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Mumbaqat
Mumbaqat, more often written Tall Munbāqa, is a Bronze Age town site on the left bank of the Euphrates in northern Syria, identified as ancient Ekalte.
Mumble rap
Mumble rap, also called SoundCloud rap, is a pejorative mid-2010s hip hop label for slurred, Auto-Tuned, melody-driven rap with triplet flows, coined by Wiz Khalifa in 2016, rooted in Southern trap and exemplified by Young Thug.
Mumblecore
Mumblecore, also called the mumblecore movement, is a 2000s American indie film cycle of micro-budget, dialogue-heavy films about twentysomethings, named by sound mixer Eric Masunaga at SXSW 2005, starting with Funny Ha Ha (2002).
Mumbo sauce
Mumbo sauce, also spelled mambo sauce, is a sweet, tangy, mildly spicy red condiment of Washington, D.C. Chinese carryouts and Chicago barbecue joints; Chicago's Argia B. Collins created it circa 1950 and Select Brands holds the trademark.
Mumbwa Caves
The Mumbwa Caves are an archaeological site in Central Province, Zambia, whose deposits span the Middle Stone Age to recent centuries and include Zambia's first excavation, in 1925.
Mumford & Sons
Mumford & Sons, British folk rock band formed in London in 2007 (Marcus Mumford, Winston Marshall, Ben Lovett, Ted Dwane); albums Sigh No More, Babel (Grammy Album of the Year 2012), Wilder Mind, Delta, Rushmere (2025), and Prizefighter (2026); a trio since 2021.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia Abu-Jamal (Wesley Cook, 1954) is an American journalist and Black Panther activist convicted in 1982 of murdering Philadelphia officer Daniel Faulkner; death sentence became life without parole in 2012 after appeals and Amnesty International criticism.
Mumiy Troll
Mumiy Troll (Мумий Тролль) is a Russian rock band founded in 1983 in Vladivostok by vocalist Ilya Lagutenko, whose breakthrough album Morskaya sold a million copies in 1997.
Mummers
Mummers are costumed amateur performers in festive folk customs: the English mummers' play (St George, the Doctor, death-and-revival), Newfoundland Christmas mummering house-visits, and Philadelphia's New Year's Day Mummers Parade.
Mummers Parade
Mummers Parade, Philadelphia New Year's Day folk parade since 1901, oldest continuous in the US; five divisions including String Band and Fancy Brigade, about 10,000 costumed performers on Broad Street.
Mummies (2023 film)
Mummies (2023 film) is a Spanish computer-animated comedy-adventure film directed by Galo. It follows three mummies who travel to London to recover a stolen ring, earning a Goya nomination.
Mummies 317a and 317b
Mummies 317a and 317b are two mummified fetuses found in 1922 in Tutankhamun's tomb KV62, likely his stillborn daughters, deliberately embalmed and buried with him.
Mummies of Guanajuato
Mummies of Guanajuato (las momias de Guanajuato): naturally mummified bodies exhumed from Guanajuato's Santa Paula cemetery from 1865 over unpaid burial taxes, displayed at the Museo de las Momias since 1971.
Mummification (BDSM)
Mummification (BDSM), also called wrapping or encasement play, is full-body bondage using cling film, bandages, tape, or latex for immobilization and sensory deprivation; key risks are airway occlusion, overheating, and circulation loss, managed with shears and monitoring.
Mummu Sulci
Mummu Sulci is a 2,680 km grooved-terrain system on Jupiter's moon Ganymede, centered at 39°S 180°E, named from Assyro-Babylonian myth and adopted by the IAU in 2013.
Mummy
Mummy: a preserved human or animal body, natural or embalmed; from Arabic mummiya (bitumen). Oldest known are 10,000-year-old smoke-dried corpses from Southeast Asia; Egyptian natron process lasted about 70 days.
Mummy brown
Mummy brown, also known as Egyptian brown, was a dark brown pigment prepared by grinding Egyptian mummies, used in oil painting from the 16th century and sold into the 20th.
Mummy Juanita
Mummy Juanita, the Ice Maiden or Dama de Ampato, is a frozen Inca girl sacrificed in the capacocha ritual on Ampato volcano, found in 1995 after Sabancaya's eruption melted the ice, held at Arequipa's Museo Santuarios Andinos.
Mummy on the Orient Express
Mummy on the Orient Express is Doctor Who series 8, episode 8 (11 October 2014), written by Jamie Mathieson, directed by Paul Wilmshurst, starring Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman aboard a spacefaring Orient Express stalked by the Foretold, a mummy giving victims 66 seconds to live.
Mumps
Mumps: contagious paramyxovirus infection of the salivary glands causing parotitis and fever; prevented by MMR vaccine; US cases fell over 99% after 1967 but rose since 2006.
MUMPS
MUMPS, also known as M, is a programming language with a built-in persistent database, created at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in 1966 and 1967 for hospital information systems.
Mumps without complication
Mumps without complication, or uncomplicated mumps, is the typical self-limiting course of mumps virus infection: parotitis and fever resolving within two weeks, no specific therapy, isolation for five days after swelling begins.
Mumpsimus
Mumpsimus: persistence in an erroneous word or practice out of habit, from a tale of a priest misreading Latin sumpsimus ('we have taken') in the Mass; coined era 1517–1530, used by Henry VIII in 1545.
Mumrills
Mumrills was a Roman fort on the Antonine Wall at Laurieston near Falkirk, Scotland, the largest known fort on the Wall, probably garrisoned by the cavalry regiment Ala I Tungorum.
Mumtaj (மும்தாஜ்)
Mumtaj (மும்தாஜ்), born Nagma Khan in 1980, is a former Indian actress of Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi cinema. Debuting in Monisha En Monalisa (1999), she was known for Kushi, Chocklet, London and Veerasamy, joined Bigg Boss Tamil 2 (2018), and retired for religious reasons.
Mumtaz Mahal (ممتاز محل)
Mumtaz Mahal (ممتاز محل), born Arjumand Banu Begum (1593-1631), empress consort of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan I; married 1612, died at Burhanpur after her fourteenth child; the Taj Mahal is her tomb.
Mumtaz Mufti
Mumtaz Mufti, born Mufti Mumtaz Hussain (1905–1995), was a Pakistani Urdu fiction writer known for Ali Pur Ka Eli, Alakh Nagri, and the travelogues Labbaik and Hind Yatra.
Mumtaz Qadri (ممتاز قادری)
Mumtaz Qadri (Malik Muhammad Mumtaz Qadri) was the Elite Force bodyguard who assassinated Punjab Governor Salman Taseer in Islamabad on 4 January 2011 over Taseer's opposition to Pakistan's blasphemy laws, was sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court, and was hanged at Adiala jail on 29 February 2016, later revered as a martyr whose shrine and TLP movement reshaped Barelvi politics.
Mumtaz Sorcar (মুমতাজ সরকার)
Mumtaz Sorcar (মুমতাজ সরকার, also Pratiti Sorcar), born 1986 in Calcutta, is an Indian actress in Bengali cinema, daughter of magician P.C. Sorcar Jr.; films include 033, Bhooter Bhabishyat, Saala Khadoos, and Shabaash Mithu.
Mumu (Муму) (short story)
Mumu (Муму) is Ivan Turgenev's 1852 short story, published 1854, about the deaf-mute serf Gerasim who drowns his dog Mumu on his mistress's order; based on real events in his mother's house, censored, and a school classic.