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Malon Wilkus

Malon Wilkus, born Edward Frank Wilkus, is an American financier who founded American Capital Strategies in 1986, the first US private equity firm to go public.

Malonaldehyde

Malonaldehyde, also called malondialdehyde (MDA), is the simplest dialdehyde. It is best known as the most used indicator of lipid oxidation in foods and biological systems.

Malonamide (propanediamide), the diamide of malonic acid with formula C₃H₆N₂O₂, is a white, water-soluble crystalline solid whose tetraalkyl derivatives are used in the DIAMEX process for nuclear fuel reprocessing.

Malonaqen

Malonaqen was a king of Kush in the Napatan period, reigning about 555 to 542 BC and buried in pyramid no. 5 at Nuri in Sudan.

Oct 3, 2026

Malone

Malone is a 1987 American action thriller directed by Harley Cokeliss, starring Burt Reynolds as an ex-CIA assassin in an Oregon town menaced by Cliff Robertson's right-wing paramilitary leader. Based on Wingate's novel Shotgun; Orion Pictures; $10M budget, $3M gross.

Malóne

Malóne, born Malone in Cuba, is a Cuban-born, Miami-based house DJ and producer, a resident DJ at Club Space and founder of the label and event series WHYNOTUS.

Malone Lam

Malone Lam, aka 'Anne Hathaway', is a Singaporean who pleaded guilty to leading a RICO conspiracy that stole and laundered over $245 million in cryptocurrency, including 4,100+ BTC from a Washington, D.C. victim, via social engineering, mixers, and no-KYC exchanges.

Malonic acid

Malonic acid, also known as propanedioic acid, is the simplest saturated dicarboxylic acid, a white crystalline solid used as a building block in organic synthesis.

Oct 20, 2026

Malonic aciduria

Malonic aciduria, also called malonyl-CoA decarboxylase or MLYCD deficiency, is an autosomal recessive organic acidemia from MLYCD gene mutations on 16q24, causing developmental delay, hypotonia, hypoglycemia, and cardiomyopathy, diagnosed by elevated urinary malonic acid and blood malonylcarnitine.

Malonic ester synthesis

Malonic ester synthesis, also called malonate ester synthesis, is an organic reaction in which diethyl malonate is alkylated, hydrolyzed, and decarboxylated to give a substituted acetic acid.

Malononitrile

Malononitrile (propanedinitrile) is an organic dinitrile with two cyano groups on one carbon, a white crystalline solid used as a building block in organic synthesis.

Malonyl-[acyl-carrier protein] O-methyltransferase BioC

Malonyl-[acyl-carrier protein] O-methyltransferase (EC 2.1.1.197, BioC) is a bacterial SAM-dependent methyltransferase that methylates malonyl-ACP, initiating the pimelate branch of biotin biosynthesis in Gram-negative bacteria.

Malonyl-CoA

Malonyl-CoA (524-14-1) is a three-carbon CoA thioester made from acetyl-CoA by ACC; it donates two-carbon units in fatty acid synthesis and inhibits CPT1 to block fatty acid oxidation, also signaling in appetite, insulin secretion, and malonylation.

Malonyl-CoA decarboxylase

Malonyl-CoA decarboxylase (MCD, EC 4.1.1.9, MLYCD gene) is an enzyme converting malonyl-CoA to acetyl-CoA in mitochondria, cytosol, and peroxisomes, regulating fatty acid synthesis versus oxidation; its inherited deficiency causes malonic aciduria.

Maloob Oil and Gas Field

Maloob is an offshore heavy-oil field in the Bay of Campeche, Mexico, discovered in 1979 and operated by Pemex as part of the Ku-Maloob-Zaap project.

Maloof family

The Maloof family is an American business family from New Mexico that built a fortune in beer distribution and banking, then owned the Sacramento Kings and the Palms Casino Resort.

Maloqorebar

Maloqorebar, also transliterated Maleqorobar, was a ruler of the kingdom of Kush, no. 73 in the Meroitic king list, with a conventional reign of AD 266–283.

Malorie Blackman

Malorie Blackman (born 1962) is a British children's and YA author, creator of the Noughts & Crosses series and Pig-Heart Boy, UK Children's Laureate 2013–2015, first black laureate, OBE 2008, PEN Pinter Prize winner.

Sep 24, 2026

Malorossiysky Prikaz

The Malorossiysky Prikaz (Малороссийский приказ) was a Moscow chancellery, created in 1662 to administer Russian-ruled Ukraine and replaced by the Little Russian Collegium in 1722.

Malory Towers

Malory Towers is Enid Blyton's six-book girls' boarding school series (1946–1951) set in Cornwall, following Darrell Rivers; extended by Pamela Cox's six 2009 sequels, a 2019 anthology, an Emma Rice musical, and the 2020 CBBC television adaptation.

Malotaral

Malotaral, also spelled Maletaral or Malaterata, is a royal woman of the Napatan kingdom of Kush, known only from funerary evidence at Nuri in Sudan.

Maloti-Drakensberg Park (site)

Maloti-Drakensberg Park: transboundary mixed UNESCO World Heritage Site (Lesotho and South Africa), inscribed 2000, extended 2013; 249,313 ha of Drakensberg escarpment, San rock art, endemic species, and Southern Africa's principal water production area.

Malou Pheninckx

Malou Pheninckx (born 1991) is a Dutch former field hockey midfielder of SV Kampong who won 108 Netherlands caps, three European titles, the 2018 World Cup, and Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold, then retired in 2021 to become a physician.

Malpas Tunnel

The Malpas Tunnel (tunnel du Malpas) is a canal tunnel on the Canal du Midi in southern France, built in 1679 and 1680 under Pierre-Paul Riquet and regarded as the world's first navigation tunnel.

Malpasito

Malpasito is a Late Classic (c. 600-900 AD) Zoque archaeological site in Huimanguillo, Tabasco, Mexico, with 53 sandstone buildings on 14 hectares, a T-shaped ballcourt, steam bath, Acropolis, and petroglyphs; distinct from Olmec and Maya sites and from the Veracruz and Chiapas places of the same name.