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Maraging steel
Maraging steel is an ultra-high-strength, very low carbon iron-nickel alloy, its name from martensite and age hardening, reaching yield strengths of 1400 to 2400 MPa.
Marah
Marah (Hebrew "bitter") is the biblical Exodus station where Moses sweetened undrinkable water (Ex 15:23). Proposed sites include Ain Hawarah and Abu Mureir in Sinai; also a Tabula Peutingeriana station (Pleiades 746778).
Marah J. Hardt
Marah J. Hardt is an American marine biologist, coral reef ecologist, and writer best known for Sex in the Sea (2016) and her work on seafood-industry reform.
Marahoué (region)
Marahoué, a second-level region of Côte d'Ivoire in the centre-west, seat Bouaflé, five departments, 981,180 inhabitants (2021), Gouro homeland, cocoa and cashew farming, heavily degraded Marahoué National Park.
Maraimalai Adigal
Maraimalai Adigal (மறைமலை அடிகள்), born Vedachalam Pillai, was a Tamil scholar, Saivite revivalist, and language reformer who founded the Pure Tamil movement in 1916 and shaped the Dravidian movement.
Marais Audomarois Aa – Hem – Flandre Biosphere Reserve
UNESCO biosphere reserve in Pas-de-Calais, France, first designated 2013 around the Audomarois marsh and extended in July 2024 to 111 communes as Marais audomarois – Aa – Hem – Flandre, covering the Aa and Hem valleys, a 3,726-hectare cultivated Ramsar marsh, and agroecological and climate-adaptation programs.
Marais De Kaw
Marais de Kaw (Ramsar Site no. 644), a 137,000-hectare tropical wetland in French Guiana, France, designated 8 December 1993; France's largest wetland, home to black caiman and the world's largest agami heron colony.
Marais de la Macta
Marais de la Macta, the Macta Marshes, is a 44,500-hectare brackish flood-plain wetland in northwestern Algeria near Oran, Ramsar Site no. 1059 since 2001, important for wintering waterbirds and rare North African saltmarsh.
Marais poitevin
Marais poitevin is a man-made wetland in western France, reclaimed from the former Gulf of Pictons; at about 100,000 hectares it is France's second largest wetland.
Marajó Bay
Marajó Bay (Baía de Marajó), a roughly 4,500 km2 tide-dominated estuary in Pará, Brazil, southwest of Marajó Island near Belém, fed mainly by the Pará and Tocantins rivers, muddy year-round, shallow, and a key artisanal fishing ground.
Marake Colles
Marake Colles: a 150 km-wide group of small hills (colles) on Venus at 55.7°N, 217.8°E, IAU-approved in 1997, named for a Mansi sea mistress.
Marakkar: Lion of the Arabian Sea
Marakkar: Arabikadalinte Simham (Marakkar: Lion of the Arabian Sea) is a 2021 Malayalam epic by Priyadarshan starring Mohanlal as Kunjali Marakkar IV; Rs 100 crore budget, 67th National Film Awards winner for Best Feature Film.
Marali Mannige
Marali Mannige (ಮರಳಿ ಮಣ್ಣಿಗೆ, "Back to the Soil") is a 1941 Kannada novel by K. Shivarama Karanth following three generations of a poor Brahmin family.
Maralixibat
Maralixibat (Livmarli, maralixibat chloride) is an oral IBAT/ASBT inhibitor by Mirum Pharmaceuticals, first FDA-approved 29 September 2021 for cholestatic pruritus in Alagille syndrome, later for PFIC, lowering serum bile acids by blocking intestinal bile acid reabsorption.
Marall Nasiri
Marall Nasiri (born 1980), Swedish-Iranian actress and director, won the 2024 Guldbagge Best Actress award for playing Maryam in Milad Alami's Opponent; graduate of Teaterhögskolan i Stockholm, born in Iran, held in Evin prison as an infant, sister of playwright Talajeh Nasiri.
Maram Corona
Maram Corona, a 600 km wide corona on Venus at 7.5S 221.5E, lies along Parga Chasma in rift valleys converging on Atla Regio; IAU-named in 1994 for an Oromo fertility goddess.
Maram Susli
Maram Susli (مرام سوسلي), aka Syrian Girl or PartisanGirl, is a Syrian-Australian commentator born 1987 in Damascus, based in Perth, who defended the Assad regime, denied its chemical attacks, and was repeatedly fact-checked for spreading disinformation.
Mārama (film)
Mārama (2025) is a New Zealand Māori gothic horror film, the debut feature of Taratoa Stappard, starring Ariāna Osborne as a young Māori woman in 1859 Yorkshire; it premiered at TIFF 2025 and won festival awards including Seattle's Grand Jury Prize.
Maramasike
Maramasike, also called Small Malaita, South Malaita, or Sa'a, is the island at the southern tip of Malaita, Solomon Islands, separated from Malaita by the narrow Maramasike Passage and known for its extensive mangrove ecosystems.
Maramureş
Maramureş (Máramaros, Марамарощина) is a historical Carpathian region split between Romania's Maramureș County (seat Baia Mare) and Ukraine. First attested 1199; modern county created 1968; 451,086 residents in 2026; famed for UNESCO wooden churches.
Maramzai Oil and Gas Field
Maramzai is a gas and condensate field in the Tal Block of the Kohat Plateau, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, discovered in 2009 and commercially productive since 2011 under operator MOL Pakistan.
Maranamass
Maranamass (മരണമാസ്സ്) is a 2025 Malayalam dark comedy thriller, Sivaprasad's debut feature starring Basil Joseph, about a night bus whose passengers include the serial killer known as the Banana Killer; released April 10, 2025, streaming on SonyLIV.
Marananta
Marananta (마라난타, 摩羅難陀) was a Buddhist monk who brought Buddhism to the Korean kingdom of Baekje, arriving from Eastern Jin China in 384 and welcomed by King Chimnyu.
Maranao language
Maranao (Mëranaw, ISO mrw) is an Austronesian Danao language of Lanao del Sur and nearby Mindanao provinces, related to Maguindanaon and Iranun, written in Latin and batang Arab scripts, and taught in Philippine mother-tongue education.
Maranao people
The Maranao (Meranao) are the largest Islamic ethnolinguistic group of the Philippines, living around Lake Lanao in Lanao del Sur, Mindanao; known for the torogan royal house, okir carving, malong weaving, and kolintang gong music.
Maraṇasati
Maraṇasati, also known as maraṇānussati or recollection of death, is a Buddhist meditation on death taught in the Pali Canon and systematized by Buddhaghosa in the Visuddhimagga.
Maranatha (מרנאתא)
Maranatha (מרנאתא) is an Aramaic phrase, "Our Lord, come" or "Our Lord has come," found at 1 Corinthians 16:22 and in the Didache, whose meaning scholars still debate.
Maranda Barnes Bouqdib
Maranda Barnes Bouqdib, known as Maranda Barnes, is an American-born business executive based in Singapore who co-founded the luxury tea company TWG Tea in 2008.
Maranga
Maranga is a large pre-Hispanic archaeological complex on the Rímac River in Lima, Peru, built by the Lima culture from about 200 BC and later occupied by the Ychsma.
Marangoni drying
Marangoni drying is a wafer-drying technique in semiconductor manufacturing where an IPA vapor creates a surface tension gradient that pulls rinse water off silicon wafers, avoiding watermarks.