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Morristown, New Jersey
Morristown, New Jersey: Morris County seat about 30 miles west of New York City, population 20,180 (2020). Site of George Washington's 1777 and 1779-1780 Revolutionary War winter encampments, preserved in Morristown National Historical Park, the first historical park in the national park system.
Morro Bay, California
Morro Bay is a small Central Coast California city in San Luis Obispo County, population 10,757 (2020), on Highway 1, defined by the 576-foot Morro Rock volcanic plug, a 2,300-acre estuary, a working fishing harbor, and 1964 incorporation.
Morro de Mezquitilla
Morro de Mezquitilla is a Phoenician archaeological site at the mouth of the Río Algarrobo in Málaga, Spain, with the earliest evidence of Phoenicians on the Iberian Peninsula.
Morrocoy National Park
Morrocoy National Park (Parque Nacional Morrocoy) is a marine and coastal national park in Falcón state, Venezuela, created in 1974 and known for beaches and snorkeling.
Morrough P. O'Brien
Morrough P. O'Brien, also known as Morrough Parker O'Brien, was an American engineer and dean of engineering at UC Berkeley, regarded as the founder of modern coastal engineering.
Morrough Parker O'Brien
Morrough Parker O'Brien (1902–1988) was an American engineer, professor, and dean of engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and a founder of modern coastal engineering.
Morrow Batteries
Morrow Batteries ASA was a Norwegian lithium-ion battery cell manufacturer founded in 2020 in Arendal. It built Norway's first large-scale cell factory before going bankrupt in May 2026.
Mors
Mors, Danish island in the Limfjord (Morsø Kommune), 363 km², 19,520 residents (2025); known for 55-million-year-old moler cliffs, Hanklit, and 2026 UNESCO World Heritage fossil site.
Morse (lunar crater)
Morse is a 72.77 km complex impact crater with a central peak on the lunar far side at 21.90°N, 175.29°W, named for inventor Samuel F. B. Morse and adopted by the IAU in 1970, with satellite craters Morse N and Morse T.
Morse code
Morse code, also called the Morse alphabet, is a method of encoding text as dots and dashes transmitted by tones, light, or clicks, in use since 1844.
Morse code abbreviations
Morse code abbreviations: CW shorthand (abbreviations, Q codes, Z codes, 92 Code numerals, prosigns) used since 1844 telegraphy; standardized partly by ITU-R M.1172/M.1677-1, partly amateur convention; distinct from cable code books like the Phillips Code.
Morse homology
Morse homology is a homology theory for a smooth manifold built from a Morse function's critical points and gradient flow lines between them, canonically isomorphic to singular homology.
Morse key
A Morse key, also called a telegraph key, is a hand-operated electrical switch that sends messages in Morse code, first made practical by Alfred Vail in 1844.
Morse potential
The Morse potential, or Morse curve, is an empirical interatomic potential introduced by Philip M. Morse in 1929 to model the vibration of diatomic molecules.
Morse theory
Morse theory is a mathematical method that recovers the topology of a smooth manifold from the critical points of a smooth real-valued function on it.
Morse v. Frederick
Morse v. Frederick, 551 U.S. 393 (2007), the "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" case: the Supreme Court held 5-4 that schools may restrict student speech reasonably viewed as promoting illegal drug use, narrowing Tinker.
Morse–Kelley set theory
Morse–Kelley set theory (MK), also called Kelley–Morse set theory, is an axiomatic set theory with sets and classes whose class comprehension allows quantification over proper classes.
Morshid Qoli Khan Ustajlu
Morshid Qoli Khan Ustajlu (مرشد قلی خان استاجلو) was a Qizilbash amir who brought Shah Abbas I to the Safavid throne in 1588 and was assassinated in 1589.
Mort
Mort (1987) is Terry Pratchett's Discworld comic fantasy in which the boy Mort becomes Death's apprentice, spares Princess Keli, and launches the Death sub-series; first Gollancz hardback, Josh Kirby cover.
Mort Artu
Mort Artu, also called La Mort le Roi Artu, is an anonymous Old French prose romance of about 1220–1230 telling how the affair of Lancelot and Guinevere destroys Arthur's kingdom.
Mort Sahl
Mort Sahl (Morton Lyon Sahl, 1927-2021), Montreal-born American stand-up comedian and political satirist who pioneered headline-driven improvised monologues at San Francisco's hungry i, influenced Lenny Bruce through Jon Stewart, and derailed his career over the JFK assassination.
Mortadella
Mortadella is a large Italian cooked pork sausage originally from Bologna, made of finely minced pork with cubes of throat fat and spices, slowly cooked in dry-air ovens.
Mortadelo y Filemón
Mortadelo y Filemón, Spanish humor comic by Francisco Ibáñez first published 20 January 1958 in Pulgarcito, follows two inept T.I.A. agents; over 150 million issues sold, adapted into films (2003, 2008, 2014) and games.
Mortal (film)
Mortal (Norwegian title Torden, "Thunder") is a 2020 fantasy action film by André Øvredal starring Nat Wolff as Eric, a Norwegian-American with uncontrollable Norse-god-like powers; released in Norway February 28, 2020 and in the US November 6, 2020 via Saban Films.
Mortal (gamer)
Mortal (Naman Sandeep Mathur, नमन संदीप माथुर, born 1997) is a retired Indian PUBG Mobile/BGMI pro, Team SouL and S8UL co-owner, and YouTuber; won PMIS 2019, PMCO Spring India 2019, BMPS 2022.
Mortal Engines
Mortal Engines, also known as the first Hungry City Chronicles book, is Philip Reeve's 2001 YA steampunk dystopia about traction cities devouring each other after the Sixty Minute War; it won the Smarties Gold and Blue Peter awards and was filmed in 2018 by Peter Jackson's protege Christian Rivers.
Mortal Engines (film)
Mortal Engines (2018), Christian Rivers' directorial debut scripted by Walsh, Boyens, and Jackson from Philip Reeve's novel, depicts mobile predator cities; it cost $100–150 million and earned $83.7 million, a major flop.
Mortal Engines Quartet
The Mortal Engines Quartet (Hungry City Chronicles, Predator Cities) is Philip Reeve's four-novel post-apocalyptic YA series, 2001-2006, about mobile traction cities practicing Municipal Darwinism after the Sixty Minute War; Mortal Engines won the Smarties and Blue Peter prizes, A Darkling Plain the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.
Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat is a fighting game franchise created by Ed Boon and John Tobias at Midway, first released in arcades October 8, 1992. Known for digitized actors, fatalities, 1993 Senate hearings that led to the ESRB, over 100 million games sold, and NetherRealm's Mortal Kombat 1 (2023).
Mortal Kombat (1992 video game)
Mortal Kombat (1992) is Midway's arcade fighting game by Ed Boon, John Tobias, Dan Forden, and John Vogel, released October 8, 1992, known for digitized actors, Fatalities, the 1993 port controversy, and spurring the ESRB.