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Moby Dick (whale)
Moby Dick (Moby-Dick) is the fictional albino sperm whale hunted by Captain Ahab in Herman Melville's 1851 novel, inspired by the Essex sinking of 1820 and the real white whale Mocha Dick.
Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor
Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor (also Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor) is a 1967–68 Hanna-Barbera CBS Saturday morning science-fiction series created by Alex Toth: 18 half-hours pairing a friendly whale's undersea rescues with Tor, a caveman teen whose magic club transforms him into Mightor.
Moby Grape
Moby Grape, American psychedelic rock band formed in San Francisco in late 1966 by Spence, Miller, Lewis, Mosley, and Stevenson; acclaimed 1967 debut album on Columbia; decades of name litigation with Matthew Katz resolved in the band's favor in 2005-2006.
Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851), Herman Melville's novel narrated by Ishmael about Captain Ahab's vengeful hunt for the white whale that maimed him. Published in differing British (The Whale) and American editions, it failed commercially before the Melville Revival made it an American classic.
MoCA-B Turkish study
MoCA-B Turkish study (NCT07630688): a completed cross-sectional validation of the Turkish Montreal Cognitive Assessment-Basic in 166 low-education adults at Antalya Training and Research Hospital, finding AUC 0.891 for MCI (cut-off 21) and 0.992 for dementia (cut-off 18).
Mocambo (nightclub)
Mocambo was a celebrity nightclub at 8588 Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood, opened January 3, 1941 by Charlie Morrison and Felix Young; known for Tony Duquette's Latin-themed decor, bird aviaries, Sinatra's 1943 solo debut, and Ella Fitzgerald's 1955 Monroe-arranged booking. Distinct from Toronto's El Mocambo.
Moccasin
Moccasin is a heelless shoe of soft leather, traditionally used by Indigenous peoples of North America. It is made from tanned hides and can be plain or decorated.
Mocean Energy
Mocean Energy is a Scottish wave energy company founded in Edinburgh in 2015, whose Blue X prototype was tested at EMEC in Orkney and powered subsea equipment in the North Sea.
Mocertatug rezetecan
HS-20089 (GSK5733584, mocertatug rezetecan) is a Hansoh-discovered, GSK-licensed B7-H4-targeted antibody-drug conjugate with a topoisomerase I inhibitor payload (DAR 6) in phase 3 trials for platinum-resistant ovarian cancer.
Mocha (JavaScript framework)
Mocha is a JavaScript test framework for Node.js and the browser, created by TJ Holowaychuk in 2011. Unlike all-in-one tools such as Jest, it provides the runner while developers pick their own assertion and mocking libraries.
Mocha Dick
Mocha Dick, also called the White Whale of the Pacific, was a real albino bull sperm whale off Mocha Island, Chile, famous for fighting whalers; recorded by Jeremiah Reynolds in 1839 and inspiring Melville's Moby-Dick.
Mocha Uson
Mocha Uson (Esther Margaux Justiniano Uson) is a Filipina entertainer, former Mocha Girls leader, and political blogger who became Duterte's most prominent social-media supporter and later held government posts.
Mochakk
Mochakk, real name Pedro Luis Nunes Maia (born 1999, Sorocaba, Brazil), is a house and tech-house DJ and producer behind "Da Fonk" and "Jealous", the DOGGHAÜZ label, OBLIQO club, and the Mochakk Calling events, distinct from any other artist of the name.
Moche culture
Moche culture (Mochica), a pre-Columbian archaeological culture of Peru's north coast, ca. 100–800 A.D., a network of independent polities known for stirrup-spout and fineline ceramics, adobe huacas, metallurgy, and human sacrifice, followed by the Chimú.
Moche fineline painting
Moche fineline painting is a ceramic style of the Moche culture of Peru's north coast, with narrative scenes in fine red or brown slip lines on cream grounds.
Moche metallurgy
Moche metallurgy is the metalworking tradition of the Moche culture of Peru's north coast, flourishing from about 100 to 800 CE and renowned for sophisticated gilding techniques.
Moche polity
The Moche polity was a political organization of Moche society on Peru's north coast, active from about 200 to 850 CE and centered at Huacas de Moche.
Moche portrait vessels
Moche portrait vessels, or huacos retrato, are ceramic vessels shaped as human heads, made by the Moche culture of Peru's north coast between about AD 100 and 800.
Mochena Borago
Mochena Borago, also Moche Borago, is a large rockshelter archaeological site on the flanks of Mt Damota in southwestern Ethiopia, with one of the best-dated Late Pleistocene sequences in eastern Africa.
Mochi (餅)
Mochi (餅, mochi) is the Japanese rice cake made by steaming and pounding glutinous rice (mochigome), also called niangao-like sticky rice cake. Known for Yayoi-era origins, New Year kagami-mochi and zoni customs, east-west shape differences, and elderly choking risk.
Mochi ice cream
Mochi ice cream, also called My/Mochi or daifuku-style ice cream, is a bite-sized dessert of ice cream wrapped in chewy glutinous rice dough, invented by Frances Hashimoto at Mikawaya in Los Angeles and first sold in 1993.
Mochlos archaeological site
Mochlos (Μόχλος), Minoan and Mycenaean archaeological site on a small islet 150 m off eastern Crete in the Gulf of Mirabello; occupied c. 2900–1200 BC with Hellenistic re-settlement, known for its Early Minoan elite cemetery, Neopalatial town, and Limenaria chamber tombs.
Mocho-Choshuenco
Mocho-Choshuenco (Complejo Volcánico Mocho-Choshuenco) is a 2,422 m compound Chilean volcano of two glacier-covered stratovolcanoes in Región de Los Ríos; last eruption 1937, among Chile's 14 most dangerous volcanoes.
Mochochonono
Mochochonono (The Comet) was a weekly newspaper in Sotho and English published in Maseru, Basutoland, now Lesotho, from 1911 to 1953 by the Tlale family; a government paper of the same name appeared in 1974.
Mochovce Nuclear Power Plant
The Mochovce Nuclear Power Plant (Slovak: Atómová elektráreň Mochovce, EMO) is a nuclear power station near Levice in western Slovakia, operating two reactors since 1998 and 2000.
Mochtar Lubis
Mochtar Lubis (1922–2004) was an Indonesian journalist and novelist, chief editor of the independent daily Indonesia Raya and repeatedly imprisoned under Soekarno and Suharto.
Mochtar Riady
Mochtar Riady, Chinese name Lie Mo Tie, is an Indonesian banker born in 1929 who founded the Lippo Group and built some of Indonesia's largest private banks.
Mochus
Mochus (Greek Μωχός, also spelled Mochos or Mokhos) is a legendary Phoenician sage of Sidon whom ancient authors credited with the atomic theory, though none of his writings survive.
Mock (Fedora tool)
Mock is a chroot build environment manager for building RPM packages, developed for the Fedora Project; it builds source RPMs in a minimal chroot and is used by Koji and Copr.
Mock execution
Mock execution: simulated killing making a victim believe death is imminent, also called fake or staged execution. A form of psychological torture prohibited under the ICCPR and UN human rights findings, documented in Iraq and Iran cases.