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Maile Flanagan
Maile Flanagan (born 1965, Honolulu) is an American actress and the English dub voice of Naruto Uzumaki across Naruto, Shippuden, and Boruto, also known for Principal Perry on Lab Rats and her 2006 Emmy for Jakers!.
Mailiao power station
Mailiao power station (麥寮電廠), also called the Mai-Liao Power Plant, is a coal-fired power station in Mailiao Township, Yunlin County, Taiwan, and Taiwan's largest coal-fired independent power producer.
Maillard reaction
Maillard reaction: non-enzymatic browning of amino compounds with reducing sugars, discovered by Louis-Camille Maillard in 1912; three stages ending in melanoidins; gives cooked food its color, aroma, and flavor but also forms acrylamide and AGEs.
Mailo land system
Mailo land (Luganda: ebbanja ly'omailo) is a land tenure system in the Kingdom of Buganda, Uganda, created by the 1900 agreement granting chiefs estates in perpetuity.
Maimeh
Maimeh: an ancient place in Media, Iran, catalogued as Pleiades place 903076 (BAtlas 92 B3), also a modern Iranian town of 400 houses in Jusqan province, a caravanserai name, and a village in the Gambia.
Maimie McCoy
Maimie McCoy is a British (Yorkshire-born) actress known as Milady in The Musketeers, Detective Lucienne Hassell in Van der Valk, and Dorothy in All Creatures Great and Small; London Met performing arts graduate, class of 2001.
Maimon M. Cohen
Maimon M. Cohen (1935–2007) was an American human geneticist and cytogeneticist known for 1967 studies linking LSD-25 to chromosomal damage, and for leading human genetics departments in Maryland.
Maimonides
Maimonides, also known as Rambam, was a medieval Jewish rabbi, philosopher, and physician born in Córdoba who wrote the Mishneh Torah and the Guide for the Perplexed.
Maïmouna Doucouré
Maïmouna Doucouré, French-Senegalese director of Maman(s) and Cuties (Mignonnes), winner of the 2020 Sundance World Cinema Directing Award, whose Netflix film sparked the #CancelNetflix controversy, later directed Hawa (2022).
Maimun Palace
Maimun Palace (Istana Maimun) is the palace of the Deli Sultanate in Medan, Indonesia, built in the late 19th century and known for its mixed Malay, Islamic, Indian, and European architecture.
Main (Martian crater)
Main is a 109-km-wide IAU-recognized impact crater on Mars at 76.45° S, 49.10° E, in the southern highlands, listed as Feature ID 3596 in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature.
Main (river)
The Main, or River Main, is a river in Germany and the longest right tributary of the Rhine, formed by the Red Main and White Main and flowing through Franconia.
Main Actor Nahin Hoon (मैं एक्टर नहीं हूँ)
Main Actor Nahin Hoon (मैं एक्टर नहीं हूँ), also spelled Main Actor Nahi Hoon, is a 2026 Hindi drama by Aditya Kripalani starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Chitrangada Satarupa as a Frankfurt banker and Mumbai actor connected by online acting sessions; released 8 May 2026.
Main Administration for Press Affairs
The Main Administration for Press Affairs (Главное управление по делам печати) was the central censorship institution of the Russian Empire, operating from 1865 until its dissolution in 1917.
Main Aur Charles
Main Aur Charles is a 2015 Hindi crime thriller by Prawaal Raman, starring Randeep Hooda as a fictionalised Charles Sobhraj and Adil Hussain as officer Amod Kanth, centered on the 1986 Tihar jailbreak; it flopped at the box office.
Main battle tank
A main battle tank is a heavily armed, armored tracked fighting vehicle that combines a high-velocity main gun, cross-country mobility, and strong self-protection, the core of most modern armies.
Main Beach
Main Beach, Gold Coast, Queensland: a beachside suburb on the Broadwater, formerly Southport East, named as Southport's principal surf beach; home to the Southport SLSC (1924), Tedder Avenue precinct, and Sea World on The Spit.
Main Building
Main Building (本館) is the principal indoor exhibition building of Otaru Aquarium in Shukutsu, Otaru, Hokkaido, opened 1974; two floors plus basement, 54 tanks including the 420 m³ Kuroshio tank and the harbor porpoise Honobono pool. Also a name for the 1912 Bank of Japan Otaru Museum building.
Main cable
The main cable is the principal load-carrying element of a suspension bridge, running from anchorage to anchorage over the towers, with the deck suspended from it.
Main Central Thrust
The Main Central Thrust (MCT) is a major thrust fault running nearly the entire length of the Himalaya, first named by Heim and Gansser in 1939.
Main Dam
Main Dam is the Malay name for draughts (checkers), a two-player leaping-capture board game played in Malaya in the early twentieth century, recorded by Wilkinson (1915): 8x8 board, twelve pieces, compulsory forward jumps, flying kings.
Main Deposit
The Main Deposit is a cache of temple objects found below floor level at Hierakonpolis in Upper Egypt, excavated by Quibell and Green in 1897–99.
Main distribution frame
A main distribution frame (MDF) is the cross-connect structure in a telephone exchange where outside subscriber cables meet internal switching equipment, with a frameman joining any pair to any terminal by a jumper wire.
Main Ground Combat System
The Main Ground Combat System (MGCS; Hauptbodenkampfsystem) is a Franco-German program launched in 2017 to replace the Leopard 2 and Leclerc tanks with a networked family of armored platforms.
Main Hoon Na (मैं हूँ ना)
Main Hoon Na (मैं हूँ ना), 2004 Hindi masala film, Farah Khan's directorial debut, starring Shah Rukh Khan as Major Ram undercover at a Darjeeling college to protect the India-Pakistan Project Milaap peace initiative.
Main Indoor Arena
Main Indoor Arena, also Sportuň oýun görnüşleriniň toplumy (Complex of Game Sports), is the 15,000-seat largest competition venue of the Ashgabat Olympic Complex, Turkmenistan; it hosted wrestling at Ashgabat 2017 and the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships opening ceremony.
Main Khiladi Tu Anari (मैं खिलाड़ी तू अनाड़ी)
Main Khiladi Tu Anari (मैं खिलाड़ी तू अनाड़ी) is a 1994 Hindi action comedy directed by Sameer Malkan, starring Akshay Kumar as a cop and Saif Ali Khan as an actor shadowing him; an uncredited copy of The Hard Way and a box office hit.
Main line (Mumbai Suburban Railway)
The Main line is the original Mumbai Suburban Railway corridor on Central Railway, running 54 km from Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus to Kalyan, where it splits toward Kasara and Khopoli.
Main Manto Nahi Hoon (میں مانتو نہیں ہوں)
Main Manto Nahi Hoon (میں مانتو نہیں ہوں) is a 2025 Pakistani ARY Digital drama serial, 31 episodes, written by Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar and directed by Nadeem Baig, starring Humayun Saeed as professor Manto and Sajal Aly as Mehmal; not a Saadat Hasan Manto biopic.
Main Outfall Drain
The Main Outfall Drain, also called the Third River, is a 565 km drainage canal in Iraq, completed in 1992 to carry saline water to the Arabian Gulf.