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Men of Respect Men of Respect is a 1991 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Macbeth starring John Turturro as Mike Battaglia, a mafia hitman who climbs his way to the top by killing his own boss. Directed by William Reilly, this is actually not the first attempt to transplant Macbeth to the American mob culture, as this had already been done before in the 1955 film Joe MacBeth.
Men of Understanding The Men of Understanding (in Latin Homines Intelligentiae) is the name assumed by a heretical sect (from the Catholic point of view) in the Low Countries, which in 1410-11 was cited before the Inquisition at Brussels.
Men Of The Hour Productions Men of the Hour Productions was created in April 2004 as a means of establishing lines of communication for independent film making in the Australian Capital Territory. The team at Men of the Hour offer their services for local website production and were responsible for establishing several community websites.
Men Only Men Only is a British soft-core pornographic magazine published by Paul Raymond. First published in 1971, it has long been one of the flagships of Raymond's magazine empire, and was the main competitor to Mayfair during the 1970s and 1980s (Raymond latterly took over Mayfair).
Men With Cramps Men With Cramps is a satire on a made up diesease called "Cyclical Non-Uterine Dysmenorrhea" or male menstral cramps. It mocks aspects of Acedamia with its documentary and stylization of interveiwing.
Men Without Hats Men Without Hats are a Canadian pop group from Montreal, Quebec who were popular in the early 1980s. They were characterized by the deep, expressive vocals of their lead singer Ivan and their elaborate use of synthesizers and electronic processing.
Men Without Women Men Without Women is a 1927 collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway. In a letter to F Scott Fitzgerald dated September 1927, Hemingway tells that he originally wanted to find another title from the Book of Ecclesiastes (source of 'The Sun Also Rises') but, upon borrowing an Anglican vicar's bible, discovered that Rudyard Kipling and others had mined all potential biblical quotations, leaving him to come up with 'Men Without Women' off the cuff.
Men's Collegiate Lacrosse Association The Men's Collegiate Lacrosse Association (MCLA), formerly known as the USL MDIA, is a national organization of non-varsity, college men's lacrosse programs. The MCLA was created by the MDIA Board of Directors and its creation was announced by US Lacrosse on August 24, 2006.
Men's Health (magazine) Men's Health (MH), published by Rodale Press in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, United States, is the largest circulation men's lifestyle magazine in the world. It covers fitness, nutrition, sexuality, lifestyle and other aspects of men's life and health.
Men's Health Forum Men's Health Forum is a charity based in England and Wales. Its mission is to provide an independent and authoritative voice for male health and to tackle the issues affecting the health and well-being of boys and men.
Men's Health Week Men’s Health Week, celebrated annually during the week preceding and including Father’s Day, honors the importance of men's health and wellness. Men's Health Week was chosen for this specific time of year to make use of the extra attention paid to male family members near the holiday.
Men's League for Opposing Woman Suffrage The Men's League for Opposing Womans Suffrage was founded on 19 January 1909 with Lord Cromer as President. In 1910 it merged with the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League to form the National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage.
Men's major golf championships The Major Championships, often referred to simply as the "Majors", are the four most prestigious annual tournaments in men's professional golf. The "majors" originally consisted of the The Open Championship, the British Amateur or The Amateur Championship, the U.
Men's movement The men's movement is a social movement that includes a number of philosophies and organizations that seek to support men, change the male gender role and improve men's rights in regard to marriage and child access and victims of Domestic Violence. Major movements with the men's movement include pro-feminist, men's liberation, anti-sexism or masculism, mythopoetic and men's / fathers' rights as well as male victims of rape by females.
Men's rhythmic gymnastics Men's rhythmic gymnastics is related to both Men's Artistic Gymnastics, Wushu martial arts, and Women's Rhythmic Gymnastics and emerged in Japan from stick gymnastics taught and performed since long ago with the aim of improving physical strength and health. The technical rules of this version of the gymnastics came around 1970s.
Men's role in childbirth The role of men in childbirth in the western world is becoming more involved than it has been in the past. More women are wanting their male partners to give active assistance during the pregnancy and childbirth.
Men's romantic fiction Men's romantic fiction refers to any fictional portrayal of romantic love either in film, text, or other media and is usually either told from the male protagonist's point of view or taking particular interest in the romance as viewed from a male perspective.
Men's Rights Agency The Men's Rights Agency (operating Australia-wide out of Brisbane) is a men's rights/fathers' rights support group offering help and community for separated and divorced men and fathers with a focus on family law and the Family Court of Australia. The MRA was founded, and is run, by Reg and Sue Price.
Men's studies Men's studies - also sometimes called masculinity studies - is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to topics concerning men, gender, and politics. As a relatively new field of study, men's studies was formed largely in response to, and as a critique of, an emerging men's rights movement - itself a response to both the real and perceived advantages brought to women by feminism political action - and has only been taught in academic settings since the 1970s.
Men's White League The Men's White League was a notorious Far Right political group that terrorized the streets of Melbourne, Australia during the 1930's. The Men's White League took much of its ideals from the NSDAP of Germany under the leadership of Adolf Hitler.
Men, Women & Children Men, Women & Children (formerly known as Torpedo) is a rock band formed in 2004 (see 2004 in music) by ex-Glassjaw guitarist, Todd Weinstock. The band uses a combination of post-punk guitar similar to The Rapture and disco synthesizers akin to LCD Soundsystem.
Mena (mythology) It is alleged that in Roman mythology, Mena was the goddess of menstruation. However, this cannot be traced through any document from Ancient Rome, leaving the possibility that Mena comes out of a late 20th century fantasy syndrome.
Mena Grabowski Trott Mena Grabowski Trott (born Mena Grabowski on September 16, 1977) is a co-founder of Six Apart, creator of Movable Type and TypePad. The company name originates from the fact that Trott and co-founder/husband Benjamin Trott were born six days apart.
Menace in Europe: Why the Continent's Crisis Is America's, Too Menace in Europe: Why the Continent's Crisis Is America's, Too is a book by Claire Berlinski about problems and challenges facing Europe, and the consequences for the United States of Europe's failure to meet these challenges. Among the phenenoma addressed in the book are Muslim integration (and the lack thereof), anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, and Europe's often forgotten violent history.
Menace II Society Menace II Society is the directorial debut of twin brothers Allen and Albert Hughes. A theatrical release hit theaters (nationwide) May 28, 1993, with the movie making an appearance before that, at the Cannes Film Festival in France.
Menae The Menai were the goddesses of the phases of the moon. They were the daughters of Endymion and Selene, they probably included Nemea (New Moon), Pandeia (Waning Phases), Mesomene (Waxing Phases), Meniskos (Crescent Moons), and Mene (Full Moon).
Menaechmus Menaechmus (380 – 320 BC) was a Greek mathematician and geometer born in Alopeconnesus (within modern-day Turkey), who was known for his friendship with the renowned philosopher Plato and for his apparent discovery of conic sections and his solution to the then-long-standing problem of doubling the cube using the parabola and hyperbola. There are few direct sources for Menaechmus' work- his work on conic sections is known primarily from an epigram by Eratosthenes, and the accomplishment of his brother (of devising a method to create a square equal in area to a given circle using the quadratrix), Dinostratus, is known solely from the writings of Proclus.
Menagerie Menagerie is the term for a historical form of keeping wild and exotic animals in human captivity and therefore a predecessor of the modern zoological garden. The term was foremost used in seventeenth century France originally for the management of the household or domestic stock, but later primarily for an aristocratic or royal animal collection.
Menahem ben Moshe Bavli Menahem ben Moshe Bavli, author of the book Ta'amei Ha-Misvot (The Reasons For The Misvot). He migrated from Baghdad to Hebron, and was one of a group of important Sephardic Jewish scholars living there in the 16th century.
Menahem Golan Menahem Golan () (born Menahem Globus on May 31, 1929 in Tiberias, Israel) is an Israeli director and producer who is most famous for his association with Cannon Films Inc., a company he ran with his cousin Yoram Globus.
Menahem Mendel Beilis Menahem Mendel Beilis (; 1874-1934) was a Ukrainian Jew accused of blood libel and ritual murder in a notorious 1913 trial, known as the "Beilis trial" or "Beilis affair". The process sparked international criticism of the anti-Semitic policies of the Russian Empire.
Menahem Recanati Menahem ben Benjamin Recanati (Hebrew: מנחם בן בנימין ריקנטי) was an Italian rabbi who flourished at the close of the thirteenth century and in the early part of the fourteenth. He was the only Italian of his time who devoted the chief part of his writings to the Kabbala.
Menachem Begin (August 16, 1913 – March 9, 1992) (Hebrew: מְנַחֵם בְּגִין) was a Polish-Jewish head of the Zionist underground group the Irgun, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the first Likud Prime Minister of Israel.
Menachem Mendel of Kotzk Rabbi Menachem Mendel Morgensztern of Kotzk, better known as the Kotzker Rebbe (1787-1859) was a Hasidic leader. Born to a non-Hasidic family in Goray near Lublin, Poland, he became attracted to Hasidim in his youth.
Menachem Zion The Menachem Zion Synagogue located in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City, was completed in 1837. Built by the Perushim, it was named after their leader Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Shklov and after the blessing of consolation recited on Tisha B'Av: "Blessed be He who consoles (menachem) Zion and rebuilds Jerusalem".
Menander Menander (circa 342–291 BC) (Greek ), Greek dramatist, the chief representative of the New Comedy, was born in Athens. He was the son of well-to-do parents; his father Diopeithes is identified by some with the Athenian general and governor of the Thracian Chersonese known from the speech of Demosthenes De Chersoneso.
Menands Bridge The Menands Bridge, officially known as the Troy-Menands Bridge, carries New York State Route 378 across the Hudson River connecting Menands, New York with Troy, New York. A through truss span, it was built in 1959.
Menangle virus Menangle virus is a virus that infects pigs, humans and bats. It was first identified in 1997 after a piggery in Menangle near Sydney, NSW, Australia was struck with a high number of still born births and deformities during farrowing.
Menapii The Menapii were a Belgic tribe of north-eastern Gaul in pre-Roman and Roman times. Their territory corresponds more or less with the region around the modern city of Gent (the modern Belgian province of Oost-Vlaanderen) but extended up to the Schelde estuary.
Menard Correctional Center Menard Correctional Center is a state prison (Maximum-Security Adult Male and High Medium-Security Male), located in Menard, Illinois, with a total average daily population of 3,315 (2006). It was opened in March, 1878.
Menard Press The Menard Press is a small press publisher that started life as a magazine in 1969. Founded and run by Anthony Rudolf, the press specialises in literary texts and criticism, and writings on nuclear power and nuclear weapons and by survivors of Nazism.
Menarche Menarche (IPA: ) is the first menstrual period, or first menstrual bleeding. From both social and medical perspectives it is often considered the central event of female puberty, as it signals the possibility of fertility.
Menas of Ethiopia Menas (Ge'ez ሜናስ mēnās), throne name Admas Sagad I (Ge'ez አድማስ ሰገድ admās sagad, Amh. ādmās seged, "to whom the horizon bows") was (1559 - February 1, 1563) of Ethiopia, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty.
Menasha Skulnik Menasha Skulnik (May 15, 1890-June 4, 1970) was a Jewish American actor, born in Warsaw, Poland, primarily known for his roles in Yiddish theater in New York City. Skulnik was also popular on radio, playing Uncle David on The Goldbergs for 19 years, and made many television and Broadway appearances as well, including successful runs in "The Flowering Peach" by Clifford Odets and Harold Rome's "The Zulu and the Zayda".
Menassa Youhanna Father Menassa Youhanna is a Coptic priest and historian who died at a young age in 1923, most noted for his work on the history of the Coptic Orthodox Church, he was born in the 1880s in a Coptic Orthodox family and his father was also a priest.
Menasseh Ben Israel Manoel Dias Soeiro (1604–November 17, 1657), better known by his Hebrew name Menasseh Ben Israel (also known with the Hebrew acronym, MB"Y), was a Portuguese-Jewish rabbi, kabbalist, scholar, writer, diplomat, printer and publisher, founder of the first Hebrew printing press (named Emeth Meerets Tisma`h) in Amsterdam in 1626. His son, Yossef, died at age 20.
Mencius Mencius (Romanization; 孟子, pinyin: Mèng Zǐ; Wade-Giles: Meng Zhu; most accepted dates: 372–289 BCE; other possible dates: 385–303/302 BCE) was a Chinese philosopher who was arguably the most famous Confucian after Confucius himself.
Mendeira Mendeira is a village in the Portuguese parish of Cernache de Bonjardim, having fewer than twenty inhabitants. Climbing Mount Mendeira gives you a superb view over the whole area, situated in a meander of the river ZĂŞzere.
Mendel Art Gallery The Mendel Art Gallery is a major creative cultural centre in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, opened in 1964. Housing a permanent collection of works of local, regional and national significance, the Mendel is also known for its public programmes for all ages.
Mendel Polar Station Johann Gregor Mendel Czech Antarctic Station (Mendelova polární stanice in Czech) is a research station built in Antarctica, on the coast of James Ross Island. The station, financed by the Czech Republic, was opened in February 2006.
Mendel Shapiro Mendel Shapiro, a Jerusalem lawyer and Modern Orthodox Rabbi, is the author of a halakhic analysis (pdf) permitting women to read from the Torah] in [[Jewish services|prayer services with men on Shabbat under certain conditions.
Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry Brno Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry Brno is located in Brno, Czech Republic. It was founded on 24 July, 1919 and now consists of four faculties - the Faculty of Agronomy, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Faculty of Business and Economics, and Faculty of Horticulture.
Mendelevium Mendelevium (IPA: ), also known as unnilunium (IPA: , symbol Unu) is a synthetic element in the periodic table with the symbol Md (formerly Mv) and the atomic number 101. A metallic radioactive transuranic element of the actinides, mendelevium is synthesized by bombarding einsteinium with alpha particles and was named after Dmitri Mendeleev.
Mendelian inheritance Mendelian inheritance (or Mendelian genetics or Mendelism) is a set of primary tenets relating to the transmission of hereditary characteristics from parent organisms to their children; it underlies much of genetics. They were initially derived from the work of Gregor Mendel published in 1865 and 1866 which was "re-discovered" in 1900, and were initially very controversial.
Mendenhall Order The Mendenhall Order marked a decision to change the fundamental standards of length and mass of the United States from the customary standards based on those of England to metric standards. It was issued on April 5, 1893 by Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, superintendent of the U.
Mendes Mendes (), the Greek name of Ancient Egyptian city of Djedet, also known in Ancient Egypt as Per-Banebdjedet ("The Domain of the Ram Lord of Djedet") and Anpet. It is known today as Tell El-Ruba (Arabic: تل الربع).
Mendi Bible The Mendi Bible is a Bible presented to former President of the United States and then-current United States Representative John Quincy Adams in 1841 by a group of freed African slaves who had mutinied on the schooner La AmistadCollections - Adams National Historical parkhttp://amistad.mysticseaport.
Mendiant A traditional French confection composed of a chocolate disk studded with nuts and dried fruits representing the four mendicant or monastic orders of the Dominicans, Augustinians, Franciscans and Carmelites. Each of the nuts and dried fruits used refer to the color of monastic robes with tradition dicating raisins for the Dominicans, hazelnut for the Augustins, dried fig for Franciscans and almond for Carmelite.
Mendicant Orders The mendicant orders are religious orders which depend directly on begging, or the charity of the people for their livelihood. In principle they do not own property, either individually or collectively, and have taken a vow of poverty, in order that all their time and energy could be expended on religious work.
Mending Mending is referred to as the fixing of something that is broken. Sometimes this can mean clothing like mending a skirt or a shoe, but it can also mean to mend something abstract like a relationship with another person.
Mendip Hills The Mendip Hills (commonly called The Mendips) are a range of limestone hills (karst) situated to the south of Bristol and Bath in north Somerset, England. The hills are bounded by the Somerset Levels in the south and west, and the River Avon and Chew Valley Lake in the north.
Mendlesham transmitting station The Mendlesham transmitting station is a broadcasting and telecommunications facility, situated close to the village of Mendlesham, near the town of Stowmarket, in Suffolk, United Kingdom (Grid Reference: TM123640). It is owned and operated by Arqiva.
Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens The Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens are located on 47 acres (19 hectares) in Fort Bragg, California, USA between California's Highway One and the Pacific Ocean. It includes canyons, wetlands, coastal bluffs, and a closed-cone pine forest.
Mendocino Fracture Zone The Mendocino Fracture Zone is a transform boundary off the coast of Cape Mendocino in far northern California. It runs westward from a triple junction with the San Andreas Fault and the Cascadia subduction zone to the southern end of the Gorda Ridge.
Mendocino Headlands State Park Mendocino Headlands State Park, in Mendocino, California, consists of 347 acres of undeveloped seaside bluffs and islets surrounding the town of Mendocino, two beaches (Big River Beach and Portuguese Beach), and the much larger Big River Unit stretching for eight miles along both banks of the nearby Big River.
Mendocino National Forest The Mendocino National Forest straddles the eastern spur of the Coastal Mountain Range in northwestern California, just a three hour drive north of San Francisco and Sacramento. Some 65 miles long and 35 miles across, the Forest's federally owned 913,306 acres (3,696 km²) of mountains and canyons offer a variety of recreational opportunities - camping, hiking, backpacking, boating, fishing, hunting, nature study, photography, and off-highway vehicle travel.
Mendocino Range The Mendocino Range is one of several coastal mountain ranges which compose the Pacific Coast Range. This massive range of coastal mountains was formed during a period of coastal orogeny, millions of years ago.
Mendocino Transit Authority The Mendocino Transit Authority (MTA) is a public bus system that serves Jitney and Ukiah. Ukiah and Jitney are both in Mendocino Valley, which is in Mendocino County, California (north of the San Fransisco Bay Area).
Mendocino Woodlands State Park The Mendocino Woodlands State Park is a campground in Mendocino County, California, seven miles inland from the town of Mendocino. Mendocino Woodlands consists of approximately 700 acres of land along the Big River, and is surrounded to the north, east, and west by the 50,000 acre Jackson State Forest.
Mendooran, New South Wales Mendooran () is a small sleepy town of 670 population adjacent to the Castlereagh River in the Warrumbungle Shire of central western New South Wales, Australia. It is at an altitude of 271 metres above sea level, 348 kilometres west of Sydney and 39 kilometres west of Coonabarabran.
Mendosoma lineatum The telescope fish, Mendosoma lineatum, is a trumpeter of the genus Mendosoma, found throughout sub-Antarctic and cool temperate waters, from the surface to 20 m, including large tidal pools. Its length is between 25 and 40 cm.
Mendota Bridge The Mendota Bridge carries Minnesota State Highway 55 over the Minnesota River between Fort Snelling and Mendota. It is the final bridge over the Minnesota River before the Minnesota flows into the Mississippi River at the "Meeting of the waters" or "Mendota" in the Dakota language.
Mendoza (Peru) The City of Mendoza, District of San Nicolás is the Capital of The Province Rodríguez de Mendoza; it is located in the South part East of the region Amazon; to a time of 3 hours of trip from Chachapoyas. Mendoza is characterized by its tropical climate of the hospitable and kind people.
Mendoza College of Business The Mendoza College of Business is one of the colleges at the University of Notre Dame, which is located in Notre Dame, Indiana of the United States. The college was founded in 1921 by a Holy Cross priest, John F.
Mendoza River The Mendoza River is a river in the province of Mendoza, Argentina. It is born on the area of the Andes range between the Aconcagua and the Tupungato, from the confluence of the Vacas River, the Cuevas River and the Tupungato River, the last one being its major tributary.
Mendoza, Peru RodrĂ­guez of Mendoza is a province located in the high forest with big natural attractions, diverse popular holidays and varied hotpots and typical drinks as the firewater called "Peruvian love" ("amor peruano").
Mendozasaurus Mendozasaurus was a genus of sauropod dinosaur. It was a primitive member of Titanosauria, which were relatively short necked and short tailed sauropods successful on the southern landmasses during the Cretaceous period.
Mendozza Mendozza is a sludge metal band based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. They did a track for the Underworld: Evolution soundtrack called "Eternal Battle"; they have also released one CD titled HMCS Uganda, with 7 tracks.
Mendsaikhan Enkhsaikhan Mendsaikhany Enkhsaikhan (mongol. Мэндсайханы Энхсайхан; born 1955) was the prime minister of Mongolia from July 7 1996 to April 23 1998, the first in 80 years not to belong to the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party.
Mendums Pond Mendums Pond is a 253-acre water body located in Strafford County in eastern New Hampshire, United States, in the town of Barrington. The pond is located on the Little River, a tributary of the Lamprey River and part of the larger Piscataqua River watershed.
Mendy Rudolph Marvin "Mendy" Rudolph (March 8, 1926 - July 1979, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a National Basketball Association (NBA) referee for 25 years, from 1953 to 1978. He was the first NBA referee to work 2,000 games, his historic 2,000th game taking place in February 1975.
Mene The moonfish of the genus Mene, the sole extant genus of the family Menidae are disk-shaped fish which bear a vague resemblance to gourami, thanks to their thread-like pelvic fins. Today, the genus is represented only by Mene maculata of the Indo-Pacific, where it is a popular food fish, especially in the Philippines, where it is known as "danggit".
Menecrates (sculptor) Menecrates (Greek: Μενεκράτης, fl. 2nd century BC) was an ancient Greek sculptor of whom little is known except that, according to Pliny the Elder, he was the teacher of Apollonius of Tralles and Tauriscus, the sculptors (also according to Pliny) of the Farnese Bull.
Meneguar Meneguar (pronounced MAH-NAY-GWAR)is an indie rock] band that formed in [[2004 in New York City. The Brooklyn group released their debut CD a year later, titled I Was Born at Night on the Magic Bullet Records label.
Menehune In Hawaiian mythology, the Menehune [pronounced meh-neh-HOO-neh] are said to be a people, sometimes described as small in size, who live in the deep forests and hidden valleys of the Hawaiian islands, far from the eyes of normal humans. Their favorite food is the mai'a (banana).
Menelaus (crater) Menelaus is a young lunar impact crater located on the south shore of Mare Serenitatis near the eastern end of the Montes Hæmus mountain range. To the southwest is the small Auwers crater, and to the southwest is the even smaller Daubrée crater.
Menelaus (general) Menelaus (in Greek Mενελαoς; lived 4th century BC) was son of Lagus and brother of Ptolemy I Soter, king of Egypt. His name does not occur among the officers or generals of Alexander the Great (336–323 BC) during the lifetime of that monarch, though it is incidentally mentioned by Phylarchus in terms that would seem to imply that he then already occupied a distinguished position.
Menelaus' theorem Menelaus' theorem, attributed to Menelaus of Alexandria, is a theorem about triangles in plane geometry. Given points A, B, C that form triangle ABC, and points D, E, F that lie on lines BC, AC, AB, then the theorem states that D, E, F are collinear if and only if:
Menelik I Menelik I, first Emperor of Ethiopia, is traditionally believed to be the son of King Solomon of ancient Israel and Makeda, Queen of Sheba. According to Ethiopian legends he was born in the province of Hamasien in Eritrea.
Menemen Menemen (Μαινεμένη in Greek) is a district of Turkey's İzmir Province as well as the district's central town. It is situated at a distance of 33km from İzmir center (Konak) on a fertile plain which is made up of the alluvial soil carried by the River Gediz (Hermos) for many centuries from the Anatolian inland to the Aegean shores.
Menemen massacre Menemen massacre occurred on June 16-17, 1919, during the Greek occupation of the town of Menemen, in western Turkey near Ä°zmir. In one of the darkest episodes of the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922), the Ottoman prefect of Menemen, Kemal Bey, and the six gendarmes accompanying him were assassinated by Greek soldiers in the evening of the first day.
Menemsha, Massachusetts Menemsha is a small fishing village located in the town of Chilmark on the island of Martha's Vineyard in Dukes County, Massachusetts. It is located on the east coast of Menemsha Pond, adjacent to the opening into the Vineyard Sound on the pond's northern end.
Menen Asfaw Empress Menen Asfaw (Baptismal name Wolete Giyorgis) (March 1889 - February 15, 1962) was the wife and consort of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia. Empress Menen was the daughter of Asfaw, Jantirar of Ambassel He was a direct descendant of Emperor Lebna Dengel, through Emperor Gelawdewos of Ethiopia and his daughter Princess Enkulal Gelawdewos and this genealogy was deleted from the official history of Etege Menen.
Menesaechmus Menesaechmus (Greek: Mενεσαιχμος; lived 4th century BCE), an Athenian and an inveterate enemy of the orator Lycurgus, by whom he was impeached on a charge of impiety and convicted. When Lycurgus felt his end drawing near (323 BC), he had himself brought into the council to give an account of his public conduct, and Menesaechmus was the only man who ventured to find fault with it.
Menestheus Menestheus, the son of Peteus, son of Orneus, son of Erechtheus, was a legendary King of Athens during the Trojan War. He was set up as king by the Dioscuri when Theseus travelled to the underworld, and when Theseus returned Menestheus exiled him from Athens.
Menetrier's disease Ménétrier's disease is a disease of the stomach characterised by giant hypertrophy of the mucosa of the gastric fundus ref, in other words the rapid growth of the lining of the stomach. The tissue may be inflamed and may contain ulcers.
Meng Da Meng Da (Simplified Chinese: 孟达; Traditional Chinese: 孟達) (d. 227) was a general who served under Liu Zhang, Liu Bei, Cao Pi, and Cao Rui during the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty and in the Three Kingdoms period.
Meng Haoran Meng Haoran (孟浩然) (pinyin: Mèng Hàorán; Wade-Giles: Meng Hao-jan) (689 or 691 - 740) was a Chinese poet during the Tang dynasty. Unsuccessful in his official career, he mainly lived in and wrote about his birthplace.
Meng Huo Meng Huo (孟獲), King of Nanman, was the chieftain and leader of the tribes in the Nanzhong region south of the Kingdom of Shu in the Three Kingdoms period of China. He was involved in several small skirmishes with Shu earlier, but when Wu and Wei were concentrating on fighting one another, Shu's Zhuge Liang launched a full invasion on the tribes.
Menge (woreda) Menge is one of the 21 woredas in the Benishangul-Gumaz Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Asosa Zone, Menge is bordered by Bambasi on the south, by Asosa in the southwest, by Kormuk in the northwest, by Sherkole in the north, and by the Dabus River on the east which separates it from Oda Godere.

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