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Monte Serico
Monte Serico (Monteserico), hill in Genzano di Lucania, Basilicata, southern Italy, with a Norman castle attested in 1041 and a deserted 13th-century medieval village, a benchmark site for QuickBird satellite and LiDAR archaeology.
Monte Sirai
Monte Sirai is a Phoenician and Punic hilltop settlement in the Sulcis region of southwest Sardinia, near Carbonia, occupied from the 8th century BC until about 110 BC.
Monte Stallone catacomb (Formello)
Monte Stallone catacomb (Catacomba di Monte Stallone), a small 4th-5th century Christian hypogeum at Formello near Rome, with five galleries and a cubiculum; found in the 1960s by the British School at Rome, managed by the Comune di Formello since 2020.
Monte Testaccio
Monte Testaccio (Monte dei Cocci), artificial hill in Rome's Emporium district made of roughly 53 million broken Baetican olive-oil amphorae, dumped in terraces from the Augustan era to A.D. 257.
Monte Torre Maggiore
Monte Torre Maggiore, also called Ara Maior or Monte Peracle, is the 1,120 m highest peak of the Monti Martani above Cesi, Terni, site of an Umbrian sanctuary founded in the 6th century BC and monumentalized with two Roman temples from the 3rd century BC.
Monte Tosto
Monte Tosto (Montetosto), Etruscan site 4 km west of Cerveteri (Caere) on the Caere-Pyrgi road: a 60 m tumulus excavated by Mengarelli and a 54 x 54 m Archaic sanctuary linked to the Alalia expiation cult.
Monte Turcisi
Monte Turcisi is a 303 m hill in eastern Sicily crowned by a small Greek fortress of the early 4th century BC, probably dependent on Syracuse.
Monte Vairano
Monte Vairano (Aquilonia, Akudunniad) is a large Samnite fortified settlement of the 4th-1st centuries BC near Campobasso, Molise: ca. 50 ha behind 3 km of polygonal walls, three gates, kilns, imported amphorae, excavated since 1978 by De Benedittis.
Monte Viglio
Monte Viglio, 2,156 m, highest peak of the Monti Cantari and Simbruini-Ernici massif in the central Apennines, on the Lazio-Abruzzo border within Monti Simbruini Regional Park; glacial cirques, trail 651 ascent.
Monte Viso
Monte Viso (Monviso, Vísol), 3,841 m, highest peak of the Cottian Alps on the Franco-Italian border in Piedmont; ophiolite massif, source of the Po, first ascent 1861, Giro di Viso ring route.
Monte Walsh
Monte Walsh (1970) is a Western directed by William A. Fraker, starring Lee Marvin, Jeanne Moreau, and Jack Palance, adapted from Jack Schaefer's 1963 novel about aging cowboys at the end of the open-range era; remade for television in 2003 with Tom Selleck.
Monte Westerfield
Monte Westerfield is an American developmental neurobiologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon who founded ZFIN, the zebrafish database, in 1994 and studies Usher syndrome.
Monte Zeballos
Monte Zeballos (Cerro Zeballos) is a volcanic Andean peak in Lago Buenos Aires department, Santa Cruz, Argentina, about 2,748 m high, first ascended solo by Oscar Biott in 2004, landmark of scenic Provincial Route 41.
Monte-Carlo Masters
Monte-Carlo Masters (Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters): ATP Masters 1000 clay-court tennis tournament held each April at the Monte-Carlo Country Club, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France; first played 1897, 56-player draw, non-mandatory, Rafael Nadal holds 11 titles.
Montebras
Montebras, Soumans, Creuse, France: historic tin and lithium-phosphate mining site on an albite leucogranite cupola; type locality of montebrasite and morinite; now an Imerys ceramics feldspar quarry.
Montebuono
Montebuono, a hilltop comune of about 1,000 people in Sabina, province of Rieti, Lazio, known for the Romanesque church of San Pietro ad Muricentum over the Roman Terme di Agrippa villa and the church of Santa Maria Assunta at Fianello.
Montech water slope
The Montech water slope (pente d'eau de Montech) is a boat lift on the Canal latéral à la Garonne in France, opened in 1974, where diesel tractors push a barge uphill on a wedge of water.
Montecito, California
Montecito is an unincorporated census-designated place in Santa Barbara County, California, between the Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific. Known for extreme wealth (median household income $231,005, home values at or above $2 million) and the deadly January 9, 2018 post-wildfire debris flow that killed 23 people.
Montecristo
Montecristo, Isola di Montecristo: uninhabited Italian island in the Tuscan Archipelago, 10.4 sq km, 63 km offshore; state nature reserve since 1971, famed for Dumas's novel, 700-year-old holm oaks, and strictly limited visits.
Montee Ball
Montee Ball, former Wisconsin Badgers running back (2009-12), NCAA record 83 career touchdowns, 5,140 rushing yards, 2011 Heisman finalist; Denver Broncos second-round pick who played 21 NFL games.
Montefalcone nel Sannio
Montefalcone nel Sannio, a mountain commune in Molise's province of Campobasso on the Trigno river, medieval origin, Samnite walls on Monte Rocchetta, Coppola fief, added 'nel Sannio' by 1863 decree.
Montefí Talayotic settlement
Montefí (Poblat talaiòtic de Montefí) is a Talayotic settlement near Ciutadella, Menorca, founded around the 10th century BC and occupied to Roman times, with three surviving talayots, a hypogeum necropolis, no taula enclosure, and ongoing restoration.
Montefiore Medical Center
Montefiore Medical Center is a non-profit acute care hospital in the Bronx, New York, and the teaching hospital of Albert Einstein College of Medicine since 1963.
Montefortini
Montefortini (Tumulo di Montefortini) is an Etruscan tumulus at Comeana, Carmignano, Tuscany: a 12-meter artificial hill with a 640-630 BC tholos tomb and a later rectangular chamber tomb, excavated from 1966 under Francesco Nicosia. Not the town of Montefortino in Le Marche.
Montego Bay
Montego Bay (Mobay), Jamaica's second city in St. James parish on the northwest coast, is the island's tourism capital, home to Sangster International Airport, Sam Sharpe Square, and a major cruise port.
Montego Bay LNG Terminal
The Montego Bay LNG Terminal is an LNG import and regasification facility at Port of Montego Bay Freeport, Jamaica, built by New Fortress Energy and commissioned in 2016.
Montego Sinus
Montego Sinus: a bay-like feature (sinus) on Titan, Saturn's largest moon; 83 km wide, centered at 80.76N, 229.08E; IAU-approved April 13, 2022 and named for Montego Bay, Jamaica.
Monteiro and Gamitto expedition
The Monteiro and Gamitto expedition was a Portuguese military and trading mission of 1831 to 1832 from Tete, Mozambique, to the Lunda kingdom of Mwata Kazembe.
Monteiro Lobato
Monteiro Lobato (José Renato Monteiro Lobato, 1882–1948) was a Brazilian writer and publisher who created the Sítio do Picapau Amarelo children's books and pioneered Brazil's publishing industry.
Montek Singh Ahluwalia (ਮੋਂਟੇਕ ਸਿੰਘ ਆਹਲੂਵਾਲੀਆ)
Montek Singh Ahluwalia (ਮੋਂਟੇਕ ਸਿੰਘ ਆਹਲੂਵਾਲੀਆ), born 1943, is an Indian economist who helped lead India's 1991 reforms and served as Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission from 2004 to 2014.