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Murmansk (Мурманск)

Murmansk (Мурманск), founded 4 October 1916 as Romanov-na-Murmane, is a Russian Arctic port city on the ice-free Kola Bay, administrative center of Murmansk Oblast and the world's largest city north of the Arctic Circle, near 300,000 people.

Murmansk Oblast (Мурманская область)

Murmansk Oblast (Мурманская область) is a Russian federal subject on the Kola Peninsula, formed 28 May 1938, capital Murmansk, bordering Norway, Finland, and Karelia; population 651,363 (2025), mining and fishing economy, Northern Fleet base.

Murmillo

Murmillo (murmillones, myrmillo): heavily armed Roman gladiator with gladius, scutum, and fish-crested broad-brimmed helmet; evolved from the samnis and Gallus, usually paired against the thraex or hoplomachus, popular 1st-3rd centuries CE.

Murmur (album)

Murmur is R.E.M.'s 1983 debut album on I.R.S. Records, produced by Mitch Easter and Don Dixon in Charlotte, North Carolina; 12 songs, about 200,000 copies sold, No. 1 Rolling Stone critics poll.

Oct 3, 2026

Murmur of the Heart

Murmur of the Heart (Le Souffle au cœur), 1971 Louis Malle comedy-drama, semi-autobiographical coming-of-age film about 14-year-old Laurent Chevalier in Dijon, starring Lea Massari and Benoît Ferreux, with an accidental mother-son incest, Cannes and Oscar nominations.

MurmurHash

MurmurHash, also known as Murmur3, is a family of fast, non-cryptographic hash functions written by Austin Appleby and placed in the public domain, best known for its 32-bit and 128-bit variants.

Murnaghan equation of state

The Murnaghan equation of state is an isothermal pressure–volume relation for solids, introduced by Francis D. Murnaghan in 1944 and used to fit compression data.

Sep 24, 2026

Muro Kyūsō

Muro Kyūsō (室鳩巣) was a Japanese Confucian scholar of the mid-Edo period who served the Tokugawa shogunate as lecturer and advisor to shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune during the Kyōhō reforms.

Murō Saisei

Murō Saisei (室生犀星, 1889–1962) was a Japanese poet and novelist from Kanazawa whose 1918 collections gave Taishō poetry a fresh impression and who also wrote Ani Imōto.

Murō-ji Five-story Pagoda

The Murō-ji Five-story Pagoda (室生寺五重塔) is an early Heian period wooden pagoda at Murō-ji temple in Uda, Nara Prefecture, Japan, the smallest five-story pagoda standing outdoors in the country.

Murom (Муром)

Murom (Муром), ancient Russian city in Vladimir Oblast on the left bank of the Oka, first recorded in 862; population about 104,000 (2025). Known for Ilya Muromets, Peter and Fevronia, its monasteries, defense manufacturing, and the 2009 cable-stayed Oka bridge.

Muromachi Outsiders (室町無頼)

Muromachi Outsiders (室町無頼, Muromachi Burai), also titled Samurai Fury, is a 2025 Toei action period film directed by Yu Irie, adapted from Ryosuke Kakine's 2016 novel, starring Yo Oizumi as rōnin rebel Hasuda Hyoe in 1461 Kyoto.

Muromachi period (室町時代)

Muromachi period (室町時代), 1336–1573, era of the Ashikaga shogunate headquartered in Kyoto's Muromachi district. Covers Yoshimitsu's Ming-trade peak, Ōnin War 1467–77, Sengoku decline, and Zen-influenced Noh and tea culture.

Oct 21, 2026

Muromonab-cd3

Muromonab-CD3 (OKT3, Orthoclone OKT3) is a murine IgG2a anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody, the first FDA-approved therapeutic mAb (1986), used for acute transplant rejection and withdrawn in 2010.

Murong Chui

Murong Chui (慕容垂, 326–396), originally named Ba, was a fifth son of Murong Huang who founded Later Yan, one of the Sixteen Kingdoms, and reigned thirteen years from Zhongshan.

Sep 25, 2026

Murong Chui's restoration of Yan (Later Yan)

Murong Chui's restoration of Yan (慕容垂復國) was the re-founding of the Yan state as Later Yan by Murong Chui after Former Qin's defeat at the Fei River.

Murong clan

The Murong clan (慕容氏) was a Xianbei lineage of the Jin dynasty period that founded regional states including Former Yan and Later Yan in northern China.

Sep 24, 2026

Murong De's founding of Southern Yan

Murong De's founding of Southern Yan (南燕) was the creation of a breakaway Xianbei state between 398 and 400, when Murong De proclaimed himself King of Yan at Huatai.

Murong Huang

Murong Huang (慕容皝, 297–348) was a Xianbei ruler who took the title Prince of Yan in 337 and won Eastern Jin recognition, founding the Former Yan state.

Murong Hui

Murong Hui (慕容廆, courtesy name Yiluogui, 269–333) was a Xianbei chieftain who ruled Liaodong, adopted Chinese agriculture and institutions, and laid the foundations of the Former Yan state.

Murong Jun

Murong Jun (慕容俊) was a ruler of the Yan state of the Sixteen Kingdoms period, who took the Yan princely title on his father's death and proclaimed himself emperor after conquering Ye.

Sep 24, 2026

Murong Ke's regency and decline of Former Yan

Murong Ke's regency and decline of Former Yan covers Murong Ke's regency for Murong Wei, the taking of Luoyang, and Former Qin's conquest of Yan in 370.

Murong Shaozong

Murong Shaozong (慕容绍宗) was a general of China's Northern and Southern dynasties, remembered as the Eastern Wei commander who crushed the rebel Hou Jing at Woyang with 100,000 men.

Murong tribe

The Murong tribe (慕容部) was a Xianbei tribe of southeastern Inner Mongolia whose ruling house founded the five Yan states of the Sixteen Kingdoms period.

Murong Wei

Murong Wei (慕容暐), courtesy name Jingmao, was the last emperor of Former Yan, a Xianbei state that fell to Former Qin in 370; he was executed in 385.

Murong Xianbei

The Murong Xianbei (慕容鮮卑) were a branch of the nomadic Xianbei people who settled in Liaoxi, western Liaoning, and founded the five Yan states that dominated parts of northern China in the fourth and fifth centuries.