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Mido (أحمد حسام حسين عبد الحميد وصفي) (footballer)
Mido, full name Ahmed Hossam Hussein Abdelhamid (أحمد حسام حسين عبد الحميد), is an Egyptian football manager and former centre forward born in Cairo in 1983.
Mido Kanpakuki
Mido Kanpakuki (御堂関白記) is the diary of Fujiwara no Michinaga, the nobleman who dominated the Heian court, written in his own hand from 998 to 1021.
Midob people
The Midob, self-designation Tiddi, are a Nubian-speaking people of the Meidob Hills in North Darfur, western Sudan, centered on Malha, with about 50,000 speakers of their Darfur Nubian language.
MidOcean Partners
MidOcean Partners is a New York-based alternative asset manager specializing in middle-market private equity, alternative credit, and structured equity, with about $11 billion under management.
Midodrine
Midodrine (ProAmatine, Bramox) is an oral prodrug of the alpha-1 agonist desglymidodrine, FDA-approved in 1996 under accelerated approval for symptomatic orthostatic hypotension, with off-label use in dialysis and heart failure hypotension.
Midori (五嶋みどり) (violinist)
Midori (五嶋みどり), born 1971 in Osaka, is a Japanese concert violinist who debuted with the New York Philharmonic at 11 and founded Midori & Friends, MUSIC SHARING, PiP, and ORP.
Midori Days (美鳥の日々)
Midori Days (美鳥の日々, Midori no Hibi) is a completed 8-volume romantic comedy manga by Kazurou Inoue, serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday 2002–2004, about delinquent Seiji Sawamura whose right hand becomes the girl Midori Kasugano; adapted into a 13-episode 2004 Studio Pierrot anime.
Midori Francis
Midori Francis (born 1994, Rumson, New Jersey; birth name Midori Anne Iwama) is an American actress, an Obie and Drama Desk winner for The Wolves, known for Dash & Lily, Good Boys, The Sex Lives of College Girls, and Grey's Anatomy's Dr. Mika Yasuda.
Midori Ito (伊藤みどり)
Midori Ito (伊藤みどり), born 1969 in Nagoya, is a Japanese figure skater, 1989 World Champion and 1992 Olympic silver medalist, first woman to land a triple Axel in competition (1988) and at the Olympics (1992), now competing in ISU adult events.
Midostaurin
Midostaurin (Rydapt) is an oral multikinase inhibitor derived from staurosporine, approved in 2017 as the first targeted treatment for FLT3-mutated acute myeloid leukemia and for advanced systemic mastocytosis.
Midpoint method (elasticity)
The midpoint method, also called arc elasticity, computes elasticity between two points using average starting and ending values, giving the same result in either direction.
Midrange
The midrange is a location estimator in statistics, the average of a sample's smallest and largest values, quick to compute but suited only to symmetric, outlier-free data.
Midrarid dynasty
The Midrarid dynasty (Banu Midrar), also known as the Banu Wasul, was a Berber dynasty that ruled the oasis city of Sijilmasa in what is now Morocco from the eighth century to 976.
Midrash (מדרש)
Midrash (Hebrew: מדרש), also known as Midrashim, is the collective body of rabbinic works interpreting the Bible, begun in late antiquity as the first running biblical commentaries.
Midrex
Midrex Technologies is a Charlotte, North Carolina company, owned by Kobe Steel, that supplies gas-based direct reduction technology producing most of the world's direct reduced iron.
Midrex process
The Midrex process is a gas-based direct reduction ironmaking process converting iron ore pellets into direct reduced iron in a shaft furnace, first commercialized in 1969.
Midriff
Midriff: the part of the torso between chest and waist, also called the diaphragm in anatomy; from Old English midhrif (mid + hrif, belly). Central to fashion history, midriff exposure moved from dance wear to mainstream apparel by the 1940s.
Midshipman
Midshipman: junior naval officer rank in the Royal Navy (OF-1, below sub-lieutenant) and trainee title in the US Navy; from 'amidships' station; Pepys 1677 reforms, BRNC Dartmouth, white collar patches.
Midsomer Murders
Midsomer Murders, also known as Inspector Barnaby in several markets, is ITV's long-running detective drama based on Caroline Graham's Chief Inspector Barnaby novels, airing since 1997, set in a murder-prone fictional English county, and exported to over 200 territories.
Midsommar
Midsommar (2019) is Ari Aster's folk horror film for A24, starring Florence Pugh and Jack Reynor as a couple drawn into a Swedish commune's nine-day midsummer festival; shot in Hungary, Metascore 72.
Midsummer
Midsummer, also known as Litha, is the festival held around the summer solstice in northern Europe, celebrated as Midsommar in Sweden and Juhannus in Finland.
Midterm election
US midterm election: congressional election halfway through a president's term, all 435 House seats and one-third of Senate seats contested; president's party loses House seats in 20 of 22 midterms since 1938, averaging 27 seats lost.
Midtown Atlanta
Midtown Atlanta is a district of Atlanta, Georgia, and the city's second-largest business district, known for its arts venues, including the Fox Theatre and the High Museum of Art.
Midtown Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan: Manhattan's central business district between roughly 34th and 59th Streets; the largest US business district, anchored by Grand Central Terminal, Rockefeller Center, Times Square, and the Empire State Building.
Midway (1976 film)
Midway (1976) is a Universal war film directed by Jack Smight, produced by Walter Mirisch, starring Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, and Toshiro Mifune, dramatizing the June 1942 Battle of Midway with Sensurround sound and heavy archival footage.
Midway (2019 film)
Midway is a 2019 American war film directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Ed Skrein, Woody Harrelson, and Dennis Quaid, dramatizing the Battle of Midway of June 1942.
Midway Atoll
Midway Atoll (Kuaihelani, Pihemanu) is a Northwestern Hawaiian Islands atoll, an unincorporated U.S. territory managed as a wildlife refuge and Battle of Midway National Memorial, site of the pivotal June 1942 carrier battle.
Midway Games
Midway Games Inc., Chicago-based American video game developer and publisher (founded 1958 as Midway Manufacturing), known for Mortal Kombat, Pac-Man, NBA Jam, and NFL Blitz; bankrupt 2009, assets sold to Warner Bros.
Midway Independent School District (McLennan County, Texas)
Midway ISD is a public school district in McLennan County, Texas, formed in 1947, serving Woodway, Hewitt, and west Waco with 11 schools and earning a state A rating.
Midway International Airport
Midway International Airport, also known as Chicago Midway Airport, is a commercial airport on Chicago's Southwest Side operated by the Chicago Department of Aviation since its 1927 dedication.