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McCoy Air Force Base
McCoy Air Force Base, formerly Pinecastle Army Airfield, was a Strategic Air Command bomber and tanker base in Orlando, Florida, renamed in 1958 for Colonel Michael N. W. McCoy; closed in 1975, it became Orlando International Airport, source of the MCO code.
McCoy Tyner
McCoy Tyner (1938-2020), American jazz pianist and composer, pianist of the John Coltrane Quartet 1960-1965; known for quartal harmony, percussive left hand, The Real McCoy, five Grammys, NEA Jazz Master 2002.
McCulloch v. Maryland
McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. 316 (1819), Supreme Court decision by Chief Justice John Marshall upholding Congress's implied power to charter the Second Bank under the Necessary and Proper Clause and barring state taxation of federal instruments.
McCune–Albright syndrome
McCune-Albright syndrome (MAS), also called polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, is a rare mosaic genetic disorder from postzygotic GNAS mutations, causing fibrous bone lesions, cafe-au-lait spots, precocious puberty, and hyperthyroidism; not inherited.
McCune–Reischauer
McCune–Reischauer is the 1939 Korean romanization system by George McCune and Edwin Reischauer, using breves and apostrophes; official in North Korea, used by Library of Congress, replaced by Revised Romanization in South Korea in 2000.
McDaniel College
McDaniel College, formerly Western Maryland College, is a private liberal arts college in Westminster, Maryland, founded in 1867, renamed in 2002, with a Budapest campus since 1994 and Green Terror Division III athletics.
McDermott International
McDermott International is an engineering, procurement, construction, and installation contractor for the energy industry, founded in 1923 in Eastland, Texas, and known for offshore platform and LNG projects.
McDiarmid's inequality
McDiarmid's inequality, also called the bounded differences inequality, is a concentration inequality stating that functions of independent random variables with bounded coordinate changes concentrate around their mean.
McDonald & Dodds
McDonald & Dodds is an ITV Bath-set detective drama (2020–2024) created by Robert Murphy, starring Tala Gouveia as DCI McDonald and Jason Watkins as DS Dodds, produced by Mammoth Screen in four series.
McDonald criteria
The McDonald criteria are the international diagnostic criteria for multiple sclerosis, combining clinical attacks with MRI evidence of lesions disseminated in space and time, introduced in 2001.
McDonald Observatory
McDonald Observatory is an astronomical observatory in West Texas's Davis Mountains, operated by The University of Texas at Austin and home to the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, one of the world's largest.
McDonald Peak
McDonald Peak, Montana's Mission Range high point (9,794-9,820 ft, 5,614 ft prominence), an ultra-prominent summit on the Flathead Indian Reservation closed July 15-October 1 for grizzly bears feeding on army cutworm moths.
McDonald v. City of Chicago
McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742 (2010), Supreme Court case extending the Second Amendment individual right to keep and bear arms to state and local governments via Fourteenth Amendment Due Process incorporation, 5-4, opinion by Alito.
McDonald's
McDonald's, the American fast-food hamburger chain founded by Richard and Maurice McDonald in San Bernardino in 1940 and globalized by Ray Kroc from 1955, now runs over 36,000 franchised restaurants in more than 100 countries with over $130 billion in 2024 systemwide sales.
McDonald's All-American Game
McDonald's All-American Game (McDAAG), annual East vs. West all-star games for the top 24 US boys and 24 girls high school seniors, first played 1978; alumni include Jordan, LeBron, Parker.
McDonald's French fries
McDonald's French fries (World Famous Fries®) are the chain's signature side: whole Russet Burbank, Ranger, Umatilla Russet, and Shepody potatoes, par-fried with beef flavoring by suppliers, frozen, and cooked in canola-blend oil in US restaurants; UK versions are vegetarian.
McDonald's Gospelfest
McDonald's Gospelfest, founded 1983 by McDonald's and its New York Metro Owner/Operator Association, is an annual gospel music festival, amateur talent competition, and fundraiser, mainly at Newark's Prudential Center, produced by Emmy winner A. Curtis Farrow.
McDonald's Israel (מקדונלד'ס ישראל)
McDonald's Israel (מקדונלד'ס ישראל) is the Israeli McDonald's chain, first opened in Ramat Gan in October 1993 by franchisee Omri Padan's Alonyal. McDonald's Corporation bought the 225-restaurant, 5,000-employee business in 2024 after boycotts, and a Wiz-founders group is near a franchise deal.
McDonald's Monopoly
McDonald's Monopoly is McDonald's recurring collect-and-win sales promotion, launched in the US in 1987 and licensed from Hasbro. Players peel game pieces for instant wins or rare-property sets; a 1989-2001 insider fraud by Simon Marketing's Jerome Jacobson stole over $24 million in prizes.
McDonald's No. 1 Store Museum
McDonald's No. 1 Store Museum, in Des Plaines, Illinois, was a full-scale 1985 replica of Ray Kroc's first franchised McDonald's (opened April 15, 1955). Flood-damaged and closed to the public since 2008, it was demolished after the November 2017 announcement; the first McDonald's itself was in San Bernardino.
McDonaldization
McDonaldization: George Ritzer's 1983 sociological thesis that fast-food restaurant principles (efficiency, calculability, predictability, control) increasingly dominate society, adapting Weber's rationalization theory; distinct from casual uses of the term.
McDonaldland
McDonaldland is McDonald's fictional advertising world, created by Needham, Harper & Steers in 1971, home to Ronald McDonald, Grimace, Hamburglar, and Mayor McCheese; it ran until the early 2000s, lost a Krofft copyright suit, and returned in 2025.
McDonnell Douglas
McDonnell Douglas was an American aerospace manufacturer based in St. Louis, formed in 1967 by the merger of McDonnell Aircraft and Douglas Aircraft and absorbed by Boeing in 1997.
McDonnell Douglas A-12 Avenger II
The McDonnell Douglas A-12 Avenger II, developed by McDonnell Douglas and General Dynamics for the US Navy, was a stealth attack aircraft canceled in 1991 before any flew, the largest Defense Department project termination in history.
McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II
The McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II, also called the AV-8B, is a vertical and short takeoff attack aircraft that served the US Marine Corps from 1985 to 2026.
McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornet
The McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornet, designated CF-188, is the Royal Canadian Air Force's multi-role fighter, a Canadian variant of the American F/A-18 Hornet that entered service in 1982.
McDonnell Douglas DC-10
The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 is a three-engine wide-body airliner built by McDonnell Douglas from 1968 to 1989, entering service with American Airlines and United Airlines in 1971.
McDonnell Douglas DC-9
The McDonnell Douglas DC-9, also known as the Douglas DC-9, is a twin-engine short-to-medium-range jet airliner first flown in 1965, with 976 built and service with Delta until 2014.
McDonnell Douglas DC-X
The McDonnell Douglas DC-X, also known as the Delta Clipper, was an unpiloted reusable rocket demonstrator that made twelve vertical takeoff and landing flights from 1993 to 1996.
McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle
The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle is a twin-engine, all-weather supersonic fighter built for the United States Air Force, undefeated in 104 air-to-air victories and in service since 1974.