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	The Egyptian Mau
		The Egyptian Mau is one of the few breeds of cat that seems to enjoy being walked on a leash.
		The Egyptian Mau has the distinction of being the only natural spotted breed of domestic cat.
		The role of the Mau in the religion, mythology, and everyday life of the Egyptian conveys the degree of affection and respect in which these cats were held.
	www.moggies.co.uk /breeds/egyptmau.html

	Mau movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mau movement had not gone unnoticed by the population of New Zealand, and the treatment of Samoans at the hands of the administration had become a contentious issue in some New Zealand electorates during the 1929 election.
		Olaf Frederick Nelson, one of the leaders of the new Mau movement, was a successful merchant of mixed Swedish and Samoan heritage.
		The Mau remained true to this sentiment, and despite the exile of Nelson, continued to use civil disobedience to oppose the New Zealand administration.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mau (1485 words)

	Mau Mau Uprising - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The last Mau Mau leader, Dedan Kimathi, was captured by Kikuyu pseudo-gang police on 21 October 1956 in Nyeri with 13 remaining guerrillas, and was subsequently hanged in early 1957.
		The Mau Mau Uprising was an insurgency by Kenyan rebels against the British colonial administration that lasted from 1952 to 1960.
		Senior British officers thought that the Mau Mau Uprising was a sideshow compared to the Malayan Emergency.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mau_Mau (4188 words)

	Egyptian Mau: FBRL Breed Page
		Egyptian Maus do bear a resemblance to paintings of ancient Egyptian cats, although this does not prove that they are actually of Egyptian origin.
		Maus have been clocked running over 30 mph (48 kph).
		The first documented Maus were brought to the United States in 1956 by a Russian princess named Natalie Troubetskoy.
	www.breedlist.com /egyptian-mau-breeders.html (4188 words)

	Ca Mau Province -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Ca Mau (in (A native or inhabitant of Vietnam) Vietnamese, Cà Mau) is a (The proper sphere or extent of your activities) Province of (A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea; achieved independence from France in 1945) Vietnam, named after its capital city.
		Being surrounded by sea on three sides, fishing is an important industry in Ca Mau province.
		The provincial capital, also named Ca Mau, is a separate municipality.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/ca_mau_province.htm (151 words)

	Bruce Mau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mau is the creative director of Bruce Mau Design, and the founder of the Institute without Boundaries.
		From 1996 to 1999 Bruce Mau was the Associate Cullinan Professor at Rice University School of Architecture in Houston.
		Bruce Mau studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, but left prior to graduation in order to join the Fifty Fingers design group in 1980.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bruce_Mau (355 words)

	Mau Mau (game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mau Mau is very similar to the game UNO, both belonging to the larger Crazy Eights or Shedding family of card games.
		Mau Mau is a card game for 2 - 5 players that is popular in Germany, Brazil and some other areas.
		A popular variation is that a player must already say "mau" (or alternately "last card") as soon as he plays the next-to-last card and has just one card left in his hand.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mau_Mau_(game) (1096 words)

	CFA Breed Standard: Egyptian Mau
		Egyptian Mau Color Class Numbers Silver 0842 0843 Bronze 0844 0845 Smoke 0846 0847 AOV 0848 0849
		GENERAL: the Egyptian Mau is the only natural domesticated breed of spotted cat.
		The Egyptian's impression should be one of an active, colorful cat of medium size with well developed muscles.
	www.cfainc.org /breeds/standards/egyptian.html (1096 words)

	Do It Yourself: Cats
		From the dim mists of antiquity comes the Egyptian mau cat, an ancient breed known for its spotted coat and inexhaustible energy.
		Maus require very little attention, just light brushing, the occasional bath and a healthful diet.
		The mau's eyes are green rimmed with black, and in the silver and the bronze the nose leather is pink.
	www.diynet.com /diy/lp_cats/article/0,2041,DIY_14060_2273335,00.html (1096 words)

	egyptian mau cat
		Egyptian Maus are a medium-sized short-haired cat breed.
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		Egyptian Maus are a medium-sized short-haired cat breed...
	www.about-cats.com /11/egyptian-mau-cat.html (1096 words)

	Design Principal
		Mau is wary of trying to expand the size of his firm too quickly; he thinks carefully about how new work will affect the group.
		Bruce Mau's influential studio works with a roster of world-renowned clients.
		Mau's trip to Toronto for his college-admission interview was his first trip ever to a big city.
	www.fastcompany.com /online/39/mau.html (3503 words)

	kenya-mail.com's Kenya Safari Guide - Mau Mau - The Mau Mau movement
		The Mau Mau (origin of the name is uncertain) advocated violent resistance to British domination in Kenya; the movement was especially associated with the ritual oaths employed by leaders of the Kikuyu Central Association to promote unity in the independence movement.
		The “dangerous explosion” among the Kikuyu that he had predicted in 1930 erupted as the Mau Mau rebellion of 1952, which was directed against the presence of European settlers in Kenya and their ownership of land.
		Jomo Kenyatta, charged with directing the Mau Mau movement and sentenced with five associates to seven years' imprisonment in 1953, was released in 1959 and confined to restrictive residence.
	www.kenya-mail.com /mau_mau.html (2177 words)

	HEATHER.htm
		Surviving members of the Mau Mau movement, which suffered well over 10,000 fatalities in the pursuit of "land and freedom," were conspicuous by their absence in the new government or in the distribution of the spoils of independence.
		And also unlike many Mau Mau whose commitment to fight was the result of social and economic conditions, Waiyaki's hatred of the colonial regime is linked to the death of her grandfather, a prominent Kikuyu leader, at the hands of the British in 1892.
		One of the handicaps in studying the Mau Mau insurgency is the dearth of documentary evidence from the insurgent side.
	www.lib.unb.ca /Texts/JCS/fall99/HEATHER.htm (2260 words)

	Kenyan Mau Mau seek compensation from British government
		The Mau Mau was a rebellion of landless peasants and low-paid labourers in Nairobi, Kenya's capital.
		The Mau Mau movement began in 1946-47 and precipitated possibly the gravest crisis in the history of Britain's African colonies.
		Joseph Ndecha, the Mau Mau chairman, told Kenyan television that the association had spent 15 years gathering evidence on behalf of the 87,000 Kenyans detained and the thousands more transferred to concentration camps and deprived of their land and property by the British.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/may1999/mau-m26_prn.shtml (1507 words)

	Mau Mau on Encyclopedia.com
		(aftermath of the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya)
		In 1952 the Mau Mau began reprisals against the Europeans, especially in the "white highlands," claimed as Kikuyu lands.
		MAU MAU [Mau Mau], secret insurgent organization in Kenya, comprising mainly Kikuyu tribespeople.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/MauM1au.asp (1209 words)

	Mau Mau Movement
		The Mau Mau movement was the result of a “breakdown of the uneasy alliance with the moderate wing of the KCA” and the “loose network of militant activists” that became Mau Mau (Furedi, 109).
		Mau Mau is viewed as being a return to paganism, since among the Kikuyu Christianity and missionaries are inevitably associated with imperialism according to the author.
		Kinyatti is one of the “main exponents of the thesis that Mau Mau was an anti-imperialist nationalist movment” (Furedi, 142).
	www.thefreemans.org /Jon/africa.htm (3863 words)

	Tadhg's Mau Mau Page
		Mau Mau may be played with two or more people.
		Mau Mau is played using standard playing cards.
		Many of the cards in Mau Mau are 'special' cards, which affect play in some way.
	www.netsoc.ucd.ie /~tadhg/main/maumau2.html (1940 words)

	kenya-mail.com's Kenya Safari Guide - Mau Mau - The Mau Mau movement
		The Mau Mau (origin of the name is uncertain) advocated violent resistance to British domination in Kenya; the movement was especially associated with the ritual oaths employed by leaders of the Kikuyu Central Association to promote unity in the independence movement.
		The “dangerous explosion” among the Kikuyu that he had predicted in 1930 erupted as the Mau Mau rebellion of 1952, which was directed against the presence of European settlers in Kenya and their ownership of land.
		Jomo Kenyatta, charged with directing the Mau Mau movement and sentenced with five associates to seven years' imprisonment in 1953, was released in 1959 and confined to restrictive residence.
	www.kenya-mail.com /mau_mau.html (2177 words)

	Cats and Kittens Magazine Egyptian Mau Breed Profile
		Egyptian maus were first brought to the United States in December 1956 by Princess Nathalie Troubetskoy, who had been living in exile in Italy.
		Maus, like most other breeds, had been trampled underfoot by the jackboots of that war, which had culled the mau population considerably.
		Like their matriarch Baba, one of the first Egyptian maus to reach the United States, the earliest maus were, in the words of one observer, "unpredictable, fiery and wild-natured." They did not accept other cats readily and did not feel at home anyplace but home.
	www.catsandkittens.com /breeds/mau.shtml (2177 words)

	Making a Map to a New World
		Mau supplied the vision -- a rough scheme that he concocted on a five-hour plane flight -- and then unleashed a team to research it, stretch it, flip it, break it, and otherwise workshop the hell out of it.
		Mau's studio is a think-and-do tank that's housed in a sun-drenched loft space on the edge of Toronto's Chinatown.
		Mau is attempting to reframe design in a broader cultural context -- and some people are put off by that endeavor.
	www.fastcompany.com /subscr/95/open_design-mau.html (1519 words)

	Portfolios.com - Exhibitor Close-Up On Bruce Mau
		Bruce Mau is arguably the most public designer on the face of the earth.
		Bruce's studio is frequently called upon to make the fevered visions of these (and other) architects workable and understandable.
		And that begins with the sensitive ways in which Bruce views his creative team and the studio in which it thrives -- views that are entirely consistent with a man who began with the idea of operating a business in the "public good" and which could be used as the blueprint for any studio's success.
	www.portfolios.com /close-ups/bruce.mau (881 words)

	Emergency In Kenya: Kikuyu And The Mau Mau Insurrection
		The politics found at the root of Mau Mau were nationalistic, in that the activist leadership discussed in the foregoing pages, stated their aims as eviction of Europeans and/or unification of all the African tribes of Kenya.
		Emergence of Mau Mau According to Raymond Glazier, the first rumors of Mau Mau and secret oaths reached segments of the European community in 1948.108 The exact date is unknown, because Europeans paid little attention to it initially; they did not know what it was and did not seem to care.
		Majdalany draws heavily from Leakey's Defeating Mau Mau, in his description that follows:...It is guite dark and he (the initiate) is ordered to remove his clothes...In the darkness he is pushed forward and receives his first Shock when his naked body is...brushed by the outline of an arch.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/1984/HRD.htm (14547 words)

	The Mau Mau Movement
		Mau Mau made it perfectly clear that the Africans of Kenya knew their rights and were prepared to fight and die for them.
		The Mau Mau War put an end to the hopes of white settlers for independence under the white minority rule.
		Mau Mau freedom fighters armed with home made and captured weapons had engaged thousands of highly-trained British troops.
	www.africawithin.com /tour/kenya/mau_mau.htm (919 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: With Study of Mau Mau, Prof Creates Masterpiece
		And while Mau Mau’s body count was, as Elkins skillfully demonstrates, not as high as the death toll inflicted by the settlers, the insurgents matched the settlers in the realm of brutality.
		The British repression of Mau Mau was an act of injustice—but not a genocide.
		Elkins’ work directly combats this syndrome and serves as an accessible narrative of Mau Mau, from beginning to end; in pursuit of this goal, she has created one of those rare history books which is immensely readable, even to someone who knows little about British colonial history.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=505971 (1000 words)

	Kenyan Mau Mau seek compensation from British government
		The Mau Mau was a rebellion of landless peasants and low-paid labourers in Nairobi, Kenya's capital.
		Joseph Ndecha, the Mau Mau chairman, told Kenyan television that the association had spent 15 years gathering evidence on behalf of the 87,000 Kenyans detained and the thousands more transferred to concentration camps and deprived of their land and property by the British.
		The Mau Mau was a secret association that fought against British rule in Kenya in the 1950s for land and political freedom.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/may1999/mau-m26_prn.shtml (1507 words)

	The Mau Mau Movement
		Mau Mau made it perfectly clear that the Africans of Kenya knew their rights and were prepared to fight and die for them.
		The Mau Mau War put an end to the hopes of white settlers for independence under the white minority rule.
		As British troops fought the Mau Mau in the forests, the colonial government took strict measures against civilians.
	www.africawithin.com /tour/kenya/mau_mau.htm (919 words)

	Egyptian Maus - Mas-Ree Mau Cattery
		Maus carry on conversations with a combination of soft meows and "chortling" in a soft melody.
		The Egyptian Mau is the only natural spotted domestic breed of cat lending an elegant appearance to this striking cat.
		Visit Cat Tracks for cute and amazing stories from the Breeder.
	www.angelfire.com /art/egyptianmaus (919 words)

	Egyptian Mau Breed
		The Egyptian Mau is the only naturally spotted, domestic breed of cat.
		Evidence suggest, and experts agree, that the Egyptian Mau is in fact the cat domesticated from a spotted sub-species of the African Wild Cat.
		The Mau often appears to be shy with strangers, but they are extremely affectionate and fiercely loyal to their families, both human and feline.
	www.catsunited.com /html/egyptian_mau_breed_.html (919 words)

	Egyptian Mau Cat, Egyptian Mau Kitten, Egyptian Mau Cat Breeder - Kitten Central's Egyptian Mau Kitten Buyer's Guide
		Egyptian Maus are very intelligent, and make wonderful pets, provided they are well socialized from an early age.
		Egyptian Mau Cat, Egyptian Mau Kitten, Egyptian Mau Cat Breeder - Kitten Central's Egyptian Mau Kitten Buyer's Guide
		Egyptian Maus have a beautiful, expressive face with incredible, large green eyes that lighten as the cat matures.
	www.kitten-central.com /egyptian-mau-kitten/egyptian-mau-kitten.htm (919 words)

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