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MICHAEL 



Edward Miall. 

 British politician 



Miogao. Town of Panay, 

 Philippine Islands, in the prov. of 

 Hoilo. mi the S. coaat, 



_>;{ Ml. \V. nf lloilo, ;in.l m:inill;ie- 



tun--, hemp fabrics. Pop. 21,000. 



Miall, KDWAIU. (1809-81). 



British |i.iliti.-;.m. Born at I'ort- 



Ilioutli. Mav S, ISH'.I. In- l>eeaim- ill! 



Independent 

 minis tor. In 

 1840 he gave 

 up his charge 

 to begin a 

 campaign 

 against the 

 establishment 

 of the Chun h. 

 In the n r \ 1 

 year he found- 

 ed a weekly 

 newspaper, 



The Nonconformist, which he 

 edit rd as long as he lived. He 

 represented Rochdale in Parlia- 

 ment. I SOL' 07, and Bradford, 1868- 

 7 I. Ifr died at Sevenoaks, April 29, 

 1881. See Disestablishment : con- 

 sult also Life, A. Miall, 1884. 



Miami OR GREAT MIAMI. River 

 of Ohio, U.S.A. Rising by several 

 head streams in the W. of the 

 state, it flows about 140 m.. gener- 

 ally S.S.W. The Little Miami, 

 which follows a nearly parallel 

 course, enters the Ohio about 5 m. 

 above Cincinnati. 



Miami. City of Dade co., 

 Florida, U.S.A., on N. bank of the 

 Miami river. In the centre of a 

 fruit-farming country, it is the S. 

 erminu.s of the Florida E. coast 

 rly A subtropical govt. laboratory 

 is established here, and there are 

 sponge fisheries. The, normal sum- 

 mer population of about 40,000 

 increases in the winter season to 

 over 1.10,000 



Miani <>H MEEANEE Village of 

 India, in Sind. It is 6 m. N. of 

 Hyderabad. Here Sir Charles 

 Napier defeated the Baluchis in 

 1843 and gave Britain the control 

 of Sind. 



Miao OR Muo-TSE. Chinese 

 name for aboriginal peoples, mostly 

 in S. China, calling themselves 

 Meng. Fair, straight-nosed and 

 wavy-haired people, their principal 

 tribes are the Heh and Yachiao 

 Once dominating central China, 

 their social customs and primitive 

 animism preserve traces of ancient 

 higher culture. 



Miava OR MYJAVA. Town of 

 Czecho-Slovakia, in Slovakia. 

 Formerly in Hungary, it is 48 m. 

 N.N.E. of Bratislava (Presshurg). 

 There are textile manufactures. 

 Pop. 10,100. 



Mica (Lat. micare, to flash). In 

 mineralogy, a group of minerals 

 characterised by ready cleavage 

 into thin plates. Micas are chielly 

 made of aluminium silicate with 



\.-ir\ing proportions of iron, mag- 



n.'-mtii. |><>taS8ium, B>dmm 



inn I thi-ir colours range from 

 colourless to bln<-k. 



The principal varieties of mica 

 are museovito, paragonite, lepid" 

 lite, biotite, and lepidomel;m> 

 Muscovite, or common mica, is a 

 colourless mixture of potassium 

 and aluminium silicate, and under 

 its common name of talc is widely 

 used for lamp chimneys and the 

 doors of stoves on account of its 

 transparency and resistance to 

 changes of heat. It was formerly 

 used for glazing windows, and is 

 also employed for insulating pur- 

 poses in electricity, in the manu- 

 facture of wallpaper and, ground, 

 as aji absorbent for glycerin in the 

 manufacture of dynamite. Para- 

 gonite is a sodium and aluminium 

 silicate, yellow to green in colour ; 

 lepidolite, a rose-coloured potas- 

 sium, lithium, and aluminium 

 silicate and a source of lithium 

 salts ; biotite a dark-green, brown, 

 and black magnesium iron silicate 

 occurring in most granites, gneisses, 

 schists, and a great variety of 

 crystalline rocks ; and lepidome- 

 lane, a black iron mica. Most of 

 the micas are found in crystalline 

 rocks, and are mined extensively in 

 India and the U.S.A. 



Micah. One of the minor 

 prophets. A native of Moresheth, 

 near Gath, and a younger con- 

 temporary with Isaiah, he prophe- 

 sied in the reigns of .1 ot hum, Ahaz, 

 and Hezekiah. Of his prophecies 

 the earlier chapters denounce 

 oppression and drunkenness, and 

 predict the ruin of the nations. 

 Then follow Messianic predictions 

 of restoration and future glory. 

 The closing chapters deal with the 

 controversy between God and His 

 people. See The Book of the 

 Twelve Prophets, G. A. Smith, 1890 

 (in the Expositor's Bible). 



Mica Schist. In geology, name 

 given to a metamorphic rock having 

 a schistose or foliated structure, 

 and composed chiefly of mica and 

 quartz, arranged in alternate ir- 

 regular bands. The rock cleaves 

 easily along the mica bands, the 

 latter usually being the colourless 

 muscovite, or biotite varieties of 

 mica. Garnet, tourmaline, etc., 

 frequently occur in the rock, which 

 is widely scattered, being found in 

 the Scottish Highlands, N. America, 

 in many parts of Europe, etc. 



Micawber, WILKINS. Character 

 in Dickens's novel David Copper- 

 field. A genial and unbusiness- 

 like- optimist, he is a rotund 

 speaker, a prolific letter-writer, and 

 always waiting for something to 

 turn up. After failing in all his 

 ventures, he emigrates with his wife 

 and family to Australia, where he 



achieves some success, and is made 

 a magistrate. John !> l-iui, the 

 no\ i list's father, is said to have 

 furnished the model for Mieawber. 

 In an adaptation of David Copj* r 

 field by Ix>uis N. Parker, produced 



Mr. Wilkins Micawber, the grandi- 

 loquent optimist described in David 

 Copperfleld. From a drawing by 

 Fred Barnard 



at His Majesty's Theatre, London, 

 Dec. 24, 1914, Sir Herbert Tree 

 doubled the parts of Micawber and 

 Peggotty. 



Michael (Heb., Who is like 

 God ?). Name given to one of the 

 angels in the books of Daniel and 

 Revelation. In Dan. xii, 1, he is 

 described as the great prince which 

 standeth for the people (cf. x, 13, 

 21). He is thus the champion of 

 the Israelites against the prince- 

 angels of the Persians and the 

 Greeks. In Rev. xii, 7, which speaks 

 of there being war in heaven, he is 

 the victorious leader of the good 

 angels (the Archangel) against the 

 Dragon (the old serpent, he that is 

 called the Devil and Satan) and his 

 angels. See Angel: Archangel; 

 Michaelmas. 



Michael (1558-1601). Voivode 

 (governor) of Wallachia, called the 

 brave. Member of the noble family 

 of the Bassa- 

 raba, Michael 

 was banished 

 by the voivode 

 A 1 e xander, 

 but deposed 

 him, and be- 

 came voivode 

 in 1593. In 

 his brief reign 

 he drove the 

 Turks from 

 Wallachia, 



and then, having come to an under- 

 standing with the emperor Rudolf, 

 and with the Turks, succeeded 



Michael, Governor 

 of Wallnchia 



