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Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius (Marcus Aelius Aurelius Antoninus) , 121-180, Roman emperor, named originally Marcus Annius Verus. He was a nephew of Faustina, the wife of Antoninus Pius , who adopted him. Marcus married Antoninus' daughter, another Faustina. From youth he was a diligent student and a zealous St...
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Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse , 1898-1979, U.S. political philosopher, b. Berlin. He was educated at the Univ. of Freiburg and with Theodore Adorno and Max Horkheimer founded the Frankfurt Institute of Social Research. A special target of the Nazis because of his Jewish origins and Marxist politics, he emigrated ...
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Marcus Whitman
Marcus Whitman 1802-47, American pioneer and missionary in the Oregon country, b. Federal Hollow (later Rushville), N.Y. In 1836 he left a country medical practice to go West as a missionary for the joint Presbyterian-Congregationalist board. With his wife, Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, and others, he...
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Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey 1887-1940, American proponent of black nationalism, b. Jamaica. At the age of 14, Garvey went to work as a printer's apprentice. After leading (1907) an unsuccessful printers' strike in Jamaica, he edited several newspapers in Costa Rica and Panama. During a period in London he took l...
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Marcus Gabius Apicius
Marcus Gabius Apicius , 1st cent., Roman gourmet. He squandered most of his large fortune on feasts and then, anticipating a need to economize, committed suicide. The cookbook called Apicius probably dates from a century later.
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Marcus Minucius Felix
Marcus Minucius Felix , fl. 2d cent., Christian apologist, author of a dialogue, Octavius, one of the earliest Latin apologies. In it a pagan and a Christian discuss the merits of Christian life.
Bibliography: See J. H. Freese, The Octavius of Minucius Felix (1919).
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Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa , c.63 BC-12 BC, Roman general. A close friend of Octavian (later Emperor Augustus ), he won a name in the wars in Gaul before becoming consul in 37 BC He organized Octavian's fleet and is generally given much credit for the defeat (36 BC) of Sextus Pompeius in the naval ba...
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Marcus Terentius Varro
Marcus Terentius Varro 116 BC-27? BC, Roman man of letters. Known as the most erudite man and the most prolific writer of his times, Varro is estimated to have written about 620 volumes. He served as Pompey's legate in Spain and fought at Pharsalus, but was reconciled with Caesar, who made him dire...
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Marcus Alonzo Hanna
Marcus Alonzo Hanna (Mark Hanna), 1837-1904, American capitalist and politician, b. New Lisbon (now Lisbon), Ohio. He attended Western Reserve College for a short time, then entered his father's wholesale grocery and commission business at Cleveland in 1858. He became a partner in 1862 and rapidly ...
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Antonines
Antonines , collective name of certain Roman emperors of the 2d cent., namely Antoninus Pius ; his adopted sons, Marcus Aurelius and Verus; and Commodus .
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