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Milyan language
Milyan, also called Lycian B, is a poorly understood Luwic language of ancient Lycia in southwestern Anatolia, known from two poetic stone inscriptions of the 6th to 4th century BC.
Milyas
Milyas (Μιλυάς), also called the land of the Milyae, was a mountainous district between Lycia and Pisidia in south-west Anatolia, recorded by Herodotus as the original name of Lycia.
MIM-104 Patriot
The MIM-104 Patriot, also known as SAM-D, is the United States Army's primary surface-to-air missile system, built by Raytheon and fielded since 1982 against aircraft and ballistic missiles.
MIM-14 Nike Hercules
The MIM-14 Nike Hercules was a US Army surface-to-air missile deployed from 1958 to defend American cities against Soviet bomber attack, the first armed with a nuclear warhead.
MIM-23 Hawk
The MIM-23 Hawk is an American medium-range surface-to-air missile system using semi-active radar homing, fielded by the US Army from 1960 and still operated by allied countries.
Mim2
Mim2 (MIM2, YLR099W-A) is an 87-residue single-pass mitochondrial outer membrane protein of budding yeast that with Mim1 forms the fungal MIM complex, the insertase importing alpha-helical outer membrane proteins such as Tom20, Ugo1, and Fzo1; distinct from the ESCRT MIM2 motif.
Mima Ito (伊藤美誠)
Mima Ito (伊藤美誠) is a Japanese table tennis player, born in 2000, who won Olympic mixed doubles gold at Tokyo 2020, Japan's first in the sport.
Mīmāṃsā (मीमांसा)
Mīmāṃsā, also called Pūrva Mīmāṃsā, is one of the six orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy, devoted to interpreting the Vedic injunctions that prescribe ritual action.
Mimar Hayreddin
Mimar Hayreddin was an Ottoman architect from Bosnia, active from the late 15th to the early 16th century, whose domed designs influenced Mimar Sinan and the classical Ottoman style.
Mimar Kemaleddin
Mimar Kemaleddin (1870–1927) was an Ottoman and Turkish architect, a leading figure of the First National architectural movement and chief architect of the Ministry of Imperial Evkaf.
Mimar Sinan
Mimar Sinan, also known as Koca Mimar Sinan Agha, was chief architect of the Ottoman Empire for nearly half a century, serving Süleyman the Magnificent, Selim II, and Murad III.
Mimaropa
Mimaropa (MIMAROPA), Philippines' Region IV-B, an archipelagic administrative region of Occidental and Oriental Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon, and Palawan; 3,245,446 residents in the 2024 census, 16th of 18 regions.
Mimas (moon)
Mimas, also designated Saturn I, is the smallest and innermost major moon of Saturn, known for the giant Herschel Crater that gives it a Death Star look.
Mimbar Indonesia
Mimbar Indonesia was an Indonesian weekly general-interest magazine published in Jakarta from 1947 to 1966, whose literary section shaped modern Indonesian literature in the 1950s.
Mimbres Classic Black-on-White
Mimbres Classic Black-on-White, or Mimbres Style III, is a painted pottery type made by the Mimbres people of southwestern New Mexico from about A.D. 1000.
MIMD
MIMD (Multiple Instruction, Multiple Data) is a class of computer architecture, defined in Flynn's 1966 taxonomy, where multiple processors independently execute different instructions on different data.
MIME
MIME, the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, is a set of Internet standards that describes file format through media types, originally designed in the early 1990s to extend email beyond plain ASCII text.
Mime artist
Mime artist: wordless performer telling stories through body, hand and facial movement, from Greek mimos. Key figures Decroux, Marceau, Lecoq; distinct from British pantomime, clowning and silent film comedy.
Mimecast
Mimecast is a British-American cybersecurity company specializing in cloud-based email security and data protection, founded in 2003, headquartered in London, and owned by private equity firm Permira since 2022.
Mimeograph
The mimeograph, also called a stencil duplicator, is a low-cost duplicating machine that forces ink through a perforated stencil onto paper, common in offices and schools until the 1960s.
Mimeograph revolution
The mimeograph revolution was the spread of cheap, poet-edited little magazines printed on mimeograph machines across North America from the early 1960s to the early 1980s.
Mimesis (μίμησις)
Mimesis (μίμησις), from μιμέομai 'to imitate', is the ancient Greek concept of artistic imitation or representation, central to Plato's critique in Republic X and Aristotle's Poetics, and reworked from Renaissance imitatio through Auerbach, Benjamin, Adorno, and Girard.
Mimetus
Mimetus (pirate spider genus, Mimetidae), type species M. syllepsicus Hentz 1832. Araneophagic web-invaders using aggressive mimicry, spine-covered legs, and spider-specific venom; prey are mainly araneids and theridiids; genus not monophyletic.
Mimi (2021 Hindi film)
Mimi (मिमी), 2021 Hindi comedy-drama directed by Laxman Utekar, remake of Marathi film Mala Aai Vhaychay!; stars Kriti Sanon as a surrogate mother, with Pankaj Tripathi; Netflix release, National Film Award wins, 25% critics versus 92% audience on Rotten Tomatoes.
Mimi (김미현) (singer)
Mimi (김미현, Kim Mi-hyun), born 1995 in Jeju, is the main rapper of K-pop girl group OH MY GIRL (debuted April 2015), a variety-show regular on Earth Arcade, YouTube creator 밈PD, and solo artist behind 2026's "Bish Bash Bosh".
Mimi Alford
Mimi Alford, born Marion "Mimi" Beardsley, is the American author of Once Upon a Secret (2012), a No. 1 New York Times bestseller describing her 1962-1963 affair with President John F. Kennedy while a nineteen-year-old White House press office intern.
Mimi Chakraborty
Mimi Chakraborty (মিমি চক্রবর্তী), Bengali actress and singer born 1989 in Jalpaiguri; star of Gaaner Oparey, Bapi Bari Jaa, Raktabeej; former Trinamool Congress MP for Jadavpur, 17th Lok Sabha (2019–2024).
Mimi Fariña
Mimi Fariña (Margarita Mimi Baez, 1945-2001), American folk singer, younger sister of Joan Baez, half of the duo Richard & Mimi Fariña, and founder in 1974 of Bread & Roses, which brings free live music to institutionalized Bay Area audiences.
Mimi Faust
Mimi Faust, born Oluremi Faust in 1972, is an American reality TV personality and entrepreneur, an original cast member of VH1's Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta (2012), owner of Keep It Clean, Inc., and founder of the Oluremi skin care line.
Mimi Keene
Mimi Keene (Mimi Roshan Saeed), English actress born 1998, trained at Italia Conti; known as Cindy Williams in EastEnders and Ruby Matthews in Netflix's Sex Education (2019–2023), with film roles in Tolkien, Close, and After Everything.