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Monthly Ordinances (Yueling)
The Monthly Ordinances (Yueling, 月令) is a chapter of the Record of Rites giving a twelve-month schedule of farm, forest, fishery, and livestock work, with star records from the last millennium BC.
Monthon system
The Monthon system (มณฑลเทศาภิบาล, thesaphiban) was Siam's centralized provincial administration, created under King Chulalongkorn between 1892 and 1899, with provinces grouped into circles under royal commissioners.
Monti della Tolfa
Monti della Tolfa, volcanic hill group in northern Lazio northeast of Civitavecchia, culminating at 616 m Monte Le Grazie; about 17,000 ha, rich in alunite and other minerals, with Bronze Age, Etruscan, Roman, and papal alum-mining heritage.
Monti L. Belot
Monti L. Belot, born 1943, is an American jurist and senior United States district judge for the District of Kansas, nominated by President George H.W. Bush in 1991.
Monticello
Monticello is the plantation house near Charlottesville, Virginia, designed by Thomas Jefferson, who worked on it from 1769 to 1809; it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987.
Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville
Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville: joint UNESCO World Heritage Site (1987, criteria i, iv, vi) covering Jefferson's plantation home (1769–1809) and his Academical Village with the Pantheon-modeled Rotunda, 795.96 ha, boundary modified 2015.
Monticello Dam
Monticello Dam is a concrete arch dam on Putah Creek in Napa County, California, built by the Bureau of Reclamation from 1953 to 1957 to create Lake Berryessa.
Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant
The Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant is a boiling water reactor nuclear power plant on the Mississippi River near Monticello, Minnesota, owned by Xcel Energy and generating power since 1971.
Monticello Steam Station
The Monticello Steam Station was a 1,900 MW lignite-fired power plant near Mount Pleasant, Texas, run by Texas Utilities and Luminant from the mid-1970s until its 2018 retirement.
Monticola
Monticola (rock-thrushes), genus of 13 Old World passerine species in Muscicapidae, named by F. Boie in 1822; includes Blue Rock-Thrush, Cape and Sentinel Rock Thrushes; arose about 5.5 million years ago.
Montie Rissell
Montie Ralph Rissell, American serial killer who raped and murdered five women in Alexandria and Fairfax County, Virginia, 1976-77; five life sentences; FBI profiling subject; Mindhunter figure.
Montien Boonma
Montien Boonma (มณเฑียร บุญมา, 1953–2000) was a Thai mixed-media and installation artist whose aromatic herbal sculptures made him a leading Thai artist of the 1990s.
Montifringilla
Montifringilla (snowfinches) is a genus of Passeridae sparrows of high Eurasian mountains, named by Brehm in 1828; distinct from the brambling Fringilla montifringilla, a Fringillidae finch.
Montinho das Laranjeiras
Montinho das Laranjeiras (Villa Romana do Montinho das Laranjeiras) is a Roman villa site on the Guadiana at Alcoutim, Algarve, Portugal, occupied from the 1st century BC to the Islamic period, with a cruciform ecclesia, baptistery, and buyut.
Montione
Montione: ancient Roman villa site near Grottaferrata, southeast of Rome, a large villa platform about 150 meters square, earliest phase first century BC; also an Italian toponym for a Verghereto hamlet, a Pisan abbey, and an Umbrian wine estate.
Montjuïc
Montjuïc, Barcelona's seafront hill (Mons Judaicus, named for its medieval Jewish cemetery), 173–192 m high, ~338–360 ha; site of Montjuïc Castle, the 1929 Exposition grounds, MNAC, Fundació Joan Miró, and the 1992 Olympic Ring.
Montmartre
Montmartre is the hill district of Paris's 18th arrondissement, a commune until its 1860 annexation, birthplace of the 1871 Paris Commune, site of Sacré-Cœur, and historic home of artists and cabarets.
Montmaurin
Montmaurin (Haute-Garonne, Comminges, France): archaeological site with Paleolithic caves, the Montmaurin mandible, the Venus of Lespugue, and two large Gallo-Roman villas, Lassalles and la Hillère, excavated by Georges Fouet.
Montmaurin Gallo-Roman villa
Montmaurin Gallo-Roman villa: two large villas (Lassalles and Hillère) in Comminges, Haute-Garonne, France, founded in the 1st century, rebuilt as an aristocratic palace around 330–350, excavated by Georges Fouet.
Montmirat
Montmirat is the name of a commune in the Gard department of southern France, west of Nîmes, and of a former silver-lead mine and mountain pass in neighboring Lozère.
Montmorency Falls
Montmorency Falls (chute Montmorency) is an 83 m waterfall on the Montmorency River into the St. Lawrence, 12 km from Quebec City; Quebec's highest fall, 30 m taller than Niagara, site of the 1759 Battle of Montmorency.
Montmorillonite
Montmorillonite is a soft aluminum silicate clay mineral of the smectite group that swells when it takes up water, forms most of the rock bentonite, and is used in drilling muds and absorbents.
Montney Formation
The Montney Formation is a Lower Triassic, siltstone-dominated rock unit in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin, spanning about 130,000 km² across northwestern Alberta and northeastern British Columbia, and is Canada's largest source of natural gas.
Monto Ho
Monto Ho (何曼德) was a Chinese-born American infectious-disease physician and virologist at the University of Pittsburgh, known for research on interferon and cytomegalovirus infections in transplant recipients.
Montoir LNG Terminal
The Montoir LNG Terminal at Montoir-de-Bretagne is an LNG import and regasification terminal on the Loire estuary near Saint-Nazaire, France, commissioned in 1980 and operated by Elengy.
Montoneros
Montoneros, Argentine Peronist guerrilla organization of the 1970s, also called Movimiento Peronista Montonero; emerged 1970 with the Aramburu execution, merged with FAR in 1973, led by Mario Firmenich, and was destroyed by the 1976-1983 dictatorship.
Montong
Montong (Kecamatan Montong) is a district in Tuban Regency, East Java, Indonesia, elevation 244 m, Wikidata Q12202861; distinct from Montong Ajan (Central Lombok), Montong Gading (East Lombok), and other same-named Indonesian localities.
Montorie Foster
Montorie Foster Jr., Seattle Seahawks wide receiver (No. 87) and former Michigan State Spartans receiver (2020-2024, 108 catches, 1,426 yards); undrafted 2025, former substitute teacher who made Seattle's 53-man roster in 2026 after a Super Bowl LX practice-squad ring.
Montoulieu-Saint-Bernard
Montoulieu-Saint-Bernard, a commune of about 230 people in Haute-Garonne, Occitanie, near Aurignac; INSEE 31386. Known for Gallo-Roman baths at Pélet, discovered in 1957, classified monument historique in 1960.
Montour Steam Station
Montour Steam Station is a 1,505 MW power plant in Montour County, Pennsylvania, owned by Talen Energy, built as coal-fired in 1972 and converted to natural gas in 2023.