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March and March
March and March (March & March) is a South African civic movement founded in March 2024 in Durban by Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, campaigning for stricter immigration enforcement, citizen priority for jobs and services, and the 30 June 2026 national shutdown, distinct from Operation Dudula and from the Arizona law firm of the same name.
March of Dimes
March of Dimes, originally the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis founded by FDR on January 3, 1938, is a US nonprofit that funded the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines and now fights preterm birth and maternal mortality.
Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll
Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll (Ethel Margaret Whigham, 1912–1993), Scottish socialite and heiress whose 1963 divorce from the 11th Duke of Argyll, with 'headless man' Polaroids and 88 alleged lovers, made her the 'Dirty Duchess'.
Margaret Carnegie Miller
Margaret Carnegie Miller (1897–1990), only child of Andrew Carnegie and Louise Whitfield Carnegie, nicknamed "Baba"; married Roswell Miller Jr. in 1919, had four children, and served as a Carnegie Corporation trustee 1934–1973.
Mari people
The Mari (formerly Cheremis) are a Finno-Ugric people of the Middle Volga, Russia, centered in Mari El; two written languages (Hill, Meadow), traditional grove religion, population falling from 547,605 (2010) to 423,803 (2021).
María Belón
María Belón (Madrid, 1966), Spanish physician and psychotherapist, survived the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Khao Lak, Thailand, with her family; her story inspired J. A. Bayona's film The Impossible.
Maria do Carmo Gerônimo
Maria do Carmo Gerônimo (Jerônimo), Brazilian former slave and longevity claimant (5 March 1871 – 14 June 2000), reportedly died at 129 in Itajubá, Minas Gerais; Guinness never validated her age for lack of a birth certificate, leaving Jeanne Calment's 122-year record intact.
Maricopa people
Maricopa people (Piipaash, Pee Posh), a Yuman-speaking Arizona tribe that migrated from the Colorado River to the Gila and Salt rivers, allied with the Akimel O'odham; about 100 language speakers remain.
Marie-Rose Tessier
Marie-Rose Tessier (née Bousseau, 1910–2026), French supercentenarian from Vendée, doyenne of France from January 2023 and second-oldest person in the world; died at 115 years, 265 days, the fourth Frenchwoman verified to reach 115.
Mariel boatlift
The Mariel boatlift was the April-October 1980 exodus of about 125,000 Cubans from Mariel harbor to Florida after Castro opened the port, later famous as an economics natural experiment.
Mark Steyn
Mark Steyn, Canadian conservative commentator and author of America Alone, guest-hosted Rush Limbaugh and hosted GB News; known for the Mann defamation verdict and Ofcom breach rulings.
Maroons
Maroons: communities of self-liberated enslaved Africans and their descendants, also called palenques or quilombos, who escaped plantation slavery across the Americas; Palmares in Brazil was the largest, and descendant communities persist in Suriname, Jamaica, and Colombia.
Marwari people
Marwari people: merchants and migrants from Marwar (Jodhpur region), Rajasthan, tied to the Marwari language; a business diaspora spread across India from the eighteenth century, dominant in banking, jute, and post-independence industry.
Mary Silvina Burghardt Du Bois
Mary Silvina Burghardt Du Bois (1831-1885), also spelled Sylvina or Silvinia, was a Great Barrington, Massachusetts domestic worker, mother of W.E.B. Du Bois, descendant of Revolutionary veteran Tom Burghardt, buried unmarked in Mahaiwe Cemetery.
Masalit people
Masalit (Massalit), a non-Arab Muslim farming people of West Darfur, Sudan, and eastern Chad, former rulers of the Dar Masalit sultanate; speakers of a Maban Nilo-Saharan language, targeted in the 2023 El Geneina ethnic cleansing.
Masonic bodies
Masonic bodies: the craft lodges, Grand Lodges (e.g. United Grand Lodge of England), and appendant and concordant bodies such as the Scottish Rite, York Rite, and Shriners that Master Masons may join beyond the three craft degrees.
Masonic lodge
Masonic lodge: the basic local unit of Freemasonry, chartered by a sovereign Grand Lodge, holding meetings and conferring the three Craft degrees. First Grand Lodge formed in London in 1717; recognition, Prince Hall, and research lodges distinguish the system.
Mass media
Mass media: institutional and technological forms (print, broadcast, film, digital) distributing messages to large dispersed audiences. Known for gatekeeping, agenda-setting effects, and a 2020s shift toward social media, video networks, and AI chatbots as news sources.
Mathurmohan Biswas (মথুর মোহন বিশ্বাস)
Mathurmohan Biswas (মথুর মোহন বিশ্বাস), also Mathur Nath Biswas or Mathur Babu (1817–1871), Bengali zamindar, son-in-law of Rani Rashmoni, manager of Dakshineswar Kali Temple, patron of Sri Ramakrishna; died July 1871 leaving widow Jagadamba.
Matlatzinca
Matlatzinca is an indigenous people of central Mexico and their Oto-Mangue language, historically centered in the Toluca Valley and conquered by the Mexica under Axayacatl in 1476.
Matthew Ryan
Matthew Ryan: chiefly Mathew (Maty) Ryan, Australian goalkeeper born 1992, Levante and Socceroos captain with over 100 caps and the 2015 Asian Cup Golden Glove. Distinct from Olympic equestrian Matt Ryan and other namesakes.
Maureen Starkey Tigrett
Maureen Starkey Tigrett, born Mary Cox and known as Maureen Cox, was a Liverpool hairdresser who married Beatles drummer Ringo Starr in 1965 and had three children.
Mauritians
Mauritians, also known as the Mauritian people or people of Mauritius, are the nationals and inhabitants of Mauritius, an Indian Ocean island nation whose population descends entirely from migration.
Maya peoples
Maya peoples: Indigenous speakers of about thirty Mayan languages, including K'iche', Q'eqchi', Kaqchikel, Mam and Yucatec, living in Guatemala, southern Mexico, Belize and Honduras; about 42% of Guatemala's 2018 census population.
Me generation
Me generation is a label for American baby boomers as 1970s young adults, from Tom Wolfe's 1976 "Me Decade" essay, denoting self-absorption; later echoed in Twenge's Generation Me for those born in the 1980s and 1990s, a claim contested by cohort researchers.
Mediterranean race
Mediterranean race: a late 19th-to-mid 20th century anthropological subrace of the Caucasian race, defined by Giuseppe Sergi in 1895 and placed alongside Nordic and Alpine types; now rejected by modern genetics and anthropology.
Medni Kadyrova (Медни Мусаевна Кадырова)
Medni Musaevna Kadyrova (Медни Мусаевна Кадырова), born 1978, née Aydamirova, is Ramzan Kadyrov's wife, founder of the Firdaws fashion house, vice-president of the Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation, mother of 14 children, and under US sanctions since 2020.
Meena (मीणा)
Meena (मीणा, also Mina) is a Scheduled Tribe community of eastern Rajasthan, historically ruling a dozen states before the twelfth century, stigmatized under the Criminal Tribes Act 1871, denotified in 1952, and given ST recognition in 1954.
Mehran Karimi Nasseri (مهران کریمی ناصری)
Mehran Karimi Nasseri (مهران کریمی ناصری), called Sir Alfred, was an Iranian refugee stranded without papers in Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport Terminal 1 from 1988 to 2006, about 18 years, inspiring The Terminal; he died there in 2022.
Meitei people
Meitei people, also Meetei, majority ethnic community of Manipur, northeast India, living in the Imphal Valley, predominantly Hindu Vaiṣṇava, speaking Meiteilon (Manipuri), a Tibeto-Burman lingua franca written in Meitei Mayek and Bengali scripts.