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Misao
Misao (Мисао, "Thought") was a Serbian literary, political, and literary-social journal published in Belgrade from 1919 to 1937, producing 44 volumes across the interwar period.
Mišarum
Mišarum, an Akkadian word meaning 'justice', was an Old Babylonian royal edict canceling debts, remitting palace arrears, and freeing debt slaves, proclaimed by Babylonian kings from 2004 to 1595 BC.
Misato Katsuragi (葛城ミサト)
Misato Katsuragi (葛城ミサト), NERV operations chief and Shinji's guardian in Neon Genesis Evangelion; voiced by Kotono Mitsuishi; led Operation Yashima; later WILLE commander in the Rebuild films.
Misato Watanabe
Misato Watanabe (渡辺美里) is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter, born in 1966, whose hit "My Revolution" reached No. 1 in 1986; she has sold over 5.1 million albums.
Misbah-ul-Haq (مصباح الحق)
Misbah-ul-Haq (مصباح الحق), born 1974 in Mianwali, is a former Pakistan cricket captain, the country's most successful Test captain with 26 wins in 56 matches, and later national head coach and chief selector (2019-2021).
Misbaha
The misbaha, also called subha or tesbih, is the Muslim prayer bead strand used to count dhikr, typically with 99 beads for the 99 names of Allah.
Misbehaviour (film)
Misbehaviour is a 2020 British comedy-drama, also known as Miss Révolution, directed by Philippa Lowthorpe, dramatizing the 1970 Miss World protest at the Royal Albert Hall and Jennifer Hosten's historic win, starring Keira Knightley and Gugu Mbatha-Raw.
Miscanthus
Miscanthus, also known as silvergrass, is a genus of about 12 perennial C4 grasses native to Eastern Asia, valued as ornamental garden plants and biomass crops for renewable energy.
Miscanthus × giganteus
Miscanthus × giganteus (giant miscanthus) is a sterile triploid C4 hybrid grass of M. sinensis and M. sacchariflorus, introduced to Denmark in 1935, grown as a high-yielding low-input bioenergy crop with cold-tolerant photosynthesis.
Miscarriage
Miscarriage, also called spontaneous abortion or early pregnancy loss, is the loss of a pregnancy before 24 weeks. It occurs in about 10% of clinically recognized pregnancies, is mostly due to chromosomal abnormalities, and is managed expectantly, medically, or surgically.
Miscarriage of justice
Miscarriage of justice: an unjust or improper judicial outcome, chiefly wrongful conviction of the innocent. Key causes include eyewitness misidentification, false confessions, and flawed forensic evidence; remedies span CCRC review and compensation schemes.
Miscegenation
Miscegenation: pejorative term for interracial marriage and sex, coined in an 1863 hoax pamphlet from Latin miscere and genus; also the label for US anti-miscegenation laws struck down by Loving v. Virginia in 1967.
Miscellaneous Flowers
Miscellaneous Flowers (Zahua tu juan, 杂花图卷) is a Ming dynasty ink handscroll of flowers, trees, and vegetables by Xu Wei, the representative work of his large-idea flower painting.
Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang
Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang (酉阳杂俎) is a Tang dynasty collection of anecdotes, marvel tales, and natural history notes compiled by the writer Duan Chengshi around the 9th century.
Miscellaneous Poems of 1839
Miscellaneous Poems of 1839 (Jihai zashi) is a set of 315 quatrains by the Qing poet Gong Zizhen, written during his 1839 journey home from Beijing.
Miscellaneous Records of the Western Capital
Miscellaneous Records of the Western Capital (Xijing zaji 西京雜記) is a Chinese collection of 129 anecdotes about the Western Han capital Chang'an, with disputed authorship.
Mischa Barton
Mischa Barton (born 1986, London) is a British-born, New York-raised actress known for Marissa Cooper on The O.C. (2003-07), early roles in Lawn Dogs, Notting Hill, and The Sixth Sense, and later reality TV and stage work.
Mischa Bonn
Mischa Bonn (born 1971) is a Dutch physical chemist who directs the Department of Molecular Spectroscopy at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany.
Mischa Cotlar
Mischa Cotlar was an Argentine harmonic analyst who taught himself mathematics while working as a pianist in Montevideo, earned a 1953 Chicago doctorate under Zygmund, and proved Cotlar's lemma.
Mischa Richter (photographer)
Mischa Richter is an American photographer and filmmaker, grandson of New Yorker cartoonist Mischa Richter (1910-2001). Born in Windsor, England, raised in Provincetown; editorial work in Vogue and Esquire, National Portrait Gallery portraits of Amy Winehouse, and films I Am a Town (2020) and Summer Tour (2025).
Mischa Zverev
Mischa Zverev (born 1987) is a German former tennis player, older brother of Alexander Zverev. Left-handed serve-and-volleyer, career-high No. 25 (2017), one ATP title (Eastbourne 2018), beat world No. 1 Murray at 2017 Australian Open.
Mischief Night
Mischief Night, also called Devil's Night, Cabbage Night, Goosey Night, or Gate Night, is a pranking night before Halloween (Oct 30, US) or Bonfire Night (Nov 4, northern England), originally May Eve; first recorded at Oxford in 1790.
Mischief Theatre
Mischief Theatre is a British comedy theatre company founded in 2008 by LAMDA students Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields, creators of The Play That Goes Wrong, running at the Duchess Theatre since 2014, and the BBC's The Goes Wrong Show.
Mischievous Kiss: Love in Tokyo
Mischievous Kiss: Love in Tokyo (イタズラなKiss〜Love in TOKYO), also known as Itazura na Kiss: Love in Tokyo, is a 2013 Fuji TV Japanese drama, the fifth adaptation of Kaoru Tada's manga, starring Honoka Miki and Yuki Furukawa, 16 episodes plus a 2014–2015 second season.
Mischling
Mischling (plural Mischlinge) was the pejorative Nazi legal term for people of mixed "Aryan" and Jewish ancestry under the 1935 Nuremberg Laws: first degree (two Jewish grandparents) and second degree (one), legally neither German nor Jew.
Mischwald
Mischwald (Forest Shuffle) is a 2023 Lookout Spiele card game by Kosch for 2-5 players: build a forest of 8 tree species, tuck animals, plants, and fungi around them, end at the third winter card; Deutscher Spielepreis 2024 winner.
Miscibility
Miscibility is the ability of a mixture to form a single phase over certain temperatures, pressures, and compositions, like ethanol and water mixing fully while oil and water separate.
Miscibility gap
A miscibility gap is a region of a phase diagram where a single homogeneous mixture is not stable and separates into two or more coexisting phases of different composition.
Misconduct (film)
Misconduct (2016), originally titled Beyond Deceit, is an American legal thriller directed by Shintaro Shimosawa, starring Josh Duhamel, Anthony Hopkins, and Al Pacino; released by Lionsgate Premiere and critically panned at 7% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Misdemeanor
Misdemeanor: a criminal offense less serious than a felony, typically punishable by under 12 months in jail. About ten million US misdemeanor cases are filed yearly, vastly outnumbering felonies, with major collateral consequences.