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Mat Kearney
Mat Kearney (born 1978, Eugene, Oregon) is a Nashville-based American singer-songwriter blending acoustic pop, folk, hip-hop beats, and spoken word; known for "Nothing Left to Lose" (2006), Top 20 Billboard 200 albums, and 2.5 billion streams.
Mat Mound
Mat Mound, an ancient site with fragments of images at Mat village, Mathura district, Uttar Pradesh; ASI centrally protected monument no. 2907 in the Agra Circle.
Mat Osman
Mat Osman (Matthew David Osman) is an English bassist, co-founder of Britpop band Suede (formed 1989 with Brett Anderson), later a journalist and author of the 2020 novel The Ruins; brother of presenter Richard Osman.
Mat Salleh
Mat Salleh, also known as Datu Muhammad Salleh, was a chief in North Borneo (now Sabah, Malaysia) who led the longest resistance to the British North Borneo Chartered Company from 1894 to 1900.
Mat Salleh rebellion
The Mat Salleh rebellion was an armed uprising led by Mat Salleh against the British North Borneo Chartered Company in Sabah from 1894 until his death in 1900.
MAT-49
The MAT-49 (Pistolet Mitrailleur de 9 mm Modèle 1949) is a French 9mm Parabellum submachine gun, the standard weapon of French forces from 1949 to 1979.
MAT2A
MAT2A (methionine adenosyltransferase 2A, MATA2/MATII/SAMS2, 2p11.2) encodes the enzyme making SAM from methionine and ATP; a cancer metabolic dependency, synthetic-lethal target in MTAP-deleted tumors, inhibited by AG-270 and IDE397.
mat2vec
mat2vec is a set of 200-dimensional Word2vec embeddings trained on about 3.3 million materials science abstracts by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers and published in Nature in 2019.
Mata Amritanandamayi (മാതാ അമൃതാനന്ദമയി)
Mata Amritanandamayi, also known as Ammachi or Amma, is a Hindu spiritual teacher born in Kerala, India, in 1953, known for embracing millions of devotees and leading a global charitable network.
Mata Atlântica Biosphere Reserve
Mata Atlântica Biosphere Reserve (Reserva da Biosfera da Mata Atlântica, RBMA), Brazil's first UNESCO biosphere reserve, designated 1991 and expanded in seven phases to 2019; the world's largest biosphere reserve at about 89.7 million hectares across 17 states, covering 66% of the Atlantic Forest biome.
Mata Gujri
Mata Gujri (ਮਾਤਾ ਗੁਜਰੀ) was the wife of the ninth Sikh Guru, Tegh Bahadur, and mother of the tenth, Gobind Singh; she died imprisoned at Sirhind in 1704 or 1705.
Mata Hari
Mata Hari (Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, 1876–1917), Dutch exotic dancer who debuted at Paris's Musée Guimet in 1905, was recruited by both German (agent H21) and French intelligence in WWI, convicted on thin evidence, executed at Vincennes 15 October 1917, and later widely judged a scapegoat.
Mata Khivi
Mata Khivi (ਮਾਤਾ ਖੀਵੀ) was the wife of Guru Angad, the second Sikh Guru, and supervised the langar at Khadur Sahib until her death in 1582.
Mata Prasad Pandey
Mata Prasad Pandey is an Indian Samajwadi Party politician, Leader of the Opposition in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly since 2024, who represents Itwa and earlier served as Speaker from 2012 to 2017.
Mata Sahib Kaur
Mata Sahib Kaur (ਮਾਤਾ ਸਾਹਿਬ ਕੌਰ), born Sahib Devan in 1681 in Rohtas, is venerated in Sikhism as the "Mother of the Khalsa" and led the Khalsa panth from Delhi after Guru Gobind Singh's death.
Mata Sundari
Mata Sundari (ਮਾਤਾ ਸੁੰਦਰੀ), also written Mata Sundri or Mata Sunder Kaur, was the wife of Guru Gobind Singh who issued hukamnamas and led the Sikhs from Delhi.
Mata v. Avianca ChatGPT fake citations
Mata v. Avianca is a 2023 federal sanctions decision in which two New York lawyers were fined $5,000 for filing a brief citing six court decisions invented by ChatGPT.
Mata v. Avianca, Inc.
Mata v. Avianca, Inc. (S.D.N.Y. 2023, No. 22-cv-1461) is the first widely reported sanction for AI-fabricated citations: Judge Castel fined Schwartz, LoDuca, and Levidow, Levidow & Oberman $5,000 under Rule 11 for filing six ChatGPT-invented cases.
Mata-Jardim José do Canto
Mata-Jardim José do Canto is a landscaped woodland garden on Lagoa das Furnas, São Miguel, Azores, created by José do Canto (1820–1898) with species acclimated at his Ponta Delgada garden; it includes the Ermida de Nossa Senhora das Vitórias.
Mata'il (king of Dedan)
Mata'il was a king of Dadan at the al-ʿUlā oasis in northwest Arabia, known from Dadanitic inscriptions and dated to the 6th century BC, before Nabonidus' conquest of 553/552 BC.
Matabeleland
Matabeleland, western third of Zimbabwe (Matabeleland North, South, Bulawayo), Ndebele (Mthwakazi) kingdom under Mzilikazi and Lobengula until 1893; arid mining region, Gukurahundi 1983–87, Ndebele Zulu-derived culture.
Matabeleland North Province
Matabeleland North Province, Zimbabwe's northwestern province with capital Lupane; hosts Victoria Falls and Hwange National Park, over 90% of national coal reserves, 749,017 people (2012 census), GDP about US$3 billion (2025).
Matabeleland South Province
Matabeleland South Province, Zimbabwe's southernmost province (capital Gwanda), borders Botswana and South Africa, covers 54,172 km², had 760,345 people in 2022, and is arid, water-scarce, and mining- and livestock-based.
MATADOR
MATADOR (Man-portable Anti-Tank, Anti-DOoR), marketed as the RGW 90, is a 90 mm disposable anti-armor weapon developed by Singapore with German firm Dynamit Nobel Defence since 2000.
Matador (1986 film)
Matador is a 1986 Spanish erotic thriller written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Assumpta Serna, Nacho Martínez, and Antonio Banderas, released in Spain in 1986.
Matador Records
Matador Records is a New York City independent record label founded in 1989 by Chris Lombardi, known for indie rock acts including Pavement, Yo La Tengo, and Interpol.
Matagorda Bay
Matagorda Bay is a large estuary on the central Texas Gulf coast, fed by the Lavaca and Colorado Rivers and sheltered from the Gulf by Matagorda Peninsula.
Mataʻafa Iosefo
Mataʻafa Iosefo, also recorded as Mata'afa Iosefa, was a Samoan paramount chief whose forces won the war of 1888, though the powers installed Malietoa Laupepa as king.
Mataio Kekūanāoʻa
Mataio Kekūanāoʻa, called the "Royal Father," was a Hawaiian high chief, governor of Oʻahu, and the sixth and final Kuhina Nui of the Hawaiian Kingdom from 1863 to 1864.
Matak kingdom
The Matak kingdom (মটক), also called Bengmara, was a polity in upper Assam founded around 1788 by Sarbananda Singha, with its capital at present-day Tinsukia.