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Mentougou

Mentougou District (门头沟区) is a mountainous district of western Beijing, 1,447.85 km² with 396,000 residents (2024), a former coal-mining area since the Liao dynasty that closed its last mines in 2020 and now develops AI, tourism, and ecological industries.

Mentu Patera

Mentu Patera is a 103-km-wide patera (volcanic depression) on Jupiter's moon Io at 7.0°N, 139.4°W, IAU-approved in 2003 and named for the Egyptian god of the rising sun.

Mentuherkhepeshef A

Mentuherkhepeshef A was a prince of Egypt's 19th Dynasty, the fifth son of Ramesses II, who held chariotry titles, never became king, and is known from a block statue in Boston.

Mentuhotep (god's father)

Mentuhotep was an ancient Egyptian official who held the title god's father under King Sobekhotep III of the 13th Dynasty, and is known from six monuments.

Mentuhotep (treasurer of Senusret I)

Mentuhotep, also transcribed Montuhotep, was a royal treasurer of Egypt's 12th Dynasty serving King Senusret I around 1950 BC, best known for his Abydos stela and many Karnak statues.

Mentuhotep (vizier)

Mentuhotep was a high official of Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty under King Senusret I, called vizier in some studies and treasurer in others, with a large tomb at Lisht.

Mentuhotep I

Mentuhotep I, also Montuhotep Tepy-aa, was a Theban nomarch of the Eleventh Dynasty, traditionally counted as its first ruler, though some scholars doubt he was ever king.

Mentuhotep II

Mentuhotep II, also known as Nebhepetre Mentuhotep, was an Eleventh Dynasty king at Thebes who reunified Egypt after the First Intermediate Period, founding the Middle Kingdom around 2055 BC.

Mentuhotep II's Nubian campaigns

Mentuhotep II's Nubian campaigns were the military actions of the Eleventh Dynasty king Mentuhotep II against Lower Nubia, called Wawat, after reunifying Egypt, reaching Buhen.

Mentuhotep III

Mentuhotep III, also known as Sankhkare Mentuhotep, was an Eleventh Dynasty pharaoh of ancient Egypt who ruled from Thebes around 2010-1998 BC and sent an expedition to Punt.

Mentuhotep IV

Mentuhotep IV, also known as Nebtawyre Mentuhotep, was the seventh and last king of the Theban Eleventh Dynasty of ancient Egypt, ending around 1991 BC.

Menu

Menu (bill of fare, carte): the listed offering of dishes and drinks with prices at a food-service establishment. Origins in Song-dynasty China and 1760s Paris; covers design history, menu engineering, digital formats, and allergen-labeling requirements.

Menu cost

Menu cost is the fixed cost a firm pays to change a posted price, named for restaurant menu reprinting; in macroeconomics it names models of sticky prices.

Menua

Menua, also spelled Menuas or Minua, was king of Urartu from about 810 BC, who consolidated the kingdom and built the Şamran canal still watering the Van plain.

Menua canal

The Menua canal, or Semiramis canal, is a 50 km irrigation canal in Van, Turkey, built by the Urartian king Minua in the 9th century BC.

Menuahinili

Menuahinili, also written Minuahinili, was a Urartian fortress-city at Karakoyunlu in the Iğdır Plain, eastern Turkey, founded by King Menua after he destroyed the kingdom of Erikua's capital.

Menudo (group)

Menudo, Puerto Rican Latin pop boy band founded in 1977 by Edgardo Díaz in San Juan, with a rotating teenage lineup replaced at 16; hits "Súbete a Mi Moto" and "Claridad"; alumni include Ricky Martin and Draco Rosa; 2026 50th-anniversary reunion tour.

Menudo (soup)

Menudo (also pancita, mondongo) is a Mexican soup of slow-cooked beef stomach in dried-chile broth, often with hominy; called menudo in the north, pancita in the center, mondongo in the south, with a hangover-cure reputation and probable Spanish callos origin.

Menveo

Menveo (MenACWY-CRM) is a quadrivalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine against N. meningitidis serogroups A, C, W-135 and Y, developed by Novartis and made by GSK. FDA-licensed February 19, 2010 (ages 11–55, later 2 months–55 years), WHO prequalified 2013; oligosaccharides conjugated to CRM197.

Menwhopause

Menwhopause is an independent rock band from New Delhi, formed by Anup Kutty in the early 2000s and known for albums Home, Easy, and Neon Delhi.

Menyanthes trifoliata

Menyanthes trifoliata (bogbean, buckbean), sole species of the genus Menyanthes in Menyanthaceae, order Asterales; a distylous emergent aquatic herb of Northern Hemisphere bogs and fens, IUCN Least Concern, used as a bitter herbal medicine.

Menyhért Lónyay

Menyhért Lónyay (1822–1884) was a Hungarian politician who served as finance minister, prime minister from 1871 to 1872, and led reforms including the 1872 industry law and the act unifying Budapest.

Menyuan Ancient City

Menyuan Ancient City (门源古城), also known as Haomen Ancient City, is the ruins of a rammed-earth fortress town in Menyuan County, Qinghai, China, dating to the Song dynasty.

Menzel Ledjmet Nord Oil Field

Menzel Ledjmet Nord (MLN) is an onshore oil field in Block 405a of Algeria's Berkine Basin, discovered in 1996 and producing since 2003, operated by Pertamina.

Menzie Chinn

Menzie David Chinn is an American international macroeconomist and professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for the Chinn–Ito index of capital account openness and the weblog Econbrowser.

Meonstoke

Meonstoke is a Hampshire village in the Meon valley whose outskirts hold a Roman aisled building with a collapsed facade in the British Museum and a rare hexagonal temple site, excavated since the 1980s by the University of Winchester.

Meore Dasi

Meore Dasi (მეორე დასი, "Second Group") was a bourgeois-democratic current of Georgia's 1860s intelligentsia, led by Giorgi Tsereteli, Niko Nikoladze, and Sergo Meskhi around the newspaper Droeba.

Meota East Colony Oil and Gas Pool

The Meota East Colony Sand Pool, code 100020, is a heavy-oil pool near Meota, Saskatchewan, produced by SAGD and operated by Strathcona Resources since 2020.

Meota Lloydminster Oil Pool

The Meota Lloydminster Oil Pool is an operating oil pool in Saskatchewan, Canada, discovered in 1974 and developed by steam injection in the Lloydminster heavy oil district.

Meovv (미야오)

MEOVV (미야오), also romanized Meovv, is a five-member K-pop girl group under THEBLACKLABEL, Teddy's label, debuted September 6, 2024 with "MEOW"; members Sooin, Gawon, Anna, Narin, Ella; fandom PAWMPAWM; releases include BITE NOW and GO HARD.