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Molly-Mae Hague

Molly-Mae Hague, born 1999, is a British influencer and entrepreneur who finished second on Love Island 2019 with Tommy Fury, led PrettyLittleThing, and founded Filter by Molly-Mae and Maebe under MMH Group Holdings.

Molly's Game

Molly's Game (2017) is Aaron Sorkin's directorial debut biographical drama, adapted from Molly Bloom's 2014 memoir about running underground high-stakes poker games for celebrities, starring Jessica Chastain and Idris Elba, Oscar-nominated for adapted screenplay.

Mollywood Times

Mollywood Times (മോളിവുഡ് ടൈംസ്) is a 2026 Malayalam dark comedy-drama directed by Abhinav Sunder Nayak, starring Naslen as aspiring filmmaker Vineeth Madhavan; released 5 June 2026, streamed on JioHotstar.

MOLM-13

MOLM-13 (CVCL_2119, RRID:CVCL_2119) is a human acute myeloid leukemia cell line from a 20-year-old man's peripheral blood, carrying KMT2A-MLLT3 (MLL-AF9) fusion and heterozygous FLT3-ITD; a standard model for FLT3 inhibitor and drug-resistance research, distinct from its same-patient sibling MOLM-14.

Mølmer–Sørensen gate

The Mølmer–Sørensen gate, also known as the MS gate, is a two-qubit entangling gate for trapped-ion quantum computers, proposed by Anders Sørensen and Klaus Mølmer in 1999.

Molmo

Molmo is a family of open-weight vision-language models released by the Allen Institute for AI in September 2024, distinguished by a pointing capability and fully open training data.

Molniya (rocket)

Molniya (Молния, "Lightning"), designated 8K78, was a Soviet and Russian four-stage orbital rocket built on the R-7 missile in 1960, flying Mars, Venus, and lunar missions until 2010.

Molniya (satellite)

Molniya-1 (Молния-1, "Lightning-1") was a Soviet communications satellite first launched successfully in 1965, relaying television and long-distance telephone across the USSR from the highly elliptical orbit that now bears its name.

Molniya (Молния) (satellite)

Molniya (Молния, "Lightning") is a series of Soviet and Russian communications satellites, first launched in 1964, whose highly elliptical 12-hour orbits keep each satellite visible over high northern latitudes.

Molniya orbit

A Molniya orbit is a highly elliptical 12-hour Earth orbit inclined at 63.4°, letting satellites dwell for hours over high northern latitudes where geostationary satellites cannot serve.

Molnupiravir

Molnupiravir (EIDD-2801, MK-4482, Lagevrio) is an oral antiviral prodrug of NHC that treats COVID-19 by lethal mutagenesis of SARS-CoV-2 via the viral RdRp, causing G-to-A and C-to-U transitions.

Moloch

Moloch (Hebrew mōlek, מֹלֶךְ; Molech) is the biblical name for a figure to whom children were burned at the Tophet in the Hinnom valley; since Eissfeldt 1935 many scholars argue it was a sacrifice type, not a god.

MOLOCO

MOLOCO, legally Moloco, Inc., is a Redwood City, California machine-learning advertising company founded in 2013 by former YouTube engineer Ikkjin Ahn, valued at $1.5 billion in 2021.

Molodniak

Molodniak (Молодняк) was a Ukrainian literary organization of young Komsomol writers, active from 1926 to 1932 in Kharkiv, formed after the split of the writers' union Hart and liquidated in 1932.

Molokai

Molokai (Molokaʻi), fifth largest Hawaiian island, formed by West and East Molokai shield volcanoes; known for its 3,000-foot north shore sea cliffs, the Kalaupapa Hansen's disease settlement, a rural Native Hawaiian community of about 7,000-8,100, and minimal tourism.

Molokans (Молокане)

Molokans (Молокане), or Milk-drinkers, are a Russian Spiritual Christian denomination founded by Semyon Uklein in the 18th century, rejecting Orthodox ritual for a spiritual, allegorical reading of Scripture.

Moloko

Moloko were an English-Irish electronic music duo from Sheffield, formed by vocalist Róisín Murphy and producer Mark Brydon, whose 1999 hit "Sing It Back" topped dance charts.

Molon labe (μολὼν λαβέ)

Molon labe (μολὼν λαβέ), Greek for "come and take them," Leonidas's attributed reply to Xerxes at Thermopylae, first recorded by Plutarch; now a US gun-rights and defiance slogan.

Molopo

Molopo River, ephemeral southern Kalahari river rising near Mafikeng, South Africa; forms Botswana-South Africa border, joins Nossob, blocked by dunes from reaching the Orange River; basin 151,000 km2.

Molossidae

Molossidae, the free-tailed bats, is a pantropical bat family whose bony tail extends beyond the uropatagium. About 85–130 species in two main clades; fast, narrow-winged, open-space insectivores calling at 20–35 kHz.

Molossus

Molossus (velvety free-tailed bats, mastiff bats) is a Neotropical genus of Molossidae bats from the southeastern United States to southern Argentina; species counts range from 14 to 16 after SNP-based revisions, with three cryptic species complexes and aerial insectivory.

Molotov cocktail

A Molotov cocktail is an improvised incendiary weapon, a breakable glass bottle of flammable liquid with a lit cloth wick, named by Finns in the 1939–40 Winter War.

Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, also called the Nazi-Soviet or Hitler-Stalin Pact: the August 23, 1939 German-Soviet non-aggression treaty with a secret protocol dividing Poland and the Baltic states into spheres of influence.

Molotow

Molotow is a music club on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg's St. Pauli, founded in 1990 and known for early shows by The White Stripes and The Killers.

Molpadida

Molpadida (Molpadiida), Haeckel 1896, is an order of burrowing sea cucumbers (Holothuroidea) with 15 digitate tentacles, reduced tube feet, and a tail; one of seven holothuroid orders, phylogenetically placed within Neoholothuriida.

Molpe Colles

Molpe Colles is a 548-km-wide group of hills (colles) on Venus at 76°N, 192°E, IAU-named in 1991 after the Greek mother of the Sirens; fifth largest of 16 named Venusian colles.

Molsidomine

Molsidomine is a vasodilator prodrug of the sydnonimine class, available in Europe since 1977, that releases nitric oxide in the liver to prevent anginal attacks.

Molson Brewery

Molson Brewery is a Montreal brewing company founded by English immigrant John Molson in 1786, Canada's oldest brewery, and today the Canadian arm of Molson Coors Beverage Company.

Molson Coors

Molson Coors Beverage Company, also Molson Coors Brewing Company, is the fifth-largest global brewer, formed by the 2005 merger of Molson (1786) and Coors; acquired full MillerCoors ownership in 2016 for $12 billion.

MOLT-3

MOLT-3 (Molt 3, CVCL_0624) is a human T lymphoblast leukemia cell line established in 1971 from a 19-year-old male ALL patient in relapse; sister line of MOLT-4, suspension-growing, hypertetraploid, CD5/CD7 positive, DSMZ ACC 84 and ATCC CRL-1552.