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Mirabai Chanu
Saikhom Mirabai Chanu (born 1994), Indian weightlifter from Manipur: Tokyo 2020 Olympic silver (202 kg), 2017 world champion, three-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist (2018, 2022, 2026), and 2026 Asian Games silver medallist.
Mirabal sisters
Mirabal sisters: Patria, Minerva, María Teresa, and Dedé Mirabal, Dominican resisters code-named Las Mariposas against Trujillo; three were assassinated 25 November 1960, inspiring the UN day against violence toward women.
Mirabeau B. Lamar
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (1798–1859), second elected president of the Republic of Texas (1838–1841), Georgia-born poet and soldier; championed Texas public education, opposed annexation, and pursued a forceful policy expelling Native peoples.
Mirabegron
Mirabegron (Myrbetriq, Betmiga) is a beta-3 adrenergic receptor agonist for overactive bladder, approved in the US in June 2012, recommended by NICE when antimuscarinics fail, with lower dry mouth risk but modest blood pressure increase.
Mirabel Madrigal
Mirabel Madrigal is the protagonist of Disney's Encanto (2021), voiced by Stephanie Beatriz, the only Madrigal child without a magical gift who saves her family's magic in Colombia.
Mirabelle plum
Mirabelle plum, a small sweet yellow plum of Prunus domestica, also called mirabelle de Lorraine; IGP fresh fruit since 1996, AOC eau-de-vie, centered on Lorraine, France.
Mirabilis
Mirabilis was a Tel Aviv internet company that created ICQ, the first widely adopted instant messaging service, in 1996 and sold it to America Online in 1998 for $287 million.
Mirabilis jalapa
Mirabilis jalapa, the four o'clock flower or marvel of Peru, is a Nyctaginaceae perennial native from Mexico to Nicaragua whose fragrant betalain-pigmented flowers open about 4 p.m.; roots and seeds are toxic.
Mirabilis Rupes
Mirabilis Rupes is a 453-km lobate scarp (cliff) on Mercury at 25.12S, 60.23E, IAU-approved September 22, 2026 and named for RV Mirabilis, a Namibian fisheries research vessel.
Mirabilite
Mirabilite, also known as Glauber's salt, is a colorless to white, very water-soluble hydrated sodium sulfate mineral deposited seasonally in salt pans, playas, and saline lakes, named for Glauber's 'miracle salt.'
Miracast
Miracast is a wireless display standard from the Wi-Fi Alliance that mirrors a device's screen to a TV or projector over a direct Wi-Fi link, launched in 2012.
Miracidium
Miracidium (plural miracidia): ciliated, nonfeeding first larval stage of digenean trematodes that hatches from the egg in water, seeks a snail host within roughly 6 to 12 hours, and transforms into a mother sporocyst inside the snail.
Miracle
Miracle (Latin mirari, to wonder): an extraordinary event attributed to supernatural agency rather than natural causes alone. Central definitions come from Aquinas and Hume's 1748 "violation of laws of nature", with Hume's testimony argument and later reformulations by Swinburne, Holland, and Craig.
Miracle (2004 film)
Miracle is a 2004 American sports drama directed by Gavin O'Connor, starring Kurt Russell as coach Herb Brooks, who led the 1980 US Olympic hockey team against the Soviet Union.
Miracle at St. Anna
Miracle at St. Anna is a 2008 war drama directed by Spike Lee, about four Black American soldiers trapped behind enemy lines in Tuscany during World War II.
Miracle fruit powder
Miracle fruit powder, freeze-dried deseeded Synsepalum dulcificum berry containing miraculin, makes sour foods taste sweet; FDA issued a no-questions GRAS letter (GRN 1144) in January 2024 for use at 0.005% in water-based beverages.
Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2019 Philippine film)
Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2019 Philippine film), the Pinoy remake of the 2013 Korean film, is a Viva Films drama directed by Nuel C. Naval starring Aga Muhlach as a mentally challenged father wrongfully convicted of murder; it was a 2019 MMFF entry and box-office hit.
Miracle in Cell No. 7 (번방의 선물)
Miracle in Cell No. 7 (7번방의 선물) is a 2013 South Korean comedy-drama directed by Lee Hwan-kyung about a mentally challenged father wrongfully imprisoned for murder.
Miracle in Motown
Miracle in Motown: Aaron Rodgers' 61-yard Hail Mary to Richard Rodgers on an untimed down after a Lions facemask penalty, giving the Packers a 27-23 win at Ford Field on Dec. 3, 2015; later named NFL Play of the Year.
Miracle in the Gorbals
Miracle in the Gorbals is Robert Helpmann's 1944 one-act ballet to Arthur Bliss's score, premiered by Sadler's Wells Ballet with Michael Benthall's scenario and Edward Burra designs; a Christ-like Stranger revives a suicide in a Glasgow slum and is murdered by a razor gang.
Miracle Legion
Miracle Legion: American alternative rock band formed 1983 in New Haven, Connecticut, led by Mark Mulcahy and Ray Neal; college radio hit The Backyard EP, Rough Trade and Morgan Creek albums, Polaris side project, and 2016 and 2024 reunions.
Miracle Mile (film)
Miracle Mile is a 1988 apocalyptic thriller-romance written and directed by Steve De Jarnatt, starring Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham, in which a wrong payphone call warns of nuclear missiles hitting Los Angeles in 70 minutes; a Hemdale-produced cult film that flopped theatrically.
Miracle Mile, Los Angeles
Miracle Mile, also known as the Miracle Mile District, is a shopping and museum district on Wilshire Boulevard in central Los Angeles, developed in the 1920s by A. W. Ross and anchored by Museum Row.
Miracle Mineral Supplement
Miracle Mineral Supplement (MMS, Miracle Mineral Solution) is a 28% sodium chlorite solution promoted by Jim Humble and the Genesis II Church as a cure for malaria, cancer, autism, and COVID-19; mixing with acid yields toxic chlorine dioxide, and regulators warn ingestion is like drinking bleach.
Miracle of Sound
Miracle of Sound, also MiracleOfSound, is the independent music project of Irish songwriter Gavin Dunne, writing songs about video games, TV, and movies; over a billion streams, viral hit Valhalla Calling, Level album series, first physical album Materia (2024).
Miracle of the gulls
Miracle of the Gulls: 1848 Salt Lake Valley event in which California gulls (Larus californicus), Utah's state bird since 1955, ate Mormon crickets threatening pioneer crops, commemorated by the 1913 Seagull Monument.
Miracle of the House of Brandenburg
The Miracle of the House of Brandenburg (Чудо дома Бранденбургского) was Russia's 1762 reversal in the Seven Years' War, when Peter III made peace with Prussia.
Miracle of the Sun
The Miracle of the Sun, or O Milagre do Sol, was a solar phenomenon reported by a crowd at Fátima, Portugal, on 13 October 1917.
Miracle on 1st Street (1번가의 기적)
Miracle on 1st Street (1번가의 기적) is a 2007 South Korean comedy-drama directed by Yun Je-gyun, starring Im Chang-jung as a gangster and Ha Ji-won as a boxer.
Miracle on 34th Street
Miracle on 34th Street (1947), a Twentieth Century-Fox Christmas comedy-drama directed and written by George Seaton from Valentine Davies's story, stars Edmund Gwenn as Kris Kringle; it won three Oscars, was released in May, entered the National Film Registry in 2005, and was remade in 1994.