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Mielikki Mons
Mielikki Mons is a 450-km-diameter shield volcano on Venus at 27.8 S, 280.5 E in Themis Regio, IAU-named in 1997 for the Finnish forest goddess, with VIRTIS emissivity anomalies suggesting recent volcanic activity.
Mien van den Berg
Mien van den Berg (Jacomina Elizabeth Sophia van den Berg-Schlee, 1909–1996), Dutch gymnast from The Hague; won gold in the inaugural women's team gymnastics event at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics and was the first Dutch all-around champion in 1929.
Mien-Chie Hung
Mien-Chie Hung (洪明奇) is a Taiwanese cancer biologist known for work on the HER-2/neu oncogene and EGFR signaling, who served as president of China Medical University from 2019 to 2025.
Mienic languages
Mienic languages (瑶语支, Yao branch), one of two branches of Hmong-Mien alongside Hmongic, spoken by Yao peoples in China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and the US; includes Iu Mien, Kim Mun, Biao Min, Dzao Min.
Mientras Dure la Guerra
Mientras dure la guerra (While at War) is Alejandro Amenábar's 2019 Spanish-Argentine historical drama starring Karra Elejalde as Miguel de Unamuno in Salamanca, 1936; it premiered at San Sebastián, drew over two million Spanish viewers, and won five Goya awards.
Miep Gies
Miep Gies (Hermine Santrouschitz, 1909–2010), Austrian-born Dutch helper of Anne Frank's family in the Secret Annex, 1942–1944, who preserved Anne's diary after the 1944 arrest and gave it to Otto Frank in 1945.
Mier Monterrey Gas Pipeline
The Mier Monterrey Gas Pipeline is a Kinder Morgan natural gas pipeline running from the Texas border to Monterrey, completed in 2003 to supply power plants and industry.
Miercurea Ciuc
Miercurea Ciuc (Csíkszereda) is the county seat of Harghita, Romania, in the Ciuc Depression of eastern Transylvania. First attested 1558, cold-pole climate, Mikó Castle, Hungarian-majority population of about 34,500.
Miers Bluff
Miers Bluff (Punta Elefante, Mirounga Point) is a 400 m bluff at the southwest tip of Hurd Peninsula, Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, marking the northwest entrance to False Bay and lending its name to the Miers Bluff Formation.
Miers Fisher Longstreth
Miers Fisher Longstreth (1819–1891) was an American astronomer and physician, a founding member of the National Academy of Sciences, known for an 1850 lunar longitude formula.
Mieruko-chan (見える子ちゃん)
Mieruko-chan (見える子ちゃん), also known as The Girl Who Can See It, is a Japanese horror-comedy manga by Tomoki Izumi serialized since 2018 on Comic Walker/WebComic Apanda, about schoolgirl Miko Yotsuya who sees ghosts and ignores them; adapted into a 2021 Passione anime and a 2025 live-action film, 14 volumes, Yen Press English license.
Miesha Tate
Miesha Tate, American mixed martial artist, former Strikeforce and UFC women's bantamweight champion; beat Holly Holm at UFC 196 2016, lost title to Amanda Nunes at UFC 200, twice defeated by Ronda Rousey, record 20-10.
Mieszko I
Mieszko I (Mesco dux Polonie, died 25 May 992), first historical Piast duke of the Polanie, baptized 966 after marrying Dobrawa of Bohemia; founder of the Polish state through baptism, Cedynia 972, Poznań bishopric 968, and Dagome iudex.
Mieszko II Lambert
Mieszko II Lambert (990–1034), also called Mieszko the Slothful, second Piast king of Poland (crowned 25 December 1025), son of Bolesław Chrobry; lost the crown in 1031, ruled as duke 1032–1034.
Mieszko III the Old
Mieszko III the Old (Mieszko III Stary) was a Piast duke of Greater Poland who served several terms as senior princeps of Poland between 1173 and 1202.
Mietek Jaroniec
Mietek Jaroniec, also known as Mieczysław Jaroniec, is a Polish-born materials chemist and professor emeritus at Kent State University known for research on adsorption and ordered nanoporous materials.
Mietens syndrome
Mietens syndrome, or Mietens-Weber syndrome, is an extremely rare autosomal recessive disorder (OMIM 249600, ORPHA:2557) first described in 1966, marked by sclerocornea, nystagmus, strabismus, elbow flexion contractures with radial head dislocation, short stature, and intellectual disability; nine cases reported.
Mietta
Mietta is an Italian singer and actress, born Daniela Miglietta in Taranto in 1969, who won the newcomers' section at Sanremo in 1989 with "Canzoni".
Mieza
Mieza (Μίεζα), ancient Macedonian city near Naoussa, Greece, in Bottiaia at Mount Vermio's foothills; famed as where Aristotle taught Alexander the Great, with theatre, Gymnasium, Nymphaeum, and six Macedonian tombs.
Mieza theater
Mieza theater (Αρχαίο Θέατρο Μίεζας): ancient theatre at Belovina, Naoussa, Greece, found in 1992; three phases from Hellenistic to 2nd century AD, 22 m orchestra, cavea carved in poros bedrock, in use to the 4th century AD.
Mifamurtide acid
Mifamurtide (L-MTP-PE, Mepact) is a synthetic NOD2-activating liposomal immunostimulant approved in the EU in 2009 for high-grade resectable non-metastatic osteosarcoma in patients aged 2 to 30.
MIFARE
MIFARE is a brand of contactless smart card integrated circuits owned by NXP Semiconductors, launched by Philips in 1994 and used for transit ticketing, access management, and micropayment.
Mifepristone
Mifepristone, also known as RU-486 and sold as Mifeprex, is a drug that blocks progesterone; combined with misoprostol, it ends pregnancies up to ten weeks in the United States.
Miffy
Miffy (nijntje, from Dutch konijntje, little bunny) is a white female rabbit created in 1955 by Dutch artist Dick Bruna, star of square picture books sold in 50 languages and a global merchandising brand managed by Mercis.
Miffy's Adventures Big and Small
Miffy's Adventures Big and Small (Dutch-British CGI preschool series, also Nijntjes Avonturen Groot en Klein) adapts Dick Bruna's Miffy books; 78 seven-minute episodes by Blue Zoo and Mercis, aired 2015–2019 on Tiny Pop, Nick Jr., and ABC.
MiFi
MiFi is a brand of portable mobile hotspot devices, small battery-powered routers that share a cellular connection as Wi-Fi, created by Novatel Wireless in 2008.
MiFID II
MiFID II, the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, is the European Union's framework for regulating investment firms, trading venues, and market transparency, applied since January 2018.
Mifsas Bahri
Mifsas Bahri is an archaeological site on Lake Ashenge in southern Tigray, Ethiopia, home to the southernmost known Late Aksumite church, dated to about 550 to 700 CE.
MiG Alley
MiG Alley was the region of northwestern North Korea near the Yalu River where Soviet-built MiG-15s and American F-86 Sabres fought history's first large-scale jet-versus-jet combat.
MIG Capital
MIG Capital (MIG AG) is a Munich-based German venture capital firm founded in 2004 that invests in deep tech and life sciences companies through retail-funded funds, and took BioNTech public.