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Monitor Latino
Monitor Latino is a radio airplay monitoring company, founded around 2001 and headquartered in Los Angeles, that publishes weekly song charts for Latin America and the United States.
Monitor lizard
Varanus is the lizard genus of monitor lizards (goannas), family Varanidae, described by Merrem in 1820; roughly 86-93 species across Africa, Asia, and Australia, including the Komodo dragon, the largest living lizard.
Monitor mode
Monitor mode is an operating mode of an 802.11 wireless network interface that passively captures all frames on a channel without associating with any access point.
Monitored Retrievable Storage
Monitored Retrievable Storage (MRS) is a US Department of Energy concept for above-ground interim storage of spent nuclear fuel before permanent disposal, proposed in Tennessee but never built.
Monitoring and evaluation
Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is the paired management practice of continuously tracking a project's activities and outputs and periodically assessing its design, results, and longer-term impact.
Monitory democracy
Monitory democracy is John Keane's name for a new historical type of democracy defined by the rapid growth, since around 1945, of extra-parliamentary, power-scrutinizing mechanisms.
Monju Nuclear Power Plant
Monju (もんじゅ) was a 280 MW prototype fast breeder reactor in Tsuruga, Fukui, Japan, Japan's only breeder reactor with power generating capability, abandoned after a 1995 sodium leak.
Monk
A monk is a man who leaves ordinary society to live a religious life of celibacy and asceticism, alone as a hermit or in a community.
Monk (TV series)
Monk (2002–2009) is an American comedy-drama mystery series starring Tony Shalhoub as Adrian Monk, an OCD-afflicted former SFPD detective consulting for police. 125 episodes, eight Emmys, USA Network premiere, Peacock and Hallmark Mystery availability.
Monk Army (Sungbyong)
The Monk Army (승병, sungbyong) was a force of Buddhist monk soldiers raised by royal order of King Sonjo in 1592 during Korea's Imjin War.
Monk Comes Down the Mountain (道士下山)
Monk Comes Down the Mountain (道士下山) is Chen Kaige's 2015 wuxia comedy-drama adapted from Xu Haofeng's 2007 novel, following young Taoist He Anxia in 1930s Hangzhou; it earned 390 million yuan in 14 days.
Monk fruit extract
Monk fruit extract (Luo Han Guo, Siraitia grosvenorii), a mogroside-based non-caloric sweetener 100-400 times sweeter than sugar; GRAS in the US, under EU review, temporary JECFA ADI.
Monk fruit juice concentrate
Monk fruit juice concentrate is a concentrated liquid juice of monk fruit (luo han guo), a cucurbit native to southern China, used as a sweetener.
Monk parakeet
Monk parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus), or Quaker parakeet, a South American parrot and the only parrot building communal stick nests; invasive in 26 countries, damaging power utilities, with over 22,000 birds in Europe.
Monk seal
Monk seals: three related warm-water seal species, Mediterranean (Monachus monachus), Hawaiian (Neomonachus schauinslandi), and extinct Caribbean (M. tropicalis). Two survive, both critically rare; Hawaiian population about 1,600, Mediterranean about 800.
Monk's Café
Monk's Café is the fictional Seinfeld diner whose exterior is Tom's Restaurant at Broadway and West 112th Street, Manhattan; interiors were shot on an LA soundstage. Also inspired Suzanne Vega's "Tom's Diner."
Monk's Hill Ventures
Monk's Hill Ventures is a Singapore-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Peng T. Ong and Kuo-Yi Lim, investing at pre-Series A and Series A in Southeast Asia.
Monkey
A monkey is a primate of the New World or Old World groups, usually tailed, smaller-brained than apes, and found in the Americas, Africa, and Asia.
Monkey (character)
Monkey (ITV Digital Monkey, PG Tips Monkey) is a British knitted sock monkey puppet created by agency Mother in 2001 for ITV Digital ads with Johnny Vegas as Al, later the PG Tips mascot after a Comic Relief rights donation.
Monkey (猴) (zodiac)
The Monkey (猴, hóu), also called the Year of the Monkey, is the ninth animal of the Chinese zodiac, paired with the branch shen; recent Monkey years include 2016 and 2028.
Monkey (西遊記) (TV series)
Monkey (西遊記, Saiyūki) is a 1978-1980 Japanese tokusatsu TV series adapting Journey to the West, produced by NTV and Kokusai Hoei with Tsuburaya effects, starring Masaaki Sakai and Masako Natsume, BBC-dubbed as Monkey with Godiego's Monkey Magic theme.
Monkey Beach
Monkey Beach is a 2000 debut novel by Eden Robinson, a Haisla and Heiltsuk Canadian author. It follows Lisamarie Hill as she searches for her lost brother in Kitamaat.
Monkey boots
Monkey boots are low-cut lace-to-toe ankle boots thought to have originated in Czechoslovakia as military footwear, adopted in Britain by 1960s mods and early skinheads.
Monkey bread
Monkey bread, also called bubble bread or pull-apart bread, is a sweet American bread of buttered, cinnamon-sugared dough balls baked together in a Bundt pan and torn apart by hand; it descends from Hungarian aranygaluska brought by immigrants in the 1880s and was popularized by ZaSu Pitts and Nancy Reagan.
Monkey Business (1931 film)
Monkey Business (1931) is a Marx Brothers comedy, their first original screenplay, directed by Norman Z. McLeod for Paramount, about stowaways on an ocean liner mixed up with rival gangsters.
Monkey Business (1952 film)
Monkey Business (1952) is a Howard Hawks screwball comedy for Twentieth Century-Fox starring Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, and Marilyn Monroe, in which a chimp's chemical mix in the office water cooler makes adults regress to youth.
Monkey D. Luffy (モンキー・D・ルフィ)
Monkey D. Luffy (モンキー・D・ルフィ) is the rubber-bodied protagonist of Eiichiro Oda's manga One Piece: captain of the Straw Hat Pirates, Gum-Gum Fruit eater who cannot swim, three-billion-berry bounty, aiming to become the Pirate King.
Monkey Drug Trials
Monkey Drug Trials: 1969 University of Michigan study by Deneau, Yanagita, and Seevers in which rhesus monkeys and rats self-injected morphine, cocaine, codeine, alcohol, and amphetamines, founding modern drug self-administration addiction research.
Monkey hanger
Monkey hanger is a colloquial nickname for a person from Hartlepool, a coastal town in County Durham, England, from a legend that townsfolk hanged a shipwrecked monkey believing it a French spy.
Monkey hate
Monkey hate: hostility toward monkeys, especially macaques, spanning an online subculture of abuse videos and real-world crop-raiding retaliation; driven by negative experience, feeding, and ambivalent cultural attitudes.