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Mafra National Palace

The Mafra National Palace (Palácio Nacional de Mafra) is a vast Baroque palace, basilica, and convent complex in Mafra, Portugal, begun in 1717 by King João V.

Mafumeira oil field

Mafumeira is an oil and gas field in Block 0 offshore Cabinda province, Angola, discovered in 1998 and developed by Chevron's subsidiary CABGOC in two stages.

Mafumeira Sul Oil and Gas Field

Mafumeira Sul, or Mafumeira South, is an offshore oil and gas field in Block 0 off Cabinda province, Angola, operated by Chevron and producing since 2016.

Magach (מגח)

Magach (מגח) is the Israeli designation for a family of main battle tanks rebuilt from American M48 and M60 Patton tanks from the 1960s to the 1990s.

Magazine (firearms)

A magazine, often called a banana clip, is the part of a firearm that holds cartridges under spring pressure and feeds them into the chamber; forms include box, drum, rotary, and tubular.

Magazine of Concrete Research

Magazine of Concrete Research is a peer-reviewed civil engineering journal covering concrete materials, mix design, testing, durability, and structural analysis, established in London in 1949 and published by ICE Publishing.

Magdalena Titirici

Magdalena Titirici, full name Maria-Magdalena Titirici, is a Romanian-born materials chemist who holds the Chair in Sustainable Energy Materials at Imperial College London since 2019.

Magdeburg Water Bridge

The Magdeburg Water Bridge (Kanalbrücke Magdeburg) is a 918-meter navigable aqueduct in Germany that carries the Mittelland Canal over the Elbe, the world's longest canal bridge.

Mage (software)

Mage (Mage AI), founded 2021 by Tommy Dang, is a data pipeline platform combining notebook-style pipeline building, orchestration, integration, deployment, and AI features; distinct from Mage.space and the MAGE game framework. Open source (Apache-2.0), with a commercial Mage Pro edition and a $12M Series A in 2026.

Magellan expedition

The Magellan expedition, also known as the Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation, was a Spanish fleet that completed the first voyage around the world from 1519 to 1522.

Magellan Midstream Partners

Magellan Midstream Partners was a Tulsa, Oklahoma partnership operating the longest refined petroleum products pipeline system in the United States, acquired by ONEOK in 2023 for $18.8 billion.

Magenta Line (Delhi Metro)

The Magenta Line, also known as Delhi Metro Line 8, is a driverless Delhi Metro line from Janakpuri West to Botanical Garden, India's first fully unmanned train network.

Magento

Magento is an open-source e-commerce platform written in PHP, first released in 2007 by Varien, acquired by Adobe in 2018, and now offered as Adobe Commerce.

Maghreb-Europe Gas Pipeline

The Maghreb-Europe Gas Pipeline (GME), also Gazoduc Maghreb-Europe, carries natural gas from Algeria's Hassi R'mel field through Morocco to Spain and Portugal; it operated from 1996 to 2021.

Maghribi script

Maghribi script (الخط المغربي) is the style of Arabic writing developed in North Africa and Muslim Spain from the 10th century, used for Qurʾans and state documents.

MAGI-2

MAGI-2 is an open-weight video generation model released by Beijing-based Sand AI on August 5, 2026, generating 10-second clips with synchronized audio from text or image prompts.

Magic AI

Magic AI is a San Francisco artificial intelligence startup founded in 2022 by Eric Steinberger and Sebastian-Paul De Ro that builds code models to automate software engineering.

Magic cookie

A magic cookie is a small piece of data passed between programs so the receiver can perform an operation without interpreting its contents; the web cookie descends from it.

Magic Kingdom

Magic Kingdom, the original theme park of Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, opened in 1971 and has been the world's most-visited theme park for decades.

Magic lantern

The magic lantern, also known as Huygens' lantern, is an image projector developed in the 17th century, with a working form by Christiaan Huygens by 1659.

Magic Leap

Magic Leap, Inc. is an American augmented reality company in Plantation, Florida, founded by Rony Abovitz, which released the Magic Leap One headset in 2018 and Magic Leap 2 in 2022.

Magic number (programming)

In programming, a magic number is either an unexplained constant in source code or a byte sequence, also called a magic byte, that identifies a file's format.

Magic Roundabout (Swindon)

The Magic Roundabout is a ring junction in central Swindon, England, opened in September 1972, made up of five mini-roundabouts around a central island that carries traffic anti-clockwise.

Magic SysRq key

The Magic SysRq key, also known as Magic SysRq, is a Linux kernel feature that issues low-level commands to a crashed or unresponsive system, documented since 1998.

Magic.dev

Magic.dev is a San Francisco AI startup, founded in 2022 by Eric Steinberger and Sebastian De Ro, developing code-specialized models with extremely long context windows.

MagicSchool AI

MagicSchool AI is an education AI platform for K-12 teachers, offering lesson plans, quizzes, and IEP drafts. It was founded in Denver in 2023 by Adeel Khan.

Maginot Line

The Maginot Line (Ligne Maginot) was a system of French concrete fortifications built along its eastern border with Germany from the late 1920s through the 1930s, named for War Minister André Maginot.

Maginot Line ouvrages

An ouvrage is a fortified position of the Maginot Line, France's 1930s border fortifications, ranging from small infantry shelters to vast underground artillery forts like Hackenberg.

Magirus

Magirus is a German manufacturer of firefighting vehicles and turntable ladders, founded in Ulm in 1864 by firefighter Conrad Dietrich Magirus and owned by Iveco until 2025.

Magistr

Magistr, also written W32/Magistr or W32.Magistr.@mm, is a polymorphic, memory-resident Windows worm combined with a file-infecting virus, first found in the wild in mid-March 2001.