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phalanstery (iou) and McMahon Line (sh)


phalanstery (iou)



phalanstery noun. (pl. same). M19.
[French phalanstere, from PHALANX + mona)stere formed as MONASTERY.]
A building or set of buildings occupied by a Fourierist phalanx; a Fourierist phalanx; gen. any voluntary community; a place where such a community lives.
phalan'sterian adjective & noun (a) adjective of or pertaining to a phalanstery or the system of phalansteries; (b) noun a member of a phalanstery; an advocate of phalansteries, a Fourierist: M19.

McMahon Line (sh)




Frontier between Tibet and Assam in British India, negotiated between Tibet and Britain at the end of the Shimla (Simla) Conference in 1913-14.

It was named for the chief British negotiator, Sir Henry McMahon. China refused to recognize the boundary on the grounds that Tibet, being subordinate to China, could not make treaties. A conflict in 1962 between India and China failed to resolve the border dispute; China still considers the boundary illegal.