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Migration of the Mexica and founding of Tenochtitlan
The migration of the Mexica and founding of Tenochtitlan (Fundación de Tenochtitlán) brought the Mexica from Aztlán to Lake Texcoco, where they founded Tenochtitlan in 1325.
Migration of the Sayfawa to Bornu
The Migration of the Sayfawa to Bornu was the late fourteenth century move of the Kanem Empire's ruling dynasty west of Lake Chad, fleeing the Bulala.
Migration Period
The Migration Period, known as the Völkerwanderungen or Germanic migrations, is the era of European history in which the western Roman Empire fell, mainly in the fifth century AD.
Migration to Abyssinia
Migration to Abyssinia (al-hijra ila al-habasha), the First Hijra: 615 CE flight of persecuted early Muslims from Mecca to Christian Aksum under the Negus al-Najashi, featuring Ja'far ibn Abi Talib's defense and a failed Quraysh extradition bid.
Migration to the Chapare
Migration to the Chapare is the settlement of peasants from the Bolivian highlands in the Chapare, a tropical coca-growing region of Cochabamba, from the 1950s onward.
Migration velocity analysis
Migration velocity analysis (MVA) is a seismic imaging method that estimates the subsurface velocity model by repeatedly migrating data, measuring kinematic errors in prestack images, and tomographically inverting them into velocity updates.
Migrations
Migrations (Seobe, Сеобе) is a two-volume novel by the Serbian writer Miloš Crnjanski about the fate of Serbs in the 18th-century Habsburg Monarchy, first published in 1929 and completed in 1962.
Migratory beekeeping
Migratory beekeeping is the long-distance movement of honey bee colonies by truck to rented pollination contracts, moving roughly 1.8 million colonies to California's almond bloom each February.
Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf of China
The Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf of China are a serial World Heritage Site inscribed in 2019 and 2024, protecting vital intertidal wetlands for migratory birds.
Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918
The Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 (MBTA) is a United States federal law making it unlawful to hunt, kill, or possess protected migratory birds without a permit.
Migratory insertion
Migratory insertion is an organometallic reaction in which a ligand migrates onto an adjacent metal–ligand bond, the bond-forming step in catalytic processes such as hydroformylation and carbonylation.
Migratory species
Migratory species: wild animals whose populations cyclically and predictably cross national borders, also called migratory animals under the CMS/Bonn Convention. Key facts: CMS in force 1983, 133 Parties, 44-49% of listed species declining, Appendix I/II listing system.
Migros
Migros is Switzerland's largest retail cooperative group, founded in 1925 by Gottlieb Duttweiler with mobile grocery vans and converted to a customer-owned cooperative in 1941; known for alcohol-free stores, the Culture Percentage, and 2025 group sales of CHF 31.9 billion.
Miguang
Miguang (弥光, died 1155) was a Southern Song Chan monk of the Linji school and a dharma heir of Dahui Zonggao who taught in Fujian.
Miguel
Miguel, Spanish/Portuguese/Galician form of Michael from Hebrew Mikha'el ("who is like God"). US boys' name peaked at #86 in 2000, #212 with 1,661 births in 2025; 2nd in Brazil.
Miguel (singer)
Miguel (Miguel Jontel Pimentel, born 1985) is an American alt-R&B singer-songwriter from San Pedro, Los Angeles, known for Kaleidoscope Dream, the Grammy-winning Adorn, Wildheart, War & Leisure, and the 2023 TikTok revival of Sure Thing.
Miguel A Modestino
Miguel A. Modestino is a chemical engineer who is the Donald F. Othmer Associate Professor at New York University, known for electrifying chemical manufacturing, especially the electrosynthesis of adiponitrile, a precursor to Nylon.
Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay
Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay is Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Dean of Physical Sciences at UCLA, known for amphidynamic crystals and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.
Miguel A. Hernán
Miguel A. Hernán is a physician-epidemiologist and biostatistician, Kolokotrones Professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, known for target trial emulation and the textbook Causal Inference: What If.
Miguel Alcubierre
Miguel Alcubierre, also known as Miguel Alcubierre Moya, is a Mexican physicist at UNAM's Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares known for the 1994 warp drive metric and numerical relativity.
Miguel Alemán Valdés
Miguel Alemán Valdés was a Mexican lawyer and politician who served as president of Mexico from 1946 to 1952, the first civilian to hold the office since the Revolution began in 1910.
Miguel Almirón
Miguel Almirón (Miguel Ángel Almirón Rejala), Paraguayan left-footed winger born 1994 in Asunción; starred for Atlanta United (2018 MLS Cup), Newcastle United 2019-2025, returned to Atlanta in 2025, and plays for Paraguay.
Miguel Angel Asturias
Miguel Angel Asturias (1899–1974) was a Guatemalan novelist, poet, and diplomat who in 1967 became the first Latin American novelist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo
Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, "El Padrino" or "El Jefe de Jefes" (born 1946, Culiacán, Sinaloa), founded the Guadalajara Cartel, allied with Pablo Escobar, and was arrested in 1989 for the Camarena murder; his organization later split into the Sinaloa and Tijuana cartels.
Miguel Ángel J. Márquez Ruiz
Miguel Ángel Jacinto Márquez Ruiz (1942–2026), Mexican avian pathologist and virologist, UNAM professor, RACVE foreign corresponding academic, and historian of veterinary medicine in New Spain.
Miguel Ángel Jiménez
Miguel Ángel Jiménez, El Pisha, Spanish golfer born 1964 in Málaga; 21 European Tour titles, four Ryder Cups, oldest European Tour winner (2014, age 50), and 17 PGA Tour Champions wins including three senior majors.
Miguel Angel Lopez
Miguel Ángel López Nicolás, Spanish race walker born 1988 in Murcia; 2015 world champion and 2014 European champion at 20 km walk, 2022 European champion at 35 km, four-time Olympian.
Miguel Ángel Martínez‐González
Miguel Ángel Martínez-González, born 1957, is a Spanish physician and epidemiologist at the University of Navarra and Harvard, known for the PREDIMED Mediterranean diet trial.
Miguel Ángel Nadal
Miguel Ángel Nadal (Miquel Àngel Nadal Homar), born 1966 in Manacor, Spanish defender of Cruyff's Barcelona Dream Team (1992 European Cup, 14 titles) and RCD Mallorca, 62 Spain caps, three World Cups, uncle of Rafael Nadal.
Miguel Ángel Virasoro (Argentine physicist)
Miguel Ángel Virasoro (1940–2021) was an Argentine theoretical physicist whose Virasoro algebra became a backbone of string theory; he later co-built spin glass theory with Giorgio Parisi.