local scientists and communications experts, a bilateral agreement was signed ... Mauritius: Year in Review 2008 Prompted by a downturn in two key industrial sectors, textiles and sugar production (following price cuts and the imposition of global trade quotas), Mauritius continued in 2007 to bolster its economy through strategic partnerships with several countries and forged trade agreements with China and Pakistan. Trade pacts had been signed ... Mauritius: Year in Review 2009 The ongoing court battle between the British government and exiles from Diego Garcia, who had lived for 40 years in Mauritius, continued through much of 2008. Following a series of government appeals to prevent island resettlement, British lawmakers in July argued that the islanders and their descendents should be allowed ... Mauritius: Year in Review 2010 In 2009 Mauritius began enforcing the Equal Opportunities Act (EOA), which was passed by the legislature in late 2008 and guaranteed universal protection under the law against all forms of discrimination based on gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age, status and physical abilities. The EOA had been created in an ... Mauritius: Year in Review 2011 In May 2010 legislative elections, voters in Mauritius elected Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam to a second term. In an effort to resolve the political uncertainty that had been affecting the economy adversely, Ramgoolam had dissolved the National Assembly in March for early elections, which Ramgoolam then called for May 5. ... Mauritius: Year in Review 2012 In 2011 widespread accusations of government corruption threatened to destabilize Mauritius's sound political and economic base. Health Minister Santi Bai Hanoomanjee was arrested for graft in July for her part in the inflation of the value of a government tender. The high-profile arrest was the first to be made after ... Mauritius: Year in Review 2013 Mauritius's generally stable political system experienced some turbulence in 2012. After allegations of corruption and ideological disagreements between the country's leaders, Pres. Sir Anerood Jugnauth and Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam, President Jugnauth resigned on March 31. Former prime minister and opposition leader Paul Berenger announced that a coalition had been ... Mauritius island country in the Indian Ocean, located off the eastern coast of Africa. Physiographically, it is part of the Mascarene Islands. The capital is Port Louis. Mauritius hemp plant of the family agave (Agavaceae), and its fibre, belonging to the leaf fibre (q.v.) group. Despite its name, it is not a true hemp. Mauritius, flag of horizontally striped red-blue-yellow-green national flag. It has a width-to-length ratio of 2 to 3. Mauritshuis picture gallery in The Hague housed in a palace (1633-44) designed by Jacob van Campen and built by Pieter Post for Prince John Maurice of Nassau. The collection, opened to the public in 1820, is especially noted for its Flemish and Dutch paintings from the 15th to the 17th century. Maurois, Andre French biographer, novelist, and essayist, best known for biographies that maintain the narrative interest of novels. Mauropous, John Byzantine scholar and ecclesiastic, author of sermons, poems and epigrams, letters, a saint's life, and a large collection of canons, or church hymns (many unpublished). Maurras, Charles French writer and political theorist, a major intellectual influence in early 20th-century Europe whose "integral nationalism" anticipated some of the ideas of fascism. Maury, Matthew Fontaine U.S. naval officer, pioneer hydrographer, and one of the founders of oceanography. Mauryan empire (c. 321-185 BCE), in ancient India, a state centred at Pataliputra (later Patna) near the junction of the Son and Ganges (Ganga) rivers. In the wake of Alexander the Great's death, Chandragupta (or Chandragupta Maurya), its dynastic founder, carved out the majority of an empire that encompassed most of the ... Mauser rifle any of a family of bolt-action rifles designed by Peter Paul Mauser (1838-1914), a German who had worked in an arms plant before entering the German army in 1859. Mauser's first successful design was a single-shot, 11-millimetre, bolt-action rifle that became the forerunner of many important designs. In 1880 Mauser ... mausoleum large and impressive sepulchral monument. The word is derived from Mausolus, ruler of Caria, in whose memory his widow Artemisia raised a splendid tomb at Halicarnassus (c. 353- c. 350 BC), which is one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Some remains of this monument are now in the ... Mausolus Persian satrap (governor), though virtually an independent ruler, of Caria, in southwestern Anatolia, from 377/376 to 353. He is best known from the name of his monumental tomb, the so-called Mausoleum-considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World-a word now used to designate any large and imposing burial ... Mauss, Marcel French sociologist and anthropologist whose contributions include a highly original comparative study of the relation between forms of exchange and social structure. His views on the theory and method of ethnology are thought to have influenced many eminent social scientists, including Claude Levi-Strauss, A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, E.E. Evans-Pritchard, and Melville J. ... Mauthausen one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps, located near the village of Mauthausen, on the Danube River, 12 miles (20 km) east of Linz, Austria. It was established in April 1938, shortly after Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany. Starting as a satellite of Dachau, in Germany, it became ... Mauthner, Fritz German author, theatre critic, and exponent of philosophical Skepticism derived from a critique of human knowledge. Mauve, Anton Dutch Romantic painter who, like his friends Jozef Israels and the three Maris brothers, was profoundly influenced by the French landscape painter Camille Corot and the Barbizon school. Mavor, Elizabeth British author whose novels and nonfiction works concern relationships between women. Mavrokordatos, Alexandros statesman, one of the founders and first political leaders of independent Greece. Mavura African emperor who was installed as the ruler of the great Mwene Matapa empire by the Portuguese. His conversion to Christianity enabled the Portuguese to extend their commercial influence into the African interior from their trading base in Mozambique on the East African coast. Mawangdui archaeological site uncovered in 1963 near Changsha, Hunan province, southeastern China. It is the burial place of a high-ranking official, the marquess of Dai, who lived in the 2nd century BC, and of his immediate family. He was one of many petty nobles who governed small semiautonomous domains under the ... Mawardi, al- Muslim jurist who played an important role in formulating orthodox political theory as to the nature of the authority of the caliph. Mawdudi, Abu'l-A'la , journalist and fundamentalist Muslim theologian who played a major role in Pakistani politics. Mawlamyine town, southeastern Myanmar (Burma). It is an important port on the Gulf of Martaban near the mouth of the Salween River. Mawlamyine was the chief town of British Burma from the Treaty of Yandabo (1826) until the annexation of Pegu in 1852. Sheltered by Bilugyun Island, it is approached from ... Mawlawiyah fraternity of Sufis (Muslim mystics) founded in Konya (Qonya), Anatolia, by the Persian Sufi poet Rumi (d. 1273), whose popular title mawlana (Arabic: "our master") gave the order its name. The order, propagated throughout Anatolia, controlled Konya and environs by the 15th century and in the 17th century appeared in ... mawlid in Islam, the birthday of a holy figure, especially the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad (Mawlid an-Nabi). Mawson, Sir Douglas Australian geologist and explorer whose travels in the Antarctic earned him worldwide acclaim. Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science official scientific research organization of Germany. It is headquartered in Munich. It was founded in 1911 as the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft), but its name was changed in 1948 to honour the great German physicist Max Planck (1858-1947), the originator of the quantum theory. The society is funded by ... Max, Adolphe Belgian Liberal statesman who as burgomaster of Brussels at the beginning of World War I gained international fame for his resistance to the German occupation. Maxakali South American Indians speaking related languages of the Maxakali branch of the Macro-Ge language family. The tribes-Maxakali, Macuni, Kumanaxo, Kapoxo, Paname, and Monoxo-live in the mountains near the border between the Brazilian estados ("states") of Minas Gerais and Bahia, near the headwaters of the Itanhem River. Over the past century ... Maxamed Cabdulle Xasan, Sayyid Somali religious and nationalist leader (called the "Mad Mullah" by the British) who for 20 years led armed resistance to the British, Italian, and Ethiopian colonial forces in Somaliland. Because of his active resistance to the British and his vision of a Somalia united in a Muslim brotherhood transcending clan ... Maxentius Roman emperor from 306 to 312. His father, the emperor Maximian, abdicated with Diocletian in 305. In the new tetrarchy (two augusti with a caesar under each) that was set up after these abdications, Maxentius was passed over in favour of Flavius Valerius Severus, who was made a caesar, and ... Maxillaria genus of more than 300 species of tropical American orchids, family Orchidaceae, that grow on other plants or on soil at high altitudes. Some species are less than 5 cm (2 inches) tall, but others may grow to nearly a metre (about 3 feet). Maxim machine gun first fully automatic machine gun (q.v.), developed by engineer and inventor Hiram Maxim in about 1884, while he was residing in England. It was manufactured by Vickers and was sometimes known as the Vickers-Maxim and sometimes just Vickers. These guns were used by every major power. The Maxim gun was ... Maxim, Hiram Percy American inventor and manufacturer known especially for the "Maxim silencer" gun attachment. Maxim, Hudson American inventor of explosives extensively used in World War I. Maxim, Sir Hiram (Stevens) prolific inventor best known for the Maxim machine gun. Maxima, Princess Argentine-born Dutch princess-consort of Prince Willem-Alexander, crown prince of The Netherlands. Maximian Roman emperor with Diocletian from AD 286 to 305. Maximilian archduke of Austria and the emperor of Mexico, a man whose naive liberalism proved unequal to the international intrigues that had put him on the throne and to the brutal struggles within Mexico that led to his execution. Maximilian I duke of Bavaria from 1597 and elector from 1623, a champion of the Roman Catholic side during the Thirty Years' War (1618-48). Maximilian I archduke of Austria, German king, and Holy Roman emperor (1493-1519), who made his family, the Habsburgs, dominant in 16th-century Europe. He added vast lands to the traditional Austrian holdings, securing the Netherlands by his own marriage, Hungary and Bohemia by treaty and military pressure, and Spain and the Spanish empire ...