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Monsterverse
Monsterverse (「モンスター・ヴァース」シリーズ): Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. shared universe of Godzilla and King Kong films since 2014, five films, over $2.5 billion gross, Monarch TV series, Supernova due 2027.
Monstrance
A monstrance, also called an ostensorium, is a liturgical vessel that displays the consecrated Eucharistic host for adoration and procession, first used in the 14th century.
Monstress (comics)
Monstress is an ongoing Image Comics dark steampunk fantasy by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda, debuting November 2015. It follows Maika Halfwolf, linked to an Old God, in an alternate 1900s Asia; winner of 2018 Eisner Awards and the 2017 Hugo for Best Graphic Story.
Monstrilloida
Monstrilloida is an order of parasitic copepods whose juveniles live inside benthic marine invertebrates, while the non-feeding adults lack mouthparts and swim freely in the plankton.
Monstrous (괴이)
Monstrous (괴이) is a 2022 South Korean occult horror limited series on TVING, co-written by Yeon Sang-ho and Ryoo Yong-jae, directed by Jang Kun-jae, starring Koo Kyo-hwan; six episodes about a cursed Gwibul Buddha statue.
Monstrous moonshine
Monstrous moonshine, or the Conway–Norton conjecture, is the unexpected connection between the monster group and modular functions that Richard Borcherds proved in 1992, earning a Fields Medal.
Mont Belvieu NGL complex
The Mont Belvieu NGL complex in Mont Belvieu, Texas, is the largest natural gas liquids storage hub in North America and the pricing point for US NGL markets.
Mont Blanc
Mont Blanc (Monte Bianco), highest peak of the Alps and Western Europe at 4,807.47 m (2026 survey), on the French-Italian border. First climbed 1786 by Balmat and Paccard; crossed by the 11.6 km Mont Blanc road tunnel.
Mont Blanc (coffee)
Mont Blanc coffee: a chilled two-layer drink of sweetened cold brew or filter coffee under cream foam with orange zest and nutmeg, created at Good Measure, Melbourne, in late 2021 and spread via social media to Indonesia, Japan, the UK, and the US; distinct from the French chestnut dessert of the same name.
Mont Blanc Tunnel
The Mont Blanc Tunnel (Tunnel du Mont-Blanc, Traforo del Monte Bianco) is an 11.6 km road tunnel beneath Mont Blanc linking Chamonix, France, with Courmayeur, Italy, opened in 1965.
Mont Blanc Tunnel fire
The Mont Blanc Tunnel fire was a 1999 truck fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy, killing 39 people and closing the tunnel until 2002.
Mont d'Ambin Base Tunnel
The Mont d'Ambin Base Tunnel, also called the Mont Cenis Base Tunnel, is a 57.5-km twin-tube railway tunnel under construction beneath the Alps between Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, France, and Italy.
Mont Mohi
Mont Mohi is a 3,480 m peak of the Mitumba mountains in Mwenga Territory, South Kivu, DR Congo, about 1,500 km east of Kinshasa; also called bibandabanda, with 1,589 m prominence.
Mont Nimba Biosphere Reserve
Mont Nimba Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site in Guinea designated 1980, covers 145,200 ha on the Guinea-Liberia-Côte d'Ivoire border, holds about 85% of Guinea's recorded biodiversity, and overlaps the Mount Nimba World Heritage Site, in danger since 1992 mainly from iron ore mining.
Mont Orohena
Mont Orohena, Tahitian Orohena, is the 2,241 m highest peak of Tahiti and French Polynesia, in Tahiti-Nui's Mahina commune, a sacred 'Oro site with marae, 502 ka ignimbrite cap, and a roped three-day guided ascent.
Mont Pelerin Society
The Mont Pelerin Society is an invitation-only society of classical liberal economists and philosophers, founded by Friedrich Hayek at Mont Pèlerin, Switzerland, in April 1947.
Mont Sainte-Victoire (Cézanne)
Mont Sainte-Victoire (Cézanne) is the series of paintings and watercolors Paul Cézanne made of the limestone ridge near Aix-en-Provence from the early 1880s to 1906.
Mont Salève
Mont Salève is a 1,379 m mountain in Haute-Savoie, France, immediately south of Geneva, known as the mountain of the Genevans for its panoramic views.
Mont Tremblant Resort
Mont Tremblant Resort, Tremblant, Station Mont Tremblant: four-season ski resort in Quebec's Laurentians, 90 minutes north of Montreal, with a European-style pedestrian village, 102 trails, 645 m vertical, and Ski Magazine's repeated Best Resort in Eastern North America ranking.
Mont Ventoux
Mont Ventoux (Géant de Provence) is a 1,910 m limestone mountain in Vaucluse, France, famed for the mistral wind, Petrarch's 1336 ascent, and its mythic status in the Tour de France, including Tom Simpson's 1967 death.
Mont-Rivel
Mont-Rivel (Mont Rivel) is an 812 m hill at Champagnole and Équevillon in the Jura, France, with a Bronze Age fort, possible Gallic oppidum, 7-hectare Gallo-Roman agglomeration with two temples, medieval castle, and 1988 Monument historique listing.
Mont-Saint-Hilaire
Mont-Saint-Hilaire is a city in Montérégie, Quebec, on the Richelieu River at the foot of Mont Saint-Hilaire, Canada's first UNESCO Biosphere Reserve (1978), home to McGill's Gault Nature Reserve and a center of apple growing.
Mont-Saint-Michel
Mont-Saint-Michel: tidal island commune in Normandy's Manche department with a Gothic Benedictine abbey founded in 966, UNESCO-listed in 1979, Europe's highest tides up to 15 m, managed solely by the EPIC since 2026.
Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey
The Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey (Abbaye du Mont-Saint-Michel) is a Benedictine abbey on the tidal island of Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy, built between the 11th and 16th centuries.
Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay
Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay: UNESCO World Heritage site (1979) in Normandy, France, a tidal island with a Gothic Benedictine abbey founded 966, La Merveille, and a megatidal bay with ~15 m spring tides.
Mont-St-Jean
Mont-St-Jean (Mont-Saint-Jean, Mont Jean) names several places: a Burgundian château village in Côte-d'Or, Wellington's 1815 Waterloo field-hospital farm in Belgium, a mining hill at Lepuix, a Sarthe commune, and the Saint-Jean chalcopyrite mine at Ollomont, Italy.
Mont-Tremblant National Park
Mont-Tremblant National Park (French: parc national du Mont-Tremblant) is a 1,510 km² park in Quebec's Laurentian highlands, created in 1895 as the first park in Quebec.
Mont-Viso Biosphere Reserve
Mont-Viso Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB transboundary site (designated 2013, transboundary 2014) in the Cottian Alps of France and Italy, managed by the Queyras and Monviso regional parks around the 3,841 m Monviso massif and Po headwaters.
Monta Ellis
Monta Ellis, born 1985 in Jackson, Mississippi, is a former NBA shooting guard who jumped from Lanier High School to the 2005 draft's 40th pick, won 2006-07 Most Improved Player, peaked at 25.5 ppg with Golden State, and averaged 17.8 points over 12 seasons.
Montage (filmmaking)
Montage (French for assembly) is film editing as a creative art, especially the Soviet 1920s theory of Eisenstein and Kuleshov in which colliding shots generate new meaning, contrasted with invisible Hollywood continuity editing.