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Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy

Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy are retired superheroes in SpongeBob SquarePants, debuting August 21, 1999; parodies of Aquaman and Aqualad voiced by Ernest Borgnine and Tim Conway, silent cameos only after the actors' deaths in 2012 and 2019.

Mermaids (1990 film)

Mermaids (1990) is an American comedy-drama directed by Richard Benjamin, adapted by June Roberts from Patty Dann's novel, starring Cher, Bob Hoskins, and Winona Ryder as the nomadic Flax family in 1963 Massachusetts; released by Orion on 14 December 1990, 110 minutes, PG-13.

Mermaids: The Body Found

Mermaids: The Body Found is a 2011 Animal Planet mockumentary directed by Sid Bennett, presenting actors as NOAA scientists who found a mermaid; NOAA publicly stated no evidence of aquatic humanoids exists.

Merman

Merman: the male counterpart of the mermaid, a legendary fish-tailed human of the sea. Known from Sumerian Ea, Greek Triton, the King's Mirror hafstramb, and Atlantic-coast folklore; no evidence of aquatic humanoids exists.

Mermer

Mermer is the name of a reported munition for which no open source establishes a developer, classification, or specifications, so specific claims about it remain unconfirmed.

Mermnad dynasty

The Mermnad dynasty (Mermnadae) was the last royal house of Lydia, ruling from Sardis from Gyges to Croesus until the Persian conquest of the 540s BC.

Merneferre Ay

Merneferre Ay, also written Merneferre Aya, was a Thirteenth Dynasty pharaoh of Egypt around 1700 BC whose 23-year reign was the dynasty's longest.

Merneith

Merneith (Meritneith, Meryt-Neith) was a First Dynasty Egyptian royal woman around 3000 BC, probably wife of Djet, mother of Den, and possibly Egypt's earliest female ruler.

Merneptah

Merneptah (Merenptah, Baenre), thirteenth son of Ramesses II, reigned c. 1213-1203 BC as a 19th Dynasty pharaoh. Known for the Year 5 Libyan war and the Israel Stela, the earliest mention of Israel.

Merneptah grain shipment to Hatti

The Merneptah grain shipment to Hatti was an Egyptian dispatch of grain by sea to the famine-stricken Hittite Empire, recorded in the Great Karnak Inscription around 1208 BC.

Merneptah Stele

The Merneptah Stele, also called the Israel Stele, is a black granite Egyptian victory monument of about 1208 BC whose closing lines give the earliest extra-biblical mention of Israel, marked as a people rather than a place.

Merneptah's Libyan War

Merneptah's Libyan War, also known as the Battle of Perire, was a battle around 1208 BC in which Egyptian pharaoh Merneptah defeated invading Libyans in the western Delta.

Mero (company)

MERO ČR, a.s. is the Czech state-owned operator of the country's crude oil pipeline and storage infrastructure, founded in 1994 and 100% owned by the Czech Ministry of Finance.

Mero Oil Field

Mero (Campo de Mero) is a giant ultra-deepwater oil field in the pre-salt Santos Basin, about 180 km off Rio de Janeiro, discovered in 2010 and operated by Petrobras.

Merodach-Baladan's alliance with Elam

Merodach-Baladan's alliance with Elam, also called Marduk-apla-iddina II's alliance with Elam, was the Babylonian king's cooperation with Elam against Assyria from about 721 to 703 BC.

Meroë

Meroë (Meroe), ancient royal capital of the Kingdom of Kush on the Nile in Sudan, seat of Kushite kings from about 270 BC to circa AD 350, known for over 200 royal pyramids, the undeciphered Meroitic script, iron production, and UNESCO World Heritage listing.

Meroe Bath

The Meroe Bath, known as the Royal Baths, is a large water monument of the Kushite kingdom at Meroë in Sudan, with a central pool and fountain.

Meroe Head

The Meroe Head is a bronze portrait of Emperor Augustus seized by Kushites around 25/24 BC and buried at Meroë, now in the British Museum.

Meroe Royal Baths

The Meroe Royal Baths, also called the Royal Baths of Meroe, are a monumental water complex in the Royal City of Meroë, Sudan, discovered by John Garstang in 1912/13.

Oct 22, 2026

Meroitic iron production

Meroitic iron production was the smelting and working of iron at Meroe in Sudan, capital of the Kingdom of Kush, practiced for over 1,000 years with bloomery furnaces.

Meroitic language

Meroitic, the extinct language of the Kingdom of Kush (Meroë), written 3rd century BC to 4th century AD in an alphasyllabary deciphered by Griffith in 1911; language only partly understood, classified by Rilly as Northern East Sudanic.

Meroitic period of Kush

The Meroitic period of Kush, also called the Kushite Dynasty of Meroe, was the final phase of the Kingdom of Kush, centered at Meroe in Sudan from about 300 BCE to 350 CE.

Oct 22, 2026

Meroitic pottery

Meroitic pottery is the ceramic ware of the Meroitic period of the Kingdom of Kush, about 300 BC to AD 350, combining Egyptian and Hellenistic motifs with Nubian forms.

Meroitic script

The Meroitic script is an alphasyllabary used to write the Meroitic language of the Kingdom of Kush in Sudan from about 300 BC to AD 400.

Merom Generating Station

Merom Generating Station is a two-unit, 1,080 MW coal-fired power plant in Sullivan County, Indiana, built by Hoosier Energy and sold to Hallador Energy in 2022.

Meromixis

Meromixis is the condition of a lake in which the water column never fully mixes, leaving dense bottom water permanently unmixed; the term was coined in 1935 by limnologist Ingo Findenegg.

Meromorphic function

A meromorphic function is a function of a complex variable that is holomorphic on a domain except at isolated poles, exemplified by rational functions, tan z, and the gamma function.

Meron Capital

Meron Capital is a Tel Aviv-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Liron Azrielant and Daniel Roditi, which has raised three funds totaling $170 million.

Oct 22, 2026

Merong Mahawangsa

Merong Mahawangsa is the legendary founder of the kingdom of Kedah, recounted in the classical Malay text Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa, also known as the Kedah Annals.