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Moffat Tunnel
The Moffat Tunnel is a 6.2-mile active railroad tunnel beneath the Continental Divide in the Colorado Rockies, opened in 1928 and once the largest railroad tunnel in the Western Hemisphere.
Mohale Dam
Mohale Dam is a 145-meter-high concrete-faced rockfill dam on the Senqunyane River in the Lesotho Highlands, completed in 2002 as part of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project.
Möhne Dam
The Möhne Dam (Möhnetalsperre) is a curved masonry gravity dam on the Möhne river in Germany, built 1908–1913 to supply water to the Ruhr and breached in the 1943 Dambusters raid.
Mohonk Mountain House
Mohonk Mountain House, also known as Lake Mohonk Mountain House, is a Victorian castle resort on Lake Mohonk in New Paltz, New York, founded by Albert K. Smiley in 1869.
Mohr–Coulomb failure criterion
The Mohr–Coulomb failure criterion is the most widely used shear strength model in geotechnical engineering and rock mechanics, describing when cohesive-frictional materials such as soil or rock fail, from Coulomb's 1776 envelope.
Mokelumne Aqueduct
The Mokelumne Aqueduct is a system of three large steel pipelines operated by the East Bay Municipal Utility District, carrying water from Pardee Reservoir to serve about 1.4 million people.
Mom's Spaghetti
Mom's Spaghetti is a restaurant concept by Eminem, his manager Paul Rosenberg, and Union Joints, named for the "mom's spaghetti" line in his 2002 song "Lose Yourself."
Moment distribution method
Moment distribution, the moment distribution method, is an iterative hand technique for analyzing indeterminate beams and frames, developed by Hardy Cross and first published in 1930.
Mon Repos, Corfu
Mon Repos is a neoclassical villa at Paleopolis, about 2 km south of Corfu town, Greece, built 1828–1831 as a summer residence for High Commissioner Sir Frederic Adam and now housing the Museum of Palaiopolis-Mon Repos.
Monasteries of Haghpat and Sanahin
Monasteries of Haghpat and Sanahin: serial UNESCO World Heritage Site in Lori, Armenia, inscribed 1996 and extended 2000; 10th-13th century Armenian monastic complexes blending Byzantine and Caucasian vernacular architecture.
Monastery
A monastery, also called a religious house, is a complex of buildings where monks or nuns live under religious vows; Christian monasticism arose in Egypt in the early 4th century.
Monastery of Hilandar
Hilandar (Greek: Χιλανδαρίου, Serbian: Хиландар) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery on Mount Athos in northern Greece, founded in 1198 by Stefan Nemanja and his son Saint Sava.
Monastery of Iviron
The Monastery of Iviron (Ιερά Μονή Ιβήρων) is a monastery on Mount Athos in northern Greece, founded by Georgian monks around 980 and ranked third among Athonite monasteries.
Monastery of Oseira
The Monastery of Santa María la Real de Oseira is a Cistercian monastery in Ourense, Galicia, Spain, founded in 1137 and still home to Trappist monks.
Monastery of Saint Catherine (Sinai)
The Monastery of Saint Catherine is an Eastern Orthodox monastery at Mount Sinai, Egypt, founded in the 6th century under Justinian I, the oldest still in use.
Monastery of Saint Sava (Serbia)
The Monastery of Saint Sava, also called Mileševa Monastery, is a Serbian Orthodox monastery near Prijepolje, Serbia, founded in the 13th century by King Vladislav.
Monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll
The Monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll is a Benedictine monastery in Ripoll, Catalonia, founded in 879 by Count Guifré el Pelós and rebuilt in 1032.
Monastery of Vatopedi
The Monastery of Vatopedi (Ιερά Μονή Βατοπεδίου) is one of the twenty monasteries of Mount Athos in northern Greece, ranked second and rebuilt in 972.
Monreale Cathedral
Monreale Cathedral (Duomo di Monreale) is a 12th-century Norman cathedral in Monreale, above Palermo in Sicily, built by King William II, with about 6,340 square meters of gilded mosaics.
Mont Blanc Tunnel
The Mont Blanc Tunnel (Tunnel du Mont-Blanc, Traforo del Monte Bianco) is an 11.6 km road tunnel beneath Mont Blanc linking Chamonix, France, with Courmayeur, Italy, opened in 1965.
Mont Blanc Tunnel fire
The Mont Blanc Tunnel fire was a 1999 truck fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy, killing 39 people and closing the tunnel until 2002.
Mont d'Ambin Base Tunnel
The Mont d'Ambin Base Tunnel, also called the Mont Cenis Base Tunnel, is a 57.5-km twin-tube railway tunnel under construction beneath the Alps between Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, France, and Italy.
Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey
The Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey (Abbaye du Mont-Saint-Michel) is a Benedictine abbey on the tidal island of Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy, built between the 11th and 16th centuries.
Montague Street Tunnel
The Montague Street Tunnel, also called the Montague Tube, is a pair of subway tubes carrying the R train under the East River between Manhattan and Brooklyn, opened in 1920.
Montech water slope
The Montech water slope (pente d'eau de Montech) is a boat lift on the Canal latéral à la Garonne in France, opened in 1974, where diesel tractors push a barge uphill on a wedge of water.
Monticello
Monticello is the plantation house near Charlottesville, Virginia, designed by Thomas Jefferson, who worked on it from 1769 to 1809; it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987.
Monticello Dam
Monticello Dam is a concrete arch dam on Putah Creek in Napa County, California, built by the Bureau of Reclamation from 1953 to 1957 to create Lake Berryessa.
Montreal (castle)
Montreal's castle is the Château Ramezay (Château De Ramezay), a 1705 stone mansion in Old Montreal built for governor Claude de Ramezay, rebuilt after a 1754 fire, later British Government House, and now a history museum.
Moogerah Dam
Moogerah Dam is a concrete arch dam on Reynolds Creek near Boonah in south-east Queensland, Australia, completed in 1961; it supplies irrigation water to the Warrill Valley.
Moonlight towers (Austin, Texas)
Austin, Texas's moonlight towers are 165-foot iron lighting towers erected in 1894 and 1895, the only surviving system of its kind, with 17 still in service.