Mehmed. Turkish equivalent of Muhammad.

Mehmed VI. 1861-1926. Last Ottoman Sultan 1918-22. Deposed by Ataturk.

Meiji. 1852-1912. Japanese Empire. 1867-. Modernization. New constitution. Abolished feudalism. Made Japan a world power. Ended isolationism. Tokugawa.

Mein Kampf. 1925-27. Hitler’s manifesto. “Bible” of Nazism.

Meleager. Greek hero. Killed Artemis’ boar.

Melpomene. Greek Muse of tragedy.

Melville, Herman. 1819-91. US novelist. Moby Dick 1851.

Memel. (Klaipeda). 1253 founded. 1410 German. 1919 Lithuania. 1939 Germany. 1945 USSR. 1991 Lithuania.

Memnon. Ethiopian king killed at Troy by Achilles.

Memphis. 2686-2160BC. Capital of Egyptian Old Kingdom.

Menander. 342-292BC. Greek comic dramatist. Dyscolus 316BC.

Mencken, H.L. 1880-1956. US iconoclast critic. American Language. Prejudices 1919-27.

Menderes, Adnan. 1899-1961. Turkish Prime Minister 1950-60. Executed for dictatorship.

Menelaus. King of Sparta. Husband of Helen of Troy.

Menes. c3100BC. Egyptian king. United Upper and Lower Egypt.

Menkure. 2500BC. Smallest Giza pyramid.

Mensheviks. 1903-22. Pacifist minority Social Democratic Workers Party members under Martov split from Bolsheviks. Sought gradual vs revolutionary socialism. Suppressed after October Revolution.

Menshikov, Aleksandr. c1672-1729. Ruled Russia for Catherine I.

Mentor. Greek tutor of Telemachus, Odysseus’ son.

Mercia. 7C-877. Anglo-Saxon kingdom in central England. Conquered by Danes, Wessex.

Merezhkovsky, Dmitri. 1865-1941. Russian historical novelist. Christ and Antichrist 1896-1905.

Mermaid Tavern. 15C-1666. London meeting place of Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne et al.

Merneptah. -1223BC. Egyptian king 1236BC-. Exodus.

Merovingians. 476-751. Frankish dynasty. Childeric founded; Clovis expanded empire to modern France, Germany, Belgium, N Italy. Austrasia, Neustria; 534+Burgundy. Clotaire. Carolingians.

Merrick, Joseph. 1862-90. “Elephant Man”. Severely disfigured English cripple, subject of play and film.

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