Medusa. Gorgon. Hair of snakes. Gaze turned people to stone.

Medway, Battle. 1667. Dutch destroy British fleet. Breda Treaty.

Megalopolis. 370-222BC. Greek city destroyed by Spartan Cleomenes III.

Megarian. 4C BC. School of philosophy founded by Eucleides. Good is a single quality by many names.

Megiddo, Battle. 1918. British defeat Turks in Palestine.

Mehmed. Turkish equivalent of Muhammad.

Mehmed II. 1432-81. Ottoman sultan 1451~. Captured Constantinople 1453, ending Byzantine Empire. Conquered Anatolia, Greece, Aegean, most of Syria. Re-established Ottoman Empire.

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

Melchites. 451-. Middle Eastern Roman Catholic sect with rites in Arabic, affirming Christ’s dual human/divine nature.

Meleager. Greek hero. Killed Artemis’ boar.

Mellon, Andrew. 1855-1937. US financier. Donated art, money to found National Gallery.

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

Melville, Lord. 1742-1811. British minister under Pitt. Impeached, 1805; acquitted.

Memling, Hans. c1433-94. Flemish painter. Passion Triptych 1491.

Memnon. Ethiopian king killed at Troy by Achilles.

Mendeleyev, Dmitri. 1834-1907. Russian chemist: periodic classification of the elements 1869.

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

Menendez de Aviles, Pedro. 1519-74. Spanish colonist. Massacred Huguenots in Florida 1565.

Menkure. 2500BC. Smallest Giza pyramid.

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

Mentor. Greek tutor of Telemachus, Odysseus’ son.

Mephistopheles. Faust’s devil.

Mercator, Gerardus. 1512-94. Flemish cartographer. Projection of globe onto flat surface 1569. Atlas 1595.

Merciless Parliament. Wonderful Parliament. 1388. Impeached 5 Richard II supporters.

Meredith, George. 1828-1909. English manners novelist. Intellectual, witty and poetic. Ordeal 1859. Egoist 1879. Dianna of the Crossways 1885.

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