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Mozang Clan Dominance and Liang Clan Regency in Western Xia

Mozang Clan Dominance and Liang Clan Regency in Western Xia (没藏氏专权与梁氏专政) designates two successive consort-clan regencies, by the Mozang and Liang families, that ruled Western Xia until 1099.

Mozarabic Rite

The Mozarabic Rite, also known as the Hispanic or Visigothic rite, is the ancient liturgy of the Iberian Peninsula, formed around Seville, Toledo, and Tarragona and still celebrated in Toledo.

Mozart (Mercurian crater)

Mozart is a large peak-ring impact basin on Mercury, IAU feature 4058, centered at 8.00°N, 190.50°W just south of Caloris; diameters of 235 to 285 km appear in the literature, with circumferential graben and volcanic interior plains.

Mozart and Salieri

Mozart and Salieri (Моцарт и Сальери) is an 1830 one-act verse tragedy by Alexander Pushkin, part of his Little Tragedies, in which a jealous Salieri poisons Mozart.

Mozart and scatology

Mozart and scatology: the composer's ribald letters (notably the Bäsle letters, 1777–1781) and bawdy canons such as Leck mich im Arsch; scatology appeared in 10.5% of his letters, was family-typical and era-common, and modern scholarship rejects the debauchery and Tourette narratives.

Mozart effect

Mozart effect: claim from a 1993 Rauscher, Shaw, and Ky Nature study that 10 minutes of Mozart's Sonata K448 briefly improves spatial reasoning; replications, meta-analyses, and arousal-mood studies find no specific intelligence benefit.

Mozart Horn Concerto discography

Mozart Horn Concerto discography: recordings of the four Leutgeb concertos (K. 412/514, 417, 447, 495). Landmark Dennis Brain/Karajan 1954 set; modern cycles by Tuckwell, Muzyk, Frank-Gemmill (BIS 2024), and Owen (Chandos 2025).

Mozart in the Jungle

Mozart in the Jungle, Amazon Studios dramedy (2014-2018), Gael García Bernal as conductor Rodrigo De Souza and Lola Kirke as oboist Hailey; based on Blair Tindall's 2005 memoir, four seasons, two Golden Globes and two sound-mixing Emmys.

Mozavaptan

Mozavaptan (OPC-31260, Physuline, mozavaptan hydrochloride) is an oral non-peptide vasopressin V2 receptor antagonist (vaptan) developed by Otsuka; approved in Japan in 2006 as an orphan drug for hyponatremia in paraneoplastic SIADH.

Mozdok

Mozdok (Моздок) is a town of about 35,000 on the left bank of the Terek in northern North Ossetia–Alania, Russia. Founded in 1759, fortified in 1763, it anchors the eastern Azov-Mozdok line and is the republic's northernmost town.

Mozhi (மொழி)

Mozhi (மொழி, "Language") is a 2007 Tamil romantic comedy directed by Radha Mohan, produced by Prakash Raj, starring Prithviraj Sukumaran and Jyothika as a musician and a deaf woman; released 23 February 2007, Jyothika's final film.

Mozhi Intelligence (眸深智能)

Mozhi Intelligence (眸深智能) is a Shanghai-based embodied-AI startup founded in January 2025. It develops "embodied brains" for service robots and secured a contract worth over RMB 100 million.

Mozi

Mozi (Mo Di, Micius, ca. 470–391 BC) founded Mohism, early China's rival to Confucianism, teaching inclusive care (jian ai), anti-aggression, frugality, and the world's earliest consequentialism, with organized defensive-warfare communities.

Mozilla

Mozilla, also known as the Mozilla Project, is an open source project and family of organizations founded in 1998, best known for the Firefox web browser.

Mozilla Corporation

Mozilla Corporation is the wholly owned, taxable subsidiary of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, established in August 2005 and headquartered in San Francisco, best known as the developer of the Firefox browser.

Mozilla Foundation

The Mozilla Foundation is a California nonprofit, established in 2003 as successor to mozilla.org, that stewards the open-source Mozilla Project best known for the Firefox web browser.

Mozilla Thunderbird

Mozilla Thunderbird, or the Thunderbird mail client, is a free, open-source desktop application from the Mozilla project for email, calendars, chat, and news feeds, first released in 2004.

Mozingo reduction

The Mozingo reduction is a two-step organic reaction that deoxygenates aldehydes and ketones to methylene groups via thioacetal formation and Raney nickel desulfurization, named for Ralph Mozingo.

Moznayim

Moznayim (Hebrew: מֹאזְנַיִם, "scales"), also romanized Moznaim, is a Hebrew literary journal published by the Hebrew Writers Association in Israel. Founded in 1929 under Hayim Nahman Bialik, it is one of the longest-running Hebrew literary periodicals.

Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group: Mounded Tombs of Ancient Japan

Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group (百舌鳥・古市古墳群), a UNESCO World Heritage serial property in Osaka Prefecture inscribed 2019: 49 elite mounded tombs (kofun) of the 3rd-6th century Kofun period, including the over-500 m Daisenryo Kofun, selected from about 160,000 kofun in Japan.

Mozzarella

Mozzarella, including Mozzarella di Bufala Campana, is an Italian fresh pasta filata cheese; low-moisture mozzarella (pizza cheese) has 45-52% moisture and is the standard pizza topping.

Mozzy

Mozzy (Timothy Cornell Patterson, born 1987) is a Sacramento rapper from Oak Park; breakthrough Bladadah (2015), Black Panther placement, albums Beyond Bulletproof and Survivor's Guilt.

MP 05

The MP 05 is a driverless, rubber-tyred electric multiple-unit metro train built by Alstom for the Paris Métro, ordered by the RATP in 2005 to automate Line 1.

MP 18

The MP 18, also called the Maschinenpistole 18 or Bergmann MP 18, is a German 9mm submachine gun designed by Hugo Schmeisser and issued to assault troops in 1918.

MP 34

The MP 34 is an Austrian submachine gun built by Waffenfabrik Steyr and sold as the Steyr-Solothurn S1-100, nicknamed the Rolls-Royce of submachine guns for its precision-machined quality.

MP 40

The MP 40 (Maschinenpistole 40) was a German 9 mm submachine gun of the Second World War, with over one million made from 1939 to 1945.

MP 59

The MP 59 was a series of rubber-tyred trains built for the Paris Métro, ordered in 1959, in service from 1963 until 2024, last on line 11.

MP 73

The MP 73 is a rubber-tyred electric multiple unit ordered by the RATP in 1973 for the Paris Métro, running on Line 6 from 1974 to 2026.

MP Associates

MP Associates is an American conference and trade show management company founded in 1984 by Pat and Marie Pistilli to manage the Design Automation Conference, the flagship EDA industry event.

MP-10 trial

MP-10 trial (NCT02739464): randomized multicenter UTMB study of daily 10-minute ergometer exercise added to standard care in patients aged 7-60 with over 30% TBSA burns; 77 enrolled, 2014-2020.