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Martha Wash
Martha Wash, San Francisco-born gospel-rooted dance vocalist of Two Tons of Fun/The Weather Girls ('It's Raining Men'), whose uncredited vocals for Black Box and C+C Music Factory led to landmark 1990s lawsuits that changed vocal credit rules.
Martha Washington
Martha Washington (1731-1802), wife of George Washington, first U.S. first lady 1789-97; wealthy Custis widow, dower slaveholder, Revolutionary War camp presence, and shaper of the First Lady role.
Martha Wayne
Martha Wayne (Martha Kane), DC Comics character, mother of Bruce Wayne; created by Kane and Finger, first appearing unnamed in Detective Comics #33 (1939), named in Batman #47 (1948); her murder defines Batman's origin and her Flashpoint counterpart becomes the Joker.
Martha's Rule
Martha's Rule is an NHS England patient safety measure letting patients, families, and staff trigger 24/7 rapid review by an independent team when deterioration is suspected. Named for Martha Mills, piloted at 143 sites in 2024, in all acute hospitals by 2025, mandatory by March 2027.
Martha's Vineyard
Martha's Vineyard is a 95-square-mile island about six kilometers south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with six towns, about 20,000 year-round residents swelling past 100,000 in summer, Steamship Authority ferries from Woods Hole, and a severe year-round housing shortage.
Martha's Vineyard Sign Language
Martha's Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL), or Chilmark Sign Language, was an extinct village sign language used by deaf and hearing residents of Chilmark, Massachusetts, arising after 1785 amid recessive hereditary deafness and fading out by 1952.
Marthad'ilan Yanuf
Marthad'ilan Yanuf, also transliterated Marthadʾilān Yanūf, was a king of the Himyarite kingdom in southern Arabia, reigning from about 500 to 515 or 518 CE.
Marthad'ilan Yu'nim
Marthad'ilan Yu'nim, also rendered Marthadʾilān Yuʾnim, was a king of Ḥimyar and Sabaʾ in ancient South Arabia who reigned around 480–485 CE, in the last generation of independent Himyarite kings.
Marthanda Varma
Marthanda Varma, also known as Anizham Thirunal Marthanda Varma, was the south Indian ruler who transformed Venad into the Kingdom of Travancore, reigning 1729 to 1758.
Marthandavarma
Marthandavarma (മാർത്താണ്ഡവർമ്മ) is an 1891 Malayalam historical novel by C. V. Raman Pillai, the first historical novel in Malayalam, recounting the succession struggle in 18th-century Venad that led to Marthanda Varma's accession.
Marthe Bibesco
Marthe Bibesco, born Princess Marthe Lahovary, was a Franco-Romanian aristocratic writer who chronicled European royalty in French and won the French Academy Grand Prize in 1954.
Marthe Keller
Marthe Keller (born 1945, Basel) is a Swiss actress and opera director, known for Marathon Man (1976), Black Sunday, Fedora, her partnership with Al Pacino, the 2006 Swiss Film Prize, and directing Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera.
Marthe R. Gold
Marthe R. Gold is an American physician and health-policy researcher, Logan Professor Emerita at the CUNY School of Medicine and a National Academy of Medicine member.
Marthe Vogt
Marthe Vogt, also known as Marthe Louise Vogt, was a German-born pharmacologist and neurochemist whose 1954 work founded the study of central monoamine neurotransmission, underpinning modern drug therapy for depression, schizophrenia, and Parkinson's disease.
Marthiya
Marthiya (Arabic مرثية) is a poem of mourning in Arabic and Persian literature, an elegy on a named person's death, later centered on Husayn's martyrdom at Karbala in 680 CE.
Marti Deuter
Marti Deuter is an American Democratic politician who began her first term representing Illinois' 45th House district in January 2025, after 11 years on the Elmhurst City Council.
Marti Pellow
Marti Pellow, born Mark McLachlan in 1965, is the Scottish former frontman of Wet Wet Wet, whose "Love Is All Around" topped the UK chart, and a solo artist and musical theatre star in Chicago, Chess, and Evita.
Martial
Martial, born Marcus Valerius Martialis in Spain around 40 CE, was a Roman poet who brought the Latin epigram, a brief satirical verse form, to perfection.
Martial arts
Martial arts: codified combat systems, chiefly East Asian (kung fu, karate, judo, taekwondo), practiced for sport, self-defense, fitness, and health; distinct from Western combat sports like boxing and wrestling.
Martial arts at the World Games
Martial arts at the World Games covers karate, on the program since 1981 with Kata and Kumite, and wushu, which joined for 2025 as Sanda and Taolu.
Martial arts film
Martial arts film: a genre of choreographed combat cinema originating in 1920s Shanghai wuxia pian, developed in Hong Kong through Wong Fei-hung films, Shaw Brothers, King Hu, Chang Cheh, and Bruce Lee's kung fu boom, and globalized by Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Martial arts manual
Martial arts manual, or fight book: a text recording martial arts theory and techniques for posterity, from European fencing books (Fiore, Talhoffer) to Korea's Muyedobotongji and India's Mallapurāṇa; central to HEMA reconstruction debates.
Martial Club
Martial Club (武館, aka Instructors of Death) is a 1981 Shaw Brothers kung fu film directed by Lau Kar-leung, starring Gordon Liu as young Wong Fei-hung in a Guangzhou martial arts school rivalry, famous for its prop-free alleyway duel.
Martial Eagle (The Americans)
Martial Eagle is the ninth episode of season 2 of the FX series The Americans (also known as Operation Martial Eagle), aired April 23, 2014, directed by Alik Sakharov, with an Oliver North story credit, depicting the Jennings' Contra camp raid and Philip's crisis over Paige's church involvement.
Martial G. Bourassa
Martial G. Bourassa (1931–2020) was a Canadian cardiologist at the Montreal Heart Institute, a pioneer of cardiology in Quebec and inventor of the Bourassa catheter.
Martial Hebert
Martial Hebert is a French-born computer vision and robotics researcher, Dean of Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science since 2019, known for spin images for 3D object recognition.
Martial law
Martial law, or martial rule, is the temporary replacement of civilian government by military authority during war, disaster, or unrest. Distinct from military law and states of emergency; governed by Luther v. Borden, Ex parte Milligan limits, and ICCPR Article 4.
Martial Law (TV series)
Martial Law is an American action-comedy police procedural starring Sammo Hung as a Shanghai detective in the LAPD, airing on CBS from 1998 to 2000.
Martial law in Poland
Martial law in Poland (Stan wojenny w Polsce), 13 December 1981 to 22 July 1983: military rule by General Jaruzelski's WRON junta that interned about 10,000 Solidarity figures and crushed the opposition.
Martial law in the Philippines
Martial law in the Philippines: Ferdinand Marcos's Proclamation No. 1081 of September 21, 1972 placed the country under military rule until January 1981, marked by mass arrests and torture; the 1987 Constitution limited the power, tested by Duterte's 2017 Mindanao martial law.