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Moreau's sweeping process
Moreau's sweeping process is a differential inclusion introduced by Jean-Jacques Moreau in the early 1970s, in which a point is pushed by a moving set's normal cone.
Morecambe
Morecambe, Lancashire seaside resort on Morecambe Bay including Heysham port; boomed late 19th to mid-20th century, declined by the 1970s, and is regenerating around the Eden Project Morecambe attraction.
Morecambe and Wise
Morecambe and Wise: English comedy double act of Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, teamed 1941, stars of The Morecambe and Wise Show (ATV 1961, BBC 1968–1977), whose 1977 Christmas show drew 28 million viewers.
Morecambe Bay
Morecambe Bay is a large, shallow, sandy bay on the north-west coast of England, spanning Cumbria and Lancashire; it is the second-largest embayment in the UK after the Wash.
Morecambe F.C.
Morecambe F.C., "The Shrimps", founded 1920, is a Lancashire football club at the Mazuma (Halo Aerospace) Stadium, capacity 6,241, now in National League North after EFL relegation in 2025 and the Panjab Warriors takeover.
Morehead State University
Morehead State University (MSU) is a public university in Morehead, Kentucky, founded in 1887 as Morehead Normal School and state-supported since 1922; it offers 142 undergraduate and 68 graduate programs, holds SACSCOC accreditation, and has over 70,000 alumni.
Morehouse College
Morehouse College: private historically black liberal arts college for men in Atlanta, founded 1867 as Augusta Institute, renamed 1913 for Henry Lyman Morehouse; alma mater of Martin Luther King Jr. and Spike Lee, part of the Atlanta University Center.
Morelia
Morelia, formerly Valladolid, is the capital of Michoacán, Mexico, founded May 18, 1541 by Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza; renamed 1828 for José María Morelos; UNESCO World Heritage historic centre since 1991.
Morelia spilota
Morelia spilota, the carpet python or diamond python, is a large non-venomous Australian python up to 4 m long, found across mainland Australia in many habitats, with eight debated subspecies, ambush constriction hunting, and CITES Appendix II listing.
Morella (Martian crater)
Morella is a 78 km impact crater on Mars at 9.59°S, 308.50°E, hosting the Ganges Cavus collapse structure and breached by the Elaver Vallis outflow channel after a paleolake outburst flood about 3.4 billion years ago.
Morelos
Morelos is a small Mexican state founded 17 April 1869 by Benito Juárez, capital Cuernavaca, named for independence leader José María Morelos y Pavón, home of Zapata's revolution and 36 or 37 municipalities.
Moremi Ajasoro
Moremi Ajasoro (Mọ́rẹ̀mí Àjàṣorò) is a heroine of Yoruba tradition who saved Ile-Ife from Ugbo raiders by learning their secret and enabling victory with fire.
Morena (political party)
Morena (Movimiento de Regeneración Nacional) is the Mexican left-of-center governing party founded by Andrés Manuel López Obrador, registered by the INE on 9 July 2014 after its 2011 founding as a civil association; it won the presidency in 2018 with 53.19% and retained it with Claudia Sheinbaum in 2024.
Morena Baccarin
Morena Baccarin (born 1979, Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian-American actress known for Inara Serra in Firefly/Serenity, Jessica Brody in Homeland (2013 Emmy nomination), Vanessa in the Deadpool films, Dr. Leslie Thompkins in Gotham, and Sheriff Mickey Fox in Sheriff Country.
Morenazi
Morenazi (plural morenazis; variant morenario) is a Spanish pejorative blend of moreno (dark-skinned) and nazi for a Latino or mestizo neo-Nazi, documented in Chilean slang and Mexican research on far-right online groups.
Morenci mine
The Morenci mine is an open-pit copper and molybdenum mining complex in Greenlee County, southeastern Arizona, worked since the 1870s and now one of the world's largest open-pit copper mines, run by Freeport-McMoRan.
Moreni Oil and Gas Field
The Moreni oil and gas field is a petroleum field in the Carpathian foredeep near Ploiești, Romania, among the country's oldest and described as its largest commercial reservoir.
Moreno Argentin
Moreno Argentin, born in San Donà di Piave, Italy, in 1960, is a former professional road cyclist who raced from 1980 to 1994 and won six Monument classics.
Moreno Valley, California
Moreno Valley is a city in Riverside County, California, incorporated in 1984 from three rural communities and home to about 208,634 people as of the 2020 Census.
Mores
Mores (Latin mores, 'customs'), a term from William Graham Sumner's 1906 book Folkways, are informal social norms with strong moral significance whose violation brings serious social sanctions, distinct from folkways, taboos, and laws.
Moresby Treaty
The Moresby Treaty was an 1822 anti-slave-trade agreement between Britain and Sayyid Said, Sultan of Muscat and Zanzibar, prohibiting slave sales to Christians and establishing the Moresby Line.
Moresheth-Gath
Moresheth-Gath, or Moresheth, is a town of Judah's Shephelah named in Micah and Jeremiah as the prophet Micah's hometown, usually identified with Tell ej-Judeideh, though a 2023 proposal places it at Azekah.
Moret Law
The Moret Law (Ley Moret) was a Spanish law of 1870 that began abolishing slavery in Cuba and Puerto Rico by freeing children of enslaved mothers.
Moreton Bay (district)
Moreton Bay (district): the coastal district of South East Queensland around Moreton Bay, now the City of Moreton Bay LGA north of Brisbane; 476,340 people (2021), formed 2008 from Caboolture, Redcliffe, and Pine Rivers.
Moreton Island
Moreton Island (Mulgumpin) is a sand island 40 km from Brisbane, the world's third largest sand island, mostly Gheebulum Kunungai National Park, jointly managed with Quandamooka people, home to the Tangalooma Wrecks.
Moretum
Moretum is a short Latin hexameter poem of 122 lines in the Appendix Vergiliana, long attributed to Virgil but now usually dated to the 1st century CE.
Moretus (crater)
Moretus is a large 114-kilometer impact crater in the southern highlands of the Moon's nearside, south of Clavius, named for the Belgian mathematician Theodor Moret in 1935.
Moreux (Martian crater)
Moreux crater, Mars: ~135–138 km impact crater at 41.7°N, 44.4°E in Protonilus Mensae on the highland–lowland boundary, with dark olivine-pyroxene dunes and a record of episodic Amazonian glaciation from ~1 Ga to 0.4 Ma.
Morey Amsterdam
Morey Amsterdam (Moritz Amsterdam), American comedian and "Human Joke Machine", gag writer and cellist-prop comic, Buddy Sorrell on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966) and host of Broadway Open House; also wrote "Rum and Coca-Cola".
Morez Johnson Jr.
Morez Johnson Jr., NBA forward for the Dallas Mavericks, drafted ninth overall in 2026 out of Michigan after winning the 2026 NCAA title; formerly at Illinois, 6'9" 250 lb, 2024 Illinois Mr. Basketball.