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Mason Rudolph (American football)
Mason Rudolph is an American professional football quarterback who played four seasons at Oklahoma State, where he threw for 4,904 yards in 2017.
Mason Ryan
Mason Ryan, ring name of Welsh wrestler Barri Griffiths (born 1982), debuted in WWE's New Nexus in 2011, was compared to Batista, and later joined Cirque du Soleil's KÀ as chief archer.
Mason Verger
Mason Verger is a fictional villain in Thomas Harris's 1999 novel Hannibal and its 2001 film and NBC TV adaptations: a wealthy meat-packing heir, pedophile, and Lecter's disfigured surviving victim who plots revenge with man-eating boars and dies at his sister Margot's hand.
Mason Williams
Mason Williams (born 1938, Abilene, Texas) is an American guitarist and comedy writer, composer of the 1968 hit instrumental "Classical Gas" and Emmy-winning head writer of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.
Mason–Dixon line
Mason–Dixon line: boundary surveyed 1763–1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon between Pennsylvania and Maryland at 39°43′ N, later the symbolic free-state/slave-state divide after the 1820 Missouri Compromise debates.
Masonic bodies
Masonic bodies: the craft lodges, Grand Lodges (e.g. United Grand Lodge of England), and appendant and concordant bodies such as the Scottish Rite, York Rite, and Shriners that Master Masons may join beyond the three craft degrees.
Masonic conspiracy theories
Masonic conspiracy theories allege that Freemasonry secretly controls politics, finance, or religion, often fused with antisemitism via the Protocols forgery; rooted in Barruel and Robison's 1797 books, papal bans, and Nazi and Francoist persecution.
Masonic lodge
Masonic lodge: the basic local unit of Freemasonry, chartered by a sovereign Grand Lodge, holding meetings and conferring the three Craft degrees. First Grand Lodge formed in London in 1717; recognition, Prince Hall, and research lodges distinguish the system.
Masonic ritual and symbolism
Masonic ritual and symbolism, also called Masonic symbols, are the memorized degree ceremonies of Freemasonry, including the Hiramic legend, transmitted mouth to ear and interpreted as moral allegory.
Masonic Temple
A Masonic Temple, also called a Masonic Hall, is a building or hall used for Freemasonry meetings and rituals, from single lodge rooms to large complexes.
Masonite
Masonite, also known as Isorel, is a brand of hardboard, a dense wood panel made under heat and pressure, invented by William H. Mason in 1924.
Masonry
Masonry is a construction method in which brick, block, or stone units are laid and bonded with mortar, in use for more than 8,000 years.
Masonry dam
A masonry dam is a dam whose main structure is coursed stone or brick set in mortar, built as a gravity, buttress, or arch design.
Masood Azhar (مسعود اظہر)
Masood Azhar (مسعود اظہر), full name Mohammed Masood Azhar Alvi, born 1968, is the Pakistani cleric who founded Jaish-e-Mohammed in 1999; UN-designated in May 2019, he remains at large with disputed whereabouts.
Masood Rana
Masood Rana (مسعود رانا) was a Pakistani playback singer, one of the most prolific male voices of Lollywood from the 1960s until his death in 1995, singing in both Urdu and Punjabi films.
Masoom
Masoom (मासूम) is a 2022 Hindi Disney+ Hotstar six-episode psychological thriller, a remake of the Irish series Blood, starring Boman Irani and Samara Tijori as a father and daughter in Punjab.
Masoom (मसूम) (1983 film)
Masoom (मासूम, 1983) is Shekhar Kapur's Hindi directorial debut, written by Gulzar with music by R.D. Burman, based on Erich Segal's Man, Woman and Child; it won five Filmfare Awards and is getting a sequel.
Masoom Sharma
Masoom Sharma is an Indian singer, lyricist, and composer in Haryanvi pop from Jind, Haryana, known for songs like "Lofar".
Masoretic Text
The Masoretic Text (נֻסָּח הַמָּסוֹרָה) is the medieval, Tiberian-vocalized Hebrew text of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by the Masoretes and printed in most Hebrew Bibles since the 15th century.
Masoud Barzani
Masoud Barzani (مسعود بارزاني), born 1946 in Mahabad, is an Iraqi Kurdish politician who led the Kurdistan Region as its first president from 2005 to 2017.
Masoud Pezeshkian (مسعود پزشکیان)
Masoud Pezeshkian (مسعود پزشکیان), born 1954 in Mahabad, is an Iranian cardiac surgeon, former health minister under Khatami, and Iran's ninth president since July 2024, its first reformist-backed president in two decades.
Masoud Sadeghloo
Masoud Sadeghloo (مسعود صادقلو) is an Iranian pop singer, songwriter, and guitarist from Tehran whose singles have drawn hundreds of millions of streams since the mid-2010s.
Masovian Voivodeship
Masovian Voivodeship (województwo mazowieckie), Poland's largest region by area and economy, centered on Warsaw; 35,558 km², about 5.5 million people, created in the 1999 administrative reform.
MASP1
MASP1 (MBL associated serine protease 1), human gene at 3q27.3, encodes MASP-1, MASP-3, and MAp44 by alternative splicing. MASP-1 initiates lectin pathway activation; MASP-3 activates pro-factor D; mutations cause 3MC syndrome.
MASP2
MASP2 (MASP-2, mannan-binding lectin serine protease 2, EC 3.4.21.104) is the effector serine protease of the complement lectin pathway, cleaving C4 and C2 to form C3 convertase; activated by MASP-1, targeted by narsoplimab, deficiency is a primary immunodeficiency.
MasPar
MasPar was a Sunnyvale, California company founded in 1987 by Jeff Kalb that made massively parallel SIMD supercomputers, the MP-1 and MP-2, before exiting hardware in 1996.
Masque
Masque: an English courtly entertainment of the 16th–17th centuries combining poetry, music, dance, and scenery, flourishing under James I and Charles I; key figures Ben Jonson and Inigo Jones, with the antimasque introduced in Oberon (1611).
Masquelet technique
The Masquelet technique, also called the induced membrane technique, is a two-stage operation for large bone defects using a cement spacer that induces a membrane hosting a bone graft.
Masquerade (trope)
Masquerade (trope): the urban-fantasy convention in which supernatural beings secretly live among humans, named for Vampire: The Masquerade. Covers its narrative purpose, the Masquerade Paradox criticism, and its decline after roughly 2005.
Masquerade (광해) (2012 film)
Masquerade (광해, 왕이 된 남자) is a 2012 South Korean historical drama by Choo Chang-min in which Lee Byung-hun plays King Gwanghae and his commoner double Ha-sun; it drew 12.3 million admissions and won 15 of 22 Daejong Film Awards.