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522, 523. Mohotze. See Tusayan. Mohr (mor), Eduard. Born at Bremen, Feb. 19, 1828: died at Malange, Africa, Nov. 26, 1876. A German traveler. He visited Polynesia, the Bering Sea, and California: traveled in Natal, Zululand, and Mat abele land in 1866-67 and 1869-70; and died at Malange, Angola, where he was recruiting carriers for an exploration of Lunda and adjoining countries. He published "Reiseund Jagdbilder aus der Südsee" (1868) and "Nach den Victoria Fallen des Zambesi" (1875). Mohr, Karl Fried rich. Born at Coblenz, Pru ia, Nov. 4, 1806: died at Bonn, Pru ia, Sept. 27,1879. A German chemist and physicist, profe or of pharmacy at Bonn from 1867. Mohrungen (mo'röng-en). A small town in the province of East Pru ia, Pru ia, 60 miles southeast of Dantzic. Here, Jan. 25, 1807, the French under Bernadotte defeated the Ru ians. Mohs (mos), Fried rich. Born at Gernrode, Anhalt, Germany, Jan. 29, 1773: died at Agordo, near Belluno, Italy, Sept. 29, 1839. A German mineralogist, profe or succe ively at Gratz, Freiberg, and Vienna. He wrote "Grundri der Miner a logie" (1822-24), etc. der Miner a logie Mohun (mō'hun), Charles, fifth Baron Mohun. Born about 1675: killed in a duel in Hyde Park, London, Nov. 15, 1712. An English desperado, the eldest son of Charles, fourth Baron Mohun. On Dec. 9, 1692, he was a ociated with Captain Richard Hill in the murder of William Mount fort the actor. From 1694 to 1697 he served in Flanders. After 1699 he sat in the House of Lords as a stanch Whig. He was repeatedly engaged in duels, and twice tried for murder and acquitted. In 1701 he was involved in a protracted lawsuit with James Douglas, fourth duke of Hamilton, over the estate of the Earl of Macclesfield, which resulted in a duel and the death of both parties. This duel (Mohun being represented by a fictitious "Harry" Mohun) figures in Thackeray's "Henry Esmond." Mohun, Michael. Born about 1625: died at London, Oct., 1684. An English actor. Before the civil war he performed under Beeston at the Cockpit, Drury Lane. He fought as captain in the army of Charles I. and in Flanders. He returned with Charles II., and was with Kill i grew's company 1660-63. Pepys calls him the "best actor in the world," and he was said to "speak as Shakspere wrote." He played at the Theatre Royal after April 8, 1663, and in the theater of Lincoln's Inn Fields after 1672. He was very versatile, and played with equal ease a succe ion of cla ical heroes, modern rakes, simpletons, etc. Moigno (mwän-yō'), François Napoléon Marie. Born at Guéméné, Morbihan. France, April 20, 1804: died at St. Denis, July 13, 1884. A French mathematician and scientist. He wrote "Leçons de calcul" (1840-44), etc. Moir (moir), David Macbeth: pseudonym Delta. Born at Mu el burgh, Jan. 5, 1798: died at Dumfries, July 6, 1851. A Scottish author. Among his works are poems, the tale "Autobiography of Mansie Wauch" (1828), "Sketches of the Poetical Literature of the Past Half-Century" (1851), etc. Moira, Earl of. See Hastings , Francis Rawdon . Moirai. See Mæræ . Moi ac (mwäs-säk'). A town in the department of Tarn-et-Garonne, southern France, situated on the Tarn 15 miles northwest of Montauban. The abbey church, St.-Pierre et St.-Paul, is remarkable for the porch of its narthex and for its cloister. Population (1891), commune, 8,797. Moivre (mwävr), Abraham de. Born at Vitry, Champagne, France, May 26, 1667: died at Lon Moivre don, Nov. 27, 1754. A noted French mathematician. He published "Doctrine of Chances" (1718), etc., and invented the mathematical formula named from him "De Moivre's theorem."