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-maxxing

-maxxing: internet slang suffix meaning to maximize one trait (looksmaxxing, sleepmaxxing). From gaming min-maxing; spread via early-2010s incel forums' looksmaxxing; now a productive, mainstream self-optimization suffix.

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¡México Por Siempre!

¡México Por Siempre! is Luis Miguel's second ranchero/mariachi album, released November 24, 2017 by Warner Music México, his first new album since 2010, winner of the 2019 Grammy for Best Regional Mexican Music Album.

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¡Mucha Lucha!

¡Mucha Lucha! is a Flash-animated Kids' WB series (2002–2005) created by Eddie Mort and Lili Chin about young luchadores Rikochet, Buena Girl, and The Flea; the first all-Flash US broadcast series.

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.me

.me is the country-code top-level domain of Montenegro, delegated by IANA in 2007 and managed by the private .ME Registry, which markets it worldwide for personal branding.

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‘Mamucio’

‘Mamucio’ (Mamucium, Mancunium) is the Roman fort and vicus in Castlefield, Manchester, founded c. AD 79, source of the city's name, recorded in the Antonine Itinerary and Ravenna Cosmology.

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‘Mandris’

‘Mandris’ (also rendered Manoris) is a late-antique road station on the Tabula Peutingeriana's route from Nikomedeia to Gangra in western Paphlagonia, possibly at Doğancı, Turkey.

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‘Masclianis’

Masclianis: a station on the Tabula Peutingeriana in the northern Balkans (modern Slatina Timiş, Pleiades 207270), and the homonymous Roman road station and imperial estate at Henchir Sidi Abdelkader in Africa proconsularis.

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'Master Harold'... and the Boys

"Master Harold"... and the Boys is a 1982 one-act play by South African playwright Athol Fugard about a white teenager and two black waiters in apartheid-era Port Elizabeth.

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‘Medibogdo’

Medibogdo, variant of Mediobogdum, the Roman name of Hardknott Roman Fort in Cumbria: a 1.2-hectare Hadrianic fort (c. AD 117–195) garrisoned by the Fourth Cohort of Dalmatians on the Ambleside–Ravenglass road.

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‘Monte Haemo’

'Monte Haemo' (Montemno) is a Roman road station in the Haemus (Stara Planina) mountains of Bulgaria on the Oescus-Philippopolis road at the Troyan Pass, attested by an AD 234 inscription and garrisoned by cohors II Mattiacorum and cohors I Cisipadensium.

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"Many Officers" (Duoshi), a chapter of the Book of Documents

"Many Officers" (多士) is a chapter of the Book of Documents in which the Duke of Zhou, speaking for King Cheng, addressed Shang officers resettled at Luoyi.

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"Many Regions" (Duo fang), a chapter of the Book of Documents

"Many Regions" (Duo fang, 多方) is a chapter of the Book of Documents, a proclamation to the many states, composed after King Cheng's return from Yan.

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"Mithraeum" at Eleusis

Mithraeum at Eleusis: a Roman building of the 2nd century AD inside the Sanctuary of Demeter, interpreted as a Mithraic temple by Kourouniotis, with side benches, a cult pedestal, and a reused Peisistratean Doric porch.

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(Miss)understood (Ayumi Hamasaki album)

(Miss)understood is the seventh studio album by Japanese singer Ayumi Hamasaki, released on Avex Trax on January 1, 2006; it topped the Oricon chart and sold about 877,000 copies in Japan.

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(Mons) Brisiacus

Mons Brisiacus (Brisiacum, Brezecha) is the ancient Roman name of the fort and road station on the Münsterberg hill at Breisach am Rhein on the Upper Rhine, on the Vindonissa–Argentorate road, first documented in Valentinian I's edict of 369 and source of the name Breisgau.

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[MMD] trial

The [MMD] trial (NCT03438370) was a cluster-randomized non-inferiority trial in Lesotho, sponsored by Equip Lesotho, testing community-based multi-month dispensing of ART; 5,336 stable adults showed retention and viral suppression non-inferior to facility care.

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@midnight

@midnight was a Comedy Central late-night panel game show (2013-2017) hosted by Chris Hardwick and produced by Funny Or Die, where three comedians competed for points riffing on internet content; it won two Creative Arts Emmys and was revived as CBS's After Midnight.

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*Malliacum

Malliacum is the Barrington Atlas (14 F1) name for a Roman-period fort at Luynes, Indre-et-Loire, France, near Tours, attested AD 300–640, with the Gallo-Roman aqueduct of Luynes as its visible remains.

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*Manatum

Manatum is a reconstructed Gallo-Roman place name for Ménat, Puy-de-Dôme, France, cited as Barrington Atlas 14 H2; its name derives from Celtic men (mountain), distinct from Manatum Tessera on Venus.

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*Marciaco (France)

Marciaco (France): an ancient place recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places, cited to Barrington Atlas sheet 14, square E3; created by R.W. Mathisen in 2010, last modified 2012, under a CC-BY license.

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*Martiniacum

Martiniacum is a Latinized Gallo-Roman estate name ("domain of Martinus") recorded in the Barrington Atlas (14 F1) and Pleiades as a villa near Martigny, Indre-et-Loire; the same toponym also names Martigné-sur-Mayenne, Martigny (Valais), and other settlements.

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*Matreium

Matreium (Matreio), Roman road station at Matrei am Brenner, Tyrol, on the Brenner route over the Alps; known from the Tabula Peutingeriana and Barrington Atlas 19 D2, occupied since the late Bronze Age.

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*Meroliacum

Meroliacum, also Castrum Meroliacense, is the reconstructed ancient name of a fortified castrum of the Arverni at Chastel-Marlhac, Le Monteil, Cantal, France, captured by Theuderic I in 532 per Gregory of Tours; Barrington Atlas 14 H3, Pleiades 138465.

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/mlp/

/mlp/ (Pony) is 4chan's imageboard for My Little Pony discussion, created February 16, 2012 by moot under Global Rule 15 to contain brony threads; worksafe, bump limit 500, notable for the 10M GET, Lauren Faust AMA, and /mlpol/ merger.

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M

M (m) is the thirteenth letter of the English alphabet, from Greek mu and Phoenician mem (water), the Roman numeral for 1,000, and Unicode U+004D in Basic Latin.

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M (1931 film)

M (M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder) is Fritz Lang's 1931 German sound film about a Berlin child murderer, Hans Beckert, played by Peter Lorre, hunted by police and underworld alike; famous for its whistled Peer Gynt motif and banned in 1934.

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M (James Bond)

M (James Bond) is the code letter for the head of MI6 and James Bond's boss in Ian Fleming's novels and Eon films; Sir Miles Messervy in the books, played on film by Bernard Lee, Robert Brown, Judi Dench, and Ralph Fiennes.

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M cell of gut

M cell of gut (microfold cell), a rare specialized intestinal epithelial cell overlying Peyer's patches that lacks normal microvilli and transcytoses luminal antigens and pathogens to immune cells, initiating mucosal immunity; also exploited by pathogens and targeted for oral vaccines.

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M cone cell

M cone cell (medium-wavelength-sensitive cone, OPN1MW, green cone): retinal photoreceptor peaking near 543 nm, one of three cone classes enabling human trichromatic vision; X-linked gene, deutan color blindness, olo M-only stimulation.

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M Countdown (엠 카운트다운)

M Countdown (엠 카운트다운) is a weekly South Korean music show on Mnet where K-pop artists perform and a chart names each week's No. 1 song.