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Margaris (crater on Iapetus)
Margaris is a 75-km-wide impact crater on Saturn's moon Iapetus at 27.70N, 135.80E, IAU-approved August 5, 2008, named for a Saracen lord from Seville in The Song of Roland; Seville Mons honors his home city.
Margarita
Margarita cocktail: tequila, orange liqueur, and lime juice with an optional salt rim; IBA spec 50/20/15 mL, common US 2:1:1 ratio; a tequila Daisy relative, disputed 1930s–40s origins, America's most ordered cocktail.
Margarita (2024 TV series)
Margarita (Margarita: Que tu cuento valga la pena) is a 2024 Argentine-Uruguayan musical series by Cris Morena, a spin-off of Floricienta, starring Mora Bianchi as the lost princess heir of Krikoragán, premiered on Max and Telefe.
Margarita Alegria
Margarita Alegría is a Puerto Rican-American psychologist and mental health services researcher who studies racial and ethnic disparities in care, leading the Disparities Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Margarita Aliychuk
Margarita Aliychuk (Маргарита Сергеевна Алийчук), Russian rhythmic gymnast born 1990 in Seversk; Olympic group gold at Beijing 2008 (35.550), 2007 world and 2008 European group champion with Gazprom affiliation.
Margarita Bazyliuk
Margarita Bazyliuk, born 2011, is a Russian women's singles figure skater who won the 2024 Russian junior title and was the first woman to land a quad-plus-quad combination.
Margarita Hranova
Margarita Hranova (Маргарита Хранова) is a Bulgarian pop singer born in 1951 in Sliven, known for Golden Orpheus prizes in 1972 and 1986 and over 400 recordings.
Margarita Levieva
Margarita Levieva, Russian-born American actress born 1980 in Leningrad, former rhythmic gymnast and Master of Sports. Known for The Invisible, Adventureland, The Deuce, In From the Cold, Litvinenko, and Daredevil: Born Again.
Margarita Louis-Dreyfus
Margarita Louis-Dreyfus, born Margarita Bogdanova (1962, Leningrad), is a Swiss businesswoman, widow of Robert Louis-Dreyfus, who chairs Louis Dreyfus Holding B.V., controls the Louis-Dreyfus agribusiness group, and founded the Louis Dreyfus Foundation; distinct from actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
Margarita Mamun (Маргарита Абдуллаевна Мамун)
Margarita Mamun (Маргарита Мамун), Russian rhythmic gymnast born 1995 in Moscow, 2016 Rio Olympic individual all-around champion with 76.483; former junior competitor for Bangladesh, two-time world all-around silver medallist, subject of Over the Limit.
Margarita Nikolayeva
Margarita Nikolayeva (Маргарита Николаевна Николаева, 1935–1993), Soviet artistic gymnast from Odesa, double gold medalist at Rome 1960 in vault and team all-around; first woman to perform a flight vault.
Margarita Ponomaryova
Margarita Ponomaryova (Маргарита Анатольевна Пономарёва), Soviet/Russian 400m hurdler born 1963, died 2021; set 53.58 world record in 1984, won 1993 World silver and bronze, 1992 Olympic finalist.
Margarita Robles Fernández
Margarita Robles Fernández is a Spanish politician serving as Minister for Defence, an independent former judge who was elected to the Congress of Deputies in 2015.
Margarita Salas
Margarita Salas (1938–2019) was a Spanish molecular biologist at the CSIC who discovered the φ29 DNA polymerase, the basis of widely used whole-genome amplification methods.
Margarita Simonyan (Մարգարիտա Սիմոնյան)
Margarita Simonyan (Մարգարիտա Սիմոնյան), born 1980 in Krasnodar, is a Russian media executive: editor-in-chief of RT since 2005, Rossiya Segodnya since 2013, and Sputnik since 2014; sanctioned by the US and EU.
Margarita with a Straw
Margarita with a Straw, 2014 Indian drama by Shonali Bose and Nilesh Maniyar, stars Kalki Koechlin as Laila, a woman with cerebral palsy who falls for a blind activist in New York.
Margaritaville
Margaritaville: 1977 Jimmy Buffett song from Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes, peaking at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100, later the name of a restaurant, resort, and licensing empire.
Margaritifer Chaos
Margaritifer Chaos: 500-km-wide chaotic terrain on Mars in Margaritifer Terra (10.3S, 21.4W), IAU-named 1976; jumbled collapsed crust linked to subsurface water or ice loss and Ares Vallis outflow.
Margaritifer Terra
Margaritifer Terra is a Noachian highland region of Mars (−23.6 to 19.7°N, 320.5–350.6°E) south of the dichotomy boundary, east of Valles Marineris, marked by the Uzboi-Ladon-Morava outflow system, chaos terrain, and widespread exposed Fe/Mg smectite clays of astrobiological interest.
Margarodidae
Margarodidae (Cockerell, 1899), ground pearls and giant coccids, a scale insect family in Hemiptera; the broad Margarodidae sensu lato (457 species, 73 genera) is now split into 11 families including Margarodidae sensu stricto, Monophlebidae, and Matsucoccidae.
Margat Castle
Margat Castle (Arabic: Qalʿat al-Marqab, قلعة المرقب) is a medieval Crusader fortress near Baniyas on the Syrian coast, one of the Knights Hospitallers' two principal strongholds until its capture by the Mamluk sultan Qalawun in 1285.
Margate
Margate is a seaside town in Thanet, Kent, England, one of England's earliest resorts, home to Dreamland's Grade II Scenic Railway (1920) and the Turner Contemporary (2011), with major ongoing regeneration.
Margaux (film)
Margaux (2022) is an American sci-fi horror film directed by Steven C. Miller, starring Madison Pettis and Vanessa Morgan, about a smart house AI that turns deadly; released digitally September 9, 2022 by Paramount.
Margaux Hemingway
Margaux Hemingway (Margot Hemingway), American fashion model and actress, granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway, sister of Mariel; 1975 Fabergé $1 million contract, film Lipstick (1976); died July 1, 1996, suicide by phenobarbital.
Margay
Margay (Leopardus wiedii), also called tigrillo or little ocelot: a small spotted Neotropical wild cat from Mexico to northern Argentina, Near Threatened, highly arboreal with 180-degree hind-paw rotation, suppressed by the ocelot effect.
Marge Champion
Marge Champion (Marjorie Celeste Belcher, 1919-2020), American dancer, choreographer, and actress. Teenage live-action model for Disney's Snow White, Blue Fairy, and Hyacinth Hippo; half of the Marge and Gower Champion dance team; 1975 Emmy winner; Disney Legend 2007.
Marge Schott
Marge Schott (Margaret Unnewehr Schott), Cincinnati businesswoman, owned and operated the Cincinnati Reds 1984-1999, first woman to run an MLB team; won 1990 World Series, twice suspended for racist and anti-Semitic remarks, sold for $67 million in 1999.
Marge Simpson
Marge Simpson, also Margaret Simpson, is the blue-haired matriarch of The Simpsons, wife of Homer and mother of Bart, Lisa, and Maggie; voiced by Julie Kavner since 1987, Emmy-winning in 1992, and subject of the non-canonical season 36 flashforward death.
Marge vs. the Monorail
Marge vs. the Monorail, The Simpsons season 4 episode 12 (9F10), aired January 14, 1993 on Fox; written by Conan O'Brien, directed by Rich Moore, guest stars Phil Hartman and Leonard Nimoy; con man Lyle Lanley sells Springfield a faulty $3 million monorail.
Margerie Glacier
Margerie Glacier is a 21-mile-long tidewater glacier at Tarr Inlet in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, with a 200-foot ice face, flowing about 6 feet per day, now receding after decades of stability.