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Mo, Timothy ... Model, Lisette

Mo, Timothy Anglo-Chinese writer whose critically acclaimed novels explore the intersection of English and Cantonese cultures. moa any of several extinct, ostrichlike flightless birds native to New Zealand and constituting the order Dinornithiformes. The number of different species is in dispute, with estimates varying from 13 to 25. Among these species, individuals ranged in size from that of a turkey to larger than that of an ostrich; ... Moab Kingdom, ancient Palestine. Located east of the Dead Sea in what is now west-central Jordan, it was bounded by Edom and the land of the Amorites. The Moabites were closely related to the Israelites, and the two were frequently in conflict. The Moabite Stone, found at Dibon, recorded the 9th-century-BC ... Moab city, seat (1890) of Grand county, southeastern Utah, U.S. Located on the western flank of the La Sal Mountains alongside the Colorado River, the city was originally a Mormon mission, founded in 1855. Both the original settlement and the surrounding area bore several names (including Spanish Valley and Poverty Flats) ... Moabite member of a West-Semitic people who lived in the highlands east of the Dead Sea (now in west-central Jordan) and flourished in the 9th century BC. They are known principally through information given in the Old Testament and from the inscription on the Moabite Stone. The Moabites' culture is dated ... Moabite alphabet eastern subdivision of the Canaanite branch of the early Semitic alphabet, closely related to the early Hebrew alphabet. The best-known example of the Moabite alphabet is from the Mesha', or Moabite, Stone (Louvre, Paris), which was discovered in 1868 at Dibon, east of the Dead Sea. The stone bears a ... moai figure small wooden statue of uncertain religious significance, carved on Easter Island. The figures, thought to be representations of ancestors who live on in the form of skeletons, are of two types, moai kavakava (male) and moai paepae (female). They were sometimes used for fertility rites but were more often used ... Mob Convention woman suffrage meeting, held September 6-7, 1853, in New York City, that earned its popular label owing to the numerous disruptions to it by protesters. Moberg, Vilhelm Swedish novelist and dramatist, best-known for his novels of the Swedish emigration to America but concerned primarily with the people of the countryside from which he came and with the system that made life so miserable for them. Mobil Corporation former American petroleum and chemical company that joined with Exxon in 1999 to form Exxon Mobil Corporation. Mobile city, seat (1812) of Mobile county, southwestern Alabama, U.S. It lies on Mobile Bay (an arm of the Gulf of Mexico) at the mouth of the Mobile River and is a river port and Alabama's only seaport. mobile abstract sculpture that has moving parts, driven either by motors or the natural force of wind. The word mobile was initially suggested by Marcel Duchamp for a 1932 Paris exhibition of such works by the American artist Alexander Calder. One of Calder's first mobiles consisted of coloured spheres motorized to ... Mobile Bay arm of the Gulf of Mexico, extending 35 miles (56 km) north from its outlet to the mouth of the Mobile River in southwestern Alabama, U.S. It is 8-18 miles (13-29 km) wide and has a dredged channel (45 feet [14 metres] deep, 300-500 feet [90-150 metres] wide) that enters ... Mobile Bay, Battle of (August 1864), in U.S. history, triumph of Admiral David Farragut in sealing off the port of Mobile from Confederate blockade runners. Mobile River river formed by the confluence of the Tombigbee and Alabama rivers, southwestern Alabama, U.S. It enters Mobile Bay after a southerly course of 45 miles (72 km) through the delta region. With its tributaries it drains some 44,000 square miles (114,000 square km), making it the sixth largest river basin ... mobile telephone portable device for connecting to a telecommunications network in order to transmit and receive voice, video, or other data. Mobile phones typically connect to the public switched telephone network (PSTN) through one of two categories: cellular telephone systems or global satellite-based telephony. Mobilian Jargon pidgin, or trade language with limited vocabulary, based on Choctaw and Chickasaw, languages of the Muskogean family that were originally spoken in what is now the southeastern United States (see American Indian languages; Southeast Indian). mobility in solid-state physics, measurement of the ease with which a particular type of charged particle moves through a solid material under the influence of an electric field. Such particles are both pulled along by the electric field and periodically collide with atoms of the solid. This combination of electric field ... mobilization in war or national defense, organization of the armed forces of a nation for active military service in time of war or other national emergency. In its full scope, mobilization includes the organization of all resources of a nation for support of the military effort. Mobius strip a one-sided surface that can be constructed by affixing the ends of a rectangular strip after first having given one of the ends a one-half twist. This space exhibits interesting properties, such as having only one side and remaining in one piece when split down the middle. The properties of ... Mobius, August Ferdinand German mathematician and theoretical astronomer who is best known for his work in analytic geometry and in topology. In the latter field he is especially remembered as one of the discoverers of the Mobius strip. Mobius, Karl August German zoologist who is chiefly known for his contributions to marine biology. Mobley, Hank African-American lyric jazz tenor saxophonist. Noted for his melodic fluency and rhythmic sophistication, the prolific Mobley was important in defining the hard-bop idiom. Mobridge city, Walworth county, north-central South Dakota, U.S. It lies along the Missouri River (there broadened to form Lake Oahe), about 110 miles (175 km) north of Pierre. Arikara and, later, Sioux Indians were early inhabitants of the area. Settlers began to arrive in the late 19th century, and the site ... Mobutu Sese Seko president of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), who seized power in a 1965 coup and ruled for some 32 years before being ousted in a rebellion in 1997. Moby Dick novel by Herman Melville, published in London in October 1851 and a month later in the United States. It is dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne. Moby Dick is generally regarded as its author's masterpiece and one of the greatest American novels. Moca city, north-central Dominican Republic. It lies just east of Santiago. Founded in 1780, the city retained its Indian name, referring to moca (partridgewood), an indigenous cabbage palm tree. In 1858 Moca hosted a constitutional congress, which produced one of the more notable of the republic's many constitutions. Moca's economy is ... Mocambique town, northeastern Mozambique. Located on a small coral island at the mouth of Mossuril Bay (on the Mozambique Channel of the Indian Ocean), it is an important commercial centre and has good harbour facilities. Mocambique was originally an Arab settlement; the Portuguese settled there by 1507 and erected St. Sebastian ... Mocamedes Desert desert, southwestern Africa, extending north along the Atlantic coast of Angola from the Angola-Namibia border for about 275 miles (450 km) and constituting the northernmost extension of the Namib Desert. Fronting the Atlantic Ocean to the west, it gradually ascends in elevation eastward to a semiarid plain (dominated by acacia ... Mocatta, Frederic David British philanthropist, historian, bibliophile, and patron of learning who subsidized the publication of a number of major works of Jewish literature. moccasin either of two venomous aquatic New World snakes of the viper family (Viperidae): the water moccasin (Agkistrodon piscivorus) or the Mexican moccasin (A. bilineatus). Both are pit vipers (subfamily Crotalinae), so named because of the characteristic sensory pit between each eye and nostril. moccasin heelless shoe of soft leather, the sole of which may be hard or soft and flexible; in soft-soled moccasins, the sole is brought up the sides of the foot and over the toes, where it is joined by a puckered seam to a U-shaped piece lying on top of the ... Mocenigo Family one of the most renowned patrician families of the Venetian Republic, to which it supplied military leaders, scholars, churchmen, diplomats, and statesmen, including seven doges. Mocha town, southwestern Yemen, on the Red Sea and the Tihamah coastal plain. Yemen's most renowned historic port, it lies at the head of a shallow bay between two headlands, with an unprotected anchorage 1.5 miles (2.5 km) offshore. It was long famous as Arabia's chief coffee-exporting centre; the term mocha ... Mochalov, Pavel Stepanovich Russian tragic actor with a Byronic flair who relied principally upon inspiration and intuition to lend force to his performances. Moche civilization present on the northern coast of what is now Peru from the 1st to the 8th century AD and dominant during the Early Intermediate Period (c. 400 BC-AD 600). The name is taken from the great site of Moche, in the river valley of the same name, which appears ... Mochnacki, Maurycy early Polish Romantic literary critic who passionately advocated Romanticism and was the first Polish critic to define the part literature might play in the spiritual and political life of society. Mochudi village, southeastern Botswana. It lies 23 miles (37 km) northeast of Gaborone, the national capital. Settled by the Tswana people in 1871, Mochudi is the administrative seat of the chief of the Bakgatla tribe. In Setswana, Mochudi means "a person who dishes out food from a pot" and refers to ... mock privet any shrub or small tree of the genus Phillyrea in the olive family, Oleaceae. The four species of mock privet, native to the Mediterranean area, sometimes are grown as ornamentals for their handsome, glossy, evergreen leaves. P. decora reaches 3 m (10 feet) and has shining leaves and clusters of ... Mock Turtle fictional character who describes himself as "the thing mock turtle soup is made from," in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). mock-epic form of satire that adapts the elevated heroic style of the classical epic poem to a trivial subject. The tradition, which originated in classical times with an anonymous burlesque of Homer, the Batrachomyomachia (Battle of the Frogs and the Mice), was honed to a fine art in the late 17th- ... mockingbird any of several versatile songbirds of the New World family Mimidae (order Passeriformes). The common, or northern, mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) is well known as a mimic; it has been known to imitate the songs of 20 or more species within 10 minutes. It is 27 cm (10.5 inches) long and ... Mocoa town, southern Colombia. It lies in the eastern flanks of the Andes Mountains, on a tributary of the Caqueta River. Founded in 1551, it is a commercial centre for the surrounding agricultural (principally sugarcane-growing) and pastoral (cattle-raising) lands and tropical rainforests of the Amazon River basin. Mocoa is just off ... Moczar, Mieczyslaw Polish Communist leader and organizer. As a leader of the underground resistance during World War II, he was noted for his skill in fighting the German secret police. modacrylic in textiles, any synthetic fibre composed of at least 35 percent but less than 85 percent by weight of the chemical compound acrylonitrile. It is a modified form of the acrylic group, fibres composed of a minimum of 85 percent acrylonitrile. Modacrylic fibres include trademarked Dynel (acrylonitrile and polyvinyl chloride) ... modal logic formal systems incorporating modalities such as necessity, possibility, impossibility, contingency, strict implication, and certain other closely related concepts. modality in logic, the classification of logical propositions according to their asserting or denying the possibility, impossibility, contingency, or necessity of their content. Modal logic, which studies the logical features of such concepts, originated with Aristotle, was extensively studied by logicians in antiquity and the European Middle Ages, and, for the ... Modane train crash of 1917 train derailment in Modane, France, on Dec. 12, 1917, that killed more than 500 French soldiers. mode in music, any of several ways of ordering the notes of a scale according to the intervals they form with the tonic, thus providing a theoretical framework for the melody. A mode is the vocabulary of a melody; it specifies which notes can be used and indicates which have special ... Model T automobile built by the Ford Motor Company from 1908 until 1927. Conceived by Henry Ford as practical, affordable transportation for the common man, it quickly became prized for its low cost, durability, versatility, and ease of maintenance. More than 15 million Model Ts were built in Detroit and Highland Park, ... Model, Lisette photographer and teacher known for her unconventional street images and ruthlessly candid portraits.