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Middlelands 2017
Middlelands was a medieval-themed electronic dance music and camping festival produced by Insomniac and C3 Presents at the Texas Renaissance Festival grounds in Todd Mission, Texas, in May 2017.
Middlemarch
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, George Eliot's (Mary Ann Evans) novel of 1871–72, set in a fictional Midlands town in 1829–32; eight-part serial about Dorothea Brooke, Lydgate, marriage, and reform, adapted by the BBC in 1994.
Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough: Tees Valley town in North East England, founded 1830 as a planned railway coal-port town, once 'Ironopolis'; now a unitary authority of about 143,900-152,795 people, 2nd most deprived English district (IMD 2025), undergoing major regeneration.
Middlesbrough F.C.
Middlesbrough F.C. (Boro), English club founded 1876, playing at the 35,000-capacity Riverside Stadium in the Championship; 2004 League Cup winners, UEFA Cup runners-up 2006, owned 90% by chairman Steve Gibson.
Middlesex
Middlesex (Middx) is a historic county in southeast England, the smallest by area, bounded by the Thames, Colne and Lea; its administrative county was absorbed into Greater London in 1965, but the geographic county persists.
Middlesex (novel)
Middlesex (2002) is Jeffrey Eugenides's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about Calliope "Cal" Stephanides, an intersex Greek-American raised as a girl, tracing a recessive 5-alpha-reductase mutation through three generations from Smyrna to Detroit.
Middlesex Canal
The Middlesex Canal was a 27-mile waterway in Massachusetts, built between 1793 and 1803 to connect the Merrimack River near Lowell with Boston, operating until 1853.
Middlesex County Cricket Club
Middlesex County Cricket Club, known as Middlesex CCC, is a first-class county cricket club founded in 1864 and based at Lord's in London. It has won eleven County Championships.
Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Middlesex County, Massachusetts: county incorporated May 10, 1643 with seat at Cambridge; county government abolished July 11, 1997 (St 1997 c 48) amid fiscal emergency; most populous Massachusetts county, 1,632,002 (2020).
Middlesex County, New Jersey
Middlesex County, New Jersey: county seat New Brunswick; established March 7, 1683 as an original East Jersey county; 25 municipalities; 863,162 residents (2020); Raritan River county with Rutgers flagship campus.
Middlesex Guildhall
The Middlesex Guildhall is a Grade II listed Gothic Revival building on Parliament Square in London, built 1906 to 1913 and home of the UK Supreme Court since 2009.
Middlesex University
Middlesex University, a public London university at Hendon formed as a polytechnic in 1973 and a university in 1992, runs branch campuses in Dubai (2005) and Mauritius, teaching over 35,000 students with TEF Silver and REF 2021 submissions.
Middleton Place
Middleton Place is a National Historic Landmark plantation on the Ashley River near Charleston, South Carolina, home to America's oldest landscaped gardens, begun in 1741, and the seat of the Middleton family.
Middletown, Connecticut
Middletown, Connecticut, is a city on the Connecticut River 16 miles south of Hartford. Incorporated in 1650, it was once a wealthy sailing port and is now the college town supporting Wesleyan University.
Middletown, Ohio
Middletown, Ohio, a city in Butler and Warren counties on the Great Miami River between Cincinnati and Dayton; settled 1791, steel city of Armco and Middletown Works, population about 52,000.
Middleware
Middleware is software that sits between applications and the operating system or network, enabling the parts of a distributed system to communicate and manage data. The term first appeared in the late 1980s.
Middleweight
Middleweight is boxing's 160 lb (72.6 kg) division, one of the eight traditional classes, dating to the 1850s with the limit fixed in 1909; contested at 71–75 kg (later 80 kg) in Olympic boxing.
Middlewich Roman fort
Middlewich Roman fort (Salinae): auxiliary fort at Harbutt's Field, Cheshire, built around AD 70, about 110 by 125 m, garrisoned until about AD 130, then a civilian salt-working settlement; identified by 1993 geophysical survey, Scheduled Monument 1008460.
Midea Group (美的集团)
Midea Group (美的集团) is a Chinese manufacturer of home appliances, robotics, and building technology, the world's largest home appliance company, founded by He Xiangjian in 1968.
Midewiwin songs
Midewiwin songs are the sacred ceremonial songs of the Midewiwin, the Grand Medicine society of the Anishinaabeg (Ojibwa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi) peoples of the Great Lakes region.
Midfielder
Midfielder (association football): player between defense and attack, subdivided into No. 6 defensive, No. 8 central, and No. 10 attacking midfielders; covers the most ground of any position and splits into destroyer, regista, and carrier holding types.
Midgard
Midgard (Old Norse Miðgarðr, "middle enclosure") is the realm of humans in Norse mythology, encircled by the sea and the Midgard Serpent, contrasted with Asgard and Utgard; distinguish the mythic world from the Midgard Viking Centre museum and the MIDGARD robotics simulator.
Midge
Midges are small flies of several Diptera families: non-biting Chironomidae (lake flies, bloodworms), biting Ceratopogonidae (no-see-ums, Culicoides disease vectors), and gall midges; also cocoa pollinators and palaeoclimate indicators.
Midge (Barbie)
Midge (Midge Hadley) is Mattel's 1963 best-friend doll for Barbie, same body so they share clothes, with freckles and less makeup. Known for boyfriend Allan, the 2002 pregnant Happy Family Midge pulled by Walmart, and Emerald Fennell's 2023 film role.
Midge Ure
Midge Ure (James Ure, born 1953, Cambuslang, Scotland): Scottish singer-songwriter and producer, frontman of 1980s Ultravox ("Vienna"), member of Slik, Rich Kids, Visage, Thin Lizzy; co-wrote Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?"; solo hit "If I Was".
Midget
Midget, from midge + -et, is a mid-19th-century English word once used for proportionate short stature, in contrast to dwarf; now considered a slur, replaced by little person or person with dwarfism.
Midget car racing
Midget car racing, also called midget auto racing, is small open-wheel oval-track racing in ~900 lb, 70-inch-wheelbase wingless cars. Born in California 1933 under MARA; USAC National Midget Championship dates to 1956.
Midget submarine
A midget submarine, also called a mini submarine, is a very small submarine carrying about four crew, used to attack enemy warships or for covert missions.
Midhat Pasha
Midhat Pasha (ميدحت باشا), born Ahmed Shefik Midhat, was an Ottoman statesman who governed the Danube and Baghdad provinces, served twice as grand vizier, and drafted the 1876 constitution.
Midhowe
Midhowe is a Neolithic stalled chambered cairn on the island of Rousay, Orkney, the largest of 15 on the island, holding the remains of at least 25 people.