MOSASAURUS 



Mosasaurus (Lat. Mosa, the 

 Meuse; Gr. sauros, lizard). Extinct 

 marine reptile, so called because 

 the first skeleton was discovered at 

 St. Pietersberg on the Meuse. 

 Somewhat similar to a snake in ap- 

 pearance, with strong paddles, it 

 attained a length of 40 ft. Numer- 

 ous specimens have been found in 

 the Cretaceous deposits of Europe 

 and N. America. 



Mosaylima OB MOSEILIMA (d. 

 643). Arabian prophet. Of the 

 Beni-Henifah tribe, from Yamama, 

 he was contemporary with Ma- 

 homet and was already known for 

 his piety when the prophfit began 

 his teaching. His claims to divine 

 inspiration and vocation as a leader 

 of the people were repudiated by 

 Mahomet, and when, on the death 

 of the latter, Mosaylima set up a 

 rival sect, he was killed in battle by 

 Khalid, one of Abu Bekr's gene- 

 rals, and, save for the few adherents 

 who escaped the general massacre, 

 his sect was extinguished. 



Moschatel (Adorn mosc.hatel- 

 lina). Perennial succulent herb of 

 the natural order Caprif oliaceae. It 

 is a native of Europe, N. Asia, and 

 N.America. It has a tuberous, creep- 

 ing rootstock, from which in early 

 spring arise the obscurely four- 

 angled stems, each with only two 

 leaves, which are divided into 

 three-lobed leaflets. The stem ends 

 in a crowded head of five small 

 green flowers, which have a musky 

 odour, whence the plant derives its 

 name. These are succeeded by 

 juicy, green berries. 



Moscheles, FELIX STONE (1833- 

 1917). British painter. Born in 

 London, Feb. 8, 1833, the son of 

 Ignaz Mos- 

 cheles, he was 

 educated a t 

 King's College 

 and later in 

 Germany. His 

 father became 

 director of the 

 conservatoire 

 at Leipzig, 

 where Felix 

 attended 

 schools. After 

 further study in Paris and Ant- 

 werp, he settled in London, where 

 be enjoyed a wide reputation as a 

 portrait painter. Among his sub- 

 ject-pictures were Grief, 1878 ; 

 Spanish Song, 1879; Little Mo- 

 zart's own Choir, 1882 ; and The 

 Isle's Enchantress. Moscheles was 

 well-known as an advocate of 

 international arbitration. He died 

 at Tunbridge Wells, Dec. 20, 1917. 

 He wrote two autobiographical 

 works, In Bohemia with Du 

 Maurier, and Fragments of an Auto- 

 biography, and edited Mendels- 

 sohn's letters to his parents. 



F. S. Moscheles, 

 British painter 



Elliott* Fry 



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Moscheles, IGNAZ (1794-1870). 

 Bohemian composer and pianist. 

 Born at Prague of Jewish parents. 

 May 30, 1794, 

 he studied at 

 the Conserva- 

 toire there and 

 in Vienna. 

 From 1826-46 

 he lived in 

 London, where 

 he became 

 famous as a 

 teacher, and 

 in 1846 he set- 

 tled in Leipzig as professor at the 

 new conservatoire. He died in Leip- 

 zig, March 10, 1870. Moscheles 

 played as well as taught the piano, 

 andwasagreat favourite in London, 

 where he last appeared in 1865. 



Ignaz Moscheles, 

 Bohemian composer 



Moschatel. Foliage and flower head 

 o! the succulent herb 



He wrote much music, and his 

 piano studies are still highly es- 

 teemed. His life has been trans- 

 lated into English by A. D. Cole- 

 ridge, 1873. Pron. Mo-shel-es. 



Moschus (2nd century B.O.). 

 Greek poet. Born at Syracuse, he 

 became a pupil of the grammarian 

 Aristarchus o f 

 Samothrace a t 

 Alexandria. 

 Neither he nor 

 Bion (q.v.) is 

 really a bucolic 

 poet, although 

 they are generally 

 so described. Of 

 two extant poems 

 one is a mytho- 

 logical epic on the 

 Carrying off of 

 Europa by Zeus 

 in the form of a 

 bull. The Lament 

 for Bion, formerly 

 attributed to 

 Moschus, is now 

 considered to be- 

 long to a much 

 later date. 



Moscovitch, 

 MAURICE. Actor 

 First known as a 

 Yiddish actor of 



MOSCOW 



great power, he made a sensation 

 by bia performance in English of 

 Shylock in The Merchant of Venice 

 at the Court Theatre, London, 1919. 

 His gift for strong emotional acting 

 was also successfully shown in The 

 Great Lover, 1920, and the one-act 

 play, Don Carlos, 1921. 



Moscow. Government of cen- 

 tral Russia. It is bounded on the 

 N. by the government of Tver, W. 

 by Smolensk, S. by Kaluga and 

 Tula, and E. by Ryazan and Vladi- 

 mir. Its area is 13,000 sq. m. The 

 district is best known as the great- 

 est industrial centre of Russia, es- 

 pecially for textile goods; there 

 are also manufactories of carpets, 

 chemicals, soap, and paper. Forests 

 cover a considerable area ; else- 

 where the soil is infertile. 



Moscow (Russ. Moskva). An- 

 cient capital of Russia and crown- 

 ing place of the tsars, now the 

 capital of Soviet Russia. It lies, like 

 Rome, on seven hills, 500-850 ft. in 

 alt., on the river Moskva, 400 m. 

 S.E. of Petrograd. It consists of 

 five parts, divided into 17 dists., 

 and covers 40 sq. m., including the 

 suburbs. It is the seat of the metro- 

 politan of Moscow, and the gover- 

 nor-general of the prov. of Moscow. 

 The city is irregularly built, semi- 

 circular in form, and with its nu- 

 merous domes and cupolas has a 

 picturesque appearance. 



The old quarter consists of the 

 Kremlin on the N. bank of the 

 river and the busy Kitai Gorod or 

 China Town. Biely Gorod or 

 White City, encircled by boule- 

 vards, is the fashionable and shop- 

 ping centre. Beyond lies the Zem- 

 lyanoi Gorod or Earth City, so 

 called from the 17th century earth 

 wall in which it is enclosed. The 

 rest of the city forms a fringe of 



Moscow. Plan of the central districts of the capital 

 of Soviet Russia 



