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Marbella Surf Club
Marbella Surf Club is a surf club in Marbella, Málaga, on Spain's Costa del Sol, listed in a regional sports directory with an Avda. address; distinct from the Marbella Club hotel and local beach clubs.
Marble
Marble is a multimodal world model by World Labs (San Francisco). Founded by Fei-Fei Li, it is the first commercial AI to generate navigable 3D environments from diverse data.
Marble
Marble is a metamorphic rock formed when limestone or dolostone recrystallizes under heat and pressure, prized for sculpture and architecture since antiquity for its polish and workability.
Marble (toy)
Marble (toy): small spherical playing piece of glass, agate, clay, stone, or plastic for children's games and collecting. Machine-made from 1901 (Christensen); Vacor makes over 90% today; ringer, moshie; Wildwood and Tinsley Green tournaments.
Marble Arch
Marble Arch: John Nash's 1827 Grade I white Carrara-marble triumphal arch, built for Buckingham Palace, moved to Hyde Park's north-east corner in 1851, near Speakers' Corner.
Marble Ass
Marble Ass (Dupe od mramora) is Želimir Žilnik's 1995 Serbian feature about trans sex workers Merlin and Sanela in wartime Belgrade; it premiered at the Berlinale, won the Teddy Award for best feature, and starred the real Merlinka, Vjeran Miladinović.
Marble Bar, Western Australia
Marble Bar, Western Australia: Pilbara gold-rush town gazetted 13 July 1893, named for a jasper bar on the Coongan River, and famed as Australia's hottest town with summer temperatures above 40 degrees.
Marble Hall Murders
Marble Hall Murders, Anthony Horowitz's 2025 novel, is the third Susan Ryeland/Atticus Pünd mystery: editor Susan edits Eliot Crace's continuation Pünd's Last Case and finds real murder hidden in the manuscript; adapted for BBC and MASTERPIECE PBS.
Marble Hall Murders (TV series)
Marble Hall Murders is a 2026 six-part BBC/PBS MASTERPIECE miniseries adapting Anthony Horowitz's third Susan Ryeland novel, starring Lesley Manville and Tim McMullan, with editor Susan drawn into a murder and becoming a suspect.
Marble Hill, Manhattan
Marble Hill, Manhattan: the only Manhattan neighborhood on the North American mainland, cut off by the 1895 Harlem River Ship Canal and attached to the Bronx by 1914 landfill, yet legally part of New York County under a 1984 statute.
Marble Hornets
Marble Hornets is a 2009–2014 YouTube found-footage horror web series by Troy Wagner and Joseph DeLage, the first major Slender Man adaptation, featuring the Operator, the totheark channel, and a 2015 film adaptation.
Marble House
Marble House is a Gilded Age mansion at 596 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, built 1888–1892 for William Kissam and Alva Vanderbilt and designed by architect Richard Morris Hunt.
Marble Quarries at Karystos
The Marble Quarries at Karystos, source of the gray-green cipollino marble the Romans called marmor carystium, lie on southern Euboea, Greece, and were imperial property from 17 to 206 AD.
Marble quarry near Simitthus
Ancient marble quarries at Simitthus (Chemtou), Tunisia, source of marmor Numidicum, the yellow giallo antico; worked from Micipsa (148-118 BC) under Numidian then imperial Roman administration by slaves and convicts.
Marble sculpture
Marble sculpture is three-dimensional art carved from marble, a metamorphic rock valued since antiquity for its fine grain and high polish, and shaped by cutting material away.
Marbled lungfish
Marbled lungfish (Protopterus aethiopicus, Heckel 1851), an African freshwater lungfish of the Nile and Congo basins; obligate air-breather up to 200 cm and 17 kg that aestivates in mud cocoons.
Marblehead, Massachusetts
Marblehead, Massachusetts: coastal Essex County town founded 1629, 18 miles north of Boston on the North Shore. Former fishing port turned yachting center; about 20,441 residents, open town meeting government, and a harbor with six yacht clubs and 1,800 moorings.
Marbles (album)
Marbles is Marillion's thirteenth studio album, a fan-funded double album released in 2004, produced by Dave Meegan, whose single "You're Gone" reached the UK Top 10 and whose closer "Neverland" is a fan favorite.
Marboué
Marboué, a commune in Eure-et-Loir (Centre-Val de Loire) near Châteaudun, France, population about 1,139, known for the Gallo-Roman villa of Mienne with its Steleco mosaic, used into the seventh century CE.
Marburg
Marburg (an der Lahn) is a university town in Middle Hesse, Germany, seat of the Philipps-Universität (founded 1527, oldest surviving Protestant university), burial place of Saint Elisabeth, with about 77,000 residents.
Marburg Files
The Marburg Files, also known as the Duke of Windsor Files, were captured German Foreign Office archives assembled at Marburg Castle in 1945 and used for war crimes prosecutions.
Marburg virus
Marburg virus (MARV), a Filoviridae RNA virus with Ravn virus causing Marburg virus disease, a hemorrhagic fever with 24-88% case fatality; first identified 1967 in Marburg, Germany; natural host Rousettus fruit bats; no approved vaccine or treatment.
Marburg virus disease
Marburg virus disease (MVD), formerly Marburg haemorrhagic fever, is a severe filoviral hemorrhagic fever caused by Marburg or Ravn virus, with ~50% average case fatality, no approved vaccine or treatment, and recent outbreaks in Rwanda (2024) and Ethiopia (2025-2026).
Marburg virus outbreak in Angola
The Marburg virus outbreak in Angola was the deadliest Marburg outbreak on record, killing about 90 percent of its cases in Uige Province from 2004 to 2005.
Marbury v. Madison
Marbury v. Madison (1803, 5 U.S. 137) is the Supreme Court decision in which Chief Justice John Marshall held Section 13 of the Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional, establishing federal judicial review.
Marc A. Dichter
Marc A. Dichter (Marc Dichter) is a neurologist and neuroscientist known for research on epilepsy and hippocampal neurons, and Emeritus Professor of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Marc A. Hillmyer
Marc A. Hillmyer is an American polymer chemist at the University of Minnesota, a faculty member since 1997, known for sustainable polymers and nanoporous materials.
Marc A. Kastner
Marc A. Kastner is a Canadian-born condensed matter physicist, Donner Professor Emeritus at MIT, known for pioneering the semiconductor single-electron transistor and its Kondo effect.
Marc A. Meyers
Marc A. Meyers, also known as Marc André Meyers, is an American materials scientist and Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego known for research on the dynamic behavior of materials.
Marc A. Pfeffer
Marc A. Pfeffer, born 1947, is an American cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School who led the SAVE trial of ACE inhibitors after myocardial infarction.