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Menards

Menards, originally Menard Cashway Lumber, is an American family-owned home improvement retail chain founded by John Menard Jr. in 1958 and headquartered in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

Mendel Rosenblum (scientist)

Mendel Rosenblum is an American computer scientist, a Stanford professor known for operating systems and virtualization research, who co-founded VMware in 1998 and served as its Chief Scientist.

Mendeley

Mendeley is a reference management program and academic social network founded in 2007 by Paul Foeckler, Victor Henning, and Jan Reichelt, owned by Elsevier since 2013.

Mendix

Mendix is a low-code application development platform owned by Siemens, which acquired it in 2018, letting users build and deploy web and mobile applications with minimal hand-written code through a visual environment.

Mene Grande Oil Field

The Mene Grande oil field is an oil field on Lake Maracaibo in Zulia, Venezuela, discovered in 1914 and regarded as the country's first giant field.

Meng Wanzhou (孟晚舟)

Meng Wanzhou (孟晚舟, Sabrina Meng), daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, is Huawei's Deputy Chairwoman, Rotating Chairwoman, and CFO; arrested in Vancouver in 2018 on US Iran-sanctions fraud charges, released via a 2021 Deferred Prosecution Agreement.

Mengdigou Hydropower Station

Mengdigou Hydropower Station is a large hydropower project under construction on the Yalong River in Sichuan, China, approved in 2021 with a 2,400 MW capacity and river closure in October 2025.

Mengtai Beijiao power station

Mengtai Beijiao power station is a coal-fired combined heat and power plant in Dongsheng District, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, with an installed capacity of about 1,980 MW.

Meni Wanunu

Meni Wanunu is a physicist and bioengineer at Northeastern University who directs the Nanoscale Biophysics Laboratory and develops solid-state nanopore sensors for single-molecule DNA, RNA, and protein analysis.

Menno van Coehoorn

Menno van Coehoorn (1641–1704) was a Dutch soldier and military engineer who rebuilt the Dutch Republic's frontier defenses and created the New Dutch fortification system, a rival to Vauban's.

Mental health of pilots

The mental health of pilots is the psychological fitness of flight crews, governed by medical certification in which mood and anxiety disorders can ground pilots who seek help.

Mentmore Towers

Mentmore Towers is a Grade I-listed Victorian country house in Mentmore, Buckinghamshire, built in 1852–54 by Joseph Paxton for Baron Mayer de Rothschild, the first grand Rothschild estate in the Vale of Aylesbury.

Mentos

Mentos is a chewy dragee mint made by Perfetti Van Melle, conceived in the Netherlands and sold worldwide since 1932. Dropping it into soda triggers a geyser.

Menzel Ledjmet Nord Oil Field

Menzel Ledjmet Nord (MLN) is an onshore oil field in Block 405a of Algeria's Berkine Basin, discovered in 1996 and producing since 2003, operated by Pertamina.

Meota East Colony Oil and Gas Pool

The Meota East Colony Sand Pool, code 100020, is a heavy-oil pool near Meota, Saskatchewan, produced by SAGD and operated by Strathcona Resources since 2020.

Meota Lloydminster Oil Pool

The Meota Lloydminster Oil Pool is an operating oil pool in Saskatchewan, Canada, discovered in 1974 and developed by steam injection in the Lloydminster heavy oil district.

Merah Putih

Merah Putih ("Red and White") is a family of geostationary communications satellites owned and operated by Indonesia's state-owned telco Telkom Indonesia, beginning with the Telkom-4 satellite launched in 2018.

Merah Putih 2

Merah Putih 2, formerly Telkomsat HTS 113BT, is an Indonesian high throughput telecommunications satellite launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral in February 2024.

Merakes Gas Field

Merakes is a deepwater natural gas field in the Kutei Basin offshore East Kalimantan, Indonesia, discovered in 2014 with about 2 trillion cubic feet of gas, producing since 2021.

Meralco

Meralco, also called the Manila Electric Company, is the Philippines' largest private electric distribution utility, serving about 8.2 million customers in Metro Manila and nearby provinces.

Mercado Pago

Mercado Pago is the digital payments and financial services platform of MercadoLibre, launched in Argentina in November 2003 as an escrow service and now offering QR payments, cards, credit, and crypto across Latin America.

Mercedes F1 W07 Hybrid

The Mercedes F1 W07 Hybrid was the Formula One racing car with which the Mercedes AMG Petronas team competed in 2016, driven by Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg.

Mercedes W16

The Mercedes W16, also known as the Mercedes-AMG F1 W16 E Performance, is Mercedes-AMG's Formula One car for the 2025 season, raced by George Russell and Kimi Antonelli.

Mercedes W17

The Mercedes W17 (Mercedes-AMG F1 W17 E PERFORMANCE) is Mercedes' 2026 Formula One car, driven by George Russell and Kimi Antonelli, which won the 2026 opener in Australia and led both championships into the autumn.

Mercedes-AMG

Mercedes-AMG is the high-performance subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz, founded in 1967 by Hans Werner Aufrecht and Erhard Melcher, building tuned road cars, racing cars, and Formula 1 power units.

Mercedes-AMG Concept GT XX

The Mercedes-AMG Concept GT XX, also known as Concept AMG GT XX, is an electric concept car unveiled by Mercedes-AMG in June 2025 to preview a four-door production sports car.

Mercedes-AMG GT

The Mercedes-AMG GT (AMG GT) is a family of high-performance sports cars built by Mercedes-AMG that succeeded the SLS AMG in 2014 and gained a second generation in 2023.

Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupé

The Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupé is a four-door performance car built by Mercedes-AMG, the performance division of Mercedes-Benz, with a first generation produced from 2018 to about 2025.

Mercedes-AMG ONE

The Mercedes-AMG ONE, also called Project One, is a street-legal hybrid hypercar by Mercedes-AMG, producing 1,063 hp from a Formula 1-derived V6 and four electric motors.

Mercedes-Benz

Mercedes-Benz is a German automotive brand for luxury cars, vans, and commercial vehicles, created in 1926 by the merger of Gottlieb Daimler's and Carl Benz's companies.