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Mysore rockets
Mysore rockets (میسور راکٹ) were iron-cased gunpowder rockets and their rocket corps, developed in the kingdom of Mysore under Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan in the late eighteenth century.
Mysore Vasudevachar
Mysore Vasudevachar (ಮೈಸೂರು ವಾಸುದೇವಾಚಾರ್; 1865–1961) was a Carnatic music composer and vocalist who served as court musician of the Mysore royal court, composing about 200 works.
Mysorean invasion of Malabar
The Mysorean invasion of Malabar was the conquest of most of the Malabar Coast by the Kingdom of Mysore, begun by Hyder Ali in 1766.
Mysorean invasion of Travancore
The Mysorean invasion of Travancore (നെടുംകോട്ട) was Tipu Sultan's 1789–1790 attack on the Travancore Lines, or Nedumkotta, which his army breached but could not hold.
Mysorean rockets
Mysorean rockets, or Mysore rockets, were iron-cased rockets used by Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan against the British, the first iron-cased rockets successfully used in war.
Myspace
Myspace is an American social networking site founded in Santa Monica in 2003 by Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe, known for customizable profiles and band music pages.
MySQL
MySQL, also known as MySQL server, is an open source SQL relational database management system started in 1995, dual licensed under the GPL, and now developed by Oracle Corporation.
MySQL Workbench
MySQL Workbench is a graphical tool developed by Oracle for working with MySQL servers, providing data modeling, SQL development, server administration, and database migration in a single application.
Mysskin
Mysskin (Shanmugha Raja, born 1971, Chennai), Tamil film director, screenwriter, actor, and playback singer; directed Chithiram Pesuthadi (2006), Anjathe, Pisaasu, Thupparivaalan, and Psycho (2020); known for Kurosawa- and Bresson-influenced style and long-delayed films Pisasu 2 and Train.
Myst
Myst (Cyan, 1993): point-and-click pre-rendered puzzle-adventure on CD-ROM by Rand and Robyn Miller; best-selling PC game until The Sims, ~6-7 million copies, spawned Riven, four sequels, and 2021 Unreal/VR remake.
Myst (series)
Myst (series): Cyan's puzzle-adventure franchise (1993-2024) of exploring Ages via linking books in the D'ni universe; Myst was the best-selling PC game of the 1990s with over 15 million copies sold with Riven.
Myst III: Exile
Myst III: Exile is a 2001 graphic adventure by Presto Studios and Ubi Soft, the third Myst game, starring Brad Dourif as villain Saavedro, with 360-degree pre-rendered nodes, Jack Wall's score, and a Metacritic score of 83.
Myst IV: Revelation
Myst IV: Revelation, 2004 puzzle-adventure by Ubisoft Montreal, fourth mainline Myst game; Sirrus and Achenar's prison Ages, A.L.I.V.E. 360-degree nodes, Jack Wall score with Peter Gabriel, US$39.99 hybrid DVD-ROM, 2018 GOG/Steam re-releases.
Mystère (Cirque du Soleil)
Mystère is Cirque du Soleil's first permanent Las Vegas resident show, premiered December 25, 1993 at Treasure Island. Directed by Franco Dragone under a 10-year Mirage Resorts contract, it features Chinese poles, trapeze, bungee, Taiko drums, and the Baby character in 90 minutes.
Mystère de la Passion
Mystère de la Passion is a French medieval Passion play genre staging the life of Christ, best known through Arnoul Gréban's roughly 34,000-verse version of about 1450.
Mysteries
Mysteries (Mysterier) is an 1892 novel by the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun, in which an eccentric stranger, Johan Nilsen Nagel, unsettles a small coastal town.
Mysteries of Osiris
The Mysteries of Osiris were annual ancient Egyptian festivals held in the month of Khoiak, in which priests reenacted Osiris's death, burial, and resurrection, chiefly at Abydos.
Mysterio
Mysterio (Quentin Beck) is a Marvel Comics Spider-Man villain created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, debuting in Amazing Spider-Man #13 (1964); a powerless special-effects master of illusion, founding Sinister Six member, and MCU villain in Far From Home (2019).
Mysterious Distances
Mysterious Distances (Czech: Tajemné dálky) is the first poetry collection of the Czech symbolist poet Otokar Březina, published in Prague in 1895, a cycle of 30 poems announcing a new poetic language in Czech literature.
Mysterious Girlfriend X (謎の彼女X)
Mysterious Girlfriend X (謎の彼女X, Nazo no Kanojo X) is Riichi Ueshiba's romance manga serialized in Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon 2006–2014, 92 chapters in 12 volumes, about Tsubaki and Urabe, a couple bonded by daily drool tasting; adapted as a 13-episode 2012 anime by Fuss Entertainment covering roughly the first 36 chapters.
Mysterious Island
Mysterious Island (1961), also known by Verne's title L'île mystérieuse adaptation, is a Cy Endfield science fiction film produced by Charles H. Schneer with Ray Harryhausen stop-motion effects, about Civil War balloon escapees on Captain Nemo's island of giant creatures.
Mysterious Skin
Mysterious Skin (2004) is Gregg Araki's drama adapted from Scott Heim's 1995 novel, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Brady Corbet as two Kansas men shaped by childhood abuse; acclaimed, restored in 4K in 2025.
Mysterium
Mysterium (Tajemnicze Domostwo) is a 2015 Libellud cooperative deduction board game by Oleksandr Nevskiy and Oleg Sidorenko for 2-7 players, where a silent ghost gives surreal Vision cards to psychics solving its murder.
Mystery airship
The mystery airships, often called the Great Airship Wave or phantom airship wave, were unidentified dirigible-like craft reported across the United States and Canada from November 1896 to May 1897.
Mystery Case Files
Mystery Case Files (MCF) is Big Fish Games' hidden object puzzle adventure series, launched with Huntsville in 2005; 23 titles, 4 spin-offs, 4.6 million desktop units, and the origin of the hidden object genre.
Mystery Diners
Mystery Diners is a Food Network reality series (2011–2016) hosted by Charles Stiles of Business Evaluation Services, in which undercover diners with hidden cameras investigate employee theft and misconduct in restaurants; 145 episodes, IMDb rating 3.7/10.
Mystery Dungeon (不思議のダンジョン)
Mystery Dungeon (不思議のダンジョン, Fushigi no Dungeon) is Chunsoft's roguelike RPG series begun with the Dragon Quest IV spin-off Torneko no Daibouken; Shiren the Wanderer is its original IP, with licensed Pokémon and Chocobo crossover series.
Mystery fiction
Mystery fiction, also called detective fiction, is a popular literary genre in which a crime is solved by an investigator through observation and reasoning. Originating with Poe's 1841 Dupin stories, it spans subgenres including cozy, hard-boiled, police procedural, and locked-room mysteries.
Mystery film
A mystery film, also called a mystery movie, is a film driven by a central question, with clues revealed gradually as an investigation unfolds toward an answer.
Mystery Girl
Mystery Girl is Roy Orbison's final studio album, released posthumously in February 1989; it peaked at No. 5 Billboard and No. 2 UK, went platinum in both, and features "You Got It" and "She's a Mystery to Me."