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Minsk Arena

Minsk Arena, the main indoor arena of Minsk, Belarus, seats 15,086 for ice hockey, hosts HC Dinamo Minsk of the KHL, and held the 2014 IIHF World Championship.

Minsk Ghetto

The Minsk Ghetto was a Nazi-established ghetto in Minsk where roughly 100,000 Jews were imprisoned from 1941 until the Germans destroyed it in the fall of 1943.

Minsk Governorate

Minsk Governorate (Минская губерния) was an administrative unit of the Russian Empire, established in 1793 after the Second Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and centered on Minsk until 1921.

Minsk Metro

The Minsk Metro (Мінскі метрапалітэн) is the rapid transit system serving Minsk, the capital of Belarus. Opened in 1984, it operates three lines with 36 stations over about 45 km.

Minsk Oblast

Minsk Oblast (Мінская вобласць, Минская область), central region of Belarus: 39,854 km², 1.47 million people, 22 districts, capital Minsk excluded from it, established 1938, potash and machine-building economy.

Minsk Voivodeship

Minsk Voivodeship (Belarusian: Мінскае ваяводства) was an administrative unit of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, created in 1565–1566 and centered on Minsk; its territory fell to the Russian Empire in 1793.

Minsk Zoo

Minsk Zoo (Минский зоопарк), Belarusian zoological garden at 40 Tashkentskaya St., opened 9 August 1984 as the MAZ plant zoo; city status 1994, EARAZA member since 1997, 42 ha site, about 400 species.

Minskiy Rayon

Minskiy Rayon (Мінскі раён) is a district of Minsk Region, Belarus, that surrounds the capital Minsk on all sides, one of the country's largest and most populous districts.

MINSTED nanoscopy

MINSTED nanoscopy is a super-resolution fluorescence microscopy technique introduced in late 2020 by Stefan W. Hell's group, which steers a doughnut-shaped STED beam to localize single fluorophores at molecular scale.

Minstrel

Minstrel: a medieval entertainer, from Old French menestral and Late Latin ministerialis, employed by courts, nobles, and towns to play music, sing, and recite poetry; in America the word also names blackface minstrel-show performers.

Minstrel show

Minstrel show: 19th-century American blackface theater founded by T.D. Rice's Jim Crow (1828-30) and the Virginia Minstrels (1843); dominant US entertainment until vaudeville eclipsed it in the 1890s, leaving lasting racial stereotypes in popular culture.

Mint (candy)

Mint candy: confectionery flavored with peppermint, spearmint, or menthol, from hard-boiled mints to candy canes and breath mints; cooked sucrose-corn syrup glass, 2-3% moisture, growing sugar-free market.

Mint (TV series)

Mint is a 2026 BBC crime drama created, written, and directed by Charlotte Regan, an eight-part Romeo-and-Juliet-style romance set in industrial Scotland, starring Emma Laird, Sam Riley, Laura Fraser, and Loyle Carner in his acting debut.

Mint Club

Mint Club (MiNT Club) was a Leeds house and techno nightclub on Harrison Street. It opened in 1998 and was recognized for its success in major music polls.

Mint Fantôme

Mint Fantôme (ミント・ファントーム), aka Maid Mint, an American independent ghost-maid VTuber and singer. Debuted July 2020, returned April 2024; leads idol group Densetsu.EXE; not a VShojo member.

Mint julep

Mint julep: a bourbon cocktail of sugar, water, mint, and crushed ice in a frosted metal cup; official drink of the Kentucky Derby since the 1930s, with roots in Persian gulab and 19th-century brandy, rum, and gin versions.

Mint Mobile

Mint Mobile is an American prepaid mobile carrier selling bulk multi-month plans on T-Mobile's network, part-owned by Ryan Reynolds from 2019 and acquired by T-Mobile in 2024.

Mint of Gadir

The mint of Gadir, the coin-producing institution of the Phoenician city of Gadir in modern Cádiz, Spain, struck bronze from around 300 BC and later Barcid silver.

Mint of Sakastan (Sistan)

The Mint of Sakastan was the Sasanian provincial mint at Zarang, in modern Afghanistan, striking silver drachms marked SK from 273 into the early Islamic era.

Mint of Samarra

The Mint of Samarra (دار السكة) was the Abbasid caliphate's official coin-striking mint at its capital Samarra, issuing gold, silver, copper, and bronze coinage from 836.

Mint organization of the Sasanian empire

The mint organization of the Sasanian empire was the network of royal mints producing the empire's coins from the 4th to the 7th century, marked with mint abbreviations.

MINT trial

MINT (Myocardial Ischemia and Transfusion) trial: NHLBI-funded randomized trial of 3,504 acute MI patients with anemia (Hgb <10 g/dL) at 144 centers; liberal transfusion (Hgb ≥10) was not superior to restrictive (7-8 g/dL) for 30-day death or recurrent MI (RR 1.15, p=0.07).

Mintash

Mintash (منطاش) was a Turkish mamluk amir who served as governor of Malatya under Sultan al-Zahir Barquq and led a rebellion from 1387 that briefly exiled Barquq to al-Karak.

Minth Group

Minth Group (敏实集团) is a Hong Kong-listed automotive parts supplier founded in 1997 by Taiwanese-born businessman Chin Jong Hwa in Ningbo, China, known for EV battery enclosures.

Minthara

Minthara (Minthara Baenre) is a Lolth-sworn drow paladin companion in Baldur's Gate 3, voiced by Emma Gregory, recruitable via Patch 5's knockout method and romanced despite her bugs.

Mintifi

Mintifi is a Mumbai-based supply chain financing fintech founded in 2017 by Anup Agarwal, Sanjoy Shome, and Ankit Mehta, providing collateral-free invoice-backed credit to distributors of consumer brands.

Minto

Minto: chiefly Lac Minto (Qasigialik), a large lake in Nord-du-Québec, Canada, named 1898 by Albert Peter Low for the 4th Earl of Minto; source of the Rivière aux Feuilles.

Minto Inlet

Minto Inlet (Kangiryuaqtihuk) is an inlet on western Victoria Island, Northwest Territories, Canada; type locality of the Neoproterozoic Minto Inlet Formation evaporites of the Shaler Supergroup, within the Minto Inlier.

Minto mine (Yukon)

The Minto mine is a copper-gold-silver mine in central Yukon, about 240 kilometers northwest of Whitehorse, which produced copper concentrate from 2007 until its abandonment in May 2023.

Mintu P. Turakhia

Mintu P. Turakhia, also known as Mintu Turakhia, is an American cardiac electrophysiologist at Stanford University and the VA Palo Alto, known for the 2019 Apple Heart Study.