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Macaroni (fashion)
Macaroni (fashion): 18th-century English hyper-fashionable men, c. 1760-1780, named for pasta from the Grand Tour; wore habit à la française, tall wigs, and were satirized in Darly macaroni prints.
Macaroni and cheese
Macaroni and cheese, a pasta-and-cheese dish dating to medieval Italian and English cookery, was popularized in America by Thomas Jefferson and James Hemings and industrialized by Kraft's 1937 boxed dinner.
Macaroni penguin
Macaroni penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus), a crested penguin of subantarctic islands; 71 cm, 5–6 kg, yellow-orange crest. About 6.3 million breeding pairs, IUCN Vulnerable, krill diet, Royal penguin debated as its subspecies.
Macaronic language
Macaronic language mixes Latin with vernacular words, often given Latin endings, in burlesque verse; coined in 15th-century Padua by Tifi Odasi and systematized by Teofilo Folengo, later extended to any mixed-language text.
Macaroon
Macaroon: a dense drop cookie of whipped egg whites, sugar, and shredded coconut or ground almonds; distinct from the French macaron; flourless, kosher for Passover, from Italian maccarone.
Macarthur FC
Macarthur FC, the Bulls, an A-League Men club from south-west Sydney playing at Campbelltown Stadium since 2020-21; two-time Australia Cup winner (2022, 2024) and first Australian AFC Cup participant.
MacArthur Fellows Program
MacArthur Fellows Program, or "genius grant": annual no-strings $800,000 five-year fellowships since 1981 from the MacArthur Foundation to creative individuals, awarded by nomination only with no applications accepted.
MacArthur Park
MacArthur Park, formerly Westlake Park, is a roughly 40-acre Los Angeles park in Westlake, renamed for General Douglas MacArthur in 1942, bisected by Wilshire Boulevard in 1934, and known for its lake, protest history, and recent stormwater and reconnect projects.
MacArthur Park (song)
"MacArthur Park" is a Jimmy Webb song first recorded by Richard Harris (1968, US #2, UK #4) and later a three-week Billboard Hot 100 #1 disco hit for Donna Summer in 1978; Waylon Jennings's 1969 cover also won a Grammy.
MacArtney
MacArtney, formally The MacArtney Underwater Technology Group, is a Danish family-owned supplier of underwater technology, founded in 1978 and known for SubConn connectors and FOCUS ROTV systems.
Macartney Embassy
The Macartney Embassy, Britain's first diplomatic mission to China (1793), sent by George III to the Qianlong Emperor under Lord Macartney; all requests for ports and a Beijing embassy were refused, leading to the failed Amherst Embassy of 1816.
Macassa Mine
Macassa Mine is an underground gold mine in Kirkland Lake, northeastern Ontario, Canada, owned by Agnico Eagle and one of the world's highest-grade gold mines.
Macau
Macau (Macao SAR, 澳門), a former Portuguese territory on the Pearl River Delta under Chinese 'one country, two systems' rule since 1999: 33.3 km², 688,300 people, the world's largest casino market at $28.3 billion in 2024 gaming revenue.
Macau Grand Prix (澳门格兰披治大赛车)
The Macau Grand Prix is an annual November street race meeting on Macau's Guia Circuit, first held in 1954 and famed as a proving ground for rising stars.
Macau International Airport (澳门国际机场)
Macau International Airport (澳门国际机场) is the international airport of Macao, China, at the eastern end of Taipa island and on adjoining reclaimed land, open 24 hours since November 1995.
Macau Zoo
Macau Zoo is the collection of public animal exhibits in Macao's parks, centered on the Giant Panda Pavilion and Pavilion of Rare Animals in Seac Pai Van Park, Coloane.
Macaulay Culkin
Macaulay Culkin, American actor born 1980 in Manhattan; starred as Kevin McCallister in Home Alone (1990) and its 1992 sequel, retired after Richie Rich (1994), returned in 2000, changed his legal name to Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin in 2019, and now appears in Fallout.
Macaulay duration
Macaulay duration is the weighted-average time, in years, to receive a bond's promised cash flows, introduced by Frederick Macaulay in 1938 as a measure of a bond's longness.
Macaulay's Minute on Education
Macaulay's Minute on Education (मैकॉले की शिक्षा पर विवरण) is an 1835 minute by Thomas Babington Macaulay arguing that Company education funds should go to English instruction.
Macaulay2
Macaulay2 is a free, open-source software system for research in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra, created by Daniel Grayson and Michael Stillman and funded by the National Science Foundation since 1992.
Macavity
Macavity, the Mystery Cat and Hidden Paw, is T.S. Eliot's fictional feline master criminal from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939), modeled on Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime, later a villain in the musical Cats and its 2019 film.
Macaw
Macaws: large New World parrots of genus Ara and relatives, native from Mexico to South America. Long-lived, fruit- and nut-eating seed dispersers; statuses range from Least Concern to Spix's macaw, extinct in the wild but being reintroduced in Brazil.
Macaw (site)
Macaw (金刚鹦鹉) is an OpenStreetMap-mapped zoo feature in Heilongjiang, China, the macaw exhibit node within Longsha Zoological and Botanical Garden in Qiqihar, at 47.38107°N, 123.93491°E, holding red-and-green and blue-and-yellow macaws.
Macbeth
Macbeth (The Tragedy of Macbeth) is Shakespeare's Scottish tragedy of a general who murders King Duncan to seize the throne. Written around 1606 for James I, sourced from Holinshed, first printed in the 1623 First Folio with possible Middleton additions.
Macbeth (1971 film)
Macbeth (The Tragedy of Macbeth) is Roman Polanski's 1971 British film of Shakespeare's play, co-written with Kenneth Tynan, financed by Hugh Hefner's Playboy Productions, starring Jon Finch and Francesca Annis, noted for graphic violence and a Third Ear Band score.
Macbeth (2015 film)
Macbeth (2015) is Justin Kurzel's Shakespeare adaptation starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, premiered in Competition at Cannes 2015, shot on location in Scotland, 113 minutes, See-Saw Films.
Macbeth (character)
Macbeth is the protagonist of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth, a Scottish general who murders King Duncan after a witches' prophecy, rules as tyrant, and is slain by Macduff; drawn from Holinshed's Chronicles and the historical king Mac bethad.
Macbeth, King of Scotland
Macbeth (Mac Bethad mac Findlaích), king of Scots 1040–1057, killed Duncan I in battle at Pitgaveny, ruled prosperously, pilgrimaged to Rome in 1050, and died at Lumphanan in 1057; Shakespeare's tragedy reshapes him.
MacBook
The MacBook is Apple's family of laptop computers running macOS, introduced in 2006 and comprising the budget MacBook Neo, the thin MacBook Air, and the performance MacBook Pro.
MacBook Air
The MacBook Air is a line of thin, fanless consumer laptops made by Apple, introduced in January 2008 and now sold in 13-inch and 15-inch models with Apple silicon.