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Martial law in the United States
Martial law in the United States: military displacement of civilian government, undefined in federal law, declared at least 68 times, last in Hawaii 1944 and Cambridge, Maryland 1963; the president cannot declare it.
Martial law under Ferdinand Marcos
Martial law under Ferdinand Marcos: authoritarian rule in the Philippines from Proclamation No. 1081, dated September 21, 1972, to January 17, 1981, marked by mass detentions, torture, killings, crony capitalism, and Marcos's 1986 fall.
Martial Universe (武动乾坤)
Martial Universe (武动乾坤, Wu Dong Qian Kun) is a Tian Can Tu Dou xuanhuan web novel about Lin Dong, adapted into a poorly received 2018 Zhang Li drama with Yang Yang, a long-running donghua since 2019, and a 2020 film.
Martian Manhunter
Martian Manhunter (J'onn J'onzz), also John Jones, is a DC Comics superhero, a Martian telepath and shapeshifter debuting in Detective Comics #225 (1955), a founding Justice League member weak to fire.
Martian polar ice caps
The Martian polar ice caps, also called the Mars polar caps, are ice deposits at Mars's poles, made of seasonal carbon dioxide frost and thick water ice deposits.
Martianus Capella
Martianus Capella, Martianus Minneus Felix Capella, a fifth-century Latin writer of Roman Africa, authored De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, the allegorical nine-book encyclopedia of the seven liberal arts that anchored medieval education.
Martie Maguire
Martie Maguire (Martha Elenor Erwin, born 1969) is an American fiddler, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter, founding member of the Dixie Chicks/the Chicks and of Court Yard Hounds with sister Emily Strayer; eight-time Grammy winner.
Martigny
Martigny, Valais, Switzerland: Rhone-valley town at the Great St Bernard and Simplon routes, ancient Octodurus/Forum Claudii Vallensium; 23,849 inhabitants (2026), Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Barryland, planned 2029 fusion with Vernayaz.
Martijn Kemerink
Martijn Kemerink (born 1970 in Hengelo, Netherlands) is a Dutch applied physicist who studies charge transport in organic semiconductors and solar cells, and has been a professor at Heidelberg University since 2019.
Martika
Martika (Marta Marrero, born 1969, Whittier, California) is an American pop singer and actress of Cuban descent, known for the 1989 Billboard No. 1 "Toy Soldiers", the Prince collaboration "Love... Thy Will Be Done", and the 2004 Eminem sample; distinct from artists named Martija, Martika con K, or Martik.
Martim Afonso de Sousa
Martim Afonso de Sousa was a Portuguese naval commander who led the 1530 expedition that began the permanent settlement of Brazil, founding São Vicente in 1532.
Martim Cererê
Martim Cererê is a 1927 modernist narrative poem by the Brazilian writer Cassiano Ricardo, telling how the Indian, the Black, and the white form a Brazilian boy.
Martimoaapa - Lumiaapa - Penikat Mires
Martimoaapa-Lumiaapa-Penikat Mires, also called Martimoaapa mire reserve, is a 14,086 ha Ramsar site no. 11 and Natura 2000 SAC/SPA in Simo and Keminmaa, Sea Lapland, Finland, designated in 1974, established as a mire reserve in 1981, with nearly 100 nesting bird species.
Martín
Martín, released as Martín (Hache), is a 1997 Spain-Argentina drama by Adolfo Aristarain about an Argentine film director in Madrid and his son Hache, who comes to live with him after a drug overdose. It won Havana's top prizes and acting awards for Luppi, Roth, and Poncela.
Martin (1977 film)
Martin (1977) is George A. Romero's vampire film starring John Amplas as a young man who believes he is a vampire, made in Braddock, Pennsylvania, and revived by a 2023 4K restoration.
Martin (name)
Martin, masculine given name from Latin Martinus, a diminutive of Mars; spread by Saint Martin of Tours. Medieval attestations from Spain 1019 onward; 12th most used male name in Norway 2022 (22,144 bearers); name day 11 November.
Martin (TV series)
Martin (TV series): Fox sitcom, 1992–1997, five seasons, starring Martin Lawrence as Detroit radio DJ Martin Payne with Tisha Campbell (Gina), Tichina Arnold, Thomas Mikal Ford, Carl Anthony Payne II; HBO Independent Productions; landmark 1990s Black sitcom.
Martin A. Armstrong
Martin A. Armstrong is an American former currency trader who ran a $3 billion Ponzi scheme and set a record for civil contempt, jailed almost seven years.
Martin A. Cheever
Martin A. Cheever was an American oncologist and cancer immunotherapy researcher at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle who founded the Cancer Immunotherapy Trials Network.
Martin A. Gorovsky
Martin A. Gorovsky, born 1941 in Chicago, is an American biologist at the University of Rochester known for building Tetrahymena into a model organism for chromatin research.
Martin A. Nowak
Martin A. Nowak, born in Vienna in 1965, is a mathematical biologist and Harvard professor who helped create virus dynamics and proposed cooperation as a third principle of evolution.
Martin A. Samuels
Martin A. Samuels, known as Martin Samuels, was an American neurologist who founded and led the neurology department at Brigham and Women's Hospital and studied neurocardiology.
Martin A. Schwartz
Martin A. Schwartz is an American cell biologist and cardiovascular researcher at Yale School of Medicine, known for work on integrin signaling and endothelial mechanotransduction.
Martin Adolf Bormann
Martin Adolf Bormann, also known as Martin Bormann junior, was a German Catholic theologian and missionary priest in the Congo, the eldest son of Hitler's secretary Martin Bormann.
Martin Aeschlimann
Martin Aeschlimann, born in 1957, is an experimental physicist and professor at RPTU Kaiserslautern known for ultrafast nanooptics, time-resolved photoemission, and femtosecond magnetism, including a 2007 Nature paper on adaptive control of nano-optical fields.
Martin Aigner
Martin Aigner (1942–2023) was an Austrian mathematician in combinatorics and graph theory who co-authored Proofs from THE BOOK with Günter M. Ziegler and taught at Freie Universität Berlin from 1973 to 2010.
Martin Allen
Martin James Allen (born 1965), nicknamed "Mad Dog", is an English football manager and former midfielder for QPR, West Ham, Portsmouth, and Southend; five-time Barnet manager and 2015 Conference promotion winner.
Martin Amis
Martin Amis (1949-2023), British novelist, essayist, and memoirist, son of Kingsley Amis; author of Money, London Fields, and Time's Arrow; won the Somerset Maugham and James Tait Black prizes but never the Booker; knighted the day before his death.
Martin and Lewis
Martin and Lewis: American comedy duo of Dean Martin (Dino Crocetti) and Jerry Lewis (Joseph Levitch), active July 25, 1946 to July 1956; nightclub, radio, The Colgate Comedy Hour, and sixteen films before their 1956 breakup.
Martin and Osa Johnson
Martin and Osa Johnson, married Kansas explorers and filmmakers ("Motion Picture Explorers"), made pioneering South Seas and African safari documentaries from 1917; Martin died in a 1937 plane crash, and Osa wrote I Married Adventure.