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Munkar and Nakir (منكر ونكير)
Munkar and Nakir (منكر ونكير), names meaning roughly "the denied and the denier", are the two angels of Islamic eschatology who question the dead in their tombs about Muhammad.
Munkh Khairkhan
Munkh Khairkhan (Мөнххайрхан уул, 'Holy eternal mountain'), second highest mountain in Mongolia at about 4,200 m, a glaciated massif of the Mongol Altai in Bayan-Ölgii and Khovd provinces whose glaciers shrank 32% from 1990 to 2020.
Munmu of Silla
Munmu of Silla (문무왕), born Kim Beopmin, was the 30th king of Silla who reigned from 661 to 681 and expelled Tang forces in 676.
Munna (మున్నా) (2007 film)
Munna (మున్నా) is a 2007 Telugu action film, Vamsi Paidipally's directorial debut produced by Dil Raju, starring Prabhas as a student fighting gangster Khakha (Prakash Raj), his estranged father; music by Harris Jayaraj.
Munna Bhai (film series)
Munna Bhai: two-film Hindi comedy-drama series, Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. (2003) and Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006), directed by Rajkumar Hirani, produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, starring Sanjay Dutt as gangster Munna Bhai and Arshad Warsi as Circuit.
Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.
Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. (मुन्नाभाई एम बी बी एस), 2003 Hindi comedy-drama, Rajkumar Hirani's directorial debut produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra: gangster Munna (Sanjay Dutt) enrolls in medical college for his father; hit that won the National Award for Best Popular Film and spawned Lage Raho Munna Bhai.
Munna Michael
Munna Michael (मुन्ना माइकल) is a 2017 Hindi action dance film directed by Sabbir Khan, starring Tiger Shroff as a Michael Jackson-obsessed street dancer, with Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Nidhhi Agerwal; released 21 July 2017, it earned about $5 million worldwide and was poorly reviewed.
Munnar (മുന്നാർ)
Munnar (മുന്നാർ), a 1,600 m hill station in Idukki, Kerala, at the confluence of three streams, famed for Kannan Devan tea plantations, Anamudi peak, Neelakurinji blooms, and the 2005 Tea Museum.
Munni Begum
Munni Begum (منی بیگم), a consort of Mir Jafar, nawab of Bengal, dominated the Murshidabad court as regent and guardian of the minor nawabs until her death in 1813.
Munro
Munro: a Scottish mountain over 3,000 ft (914.4 m) on the Scottish Mountaineering Club's list of 282 peaks, first tabulated by Sir Hugh Munro in 1891; climbing all of them is called Munro bagging.
Munroe Bergdorf
Munroe Bergdorf, British model, writer, and trans activist; first trans model in a L'Oréal UK campaign (2017), fired then rehired (2020); first trans UK Cosmopolitan cover (2022); memoir Transitional (2023).
Münşeat
Münşeat (منشآت) is the Ottoman and classical Islamic literary genre of collected official and private prose writings, especially letters, with the rules for composing them.
Munsell color system
Munsell color system, created by Albert H. Munsell, is a color order system specifying color by hue, value, and chroma (e.g. 7.5YR 5/4); standardized in ASTM D1535 and widely used in soil science.
Munshi Raziuddin
Munshi Raziuddin (منشی رضی الدین) was a Pakistani qawwal and classical musician of the Delhi Qawwal Bachchon ka Gharana who performed in India and Pakistan and received the Pride of Performance.
Munster
Munster (Irish Mumhan) is the southernmost of Ireland's four provinces, covering six counties including Cork, Kerry, and Limerick; distinct from the Alsatian commune of Munster, the German city of Münster, and cartographer Sebastian Münster.
Münster
Münster, Westphalia, Germany: cathedral city founded 793 by Liudger, site of the Anabaptist kingdom (1534/35) and the 1648 Peace of Westphalia; today a university and cycling city of about 320,700 residents.
Munster cheese
Munster (Munster-Géromé) is a French PDO soft washed-rind cow's milk cheese from the Vosges (Alsace/Lorraine), AOC since 1969, pungent Brevibacterium linens rind, mild paste, distinct from American Muenster.
Munster Rugby
Munster Rugby, Irish professional provincial rugby union team based in Limerick, plays at Thomond Park (25,600). Two-time Heineken Cup winner (2006, 2008), Magners League 2010/11 and URC 2022/23 champion; record 82,208 crowd at 2009 Croke Park semi-final.
Muntadhar al-Zaidi (منتظر الزيدي)
Muntadhar al-Zaidi (منتظر الزيدي), born 1979, is an Iraqi journalist, Al-Baghdadia TV correspondent, famous for throwing his shoes at George W. Bush in Baghdad on 14 December 2008; sentenced, released in 2009, later a 2018 parliamentary candidate.
Muntakhab al-Tavarikh
The Muntakhab al-Tavarikh (منتخب التواریخ), also called the Tarikh-i Bada'uni, is a Persian history of India by Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni, an orthodox Sunni scholar at Akbar's court, critical of Akbar's reign.
Muntakhab-ul-Lubab
Muntakhab-ul-Lubab (منتخب اللباب) is a Persian-language history of India by Khafi Khan, completed around 1722 and a principal source for Aurangzeb's reign and Mughal relations with the Marathas and Sikhs.
Muntakhabat
Muntakhabat (منتخبات, "selections") are compiled collections of chosen extracts from Arabic literature, related to the ikhtiyār tradition; the earliest anthologies appeared in the 8th century under the Umayyads.
Muntasir Murshed
Muntasir Murshed is a Bangladeshi economist specializing in energy and environmental economics, a Research Fellow at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies since 2024, linked to eight retracted papers.
Muntenia Oil and Gas Field
Muntenia Oil and Gas Field is an operating onshore oil and gas field in southern Romania, listed with Romgaz as operator and 2019 output of 6.1 million barrels of oil equivalent.
Munters
Munters is a Swedish climate control company, founded in 1955 by Carl Munters and headquartered in Stockholm, best known for its data center cooling systems and listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.
Munthirivallikal Thalirkkumbol
Munthirivallikal Thalirkkumbol (മുന്തിരിവള്ളികള് തളിര്ക്കുമ്പോള്) is a 2017 Malayalam family drama directed by Jibu Jacob, starring Mohanlal and Meena, which became one of the highest-grossing Malayalam films of the year.
Muntingia calabura
Muntingia calabura (Jamaican cherry, capulín, kerukup siam) is the sole species of Muntingiaceae genus Muntingia, a 2–12 m Neotropical pioneer tree from Mexico to Bolivia with edible red berries, widely naturalized and studied for flavonoid-rich pharmacological activity.
Muntinlupa
Muntinlupa (City of Muntinlupa) is a highly urbanized city in southern Metro Manila, Philippines, converted from a municipality by RA 7926 on March 1, 1995; nine barangays, 552,225 residents (2024), first income class, on Laguna de Bay.
Muntjac
Muntjac (Muntiacus), barking deer or rib-faced deer, small Asian deer; Reeves' muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi) introduced at Woburn Abbey in 1901 is an invasive species in Britain, reaching 120 deer per km2 and competing with native roe deer.
Munychia
Munychia (Mounichia, Munichia), hill and fortress in Piraeus near Athens, modern Kastella, 86 m high. Fortified by Hippias 510 BCE, site of Thrasybulus's 403 BCE victory over the Thirty, Macedonian garrison 322-229 BCE, sanctuary of Artemis Mounichia.