Derek Mahon was a Northern Irish poet and translator who explored contemporary themes through verse with classical formal structure. Mahon studied at Trinity College in Dublin and at the Sorbonne in Paris before teaching in England and the United States. Before returning to Ireland, Mahon lived in

Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope was an English politician and historian who was chiefly responsible for the founding of Britain’s National Portrait Gallery. Stanhope studied at Christ Church, Oxford, and entered Parliament in 1830. Although he made no special mark in politics, he was

James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope was a British soldier and statesman, the dominant minister during the first half (1714–21) of the reign of King George I. His policy of alliance with France secured the peace and minimized foreign support for the Jacobites, who sought to restore the Stuart monarchy

William Mahone was an American railroad magnate and general of the Confederacy who led Virginia’s “Readjuster” reform movement from 1879 to 1882. Born the son of a tavernkeeper in an area of large plantations, Mahone graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1847 and then taught while

Kelsey Grammer: Cheers and Frasier: Frasier Crane’s brother and father as well as employees of his radio call-in show. For his acting on Frasier, Grammer won the Emmy Award for outstanding lead actor in a comedy series in 1994, 1995, and 1998. He also won Golden Globe Awards for best actor in a television…

syphilis: Syphilis through history: …discovery by the American physician John Friend Mahoney and others that penicillin was an effective treatment for nonadvanced cases of syphilis. Since that time the number of syphilis cases has declined considerably, particularly in developed countries.

Mary Mahoney was an American nurse, the first African-American woman to complete the course of professional study in nursing. Mahoney apparently worked as a maid at the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston before being admitted to its nursing school in 1878. She received her

Oregon grape, any of several species of the genus Mahonia, evergreen shrubs of the barberry family (Berberidaceae) grown for their ornamental value. M. aquifolium, the typical Oregon grape, is 90 cm (3 feet) or more tall and is native to the Pacific coast of North America. It is most used for its

Oregon grape: M. aquifolium, the typical Oregon grape, is 90 cm (3 feet) or more tall and is native to the Pacific coast of North America. It is most used for its foliage: the glossy, leathery leaves, with five to nine leaflets, are spiny-edged like a holly.…

Franz Kline: Paintings such as Mahoning (1956) are characteristically of such large dimensions that the total effect is one of majesty and power. In the late 1950s Kline introduced colour into his paintings. Before his death, his work assumed a new direction in the extreme simplicity and elegance of huge,…

Mayotte, overseas département (department) of France comprising the two southeasternmost islands of the Comoros archipelago. It is the poorest territory in both France and the European Union. Mayotte is situated in the Mozambique Channel of the western Indian Ocean, about 190 miles (310 km)

musical performance: Southeast Asia: …of Thailand and the string-dominated mahori bands of Thailand and Cambodia. Gamelan playing, particularly of the softer type, often accompanies solo and unison choral singing of classical poetry (music is connected with most of Indonesian literature). Southeast Asian vocal performance—like that of a great deal of non-Western art music—is characterized…

elephant: Importance to humans: Mahouts and oozies (elephant trainers in India and Myanmar, respectively) are skilled people who remain in direct contact with the animals for many years. The handlers take care of all the elephants’ needs, and the bond between man and beast becomes very strong. Hastividyarama, an…

Toronto Maple Leafs: defenseman Tim Horton, left wing Frank Mahovlich, left wing Bob Pulford, and defenseman Allan Stanley) won three Stanley Cups in a row from 1961–62 to 1963–64 and one more during the 1966–67 season.

history of Mesopotamia: The Parthian period: …became an urban complex called Māḥōzē in Aramaic and Al-Madāʾin in Arabic; both names mean “The Cities.”

Red Cloud was a principal chief of the Oglala Lakota (Oceti Sakowin, or Sioux), who successfully resisted (1865–67) the U.S. government’s development of the Bozeman Trail to newly discovered goldfields in Montana Territory. Red Cloud had no hereditary title of his own but emerged as a natural

India: Family and kinship: …which the groom promises a mahr, a commitment to provide his bride with wealth in her lifetime.

Arabia: Ethnic groups: …Oman and Yemen are the Mahra, Ḥarāsīs, Qarā, and others, speaking languages of the South Arabic group, and on the Musandam Peninsula are the Shiḥūḥ.

Mahra Sultanate, former semi-independent state in the southern Arabian Peninsula, including the island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean, in what is now eastern Yemen. The mainland portion of the sultanate, on the Arabian Sea coast, had its capital in Qishn, although recent sultans preferred to reside

Mahra Sultanate, former semi-independent state in the southern Arabian Peninsula, including the island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean, in what is now eastern Yemen. The mainland portion of the sultanate, on the Arabian Sea coast, had its capital in Qishn, although recent sultans preferred to reside

Phil Mahre is an American Alpine skier who was voted the greatest male U.S. skier of all time by the United States Ski and Snowboard Association in 2002. Mahre was named to the U.S. Ski Team at age15. In 1981 he became the first American to win the World Cup overall championship. He repeated his

Phil Mahre is an American Alpine skier who was voted the greatest male U.S. skier of all time by the United States Ski and Snowboard Association in 2002. Mahre was named to the U.S. Ski Team at age15. In 1981 he became the first American to win the World Cup overall championship. He repeated his

South Arabian languages: Dialects include Mahrī (Mehri), Shaḥrī (Eḥkalī; Jibbali), Ḥarsūsī, and Baṭḥarī on the Arabian shore of the Indian Ocean and Soqoṭrī on Socotra. Ḥarsūsī has been influenced by Arabic, a northern Arabian language, to a greater extent than have the other dialects. These languages lack a tradition of…

Persian literature: The qiṭʿah and the robāʿī: Mahsatī, a female poet to whom are attributed robāʿiyyāt of a secular and occasionally bawdy kind, would have lived about the same time as Omar. But it is doubtful whether she was a historical figure, because she also appears as the heroine of a romantic…

mahseer, any of several species of edible game fishes of the genus Barbus, in the carp family, Cyprinidae, found in clear rivers and lakes of India and southeastern Asia. Mahseer have large, thick scales, powerful jaws, and protrusible, sometimes very fleshy, lips adapted for taking food from the

Lucio Gutiérrez: Jamil Mahuad Witt’s hand during a public ceremony in December.

ephedra: Major species and uses: Various Asian plants, particularly ma huang (Ephedra sinica), have been used as sources of the drug ephedrine. Ephedra has been a common herbal medicine in China for thousands of years, and several species are important in Ayurvedic medicine. Ephedrine is prescribed for colds, to break a fever and induce…

Iran: The advent of Islam (640–829): …whose marzbān, or march lord, Mahūyeh, was soured by Yazdegerd’s imperious and expensive demands. Mahūyeh turned against his emperor and defeated him with the help of Hephthalites from Bādghis. The Hephthalites, an independent border power, had troubled the Sasanids since at least 590, when they had sided with Bahrām Chūbīn,…

India: Evolution of a nonsectarian state: …1579 a public edict (maḥẓar) declaring his right to be the supreme arbiter in Muslim religious matters—above the body of Muslim religious scholars and jurists. He had by then also undertaken a number of stern measures to reform the administration of religious grants, which were now available to learned…

mahzor, originally a Jewish prayer book arranged according to liturgical chronology and used throughout the entire year. Though cantors (hazzanim) still use such a book, mahzor has come to mean the festival prayer book—as distinguished from the siddur, the prayer book used on the ordinary Sabbath

mahzor, originally a Jewish prayer book arranged according to liturgical chronology and used throughout the entire year. Though cantors (hazzanim) still use such a book, mahzor has come to mean the festival prayer book—as distinguished from the siddur, the prayer book used on the ordinary Sabbath

mahzor, originally a Jewish prayer book arranged according to liturgical chronology and used throughout the entire year. Though cantors (hazzanim) still use such a book, mahzor has come to mean the festival prayer book—as distinguished from the siddur, the prayer book used on the ordinary Sabbath

Mai-chi-shan, one of three major sites in northern China’s Kansu sheng (province) where rock-cut Buddhist caves and sculpture are found. The more than 190 sculptures now visible are carved in nearly 1,000 caves and recesses on the cliff faces that are more than 400 feet (120 m) high. A

Lake Mai-Ndombe, lake in western Congo (Kinshasa), east of the Congo River and south-southeast of Lake Tumba. It covers approximately 890 square miles (2,300 square km) and is about 80 miles (130 km) long and up to 25 miles (40 km) wide. It empties south through the Fimi River into the Kasai.

Pleiades: …Atlas and the Oceanid Pleione: Maia, Electra, Taygete, Celaeno, Alcyone, Sterope, and Merope. They all had children by gods (except Merope, who married Sisyphus).

Mercury: There Mercury was associated with Maia, who became identified as his mother through her association with the Greek Maia, one of the Pleiades, who was the mother of Hermes by Zeus; likewise, because of that Greek connection, Mercury was considered the son of Jupiter. Both Mercury and Maia were honoured…

Richard Adams: …Swing (1980; film 1988) and Maia (1984) drew attention for their graphic depictions of sexuality. Adams took a different approach to anthropomorphism with Traveller (1988), told from the perspective of Robert E. Lee’s horse. He returned to his intrepid rabbits with Tales from Watership Down in 1996. Daniel (2006) concerns…

Pleiades: Maia, Electra, Merope, Taygete, Celaeno, and Sterope, names now assigned to individual stars), daughters of Atlas and Pleione, were changed into the stars. The heliacal (near dawn) rising of the Pleiades in spring of the Northern Hemisphere has marked from ancient times the opening of

Lisbon: Disaster and reconstruction: He put Manuel da Maia, engineer in chief of the realm, in charge of five architects and soon had a plan for remaking the totally devastated centre of the Cidade Baixa (“Lower City”). The riverside palace had been destroyed, and its terrace was expanded to create the…

Benedetto da Maiano was an early Renaissance sculptor, whose work is characterized by its decorative elegance and realistic detail. He was greatly influenced by the Florentine sculptor Antonio Rossellino. His earliest surviving work is the shrine of S. Savino (1468–72) in the Faenza cathedral.

spikenard: …family Asparagaceae, is sometimes called wild spikenard.

Îles du Vent: Maiao, covering about 3 square miles (8 square km) and located some 60 miles (95 km) west of Tahiti, is sparsely populated and is cultivated for copra. Tetiaroa, 25 miles (40 km) north of Tahiti, comprises 13 islets, with a total area of 2.5 square…

José Maria de Eça de Queirós: …Queirós’s masterpiece, Os Maias (1888; The Maias), a detailed depiction of upper-middle-class and aristocratic Portuguese society. Its theme is the degeneration of a traditional family whose last offspring are led into a series of tangled sexual relationships by the actions of their parents, who are symbols of the decadence of…

Maiasaura, (genus Maiasaura), duck-billed dinosaurs (hadrosaurs) found as fossils from the Late Cretaceous Period (about 100 million to 65.5 million years old) of North America and whose discovery led to the theory that these bipedal herbivores cared for their young. In 1978 a Maiasaura nesting

Constantin Brancusi: Maturity of Constantin Brancusi: …of polished-bronze sculptures, all entitled Bird in Space. The elliptical, slender lines of these figures put the very essence of rapid flight into concrete form.

Margaret Qualley: Breakthrough in Maid: …mother and daughter on-screen in Maid. The 2021 miniseries, based on Stephanie Land’s memoir of the same name, follows Alex Russell, a young mother who struggles to provide for her child after fleeing an abusive relationship. The show was a breakthrough for Qualley. Reviewers found her performance grounding in an…

assisted suicide, a procedure in which people take medications to end their own lives with the help of others, usually medical professionals. This practice differs from euthanasia, also called mercy killing, in which a medical professional painlessly ends a person’s terminal suffering by

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: …an Italian composer whose intermezzo La serva padrona (“The Maid Turned Mistress”) was one of the most celebrated stage works of the 18th century.

ballad: Romantic comedies: …such ballad heroines as “The Maid Freed from the Gallows” and “Fair Annie,” among others, win through to happiness after such bitter trials that the price they pay seems too great. The course of romance runs hardly more smoothly in the many ballads, influenced by the cheap optimism of…

Wayne Wang: Career: …film was the romantic comedy Maid in Manhattan (2002). It starred Ralph Fiennes as a wealthy political candidate who mistakes a hotel maid, played by Jennifer Lopez, for a socialite. The family drama Because of Winn-Dixie (2005) and the romantic comedy Last Holiday (2006), starring rappers-turned-actors Queen Latifah and

Robin Hood: …(which gave Robin a companion, Maid Marian) also lost most of their vitality and poetic value, doubtless as a result of losing the original social impulse that brought them into existence.

Philip Massinger: Another tragicomedy, The Maid of Honour (1621?), combines political realism with the courtly refinement of later Caroline drama. The tendency of his serious plays to conform to Caroline fashion, however, is contradicted by the mordant realism and satirical force of his two great comedies—A New Way to…

Margaret was the queen of Scotland from 1286 to 1290, the last of the line of Scottish rulers descended from King Malcolm III Canmore (ruled 1058–93). Margaret’s father was Eric II, king of Norway; her mother, Margaret, a daughter of King Alexander III of Scotland (ruled 1249–86), died in 1283.

St. Joan of Arc ; canonized May 16, 1920; feast day May 30; French national holiday, second Sunday in May) is a national heroine of France, a peasant girl who, believing that she was acting under divine guidance, led the French army in a momentous victory at Orléans that repulsed an English attempt

Friedrich Schiller: Philosophical studies and classical drama of Friedrich Schiller: …Die Jungfrau von Orleans (1801; The Maid of Orleans), a “romantic tragedy” on the subject of Joan of Arc, in which the heroine dies in a blaze of glory after a victorious battle, rather than at the stake like her historical prototype; Die Braut von Messina (1803; The Bride of…

Frans Eemil Sillanpää: …perfect, work, Nuorena nukkunut (1931; Fallen Asleep While Young, or The Maid Silja), a story of an old peasant family. Realistic and lyric elements are blended in Miehen tie (1932; Way of a Man), which describes a young farmer’s growth to maturity. Ihmiset suviyössä (1934; People in the Summer Night)…

Medical aid in dying (MAID) is also called medical assistance in dying, physician-assisted suicide (PAS), physician-assisted death/dying (PAD), and self-determination in dying. The New York State Bar Association defined MAID as “when a terminally ill, mentally competent adult patient, who is likely

Kolkata: Recreation: The Maidan, about 1,000 acres (400 hectares) in area, is the best-known open space; the major football (soccer), cricket, and hockey fields are located there. Adjacent to the Maidan is one of the oldest cricket fields in the world, Ranji Stadium, in the Eden Gardens; Netaji…

Ukraine: The Maidan protest movement: Ukraine’s pro-European trajectory was abruptly halted in November 2013, when a planned association agreement with the EU was scuttled just days before it was scheduled to be signed. The accord would have more closely integrated political and economic ties between the EU…

Kyiv: City layout: …of the Maidan (also called Euromaidan) protest movement that led to Ukrainian Pres. Viktor Yanukovych’s being deposed in February 2014. Among important buildings on the street is that of the city council, where the elected deputies hold their meetings.

Ukraine: The Maidan protest movement: Ukraine’s pro-European trajectory was abruptly halted in November 2013, when a planned association agreement with the EU was scuttled just days before it was scheduled to be signed. The accord would have more closely integrated political and economic ties between the EU…

Majdanek, Nazi German concentration camp and extermination camp on the southeastern outskirts of the city of Lublin, Poland. In October 1941 it received its first prisoners, mainly Soviet prisoners of war, virtually all of whom died of hunger and exposure. Within a year, however, it was converted

Maitreya, in Buddhist tradition, the future Buddha, presently a bodhisattva residing in the Tushita heaven, who will descend to earth to preach anew the dharma (“law”) when the teachings of Gautama Buddha have completely decayed. Maitreya is the earliest bodhisattva around whom a cult developed and

Dorchester: …Rings dates from pre-Roman times; Maiden Castle (2 miles [3 km] southwest), a vast earthwork encircled by entrenchments and ramparts and occupying more than 120 acres (50 hectares), was the site of important settlement from Neolithic times into the Iron Age.

Robert Bly: …in Iron John and also The Maiden King: The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine (1999), written with Marion Woodman. Bly’s collected prose poems appeared in 1992 under the title What Have I Ever Lost by Dying?

cricket: Overs: …byes), he has achieved a maiden over. In one-day cricket, no bowler is allowed to bowl more than 10 overs in a 50-over match.

pink: Major species: …pink (Dianthus plumarius); maiden, or meadow, pink (D. deltoides); and rainbow, or China, pink (D. chinensis). Other important plants of the genus Dianthus are also sometimes referred to as pinks. The popular carnation (D. caryophyllus), for example, is often called clove pink in reference to its spicy scent, and sweet…

Leandro Fernández de Moratín: …of convenience, as seen in El sí de las niñas (1806; The Maiden’s Consent). Because of political and ecclesiastical opposition to his French sympathies, he spent most of his life after 1814 in France, where he died; he was buried between his models Molière and Jean de La Fontaine, but…

plant: Annotated classification: Polystichum, Adiantum, and Cyathea. Class Equisetopsida (horsetails, scouring rushes) Vascular plants; sporophyte differentiated into stem, leaf, and root; stems ribbed and jointed, monopodial; minute leaves whorled at the nodes; vascular tissue organized into bundles; sole living genus with

Pteridaceae, the maidenhair fern family (order Polypodiales), containing about 50 genera and approximately 950 species. Members of Pteridaceae are distributed throughout the world, especially in tropical and warm-temperate regions. The plants are extremely diverse ecologically, ranging from

ginkgo, (Ginkgo biloba), deciduous gymnosperm tree, native to China. Ginkgo has been planted since ancient times in Chinese and Japanese temple gardens and is now valued in many parts of the world as a fungus- and insect-resistant ornamental tree with beautiful autumn foliage. It tolerates cold

Maidenhead, town, Windsor and Maidenhead unitary authority, historic county of Berkshire, southeastern England. It is situated on the River Thames. A stone bridge (1772–77) carries the road between London and Bath across the river, and the railway bridge (1837–38) designed by Isambard Kingdom

Isambard Kingdom Brunel: …the Box Tunnel and the Maidenhead Railway Bridge, and his last were the Chepstow and Saltash (Royal Albert) bridges, all in England. The Maidenhead Railway Bridge had the flattest brick arch in the world. Brunel’s use of a compressed-air caisson to sink the pier foundations for the bridge helped gain…

Gabriele D’Annunzio: …Le vergini delle rocce (1896; The Maidens of the Rocks), featured viciously self-seeking and wholly amoral Nietzschean heroes.

John Fletcher: …the Beaumont and Fletcher collaboration—Philaster, The Maides Tragedy, and A King and No King—show, most clearly in the last, the emergence of most of the features that distinguish the Fletcherian mode from that of Shakespeare, George Chapman, or John Webster: the remote, often pseudohistorical, fairy-tale setting; the clear, smooth speech…

Gahanbar: …of Mitrā; 80 days later, Maidhyāirya (Midwinter), in the month of Dīn; and 75 days later, in the last five intercalary or Gatha days of the year, Hamaspathmaēdaya (a festival for the dead).

Gahanbar: …five days, the Gahanbars are: Maidhyaōizaremaya (Midspring), occurring in the month of Artavahisht, 41 days after the New Year (Nowruz); 60 days later is Maidhyoishema (Midsummer), in the month of Tīr; 75 days later, Paitishhahya (Harvest-time), in the month of Shatvairō; 30 days later, Ayāthrima (possibly Time of Prosperity), in…

Gahanbar: …(Nowruz); 60 days later is Maidhyoishema (Midsummer), in the month of Tīr; 75 days later, Paitishhahya (Harvest-time), in the month of Shatvairō; 30 days later, Ayāthrima (possibly Time of Prosperity), in the month of Mitrā; 80 days later, Maidhyāirya (Midwinter), in the month of Dīn; and 75 days later, in…

Las Meninas, oil painting created in 1656 by Spanish artist Diego Velázquez. Las Meninas shows Velázquez late in his career and at the height of his powers. Its complex composition creates an unparallelled illusion of reality and is a reason that it is one of the most important paintings in the

Jean Genet: Les Bonnes (1947; The Maids), however, begins to explore the complex problems of identity that were soon to preoccupy other avant-garde dramatists such as Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco. With this play Genet was established as an outstanding figure in the Theatre of the Absurd.

Maidstone: Maidstone, town and borough (district), administrative and historic county of Kent, southeastern England. It is located astride the River Medway, 38 miles (61 km) southeast of London. The largely rural borough surrounding the town covers a large area of central Kent.

Maidstone, town and borough (district), administrative and historic county of Kent, southeastern England. It is located astride the River Medway, 38 miles (61 km) southeast of London. The largely rural borough surrounding the town covers a large area of central Kent. The name Maidstone is derived

dinosaur: The first finds: It became known as the Maidstone Iguanodon, after the village where it was discovered. The Maidstone skeleton provided the first glimpse of what these creatures might have looked like.

Maidu, North American Indians who spoke a language of Penutian stock and originally lived in a territory extending eastward from the Sacramento River to the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountains and centring chiefly in the drainage of the Feather and American rivers in California, U.S. As with other

Penutian languages: …languages), Yokutsan (three languages), and Maiduan (four languages)—plus Klamath-Modoc, Cayuse (extinct), Molale (extinct), Coos, Takelma (extinct), Kalapuya, Chinook (not to be confused with Chinook Jargon, a trade language or lingua franca),

Maiduguri, capital and largest city of Borno state, northeastern Nigeria. It is located along the seasonal Ngadda (Alo) River, the waters of which disappear in the firki (“black cotton”) swamps of Lake Chad, northeast of the city. Modern Maiduguri actually comprises the twin towns of Yerwa and

Heidi: Reception: Idyllic Maienfeld in the Alps purportedly inspired Spyri’s novel and features a mock village called Heididorf.

Hermann Maier is an Austrian skier who won two gold medals at the 1998 Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, Japan, and one silver at the 2006 Games in Turin, Italy. As a child Maier idolized the great World Cup skiers of the day, including fellow countryman Franz Klammer. Maier’s father owned a skiing

Johann Eck was a German theologian who was Martin Luther’s principal Roman Catholic opponent. Early in his career Maier adopted the name of his home village, Egg (or Eck), as his surname. He studied at the universities of Heidelberg, Tübingen, Cologne, and Freiburg im Breisgau. He was ordained to

alchemy: Modern alchemy: …II made the German alchemist Michael Maier a count and his private secretary, although Maier’s mystical and allegorical writings were, in the words of a modern authority, “distinguished for the extraordinary obscurity of his style” and made no claim to gold making. Neither did the German alchemist Heinrich Khunrath (c.…

Bayern Munich: …footballers of all time: goalkeeper Sepp Maier, forward Gerd Müller, and defender Franz Beckenbauer. Müller was the Bundesliga’s top scorer for seven seasons and remains the league’s all-time leading scorer. With strong support from other outstanding German players, such as Uli Hoeness and Paul Breitner, Bayern began

Vivian Maier was an American amateur street photographer who lived her life in obscurity as a nanny and caregiver in the suburbs of Chicago while producing an expansive body of photographic work that became a media sensation in late 2010, nearly two years after her death. Discovered in 2007, a

Mali: 2020 and 2021 coups and transitional administration: …minister and prominent M5 leader Choguel Maïga the new interim prime minister.

Mayo, county in the province of Connaught, western Ireland. Mayo is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean (north and west) and by Counties Sligo (northeast), Roscommon (east), and Galway (southeast and south). Castlebar, in central Mayo, is the county town (seat). Other important towns include Ballina (the

Jules Maigret, fictional character, an unassuming, compassionate, and streetwise Parisian police commissioner who is the protagonist of more than 80 novels by Georges Simenon. Simenon’s books featuring Inspector Maigret include Pietr-le-Letton (1931; The Case of Peter the Lett), Le Chien jaune

spider crab, any species of the decapod family Majidae (or Maiidae; class Crustacea). Spider crabs, which have thick, rather rounded bodies and long, spindly legs, are generally slow-moving and sluggish. Most are scavengers, especially of dead flesh. Majids, a widely distributed marine group, are

Mai-chi-shan, one of three major sites in northern China’s Kansu sheng (province) where rock-cut Buddhist caves and sculpture are found. The more than 190 sculptures now visible are carved in nearly 1,000 caves and recesses on the cliff faces that are more than 400 feet (120 m) high. A

Maikal Range, mountain range in Madhya Pradesh state, central India. It runs in a north-south direction and forms the eastern base of the triangular Satpura Range. The Maikal Range consists of laterite-capped, flat-topped plateaus (pats) with elevations ranging from 2,000 to 3,000 feet (600 to 900

Maiko National Park, reserve in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, about equidistant from Bukavu, in the great Western Rift Valley just south of Lake Kivu, at the Rwandan border, and Kisangani, about 320 miles (515 km) to the northwest, at the great westward bend of the Congo River. The

Suo Masayuki: …Suo directed the musical comedy Maiko wa redî (2014; Lady Maiko) and the historical dramedy Katsuben! (2019; Talking the Pictures).