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Moisés Vieites
Moisés Vieites was a Cuban lawyer and judicial writer of Havana who worked on penal-law reform and was nominated for the 1934 Nobel Peace Prize.
Moisey Ostrogorsky
Moisey Ostrogorsky (Моисе́й Острого́рский), 1854–1919 or 1921, was a Belarusian political scientist and founder of political sociology, known for the comparative study of party organization.
Moishe Mana
Moishe Mana (משה מאנה) is an American real estate investor who built Moishe's Moving, New York's biggest moving company, then assembled large landholdings in Miami.
Moisi Golemi
Moisi Golemi (Moisi Golem Arianiti, Moisiu i Dibrës), Albanian lord of Dibra and Skanderbeg's commander in the League of Lezhë; defected to the Ottomans after Berat, was defeated at Oranik 1456, pardoned, and executed in Constantinople (1464 or 1465).
Moissanite
Moissanite is the naturally occurring mineral form of silicon carbide, named for Nobel laureate Henri Moissan; extremely rare in nature, it is grown in labs as a diamond simulant.
Moist static energy
Moist static energy (MSE) is a thermodynamic quantity of moist air, the sum of enthalpy, gravitational potential energy, and latent heat of water vapor, conserved in reversible adiabatic processes and widely used to study tropical convection.
Moisture-swing CO2 capture
Moisture-swing CO2 capture is a direct air capture method in which an anion-exchange resin binds carbon dioxide when dry and releases it when humid, using humidity as the switching variable.
Moisturizer
A moisturizer, called an emollient in medical use, is a topical product that adds moisture to skin and reduces water loss, used in eczema and dermatitis.
Moisturizer (album)
Moisturizer, also stylized moisturizer, is Wet Leg's second studio album (11 July 2025, Domino), produced by Dan Carey, 12 tracks and 38 minutes, recorded in Brighton, a UK number one with Metacritic 84.
Moitessieriidae
Moitessieriidae (Bourguignat, 1863) is a family of minute, dioecious truncatelloidean snails living exclusively in subterranean and thermal waters, mostly known from empty shells; monophyly debated, closely related to Cochliopidae, with Balkan genera Paladilhiopsis, Iglica, Bythiospeum.
Moj
Moj, also known as the Moj app, is an Indian short-video social networking app from ShareChat's parent Mohalla Tech, launched in July 2020 days after India banned TikTok.
Moja piosnka (II)
"Moja piosnka (II)" is an 1854 poem by Cyprian Kamil Norwid, written during his emigration in New York and built around the refrain "Tęskno mi, Panie" ("I long, Lord").
Mojanda
Mojanda (Volcan Mojanda-Fuya Fuya) is an extinct 4,263 m volcanic complex in Ecuador's Interandean Depression near Otavalo, formed by two contemporaneous volcanoes with calderas, three summit lakes, and no confirmed Holocene eruptions.
Mojang Studios
Mojang Studios, formerly Mojang, is the Stockholm-based Swedish developer of Minecraft, founded by Markus "Notch" Persson in 2009, acquired by Microsoft for $2.5 billion in 2014, and reporting directly to Xbox CEO Asha Sharma since 2026.
Mojave (film)
Mojave is a 2015 psychological thriller written and directed by William Monahan, starring Garrett Hedlund and Oscar Isaac, premiered at Tribeca, released by A24 in 2016, grossing $8,602 with mixed-to-negative reviews.
Mojave Air and Space Port
Mojave Air and Space Port at Rutan Field (MHV), in Kern County, California, is an FAA-licensed horizontal-launch spaceport and public airport; first inland FAA launch site (June 17, 2004), home of SpaceShipOne, Scaled Composites, and Stratolaunch.
Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve
The Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere site designated in 1984, covering desert regions of southeastern California from Death Valley to the Mexican border.
Mojave Desert
Mojave Desert: arid southwestern U.S. region of about 152,000 km² in California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona; smallest of the four American deserts, a rain shadow desert defined by the Joshua tree, with Mojave tribal history, the Mojave Road, and Ivanpah solar plant.
Mojave phone booth
The Mojave phone booth was a lone Pacific Bell payphone in California's Mojave Desert that became one of the first Internet memes before its removal in May 2000.
Moji
Moji (默记) is a lost Three Kingdoms book by Zhang Yan, an official of Wu, surviving in fragments and preserving the earliest text of the Second Memorial attributed to Zhuge Liang.
Mojian Shi Shici Ji
Mojian Shi Shici Ji (磨剑室诗词集) is the collected poems and ci of Chinese revolutionary poet Liu Yazi, founder of the Southern Society, first published in 1985 in two volumes.
Mojib Latif
Mojib Latif, born 1954 in Hamburg, is a German physical oceanographer and climatologist at GEOMAR Kiel whose influential work on decadal climate prediction earned the German Environmental Prize in 2015.
Mojibake (文字化け)
Mojibake (文字化け) is garbled text caused by decoding bytes with the wrong character encoding, historically common in Japanese Shift JIS, EUC, and JIS email text, now rare as UTF-8 dominates.
Mojin: The Lost Legend (鬼吹灯之寻龙诀)
Mojin: The Lost Legend (鬼吹灯之寻龙诀, also 寻龙诀) is a 2015 Chinese fantasy adventure film directed by Wuershan, adapted from the last four Ghost Blows Out the Light novels, starring Chen Kun, Huang Bo and Shu Qi, grossing 16.79亿元.
Mojin: The Worm Valley (云南虫谷)
Mojin: The Worm Valley (云南虫谷) is Fei Xing's 2018 Chinese fantasy adventure film adapting Tianxia Bachang's Candle in the Tomb novel, starring Cai Heng as Hu Bayi; it earned about 150 million yuan and poor reviews, later remade as a 2021 web series.
Mojito
Mojito: Cuban highball cocktail of white rum, lime juice, sugar, mint, and soda water; IBA official recipe 45 ml rum, 20 ml lime; first printed as Mojo de Ron (1929), name in Sloppy Joe's 1931-32 manual; linked to El Draque folklore and Hemingway's La Bodeguita del Medio.
Mojmír I
Mojmír I, also known as Moimar or Moymar, was the first known ruler of the Moravian Slavs, uniting Moravia with Nitra around 833 to form Great Moravia.
Mojo (comics)
Mojo is a Marvel Comics X-Men supervillain, ruler of Mojoworld in the Mojoverse, where TV ratings equal political power. Created by Ann Nocenti and Art Adams, debuting in Longshot #3 (1985), he is Longshot's archrival and a media-satire villain.
Mojo (soft drink)
Mojo is a Bangladeshi cola-flavored carbonated soft drink by Akij Food and Beverage, launched 14 April 2006, named after Bangla "Moja" (fun), a leading domestic cola exported since 2007 and sold in the UK via MSDUK since 2024.
Mojo bag
Mojo bag, also called mojo hand, gris-gris bag, toby, or nation sack: a small cloth pouch of herbs, roots, minerals, and personal concerns made for a specific spiritual purpose in African American Hoodoo, derived from West and Central African nkisi traditions, activated by prayer and breath, and fed with oils or whisky.