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20060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-2 | MPEG-2 | MPEG-2 (a.k.a. H.222/H.262 as was defined by the ITU) is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information". It describes a combination of lossy video compression and lossy audio data compression methods, which permit storage and transmission of movies using currently available stor... |
20061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-3 | MPEG-3 | MPEG-3 is the designation for a group of audio and video coding standards agreed upon by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) designed to handle HDTV signals at 1080p in the range of 20 to 40 megabits per second. MPEG-3 was launched as an effort to address the need of an HDTV standard while work on MPEG-2 was underw... |
20062 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditation | Meditation | Meditation is a practice in which an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state.
Meditation is practiced in numerous religious traditions. Th... |
20063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4 | MPEG-4 | MPEG-4 is a method of defining compression of audio and visual (AV) digital data. It was introduced in late 1998 and designated a standard for a group of audio and video coding formats and related technology agreed upon by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11) under the formal standa... |
20064 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritime%20archaeology | Maritime archaeology | Maritime archaeology (also known as marine archaeology) is a discipline within archaeology as a whole that specifically studies human interaction with the sea, lakes and rivers through the study of associated physical remains, be they vessels, shore-side facilities, port-related structures, cargoes, human remains and s... |
20069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morihei%20Ueshiba | Morihei Ueshiba | was a Japanese martial artist and founder of the martial art of aikido. He is often referred to as "the founder" or , "Great Teacher".
The son of a landowner from Tanabe, Ueshiba studied a number of martial arts in his youth, and served in the Japanese Army during the Russo-Japanese War. After being discharged in 19... |
20070 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20address%20register | Memory address register | In a computer, the memory address register (MAR) is the CPU register that either stores the memory address from which data will be fetched to the CPU, or the address to which data will be sent and stored.
In other words, this register is used to access data and instructions from memory during the execution phase of i... |
20072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microassembler | Microassembler | A microassembler is a computer program that helps prepare a microprogram, called firmware, to control the low level operation of a computer in much the same way an assembler helps prepare higher level code for a processor. The difference is that the microprogram is usually only developed by the processor manufacturer a... |
20074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine%20pistol | Machine pistol | A machine pistol is an autoloading pistol capable of fully automatic fire. It can also be used to describe a stockless handgun-style submachine gun. The term is a calque of Maschinenpistole, the German word for submachine guns. Machine pistols were developed during World War I and originally issued to German artillery ... |
20076 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Luther%20King%20Jr. | Martin Luther King Jr. | Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. An African American church leader and the son of early civil rights acti... |
20077 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLK%20%28disambiguation%29 | MLK (disambiguation) | MLK are the initials of Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968).
MLK or mlk may also refer to:
MLK, Milk
MLK, the Northwest Semitic spelling of Malik (king).
MLK, the Phoenician spelling of the deity Moloch
Transportation
MLK, IATA airport code for Malta Airport (Montana), USA
MLK, ICAO airline code for Nigeria's Millen... |
20079 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Luther%20King%20%28disambiguation%29 | Martin Luther King (disambiguation) | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) was a minister and civil rights activist.
Martin Luther King may also refer to:
People
Martin Luther King Sr. (1899–1984), Baptist minister and father of Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King III (born 1957), son of Martin Luther King Jr. and a former head of the Southern Christ... |
20080 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marino%20Marini%20%28sculptor%29 | Marino Marini (sculptor) | Marino Marini (27 February 1901 – 6 August 1980) was an Italian sculptor.
Biography
He attended the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence in 1917. Although he never abandoned painting, Marini devoted himself primarily to sculpture from about 1922. From this time his work was influenced by Etruscan art and the sculpture ... |
20087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular%20arithmetic | Modular arithmetic | In mathematics, modular arithmetic is a system of arithmetic for integers, where numbers "wrap around" when reaching a certain value, called the modulus. The modern approach to modular arithmetic was developed by Carl Friedrich Gauss in his book Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, published in 1801.
A familiar use of modular... |
20088 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myriad | Myriad | A myriad (from Ancient Greek ) is technically the number 10,000 (ten thousand); in that sense, the term is used in English almost exclusively for literal translations from Greek, Latin or Sinospheric languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean), or when talking about ancient Greek numerals.
More generally, a myriad may be us... |
20089 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed%20Al-Fayed | Mohamed Al-Fayed | Mohamed Al-Fayed (; ; born Mohamed Fayed, 27 January 1929) is an Egyptian-born businessman whose residence and chief business interests have been in the United Kingdom since the late 1960s. Fayed's business interests include ownership of Hôtel Ritz Paris and formerly Harrods department store and Fulham F.C., both in L... |
20090 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmite | Marmite | Marmite ( ) is a savoury food spread made from yeast extract that was invented by German scientist Justus von Liebig and originally made in the United Kingdom. It is a by-product of beer brewing (see Lees (fermentation)) and is currently produced by British company Unilever. The product is notable as a vegan source of ... |
20092 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabon%20ap%20Modron | Mabon ap Modron | Mabon ap Modron is a prominent figure from Welsh literature and mythology, the son of Modron and a member of Arthur's war band. Both he and his mother were likely deities in origin, descending from a divine mother–son pair. He is often equated with the Demetian hero Pryderi fab Pwyll, and may be associated with the min... |
20097 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave | Microwave | Microwave is a form of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths ranging from about one meter to one millimeter corresponding to frequencies between 300 MHz and 300 GHz respectively. Different sources define different frequency ranges as microwaves; the above broad definition includes both UHF and EHF (millimeter wav... |
20101 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary | Mary | Mary may refer to:
People
Mary (name), a feminine given name (includes a list of people with the name)
Religious contexts
New Testament people named Mary, overview article linking to many of those below
Mary, mother of Jesus, also called the Blessed Virgin Mary
Mary Magdalene, devoted follower of Jesus
Mary of ... |
20102 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manasseh | Manasseh | Manasseh may refer to:
Places
Manasseh Hills, in northern Israel
People (surname)
Ezekiel Saleh Manasseh (died 1944), Singaporean rice and opium merchant and hotelier
Jacob Manasseh (died 1832), Ottoman rabbi
Leonard Manasseh (1916–2017), British architect
People (given name)
Manasseh (tribal patriarch), first so... |
20108 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick%20Doohan | Mick Doohan | Michael Sydney Doohan (born 4 June 1965) is an Australian former Grand Prix motorcycle road racing World Champion, who won five consecutive 500 cc World Championships.
Biography
Originally from the Gold Coast, Queensland, Doohan attended St Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace and Aspley State High School, Brisbane. He ... |
20113 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20Suit%20Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam | Mobile Suit Gundam, known in Japan as , is an anime television series, produced and animated by Nippon Sunrise. Created and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, it premiered in Japan on Nagoya Broadcasting Network and its affiliated ANN stations on April 7, 1979, and lasted until January 26, 1980, spanning 43 episodes. It was... |
20119 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodism | Methodism | Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity whose origins, doctrine, practice and belief derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley. George Whitefield and John's brother Charles Wesley were also significant early leaders in the moveme... |
20124 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mancala | Mancala | The mancala games are a family of two-player turn-based strategy board games played with small stones, beans, or seeds and rows of holes or pits in the earth, a board or other playing surface. The objective is usually to capture all or some set of the opponent's pieces.
Versions of the game date back to the 7th centu... |
20125 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maastricht | Maastricht | Maastricht ( , , ; ; ; ) is a city and a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. It is the capital and largest city of the province of Limburg. Maastricht is located on both sides of the Meuse (), at the point where the Jeker joins it. Mount Saint Peter (Sint-Pietersberg) is largely situated within the city's... |
20127 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.%20C.%20Escher | M. C. Escher | Maurits Cornelis Escher (; 17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist who made mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints.
Despite wide popular interest, Escher was for most of his life neglected in the art world, even in his native Netherlands. He was 70 before a retrospective exhibiti... |
20129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shang-Chi | Shang-Chi | Shang-Chi ( ), also known as the Master of Kung Fu and Brother Hand, is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer Steve Englehart and artist Jim Starlin, debuting in Special Marvel Edition #15 (December 1973) in the Bronze Age of Comic Books, and starr... |
20132 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marv%20Albert | Marv Albert | Marv Albert (born Marvin Philip Aufrichtig; June 12, 1941) is an American retired sportscaster. Honored for his work as a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, he was commonly referred to as "the voice of basketball". From 1967 to 2004, he was also known as "the voice of the New York Knicks". Albert worked for Turner... |
20134 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota%20Vikings | Minnesota Vikings | The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis. They compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the National Football Conference (NFC) North division. Founded in 1960 as an expansion team, the team began play the following year. They are named after the Vikin... |
20142 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixmaster%20Morris | Mixmaster Morris | Mixmaster Morris (born Morris Gould, 30 December 1965) is an English ambient DJ and underground musician. Famous for his, "It's time to lie down and be counted" quote, relating specifically to ambient music, Morris stated "It's exactly what you need if you have a busy and stressful life".
Life and career
Morris Gould ... |
20143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manx%20language | Manx language | Manx ( or , pronounced or or ), also known as Manx Gaelic or Manks, is a Goidelic language of the insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, itself a branch of the Indo-European language family. Manx is the historical language of the Manx people.
Although few children have Manx as a first language on the I... |
20144 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcomanni | Marcomanni | The Marcomanni were a Germanic people that established a powerful kingdom north of the Danube, somewhere near modern Bohemia, during the peak of power of the nearby Roman Empire. According to Tacitus and Strabo, they were Suebian.
Origin
It is believed their name may derive from the Proto-Germanic forms of the word "m... |
20145 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maroboduus | Maroboduus | Maroboduus (d. AD 37) was a king of the Marcomanni, who were a Germanic Suebian people. He spent part of his youth in Rome, and returning, found his people under pressure from invasions by the Roman empire between the Rhine and Elbe. He led them into the forests of Bohemia, near to the Quadi who already lived nearby, a... |
20146 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon | Muon | The muon (; from the Greek letter mu (μ) used to represent it) is an elementary particle similar to the electron, with an electric charge of −1 e and a spin of 1/2, but with a much greater mass. It is classified as a lepton. As with other leptons, the muon is not known to have any sub-structure – that is, it is not tho... |
20149 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Muuss | Mike Muuss | Michael John Muuss (October 16, 1958 – November 20, 2000) was the American author of the freeware network tool ping.
Career
A graduate of Johns Hopkins University, Muuss was a senior scientist specializing in geometric solid modeling, ray-tracing, MIMD architectures and digital computer networks at the United States A... |
20150 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maus%20%28disambiguation%29 | Maus (disambiguation) | Maus is a series of Pulitzer Prize-winning books in the 'graphic novel' style, written by Art Spiegelman.
Maus may also refer to:
Maus, the German word for mouse
Maus (band), an Icelandic rock band
Maus Castle, a castle in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
MAUS mine, an Italian designed anti-personnel scatter mine
Mau... |
20151 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mousse | Mousse | A mousse (; ; "foam") is a soft prepared food that incorporates air bubbles to give it a light and airy texture. It can range from light and fluffy to creamy and thick, depending on preparation techniques. A mousse may be sweet or savory.
Sweet mousses are typically made with whipped egg whites, whipped cream, or both... |
20152 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee%20Brewers | Milwaukee Brewers | The Milwaukee Brewers are an American professional baseball team based in Milwaukee. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central division. The Brewers are named for the city's association with the brewing industry. Since 2001, they have played their home games at Ame... |
20153 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal%20Expos | Montreal Expos | The Montreal Expos () were a Canadian professional baseball team based in Montreal, Quebec. The Expos were the first Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise located outside the United States. They played in the National League (NL) East division from 1969 until 2004. Following the 2004 season, the franchise relocated to ... |
20154 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallocene | Metallocene | A metallocene is a compound typically consisting of two cyclopentadienyl anions (, abbreviated Cp) bound to a metal center (M) in the oxidation state II, with the resulting general formula Closely related to the metallocenes are the metallocene derivatives, e.g. titanocene dichloride, vanadocene dichloride. Certain me... |
20155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus%20Aurelius | Marcus Aurelius | Marcus Aurelius Antoninus ( ; 26 April 121 – 17 March 180) was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher. He was the last of the rulers known as the Five Good Emperors (a term coined some 13 centuries later by Niccolò Machiavelli), and the second to last emperor of the Pax Romana, (27 BC to AD 180), precee... |
20158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Eleonora%20of%20Brandenburg | Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg | Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (11 November 1599 – 28 March 1655) was a German princess and Queen of Sweden as the consort of King Gustav II Adolph (Gustavus Adolphus).
She was a daughter of John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg, and Anna, Duchess of Prussia, daughter of Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia.
In 1620, Ma... |
20161 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze | Maze | A maze is a path or collection of paths, typically from an entrance to a goal. The word is used to refer both to branching tour puzzles through which the solver must find a route, and to simpler non-branching ("unicursal") patterns that lead unambiguously through a convoluted layout to a goal. (The term "labyrinth" is... |
20162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth | Mammoth | A mammoth is any species of the extinct elephantid genus Mammuthus, one of the many genera that make up the order of trunked mammals called proboscideans. The various species of mammoth were commonly equipped with long, curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair. They lived from the Pliocene epoch (... |
20165 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS | MIPS | MIPS may refer to:
Technology
Million instructions per second, a measure of a computer's central processing unit performance
MIPS architecture, a RISC instruction set architecture
Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer, an instrument on the Spitzer Space Telescope
Multi-directional Impact Protection System, a he... |
20167 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%20cuisine | Mexican cuisine | Mexican cuisine consists of the cooking cuisines and traditions of the modern country of Mexico. Its earliest roots lie in Mesoamerican cuisine. Its ingredients and methods begin with the first agricultural communities such as the Maya who domesticated maize, created the standard process of maize nixtamalization, and e... |
20170 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS%20architecture | MIPS architecture | MIPS (Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipelined Stages) is a family of reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architectures (ISA) developed by MIPS Computer Systems, now MIPS Technologies, based in the United States.
There are multiple versions of MIPS: including MIPS I, II, III, IV, and V; as well... |
20171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder | Murder | Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought. This state of mind may, depending upon the jurisdiction, distinguish murder from other forms of unlawful homicide, such as manslaughter. Manslaughter is kill... |
20174 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner%20program | Mariner program | The Mariner program was conducted by the American space agency NASA to explore other planets. Between 1962 and late 1973, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) designed and built 10 robotic interplanetary probes named Mariner to explore the inner Solar System - visiting the planets Venus, Mars and Mercury for the firs... |
20175 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner%204 | Mariner 4 | Mariner 4 (together with Mariner 3 known as Mariner-Mars 1964) was the fourth in a series of spacecraft intended for planetary exploration in a flyby mode. It was designed to conduct closeup scientific observations of Mars and to transmit these observations to Earth. Launched on November 28, 1964, Mariner 4 performed t... |
20180 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical%20ensemble | Musical ensemble | A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name. Some music ensembles consist solely of instrumentalists, such as the jazz quartet or the orchestra. Other music ensembles consist solely o... |
20181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marienburg | Marienburg | Marienburg may refer to:
Historical German names
Ordensburg Marienburg (Malbork Castle), the large brick castle built by the Teutonic Knights
Malbork, Poland, site of the Ordensburg Marienburg, formerly Marienburg (Royal Prussia/Crown of the Kingdom of Poland 1466-1772), Marienburg in Westpreußen and during World War ... |
20182 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%20of%20Afghanistan | Military of Afghanistan | The military of Afghanistan () originated in 1709 when the Hotaki dynasty was established in Kandahar followed by the Durrani Empire. The Afghan military was re-organized with assistance from the British in 1880, when the country was ruled by Amir Abdur Rahman Khan. It was modernized during King Amanullah Khan's rule i... |
20185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle%20sport | Motorcycle sport | Motorcycle sport is a broad field that encompasses all sporting aspects of motorcycling. The disciplines are not all races or timed-speed events, as several disciplines test a competitor's various riding skills.
Motorcycle racing
Motorcycle racing (also known as moto racing and motorbike racing) is a motorcycle sport... |
20187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina%20Tsvetaeva | Marina Tsvetaeva | Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (; 31 August 1941) was a Russian poet. Her work is considered among some of the greatest in twentieth century Russian literature. She lived through and wrote of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Moscow famine that followed it. In an attempt to save her daughter Irina from starvation, she ... |
20188 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda%20of%20Tuscany | Matilda of Tuscany | Matilda of Tuscany ( , , ; – 24 July 1115), was a member of the House of Canossa (also known as the Attonids) and one of the most powerful nobles in Italy in the second half of the eleventh century.
She ruled as a feudal margravine and, as a relative of the imperial Salian dynasty, she brokered a settlement in the so... |
20189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia | Mesopotamia | Mesopotamia ( Mesopotamíā; ; , or , ) is a historical region of Western Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent. Mesopotamia occupies modern Iraq. The historical region includes also the head of the Persian Gulf and southeast Turkey, west Iran, northeastern... |
20192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda%20Richardson | Miranda Richardson | Miranda Jane Richardson (born 3 March 1958) is an English actress.
<ref>I doubted whether I, as an Englishwoman, could do a believable Irish accent.
How we made The Crying Game''', 26 Sep, 2021</ref> She made her film debut playing Ruth Ellis in Dance with a Stranger (1985) and went on to receive Academy Award nominati... |
20193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecklenburg | Mecklenburg | Mecklenburg (; ) is a historical region in northern Germany comprising the western and larger part of the federal-state Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The largest cities of the region are Rostock, Schwerin, Neubrandenburg, Wismar and Güstrow.
The name Mecklenburg derives from a castle named Mikilenburg (Old Saxon for... |
20196 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March%2010 | March 10 |
Events
Pre-1600
241 BC – First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates: The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end.
298 – Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa and makes a triumphal entry into Carthage.
947 – The Later Han is founded by Liu Zhiyuan. He declares him... |
20197 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March%2012 | March 12 |
Events
Pre-1600
538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius.
1158 - German city Munich (München) is first mentioned as forum apud Munichen in the Augsburg arbitration by Holy Roman Emperor Friedric... |
20199 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March%2014 | March 14 |
Events
Pre-1600
1074 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland.
1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under Charles, Duke of Mayenne, during the French ... |
20200 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management%20science | Management science | Management science (MS) is the broad interdisciplinary study of problem solving and decision making in human organizations, with strong links to management, economics, business, engineering, management consulting, and other fields. It uses various scientific research-based principles, strategies, and analytical methods... |
20201 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical%20notation | Musical notation | Music notation or musical notation is any system used to visually represent aurally perceived music played with instruments or sung by the human voice through the use of written, printed, or otherwise-produced symbols, including notation for durations of absence of sound such as rests.
Types and methods of notation ha... |
20202 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir%20Kahane | Meir Kahane | Meir David HaKohen Kahane (; ; born Martin David Kahane; August 1, 1932 – November 5, 1990) was an American-born Israeli ordained Orthodox rabbi, writer, and ultra-nationalist politician who served one term in Israel's Knesset. A cofounder of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) and founder of the Israeli political party Ka... |
20203 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marietta%20Alboni | Marietta Alboni | Maria Anna Marzia (called Marietta) Alboni (6 March 1826 – 23 June 1894) was a renowned Italian contralto opera singer. She is considered "one of the greatest contraltos in operatic history".
Biography
Alboni was born at Città di Castello, in Umbria. She became a pupil of of Cesena, Emilia–Romagna, and later of the c... |
20204 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manatee | Manatee | Manatees (family Trichechidae, genus Trichechus) are large, fully aquatic, mostly herbivorous marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows. There are three accepted living species of Trichechidae, representing three of the four living species in the order Sirenia: the Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis), the West Ind... |
20205 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsupial | Marsupial | Marsupials are any members of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia. All extant marsupials are endemic to Australasia, Wallacea and the Americas. A distinctive characteristic common to most of these species is that the young are carried in a pouch. Marsupials include opossums, Tasmanian devils, kangaroos, koalas, wombat... |
20206 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester | Manchester | Manchester () is the most-populous city and metropolitan borough in North West England and Greater Manchester, England. The city has the country's fifth-largest population at 547,627 (as of 2018) and lies within the United Kingdom's second-most populous urban area, with a population of 2.7 million, third most-populous ... |
20208 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20Murray | Margaret Murray | Margaret Alice Murray (13 July 1863 – 13 November 1963) was an Anglo-Indian Egyptologist, archaeologist, anthropologist, historian, and folklorist. The first woman to be appointed as a lecturer in archaeology in the United Kingdom, she worked at University College London (UCL) from 1898 to 1935. She served as President... |
20209 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March%2024 | March 24 | March 24th is the 365th and last day of the year in many European implementations of the Julian calendar.
Events
Pre-1600
1199 – King Richard I of England is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting in France, leading to his death on April 6.
1387 – English victory over a Franco-Castilian-Flemish fleet in the Battle... |
20210 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March%2023 | March 23 |
Events
Pre-1600
1400 – The Trần dynasty of Vietnam is deposed, after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule, by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official.
1540 – Waltham Abbey is surrendered to King Henry VIII of England; the last religious community to be closed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
1568 – The Peace of ... |
20211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March%2022 | March 22 |
Events
Pre-1600
106 – Start of the Bostran era, the calendar of the province of Arabia Petraea.
238 – Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperors.
871 – Æthelred of Wessex is defeated by a Danish invasion army at the Battle of Marton.
1508 – Ferdinand II of Aragon commissions Amerigo Vespucci ch... |
20212 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aoraki%20/%20Mount%20Cook | Aoraki / Mount Cook | Aoraki / Mount Cook is the highest mountain in New Zealand. Its height, as of 2014, is listed as . It sits in the Southern Alps, the mountain range that runs the length of the South Island. A popular tourist destination, it is also a favourite challenge for mountain climbers. Aoraki / Mount Cook consists of three summi... |
20213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-image%20Network%20Graphics | Multiple-image Network Graphics | Multiple-image Network Graphics (MNG) is a graphics file format, published in 2001, for animated images. Its specification is publicly documented and there are free software reference implementations available.
MNG is closely related to the PNG image format. When PNG development started in early 1995, developers decid... |
20215 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi%20John%20Hurt | Mississippi John Hurt | John Smith Hurt (March 8, 1893 – November 2, 1966), better known as Mississippi John Hurt, was an American country blues singer and guitarist.
Raised in Avalon, Mississippi, Hurt taught himself to play the guitar around the age of nine. He worked as a sharecropper and began playing at dances and parties, singing to a ... |
20216 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravia | Moravia | Moravia ( , also , ; ; ; ; ; ) is a historical region in the east of the Czech Republic and one of three historical Czech lands, with Bohemia and Czech Silesia.
The medieval and early modern Margraviate of Moravia was a crown land of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown from 1348 to 1918, an imperial state of the Holy... |
20217 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray%20Rothbard | Murray Rothbard | Murray Newton Rothbard (; March 2, 1926 – January 7, 1995) was an American heterodox economist of the Austrian School, economic historian and political theorist. Rothbard was a founder and leading theoretician of anarcho-capitalism and a central figure in the 20th-century American libertarian movement. He wrote over tw... |
20218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel%20Brooks | Mel Brooks | Mel Brooks (born Melvin Kaminsky; June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian and filmmaker. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a creator of broad farces and parodies widely considered to be among the best film comedies ever made. He began his career as a comic and a writer for Sid Caesar's var... |
20219 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycoplasma%20genitalium | Mycoplasma genitalium | Mycoplasma genitalium (MG, commonly known as Mgen), is a sexually transmitted, small and pathogenic bacterium that lives on the mucous epithelial cells of the urinary and genital tracts in humans. Medical reports published in 2007 and 2015 state Mgen is becoming increasingly common. Resistance to multiple antibiotics i... |
20221 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet%20Ali%20A%C4%9Fca | Mehmet Ali Ağca | Mehmet Ali Ağca (; born 9 January 1958) is a Turkish assassin who murdered left-wing journalist Abdi İpekçi on 1 February 1979, and later shot and wounded Pope John Paul II on 13 May 1981, after escaping from a Turkish prison. After serving 19 years of imprisonment in Italy where he was visited by the Pope, he was depo... |
20223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March%2017 | March 17 |
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45 BC – In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
180 – Commodus becomes sole emperor of the Roman Empire at the age of eighteen, following the death of his father, Marcus Aurelius.
455 – Petronius Maximus becomes, ... |
20224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy | Mummy | A mummy is a dead human or an animal whose soft tissues and organs have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold, very low humidity, or lack of air, so that the recovered body does not decay further if kept in cool and dry conditions. Some authorities restrict the use of th... |
20226 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melilla | Melilla | Melilla ( , ; ; ; ) is one of two autonomous cities of Spain, on the Morocco–Spain border. It has an area of . It was part of the Province of Málaga until 14 March 1995, when the Statute of Autonomy of Melilla was passed.
Melilla is one of the special member state territories of the European Union. Movements to and ... |
20229 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni | Macaroni | Macaroni (, Italian: maccheroni) is dry pasta shaped like narrow tubes. Made with durum wheat, macaroni is commonly cut in short lengths; curved macaroni may be referred to as elbow macaroni. Some home machines can make macaroni shapes but, like most pasta, macaroni is usually made commercially by large-scale extrusi... |
20232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenger%20RNA | Messenger RNA | In molecular biology, messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) is a single-stranded molecule of RNA that corresponds to the genetic sequence of a gene, and is read by a ribosome in the process of synthesizing a protein.
mRNA is created during the process of transcription, where an enzyme (RNA polymerase) converts the gene i... |
20237 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Saint%20Vincent%20University | Mount Saint Vincent University | Mount Saint Vincent University, often referred to as the Mount, is a public, primarily undergraduate, university located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and was established in 1873. Mount Saint Vincent offers undergraduate programs in Arts, Science, Education, and Professional Studies. The Mount has 13 graduate degree... |
20239 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal%20pair | Minimal pair | In phonology, minimal pairs are pairs of words or phrases in a particular language, spoken or signed, that differ in only one phonological element, such as a phoneme, toneme or chroneme, and have distinct meanings. They are used to demonstrate that two phones are two separate phonemes in the language.
Many phonologist... |
20242 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minestrone | Minestrone | Minestrone (; ) is a thick soup of Italian origin made with vegetables, often with the addition of pasta or rice, sometimes both. Common ingredients include beans, onions, celery, carrots, leaf vegetables, stock, parmesan cheese and tomatoes.
There is no set recipe for minestrone, since it can usually be made out of w... |
20254 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda%20%28moon%29 | Miranda (moon) | Miranda, also designated Uranus V, is the smallest and innermost of Uranus's five round satellites. It was discovered by Gerard Kuiper on 16 February 1948 at McDonald Observatory in Texas, and named after Miranda from William Shakespeare's play The Tempest. Like the other large moons of Uranus, Miranda orbits close to ... |
20257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars%20in%20fiction | Mars in fiction | Fictional representations of Mars have been popular for over a century. Interest in Mars has been stimulated by the planet's dramatic red color, by early scientific speculations that its surface conditions might be capable of supporting life, and by the possibility that Mars could be colonized by humans in the future. ... |
20258 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McIntosh%20%28apple%29 | McIntosh (apple) | The McIntosh ( ), McIntosh Red, or colloquially the Mac, is an apple cultivar, the national apple of Canada. The fruit has red and green skin, a tart flavour, and tender white flesh, which ripens in late September. In the 20th century it was the most popular cultivar in Eastern Canada and New England, and is considere... |
20261 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machete | Machete | A machete (; ) is a broad blade used either as an agricultural implement similar to an axe, or in combat like a long-bladed knife. The blade is typically long and usually under thick. In the Spanish language, the word is possibly a diminutive form of the word macho, which was used to refer to sledgehammers., altern... |
20264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom | Mushroom | A mushroom or toadstool is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground, on soil, or on its food source.
The standard for the name "mushroom" is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus; hence the word "mushroom" is most often applied to those fungi (Basidiomycota... |
20266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainframe%20computer | Mainframe computer | A mainframe computer, informally called a mainframe or big iron, is a computer used primarily by large organizations for critical applications like bulk data processing for tasks such as censuses, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and large-scale transaction processing. A mainframe compute... |
20268 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Excel | Microsoft Excel | Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. It features calculation or computation capabilities, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). Excel forms part of the Microsoft Office suite of software.
Featur... |
20269 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Hutchence | Michael Hutchence | Michael Kelland John Hutchence (22 January 1960 – 22 November 1997) was an Australian musician, singer-songwriter and actor. Hutchence co-founded the rock band INXS, which sold over 75 million records worldwide and was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2001. He was the lead singer and lyricist of INXS from 1977 un... |
20270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola%2068000 | Motorola 68000 | The Motorola 68000 (sometimes shortened to Motorola 68k or m68k and usually pronounced "sixty-eight-thousand") is a 16/32-bit complex instruction set computer (CISC) microprocessor, introduced in 1979 by Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector.
The design implements a 32-bit instruction set, with 32-bit registers and a... |
20272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minicomputer | Minicomputer | A minicomputer, or colloquially mini, is a class of smaller general purpose computers that developed in the mid-1960s and sold for much less than mainframe and mid-size computers from IBM and its direct competitors. In a 1970 survey, The New York Times suggested a consensus definition of a minicomputer as a machine cos... |
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