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McFly
McFly are an English pop rock band formed in London in 2003: Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones, Dougie Poynter, and Harry Judd. Seven studio albums, seven UK number-one singles, youngest group with a chart-topping debut album.
McG
McG (Joseph McGinty Nichol, born 1968, Kalamazoo, Michigan) is an American director and producer of Charlie's Angels, Terminator Salvation, and The Babysitter, and founder of Wonderland Sound and Vision.
MCG-02-53-003
MCG-02-53-003, also known as the Aquarius Dwarf (DDO 210), is a faint dwarf irregular galaxy in Aquarius, on the isolated periphery of the Local Group.
MCG-03-01-015
MCG-03-01-015 is the Morphological Catalog of Galaxies designation for the Wolf–Lundmark–Melotte galaxy (WLM, also DDO 221), an isolated Local Group dwarf irregular in Cetus about 3 million light-years from Earth.
MCG-06-07-001
MCG-06-07-001, also cataloged as ESO 356-04, is the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy, a small satellite of the Milky Way discovered by Harlow Shapley in 1938.
McGeer passive walker
The McGeer passive walker is a two-legged machine that walks stably down a shallow slope, powered by gravity alone with no motors or control, designed by Tad McGeer.
McGill University
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec; founded 1821 by Royal Charter after James McGill's bequest; first faculty medicine (1829); 11 faculties, three campuses; top Canadian medical-doctoral university; #27 QS 2025.
McGill University Health Centre
McGill University Health Centre (MUHC/CUSM), Montreal academic health network affiliated with McGill University, formed 1997 by merger of five hospitals; Glen site opened 2015; tertiary and quaternary care, 17,000+ staff, four hospitals.
McGirt v. Oklahoma
McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020) is the 5-4 Supreme Court ruling that the Muscogee (Creek) Nation reservation was never disestablished, making eastern Oklahoma Indian country and barring state prosecution of Indians for major crimes there.
McGovern–Fraser Commission
The McGovern–Fraser Commission (Commission on Party Structure and Delegate Selection), created after the 1968 Democratic convention, chaired by George McGovern then Donald Fraser, issued 18 delegate-selection guidelines that produced binding primaries and ended boss control of nominations.
McGruff the Crime Dog
McGruff the Crime Dog, the trench-coated cartoon bloodhound of the "Take A Bite Out Of Crime" campaign, debuted in 1980, was named by public contest, and is managed by the National Crime Prevention Council.
McGuire Nuclear Station
McGuire Nuclear Station is a two-unit nuclear power plant operated by Duke Energy on Lake Norman near Huntersville, North Carolina, serving the Charlotte region since 1981.
McGurk effect
McGurk effect: audiovisual speech illusion from McGurk & MacDonald's 1976 Nature paper 'Hearing lips and seeing voices'; hearing [ba] while watching [ga] lips yields the fused percept [da], with 0–100% individual variability.
McHale's Navy
McHale's Navy, ABC sitcom 1962-1966, 138 black-and-white episodes starring Ernest Borgnine as PT-73 commander Quinton McHale, with Joe Flynn and Tim Conway; adapted from the drama Seven Against the Sea.
McHenry County, Illinois, United States
McHenry County, Illinois is a county in northeastern Illinois established in 1836 and named for William McHenry, a soldier in the War of 1812, with Woodstock as its county seat.
Mchinji District
Mchinji District, Malawi (formerly Fort Manning): Central Region border district with Zambia, capital Mchinji Boma, 3,356 sq km, agro-based tobacco economy, busy Mwami/Mchinji border crossing on the Nacala corridor.
MCI Communications
MCI Communications, formally MCI Communications Corporation and originally Microwave Communications, Inc., was an American long-distance telephone company founded in 1968 that became the first sustained competitor to AT&T.
MCI D-Series
The MCI D-Series is a family of intercity motorcoaches built by Motor Coach Industries since 1992, called the workhorse of the North American motorcoach industry.
MCI Inc.
MCI Inc., also known as WorldCom, was an American telecommunications company formed from the reorganized assets of WorldCom in 2004 and acquired by Verizon Communications in January 2006.
McIntosh (apple)
The McIntosh, also known as McIntosh Red, is a Canadian dessert apple found in 1811 on John McIntosh's farm in Dundela, Ontario, and propagated from about 1870.
McIntosh Combined Cycle Facility
The McIntosh Combined Cycle Facility is a natural gas power plant in Rincon, Effingham County, Georgia, owned by Georgia Power and generating about 7.8 TWh per year since 2005.
Mcity
Mcity is a University of Michigan partnership testing connected and automated vehicles at a 32-acre simulated urban proving ground in Ann Arbor that opened in 2015.
McKamey Manor
McKamey Manor, also called DESCENT, is Russ McKamey's extreme haunted attraction in Summertown, Tennessee, and Huntsville, Alabama: a solo, hours-long survival horror challenge requiring a 40-page waiver, medical clearance, and background check, with a $20,000 prize no one has won.
McKay correspondence
The McKay correspondence, first observed by John McKay in 1980, links finite subgroups of SU(2) to affine ADE Dynkin diagrams via the irreducible representations of each group.
McKay graph
The McKay graph, or McKay quiver, is a graph encoding how a finite group's irreducible representations combine by tensor product with a chosen representation, introduced by John McKay around 1980.
McKayla Maroney
McKayla Maroney, born 1995, American artistic gymnast, Fierce Five, 2012 London Olympics team gold and vault silver, 2011 World vault champion, Amanar, 'not impressed' meme, Nassar survivor, retired 2016.
McKee Foods
McKee Foods Corporation, formerly McKee Baking Company, is a family-owned snack bakery in Collegedale, Tennessee, founded in 1934 by O.D. and Ruth McKee and known for Little Debbie snack cakes, Sunbelt Bakery, Drake's, and Fieldstone brands.
McKelvey–Schofield chaos theorem
McKelvey–Schofield chaos theorem: a social choice result (McKelvey 1976, 1979; Schofield 1978, 1985) that with an empty majority-rule core, agenda-controlled pairwise votes can lead from any policy point to any other.
Mckenna Grace
Mckenna Grace (born 2006, Grapevine, Texas) is an American actress and singer, also credited as McKenna Grace, known for Gifted, Phoebe Spengler in Ghostbusters, young-version roles, a 2021 Emmy nomination, and Maysilee Donner in Sunrise on the Reaping.
McKenzie friend
McKenzie friend, from McKenzie v McKenzie (1970), is a layperson assisting a litigant in person in England and Wales courts with notes, papers, and quiet advice; no rights of audience, unregulated, fee-charging form grew after LASPO legal aid cuts.