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Mollie Winnard

Mollie Winnard (Mollie Louise Winnard, born 1997, Wigan) is an English actress known as Kayla Clifton in Coronation Street, Maggie in All Creatures Great and Small, and roles in Happy Valley, Four Lives, Silent Witness, and Waterloo Road.

Mollins

Mollins: Roman fortlet or small fort near Moodiesburn, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, 4 km south of the Antonine Wall. Flavian (c. AD 80s) Agricolan praesidium, 0.4 ha, found by aerial photography in 1977, excavated by Hanson and Maxwell.

Mollis

Mollis, village in canton Glarus, Switzerland, near the Walensee. Archaeology: Gallo-Roman temple at Hüttenböschen (excavated 1962/1964) and pre-13th-century building at the Salzwaage (2023/2025 digs).

Mollisol

A Mollisol is a soil order in USDA Soil Taxonomy defined by a thick, dark, humus-rich surface horizon, making it among the most fertile and extensively farmed soils in the world.

Mollisols

Mollisols, from the Latin mollis meaning soft, are a USDA soil order with a thick, dark, humus-rich surface horizon, formed mainly under grassland and counted among the world's most productive agricultural soils.

Molloy

Molloy is a 1951 novel by Samuel Beckett, written in French and the first of his Trilogy, told through the two narratives of the vagrant Molloy and the detective Moran.

Molloy Deep

Molloy Deep, formally Molloy Hole, is the deepest point of the Arctic Ocean at about 5,550 m, a circular depression in the Fram Strait between Greenland and Svalbard, first dived by Victor Vescovo in 2019.

Mollugo

Mollugo (carpetweed genus) is a genus of annual herbs in Molluginaceae, Caryophyllales, published by Linnaeus in 1753; 13 accepted species native to the New World, Angola, Cape Provinces, India, and Sri Lanka, including the weedy green carpetweed Mollugo verticillata.

Mollusc shell

Mollusc shell: the calcified exoskeleton of molluscs (snails, bivalves, cephalopods), secreted by the mantle from calcium carbonate (calcite or aragonite) plus protein and chitin in periostracum, prismatic, and nacre layers.

Mollusca

Mollusc (phylum Mollusca): soft-bodied invertebrates with a muscular foot, mantle, and often a shell; second-largest animal phylum, about 200,000 species including snails, bivalves, and cephalopods.

Molluscum contagiosum

Molluscum contagiosum (MCV, a poxvirus skin infection): umbilicated 2–5 mm papules in children and adults, spread by skin contact, fomites, and wet environments; self-limiting in 6 months to 2 years; imiquimod abandoned, cantharidin and berdazimer now FDA-approved.

Mollusk Surf Shop

Mollusk Surf Shop, also Mollusk, is a family-owned California surf shop and clothing brand founded in 2005 in San Francisco's Outer Sunset by John McCambridge and Johanna St. Clair, with Venice Beach and Santa Barbara stores, custom California-made boards, and an in-house apparel line.

Molly Alter

Molly Alter is an American venture capital investor and Partner at Northzone in New York, focused on Vertical SaaS and AI; her earlier investments include Frame.io, sold to Adobe.

Molly Bloom

Molly Bloom (Marion Tweedy) is Leopold Bloom's wife in Joyce's Ulysses, a Dublin concert singer whose adultery plotline on 16 June 1904 drives the novel and whose unpunctuated 'Penelope' monologue closes it.

Molly Bloom (author)

Molly Bloom, the "Poker Princess," is the American author of the 2014 memoir Molly's Game about running high-stakes celebrity poker games in Los Angeles and New York, adapted into Aaron Sorkin's 2017 Oscar-nominated film.

Molly Brown (actress)

Molly Elizabeth Brown (born 1994, Cedar Rapids, Iowa) is an American actress known as Debra Morgan in Dexter: Original Sin (2024), with film roles in Lost Girls, The Good House, Bloody Axe Wound, Senior Year, and Mooch, plus guest parts in Evil, Billions, FBI: International, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

Molly Burnett

Molly Burnett, full name Molly Kathleen Burnett, is an American actress known for playing Melanie Jonas on Days of Our Lives and Kelly Anne Van Awken on Queen of the South.

Molly Cook

Molly Cook is an American politician and registered nurse serving as a Democratic member of the Texas Senate from the 15th district in Houston since 2024.

Molly Cooke

Molly Cooke is an American professor of medicine at UCSF, a practicing internist, and a leader in medical education reform elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Molly Crockett

Molly J. Crockett is a psychologist who has been a professor of psychology at Princeton University since 2022, studying how learning and decision processes shape moral behavior.

Molly Elliot Seawell

Molly Elliot Seawell (1853–1916) was an American novelist and essayist from Gloucester County, Virginia, who published almost forty volumes of fiction and nautical books and was a leading opponent of woman suffrage.

Molly Ephraim

Molly Ephraim (born 1986, Philadelphia) is an American actress known as Mandy Baxter on Last Man Standing (2011–2017) and Ali Rey in Paranormal Activity 2 and The Marked Ones; a former teen Broadway performer in Into the Woods and Fiddler on the Roof.

Molly Gibson

Molly Gibson is an Origination Partner at Flagship Pioneering, the Cambridge, Massachusetts venture-creation firm, known for co-founding Generate:Biomedicines and Lila Sciences and serving as CEO of Expedition Medicines.

Molly Gordon

Molly Gordon (born 1995) is an American actress and filmmaker, daughter of Bryan Gordon and Jessie Nelson; known for Booksmart, The Bear's Claire, and co-directing Theater Camp (2023).

Molly Hagan

Molly Hagan (Molly Joan Hagan, born 1961) is an American actress known for Angel on Herman's Head, the first on-screen Vorta in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Abeline Walker on Walker.

Molly Hatchet

Molly Hatchet, Jacksonville, Florida Southern rock band formed in 1971, known for Flirtin' with Disaster (1979, 2x Platinum), a three-guitar attack, fantasy-warrior cover art, and the Ingram-led lineup touring and recording today.

Molly Hayes

Molly Hayes, also known as Bruiser or Princess Powerful, is the youngest member of Marvel's Runaways; a mutant with superhuman strength created by Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona in Runaways #1 (2003).

Molly Holly

Molly Holly (Nora Greenwald), two-time WWE Women's Champion and 2021 WWE Hall of Fame inductee, known for Mighty Molly and the WrestleMania XX head-shaving match.

Molly house

Molly houses were 18th- and early 19th-century English taverns, coffee houses, and back rooms where queer men called mollies met, cross-dressed, and held mock weddings, despite the 1533 Buggery Act; the 1726 raid on Mother Clap's Holborn house is the best-known persecution.

Molly Joel Coye

Molly Joel Coye is an American physician and health-system innovator, a former state health director in New Jersey and California elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1994.