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Maretarium
Maretarium (Akvaariotalo Maretarium) is a public aquarium in Kotka, Finland, opened 2002, showing over 50 native Finnish fish species in 22 tanks, including a 500,000-liter Baltic Sea tank, using unchlorinated Gulf of Finland water.
Mareva Grabowski-Mitsotakis (Μάρεβα Γκραμπόφσκι-Μητσοτάκη)
Mareva Grabowski-Mitsotakis (Μάρεβα Γκραμπόφσκι-Μητσοτάκη), also known as Mareva Grabowski, is a Greek businesswoman and former investment banker who co-founded the luxury label Zeus+Dione, founded Endeavor Greece in 2012, and is married to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
Marfa Boretskaya
Marfa Boretskaya (Марфа Борецкая), known as Marfa Posadnitsa, was a wealthy Novgorodian boyar widow who led the anti-Moscow faction; Ivan III arrested her and confiscated her estates in 1478.
Marfa lights
The Marfa lights, also called the Marfa Mystery Lights, are glowing lights seen on clear nights near Marfa, West Texas, reported for over a century.
Marfa, Texas
Marfa, Texas: county seat of Presidio County in the Chihuahuan Desert, founded 1883 as a railroad water stop, later a Fort D. A. Russell military town, now a Donald Judd-anchored international art destination.
Marfan syndrome
Marfan syndrome: autosomal dominant connective-tissue disorder from FBN1 (fibrillin-1) variants, causing aortic root aneurysm, ectopia lentis, and long-bone overgrowth; diagnosed by 2010 Ghent criteria, managed with beta blockers, ARBs, and aortic surgery.
Marfrig Global Foods
Marfrig Global Foods was a Brazilian multinational beef processor based in São Paulo, self-described as the world's leading hamburger producer, renamed MBRF Global Foods in 2025 after absorbing BRF.
MArG 155-BR
The MArG 155-BR, also known as the MArG 155/39, is an Indian 155 mm truck-mounted howitzer developed by KSSL, a Bharat Forge company, and exported to Armenia.
Marg Helgenberger
Marg Helgenberger (born 1958, Fremont, Nebraska) is an American actress known as Catherine Willows on CSI and K.C. Koloski on China Beach; she won a 1990 Emmy and received a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2012.
Marg‘ilon
Marg‘ilon (Margilan) is a city in Uzbekistan's Fergana Valley, the country's center of handwoven atlas and adras ikat silk, home to the Yodgorlik silk factory (1972) and a 2017 UNESCO-recognized craft tradition.
Marga Prohens
Marga Prohens is a Spanish People's Party politician, born in Campos, Mallorca in 1982, who has led the Balearic Islands government since 2023 and its PP since 2021.
Margaery Tyrell
Margaery Tyrell, fictional queen in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones, played by Natalie Dormer; only daughter of Mace Tyrell and Alerie Hightower, wed to Renly, Joffrey, and Tommen Baratheon, killed by wildfire on TV but alive awaiting trial in the books.
Margam Country Park
Margam Country Park near Port Talbot, South Wales: 850-acre Grade I listed parkland with Margam Castle (1830s), 1147 Cistercian abbey ruins, 327-ft Orangery, deer herd, and 2026 Roman villa discovery.
Margaret
Margaret is an English female given name meaning "pearl," from Greek margaritēs via Latin and Old French, popular since the Middle Ages and borne by saints, queens, and writers.
Margaret (2011 film)
Margaret (2011) is Kenneth Lonergan's second feature, a New York drama starring Anna Paquin as Lisa Cohen, released in a 150-minute cut after years of disputes, then rescued by critics and issued in a 186-minute extended cut.
Margaret A. Chesney
Margaret A. Chesney is an American psychologist and epidemiologist, Professor Emerita at UCSF and a National Academy of Medicine member, known for behavioral research on HIV/AIDS and cardiovascular disease.
Margaret A. Fischl
Margaret A. Fischl is an American infectious-diseases physician at the University of Miami who led the 1987 AZT trial producing the first approved HIV drug.
Margaret A. Goodell
Margaret A. Goodell, known professionally as Peggy Goodell, is an American stem-cell biologist at Baylor College of Medicine, known for the side-population assay and work on mutant NPM1 in leukemia.
Margaret A. Honein
Margaret A. Honein, known as Peggy Honein, is an American epidemiologist directing a CDC infectious disease division, with leadership roles in the H1N1, Zika, and COVID-19 responses.
Margaret A. Palmer
Margaret A. Palmer, also cited as Margaret Palmer, is an American ecologist at the University of Maryland known for river restoration science and directing SESYNC since 2011.
Margaret A. Phillips
Margaret A. Phillips (born 1959) is an American biochemist at UT Southwestern known for malaria drug discovery and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.
Margaret A. Shipp
Margaret A. Shipp is an American medical oncologist who leads the Division of Hematologic Neoplasia at Dana-Farber and coordinated the International Prognostic Index for lymphoma.
Margaret A. Tolbert
Margaret A. Tolbert is an American atmospheric chemist at the University of Colorado Boulder known for explaining how polar stratospheric clouds activate chlorine in the Antarctic ozone hole.
Margaret A. Tucker
Margaret A. Tucker is an American physician-scientist and genetic epidemiologist who led the National Cancer Institute's familial cancer research for over 40 years, quantifying BRCA1 and BRCA2 cancer risks.
Margaret Abbott
Margaret Ives Abbott, American golfer, won the 1900 Paris Olympic women's golf event with 47 strokes, first American woman Olympic champion; she never knew it, receiving a porcelain bowl, rediscovered by historian Paula Welch.
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood (born 1939, Ottawa) is a Canadian novelist, poet, and critic, author of over fifty books including The Handmaid's Tale, The Blind Assassin, and The Testaments, and a two-time Booker Prize winner.
Margaret Avery
Margaret Avery (Margaret Jo Avery) is an American actress, Oscar-nominated for playing jazz singer Shug Avery in Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple (1985), in a five-decade screen career.
Margaret Avison
Margaret Avison (1918–2007) was a Canadian poet whose Christian-inflected work won two Governor General's Awards and the 2003 Griffin Poetry Prize for Concrete and Wild Carrot.
Margaret Bailes
Margaret Bailes (Margaret Ann Bailes, Johnson-Bailes), American sprinter born 1951 in the Bronx; 1968 Olympic gold medalist in the 4x100m relay in world-record 42.8, fifth in the 100m, retired at 17.
Margaret Beckett
Margaret Beckett, Baroness Beckett (born 1943), British Labour politician; MP for Lincoln then Derby South 1974–2024; first woman to lead Labour and first female UK Foreign Secretary (2006–07).