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Matilde Siracusano
Matilde Siracusano (born 1985) is an Italian politician of Forza Italia, a deputy since 2018 and Undersecretary of State at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers since 2022.
Matilica
Matilica (Matelicatis), ancient Roman municipium at modern Matelica, Marche, Italy, in the upper Esino valley on the Umbria-Picenum border; Picene Iron Age necropolises, tribus Cornelia, bishops 475-551.
Matilija Dam removal project
The Matilija Dam removal project is a planned effort to remove the obsolete 1947 Matilija Dam in Ventura County, California, reopening spawning habitat for endangered Southern California steelhead.
Matillion
Matillion is a British cloud data integration company in Salford, England, founded in 2011, selling low-code ETL software for warehouses like Snowflake and Amazon Redshift.
Matimba power station
Matimba power station is a six-unit, coal-fired, dry-cooled power station owned and operated by Eskom near Lephalale in Limpopo, South Africa, with an installed capacity of 3,990 MW.
Matinee
Matinee is a 1993 American comedy-drama directed by Joe Dante, starring John Goodman as a B-movie producer premiering his monster film in Key West during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Mating
Mating: the pairing of individuals for sexual reproduction, classified into monogamy, polygyny, polyandry, polygynandry, and promiscuity; genetic testing shows social pair bonds often differ from actual parentage, with polygyny dominant in mammals and polyandry widespread in birds.
Mating design
A mating design is a planned scheme of crosses in breeding whose half-sib and full-sib offspring are analyzed to estimate genetic variances and build base populations for selection.
Mating disruption
Mating disruption, also called pheromone-mediated mating disruption, is a pest control method releasing synthetic sex pheromones to prevent moth mate finding; used on over 1,000,000 hectares against tortricid pests like codling moth and Oriental fruit moth.
Mating factor A1
Mating factor A1 (MFA1) is a Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene encoding the 36-amino-acid precursor of the a-factor lipopeptide pheromone, farnesylated, carboxymethylated, exported by Ste6, and essential for a-cell mating.
Mating of gastropods
Mating of gastropods covers how snails and slugs court, copulate, and transfer sperm. Most land snails are simultaneous hermaphrodites using love darts, reciprocal copulation, long-term sperm storage, and variable self-fertilization.
Mating Season
Mating Season is a Netflix adult animated romantic comedy from the Big Mouth creators (Kroll, Levin, Flackett, Goldberg), premiering May 22, 2026 with 10 TV-MA episodes about forest animals navigating love and sex, voiced by Kroll, Woods, Raphael, and Jalees.
Mating system
Mating system, in biology, the pattern of self-fertilization versus outcrossing in a population. Key in plants and ferns: Fisher's 50% selfing advantage, inbreeding depression, bimodal outcrossing rates, antheridiogen sex control.
Mating systems and population genetics of fern reproduction
The mating systems of ferns describe how hermaphroditic gametophytes self, inbreed, or outcross; most homosporous ferns predominantly outcross, contrary to the textbook image of habitual selfing.
Matins
Matins, also called Mattins or the Morning Office, is the night or early-morning prayer office of the Christian daily cycle, now the Catholic Office of Readings.
Matinu-baal
Matinu-baal, also spelled Matinba'al, was the king of Arwad, a Phoenician island city off the Syrian coast, at the time of the Battle of Qarqar in 853 BC.
Matiram
Matiram (मतिराम) was a 17th-century Hindi Ritikal poet who wrote in Braj Bhasha at the court of the Hada kings of Bundi, best known for Rasraj and Lalitlalam.
Matisa
Matisa is a Swiss manufacturer of railway track maintenance machinery, founded in Lausanne in 1945 and based in Crissier, with roughly 800 machines in operation worldwide and technology at the core of tamping.
Matisse
Matisse is a Mexican pop trio formed in 2014 in Mexico City, known for romantic ballads and a regional Mexican crossover that won a Latin Grammy.
Matisse Thybulle
Matisse Thybulle (born 1997, Scottsdale, Arizona) is an NBA guard-forward for the Los Angeles Lakers, formerly 76ers and Trail Blazers; two-time All-Defensive Second Team and 2019 Naismith Defensive Player of the Year at Washington.
Matisyahu
Matisyahu is the stage name of Matthew Paul Miller (born 1979), an American reggae and hip-hop musician who rose to fame as a Hasidic Jewish performer in 2004.
Matiwane kaMasopha
Matiwane kaMasopha (uMatiwane kaMasopha) was chief of the amaNgwane, a Nguni chiefdom driven from Natal during the Mfecane, defeated in 1828 and killed by King Dingane.
Matjes River Rock Shelter
Matjes River Rock Shelter is a Later Stone Age archaeological site near Keurboomstrand in South Africa's Western Cape, used by San hunter-gatherers from about 12,000 to 2,000 years ago.
Matka (film)
Matka (Telugu: మట్కా) is a 2024 Telugu period crime drama written and directed by Karuna Kumar, starring Varun Tej as Vasu, a refugee who builds a gambling empire in Visakhapatnam, inspired by Ratan Khatri; released 14 November 2024, streamed on Prime Video from 5 December 2024.
Matka gambling
Matka gambling: Indian numbers betting game from 1960s Bombay, also called satta matka, founded by Kalyanji Bhagat and Rattan Khatri; illegal in most Indian states.
Matka King
Matka King is a 2026 Hindi-language Prime Video period crime drama, 8 episodes, created by Abhay Koranne and directed by Nagraj Manjule, starring Vijay Varma as cotton trader Brij Bhatti, loosely based on Mumbai gambling pioneer Ratan Khatri.
Matla al-Sadayn wa Majma al-Bahrayn
Matla al-Sadayn wa Majma al-Bahrayn (مطلع السعدين ومجمع البحرين) is a Persian history by the Timurid courtier Abd al-Razzaq Samarqandi, a first-rate source for 15th-century Iran and Central Asia.
Matla Coal Mine
Matla Coal Mine is an underground thermal coal mine near Kriel in Mpumalanga, South Africa, operated by Exxaro and supplying Eskom's Matla Power Station by conveyor since 1979.
Matla power station
Matla power station is a 3,600 MW coal-fired power station near Kriel in South Africa's Mpumalanga Highveld, owned by Eskom and the country's biggest when completed in 1983.
Matla' al-sa'dayn
Matla' al-sa'dayn (مطلعالسعدین) is a two-volume Persian chronicle by Abd al-Razzaq Samarqandi, completed around 1475, covering the late Mongol khanates and Timurid dynasty from 1305 to 1469.