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Montero (album)
Montero is the debut studio album by Lil Nas X, released September 17, 2021 on Columbia Records; 15 pop-rap tracks, executive produced by Take A Daytrip, featuring Elton John, Doja Cat, Jack Harlow, Megan Thee Stallion, and Miley Cyrus.
Montero (Call Me by Your Name)
Montero (Call Me by Your Name) is a 2021 Lil Nas X single on Columbia, named for his given name Montero Lamar Hill and the 2017 film; it debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100 and topped the UK chart for five weeks.
Monteroni
Monteroni is an Italian place name: chiefly the Monteroni Tumuli, an Etruscan tumulus necropolis near Ladispoli between Caere and Alsium; also towns Monteroni di Lecce and Monteroni d'Arbia; distinct from Tarquinia's Monterozzi.
Monterrey
Monterrey, capital of Nuevo León, Mexico, and core of a ~6.1-million-person metropolitan area; 1,142,994 municipal residents (2020), industrial and trade hub, 2026 World Cup host city with expanding Metro lines 4 and 6.
Montes Agricola
Montes Agricola is a 141 km elongated lunar mountain range at 29.1N 54.2W on the eastern edge of Oceanus Procellarum, near Aristarchus, named for Georgius Agricola and IAU-approved in 1976.
Montes Alpes
Montes Alpes, the lunar Alps, is a 281-km mountain range at 46.4°N, 0.8°W on the Moon, part of the Imbrium basin ring, named by Hevelius, bisected by Vallis Alpes, with Mont Blanc its highest peak at 3.6 km.
Montes Apenninus
Montes Apenninus, the Apennine Mountains of the Moon, a roughly 600 km lunar mountain range forming part of the Imbrium basin rim, peaks to 5 km, Mons Huygens 4023 m, explored by Apollo 15 in 1971.
Montes Archimedes
Montes Archimedes: lunar mountain range in eastern Mare Imbrium, south of Archimedes crater; IAU-approved 1976, about 146–163 km across, peaks near 2 km, remnant Imbrium basin inner wall.
Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve
Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera Montes Azules), a 331,200 ha tropical rainforest reserve in the Selva Lacandona, Chiapas, Mexico, decreed 1978, UNESCO MAB site 1979, holding about 20% of Mexico's plant diversity.
Montes Carpatus
Montes Carpatus, a 333.59-km IAU-approved lunar mountain range forming the southern rim of the Imbrium basin, north of Copernicus crater, with pyroclastic deposits and Copernican ejecta.
Montes Caucasus
Montes Caucasus is a 443.51 km lunar mountain range on the eastern rim of the Imbrium Basin and western rim of Serenitatis, IAU-named in 1961 after the terrestrial Caucasus Mountains, with peaks near 4 km.
Montes Claros
Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil: northern Minas's largest city and a level-B regional capital (REGIC 2020). 414,240 residents (2022 census), founded 1707, city status 1857, IPS Brasil 2024 top-5 in Minas Gerais.
Montes Cordillera
Montes Cordillera, the Cordillera Ring, is the outermost ~930 km mountain ring of the Moon's Orientale multi-ring impact basin, a normal-fault scarp bounding the basin and its Hevelius Formation ejecta.
Montes Haemus
Montes Haemus, the Haemus Mountains, a lunar mountain range bordering Mare Serenitatis; part of the Serenitatis basin main ring, 2–3 km high, IAU-approved 1961, named for the Balkans.
Montes Harbinger
Montes Harbinger is a lunar mountain group east of the Aristarchus Plateau on the Moon, IAU-approved in 1961, 92.70 km across, of volcanic origin with domes, cones, and sinuous rilles.
Montes Jura
Montes Jura, the lunar Jura Mountains, an arcuate 420.80 km mountain range on Mare Imbrium's northwest edge, the exposed rim of the Iridum crater bounding Sinus Iridum, named by the IAU in 1961.
Montes Pyrenaeus
Montes Pyrenaeus, the lunar Pyrenees, is a mountain range on the Moon's near side bordering eastern Mare Nectaris, formed by the 3.9-billion-year-old Nectaris basin impact, IAU-named in 1961.
Montes Recti
Montes Recti, Latin for "straight range," is an IAU-named lunar mountain range about 83 km across at 48.3°N, 19.7°W near Mare Imbrium's northern rim, a remnant of the Imbrium basin rim embayed by mare basalts.
Montes Riphaeus
Montes Riphaeus, a 190-km lunar mountain range between Oceanus Procellarum and Mare Cognitum at 7.5°S 27.6°W, named 1961 after the classical Riphaei montes (Ural Mountains), interpreted as remnants of a flooded crater or basin rim.
Montes Rook
Montes Rook, IAU-approved lunar mountain range (approved 1964, named for British astronomer Lawrence Rook), two concentric rings about 480 and 620 km across forming the inner rings of the Orientale impact basin on the Moon's western limb.
Montes Taurus
Montes Taurus, the Taurus Mountains, a rugged lunar highland mountain region east of Mare Serenitatis, 166.16 km across, peaks about 3 km high, containing the Taurus-Littrow valley where Apollo 17 landed in 1972.
Montes Teneriffe
Montes Teneriffe, lunar mountain range in northern Mare Imbrium at 47.9N 13.2W, named 1935 for Tenerife after Piazzi Smyth's 1856 expedition; peaks about 2.4 km, remnants of the Imbrium Basin inner wall.
Montesquieu
Montesquieu, born Charles-Louis de Secondat, was a French Enlightenment philosopher whose 1748 work The Spirit of the Laws argued for separating legislative, executive, and judicial power.
Montessori education
Montessori education, developed by Maria Montessori from the 1907 Casa dei Bambini in Rome, is a child-centered method using mixed-age classrooms, prepared environments, and self-directed materials; a 2023 Campbell review of 32 studies found modest positive academic (g = 0.24) and nonacademic (g = 0.33) effects versus traditional schooling.
Monteverde
Monteverde is Costa Rica's 83rd canton, created by Law 10019 in 2021 as Canton XII of Puntarenas with seat Santa Elena; formerly district nine of Puntarenas, known for its cloud forest reserve and Quaker-founded dairy and tourism economy.
Monteverde Butterfly Gardens
Monteverde Butterfly Gardens (Jardín de Mariposas Monteverde) is an insectarium and live butterfly exhibit in Cerro Plano, Monteverde, Costa Rica, founded in the 1990s, with up to 30 butterfly species in four habitats, guided daily tours, and a leaf-cutter ant colony.
Monteverdi (automobile)
Monteverdi was a Swiss luxury carmaker founded by Peter Monteverdi in Binningen, building around 3,000 V8-powered grand tourers and off-roaders from 1967 to the early 1980s.
Monteverdi (Mercurian crater)
Monteverdi is a roughly 134–138 km wide impact crater in Mercury's northern plains, IAU-named in 1979 for composer Claudio Monteverdi, largely lava-flooded with only its southern rim exposed, imaged by MESSENGER in 2013.
Monteverdi Choir
The Monteverdi Choir is a British professional chamber choir founded by John Eliot Gardiner in 1964, known for historically informed performances of Baroque and Classical choral music.
Montevideo
Montevideo, capital of Uruguay on the Río de la Plata, founded 1724-1730, Mercosur's administrative seat, about 1.3 million people on 528 km2, main port, and top-ranked Latin American city for quality of living.