All articles starting with M
36,687 articles
Monumental Mid-Republican Building Complex
The Monumental Mid-Republican Building Complex is a large public building of the mid-third century BC at Gabii, an ancient Latin city about 20 km east of Rome.
Monumento a la Revolución
Monumento a la Revolución, Mexico City Art Deco mausoleum built 1933-1938 by Carlos Obregón Santacilia inside the unfinished dome of Émile Bénard's Palacio Legislativo; 67 m tall, holds remains of Madero, Carranza, Calles, Cárdenas, and Villa.
Monuments and memorials to William Shakespeare
Monuments and memorials to William Shakespeare are statues, memorial buildings, and commemorative sites honoring the playwright worldwide, beginning with the 1741 statue in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner.
Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the Asturias
The Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the Asturias are six 9th-century pre-Romanesque monuments in and around Oviedo, Spain, inscribed by UNESCO in 1985 and extended in 1998.
Monuments to an Elegy
Monuments to an Elegy, The Smashing Pumpkins' ninth studio album (2014, Martha's Music/BMG), a 32-minute, nine-song Teargarden by Kaleidyscope installment recorded by Billy Corgan and Jeff Schroeder with drummer Tommy Lee, Metascore 70.
Monuments to early flight (Wright brothers memorials)
The monuments to early flight commemorating the Wright brothers, chiefly the Wright Brothers National Memorial at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, mark the first powered flights of 1903.
Monumentum Adulitanum
The Monumentum Adulitanum, also called the Adulitan inscription, is a pair of Greek inscriptions from Adulis in the Aksumite kingdom, preserved only in Cosmas Indicopleustes' writing.
Monumentum Regiae Gentis
Monumentum regiae gentis is Pomponius Mela's first-century name for the Royal Mausoleum of Mauretania, also called the Tombeau de la Chrétienne, a large cylindrical royal tomb near Tipaza, Algeria.
Monuriki
Monuriki (Monu Riki) is an uninhabited 40-hectare volcanic island in Fiji's Mamanuca group, 45 km west of Nadi, rising to 178 m. Known as the Cast Away filming location and a Key Biodiversity Area holding the third-largest Fijian crested iguana population after goat and rat eradication in 2011.
Monuron
Monuron, chemically N′-(4-chlorophenyl)-N,N-dimethylurea, is a substituted-urea herbicide first synthesized by du Pont researchers in 1951 that kills plants by blocking photosynthesis, canceled by the EPA in 1977.
MONUSCO
MONUSCO, formerly MONUC, is the United Nations stabilization mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, created in 1999 and renamed on 1 July 2010.
Monviso Biosphere Reserve
Monviso Biosphere Reserve (Area della Biosfera del Monviso), UNESCO MAB site designated 2013, Italy's first transboundary biosphere reserve with France; 293,916 ha, 450–3,841 m, Alevè pine forest, Po headwaters.
Mony Mony
Mony Mony: 1968 pop-rock hit by Tommy James and the Shondells, written by James, Cordell, Gentry, and Bloom, titled after the Mutual of New York sign; US No. 3, UK No. 1, and a 1987 Billy Idol live cover that hit No. 1 on the Hot 100.
Monya Baker
Monya Baker is a US-based science journalist who edited technology features at Nature and Nature Methods from 2007 to 2022 and led Nature's 2016 reproducibility survey of 1,576 scientists.
Monza
Monza (Modoetia, Modicia) is a Lombardy city near Milan, capital of Monza e Brianza, founded around Theodolinda's basilica, a medieval commune from 1174, home to the Villa Reale, its park, and the Autodromo Nazionale racetrack.
Monza Circuit
Autodromo Nazionale Monza (Temple of Speed), 1922 circuit in Monza's Royal Park near Milan; fastest F1 track, 5.793 km, host of the Italian Grand Prix since 1950, with disused 1955 banked oval and record 264.682 km/h lap.
Monza Rally Show
Monza Rally Show: circuit rally at Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Italy, first held 1978, renamed 2013; WRC finale 2020-2021; Valentino Rossi won seven times; 2025 edition cancelled.
Monzo
Monzo Bank is a British app-based bank founded in 2015 and fully licensed in 2017, now the UK's largest digital bank with 15.2 million customers.
Monzogranite
Monzogranite is a variety of granite, a coarse-grained plutonic igneous rock containing 20 to 60 percent quartz and roughly equal amounts of alkali feldspar and plagioclase, defined in the QAPF classification.
Monzonite
Monzonite is a coarse-grained plutonic igneous rock in which alkali feldspar and plagioclase occur in roughly equal amounts, with little quartz; it sits between syenite and diorite.
Moo Deng (หมูเด้ง)
Moo Deng (หมูเด้ง), born 2024, is a female pygmy hippo at Thailand's Khao Kheow Open Zoo who became a global viral celebrity in September 2024, boosting zoo visitors, merchandise, and attention to the endangered pygmy hippopotamus.
Moo-Young Han
Moo-Young Han (1934–2016) was a Korean-born American theoretical physicist who taught at Duke for 44 years and, with Yoichiro Nambu, proposed the three-triplet quark model whose SU(3) symmetry became the color charge of quantum chromodynamics.
Mood (psychology)
Mood (psychology): a prolonged, diffuse feeling state, milder and longer-lasting than emotion and lacking a clear cause. Also called affective state; measured with ecological momentary assessment; regulated by circadian clocks and linked to depression, anxiety, and cardiovascular health.
Mood and Feelings Questionnaire
The Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (MFQ) is a free questionnaire measuring depressive symptoms in children and adolescents, developed by Elizabeth J. Costello and Adrian Angold in 1988.
Mood board
Mood board: a collage of images, textures, colors, and text conveying a design concept's feeling at a glance; used early in branding, UX, interior, and fashion design; distinct from concept boards, style guides, and storyboards; term entered the OED in the 1980s.
Mood disorder
Mood disorder: group of mental health conditions, mainly depressive disorders (major depression, dysthymia) and bipolar disorders (bipolar I, II, cyclothymia), defined by persistent or episodic disturbance of mood, with DSM-5/ICD classification, genetic and environmental causes, and psychotherapy, medication, and brain stimulation treatments.
Mood Disorder Questionnaire
The Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ) is a brief self-report screening tool for bipolar disorder, developed by Robert Hirschfeld and colleagues and introduced in 2000. It has 13 yes/no symptom items and takes about five minutes.
Mood II Swing (group)
Mood II Swing was a New York house music duo of Lem Springsteen and John Ciafone, formed in the early 1990s and known for Ultra Naté's 1997 hit "Free".
Mood stabilizer
Mood stabilizer: medications for bipolar disorder, mainly lithium, anticonvulsants (valproate, lamotrigine, carbamazepine), and antipsychotics; lithium is the only agent meeting the strict treat-and-prevent-both-polarities definition.
Mood swing
Mood swings are sudden mood changes driven by shifting neurotransmitter levels, common in adolescence, pregnancy, and menopause, and caused by conditions like thyroid disease, PMDD, sleep loss, or bipolar disorder.