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Mexicanero Mexicanero is the name used by the speakers of the variety of the Nahuatl language spoken in southern Durango to refer to their language. It is a member of the Nahuan branch of the Uto-Aztecan linguistic family.
Mexico bun Mexico bun is a bun that can be found in some Cha chaan teng and bread shops in Hong Kong and some parts of the Chinese communities. The bun gets its name because it is invented by some Hong Kong immigrants in Mexico.
Mexico City Mexico City (Ciudad de MĂ©xico in Spanish) is the capital city of Mexico. It is the most important economic, industrial and cultural center in the country, and the most populous city with 8,720,916 inhabitants in 2005.
Mexico City Blues A poem published by Jack Kerouac in 1959, Mexico City Blues is composed of 242 "choruses" or stanzas. In his own words, Kerouac wanted to be known as a jazz poet and with this book he sought to write in a way consistent with how a musician would play jazz.
Mexico City Metro The Mexico City Metro (formally: Sistema de Transporte Colectivo Metro or STC Metro) provides metro service to the central and northern area of the Mexican Federal District and surrounding municipalities in the State of MĂ©xico. In 2004 the system served an average of 3.
Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral The Catedral Metropolitana in Mexico City is the largest cathedral in the Western Hemisphere. It was constructed in the Spanish Baroque style of architecture and includes a pair of 64-meter neoclassical towers which hold 18 bells.
Mexico City Mexico Temple The MĂ©xico City MĂ©xico Temple is the 28th constructed and 26th operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Located in the north-eastern part of the Mexican capital, Mexico City, it was built with a unique design inspired by ancient Aztec and Mayan architecture.
Mexico City Policy The Mexico City Policy, named for the place of the population conference where it was announced, was instituted by United States President Ronald Reagan in 1984 to make the issue of abortion a condition for providing funds from the US foreign aid agency USAID.
Mexico Link The Ulverston Victoria High School Mexico Link is a link between Ulverston Victoria High School (Cumbria, England) and Secundaria Tecnica #44 Francisco Villa (Mexico City). The link was founded in 2001 by the British Council in Mexico City with a theme of Human Rights and Citizenship.
Mexico North Western Railway The Mexico North-Western Railway or Compañía del Ferrocarril Nor-Oeste de Mexico was a railroad that operated between Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico, via Nuevo Casas Grandes in western Chihuahua state Prior to 1909, it was known as the Rio Grande, Sierra Madre & Pacific Railway. It was built with mostly Canadian capital [https://dspace.
Mexico Trilogy The "Mariachi Trilogy" or "Mexico Trilogy" (or "Desperado Trilogy" on some DVD releases) is a series of movies: El Mariachi, Desperado and Once Upon a Time in Mexico, all directed by Robert Rodriguez, which tell the continuing story of the movies' main character "El Mariachi".
Mexipedium xerophyticum Mexipedium is a monotypic genus of the Orchid family Orchidaceae, subfamily Cypripedioideae, consisting of only one species, Mexipedium xerophyticum. This species was initially described as Phragmipedium xerophyticum by Soto Arenas, Salazar & HĂ gsater in 1990, but transferred to its own genus by Albert & Chase in 1992, in part based on results from DNA analysis.
Mexitli Mexitli was a legendary great leader and war god of the Aztecs (before they became known as the Mexica, possibly in his honour) during the wandering years. The name derives from the Nahuatl metztli (the moon) and xictli (navel) and thus means "navel (probably implying 'child') of the moon".
Mextel Mextel is a term that has recently been used in pop culture to poke fun at the large number of Mexican subscribers to the cellular service provider Nextel (Sprint). The term is locally used in San Diego California where Mexicans are in proximity to each other and in contact with people in Tijuana, Mexico.
Meycauayan City The City of Meycauayan or Meycauayan is a 4th class urban city in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. The city is located about 19 km north of Manila and about 22 km south of Malolos City, the provincial capital city.
Meyer Guggenheim Meyer Guggenheim (February 1, 1828 - March 15, 1905) was the patriarch of what became known as the Guggenheim family. He was born in Lengnau, Aargau, Switzerland, was of German Jewish ancestry and emigrated to the United States in 1847.
Meyer lemon The Meyer lemon (Citrus Ă— meyeri) is originally from China and thought to be a cross between a true lemon and a mandarin orange or sweet orange. The Meyer lemon was introduced to the United States in 1908 as S.
Meyer Levin Meyer Levin (October 7, 1905 – July 9, 1981) was an American novelist who commented on the Leopold and Loeb case and wrote the 1956 novel Compulsion inspired by it. Levin had attended college with Leopold and Loeb at the University of Chicago, and had known them personally before the murder of Bobby Franks.
Meyerhoff Scholarship Program The Meyerhoff Scholarship Program was founded at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) in 1988 with a grant from the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Foundation, under the guidance of future UMBC President Freeman A. Hrabowski III.
Meyers Aircraft Company The Meyers Aircraft Company was a US aircraft manufacturer established by Al Meyers in Tecumseh, Michigan in 1936. Originally, the company produced a biplane trainer, the Meyers OTW, but after World War II developed a range of light utility aircraft, culminating in the Meyers 200.
Meyerson convention The Meyerson convention is a defensive bidding convention to an opponent opening bid of 1 No Trump. Double shows at least 4 cards in a major and at least 4 cards in a minor, with both suit lengths totalling at least 9 cards.
Meyerstown, West Virginia Meyerstown is an unincorporated community near the Shenandoah River in Jefferson County, West Virginia, USA. Meyerstown lies at the crossroads of Kabletown Road (County Route 25) with County Routes 21 and 25/5.
Meyerton, Gauteng Meyerton is a small town lying 15 km north of Vereeniging in Gauteng, South Africa. Situated in the local municipality of Midvaal and the district municipality of Sedibeng, it was established in 1891 and was named after JP Meyer, a field cornet and member of the Transvaal Volksraad.
Meykhana Meykhana (Azeri: meyxana) is a kind of traditional Azeri distinctive folk unaccompanied song, usually performed by several people improvising on a particular subject. Meykhana originally meaned a kind of potatory house, where some alcoholic beverages called mey have been served.
Meymand MEYMAND, a town in the province of Fars, Iran, a few miles east of Firuzabad and about 70 miles from Shiraz. It has a population of about 5000, almost wholly occupied with the manufacture and sale of rose-water, which is largely exported to many parts of Persia as well as to Arabia, India and Java.
Meyrieres Cave Meyrières Cave () is a cave in Bruniquel, Tarn-et-Garonne, France, which contained ancient cave paintings at one time. In 1991, a Protestant youth group, Eclaireurs de France (one of the French Boy Scout associations, whose name means "Scouts of France", rather than "those who show the way", a common mistranslation), as part of their campaign to remove garbage and stamp out graffiti in the area's caves, erased two 15,000-year-old paintings depicting bisons from the walls of the Meyrieres Cave, earning them the 1992 Ig Nobel Prize in Archaeology.
Meyrifab MEYRIFAB, a small semi-nomad tribe of Africans of Semitic stock, settled on the east bank of the Nile near Berber. Contrary to Arab custom, it is said[Please name specific person or group]Category:Articles with weasel words they never marry slaves.
Meyrin Hawke Meyrin Hawke (メイリン・ホーク Meirin Hooku) is a fictional character in the Japanese anime series, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, who serves as a communications officer on the battleship, Minerva. She's voiced by Fumiko Orikasa in the original Japanese version and Nicole Bouma in the English version.
Meyzeek Middle School Albert E. Meyzeek Middle School (usually just referred to as Meyzeek Middle School) is a free public middle school, with grades 6-8, in the Smoketown neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky, just southeast of Downtown Louisville.
Mez mez (real name Mary-Anne Breeze, born April 29, 1970 in Goulburn, Australia) is an Australia net artist working also under the identities (or, as she calls them, avatars) netwurker, data[h!bleeder, ms post modemism, mezflesque.
Mezame No Hakobune Mezame no hakobune (めざめの方舟, lit. "Ark of Awakening"), aka Open Your Mind (international title), is a 2005, three-act musical drama presented on a multidisplay IMAX-like theme theater and mixing CG-animated video with live-action footages directed by Japanese filmmaker Mamoru Oshii.
Mezangelle mezangelle is a poetic-artistic hybrid language developed by Australian-based Internet artist mez (Mary-Anne Breeze). Mezangelle mixes, often on the low level of syllables and morphemes, English, ASCII art, fragments from programming language source code, markup languages, regular expressions and wildcard patterns, protocol code, IRC shorthands, emoticons, phonetic spelling and slang.
Mezcal Mezcal is the first Mexican distilled spirit made from the agave plant (called Maguey in Mexico), and refers to all agave based liquors that are not tequila. Its fabrication and consumption is closely associated with the Mexican State of Oaxaca.
Mezcala bridge The Mezcala bridge, completed in 1987, is located on the Mexico-Acapulco highway, crossing the Mezcala river close to the Western Pacific coast of MĂ©xico. This bridge has been in service since 1994, and is considered to be the first example of large multiple cable-stayed spans to be built.
Meze A Meze or Mezze (Turkish Meze Arabic: مزة; Greek Μεζές, pl. Μεζέδες; Persian Maze,Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian мезе, Montenegrin Meza, Russian Закуска‎), in eastern Mediterranean, Bulgarian and Turkish cuisine, is a selection of appetisers or small dishes taken with alcohol, similar to tapas of Spain.
Mezen Bay The Mezen Bay is located in Arkhangelsk Oblast and Nenets Autonomous Okrug in Northwestern Russia. It is one of four large bays and gulfs of the White Sea, the others being the Dvina Bay, the Onega Bay, and the Kandalaksha Gulf.
Mezezius Mezezius also known as Mecetius, Byzantine usurper in Sicily from 668 to 669. Noble Armenian from the Gnuni clan at the court of the emperor in Syracuse, he took part in the murder of Constans II, and was proclaimed emperor by the army.
Mezhdu denya i noshtta “Mezhdu denya i noshtta” (, IPA: //) is the first video release by Balkandji. It contains four video clips by the band and a recoding of their performance on the 2003 festival “Slantse/Luna” in Trigrad.
Mezhdunarodnaya Mezhdunarodnaya (, literally meaning "international") is a station on the Filyovskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. The station was built as part of the second stage and completed the branch of the Filyovskaya Line into the Moscow-City business centre.
Mezhirich Mezhyrich (, also referred to as Mezhirich) is a village (selo) in central Ukraine. It is located in the Kanivskyi Raion (district) of the Cherkasy Oblast (province), approximately 22 km from the raion's administrative center, Kaniv, near the point where the Rosava River flows into the Ros'.
Mezhprombank Mezhprombank (in Russian: АКБ «МЕЖПРОМБАНК» (ОАО) - abbreviation for Joint Stock Interindustrial Bank) is a large Russian open joint stock bank founded in 1994 as JSC LAKAR. In 1997 it was transformed into open joint stock bank and renamed to Mezhprombank.
Mezőség Mezőség or Campia Transilvaniei is an area in the historical region of Transylvania in Cluj County, Romania. The term is also used to reference a form of dance performed by the ethnic Hungarian inhabitants of the region.
Mezquita (band) Mezquita were a Spanish rock band that released one record, Recuerdos de mi tierra (1979). The Gnosis community, having rated more than 700 Spanish records, currently holds it as the best Spanish record ever released.
Mezzanine capital Mezzanine capital (or mezzanine debt) is a broad financial term that refers to unsecured, high-yield, subordinated debt or preferred stock that represents a claim on a company's assets that is senior only to that of a company's shareholders.
Mezzogiorno Southern Italy, often referred to as the Mezzogiorno, encompasses at least four of the country's 20 regions: Basilicata, Campania, Calabria, and Apulia. The name is also applied to a former ecclesiastical province of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Mezzotint Mezzotint is a printmaking process of the intaglio family. It was the first tonal method to be used, enabling half-tones to be produced without using line or dot based techniques like hatching, cross-hatching or stipple.
ME postal area The ME postal area, also known as the Rochester postal area,Royal Mail, Address Management Guide, (2004) is a group of twenty postal districts around Medway in Kent, England. The area is divided into eleven post towns and extends into the districts of Tonbridge and Malling, Swale and Maidstone.
MEBEA MEBEA (not to be confused with companies from other countries with the same name) was an important Greek vehicle manufacturer, producer of light trucks, passenger automobiles, motorcycles, motorbike engines and bicycles.
MECA Messenger Meca Messenger is an instant messaging client that supports multiple protocols. The program supports sending a message to multiple contacts, file transfer, translation, conversation logging, group chat, sharing skins, searching contacts, and sending offline messages to other Meca users.
MECC The Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (later Corporation), most commonly known as MECC, was an organization founded in 1973. The goal of the organization was to coordinate and provide computer services to almost all schools in the state of Minnesota.
MECE principle The MECE principle (where "MECE" stands for "mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive") says that data should be divided in groups which do not overlap and which cover all the data. This is desirable for the purpose of analysis, because it avoids both the problem of double counting and the risk of overlooking information.
MECP2 MECP2 (methyl CpG binding protein 2 (Rett syndrome)) is a gene that provides instructions for making its protein product, MECP2, also referred to in the biochemical literature as MeCP2. MECP2 appears to be essential for the normal function of nerve cells.
MED TV MED TV is an International Kurdish satellite TV station with studios in London, England and Denderleeuw, Belgium. MED TV Broadcast programs mainly in five languages, Kurdish (SoranĂ®, KurmancĂ® and Zazaki), English, Arabic, Assyrian and Turkish.
MEDI 1 MEDI 1 (also known as Radio Méditerranée Internationale) , is a private and commercial Moroccan radio network owned by various banks and private companies from both Morocco and France. The station started broadcasting in 1980 and is based in Tangier, Morocco.
MEDLINE MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) is an international literature database of life sciences and biomedical information. It covers the fields of medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and health care.
MEETin The MEETin group is a web-based social community dedicated to providing a casual social environment for people without charging membership fees, or otherwise profiting from events. Founded in Washington, DC in 2003, the MEETin group now spans over 90 cities worldwide and has over 75 000 members.
MEFV MEFV (Mediterranean fever) is a human gene that provides instructions for making a protein called pyrin (also known as marenostrin). Pyrin is produced in certain white blood cells (neutrophils, eosinophils and monocytes) that play a role in inflammation and in fighting infection.
MEChA MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán), is an organization that seeks to promote an awareness of Chicano history and to empower Chicanos through education and political action. In Spanish, the word mecha means fuse.
MEI Academy MEI International Academy is a school that runs accredited summer and full-semester high school programs throughout Europe and Costa Rica. The academy was founded by history teacher Joe Mei in 1997 and continues to be run by a staff of teachers.
MEI HELLHOUND The HELLHOUND (High Order Unbelievably Nasty Destructive Series) 40mm Low Velocity Multi-Purpose Grenade is a fixed type ammunition designed to be fired from a 40mm Grenade Launcher M79, M203 (attached to the M16/M16A1/M16A2 or M4 carbine rifle) or Milkor MK-1. The round consists of an A5 filled metal projectile body with a rotating band, a point initiating-base detonating fuze with Safe and Arm technology, and a cartridge case assembly.
MEK6800D2 The MEK6800D2 was a development board for the Motorola 6800 microprocessor, produced by Motorola in 1976. It featured a keyboard with hexadecimal keys and a LED display, but also featured an RS-232 asynchronous serial interface for a Teletype or other terminal.
MELAB The Michigan English Language Assessment Battery (or MELAB) is a standardized test, created at the University of Michigan, which evaluates proficiency in understanding, writing and speaking the english language. It is designed for adults whose first language is not English, and is often used as a university admission criterion to judge whether applicants are sufficiently fluent to follow an english-language study program at a university level.
MELCAD MELCAD is a computer program for mechanical CAD/CAM used internally by employees of Mitsubishi and developed at Horizon Research Labs in Waltham, MA during the mid 1990s. Its name is an acronym for Mitsubishi Electric CAD.
MELCOR MELCOR is a nuclear engineering computer code that can model the progression of accidents in nuclear reactors. It is sometimes, though incorrectly, said to be an acronym of Methods for Estimation of Leakages and Consequences of Releases.
MELISSA MELiSSA (Micro-Ecological Life Support System Alternative) is a European Space Agency project which aims to develop the technology required for a future biological life support system for long term manned space missions.
MEMS thermal actuator A MEMS thermal actuator is a micromechanical device that typically generates motion by thermal expansion amplification. A small amount of thermal expansion of one part of the device translates to a large amount of deflection of the overall device.
MEncoder MEncoder is a free command line video decoding, encoding and filtering tool released under the GNU General Public License. It is a close sibling to MPlayer and can convert all the formats that MPlayer understands into a variety of compressed and uncompressed formats using different codecs.
MENA The term MENA, for "Middle East and North Africa", is an acronym often used in academic and business writing. The term generally covers an extensive region, extending from Morocco in northwest Africa to Iran in southeast Asia.
MENALIB The Middle East Virtual Library (MENALIB) is an information portal for Middle East and Islamic Studies. It provides access to online information and to digital records of printed and other offline media and thus supports the concept of a hybrid library for Middle East and Islamic Studies.
MENS A microcurrent electrical neuromuscular stimulator or MENS (also microamperage electrical neuromuscular stimulator) is a device used to send weak electrical signals into the body. Such devices apply extremely small (less than 1000 microampere) electrical currents to nerves using electrodes placed on the skin.
MENUDO-La Reunion In 2005, ex-Menudo Members 'Roy Rossello,Raymond Acevedo,' Sergio Blass,Ruben Gomez' & 'Andy Blasquez' formed a reunion band (group) calling themselves: MENUDO- La Reunion. They were based and toured mostly in Brazil, one of the biggest fan based audience Menudo shared during the mid-80's.
MERA Networks MERA Networks is a Russian offshore software development service provider focused on IT and telecom equipment vendors. MERA is headquartered in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, and has a customer relations management office in Toronto, Canada.
MERCURE MERCURE is an atmospheric dispersion modeling CFD code developed by Électricité de France (EDF) and distributed by ARIA Technologies, a French company. Model Documentation System of the European Topic Centre on Air and Climate Change.
MERLIN The Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network (MERLIN) is an array of radio telescopes spread across Britain. The array is run from Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire by the University of Manchester on behalf of PPARC as a National Facility.
MERLOT online community The MERLOT online community is an online educational technology project hosted by the California State University System. The name "MERLOT" is arrived at by an acronym: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching.
MERMER Memory and Encoding Related Multifaceted Electroencephalographic Response (MERMER) is a brain response derived from the EEG data at different sites. The main component of a MERMER is the P300 brainwave, an evoked response that has been well studied in the scientific literature as a potential indicator of recognition.
MEROKA MeRoKa (from German Mehrrohrkanone, meaning multi-barrelled gun) is a Spanish Navy 12 barrelled 20 mm CIWS, using twelve Oerlikon 20 mm/120 guns mounted in 2 rows of 6 guns each. The system's primary purpose is defence against anti-ship missiles, and other precision guided weapons.
MERVAL The MERVAL Index is the most important index of the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange. It is a price-weighted index, calculated as the market value of a portfolio of stocks selected based on their market share, number of transactions and quotation price.
MESA Mathematics Engineering and Science Achievement (MESA) is a current program that is building in schools around the United States. It is devoted to encouraging racial minority students or science majors to pursue math, science, and technology-related studies.
MESI protocol The MESI protocol (known also as Illinois protocol) is a widely used cache coherency and memory coherence protocol, which was later introduced by Intel in the Pentium processor to "support the more efficient write-back cache in addition to the write-through cache previously used by the Intel 486 processor" IA-32 Intel Architecture Software Developers Manual.
MESSENGER The MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (or MESSENGER for short) is a NASA mission, launched August 3, 2004, designed to study the characteristics and environment of Mercury from orbit. Specifically, the scientific objectives of the mission are to characterize the chemical composition of Mercury's surface, the geologic history, the nature of the magnetic field, the size and state of the core, the volatile inventory at the poles, and the nature of Mercury's exosphere and magnetosphere over a nominal orbital mission of one Earth year.
METAFONT METAFONT is a programming language used to define vector fonts. It is also the name of the interpreter that executes METAFONT code, converting the vector fonts into bitmap fonts that can be included in PostScript documents.
METCO METCO (Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity) is a Boston-based program operated and funded by the Department of Education (MA DOE) of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It allows families from inner-city Boston and Springfield a chance to send their children to a suburban school system.
METEO System The METEO® System is a machine translation system specifically designed for the translation of the weather forecasts issued daily by Environment Canada. The system was developed by John Chandioux and is often mentioned as one of the few success stories in the field of machine translation.
METEOR METEOR (Metric for Evaluation of Translation with Explicit ORdering) is a metric for the evaluation of machine translation output. The metric is based on the harmonic mean of unigram precision and recall, with recall weighted higher than precision.
METRO Transit METRO Transit is the public transit authority of the OPUBCO trust, the largest transit agency in the state of Oklahoma. METRO Transit has over 25 interconnecting routes covering the Oklahoma City metro area, including numerous weekday Express routes and the downtown Trolley network.
METS The Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard schema is a standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Consortium. The standard is maintained in the Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress, and is being developed as an initiative of the Digital Library Federation.
METT-TC METT-TC is a mnemonic used by the United States Military to help commanders remember and prioritize what to analyze during the planning phase of any operation. It stands for Mission, Enemy, Terrain, Troops available, Time, and Civilian considerations.
MEUSIS : Multi-Scale Soil Information Systems MEUSIS is based on local, regional, national and European Soil Data sets. On the one hand, the high geographical variability of soil and the close interface between the soil status and the local conditions require the soil information and assessment criteria to have a strong built-in local element.
MEX (computing) MEX (Multiple EXposure) "Silicon Graphics' original high-performance windowing system." MEX was a Window Manager featured on Silicon Graphics' 68k based IRIS Terminals and Workstations in the early 1980's.
Mɔmɔlu Duwalu Bukɛlɛ (sometimes known as Momolu Duala Bukare) was the inventor of the Vai syllabary used for writing the Vai language of Liberia — one of the few sub-Saharan African languages to develop its own writing system. He is thought to have invented it around 1833, although dates as early as 1815 have been alleged.
Mfantsipim School Mfantsipim School is a high school in Cape Coast, in Ghana's Central Region. It was established by the Methodist Church in 1876 as an all-boys secondary school dedicated to fostering intellectual, moral and spiritual growth.
Mfecane Mfecane (Zulu), also known as the Difaqane or Lifaqane (Sesotho), is an African expression which means something like "the crushing" or "scattering". It describes a period of widespread chaos and disturbance in southern Africa during the period between 1815 and about 1835.
Mfuleni, Cape Town Mfuleni is a relatively new township about 40 kilometres from Cape Town, South Africa. It is a predominantly "Black" (African) township, although there are also some "Coloured" members of the community.
Mfuneko Ngam Mfuneko Ngam (born 29 January, 1979, Middledrift, Cape Province, South Africa) is a South African cricketer who has played three Tests for South Africa in the 2000–01 season. However, injuries caused him to play a total of five matches from January 2001 to October 2003, and since his return he has not played representative cricket for the national team.
MF 88 The MF 88 is a steel-wheel variant of electric multiple units used on Paris's MĂ©tro system. RATP contracted a consortium of manufacturers together following successful tests of the BOA prototype, with Ateliers du Nord de la France (now Bombardier Transportation) in charge of the project.
MF Dunkerque M/F Dunkerque is the first of three sister vessels designed for the cross channel route of Dover to Dunkerque. The Maersk Dunkerque is a state of the art Scandinavian designed vessel built at the Samsung Shipyards in South Korea.
MF layout In automobile design, an MF or Mid-engine, Front wheel drive layout is one in which the front wheels are driven by an engine placed just behind them, in front of the passenger compartment. In contrast to the front-engined FF layout the center of gravity of the engine is behind the front axle.
MF Norwegian School of Theology MF Norwegian School of Theology (formerly the Free Faculty of Theology) in Norwegian Det teologiske Menighetsfakultet (MF), is a private, independent, accredited Norwegian specialized university institution. The school is located at Majorstuen, Oslo.
MF-509 On November 20th, 1944, while on a night training mission, Vickers Wellington bomber MF-509 crashed into the southwest slope of Carreg Goch, in the mountains of Brecon Beacons, Wales. The accident, although attributed to crew error in the RAF (Royal Air Force) accident report, was likely caused by icing of the carburetor which led to problems with the starboard engine.

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