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Massachusetts Department of Transportation
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) is the state agency responsible for highways, rail, transit oversight, aeronautics, and vehicle registration, created by a 2009 reform law.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School founded 1811, third oldest US hospital, founding member of Mass General Brigham, largest US hospital-based research program, site of the 1846 anesthesia demonstration.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT): private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded 1861 in Boston, moved to Cambridge 1916. Motto Mens et manus; five schools; 11,816 students (2025-26); 106 Nobel laureates; 4.6% admit rate, Class of 2029.
Massachusetts Maritime Academy
Massachusetts Maritime Academy (MMA) is a public maritime college in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. Founded in 1891, it trains merchant marine and military officers and sails the training ship Patriot State.
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, known as MassMutual, is a mutual life insurer chartered in Massachusetts in 1851, with $366.4 billion in assets and a leading whole life insurance business.
Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles
The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles issues driver's licenses and ID cards, registers vehicles, and oversees inspections as a MassDOT division, licensing drivers since 1903.
Massachusetts State House
The Massachusetts State House is the state capitol of Massachusetts at 24 Beacon Street in Boston, housing the legislature and governor. Charles Bulfinch designed it, completed in 1798.
Massachusetts Turnpike Authority
The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority (MTA) was a quasi-independent Massachusetts agency that built and ran the Massachusetts Turnpike and Boston's harbor tunnels from 1952 to 2009.
Massachusetts v. EPA
Massachusetts v. EPA is a 2007 Supreme Court decision holding that greenhouse gases are air pollutants the EPA can regulate under the Clean Air Act.
Massachusetts Water Resources Authority
The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) is a Massachusetts public authority providing wholesale drinking water and sewer services to 61 eastern Massachusetts communities since 1985.
Massaciuccoli
Massaciuccoli: village in Massarosa, Lucca, Tuscany, on Lake Massaciuccoli, site of a 1st-century AD Roman villa of the Venulei family, a mansio, and the early medieval massa Tagiani fiscal estate.
Massacre
Massacre: collective killing of unarmed or unresisting people in a short time and small area; no legal definition, scholarly thresholds of three to ten deaths; distinct from genocide, ethnic cleansing, and pogroms.
Massacre at Huế
Massacre at Huế (Thảm sát tại Huế Tết Mậu Thân): killings of civilians and officials by Viet Cong and PAVN forces during their 25-day occupation of Huế in the 1968 Tet Offensive, with contested death tolls from about 300 to 3,000.
Massacre at Matanzas Inlet
The Massacre at Matanzas Inlet (Matanzas de la Florida) was the killing of about 245 shipwrecked French colonists by Spanish soldiers in Florida in 1565.
Massacre at the Great Temple (Toxcatl)
The Massacre at the Great Temple, or Matanza del Templo Mayor, was the killing of Mexica nobles by Spaniards under Pedro de Alvarado in Tenochtitlan in May 1520.
Massacre of Arabs during the Zanzibar Revolution
Massacre of Arabs during the Zanzibar Revolution: killings, detention, deportation, and property confiscation of Zanzibar's Arab community after the January 12, 1964 coup led by John Okello; death toll estimates range from under 100 to over 13,000.
Massacre of Cholula
The Massacre of Cholula (Matanza de Cholula) was the killing of thousands of inhabitants of Cholula, in present-day Puebla, Mexico, by Hernán Cortés's forces and indigenous allies in October 1519.
Massacre of Glencoe
Massacre of Glencoe (Murt Ghlinne Comhann): 13 February 1692 killing of 38 MacDonalds of Glencoe by government troops under Campbell of Glenlyon after MacIain missed the 1 January 1692 oath deadline; later ruled murder under trust.
Massacre of Jerusalem (1099)
Massacre of Jerusalem (1099): killing of the Muslim and Jewish population by the First Crusade after the city fell on 15 July 1099 to the Fatimid garrison; death toll estimates range from 3,000 to 75,000.
Massacre of Lwów professors
Massacre of Lwów professors (Kaźń profesorów lwowskich): German murder of Polish academics and family members in July 1941; 21 professors and 16 others shot at Wuleckie Heights on 4 July; Kazimierz Bartel killed 26 July.
Massacre of Novgorod (1570)
The Massacre of Novgorod (Новгородский погром) was a punitive expedition by Tsar Ivan IV against Veliky Novgorod in January and February 1570, on suspicion the elite would defect to Poland.
Massacre of Praga
The Massacre of Praga (Polish: Rzeź Pragi) was the killing of 7,000 to 20,000 civilians by Russian troops storming Warsaw's Praga district on 4 November 1794.
Massacre of the Banu Qurayza
The Massacre of the Banu Qurayza (مذبحة بني قريظة) was the execution of the men of Medina's Jewish Banu Qurayza tribe in 627, after the Battle of the Trench.
Massacre of the Cañari at Tumebamba
The Massacre of the Cañari at Tumebamba was the destruction of Tomebamba, the Cañari capital in present-day Ecuador, by Atahualpa's forces during the Inca civil war.
Massacre of the Citadel
The Massacre of the Citadel (مذبحة القلعة) was the killing of Egypt's Mamluk chieftains by Muhammad Ali Pasha's troops at the Cairo Citadel in 1811.
Massacre of the eunuchs
The Massacre of the eunuchs (誅宦官) was the killing of the Tang dynasty's palace eunuchs as court politics, in a failed 835 plot and a successful 903 massacre.
Massacre of the Innocents
Massacre of the Innocents: Herod the Great's killing of Bethlehem boys aged two and under, told only in Matthew 2:16-18; debated historicity, Josephus silence, Jeremiah 31:15, Feast of Holy Innocents, art tradition.
Massacre of the Latins
The Massacre of the Latins (Σφαγή των Λατίνων) was the killing of Roman Catholic merchants and their families in Constantinople in 1182, amid Andronikos I Komnenos' rise to power.
Massacre of the Safavid princes at Isfahan (1725)
The massacre of the Safavid princes at Isfahan was the 1725 killing of nearly all captive Safavid princes in Isfahan, ordered by the Afghan ruler Mahmud Hotak.
Massacre of the Safavid princes by Mahmud Hotak
The massacre of the Safavid princes by Mahmud Hotak was the killing of Safavid princes in Isfahan in 1725, ordered by the Afghan ruler Mahmud Shah.