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Minnitaki
Minnitaki Lake is a large lake with numerous islands in Kenora District, Ontario, Canada, near Sioux Lookout, known for its walleye and lake trout fishery.
Minnkota Power Cooperative
Minnkota Power Cooperative is a not-for-profit electric generation and transmission cooperative based in Grand Forks, North Dakota, serving 11 member cooperatives in eastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota.
Minnodunum
Minnodunum (Minodum), Roman vicus at Moudon, canton of Vaud, Switzerland, in the civitas of the Helvetii on the Lousonna-Aventicum road; known from the Antonine Itinerary, Tabula Peutingeriana, and a 1732 altar recording a 750-denarius endowment.
Minnow
Minnow: true minnows are small freshwater fishes of the family Leuciscidae (Cypriniformes), also called shiners, chubs, and daces; used as bait fish, distinct from mosquitofish Gambusia and killifish mummichogs.
Mino
Mino (MINO, CVCL_1872) is a human mantle cell lymphoma cell line established from peripheral blood, t(11;14)-positive, cyclin D1-expressing, TP53-mutant, distributed by ATCC CRL-3000 and DSMZ ACC-687, and widely used in MCL drug screening.
Mino (송민호) (rapper)
Song Min-ho (송민호, Mino), born 1993, is a South Korean rapper in YG Entertainment's WINNER, Show Me the Money 4 runner-up, solo artist of XX and TO INFINITY., and painter; convicted in 2026 of 102 days of unauthorized absence from mandatory service, with a suspended one-year sentence.
Mino Raiola
Mino Raiola (Carmine Raiola, 1967-2022), Italian-born Dutch football super-agent based in Monaco; represented Ibrahimovic, Pogba, Haaland; brokered Pogba's record 2016 transfer; clients passed to Rafaela Pimenta.
Mino Suzume (美乃すずめ)
Mino Suzume (美乃すずめ) is a Japanese AV actress and gravure model born in 1996. She is known for her 168 cm height and her background as a licensed dietitian.
Mino washi
Mino washi (美濃和紙) is traditional Japanese paper made in Mino, Gifu Prefecture, dating to at least 702 and ranked among Japan's three great washi traditions.
Minoa (Greece)
Minoa (Μινώα) is an ancient fortified city on Amorgos, Cyclades, on Mount Moudoulia above Katapola; one of the island's three ancient cities, occupied from the Neolithic to the 4th century AD, excavated by Lila Marangou.
Minoan civilization
Minoan civilization: Bronze Age culture of Crete, also called the palatial civilization after King Minos. Flourished roughly 2000-1500 BC with Knossos and other palaces, Linear A and Cretan hieroglyphs still undeciphered, and decline debated between the Santorini eruption and Mycenaean influence.
Minoan eruption
The Minoan eruption, also known as the Santorini or Thera eruption, was a huge Late Bronze Age eruption of the Santorini volcano in the Aegean Sea that buried Akrotiri.
Minoan frescoes from Tell el-Dab'a
The Minoan frescoes from Tell el-Dab'a are more than 20,000 wall-painting fragments in Minoan style, found at Avaris in Egypt's Nile Delta and dating to about 1470 BC.
Minoan Palatial Centres
Minoan Palatial Centres, a UNESCO serial World Heritage property inscribed in 2025, comprises six Bronze Age sites on Crete (Knossos, Phaistos, Malia, Zakros, Zominthos, Kydonia), administrative, economic, and religious hubs of Minoan civilization dating 1900-1100 BCE.
Minoan snake goddess figurines
Minoan snake goddess figurines: faience statuettes with snakes from the Temple Repositories at Knossos, found by Arthur Evans in 1903, dated c. 1600 BCE, heavily reconstructed and contested as forgeries.
Minobe Tatsukichi
Minobe Tatsukichi (美濃部達吉, 1873–1948) was a Japanese constitutional law scholar at Tokyo Imperial University whose emperor-as-organ theory dominated Meiji Constitution interpretation until the nationalist 1935 incident.
Minocycline
Minocycline (Minocin) is a semisynthetic second-generation tetracycline antibiotic, FDA-approved 1971, used for acne vulgaris, rosacea (Emrosi 40 mg ER, 2024), and bacterial infections; more adverse effects than doxycycline, including pigmentation and drug-induced lupus.
Minodronic acid
Minodronic acid (minodronate, YM-529; Recalbon/Bonoteo) is a third-generation nitrogen-containing bisphosphonate for osteoporosis, developed in Japan, approved January 2009, dosed 1 mg daily or 50 mg every 4 weeks, use limited to Japan.
Minolta
Minolta was a Japanese camera and optics manufacturer founded by Kazuo Tashima in 1928; it introduced the first autofocus 35mm SLR and merged with Konica in 2003.
Minolta Camera
Minolta Camera was a Japanese camera and optics maker founded by Kazuo Tashima in 1928, which launched the first practical autofocus SLR in 1985 and merged with Konica in 2003.
Minolta Maxxum 7000 (α-7000)
The Minolta Maxxum 7000 (α-7000) is a 35mm SLR camera launched in January 1985 as the first mass-produced 35mm SLR with fully integrated in-body autofocus, sold as the 7000 AF in Europe.
Minona Corona
Minona Corona, a 130-km-diameter corona (volcano-tectonic feature) on Venus at 23.5°N, 218.5°E, quadrangle V-27; IAU-named in 2008 for a Benin fertility goddess.
Minoo Rassoulzadegan
Minoo Rassoulzadegan is a geneticist and epigeneticist known for demonstrating RNA-mediated non-Mendelian inheritance in mice, first reported in Nature in 2006, and has worked at Inserm and CNRS in Nice.
Minor (law)
Minor (law): a person below the age of majority, usually 18 in the US, UK, and Australia. Minors have limited contractual capacity (voidable or void ab initio depending on jurisdiction), remain under parental care unless emancipated, and are treated differently in criminal, property, and record-privacy matters.
Minor (linear algebra)
A minor in linear algebra is the determinant of a square submatrix formed by choosing certain rows and columns of a matrix, also called a minor determinant.
Minor Acropolis, Norba
Minor Acropolis (Acropoli Minore), Norba: the smaller of two sacred hills in the ancient Latin city of Norba, Lazio, Italy, with two temple podia of about 490 BC, a tholos cistern, Etruscan archaic finds, and domus at its foot.
Minor actinides
Minor actinides are the transuranic elements in spent nuclear fuel other than plutonium, mainly neptunium, americium, and curium, which dominate its long-term radiotoxicity and are targets of partitioning and transmutation.
Minor alditols
Minor alditols are sugar alcohols, including threitol, ribitol, arabitol, and volemitol, that never reached commercial sweetener status; ribitol occurs in vitamin B2, and none carries an EU E number.
Minor Arcana
The Minor Arcana are the 56 suited cards of a 78-card tarot deck, four suits of ten pips and four court cards each, concerned with everyday life.
Minor capsid protein
A minor capsid protein is a viral structural protein present in small copy numbers in the capsid, where it stabilizes the shell and aids genome packaging.