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Mazda MX-6
The Mazda MX-6 is a front-wheel-drive coupe derived from the Mazda 626, built 1988 to 1997 in two generations, first at Flat Rock, Michigan beside the Ford Probe; sold in Canada as the MX-6 Mystère.
Mazda Paterae
Mazda Paterae, a 240.78 km volcanic depression (patera) on Jupiter's moon Io at -8.81°, 313.28°W, IAU-named in 1979 for the Babylonian sun god; abuts Ra Patera flows and shows smooth, possibly fresh lava surfaces in Juno data.
Mazda Premacy (マツダ・プレマシー)
Mazda Premacy, sold abroad as the Mazda5, is a compact minivan Mazda launched in Japan in 1999, seating up to seven in a body the size of a family sedan.
Mazda RX-7
The Mazda RX-7, sold in Japan as the Savanna RX-7, is a rotary-engine sports car produced from 1978 to 2002, the best-selling rotary vehicle in history.
Mazda RX-8
The Mazda RX-8 is a four-seat, four-door sports car produced by Mazda from 2003 to 2012, powered by the RENESIS rotary engine and successor to the RX-7.
Mazda Tribute
The Mazda Tribute is a compact sport utility vehicle produced by Mazda from 2001 to 2011, jointly developed with Ford on a shared architecture with the Ford Escape.
Mazda Wankel engine
The Mazda Wankel engine, also called the Mazda rotary engine, is the family of rotary engines Mazda has mass-produced since 1967, powering the Cosmo Sport and RX-8.
Mazda2
The Mazda2, sold in Japan as the Mazda Demio, is a subcompact hatchback built by Mazda since 1996, passing 2.4 million sales and winning the 2014-2015 Japan Car of the Year.
Mazda3
The Mazda3 (Japanese: Axela, アクセラ) is a compact car made by Mazda since 2003, sold in sedan and hatchback styles and exceeding six million units sold.
Mazda6
The Mazda6, sold in Japan as the Mazda Atenza, is a midsize car Mazda built from 2002 to the mid-2020s and positioned as its flagship sedan.
Mazdaism
Mazdaism, also called Mazdeism, is the religion founded on the prophet Zarathustra's teachings, worshipping Ahura Mazda as the one uncreated God alongside a separate evil source, Angra Mainyu.
Mazdak (مزدک)
Mazdak (مزدک), son of Bāmdād, led Mazdakism, an egalitarian Zoroastrian-derived movement under Sasanian king Kawād I (488–531), preaching common property; suppressed by Khusrau I.
Mazdakism
Mazdakism (مزدک) was a gnostic religious and social movement in Sasanian Iran under Kavad I, preaching equal sharing of wealth and women; it was crushed about 528.
Mazdakite movement
The Mazdakite movement (مزدکیه) was a social and religious upheaval in Sasanian Iran led by Mazdak, whose poor followers seized property and wives from the wealthy before being massacred around 529.
Mazdakites
The Mazdakites (مزدکیان) were followers of Mazdak, a religious and social movement in Sasanian Iran under King Kavad I that preached holding women and property in common and was suppressed around 528.
Mazdaspeed
Mazdaspeed is Mazda's performance brand for high-performance vehicles, racing parts, and motorsports. It began as a racing team in 1967 and won the 1991 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Mazdaspeed3
The Mazdaspeed3, sold as the Mazda3 MPS in Europe and Mazdaspeed Axela in Japan, is a high-performance Mazda3 hatchback built from 2007 to 2013, with a 263-horsepower turbocharged engine.
Mazdutide
Mazdutide (IBI362, LY3305677; brand XinErMei) is a once-weekly GLP-1/glucagon receptor dual agonist by Eli Lilly and Innovent, first approved in China in 2025 for obesity and type 2 diabetes.
Maze
A maze is a branching-path (multicursal) puzzle, distinct from the single-path labyrinth; history from 2000 BCE classical labyrinths to hedge mazes, plus graph-theory generation and solving algorithms.
Maze (band)
Maze (Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly) is an American R&B and soul band founded by Frankie Beverly, renamed from Raw Soul in 1976 at Marvin Gaye's urging, known for "Joy and Pain," "Back in Stride," and "Before I Let Go."
Maze game
Maze game: video game genre of navigating branching, dead-end-filled labyrinths, defined by Pac-Man (1980) and peaked in the early 1980s; spans top-down, first-person, and procedurally generated mazes.
Maze generation algorithm
A maze generation algorithm carves passages through a walled grid so every cell connects with no loops and one route between any two cells, forming a spanning tree.
Maze Museum
Maze Museum (메이즈랜드), also Maze Land, is a maze theme park in Gujwa-eup, Jeju, South Korea, opened April 14, 2011, home to the world's longest stone maze (5.3 km) themed on Jeju's Samda: stones, wind, and women.
Maze Runner (film series)
The Maze Runner film series is a young adult dystopian science fiction trilogy directed by Wes Ball, adapted from James Dashner's novels and released from 2014 to 2018.
Maze Runner: The Death Cure
Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018), Wes Ball's final Maze Runner film adapted from James Dashner's third novel, starring Dylan O'Brien; delayed a year by his on-set injury and released January 26, 2018.
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015), Wes Ball's sequel to The Maze Runner, adapts James Dashner's second novel: the Gladers escape WCKD into the Scorch, facing Cranks; $81.7M US gross, 47% Tomatometer, Metascore 43.
Mazeikiai
Mažeikiai, a town in northwestern Lithuania, is represented in sport by FK Atmosfera (founded 1973, Lithuanian football champion 1976), the short-lived champion ROMAR, FK Mažeikiai (A Lyga 2010-2011), and the basketball club Mažeikiai, NKL champion in 2012-13 and 2013-14.
Mazeikiai-Butinge Oil Pipeline
The Mazeikiai-Butinge Oil Pipeline is a 91.5 km crude oil pipeline in western Lithuania, connecting the Butinge Oil Terminal on the Baltic Sea with the Mazeikiai refinery.
Mazel tov (מזל טוב)
Mazel tov (מזל טוב), literally "a good constellation," is the standard Jewish expression of congratulations at weddings, births, and bar mitzvahs, marking good fortune that has already arrived.
Mazen al-Hamada (مازن الحمادة)
Mazen al-Hamada (مازن الحمادة), Syrian activist born 1977 in Deir ez-Zor; torture survivor, Koblenz trial witness, abducted from Berlin in 2020, found dead after Assad's fall.