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MONALEESA-2 trial

A phase 3 Novartis trial showing ribociclib plus letrozole as first-line treatment for HR-positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer extended median overall survival to 63.9 months.

Monali Thakur (মোনালি ঠাকুর)

Monali Thakur (মোনালি ঠাকুর), Indian playback singer and actress from Kolkata, born 1985; known for Zara Zara Touch Me, Sawaar Loon, and Moh Moh Ke Dhaage; National Film Award 2016 and Filmfare Award winner.

Monalide

Monalide (CAS 7287-36-7) is a chloroanilide selective herbicide, N-(4-chlorophenyl)-2,2-dimethylpentanamide, developed by Mitsui Toatsu for vegetable crops and not approved in the EU.

Monalisa (film)

Monalisa (ಮೊನಾಲಿಸ) is a 2004 Kannada romantic drama directed by Indrajit Lankesh, starring Sammir Dattani (Dhyan) and Sadha; it ran 100+ days, grossed over Rs 25 million, and won Karnataka State Best Film 2004-05 amid remake allegations.

Monalizumab

Monalizumab (IPH2201), Innate Pharma's humanized IgG4 anti-NKG2A checkpoint antibody partnered with AstraZeneca; Phase II head and neck cancer response of 31% with cetuximab, but the Phase III INTERLINK-1 trial met futility.

Monamour

Monamour is a 2005 Italian erotic drama directed by Tinto Brass, starring Anna Jimskaia, Riccardo Marino, Max Parodi, and Nela Lucic, about a neglected wife's affair with a Frenchman during Mantua's Festivaletteratura.

Monan Mons

Monan Mons, a 293.77-km-wide tectonic mountain on Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, IAU-named in 2006 for a Brazilian fire-and-flood god, adjacent to Monan Patera and formed by deep thrust faulting.

Monan Patera

Monan Patera, an elongate volcanic patera on Jupiter's moon Io near 19.8N 105W, about 113-137 km across, IAU-named in 1997 for a Brazilian fire-and-flood god, formed along a shear zone beside a mountain.

Monarca

Monarca is a Mexican Netflix drama series created by Diego Gutiérrez about the Carranza family's tequila empire, starring Irene Azuela, Juan Manuel Bernal, and Osvaldo Benavides; it ran two seasons (2019-2021, 18 episodes) before cancellation.

Monarch

Monarch: the single head of state in a monarchy, from Greek monarchia, rule of one. Covers absolute monarchies such as Saudi Arabia and Eswatini, constitutional monarchies such as the UK and Sweden, succession by primogeniture or election, and why monarchies survive.

Monarch (American TV series)

Monarch (American TV series) is a 2022 Fox country music drama created by Melissa London Hilfers, starring Susan Sarandon, Trace Adkins, and Anna Friel as the Roman family dynasty; it ran 11 episodes, averaged 4.1 million viewers, and was canceled after one season. Not the Apple TV Monsterverse series.

Monarch Airlines

Monarch Airlines, also known as Monarch Scheduled, was a British leisure airline based at London Luton that operated charter and scheduled flights from 1967 to 2017.

Monarch butterfly

Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus), North America's iconic orange-and-black migratory butterfly; caterpillars eat only milkweed and sequester toxic cardenolides. Eastern and western populations migrate to Mexico and California; populations have declined over 80-95%, prompting threatened/endangered listings.

Monarch butterfly migration

Monarch butterfly migration: multi-generational movement of Danaus plexippus; eastern population flies up to 3,000 miles to central Mexico over four generations, western to coastal California; navigated by a time-compensated sun compass; populations have declined about 80% since the mid-1990s.

Monarch Capital Partners

Monarch Capital Partners is the fund-family name under which Monarch Alternative Capital, a New York distressed-debt and special-situations firm founded in 2002, raises its private equity funds.

Monarch Collective

Monarch Collective is a Los Angeles-based private equity firm founded in 2023 by Kara Nortman and Jasmine Robinson, the first focused exclusively on women's sports.

Monarch flycatcher

Monarch flycatchers (Monarchidae, Bonaparte 1854) are an Old World and Pacific passerine family of monarchs, paradise flycatchers, and shrikebills, about 15 genera and 105 species, with Melampitta as sister and several genera paraphyletic.

Monarch Icefield

Monarch Icefield: official name for a roughly 350 km² icefield in the Pacific Ranges, Coast Mountains, British Columbia, near Bella Coola; outlet glaciers include Jacobsen, Fyles, Deer Lake, and Purgatory, with documented Holocene advances and 1984/1986 Ape Lake outburst floods.

Monarch Mtn.

Monarch Mountain, 3,555 m Coast Mountains peak in Tweedsmuir Provincial Park, British Columbia; also a Colorado ski area and The Monarch near Simpson Pass. Named by Don Munday; first ascent 1936 by Hall and Fuhrer.

Monarch of the Glen (TV series)

Monarch of the Glen: BBC One Scottish Highlands comedy-drama (2000-2005, 64 episodes, Ecosse Films) based on Compton Mackenzie's novels, about laird Archie MacDonald's Glenbogle estate; six-part Channel 5/PBS Masterpiece reboot slated for 2027.

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is an Apple TV Monsterverse series created by Chris Black and Matt Fraction, starring Kurt and Wyatt Russell as Lee Shaw, spanning the 1950s and post-2014 Godzilla timelines; Season 1 premiered November 17, 2023, and Season 2 ran February 27 to May 1, 2026, introducing Titan X.

Monarcha

Monarcha is a genus of monarch flycatchers (family Monarchidae, Passeriformes) established by Vigors & Horsfield in 1827, now restricted to about 7-9 Australo-Pacific species such as the Black-faced Monarch after molecular phylogenies showed the traditional broad genus was paraphyletic.

monarchE trial

monarchE (NCT03155997) is a phase III trial showing adjuvant abemaciclib plus endocrine therapy improves invasive disease-free survival in HR+, HER2−, node-positive, high-risk early breast cancer; basis for 2021 FDA approval.

Monarchie und Alltag

Monarchie und Alltag is the 1980 debut album by Düsseldorf band Fehlfarben, a Neue Deutsche Welle landmark named the best German-language album by Rolling Stone.

Monarchies in Africa

Monarchies in Africa: three sovereign monarchies (Morocco, Lesotho, Eswatini), with Eswatini the continent's only absolute monarchy under King Mswati III, plus recognized sub-national kingdoms and chieftaincies within republican states.

Monarchies in Europe

Monarchies in Europe are twelve sovereign systems, the densest globally, nearly all constitutional and stable. No country has abolished its monarchy since Greece did so in 1974.

Monarchies of Malaysia

Monarchies of Malaysia: nine hereditary Malay state rulers (Sultans, Raja of Perlis, Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan) who elect the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Malaysia's federal king, for five-year rotating terms via the Conference of Rulers.

Monarchism

Monarchism, also called royalism, is support for monarchy as a system of hereditary, typically lifelong headship of state, opposed to republicanism. It spans absolute and constitutional forms; about 43 states remain monarchies, and UK support fell to 55% in 2026.

Monarchism in Australia and New Zealand

Monarchism in Australia and New Zealand is the organized defense of constitutional monarchy, led by Australians for Constitutional Monarchy, which helped defeat the 1999 republic referendum 54.87% to 45.13%.

Monarchism in Canada

Monarchism in Canada is support for retaining the constitutional monarchy rather than any individual monarch, dating to Confederation in 1867 and led today by the Monarchist League of Canada.