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Madih nabawi Madih nabawi, one of the principle religious genres of Arab music, a song form devoted to eulogizing or rather praising the Prophet Muhammad and his family. The genre dates from 632 CE, immediately after the death of Muhammad, but the performers address Muhammad as if he were still alive.
Madina Sadvaqasova Madina Sadvaqasova (Kaz: Мәдина Садуақасова) (born September 8 in Almaty, now living in Qyzylorda, Kazakhstan) is a Kazakh pop singer who rose to popularity with the song Махаббат Жалыны.
Madinan sura The Madinan suras of the Qur'an are those suras which were revealed at Madina, after Muhammad's hijra from Mecca, when the Muslims were establishing a state rather than being, as at Mecca, an oppressed minority. They are mostly placed at the beginning of the Qur'an, and typically have more and longer ayat.
Madinat 'Isa Madinat 'Isa (Isa Town) (Arabic: مدينة عيسى) is a middle class suburb in Bahrain in the north central part of the country. The name Isa refers to Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, the ruler of Bahrain from 1961 to 1999.
Madinat al-Hareer Madinat al-Hareer (Arabic: مدينة الحرير, meaning "City of Silk"), is a proposed 250 square kilometer planned urban area in Subiya, Kuwait, an area just opposite Kuwait City which, upon construction, would include the Mubarak al-Kabir Tower, the world's tallest structure, a natural desert reservation of 2 square kilometres, a duty free area which will be beside a new airport, in addition to a large business center, conference areas, environmental areas, athletic areas, and areas that concentrate on media, health, education, and industry. The City of Silk will also include numerous tourist attractions, hotels, spas, and public gardens.
Madinat Al Sultan Qaboos Madinat Al Sultan Qaboos (Arabic: مدينة السلطان قابوس) is the area in the middle of the Central Muscat, the capital of the Sultanate of Oman. The Name "Madinat Al Sultan Qaboos" in Arabic means in English: "the City of the Sultan Qaboos" where the Arabic word "Madinat" means "City" in English.
Madingley Madingley is a village near Coton on the western outskirts of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. The village's former public house, The Three Horseshoes, is now a good-quality restaurant though it still has a bar that serves beer.
Madingo Kayes Madingo Kayes an archaeological site in the modern day Republic of Congo, site of the earliest documented complex society in West Central Africa. Excavations conducted by James Denbow in the 1990s established a two order settlement pattern dated to the early centuries CE by C14 method.
Madipakkam Madipakkam is one among the southern suburbs of Chennai, the capital city of Tamil Nadu. It is a residential municipality close to the Chennai Airport and is adjacent to the suburbs of Velachery, Nanganallur, Adambakkam, Keelkattalai and Vijaya Nagar.
Madisar The Madisar is the style in which the sari is worn by the Brahmin community in Tamil Nadu, India. In ancient days, this was the mandatory style in which the sari was supposed to be worn by a woman after her marriage, but today, to suit modern trends, yet accommodate traditions, the madisaar is worn by women on selected festive occasions and while witnessing ceremonies.
Madisen Su'a Madisen Valaulu Su'a' (born October 27 in Apia, Samoa) is a New Zealand Gridiron player for the Western Fury or Waitakere Fury in the Gridiron New Zealand competition. His position of choice is Line Backer/Defensive End.
Madison and Miranda Carabello Madison and Miranda Carabello share the role of youngest daughter "Marie" on Medium. Twins sharing roles is common with very young actors in bit roles, to avoid legal restrictions on how much time children can work.
Madison A. "Matty" Bell Madison A. "Matty" Bell (born February 22, 1899 in Fort Worth, Texas, died June 30, 1983 in Dallas, Texas) was a college football head coach inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955 in recognition of his coaching success during a 26-year career.
Madison Area Technical College Madison Area Technical College is the technical and community college for the Madison, Wisconsin area. It is among the largest of the 16 schools in the Wisconsin Technical College System, educating about 50,000 people per year.
Madison Avenue (band) Madison Avenue was an Australian dance music and pop duo. Madison Avenue is best known for the song "Don't Call Me Baby" which went to the top of the Australian singles charts in 1999 and to the top of the UK singles and Billboard dance charts in 2000.
Madison Avenue (Manhattan) Madison Avenue is a north-south avenue in the borough of Manhattan in New York City that carries northbound one-way traffic. It runs from Madison Square (at 23rd Street) to the Madison Avenue Bridge at 138th Street.
Madison Avenue Bridge The Madison Avenue Bridge crosses the Harlem River carrying Madison Avenue between the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx in New York City. The bridge is operated and maintained by the New York City Department of Transportation.
Madison Cooper Madison Alexander Cooper, Jr., (June 3, 1894-September 28, 1956) was an American businessman and philanthropist from Waco, Texas, and is best remembered for his long novel Sironia, Texas (1952), which made publishing history at that time as the longest novel in English originally published in book form, at an estimated 1.
Madison Cross Madison Cross (born Madison Geppert on March 3, 1992 in Santa Barbara, California) is an American singer and actress. She is the daughter of singer-songwriter, Grammy and Academy Award winner, Christopher Cross.
Madison Grant Madison Grant (November 19, 1865 – May 30, 1937) was an American lawyer, known primarily for his work as a eugenicist and conservationist. As a eugenicist, Grant was responsible for one of the most famous works of scientific racism, a 1916 book which was later used by officials in Nazi Germany to justify their racial policies of compulsory sterilization and compulsory euthanasia, and played an active role in crafting strong immigration restriction and anti-miscegenation polices in the United States.
Madison High School (New Jersey) Madison High School is a comprehensive four-year public high school serving students in grades 9-12 in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Madison Public Schools. The school, located in the borough of Madison, has an enrollment of approximately 766 students.
Madison Jones Madison Jones (born March 21, 1925 in Nashville, Tennessee) is an award-winning American author, who frequently wrote about the culture of the American South, including race relations and the Civil War. In additional to writing, he taught English and History courses at Miami University (Ohio), University of Tennessee, and Auburn University before retiring in 1987.
Madison Mad Dogs The Madison Mad Dogs was an indoor football team that played in the Professional Indoor Football League (PIFL) in 1998, and in the Indoor Football League (IFL) in 1999 & 2000. The Mad Dogs franchise was owned by Keary Ecklund.
Madison Metropolitan School District Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) resides in Madison, Wisconsin, in Dane County. It is the public school district for the city of Madison, and includes four high schools, one alternative high school, 11 middle schools, and 31 elementary schools.
Madison Museum of Bathroom Tissue In its day, the Madison Museum of Bathroom Tissue, established in 1992, was the largest and arguably most important bathroom tissue museum in the world. Before closing in 2000, "the MMBT" was located at 305 N.
Madison Park (musical duo) madison park is an American electronica duo comprised of DeAnna and James Cool. They released some of their first tracks on the first two volumes of New Sound Theory, a pair of various-artist compilations released in 2003 on their BasicLUX label.
Madison Pride and MAGIC Picnic Madison Pride and MAGIC Picnic is an amalgamation of two major Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning events that were separate events in Madison's history. The Pride Parade and Rally was originated by the now defunct GALVAnize organization and the MAGIC Picnic was started by Rodney Scheel (b.
Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps The Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps is a highly competitive summer youth drum corps in the Drum Corps International (DCI) circuit. It was founded in 1938, is based out of Madison, Wisconsin, and is the third oldest corps in the DCI circuit.
Madison Southern High School Madison Southern High School is one of two public high schools within the Madison County, Kentucky School System. It is the newest public high school in Madison County and opened at 279 Glades Road in Berea, Kentucky in August of 1988.
Madison Square Madison Square is a six acre (24,000 m²) public park in the New York City borough of Manhattan, named for James Madison, fourth President of the United States and co-author of the United States Constitution. The park is bounded by Madison Avenue (which starts at the park's southeast corner), 23rd Street, 26th Street, Fifth Avenue, and a diagonal section of Broadway.
Madison Square Garden Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG, known colloquially simply as The Garden, has been the name of four arenas in New York City, United States. It is also the name of the entity which owns the arena and several of the professional sports franchises which play there.
Madison Symmetric Torus The Madison Symmetric Torus (MST) is a plasma physics experiment, with applications to both fusion energy research and astrophysical plasmas. MST is one of the sites in the Center for Magnetic Self Organization (CMSO).
Madison Theatre Madison Theatre, 107 NE Madison Avenue, Peoria, Illinois, opened on October 16, 1920 as a silent picture theatre. Commissioned by Dee Robinson, this building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 21, 1980.
Madison University Madison University is an unaccredited distance learning university located in Gulfport, Mississippi. Tuition is offered in either a single payment or payment plan option and the school offers a discount for referring new students.
Madison, Alabama Madison is a city located primarily in Madison County, Alabama with a small portion in Limestone County, Alabama, and is included in the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. As of the 2005 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 35,893.
Madison, Tennessee 12:08, 12 January 2007 (UTC)12:08, 12 January 2007 (UTC)~~Madison, Tennessee is a suburb of the city of Nashville, Tennessee in the United States. It is incorporated as part of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County.
Madisonville Community College Madisonville Community College (MCC), located in Madisonville, KY, is one of 16 two-year, open-admissions colleges of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS). MCC was originally established as a member of the University of Kentucky's Community College System in 1968.
Madiun Madiun is a city in the western part of the province of East Java Indonesia, an agricultural centre best known as the site of an uprising in 1948 which resulted in thousands of deaths. It is the capital of the regency of the same name.
Madjer JoĂŁo Victor Tavares (born January 22 1977 in Luanda, Angola), better known as Madjer, is a Portuguese beach soccer player. He plays as a forward, and has won numerous awards at the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cups for his goalscoring abilities.
Madkat Madkat is a villain in the animated television series SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron who appears in the episode Enter the Madkat. When failed comedian and escaped lunatic Lenny Ringtail went into an antique store called Katzmer's Curios to hide from the Enforcers, he stumbled across a "cat-in-the-box" that bore an uncanny resemblance to him.
Madleen Kane Madleen Kane is a singer born in Sweden in 1958 who had five Top 10 hits on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the early eighties. Her biggest success came in 1981 when You Can / Fire In My Heart spent three weeks at #1 (these two songs were produced by legendary Giorgio Moroder).
Madly Off in All Directions Madly Off in All Directions was a Canadian radio comedy show that aired for several years on CBC Radio One, featuring comedian Lorne Elliott. It formerly aired Sunday afternoons at 1PM (1:30PM in Newfoundland), as well as on Saturday evenings on 6:30PM with repeats on Friday mornings at 11 AM.
Madman (film) Madman is the motion picture adaptation of the creator-owned comic book of the same name by Mike Allred. The movie will be co-directed by Allred and George Huang (similar to the way Robert Rodriguez co-directed the comic book-film Sin City with its creator, Frank Miller).
Madman Entertainment Madman Entertainment is an Australian company that specialises in the distribution of Japanese anime and manga in Australia and New Zealand. They are the most successful and well-recognised distributor of anime in the region.
Madman Muntz Earl "Madman" Muntz (1914 – 1987), born in Elgin, Illinois, was a legendary merchandiser of used cars and consumer electronics in the 1940s and 50s, mostly in California. He later founded the Muntz Car Company, which made the Muntz Jet, a sports car with jet-like contours.
Madman's War The Madman's War (French: "Guerre Du Fou") was an uprising of Hmong nationalists led by Pa Chay Vue against the French colonial government in French Indochina. The revolt began in 1918 and was quelled in 1921 with the assassination of Vue and the beheading of other leaders.
Madness (band) Madness are an English pop band that formed in 1976. A prominent band of the 2 Tone ska revival of the late 1970s, Madness achieved most of its success in the 1980s, spending more weeks in the UK chart than any other group.
Madness and Civilization Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason is an English edition of an abridged version of Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique, originally published in 1961 under the title Folie et déraison. Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique.
Madness and the Minotaur Madness and the Minotaur was a text adventure game for the TRS-80 Color Computer. Developed by Spectral Associates in 1981, the game lulled players into a false sense of security by providing a comparatively easy and static early game.
Mado (fish) The mado (in New Zealand), or stripy or eastern footballer (in Australia), Atypichthys latus, is a sea chub of the genus Atypichthys, found around southern Australia and the north eastern coast of the North Island of New Zealand to depths of about 60 metres, off headlands and offshore islands. Its length is between 15 and 30 centimetres.
Madoc Madoc (Madog or Madawg) ap Owain Gwynedd was a Welsh prince who, according to legend, discovered America in 1170, over three hundred years before Christopher Columbus's voyage in 1492. Madoc has been the subject of much historical speculation, but most scholars doubt that Madoc ever made a trip to North America, and some doubt the prince existed at all.
Madog ap Gruffydd Maelor Madog ap Gruffydd Maelor, Prince of Powys Fadog 1191-1236. Madog consolidated his father's possessions and the territory he ruled became known as Powys Fadog in his honour (Fadog is a gender mutation of his name, Madog).
Madog II ap Gruffydd, Lord of Dinas Bran Madog II, Prince of Powys Fadog 1269-1277, inherited the throne on the death of his father Gruffydd Maelor II. He was in alliance with Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the prince of Gwynedd and all Wales during the period following the Treaty of Montgomery.
Madogu Madogu (魔導具), known as psychic devices or elemental weapons in the English versions of the series, are mystical objects in the fictional anime and manga series, Flame of Recca. They were created 400 years before the present time of the series (apparently the late 1990's) using a mixture of scientific, mystic, and natural knowledge.
Madolyn Smith Osborne Madolyn Smith Osborne (born 1 January 1957 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the TV miniseries If Tomorrow Comes and the feature film Funny Farm, which costarred Chevy Chase.
Madonna (skateboarding trick) A madonna is an aerial skateboarding trick where the heel edge of the board is grabbed near the front wheel with the front hand and the front foot is kicked off the board behind the skateboarder. This trick was named by the inventors, Tony Hawk and Lester Kasai, who were trying to create a new trick in the 1990s.
Madonna and Child The Madonna and Child is one of the central icons of Christianity. After some initial resistance and controversy, the formula "Mother of God" (Theotokos) was adopted officially by the Christian Church at the Council of Ephesus, 431.
Madonna and Child (Duccio) Madonna and Child (also known as the Stoclet Madonna or Stroganoff Madonna) is a panel painting by Italian Renaissance artist Duccio di Buoninsegna. Painted in tempera with gilding on wood panel around the year 1300, it depicts Mary, the mother of Jesus holding the infant Jesus.
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints (Raphael) The Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, also known as the Colonna Altarpiece, is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Raphael, circa 1504. It is housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City.
Madonna di Loreto (Caravaggio) Madonna di Loreto (in Italian, Madonna dei Pellegrini or pilgrims) is a famous painting (1604-1606) by Caravaggio in the Cavalletti Chapel of the church of Sant'Agostino, near the Piazza Navona in Rome. It depicts the apparition of the barefoot virgin and naked child to two peasants on a pilgrimage; or as some say it is the quickening of the iconic statue of the Virgin.
Madonna Della Strada Madonna Della Strada or Santa Maria Della Strada — Italian meaning Our Lady of the Way (The Way was what the earliest Christians called its community in antiquity) — is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary. She is the patroness of the Society of Jesus religious order of the Roman Catholic Church.
Madonna House Apostolate The Madonna House Apostolate is a Catholic Christian community of lay men, women, and priests dedicated to loving and serving Jesus Christ. It was founded in 1947 by Catherine Doherty in Combermere, Ontario, Canada, and has established missionary field houses world-wide.
Madonna Litta The Madonna Litta is one of the great paintings by Leonardo da Vinci. There are numerous replicas of the work by other Renaissance painters, and Leonardo's own preliminary sketch of Madonna's head in the Louvre.
Madonna of the Trail Madonna of the Trail is a series of 12 monuments dedicated to the spirit of pioneer women in the United States. The monuments were commissioned by the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR).
Madonna on Letterman When Madonna appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman in March 1994, her coarse language, including thirteen uses of the word "fuck", made the episode the most censored in American network television talk-show history; it also resulted in some of the highest ratings of Letterman's late-night career.
Madonna Oriente Madonna Oriente or Signora Oriente (Lady of the Orient), also known as La Signora del Gioco (The Lady of the Game), are names of an alleged religious figure, as described by two Italian women who were executed by the Inquisition in 1390 as witches.
Madonna University Madonna University is a private, non-profit, Catholic university located in Livonia, Michigan on the western perimeter of metropolitan Detroit. Conducted by the Felician Sisters, it has an extended campus in Orchard Lake, Michigan at the St.
Madonna's controversies American pop singer Madonna has proven to a highly controversial figure, inciting debate over her twenty-year career, from her performance at the first MTV Video Music Awards to hanging on a cross during her Confessions Tour.
Madonna: Truth or Dare Truth or Dare (known as In Bed with Madonna outside the United States and Canada) is a documentary chronicling the life of US pop superstar Madonna behind the scenes of her 1990 Blond Ambition Tour. Released in 1991, the film was generally well-received by critics (although condemned by a few, including bell hooks) and fared well at the box office.
Madonnina The Madonnina, commonly known as the Madonna of the Streets, was a painting created by Roberto Ferruzzi and first publicly exhibited in 1897 at an art exhibition in Venice. The models for this painting were AngelinaOne source cites her first name as "Angela," but this is probably incorrect CianCian was her maiden surname and her surname at the time of the painting's creation.
Madoxx Madoxx is the stage name for the Ugandan roots reggae musician David Amon Ssemanda Ssematimba (born 1972). Madoxx, who is imensely popular in Uganda for his reggae ballads in Luganda, lives in Stockholm, Sweden.
Madragana Madragana, later known as Maior Afonso or Mor Afonso, was born circa 1230 in Faro, Portugal to Aloandro Ben Bekar (or Bakr; also known as Aldroando Gil), Governor of Faro, a Mozarab (an Iberian Christian living under Muslim domination), descendant of Bakr Ben Yahia and of Yahia Ben Bakr.
Madras (cloth) Madras is a lightweight cotton fabric with patterned texture, used primarily for summer clothing -- pants, shorts, dresses and jackets. The fabric takes its name from the former English name of the city of Chennai, India.
Madras Atomic Power Station Madras Atomic Power Station located at Kalpakkam about 80 km south of Chennai, India, is a comprehensive nuclear power production, fuel reprocessing, and waste treatment facility that includes plutonium fuel fabrication for fast breeder reactors [FBRs]. It is also India's first fully indegenously constructed nuclear power station.
Madras Crocodile Bank Trust The Madras Crocodile Bank Trust or CrocBank is a reptile zoo and herpetology research station, located just south of the city of Chennai, in state of Tamil Nadu, India. It was begun in 1976 with the aim of saving the three the Indian species of crocodile - the marsh or mugger crocodile, the saltwater crocodile, and the gharial, which at the time were all nearing extinction.
Madras day August 22 is celebrated as Madras Day to commemorate the founding of city of Madras (now called as Chennai located in the state of Tamil Nadu, India). It was on this day in 1639 that a small piece of land where Fort St George stands today was transacted by British East India Company.
Madras High Court The Madras High Court, one of the landmarks of the metropolis of Chennai, and believed to be the second largest judicial complex in the world, is located near the Parrys Corner, one of the important central business districts of Chennai. The building of the High Court, an exquisite example of Indo-Saracenic style of architecture, was built in 1892, under the guidance of the famed architect Henry Irwin.
Madras Christian College The Madras Christian College, Chennai, South India, is one of the oldest colleges of the Indian subcontinent and was established in 1837. Currently, the college is affiliated to the University of Madras, but functions as an autonomous college from its campus in Tambaram, Chennai.
Madras Legislative Council The Madras Legislative Council was the executive council established by the British colonial in 1921 under the Government of India Act 1919. It established a representative assembly in the Madras Presidency, consisting of 132 members with a term of three years.
Madras Music Academy Madras Music Academy, or simply Music Academy, is one of the premier and early Music Academies in the South Indian city of Madras, now Chennai. It plays an important role in encouraging and promoting primarily the Carnatic Music south Indian art form.
Madras Music Season Every December, the city of Chennai in India has its five week-long Music Season, which has been described as the world's largest cultural event The Music Season] was started in [[1927, to mark the opening of the Madras Music Academy. It used to be a traditional month-long Carnatic music festival, but since then it has also diversified into dance and drama, as well as non-Carnatic art forms.
Madras Observatory The Madras Observatory was founded by the British East India Company in 1786 in Chennai (then Madras). For over a century it was the only astronomical observatory in India that exclusively worked on the stars.
Madras School of Social Work Madras School of Social Work, established in 1952, is located in Chennai, South India, and is affiliated to the University of Madras. The School offers various under-graduate and graduate courses in social sciences.
Madras State Madras State was the former name of the present day state of Tamil Nadu, India. When India became independent in 1947, Madras Presidency, a province of British India, was reconstituted as Madras State, comprising of Tamil Nadu and parts of present day Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala.
Madras States Agency The Madras States Agency was an administrative unit of British India. The agency was created in the 1930's, on the model of the Central India Agency and Rajputana Agency, and was composed of five princely states in southern India, located in the present-day Indian states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.
Madras Tamil Madras Tamil or Madras bashai (Tamil: மெட்ராஸ் பாஷை), is a type of mixed language spoken in the city of Chennai, India (previously known as Madras). It is a loose polyglot blend of Tamil and English, with loanwords from Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi-Urdu.
Madras, Oregon Madras (pronounced MAD-res) is a city in Jefferson County, Oregon, United States. Originally called The Basin after the circular valley the city is located in, Madras reportedly was named in 1903 for the cotton fabric originating from around Chennai, and not the former name of Chennai city in India Entry on the Oregon History Project website.
Madrasa 'Aliya Madrasa 'Aliya (Arabic: مدرسة عالية) was a madrasa founded 1781 in Calcutta by Warren Hastings although some sources have the founding date as 1780. Hastings ran the institution out of his pocket for a year and a half until he was later reimbursed by the Bengal Government.
Madrasah Madrasah (Arabic: مدرسة) is the Arabic word for any type of school, secular or religious (of any religion). It is variously transliterated as madrasah, madrash, medresa, madreseh, madrassa, medrusha, or madressa.
Madrasi chess Madrasi chess is a chess variant invented in 1979 by Abdul Jabbar Karwatkar which uses the conventional rules of chess with the addition that when a piece is attacked by a piece of the same type but opposite colour (for example, a black queen attacking a white queen) it is paralysed and becomes unable to move, capture or give check. Most of the time, two like pieces attack each other mutually, meaning they are both paralysed (en passant pawn captures are a rare exception to this).
Madrasit Al-Mushaghibin Madrasit Al-Mushaghibin is an Egyptian play, about students in a school where no teacher is in control of the class's behavior until a female teacher leads the students to success. Many of its actors later became leading comedians.
Madre de Dios River The Madre de Dios River, homonymous to the Peruvian region it runs through, then becomes the Beni River in Bolivia and then turns northward into Brazil, where it is called the Madeira River. The Madeira is a tributary to the Amazon River.
Madre di Buonconsiglio (Naples) Madre di Buon Consiglio (Italian: Mother of Good Counsel) is a Roman Catholic church in Naples, Italy. It is located on the hillside leading up to the Capodimonte palace and art museum and is visible from many quarters of the city.
Madre Matilda Madre Matilda was Peruvian rock band formed in 1996 and disbanded in 2002. Named after a somewhat obscure Pink Floyd track, it had two minor hits in with "Regresa" (an electronic arrangement of a traditional Peruvian song) and "CĂ­rculos.
Madrean sky islands The Madrean sky islands are enclaves of Madrean pine-oak woodlands, found at higher elevations in a complex of small mountain ranges in southern Arizona and New Mexico and northern Mexico. The sky islands are surrounded at lower elevations by the Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts.
Madreporite Small red or yellow button-like structure that often looks like a small wart on a sea star's central disk. The madreporite is used to filter water into the sea star's water vascular system - a system of water filled canals and appendages that function primarily in locomotion, reproducing and feeding.
Madresfield Court Located near Great Malvern in Worcestershire, Madresfield Court is the ancestral home of the Lygon (Ligon in America) family. Built in 1593 replacing a 15th century building, it was remodeled in the 1800s to a moated Elizabethan house containing about 100 rooms at the foot of the Malvern Hills, on the Severn River.
Madrid (autonomous community) Madrid is one of Spain's seventeen autonomous communities, located in the centre of the country. It is coterminous with the province of Madrid, and contains the city of Madrid, which is the capital of the community, the province, and the country.
Madrid 2012 Olympic bid Madrid 2012 was one of the five short-listed bids for the 2012 Summer Games. Madrid and New York City were the only two cities that opted to hold the 2012 Olympics that had never held a Summer Olympics before.
Madrid Accords The Madrid Accords (1975) were a series of treaties between Spain, Morocco, and Mauritania to partition the territory of Spanish Sahara. In return for Spain's complete withdrawal from the territory, the country would continue to receive 35% of the income from the phosphate mines at Bou Craa.

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