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Maon (city in Judah)
Maon (Hebrew מָעוֹן) was a town in the hill country of Judah, south of Hebron, known as the home of Nabal and the wilderness where David hid from Saul.
Maon Kurosaki
Maon Kurosaki (黒崎真音) was a Japanese anison singer from Tokyo, born in 1988, who debuted in 2010 with the Highschool of the Dead ending themes and sang for A Certain Magical Index.
Maor Investments
Maor Investments is a Luxembourg-based venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Philippe Guez and Eric Elalouf that invests exclusively in Israeli technology companies, with $280 million raised across two funds.
Maori
Maori is a 2009 tile-placement board game by Günter Burkhardt (Hans im Glück, Rio Grande Games) for 2–5 players, on the Spiel des Jahres 2009 recommendation list; players use a circling ship and shells to claim island tiles. Distinct from the traditional Māori game Mū tōrere.
Māori All Blacks
The Māori All Blacks, formerly the New Zealand Maoris, are a New Zealand rugby union team selected from the country's best players of Māori heritage, dating to 1910.
Māori children's literature
Māori children's literature is literature for children in Aotearoa New Zealand in te reo Māori, bilingual, or English with Māori content, tied to language revitalisation since the 1970s.
Māori culture
Māori culture (Māoritanga) is the customs, practices, and beliefs of New Zealand's indigenous Māori people, Polynesian settlers who arrived before 1300 CE, shaped by the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, colonization, and a 20th-century cultural and language revival.
Māori electorates
Māori electorates are New Zealand parliamentary seats for voters on the Māori electoral roll, created by the Māori Representation Act 1867 with four seats, made permanent in 1876, and numbering seven under MMP since 2002.
Māori history
Māori history covers the tangata whenua of Aotearoa New Zealand: East Polynesian settlement 1250–1300 CE, the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, the New Zealand Wars, Native Land Court land loss, and the modern Treaty-settlement and language revival era.
Māori King Movement
The Māori King Movement, or Kīngitanga, is a Māori political and spiritual movement founded in 1858 to unite Māori under a single monarch and halt land sales.
Māori Land March
The Māori Land March was a 1975 protest march led by Whina Cooper, who walked 1,000 km from Te Hāpua to Parliament in Wellington to protest Māori land loss.
Māori language
Te reo Māori, the Māori language of New Zealand, is an eastern Polynesian language made official on 1 August 1987 after the Waitangi Tribunal's WAI11 finding; revitalization runs through kōhanga reo, kura kaupapa, and the Crown's Maihi Karauna.
Māori language revival
Māori language revival (te reo Māori revitalization): the New Zealand movement since the 1972 petition to restore te reo Māori, using kōhanga reo language nests, the Māori Language Act 1987, Te Ture mō Te Reo Māori 2016, and the Maihi Karauna 2040 goals.
Māori literature
Māori literature is the oral and written literary work of the Māori, New Zealand's indigenous people, rooted in oral tradition and recognized internationally from the 1970s.
Māori Marsden
Māori Marsden (1924–1993) was a New Zealand Anglican minister, tohunga, scholar, and philosopher of Te Aupouri, best known for his seminal 1975 essay on Māori cosmology.
Māori mythology
Māori mythology: the myths, legends and genealogy (whakapapa) of the Māori of Aotearoa New Zealand, covering creation from Te Kore and Te Pō, Rangi and Papa, the atua, Māui, and Polynesian links.
Māori oral literature
Māori oral literature is the body of stories, songs, chants, genealogies, proverbs, and oratory that Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand, transmitted orally across generations before and after writing.
Māori people
Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand (tangata whenua); ancestors arrived by canoe before 1300 CE, signed the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, and numbered 978,246, 19.6% of the population, in the 2023 Census.
Māori poetry in English
Māori poetry in English is the body of poetry written in English by Māori, New Zealand's indigenous people, running from Apirana Ngata's 1892 poem to Hone Tuwhare's landmark 1964 collection.
Māori Renaissance
The Māori Renaissance is the Indigenous literary and cultural movement in New Zealand that began in the 1970s, with major writers Hone Tuwhare, Witi Ihimaera, Patricia Grace, and Keri Hulme.
Māori theatre
Māori theatre is theatre in New Zealand made by and with Māori, rooted in the traditional whare tapere and flourishing in professional companies since the 1970s.
Māori traditional textiles
Māori traditional textiles: woven and plaited fibre arts of Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand, based on harakeke flax and muka fibre, using whatu finger twining, raranga plaiting, tāniko borders and tukutuku panels, producing prestige cloaks (kākahu) and practical baskets, mats and nets.
Māori-language Bible translation
The Māori-language Bible, Te Paipera Tapu, is the translation of the Christian Scriptures into te reo Māori, begun in the 1820s and completed in 1868.
Māori-language hymnody
Māori-language hymnody is the singing of Christian hymns, called hīmene, in te reo Māori. It grew from nineteenth-century missionary work and remains a living practice in churches and on marae.
Māori-language letter tradition
The Māori-language letter tradition is correspondence in te reo Māori by and to Māori from the 1810s onward, used for kin ties, business with the Crown, and land grievances.
Maoshi Zhengyi
Maoshi Zhengyi (毛詩正義), also called the Kong shu, is a 40-juan subcommentary on the Classic of Poetry completed in 642 under Kong Yingda in the early Tang dynasty.
Maotai (茅台)
Maotai (茅台酒, Moutai) is China's sauce-aroma baijiu from Maotai town on the Chishui River, Guizhou, made from sorghum, wheat, and water via a one-year, nine-steaming process and five-year aging; produced by Kweichow Moutai (600519).
Maotianshan Shales (帽天山页岩)
Maotianshan Shales (帽天山页岩): Early Cambrian shale member of the Yu'anshan Formation near Kunming, Yunnan, China, hosting the Chengjiang Biota, a ~520 Ma Burgess Shale-type Lagerstätte of over 100 soft-bodied species in a deltaic setting.
Maotou Shan
Maotou Shan (马头山, Matou Shan), a mountain in Yunnan, China, at 24°34'13"N 102°09'59"E; a Pu'er peak of 2,857 m. The name also denotes Matoushan in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and Nekomata-yama in Toyama, Japan.
Maoyu
Maoyu (Maoyuu Maou Yuusha, まおゆう魔王勇者) is a Japanese macroeconomic fantasy by Mamare Touno, originally posted on 2ch, published as five Enterbrain light novels from 2010, adapted into five manga and a 2013 twelve-episode anime by studio Arms.