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Melisseus (Μελισσεύς)
Melisseus (Μελισσεύς), Greek mythological figure of honey and bees: a Kourete daimon of beekeeping and a legendary king of Crete whose daughters Adrasteia and Ida, or Melissa and Amalthea, nursed the infant Zeus on Mount Ida.
Melita (ancient city)
Melita (Melite, Greek Μελίτη), ancient capital of Malta under Mdina/Rabat, Phoenician Maleth, Roman municipium from 218 BC in Sicily's province, with Domus Romana, Tas-Silġ temple, and catacombs.
Melita Norwood
Melita Norwood, also known as Melita Sirnis, was a British spy who spied for the Soviet Union. She passed atomic research secrets under the codename Hola.
Melite
Melite (Greek Μελίτη) names several ancient entities: an urban deme of Athens west of the Agora, the Roman capital of Malta (Phoenician Maleth, under Rome 218 BC, modern Mdina), the Thessalian city Melitaia, and figures in myth and literature.
Meliteia
Meliteia (Melitaia) was an ancient Greek polis in Achaia Phthiotis, near modern Melitea in central Greece, which flourished from the 5th century BCE to the late Roman era.
Melitopol (Мелітополь)
Melitopol (Мелітополь), formerly Novoaleksandrovka, is a city of about 150,000 in southern Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia oblast, a rail junction on the Molochna River occupied by Russia since 2022.
Melitopol Raion
Melitopol Raion (Мелітопольський район), a district of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Melitopol. Enlarged 17 July 2020 under resolution 807-IX; 16 hromadas, about 7008.5 km², occupied by Russia since 2022.
Melitracen
Melitracen, a tricyclic antidepressant (C21H25N, ATC N06AA14) with anxiolytic properties, used for depression and best known in the flupentixol-melitracen combination Deanxit, studied in functional dyspepsia and refractory GERD.
Melitta Schachner
Melitta Schachner, born 1943, is a German neurobiologist and biochemist known for discovering the neural adhesion molecules L1, CHL1, and the tenascins, and for the first knockout mutant of a neural recognition molecule.
Melitta Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg
Melitta Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg, born Melitta Schiller, was a German aeronautical engineer and test pilot who developed dive-bombing sights for the Luftwaffe and died in 1945.
Melittidae
Melittidae is a small family of about 200 oligolectic bee species in 16 genera, placed at the base of bee phylogeny as sister to all other bee families, with three subfamilies and oil-collecting genera Rediviva and Macropis.
Melittin
Melittin is the main venom component of the European honeybee, a 26-amino-acid peptide that disrupts cell membranes and is studied for antimicrobial and anticancer activity.
MELK
MELK, also known as HPK38, is a human serine/threonine kinase of the AMPK-related family, implicated in cell cycle progression and stem cell renewal and pursued as a cancer drug target.
Melk Abbey
Melk Abbey (Stift Melk) is a Benedictine monastery above the Danube in Melk, Austria, founded in 1089 and rebuilt in Baroque style between 1702 and 1736.
Melka Kunture and Balchit: Archaeological and Palaeontological Sites in the Highland Area of Ethiopia
Melka Kunture and Balchit, a serial UNESCO World Heritage site (inscribed 2024) in Ethiopia's Upper Awash Valley at 2,000–2,200 m, preserves a two-million-year Oldowan-to-Late Stone Age sequence with Homo erectus fossils and the earliest known obsidian use.
Melkart (crater on Ganymede)
Melkart is a 105-km-wide central dome crater on Jupiter's moon Ganymede, at the border of dark and light terrains, IAU-named in 1979 after the Phoenician god of Tyre and imaged by Galileo.
Melke Maryam
Melke Maryam (Ge'ez: መልክአ ማርያም, "Image of Mary") is a Ge'ez hymn in praise of the Virgin Mary, in the malkeʾ genre where each stanza greets a part of her body.
Melke Selassie
Melke Selassie (Malkəʾa Śəllāse) is a Ge'ez hymn praising the Holy Trinity, composed for a church consecration in 1694 and attributed to ʾAbbā Səbḥat Laʾab.
Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome
Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome, a rare orofacial granulomatosis (Miescher-Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome), defined by orofacial edema, recurrent facial palsy, and fissured tongue; corticosteroid-responsive, autosomal dominant, ICD-10 G51.2.
Melkite Greek Catholic Church
The Melkite Greek Catholic Church (كنيسة الروم الكاثوليك) is a Byzantine-rite Eastern Catholic church of the Patriarchate of Antioch, in communion with Rome since 1724, with about 1.5 million members.
Melksham
Melksham: market town in west Wiltshire, England, on the Bristol Avon; 18,113 residents (2021). Domesday royal manor, 1219 market charter, cloth and rubber industries, railway since 1848.
Melky Cabrera
Melky Cabrera, Dominican MLB outfielder (2005–2019), Yankees, Royals, Giants, Blue Jays; 1,962 hits, 2012 All-Star MVP, 2009 World Series winner, 50-game 2012 PED suspension.
Mella Dee
Mella Dee is the stage name of Ryan Aitchison, a Doncaster-born, London-based DJ and producer whose 2017 track "Techno Disco Tool" topped BBC Radio 1's Dance Chart.
Mellah of Fez
The Mellah of Fes is a Jewish quarter founded in 1438 in Fes el-Jdid by the Marinid dynasty. It became a model for other walled quarters in Morocco.
Mellah of Marrakesh
The Mellah of Marrakesh (الملاح) is the historic walled Jewish quarter of Marrakesh, Morocco, established in the 1550s under the Saadian dynasty beside the royal kasbah.
Mellanox Technologies
Mellanox Technologies was an Israeli semiconductor company founded by Eyal Waldman in 1999, headquartered in Yokneam, that made InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnects for data centers and supercomputers.
Mellat Park (پارک ملت, n3593379060)
Mellat Park (پارک ملت) names major Iranian urban parks: a 34-hectare English-style park on Valiasr Street in north Tehran with a lake, zoo, and 2008 Cineplex, and a 72-hectare park in west Mashhad with Iran's tallest Middle East Ferris wheel.
Melle Mel
Melle Mel, born Melvin Glover, is an American rapper from the Bronx. He is best known as the lead lyricist for Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
Melle Van't Wout
Melle van 't Wout, Dutch short track speed skater born 2000 in Laren, brother of Jens; 2026 Olympic 5000m relay gold and 500m silver, 2023 European relay champion, comeback from knee injury.
Mellified man
Mellified man, or human mummy confection: a legendary medicine of a corpse steeped in honey for 100 years, reported by Li Shizhen's 1596 Bencao Gangmu as an Arabian practice; hearsay, with no archaeological proof.