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Millers Point, New South Wales
Millers Point (Coodyee) is a heritage-listed harbourside Sydney suburb named for ex-convict miller John Leighton; a maritime village, State Heritage Register precinct, and former public housing area sold from 2014.
Millet
Millets are a group of small-seeded cereal grasses, among the first plants domesticated, and a staple for millions in the drylands of sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, with India the largest producer.
Millet (Ottoman Empire)
Millet, Ottoman Turkish from Arabic milla, was a term in the Ottoman Empire for a non-Muslim religious community, such as Orthodox Christians, Armenians, and Jews, with limited self-rule.
Millet system
The millet system is the supposed Ottoman arrangement for governing non-Muslim communities, which historians now hold to be a nineteenth-century creation rather than a classical one.
Millettia
Millettia (崖豆藤属) is a genus of Fabaceae legume trees, shrubs, and lianas of the tropical and subtropical Old World, with about 128 accepted species. Molecular studies show it is polyphyletic; Asian and African species are being split into Millettia s.str., Pongamia, Otosema, and other genera. Sources of wenge timber, rotenoid fish poisons, and traditional medicines.
Millfield
Millfield School, Street, Somerset: independent co-educational day and boarding school founded 1935 by Jack Meyer; largest co-ed 13-18 boarding school in the UK, 1,270 students, 960 boarders, 30 sports, fees from £13,155 per term.
Millhaven Institution
Millhaven Institution is a maximum-security CSC penitentiary in Bath, Ontario, opened 1971 after the Kingston riot, capacity 496, housing an Assessment Unit, SIU, and Regional Treatment Centre.
Milli
Milli (Danupha Khanatheerakul, born 2002 in Bangkok) is a Thai rapper and singer who in April 2022 became the first Thai solo artist to perform at Coachella.
Milli Bhatia
Milli Bhatia (Chameli Sushila Bhatia, born 1992 or 1993) is an English stage and screen director and dramaturg from East London, twice Olivier-nominated for seven methods of killing kylie jenner and Blue Mist, and Royal Court Associate Director until December 2023.
Millî Edebiyat
Millî Edebiyat ("National Literature") was a Turkish literary movement, centered on 1910 to 1923, that simplified the Ottoman written language and turned literature toward Anatolia and folk forms.
Millî Edebiyat romanı
Millî Edebiyat romanı (National Literature novel) is the Turkish fiction of 1911 to 1923, written in plain Turkish and focused on Anatolian life and social problems.
Milli Vanilli
Milli Vanilli was a German-French pop duo created by producer Frank Farian in 1988, fronted by dancers Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan lip-syncing to uncredited session singers; three US No. 1 hits, a 1990 Best New Artist Grammy that became the award's first revoked prize, and a lasting shorthand for pop fraud.
Milliarium Aureum
The Milliarium Aureum, or golden milestone, was a gilded monument erected by Augustus in the Roman Forum in 20 BC as the notional point where Italy's roads converged.
Millicent (tunnel boring machine)
Millicent was a tunnel boring machine that dug the first 5 km section of London's Thames Tideway Tunnel from Battersea to Fulham between 2018 and 2019.
Millicent Fawcett
Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847–1929), English suffragist, led the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS, 1897) using peaceful lobbying, helping win votes for women over 30 in 1918; wife of economist Henry Fawcett; first woman statue in Parliament Square.
Millicent Martin
Millicent Martin (born 8 June 1934, Romford, Essex) is an English actress, singer, and comedian, the topical-song singer on BBC's That Was The Week That Was, a two-time Tony nominee, and Gertrude Moon in Frasier.
Millicent Simmonds
Millicent Simmonds (born 2003) is a deaf American actress from Bountiful, Utah, known as Rose in Wonderstruck and Regan Abbott in A Quiet Place; first deaf BAFTA EE Rising Star nominee, Broadway's Grey House star, and deaf-representation advocate.
Millicom
Millicom International Cellular S.A. is a Luxembourg-based telecommunications company founded in 1990 that provides fixed and mobile services in eleven Latin American countries under the Tigo brand, serving 49.3 million mobile customers.
Millie B (British rapper)
Millie B (Millie Bracewell, born 2000) is a Blackpool grime rapper whose 2016 diss track "M to the B", originally "Soph Aspin Send" on BGMedia, went viral on TikTok in 2020 via Bella Poarch.
Millie Bobby Brown
Millie Bobby Brown (born 2004, Marbella, Spain) is an English actress and producer known as Eleven in Stranger Things (two Emmy nominations), star of the Enola Holmes and Godzilla films, Damsel, and The Electric State, and founder of Florence by Mills beauty and fashion.
Millie Brady
Millie Brady (Camilla Eve Brady, born 1993) is a British actress and model known for Aethelflaed in The Last Kingdom (2017–2022), Mary Bennet in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Eliza in Surface, and modeling for Miu Miu.
Millie Bright
Millie Bright (born 1993) is an English former central defender, Chelsea captain from 2023 and England's 2023 World Cup captain; 88 caps, Euro 2022 winner, 8 WSL titles, retired April 2026.
Millie Corretjer
Millie Corretjer (Milagros Ninette Corretjer Maldonado, born 1974, San Juan) is a Puerto Rican pop ballad singer, formerly married to Oscar De La Hoya, known for Sola, Amar es un Juego, and her 2020 comeback album 5.
Millie Gibson
Millie Gibson (Amelia Eve Gibson, born 2004) is an English actress known as Kelly Neelan in Coronation Street and as Ruby Sunday, companion to Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor in Doctor Who, later starring in The Forsytes.
Millie Jackson
Millie Jackson (Mildred Virginia Jackson, born 1944, Thomson, Georgia) is an American R&B and soul singer known for explicit spoken monologues, the Caught Up concept albums, three gold records, and Grammy-nominated hit "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right."
Millie O'Connell
Millie O'Connell, full name Emilia Rose O'Connell, is an English musical theater actress and singer from the Isle of Wight, best known for originating Anne Boleyn in SIX.
Millie Perkins
Millie Perkins is an American actress born May 12 (1936 or 1938, sources differ), cast by George Stevens as Anne Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) despite never having acted; later a character actress until retiring in 2006.
Millie Small
Millie Small, born Millicent Dolly May Small, was a Jamaican singer whose 1964 hit "My Boy Lollipop" was the first international ska hit and Jamaica's first million-selling record.
Millieu
Millieu is a 3-D Morris abstract board game by Dale Walton (2022), catalogued as DLP.Game.1559 in Ludii. Two sets of 9 attribute pieces, shared ownership, mills of 3 pieces sharing one attribute, win by one extra capture.
Millikan (lunar crater)
Millikan is a 93.97-km-diameter impact crater on the Moon, centered at 46.76°N, 121.52°E, named for American physicist Robert Andrews Millikan (1868–1953); USGS Gazetteer feature ID 3900.