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Moritz Meurer
Moritz Meurer (1806–1877) was a German Lutheran pastor at Callenberg in Saxony and a theological writer best known for his three-volume source-based biography of Martin Luther, Luther's Leben.
Moritz Pasch
Moritz Pasch (1843–1930) was a German mathematician at Giessen whose 1882 Vorlesungen über neuere Geometrie founded modern axiomatic geometry and gave name to Pasch's axiom.
Moritz Roth
Moritz Roth (1839–1914) was a Swiss pathologist who held the chair of pathology at the University of Basel and is remembered for Roth's spots, retinal hemorrhages he described in 1872.
Moritz von Groddeck
Moritz von Groddeck (Karl-Heinrich Erich Moritz von Groddeck, 1936-2011), West German rower; Olympic silver 1956 coxed pairs, gold 1960 eights, silver 1964 eights; 1962 world champion.
Moritz von Oswald
Moritz von Oswald, born 1962 in Hamburg, is a German record producer and classically trained percussionist who co-founded Basic Channel with Mark Ernestus and shaped dub techno.
Moritz Wagner (basketball)
Moritz Wagner (born 1997, Berlin) is a German NBA forward-center, 2018 Lakers first-round pick, longtime Magic reserve, 2023 World Cup champion with Germany, signed by the Brooklyn Nets in July 2026.
Mork & Mindy
Mork & Mindy (also Mork and Mindy) is an ABC sitcom, 1978–1982, a Happy Days spin-off starring Robin Williams as alien Mork from Ork and Pam Dawber as Mindy in Boulder, Colorado; catchphrases Nanu Nanu and Shazbot.
Morlais
Morlais is a tidal stream energy project run by Menter Môn on 35 km² of seabed off Holy Island, Anglesey, Wales, with potential for up to 240 MW.
Morley Evans Wilson
Morley Evans Wilson (1881–1965) was a Canadian geologist who mapped Precambrian rocks and mineral deposits for the Geological Survey of Canada and later taught geology at Carleton University.
Morley rank
Morley rank is an ordinal-valued dimension assigned to definable sets in a model, introduced by Michael Morley in 1965; in algebraically closed fields it equals Zariski dimension.
Morley Safer
Morley Safer (1931-2016), Canadian-born CBS News correspondent, reported the 1965 Cam Ne Vietnam story and spent 46 seasons on 60 Minutes, filing 919 stories and winning 12 Emmys.
Morley–Minto Reforms
The Morley–Minto Reforms of 1909, named for John Morley and Lord Minto, introduced the elective principle to India's legislative councils and separate electorates for Muslims.
Morlock
Morlocks, the subterranean cannibal species in H. G. Wells's The Time Machine (1895), living beneath the Eloi's surface world of 802,701; read as Victorian working-class allegory.
Morlocks (comics)
Morlocks (Marvel Comics): underground community of visibly mutated outcasts created by Claremont and Paul Smith in Uncanny X-Men #169 (1983), led by Callisto, devastated in the Mutant Massacre, later Gene Nation and other tunnel communities.
Morlun
Morlun is a Marvel Comics supervillain, an energy vampire who feeds on Spider-Totems. Debuting in Amazing Spider-Man vol. 2 #30 (2001) by Straczynski and Romita Jr., he killed Spider-Man in The Other and leads the Inheritors in Spider-Verse.
Mormon (word)
Mormon is a word that grew from the title of the Book of Mormon into the common name for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Mormon cosmology
Mormon cosmology, also called Latter-day Saint cosmology, is the LDS Church's belief system covering pre-mortal existence, creation by organizing matter, and an afterlife of three kingdoms of glory.
Mormon cricket
Mormon cricket (Anabrus simplex), a flightless shield-backed katydid of western North American sagebrush rangeland, not a true cricket; outbreak bands march up to 2 km/day, driven by protein hunger and cannibalism, and famously threatened the 1848 Salt Lake Valley crops.
Mormon fundamentalism
Mormon fundamentalism, also called fundamentalist Mormonism, is a movement holding that plural marriage remains a divine commandment after the LDS Church renounced it in 1890.
Mormon pioneers
Mormon pioneers: Latter-day Saint migrants who moved 1846-1869 from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Great Salt Lake Valley under Brigham Young; over 70,000 crossed the Mormon Pioneer Trail, including the handcart companies, with the 1856 Willie and Martin disasters.
Mormon Row Historic District
Mormon Row Historic District, also called Grovont, is a National Register-listed cluster of Mormon homesteads east of Blacktail Butte in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, settled in the 1890s and known for the Moulton barns.
Mormon Trail
Mormon Trail, the Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail, the 1,300-mile 1846-1847 route from Nauvoo, Illinois, to Salt Lake City used by over 70,000 Latter-day Saints until 1869.
Mormonism
Mormonism is the religious movement founded on the revelations of Joseph Smith in 1830, whose largest branch is the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Mormonism and polygamy
Mormonism and polygamy covers plural marriage in the LDS Church: introduced by Joseph Smith in the 1840s, announced in 1852, ended by Woodruff's 1890 Manifesto and the 1904 Second Manifesto, with FLDS splinter groups persisting.
Mormons
Mormons, also called Mormonites, are adherents of the religious movement founded by Joseph Smith in 1830, dominated by the Utah-based LDS Church with about 17.9 million members.
Mormyridae
Mormyridae (elephantfishes) are African freshwater Osteoglossiformes, about 240 species, that generate weak electric organ discharges for electrolocation and electrocommunication, with species-specific EOD waveforms and large cerebellums.
Morna (music)
Morna is the slow, minor-key national song genre of Cabo Verde, combining voice, guitar-based chordophone accompaniment, poetry, and dance, sung mainly in Cape Verdean Creole about love, departure, and sodade; inscribed by UNESCO in 2019 and distinct from the faster, satirical coladeira.
Mornat
Mornat is a hamlet in Saint-Pardoux-les-Cards, Creuse, France (46.0966 N, 2.0932 E), also an ancient Roman Gaul site (BAtlas 14 H2) and the site of a silver-lead mine conceded by royal ordinance in 1824.
Morné Morkel
Morné Morkel, born 1984 in Vereeniging, is a former South African 1.96 m fast bowler with 309 Test wickets (2006-2018), later Pakistan and India bowling coach.
Morning
Morning is the early part of the day, extending from dawn or sunrise to noon, or technically from midnight to midday; it is when human circadian physiology is most responsive to light.