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Murder of Larry King
Murder of Lawrence "Larry" King, a 15-year-old student shot by classmate Brandon McInerney on February 12, 2008 at E.O. Green Junior High in Oxnard, California; prosecuted as a hate crime and later reframed as the killing of trans girl Latisha King.
Murder of Sophie Lancaster
Murder of Sophie Lancaster: 2007 killing of a 20-year-old goth in Bacup, Lancashire, with boyfriend Robert Maltby; sentencing judge called it a hate crime; led to the Sophie Lancaster Foundation and campaigns to extend UK hate crime law.
Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner
The June 21, 1964 Klan murders of civil rights volunteers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner near Philadelphia, Mississippi, also called the Mississippi Burning or Freedom Summer murders; eight federal convictions in 1967, Killen's 2005 manslaughter conviction.
Murphy's law
Murphy's law, the adage that anything that can go wrong will go wrong, is attributed to engineer Edward A. Murphy and 1949 rocket-sled tests at Edwards AFB, though older antecedents and a disputed origin complicate the story.
Musa al-Gharbi
Musa al-Gharbi, American sociologist and Guardian columnist at Stony Brook University, author of We Have Never Been Woke (2024) on symbolic capitalists, the Great Awokenings, and elite status competition.
Muscle memory
Muscle memory covers two phenomena: neural motor learning (procedural memory in cerebellum, basal ganglia, and motor cortex) and cellular epigenetic changes that let trained muscle regrow faster after detraining.
Muscle mommy
Muscle mommy (also muscle mami, muscle mummy) is internet and gym slang, spread on TikTok around 2021-2022, for a notably muscular, strong woman, whether or not she is a mother; used admiringly or as self-description, with mixed reception.
Muscogee
Muscogee (Mvskoke), also called Creek, a Native American people of the Southeast whose Muscogee (Creek) Nation, headquartered in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, is the fourth-largest US tribe; known for its town confederacy, the Creek War, Trail of Tears removal, and 2020 McGirt reservation ruling.
Muscular Christianity
Muscular Christianity: Victorian religious movement, also called Christian manliness, linking sport and faith; began as an 1857 joke about a Kingsley novel, spread via the YMCA (London 1844) and shaped American sports, basketball, and the Olympics.
Musk family
Musk family: South African-Canadian-American family known through Elon Musk; parents Errol and Maye, siblings Kimbal and Tosca, 14 reported children; Pretoria origins, 1979 divorce, 1988 emigration.
Musk Foundation
Musk Foundation: Elon Musk's private philanthropic foundation (founded 2002, Austin, Texas), funding renewable energy, space exploration, pediatric research, STEM education, and safe AI; record $474 million granted in 2024, mostly to Musk-affiliated entities, with repeated shortfalls against the 5% payout rule.
Muslim Gurjars
Muslim Gurjars (Gujjars) are Muslim members of the Gurjar clan of northern South Asia, converted during the Muslim conquest; largest population in Jammu and Kashmir as the biggest Scheduled Tribe, now largely settled.
Muslim population growth
Muslim population growth: worldwide increase of Muslims, 1.7 billion (2010) to 2.0 billion (2020), 21% growth, twice the rest of the world; driven by fertility of 3.1 and young age structure, per Pew projections.
Muslim Rajputs
Muslim Rajputs are South Asian Muslim communities claiming Rajput descent, such as the Kyamkhanis of Rajasthan and the Rangars of Haryana and Punjab, who retained clan names, genealogies, and warrior identity after conversion to Islam.
Mustang Ranch
Mustang Ranch is a licensed legal brothel in Storey County, Nevada, near Reno; the name also denotes Joe Conforte's original ranch, Nevada's first legal brothel (1971), seized by the federal government in 1999 and reopened in 2003 by Lance Gilman at a new Wild Horse Canyon site.
Muthulakshmi
Muthulakshmi, chiefly Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddy (முத்துலட்சுமி ரெட்டி, 1886–1968), first woman legislator in British India, first Madras Presidency woman medical graduate, devadasi abolitionist, and founder of the Adyar Cancer Institute.
Muxe
Muxe (muxhe, "moo-shey") is the third-gender role of the Zapotec people of Juchitán, Oaxaca, Mexico: people assigned male at birth who take feminine social roles, central to family, festivals, and the matrifocal isthmus economy.
My Way killings
The My Way killings are fatal karaoke disputes in the Philippines over Frank Sinatra's song 'My Way', also called videoke killings; at least a dozen deaths between 1998 and 2018 led bars to remove the song.
Mychal Judge
Mychal Judge (1933-2001), born Robert Emmett Judge, was a Franciscan priest and FDNY chaplain from 1992, an AIDS and AA minister, and the first officially recorded 9/11 victim, Victim 0001.
Myers–Briggs Type Indicator
The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), also called the Myers-Briggs test, is a personality assessment assigning one of 16 types, first copyrighted in 1943 by Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers.
MyEx.com
MyEx.com was a Nevada-operated revenge porn website (EMP Media, launched about 2011) that posted intimate images with personal data and charged $499-$2,800 removal fees; the FTC shut it down in 2018. Distinct from the Saudi MyEx app at my-ex.app.
Myra Kraft
Myra Hiatt Kraft (1942-2011), American philanthropist, wife of Patriots owner Robert Kraft; first woman chair of Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston, president of the Patriots Charitable Foundation, namesake of the Myra Kraft Community MVP Award.
Myrlie Evers-Williams
Myrlie Evers-Williams, born Myrlie Louise Beasley in 1933, is an American civil rights activist and journalist, widow of Medgar Evers and NAACP chair from 1995 to 1998.
Mystery airship
The mystery airships, often called the Great Airship Wave or phantom airship wave, were unidentified dirigible-like craft reported across the United States and Canada from November 1896 to May 1897.
Mystery of Crowning
Mystery of Crowning (Sacrament of Crowning, stefana) is the central Eastern Orthodox marriage rite in which a priest or bishop crowns bride and groom; unlike the Latin rite, the minister confers the sacrament, and the service has no vows.
Mystical Experience Questionnaire
The Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ) is a 30-item self-report measure of a single mystical experience, most often occasioned by a psychedelic drug, and a standard outcome measure in psychedelic trials.
N-back
N-back: a 1958 working memory task by Kirchner in which participants judge whether the current stimulus matches one n trials back. Variants include visual, auditory, and dual n-back. Correlates only weakly (r ≈ .20) with complex span tasks and activates frontoparietal networks.
N-po generation (N포 세대)
N-po generation (N포 세대) is a South Korean neologism for youth who give up an indefinite number of life goals, extending the 3-po, 5-po, and 7-po ladder of renouncing dating, marriage, children, housing, relationships, and hope.
NAACP
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), oldest U.S. civil rights organization, founded February 12, 1909 in New York City after the 1908 Springfield riot; won Brown v. Board of Education; led by Derrick Johnson.
Nacirema
Nacirema: fictional tribe invented by Horace Miner's 1956 satirical essay "Body Ritual among the Nacirema" in American Anthropologist; "American" spelled backward, describing US hospitals (latipso) and dentists (holy-mouth-men) as exotic rituals to teach ethnocentrism and cultural relativism.