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Lynching of Dipu Chandra Das (দীপু চন্দ্র দাস)
Dipu Chandra Das (দীপু চন্দ্র দাস), Hindu garment worker lynched in Bhaluka, Mymensingh, Bangladesh, on 18 December 2025 over false blasphemy allegations; body hung and burned; no evidence found; 23+ arrests.
M. Scott Peck
M. Scott Peck (Morgan Scott Peck, 1936–2005), American psychiatrist and author of The Road Less Traveled (1978), People of the Lie, and The Different Drum; blended psychiatry with spirituality, founded community-building workshops, died of cancer in 2005.
Maasai people
Maasai: semi-nomadic Nilotic pastoralists (Maa language) of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, about 160,000 km2 of rangeland; known for cattle-centered culture and conflicts over conservation, parks, and tourism land loss.
Macedonians (Македонци) (ethnic group)
Macedonians (Македонци, Makedonci) are the South Slavic majority ethnic group of North Macedonia, speaking Macedonian; 58.44% of residents declared as such in the 2021 census, with identity contested by Greece and Bulgaria.
Machiavellianism (psychology)
Machiavellianism, a personality trait of cold rationality, cynicism, duplicity, and strategic goal pursuit, was introduced by Christie and Geis in 1970 via the 20-item Mach-IV scale and forms part of the Dark Triad with narcissism and psychopathy; the Machiavellianism-psychopathy distinction remains contested.
Machismo
Machismo is a Spanish word for masculinity, but in English it refers to an exaggerated stereotype of hypermasculinity attributed to Latin American men, popularized by US scholars.
Macrophilia
Macrophilia, also called the macro or GTS (giantess) fetish, is sexual attraction centered on extreme size difference, often giant women. Counterpart microphilia; explored through art and fiction; not a DSM diagnosis.
Madeleine Astor
Madeleine Talmage Force Astor (1893–1940), American socialite, Titanic first-class survivor in lifeboat 4, pregnant teenage wife of John Jacob Astor IV; mother of the "Titanic baby," John Jacob Astor VI.
Madison Grant
Madison Grant (1865–1937), American lawyer, conservationist, and eugenicist; co-founder of the Bronx Zoo and Boone and Crockett Club member; author of The Passing of the Great Race (1916), which shaped the 1924 Immigration Act and influenced Nazi racial policy.
Madison Marilla
Madison Marilla is an American autism advocate, educator, and Love on the Spectrum U.S. Season 3 cast member, engaged to Tyler White, founder of Madizen jewelry, not an ethnic group; the name is a personal name misplaced in taxonomy.
Madonna–whore complex
The Madonna–whore complex, coined by Freud (1905, 1912), splits women into pure Madonnas and promiscuous whores; studied today as the Madonna–whore dichotomy, a measurable belief linked to patriarchy endorsement, lower relationship satisfaction, and devaluation of women's sexual pleasure.
Magars
Magars (मगर), Nepal's largest indigenous janajati (2,013,498 in the 2021 census), a Tibeto-Burman hill people of the Rapti-Gandaki hills with Barha Magarati, Kham, and Kaike subgroups, Bheja-Rodhi governance, and Gurkha military tradition.
Magdalen Berns
Magdalen Berns (1983–2019), British YouTuber, lesbian radical feminist, and co-founder of For Women Scotland; known for gender-critical vlogs and the phrase "there's no such thing as a lesbian with a penis".
Maghrebi Jews
Maghrebi Jews are the historic Jewish communities of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, about 500,000 strong before World War II, speaking Judeo-Arabic, Haketia, and Judeo-Berber, and now mostly living in Israel, France, and Canada.
Magical thinking
Magical thinking is the belief that thoughts, words, or rituals can influence events outside normal cause and effect. Also called magical ideation and linked to thought-action fusion (TAF), it appears in children, educated adults, OCD, and schizophrenia.
Magnitude estimation
Magnitude estimation is a psychophysical scaling method introduced by S. S. Stevens and E. H. Galanter in 1957, in which participants assign numbers to stimuli in proportion to perceived intensity.
Magnus Hirschfeld
Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935), German Jewish physician and sexologist, founded the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee (1897), the first homosexual rights organization, and the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (1919), site of the first modern sex-change surgeries, destroyed by the Nazis in 1933.
Magonism
Magonism (Spanish: magonismo) is the political movement organized around Ricardo Flores Magón and the Mexican Liberal Party, which opposed the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz and fought in the Mexican Revolution from 1910.
Magyar tribes
Magyar tribes: the seven named tribes (Nyék, Megyer, Kürtgyarmat, Tarján, Jenő, Kér, Keszi) plus Kabar groups forming the early Hungarian confederation under Khazar rule, entering the Carpathian Basin in the late 9th century.
Mahad Satyagraha
Mahad Satyagraha, Chavdar Tale satyagraha: 1927 nonviolent campaign led by B. R. Ambedkar at Mahad, Maharashtra, asserting the Depressed Classes' right to draw water from the Chavdar Tank, including the 20 March water claiming, the 25 December 1927 Manusmriti burning, and a decade of litigation.
Mahar
Mahar (महार), a Dalit untouchable caste-cluster of Maharashtra and the Deccan, known for military service at Koregaon (1818), exclusion after 1892, leadership by B. R. Ambedkar, the 1927 Mahad satyagraha, and mass conversion to Buddhism in 1956.
Maharani Wisma Susana Siregar
Maharani Wisma Susana Siregar (born 5 June 1925, Liverpool) is an Indonesian independence veteran and one of Sukarno's wives, married 1958-1962; mother of Siti Aisyah Margaret Rose, later remarried Firdaus Harahap.
Mahi people
The Mahi are an ethnic group of central Benin, formed by centuries of resistance to the kingdom of Dahomey and now about 17 percent of the population.
Mahra bint Mohammed Al Maktoum
Sheikha Mahra bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, also called Mahra M1, is a Dubai royal, daughter of ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and Zoe Grigorakos, founder of the Mahra M1 fragrance brand, formerly married to Sheikh Mana, and engaged to rapper French Montana.
Maid
Maid: female domestic worker performing household labor such as cleaning, cooking, and care in private homes; also called domestic worker. 75.6 million domestic workers worldwide, 81% informal; ILO Convention 189 (2011) set the first global standards.
Mail-order bride
Mail-order bride: outdated term for international matchmaking and correspondence courtship, from 19th-century American personal ads and picture brides to today's IMBRA-regulated dating platforms.
Make-A-Wish Foundation
Make-A-Wish Foundation, founded 1980 in Phoenix after Chris Greicius' police-officer wish, is a nonprofit granting wishes to children with critical illnesses; over 650,000 wishes granted in nearly 50 countries, distinct from other wish charities.
Making out
Making out is informal North American English for sustained passionate kissing and sexual touching; the 20th-century phrasal verb sits within romantic kissing, which cross-cultural research finds in only 46% of 168 sampled cultures.
Makua people
Makua (Makhuwa, Macua, Emakhuwa): Bantu-speaking people of northern Mozambique with communities in Tanzania and Malawi; speakers of Emakhuwa (zone P.30), matrilineal descent, Mount Namuli origin tradition.
Maladaptive daydreaming
Maladaptive daydreaming (MD), coined by Eli Somer in 2002, is compulsive immersive fantasy that impairs functioning. Not in DSM-5/ICD-11; measured by the MDS-16; estimated prevalence about 2.5% in Israeli adults.