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Maratha Military Landscapes of India
Maratha Military Landscapes of India is a serial UNESCO World Heritage property comprising twelve fortifications built by the Marathas between the 17th and 19th centuries.
Marble House
Marble House is a Gilded Age mansion at 596 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, built 1888–1892 for William Kissam and Alva Vanderbilt and designed by architect Richard Morris Hunt.
Marc Isambard Brunel
Marc Isambard Brunel, knighted in 1841, was a French-born engineer who settled in England, invented the tunnelling shield, and directed the Thames Tunnel, the first under a navigable river.
Marcel Breuer
Marcel Lajos Breuer (1902–1981) was a Hungarian-born American architect and furniture designer who pioneered tubular steel furniture at the Bauhaus, including the Wassily chair of 1925.
Marco Polo Bridge
Marco Polo Bridge, also called Lugou Bridge (卢沟桥), is an 11-arch stone bridge over the Yongding River southwest of Beijing, built by the Jin dynasty from 1189 to 1192.
Margat Castle
Margat Castle (Arabic: Qalʿat al-Marqab, قلعة المرقب) is a medieval Crusader fortress near Baniyas on the Syrian coast, one of the Knights Hospitallers' two principal strongholds until its capture by the Mamluk sultan Qalawun in 1285.
Marib Dam (سد مأرب)
Marib Dam (سد مأرب, Sabaic ʿArim Marib), the great Sabaean earthen barrage on the Wadi Dhana at Ma'rib, Yemen; 650 m long, irrigating about 9,600 ha, repaired by Abraha in 547, and the sayl al-'arim of the Quran.
Marina City
Marina City is a mixed-use complex on the Chicago River in downtown Chicago, designed by Bertrand Goldberg and built from 1959 to 1967, known for its twin 65-story "corncob" towers.
Marine Building
The Marine Building is a 97.8 m Art Deco office skyscraper at 355 Burrard Street, Vancouver, built 1929-30 by McCarter & Nairne, briefly the tallest in the British Empire, sold to the Guinness family in 1933.
Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune
Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune is a US Marine Corps training base in Onslow County, North Carolina, established in 1941 and home to the II Marine Expeditionary Force.
Marine outfall tunnels
A marine outfall tunnel is a sub-sea conduit carrying treated wastewater from a treatment plant beneath the seabed, releasing it far offshore through risers and multiport diffusers, as at Boston and Sydney.
Marine railway
A marine railway is a dry docking installation that hauls boats out of the water on a wheeled cradle for repair, known in Britain as a slipway.
Mario Botta
Mario Botta is a Swiss architect born in 1943 in Mendrisio, known for geometric buildings of thick walls and light, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Marion County Courthouse
The Marion County Courthouse is the courthouse of Marion County, Florida, housed since 1965 in the Judicial Center in Ocala, where courthouses stood from 1851.
Market Building
Market Building: a purpose-built, usually roofed civic structure housing market stalls. Named examples include the Grade I Penzance Market Building (1837, Harris of Bristol) and the Grade II Covent Garden Market Building (1828-30, Charles Fowler).
Märkisches Viertel
The Märkisches Viertel is a large modernist housing estate in the Reinickendorf district of northern Berlin, built between 1963 and 1974/75 with roughly 17,000 apartments for about 40,000 residents.
Marksburg
The Marksburg is a medieval hilltop castle above Braubach in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, first documented in 1231 and the only hilltop castle on the Middle Rhine never destroyed.
Marlborough House
Marlborough House is a Grade I listed London mansion on Pall Mall, built 1709 to 1711 for the Duchess of Marlborough and now the Commonwealth Secretariat's headquarters.
Marmaray
Marmaray is a 76.3 km commuter railway in Istanbul linking Halkalı in Europe with Gebze in Asia through a tunnel beneath the Bosphorus, opened in 2013.
Marmaray Tunnel
The Marmaray Tunnel is a railway tunnel under the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul, Turkey, whose immersed tube section connects the European and Asian sides, opened in 2013.
Marriott Hotels & Resorts
Marriott Hotels & Resorts is the flagship full-service hotel brand of Marriott International, the lodging company founded by J. Willard Marriott that began as a 1927 root beer stand.
Marriott World Trade Center
Marriott World Trade Center (Vista International, 3 WTC): 22-story, 820-room hotel on the southwest corner of the World Trade Center plaza, opened 1981, destroyed September 11, 2001; site now part of the 9/11 Memorial Plaza.
Marshall mix design method
The Marshall mix design method is an empirical laboratory procedure that determines the optimum asphalt binder content for hot mix asphalt through stability and flow testing.
Martand Sun Temple
The Martand Sun Temple is the ruin of an 8th-century Hindu temple dedicated to the solar deity Surya, built by King Lalitaditya Muktapida on a plateau in Kashmir's Anantnag district.
Martello tower
A Martello tower is a small circular coastal artillery fort that Britain built along England's south and east coasts between 1805 and 1812 against Napoleonic invasion.
Maryann T. Phipps
Maryann T. Phipps is an American structural engineer, founding principal of Estructure, Inc. in Oakland, California, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022 for seismic engineering leadership.
Masjid al-Haram (المسجد الحرام)
Masjid al-Haram, also called the Sacred Mosque or Great Mosque of Mecca, is the mosque surrounding the Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and the holiest site in Islam.
Masjid Raya Al-Mashun
Masjid Raya Al-Mashun, also called the Great Mosque of Medan, is the principal mosque of the Deli Sultanate in Medan, Indonesia, built from 1906 to 1909 under Sultan Ma'mun Al Rasyid.
Masjidka alhuda
Masjidka Alhuda (مسجد الهدى) is a mosque on Wadada Hawdka in Burao, Togdheer, Somalia, rated 4.3 from 13 reviews, with wheelchair-accessible facilities and phone +252 63 4997777; distinct from same-named mosques in Garoowe and Hargeisa.
Masonic Temple
A Masonic Temple, also called a Masonic Hall, is a building or hall used for Freemasonry meetings and rituals, from single lodge rooms to large complexes.