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Minas Oil Field
The Minas oil field is a giant onshore oil field in Riau province, central Sumatra, Indonesia, discovered in 1944 by Caltex and the largest known oil field in Southeast Asia.
Minas Tirith
Minas Tirith, also called Minas Anor and Mundburg, is the seven-tiered white capital of Gondor in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, founded S.A. 3320, renamed after Minas Ithil fell in T.A. 2002, and compared by Tolkien to Byzantium.
Minase Sangin Hyakuin
Minase Sangin Hyakuin (水無瀬三吟百韻) is a hundred-verse renga sequence composed in 1488 by the poets Sōgi, Shōhaku, and Sōchō as a memorial offering to Emperor Gotoba at Minase Shrine.
Minatiacum
Minatiacum, also written Ninittaci or Ninitiacum, a Roman road station in Gallia Belgica on the Reims–Bavay road, identified with Nizy-le-Comte (Aisne), center of the pagus Vennectis with a theater.
Minato, Tokyo
Minato (港区, Minato-ku) is a Tokyo special ward created March 15, 1947 from Akasaka, Azabu, and Shiba. 20.37 km² on Tokyo Bay; 270,199 residents (2025) but 972,673 daytime population; first in R&D among 23 wards.
Minato, Wakayama
Minato (湊, Shimminatochō, Shinkōmachi) is a coastal port district of Wakayama City, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, at 34.2156°N 135.1506°E, 4.67 km², home to Minato Goten palace and the Wakayama Port Office.
Minbar of Saladin
The Minbar of Saladin is a carved wooden pulpit installed in the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem by Saladin in 1187, burned in 1969 and rebuilt in 2007.
Minbar of the Kutubiyya Mosque
The minbar of the Kutubiyya Mosque (منبر الكتبية) is a monumental carved wooden pulpit begun in 1137 in Córdoba for the Kutubiyya Mosque of Marrakesh.
Mince pie
Mince pie, also mincemeat pie, is a small British Christmas pastry filled with sweet spiced dried fruit, suet and brandy. Medieval meat-filled origins, Cromwell ban myth, 370 million sold yearly in the UK.
Minced oath
Minced oath: a euphemistic, similar-sounding substitute for a profanity, such as gosh for God, darn for damn, heck for hell. English phrase attested 1654 (OED); Puritan-influenced; mostly religious in origin.
Mincemeat
Mincemeat, also called fruit mince, is a spiced preserve of dried fruit, sugar, suet or butter, citrus peel, and spirits used in Christmas mince pies; despite the name it usually contains no meat, a relic of its medieval preserved-meat origins.
Mincer earnings function
The Mincer earnings function is a semi-log regression expressing log earnings as a function of years of schooling and labor market experience, introduced by Jacob Mincer in 1974.
Minchancaman
Minchancaman (Minchançaman) was the last ruler of the Chimor kingdom, whose capital was Chan Chan; he governed until the Inca conquest around 1470 and was taken to Cusco.
Minchiate
Minchiate (Germini) is an Italian Florentine trick-taking tarot game played with a 97-card pack of 40 trumps, zodiac, element, and virtue cards; invented by 1540, extinct around 1930.
Minchina Ota (ಮಿಂಚಿನ ಓಟ)
Minchina Ota (ಮಿಂಚಿನ ಓಟ, "Lightning Sprint") is a 1980 Kannada heist film, Shankar Nag's directorial debut, starring him with Anant Nag and Lokanath; it won seven Karnataka State Film Awards and was remade in Hindi as Lalach. A different 2008 film shares the name.
Minchinhampton
Minchinhampton is a small Cotswold town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, about 4 miles south of Stroud, with a population of 5,096 at the 2021 census.
Mind
Mind (National Association for Mental Health) is the mental health charity for England and Wales, founded 1946, charity no. 219830, running the Infoline 0300 123 3393, a federation of ~100 local Minds, and campaigns; distinct from Mind Sweden and Mind Australia.
Mind (journal)
Mind is a British quarterly philosophy journal founded in 1876 by Alexander Bain, first edited by George Croom Robertson, published by Oxford University Press for the Mind Association, originally covering psychology before becoming purely philosophical.
Mind Association
The Mind Association is a British learned society, founded in 1900 on Henry Sidgwick's death, that supports the philosophy journal Mind and funds UK philosophy conferences.
MIND diet
MIND diet (Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay): a brain-health hybrid diet with 15 components. Observational studies link it to slower decline and lower dementia risk, but the 2023 randomized trial found no cognitive benefit over control.
Mind Enterprises
Mind Enterprises is an Italian Italo disco revival duo of Andrea Tirone (Secco) and Roberto Conigliaro (Baffone), both born 1985. Started 2012 in London by Tirone, went viral in 2025 with Campari balcony videos, released Negroni Love in 2026, and headlined Coachella's Sonora tent.
Mind Field
Mind Field is a 2017–2019 YouTube Red (Premium) documentary series hosted by Vsauce's Michael Stevens, recreating classic psychology experiments; 3 seasons, 24 episodes, produced by IPC.
Mind Game (film)
Mind Game (マインド・ゲーム, Maindo Gēmu) is a 2004 Japanese experimental animated film by Masaaki Yuasa, his Studio 4°C feature debut, adapted from Robin Nishi's manga; it won the 2004 Japan Media Arts Festival Grand Prize and reached US audiences via GKIDS in 2018.
Mind games
Mind games are psychological manipulation tactics used to confuse, destabilize, or control others in relationships, families, and workplaces; key tactics include gaslighting, blame, negging, and silent treatment, with Eric Berne's concealed-motive transactions as the theoretical root.
Mind Games (John Lennon album)
Mind Games is John Lennon's fourth solo album, released 29 October 1973 (US) and 16 November 1973 (UK), recorded at the Record Plant, New York, self-produced without Phil Spector, reaching No. 9 US and No. 13 UK, and reissued 2024 as the Grammy-winning Ultimate Collection.
Mind map
A mind map is a diagram that organizes information visually around a central concept with ideas branching outward, used for brainstorming, note taking, planning, and revision.
Mind of a Country Boy
Mind of a Country Boy is Luke Bryan's eighth studio album (Capitol Nashville, September 27, 2024), 14 family- and faith-themed tracks produced by Jeff and Jody Stevens, distinct from his 2024 EP of the same name.
Mind of Mine
Mind of Mine is Zayn's debut solo album (RCA, March 25, 2016), released a year after he left One Direction. Lead single PILLOWTALK and the album both hit No. 1 in the US and UK; Malay produced half, and FLoWer is sung in Urdu.
Mind the Game with LeBron James and JJ Redick
Mind the Game with LeBron James and JJ Redick is a basketball tactics podcast launched March 2024 by Uninterrupted and ThreeFourTwo; JJ Redick later left to coach the Lakers, replaced by Steve Nash, with Wondery distributing from 2025.
Mind the gap
"Mind the gap" (also "watch the gap") is the rail safety warning about the space between train and platform, coined by London Transport in 1968 for the London Underground; first voiced by engineer Peter Lodge and famously by actor Oswald Laurence, restored at Embankment station in 2013 for his widow.