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Miami Open (tennis)
Miami Open presented by Itau, also the Sony/Itau combined event, is an ATP Masters 1000 and WTA 1000 tennis tournament held each March at Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens, since 2019 after 30 years at Key Biscayne; founded 1985, 96-player draw, $9.4 million prize pool.
Miami Orange Bowl
Miami Orange Bowl: Little Havana stadium (1937-2008), home of the Miami Hurricanes, early Miami Dolphins, and the Orange Bowl game until 1996; five Super Bowls; demolished for Marlins Park.
Miami people
Miami (Myaamia) people, an Algonquian-speaking Native American people of the lower Great Lakes; today the federally recognized Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and the unrecognized Miami Nation of Indiana, with a revitalized Miami-Illinois language.
Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
Miami Project to Cure Paralysis: spinal cord injury research center at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, founded 1985 by Barth Green and Nick Buoniconti after Marc Buoniconti's injury; Buoniconti Fund has raised over $550 million; housed in Lois Pope LIFE Center; hypothermia and Schwann cell trials.
Miami RedHawks football
Miami RedHawks football: Miami University's Mid-American Conference team in Oxford, Ohio, founded 1888. Known as the Cradle of Coaches (Paul Brown, Schembechler, Parseghian); plays at Yager Stadium under Chuck Martin; MAC titles 2019, 2023.
Miami River (Florida)
The Miami River is a 5.5-mile tidal river in Miami, Florida, running from the Miami Canal to Biscayne Bay and carrying hundreds of freight vessels a year to Caribbean ports.
Miami River Cops Scandal
Miami River Cops scandal: 1985 case in which Miami police officers stole cocaine from riverfront smugglers; three drownings exposed a ring of 19 charged officers, the largest MPD corruption investigation.
Miami Showband killings
Miami Showband killings: 31 July 1975 UVF gun-and-bomb attack at a fake UDR checkpoint at Buskhill, County Down, that killed Fran O'Toole, Tony Geraghty, and Brian McCoy; later inquiries found RUC and UDR collusion.
Miami Sound Machine
Miami Sound Machine, also the Miami Latin Boys, was a Miami Latin pop band formed in 1975 by Emilio Estefan Jr. with Gloria Estefan; known for "Dr. Beat," "Conga," and 1980s Latin crossover success.
Miami University
Miami University is a public university in Oxford, Ohio, founded in 1809, with regional campuses, a Luxembourg campus, the Farmer School of Business, and new AI and general-education initiatives.
Miami Valley
Miami Valley: valley of the Great Miami River and tributaries (Little Miami, Mad, Stillwater) in southwest Ohio around Dayton; glacial buried-valley aquifer, 1913 flood, Miami Conservancy District dams.
Miami Vice
Miami Vice: NBC crime drama (1984–1989) created by Anthony Yerkovich with executive producer Michael Mann, starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as undercover detectives Crockett and Tubbs, famous for pastels, MTV-style editing, and Jan Hammer's score.
Miami Vice (film)
Miami Vice (2006) is Michael Mann's feature film adaptation of his 1980s NBC series, starring Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx as Crockett and Tubbs. Shot almost entirely on HD digital video, it earned $63.4M domestically and was later reappraised as a cult classic.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS), the Miami public school district, is Florida's largest and the third largest in the U.S., known for 370+ magnet programs, a record 93.1% graduation rate, and recent enrollment-driven school closures.
Miami-Dade County, Florida
Miami-Dade County, Florida: most populous Florida county, created 1836 as Dade County, renamed by voters November 13, 1997. County seat Miami; 34 municipalities; 2.8 million residents; two-tier government since 1957.
Miami-Illinois oral literature
Miami-Illinois oral literature is the body of traditional narratives and speeches in the Miami-Illinois language, preserved in texts recorded from the last native speakers in the 1890s and early 1900s.
MiamiCentral
MiamiCentral is a six-block transit-oriented development in Downtown Miami built around the Brightline intercity rail station, which opened in 2018 and has served Tri-Rail commuter trains since 2024.
Mian Altaf Ahmad
Mian Altaf Ahmad, born 1957, is an Indian politician of the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference who has represented Anantnag-Rajouri in the Lok Sabha since 2024.
Mian Ehsan-ul-Haq (میاں احسن الحق)
Mian Ehsan-ul-Haq (میاں احسن الحق), c. 1915–1982, was an architect turned film producer active in Bombay and Lahore, co-founder of Taj Mahal Pictures with actress Naseem Banu, producer of Phool and Wadah, and father of Saira Banu.
Mian Mir
Mian Mir (ਮੀਆਂ ਮੀਰ), born Shaikh Mir Muhammad, was a Qadiri Sufi saint of Lahore who died in 1635, famed for helping free Guru Hargobind.
Mian Muhammad Bakhsh
Mian Muhammad Bakhsh (میاں محمد بخش, 1830–1907) was a Sufi saint and Punjabi poet of the Qadiri order, born at Khari Sharif near Mirpur and best known as the author of the epic Saif-ul-Malook.
Mian Muhammad Mansha (میاں محمد منشا)
Mian Muhammad Mansha (میاں محمد منشا) is a Pakistani industrial and financial magnate who chairs the Nishat Group, profiled as Pakistan's richest man with about $5 billion.
Miandoum Oil Field
Miandoum Oil Field is an onshore oil field in the Doba Basin of southern Chad, discovered in 1975 and the first Doba field to produce, in July 2003.
Miankaleh Biosphere Reserve
Miankaleh Biosphere Reserve, Iran, UNESCO MAB site (1976) and Ramsar site (1975) on the southeastern Caspian Sea, protecting the Miankaleh Peninsula and Gorgan Bay, a major migrant bird staging area facing wetland drying and eutrophication.
Mianserin
Mianserin is a tetracyclic antidepressant synthesized in 1966 by Organon in the Netherlands, used for depression and anxiety-related depression, and never approved by the FDA.
Mianwali
Mianwali, also Mianwali District, is a district of Punjab, Pakistan, formed in 1901 and named after saint Mian Ali; 1,798,268 people in the 2023 census, three tehsils, Chashma nuclear plant.
Mianyang, Sichuan
Mianyang (绵阳市), prefecture-level city in northeast Sichuan, China's only approved 'Science and Technology City'; defense-electronics hub around Changhong and Jiuzhou; 2024 GDP 434.40 billion yuan, second in Sichuan.
Mianzhu Old City Site
绵竹故城遗址 (Mianzhu Old City Site): Han-Jin seat of Mianzhu County at Huangxu Town, Jingyang District, Deyang, Sichuan; identified by "绵竹城" stamped bricks; about 600,000 square meters; national key cultural relics protection unit, eighth batch, 2019.
Mianzhu, Deyang, Sichuan
Mianzhu (绵竹市) is a county-level city of Deyang, Sichuan, China, known for New Year woodblock prints, Jiannanchun liquor, and heavy damage in the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake.
Miao chiefdom revolts in Huguang under Hongwu
The Miao chiefdom revolts in Huguang under Hongwu (洪武苗乱) were Miao uprisings in the Ming dynasty's Huguang borderlands, crushed by the Prince of Chu in 1385.