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Mostefa Ben Boulaïd

Mostefa Ben Boulaïd (مصطفى بن بولعيد) was an Algerian revolutionary, a founding leader of the FLN who commanded the Aurès zone in the war of independence.

Sep 19, 2026

Mostek

Mostek was an American semiconductor company in Carrollton, Texas, founded in 1969, best known for pioneering address multiplexing in DRAM, holding 85 percent of the world market by 1976.

Mostly Mozart Festival, annual summer classical music festival at Lincoln Center, New York City, launched August 1, 1966 as Midsummer Serenades with an all-Mozart program; resident Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, music directors Schwarz and Langrée, absorbed into Summer for the City by 2024.

Móstoles

Móstoles, Madrid region municipality 23 km southwest of the capital in the Guadarrama valley; second most populous in the Community of Madrid (214,817 in 2025), known for the 1808 Bando de Independencia and rapid 1960s–1980s growth.

Sep 23, 2026

Mostowfi ol-Mamalek

Mostowfi ol-Mamalek (مستوفی‌الممالک), born Mirza Hasan Khan Ashtiani, was an Iranian statesman who served six times as prime minister, from the constitutional period into the early Pahlavi era.

Mostra Convegno Expocomfort

Mostra Convegno Expocomfort is a biennial trade fair at Fiera Milano, near Milan, covering heating, ventilation, air conditioning, refrigeration, renewable energy, and water technology, first held in 1960.

Mosty

Mosty (Мосты, "Bridges") was a Russian émigré literary almanac published in Munich and the United States from 1958 to 1970, producing 15 issues with works by 200 authors.

Mosu (restaurant)

Mosu is a restaurant founded by Sung, which opened in San Francisco in 2015. It relocated to Seoul in 2017 and earned three stars in 2023 and 2024.

Mosul

Mosul (الموصل), Iraq's second-largest city on the Tigris opposite Nineveh, founded as a garrison city in 640–641, peaked under the Zangids, was occupied by ISIL 2014–2017, and is undergoing UNESCO-led reconstruction.

Mosul Amusement Park

Mosul Amusement Park (Arabic: مدينة العاب الموصل, Madinat al Alab) is Mosul's largest theme park, founded in the 1970s and reopened in late 2017 after ISIS wrecked it.

Mosul Dam (سد الموصل)

Mosul Dam, formerly known as Saddam Dam, is the largest dam in Iraq, on the Tigris River about 60 km northwest of Mosul, and is known for its unstable gypsum foundation.

Mosunetuzumab

Mosunetuzumab (Lunsumio, Lunsumio Velo) is a humanized CD20 x CD3 bispecific T-cell engager antibody approved for relapsed/refractory follicular lymphoma after two or more systemic therapies, delivering 80% response rates via T-cell redirection.

Mosuo (摩梭)

Mosuo (摩梭), also called Na, an ethnic group of about 40,000 around Lugu Lake, Yunnan/Sichuan, China, known for matrilineal households, duolocal residence, and 'walking marriages' (Sese/Zouhun); distinct from the Naxi and from true matriarchy.

Mosuowan Oil and Gas Field

Mosuowan Oil and Gas Field is a gas field in the hinterland of the Junggar Basin in Xinjiang, China, operated by PetroChina's Xinjiang Oilfield Company.

Mosyle Corp

Mosyle Corp is a Winter Park, Florida software company selling management and security software for Apple devices, founded and led by CEO Alcyr Araujo and active as of 2026.

Mosylon Emporion

Mosylon Emporion (Mosyllon, Mosullon), ancient Somali-coast port of trade in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, between Mundu and the Spice Market; chief export cassia; usually identified with Bosaso.

Mot (god)

Mot, Ugaritic god of death and the underworld in the Baal Cycle tablets KTU 1.5–1.6; son of El, Baal's devourer, never worshipped with offerings, central to the dying-and-rising-god debate.

MOT test

The MOT test, named after the former Ministry of Transport, is the annual roadworthiness and emissions inspection for most vehicles in Great Britain, begun in 1960.

Mota-Engil

Mota-Engil is a Portuguese construction and infrastructure group headquartered in Porto. Founded in 1946, it works in engineering, concessions, waste management, and mining services across 21 countries.

Motacilla

Motacilla, the wagtails, a Linnaean 1758 genus of Motacillidae passerines with about 13 Old World species; eastern Palearctic origin about 4.5 million years ago, shaped by repeated dispersal rather than vicariance.

Motahar Hossain Chowdhury

Motahar Hossain Chowdhury (মোতাহের হোসেন চৌধুরী, 1903–1956), who published as Syed Motaher Hossain Chowdhury, was a Bengali essayist of Dhaka's Buddhir Mukti movement, known for Sangskriti Katha.

Motatán oil field

Motatán is an oil field in southeastern Zulia state, western Venezuela, producing from Eocene Misoa sandstones; since 2009 it has been operated with the adjacent Barúa field by the Petroquiriquire mixed company.

Oct 20, 2026

Motavizumab

Motavizumab (MEDI-524, Numax) is an unlicensed humanized IgG1 monoclonal antibody derived from palivizumab for RSV prophylaxis; 13 amino-acid changes gave higher F-protein affinity, but the FDA declined approval and AstraZeneca withdrew it in 2010.

Motaz Azaiza (معتز هلال عزايزة)

Motaz Azaiza (معتز هلال عزايزة), born 1999 in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, is a Palestinian photojournalist whose Instagram coverage of the Gaza war reached millions of followers, earning TIME100 (2024) and GQ Middle East Man of the Year honors.

Motaz Malhees

Motaz Malhees (معتز ملحيس), Palestinian actor born 1992 in Jenin, Freedom Theatre-trained, star of The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025); Venice Grand Jury Prize, Oscar nominee barred from the 98th Academy Awards by the US travel ban.

Mōteatea

Mōteatea is the Māori term for traditional chanted song-poetry, most properly a lament, sung in te reo Māori without instruments and preserved in Sir Āpirana Ngata's collection Ngā Mōteatea.

Motel

A motel, short for motor hotel, is roadside lodging for motorists: a low-rise building of attached rooms whose doors open directly to outside parking, with no lobby.

Motel 6

Motel 6, also called Motel Six, is an American budget motel chain founded in 1962, known for its original $6 nightly rate and its slogan "We'll leave the light on for you."

Motel California (모텔 캘리포니아) (TV series)

Motel California (모텔 캘리포니아) is a 2025 MBC Friday-Saturday romance drama, 12 episodes, adapted from Shim Yoon-seo's novel Home, Bitter Home, starring Lee Se-young and Na In-woo as first loves reunited at a rural motel; it aired January 10 to February 15, 2025.