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May Fourth Movement (五四运动)
May Fourth Movement (五四运动): Chinese student protests in Beijing on 4 May 1919 against the Versailles Treaty's transfer of Shandong to Japan; broadly, the New Culture movement (1915–1923) championing science, democracy, and vernacular writing.
May Grace Parry
May Grace Parry (မေဂရေ့စ်ပယ်ရီ, born 1995) is an Australian-Burmese actress, model and beauty queen who won Miss Universe Myanmar 2026 for Hpa-An on June 17, 2026, and represents Myanmar at Miss Universe 2026 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
May I Ask for One Final Thing?
May I Ask for One Final Thing? (最後にひとつだけお願いしてもよろしいでしょうか, Saihito) is a Japanese light novel series by Nana Ōtori, published by AlphaPolis from 2018, adapted into a Sora Honoki manga and a 2025 Liden Films TV anime about the duke's daughter Scarlet punching corrupt nobles.
May I Trim Your Hedges?
"May I Trim Your Hedges?" is episode 3 of Shameless (US) season 3, aired January 27, 2013 on Showtime; written by Krista Vernoff, directed by Steve Shill, TV-MA, 53 minutes, IMDb 8.6/10, covering Lip's sex-offender hunt, Fiona's supermarket job, and Frank's cancer scam.
May It Please the Court (변론을 시작하겠습니다)
May It Please the Court (변론을 시작하겠습니다) is a 2022 Disney+ Korean legal mystery drama, 12 episodes, starring Jung Ryeo-won and Lee Kyu-hyung as public defenders in a serial murder case.
May Mailman
May Mailman (Sylvia "May" Mailman, May Davis Mailman), American lawyer, Trump White House deputy assistant and senior policy strategist January-August 2025, former Ohio deputy solicitor general, Independent Women's Law Center director, MPL Strategies owner.
May Martin
May Martin, English sewing teacher and author, judged The Great British Sewing Bee with Patrick Grant in series 1-3 (2013-15); wrote May Martin's Sewing Bible and left before series four, replaced by Esme Young.
May Mellanby
May Mellanby, born May Tweedy, was a British medical physiologist whose 1920s and 1930s feeding trials showed that vitamin D-rich, cereal-poor diets reduce cavities in children.
May Morris
May Morris, born Mary Morris (1862–1938), was an English Arts and Crafts designer, daughter of William Morris, who ran Morris & Co.'s embroidery department from 1885.
May Nyman
May Nyman is an American materials chemist, the Terence Bradshaw Chemistry Professor at Oregon State University since 2012, known for polyoxometalates and the first niobium heteropolyanions.
May Oil and Gas Field
May is an oil and gas field in the Gulf of Mexico off Tabasco, Mexico, owned by PEMEX. Discovered in 1992, it has produced gas and condensate since 2005.
May Pang
May Pang (Fung Yee), born 1950, American music executive, photographer, and author; John Lennon and Yoko Ono's assistant and Lennon's companion during his 1973–1975 'Lost Weekend'; author of Loving John and Instamatic Karma.
May Queen
May Queen (Queen of the May): a girl crowned with flowers to preside over May Day festivities on 1 May in Britain, Europe, and America; a largely Victorian tradition popularized by Tennyson's poem, with male counterparts such as the May King.
May R. Berenbaum
May R. Berenbaum is an American entomologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for work on chemical coevolution of plants and insects and for honey bee health research.
May Revolution
The May Revolution (Revolución de Mayo) was a week of events in Buenos Aires in May 1810 that deposed Viceroy Cisneros and installed the Primera Junta.
May Seventh Directive
The May Seventh Directive (五七指示) is a 1966 letter from Mao Zedong to Lin Biao that became the guideline for running schools during the Cultural Revolution.
May Sixteenth Notification
The May Sixteenth Notification (五·一六通知) was a Chinese Communist Party document adopted in Beijing on 16 May 1966, drafted under Mao Zedong's direction, which launched the Cultural Revolution.
May the 12th Be with You
May the 12th Be with You is a 2024 Simpsons-Disney+/Star Wars crossover short, released May 10, 2024 on Disney+, directed by David Silverman, starring Marge Simpson with the Disney moms, Darth Vader, and Stewie Griffin.
May the Best Man Win
May the Best Man Win: shared title of a 2009 Adam Fleischhacker comedy film about friends competing for best man, Z.R. Ellor and Mira Lyn Kelly novels, and episodes of Friday Night Lights, A Different World, Ed, and High Tides.
May the Devil Take You
May the Devil Take You (Sebelum Iblis Menjemput) is Timo Tjahjanto's 2018 Indonesian horror film about a demonic pact; 110 minutes, Netflix, 79% on Rotten Tomatoes, sequel in 2020.
May Thirtieth Movement
The May Thirtieth Movement (五卅运动) was an anti-imperialist patriotic movement that broke out in Shanghai on 30 May 1925 after police fired on demonstrators on Nanjing Road.
May to December
May to December is a BBC1 British sitcom (1989–1994, 39 episodes, 6 series) created by Paul Mendelson, starring Anton Rodgers as 53-year-old solicitor Alec Callender, who romances 26-year-old PE teacher Zoe Angell, played by Eve Matheson then Lesley Dunlop.
May We Feed the King
May We Feed the King is Rebecca Perry's 2026 debut novel: an unnamed curator reconstructs an anonymous reluctant medieval king. Booker Prize 2026 shortlist, Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize winner; published by Granta and Transit Books.
May you live in interesting times
May you live in interesting times, also called the Chinese curse, is an ironic English expression wishing disorder on the listener; it is apocryphal, with no Chinese source, traceable to British diplomats and Austen Chamberlain in 1936.
May Ziadeh
May Ziadeh (مي زيادة), born Marie Ziadeh in 1886, was a Palestinian-Lebanese writer, critic, and women's advocate whose Cairo Tuesday salon drew the leading Arab writers of her era.
May-Britt Moser
May-Britt Moser, born 1963 in Fosnavåg, Norway, is a neuroscientist at NTNU in Trondheim known for the discovery of grid cells and a 2014 Nobel Prize.
May-Enensi Corona
May-Enensi Corona (May Enensi Corona) is a 330-km-diameter corona on Venus at 42.5S, 68E, IAU-approved in 1997 and named for the Teleutan (S. Altay) fertility goddess.
May–Thurner syndrome
May–Thurner syndrome, also called Cockett syndrome, is a vascular condition in which the left iliac vein is compressed, causing left leg swelling and deep vein thrombosis.
May's theorem
May's theorem is a 1952 result in social choice theory: simple majority rule is the only two-alternative voting rule that is anonymous, neutral, and positively responsive.
Maya (2026 TV series)
Maya (2026 TV series): upcoming British six-part Channel 4 psychological thriller created by Daisy Haggard, starring Haggard and Bella Ramsey as a mother and daughter in witness protection in rural Scotland, pursued by hitmen; co-produced with Starz.