Miranda Decision. 1966. US Supreme Court protects rights vs self-incrimination. Required police warning, “You have the right to remain silent...”.

Miró, Joan. 1893-1974. Spanish surrealist painter. Pure colors, abstract shapes. Bird, star themes. Dog Barking at the Moon.

Mishna. 3C. Collection of Jewish oral laws in the Talmud.

Mitchell, Margaret. 1900-49. US novelist. Gone with the Wind 1936.

Mnemosyne. Greek goddess of memory. Muses’ mother by Zeus.

Mo-tzu. c470-391BC. Chinese philosopher. People should love each other universally. vs Confucianism: parents are more important.

Molay, Jacques de. 1243-1314. Last Grand Master of the Order of Templars. Burned.

Mommsen, Theodor. 1817-1903. German historian. History of Rome 1854.

Monnet, Jean. 1888-1979. French economist. “Father of Common Market”.

Monophysitism. 4C- Heretical Christian doctrine. Jesus has single divine nature. Coptics. Monothelitism. Nestorianism. Dualism. Chalcedon.

Monotheism. Religious doctrine holding that there is only one God.

Monothelitism. 622-713. Christian heresy. Jesus had human and divine natures but only divine will. Monophysitism.

Montagnards. 1792-5. French revolutionary extremists led by Robespierre. Terror. Plain.

Montanism. 156-9C. Montanus’ ascetic Christian movement of illuminati expecting the Millenium.

Montcalm, Louis. 1712-59. French general killed defending Quebec against the English. Seven Years War.

Montgolfier, Joseph. 1740-1810. Jacques, 1745-99. Brothers. First hot air balloon 1783.

Moore, George. 1852-1933. Irish novelist. Confessions of a Young Man 1888. Esther Waters 1894.

Moore, Henry. 1898-1986. English semi-abstract organic sculptor. Mother and Child 1924. Reclining Figure 1951.

Moravia, Alberto. 1907-90. Italian novelist of social alienation. The Conformist 1951.

Morgan, Thomas. 1866-1945. US embryologist. Chromosome theory. Drosophilia genetics, 1910.

Morosini. Venetian leader. Blew up Parthenon, Athens, 1687.

Morris, Robert. 1734-1806. US “financier of the Revolution”.

Morton, William. 1819-68. US dentist. Advocated ether anaesthesia 1846.

Moses. c14C BC. Hebrew leader who led his people from Egypt to Palestine. Received the Ten Commandments from God. Founded Israel.

Mother Goose. Perrault. Contes de ma mère l’oye 1697. From an old French expression = “old wives’ tales”....Mother Goose’s Melody 1781.

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