All articles starting with M

Mureş

Mureş (Județul Mureș, Mureș County) is a central-northern Romanian county, seat Târgu Mureș; 6,696 km², 550,846 people (2011), mixed Romanian, Hungarian, and Roma population, major natural gas producer.

Murex

Murex (Linnaeus, 1758) is the type genus of Muricidae, predatory neogastropod sea snails; type species Murex tribulus. Known for spiny shells, the M. trapa mitogenome, and the historic murex purple dye connection.

Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Murfreesboro, Tennessee: Rutherford County seat near the geographic center of the state, founded 1811 as Cannonsburgh, state capital 1818-1826, site of the 1862-63 Battle of Stones River, home of MTSU, population about 171,000 in 2025.

MurGeopark UNESCO Global Geopark

MurGeopark UNESCO Global Geopark is a geopark in the Murge Highlands of Apulia, southern Italy, designated in 2025, known for a Neanderthal skeleton and about 25,000 dinosaur footprints.

Murhaf Abu Qasra

Murhaf Abu Qasra (مرهف أبو قصرة), former HTS military commander and Syria's defense minister since December 2024, leads the integration of armed factions, including the SDF, into a single national army.

Oct 15, 2026

Muri Abbey

Muri Abbey (Kloster Muri) is a former Benedictine abbey in the canton of Aargau, Switzerland, founded in 1027 by Ita of Lorraine and Count Radbot of Habsburg.

Muri Emirate

The Muri Emirate was a Fulani emirate of the Sokoto Caliphate, founded in 1817 by Hamma Ruwa on the Benue River in present-day Taraba State, Nigeria.

Murias Chaos

Murias Chaos, informally called "the Mitten," is an elevated region of chaos terrain on Jupiter's moon Europa, officially named by the International Astronomical Union in 2003.

Muricidae

Muricidae, the murex and rock snails, are a family of carnivorous marine snails with more than 1800 species, known for drilling holes through the shells of prey.

Muricidae molecular phylogeny

Muricidae molecular phylogeny covers DNA-based studies of murex snails, a family of over 1800 carnivorous marine gastropods, which since 2010 have confirmed some subfamilies, shown others polyphyletic, and reduced the accepted subfamilies to nine.

Muridae

Muridae, the murids, is the largest rodent family: Old World mice, rats, and gerbils including Mus and Rattus, with over 1,300 species, about 15 subfamilies, and five major IRBP lineages.

Sep 24, 2026

Muridiyya

The Muridiyya (الطريقة المريدية) is a Sufi order centered at Touba, Senegal, founded by Amadou Bamba around 1883 on the teaching of prayer paired with work.

Muridke

Muridke, a city and tehsil headquarters in Sheikhupura District, Punjab, Pakistan, on the Grand Trunk Road 28 km north of Lahore; 2023 census population 254,291, former Lashkar-e-Taiba headquarters until 2013, hit by an Indian missile in May 2025.

Oct 3, 2026

Muriel

Muriel (Muriel ou le temps d'un retour) is Alain Resnais's 1963 French-Italian drama, written by Jean Cayrol, starring Delphine Seyrig; set in Boulogne-sur-Mer, it confronts the Algerian War through an absent tortured woman and won Seyrig the 1963 Venice Volpi Cup.

Muriel at Metropolitan

Muriel at Metropolitan, published abroad as Between Two Worlds, is a 1975 debut novel by Miriam Tlali, narrated by a black woman working in a white-owned Johannesburg shop.

Muriel Bowser

Muriel Bowser, also known as Mayor Bowser, is the seventh elected mayor of Washington, D.C., serving since 2015 and the first African American woman to win three mayoral terms.

Muriel Gunn

Muriel Gunn, later Muriel Cornell (1906–1996), English long jumper and hurdler; two ratified women's long jump world records (5.485m in 1926, 5.575m in 1927), British record 5.80m until 1952, later WAAA secretary and 1936 Olympic team manager.

Muriel Kaufmann

Muriel Kaufmann, full name Muriel Kaufmann Tuca, is a Brazilian lawyer and venture capital investor who joined Monashees in 2015 and became Partner and General Counsel in January 2024.

Sep 21, 2026

Muriel R. Gillick

Muriel R. Gillick, also known as Muriel Gillick, is an American physician specializing in geriatrics and palliative care at Harvard Medical School, born in 1951.

Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark (1918-2006), Scottish poet and novelist born Muriel Sarah Camberg, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; 22 novels, Booker shortlistee, Catholic convert, war propaganda worker, lived in Tuscany, DBE 1993.

Muriel's Wedding

Muriel's Wedding is a 1994 Australian comedy written and directed by P.J. Hogan, starring Toni Collette as an awkward young woman who dreams of a glamorous wedding.

Murilo Mendes

Murilo Mendes (Murilo Monteiro Mendes, 1901–1975) was a Brazilian poet and art critic who united surrealism and Catholicism within Brazilian Modernism, living his last years in Rome.

Murilo Rubião

Murilo Rubião (1916–1991) was a Brazilian writer from Minas Gerais, regarded as the precursor of the fantastic short story, whose 33 tales narrate impossible events with complete naturalness.

Murina

Murina (tube-nosed bats, Murininae, Vespertilionidae), genus of small Asian insectivorous bats with tubular nostrils; 46 recognized species, second-largest vespertilionid genus, from Siberia to Australia.

Murine leukemia virus

Murine leukemia virus (MLV, MuLV), a gammaretrovirus of mice discovered by Ludwik Gross in 1951; simple RNA tumor virus encoding only Gag, Pol, Env; basis of first gene therapy vectors.

Muritan Labyrinthus

Muritan Labyrinthus is a 200-km-wide labyrinth terrain in Titan's south polar region, IAU-approved March 8, 2017, named after a Dune-series planet where the son of a supplicant to Alia Atreides was killed.

Sep 23, 2026

Murji'a

The Murji'a (المرجئة) were an early Islamic tendency whose doctrine of irja' deferred judgment of grave sinners to God, arising in Kufa and Basra in the late 7th century.

Sep 23, 2026

Murkha Nayanar

Murkha Nayanar (மூர்க்க நாயனார்) is one of the 63 Nayanars, Tamil Shaiva devotees. A Vellala landowner of Tiruverkadu, he fed Shiva's devotees daily with gambling winnings.