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Morihei Ueshiba
Morihei Ueshiba (植芝盛平, 1883–1969), called O-Sensei, Japanese martial artist and founder of Aikido; trained in Daito-ryu jujutsu under Sokaku Takeda, shaped by the Omoto sect, succeeded as Doshu by son Kisshomaru.
Morija Printing Works
Morija Printing Works is a printing and publishing company in Morija, Lesotho, founded by missionary Adolphe Mabille in 1861 and among the oldest presses in Southern Africa.
Morija school of Sesotho writing
The Morija school of Sesotho writing was a group of Basotho writers and missionaries at Morija, Lesotho, who produced the first written Sesotho literature from the 1860s.
Morikawa Kyoroku
Morikawa Kyoroku (森川許六, 1656–1715) was a Japanese haikai poet and painter of the Edo period, a Hikone retainer and one of the ten great disciples of Matsuo Bashō.
Morikazu Toda
Morikazu Toda (盛和) was a Japanese physicist in statistical mechanics and condensed matter physics, born in 1917 and died in 2010, best known for discovering the Toda lattice, a model of completely integrable systems.
Morin (flavonol)
Morin is a plant flavonol found in old fustic, the heartwood of a Central and South American dye tree, now studied for antioxidant and anticancer activity.
Morinda
Morinda L. (noni genus, Indian mulberry, Morinda citrifolia) is a pantropical genus of Rubiaceae in tribe Morindeae with head inflorescences and syncarpous fruits; 39 accepted species, lectotype M. royoc, root bark used as morindin dye.
Morinda citrifolia
Morinda citrifolia (noni, Indian mulberry), a Rubiaceae shrub native to tropical Asia and northern Australia, used in Pacific traditional medicine; its juice is an EU-authorized novel food, with no approved drugs and limited human evidence.
Moringa (genus)
Moringa (murungai) is the sole genus of Moringaceae, 13 species of dry-tropical trees in Brassicales; M. oleifera, the drumstick tree, is grown for food, fodder, ben oil, and seed-based water coagulation.
Moringa oleifera
Moringa oleifera, the drumstick, horseradish, or ben oil tree, is a fast-growing Himalayan-native tree cultivated across the tropics for nutritious leaves, water-purifying seeds, ben oil, and traditional medicine; clinical evidence remains preliminary.
Moringaceae
Moringaceae, the horseradish tree family, is a conserved Brassicales family with one genus, Moringa Adans., of about 13 dry-tropical species native to Africa, Arabia, and India; Moringa oleifera is the widely cultivated drumstick tree.
Morinidazole
Morinidazole (吗啉硝唑), sold as Mailinda, is a third-generation nitroimidazole antibacterial drug developed by Jiangsu Hansoh Pharmaceutical and approved in China in 2014 for anaerobic infections, mainly pelvic inflammatory disease.
Morio Ikehara
Morio Ikehara (池原森男) was a Japanese nucleic acid chemist, professor at Osaka University, who achieved the world's first total synthesis of a transfer RNA in 1979.
Morio Sase
Morio Sase (佐瀬 守男, born 1962) is a Japanese food-service entrepreneur, founder, president, and representative director of Hotland Holdings, the Tokyo-listed operator of the Tsukiji Gindaco takoyaki chain.
Morio Shigematsu
Morio Shigematsu (重松 森雄, born 21 June 1940), Japanese marathon runner; set a 2:12:00 world best at the 1965 Polytechnic Marathon in Chiswick and won the 1965 Boston Marathon in a course-record 2:16:33.
Morioka
Morioka (盛岡市) is the capital of Iwate Prefecture, Japan, a core city of about 276,000 people at the confluence of the Kitakami, Nakatsu, and Shizukuishi rivers, former Nanbu clan castle town, home of the Sansa Odori taiko festival and Nanbu ironware.
Moriones Festival
Moriones Festival (Moryonan), Holy Week tradition of Marinduque, Philippines, where masked penitents in Roman soldier costumes reenact the conversion and beheading of Longinus, from Holy Monday to Easter Sunday.
Moriori
Moriori: indigenous Polynesian people of Rēkohu (Chatham Islands), related to Māori, keepers of Nunuku's peace covenant, devastated by the 1835 Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama invasion, and revived through a 2020 Treaty settlement.
Moriori genocide
The Moriori genocide was the killing and enslavement of the Moriori people of the Chatham Islands after an 1835 invasion by the Māori tribes Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama.
Moriori oral literature
Moriori oral literature is the chants, genealogies, stories, and songs of the Moriori people of Rēkohu (the Chatham Islands), composed in ta rē Moriori and preserved chiefly through nineteenth-century writings by Moriori elders and Alexander Shand.
Moriori songs
Moriori songs, called rongo in ta rē Moriori, are the songs of the Moriori people of Rēkohu, the Chatham Islands, preserved in nineteenth-century written records.
Moriori: A People Rediscovered
Moriori: A People Rediscovered is a 1989 book by New Zealand historian Michael King that dismantled myths portraying the Moriori as extinct and became a foundation of their cultural revival.
Morisco
Moriscos were Iberian Muslims forcibly converted to Christianity (1502 Castile, 1526 Aragon) and expelled from Spain by Philip III between 1609 and 1614, about 300,000 people, heavily concentrated in Valencia and Aragon.
Morison equation
The Morison equation is a semi-empirical formula for wave-induced forces on slender submerged structures such as piles and risers, introduced by Morison, Johnson, and Schaaf in 1950.
Morita equivalence
Morita equivalence is an equivalence relation on rings, introduced by Kiiti Morita in 1958, holding when two rings have equivalent module categories, so module properties transfer; a ring and its matrix rings are equivalent.
Moritat
A Moritat is a German storytelling song, sung by a street performer called a Bänkelsänger, that recounts a gruesome event such as a murder and ends with an instructive moral.
Moritz Adler
Moritz Adler (1849–1920) was a Czech photographer who ran a commercial studio in Prague from 1881, after starting out in Transylvania, and photographed Bohemian towns.
Moritz Helmstaedter
Moritz Helmstaedter, born 1978 in Berlin, is a computational neuroscientist who directs the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research and won the 2024 Leibniz Prize for dense connectomics.
Moritz Jager
Moritz Jäger (born 2003) is a German doubles luger who competes with Valentin Steudte and won boys' doubles gold and mixed relay silver at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics.
Moritz Litten
Moritz Litten (1845–1907) was a German physician and clinical teacher at the Berlin Charité, remembered for naming Roth spots in 1878 and discovering the diaphragm phenomenon in 1891.