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McMahon-Husayn Correspondence
The McMahon-Husayn Correspondence was a secret 1915–1916 exchange of ten letters in which Britain promised support for Arab independence in return for an Arab revolt against the Ottomans.
McMansion
A McMansion, sometimes called a starter castle, is a very large, mass-produced suburban house, typically built from the 1980s onward and criticized as ostentatious and lacking architectural integrity.
McMartin preschool trial
McMartin preschool trial (1983-1990), Manhattan Beach, California child sexual abuse prosecution; longest, costliest US criminal trial, about $15 million; seven defendants, 115 counts, zero convictions; Buckeys acquitted in 1990; drove reform of child forensic interviewing.
McMaster University
McMaster University, founded 1887 in Toronto and in Hamilton since 1930, is a Canadian research university known for pioneering problem-based learning, its nuclear reactor, 37,256 students, and the 2026-2031 Bolder Together strategic plan.
McMaster-Carr
McMaster-Carr, formally the McMaster-Carr Supply Company, is a privately held American distributor of hardware, tools, and MRO supplies, founded in 1901 and based in Elmhurst, Illinois.
McMath (lunar crater)
McMath is an IAU-approved lunar impact crater, 88.58 km across, centered at 16.63°N, -166.09°, named in 1970 for American astronomers Francis Charles McMath (1867-1938) and Robert Raynolds McMath (1891-1962), with satellite craters A, J, M, P, and Q.
MCMC convergence diagnostics
MCMC convergence diagnostics are tools that check whether Markov chain Monte Carlo draws plausibly represent the target posterior distribution, such as R-hat and effective sample size.
McMillan & Wife
McMillan & Wife is an NBC police procedural (1971–1977), also known as McMillan in its final season, starring Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James as a crime-solving San Francisco police commissioner and his wife on the NBC Mystery Movie wheel.
McMillan Tac-338
The McMillan Tac-338 is a bolt-action sniper rifle in .338 Lapua Magnum built by McMillan Firearms, best known as the rifle Navy SEAL Chris Kyle used for his longest reported kill, at 2,100 yards in Iraq.
McMillan TAC-50
The McMillan TAC-50 is a .50 BMG bolt-action sniper rifle made by McMillan Brothers, used by Canadian Forces as the C15 and by US Navy SEALs.
McMillions
McMillions (McMillion$) is a 2020 six-part HBO documentary series by James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte about Jerome Jacobson's $24 million McDonald's Monopoly game fraud and the FBI's Operation Final Answer.
McMurdo Dry Valleys
McMurdo Dry Valleys, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica: the continent's largest ice-free polar desert, with glacier-melt streams, ice-covered lakes, Don Juan Pond, Blood Falls, and long use as a Mars analog.
McMurdo Sound
McMurdo Sound is the Antarctic sound between Ross Island and the mainland, discovered by James Clark Ross in 1841 and named for Lt. Archibald McMurdo. It hosts McMurdo Station and Scott Base, stable fast ice south of 77.6°S, polynyas to the north, and near-freezing waters around -2°C.
McMurdo Station
McMurdo Station, on Hut Point Peninsula, Ross Island, is the largest U.S. Antarctic research station and the USAP logistics hub, established 1955 under Operation Deep Freeze, housing up to 1,100 in summer.
McMurry reaction
The McMurry reaction, also called McMurry coupling, reductively couples two aldehydes or ketones to form an alkene using low-valent titanium, named for John E. McMurry.
MCMXIV
"MCMXIV" is a poem by Philip Larkin, published in his 1964 collection The Whitsun Weddings, looking back on England just before the First World War began.
McNabs Island
McNabs Island, largest island at the entrance to Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, part of McNabs and Lawlor Islands Provincial Park; Mi'kmaq, McNab family farming, and fortifications including Fort McNab National Historic Site.
McNary Dam
McNary Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Columbia River near Hermiston, Oregon, begun in 1947 and dedicated in 1954, with a 980-megawatt powerhouse and a navigation lock.
McNeal (play)
McNeal is a one-act play by Ayad Akhtar about novelist Jacob McNeal using AI to write. Its 2024 Broadway premiere at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont starred Robert Downey Jr. in his Broadway debut, directed by Bartlett Sher, with an AI digital likeness of Downey by AGBO.
McNeese State University
McNeese State University is a public university in Lake Charles, Louisiana, founded 1939 as Lake Charles Junior College, renamed McNeese State College in 1950 and McNeese State University in 1970; about 6,556 students.
McNeil AB
McNeil AB is a Swedish pharmaceutical manufacturer in Helsingborg that makes Nicorette smoking-cessation products for over 80 countries; the site dates to 1914 and became a Kenvue subsidiary.
McNeil Island
McNeil Island, in Pierce County, Washington, housed a unique prison from 1875 to 2011 that evolved into the Special Commitment Center and a wildlife preserve.
McNemar's test
McNemar's test, also known as McNemar's chi-squared test, is a nonparametric statistical test for paired binary data, proposed by Quinn McNemar at Stanford in 1947.
McNichols Sports Arena
McNichols Sports Arena, nicknamed Big Mac, was a multi-purpose indoor arena in Denver, Colorado, home to the Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche from 1975 until 1999.
MCNP
MCNP (Monte Carlo N-Particle) is a widely used Monte Carlo radiation transport code developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory, simulating neutrons, photons, electrons, and ions.
McNulty Gas Field
McNulty Gas Field is a producing coal seam gas field in the Surat Basin of Queensland, Australia, developed under the Queensland Curtis LNG project and operated by QGC, a Shell-affiliated entity.
MCOLN1
MCOLN1 (TRPML1, mucolipin-1) is a human chromosome 19 gene encoding a lysosomal TRP cation channel permeable to Ca2+, Fe2+, Na+, K+, and H+; mutations cause mucolipidosis type IV.
McOndo
McOndo is a 1996 anthology of short stories edited by Chilean writers Alberto Fuguet and Sergio Gómez, announcing a break with magical realism in favor of urban, globalized Latin American fiction.
MCOT
MCOT (บมจ. อสมท), MCOT Public Company Limited, formerly the Mass Communication Organization of Thailand, is a Thai state broadcaster under the Office of the Prime Minister, 77.28% state-owned, operating Channel 9 MCOT HD, radio, and Thai News Agency; classified Captured Public/State-Managed.
MCP Energy SMA, LP
MCP Energy SMA, LP is a Delaware-incorporated private equity fund based in Austin, Texas, managed by MCP Management, LP, which reported USD 2.5 billion sold by July 2026.