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Magdalenenberg
Magdalenenberg (Fürstengrab Magdalenenberg, Villingen) is the largest Iron Age burial mound in Central Europe, near Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany. Oak chamber dendro-dated 616 BC, 126 secondary graves, excavated by Konrad Spindler 1970-1973.
Magdalenian
Magdalenian, late Upper Palaeolithic culture of western and central Europe (about 21,000–14,000 years ago by one convention), named after La Madeleine, Dordogne; known for bone and antler projectile points, portable and cave art, and reindeer hunting.
Magdalini Polymenidou
Magdalini Polymenidou is a Greek-trained molecular biologist and Associate Professor at the University of Zurich who studies ALS and frontotemporal dementia, focusing on the RNA-binding protein TDP-43.
Magdalinovskiy Rayon
Magdalinovskiy Rayon (Магдалинівський район) was a district in northern Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Mahdalynivka; formed 1925, abolished in the 2020 reform, now part of Novomoskovsk raion.
Magdeburg
Magdeburg, capital of Saxony-Anhalt on the Elbe, about 244,500 residents (2025), first recorded 805, archbishopric 968, Magdeburg Law, two universities with 18,000+ students.
Magdeburg rights
Magdeburg rights (Ukrainian: магдебурзьке право; German: Magdeburger Recht) are a medieval town law from Magdeburg that spread across Central and Eastern Europe, granting municipal self-government to over 1,000 towns.
Magdeburg rights in Kyiv
Magdeburg rights in Kyiv were municipal self-government privileges, modeled on the German law of Magdeburg, granted to Kyiv in the 1490s and finally abolished under Nicholas I in the 1830s.
Magdeburg Water Bridge
The Magdeburg Water Bridge (Kanalbrücke Magdeburg) is a 918-meter navigable aqueduct in Germany that carries the Mittelland Canal over the Elbe, the world's longest canal bridge.
Magdi Rúzsa
Magdi Rúzsa (Rúzsa Magdolna, born 1985, Vrbas, Serbia) is a Hungary-based pop singer, Megasztár 3 winner (2006) and Hungary's Eurovision 2007 entrant, ninth with "Unsubstantial Blues".
Magdi Yacoub
Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub (born 16 November 1935) is an Egyptian cardiothoracic surgeon who established heart transplantation in the UK, performed Europe's first heart-lung transplant in 1983 at Harefield, founded Chain of Hope and the Aswan Heart Centre, and received the Order of Merit in 2014.
Magé
Magé, a historic municipality in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, on Guanabara Bay's north shore; founded 1565/1566, city since 1857, site of Brazil's first railway (1854), population 228,127 (2022).
Mage (software)
Mage (Mage AI), founded 2021 by Tommy Dang, is a data pipeline platform combining notebook-style pipeline building, orchestration, integration, deployment, and AI features; distinct from Mage.space and the MAGE game framework. Open source (Apache-2.0), with a commercial Mage Pro edition and a $12M Series A in 2026.
Mage: The Ascension
Mage: The Ascension is a White Wolf tabletop roleplaying game (1993) in the World of Darkness, featuring consensus reality, freeform Sphere-based magic, Arete rolls, and Paradox, across four editions including 2015's 20th Anniversary Edition.
MAGEA3
MAGEA3 (melanoma-associated antigen 3, MAGE-A3) is a human Xq28 cancer-testis antigen gene expressed in testis, placenta, and many tumors. It activates TRIM28-mediated ubiquitination of p53 and AMPK; its phase III vaccine trials (MAGRIT, DERMA) failed, and MAGE-A3 TCR therapy caused fatal titin and MAGE-A12 cross-reactive toxicity.
MAGED2
MAGED2 (MAGE family member D2, MAGE-D2, BCG1, HCA10) is a protein-coding gene on Xp11.21 encoding a 606-aa type II MAGE protein that regulates NKCC2 and NCC salt cotransporters; mutations cause X-linked transient antenatal Bartter syndrome type 5.
Mageik
Mount Mageik, a 2,165 m glacier-covered andesite-dacite compound stratovolcano in Katmai National Park, Alaska, part of the Katmai volcanic cluster near Novarupta; last confirmed eruption about 500 BCE, with fumarolic summit crater lake and uncertain 20th-century eruption reports.
Magelhaens (Martian crater)
Magelhaens: 103.80-km impact crater on Mars at 32.36°S, 185.42°E, southern highlands southwest of Tharsis; IAU-approved 1976, named for Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan; distinct from the 37.20-km lunar crater of the same name.
Magellan
Magellan is a 2002 auction board game by Tom Lehmann (Hans im Glück), also issued as Pizarro & Co.; players bid as monarchs for explorers like Magellan, distinct from the 1966 Fallon game, Magellan: Elcano, and the MAGELLAN EU project.
Magellan (film)
Magellan (Magalhães/Magallanes) is Lav Diaz's 2025 historical drama starring Gael García Bernal as Ferdinand Magellan; premiered at Cannes 2025, won Valladolid's Golden Spike, and is the Philippines' Oscar entry.
Magellan expedition
The Magellan expedition, also known as the Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation, was a Spanish fleet that completed the first voyage around the world from 1519 to 1522.
Magellan Midstream Partners
Magellan Midstream Partners was a Tulsa, Oklahoma partnership operating the longest refined petroleum products pipeline system in the United States, acquired by ONEOK in 2023 for $18.8 billion.
Magellan Telescopes
The Magellan Telescopes, named Baade and Clay, are twin 6.5-meter optical telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert, with Baade seeing first light in 2000.
Magellan's passage through the Strait of Magellan
Magellan's passage through the Strait of Magellan (Paso de Magallanes por el Estrecho de Magallanes) was the first European transit of the strait, achieved in 1520.
Magellanic Bridge
The Magellanic Bridge is a vast structure of neutral hydrogen gas stretching between the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two satellite galaxies of the Milky Way.
Magellanic Clouds
The Magellanic Clouds, also called the Clouds of Magellan, are two irregular dwarf galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, that are the Milky Way's nearest massive satellites.
Magellanic Corona
The Magellanic Corona is a vast halo of hot, ionized gas surrounding the Large Magellanic Cloud, detected in ultraviolet absorption by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2022.
Magellanic Stream
The Magellanic Stream is a vast ribbon of neutral hydrogen trailing the Magellanic Clouds across nearly half the southern sky, discovered in the early 1970s.
Magenta
Magenta, also known as fuchsia or FF00FF, is a non-spectral color with no single matching wavelength, produced by mixing red and blue light; the name comes from the 1859 aniline dye fuchsine.
Magenta Line (Delhi Metro)
The Magenta Line, also known as Delhi Metro Line 8, is a driverless Delhi Metro line from Janakpuri West to Botanical Garden, India's first fully unmanned train network.
Magenta Medical
Magenta Medical is a privately held medical device company based in Kadima, Israel. Its lead product, the Elevate System, is a miniaturized percutaneous heart pump in clinical trials.