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Magna Carta Cartel
Magna Carta Cartel, often shortened to MCC, is a Swedish rock band from Linköping, formed in 2006, whose members included Ghost frontman Tobias Forge on bass.
Magna Carta Holy Grail
Magna Carta Holy Grail (Magna Carta... Holy Grail) is Jay-Z's twelfth solo studio album, released July 4, 2013 free to one million Samsung Galaxy users and July 8 at retail; it sold 528,000 first-week US copies, won a Grammy for 'Holy Grail', and was RIAA double Platinum.
Magna Graecia (Μεγάλη Ἑλλάς)
Magna Graecia (Megálē Hellás, Μεγάλη Ἑλλάς), "Greater Greece": the Greek colonies of southern Italy (often with Sicily), founded from the 8th century BC, with cities such as Sybaris, Croton, Taranto, and Paestum, conquered by Rome in 272 BC.
Magna Hungaria
Magna Hungaria, Latin for Great Hungary, is the medieval name for a region between the Volga and the Urals where Hungarians still lived in the 13th century.
Magna International
Magna International Inc. is a Canadian automotive parts supplier headquartered in Aurora, Ontario, founded by Frank Stronach in 1957 and reporting sales of $42.0 billion in 2025.
Magna Steyr
Magna Steyr is an Austrian complete-vehicle contract manufacturer and engineering company in Graz, owned by Canada's Magna International, best known for building the Mercedes G-Class since 1979.
Magna Tubes
Magna Tubes, Jeffreys Bay surf spot in South Africa; right-hand A-frame reef break for advanced surfers near Supertubes and Boneyards, working about 150 days a year.
Magnaporthe
Magnaporthe, a polyphyletic ascomycete genus (Magnaporthales) proposed for suppression in favor of Pyricularia; its species M. oryzae causes rice blast using turgor-driven appressoria reaching about 80 bars.
Magnaporthe grisea
Magnaporthe grisea, also known as Pyricularia grisea or Pyricularia oryzae, is a fungus that attacks grasses, including rice, wheat, and barley, and causes rice blast, which prevents maturation of the rice grains.
Magnar Solberg
Magnar Solberg (born 4 February 1937, Soknedal) is a Norwegian biathlete, the only one to win the Olympic 20 km individual twice, taking gold at Grenoble 1968 and Sapporo 1972, plus 1968 relay silver; he was a Trondheim police officer.
Magnavox
Magnavox, also known as Philips Magnavox, is an American consumer electronics brand formed in 1917, best known for the Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video game console.
Magnavox Odyssey
Magnavox Odyssey, first home video game console, released September 1972 at $99.95; based on Ralph Baer's Brown Box prototype from Sanders Associates; 12 games, 350,000 units sold, inspired Atari's Pong.
Magnavox Odyssey 2
The Magnavox Odyssey 2, known in Europe as the Philips Videopac G7000, is a second-generation home video game console released by Magnavox in 1978 and discontinued in early 1984.
Magne Furuholmen
Magne Furuholmen (Mags, Magne F.), born 1962 in Oslo, is a-ha's Norwegian keyboardist and co-writer of "Take on Me", and a separate visual artist in printmaking, ceramics and glass with major public commissions and a St. Olav knighthood.
Magne Mogstad
Magne Mogstad, born in 1980, is a Norwegian labor economist and Gary S. Becker Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, known for policy evaluation using Norwegian administrative data.
Magne Thomassen
Magne Arnfinn Thomassen (born 1941, Melhus) is a Norwegian speed skater, 1968 Olympic 500 m silver medalist at Grenoble, 1,500 m world record holder (2:02.5), and twice World Allround silver medalist.
Magnesia Litera
Magnesia Litera is a set of annual Czech book awards, given since 2002 by the civic association Litera to the best Czech and translated books in several categories.
Magnesia on the Maeander (Μαγνησία ἡ ἐπὶ Μαιάνδρῳ)
Magnesia on the Maeander (Magnesia ad Maeandrum), ancient Greek city in Ionia near Ortaklar, Aydın, Turkey; refounded 398 BCE by Thibron, famed for Hermogenes' Temple of Artemis Leucophryene, its 30,000-seat stadium, and Humann's 1891–1893 excavations.
Magnesia Theater 2
Magnesia Theater 2 is an unfinished late Hellenistic or early Roman theater, the second theater of Magnesia ad Maeandrum near Tekin in Aydın Province, Turkey, discovered in 1984.
Magnesian Limestone
Magnesian Limestone is a Permian succession of dolomites deposited about 255 million years ago on the margins of the Zechstein Sea, outcropping from Nottinghamshire to County Durham.
Magnesiothermic reduction
Magnesiothermic reduction is a chemical reduction method that uses magnesium at 500–950 °C to convert silica into porous, nanocrystalline silicon while preserving the starting template's morphology.
Magnesite
Magnesite is a magnesium carbonate mineral, MgCO₃, in the calcite group, mined as the principal ore of magnesium and heated to MgO, a refractory that lines steelmaking furnaces.
Magnesium
Magnesium is a chemical element with symbol Mg and atomic number 12, a silvery-white alkaline earth metal, the eighth most abundant element in the Earth's crust.
Magnesium alloy
A magnesium alloy is a metal alloy with magnesium as its base, combined with elements like aluminum and zinc to improve strength, used where weight reduction matters.
Magnesium ammonium phosphate
Magnesium ammonium phosphate, best known as the mineral struvite, is a white crystalline phosphate mineral named in 1845 that forms in bat guano and as infection-driven kidney stones.
Magnesium ammonium potassium chloride triple salt
Magnesium ammonium potassium chloride triple salt (Magnesal, magnesium ammonium potassium carnallite), Mg4K(NH4)3Cl12·24H2O, is a white co-crystalline food salt used to replace part of sodium chloride; FDA GRAS Notice 272 (2009) had no questions.
Magnesium antimonide
Magnesium antimonide (Mg₃Sb₂) is a Zintl-phase semiconductor of magnesium and antimony, first reported in the 1930s and since 2016 one of the most studied low-cost thermoelectrics for waste heat recovery and cooling.
Magnesium battery
A magnesium battery is a rechargeable cell using a magnesium metal anode, first demonstrated by Doron Aurbach in 2000, promising high capacity and safety but blocked by cathode and electrolyte limits.
Magnesium bismuthide
Magnesium bismuthide (Mg₃Bi₂) is an inorganic compound of magnesium and bismuth, a layered Zintl-phase semimetal and leading n-type thermoelectric material for near-room-temperature power generation and cooling.
Magnesium carbonate
Magnesium carbonate, MgCO3, is an inorganic magnesium salt occurring naturally as the mineral magnesite, used industrially as an antacid, food additive, rubber filler, and climbing chalk.