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Monclova
Monclova is a city in central Coahuila, Mexico, founded in 1689 as Santiago de la Monclova and once the first colonial capital of Texas. Known as Mexico's steel capital, it was built around AHMSA, whose 2022 closure and 2024 bankruptcy triggered an economic crisis and auction.
Moncong Lompobatang
Moncong Lompobatang (Lompobattang), an extinct Quaternary stratovolcano in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, about 2,885 m high with 2,867 m prominence, second most prominent Sulawesi peak after Rantemario.
Moncton
Moncton is a city in southeastern New Brunswick, Canada, on the Petitcodiac River. It is New Brunswick's largest city and Canada's first officially bilingual city.
Mondaire Jones
Mondaire Jones (born 1987) is an American Democratic attorney and former U.S. representative for New York's 17th District (2021–2023), the first openly gay Black member of Congress, later a civil-rights commissioner and 2024 comeback candidate defeated by Mike Lawler.
Mondamin (crater on Ceres)
Mondamin is a 126-km impact crater on dwarf planet Ceres at 62.24°S, 354.0°E, named for the Ojibwe corn god, IAU-approved October 15, 2015, imaged by NASA's Dawn spacecraft in 2016.
Monday
Monday is the day of the week after Sunday and before Tuesday; it means "the Moon's day" and is the first day of the week under ISO 8601.
Monday Begins on Saturday
Monday Begins on Saturday (Понедельник начинается в субботу) is a 1965 satirical science-fantasy novella by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, subtitled "a fairy tale for junior research workers."
Monday Night Football
Monday Night' Football (MNF) is the branding for NFL games. Premiering in 1970 on ABC and airing on ESPN since 2006, it is the longest-running prime-time sports broadcast in the U.S.
Monday Okpebholo
Monday Okpebholo (Akpakomiza), born 1970, is a Nigerian APC politician, Edo Central senator 2023, and Governor of Edo State since November 2024 after winning the disputed September 2024 election with 291,667 votes.
Monday.com
Monday.com is an Israeli work-management software company founded in 2012 by Roy Mann and Eran Zinman, originally named DaPulse, serving over 250,000 customers and listed on Nasdaq since 2021.
Monday's Child
Monday's Child is a traditional English nursery rhyme (Roud 19526), first printed by Anna Eliza Bray in 1838, assigning fortunes to children born on each weekday; debunked by a 2025 twin study.
Mondays in the Sun
Mondays in the Sun (Los lunes al sol) is a 2002 Spanish social drama by Fernando León de Aranoa about unemployed shipyard workers in Vigo, starring Javier Bardem; it won the San Sebastián Golden Shell and five Goyas.
Monde Nissin
Monde Nissin is a Philippine food manufacturer founded in 1979, best known for Lucky Me! instant noodles and SkyFlakes crackers, and owner of British meat-substitute maker Quorn Foods.
Mondegreen
Mondegreen: a misheard word or phrase, typically song lyrics, coined by Sylvia Wright in 1954 from "Lady Mondegreen" for "laid him on the green"; distinct from eggcorn and malapropism.
Mondelez International
Mondelez International (Mondelēz International, Inc., MDLZ), the global snacks company spun off from Kraft Foods on October 1, 2012; $38.5 billion 2025 revenue, ~91,000 employees, Oreo, Cadbury and Milka brands, Europe its largest market.
Mondi
Mondi is a global packaging and paper group with mills in Europe and South Africa, demerged from Anglo American and listed in London and Johannesburg since 2007.
Mondnacht
Mondnacht ("Moonlit Night") is a three-stanza poem by the German Romantic writer Joseph von Eichendorff, first printed in 1837 and famous through Robert Schumann's 1840 song setting.
Mondo
Mondo is a 2011 real-time tile-laying board game by Michael Schacht, published by Pegasus Spiele for 1-4 players aged 8+, in which players simultaneously build landscape worlds against a timer; Spiel des Jahres recommended list 2011.
Mondo Cane
Mondo Cane (A Dog's World) is a 1962 Italian shockumentary by Jacopetti, Cavara, and Prosperi that named the mondo exploitation-documentary genre, competed at Cannes 1962, and earned an Oscar nomination for its song "More."
Mondo film
Mondo film (shockumentary): exploitation pseudo-documentary genre named after Mondo Cane (1962) by Cavara, Jacopetti, and Prosperi; staged exotic and taboo footage, Africa Addio controversy, and the Italian cannibal-film offshoot.
Mondo Marcio
Mondo Marcio is the stage name of Gian Marco Marcello, an Italian rapper and producer born in Milan in 1986, regarded as a pioneer of the Milanese rap scene.
Mondo Oil Field
Mondo Oil Field is a deepwater oil field in Block 15 offshore Angola, discovered in 2000 and producing since 2008 through the FPSO Mondo vessel, operated by Esso Exploration Angola.
Mondor disease
Mondor disease, also Mondor's disease, is a rare self-limited superficial thrombophlebitis of the chest wall, penis, or axilla, first described by Henri Mondor in 1939, presenting as a painful cord.
Mondorf les bains
Mondorf-les-Bains (Munnerëf) is a Luxembourg spa town on the French border. Its thermal spring was found in 1841, the first bath opened 20 June 1847, and it hosts US Mondorf football club and the Stade John Grün.
Mondragon Corporation
Mondragon Corporation, also known as Mondragón Corporación Cooperativa, is a Spanish cooperative group founded in 1956 in the Basque Country, with 83 cooperatives and about 70,000 workers.
Mondragón rifle
The Mondragón rifle, designed by General Manuel Mondragón and adopted by Mexico in 1908, is generally regarded as the first self-loading rifle accepted by any national army.
Mondragone
Mondragone, coastal comune in Caserta province, Campania, Italy, on the Tyrrhenian coast at Monte Massico; Roman Sinuessa ruins lie offshore, with villa rustica sites at Columbrella and the namesake Mondragone relief and Villa Mondragone.
Mondstadt
Mondstadt (蒙德, Méngdé; German for "Moon City") is the Germany-inspired nation of Anemo (wind) in Genshin Impact's Teyvat, ruled by Barbatos, located in northeast Teyvat on Cider Lake, and the first region players visit.
Mone Kamishiraishi
Mone Kamishiraishi (上白石萌音) is a Japanese actress and singer born in 1998 in Kagoshima Prefecture, best known as the voice of Mitsuha in Your Name (2016).
Mone Zaidi
Mone Zaidi is a physician-scientist in endocrinology and bone biology at Mount Sinai in New York, known for showing that the pituitary hormone FSH regulates bone mass.