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Madrid County, California Madrid County, California was the fictional setting of the 1971 CBS television drama Cade's County, starring Glenn Ford as Sheriff Sam Cade. Madrid County was a vast domain of mostly sparsely-populated desert, and was seemingly modeled on the real San Bernadino County, the largest county in the United States in terms of area.
Madrid Motor Show The Madrid Motor Show is an auto show held in Madrid, Spain. It is not recognized as a major international show by the Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d'Automobiles, but is often the site for late introduction of European cars.
Madrid Open The Madrid Open is an annual men's golf tournament which has been held in and around the Spanish capital Madrid since 1968, apart from a seven year gap from 1994 to 2000. It has been an official money event on the European Tour since the tour's first official season in 1972 until 2005.
Madrid peace conference letter of invitation The Madrid peace conference letter of invitation, also known as the Madrid Invitation or Letter of invitation to the Middle East Peace Conference in Madrid, of October 19, 1991, was a formal diplomatic invitation by the United States and the former Soviet Union issued to Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and the Palestinians, calling on them to come together and hold a peace conference in Madrid, Spain. The resulting conference came to be known as the Madrid Conference that commenced on October 30, 1991.
Madrid system The Madrid system for the international registration of marks, also conveniently known as the Madrid system or simply Madrid, is the primary international system for facilitating the registration of trademarks in multiple jurisdictions around the world.
Madrid Stock Exchange General Index The Madrid Stock Exchange General Index (IGBM) is a capitalization-weighted index that measures the performance of a selected number of Continuous Market stocks. It is the principal index for the Bolsa de Madrid (Madrid Stock Exchange) and represents the construction, financial services, communications, consumer, capital/intermediate goods, energy and market service sectors.
Madridejos, Cebu Madridejos is a 4th class municipality in the province of Cebu, Philippines. It is one of the three municipalities that comprise the island of Bantayan located on the western portion of the northern tip of mainland Cebu.
Madrigal (ensemble) The Ensemble Madrigal (Moscow) is an early music group. It was formed in 1965 by the Russian composer and harpsichord player Andrey Volkonsky to perform Russian and Western sacred music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque eras.
Madrigal comedy Madrigal comedy is a term for a kind of entertainment music of the late 16th century in Italy, in which groups of related, generally a cappella madrigals were sung consecutively, generally telling a story, and sometimes having a loose dramatic plot. It is an important precursor to opera.
Madron Madron is a village and civil parish in the district of Penwith, Cornwall in the United Kingdom. The parish encompasses the villages of Tredinnick, Lower Ninnes, New Mill, Newbridge and Tregavarah and is bounded by the parishes of Sancreed and St Just to the west, by Zennor and Morvah to the north, by the sea and the parish of Paul in the south and by the parishes of Gulval and Penzance to the east.
Madrona Creek Madrona Creek is a stream in the Madrona neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, USA, located within Madrona Park. A daylighting project to restore the creekbed from above 38th Avenue downhill to Lake Washington is underway as of 2006.
Madrona Marsh The Madrona Marsh or Madrona Marsh Preserve, located in Torrance, California, is the last vernal marsh remaining in the South Bay area of Los Angeles and one of few wetlands located within an urban landscape. Public access to Madrona Marsh was and remains controlled.
Mads Andenas Mads Andenas is General Editor of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly (Oxford University Press) and of European Business Law Review (Kluwer Law International) and on the editorial boards of some ten other law journals and book series.
Mads Jørgensen Lars Mads Jørgensen (born February 10, 1979) is a Danish professional football (soccer) player, who plays as an attacking midfielder for Brøndby IF in the Danish Superliga. He has played one match for the Denmark national football team, and is the brother of Danish national team player Martin Jørgensen.
Madsen machine gun The Madsen machine gun was a light machine gun developed by a Captain Madsen of the Danish artillery in 1903. One of the first light machine guns produced in quantity, the action was unique and required careful machining during the construction.
MadSci Network The MadSci Network is a website known primarily for its Ask-A-Scientist forum where users can ask questions to a panel of volunteer scientists. Each question, submitted via a Web interface, is reviewed by a volunteer moderator.
MadTracker MadTracker is a tracker software for Microsoft Windows. It came out in 1998, and has evolved into a 64 tracks controlling, fully automatable, sample-based, and advanced FX next-generation tracker with VST, ASIO and ReWire support.
Madun Dulloo Madan Murlidhar Dulloo (born 1949) is a politician and diplomat from Mauritius. A law graduate from the Sorbonne, he has been the foreign minister of that country since July 5 2005 when he joined the government of the new prime minister, Navin Ramgoolam.
Madurai Pushpavanam Madurai Pushpavanam was a Carnatic Musician who lived during the latter half of the 19th century and the first 25 years of the 20th Century. He was known for his melodious voice and was quite popular as a musician.
Madurai Tamil Madurai Tamil is the dialect which is spoken in the city of Madurai, as well as over a vast geographical area of South Tamil Nadu, the area once ruled by the Pandiya It differs substantially from Tirunelveli and Nagarkoil Tamil. The city sponsored the Tamil Sangam in the days of Pandiya and the people of Madurai speak Tamil not very different from the classical forms.
Madurese The Madurese are an ethnic group originally from the island of Madura but now found in many parts of Indonesia, where they are the third-largest ethnic group by population. Common features of most Madurese throughout the archipelago include Islamic religion and the use of the Madurese language.
Madurese language Madurese is the spoken language of people from Madura island in Indonesia; it is also spoken on Kangean Islands, Sapudi Islands, and in eastern part of province of East Java. It is classified in the Sundic subgroup of the West Malayo-Polynesian group of the Austronesian languages family.
Madurodam Madurodam is a miniature city located in Scheveningen, The Hague, in the Netherlands. It is a model of a Dutch town on a 1:25 scale, composed of typical Dutch buildings and landmarks, as are found at various locations in the country.
Mady Hornig Mady Hornig, MD, is a psychiatrist and an associate professor of epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, where she is Director of Translational Research in the Jerome L. and Dawn Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory.
Madzharovo Madzharovo (Маджарово) is a small Bulgarian town in the Eastern Rhodopes, part of Haskovo Province. The town has a population of only 686, making it one of the smallest in the country, and is situated on the banks of the Arda River.
Mae Beavers Mae Beavers (born December 11, 1947 in Millport, Alabama) is a Tennessee politician and a member of the Tennessee Senate for the 17th district, which is composed of Cannon, Clay, DeKalb, Macon, Smith, Trousdale, and Wilson counties, as well as part of Sumner County. She has served as a state senator since the 103rd General Assembly, and as a state representative in the 99th through the 102nd General Assemblies.
Mae Boren Axton Mae Boren Axton (September 14, 1914 in Bardwell, Texas - April 9, 1997 in Hendersonville, Tennessee) was known in the music industry as the 'Queen Mother of Nashville'. She was enormously influential in the Nashville music industry.
Mae Ddoe Yn Ddoe Mae Ddoe Yn Ddoe by Y Cyrff is very often regarded as the band's greatest hits collection as it includes tracks that were recorded from 1985 until they split up. It was released on CD and tape on the Ankst label.
Mae Fah Luang Mae Fa(h) Luang (Thai: แม่ฟ้าหลวง, English : Royal Mother from the sky) is a name of HRH Princess Mother Srinagarindra of Thailand, used especially in northern Thailand. Several items have been named after her
Mae Fah Luang University Mae Fah Luang University, situated in the province of Chiang Rai in northern Thailand, is named after the beloved Her Royal Highness the Princess Mother (Somdet Yah) of the current king of Thailand, Mae Fah Luang being the name given to her by the locals. It is an autonomous public university which was established on September 25th, 1998.
Mae Giraci Mae Georgia Giraci (22 January 1910 - 10 January 2006), also known as May Giraci, May Garcia, May Geraci, May Giracci, May Giraci and Tina Rossi, was an American child actress who appeared in silent films between 1915 and 1929. She was discovered by director Cecil B.
Mae Harrington Mae (Maxwell) Harrington (January 20, 1889–December 29, 2002) was the oldest person in the history of the state of New York, breaking the record held since the 1920s by Delina Filkins. Born in Rochester, she became the oldest recognized person in the United States on the death of Adelina Domingues.
Mae Hong Son Province Mae Hong Son (Thai แม่ฮ่องสอน) (also Mae Hong Sorn) is one of the northern provinces (changwat) of Thailand, and at the same time the westernmost. Neighboring provinces are (from north clockwise) Shan State of Myanmar, Chiang Mai and Tak.
Mae ji A mae ji (sometimes transliterated mae chi) is a Buddhist laywoman in Thailand occupying a position somewhere between that of an ordinary lay follower and an ordained monk. It is illegal for women to take ordination in Thailand.
Mae Klong The Mae Klong () is a river in western Thailand. The river begins at the confluence of the Kwae Noi or Kwai Sai Yoke and the Kwae Yai river or Kwai Si Sawasdi in Kanchanaburi, pass Ratchaburi Province and empties into the Gulf of Thailand in Samut Songkhram.
Mae Nolan Mae Ella Nolan (September 20, 1886 – July 9, 1973) was an American politician who became the fourth woman to serve in the United States Congress, the first woman elected to Congress from California, the first woman to chair a Congressional committee, and the first to fill the seat left vacant by her husband's death. She took her seat in the House of Representatives in 1923.
Mae Sexton Mae Sexton (born April 28, 1955) is an Irish politician who was elected as a Progressive Democrat TD for the Longford-Roscommon constituency in the 2002 General Election. She is a native of the townland of Glack, near Longford town.
Mae Schunk Mae Schunk (born on May 21, 1934, in Greenwood, Wisconsin) served as the 45th Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota from 1999 to 2003. Elected on the same ticket as Jesse Ventura in 1998, she became the first Reform Party member elected as lieutenant governor of any state (The party later changed its name to the Independence Party of Minnesota).
Mae Sot Mae Sot (Thai: แม่สอด) is a town and district in Tak Province, Thailand at the Thai-Myanmar border with Moei River as natural boundary. Neighboring districts are (North from clockwise): Mae Ramat, Mueang Tak and Phop Phra.
Mae Street Kidd State Representative Mae Street Kidd (1909-1999) of Louisville, Kentucky was an innovative businesswoman, a civic leader, and a skilled politician during a time when both her gender and her inter-racial background made such accomplishments more difficult than they would be today. She had a distinguished career in public relations, served in the Red Cross during World War II, and was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1968 to 1984, representing Louisville's 41st state legislative district.
Maeatae The Maeatae were a confederation of tribes who lived probably between Hadrian's Wall and the Antonine Wall or possibly just on either side of Hadrian's Wall in Roman Britain. The historical sources are vague as to which frontier they inhabited.
Maecilius Fuscus Maecilius Fuscus was a governor of Britannia Inferior, a province of Roman Britain some time between AD 238 and 244. Little else is known of him although he seems to have been involved in the rebuilding and expansion of the fort at Durham along with his successor, Egnatius Lucilianus.
Maeda Toshiie Maeda Toshiie (前田 利家 Maeda Toshiie; January 15, 1539 - April 27, 1599) was one of the leading generals of Oda Nobunaga following the Sengoku period of the 16th century extending to the Azuchi-Momoyama period. His father was Maeda Toshimasa.
Maedi The Maedi (also Maidans, Maedans, or Medi) were a Thracian tribe who, in historic times, occupied the area between Paionia and Thrace, on the southwestern fringes of Thrace, along the middle course of the Strymon and the upper course of the Nestus (now the Mesta) rivers. Their capital city was Iamphorynna.
Maejo University Maejo University (Thai: มหาวิทยาลัยแม่โจ้), located in Chiang Mai, Thailand, is the oldest agricultural institution in the country. Founded in 1934 as the Northern Agricultural Teachers Training School, it was restructured and renamed several times until it gained the status of a full-fledged public university in 1996 and since then has been known as Maejo University.
Maekawa's algorithm Maekawa's Algorithm is an algorithm for mutual exclusion on a distributed system. The basis of this algorithm is a quorum like approach where any one site needs only to seek permissions from a subset of other sites.
Maelienydd Maelienydd, sometimes spelt Maeliennydd, was a cantref and lordship in east central Wales covering the area from the River Teme to Radnor Forest and the area around Llandrindod Wells. The area, which is mainly upland, is now in Powys.
Maelle Ricker Maelle Ricker (born on December 2, 1978 in Whistler, British Columbia) is a Canadian athlete who placed 4th in the Women's Snowboard Cross event at the 2006 Winter Olympics. She crashed hard in the race, and was hospitalized with a minor concussion.
Maelor Way The Maelor Way is a key long distance footpath, running 38 kilometres from the Offa's Dyke Path National Trail at Bronygarth to the Shropshire Way, Sandstone Trail, Llangollen Canal, South Cheshire Way, and the Marches Way all at Grindley Brook near Whitchurch.
Maelruanaidh mac Tadhg Maelruanaidh mac Tadhg was the fourth king of Moylurg, and reigned sometime in the late 11th (and possibly into the early 12th) century. The only date associated with his reign, 1080, may simply be provisional.
Maelstrom (Ice Age) Maelstrom is a fictional character in the film Ice Age: The Meltdown, who was one of the two predators hunting Manny, Ellie, Sid, Diego, Crash, and Eddie. Maelstrom was thawed out from the ice along with Cretaceous who were frozen and left in ice until Manny, Sid, and Diego mistakenly broke off a piece of the ice.
Maelstrom (ride) Maelstrom is a dark ride located in the Norway pavilion of the World Showcase at the Epcot theme park at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Visitors ride boats which are patterned after Viking ships and pass through various scenes with audio-animatronic figures.
Maelstrom (role playing game) Maelstrom is a role playing game by Alexander Scott, published in 1984 by Puffin Books as a single soft cover book. The book provided a wealth of information for role-playing in a 16th century or 17th century European setting although the rules could be easily adapted to any time period or location.
Maenam Wildlife Sanctuary Maenama Wildlife Sanctuary, covering an area of around 35 sq km, is located in the South Sikkim district, Sikkim, India. The literal meaning of maenam-la is “treasure-house of medicines”, and the flora of the sanctuary is rich in a number of plants of medicinal value.
Maendeleo Ya Wanawake Maendeleo Ya Wanawake Organisation (MYWO) is a women's NGO that deals with issues to do with women's rights and gender equity in Kenya. It was founded by in 1952 and has a total membership of about 600,000 women.
Maennerchor "Maennerchor" (literally translated "men's chorus" in English) is the name given to German social clubs, primarily in the northeastern United States, Pennsylvania in particular. The earliest forms of these clubs where "singing societies" that perpetuated traditional choral music, both German and German American culture, providing "Gemuetlichkeit" for new immigrants.
Maenporth Maenporth is one of the four beaches associated with Falmouth in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It shelves very gently and a low tide there is a large area of shallow water that is very popular for swimming in the summer.
Maentwrog Maentwrog is a village and Community in the Welsh county of Gwynedd, lying in the Vale of Ffestiniog and within the Snowdonia National Park. It lies on the A496 road from Harlech to Blaenau Ffestiniog built c1800 by Wm Oakeley, and the Roman road Sarn Helen (B4410) at the junction with the A487 road from Porthmadog leading to the A470 road to Trawsfynydd and Dolgellau.
Maeotian marshes In the geography of Antiquity the Maeotian marshes (Palus Maeotis) lay where the Don River emptied into the Maeotian Lake (the Sea of Azov), in Lesser Scythia, near Tanais. The marshes served as a check to the westward migration of nomad peoples from the steppe of Central Asia.
Maer Hall The large 17th century stone built country house and estate of Maer Hall dominates the village of Maer, Staffordshire. Its location in the district of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, is attractively rural, but fairly close to the pottery manufacturing area around Stoke-on-Trent which attracted its most famous owner Josiah Wedgwood II.
Maerdy Maerdy () is a town in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taff, traditional county of Glamorgan, south Wales, lying at the head of the Rhondda Fach Valley. The town grew around the coal mining industry, but its pit shut in 1990.
Maerewhenua River The Maerewhenua River, also known as the Marewhenua River, is a small river in the Otago region of New Zealand's South Island. It is located in North Otago and acts as a tributary of the Waitaki River, which forms the border between Otago and Canterbury.
Maersk UK Maersk Air UK Ltd was one of two airlines formed by the demerger of Brymon European Airways (the other was Brymon Airways). It was owned by Maersk Air of Denmark and was based at Birmingham International Airport (BHX).
Maesglas Maesglas is a neighbourhood in the southwest of the city of Newport, South Wales. It is located in the Gaer ward directly north of the A48 Southern Distributor Road, south of Cardiff Road and south west of the Great Western Main Line railway.
Maeslantkering The Maeslantkering is a storm surge barrier in the Nieuwe Waterweg waterway located between the towns of Hoek van Holland and Maassluis, Netherlands, 51 57'15"N 04 09'50"E, which automatically closes when needed. It is part of the Delta Works.
Maespoeth Junction Maespoeth Junction lies to the south of Corris and was where the horse-hauled tramway (known as the "Upper Corris Tramway") from the slate quarries around Corris Uchaf met the main line of the Corris Railway coming from Aberllefenni. The name, which translates as "Hot Field", is shared with a nearby house.
Maesteg Maesteg is a Welsh town located at the northernmost end of the Llynfi Valley in the north of the Welsh county borough of Bridgend (Pen-y-Bont ar Ogwr) in the traditional county of Glamorgan (Morgannwg). It is very close to the border with Neath Port Talbot county borough, and also to Rhondda Cynon Taff county borough.
Maesteg Line The Maesteg Line is the descriptive name given to the services in South Wales from Cardiff to Bridgend and Maesteg. The line follows the South Wales Main Line as far as Bridgend, where it then diverges to continue to Maesteg.
Maestoso Maestoso (Mie-eh-stoe-zoe) is an Italian musical term used as a directive to play a certain passage of music in a stately, dignified and majestic fashion. Common examples of maestoso tempo include Elgar's Land of Hope and Glory and the first movement of Anton Bruckner's Symphony No.
Maestrale class destroyer The Maestrale class destroyers were a group of destroyers built for the Italian Navy and served in World War II, They were an enlarged version of the Dardo class destroyers. They were 35 feet longer and introduced new pattern 120mm guns.
Maestranza de caballerĂ­a Maestranzas de caballerĂ­a (literally translated as cavalry armories) were noble guilds created in the modern age by the Spanish Crown, with the aim of giving the nobility practice in horsemanship and the use of weapons. In the sixteenth century, the caballerĂ­a or cavalry, was the typical military branch for nobles to follow, but the aforementioned skills had become less common as the Spanish aristocracy converted into a class of courtiers.
Maestro Maestro (or maestra for women) means "master" or "teacher" in Italian and Spanish. It is used in English to designate a master in an artistic field - usually someone who has gained enough knowledge within that field to be able to successfully teach students, though the term may sometimes be conferred through sheer respect for an artist's works.
Maestro (game) Maestro (mīs'trō) is a game most often played by adolescent boys, involving the unwanted or unexpected touching of another's anal region. Its origins lie in the more common "goosing" of North America and Kancho of Japan.
Maestro (rapper) Maestro (born Wesley Williams in 1968) is a Canadian hip hop musician from Toronto. Previously known as Maestro Fresh Wes before shortening his name to Maestro in the late 1990s, he was in 1989 the first Canadian rapper to have a Top 40 hit, "Let Your Backbone Slide".
Maestro di Camera del Papa Maestro di Camera del Papa is the title of one of the four Vatican palace prelates, and actual chief chamberlain of the Vatican. His jurisdiction is limited exclusively to the reception rooms of the pope and he supervises all matters concerning the daily personal service of the pontiff, such as household affairs, Vatican guards, petitions for audiences, etc.
Maestro Harrell Maestro Harrell (born on July 29, 1991 in Chicago, Illinois) is an African-American actor currently guest-starring on the HBO original series The Wire as Randy Wagstaff. Harrell has also played young Simba in Disney's production of the Lion King.
Maeterlinck's Blue Bird: Tyltyl and Mytyl's Adventurous Journey Maeterlinck's Blue Bird: Tyltyl and Mytyl's Adventurous Journey is a 1980 animated TV series directed by Hiroshi Sasagawa, with character designs from Leiji Matsumoto. It is based on the famous play by Maurice Maeterlinck.
Maeuntang Mae-un Tang is a hot spicy fish soup boiled with gochujang (Korean chili pepper paste), kochukaru (chili powder) and various vegetables. As its main ingredient, fresh or sea-water fish is cut into several pieces and boiled with ground beef, green vegetables such as watercress and garland chrysanthemum.
Maeve Kyle Maeve Kyle (6 October 1928 - ), is an Irish Olympic athlete and hockey player. She competed in the 100m and 200m in the Melbourne Olympics and subsequently in the Rome Olympics and Tokyo Olympics (where she reached the semi-finals of both the 400m and 800m).
Maeve McGuire Maeve McGuire (born July 24, 1937 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American actress, best known for her role as "Nicole Travis Drake" on the soap opera The Edge of Night, which she played from 1968 to 1974 and from 1975 to 1977. She was then replaced by actress Jayne Bentzen, almost twenty years her junior.
Maeve Quaid Maeve Quaid is a senior faculty member in the Business Administration program at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. Quaid was educated at McGill University, the London School of Economics as well as the University of Oxford.
Maeve Quinlan Maeve Anne Quinlan (born November 16, 1969 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress who plays the recurring role of Megan Conley on CBS daytime drama The Bold and the Beautiful. She is a first-generation American, the daughter of Irish immigrants, and she holds dual US/Irish citizenship.
Maeve Sherlock Maeve Sherlock OBE has been the Chief Executive of the Refugee Council, a charity supporting refugees and asylum seekers in the UK, since August 2003. Prior to joining the charity, she worked as a special advisor to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown MP.
Mafalda Mafalda, first written and drawn in 1962, is a comic and a series of animated cartoons and a movie (1982), written and drawn by the Argentine cartoonist Quino. The strip features a girl named Mafalda (5 years old at the time of the comic's creation) with a deep concern about humanity and world peace who rebels against the world as it is; it ran from 1964 to 1973, enjoying high popularity in both Latin America and Europe.
Mafalda Arnauth Mafalda Arnauth, born in Lisbon, Portugal, in October of 1974, was at the time one of the latest revelations in fado. She started her career in 1995 when invited by JoĂŁo Braga (an important fado singer) to participate in a concert at S.
Mafdet In early Egyptian mythology, Mafdet (also spelt Maftet) was the deification of legal justice, or rather of execution. Thus she was also associated with the protection of the king's chambers and other sacred places, and with protection against venomous animals, which were seen as transgressors against Ma'at.
Mafeking Cadet Corps The Mafeking Cadet Corps was a group of boy cadets during the Siege of Mafeking in South Africa. They are sometimes seen as forerunners of the Scouts, because they were one of Robert Baden-Powell's inspirations in creating of the Scout movement in 1907.
Mafell Mafell AG is a manufacturer of high-end woodworking power tools specialized for carpentry, founded in 1899. They claim to be the inventor of the first electric carpentry power tool, a door lock mortiser invented 1926.
Maffeo Pantaleoni Maffeo Pantaleoni (1857-1924) was an Italian economist, and a notable proponent of neoclassical economics. He was occasionally referred to as "the Marshall of Italy", because of his unrelenting defence of laissez-faire economic policies.
Maffeo Vegio Maffeo Vegio (1407-1458) was an Italian poet who wrote in Latin; he is regarded by many as the finest Latin poet of the fifteenth-century. Born near Milan, he studied at the University of Pavia, and went on to write some fifty works of both prose and poetry.
Mafia The Sicilian Mafia (also referred to simply as the Mafia or Cosa Nostra), is a criminal secret society of men which first developed in the mid-19th century in Sicily. An offshoot emerged on the East Coast of the United States during the late 19th century following waves of Sicilian emigration (see also Italian diaspora).
Mafia Commission Trial The Mafia Commission Trial (February 25, 1985–November 19, 1986) was a criminal trial in New York City, USA. Using evidence obtained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, eleven organized crime figures, including the heads of New York's so-called "Five Families," were indicted by United States Attorney Rudolph Giuliani under the RICO Act on charges including extortion, labor racketeering, and murder for hire.
Mafia Fraud Attack Mafia Fraud Attack, also known as a Relay Attack, is a type of Man-in-the-middle attack against identification and authentication systems. The goal of the attack is for the intruder to gain access to the system.
Mafia Channel Mafia Channel is a stretch of water between the Rufiji River estuary and Mafia Island in Tanzania, Africa. The deltas at the mouth of the Rufiji River extrude towards the island and water is forced through causing constant erosion of the deltas and the island itself.
Mafia-Camorra War The Mafia-Camorra War was a war fought between of course the mafia which was the Sicilian Morello crime family and the Camorra, the Neapolitan Navy Street gang and Coney Island gang. The war was from 1914 all the way to 1917 and the trials of 1918.
MafiaBoy MafiaBoy was the Internet alias of a 15-year-old high-school student from the upscale neighborhood of West Island in Montreal, Canada. In 2000, he launched denial-of-service attacks against the websites of Yahoo!
Mafic In geology, mafic minerals and rocks are silicate minerals, magmas, and volcanic and intrusive igneous rocks that have relatively high concentrations of the heavier elements. The term is a combination of "magnesium" and ferrum, the Latin word for iron [ma(gnesium) + f(errum) + ic] In spite of the name, mafic magmas also are rich in calcium] and [[sodium.
Mafikeng Mafikeng is the capital of the North West Province, South Africa, 1400 kilometres NE of Cape Town and 790 km SSW of Bulawayo by rail, and 260 km in a direct line W by N of Johannesburg. As of 2001 it had a population of 49,300.
Mafkarat al islam 'Mafkarat al Islam' or 'Islamic memo' is a newspaper operating throughout Iraq and surrounding nations. It aims to provide coverage of mujahideen or "insurgent" activities in their war to protect Islam from the perceived threat imposed by the USA and its coalition.
Maflahi Muflahi ( []), or the Muflahi Sheikhdom ([]), was a state in the British Aden Protectorate. It was originally one of the five sheikhdoms of Upper Yafa but joined the Federation of South Arabia and its successor, the Federation of South Arabia, as a separate state.

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