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Moulin Coq Rouge
Moulin Coq Rouge, also called Minoterie Le Coq Rouge, is a wheat flour mill in the Ndogsimbi district of Douala, Cameroon, owned by businessman Baba Ahmadou Danpullo.
Moulin Rouge
Moulin Rouge, the Parisian cabaret at 82 boulevard de Clichy in Montmartre, opened 6 October 1889 by Joseph Oller and Charles Zidler; home of the French cancan and the Féerie revue, rebuilt after the 1915 fire, owned by the Clerico family.
Moulin Rouge (1952 film)
Moulin Rouge (1952) is John Huston's Technicolor biopic of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, starring José Ferrer, based on Pierre La Mure's novel; it won two of seven Oscars for its Lautrec-style color design.
Moulin Rouge!
Moulin Rouge! is Baz Luhrmann's 2001 jukebox musical film starring Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor, an eight-time Oscar nominee that won two, and the source of the ten-Tony Broadway stage musical that ran 2019 to 2026.
Moulin Rouge! (musical)
Moulin Rouge! The Musical, John Logan's jukebox musical based on Baz Luhrmann's 2001 film, opened on Broadway in 2019, won ten Tony Awards including Best Musical, and features over 70 pop songs.
Moulis
Moulis: name of communes in southwest France, chiefly Moulis (Ariège, Couserans, on the Lez, CNRS cave lab with Proteus, Luzenac Gallo-Roman pile) and Moulis-en-Médoc (Gironde wine commune, Saint-Saturnin church); also a Reyniès lieu-dit.
Mouloud Feraoun
Mouloud Feraoun (مولود فرعون, born Aït Chaabane; 1913–1962) was an Algerian novelist and educator, a founder of Algerian francophone literature, assassinated by the OAS days before the 1962 ceasefire.
Moulting
Moulting (molting, ecdysis) is the periodic shedding and replacement of fur, feathers, skin, or exoskeleton. Covers annual and biannual molts, photoperiod control, 20-hydroxyecdysone regulation in arthropods, and climate-driven moult mismatch in hares and emperor penguins.
Moulting Lagoon
Moulting Lagoon, a 4,507-hectare Tasmanian estuary between Swansea and Bicheno, Ramsar-listed 16 November 1982, is Tasmania's key black swan breeding site and a major waterbird and fish habitat.
Moumita Biswas Mishra
Moumita Biswas Mishra (মৌমিতা বিশ্বাস মিশ্র), BJP politician, MLA for Bardhaman Dakshin, West Bengal since May 2026 and Minister of State holding Industry, Commerce and Enterprises and Science and Technology portfolios.
Mouna Guru (மௌன குரு)
Mouna Guru (மௌன குரு), 2011 Tamil action thriller directed by Santha Kumar, starring Arulnithi, Iniya, John Vijay, music by Thaman; corrupt-cops conspiracy film remade as Guru, Shankara, and Akira.
Mouna Ragam (மௌன ராகம்)
Mouna Ragam (மௌன ராகம்), aka Silent Symphony, is a 1986 Tamil romantic drama directed by Mani Ratnam, starring Mohan, Revathi, and Karthik, with Ilaiyaraaja's music. It won the 1986 National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil and was Ratnam's breakthrough.
Mounam Pesiyadhe (மௌனம் பேசியதே)
Mounam Pesiyadhe (மௌனம் பேசியதே) is a 2002 Tamil romantic drama, Ameer's directorial debut starring Suriya and Trisha in her lead debut, with music by Yuvan Shankar Raja; re-released restored on 13 February 2026.
Mound
Mound: a low, isolated, rounded hill of earth (GeoNames code MND); also a small man-made burial or debris hill. Forms by glacial, erosional, biotic (gopher, termite, mole), and human processes, on land, seabed, and Mars.
Mound Builders
Mound Builders is the umbrella term for ancient Native American cultures, including Adena, Hopewell, and Mississippian, who built thousands of earthen mounds across eastern North America over seven millennia; a 1894 Smithsonian study refuted the lost-race myth.
Mound Called Chikatia Khera
Mound called Chikatia Khera is a centrally protected archaeological mound at Ramnagar, Bareilly district, Uttar Pradesh, under the ASI Meerut Circle, near other protected mounds at the ancient Ahichchhatra site.
Mound Containing Ancient Relics of the Gupta Period.
Mound containing ancient relics of the Gupta period, Bilsar (Bilsarh), Etah district, Uttar Pradesh; ASI centrally protected monument since 1928. Gupta-era temple pillars, Cunningham's 1870s record, and 2021 finds of a staircase and Shankhalipi inscription of Kumaragupta I (Shri Mahendraditya).
Mound in Eastern Extension of the Stupa Site at S. No. 3
Mound in eastern extension of the stupa site at S.No.3: a 170-foot-circumference archaeological mound at Chhetiaon (Chetiaon), Kushinagar district, Uttar Pradesh, on the platform of stupa no. 302; a centrally protected ASI monument (Sarnath Circle, S.No. 3453, identifier N-UP-P24), protected in 1920-1921.
Mound Known As Hardulala Ki Tekri
Mound Known As Hardulala Ki Tekri (Hardolala/Hardolal Tekri) is an ASI-protected archaeological mound at Pauni, Bhandara district, Maharashtra, excavated 1969-70 and the findspot of the stone inscription of the Bhara king Bhagadatta.
Mound Laboratory
Mound Laboratory was a nuclear research, development, and production facility in Miamisburg, Ohio, that operated from 1948 to 2003, continuing the Manhattan Project's Dayton Project work on polonium initiators.
Mound Locally Known As Ora Jhar Situated On The Road From Balrampur Near The Ancient Remains Of Sahet Mahet
Ora Jhar (Orajhar, Oda Jhar) is an ASI centrally protected archaeological mound at Ghooghulpur, Balrampur district, Uttar Pradesh, near the ancient remains of Sahet-Mahet (Sravasti), one of three protected mounds with Penahia Jhar and Kharahua Jhar.
Mound Of Brick Ruins
Mound of Brick Ruins, Tandwa (Sravasti district, Uttar Pradesh): centrally protected ASI monument no. 3290, an 800 x 300 ft brick mound with a large stupa identified by Cunningham as the relic stupa of Kasyapa Buddha, also called Sita-dohar.
Mound of Ruins Called Sahiya
Mound of ruins called Sahiya (also recorded as Sareya), an ASI centrally protected archaeological mound at Chhetiaon, Kushinagar district, Uttar Pradesh, protected in 1920 under Sarnath Circle.
Mound To the South of the Tans Known As of the Gandhan Sagar and Adisagar
Mound south of the Gandhan Sagar and Adisagar tanks, Ramnagar, Bareilly district, Uttar Pradesh; ASI centrally protected monument (serial 3303, Meerut Circle), near ancient Ahichchhatra.
Mound, Part of Which Appears To Be the Remains of A Buddhist Stupa Or A Temple
Centrally protected ASI mound at Sankara, Aligarh district, Uttar Pradesh; about 700 feet long, named from Carlleyle's 1870s suspicion it holds Buddhist stupa or temple remains; unexcavated.
Moundou (city)
Moundou, Chad's second-largest city and capital of Logone Occidental region, on the Logone River; economic capital built on cotton, brewing, and oil, with severe flooding and widely differing population estimates.
Moundou (site)
Moundou (site): an ancient toponym recorded in the 2nd-century CE Periplus of the Erythraean Sea and catalogued in the Pleiades gazetteer; distinct from Moundou, Chad (founded 1923) and Moundou, Gabon.
Moundville Archaeological Site
The Moundville Archaeological Site is a prehistoric Mississippian town on the Black Warrior River in Alabama, occupied from about 1000 to 1450 and second in size only to Cahokia.
Mouneyres Gallo-Roman villa
Mouneyres Gallo-Roman villa (Villa gallo-romaine de Mouneyres), a 5th-century Roman rural estate at Sarbazan, Landes, France, north of Saint-Pierre church, with atrium, mosaics, and a balneum; mosaics displayed at Arthous abbey.
Moungi G. Bawendi
Moungi Bawendi, born 1961, is an American chemist at MIT who shared the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.