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Macedonian satrapies in India
The Macedonian satrapies in India were provinces Alexander the Great organized in the Indus valley and Punjab after the Battle of the Hydaspes in 326 BC.
Macedonian Struggle
The Macedonian Struggle (Greek: Makedonikos Agonas) was an armed conflict fought mainly between Greek and Bulgarian guerrilla bands in Ottoman Macedonia from 1904 to 1908, seeking the allegiance of local inhabitants.
Macedonian Wars
The Macedonian Wars were four Roman Republic wars against Macedon (to 148 BCE), fought under Philip V and Perseus, decided at Cynoscephalae (197) and Pydna (168), ending with Macedonia as a Roman province.
Macedonians (Македонци) (ethnic group)
Macedonians (Македонци, Makedonci) are the South Slavic majority ethnic group of North Macedonia, speaking Macedonian; 58.44% of residents declared as such in the 2021 census, with identity contested by Greece and Bulgaria.
Macedonius I
Macedonius I (Greek: Μακεδόνιος), who died about 364, was bishop of Constantinople from 342, installed and deposed amid factional violence, and later linked to the Pneumatomachi.
Macedonius II
Macedonius II (Syriac: ܡܩܕܘܢܝܘܣ) was Patriarch of Constantinople from 496 until his deposition by Emperor Anastasius I in 511 for defending the Council of Chalcedon; he died in exile around 517.
Maceió
Maceió (Maçayó) is the capital of Alagoas, Brazil, founded 1609, capital since 1839; 957,916 residents (2022), port city hit by Braskem salt-mining subsidence since 2018.
Macellum (Pompeii)
Macellum of Pompeii (VII.9), the city's principal food market at the north-east corner of the Civil Forum, a tuff quadriporticus selling meat and fish, with an imperial-cult hall, tholus, excavated 1818–1822.
Macellum of Puteoli
Macellum of Puteoli (Temple of Serapis, Tempio di Serapide): Roman food market in Pozzuoli, Italy, built late Flavian and restored under Septimius Severus; famous for mollusc-bored columns recording Campi Flegrei bradyseism.
Maceo Parker
Maceo Parker (born 1943, Kinston, North Carolina) is an American funk and soul-jazz saxophonist, James Brown's featured horn soloist from 1964, later of Parliament-Funkadelic and Prince's bands, known for "2% jazz, 98% funky stuff" and albums Roots Revisited and Life on Planet Groove.
Maceration (wine)
Maceration (wine), or skin contact, is the soaking of grape skins, seeds, and stems in juice or wine to extract color, tannins, and aroma; central to red wine, key to rosé and orange wine, with variants like cold soak and carbonic maceration.
MACF1
MACF1 (ACF7, macrophin, trabeculin-α) is a ~600-800 kDa spectraplakin protein on chromosome 1p34.3 that crosslinks microtubules and actin, mediates Wnt signaling, and whose domain-specific variants cause LISDD brain malformation, myopathy, epilepsy, and cancer promotion.
MacGregor plaque
The MacGregor plaque, also known as King Den's sandal label, is an incised ivory label of King Den, the fifth king of Egypt's First Dynasty, now in the British Museum.
MacGruber
MacGruber: SNL sketch (January 2007) by Will Forte, John Solomon, and Jorma Taccone parodying MacGyver; spawned a 2010 film that underperformed its $10 million budget and an eight-episode 2021 Peacock series, canceled after one season.
MacGruber (film)
MacGruber (2010) is an American action comedy directed by Jorma Taccone, starring Will Forte, adapted from the SNL MacGyver parody sketch; the first SNL film since The Ladies Man, it grossed $9.3 million worldwide on a $10 million budget and became a cult favorite.
MacGuffin
MacGuffin (also McGuffin): a plot device, usually an object, that drives a story's plot while being unimportant in itself. Coined by screenwriter Angus MacPhail, popularized by Alfred Hitchcock; George Lucas later used the term differently.
MacGyver
MacGyver, an American action-adventure TV franchise created by Lee David Zlotoff, stars Angus MacGyver, a gun-avoiding secret agent who improvises scientific fixes from everyday objects; the original ran 1985-1992, the CBS reboot 2016-2021, and the name became a verb.
MacGyver (1985 TV series)
MacGyver (1985 TV series), ABC action-adventure created by Lee David Zlotoff, ran 1985–1992 for seven seasons starring Richard Dean Anderson as a gun-averse agent of the Phoenix Foundation; distinct from the 2016 CBS reboot with Lucas Till.
MacGyver (2016 TV series)
MacGyver (2016) is CBS's reboot of the 1985 ABC series, created by Peter M. Lenkov with a James Wan pilot, starring Lucas Till as a young Angus MacGyver of the Phoenix Foundation; it ran five seasons, 94 episodes, 2016-2021, with poor critic scores (Metascore 38).
Mach (kernel)
Mach is an operating system kernel developed at Carnegie Mellon University beginning in 1985, later restructured as a microkernel built around interprocess communication; its concepts survive in Apple's macOS and iOS kernels and in GNU Mach.
Mach (lunar crater)
Mach, lunar far-side impact crater, 174.97 km diameter, centered at 18.13°N, -149.24°E; IAU-approved 1970 and named for Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher (1838-1916).
Mach cone
A Mach cone is the conical shock front trailing behind an object moving faster than the speed of sound, its angle set by the Mach number.
Mach cutoff
Mach cutoff is the atmospheric refraction phenomenon in supersonic flight where, below the Mach cutoff threshold, sonic boom rays bend upward before reaching the ground, enabling boomless flight.
Mach Five (Speed Racer)
The Mach Five (マッハ号) is Speed Racer's fictional racing car in the 1967 anime Mach GoGoGo, designed by Mitsuki Nakamura, with seven gadget functions A-G on the steering wheel, white body, red M emblem, and real replicas built from 1999 onward.
Mach Industries (company)
Mach Industries Inc. is an American defense manufacturing startup based in Huntington Beach, California, founded by MIT dropout Ethan Thornton, that develops autonomous vehicles, missiles, and energetics.
Mach Loop
The Mach Loop is an informal name for a roughly circular low-level flying route through mid-Wales valleys, used by RAF, Royal Navy, and allied aircraft for terrain-flying training.
Mach Natural Resources LP
Mach Natural Resources LP is an Oklahoma City-based oil and gas company operating in the Anadarko, Permian, and San Juan Basins, listed on the NYSE as MNR.
Mach number
The Mach number, or Mach speed, is the ratio of an object's speed to the local speed of sound, defining subsonic, transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic flight regimes.
MACH-IV (test)
MACH-IV, Machiavellianism Scale by Christie and Geis (1970): 20-item self-report questionnaire measuring Machiavellianism, the standard Dark Triad Mach measure, with known factor-structure and wording criticisms.
Mach-O
Mach-O, short for Mach object, is a file format for executables, shared libraries, and core dumps, serving as the native executable format on macOS, iOS, and other Apple operating systems.