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Maximilian of Austria–Este Archduke Maximilian Joseph of Austria-Este (1782-1863), the fourth son of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Este and younger brother of Francis IV, Duke of Modena. He was grand master of the Teutonic Knights from 1835 to 1863.
Maximilian Sforza Maximilian (Massimiliano) Sforza (1493 - 1530) was Duke of Milan of the Sforza family, son of Lodovico Sforza. He ruled between the occupations of Louis XII of France (1500-1512), and Francis I of France in 1515.
Maximilian Steinberg Maximilian Osseyevich Steinberg (Russian МакŃимилиан ĐžŃеевич Штейнберг; born O.s June 22 / July 4 1883 in Vilnius – December 6 1946 in Leningrad) was a Russian composer of classical music born in what is now Lithuania.
Maximilian Ulysses Reichsgraf von Browne Maximilian Ulysses, Reichsgraf von Browne, Baron de Camus and Mountany (23 October 1705 – 26 June 1757) was an Austrian military leader during the middle of the 18th century, and a scion of the Irish "Wild Geese".
Maximilian von Alopeus Baron Maximilian von Alopeus (1748—1822) (, Alopeus Maksim Maksimovich) a Russian diplomat, born at Vyborg in Finland, and educated at Turku, afterwards at Göttingen, was intended for the ecclesiastical profession, but his employment as secretary by Count Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian ambassador at the Swedish court, was the first step in a gradual rise through the political ranks . In 1783, Alopeus was appointed resident-minister at the court of the Bishop of Lübeck, where he maintained the correspondence between Tsesarevich Paul and Frederick II.
Maximilian von Götzen-Iturbide Maximiliano Gustav Richard Albrecht Agustin von Götzen-Iturbide, Imperial Prince of Mexico, Prince of Iturbide and Count of Götzen, was born on March 2, 1944 as the son of Count Maria Gustav von Götzen and MarĂa Gizella von Aschbrunn. His grandmother was the Princess of Iturbide, MarĂa Josepha, and was a descendant of Prince Salvador de Iturbide y de Marzán, the Emperor Agustin I of Mexico, legally descendant (by adoption) of Maximilian I of Mexico.
Maximilian von Montgelas Maximilian Josef Garnerin, Count von Montgelas (september 12, 1759 – june 14, 1838) was a Bavarian statesman, from a noble family in Savoy. His father John Sigmund Garnerin, Baron Montgelas, entered the military service of Maximilian III, Elector of Bavaria, and married the Countess Ursula von Trauner.
Maximilian von Spee Maximilian Graf von Spee (22 June 1861 - 8 December 1914) was a German admiral, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, who joined the Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial German Navy) in 1878. In 1887–88 he commanded the Cameroon ports, in a German colony in Africa.
Maximilian Voloshin Maximilian Alexandrovich Kirienko-Voloshin () (1877 - 1932) was one of the significant representatives of the Symbolist movement in Russian culture and literature. He became famous as a poet and a critic of literature and the arts, being published in many contemporary magazines of the early 20th century, including "Vesy" ('Libra'), "Zolotoye runo" ('The Golden Fleece') and "Apollon".
Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg (29 September 1902 - 8 January 1962) was the eldest son of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and Hungary, Heir Presumptive to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his morganatic wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg.
Maximilian, Duke of Leuchtenberg Maximilian Joseph Eugene Auguste Napoleon de Beauharnais (2 October 1817 Munich - 1 November 1852 St.Petersburg), 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg, 3rd Prince of Venice, Prince des Francais and Hereditary Prince of the Kingdom of Italy (Napoleon I's creation) and claimant to the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt was the husband of Tsar Nicholas I's eldest daughter.
Maximilian, Prince of Hornes Maximilian, Prince of Hornes, Count of Baucignies and of Solre-le-Château, was born 31 August 1695 in Brussels and died 12 January 1763 in Saint-Martin/Brussel. His Principality was surrounded by the Bishopric of Liege.
Maximilian, Prince of Saxony Maximilian, Prince of Saxony (13 April 1759 – 3 January 1838) was the fifth son of Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony and Mary Antonia, Princess of Bavaria. His maternal grandparents were Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor and Marie Amalie, Archduchess of Austria.
Maximiliano Caldas Maximiliano ("Max") Caldas (born March 9, 1973 in Buenos Aires) is a field hockey defender from Argentina, who made his debut for the national squad in 1994, and competed for his native country in the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics. Caldas, the former boyfriend of Australia's star player Alyson Annan, played for four years in the Netherlands, at HC Klein Zwitserland, before retiring due to injury.
Maximiliano GĂłmez Maximiliano GĂłmez Horacio "El Moreno" (born 1943 – died 1971) was the leader of the Maoist Movimiento Popular Dominicano (MPD), a militant organization opposed to the JoaquĂn Balaguer government and to U.S.
Maximiliano Hernández MartĂnez Maximiliano Hernández MartĂnez (1882 – 1966) was the President of El Salvador from 1931 to 1944. Serving as President Arturo Araujo's Minister of Defense, he seized power during a palace coup, capitalizing on political unrest brought on by the collapse of coffee prices.
Maximiliansweg Maximiliansweg is a long-distance hiking path through the Bavarian Alps (with some short sections through the Austrian Alps), which connects Lindau (im Bodensee) to Berchtesgaden. The trail is around 320km in distance and is largely congruous with long-distance path E4.
Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully Maximilien de Béthune, duke of Sully (December 13, 1560 – December 22, 1641) was the doughty soldier, French minister, staunch Protestant and faithful right-hand man who enabled Henry IV of France to accomplish so much.
Maximilien Robespierre Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre () (6 May 1758–28 July 1794) is one of the best-known leaders of the French Revolution. His supporters knew him as "the Incorruptible" because of his austere moral devotion to revolutionary political change.
Maximilien Rubel Maximilien Rubel (1905 in Chernivtsi - 1996 in Paris) was famous Marxist historian. He was educated in law and philosophy in Vienna and Chernivtsi before moving to France to take German studies at the Sorbonne, from which he received his Licence-dès-lettres in 1934.
Maximillian Largo Maximillian Largo is the reimagined fictional character from the 1983 film, Never Say Never Again, which was an unofficial remake of the 1961 James Bond novel and subsequent 1965 film adaptation, Thunderball. In the 1965 film the character was named Emilio Largo.
Maximillion Cooper Maximillion Cooper (born in Staffordshire in 1972, the son of a musician and a model) is an ex-Armani model and founder and organiser of the Gumball 3000 car race. He is the author of Gumball 3000 the Annual (ISBN 0-9547226-0-4).
Maximin Isnard Maximin Isnard (1758 - 1825), French revolutionist, was a dealer in perfumery at Draguignan when he was elected deputy for the département of the Var to the Legislative Assembly, where he joined the Girondists.
Maximino Ăvila Camacho Maximino Avila Camacho (died 1945) was the wilder brother of Manuel Avila Camacho who was President of Mexico from 1940 to 1946. Maximino Avila Camacho was a four star general in Mexico's revolutionary forces and then emerged as the political boss of Puebla state, famed for his carousing and womanizing, as well as for violence against foes.
Maximinus Gaius Valerius Galerius Maximinus (20 November, c. 270 - July/August, 313) Roman emperor from 308 to 313, was originally a peasant named Daia, born in the Danubian region, in the newly reorganised Roman province of Dacia Aureliana (together with Macedonia subordinated to the later Prefecture of Illyricum).
Maximization Maximization is an economics theory, that refers to individuals or societies gaining the maximum amount out of the resources they have available to them. The theory proposed by most economists is that maximization refers to the maximization of profit.
Maximizing dictionary A dictionary is maximizing if it attempts to include as many words as possible from a particular speech community. An example of a maximizing dictionary (also spelled maximising dictionary) is the Oxford English Dictionary, as it attempts to lemmatise (i.
Maximo (MRO) Maximo is a strategic asset and service management system that runs on a number of databases including Oracle and SQL Server. It is used by a wide variety of organizations ranging from municipal and county governments, to corporations to government contractors.
Maximo Yabes First Sergeant Maximo Yabes (January 29, 1932-February 26, 1967) born in Lodi, California, was a United States Army soldier who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor — the United States' highest military decoration — for his actions near Phu Hoa Dong in the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Yabes distiguished himself when he used his body as a shield to protect others in a bunker, moved 2 wounded men to a safer position where they could be given medical treatment and destroyed an enemy machine gun position before being mortally wounded.
Maximos IV Sayegh Maximos IV Sayegh (April 10, 1878 – 1967) was Patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church from 1947 to 1967. One of the fathers of Vatican II, the outspoken patriarch stirred the Council by urging reconcilliation between the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.
Maximum a posteriori In statistics, the method of maximum a posteriori (MAP, or posterior mode) estimation can be used to obtain a point estimate of an unobserved quantity on the basis of empirical data. It is closely related to Fisher's method of maximum likelihood (ML), but employs an augmented optimization objective which incorporates a prior distribution over the quantity one wants to estimate.
Maximum battleship The "maximum battleships," also known as the "Tillman Battleships" were a series of World War I-era design studies for extremely large battleships, prepared in late 1916 and early 1917 to the order of Senator "Pitchfork" Benjamin Tillman. The United States Navy was not interested in the designs at all, and only drew them up to win support from the Committee on Naval Affairs, on which Tillman sat.
Maximum contaminant level of MTBE The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) currently lists methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) as a candidate for a maximum contaminant level (MCL) in drinking water (1). MCL's are determined by the EPA using toxicity data.
Maximum Carnage [Carnage is a fourteen-part crossover storyline printed in Marvel]'s [[Spider-Man family of titles in 1993, featuring Spider-Man and Venom again teaming up to face Venom's murderous 'child'. This arc was collected as a trade paperback in September 1994 (ISBN 0-7851-0038-5), and a new edition was released in January 2005 (ISBN 0-7851-0987-0).
Maximum Contaminant Level Maximum Contaminant Levels are standards that are set by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for drinking water quality. A Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) is the legal threshold limit on the amount of a hazardous substance that is allowed in drinking water under the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Maximum Diner (book) Maximum Diner is a semi-memoir written by Christopher Nye (borther of Simon Nye). It tells the story of Nye's (successful) attempt to set up an American-style diner in the small town of Uckfield, East Sussex, UK.
Maximum entropy probability distribution In statistics and information theory, a maximum entropy probability distribution is a probability distribution whose entropy is larger than (or equal to) that of all other members of a specified class of distributions.
Maximum entropy thermodynamics In physics the Maximum entropy school of thermodynamics (or more colloquially, the MaxEnt school of thermodynamics), initiated with two papers published in the Physical Review by Edwin T. Jaynes in 1957, views statistical mechanics as an inference process: a specific application of inference techniques rooted in information theory, which relate not just to equilibrium thermodynamics, but are general to all problems requiring prediction from incomplete or insufficient data (such as for example image reconstruction, spectral analysis, or inverse problems).
Maximum Force Maximum Force is an on-rails light gun first-person arcade game developed by Mesa Logic for Atari Games in 1997. The game was later ported to both the Playstation and Sega Saturn game consoles with the latter version sold as Maximum Force: Pull the Trigger.
Maximum intensity projection A maximum intensity projection (MIP) is a computer visualization method for 3D data that projects in the visualization plane the voxels with maximum intensity that fall in the way of parallel rays traced from the viewpoint to the plane of projection. This implies that two MIP renderings from opposite viewpoints are symmetrical images.
Maximum Impact Maximum Impact is a UK hardcore record label founded by DJ Seduction in 2003. All releases on this label to date have been on 12" vinyl records, though recently the label has also started to distribute its releases as digital downloads via a number of popular happy hardcore download sites.
Maximum life span Maximum life span is a measure of the maximum number of years a member of a group has been observed to survive. Maximum life span literally corresponds to the age at which the oldest known member of a species or experimental group has died, or the current age of the oldest living member, if higher.
Maximum likelihood Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) is a popular statistical method used to make inferences about parameters of the underlying probability distribution from a given data set. It has widespread applications in various fields.
Maximum magnitude An important parameter in the calculation of seismic hazard, maximum magnitude (expressed as Moment magnitude scale) is also one of the more contentious. The choice of the value can greatly influence the final outcome of the results, yet this is most likely a size of earthquake that has not yet occurred in the region under study.
Maximum operating depth In technical diving, the maximum operating depth (MOD) of a breathing gas is the depth at which the partial pressure of oxygen (ppO2) of the gas mix exceeds a safe limit. This safe limit varies depending on the diver training agency, the level of underwater exertion planned and the planned duration of the dive, but is normally in the range of 1.
Maximum Overdrive Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 tongue-in-cheek horror film, written and directed by horror novelist Stephen King. The screenplay was inspired by and loosely based on King's short story, Trucks, which was included in King's first collection of short stories, Night Shift.
Maximum parsimony Maximum parsimony, often simply referred to as "parsimony," is a commonly used, non-parametric statistical method for estimating phylogenies. It is part of a class of character-based tree estimation methods which use a matrix of discrete phylogenetic characters to infer one or more optimal phylogenetic trees for a set of taxa (commonly a set of species or reproductively-isolated populations of a single species).
Maximum power point tracker photovoltaic (PV) solar cells have a single operating point where the current (I) and Voltage (V) of the cell outputs a maximum power. A PV cell has an exponential relationship between I-V and at the knee of the curve is the maximum power point (MPP).
Maximum power theorem In electrical engineering, the maximum power (transfer) theorem states that to obtain maximum power from a source with a fixed internal resistance the resistance of the load must be made the same as that of the source. It is claimed that Moritz von Jacobi was first to discover the maximum power (transfer) theorem which is referred to as "Jacobi's law".
Maximum principle In mathematics, the maximum principle in harmonic analysis states that if f is a harmonic function, then f cannot exhibit a true local maximum within the domain of definition of f. In other words, either f is a constant function, or, for any point x_0, inside the domain of f, there exist other points arbitrarily close to x_0, at which f takes larger values.
Maximum prospective short circuit current The maximum prospective short circuit current is the maximum electrical current which can flow in a particular electrical system under short circuit conditions. It is determined by the voltage and impedance of the supply system.
Maximum PC Maximum PC, formerly known as boot, is an American magazine published by Future US, and focuses on modern day PC hardware. Most content in the magazine is projected to a less business-oriented audience than many other magazines.
Maximum Price Act The Maximum Price Act, or loi du maximum général, was a French law passed by the National Convention on September 29, 1793, which established the maximum legal prices of grain. It succeeded to the May 4, 1793 loi du maximum which had the same purpose.
Maximum reported B-17 & B-24 bomb loads This article compares data from published mission reports of the United States Air Forces in Europe during World War II of the heaviest bomb loads carried by the B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator as well as the weight of bombs each carried to their most distant targets. The purpose is to tie discussions of the relative effectiveness of these two bombers to real data and actual practice.
Maximum Ride Maximum Ride is a book series by James Patterson and published by Little, Brown. The series is set in the near future, and centers around the 'Flock', a group of human-avian hybrids on the run from the scientists who created them.
Maximum Ride (film) Maximum Ride is an upcoming film based upon the Maximum Ride book series (The Angel Experiment, School's Out-Forever and Saving The World And Other Extreme Sports) by James Patterson. It is being currently written by Matthew Huffman and is being produced by Akiva Goldsman and Kerry Foster.
Maximum satisfiability problem To meet Wikipedia's quality standards and make it more accessible to a general audience, this article may require cleanup.The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter.
Maximum segment size The maximum segment size (MSS) is the largest amount of data, specified in bytes, that a computer or communications device can handle in a single, unfragmented piece. For optimum communications, the number of bytes in the data segment and the headers must not add up to more than the number of bytes in the maximum transmission unit (MTU).
Maximum sustainable yield In population ecology, maximum sustainable yield or MSY is, theoretically, the largest yield/catch that can be taken from a species' stock over an indefinite period. Under the assumption of logistic growth, the MSY will be exactly half the carrying capacity of a species, as this is the stage at when population growth is highest.
Maximum Security Maximum Security is a comic book miniseries published by Marvel Comics in 2001 as the core of a company-wide crossover. In it, a multitude of alien civilizations that have previously interacted with Earth and faced negative consequences join forces to prevent humans from interfering further with galactic affairs.
Maximum term method Maximum term method is a consequence of the large numbers encountered in stastistical mechanics. It states that under appropriate conditions the logarithm of a summation is essentially equal to the logarithm of the maximum term in the summation.
Maximum throughput scheduling Maximum throughput scheduling is a procedure for scheduling data packets in a packet-switched best-effort communications network, typically a wireless network, in view to maximize the total throughput of the network, or the system spectral efficiency in a wireless network. This is achieved by giving scheduling priority to the least "expensive" data flows in terms of consumed network resources per transferred amount of information.
Maximum time in grade Maximum time in grade in a military force is the longest amount of time that an officer or enlisted man is allowed to remain in the service without being promoted. If the soldier has not been promoted by the time he reaches MTIG, he is discharged from the service.
Maximum transmission unit In computer networking, the term Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) refers to the size (in bytes) of the largest packet that a given layer of a communications protocol can pass onwards. MTU parameters usually appear in association with a communications interface (NIC, serial port, etc.
Maximum Take-Off Weight In aviation, the Maximum Take-Off Weight (or MTOW) is the maximum weight with which an aircraft is allowed to try to achieve flight. It is one of the three main "limiting design weights" with regards to aircraft performance, the others being the Maximum Zero-Fuel Weight and the Maximum Landing Weight.
Maximum usable frequency Maximum usable frequency (MUF) describes, in radio transmission, using reflection from the regular ionized layers of the ionosphere, the upper frequency limit that can be used for transmission between two points at a specified time, independent of transmitter power. This index is especially useful in regard to shortwave transmissions.
Maximum user signaling rate In telecommunication, maximum user signaling rate is the maximum rate, in bits per second, at which binary information can be transferred in a given direction between users over the telecommunications system facilities dedicated to a particular information transfer transaction, under conditions of continuous transmission and no overhead information.
Maximum wage A maximum wage is a state enforced limit on how much income an individual can earn. This is a related concept that is complimentary to the minimum wage used currently by some governments to enforce minimum earnings.
Maximum-Football Maximum-Football is a Football computer game developed by Wintervalley Software and published by Matrix Games for Windows-based computers. It was released on March 3, 2006, although this is after missing numerous previous release dates in the two years leading up to release.
Maximums The Maximums is a DC Comics superteam parodying Marvel Comics's Ultimates and New Avengers, including the lower-case speech bubbles associated with the Ultimate Universe and the Avengers' battlecry "Avengers Assemble!" to their "Maximums March!
Maximus II of Antioch Maximus II was a 5th century patriarch of Antioch. After the deposition of Domnus II by the Second Council of Ephesus, AD 449, Dioscorus persuaded the emperor Theodosius II to fill the vacancy with one of the clergy of Constantinople.
Maximus the Greek Maximus the Greek, also known as Maximos the Greek or Maksim Grek (МакŃим Грек in Russian) His secular name was Michael Trivolis (Μιχαήλ ΤĎίβολης in Greek, Михаил Đ˘Ń€Đ¸Đ˛ĐľĐ»Đ¸Ń in Russian) (c. 1475, Arta, Greece - 1556, Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra, Sergiyev Posad) was a publicist, writer, scholar, humanist and translator of Greek origin, active in Russia.
Maxine "Max" Gibson Maxine "Max" Gibson was a supporting character in the Kids' WB animated series Batman Beyond, in which she is a best friend of the title character, Batman (Terry McGinnis). She was voiced by actress Cree Summer.
Maxine Allen Maxine Allen is an American bowler specializing in duckpin bowling. Allen attended the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now known as University of North Carolina at Greensboro) from 1931 until 1935.
Maxine Asher Maxine Klein Asher (born August 15, 1930, Chicago, Illinois), an Atlantis researcher who founded and operates American World University, an institution which sells degrees, and the World Association of Universities and Colleges, an institution which "accredits" American World University, as well as other universities selling mail-order degrees which pay for the honor.
Maxine B. Baker Maxine B. Baker (born February 29, 1952) is Vice President of Corporate Relations for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) and President and CEO, (1997-present) of the Freddie Mac Foundation.
Maxine Jones Maxine Jones (born Maxine Waters Jones, January 16 1965, in Paterson, New Jersey) was one of the original members of the R&B singing group En Vogue. She left the group in 2001 to spend time with her daughter Jessica.
Maxine Kurtz Mazine Kurtz is author of Invisible Cage, A Memoir; and City of Destiny: Denver in the Making, with Ralph Conant. She holds a master's degree in government management and a doctorate in jurisprudence from the University of Denver.
Maxine Lapiduss Maxine Lapiduss is a comedienne and performer who has written for such television shows as Dharma & Greg, The Jeff Foxworthy Show, Ellen, Roseanne, and Home Improvement for which she was nominated for an Emmy in 1993. She appeared in the original production of Dawn of the Dead.
Maxine Miller Maxine Miller is a Canadian actress who first appeared in the first three seasons of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. In the 1980s, she voiced True Heart Bear in The Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation (1986) and appeared on the animated series My Pet Monster.
Maxine Paetro Maxine Paetro is the author of three novels; Manshare, Babydreams, and Windfall, published between 1986 and 1991. She also wrote the biography, Dream Lovers, the Magnificent, Shattered Lives of Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee by Their Son, Dodd Darin in 1993.
Maxine Waters Maxine Waters (born Maxine Moore Carr on August 15 1938) has served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1991, representing the 35th District of California (map). She resides in South Los Angeles, in the Vermont Square district approximately six miles south of downtown.
Maxis Maxis Software is an American company that was founded as a video game developer and is now a brand name of Electronic Arts (EA). Maxis' second software title was the seminal SimCity, a city simulation and planning game.
Maxivision 15-in-1 The Maxivision 15-in-1 was a multicart for the Nintendo Entertainment System, published by American Video Entertainment in the early 1990s. It combined many of AVE's own offerings with those of other unlicensed NES publishers, including Color Dreams and Odyssey Software.
Maxixe (dance) The maxixe (pronounced ma-shi-sh), occasionally known as the Brazilian tango, is a dance, with its accompanying music, that originated in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro in the 1870s, at about the same time as the tango was developing in neighbouring Argentina and Uruguay.
Maxixe, Mozambique Maxixe (pronounced 'ma-sheesh') is the largest city and economic capital of the province of Inhambane, Mozambique, with a population of 97,173 (1997 census). It is situated on the Indian Ocean at 23°52′S 35°23′E just south of the Tropic of Capricorn, in a bay opposite historic Inhambane City which can be reached by local ferries.
MaxQ Technologies MaxQ Technologies is an independent software vendor, headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, that provides business software solutions and implementation services. MaxQ provides vertical market-specific solutions based on Microsoft ERP platforms.
Maxthon Maxthon (formerly MyIE2) (pronounced "max-ton") is a China-based freeware (more specifically donateware) web browser. From its early MyIE2 roots, Maxthon has developed a growing user base, especially in China, and in 2006 it has received commercial backing for its upcoming version Maxthon 2.
MaxTrax MaxTrax is a Canadian digital broadcasting or digital television radio service, which offers 20 commercial-free music channels, each devoted to a particular genre of music, using no live, on-air disc jockeys. It is similar to Music Choice in the United States and the UK and also similar to DMX Music which operates in North America and much of Europe as well as South Africa.
Maxus Maxus, an American band that featured future Los Angeles session legends Michael Landau and Robbie Buchanan, released only one album - "Maxus" (1981). Highlights include "Keep A Light On" and "The Higher You Rise".
Maxwell Anderson (James) Maxwell Anderson (15 December 1888 – 28 February 1959) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, author, poet, reporter and lyricist, and a founding member of The Playwrights' Company (which included, at various times, Maxwell Anderson, S. N.
Maxwell Atoms Maxwell Atoms (birth name: Adam Burton)is an American animator, the creator of Cartoon Network's animated television series The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy and Evil Con Carne. Before he started working on own series, he worked as a storyboard artist on Cow and Chicken and I Am Weasel.
Maxwell Award The Maxwell Award is presented annually to the collegiate American football player adjudged by a panel of sportscasters, sportswriters, and National Collegiate Athletic Association head coaches and the membership of the Maxwell Football Club to be the best in the United States. The award is named for Robert W.
Maxwell Evarts Maxwell Evarts, (1862-1913), graduated from Yale College, 1887, where he was a member of the Skull & Bones. He soon became a prominent New York city attorney and co-General Counsel (with Robert Scott Lovett) for the business interests of E.
Maxwell Henry Close Maxwell Henry Close (1822–September 12, 1903) was an Irish geologist born in Dublin. He was educated at Weymouth and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1846; and two years later he entered holy orders.
Maxwell Knight Charles Henry Maxwell Knight OBE, known as Maxwell Knight, was born on 4th September 1900 in Mitcham, Surrey, UK and died of heart failure on 27th January 1968. A respected spymaster and naturalist, in April 1925 he was recruited by Major General Sir Vernon Kell, Director General of the British security service MI5 responsible for counter terrorism, and rose to be head of section B5(b) responsible for infiltrating agents into potentially subversive groups, based for much of its existence at 308 Hood House, Dolphin Square, London separate from the rest of MI5.
Maxwell Maltz Maxwell Maltz (1899-1975) was a cosmetic surgeon who developed Psycho-Cybernetics, a system of ideas that can be employed to improve one's self image and in turn lead a more successful and fulfilling life. He wrote several books, among which Psycho-Cybernetics was a long-time bestseller that undoubtedly influenced many subsequent self-help teachers.
Maxwell Montes Maxwell Montes is a mountain massif on the planet Venus, part of which contains the highest point on the planet's surface. Located on Ishtar Terra, the more northern of the planet's two major highlands, it is 11 km tall.
Maxwell Murderers Maxwell Murderers is a band which was formed in Rio de Janeiro by Eduardo Seabra and Helio Azem. The band name is derived from the name of the founders street, to which they decided to pay homage and devotion to their favorite movie actor; Charles Bronson.
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