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Means of labor Means of labor is a concept in Marxist political economy that refers to "all those things with the aid of which man [sic] acts upon the subject of his labor, and transforms it." (Institute of Economics of the Academy of Sciences of the U.
Means of persuasion A means of persuasion, in some theories of politics and economics, can substitute for a factor of production by providing some influence or information. This may be of direct value to the actor accepting the influence, i.
Means of production Means of production (abbreviated MoP; German: Produktionsmittel), are the combination of the means of labor and the subject of labor used by workers to make products. Means of labor include machines, tools, plant and equipment, infrastructure, and so on: "all those things with the aid of which man [sic] acts upon the subject of labor, and transforms it.
Means of protection A means of protection is some contract or guarantee of security for body or property. It is usually achieved, in a modern state society, by agreeing to some social contract including a monopoly on violence, e.
Means test The term means test refers to an investigative process undertaken to determine whether or not an individual or family is eligible to receive certain types of benefits from the government. The "test" can consist of quantifying the party's income, or assets, or a combination of both.
Means-ends analysis Means-Ends Analysis (MEA) is a long standing technique used at least since the 1950's as a creativity tool, most frequently mentioned in engineering books on design methods. In the context of Artificial Intelligence (AI), MEA is a technique for controlling search in problem solving computer programs.
Means, motive, and opportunity In Criminal procedure, means, motive, and opportunity is a popular cultural summation of the three aspects of a crime needed to convince a jury in a criminal proceeding. Respectively, they refer to: the ability of the defendant to commit the crime (means), the reason the defendant had to commit the crime (motive), and whether or not the defendant had the opportunity to commit the crime (opportunity).
Meant to Fly (Eva Avila song) "Meant to Fly" is a pop song written by Chantal Kreviazuk, Raine Maida and Gaby Moreno and recorded by 2006 Canadian Idol winner Eva Avila. The song was released as her upcoming Somewhere Else album's first single on September 26 2006.
Meant to Live "Meant to Live" is a Top-20 single by Post-grunge band Switchfoot, which climbed to #5 on the US Modern Rock chart. Debuted on the group's 2003 album "The Beautiful Letdown," and was also featured in a UK version of a Spider-Man 2 "inspired by" album.
Meantone temperament Meantone temperament is a musical temperament, which is a system of musical tuning. In general, a meantone is constructed the same way as Pythagorean tuning, as a chain of perfect fifths, but in a meantone, each fifth is narrowed by the same amount (or equivalently, each fourth widened) in order to make the other intervals like the major third closer to their ideal just ratios.
Meanwood Meanwood is a suburb of north-west Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, consisting of nineteenth-century industrial buildings in Meanwood Valley at the sides of Meanwood Beck; nineteenth-century terraced housing on the valley side leading up to Headingley, Weetwood and Woodhouse, along with an area of woodland known locally as The Ridge; and twentieth-century council housing mixed with open space on the opposite side of the valley leading up to Scott Hall. Meanwood Park, in the north of the area, is one of Leeds's best loved open spaces, and Meanwood is also home to Meanwood Valley Urban Farm.
Meanwood Beck The Meanwood Beck is a stream in Yorkshire, England, that flows into the river Aire. It is one of a dwindling number of habitats for the indigenous European crayfish, a tiny crustacean, threatened by the larger American variety, which has already colonised the river Aire.
Meany Hall for the Performing Arts Meany Hall has been the name of two building on the University of Washington Campus. The current Meany Hall is considered one of the region’s premier performance facilities, highly acclaimed by artists and audience members a like for its outstanding acoustics and intimate ambiance.
Mear One Mear One, born 1971 as Kalen Ockerman in Santa Cruz, California, is a Los Angeles-based fine artist, famously known for his often-political street graffiti art. Commonly referred to as the 'Michelangelo' of graffiti, Mear One is commonly associated with CBS (Can't Be Stopped) and WCA (West Coast Artist) crews.
Mearim River The Mearim River is a river in Maranhão state of northern Brazil. The river originates in the southern part of Maranhão, and drains north into the Baía de São Marcos, an estuary that also receives the Pindaré and Grajaú rivers, which are sometimes considered tributaries of the Mearim.
Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu (Ceylon, 15 August 1915 – London, 23 June 1983) was a Tamil poet, editor and critic. He was born in Ceylon, and was a university student in Colombo before leaving for London.
Measham Measham is a village in Leicestershire, near the Staffordshire and Derbyshire border, located just off the A42 just south of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. It was originally a small market town but dismissed by William Wyrley in 1596 as ‘a village belonging to Lord Shefield, in which are many coal mines, [but] little else worthy of remembrance’, and omitted altogether from Richard Blome's gazetteer of market towns in 1673.
Measure of Damages (under English law) Damages for breach of contract is a common law remedy, available as of right. It is designed to compensate the victim for his actual loss as a result of the wrongdoer’s breach rather than to punish the wrongdoer.
Measure of non-compactness In functional analysis, two measures of non-compactness are commonly used; these associate numbers to sets in such a way that compact sets all get the measure 0, and other sets get measures that are bigger according to "how far" they are removed from compactness.
Measure word Measure words, in linguistics, are words (or morphemes) that are used in combination with a numeral to indicate the count of nouns. Measure words often classify the noun they modify into some semantic class and consequently measure words are considered numeral classifiers, closely akin, but distinct from grammatical number.
Measurement Measurement is the estimation or determination of extent, dimension or capacity, usually in relation to some standard or unit of measurement. The measurement is expressed as a number of units of the standard (a real number times a unit), such as distance being indicated by a number of miles or kilometers.
Measurement and Signature Intelligence Measurement and Signature Intelligence, or MASINT, refers to intelligence gathering activities that bring together disparate elements that do not fit within the definitions of Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), Imagery Intelligence (IMINT), or Human Intelligence (HUMINT). Within the US Intelligence Community the Defense Intelligence Agency is the central collection agency for MASINT.
Measurement problem The measurement problem is the key set of questions that every interpretation of quantum mechanics must address. The wavefunction in quantum mechanics evolves according to the Schrödinger equation into a linear superposition of different states, but the actual measurements always find the physical system in a definite state.
Measurement Science and Technology Measurement Science and Technology is a journal published by Institute of Physics Publishing. It is an international journal publishing articles in the areas of measurement, instrumentation and sensor technology in physics, chemistry, engineering and the environmental life sciences.
Measurement Systems Analysis Just as processes that produce a product may vary, the process of obtaining measurements and data may have variation and produce defects. Measurement systems analysis (MSA) evaluates the entire process of obtaining measurements to ensure the integrity of data used for analysis (usually quality analysis) and to understand the implications of measurement error for decisions made about a product or process.
Measurement tower A measurement tower is a free standing tower or a removed mast, which carries measuring instruments with meteorological instruments such as thermometers and wind velocity measurers. Measuring towers are an essential component of rocket launching sites, since one must know exact wind conditions for an execution of a rocket start.
Measurement uncertainty The measurement uncertainty quantifies the distance between the actually measured value of a physical quantity and the true value of the same physical quantity. The result of any physical measurement comprises two parts: an estimate of the true value of the measurand and the uncertainty of this estimate.
Measurements with Advanced Trapping Systems MATS is an acronym standing for Measurements with an Advanced Trapping System, which is a Helmholtz research group for young investigators. It is funded by the Helmholtz Association of National Research Centres between the cooperating institutes Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung mbH in Darmstadt (GSI), Germany and the Department of Physics at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz.
Measures of national income and output Measures of national income and output are used in economics to estimate the value of goods and services produced in an economy. They use a system of national accounts or national accounting first developed during the 1940s.
Measuring GDP Gross domestic product, GDP, is defined as the total value of all goods and services produced within that territory during a given year. GDP is designed to measure the market value of production that flows through the economy.
Measuring instrument In physics and engineering, measurement is the activity of comparing physical quantities of real-world objects and events. Established standard objects and events are used as units, and the measurement results in a given number for the relationship between the item under study and the referenced unit of measurement.
Measuring network throughput People are often concerned about measuring the maximum data throughput rate of a communications link or network access. A typical method of performing a measurement is to transfer a 'large' file and measure the time taken to do so.
Measuring poverty Although the most severe poverty is in the developing world, there is evidence of poverty in every region. In developed countries, this condition results in wandering homeless people and poor suburbs and ghettos.
Measuring Receiver A measuring receiver, also known as measurement receiver, is a device used to perform traceable calibration of RF attenuators and RF signal generators. It is intended to accurately measure signal power level, degree of modulation (such as AM depth, FM/PM deviations), and modulation distortion with an exceptionally low level of uncertainty.
Measuring the World Measuring the World was written in German by Daniel Kehlmann as Die Vermessung der Welt. This novel deals with Gauss and Alexander von Humboldt - who was accompanied on his journeys by Aimé Bonpland - and their two different ways of taking the world's measure, as well as their travels in South America and their meeting in 1828.
Measuring tools Because human senses - like vision, hearing, touch, heat/cold receptors are subjective - which means that they are not very accurate nor reliable - science do not use them in measurements. Instead, measuring tools are used.
Meat Meat, in its broadest definition, is animal tissue used as food. Most often it references to skeletal muscle and associated fat, but it may also refer to non-muscle organs, including lungs, livers, skin, brains, bone marrow and kidneys.
Meat analogue A meat analogue, also called meat substitute, mock meat, imitation meat or veat, approximates the aesthetic qualities (primarily texture, flavor and appearance) and/or chemical characteristics of certain types of meat. Some meat analogues rely on one or more types of flavouring.
Meat and potato pie Meat and potato pie is a popular variation of pie eaten in Lancashire and Cumbria in England. Of note, this dish is popular in towns such as Barrow-in-Furness, Burnley and, notably, Wigan (whose residents are known as the pie-eaters).
Meat and three Meat and three or Meat and three veg is a staple of rural cuisine throughout the world, though most notably in the Southern United States. The name is taken from the choice of any meat and three vegetable side dishes.
Meat by-product Meat by-products are ground, rendered, and cleaned slaughtered meat carcass parts such as necks, feet, undeveloped eggs, bones, heads, and intestines (and a small amount of feathers in the case of chicken meat). The terms meat by-products or animal by-products are often used in reference to the ingredients included in commercial pet foods.
Meat Beat Manifesto Meat Beat Manifesto, often shortened to Meat Beat or MBM, is an electronic music outfit originally consisting of Jack Dangers and Jonny Stephens formed in 1987 in Swindon, UK. This was also the hometown of the band XTC, who helped Meat Beat get started.
Meat hook A meat hook is a two-sided hook normally used in butcheries to hang up meat or the carcasses of animals such as pigs. It is also the term for an implement used to move carcasses consisting of a heavy metal hook with a T-shaped handle.
Meat Inspection Act The Meat Inspection Act of 1906 was a United States federal law that authorized the Secretary of Agriculture to order meat inspections and condemn any meat product found unfit for human consumption. Unlike previous laws ordering meat inspections which were enforced to assure European nations from banning pork trade, the law was strongly motivated to protect the American diet.
Meat Katie Mark Pember, also known as Meat Katie, is a London-based breakbeat producer and DJ. He has gained popularity in recent years in developing his style of tech-funk, combining techno, tribal, electro, breakbeat and house music.
Meat Puppets The Meat Puppets are an American rock band formed in January 1980, in Paradise Valley, Arizona. The group's classic lineup was Curt Kirkwood (guitar/vocals), his brother Cris Kirkwood (bass guitar), and Derrick Bostrom (drums).
Meat scientist "Meat scientist" is the name applied to any of a subgroup of researchers at Utrecht University in the Netherlands who are currently working to artificially grow muscle cells in nutrient broth. The process is designed to "stretch the [muscle] cells with mechanical anchors, which encourages the cells to form small bundles surrounded by connective tissue in arrangements similar to real muscle.
Meat slurry A meat slurry, reconstituted meat, or emulsified meat, is a liquefied meat product that contains less fats, pigments and myoglobin than unprocessed dark meats. Meat slurry also eases the process of meat distribution and is more malleable than dark meats.
Meat Shits The Meat Shits (also known under one word, Meatshits) are a grindcore/pornogrind band from Turlock, California formed in 1987 under the name Chemical Dependency. They are said to be pioneers of the pornogrind subgenre and often consider their music "brown metal.
Meat Sweats The Meat Sweats is a term of art in the world of competitive eating used to describe a condition that strikes certain eaters in meat-centric competitions. First identified by writer David Kreizman, the meat sweats overwhelm some gurgitators with profuse perspiration.
Meat Union Aotearoa The Meat Union Aotearoa is a trade union in New Zealand. It was formed August 1, 1994 by the merging of the Auckland & Tomoana Freezing Workers Union and the West and East Coast Branches of the New Zealand Meat & Related Trades Workers Union.
Meat Whiplash Meat Whiplash was an alternative rock band from East Kilbride, Scotland, that were amongst the first to be signed to Creation Records. The line-up was Paul McDermott (vox), Stephen McLean (guitar), Edward Connelly (bass guitar) and Michael Kerr (drums).
Meatball A meatball is a generally spherical mass of ground meat and other ingredients, such as bread or breadcrumbs, minced onion, various spices, and possibly eggs, cooked by frying, baking, steaming, or braising in sauce.
Meatballs III Meatballs III - Summer Job (1987) is the third installment in the Meatballs film series. Unlike Meatballs 2, this film follows Rudy (the main character from Meatballs), grown up (played by Patrick Dempsey) and working on a summer job for an angry boss named Mean Gene.
MeatballWiki MeatballWiki is a wiki dedicated to online communities, culture and hypermedia. Its original goal was to focus on collaborative hypermedia, but current topics range from intellectual property to cyberpunk to the confusion of URIs.
Meath by-election, 2005 On October 31, 2004, the Teachta Dála (TD) for Meath, John Bruton, officially resigned as a member of Dáil Éireann to take up his new position as European Union Ambassador to Washington. His resignation resulted in the need for a by-election.
Meath East (Dáil Éireann constituency) The Meath East parliamentary constituency was created by the 2004 Constituency Commission Report on Dáil Constituencies and will come into being in the 30th Irish general election. It spans the eastern portions of County Meath in the province of Leinster.
Meath GAA The Meath County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (Irish: Cummann Luthchleas Gael Coiste An MhĂ­) or Meath GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic Games in County Meath. The county board is also responsible for the Meath inter-county football, hurling, camogie and ladies football teams.
Meath Senior Football Championship The Meath Senior Football Championship or the Keegan Cup is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the top Meath Clubs. The winners of the Meath Championship winners qualify to represent their county in the Leinster Club Championship and in turn, go on to the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship.
Meath Senior Hurling Championship The Meath Senior Hurling Club Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the top Meath Clubs. The winners of the Meath Championship winners qualify to represent their county in the Leinster Club Championship and in turn, go on to the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship.
Meath West (Dáil Éireann constituency) The Meath West parliamentary constituency was created by the 2004 Constituency Commission Report on Dáil Constituencies and will come into being in the 30th Irish general election. It spans the western portions of County Meath in the province of Leinster, including the county town of Trim, neighbouring towns of Navan and Kells along with the north-eastern part of County Westmeath.
Meath-Westmeath (Dáil Éireann constituency) Meath-Westmeath is a former parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. Covering the whole of the territory of County Meath and most of the territory of Westmeath, it existed from 1937 to 1948.
Meathaus Meathaus (sometimes spelled Meat HaĂĽs or MeathaĂĽs) is a comics anthology created by the Meathaus Collective, created by a group of artists who attended New York City's School of Visual Arts in or around 2000. Many of its members have become celebrated cartoonists and painters in their own right, including Esao Andrews (esao.
Meatloaf Meatloaf is a meat dish consisting of seasoned ground meat (usually ground beef or a combination of ground beef with veal, lamb or pork), which is formed into loaf shape and baked or smoked. During the Great Depression it was popular to add cereal grains to the meatloaf to stretch the meat; this has now been adopted by people who wish to eat a lower-fat version of meatloaf (adding cereal also helps to bind the meat, lending it a more cohesive shape).
Meatotomy A meatotomy is a form of penile modification in which the underside of the glans is split. The procedure may be performed by a doctor to alleviate meatal stenosis or urethral stricture, or by a body modification practitioner for the purpose of sexual pleasure or aesthetics.
Meatpacking District, Manhattan The Meatpacking District, also known as Gansevoort Market, is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It runs roughly from West 15th Street south to Gansevoort Street, and from the Hudson River east to Hudson Street.
Meatspace Meatspace is synonymous with real life or the physical world, and conceived as the opposite of cyberspace or virtual reality. The term originated in science fiction, especially cyberpunk, but it has become increasingly common in general usage, as a reference to transactions or interactions which physically occur, rather than online or electronically.
Meatu Meatu District is one of the eight districts of the Shinyanga Region of Tanzania. It is bordered to the north by the Bariadi District, to the west by the Maswa and Kishapu Districts, to the east by the Arusha Region, to the southeast by the Manyara Region and to the south by the Singida Region.
Meatwad Meatwad (voiced by Dave Willis) is a fictional character in the animated series Aqua Teen Hunger Force. He is a mostly peaceful, childishly simple-minded mass of compressed meat that was not approved for human consumption.
Meaty Cheesy Boys The Meaty Cheesy Boys was a fictional boy band created to market Jack in the Box's Ultimate Cheeseburger. A direct parody of the popular boy bands of the late 1990s, The Meaty Cheesy Boys were instantly popular as hipster icons, and recordings of their commercials were traded around the Internet.
MeAnda - Don MeAnda - Don is a satirical video created by non-profit Mexican independent organization VideoGENTE. The name of the song is "Don" and is supposedly performed by a fictitious band called "MeAnda".
Međimurje County Međimurje (Međimurska županija) is a triangle-shaped county in the northernmost part of Croatia. In the western part of the county, there are slopes of Alpine foothills, while toward the east it touches the flat Pannonian plains.
Meb Keflezighi Mebrahtom "Meb" Keflezighi (Ge'ez: መብራህቶም ክፍልእዝጊ mebrāhtōm kifl'igzī, Tigrinya "their lamp, part of the Lord"; born May 5 1975 in Asmara, Eritrea, he is an American athlete specializing in long distance running, specifically marathons. He and his family were refugees from Eritrea via Italy to USA.
Mebescruiser MebesCruiser is an interactive Web-based mask database viewer written and distributed by Oridus Inc. It provides major navigation and browsing features and reads the industry-standard Mebes and Jobdeck format database.
Mebeverine Mebeverine HCI is a musculotropic antispasmodic drug without atropic side-effects whose major therapeutic role is in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome. It is also indicated for treatment of gastrointestinal spasm secondary to organic disorder.
Mebuyan peace project Born in 2001, Mebuyan Peace Project (MPP) (is a group women theatre practitioners based in Mindanao, Philippines. These women have worked individually or as members of other organizations in various theatremaking projects for at least 10 years.
Mebyon Kernow Mebyon Kernow (Cornish for "Sons of Cornwall", often abbrieviated MK) is a political party in the United Kingdom. The main objective of MK is to re-establish self-governance in Cornwall, the south-westernmost county of the United Kingdom.
Mec Vannin Mec Vannin is a political party operating in the Isle of Man. Formed in 1962, it seeks to revoke the status of Man as a British Crown Dependency and establish a completely sovereign state, which would be a republic.
Mecano Mecano was a Spanish pop band whose debut coincided with La Movida Madrileña, a sociocultural movement that occurred in Spain during the 1980's. Although Spanish music critics don't consider the band one of the most representative ensembles of the aforementioned cultural waveJavier Adrados et alii, La fuerza del destino , Madrid : La Esfera de los Libros, 2004, p.
Mecano (album) "Mecano", is the debut album recorded by Spanish synthpop band Mecano in 1982, more known in popular slang like "the clock's album" due to the design of disc-cover. The album produced the hits "Hoy No Me Puedo Levantar", "Me Cole En Una Fiesta", "Perdido En Mi Habitacion" and "Maquillaje".
Mecanum wheel The Mecanum wheel is one design for a wheel which can move in any direction. It is sometimes called the Ilon wheel after its Swedish inventor, Bengt Ilon, who came up with the idea in 1973 when he was an engineer with the Swedish company Mecanum AB.
Mecarobot Golf Mecarobot Golf is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System game about golf which takes place in the future. Robots have been integrated into the professional golfing circuit and compete side-by-side against human opponents.
Mecatina Mecatina pronounced (me-kuh-TEE-nuh), is a Innu word that means large mountain. It is also the name of two rivers (big and little), a school, and a municipality, on the Lower North Shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawerence of Quebec.
Mecca Mecca or Makkah (in full: Makkah al-Mukarramah ; , , Turkish and Kurdish: Mekke, Urdu: مکہ مکرمہ) is the capital city of Saudi Arabia's Makkah province, in the historic Hejaz region. It has a population of 1,294,167 (2004 census).
Mecca Centric Mecca Centric Da'wah Group is an Islamic organization that was established in 1996 for the purpose of educating Muslims and non-Muslims about the true teachings of Islam. Its primary means of accomplishing this goal is by producing and distributing high quality lectures by some of the most prominent Muslim speakers in America today.
Mecca Masjid Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad, India is one of the oldest and the biggest mosques in India. Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, the 6th Sultan of Hyderabad began building it in 1617 under the supervision of Mir Faizullah Baig and Rangiah Choudhary.
Mecca Normal Mecca Normal is an influential two-piece indie rock band from Vancouver, Canada. Formed by Jean Smith and David Lester in 1981, Mecca Normal is considered one of the archetypal, pioneering leaders of the riot grrrl movement.
Meccano Meccano is a model construction kit comprising re-usable metal strips, plates, angle girders, wheels, axles and gears, with nuts and bolts to connect the pieces. It is a versatile constructional medium enabling the building of a variety of working models and mechanical devices.
Meccano Ltd Meccano Ltd was a British toy company established in 1908 by Frank Hornby in England to manufacture and distribute Meccano and other model toys and kits created by the company. During the 1920s and 1930s it became the biggest toy manufacturer in Britain and produced three of the most popular lines of toys in the twentieth century: Meccano, Hornby Model Railways and Dinky Toys.
Meccano Magazine Meccano Magazine was a monthly hobby magazine published by Meccano Ltd between 1916 and 1963, and by other publishers between 1963 and 1981. The magazine was initially created for Meccano builders, but it soon became a general hobby magazine aimed at "boys of all ages".
Mecelle The Mecelle code (also transliterated Mejelle or MeÄźelle) was the civil code of the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was the first attempt to codify a part of the Sharia-based law of an Islamic state.
Meck (musician) DJ Meck (real name Craig Dimech) is a British DJ who reached #1 in the UK Singles Chart in 2006 by remixing Leo Sayer's classic track "Thunder in My Heart", renamed "Thunder in My Heart Again". Pieces of the original music video were inserted in the new, remixed version(credited to Meck Featuring Leo Sayer).
Mecklenburg Mecklenburg is a geographical area located in Northern Germany. Its borders are the Baltic Sea to the north, the rivers of Recknitz and Trebel to the east, the Elbe river to the southwest, and Lower Saxony and Holstein to the west.
Mecklenburg Lakes Mecklenburg Lake Plateau District (German: Mecklenburgische Seenplatte) is the largest coherent lakes and canals area in Germany, situated in southern Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. It includes MĂĽritz National Park which contains the largest lake located fully in Germany, as well as the Wildlife Parks Feldberger Seenlandschaft, Mecklenburgische Schweiz and Nossentiner/Schwinzer Heide.
Mecklenburg vereinsthaler The Vereinsthaler was the currency of the two Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz between 1857 and 1873. It replaced the Mecklenburg Thaler at par and was replaced by the Mark at a rate of 1 Vereinsthaler = 3 Mark.
Mecklenburg-Schwerin Mecklenburg-Schwerin was a Duchy (from 1815 a Grand Duchy) in northeastern Germany, formed by a partition of the Duchy of Mecklenburg. Ruled by the Nikloting dynasty, it was a relatively poor state along the Baltic littoral.
Mecklenburg-Strelitz Mecklenburg-Strelitz was a duchy in northern Germany, roughly consisting of the present day district of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (the historical Stargarder Land), bordering areas of modern-day Brandenburg with the town of FĂĽrstenberg and the area around Ratzeburg in modern Schleswig-Holstein. It was established in 1701, roughly on the territory of the former duchy of Mecklenburg-GĂĽstrow.
Mecklenburg-Strelitz (district) Mecklenburg-Strelitz is a Kreis (district) in the southern part of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from the north clockwise) Demmin, Ostvorpommern Uecker-Randow, the districts Uckermark, Oberhavel and Ostprignitz-Ruppin in Brandenburg, and the district MĂĽritz.
Meco Meco (born Domenico Monardo on November 29, 1939 in Johnsonburg, Pennsylvania, USA) is a record producer and musician. He is perhaps best known for his 1977 disco version of the Star Wars theme from his album Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk; both the single and album were certified platinum in the U.
Mecom Group Mecom Group plc is a London-based investment company, listed on the Alternative Investment Market in March 2005, specializing in media companies and (as of 2006) operating in Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Sweden, Ukraine and Lithuania.

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