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Mamaldi (crater on Rhea)
Mamaldi is a 480-km-wide, heavily degraded impact basin on Rhea, Saturn's second-largest moon, centered at 14°N, 184°W. Named in 2010 for a Nanai creation goddess, it is one of Rhea's largest ancient basins.
Mamalik (state domain)
Mamalik (ممالک), meaning state provinces or protected dominions, was the Safavid category of provincial state lands administered through the civil bureaucracy, the divan, as distinct from the crown lands known as khassa.
Mamalik vs. khassa division
The mamalik vs. khassa division (ممالک و خاصه) was the Safavid split of Iran into state provinces and crown provinces whose revenues went directly to the shah.
Mamallapuram (மாமல்லபுரம்)
Mamallapuram (Mahabalipuram, மாமல்லபுரம்), a Pallava port town on Tamil Nadu's Coromandel Coast near Chennai, famous for 7th-8th century rock-cut rathas, mandapas, the Descent of the Ganges relief, and the Shore Temple, a 1984 UNESCO World Heritage site.
Mamamoo (마마무)
Mamamoo (마마무) is a four-member South Korean girl group formed by RBW, debuting June 19, 2014 with "Mr. Ambiguous." Members Solar, Moon Byul, Whee In, and Hwa Sa are known for retro, jazz, R&B concepts, strong live vocals, "HIP," and Hwa Sa's solo hit "Maria."
Mamamoo discography
Mamamoo (마마무) discography: releases by the RBW girl group that debuted June 18, 2014 with Hello and "Mr. Ambiguous", including Melting, Reality in Black, the Four Seasons Four Colors EPs, MIC ON, and the 2026 single 4WARD.
Maman (sculpture)
Maman is a 1999 monumental spider sculpture by Louise Bourgeois, honoring her tapestry-weaver mother. The steel original opened Tate Modern's Turbine Hall in 2000; bronze, marble, and stainless steel casts stand in Bilbao, Tokyo, Ottawa, Doha, Arkansas, and Korea.
Maman Brigitte
Maman Brigitte (Grann Brigitte, Manman Brijit) is a Haitian Vodou lwa of the Gede death family, wife of Baron Samedi and mother of the Gede, ruling cemeteries, identified with St. Brigitte of Kildare, honored at the Fèt Gede in early November.
Mamankam festival
The Mamankam festival (മാമാങ്കം) was a great assembly held every twelve years at Tirunavaya on the Bharathappuzha river in Kerala, contested by the Zamorin of Kozhikode and ending after 1755.
Mamapacha Fluctus
Mamapacha Fluctus, a 900-km-diameter lava flow field (fluctus) on Venus at 60°N, 185°E, named for the Inca earthquake goddess and approved by the IAU in 1997.
Mamari Kulubali
Mamari Kulubali, also called Biton, was the Bambara ruler of Segou from about 1712 until his death in 1755, regarded as the true founder of the Segu state.
Mamasapano clash
Mamasapano clash: January 25, 2015 firefight in Maguindanao, Philippines, also called Oplan Exodus or SAF 44, killing 44 PNP Special Action Force commandos, 17-18 MILF/BIFF fighters, and 5 civilians after an uncoordinated raid that killed terrorist Marwan and derailed the Bangsamoro peace law.
Mamata Bala Thakur
Mamata Bala Thakur is an Indian Trinamool Congress politician, a Rajya Sabha member from West Bengal since 2024 and president of the All India Matua Mahasangha.
Mamata Banerjee (মমতা বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়)
Mamata Banerjee (মমতা বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়), "Didi", born 1955, founded the All India Trinamool Congress in 1998 and was West Bengal's first woman Chief Minister (2011–2026), ending 34-year Left rule before losing to the BJP in 2026.
Mamayev Kurgan (Мамаев курган)
Mamayev Kurgan (Мамаев курган) is the Volgograd hill, wartime Height 102.0, central to the Battle of Stalingrad, now the memorial complex "To the Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad" with Vuchetich's 85-meter statue The Motherland Calls!, opened 1967, on UNESCO's tentative list.
Mamayeva Sloboda
Mamayeva Sloboda (Мамаєва Слобода) is a private open-air living-history museum in Kyiv, a 9.2-hectare replica Cossack settlement with 98 structures, opened 9 July 2009 near the Lybid River source.
Mamba
Mamba (Dendroaspis): four highly venomous elapid snake species of sub-Saharan Africa, including the black mamba and three green mambas; neurotoxic venom, arboreal habits, egg-laying, and Jameson's mamba as type species.
Mamba (deep learning architecture)
Mamba is a deep learning architecture introduced in 2023 by Albert Gu and Tri Dao that replaces Transformer attention with a selective state space model.
Mamba APC
The Mamba APC, also known as the Mamba Mk3, is a South African mine-protected armored personnel carrier with a V-shaped hull, first produced in the late 1980s.
Mamba-2
Mamba-2 is a sequence-modeling architecture introduced by Tri Dao and Albert Gu in 2024, with a core layer 2 to 8 times faster than Mamba's selective scan.
Mambassa
Mambassa, Italian commerce card game from coastal Marche, a 4-card-hand variant of Petrangola; 3-8 players, 40-card Piacentine deck, token stakes, best hand is four aces (44 points).
Mambo (music)
Mambo is a Cuban dance music genre of the 1940s-1950s, born from danzón and son, popularized internationally by Pérez Prado's big bands and New York's Palladium Ballroom, and later absorbed into salsa.
Mambo Legends Orchestra
The Mambo Legends Orchestra is a New York big band of former Tito Puente Orchestra musicians performing the mambo and salsa of the 1950s Palladium era.
Mambo No. 5
Mambo No. 5: 1949 instrumental by Cuban bandleader Pérez Prado, the King of Mambo; Lou Bega's 1999 vocal remake sampled Prado's 1959 version, topped charts worldwide, and sold over a million copies in the UK.
Mambo Press
Mambo Press is a Catholic publishing house in Gweru, Zimbabwe, founded in May 1957, and one of Zimbabwe's significant publishers of Shona, Ndebele, and English literature.
Mamdani fuzzy inference
Mamdani fuzzy inference is a method that maps numeric inputs to outputs through fuzzy if-then rules, introduced by Mamdani and Assilian in 1975 for steam-engine control.
Mamdani fuzzy inference system
A Mamdani fuzzy inference system is a fuzzy inference architecture in which rule antecedents and consequents are fuzzy sets, so outputs must be defuzzified into one number.
Mamdouh Elssbiay (ممدوح محمد حسن السبيعي)
Mamdouh Elssbiay (ممدوح محمد حسن السبيعي), called Big Ramy, Egyptian IFBB Pro bodybuilder born 1984 in Kafr El-Sheikh; two-time Mr. Olympia (2020, 2021), 2013 New York Pro winner, known for extreme mass at 5'9".
MAME
MAME (Multi Arcade Machine Emulator) is a free, open-source C++ emulator preserving arcade boards, computers, and consoles at the hardware level; over 30,000 systems documented, GPL/BSD licensed, volunteer-governed since 1997.
Mame (musical)
Mame is a 1966 Jerry Herman Broadway musical comedy with a book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, based on Patrick Dennis's novel Auntie Mame. Ran 1,508 performances; won Tonys for Angela Lansbury, Bea Arthur, and Frankie Michaels; Lucille Ball starred in the 1974 film. Distinct from the MAME arcade emulator.