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Maid café
Maid café (メイドカフェ, meido kissa): Japanese themed café from Akihabara where costumed maids greet customers as master, serve food with performances, hourly cover fees, cheki photos; spread worldwide.
Maid in Manhattan
Maid in Manhattan is a 2002 American romantic comedy directed by Wayne Wang, in which Jennifer Lopez plays a Manhattan hotel maid mistaken for a wealthy guest by Ralph Fiennes.
Maid Marian
Maid Marian, Robin Hood's legendary companion and love interest in English folklore, also a morris-dance and May Queen figure; absent from medieval ballads, named partly from Adam de la Halle's Robin et Marion, and shaped by Munday's 1598 plays.
Maid of Honour (album)
Maid of Honour (MAID OF HONOUR) is Drake's 2026 dance-influenced album, surprise-released May 15, 2026 on OVO/Republic with Iceman and Habibti; 14 songs, 45 minutes, debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200.
Maid of the Mist
Maid of the Mist, Niagara Falls boat tour operator on the US side since 1846, boarding at Prospect Point, NY. 20-minute all-electric boat rides to the Horseshoe Falls basin; Canadian side is now Niagara City Cruises.
Maid Sama! (会長はメイド様!)
Maid Sama! (会長はメイド様!, Kaichō wa Maid-sama!) is Hiro Fujiwara's shōjo manga, serialized in LaLa 2006–2013, 18 volumes, about president Misaki Ayuzawa's secret maid café job; 26-episode anime aired 2010.
Maida Vale
Maida Vale, also known for Little Venice, is a residential district in the City of Westminster, north-west London, named after the 1806 Battle of Maida, developed from the 1850s with mansion blocks and served by Bakerloo line stations.
Maidaan (मैदान)
Maidaan (मैदान), 2024 Hindi biographical sports drama directed by Amit Ravindernath Sharma, starring Ajay Devgn as football coach Syed Abdul Rahim; released April 10, 2024, 181 minutes, A.R. Rahman music, Prime Video streaming.
Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Майдан Незалежності)
Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) is Kyiv's central square on Khreshchatyk, renamed in 1991, rebuilt in 2001 with the Globus mall and Independence Monument, and the site of the 1990, 2001, 2004, and 2013–14 protest movements.
Maidcore
Maidcore (maid rock) is an underground internet music aesthetic and scene started in 2013 by Russian artist Yakui The Maid using Nijiura maid personas; coined in 2014, it blends post-rock, post-metal and electronic sounds and is not a confined genre.
Maiden and married names
Maiden and married names: the birth surname versus the surname adopted at marriage. Covers coverture, Lucy Stone and the Lucy Stone League, U.S. trends, and laws in Quebec, Greece, France, Japan, and South Africa.
Maiden Castle Roman Fortlet (Cumbria)
Maiden Castle Roman Fortlet, near Brough, Stainmore, Cumbria: a scheduled small Roman fortlet (about 40 by 50 m) on the Stainmore Roman road, occupied second to fourth centuries AD, distinct from the Dorset hillfort of the same name.
Maiden Castle, Cheshire
Maiden Castle, Cheshire: Iron Age bivallate promontory hillfort on Bickerton Hill, 212 m above sea level on the Cheshire Sandstone Ridge; scheduled monument 1013293, excavated by W. J. Varley 1932-35, managed by the National Trust; distinct from the Dorset namesake.
Maiden Castle, Dorset
Maiden Castle, Dorset: major Iron Age hillfort near Dorchester, 18.5 ha with multiple ramparts, over Neolithic causewayed enclosure and bank barrow; famous Wheeler 'war cemetery' now reinterpreted.
Maiden flight
The maiden flight, also called the inaugural flight, is the first flight of a new aircraft type by a prototype, opening the flight test campaign toward certification.
Maiden Holmes (少女大人)
Maiden Holmes (少女大人) is a 2020 Chinese costume detective-romance web drama, 32 episodes on Tencent Video, starring Chen Yao as disguised investigator Su Ci and Zhang Linghe as the Prince of Qi.
Maiden Mother Crone (Agatha All Along)
"Maiden Mother Crone" is the ninth and final episode of Agatha All Along (2024), revealing via a 1750 flashback that Agatha and son Nicholas invented the Witches' Road ballad, later a con, while Billy created the real Road.
Maidenhead
Maidenhead: Berkshire Thames-side town, formerly South Ellington, founded on a 1250 bridge on the London–Bath road; chartered 1582; Brunel's 1839 railway bridge; Elizabeth line station; Nicholson Quarter regeneration.
Maidenhead (UK Parliament constituency)
Maidenhead (UK Parliament constituency): Berkshire county seat created 1997, held by Theresa May (Conservative) 1997–2024, gained by Liberal Democrat Joshua Reynolds in 2024 under new 2023 Review boundaries with a 2,963-vote majority.
Maider Telleria
Maider Tellería (Maider Tellería Goñi), Spanish field hockey player born 1973 in San Sebastián; won gold at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, played four Games (1992–2004), 45 caps, 6 goals for Spain.
Maido (restaurant)
Maido is a Nikkei restaurant in Miraflores, Lima, Peru, opened in October 2009 by chef Mitsuharu "Micha" Tsumura and named The World's Best Restaurant 2025.
Maidstone
Maidstone is the county town of Kent, England, on the River Medway. Recorded as Meddestane in 1086, chartered in 1549, known for its Archbishop's Palace, the 1648 Battle of Maidstone, and brewing and papermaking industries.
Maidstone United F.C.
Maidstone United F.C., the Stones, an English football club in Maidstone, Kent, playing at the Gallagher Stadium in the Enterprise National League South (sixth tier). Formed 1992 after the original 1897 club's liquidation and 1992 Football League expulsion; returned to the National League in 2016.
Maiduguri
Maiduguri (Yerwa), capital of Borno State and largest city of northeastern Nigeria, founded 1907 as the Shehu's seat; trade hub on Lake Chad basin, later epicenter of the Boko Haram insurgency and displacement crisis.
Maiduoshan mine
Maiduoshan mine (麦垛山煤矿) is a large underground coal mine in Lingwu, Ningxia, China, approved in 2008 with a capacity of 8 million tonnes per year.
Maidwell Hall
Maidwell Hall was an independent co-educational preparatory school in Maidwell, Northamptonshire, housed in a Grade II listed 17th-century country house remodelled by J.A. Gotch; it closed on 5 July 2025.
Maigetsushō
Maigetsushō (毎月抄) is a Japanese treatise on waka poetry attributed to Fujiwara no Teika, written as a letter in 1219 and treating the ushin style as ideal.
Maigret (2025 TV series)
Maigret (2025) is a PBS MASTERPIECE crime drama, the first contemporary English-language TV adaptation of Georges Simenon's Jules Maigret novels, starring Benjamin Wainwright as a young Maigret in modern Paris, produced by Playground, with season 2 airing October 18, 2026.
Maigret and the Dead Lover
Maigret and the Dead Lover (Maigret et le mort amoureux) is Pascal Bonitzer's 2025 French crime film adapting Simenon's 1960 novel Maigret et les vieillards, starring Denis Podalydès as Maigret investigating a former ambassador's murder, released in France 18 February 2026.
Maihar (मैहर)
Maihar (मैहर) is a district in Rewa division, Madhya Pradesh, formed 5 October 2023 from Satna district as the state's 55th. Known for the Maa Sharda Shakti Peetha temple on Trikuta hill, the Allauddin Khan Maihar gharana, and cement industry.