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Missionary position
Missionary position: face-to-face sex position with the penetrating partner on top. Term attested by 1963, coined via Kinsey's 1948 reading of Malinowski; the missionary-origin story is undocumented.
Missionog
MissionOG is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania venture capital and growth equity firm focused on B2B fintech, data, and software, founded by George Krautzel, Andrew Newcomb, and Eugene Lockhart.
Missions
Missions is a French science-fiction TV series (2017–2022) created by Ami Cohen, Henri Debeurme, and Julien Lacombe for OCS, about the first crewed Mars mission becoming a rescue mission; three seasons, ten episodes each.
Missiontosurf Portugal Surfcamp
Missiontosurf Portugal Surfcamp (Mission to Surf, Lda.) is an Austrian-run surf camp in Aljezur, Algarve, operating since 2006, offering 5-day courses with video analysis, a villa with pool, and a 4.6 Google rating.
Mississauga
Mississauga is a city in the Region of Peel, Ontario, west of Toronto; incorporated 1974, Canada's sixth largest city, home to Pearson airport, 501,500 jobs, and the Official Plan 2051 growth framework.
Mississippi
Mississippi, the 20th state (admitted December 10, 1817), capital Jackson, is a Deep South state of about 2.95 million people known for cotton history, secession, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the civil rights movement, and persistent poverty.
Mississippi Burning
Mississippi Burning is Alan Parker's 1988 Orion Pictures drama, also known by its FBI case name MIBURN, dramatizing the 1964 Chaney, Schwerner, and Goodman murders; it won the cinematography Oscar and drew white-savior criticism.
Mississippi Company
The Mississippi Company, founded as the Compagnie d'Occident in 1717, was the French trading company at the center of John Law's monetary system and the Mississippi Bubble of 1719–1720.
Mississippi Crossing (pipeline)
Mississippi Crossing, also called the MSX Project, is a proposed 199-mile natural gas pipeline in Mississippi and Alabama, sponsored by Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, a Kinder Morgan subsidiary.
Mississippi Delta
Mississippi Delta: name for both the lower Mississippi alluvial valley and the Yazoo River floodplain of northwest Mississippi, distinct from the river's true Louisiana delta; fertile farmland facing subsidence, sediment starvation, and coastal land loss.
Mississippi Department of Transportation
The Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) is the state agency responsible for highways, bridges, transit, ports, railroads, and aviation, headquartered in Jackson and created in 1992.
Mississippi Grind
Mississippi Grind (2015) is an A24 road drama written and directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, starring Ben Mendelsohn and Ryan Reynolds as gamblers traveling the Mississippi to a New Orleans poker game; 91% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Mississippi John Hurt
Mississippi John Hurt (John Smith Hurt) was an American country blues singer and guitarist from Avalon, Mississippi, recorded in 1928, then rediscovered in 1963 during the folk revival.
Mississippi Masala
Mississippi Masala, also known as Mississippi Masala (1991), is Mira Nair's romantic drama about an Indian family expelled from Uganda by Idi Amin, whose daughter Mina (Sarita Choudhury) loves Denzel Washington's Demetrius in Greenwood, Mississippi; written by Sooni Taraporevala, Venice Golden Osella winner.
Mississippi Mermaid
Mississippi Mermaid (La Sirène du Mississipi) is François Truffaut's 1969 romantic thriller starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve, adapted from Cornell Woolrich's novel Waltz into Darkness, set on Réunion, a 1969 box office flop reappraised after restoration.
Mississippi Miracle
The Mississippi Miracle is the rise of Mississippi's fourth-grade NAEP reading scores from 49th nationally in 2013 to 9th in 2024, attributed to the 2013 Literacy-Based Promotion Act, science-of-reading teacher training, and third-grade retention, with ongoing debate over causes.
Mississippi mud
Mississippi mud is a roll-your-own variant of seven-card stud played in home games, in which players discard two of seven dealt cards and the pot splits between high and low hands.
Mississippi Mud Monsters
Mississippi Mud Monsters, Pearl, Mississippi Frontier League (West Division, Midwest Conference) independent professional baseball team founded 2024, playing at 8,480-seat Trustmark Park since the 2025 inaugural season.
Mississippi Power
Mississippi Power is a Gulfport, Mississippi, electric utility serving about 192,000 customers in 23 southeastern counties. Founded in 1925, it is a wholly owned subsidiary of Southern Company.
Mississippi River
The Mississippi River drains 41% of the contiguous United States into the Gulf of Mexico. Key facts: 18 million people drink its water, the 1927 flood reshaped U.S. flood control, and its nutrient runoff drives the Gulf dead zone.
Mississippi River and Tributaries Project
The Mississippi River and Tributaries Project is a flood control and navigation program for the lower Mississippi River, authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1928.
Mississippi River Delta
The Mississippi River Delta is the birdfoot delta in coastal Louisiana, also called the MRD, built by Holocene delta-lobe switching. About 5,000 km² of land has been lost since 1932 due to dams, levees, subsidence, and sea-level rise.
Mississippi River System
Mississippi River System: the Mississippi River and tributaries (Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Arkansas, Illinois) draining about 40% of the continental US across 31 states and 2 Canadian provinces; managed for 9-foot navigation, flood control, and nutrient pollution.
Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball
Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball, the Diamond Dawgs, are Mississippi State University's NCAA Division I SEC team, playing at Dudy Noble Field; 2021 national champions with 11 SEC titles and 12 College World Series appearances.
Mississippi State Bulldogs football
The Mississippi State Bulldogs football program, historically the Mississippi A&M Aggies, is the college football team of Mississippi State University, an SEC member since 1933.
Mississippi State Penitentiary
Mississippi State Penitentiary, also called Parchman or Parchman Farm, is Mississippi's oldest prison, opened in 1901 on about 18,000 acres in Sunflower County; it houses death row, hosts executions, and was the subject of the Gates v. Collier litigation and 2022 DOJ findings.
Mississippi State University
Mississippi State University (MSU) is a public land-grant research university in Mississippi State, Mississippi, founded in 1878 as Mississippi A&M. It is a Carnegie Research 1 institution with about 23,150 students, led by 19th president Mark Keenum.
Mississippi Valley Division
The Mississippi Valley Division is a US Army Corps of Engineers regional command managing water resources, navigation, and flood control across the Mississippi River Valley in 12 states.
Mississippian culture
Mississippian culture: pre-contact Native American societies of the eastern US, roughly AD 800–1600, defined by shell-tempered pottery, maize farming, platform mounds, and chiefdoms; Cahokia was its largest city.
Mississippian culture pottery
Mississippian culture pottery, the shell-tempered ceramic tradition of the Mississippian period (ca. A.D. 900–1600) in the southeastern and mid-continental United States, defined by crushed mussel-shell temper, thin walls, effigy bowls, and household production.