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Millionenspiel
Millionenspiel (Million Game) is a 1982 Ravensburger betting board game by Rüdiger Koltze for 3-5 players, on the Spiel des Jahres 1982 recommended list; players wager on dice rolls of a shared pawn, first to one million wins.
Millions
Millions (2004) is Danny Boyle's British children's comedy drama, written by Frank Cottrell Boyce, about brothers Damian and Anthony spending a quarter million pounds from a railway heist before the UK converts to the Euro; distinct from the 1936 BFI film of the same name.
Millions Like Us
Millions Like Us (1943) is a British wartime drama directed and written by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, their directorial debut, starring Patricia Roc and Gordon Jackson in a story of women recruited to aircraft factory work.
Millipede
Millipedes (Diplopoda) are myriapod arthropods with two pairs of legs per diplosegment, about 13,000 described species, 22-750 legs, detritivore habits, ancient Silurian fossils, and defensive chemical glands.
Millipede burn
Millipede burn: chemical skin or eye injury from millipede defensive secretions (benzoquinones, phenols, hydrogen cyanide), not a bite. Causes burning, blistering, and months-long hyperpigmentation; treated with soap-and-water washing, steroids, and eye irrigation.
Millipore Corporation
Millipore Corporation was an American life-science tools company, founded in Massachusetts in 1954, that built its business on membrane filtration and was acquired by Merck KGaA in 2010.
Milliradian
A milliradian (mrad, often written mil) is one thousandth of a radian, the SI unit of angle, subtending about 1 meter at 1 kilometer and used in optics and artillery.
Millisecond
A millisecond (ms) is a unit of time equal to one thousandth of a second, the scale of human reaction times, ECG intervals, camera shutters, and network round trips.
Millisecond magnetar central engine
A millisecond magnetar central engine is a proposed power source for gamma-ray bursts and superluminous supernovae, in which a newborn, rapidly spinning neutron star taps its rotational energy.
Millisecond pulsar
A millisecond pulsar, also called a recycled pulsar, is a neutron star spinning hundreds of times per second, spun up by accretion from a binary companion.
Millisecond pulsar mass measurements
Millisecond pulsar mass measurements determine the masses of rapidly rotating neutron stars, made mainly by precision radio timing of binary systems and used to constrain the equations of state of ultra-dense matter.
Millman (Martian crater)
Millman is a 73.84–75.00 km impact crater on Mars at about 54°S, 210°E, approved by the IAU in 1994 and named for Peter Millman, Canadian astronomer and first WGPSN president.
Millmerran power station
Millmerran power station is an 852 MW black-coal-fired minemouth base load power station near Millmerran in southwest Queensland, about 215 km west of Brisbane, in commercial operation since 2002.
Millo
The Millo (Hebrew מלוא) is a structure in Jerusalem named in the Hebrew Bible, built by Solomon and repaired by Hezekiah, whose exact nature is unknown.
Millochau (Martian crater)
Millochau, a 114-km ancient impact crater in Tyrrhena Terra, Mars (21.4°S, 275°W), with a 400-m-high layered interior plateau, Noachian-to-Hesperian sedimentary fill, fluvial gullies, and Amazonian dunes.
Millonarios F.C.
Millonarios Fútbol Club, founded 18 June 1946 in Bogotá, is a Colombian Primera A club with 16 league titles, famed for the 1950s Ballet Azul of Di Stéfano; owned by Amber Capital, based at El Campín.
Millone
Millone, also called Mille, is the Bolognese two-player Tarocchino card game using the 62-card Tarocco Bolognese pack: 20 cards dealt in two stages, 10 discarded per player, a 1000-point winning target; also the last-game Ottocento variant scoring to 1000 instead of 800.
Millôr Fernandes
Millôr Fernandes, born Milton Viola Fernandes (1923–2012), was a Brazilian cartoonist, humorist, and playwright who worked in the Rio de Janeiro press for more than 70 years.
Mills bomb
The Mills bomb, also known as the Mills grenade, is a British hand grenade designed by William Mills in 1915 and used through the First World War.
Mills Godwin
Mills E. Godwin Jr. (1914–1999), Virginia governor as a Democrat 1966–1970 and Republican 1974–1978, the only Virginian elected governor twice; former Massive Resistance leader who later created the community college system and first state sales tax.
Mills Lane
Mills Lane (Mills Bee Lane III, 1937–2022), American boxing referee and Nevada judge, famous for "Let's get it on!", refereeing 100+ world title fights, and disqualifying Mike Tyson in the 1997 Holyfield ear-bite fight.
Mills syndrome
Mills syndrome is a rare, acquired motor neuron disease marked by slowly progressive spastic hemiparesis on one side of the body with no sensory loss, first described in 1900.
Millsaps College
Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi: private United Methodist-affiliated liberal arts college founded 1890 by Reuben Webster Millsaps. Test-optional, NCAA Division III (Southern Athletic Association), Else School of Management, SACSCOC accredited.
Millstone Grit
Millstone Grit, now formally the Millstone Grit Group, is a Namurian-age succession of coarse-grained sandstone, siltstone, and mudstone in Great Britain, named for gritstones quarried as millstones.
Millstone Nuclear Power Plant
The Millstone Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Waterford, Connecticut, on Long Island Sound, whose two pressurized water reactors supply much of New England's electricity.
MillTech
MillTech is a London-based financial technology company founded in 2019 by Eric Huttman that sells an automated FX hedging and treasury platform to fund managers and corporates.
Millvina Dean
Millvina Dean was a British woman who, at nine weeks old, was the youngest passenger aboard the Titanic and became the last surviving passenger of its sinking.
Millwall brick
Millwall brick: an improvised club-like weapon made by tightly rolling and folding a newspaper, named for Millwall FC hooligans, created in the late 1960s when stadium searches banned conventional weapons.
Millwall Bushwackers
Millwall Bushwackers (also F-Troop) are the hooligan firm of Millwall F.C., south-east London, active from the 1970s; known for the 1985 Kenilworth Road riot, 1988 Battle of Highbury, and 2009 Upton Park riot.
Millwall F.C.
Millwall F.C., the Lions, is a London professional football club founded in 1885 as Millwall Rovers by JT Morton factory workers on the Isle of Dogs; moved to New Cross in 1910, plays at The Den, reached the 2004 FA Cup final.