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Mendocino County, California
Mendocino County is a northern California county established in 1850, seat at Ukiah, population about 88,000-91,600, known for redwoods, coastline, wine grapes, and a documented structural budget deficit.
Mendoza Line
Mendoza Line: baseball slang for a .200 batting average, named after light-hitting shortstop Mario Mendoza (career .215). Coined as a 1979 Mariners clubhouse joke, popularized by George Brett and Chris Berman.
Mendoza Province
Mendoza Province, Argentina (Provincia de Mendoza): center-west Andean province, capital Mendoza city. Produces over 78% of Argentine wine, hosts Aconcagua (6,962 m), governed by Alfredo Cornejo 2023-2027.
Mendoza, Argentina
Mendoza, Argentina: capital of Mendoza Province in Cuyo, founded 1561; fourth-largest metro (1.3 million), Andean oasis city famed for acequias, urban forest, Malbec wine, and the Metrotranvía.
Mene Grande Oil Field
The Mene Grande oil field is an oil field on Lake Maracaibo in Zulia, Venezuela, discovered in 1914 and regarded as the country's first giant field.
Ménec alignments
Ménec alignments (Alignements du Ménec), westernmost of the Carnac stone rows in Morbihan, Brittany: about 1,050 Neolithic menhirs in 11 rows over roughly 950 m, with a 70 x 90 m oval enclosure, dated around 4800-3500 BC, a historic monument since 1889 and part of the 2025 UNESCO site.
Menehune
Menehune, possibly from the Tahitian manahune (commoner), are the short-statured night-working builders of Hawaiian mythology, credited with Kauai's Menehune Ditch and Alekoko Fishpond; scholarship treats them as myth or memory of Marquesan first settlers.
Menek Goldstein
Menek Goldstein (1926–1997) was a Polish-born neurochemist at New York University Medical Center whose laboratory defined the brain's catecholamine-synthesizing enzymes and pioneered bromocriptine therapy for Parkinson's disease.
Menelaos
Menelaos (Menelai Portus, Limin Menelaou) was an ancient harbor of Marmarica in eastern Libya, named for the Spartan king Menelaus of myth; Agesilaus died there in 361 BC, and the name survives in Menelao Bay near Timimi.
Menelaus (Μενέλαος)
Menelaus (Μενέλαος), Greek legendary king of Sparta, son of Atreus, brother of Agamemnon, husband of Helen; her abduction by Paris caused the Trojan War. Fights Paris in Iliad 3, hosts Telemachus in Odyssey 4, worshipped with Helen at the Menelaion, Therapne.
Menelik I (ምኒልክ)
Menelik I (ምኒልክ), also Bayna-Lehkem, is the legendary son of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba in the Kebra Nagast, first emperor of Ethiopia and charter ancestor of the Solomonic dynasty; not historically attested.
Menelik II
Menelik II (Sahle Mariam, 1844–1913), Emperor of Ethiopia from 1889, defeated Italy at Adwa in 1896, secured recognition of Ethiopian sovereignty, doubled his realm through southern conquests, and modernized Addis Ababa.
Menelik's southern expansion
Menelik's southern expansion was the series of campaigns by which Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia conquered the southern kingdoms and peoples of the Ethiopian region by about 1900.
Menemism
Menemism (Spanish: menemismo) is the political phenomenon of Carlos Saúl Menem's two presidencies in Argentina from 1989 to 1999, when a Peronist government carried out drastic neoliberal reforms.
Menen Asfaw
Menen Asfaw (Amharic: መነን አስፋው), known as Empress Menen, was crowned empress of Ethiopia beside Haile Selassie in 1930 and founded its first girls' boarding school.
Menengai
Menengai is a trachytic shield volcano with an 8 x 12 km caldera near Nakuru, Kenya, last erupting around 6050 BCE, now a major geothermal field developed by GDC with 1,600 MW estimated potential.
Menes
Menes, from Egyptian Meni, is the legendary first king of Egypt credited with unifying Upper and Lower Egypt and founding the First Dynasty; he is identified by most scholars with Narmer and by others with Hor-Aha.
Menetes
Menetes is a monotypic squirrel genus (Thomas, 1908) containing Menetes berdmorei, the Indochinese ground squirrel, a Callosciurinae squirrel of Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam, IUCN Least Concern.
Ménétrier disease
Ménétrier disease (giant hypertrophic gastritis, hypoproteinemic hypertrophic gastropathy) is a rare premalignant gastropathy with giant gastric folds, hypochlorhydria, and protein-losing enteropathy, driven by TGF-α/EGFR signaling; pediatric cases link to CMV.
Meng C. Wang
Meng C. Wang (Meng Wang) is a molecular biologist who studies how metabolism, organelles, and gut microbes regulate aging, and a senior group leader at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus.
Meng Chang
Meng Chang (孟昶, 919–965) was the last emperor of Later Shu, one of the Ten Kingdoms; he succeeded his father Meng Zhixiang in 934 and surrendered to the Song in 965.
Meng Chang's death after the Shu conquest
Meng Chang's death after the Shu conquest (孟昶暴卒) was the sudden, unexplained death in 965 of Meng Chang, last ruler of Later Shu, soon after his surrender to Song forces.
Meng Chun
Meng Chun (孟春) was a Ming dynasty official from Zezhou in present-day Jincheng, Shanxi, famed for integrity, who served as vice minister of Personnel and died in 1530.
Meng clan
The Meng clan (蒙氏) was a Qin family of generals and counselors; brothers Meng Tian and Meng Yi served the First Emperor before the clan was destroyed after his death.
Meng Da's Rebellion
Meng Da's Rebellion (孟達之亂) was the failed 228 revolt of the general Meng Da, who rose at Xincheng intending to return to Shu Han and was crushed by Sima Yi.
Meng Gong
Meng Gong (孟珙) was a Southern Song dynasty general from Zaoyang, Suizhou, who helped destroy the Jin state in 1234 and then defended the middle Yangtze against the Mongols.
Meng Guanliang
Meng Guanliang (孟关良), Chinese sprint canoeist born 1977 in Zhejiang; with Yang Wenjun won Olympic C2 500m gold at Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008, China's first canoeing gold.
Meng Haoran
Meng Haoran (孟浩然, 689–740) was a Tang-dynasty poet from Xiangyang who lived mostly as a commoner, served once on Zhang Jiuling's staff, and was celebrated in his lifetime.
Meng Huo
Meng Huo (孟獲) was a Nanzhong leader whom Zhuge Liang reportedly captured and released seven times during the 225 southern campaign; the story sits in Pei Songzhi's annotations, and his historicity is debated.
Meng Jiao
Meng Jiao (孟郊), courtesy name Dongye, was a Tang dynasty poet and minor official (751–814) from Huzhou, known for hard, bitter verse and praised by Han Yu.