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Maude Davey

Maude Davey, Australian actor, director, writer and burlesque performer (The Burlesque Hour, My Life in the Nude, Offspring, The Newsreader), Medal of the Order of Australia 2020; distinct from artists named Davey or Maude in other fields.

Maudie (film)

Maudie is a 2016 Canadian-Irish biographical drama directed by Aisling Walsh, starring Sally Hawkins as folk artist Maud Lewis and Ethan Hawke as Everett Lewis; it premiered at TIFF 2016, won seven Canadian Screen Awards, and grossed $6.2 million in the US.

Maudy Ayunda

Maudy Ayunda (Ayunda Faza Maudya, born 1994) is an Indonesian actress, singer-songwriter, and Oxford/Stanford-educated entrepreneur known for Untuk Rena, Perahu Kertas, Losmen Bu Broto, film soundtracks, and her 2022 IMAA win.

Mauerbach

Mauerbach (Marktgemeinde Mauerbach) is a market town in Lower Austria at Vienna's western edge, known for the Kartause Mauerbach, a Carthusian monastery founded 1314 by Frederick the Fair, dissolved 1782, now the Bundesdenkmalamt's Archäologiezentrum.

Maues

Maues (Μαύης; Moga in Indian sources) was a Scythian ruler who seized Taxila from the Indo-Greeks about 85 BCE and ruled there in the first half of the 1st century BCE.

Maues' conquest of Taxila

Maues' conquest of Taxila was the takeover of Taxila in Gandhara by the Saka king Maues from the Indo-Greeks around 85 BCE, making it his capital.

Maughanasilly Fossa

Maughanasilly Fossa is the largest (920 km) of Europa's six IAU-named fossae, an arcuate trough centered at 34.24S, 155.19W, approved May 28, 2019 and named after a County Cork, Ireland stone row.

Maugis adhesion map

The Maugis adhesion map is a regime diagram for adhesive contact of elastic spheres, drawn by Johnson and Greenwood in 1997 to place the JKR and DMT models as limits.

Maui

Maui, the Valley Isle, is Hawaii's second largest island (728 sq mi), formed by Haleakala and the West Maui volcano, home to 143,574 people, historic Lahaina, and recovering from the August 2023 wildfires.

Māui (Hawaiian mythology)

Māui is the trickster demigod of Hawaiian mythology, also known across Polynesia, famed for snaring the sun at Haleakalā, fishing up islands with the hook Manaiakalani, and obtaining fire.

Māui (Māori mythology)

Māui (Māui-tikitiki-a-Taranga, Māui-Pōtiki), trickster demigod of Māori mythology: fished up Te Ika-a-Māui (North Island), slowed the sun, died at Hine-nui-te-pō; sources include Grey 1854/1855 and the Ruapuke kōrero.

Maui County

Maui County, Hawaii: four-island county (Maui, Molokai, Lanai, Kahoolawe) established 1905, seat Wailuku; 160,592 residents in 2025, strong mayor-council government, tourism-dominated economy, Lahaina wildfire recovery.

Maui Oil and Gas Field

The Maui Oil and Gas Field is an offshore gas-condensate field in the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand, discovered in 1969 and once among the world's largest gas finds.

Oct 22, 2026

Māui Pōmare

Māui Pōmare (1875 or 1876 to 1930) was a New Zealand physician and politician of Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Toa, the first Māori doctor and Minister of Health from 1923.

Maukhari dynasty

The Maukhari dynasty was a North Indian ruling house based at Kanauj that held parts of Bihar and the doab until its last ruler was murdered in 605 or 606.

Maukhari inscriptions

The Maukhari inscriptions (मौखरि अभिलेख) are stone records of the Maukhari kings of Kannauj, claiming imperial titles and victories over the Andhras, Sulikas, and Gaudas.

Maukhari–Later Gupta wars

The Maukhari–Later Gupta wars were a series of battles between the Maukharis of Kannauj and the Later Guptas of Magadha from the mid-sixth to the early seventh century CE.

Maula Jatt (مولا جٹ)

Maula Jatt (مولا جٹ) is a 1979 Pakistani Punjabi action film directed by Younis Malik, starring Sultan Rahi and Mustafa Qureshi; a record-breaking, censored cult classic that spawned the gandasa genre and the 2022 remake The Legend of Maula Jatt.

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, formerly West Bengal University of Technology (WBUT), is a public technical university in West Bengal, India, founded in 2001.

Maulana Azad (مولانا ابوالکلام آزاد)

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (مولانا ابوالکلام آزاد), 1888–1958, Indian Islamic scholar, journalist (Al-Hilal), Congress president 1940–46, anti-Partition leader, and India's first Education Minister; Bharat Ratna 1992.

Oct 22, 2026

Maulana Hasanuddin of Banten

Maulana Hasanuddin was the first Sultan of Banten, ruling from about 1552 to 1570, the son of Sunan Gunung Jati of Cirebon and founder of a dynasty that ruled until 1816.

Maulana Karenga

Maulana Karenga (Ronald McKinley Everett, born 1941) is an Africana studies scholar at Cal State Long Beach, founder of the Us Organization and Kawaida philosophy, and creator of Kwanzaa in 1966.

Sep 24, 2026

Maulana Malik Ibrahim

Maulana Malik Ibrahim, known as Sunan Gresik and Syeikh Maghribi, was a scholar active in Gresik, East Java, credited as the earliest of the nine Wali Songo saints.

Maulbronn Monastery

Maulbronn Monastery (Kloster Maulbronn) is a former Cistercian abbey in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, founded in 1147 and regarded as the best-preserved medieval monastic complex north of the Alps, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993.

Maules Creek Coal Mine

The Maules Creek Coal Mine is an open-cut thermal coal mine in Leard State Forest in New South Wales, Australia, owned by Whitehaven Coal and producing up to 13 million tonnes a year since 2014.

Maulik Pancholy

Maulik Pancholy (born 1974, Dayton, Ohio) is an American actor, author, and activist: Jonathan on 30 Rock, Sanjay on Weeds, voice of Baljeet on Phineas & Ferb, Stonewall Honor and Lambda Literary Award-winning author, and co-founder of Act to Change.

Mauludi calendar

The Mauludi calendar (تقویم مولودی) was a lunisolar calendar instituted by Tipu Sultan of Mysore around 1784, reckoned from the Prophet Muhammad's birth and abandoned after his death in 1799.

Maulvibazar District

Maulvibazar District (মৌলভীবাজার জেলা), also spelled Moulvibazar, is a Sylhet Division district of northeastern Bangladesh bordering Tripura and Assam. 2,799.38 km², 2.12 million people (2022), 7 upazilas, 93 tea gardens, district since 22 February 1984.

Maumee Valles

Maumee Valles is a 390-km valley system on Mars in Xanthe Terra, IAU-named in 1976 after the Maumee River of Indiana and Ohio, part of the Bahram, Vedra, Maumee, and Maja Valles channel group cut by water from Juventae Chasma.