edgepedia

All articles starting with M

36,687 articles

Mumun pottery

Mumun pottery (무문토기, literally "no design") is the plain handmade earthenware that gives its name to Korea's Mumun period, dated about 1500 to 100 BC.

MuMuPlayer

MuMuPlayer is a free Android emulator for Windows developed by the Chinese game company NetEase, first released in 2015, with keyboard, mouse, and gamepad controls and multi-instance support.

Mumuye figure sculpture

Mumuye figure sculpture is the wooden figural carving tradition of the Mumuye people of northeastern Nigeria, elongated abstract figures used in divination, healing, and rainmaking rituals.

Mumyōshō

Mumyōshō (無名抄), also known as Mumyō hishō, is an essayistic treatise on waka poetry written by Kamo no Chōmei in about 80 sections around 1212.

Mumyōzōshi

Mumyōzōshi (無名草子, "The Nameless Book") is a Japanese work of tale criticism from the early Kamakura period, around 1200, often cited as the first work of Japanese literary criticism.

Mun

Mun River (แม่น้ำมูล), largest Mekong tributary by area in northeast Thailand's Khorat Plateau; home of the controversial 136 MW Pak Mun Dam (1994) and moated Iron Age archaeological sites.

Mun Choi

Mun Y. Choi, mechanical engineer and combustion researcher, is the 24th president of the University of Missouri System (since 2017) and MU chancellor (since 2020); previously dean of engineering and provost at UConn.

Mun Dae Seong

Mun Dae Seong (문대성, Moon Dae-Sung), born 1976 in Incheon, South Korean taekwondo heavyweight; won 2004 Athens Olympic gold (over 80 kg), 1999 world title, IOC athletes member 2008–2016; doctorate revoked 2013 for plagiarism.

Mun of Balhae

Mun of Balhae (문왕, 文王; personal name Dae Heummu) was the third king of Balhae, reigning from 737 to 793 and completing its state institutions.

Mun'im Khan

Mun'im Khan (منعم خاں), a Turkish noble born in 1497, served Humayun and Akbar as Vakil, titled Khan-i-Khanan, and led the conquest of Bengal in 1574 to 1575.

Muna (band)

MUNA (stylized MUNA) is a Los Angeles indie-pop trio of Katie Gavin, Naomi McPherson, and Josette Maskin, formed 2013 at USC; albums About U, Saves the World, MUNA (2022), Dancing on the Wall (2026); queer pop, Silk Chiffon.

Muna Madan

Muna Madan (मुनामदन) is a short epic poem in Nepali by Laxmi Prasad Devkota, first published in 1936 and regarded as Nepali literature's most famous work.

Muna Therapeutics

Muna Therapeutics ApS is a clinical-stage Danish biotechnology company based in Copenhagen, founded in 2020, developing small-molecule therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

Münacat

Münacat, also transliterated munajat or monājāt, is a prayer genre in classical Eastern and Turkish literature of verse or prose supplicating God, often opening divans and recited on minarets during Ramadan.

Munaf Patel

Munaf Patel (Munaf Musa Patel), born 1983, Indian right-arm medium-fast bowler from Ikhar, Gujarat; 13 Tests, 70 ODIs, 3 T20Is for India 2006-2011; 2011 World Cup winner with 11 wickets; retired November 2018, later Delhi Capitals bowling coach.

Munagacherla Mound

Munagacherla Mound, an early historic habitation site at Munagacherla village, Nandigama Mandal, Krishna/NTR district, Andhra Pradesh; occupied from the 3rd to 16th century CE and a centrally protected ASI monument (survey plot No. 37).

Munajat

Munajat (مناجات) is a genre of devotional poetry and prose in Islamic literatures, in which the poet directly asks God for forgiveness, help, or relief.

Munakata Shikō

Munakata Shikō (棟方志功) was a Japanese woodblock print artist from Aomori who won the top print awards at the São Paulo and Venice Biennales in the mid-1950s.

Munawar Faruqui

Munawar Iqbal Faruqui, Indian stand-up comedian, rapper, and reality TV winner of Lock Upp Season 1 and Bigg Boss 17; arrested in Indore in 2021 under section 295A for jokes he did not perform.

Munazarat adabiyya

Munazarat adabiyya (المناظرات الأدبية, literary debates) are a classical Arabic prose genre where two sides refute each other's arguments, flourishing in Abbasid palaces, mosques, and markets.

München Hauptbahnhof

München Hauptbahnhof (Munich Central Station) is the main railway station of Munich, Germany, a terminal station with 32 platform tracks used daily by roughly 450,000 travelers and commuters.

München-Grünwald

München-Grünwald, a Bavarian municipality 14 km south of Munich on the Isar, with Bronze Age to La Tène settlement, the Römerschanze fort, Burg Grünwald, and an LMU archaeology project.

Münchhausen

Münchhausen (1943) is Ufa's Agfacolor jubilee film for its 25th anniversary, directed by Josef von Báky with Hans Albers as the Baron of Lies, scripted by banned author Erich Kästner, commissioned by Goebbels, and one of the Nazi era's most popular films.

Münchhausen trilemma

Münchhausen trilemma, or Agrippa's trilemma: epistemological argument that every justification chain ends in infinite regress, circularity, or dogmatic assumption; answered by foundationalism, coherentism, and infinitism.

Munchkin

Munchkins are the fictional people of Munchkin Country, eastern Oz, created by L. Frank Baum in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900); blue-clad, freed by Dorothy, later played by the Singer Midgets in the 1939 MGM film.

Munchkin (card game)

Munchkin is a 2001 Steve Jackson Games card game by Steve Jackson and John Kovalic parodying dungeon-crawl RPGs; players kick down doors, fight monsters, and backstab friends to reach level 10 first, with many expansions and themed editions.

Munchkin cat

Munchkin cat, or Munchkin Longhair: a TICA-recognized domestic cat breed with very short legs from an autosomal dominant chondrodysplasia mutation; founded on Blackberry (1983), championship status 2003, contested by CFA, GCCF, and FIFe on welfare grounds.

Muncie 4-Speed Transmission

The Muncie 4-speed is an aluminum, fully synchronized four-speed manual transmission built by General Motors in Muncie, Indiana, used in GM passenger cars from 1963 through 1974.

Muncie, Indiana

Muncie, Indiana: county seat of Delaware County in east central Indiana, home of Ball State University and the historic Ball Brothers glass company; population about 65,000, manufacturing heritage, recent READI-funded downtown redevelopment.

Munda languages

Munda languages, westernmost branch of the Austroasiatic family, spoken by about ten million people in eastern and central India; includes Santali (7 million+ speakers, official in India), Mundari, Ho, Korku, and Sora, with disputed internal classification and verb-final, synthetic typology.