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Mary Cassatt
Mary Stevenson Cassatt (; May 22, 1844June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh's North Side), but lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20308 |
Military academy
A military academy or service academy (in the United States) is an educational institution which prepares candidates for service in the officer corps. It normally provides education in a military environment, the exact definition depending on the country concerned.
Three types of academy exist: pre-c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20311 |
Hayao Miyazaki
Born in Bunkyō ward of Tokyo, Miyazaki expressed interest in manga and animation from an early age, and he joined Toei Animation in 1963. During his early years at Toei Animation he worked as an in-between artist and later collaborated with director Isao Takahata. Notable films to which Miyazaki contrib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20312 |
Macrobiotic diet
A macrobiotic diet (or macrobiotics) is a fad diet based on ideas about types of food drawn from Zen Buddhism. The diet attempts to balance the supposed yin and yang elements of food and cookware. Major principles of macrobiotic diets are to reduce animal products, eat locally grown foods that are in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20318 |
Motorola
Motorola, Inc. () was an American multinational telecommunications company founded on September 25, 1928, based in Schaumburg, Illinois. After having lost $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009, the company demerged into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011. Mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20319 |
Mazda MX-5
The Mazda MX-5 is a lightweight two-passenger roadster sports car manufactured and marketed by Mazda with a front mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout. The convertible is marketed as the or in Japan, and as the Mazda MX-5 Miata () in North America, where it is widely known as the "Miata".
Manufactured at Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20320 |
Mackinac Bridge
The Mackinac Bridge ( ) is a suspension bridge spanning the Straits of Mackinac to connect the Upper and Lower Peninsulas of the U.S. state of Michigan. Opened in 1957, the bridge (familiarly known as "Big Mac" and "Mighty Mac") is the world's 24th-longest main span and the longest suspension bridge be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20321 |
Motorola 68030
The Motorola 68030 (""sixty-eight-oh-thirty"") is a 32-bit microprocessor in the Motorola 68000 family. It was released in 1987. The 68030 was the successor to the Motorola 68020, and was followed by the Motorola 68040. In keeping with general Motorola naming, this CPU is often referred to as the 030 (p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20322 |
Motorola 68040
The Motorola 68040 (""sixty-eight-oh-forty"") is a 32-bit microprocessor from Motorola, released in 1990. It is the successor to the 68030 and is followed by the 68060. There was no 68050. In keeping with general Motorola naming, the 68040 is often referred to as simply the '040 (pronounced "oh-four-oh"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20324 |
Motorola 68060
The Motorola 68060 (""sixty-eight-oh-sixty"") is a 32-bit microprocessor from Motorola released in 1994. It is the successor to the Motorola 68040 and is the highest performing member of the 68000 series. Two derivatives were produced, the 68LC060 and the 68EC060.
There is an LC (Low-Cost) version, wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20325 |
Motorola 6809
The Motorola 6809 (""sixty-eight-oh-nine"") is an 8-bit microprocessor CPU with some 16-bit features from Motorola. It was designed by Terry Ritter and Joel Boney and introduced in 1978. It was a major advance over both its predecessor, the Motorola 6800, and the related MOS Technology 6502. Among the sy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20326 |
Motorola 68HC11
The 68HC11 (6811 or HC11 for short) is an 8-bit microcontroller (µC) family introduced by Motorola in 1984. Now produced by NXP Semiconductors, it descended from the Motorola 6800 microprocessor by way of the 6801. It is a CISC microcontroller. The 68HC11 devices are more powerful and more expensive th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20327 |
Merovingian dynasty
The Merovingian dynasty was the ruling family of the Franks from the middle of the 5th century until 751. They first appear as "Kings of the Franks" in the Roman army of northern Gaul. By 509 they had united all the Franks and northern Gaulish Romans under their rule. They conquered most of Gaul, d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20333 |
The Morrígan
The Morrígan or Mórrígan, also known as Morrígu, is a figure from Irish mythology. The name is Mór-Ríoghain in Modern Irish. It has been translated as "great queen" or "phantom queen".
The Morrígan is mainly associated with war and fate, especially with foretelling doom, death or victory in battle. In th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20336 |
Marquette, Michigan
Marquette is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Marquette County. The population was 21,355 at the 2010 census, making it the largest city of the state's Upper Peninsula. Marquette is a major port on Lake Superior, known primarily for shipping iron ore, and is the home of N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20337 |
Mary (programming language)
Mary is a programming language designed and implemented by RUNIT at Trondheim, Norway in the 1970s. It borrowed many features from ALGOL 68 but was designed for systems programming (machine-oriented programming).
An unusual feature of its syntax was that expressions were constructed using ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20340 |
Megara
Megara (; , ) is a historic town and a municipality in West Attica, Greece. It lies in the northern section of the Isthmus of Corinth opposite the island of Salamis, which belonged to Megara in archaic times, before being taken by Athens. Megara was one of the four districts of Attica, embodied in the four myth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20344 |
Martin of Tours
Martin of Tours (; 316 – 8 November 397) was the third bishop of Tours. He has become one of the most familiar and recognizable Christian saints in Western tradition. A native of Pannonia, he converted to Christianity at a young age. He served in the Roman cavalry in Gaul, but left military service at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20345 |
Meaning of life
The meaning of life, or the answer to the question: "What is the meaning of life?", pertains to the significance of living or existence in general. Many other related questions include: "Why are we here?", "What is life all about?", or "What is the purpose of existence?" There have been many proposed a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20347 |
Maginot Line
The Maginot Line (, ), named after the French Minister of War André Maginot, is a line of concrete fortifications, obstacles, and weapon installations built by France in the 1930s to deter invasion by Germany and force them to move around the fortifications.
The Maginot Line was impervious to most forms ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20351 |
Metrication
Metrication or metrification is the act or process of converting the system of measurement traditionally used in a country to the metric system. All over the world, nations have transitioned from their local and traditional units of measurement to the metric system. This process first began in France durin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20353 |
Month
A month is a unit of time, used with calendars, which is approximately as long as a natural period related to the motion of the Moon; "month" and "Moon" are cognates. The traditional concept arose with the cycle of Moon phases; such months (lunations) are synodic months and last approximately 29.53 days. From ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20354 |
Medical psychology
Medical psychology is the application of psychological principles to the practice of medicine, and is clearly comprehensive rather than primarily drug-oriented, for both physical and mental disorders. The specialty of Medical Psychology and the National Alliance of Professional Psychology Providers ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20357 |
Music lesson
Music lessons are a type of formal instruction in playing a musical instrument or singing. Typically, a student taking music lessons meets a music teacher for one-on-one training sessions ranging from 30 minutes to one hour in length over a period of weeks or years. For vocal lessons, teachers show studen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20358 |
Mutagen
In genetics, a mutagen is a physical or chemical agent that changes the genetic material, usually DNA, of an organism and thus increases the frequency of mutations above the natural background level. As many mutations can cause cancer, mutagens are therefore also likely to be carcinogens, although not always n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20359 |
Mychal Judge
Mychal Fallon Judge, O.F.M. (born Robert Emmett Judge; May 11, 1933 – September 11, 2001), was an American Franciscan friar and Catholic priest who served as a chaplain to the New York City Fire Department. While serving in that capacity he was killed, becoming the first certified fatality of the Septembe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20360 |
Moonfleet
Moonfleet is a 1898 novel written by English writer J. Meade Falkner. The plot is an adventure tale of smuggling, treasure, and shipwreck set in 18th century England.
In 1757, Moonfleet is a small village along the coast of southern England. The village takes its name from a formerly prominent local family,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20361 |
Merge algorithm
Merge algorithms are a family of algorithms that take multiple sorted lists as input and produce a single list as output, containing all the elements of the inputs lists in sorted order. These algorithms are used as subroutines in various sorting algorithms, most famously merge sort.
The merge algorit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20362 |
Cuisine of the Midwestern United States
Midwestern cuisine is a regional cuisine of the American Midwest. It draws its culinary roots most significantly from the cuisines of Central, Northern and Eastern Europe, and Native North America, and is influenced by regionally and locally grown foodstuffs and cultural diversi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20366 |
Mitosis
In cell biology, mitosis () is a part of the cell cycle when replicated chromosomes are separated into two new nuclei. Cell division gives rise to genetically identical cells in which the number of chromosomes is maintained. In general, mitosis (division of the nucleus) is preceded by the S stage of interphase... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20369 |
Metabolism
Metabolism (, from "metabolē", "change") is the set of life-sustaining chemical reactions in organisms. The three main purposes of metabolism are: the conversion of food to energy to run cellular processes; the conversion of food/fuel to building blocks for proteins, lipids, nucleic acids, and some carbohyd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20374 |
Medieval Inquisition
The Medieval Inquisition was a series of Inquisitions (Catholic Church bodies charged with suppressing heresy) from around 1184, including the Episcopal Inquisition (1184–1230s) and later the Papal Inquisition (1230s). The Medieval Inquisition was established in response to movements considered ap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20375 |
Microorganism
A microorganism, or microbe, is a microscopic organism, which may exist in its single-celled form or in a colony of cells.
The possible existence of unseen microbial life was suspected from ancient times, such as in Jain scriptures from 6th century BC India and the 1st century BC book "On Agriculture" b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20377 |
Micronation
A micronation is a political entity whose members claim that they belong to an independent nation or sovereign state lacking legal recognition by world governments or major international organizations. Most are geographically very small, but range in size from a single square foot to millions of square mil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20379 |
Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposit. These deposits form a mineralized package that is of economic interest to the miner.
Ores recovered by mining include metals, coal, oil shale, gemstone... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20381 |
Geography of Myanmar
Myanmar (also known as Burma) is the northwestern-most country of mainland Southeast Asia. It lies along the Indian and Eurasian Plates, to the southeast of the Himalayas. To its west is the Bay of Bengal and to its south is the Andaman Sea. It is strategically located near major Indian Ocean ship... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20388 |
Demographics of Myanmar
The following is an overview of the demographics of Myanmar (also known as Burma), including statistics such as population, ethnicity, language, education level and religious affiliation.
At the time of the 1983 census in Burma, as of 31 March 1983, the population was 35,442,972. , this was es... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20389 |
Politics of Myanmar
Myanmar (also known as Burma) is a unitary parliamentary republic under its constitution of 2008. The military of Burma holds a large amount of power in the government, despite the end of the last Burmese military dictatorship.
Myanmar, formerly called Burma, was a monarchy which was ruled by vari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20390 |
Economy of Myanmar
The economy of Myanmar (also known as Burma) is an emerging economy with a nominal GDP of $69.322 billion in 2017 and an estimated purchasing power adjusted GDP of $327.629 billion in 2017 according to World Bank. For the 2018 estimate, GDP per capita in Myanmar will be $6,509 in PPP per capita and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20391 |
Telecommunications in Myanmar
Myanmar has begun the liberalization of its telecoms market in 2013.
Previously, Myanmar Post and Telecommunication had a monopoly in the country. In 2013, the government started taking steps to open up the telecommunications market, issuing licenses to new service providers. Consulting ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20392 |
Transport in Myanmar
The government of Myanmar (earlier known as Burma) has two ministries controlling transportation:
"total:"
"paved:"
"unpaved:" (2006)
The main highways are as follows:
There is one expressway in the country, which features double carriageway and four lanes on its entire length:
The other Hig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20393 |
Tatmadaw
The Tatmadaw (, , ) is the official name of the armed forces of Myanmar (Burma). It is administered by the Ministry of Defence and composed of the Army, the Navy and the Air Force. Auxiliary services include the Myanmar Police Force, the People's Militia Units and until 2013 the Frontier Forces, locally known... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20394 |
Foreign relations of Myanmar
Historically strained, Myanmar's foreign relations, particularly with Western nations, have improved since 2012. Relations became strained once more in 2017 with the Rohingya crisis. Myanmar (also known as Burma) has generally maintained warmer relations with neighbouring states and is a m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20395 |
John Lynch (New Hampshire)
John Harry Lynch (born November 25, 1952) is an American businessman and politician who served as the 80th Governor of New Hampshire from 2005 to 2013. Lynch was first elected governor in 2004, defeating first-term Republican incumbent Craig Benson – the first time a first-term incumbent New... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15870 |
J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and academic. He was the author of the high fantasy works "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings".
He served as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15872 |
James Branch Cabell
James Branch Cabell (; April 14, 1879 – May 5, 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and "belles-lettres". Cabell was well-regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken, Edmund Wilson, and Sinclair Lewis. His works were considered escapist and fit well in the culture of the 192... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15879 |
Java (programming language)
Java is a general-purpose programming language that is class-based, object-oriented, and designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. It is intended to let application developers "write once, run anywhere" (WORA), meaning that compiled Java code can run on all platforms ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15881 |
Jason
Jason ( ; , , ) was an ancient Greek mythological hero and leader of the Argonauts, whose quest for the Golden Fleece featured in Greek literature. He was the son of Aeson, the rightful king of Iolcos. He was married to the sorceress Medea. He was also the great-grandson of the messenger god Hermes, through his ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15885 |
Jack Kerouac
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (, March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), often known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist of French-Canadian ancestry and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. Themat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15890 |
Jeff Mills
Jeff Mills (born June 18, 1963, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American DJ, record producer and composer. Thanks to his technical abilities as a DJ, Mills became known as "The Wizard" in the early to mid 1980s. In the late 1980s Mills founded the techno collective Underground Resistance with fellow Detroit tec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15893 |
John Major
Sir John Major (born 29 March 1943) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997. Major was Foreign Secretary and then Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Thatcher Government from 1989 to 1990, and was Member of Parliament (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15898 |
Jazz dance
Jazz dance is a performance dance technique and style that first emerged in the United States in the early twentieth century. Jazz dance may refer to vernacular jazz or to Broadway or theatrical jazz. Both genres build on African American vernacular styles of dancing that emerged with jazz music. Vernacular... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15904 |
Jabberwocky
"Jabberwocky" is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll about the killing of a creature named "the Jabberwock". It was included in his 1871 novel "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There", the sequel to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1865). The book tells of Alice's adventures within t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15907 |
List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach composed cantatas, motets, masses, Magnificats, Passions, oratorios, four-part chorales, songs and arias. His instrumental music includes concertos, suites, sonatas, fugues, and other works for organ, harpsichord, lute, violin, cello, flute, chamber e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15910 |
John A. Macdonald
Sir John Alexander Macdonald (10 or 11 January 1815 – 6 June 1891) was the first prime minister of Canada (1867–1873, 1878–1891). The dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, he had a political career which spanned almost half a century.
Macdonald was born in Scotland; when he was a boy his family... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15912 |
John Diefenbaker
John George Diefenbaker (; September 18, 1895 – August 16, 1979) was the 13th prime minister of Canada from 1957 to 1963. Between 1930 and 1979, he was the only federal Progressive Conservative (PC or Tory) leader to lead the party to an election victory, doing so three times, although only once with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15915 |
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat (; December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent. Basquiat first achieved fame as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15916 |
John Graves Simcoe
John Graves Simcoe (25 February 1752 – 26 October 1806) was a British Army general and the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1791 until 1796 in southern Ontario and the watersheds of Georgian Bay and Lake Superior. He founded York (now Toronto) and was instrumental in introducing instit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15918 |
John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. A member of the prominent 19th-century Booth theatrical family from Maryland, and a noted actor, Booth was also a Confeder... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15919 |
Dan Quayle
James Danforth Quayle (born February 4, 1947) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 44th vice president of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Quayle was also a U.S. representative from 1977 to 1981 and a U.S. senator from 1981 to 1989 from the state of Indiana.
A native of Indianapolis, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15923 |
Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar ( , ; 12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman who played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire.
In 60 BC, Caesar, Crassus and Pompey formed the First Triumvirate, a political alliance tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15924 |
Jacobitism
Jacobitism ( , ) was a largely 17th- and 18th-century movement that supported the restoration of the House of Stuart to the British throne. The name is derived from "Jacobus", the Latin version of "James".
When James II and VII went into exile after the 1688 Glorious Revolution, the Parliament of England a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15925 |
J. G. Ballard
James Graham Ballard (15 November 193019 April 2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist who first became associated with the New Wave of science fiction for his post-apocalyptic novels such as "The Drowned World" (1962). In the late 1960s, he produced a variety of experimental shor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15927 |
Journalism
Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on current or past events. The word journalism applies to the occupation, as well as citizen journalists who gather and publish information. Journalistic media include print, television, radio, Internet, and, in the past, newsreels.
Concepts of the a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15928 |
John Calvin
John Calvin (;
Calvin was a tireless polemicist and apologetic writer who generated much controversy. He also exchanged cordial and supportive letters with many reformers, including Philipp Melanchthon and Heinrich Bullinger. In addition to his seminal "Institutes of the Christian Religion", Calvin wrote... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15930 |
Judit Polgár
Judit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. She is generally considered the strongest female chess player of all time. Since September 2015, she has been inactive. In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, at the time the youngest to have... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15937 |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (, ; ; 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the development of modern political, economic and educa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15941 |
John von Neumann
John von Neumann (; , ; December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath. Von Neumann was generally regarded as the foremost mathematician of his time and said to be "the last representative of the great mathematicians";... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15942 |
John Newton
John Newton (; – 21 December 1807) was an English Anglican clergyman and abolitionist who was forced to serve as a sailor in the Royal Navy for a period.
Newton went to sea at a young age and worked on slave ships in the slave trade for several years. In 1745, he himself became a slave of Princess Peye, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15943 |
Messier object
The Messier objects are a set of 110 astronomical objects catalogued by the French astronomer Charles Messier in his "Catalogue des Nébuleuses et des Amas d'Étoiles" ("Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters").
Because Messier was only interested in finding comets, he created a list of non-comet objects... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20608 |
Mambo (music)
Mambo is a genre of Cuban dance music pioneered by the charanga Arcaño y sus Maravillas in the late 1930s and later popularized in the big band style by Pérez Prado. It originated as a syncopated form of the danzón, known as danzón-mambo, with a final, improvised section, which incorporated the "guajeos"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20609 |
Montoneros
Montoneros () was an Argentine leftist urban guerrilla group, active during the 1960s and 1970s. The name is an allusion to the 19th-century cavalry militias called Montoneras, who fought for the Partido Federal during the Argentine Civil Wars.
After Juan Perón's return from 18 years of exile and the 1973 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20610 |
Morphine
Morphine is a pain medication of the opiate family which is found naturally in a number of plants and animals, including humans. It acts directly on the central nervous system (CNS) to decrease the feeling of pain. It can be taken for both acute pain and chronic pain. It is frequently used for pain from myoca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20613 |
Mechanical advantage
Mechanical advantage is a measure of the force amplification achieved by using a tool, mechanical device or machine system. The device preserves the input power and simply trades off forces against movement to obtain a desired amplification in the output force. The model for this is the "law of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20616 |
Marathi language
Marathi (; ; ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken predominantly by around 83.1 million Marathi people of Maharashtra, India. It is the official language and co-official language in the Maharashtra and Goa states of Western India, respectively, and is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India. With 83.1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20617 |
Martin Bormann
Martin Ludwig Bormann (17 June 1900 – 2 May 1945) was a German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery. He gained immense power by using his position as Adolf Hitler's private secretary to control the flow of information and access to Hitler. After Hitler's suicide on 30 April 1945, h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20618 |
Madeline Amy Sweeney
Madeline Amy Sweeney (December 14, 1965 – September 11, 2001), known as Amy Sweeney, was an American flight attendant killed on board American Airlines Flight 11 during the September 11 attacks.
On September 11, 2001, Sweeney was asked by American Airlines to take an extra shift because the other... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20619 |
Microtubule
Microtubules are polymers of tubulin that form part of the cytoskeleton and provide structure and shape to eukaryotic cells. Microtubules can grow as long as 50 micrometres and are highly dynamic. The outer diameter of a microtubule is between 23 and 27 nm while the inner diameter is between 11 and 15 nm. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20621 |
Militia
A militia () is generally an army or some other fighting organization of non-professional soldiers, citizens of a nation, or subjects of a state, who can be called upon for military service during a time of need, as opposed to a professional force of regular, full-time military personnel, or historically, memb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20622 |
Multiprotocol Label Switching
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is a routing technique in telecommunications networks that directs data from one node to the next based on short path labels rather than long network addresses, thus avoiding complex lookups in a routing table and speeding traffic flows. The labels ide... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20623 |
Message transfer agent
Within the Internet email system, a message transfer agent or mail transfer agent (MTA) or mail relay is software that transfers electronic mail messages from one computer to another using SMTP. The terms mail server, mail exchanger, and MX host are also used in some contexts.
Messages exchange... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20624 |
Micrometre
The micrometre (international spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; SI symbol: μm) or micrometer (American spelling), also commonly known as a micron, is an SI derived unit of length equalling (SI standard prefix "micro-" = 10−6); that is, one millionth of a metre (or one tho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20627 |
Maharashtra
Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH) is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. As the home of the Marathi people, Maharashtra is the second-most populous state and third-largest state by area in India. Spread over , it is also the world's second-most ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20629 |
Macrinus
Macrinus (; Marcus Opellius Severus Macrinus Augustus; – June 218) was Roman Emperor from April 217 to 8 June 218. He reigned jointly with his young son Diadumenianus. Macrinus was by origin a Berber from Mauretania Caesariensis. A member of the equestrian class, he became the first emperor who did not hail f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20633 |
Minotaur
In Greek mythology, the Minotaur ( ; in Latin as "Minotaurus" ) is a mythical creature portrayed in Classical times with the head and tail of a bull and the body of a man or, as described by Roman poet Ovid, a being "part man and part bull". He dwelt at the center of the Labyrinth, which was an elaborate maze... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20634 |
Memex
The memex (originally coined "at random", though sometimes said to be a portmanteau of "memory" and "index") is the name of the hypothetical proto-hypertext system that Vannevar Bush described in his 1945 "The Atlantic Monthly" article "As We May Think". Bush envisioned the memex as a device in which individuals... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20636 |
Modulation
In electronics and telecommunications, modulation is the process of varying one or more properties of a periodic waveform, called the "carrier signal", with a modulating signal that typically contains information to be transmitted. Most radio systems in the 20th century used frequency modulation (FM) or amp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20637 |
MacOS
macOS (; previously Mac OS X and later OS X) is a series of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001. It is the primary operating system for Apple's Mac computers. Within the market of desktop, laptop and home computers, and by web usage, it is the second most widel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20640 |
Mattel
Mattel, Inc. () is an American multinational toy manufacturing company founded in 1945 with headquarters in El Segundo, California. The products and brands it produces include Fisher-Price, Barbie, Monster High, Ever After High, Polly Pocket, Hot Wheels, Matchbox, Masters of the Universe, American Girl, Thomas ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20642 |
Morphology (linguistics)
In linguistics, morphology () is the study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language. It analyzes the structure of words and parts of words, such as stems, root words, prefixes, and suffixes. Morphology also looks at parts of speech, intonation a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20646 |
Melting
Melting, or fusion, is a physical process that results in the phase transition of a substance from a solid to a liquid. This occurs when the internal energy of the solid increases, typically by the application of heat or pressure, which increases the substance's temperature to the melting point. At the melting... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20648 |
Macroevolution
Macroevolution in the modern sense is evolution that is guided by selection among interspecific variation, as opposed to selection among intraspecific variation in microevolution. This modern definition differs from the original concept, which referred macroevolution to the evolution of taxa above the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20650 |
Martin Waldseemüller
Martin Waldseemüller (c. 1470 – 16 March 1520) was a German cartographer and humanist scholar. Sometimes known by the Latinized form of his name, Hylacomylus, his work was influential among contemporary cartographers. He and his collaborator, Matthias Ringmann, are credited with the first recorded... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20651 |
Megadeth
Megadeth is an American heavy metal band formed in 1983 by guitarist Dave Mustaine and bassist David Ellefson in Los Angeles, California. Along with Metallica, Anthrax, and Slayer, Megadeth is one of the "big four" of American thrash metal, responsible for its development and popularization. Their music featu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20653 |
MV Blue Marlin
Blue Marlin and her sister ship comprise the "Marlin" class of semi-submersible heavy lift ships operated by Dockwise Shipping of the Netherlands. Designed to transport very large semi-submersible drilling rigs above the transport ship's deck, it is equipped with 38 cabins to accommodate 60 people, a wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20659 |
Modified Mercalli intensity scale
The Modified Mercalli intensity scale (MM or MMI), developed from Giuseppe Mercalli's Mercalli intensity scale of 1902, is a seismic intensity scale used for measuring the "intensity of shaking" produced by an earthquake. It measures the "effects" of an earthquake "at a given location... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20663 |
The Mickey Mouse Club
The Mickey Mouse Club is an American variety television show which aired intermittently from 1955 to 1996 and returned to social media in 2017. Created by Walt Disney and produced by Walt Disney Productions, the program was first televised for four seasons, from 1955 to 1959, by ABC. This origina... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20664 |
Minos
In Greek mythology, Minos (; , , ) was the first King of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa. Every nine years, he made King Aegeus pick seven young boys and seven young girls to be sent to Daedalus's creation, the labyrinth, to be eaten by the Minotaur. After his death, Minos became a judge of the dead in the underwo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20665 |
Metre Convention
The Metre Convention (), also known as the Treaty of the Metre, is an international treaty that was signed in Paris on 20 May 1875 by representatives of 17 nations (Argentina, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden and Norway, Switzerla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20666 |
MAC address
A media access control address (MAC address) is a unique identifier assigned to a network interface controller (NIC) for use as a network address in communications within a network segment. This use is common in most IEEE 802 networking technologies, including Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. Within the Ope... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20668 |
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