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Mammoth Cave Area Biosphere Reserve
Mammoth Cave Area Biosphere Reserve, or Mammoth Cave Biosphere Region: UNESCO International Biosphere Reserve designated September 26, 1990 in Kentucky, covering 909,328 acres in six counties around Mammoth Cave National Park, protecting the karst watershed of the world's longest cave.
Mammoth Cave National Park
Mammoth Cave National Park is a 52,830-acre U.S. national park in Kentucky protecting Mammoth Cave, the world's longest mapped cave (628 km), a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1981 and Biosphere Reserve core since 1990.
Mammoth Energy Services
Mammoth Energy Services is an Oklahoma City-based energy company providing well completion services for North American oil and gas, plus electric grid construction and repair through subsidiary Cobra.
Mammoth Lakes, California
Mammoth Lakes is a Mono County, California resort town in the Eastern Sierra, incorporated in 1984, home to about 7,100 people and Mammoth Mountain's 3,500 skiable acres, with a tourism-based economy and acute second-home housing pressures.
Mammoth Mountain
Mammoth Mountain: 3,369-m trachydacite lava-dome complex on the southwest rim of Long Valley Caldera, California; last phreatic eruption ~700 years ago; CO2 tree kill and ongoing USGS-monitored unrest.
Mammoth Mountain Ski Area
Mammoth Mountain Ski Area is a large Eastern Sierra California ski resort near Mammoth Lakes with 3,500 skiable acres, an 11,053-foot summit, about 350 inches of annual snowfall, and a November-to-June season; founded by Dave McCoy in the 1940s–1950s.
Mammoth steppe
Mammoth steppe: the cold, treeless late-Pleistocene steppe-tundra biome spanning Western Europe to the Yukon, home of woolly mammoth, horse, and steppe bison; vanished at the last deglaciation under warming, wetter climate.
Mammut
Mammut is the genus of mastodons, family Mammutidae, extinct trunked mammals distantly related to elephants and mammoths; best-known species the American mastodon M. americanum, a 2.5-3 m browsing browser of Ice Age North America, extinct about 11,000 years ago.
Mammy Two Shoes
Mammy Two Shoes, the faceless Black housemaid of MGM's Tom and Jerry shorts (1940-1952), voiced by Lillian Randolph, shown from the waist down, later re-animated white and censored as a racist mammy stereotype.
Mamnoon Hussain (ممنون حسین)
Mamnoon Hussain (ممنون حسین), 1940–2021, Pakistani textile businessman and PML-N loyalist; 12th President of Pakistan 2013–2018, earlier Governor of Sindh in 1999; died of cancer in Karachi.
Mamo Wolde
Mamo Wolde (ማሞ ወልዴ, Degaga Wolde, 1932–2002), Ethiopian distance runner; 1968 Olympic marathon gold and 10,000m silver, 1972 marathon bronze; later imprisoned nine years without trial.
Mamontovskoye Oil Field
Mamontovskoye (Мамонтовское) is a large onshore oil field in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug of West Siberia, Russia, discovered in 1965, producing since 1970, and operated by Rosneft subsidiary RN-Yuganskneftegaz.
Mamoon Hamid
Mamoon Hamid is a Pakistani-born venture capitalist and Kleiner Perkins partner since 2017, known for early investments in Slack, sold for $27.7 billion, and Figma.
Mamoré
Mamoré River (Río Mamoré), Bolivian-Brazilian white-water river, about 1,930 km long, formed by the Chaparé and Ichilo rivers; joins the Beni to form the Madeira, a major Amazon tributary.
Mamore - Madre de Dios Piedmont
Mamore - Madre de Dios Piedmont, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 318, upper Madeira headwaters in Bolivia, Peru, and Brazil; whitewater Beni, Mamoré, and Madre de Dios rivers, about 80 endemic fish, and mercury contamination from gold mining.
Mamoru Hosoda (細田守)
Mamoru Hosoda (細田守, born 1967) is a Japanese animation director of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars, Wolf Children, Belle, and Oscar-nominated Mirai, and founder of Studio Chizu.
Mamoru Miyano (宮野真守)
Mamoru Miyano (宮野真守, born 1983, Saitama) is a Japanese voice actor, actor, and singer known for Light Yagami in Death Note, Setsuna F. Seiei in Gundam 00, Okabe in Steins;Gate, and Ultraman Zero, with a parallel King Records music career.
Mamoru Oshii (押井守)
Mamoru Oshii (押井守), born 1951 in Tokyo, is a Japanese director of Ghost in the Shell (1995), the Patlabor films, Angel's Egg, and Innocence, the first Japanese anime in Cannes competition.
Mamoru Tobisu
Mamoru Tobisu (鳶巣守) is a Japanese organic chemist and professor at The University of Osaka, known for single-carbon atom transfer reactions, β-lactam synthesis, and nickel-catalyzed C–O bond activation.
Mamostong Kangri
Mamostong Kangri (Mamostang Kangri, K35), 7,516 m, is the highest peak of the Rimo Muztagh in the eastern Karakoram, Ladakh, India. First climbed in 1984 by an Indo-Japanese team via the east ridge; name means 'thousand demons'.
Mamou Region
Mamou Region, an administrative region of Guinea created by the 1994 law L/94/027/CTRN, comprises the prefectures of Mamou, Dalaba, and Pita, with about 612,000 mostly rural inhabitants and the railway-founded crossroads city of Mamou as capital.
Mamphela A. Ramphele
Mamphela A. Ramphele, born Mamphela Aletta Ramphele in 1947, is a South African physician and anti-apartheid activist who co-founded the Black Consciousness Movement with Steve Biko and led the University of Cape Town.
Mamprugu
Mamprugu is a traditional kingdom of the Mamprusi people in Ghana's North East Region, ruled by an overlord titled the Nayiri and centered on Nalerigu.
Mampsis
Mampsis (Mamshit, Kurnub), easternmost Nabataean city in Israel's Negev, a caravan station on the Petra incense route, later a fortified Roman-Byzantine town with two churches, inscribed by UNESCO in 2005.
Mamrie Hart
Mamrie Lillian Hart, born 1983 in Dover, New Jersey, is an American comedian, writer, and performer known for the YouTube series You Deserve a Drink, the films Camp Takota and Dirty 30, two memoirs, the 2025 cookbook All I Think About Is Food, and the podcast This Might Get Weird with Grace Helbig.
Mamta Kulkarni (ममता कुलकर्णी)
Mamta Kulkarni (ममता कुलकर्णी), born 1972 in Bombay, is a former Indian actress of 1990s Hindi cinema, known for Karan Arjun and Krantiveer, who later took monastic vows.
Mamta Mohandas
Mamta Mohandas, Indian actress, playback singer, and producer in Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu cinema; Filmfare Best Actress for Kadha Thudarunnu, Filmfare playback singer award for Rakhi, Hodgkin's lymphoma survivor, producer through Mamta Mohandas Productions.
Mamukkoya (മാമുക്കോയ)
Mamukkoya (മാമുക്കോയ, 1946-2023), also spelled Mammukoya, was a Malayalam film actor from Kozhikode, Kerala, known for the Mappila dialect, the Gafoorkka role in Nadodikkattu (1987), over 400 films, and Kerala State Film Awards in 2004 and 2008.
Mamushi (song)
Mamushi (feat. Yuki Chiba): 2024 hip-hop song, track 10 on Megan Thee Stallion's album MEGAN, with Japanese rapper Yuki Chiba, aka KOHH; Hot 100 No. 36, viral TikTok dance, RIAA Platinum.
Mamute
Mamute (祃木特) was an Oirat zaisan of the Zakhachin under the Dzungars who submitted to the Qing in 1754 and was strangled in 1755 for refusing to join Amuersana's rebellion.