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Missouria
The Missouria (Niutachi, People of the River's Mouth) were a Chiwere Siouan tribe of the Missouri River valley who gave Missouri its name, allied with France under Bourgmont, and merged with the Otoe after smallpox and war.
Mistress (lover)
Mistress (lover): a woman in a long-term sexual relationship with a man, usually married, often financially supported. From Old French maistresse; distinct from concubine; central to the French maîtresse en titre court institution.
Mitford family
Mitford family: English aristocratic family of the Barons Redesdale, famous for six sisters (Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica, Deborah) whose politics ranged from fascism to communism, plus novelist Nancy's books and the Chatsworth connection.
Mitzi Perdue
Mitzi Perdue (née Henderson, born 1941), American author, rice farmer, and anti-human-trafficking advocate; founder of Win This Fight, past president of American Agri-Women, Scripps Howard environmental columnist, and Ukraine war correspondent honored with Ukraine's Order of Princess Olga.
Mizrahi Jews (מזרחים)
Mizrahi Jews (Mizrahim, מזרחים) are Jews of Middle Eastern, North African, and Asian origin, distinct from Ashkenazim; about 48% of Israeli Jews, shaped by post-1948 mass immigration, persistent ethnic gaps, and Sephardic religious custom.
MK Pritzker
MK (Mary Kathryn) Muenster Pritzker, first lady of Illinois since 2019, wife of Governor JB Pritzker; Pritzker Family Foundation leader, Evergreen Invitational founder, Governor's Mansion restorer, and advocate for incarcerated women.
Mnemonic major system
The Mnemonic major system, also known as Herigone's mnemonic system, is a memory technique developed in the 17th century for committing long sequences of numbers to memory.
Mnemonic similarity task
The mnemonic similarity task (MST) is a recognition memory test measuring pattern separation, the ability to distinguish similar memories, designed in 2007 and sensitive to hippocampal function.
Mobbing
Mobbing is group-directed harassment of an individual, usually at work, studied as workplace bullying since Scandinavian school-bullying research of the late 1970s; it is legally defined in countries such as Poland and linked to mental ill health.
Model minority
The model minority is a stereotype portraying Asian Americans as uniformly high-achieving, hardworking, and successful in math and science. Originating in 1966 media coverage, it obscures intra-group disparities and has been used against other communities of color.
Model village
Model village: a planned settlement built by an employer or philanthropist to house workers in good-quality homes, as at New Lanark, Saltaire, Bournville, and Port Sunlight; also a miniature village attraction.
Models of communication
Models of communication are simplified representations of messaging: linear (Shannon-Weaver, Lasswell), interactive (Schramm, Osgood, Berlo), and transactional (Barnlund), covering sender, message, channel, noise, feedback, and context.
Modernization theory
Modernization theory, also called the theory of modernisation, explains the wealth and poverty of societies through internal factors such as education, market economies, and democratic structures.
Mods and rockers
Mods and rockers were rival 1960s British youth subcultures, scooter-riding fashion-conscious Mods versus leather-clad motorcycling Rockers, whose 1964 seaside clashes at Clacton, Brighton, and Margate inspired Stanley Cohen's moral panic theory.
Mohamed Bzeek
Mohamed Bzeek, Libyan-born Muslim foster father in Azusa, California, has cared for over 80 terminally ill children in Los Angeles County since 1989, burying about 10, as the county's only such foster parent.
Mohawk people
The Mohawk people, who call themselves Kanien'kehá:ka, or People of the Flint, are the easternmost nation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, with communities in Ontario, Quebec, and northern New York.
Mohawk skywalkers
Mohawk skywalkers are Kanien'kehá:ka ironworkers from Kahnawà:ke, Akwesasne, and Six Nations who have worked high steel since the 1886 Victoria Bridge riveting crews, building New York landmarks including the Empire State Building and World Trade Center.
Mohicans
Mohicans (Muh-he-con-neok, 'people of the waters that are never still'), an Algonquian-speaking people of the upper Hudson Valley, distinct from the Connecticut Mohegan; descendants are the federally recognized Stockbridge-Munsee Community in Shawano County, Wisconsin.
Mohsen Mahdawi (محسن مهداوي)
Mohsen Mahdawi (محسن مهداوي), Palestinian activist and Columbia graduate student, arrested by ICE at his 2025 Vermont naturalization interview, freed by Judge Crawford, and still fighting a 2026 removal order to Jordan.
Mokken scale
Mokken scale analysis is a nonparametric item response theory procedure testing whether dichotomous or polytomous items form an ordinal, hierarchical scale, using scalability coefficients and monotonicity assumptions.
Moldovans
Moldovans, the titular ethnic group of the Republic of Moldova (Moldoveni), 76.7% of the 2024 census population; speak a regional variety of Romanian; identity divided between Moldovanism and Romanianism; large diaspora of about 828,000.
Mole people
Mole people is the label for homeless people living in urban tunnels, sewers, and basements, known from Jennifer Toth's 1993 New York book and from Beijing's large migrant basement-rental market.
Mollie Kyle
Mollie Kyle (Mollie Burkhart), an allotted full-blood Osage woman, survived the 1920s Osage Reign of Terror in which her mother, sisters, and cousin were murdered for oil headrights; her husband Ernest Burkhart poisoned her insulin until FBI-led investigation broke the conspiracy.
Molly house
Molly houses were 18th- and early 19th-century English taverns, coffee houses, and back rooms where queer men called mollies met, cross-dressed, and held mock weddings, despite the 1533 Buggery Act; the 1726 raid on Mother Clap's Holborn house is the best-known persecution.
Molly Kochan
Molly Kochan, American podcaster and memoirist (Screw Cancer: Becoming Whole) who co-created the Wondery podcast Dying for Sex with Nikki Boyer about her sexual exploration after a terminal stage IV breast cancer diagnosis; she died March 8, 2019, and inspired the 2025 FX series.
Moms for Liberty
Moms for Liberty (M4L): conservative American parental-rights organization founded January 2021 in Florida by Tina Descovich, Tiffany Justice, and Bridget Ziegler; known for school board endorsements, book challenges via BookLooks, and the SPLC 'extremist' designation dispute.
Mon people
The Mon are an Austroasiatic-speaking ethnic group living in lower Myanmar and parts of Thailand. Their early civilization is identified in Myanmar, with Dvaravati finds dating to the 1st or 2nd century AD.
Monetary incentive delay task
The monetary incentive delay (MID) task is a neuroimaging paradigm, introduced by Brian Knutson and colleagues in 2000, that separates neural responses to anticipating monetary reward from receiving it.
Mongoloid
Mongoloid, also called the Mongolian race, is an obsolete racial classification from Blumenbach's 1775 scheme grouping Asian, Pacific, and American peoples; abandoned by anthropology and genetics, and now an offensive slur for Down syndrome.
Mongols (Монголчууд)
The Mongols (Монголчууд) are an ethnographic group of Central Asia's Mongolian Plateau; today they live mainly in Mongolia, China's Inner Mongolia, and southern Siberia, and Chinggis Khaan founded their empire in 1206.