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Minty Alley
Minty Alley is a 1936 novel by Trinidadian writer C. L. R. James, his only novel, and the first by a black West Indian published in the United Kingdom.
Minu-Anni Tessera
Minu-Anni Tessera (Minu Anni Tessera) is a 1,300 km-wide tessera terrain feature on Venus at 20S, 30E, IAU-named in 1997 for an Assyrian fate goddess, part of Venus's oldest deformed crust.
Minuet
Minuet (menuet): a slow, stately French couple dance in 3/4 time popular in the 17th and 18th centuries, set to music by Lully, codified under Louis XIV, and later a standard minuet-trio-da capo movement of Classical symphonies.
Minuets in G major and G minor
Minuets in G major and G minor, BWV Anh. 114/115, are harpsichord minuets by Christian Petzold copied into Anna Magdalena Bach's 1725 notebook and long misattributed to J.S. Bach until Schulze's 1979 reattribution.
Minuscule South Arabian script
The minuscule South Arabian script, called zabūr (خط الزبور), is the everyday variant of the Ancient South Arabian alphabet, incised on wooden sticks in pre-Islamic Yemen.
Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants
Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants (Minuscule – La vallée des fourmis perdues) is a 2013 French-Belgian dialogue-free animated feature by Thomas Szabo and Hélène Giraud, mixing CGI insects with real Écrins and Mercantour park backdrops; it won the 2015 César for Best Animated Film.
Minushuman
Minushuman is a French heavy metal band founded in 2007 in Bergerac, France, whose second album Bloodthrone was released on Season of Mist in 2011.
Minuta Slavy (Minute of Fame)
Minuta Slavy (Минута славы, "Minute of Fame") is a Russian talent competition on Channel One since 2007, where amateur performers compete for a 1,000,000-ruble prize.
Minute (time)
The minute (symbol min) is a unit of time equal to 60 seconds, or one sixtieth of an hour, accepted for use with the SI.
Minute and second of arc
The minute and second of arc, also called the arcminute and arcsecond, are units of angle equal to 1/60 and 1/3,600 of a degree, widely used in astronomy.
Minute Maid
Minute Maid is a Coca-Cola-owned juice brand created in 1946 as the first U.S. frozen concentrated orange juice, named by a Boston marketing firm, promoted by Bing Crosby, and expanded into 100-plus varieties; its frozen concentrates were discontinued in 2026.
Minute to Win It
Minute to Win It: game show format created by Derek Banner's BUMP Productions, developed by Friday TV, premiered on NBC March 14, 2010 hosted by Guy Fieri; contestants do 60-second household-object challenges for up to $1 million; adapted in over 50 countries; FRAPA's most sold gameshow 2011 and 2012; GSN revival hosted by Apolo Ohno.
Minuteman I
The Minuteman I (LGM-30A and LGM-30B) was the first solid-fueled American intercontinental ballistic missile, built by Boeing and in service from 1962 to 1969 before replacement by the Minuteman II.
Minuteman II
The Minuteman II (LGM-30F) was the second generation of the American Minuteman ICBM, a solid-fueled missile carrying a 1.2 megaton warhead, deployed from 1966 to the 1990s.
Minuteman III
The LGM-30G Minuteman III is a three-stage, solid-propellant American intercontinental ballistic missile that has been operational since 1970 as the sole land-based leg of the US nuclear triad.
Minutemen
Minutemen were volunteer Massachusetts militia companies formed October 26, 1774, pledged to march at a minute's warning; they trained twice weekly and fought at Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775, opening the American Revolution.
Minutemen (band)
Minutemen were an American punk trio from San Pedro, California, active 1980–1985: D. Boon, Mike Watt, George Hurley. SST Records band famed for 'jamming econo' brevity and the 1984 double album Double Nickels on the Dime; ended when Boon died in December 1985.
Minutemen (film)
Minutemen is a 2008 Disney Channel Original Movie directed by Lev L. Spiro, starring Jason Dolley, Luke Benward, and Nicholas Braun as teens whose time machine causes a black hole; premiered January 25, 2008, drawing 6.5 million viewers.
Minutes
Minutes: a court clerk's summary record of daily proceedings, listing participants and orders, distinct from verbatim transcripts; rough minutes held public records in Copley Press v. Superior Court (1992).
Minutes to Midnight (Linkin Park album)
Minutes to Midnight is Linkin Park's third studio album, released May 2007 on Warner Bros. Co-produced by Rick Rubin and Mike Shinoda, it dropped nu metal for alternative rock, topped UK and US charts, and divided critics (Metacritic 56).
Minx (TV series)
Minx is an American half-hour comedy created by Ellen Rapoport, set in 1970s Los Angeles, where feminist Joyce Prigger and porn publisher Doug launch the first erotic magazine for women; it ran on HBO Max from 2022, moved to Starz for season 2, and was later canceled.
Minya
Minya (المنيا), the "Bride of Upper Egypt", is a Nile city about 250 km south of Cairo and capital of Egypt's most populous Upper Egypt governorate, with ancient roots as Oryx and Menat Khufu.
Minya Governorate
Minya Governorate (محافظة المنيا), Egypt's 'Bride of Upper Egypt' on both Nile banks, capital Minya city; 32,279 km², about 5.5 million people, agriculture-dominated economy, 18 March national day.
Minya Konka
Minya Konka, also called Gongga Shan or Mount Gongga (贡嘎山), is a 7,556-meter peak in the Daxue Shan of western Sichuan, China, and the highest in Sichuan province.
Minyaku Yakukai
Minyaku Yakukai (民約訳解) is a classical Chinese translation of Rousseau's Du contrat social with commentaries by Nakae Chōmin, the "Rousseau of the East," influential among 1880s Japanese democrats.
Minyan (מניין)
Minyan (מניין), plural minyanim, is the quorum of ten Jewish adults required by Jewish law for communal prayers, including kaddish, the repetition of the Amidah, and public Torah reading.
Minye Kyawswa
Minye Kyawswa, born 1391, was a Burmese crown prince and commander of Ava in the Forty Years' War, killed in battle at Dala in 1415.
Minyue
Minyue (闽越国) was a kingdom in the Fujian region, re-established as a Han vassal state in 202 BC and destroyed by Han Wudi in 110 BC.
Minze Stuiver
Minze Stuiver was a Dutch-born radiocarbon scientist who founded and directed the Quaternary Isotope Laboratory at the University of Washington and created the CALIB calibration software.
Minzy (공민지)
Minzy (공민지, Gong Minji), born 1994, is a South Korean singer and dancer who debuted in 2009 as 2NE1's main dancer, lead vocalist, and lead rapper, went solo in 2017 with MINZY WORK 01 UNO, and released the single CALLING in September 2026.