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Mindolluin Montes

Mindolluin Montes is a 340 km mountain range on Titan near the equator, just west of the Huygens landing site, IAU-approved November 13, 2012 and named after Tolkien's Mindolluin, the peak above Minas Tirith.

Mindon Min

Mindon Min (မင်းတုန်းမင်း) was king of Burma's Konbaung dynasty from 1853 to 1878, displacing Pagan Min during the Second Anglo-Burmese War and moving the capital to Mandalay.

Mindon Min's reforms

Mindon Min's reforms were the administrative, fiscal, legal, economic, and religious changes carried out in Upper Burma between 1853 and 1878 under King Mindon Min.

Mindoro

Mindoro, seventh largest island of the Philippines, divided since 1950 into Oriental and Occidental Mindoro provinces in MIMAROPA; home of the endemic tamaraw and Mangyan peoples, historically the Chinese trade partner "Mai".

Mindray

Mindray, formally Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics, is a Chinese medical device manufacturer founded in Shenzhen in 1991 by Li Xiting, making patient monitors, diagnostics, and imaging equipment.

Mindscape (company)

Mindscape, Inc. was an American software publisher founded in 1983; after several owners, the name now belongs to Mindscape B.V., a Dutch video game publisher in Amsterdam.

Mindset

Mindset: Dweck's implicit-theories framework contrasting fixed mindset (intelligence innate) with growth mindset (intelligence improvable by effort); popularized by the 2006 book, with contested meta-analytic evidence on whether interventions raise academic achievement.

Mindset intervention

A mindset intervention is a psychological intervention teaching participants that abilities are malleable rather than fixed, aiming to change beliefs, motivation, persistence, and achievement.

MindsEye

MindsEye is a 2025 third-person action game by Build A Rocket Boy, directed by ex-Rockstar producer Leslie Benzies, set in Redrock City. Its broken launch, Metacritic 38/100, and Build A Rocket Boy's 2026 administration distinguish it from other games of the same name.

MindTickle

MindTickle is a software-as-a-service company founded in Pune, India, and headquartered in Pune and San Francisco, that sells a sales readiness platform combining training, coaching, and analytics for revenue teams.

Mindtree

Mindtree Limited was an Indian information technology services company founded in Bengaluru in 1999, best known for its hostile 2019 takeover by Larsen & Toubro.

Mindustry

Mindustry: factory-building game with tower defense and RTS elements by solo developer Anuken (AnukenDev), Steam release Sep 26, 2019, $9.99. Open-source Java, GPL-3.0; Serpulo and Erekir campaigns, cross-platform multiplayer, JSON/HJSON modding, v8 released 2026.

MINDY and atypical deubiquitinases

MINDY and atypical deubiquitinases are ubiquitin-cleaving enzymes whose catalytic domains fall outside the four classic DUB families, including the K48-selective MINDY proteases discovered in 2016, K63-selective ZUP1, and deubiquitinases encoded by viruses, bacteria, and parasites.

Mindy Cohn

Mindy Cohn (Melinda Heather Cohn, born 1966) is an American actress known as Natalie Green on The Facts of Life (1979–1988), the voice of Velma Dinkley (2002–2015), and Ann Holiday on Palm Royale; a two-time cancer survivor.

MINDY deubiquitinase

MINDY deubiquitinases (MIU-containing novel DUB family, MINDY1-4B) are K48-polyubiquitin-specific cysteine protease DUBs with a unique fold, Cys-His-Thr triad, Cys-loop autoinhibition, and distal exo-cleavage of long chains.

Mindy Kaling

Mindy Kaling, American actor, writer, producer, and director born in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Emmy-nominated Office writer, creator of The Mindy Project, Never Have I Ever, The Sex Lives of College Girls, and Not Suitable for Work; National Medal of Arts recipient.

Mindy McCready

Mindy McCready (Malinda Gayle McCready, 1975-2013), American country singer. Debut album Ten Thousand Angels (1996, BNA) went platinum; hit "Guys Do It All the Time" reached No. 1; died by suicide in Heber Springs, Arkansas.

Mindy Sterling

Mindy Sterling (Mindy Lee Sterling, born 1953, Paterson, New Jersey) is an American character actress known for Frau Farbissina in Austin Powers, iCarly's Ms. Briggs, and voicing Lin Beifong in The Legend of Korra; two 2017 Emmy nominations for Con Man and secs & EXECS.

Mine

A mine is an explosive weapon placed on or under the ground or seabed that detonates from the presence or contact of a person, vehicle, or vessel.

Mine (2016 film)

Mine (2016) is a psychological war thriller, the debut feature of Italian directors Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro, starring Armie Hammer as a Marine sniper stranded for 52 hours on a landmine in a desert.

Mine (마인) (TV series)

Mine (마인) is a 2021 tvN 16-episode Korean drama written by Baek Mi-kyung, directed by Lee Na-jung, starring Lee Bo-young and Kim Seo-hyung as chaebol daughters-in-law, streamed on Netflix, noted for its feminist, queer narrative.

Mine action programme of Afghanistan

The Mine Action Programme of Afghanistan (MAPA) coordinates mine clearance, risk education, and victim assistance; established in 1989, it was the world's first humanitarian mine action program.

Mine Boy

Mine Boy is a 1946 novel by the South African writer Peter Abrahams, following Xuma, a rural migrant who becomes a gold mine worker in Johannesburg.

Mine flail

A mine flail is a mine-clearance device with a rotating drum of heavy chains, mounted on an armored vehicle, that beats the ground to detonate buried mines.

Mine rescue

Mine rescue is the specialized emergency response discipline in which trained teams enter underground mines after explosions, fires, floods, or collapses to evacuate trapped miners, typically wearing breathing apparatus.

Mine That Bird

Mine That Bird is a retired Thoroughbred gelding who won the 2009 Kentucky Derby at 50-1 odds, one of the largest upsets in the race's history.

Mine-clearing line charge

The mine-clearing line charge (MICLIC) is a rocket-projected explosive charge fired across a minefield and detonated to clear a 100-meter, vehicle-wide lane for tanks and other vehicles.

Minecraft

Minecraft is a sandbox video game by Mojang Studios where players build and break blocks in 3D worlds, with no set goal; Microsoft bought Mojang for $2.5 billion in 2014.

Minecraft (franchise)

Media franchise built around the 2009 sandbox game Minecraft by Swedish developer Markus "Notch" Persson, owned by Microsoft since its 2014 purchase of Mojang.

Minecraft Dungeons

Minecraft Dungeons (2020), Mojang Studios and Double Eleven's action-adventure dungeon crawler in the Minecraft universe; up to 4-player co-op against the Arch-Illager, six DLCs, 25 million players, sequel in 2026.