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Maserati Quattroporte

The Maserati Quattroporte, Italian for "four doors," is a luxury sports sedan produced by Maserati from 1963 to 2023 across six generations, with more than 75,000 built.

Maserati: The Brothers is a 2026 biographical drama directed by Oscar winner Bobby Moresco about the Maserati family, filmed in Bologna, Modena, and Rome's Cinecittà, starring Anthony Hopkins, Al Pacino, Jessica Alba, Andy Garcia, and Michele Morrone, opening October 15, 2026 in Italy.

Maseru

Maseru, capital and largest city of Lesotho (pop. about 220,000), founded March 1869 as a British police camp on the Caledon River; center of the country's textile industry and of urban planning efforts such as Maseru2050.

Maseru massacre

The Maseru massacre was a cross-border raid by about 100 South African Defence Force commandos, who killed 42 people in Maseru, Lesotho, on 9 December 1982, targeting ANC members in hiding.

MASH (game)

MASH (Mansion, Apartment, Shack, House) is a pen-and-paper fortune-telling game where players eliminate options for an imagined future home, spouse, job, and children using a count from a drawn spiral; it peaked in the 1980s and 1990s.

Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova

Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova (Мария и Дарья Кривошляповы), Soviet conjoined twins born 1950 in Moscow, taken from their parents at birth, studied by physiologist Petr Anokhin, refused separation, died April 2003 aged 53.

Masha and the Bear (Маша и Медведь)

Masha and the Bear (Маша и Медведь), Russian 3D animated series by Animaccord, created by Oleg Kuzovkov, 2009; girl Masha and retired circus Bear; Guinness YouTube record, Netflix deal for seasons 8-9.

Masha Gessen

Masha Gessen (Maria Alexandrovna Gessen, Мария Александровна Гессен, born 1967) is a Russian-American nonbinary journalist and author of eleven books, including the National Book Award-winning The Future Is History; winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Opinion Writing and sentenced in absentia by Russia in 2024.

Mashafa Aksum

Mashafa Aksum, in Ge'ez መጽሐፈ አክሱም and also known as Liber Axumae, is a composite Ethiopic historical work about Aksum, its kings, and its church of the Virgin Mary.

Mashafa Berhan

Mashafa Berhan (Ge'ez: መጽሐፈ፡ብርሃንᡇ, "The Book of Light") is a 15th-century Ge'ez religious work attributed to the Ethiopian emperor Zarʾa Yaʿqob, who reigned from 1434 to 1468.

Mashafa Kidan

Mashafa Kidan, the Book of the Covenant, is a Ge'ez church-order text held in two sections within the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church's 81-book New Testament canon.

Mashairi ya Sifa

Mashairi ya Sifa are Swahili praise poems composed to honor a person, ruler, community, object, or deity, one strand of the wider Swahili poetic tradition of the East African coast.

Mashal

Mashal (משל) is a Hebrew and Yiddish term covering comparison, saying, fable, and parable; in rabbinic literature it titles parables paired with an interpretation called the nimshal.

Mashallah

Mashallah (مَا شَاءَ ٱللَّٰهُ) is an Arabic phrase meaning "what God has willed," used to express admiration and protect against the evil eye; it appears in the Quran at 18:39.

MashBeatz

MashBeatz, born Nhlawulo Shipambuli Mashimbyi in 1994, is a prolific South African hip hop producer who was A-Reece's main producer and co-founded The Wrecking Crew.

Mashda

Mashda, also known as Masda, is an early ruler of Kish known only from the Sumerian King List, which assigns him a reign of 840 years.

Mashed potato

Mashed potato: cooked potatoes crushed and enriched with butter and milk or cream. Texture hinges on variety (russet vs waxy) and gentle handling; overworking releases starch, producing gluey mash.

Oct 20, 2026

Mashhad (district)

Mashhad District, also known as the Central District, is a district of Mashhad County in Iran. Defined by a 1990 decree, it contains the rural districts of Tabadkan, Tus, Kardeh, and Miyan Velayat.

Mashhad (مشهد)

Mashhad (مشهد), Iran's second-largest city and capital of Razavi Khorasan, is the foremost Shia pilgrimage center, built around the shrine of Imam Reza (d. 818 CE), hosting about 20 million pilgrims yearly and facing a 2025 water crisis.

Mashiko ware

Mashiko ware (益子焼, Mashiko-yaki) is Japanese pottery made in Mashiko, Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, transformed from everyday vessels into a nationally known craft after Hamada Shoji settled there in 1924.

Mashing

Mashing: crushing solid but soft food into a soft mass with a fork, masher, or blender. Used in cooking and in IDDSI texture-modified dysphagia diets; also the brewing term for malt soaked in hot water.

Oct 15, 2026

Mashivske Gas Field

Mashivske Gas Field (Машівське) is a gas-condensate field in Poltava Oblast, Ukraine, producing from 1968 with initial reserves of 40 billion m³ and now practically depleted.

Mashkan-shapir

Mashkan-shapir, also known as Maskan-shapir, was an Old Babylonian city in southern Mesopotamia, identified with Tell Abu Duwari in Iraq, and abandoned around 1720 BCE.

Mashki Gate

The Mashki Gate (ماشکی دروازه), the "Gate of the Watering Places," was a monumental gate of Nineveh's wall in Mosul, built under Sennacherib and destroyed by ISIS in 2016.