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Middle of Nowhere (Kacey Musgraves album)
Middle of Nowhere is Kacey Musgraves' sixth studio album (seventh counting a holiday record), released May 1, 2026 on Lost Highway; a 13-track, 44-minute return to classic country with guests Willie Nelson, Miranda Lambert, Billy Strings, and Gregory Alan Isakov.
Middle of Nowhere Tour
Middle of Nowhere Tour: Kacey Musgraves' 2026 North American arena tour supporting her album Middle of Nowhere (Lost Highway, May 1, 2026), from Chicago's United Center on August 21 to Seattle's Climate Pledge Arena on October 27.
Middle of the Night (novel)
Middle of the Night is Riley Sager's 2024 psychological thriller (Dutton, June 18, 2024) in which Ethan Marsh returns to his New Jersey cul-de-sac thirty years after his best friend Billy was abducted from a backyard tent, an instant New York Times bestseller.
Middle of the Road (band)
Middle of the Road: Scottish pop group from Glasgow formed 1 April 1970 by Sally Carr, Ian and Eric McCredie, and Ken Andrew; early 1970s European hits include Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep.
Middle of the road (radio format)
Middle of the road (MOR) is a commercial radio format of melodic, nonrock adult pop standards with news and personality hosting, dominant on AM in the 1960s-1970s, later renamed nostalgia and adult standards, distinct from but closely tied to adult contemporary.
Middle Paleolithic
The Middle Paleolithic, called the Middle Stone Age in Africa, is the middle division of the Old Stone Age, characterized by Levallois prepared-core flake tools and Mousterian industries associated with Neanderthals.
Middle Passage
The Middle Passage was the middle leg of the triangular Atlantic slave trade, carrying enslaved Africans to the Americas, 1526-1866; about 12.5 million embarked, 10.7 million survived, with roughly 15 percent average voyage mortality.
Middle power
Middle power, also known as Medium power, is a state in international relations that is neither great nor small. These states influence global affairs through multilateralism and niche diplomacy.
Middle Reef
Middle Reef, Townsville: inshore turbid-zone coral reef in Cleveland Bay, central Great Barrier Reef, 4 km offshore Townsville between Magnetic Island and the mainland; AIMS-monitored since 1993, over 81 hard coral species. Name also used for reefs in Egypt, Hawaii, Florida, and elsewhere.
Middle Rio Grande Project
The Middle Rio Grande Project is a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation project in central New Mexico, authorized in 1948 to rehabilitate irrigation works and stabilize the Rio Grande.
Middle Saskatchewan
Middle Saskatchewan, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 108, a temperate upland rivers ecoregion in Saskatchewan and Alberta, Canada, draining via the Churchill, North and South Saskatchewan rivers to Hudson Bay; no endemic fish species.
Middle school
Middle school: US school level typically grades 6-8, also called junior high in grades 7-9; arose from early-1900s junior high and the 1963-2015 Middle School Movement, with researched transition effects on achievement.
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (film)
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life is a 2016 American family comedy directed by Steve Carr, adapted from James Patterson's novel, starring Griffin Gluck.
Middle strike campaign
Middle strike campaign: Ukraine's systematic use of medium-range strike drones at 25–200 km operational depth against Russian air defense, command posts, and logistics, notably the R-280 supply corridor, beginning in earnest in April 2026.
Middle Temple
Middle Temple, formally the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, is one of the four London Inns of Court with the exclusive right to Call barristers. Traced to the mid-14th century, it holds a 1608 royal land grant, a Grade I Tudor Hall, and trains students through Qualifying Sessions, Call, and pupillage support.
Middle Tennessee
Middle Tennessee: one of Tennessee's three legal Grand Divisions, made up of the Highland Rim and Central Basin around Nashville; Cumberland, Duck, and Elk rivers, Nashville MSA of 2.1 million, and fast-growing Clarksville.
Middle Tennessee State University
Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) is a public university in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, founded in 1911 as a normal school. Largest locally governed university in Tennessee, over 20,000 students, R2 Carnegie classification, led by President Sidney McPhee until 2026.
Middle Way
The Middle Way, or Middle path (Pali majjhimā paṭipadā, Sanskrit madhyamā pratipad), is a central Buddhist concept avoiding extremes, later the Madhyamaka school founded by Nāgārjuna.
Middle Yangtze
Middle Yangtze: FEOW freshwater ecoregion 765 in China, temperate upland rivers from the Sichuan basin through the Three Gorges to the Qing River confluence; Min, Tuo, Jialing, Wu, Qing tributaries.
Middle Zambezi - Luangwa
The Middle Zambezi - Luangwa is a freshwater ecoregion in Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique, named for the dam-regulated middle Zambezi and the unregulated Luangwa River, stretching from Victoria Falls to the Cahora Bassa Gorge.
Middle Zambezi Biosphere Reserve
Middle Zambezi Biosphere Reserve: UNESCO MAB site in Zimbabwe's Zambezi Valley, designated 5 June 2010, the country's first biosphere reserve. Covers about 2.16 million ha along the Zambezi from Lake Kariba to Kanyemba, including Mana Pools World Heritage Site, with two core zones, eleven buffer zones, and roughly 40,600 residents.
Middle-earth
Middle-earth is the fictional continent of J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, setting of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, developed from 1917 to 1973 and published posthumously by Christopher Tolkien.
Middle-earth in video games
Middle-earth in video games refers to adaptations of Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, spanning text adventures, MMORPGs, and games like Shadow of Mordor (2014).
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is a 2014 open-world action-adventure game by Monolith Productions and Warner Bros., starring Talion and Celebrimbor, known for its patented Nemesis System and 2017 sequel Shadow of War.
Middle-earth: Shadow of War
Middle-earth: Shadow of War is Monolith Productions' 2017 open-world action-adventure sequel to Shadow of Mordor, published by Warner Bros. Its expanded Nemesis System adds fortress sieges and orc armies; it launched with loot boxes, later removed, and scored Metacritic 80.
Middle-Volga Integrated Biosphere Reserve
Middle-Volga Integrated Biosphere Reserve (Средне-Волжский комплексный биосферный резерват), a UNESCO biosphere reserve in Samara Region, Russia, designated 27 October 2006; first complex biosphere reserve in Russia, based on Zhiguli Reserve and Samarskaya Luka National Park.
Middlebury College
Middlebury College, founded 1800 in Middlebury, Vermont, is a private liberal arts college of about 2,500 undergraduates, known for its Language Schools, Bread Loaf programs, 32 Schools Abroad, and full-need financial aid.
Middleby
The Middleby Corporation, known as Middleby, is an American manufacturer of commercial foodservice and food processing equipment headquartered in Elgin, Illinois, tracing its origins to an 1888 oven company.
Middleditch and Schwartz
Middleditch & Schwartz is a 2020 Netflix limited series of three completely improvised long-form comedy specials by Thomas Middleditch and Ben Schwartz, filmed at NYU Skirball Center and premiered April 21, 2020.
MiddleGame Ventures
MiddleGame Ventures is a fintech-only venture capital firm headquartered in Luxembourg, founded in 2016, which invests in early-stage digital financial services startups in Europe and North America.