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Montreux Jazz Festival

Montreux Jazz Festival: annual summer music festival in Montreux, Switzerland, founded in 1967 by Claude Nobs, René Langel, and Géo Voumard; three Casino jazz evenings grew into a two-week, 250,000-visitor event with a UNESCO-listed archive.

Montrezl Harrell

Montrezl Harrell, born Montrezl Dashay Harrell in 1994, is an American basketball forward who won the 2020 NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award with the LA Clippers.

Montrodat

Montrodat (originally Montroca, Monte Rocato) is a Lozère commune near Marvejols, France; a viscountal domain and one of the twelve seigneuries of Gévaudan, first mentioned in 1091, with a Romanesque castle chapel and the Poujoulat dolmens.

Montrose (band)

Montrose: American hard rock band formed 1973 by guitarist Ronnie Montrose with Sammy Hagar, Bill Church, and Denny Carmassi; its 1973 Warner Bros. debut influenced Van Halen and Iron Maiden.

Montrose Air Station Heritage Centre

The Montrose Air Station Heritage Centre, also called Montrose Air Station Museum, is a volunteer-run aviation museum in Montrose, Angus, Scotland, on the former RAF Montrose.

Montrose F.C.

Montrose F.C., the Gable Endies, is a semi-professional Scottish club founded in 1879 in Montrose, Angus, playing at Links Park since 1887, now in Scottish League One, with league titles in 1984-85 and 2017-18 and a women's side in SWPL 1.

Montrose, Colorado

Montrose, Colorado: home rule city and county seat of Montrose County on the Western Slope, founded 1882 as a railroad supply town, agricultural center after the 1909 Gunnison Tunnel, gateway to Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, population about 21,600.

Monts Bagzane

Monts Bagzane (Monts Bagzan) is a massif and oval plateau in the Aïr Mountains of northern Niger, home to Mont Idoukal-n-Taghès, Niger's highest point at 2,022 m, with sedentary Tuareg villages between 1,500 and 1,800 m.

Monts d’Ardèche UNESCO Global Geopark

Monts d'Ardèche UNESCO Global Geopark (Géoparc mondial UNESCO des Monts d'Ardèche): a 2,280 km² geopark in the French Massif Central, labeled 2014, renewed 2023, with 61 geosites, volcanoes, and 550 million years of geology.

Montserrado County

Montserrado County is a county in northwestern Liberia that contains the national capital, Monrovia, and holds over a third of Liberia's population on its smallest land area of any county.

Montserrat

Montserrat, nicknamed the Emerald Isle of the Caribbean, is a small British Overseas Territory in the Lesser Antilles whose Soufrière Hills Volcano erupted from 1995, destroying the capital, Plymouth.

Montserrat (mountain)

Montserrat, the serrated conglomerate mountain near Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain, home to the Benedictine abbey of Santa Maria de Montserrat and the Black Madonna, patron saint site of Catalonia.

Montserrat Caballé

Montserrat Caballé (1933-2018), Barcelona-born Spanish soprano famed for bel canto roles by Bellini and Donizetti, floated pianissimos, her 1965 Carnegie Hall breakthrough, the Met debut, and the 1987 Freddie Mercury duet 'Barcelona' tied to the 1992 Olympics.

Montserrat national football team

Montserrat national football team: men's side of the Caribbean British Overseas Territory (Emerald Boyz), Concacaf member since 1996; played The Other Final in 2002, rose to Nations League League B, currently in League C.

Montserrat Saldívar

Montserrat Saldívar (Angelique Montserrat Saldívar Pavón, born 2006), Mexican footballer for Club América in Liga MX Femenil and Mexico; youngest América Femenil debutant at 14, four club titles, Concacaf U-20 Best Player and W Champions Cup Best Young Player.

Montu Pilot

Montu Pilot (মন্টু পাইলট) is a Bengali Hoichoi web series directed by Debaloy Bhattacharya, premiered December 13, 2019, starring Saurav Das as Montu, a pimp in Kolkata's Neelkuthi red-light district; three seasons through 2026.

Montuemhat

Montuemhat, also written Mentuemhat, was a Theban official and Governor of Upper Egypt under Taharqo and Psamtik I, buried in the largest private tomb in Western Thebes.

Montuherkhopshef (son of Ramesses III)

Montuherkhopshef, also written Mentuherkhepeshef, was a prince of Egypt's 20th Dynasty and a son of Pharaoh Ramesses III, listed sixth among the royal sons at Medinet Habu.

Montuno

Montuno is the repeated, syncopated piano vamp, and the high-energy call-and-response section built on it, that closes a Cuban son or salsa arrangement; it emerged in 19th-century rural Cuba.

Montuwoser

Mentuwoser, also rendered Montu-user, was a royal steward and Overseer of the Double Granary under King Senusret I of Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty, known from a finely carved stela now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Montverde Academy

Montverde Academy (MVA) is a private college preparatory, boarding and day school in Montverde, Florida, founded in 1912 as Montverde Industrial School by H.P. Carpenter, with 1,400 students from 70+ countries and a nationally prominent boys basketball program.

Montverdun

Montverdun, Loire commune in the plaine du Forez, France, with a priory founded around 1010 on a basaltic pic, Neolithic to Gallo-Roman archaeology, and a site in Honoré d'Urfé's Astrée.

Monty Don

Monty Don (George Montague Don, born 1955) is a British organic gardener, writer and lead presenter of BBC Gardeners' World since 2003, filmed at his Herefordshire garden Longmeadow; OBE, RHS Victoria Medal of Honour, author of 21 books.

Monty Hall

Monty Hall (Monte Halparin, 1921–2017), Canadian-American game show host and producer, co-creator and host of Let's Make a Deal (1963 debut, over 4,500 episodes), namesake of the Monty Hall probability problem, and philanthropist with Variety Clubs International.

Monty Hall problem

The Monty Hall problem, also known as the Monty Hall paradox, is a probability puzzle in which switching doors after the host reveals a goat wins with probability 2/3.

Monty Jones

Monty Jones was a Sierra Leonean plant breeder who developed NERICA, the New Rice for Africa, and in 2004 became the first African to win the World Food Prize.

Monty Krieger

Monty Krieger is an American molecular biologist, Whitehead Professor at MIT, known for genetic work on the LDL receptor pathway and for identifying SR-BI, the first molecularly defined HDL receptor.

Monty M. Alger

Monty M. Alger is an American chemical engineer, a National Academy of Engineering member, and past president of AIChE who spent 23 years at General Electric before joining Penn State.

Monty Oum

Monty Oum (Monyreak Oum, 1981–2015), self-taught American animator, creator of RWBY and lead animator of Red vs. Blue at Rooster Teeth; known for viral Haloid and Dead Fantasy fan films.

Monty Panesar

Monty Panesar (Mudhsuden Singh Panesar), England's first Sikh Test cricketer, left-arm orthodox spinner; 167 wickets in 50 Tests at 34.71, 11-210 at Wankhede 2012, peak ICC rating 721 in 2007, later mental-health advocate.