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Maithuna (मैथुन)
Maithuna (मैथुन), Sanskrit for sexual union, is a Tantric ritual of the left-hand path, the fifth and most controversial of the five Ms of worship.
Maitian Energy
Maitian Energy, also known as Fox ESS, is a Chinese manufacturer of residential energy storage systems and inverters, founded in 2019 in Wenzhou with backing from Tsingshan Holding Group.
Maitland Ward
Maitland Ward (Ashley Maitland Welkos, born 1977) is an American actress known as Rachel McGuire on Boy Meets World who entered adult film in 2019 with Drive, winning AVN and XBIZ awards and publishing the 2022 memoir Rated X.
Maitland, New South Wales
Maitland, New South Wales: a Lower Hunter Valley city on the Hunter River, settled from about 1818 as Wallis Plains, formerly the Hunter's chief town, now one of NSW's fastest-growing regional cities with over 200 recorded floods since European settlement.
Maitona
Maitona (Μαίτονα), also spelled Maitona of Persis, was an ancient city in Persis (Fars, Iran) known only from Ptolemy's Geography VI 4, 6; possibly on the Artemita–Persepolis road and identified by some with the Greek city Methone. Distinct from the unlocated European Maitonion.
Maitraka dynasty
The Maitraka dynasty (मैत्रक वंश) ruled Gujarat and Saurashtra from its capital Valabhi from the late fifth to the eighth century CE, founded by the Gupta general Bhatarka.
Maître d'hôtel
Maître d'hôtel (maître d', headwaiter): the dining-room supervisor in restaurants and hotels who greets and seats guests, directs waiters, chefs de rang, and sommeliers, and answers for service quality. French title from the 1530s; graded forms premier maître d'hôtel and maître d'hôtel de carré.
Maitre renard
Maitre renard (Master Fox) is a 2015 French children's board game by Frédéric Vuagnat, illustrated by Catell Ruz: blindfolded players identify farm-animal pawns by touch; 2–4 players, 7+, won As d'Or Enfant 2016.
Maîtresse-en-titre
Maîtresse-en-titre, the official chief mistress of the King of France, a quasi-institutionalized court position from Agnès Sorel (1444) to Madame du Barry, ending with Louis XVI; also called French royal mistress.
Maitreya (मैत्रेय)
Maitreya (मैत्रेय), also known as Metteyya or Milefo, is the future Buddha of Buddhism, a bodhisattva residing in Tuṣita heaven who will descend to earth to preach the dharma anew when Gautama Buddha's teachings have decayed.
Maitreyi
Maitreyi (मैत्रेयी) was a Vedic woman philosopher and wife of the sage Yajnavalkya, whose Upanishadic dialogue on immortality is an early expression of Advaitic thought.
Maitreyi Devi
Maitreyi Devi (মৈত্রেয়ী দেবী) was an Indian poet and novelist writing in Bengali, best known for the autobiographical novel Na Hanyate, her response to Mircea Eliade's novel about their romance in 1930s Calcutta.
Maitreyi Ramakrishnan
Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Tamil-Canadian actress born 2001 in Mississauga, Ontario, stars as Devi Vishwakumar in Netflix's Never Have I Ever, won via open casting call over 15,000 applicants, and voices Priya in Turning Red.
Maïwenn
Maïwenn (Maïwenn Le Besco), French actress, screenwriter, and director; won the 2011 Cannes Jury Prize for Polisse, competed with Mon Roi (2015), and directed and starred in Jeanne du Barry, which opened Cannes 2023.
Maiya Maneza
Maiya Maneza (Майя Манеза), Kazakh Dungan weightlifter born 1985, 2009 and 2010 world champion in the 63 kg class; won London 2012 gold with a 245 kg Olympic record total, later disqualified for stanozolol on retest.
Maize
Maize (Zea mays, corn), C4 cereal grass domesticated from teosinte in Mexico's Balsas valley ~9,000 years ago; world's largest grain crop (~1.25 billion tonnes), grown for feed, ethanol, and food; kernel types dent, flint, sweet, popcorn.
Maize diseases and pests
Maize diseases and pests are the pathogens and insects attacking maize, which lose about 22.5% of global yield, including rusts, tar spot, maize streak virus, and fall armyworm.
Maize dwarf mosaic virus
Maize dwarf mosaic virus (MDMV), a potyvirus first identified in Illinois in 1964, infects maize, sorghum, and Johnsongrass; aphid-transmitted non-persistently, distinct from SCMV, SrMV, and JGMV.
Maize lethal necrosis disease
Maize lethal necrosis (MLN, corn lethal necrosis), a synergistic viral disease of maize from coinfection of MCMV with SCMV or other potyviruses; first described in Kansas in 1976, it emerged in Kenya in 2011 and causes yield losses up to 100% across East Africa.
Maize streak virus
Maize streak virus (MSV), a Mastrevirus geminivirus, causes maize streak disease across Africa, transmitted by Cicadulina leafhoppers; only strain MSV-A severely damages maize, with losses up to US$480 million yearly.
Maizhuninujia
Maizhuninujia (买朱尼努加) is a five-herb Uyghur medicine honey-paste formula from the 1368 Baidiyi Medicinal Book, used for Malihuria (neurasthenia, amnesia, depression) and listed in China's 2023 second-batch ancient classic formula catalogue.
Maizie Williams
Maizie Ursula Williams is a British singer, model, and dancer, born on Montserrat, best known as an original member of the disco group Boney M.
Maizières
Maizières (Mazières, La Mazère) names several French Gallo-Roman sites, chiefly a villa complex with tile kiln, circular funerary monument, and pond at Gourdon-Murat, Corrèze, plus villas at Saint-Martin-le-Mault and Bourges.
Maizuru power station
Maizuru Power Station (舞鶴発電所) is a coal-fired power station in Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, operated by Kansai Electric, with two 900 MW units totaling 1.8 GW that began service in 2004 and 2010.
Maizuru Sinus
Maizuru Sinus is a 92 km IAU-approved sinus (bay-shaped dark plain) on Titan at 78.90N, 352.53W, approved January 9, 2018, and named after Maizuru Bay in Japan; one of 28 named sinus features on Titan.
Máj
Máj (Czech for "May") is a lyrical-epic poem by Czech Romantic poet Karel Hynek Mácha, self-published in 1836, telling a tragic story of love and betrayal and widely seen as a landmark of Czech poetry.
Maj Jacobsson
Maj Jacobsson (Maj Inga Katarina Widlund), Swedish sprinter-hurdler (1909–1996); set 80 m hurdles world record 12.1 at Stockholm Stadion, 2 Sep 1930, and won gold at the 1930 Prague Women's World Games; not the Olympian Skotte Jacobsson.
Maj Sjöwall
Maj Sjöwall (1935–2020) was a Swedish author and translator who, with her partner Per Wahlöö, wrote the ten Martin Beck novels of 1965 to 1975, credited with founding modern Scandinavian crime fiction.
Maja Blagdan
Maja Blagdan is a Croatian pop singer, born in 1968 in Split, best known for finishing fourth for Croatia at the Eurovision Song Contest 1996 in Oslo with "Sveta ljubav".
Maja Dahlqvist
Maja Dahlqvist, Swedish cross-country sprint skier (born 1994, Borlänge), Falun-Borlänge SK; five Olympic medals including 2026 team sprint gold with Jonna Sundling, three world team sprint titles, three Sprint World Cup globes.