All articles starting with M

Madison Rayne

Madison Rayne (Ashley Nichole Simmons Lomberger, born 1986, Columbus, Ohio) is an American retired professional wrestler and AEW coach, a five-time TNA Knockouts Champion with a record 188-day reign and a member of The Beautiful People.

Madison Ryann Ward

Madison Ryann Ward (born 1995, Lawton, Oklahoma) is an American faith-based singer-songwriter of pop, R&B, gospel, and blues; former OU volleyball player, ex-American Recordings artist, now independent on Zelda House Records with albums A New Thing and Purified Love.

Madison Shipman

Madison Taylor Shipman (born 1992) is an American softball shortstop and broadcaster. Tennessee All-American 2011-14, 2014 Honda Sports Award and Senior CLASS Award winner, NPF Rookie of the Year, later ESPN and Sportsnet Blue Jays analyst.

Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden (MSG), "The World's Most Famous Arena," is the fourth venue of that name, opened February 11, 1968 above Penn Station in Manhattan. It hosts the Knicks and Rangers, seats about 21,000, and was renovated in 2013.

Madison Square Garden (1925)

Madison Square Garden (1925), or MSG III, was the third New York arena of that name, on Eighth Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets from 1925 to 1968; home of the Rangers and Knicks, site of 1933 and 1939 rallies, demolished by 1969.

Oct 15, 2026

Madison Symmetric Torus

The Madison Symmetric Torus (MST) is a toroidal magnetic confinement experiment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, operating mainly as a reversed field pinch since 1988.

Sep 19, 2026

Madison Tyler Holdings

Madison Tyler Holdings was an American proprietary trading and market-making firm co-founded in 2002 by Vincent Viola and David Salomon, merged into Virtu Financial in 2011.

Madison, Wisconsin

Madison, Wisconsin, the state capital and seat of Dane County, founded 1837 and named for President James Madison. Sits on an isthmus between Lakes Mendota and Monona, home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with about 286,000 residents.

Oct 20, 2026

MADIT-CRT trial

MADIT-CRT (NCT00180271): Boston Scientific-sponsored randomized trial of 1,820 NYHA I-II patients testing CRT-D versus ICD-only; primary endpoint HR 0.66, no mortality benefit, FDA approval extended to LBBB subgroup in 2010.

Madiun

Madiun (Kota Madiun) is an autonomous city in East Java, Indonesia, distinct from surrounding Madiun Regency; population about 201,800 (2024), HDI 85.12 (2025), Dutch residency from 1832, municipality from 1918.

Madiun Affair

The Madiun Affair was an armed conflict of September to December 1948 in Madiun, East Java, where communist forces proclaimed a Soviet-style republic that the Republican army crushed within months.

Madja-as

Madja-as, also spelled Madya-as, is a purported precolonial confederacy on Panay in the Philippines, said to have been founded by Bornean datus who fled Malacca.

Madlanga Commission

Madlanga Commission, formally the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Criminality, Political Interference and Corruption in the Criminal Justice System, is a South African presidential inquiry chaired by retired Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga, established July 2025 after Lt-Gen Mkhwanazi's allegations of syndicate infiltration of police, prosecution and intelligence.

Madlen Radukanova

Madlen Radukanova (Мадлен Миленова Радуканова), born 2000 in Sofia, is a retired Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast who won group all-around gold at Tokyo 2020, Bulgaria's first Olympic title in the sport, and retired in October 2021.

Mädler (Martian crater)

Mädler is a 125-km-diameter impact crater on Mars at 10.68°S, 2.70°E (USGS Feature ID 4092), smooth-floored and ancient, named for astronomer Johann Heinrich Mädler; distinct from the 27.58-km lunar crater Mädler.

Madlib

Madlib (Otis Jackson Jr., born 1973, Oxnard, California) is an American hip-hop producer, DJ, and rapper behind Quasimoto, Beat Konducta, Madvillainy, Jaylib's Champion Sound, and the Freddie Gibbs albums Piñata and Bandana.

Madlyn Rhue

Madlyn Rhue (Madeline Roche, 1935–2003), American TV character actress, Lt. Marla McGivers in Star Trek's "Space Seed"; worked nearly 40 years despite multiple sclerosis, diagnosed 1977, performing later roles from a wheelchair.

Madman Across the Water

Madman Across the Water is Elton John's fourth studio album, released November 1971 on DJM/UNI. Recorded at Trident Studios with producer Gus Dudgeon and arranger Paul Buckmaster, it contains Tiny Dancer and Levon, peaked at No. 8 on Billboard, and No. 41 in the UK.

Madman Entertainment

Madman Entertainment is an independent film and television distributor founded in Melbourne in 1996 by Paul Wiegard and Tim Anderson, serving Australia and New Zealand. Once the dominant anime distributor (over 90% share), it sold its anime arm to Aniplex/Sony in 2019 and now focuses on arthouse, documentary, and Australian cinema.

Madman theory

Madman theory: coercive-diplomacy stratagem in which a leader feigns irrationality to extract concessions; coined by Nixon in 1968, applied in his 1969 Vietnam nuclear alert, later invoked by Trump and judged largely ineffective by scholars.

MADMAX

MADMAX, short for MAgnetized Disc and Mirror Axion eXperiment, is an international particle physics collaboration led by the Max Planck Institute for Physics that searches for axion dark matter.

Madness (band)

Madness are an English ska-pop band formed in Camden, London in 1976, also known as the North London Invaders. Nine consecutive UK Top 10 singles 1979 to 1981, only number one "House of Fun" (1982), 2023 album C'est la Vie hit number one.

Madness and Civilization

Madness and Civilization (Folie et déraison, 1961) is Michel Foucault's history of madness in the Age of Reason, arguing confinement of the mad was social exclusion, not medicine; the English Richard Howard translation is abridged by 300 pages.

Madoc

Madoc (Madog ab Owain Gwynedd), legendary Welsh prince, son of Owain Gwynedd, said to have sailed to America around 1170 and founded a Welsh colony; a sixteenth-century legend used for Elizabethan claims against Spain, debunked by Thomas Stephens in 1858, and tied to Welsh Indian and Mandan myths.

Madoff investment scandal

The Madoff investment scandal, also known as the Madoff fraud, was the December 2008 collapse of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme, which cost investors about $17.3 billion in principal.

Oct 3, 2026

Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street

Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street is a 2023 four-part Netflix documentary series directed by Joe Berlinger about Bernie Madoff's $64 billion Ponzi scheme, its mechanics, co-conspirators, and regulatory failures.

Madol Doova

Madol Doova (මඩොල් දූව) is a 1947 Sinhala children's adventure novel by Martin Wickramasinghe, following two village boys, Upali and Jinna, who run away to live on an uninhabited island.

Madolyn Smith

Madolyn Smith (Madolyn Smith Osborne), born 1957, Albuquerque, is a retired American actress known for Urban Cowboy (1980), If Tomorrow Comes (1986), All of Me, 2010, and Funny Farm; retired from acting in 1994 due to chronic illness, married former NHL player Mark Osborne since 1988. Distinct from therapists and nurse practitioners of similar names.

Madonie UNESCO Global Geopark

Madonie UNESCO Global Geopark, Sicily, Italy: designated 2015, first Italian geopark in the European Geoparks Network, 40+ geosites, 21 municipalities, green card 2025 confirming membership until 2029.