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Mauna Kea Observatories
The Mauna Kea Observatories are ten independent institutions operating telescopes near the summit of Maunakea on Hawaiʻi Island, one of the world's best astronomy sites.
Mauna Loa
Mauna Loa is the largest active volcano on Earth, a shield volcano covering over half of the Island of Hawaiʻi that last erupted in 2022.
Mauna Loa Observatory
Mauna Loa Observatory is a NOAA atmospheric research station on Mauna Loa, Hawaii, best known for the Keeling Curve, the longest continuous carbon dioxide record, begun in 1958.
Maund
The maund, also spelled mann or mun, is a traditional South Asian unit of weight for grain and produce, equal to 40 seers and varying by region.
Maunder Minimum
The Maunder Minimum was a period from 1645 to 1715 when sunspot activity on the Sun all but stopped, coinciding with the coldest part of Europe's Little Ice Age.
Maundy Thursday
Maundy Thursday, also called Holy Thursday, is the Christian holy day on the Thursday of Holy Week, commemorating the Last Supper and opening the Easter Triduum.
Maung Maung
Maung Maung (မောင်မောင်; 1925–1994) was a Burmese jurist, writer, and the seventh president of Burma, serving in 1988 during the final month of the 8888 uprising before being ousted in a military coup.
Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill
Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill, also Te Tōtara i Āhua, is a 182-metre volcanic cone and former pā in Epsom, Auckland, crowned by the 1940 Campbell obelisk and co-governed by the Tūpuna Maunga Authority.
Maungdaung Sayadaw (Thathanabaing of Bodawpaya and Mindon era)
Maungdaung Sayadaw is the title of a Burmese monastic dignitary who held the office of Thathanabaing, royal head of the Buddhist sangha, under kings Bodawpaya and Mindon in the late Konbaung dynasty.
Maunsell Forts
Maunsell Forts: WWII British anti-aircraft sea towers in the Thames and Mersey estuaries, designed by Guy Maunsell; four naval and seven Army forts credited with 22 aircraft and 30 V-1s, later pirate radio sites and Sealand.
Maura Hagan
Maura Hagan is an American space physicist known for her work on solar atmospheric tides and for developing the Global Scale Wave Model at NCAR.
Maura Healey
Maura Healey (b. 1971) is the 73rd Governor of Massachusetts, a Democrat, former two-term state attorney general, and the first openly lesbian U.S. governor, elected in 2022 with 63.7% over Geoff Diehl.
Maura Higgins
Maura Higgins, Irish TV personality and model born 1990 in Ballymahon, County Longford; Love Island UK season 5 (2019) fourth-place finisher, host of Love Island USA: Aftersun, The Traitors US season 4 runner-up, and Dancing with the Stars season 35 contestant.
Maura Hirschauer
Maura Hirschauer is an American politician, a Democrat in the Illinois House of Representatives from the 49th district, first elected in 2020 and formerly a teacher.
Maura Keller
Maura Keller is an American politician and retired Army lieutenant colonel who won the 2026 Democratic primary for Georgia's 3rd Congressional District, facing Republican incumbent Brian Jack.
Maura L. Gillison
Maura L. Gillison (1965–2026) was a Canadian-born medical oncologist and molecular epidemiologist who established HPV as the cause of a distinct, better-prognosis subset of oropharyngeal cancers.
Maura McLaughlin
Maura McLaughlin is an American astrophysicist and professor at West Virginia University who co-discovered rotating radio transients, the first fast radio burst, and evidence of a gravitational-wave background.
Maura Tierney
Maura Tierney (born 1965, Boston) is an American actress known as Lisa Miller on NewsRadio, Abby Lockhart on ER, and Golden Globe-winning Helen Solloway on The Affair; now Lt. Jessica Brady on Law & Order.
Maura West
Maura West (Maura Jo Snyder, born 1972) is an American soap opera actress, Carly Tenney on As the World Turns 1995-2010, Diane Jenkins on The Young and the Restless 2010-2011, and Ava Jerome on General Hospital since 2013; three-time Daytime Emmy winner (2007, 2010, 2015).
Maureen Bisognano
Maureen Bisognano is an American healthcare quality improvement leader who led the Institute for Healthcare Improvement as President and CEO from 2010 to 2015 and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Maureen Caird
Maureen Caird (Maureen Caird-Jones) is an Australian former hurdler. She won the 80 meters hurdles at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, becoming the youngest Australian individual gold medallist.
Maureen Dean
Maureen ("Mo") Dean, born Maureen Elizabeth Kane, is an American writer and former stockbroker, wife of Watergate figure John Dean; author of Mo: A Woman's View of Watergate and Washington Wives.
Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd (born 1952, Washington, D.C.) is a New York Times Op-Ed columnist since 1995 and 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary winner, distinct from Matthew Dowd, the MSNBC political analyst.
Maureen E. Raymo
Maureen E. Raymo, born 1959, is an American paleoclimatologist and marine geologist at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, known for the Uplift-Weathering Hypothesis linking Himalayan uplift to the ice ages.
Maureen G. Phipps
Maureen G. Phipps is an American obstetrician-gynecologist and epidemiologist, professor emerita at Brown University and former CEO of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Maureen Hack
Maureen Hack was a neonatologist and pediatrics professor at Case Western Reserve University and Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital in Cleveland, known for following premature infants into adulthood.
Maureen Kempston Darkes
Maureen Kempston Darkes is a Canadian lawyer and automotive executive, the first woman to lead General Motors of Canada and later Group Vice President of GM until her 2009 retirement.
Maureen L. Cropper
Maureen L. Cropper is an environmental economist, Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, known for her work on valuing mortality-risk reductions and environmental regulation tradeoffs.
Maureen Lipman
Dame Maureen Lipman (born 1946, Hull) is an English actress and columnist known for Agony, the BT 'Beattie' ads, The Pianist, and Evelyn Plummer in Coronation Street; Olivier Award winner, DBE 2020.
Maureen M. Henderson
Maureen M. Henderson, also known as Maureen McGrath Henderson, was a British-born epidemiologist who founded Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's Cancer Prevention Research Program in 1983.