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Morality play
Morality play: medieval European allegorical drama of the 15th and 16th centuries in which personified virtues, vices, and Death contend for a representative human's soul; best-known English examples include Everyman and The Castle of Perseverance.
Morality, Unity, Honour (Моралност, Единство, Чест)
Morality, Unity, Honour (MECH, Моралност, Единство, Чест) is a Bulgarian populist radical-right party founded in October 2023 by Radostin Vasilev; it entered parliament in October 2024 with 4.44% and 12 seats, later 11, and calls for neutrality in the Ukraine war.
Moran (surname)
Moran is a surname of multiple origins: chiefly Irish Ó Móráin ("descendant of Mórán", "great") and Ó Mughróin, plus Spanish Morán, English Morrin variant, and French Morin; historically centered in Mayo and Connacht.
Moran Atias (מורן אטיאס)
Moran Atias (מורן אטיאס), Israeli-American actress born 1981 in Haifa, model turned actress; starred in Third Person, Tyrant, The Resident; collaborator of Paul Haggis; distinct from the Israeli land appraiser of the same name.
Moran Cerf
Moran Cerf is a neuroscientist who studies decision-making by recording individual neurons in epilepsy patients, and taught marketing at Northwestern's Kellogg School from 2013 to 2022.
Moran process
The Moran process, or Moran model, is a stochastic model of genetic drift in a finite population, introduced by P. A. P. Moran in 1958.
Moran State Park
Moran State Park is a 5,000-plus-acre Washington state park on Orcas Island, created from Robert Moran's 1921 donation of about 2,700 acres, featuring 2,407-foot Mount Constitution, five lakes, CCC-built stone tower, and forested campgrounds.
Moran's I
Moran's I is a statistic measuring spatial autocorrelation, whether similar values occur near each other, introduced by P. A. P. Moran in Biometrika in 1950.
Morana Chasma
Morana Chasma is a 317 km chasma (trough) on Venus at 68.9°N, 24.6°E, in quadrangle V-02. IAU-approved in 1985, it is named for the Czech moon goddess Morana and is one of ten Czechoslovak-origin Venus feature names.
Moranbah South Coal Project
The Moranbah South Coal Project is a proposed underground coking coal mine in Queensland's Bowen Basin, approved in 2014 and held by Anglo American and Exxaro but never developed.
Morangos Mofados
Morangos Mofados is a 1982 short-story collection by Brazilian writer Caio Fernando Abreu, his most celebrated book, containing 18 stories of loneliness, forbidden love, and lost ideals under Brazil's military dictatorship.
Morant Bay rebellion
The Morant Bay rebellion was an 1865 uprising in St Thomas, Jamaica, led by Paul Bogle, whose brutal suppression under martial law ended Jamaica's elected assembly.
Morari Bapu (મોરારી બાપુ)
Morari Bapu (મોરારી બાપુ), born 1946, is an Indian Ramcharitmanas reciter from Talgajarda, Gujarat, known for more than 960 nine-day Ram Kathas worldwide.
Morarji Desai (મોરારજી રણછોડજી દેસાઈ)
Morarji Desai (મોરારજી રણછોડજી દેસાઈ), 1896–1995, India's fourth prime minister (1977–1979) and first non-Congress PM, Janata Party leader, former Bombay Chief Minister and Finance Minister.
Morava Banovina
Morava Banovina, or Moravska banovina, was a province of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia created in 1929, with its seat at Niš, until the Axis invasion divided it in 1941.
Morava Offensive
The Morava Offensive (Bulgarian: Моравска настъпателна операция) was the Bulgarian First Army's assault on Serbia along the Morava valley during the Central Powers' conquest of Serbia in 1915.
Morava school
The Morava school (Моравска школа), the last style of medieval Serbian architecture and painting, flourished in the Morava river valleys from the 1370s until 1459.
Morava Valles
Morava Valles is a 325-km valley system in Margaritifer Terra, Mars, the lowermost segment of the Uzboi-Ladon-Morava outflow system draining from Argyre basin toward Chryse Planitia; IAU named it in 2008 for the Czech Morava River.
Moravec's paradox
Moravec's paradox: hard human tasks like chess are easy for machines, while easy sensorimotor skills like walking or grasping are hard; articulated by Hans Moravec in Mind Children (1988).
Moravia
Moravia (Czech: Morava) is a historical land of the Czech Republic, named after the Morava River, a medieval margraviate of the Bohemian Crown with Great Moravian early statehood and distinct dialects.
Moravian Church
The Moravian Church, formally the Unitas Fratrum, is a worldwide Protestant denomination with roots in 1457 Bohemia and a 1722 renewal at Herrnhut, Saxony, under Count Zinzendorf.
Moravian Church Settlements
Moravian Church Settlements: UNESCO transnational serial World Heritage site of four 18th-century Moravian congregation towns, Christiansfeld (Denmark, 2015), Herrnhut, Gracehill, and Bethlehem (2024 extension), under criteria (iii) and (iv).
Moravian Compromise
The Moravian Compromise (Czech Moravské vyrovnání, German Mährischer Ausgleich) was a 1905 package of laws dividing diet representation and school administration between Czechs and Germans in Moravia.
Moravian Serbia
Moravian Serbia (Моравска Србија) was the Serbian principality founded by Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović after the Serbian Empire collapsed in 1371, with its capital at Kruševac.
Moraviţa
Moraviţa (Temesmóra, Moravicza) is a commune in Timiș County, Romania, near the Serbian border on the Moravița River, with villages Moravița, Stamora Germană, Dejan, and Gaiu Mic, first recorded as Moraviskos in 1018.
Moravskoslezský kraj
Moravskoslezský kraj (Moravian-Silesian Region), Czech Republic's north-eastern region, capital Ostrava; 1,176,380 residents (2025), industrial coal region in transition, most air-polluted Czech region, major Beskydy tourism.
Moraxella
Moraxella, formerly including Branhamella, is a genus of gram-negative aerobic Moraxellaceae bacteria from mucous membranes of humans and animals; M. catarrhalis is a major respiratory pathogen with about 95% beta-lactam-resistant isolates.
Moraxella catarrhalis
Moraxella catarrhalis (formerly Branhamella catarrhalis) is a Gram-negative human-restricted diplococcus of the Moraxellaceae causing otitis media, sinusitis, and COPD exacerbations; most isolates produce BRO beta-lactamases and no vaccine exists.
Moray
Moray is one of Scotland's 32 council areas in the northeast, based at Elgin between the Cairngorms and the Moray Firth. Population 94,730 in 2025, area 2,238 sq km, council budget £311.98m for 2026/27.
Moray East
Moray East is a 950 MW offshore wind farm on the Smith Bank in the outer Moray Firth, off northeast Scotland, fully operational since April 2022.