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Maggott
Maggott (Japheth) is a Marvel Comics X-Men mutant created by Scott Lobdell and Joe Madureira, debuting in Uncanny X-Men #345 (1997). His digestive system is two sentient slugs, Eany and Meany, which eat matter and return energy granting strength and blue skin; later upgraded to Omega-level in Storm (2025).
Maggy Krell
Maggy Krell is an American politician and lawyer serving as a Democratic member of the California State Assembly from the 6th district, elected in 2024.
Maggy Masson
Maggy Masson, French compound archer, won team gold at the 2001 World Archery Championships in Beijing, twice held the compound women's team FITA round world record (4122, 4133), and reached world ranking 8 in 2002.
Magharet el Kantara
Magharet el Kantara, also called Shaw's Cave, is a small painted rock-shelter in the southern Gilf Kebir, Egypt, found in 1935 by the Shaw expedition.
Maghariba
The Maghariba (المغاربة, "the Westerners") were the Berber corps of the Fatimid army, drawn mainly from the Kutama, who helped bring the Fatimids to power.
Maghazi of al-Zuhri
The Maghazi of al-Zuhri is an early Islamic work on Muhammad's campaigns and career, compiled by the Medinan scholar al-Zuhri, drawing chiefly on Urwa ibn al-Zubayr.
Maghemite
Maghemite is a strongly ferrimagnetic iron oxide mineral, γ-Fe₂O₃, with magnetite's spinel structure and hematite's composition, formed by oxidation of magnetite, common in soils, and used in magnetic nanoparticles.
Maghera
Maghera (Machaire Rátha) is a town of about 4,235 people in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, on the A6 between Derry and Coleraine, founded around St Lurach's 6th-century monastery and now undergoing a £10m regeneration programme.
Maghrawa
The Maghrawa (مغراوة), also spelled Meghrawa, were a Zenata Berber tribe of the central Maghreb that held political and military power from the 7th to the 11th century.
Maghreb (المغرب)
Maghreb (المغرب, al-Maghrib, "place of the sunset"): northwestern African region of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, sometimes extended to Libya, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; defined by Atlas Mountains, French colonial rule, and 1956/1962 independence.
Maghreb-Europe Gas Pipeline
The Maghreb-Europe Gas Pipeline (GME), also Gazoduc Maghreb-Europe, carries natural gas from Algeria's Hassi R'mel field through Morocco to Spain and Portugal; it operated from 1996 to 2021.
Maghrebi Arabic
Maghrebi Arabic (Darija, دارجة) is the western group of spoken Arabic varieties of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, western Libya, and Mauritania, divided into pre-Hilali and Hilali layers, shaped by Berber, French, and Spanish contact, and largely unintelligible to eastern Arabic speakers.
Maghrebi Jews
Maghrebi Jews are the historic Jewish communities of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, about 500,000 strong before World War II, speaking Judeo-Arabic, Haketia, and Judeo-Berber, and now mostly living in Israel, France, and Canada.
Maghrebi mint tea
Maghrebi mint tea (atay, Moroccan mint tea) is a sweet green tea of gunpowder tea, fresh spearmint (nana), and sugar, poured from height; a hospitality ritual across Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia since the 18th century.
Maghrebi novel in Arabic
The Maghrebi novel in Arabic (الرواية المغاربية) is novelistic fiction written in Arabic by authors from Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya, and Mauritania, tied to the colonial experience and independence.
Maghribi script
Maghribi script (الخط المغربي) is the style of Arabic writing developed in North Africa and Muslim Spain from the 10th century, used for Qurʾans and state documents.
Magi
The Magi, also known as Magians, were the priestly class of the western Iranians from the Median period through the Sasanian empire, and the word "magic" descends from their name.
MAGI-2
MAGI-2 is an open-weight video generation model released by Beijing-based Sand AI on August 5, 2026, generating 10-second clips with synchronized audio from text or image prompts.
Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic
Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic (マギ) is Shinobu Ohtaka's 2009–2017 Weekly Shonen Sunday fantasy manga, 37 volumes, inspired by One Thousand and One Nights, adapted into two 25-episode A-1 Pictures anime seasons.
Magia
Magia: Roman road station on the Tabula Peutingeriana (segment III/1) between Clunia and Luria (Chur) on the Bregenz–Milan route; usually identified with Maienfeld, Switzerland, though localization is debated.
Magia (Shakira album)
Magia is the debut studio album by Colombian singer Shakira, released in 1991. It was a commercial failure that was later withdrawn from the market at her request.
Magia Record
Magia Record (マギアレコード 魔法少女まどか☆マギカ外伝) was a f4samurai/Aniplex gacha RPG side story to Madoka Magica, launched in Japan August 22, 2017, with an English version June 2019; all servers closed by July 31, 2024, succeeded by Magia Exedra.
Magic (1978 film)
Magic is a 1978 American psychological horror film directed by Richard Attenborough, starring Anthony Hopkins as Corky Withers, a ventriloquist losing his grip on reality.
Magic (illusion)
Magic (illusion), also called conjuring, is the performing art of staged impossible feats using natural means. Key figures: Robert-Houdin, Houdini; core technique: misdirection; studied scientifically as the science of magic.
Magic (Pilot song)
"Magic" is a 1974 song by Scottish pop rock band Pilot, written by David Paton and Billy Lyall and produced by Alan Parsons. It hit No. 5 US, No. 1 Canada, No. 11 UK, was covered by Selena Gomez in 2009, and became the Ozempic ad theme in 2018.
Magic (supernatural)
Magic is the practice of rituals believed to produce effects through hidden or non-empirical means, including spells, divination, astrology, and necromancy, a word derived from the Greek mageia.
Magic 8 Ball
Magic 8 Ball, fortune-telling novelty toy made as a black billiards ball; developed by Abe Bookman from Albert Carter's 1944 Syco-Seer, Brunswick-commissioned 8-ball form since 1950, 20-sided die, now Mattel, about 1 million sold yearly.
Magic acid
Magic acid, FSO₃HSbF₅, is a superacid formed from equimolar fluorosulfonic acid and antimony pentafluoride, named after a candle dissolved in it and known for protonating hydrocarbons.
Magic AI
Magic AI is a San Francisco artificial intelligence startup founded in 2022 by Eric Steinberger and Sebastian-Paul De Ro that builds code models to automate software engineering.
Magic angle spinning
Magic angle spinning (MAS) is a solid-state NMR technique in which the sample spins at 54.74° to the magnetic field, averaging interactions that broaden spectra of solids.