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Maltese Falcon (yacht)

Maltese Falcon is an 88-meter, three-masted sailing yacht built by Perini Navi in 2006 for Tom Perkins, known for its automated DynaRig with 15 sails.

Maltese (Malti), a Central Semitic language descended from Siculo-Arabic, is co-official with English in Malta and the EU, written in Latin script, with roughly 520,000 native speakers and a heavily Romance-influenced vocabulary.

Maltese lira

The Maltese lira (lira maltija) was Malta's currency, ISO code MTL, from decimalization in 1972 until the euro replaced it at 0.429300 lira per euro in 2008.

Maltese people

The Maltese people (Maltin) are the nation native to Malta, Gozo, and Comino, speaking Maltese, a Semitic Latin-script language. Genetically closest to Sicilians, with the largest diaspora in Australia (234,402 claiming Maltese ancestry, 2021).

Maltese Premier League

Maltese Premier League (Il-Kampjonat Premjer), Malta's top professional football division since 1980/81; twelve clubs since 2024/25, Opening and Closing Rounds with Top 6/Bottom 6 splits, run by an MFA-MPL joint venture.

Maltesers

Maltesers are Mars's British chocolate-malt balls: honeycomb centres in milk chocolate, created by Forrest Mars Sr. in 1936, first sold 1937 as "energy balls," slogan "the lighter way to enjoy chocolate."

Malthusianism

Malthusianism, from Thomas Robert Malthus's 1798 Essay on the Principle of Population, holds that population grows geometrically while food grows arithmetically, checked by positive checks (famine, war, disease) and preventive checks, tested empirically and countered by Boserup.

Sep 27, 2026

Malti Rai

Malti Rai is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician serving as Mayor of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, after earlier serving as a municipal councillor from the Ashok Garden ward.

Oct 22, 2026

Maltiempo

Maltiempo is a 1972 poetry collection by the Mexican poet Jaime Sabines, published in Mexico City, and includes the poem Doña Luz, dedicated to his mother.

Malting

Malting: controlled germination of cereal grains, chiefly barley (Hordeum vulgare), through steeping, germination, and kilning to produce malt for brewing, distilling, and food; quality measured by extract, diastatic power, and beta-glucan.

Maltitol

Maltitol, a disaccharide sugar alcohol made by hydrogenating maltose, is 80–90% as sweet as sugar with roughly half the calories and is widely used in chocolate and confectionery.

Maltodextrin

Maltodextrin: nonsweet D-glucose polymer mixture from partial starch hydrolysis, dextrose equivalent below 20, 4 kcal/g, digested as fast as glucose (GI about 105–110), used as a food ingredient; distinct from resistant (fiber) maltodextrin.

Maltogenic alpha-amylase

Maltogenic alpha-amylase (maltogenic amylase, EC 3.2.1.133, glucan 1,4-α-maltohydrolase) is a GH13 enzyme releasing maltose from starch non-reducing ends, used as an anti-staling baking enzyme and GRAS-notified in FDA GRNs 746, 751, 842, 974, 975, and 1097.

Oct 15, 2026

Maltol

Maltol is a naturally occurring organic compound used as a flavoring agent and enhancer, with a caramel-like odor; it occurs in larch bark, pine needles, and roasted malt.

Maltose

Maltose, also called malt sugar, is a disaccharide of two glucose units that forms from starch during mashing and is the principal sugar of beer wort.

Maltotetraohydrolase

Maltotetraohydrolase (glucan 1,4-α-maltotetraohydrolase, EC 3.2.1.60), an exo-acting amylase from Pseudomonas, produced in Bacillus licheniformis, that trims maltotetraose from starch for anti-staling baking and glucose syrup uses.

Sep 19, 2026

Malú

Malú is a Spanish pop singer from Madrid, born in 1982 into the de Lucía flamenco family, with more than two million records sold since her 1998 debut Aprendiz.

Malubiting

Malubiting (مالونیتنگ), or Malubiting West, is a 7,458 m ultra-prominent peak in the Rakaposhi-Haramosh Mountains of Pakistan's Karakoram. First climbed 23 August 1971 by an Austrian team; only one further ascent, in 1997, is documented.

Malūk Dās

Malūk Dās (मालूक दास) was a Hindu devotional poet and sect founder based at Kara on the Ganga in Uttar Pradesh, venerated by Hindus and Muslims.

Malukku

Malukku (FEOW ecoregion 747) is a freshwater ecoregion of the Maluku Islands, Indonesia, in the Australasia realm, tropical and subtropical coastal rivers type, with three endemic gobies and monsoonal, amphidromous-dominated short coastal rivers.

Maluku

Maluku (Moluccas, Spice Islands) is an Indonesian province in the east with capital Ambon, split from North Maluku in 1999; over 90% water, fisheries-driven economy, 5.31% growth in 2026, poverty 15.38%.

Maluku Islands

Maluku Islands (Moluccas, Spice Islands): Indonesian archipelago between Sulawesi and New Guinea; historic sole source of nutmeg and mace (Banda Islands), contested by Portuguese, Dutch, and English; capital Ambon.

Mâlûlzâde Mehmed Efendi

Mâlûlzâde Mehmed Efendi (1533–1585) was an Ottoman Hanafi scholar who served as şeyhülislam, the empire's chief mufti, from 1580 to 1582 under Sultan Murad III, later holding the nakîbüleşraflık.

Maluma

Maluma (Juan Luis Londoño Arias, born 1994) is a Colombian reggaeton and Latin pop singer from Medellín; debut Magia (2012), breakthrough Pretty Boy, Dirty Boy (2015), Latin Grammy winner for F.A.M.E., actor in Encanto and Marry Me.

Oct 22, 2026

Malumat

Malumat (Malûmat, Musavver Ma'lûmât, Journal Illustré) was a weekly illustrated Ottoman newspaper published in Istanbul in the 1890s, remembered for literary debates with Servet-i Fünûn.

Malun (crater on Iapetus)

Malun is a 121-km-wide IAU-approved impact crater on Saturn's moon Iapetus at 5.9°N, 41.3°W, named in 2008 after a Saracen lord killed by Oliver in the Song of Roland.

Māluṅkyaputta

Māluṅkyaputta (मालुङ्क्यपुत्त) was an early Buddhist elder, son of Māluṅkyā of Kosala, remembered for demanding answers to metaphysical questions and receiving the poisoned-arrow parable; he attained arahantship in old age.

Malupiton

Malupiton is the online persona of Filipino comedy creator Joel Ravanera (born 1998), known for 2024 scam-artist skits and the catchphrase "Bossing!"; Kolokoys TV member with 1.3M YouTube subscribers and a 2026 lead film role.

Malurus

Malurus (fairy-wrens), genus of 12 Australo-Papuan passerine birds in family Maluridae, established by Vieillot 1816; socially monogamous cooperative breeders with extreme extra-pair paternity, striking male nuptial plumage, and embryonic vocal-password defense against cuckoos.