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Malang (मलंग) (film)
Malang (मलंग) is a 2020 Hindi action thriller directed by Mohit Suri, starring Aditya Roy Kapur, Disha Patani, Anil Kapoor, and Kunal Kemmu; released 7 February 2020, set in Goa, later on Netflix.
Malang Sarr
Malang Mamadou William Georges Sarr (born 1999, Nice) is a French left-footed centre-back, a Nice academy product who played for Chelsea, Porto, Monaco, Lens, and now NEOM SC; not to be confused with Mamadou Sarr.
Malanga
Malanga is an ancient Indian city recorded by Ptolemy in his second-century geography, which the Barrington Atlas identifies with modern Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, inland southwest of Chennai.
Malangatana Ngwenya
Malangatana Ngwenya (1936–2011), known mononymously as Malangatana, was a Mozambican painter, poet, and sculptor whose visionary works critiqued colonial rule and made him Mozambique's most prominent visual artist.
Malanggan
Malanggan, also spelled Malagan or Malangan, is the name for the carved funerary effigies and commemorative mortuary ceremonies of northern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.
Malanje
Malanje (Malange) is the capital of Malanje Province in north-central Angola, gateway to Kalandula Falls (105 m tall, 400 m wide, 77 km north), the Pungo Andongo black rocks, and Cangandala National Park, home of the giant sable antelope.
Malanje Province
Malanje Province, northern plateau province of Angola, capital Malanje city; 97,602 km², 986,363 people (2014) and 1,298,250 (2024); Ambundu, Kimbundu-speaking, agricultural 'Granary of Angola', Capanda agro-industrial complex, governor Marcos Alexandre Nhunga.
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (Indian Orthodox Church): autocephalous Oriental Orthodox church in Kerala under the Catholicos of the East, governed by the 1934 Constitution, in dispute with the Jacobite faction recognizing the Patriarch of Antioch.
Malapert (lunar crater)
Malapert, lunar crater, 72.38 km wide, centered at 85.0°S 11.4°E near the Moon's south pole; its satellite Malapert A was the target of Intuitive Machines' 2024 Odysseus landing, and nearby Mons Malapert is an Artemis candidate site.
Malapilla (మాలపిల్ల)
Malapilla (మాలపిల్ల), also Mala Pilla, is a 1938 Telugu social drama directed by Gudavalli Ramabrahmam, the first Telugu film on intercaste love and untouchability, released 25 September 1938, starring Kanchanamala, a landmark of Gandhian reformist cinema.
Malapportionment
Malapportionment is the condition in which electoral districts contain markedly unequal populations, so a vote in a small district carries more weight than one in a large district.
Malappuram
Malappuram (മലപ്പുറം), a district in northern Kerala, India, formed 16 June 1969 with headquarters at Malappuram town; 3,550 sq km, 4.1 million people (2011), known for Nilambur teak forests, Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala, and rapid dispersed urbanization.
Malappuram district
Malappuram district (മലപ്പുറം), Kerala, formed 16 June 1969 from Kozhikode and Palakkad parts; 3,550 sq km, Kerala's most populous district (4,112,920 in 2011), seven taluks, four rivers, headquarters at Malappuram town.
Malappuram FC
Malappuram FC, founded 2024, is a professional football club from Malappuram district, Kerala, India, a founding franchise of the Super League Kerala, playing at Payyanad Stadium, Manjeri, with Sanju Samson as co-owner and Karim Bencherifa as head coach.
Malapropism
Malapropism: mistaken use of a similar-sounding word with an unrelated meaning, named for Mrs Malaprop in Sheridan's The Rivals (1775); distinct from Fay–Cutler speech-error substitutions, spoonerisms, and eggcorns.
Malaqaye
Malaqaye, also spelled Malakaye, was a queen of the Kushite royal house of the Napatan period, known from a gilded silver funerary mask found at Nuri, Pyramid 59, in Sudan.
Malar rash
Malar rash (butterfly rash): erythematous facial eruption over cheeks and nasal bridge sparing nasolabial folds; classically acute cutaneous lupus of SLE, with mimics including rosacea, dermatomyositis, erysipelas, and drug photosensitivity.
Mälaren
Mälaren, or Lake Mälaren, is Sweden's third largest lake, west of Stockholm, with over 8,000 islands and UNESCO Viking-Age Birka; it supplies drinking water to about two million people.
Mälarenergi
Mälarenergi is a Swedish municipal energy company wholly owned by the city of Västerås, supplying electricity, district heating and cooling, water, and broadband fiber to over 100,000 customers.
Malari incident
The Malari incident, short for Malapetaka Lima Belas Januari, was a January 15, 1974 riot in Jakarta where Indonesian students protesting Japanese dominance clashed with Suharto's government.
Malaria
Malaria, also known as paludism, is a mosquito-borne disease caused by Plasmodium parasites transmitted by female Anopheles mosquitoes; 282 million cases and 610,000 deaths in 2024, treated with ACTs and prevented by nets, chemoprevention, and RTS,S and R21 vaccines.
Malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum
Malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum (falciparum malaria, ICD-11 1F40), the deadliest human malaria, transmitted by Anopheles mosquitoes; ACT-treated, can turn severe within 24 hours, with HRP2-deletion diagnostic challenges.
Malaria due to Plasmodium malariae
Malaria due to Plasmodium malariae, or quartan malaria, a chronic low-grade human malaria with a 72-hour parasite cycle; neglected, worldwide, pooled prevalence 2.01%, treated with chloroquine, complicated by nephrotic syndrome.
Malaria due to Plasmodium ovale
Malaria due to Plasmodium ovale (ICD-11 1F43): a relapsing, usually mild human malaria from P. ovale curtisi or P. ovale wallikeri, hypnozoite-forming, treated with chloroquine plus primaquine or tafenoquine after G6PD testing.
Malaria prophylaxis
Malaria prophylaxis: preventive antimalarial drugs (atovaquone-proguanil, doxycycline, chloroquine, mefloquine, primaquine, tafenoquine) plus mosquito avoidance for travelers, pregnant women, and children; drug choice depends on destination resistance, G6PD status, and pregnancy.
Malaria therapy
Malaria therapy, or malariotherapy, was a treatment in which patients were deliberately infected with malaria so fevers would act against neurosyphilis, used from 1917 to about 1950.
Malaria vaccine
A malaria vaccine protects against malaria, a mosquito-borne parasitic disease; the two in use, RTS,S and R21/Matrix-M, are WHO-recommended for children and roll out across 25 African countries.
Malarndirri McCarthy
Malarndirri McCarthy is an Australian Labor Party politician serving as Minister for Indigenous Australians and Senator for the Northern Territory, and a Yanyuwa and Garrwa woman from Borroloola who worked as a journalist before entering politics.
Malashri (ಮಾಲಶ್ರೀ)
Malashri (ಮಾಲಶ್ರೀ), born Sri Durga in 1973, is a Kannada film actress, the Kanasina Rani of 1990s Sandalwood, lead debut Nanjundi Kalyana (1989), Filmfare Best Actress 1991, later the Action Queen with Chamundi and Kannadada Kiran Bedi.
Malaspina Glacier
Malaspina Glacier (Tlingit Sít' Tlein, "big glacier") in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska, is the world's largest piedmont glacier, about 2,400 km², surging, thinning over 1 m per year, and grounded largely below sea level.