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Monty Python

Monty Python: British surreal sketch comedy troupe (Chapman, Cleese, Gilliam, Idle, Jones, Palin) formed in May 1969 at a Hampstead restaurant; creators of Monty Python's Flying Circus (BBC, 1969-74), four films including Life of Brian, Spamalot, and the 2014 O2 reunion.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) is a British comedy film directed by Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam, parodying King Arthur's quest for the Grail; funded by Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin, filmed in Scotland, and later adapted into Spamalot.

Monty Python's Flying Circus

Monty Python's Flying Circus: BBC sketch comedy series (1969-1974, 45 episodes) by Chapman, Cleese, Gilliam, Idle, Jones and Palin, known for surreal disconnected sketches, Gilliam animation, and the Dead Parrot and Silly Walks sketches.

Monty Python's Life of Brian

Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979), Terry Jones-directed British satire starring Graham Chapman as a man mistaken for the Messiah; financed by George Harrison's HandMade Films, banned in Ireland and Norway, home of "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life."

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983) is a British musical sketch comedy film directed by Terry Jones, the troupe's last feature with all six members, structured in seven life stages from birth to death, winner of Cannes' 1983 Jury's Special Grand Prix.

Monty Roberts

Monty Roberts (1935–2026), California horse trainer and author of The Man Who Listens to Horses, created the trademarked Join-Up round pen method; patronized by Queen Elizabeth II, widely adopted, and scientifically debated.

Monty Williams

Monty Williams (Tavares Montgomery Williams, born 1971) is an NBA head coach and former player; Coach of the Year 2021-22 with the 64-18 Suns, 2021 NBA Finals, later fired by Detroit after a 14-68 season.

Monty Woolley

Monty Woolley (Edgar Montillion Woolley, 1888–1963), American actor and director, Yale drama professor turned Broadway star, famous as Sheridan Whiteside in The Man Who Came to Dinner and twice Oscar-nominated.

MONUC/MONUSCO mandate renewals

The MONUC/MONUSCO mandate renewals are the sequence of UN Security Council resolutions that established, renamed, and drew down the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1999 and the 2020s.

Monufia Governorate

Monufia Governorate (محافظة المنوفية), Egyptian governorate in the southern Nile Delta between the Rosetta and Damietta branches, capital Shibin el-Kom; area 2,499 km², 4.3 million people (2017), national day 13 June for the 1906 Denshway incident.

Monument

Monument: a structure, building, column, or statue erected to keep alive the memory of a person, event, or period; also called memorial or Denkmal. Defined by etymology from Latin monere, UNESCO and Venice Charter doctrine, and conservation threats.

Monument (film)

Monument (2026), Bryan Singer's historical drama written by Alena Alova, stars Jon Voight and Joseph Mazzello as Israeli architects Yacov and Amnon Rechter, commissioned in 1999 to build a South Lebanon Army soldiers' memorial; released March 20, 2026, distinct from the Halpern-Geraghty Rhode Island documentary and Bodružić's Istria drama of the same name.

Monument at Ain bou Merzoug

Ras el-Aïn Bou Merzoug, also called the monument at Ain bou Merzoug, is a protohistoric megalithic necropolis of about 1,000 dolmens and cromlechs 35 km south of Constantine, Algeria, excavated from 1863 by Féraud and Christy and classified as a historic monument.

Monument Avenue

Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia: a grand residential boulevard laid out in 1887 around the 1890 Robert E. Lee monument, lined with Confederate statues from 1904 to 1929, designated a National Historic Landmark, and stripped of its Confederate statuary in 2020-2021.

Monument historique

Monument historique: French legal status protecting buildings and movable objects (classed or inscribed) for historical or artistic interest, based on the 1913 law, with 45,080 protected immeubles as of 2024.

Monument La Torratxa (Vilablareix)

La Torratxa (Vilablareix), also Torre dels Moros, is a Roman turriform funerary mausoleum of opus caementicium in the Gironès, Catalonia, center of a villa necropolis, roughly 8 m tall, restored with a protective roof.

Monument near Ghirza

The monuments near Ghirza are monumental funerary mausolea in two Roman-period cemeteries at Ghirza, a frontier settlement in the pre-desert zone of Tripolitania, western Libya, mostly dating from the late third and fourth centuries AD.

Monument of Eumenes II/Agrippa

Monument of Eumenes II/Agrippa, also called the Pedestal of Agrippa: an 8.91 m Hellenistic chariot pedestal on the Athenian Acropolis west of the Propylaia, built for Eumenes II after his 178 BC Panathenaic victory and rededicated to Marcus Agrippa in 16/15 BC.

Monument of Kallimachos

Monument of Kallimachos (Nike of Kallimachos, Acropolis Museum inv. Ακρ. 690): post-490 BC Athenian votive Nike on an inscribed column, dedicated by the polemarch Kallimachos of Aphidna after Marathon; 28 fragments, 4.85 m reconstructed, restored 2009-2010.

Monument of Nikias

Choragic Monument of Nikias (Χορηγικό μνημείο του Νικία), Doric hexastyle prostyle naiskos of 320/319 BC on the Acropolis south slope, Athens, built by choregos Nikias son of Nikodemos; dismantled in the 3rd century AD and reused in the Beulé Gate.

Monument of the Eponymous Heroes

Monument of the Eponymous Heroes (Το Μνημείο των Επώνυμων Ηρώων): long pedestal in the Athenian Agora carrying bronze statues of the ten tribal heroes, serving as Athens' official notice board from the 4th century BC to Hadrian's era.

Monument removal controversies

Monument removal controversies are disputes over whether public monuments should be kept, relocated, or removed, a contest between local governments seeking removal and state legislatures enacting retention laws.

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Monument to Balzac

The Monument to Balzac is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin portraying Honoré de Balzac in a dressing gown, commissioned in 1891 and rejected at the 1898 Salon.

Monument to the Amazons

Monument to the Amazons refers to the Amazoneion (Ἀμαζόνειον), an unlocated pillar and shrine on the Areopagus in Athens commemorating the Amazons' invasion repelled by Theseus, with related Amazoneum traditions at Chalcis and Ephesus.

Monument to the Great Fire of London

The Monument to the Great Fire of London, a 202-foot Doric Portland stone column built 1671-1677 by Hooke and Wren, commemorates the 1666 fire; 311 steps lead to a viewing platform.

Monument to the Sun

Monument to the Sun (Pozdrav Suncu, Greeting to the Sun), a 2008 solar-powered light installation by Nikola Bašić on Zadar's waterfront: a 22 m circle of 300 glass plates beside the Sea Organ.

Monument Valley

Monument Valley (Tse'Bii'Ndzisgaii), a Navajo Tribal Park on the Utah-Arizona border, is a sandstone butte landscape with 400-1,000-foot formations, established 1958 as the first tribal park, famed from John Ford Westerns.

Monument Valley (video game)

Monument Valley (ustwo games, April 2014) is an isometric mobile puzzle game guiding Princess Ida through Escher-inspired impossible architecture; won the 2014 Apple Design Award and BAFTAs, spawned Monument Valley 2 and 3.

Monument Valley 3

Monument Valley 3 (Monument Valley III) is ustwo games' isometric illusion puzzle game, launched December 10, 2024 on Netflix Games, later on Switch, PlayStation, Xbox, and Steam ($14.99), starring Noor with boat sailing and rising water.