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Meluhhan village at Lagash
The Meluhhan village at Lagash was a rural settlement of people from Meluhha, identified with the Indus civilization, in the Ur III province of Girsu/Lagash around 2112-2004 BC.
Melukat
Melukat is a Balinese Hindu purification ritual in which a person washes in consecrated holy water, or tirta, to cleanse physical and spiritual impurity, best known at Pura Tirta Empul.
Melukote (ಮೇಲುಕೋಟೆ)
Melukote (ಮೇಲುಕೋಟೆ), also Melkote or Thirunarayanapuram, is a temple town on Yadugiri hill in Mandya district, Karnataka, known for the Cheluvanarayana Swamy Temple, Ramanujacharya's headquarters, and the Vairamudi festival.
Melungeon
Melungeons are mixed-ancestry Appalachian families of European, African, and Native American descent, centered in Hancock and Hawkins Counties, Tennessee; term first documented 1813, self-adopted only from the 1960s.
MELUS
MELUS is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal on multi-ethnic American literature, published since 1974 by the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States.
Melusine
Melusine, also Melusina, is a water fairy of French and European folklore who becomes a serpent from the navel down every Saturday, known as the mythic ancestor of the House of Lusignan.
Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal
Melusine von der Schulenburg (Ehrengard Melusine von der Schulenburg, 1667-1743), Duchess of Kendal and Munster, was the German mistress and probable secret wife of George I of Great Britain, mother of three unacknowledged daughters, and a powerful political intermediary at his court.
Melvil Dewey
Melvil Dewey (1851–1931), American librarian, created the Dewey Decimal Classification in 1876, co-founded the American Library Association, and founded the first library school; resigned as New York State Librarian in 1905 over racism and harassment.
Melville (Mercurian crater)
Melville is a 146.45-km-diameter impact crater on Mercury at 22.12°N, 9.80°W, named for writer Herman Melville, imaged by MESSENGER and classified among Mercury's complex craters.
Melville Bay
Melville Bay is a bay on the northwest Greenland coast, named by Sir John Ross in 1818 and protected since 1977 as a nature reserve for narwhal and polar bear habitat, with only quota-regulated traditional narwhal hunting permitted.
Melville Eastham
Melville Eastham (1885–1964) was an American electrical engineer who founded the General Radio Company, built instruments that standardized radio-frequency measurement, and led the MIT Radiation Laboratory group that developed LORAN.
Melville Fuller
Melville Weston Fuller, eighth Chief Justice of the United States (1888-1910), Chicago attorney nominated by Grover Cleveland; led the Fuller Court through Plessy, Lochner, Pollock, and E.C. Knight and the Evarts Act reform.
Melville Island (island, Australia)
Melville Island, Tiwi Islands, is Australia's second largest island (5,786 km2) after Tasmania, lying 80 km north of Darwin in the Arafura Sea, separated from Bathurst Island by Apsley Strait, Tiwi-owned Aboriginal freehold with Milikapiti and Pirlangimpi communities.
Melville Island (island, Canada)
Melville Island is a large uninhabited island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, split between the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Known for deep permafrost, Parry's 1819 wintering, and the Cape Bounty Arctic Watershed Observatory; distinct from Halifax's Melville Island and Melville Peninsula.
Melville J. Herskovits
Melville J. Herskovits (1895–1963) was an American anthropologist at Northwestern University who opened the study of people of African descent in the Americas as a new field.
Melville Peninsula
Melville Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada: Arctic mainland peninsula, about 400 km long and 100 km wide, west of Foxe Basin, joined to the mainland by Rae Isthmus, separated from Baffin Island by Fury and Hecla Strait; highest point 521 m.
Melville Wolfrom
Melville Wolfrom was an American carbohydrate chemist who spent his career at Ohio State University and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1950.
Melvin and Howard
Melvin and Howard: 1980 Jonathan Demme comedy-drama (Bo Goldman screenplay) starring Paul Le Mat, Jason Robards, and Mary Steenburgen, based on Melvin Dummar's $156 million Howard Hughes 'Mormon Will' claim; two Oscars.
Melvin Baron
Melvin Baron (1927–1997) was an American civil and structural engineer, partner and board chairman of Weidlinger Associates, known for shock and vibration of immersed shells and blast-resistant design.
Melvin Belli
Melvin Mouron Belli (1907–1996), the San Francisco "King of Torts," pioneered demonstrative evidence in personal injury trials, defended Jack Ruby in 1964, represented celebrity clients, wrote over sixty books, and filed for bankruptcy in 1995.
Melvin Booker
Melvin Booker (born 1972) is a former Missouri point guard, 1994 Big Eight Player of the Year, who played 32 NBA games for Houston, Denver, and Golden State and is the father of Suns star Devin Booker.
Melvin Calvin
Melvin Calvin (1911–1997) was an American biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley who won the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for tracing the path of carbon in photosynthesis.
Melvin Capital
Melvin Capital, also known as Melvin Capital Management, was a New York hedge fund founded by Gabriel Plotkin that wound down in 2022 after the GameStop short squeeze.
Melvin Cohn
Melvin Cohn (1922–2018) was an American immunologist and founding fellow of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, known for gene regulation work at the Institut Pasteur and theoretical immunology.
Melvin Conway
Melvin Conway is an American computer scientist whose 1968 paper "How Do Committees Invent?" gave rise to Conway's Law, the observation that system designs mirror the organizations that build them.
Melvin F. Kanninen
Melvin F. Kanninen is a mechanical engineer known for developing elastic-plastic fracture mechanics and applying it to nuclear reactor piping and gas pipelines; he co-authored the textbook Advanced Fracture Mechanics in 1985.
Melvin Franklin
Melvin Franklin (David English, 1942-1995), nicknamed Blue, was the founding bass singer of Motown's the Temptations from 1960 to 1995, anchoring hits like My Girl and Papa Was a Rollin' Stone, a 1989 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee who died of heart failure at 52.
Melvin Gordon
Melvin Gordon III, NFL running back (born 1993, Kenosha, WI), Wisconsin star and 2015 Chargers first-round pick (15th overall); two-time Pro Bowler, 6,543 career rushing yards, 2019 holdout, later Broncos, Chiefs, Ravens.
Melvin Gregg
Melvin Gregg (born 1988, Portsmouth, Virginia) is an American actor and producer who rose from Vine comedy fame to roles in American Vandal, High Flying Bird, Snowfall's Manboy, and Peacock's The Paper.
Melvin Guillard
Melvin "The Young Assassin" Guillard (born 1983), Louisiana-born American MMA fighter, UFC lightweight 2005-2014 with a 12-9 record, retired September 2025 after a 33-24-2 career.