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Morabaraba
Morabaraba (umlabalaba), Southern Africa's Twelve Men's Morris, is a 12-cow mill game on a 24-point board with corner diagonals; solved as a first-player win in 49 moves.
Moraceae
Moraceae, the mulberry family, is a tropical Rosales family of trees, shrubs, and figs with milky latex and stipular scars, sister to Urticaceae, about 47 accepted genera and over 1,000 species.
Morādābād (district)
Moradabad district (मुरादाबाद), Uttar Pradesh, on the Ramganga river; known as Peetal Nagri, the Brass City, for its brassware exports; headquarters of Moradabad Division.
Moradabad (मुरादाबाद)
Moradabad (मुरादाबाद), the Peetal Nagri or Brass City, is a city and divisional headquarters in western Uttar Pradesh, India, on the Ramganga river, famed for its brassware export industry and environmental challenges.
Moradabad brassware
Moradabad brassware is the handcrafted brass ware produced in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, a city known as the Brass City whose GI-registered craft employs an estimated 20,000 to 60,000 artisans.
Morag Park
Morag Park is a molecular biologist and cancer researcher at McGill University in Montreal, known for her work on the MET oncogene and the tumor microenvironment in breast cancer.
Moragot Oil and Gas Field
Moragot Oil and Gas Field is an offshore gas and condensate field in the southern Pattani Basin, Gulf of Thailand, discovered in 1990 and operated by Chevron Thailand.
Moraine
Moraine: ridges or mounds of unsorted glacial till deposited by glacier ice; types include terminal, lateral, medial, recessional, ground, push, and lodge moraines, marking former ice margins.
Moraine Lake
Moraine Lake, a turquoise glacial lake in Banff National Park's Valley of the Ten Peaks, Alberta, named by explorer Walter Wilcox in 1899; closed to personal vehicles since 2023, accessible only by reservation-only Parks Canada shuttle, commercial buses, or bike and foot.
Moral absolutism
Moral absolutism: the ethical view that some moral rules hold without exception, regardless of context, intent, or consequences. Contrast: moral relativism. Main form of deontological ethics, exemplified by Kant's Categorical Imperative.
Moral foundations theory
Moral foundations theory (MFT), by Jonathan Haidt and colleagues, is a moral psychology framework of five innate foundations (care, fairness, loyalty, authority, purity), measured by the MFQ and revised MFQ-2, explaining liberal-conservative moral differences.
Moral hazard
Moral hazard is the change in behavior after a contract is signed when an insurer or employer bears part of the cost and cannot observe it.
Moral injury
Moral injury is lasting psychological harm from committing, witnessing, or being victimized by acts that violate deeply held moral beliefs, first described in military veterans.
Moral Majority
Moral Majority, founded by Jerry Falwell and Paul Weyrich in 1979, was an American conservative Christian political organization that registered evangelical voters for Reagan in 1980 and was disbanded by Falwell in 1989, distinct from later groups like the Christian Coalition.
Moral nihilism
Moral nihilism denies that moral facts, properties, or truths exist; it is usually identified with J.L. Mackie's moral error theory, distinguished from moral relativism and non-cognitivism, and is a contested form of moral anti-realism.
Moral Orel
Moral Orel (2005-2008) is Dino Stamatopoulos' Adult Swim stop-motion black comedy about Orel Puppington, a boy misreading Protestant values in Moralton; cancelled after the dark season-3 episode 'Alone', with a movie revival scripted since 2025.
Moral panic
Moral panic: a sociological concept from Stanley Cohen's Folk Devils and Moral Panics (1972) describing exaggerated public fear of a folk devil threat, with stages, models, critiques, and social media extensions.
Moral Re-Armament
Moral Re-Armament (MRA), also called the Oxford Group or Buchmanism, now Initiatives of Change, was Frank Buchman's international moral and spiritual movement founded 1938, known for the four absolutes and Caux reconciliation conferences.
Moral realism
Moral realism is the metaethical view that moral claims purport to report facts, are true if they get the facts right, and some are true. Also called objective morality; rivals non-cognitivism, error theory, and constructivism.
Moral Reforma
Moral Reforma (Moral-Reforma) is a Maya archaeological site in Balancán, Tabasco, Mexico, on the San Pedro Mártir river, occupied about 300 BC to 1000 AD, allied with Calakmul (662 AD) and Palenque (690 AD), ruled by Cráneo de Halcón, and open to visitors free of charge.
Moral relativism
Moral relativism is the metaethical view that moral truth or justification is relative to a culture or individual, not universal. Covers descriptive, metaethical, and normative forms, its history from Protagoras to Boas and Wong, and experimental evidence.
Moral responsibility
Moral responsibility, or ethical responsibility, is the status of an agent who can properly be held accountable for an action, making responses like praise or blame appropriate.
Moral sense theory
Moral sense theory, or moral sentimentalism's moral-sense school: Shaftesbury's and Hutcheson's early 18th-century British view that moral approval rests on a distinct sentiment-based sense, opposed by Clarke's rationalism and modified by Hume and Smith.
Moral turpitude
Moral turpitude is a legal term for base, vile, or depraved conduct; a 'crime involving moral turpitude' (CIMT) triggers US deportation, inadmissibility, and attorney discipline, despite having no statutory definition.
Moral universalism
Moral universalism, also called universal morality or moderate moral realism, is the meta-ethical view that some moral values or a moral system apply to everyone regardless of culture, grounded classically in Kant's Categorical Imperative and opposed to moral relativism.
Morale
Morale is the confidence, endurance, and willingness to persist of a person or group under stress, from military combat motivation to civilian and workplace attitudes, with definitions, history, and survey measurement.
Morale (musician)
Morale is the stage name of Thabo Malefane, a South African hip hop artist from Soweto known as "Mr Jo'burg", who broke through with the 2006 mixtape Rising Son.
Moralia
The Moralia (Ethika) is the collective title for the non-biographical works of Plutarch of Chaeronea, a miscellaneous body of essays, dialogues, and treatises on ethics, education, religion, and natural philosophy.
Moralische Wochenschrift
A Moralische Wochenschrift, or moral weekly, was an Enlightenment periodical of short essayistic texts on virtue and moral questions, modeled on the English Spectator of Addison and Steele.
Morality
Morality: systems of right and wrong guiding conduct toward others. Also ethics (Latin mos, Greek ethos). Covers descriptive vs normative senses, realism, relativism, constructivism, evolutionary origins, cultural variation, and AI moral judgment.