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Mid-South District (LCMS) The Mid-South District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS), and encompasses the states of Arkansas and Tennessee, as well as the southwestern edge of Kentucky; the rest of Kentucky is divided between the Indiana District and the Ohio District. The Mid-South District includes approximately 130 congregations and mission stations, subdivided into 12 circuits, as well as 34 preschools, 15 elementary schools and 2 high schools.
Mid-South Grizzlies v. NFL Mid-South Grizzlies v. NFL was a lawsuit filed by the owner of the World Football League's Memphis Grizzlies against the National Football League claiming that the NFL violated the antitrust laws by refusing to admit his club to their league.
Mid-South North American Championship The Mid-South North American Championship was the major singles title in Mid-South Wrestling from 1979 until the promotion became the Universal Wrestling Federation in 1986. The title was retired then in favor of the UWF Heavyweight Championship.
Mid-South Sociological Association The Mid-South Sociological Association is a non-profit organization founded in 1976 to promote the study of sociological issues and problems. It holds annual meetings, at which members present scholarly papers, in locations around the southern part of the United States.
Mid-State Athletic Conference The Mid-State Athletic Conference is an NJCAA collegiate athletics conference consisting of eight community colleges in New York State. It consists of Broome Community College, Canton Community College, Cayuga Community College, Corning Community College, Finger Lakes Community College, Jefferson Community College (New York), Onondaga Community College and Tompkins-Cortland Community College.
Mid-Tudor Crisis The Mid-Tudor Crisis denotes the period of English history between 1539 (the fall of Thomas Cromwell) and 1558 (the death of Mary Tudor), when, it has been argued by Whitney Jones and others, English government and society were in imminent danger of collapse in the face of a combination of weak rulers, economic pressures, a series of rebellions, and religious upheaval in the wake of the English Reformation, among other factors. Recently, historians such as David Loades have disputed the underlying assumptions of the thesis and have argued that this period was actually one of success and even outright achievements.
Mid-West Regional Authority The Mid-West Regional Authority (‘Údarás Réigúinach an Mheán Iarthair’ in Irish) is one of the Republic of Ireland’s eight statutory regions comprising of about 10% the national land area and population of the country. The Authority comprises the administrative areas of Clare, North Tipperary & Limerick County Councils and Limerick City Council.
Mid-Yare NNR Mid-Yare NNR is a National Nature Reserve in Norfolk, east of Norwich, established by English Nature and managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). In RSPB publications, this reserve is known as Strumpshaw Fen.
Midang Midang is the pen name of twentieth-century Korean poet Seo Jeong-ju (May 18, 1915 - December 24, 2000). He was born in Gochang County, Jeollanam-do, and received his primary education in the village seodang.
Midazolam Midazolam (marketed under brand names Versed®, Hypnovel®, Dormicum® and Dormonid®, pronounced mɪˈdæzəlæm) is a drug which is a benzodiazepine derivative. It has powerful anxiolytic, amnestic, hypnotic, anticonvulsant, skeletal muscle relaxant and sedative properties.
MidAmerica Nazarene University MidAmerica Nazarene University is a liberal arts university in Olathe, Kansas, near Kansas City, Missouri. It was founded in 1966 and currently offers undergraduate degrees in 39 majors and graduate degrees in education and business administration.
Midcontinent Communications Midcontinent Communications is a provider of cable TV, internet, and general telephony services for home and business, largely serving the Dakota states, but also some communities in Minnesota and few in Nebraska. (the company is headquartered in Sioux Falls).
Midcourse Space Experiment The Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) was a Ballistic Missile Defense Organization satellite experiment (unmanned space mission) to map bright infrared sources in space. Operational from 1996-1997, MSX mapped the galactic plane and areas either missed or identified as particularly bright by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) at wavelengths of 8.
Midday Midday (commonly referred to as The Midday Show) was a television show that aired on Australia's Nine Network from 1985-1998. The show aired, like its title suggests, at noon on every weekday and was a variety show, with various international musical guests and interviews taking place.
Midday (CBC) Midday was a television newsmagazine series on CBC Television, which ran from January, 1985 to 2000, replacing local noonhour newscasts on CBC stations. On the same day, later on, the program Venture also debuted.
Middelfart municipality Middelfart municipality is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Funen County on the west coast of the island of Funen in southern Denmark. The municipality includes the island of Fænø, and covers an area of 72 km².
Middelgrundsfortet Middelgrundsfortet is a sea fortress located in the Øresund between Copenhagen and Malmö. It was constructed 1890–94 as a part of Copenhagen's sea-fortifications, partly from material excavated from Frihavnen.
Middelkerke Middelkerke is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders, on the North Sea, west of Ostend. The municipality comprises the towns of Leffinge, Lombardsijde, Mannekensvere, Middelkerke proper, Schore, Sint-Pieters-Kapelle, Slijpe, Westende and Wilskerke.
Midden A midden, or kitchen midden, is a dump for domestic waste. The word is of Scandinavian via Middle English derivation but is used by archaeologists worldwide to describe any kind of feature containing waste products relating to day-to-day human life.
Middle Ages The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three "ages": the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Modern Times. The Middle Ages of Western Europe are commonly dated from the 5th century division of the Roman Empire (into the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire) and the barbarian invasions until the 16th century schism of Christianity during the Protestant Reformation and the dispersal of Europeans worldwide in the start of the European overseas exploration.
Middle Ages in history The Middle Ages in history is an overview of how previous periods have both romanticised and disparaged the Middle Ages. After the period came to an end with the Renaissance, subsequent cultural movements such as the Enlightenment and Romantics created images of the Middle Ages that say as much about their own time as actual Medieval history.
Middle America Middle America is an American colloquialism used to describe either a cultural mindset or region of the United States that, geographically, comprises the bulk of rural and suburban America. This term is usually used in contrast to the more metropolitan areas.
Middle America Trench The Middle America Trench is an oceanic trench in the eastern Pacific Ocean, stretching from central Mexico to Costa Rica. The trench is 1,700 miles (2,750 km) long and is 21,880 feet (6,669 m) at its deepest point.
Middle Armenian Middle Armenian (c. 1100–1700) Grabar was predominantly an inflection and synthetic language, while in Middle Armenian, during the period of ashkhrabar influence, agglutinative and analytical forms influenced the language.
Middle Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association MAISA organizes and regulates intercollegiate sailing in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, the eastern part of West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. Hundreds of sailors participate from 43 colleges and universities.
Middle Atlas The Middle Atlas () is part of the Atlas mountain range lying in Morocco, a mountainous country with more than 100,000 km or 22% of the surface rising above 2,000 meters. The Middle Atlas is the westernmost of three Atlas Mountains chains that define a large plateaued basin extensing eastward into Algeria.
Middle Australia Middle Australia is a term used to describe middle class, suburban families of Australia. The term is often used by demographers, journalists, and politicians when addressing issues relating to middle class Australians.
Middle Awash The Middle Awash is an archaeological site along the Awash River in Ethiopia's Afar Depression. A number of Pleistocene and late Miocene hominid remains have been found at the site, along with some of the oldest known Olduwan stone artifacts and patches of fire-baked clay, disputed evidence of the use of fire.
Middle Belt The Middle Belt is a human geographical term designating the region of central Nigeria populated largely by minority ethnic groups and stretching across the country longitudinally. The Middle Belt is indeterminate in that it lacks designated "borders" and is charactized by a heterogeneity and diversity of peoples and cultures.
Middle Brewster Island Middle Brewster Island is a one of the rugged outer islands in the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, situated some 9 miles offshore of downtown Boston. The island has a permanent size of 13 acres, reaches a height of 52 feet above sea level, and is bounded by sharp cliffs and sunken crags.
Middle cerebral artery The middle cerebral artery (MCA) is one of the three major paired arteries that supplies blood to the brain. The MCA arises from the internal carotid and continues into the lateral sulcus where it then branches and projects to many parts of the lateral cerebral cortex.
Middle class The middle class, in colloquial usage, consists of those people who have a degree of economic independence, but not a great deal of social influence or power. The term often encompasses merchants and professionals, bureaucrats, and some farmers and skilled workers.
Middle C In Western music, the expression "middle C" refers to the note "C" or "Do" located exactly between the two staves of the grand staff, quoted as C4 in note-octave notation (also known as scientific pitch notation). It also tends to be to the middle of a keyboard, and it is near the top of the male vocal range and the bottom of the female vocal range.
Middle Caicos Middle Caicos, also Grand Caicos, is the largest island in the Turks and Caicos Islands. To the west, it is separated from North Caicos by Juniper Hole, and to the east, from East Caicos by Lorimer Creek, both narrow passages that can accommodate only small boats.
Middle Class (band) Middle Class from Santa Ana, CA were one of the first "Hardcore" bands in history. Debate continues to this day as to whether Middle Class were the first hardcore band or if Black Flag or the Bad Brains were.
Middle Class Revolt Middle Class Revolt is an album by The Fall, released in 1994 on Permanent Records. It spent one week on the UK album chart at number 48, a marked contrast to the top 10 debut of their preceding album The Infotainment Scan.
Middle Class Union The Middle Class Union was founded by Lord George Ranken Askwith in March 1919 after the Reform Act 1918 had increased the number of working class people eligible to vote and in order to safeguard property. The Conservative MP and Irish landowner J.
Middle College High School (Santa Ana) Middle College High School (MCHS) is located right on the campus of Santa Ana College, in Santa Ana, California. This school has about 270-300 students, with an average of 70 pupils in each grade level and 15-28 students per class.
Middle College Program The Middle College Program is a high school alternative program first established in New York. It is a collaboration between a high school district and a community college to allow high school students that are struggling or need a different learning environment to thrive.
Middle Colonies Middle Colonies were a part of the original Thirteen Colonies that would later become The United States of America. The region was originally New Netherland, which was later divided into the western half of Connecticut (which today is part of New England), New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and Delaware.
Middle Country Central School District The Middle Country Central School District (MCCSD) at Centereach covers approximately 16 square miles in the Township of Brookhaven. It is composed of the villages and hamlets of Centereach, Selden, parts of Lake Grove, Coram, Lake Ronkonkoma, Port Jefferson Station and Farmingville.
Middle distance track event Middle distance track events are track races longer than sprints up to (and arguably including) 5000 metres. Biological factors that go primarily into a middle distance racer are developed fast and slow twitch muscles fibers, adrenaline (usually for the final kick), anaerobic respiration (bringing it in after the final kick), racing tactics, and aerobic conditioning.
Middle Dutch Middle Dutch is a collective name for a number of closely related West Germanic dialects (whose ancestor was Old Dutch) which were spoken and written between 1150 and 1500 in the present-day Dutch-speaking area. There was at that time as yet no overarching standard language, but they were all mutually intelligible.
Middle ear The middle ear is the portion of the ear internal to the eardrum, and external to the oval window of the cochlea. The middle ear contains three ossicles, which amplify vibration of the eardrum into pressure waves in the fluid in the inner ear.
Middle East The Middle East is a historical and political region of Africa-Eurasia with no clear definition; it traditionally includes countries or regions in Southwest Asia and parts of North Africa. The corresponding adjective to Middle East is Middle-Eastern and the derived noun is Middle-Easterner.
Middle East Airlines Middle East Airlines (Arabic: طيران الشرق الأوسط), also known by its long name, Middle East Airlines Air Liban (Arabic: طيران الشرق الأوسط الخطوط الجوية اللبنانية), is the national flag-carrier airline of Lebanon, based in Beirut. It operates scheduled international services in the Middle East, Europe and Africa, based at Rafic Hariri International Airport.
Middle East Command During World War II The British Middle East Command was based in Cairo with responsibility for the Middle East theatre which included North Africa, East Africa, Persia, the Middle East, and the British forces in the Balkans and Greece.
Middle East Council of Churches After many years of preliminary moves, the Middle East Council of Churches was inaugurated in May 1974 at its First General Assembly in Nicosia, Cyprus. Initially it contained three "families" of Christian Churches in the Middle East, the Eastern Orthodox Churches, the Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Protestant Churches.
Middle East Forum The Middle East Forum is an American think tank working to "define and promote American interests in the Middle East through research, publications, and educational outreach," according to its website. The forum defines "U.
Middle East Institute The Middle East Institute (MEI) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1946 by Middle East scholar George Camp Keiser and former Secretary of State Christian Herter in Washington, DC. The Institute's mission is to, "promote knowledge of the Middle East in America and strengthen understanding of the United States by people and governments of the region.
Middle East NGOs Gateway Project The Middle East NGOs Gateway Project (MENGOS) is an Internet portal for non-governmental organizations and donor agencies that fund human rights, development and democracy initiatives in the Arab world and Middle East. MENGOS links nonprofits to facilitate exchange of knowledge, experiences, guidelines, and other valuable resources through the application of information technology.
Middle East Policy Council The Middle East Policy Council or MEPC is a Washington DC based 501(c)3 non-profit organization that deals with issues concerning the Middle East. It was founded in 1981 under the stated mission to "expand public discussion and understanding of issues affecting U.
Middle East Public Relations Association Registered at Dubai Media City in the United Arab Emirates, the Middle East Public Relations Association (MEPRA) is a non-profit organisation that represents the interests of the Middle East public relations industry. MEPRA's purpose is to highlight the strategic role of public relations in the Arab world and help set high standards for quality and ethical conduct by consultancy firms.
Middle East Research and Information Project The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) is a non-profit independent news outlet established in 1971, that has provided news and opinions on the Middle East Conflicts. It is known mainly for its Middle East Report, which it published both online and in magazine form.
Middle East Review of International Affairs Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) is a non-profit publication owned and edited by Professor Barry Rubin in conjunction with the Global Research in International Affairs Center (GLORIA) of the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, Israel. The publication works to advance research on Middle East affairs.
Middle East Studies Association of North America Middle East Studies Association of North America (often referred to as MESA) is, according to its website, "a non-political association that fosters the study of the Middle East, promotes high standards of scholarship and teaching, and encourages public understanding of the region and its peoples through programs, publications and services that enhance education, further intellectual exchange, recognize professional distinction, and defend academic freedom."MESA Website, accessed May 26, 2006
Middle East Technical University Middle East Technical University (METU; in Turkish, Orta DoÄźu Teknik Ăśniversitesi, or ODTĂś) is a public research university in Ankara, Turkey, founded in 1956. It is considered to be one of the most prestigious institutions of higher education in Turkey.
Middle East Television Middle East Television (also known as "METV") is a Christian-based satellite television broadcasting network located in Limassol, Cyprus. Programming on METV includes a mixture of Christian programming, plus non-religious entertainment programs like The Red Green Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Lone Ranger and NFL Football.
Middle East Theatre of World War II The Middle East Theatre of World War II is defined largely by reference to the British Middle East Command, which controlled Allied forces in both Southwest Asia and eastern North Africa. From 1943, most of the action and forces concerned were in the adjoining Mediterranean Theatre
Middle East Times Middle East Times is a daily newspaper, owned by News World Communications, a corporation owned and operated by the Unification church, published in Cairo, Egypt. Its print content is tightly controlled by the Egyptian Ministry of Information, though it does publish stories censored by the ministry on its website.
Middle Eastern cuisine The term Middle Eastern cuisine refers to the various cuisines of the Middle East. Despite their similarities, there are considerable differences in climate and culture, so that the term is not particularly useful.
Middle Eastern dance The Middle East (Near East, Southwest Asia) has a rich and varied tradition of dance, spanning all of the Arab world, Anatolia, the Caucasus, the Balkans, and also much of Central Asia and South Asia. "Belly dance", a term coined in Orientalism, is sometimes used as a cover term for oriental dance in general, but it includes variants that do not emphasize belly movement at all, let alone stereotypical crop top costume.
Middle Eastern music The category Middle Eastern music refers to music from the Middle East and its different regions such as North Africa, the Levant and the Persian Gulf States. Music classified as "Middle Eastern" includes, but is not limited to, music from the Arabic-speaking countries, Israel, Iran, and Turkey.
Middle Eastern studies Middle Eastern studies is a name given to a number of academic programs associated with the study of the culture, politics, economy, and geography of the Middle East, an area that is generally interpreted to cover a range of nations extending from North Africa in the west to the Chinese frontier, including Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia and multiple other nations. It is considered as part of area studies taking an interdisclipinary approach to the study of a region.
Middle English Bible translations Middle English Bible translations (1066-1500) covers the age of Middle English - it was not a fertile time for Bible translations but saw the first major translation, Wyclif's Bible, from John Wyclif. The period of Middle English begins with the Norman conquest and ends about 1500.
Middle English Lyric Middle English Lyric is a genre of English Literature, popular in the 14th Century, that is characterized by its brevity and emotional expression. Conventionally, the lyric expresses "a moment," usually spoken or performed in the first person.
Middle finger The middle finger (or the long finger) is the third digit of the human hand and usually the longest finger, located between the index finger and the ring finger. It is also called the third finger, digitus medius, digitus tertius, or digitus III in anatomy.
Middle Fork South Platte River The Middle Fork South Platte River is a tributary of the South Platte River, approximately 35 miles (56 km) long, located in central Colorado in the United States. The river provides part of the drainage of South Park, the intermontane grassland basin located between the Front Range and the Mosquito Range in the Rocky Mountains southwest of Denver.
Middle Fork Vermilion River The Middle Fork of the Vermilion River is a tributary of the Vermilion River (Wabash River tributary). The Middle Fork arises in Ford County, Illinois, and flows southeast to join the Vermilon near Danville, Illinois.
Middle Francia Middle Francia describes the realm created for Emperor Lothair I, wedged between East Francia and West Francia. The kingdom, which included the kingdom of Italy, Burgundy, Provence, and the west of Austrasia, was an unnatural creation of the Treaty of Verdun of 843, with no historical or ethnic identity to bind its varied peoples.
Middle ground The middle ground logical fallacy (also called argumentum ad temperantiam) asserts that a compromise between two positions is correct. The middle ground is often invoked when there are sharply contrasting views that are deeply entrenched.
Middle Hambleton Middle Hambleton is a former village in Rutland, England that was demolished and submerged - along with its neightbour Nether Hambleton - by the construction of the Empingham Reservoir (now known as Rutland Water).
Middle Harbour Creek, New South Wales Middle Harbour creek is a tributary into Middle Harbour Sydney, New South Wales. Located in the Garigal National Park the creek flows from Mona Vale Road in the north down to Bungaroo where the creek becomes middle harbour.
Middle High German Middle High German (MHG, German Mittelhochdeutsch) is the term used for the period in the history of the German language between 1050 and 1350. It is preceded by Old High German and followed by Early New High German.
Middle Chinese Middle Chinese (), or Ancient Chinese as used by linguist Bernhard Karlgren, refers to the Chinese language spoken during Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Sui, Tang, and Song dynasties (6th century - 10th century). The term "Middle Chinese" is usually used in the context of historical Chinese phonology, which seeks to reconstruct the pronunciation of Chinese used during these times.
Middle Indo-Aryan languages The Middle Indo-Aryan (Middle Indic) languages are the medieval dialects of the Indo-Aryan languages, the descendants of the Old Indo-Aryan dialects such as Sanskrit, and the predecessors of the medieval languages such as Apabhramsha or Abahatta, which eventually evolved into the contemporary Indo-Aryan languages, including Hindustani, Oriya, Bengali, and Punjabi. The term Prakrit is also often applied to these languages (prakrita literally means "natural" as opposed to sanskrita, which literally means "constructed" or "refined").
Middle Irish language Middle Irish is the name given by historical philologists to the form of the Irish language from the 10th to 16th centuries; it is therefore a contemporary of Middle English. The modern Goidelic languages Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Manx are all descendants of Middle Irish.
Middle Island Creek Middle Island Creek is a tributary of the Ohio River, about 85 mi (135 km) long, on the unglaciated Allegheny Plateau in northwestern West Virginia in the United States. Via the Ohio River, it is part of the Mississippi River watershed.
Middle judicatory A middle judicatory is an administrative structure or organization found in a religious denominations between the local congregation and the widest or highest national or international level. The term is meant to be neutral with regard to polity, though it derives from Presbyterianism where the local, regional and national bodies are themselves respectively higher courts.
Middle Jomon The Middle Jomon covers the period of Jomon history from 3000 to 2000 BCE. Following the Early Jomon period, the Middle Jomon periods saw an explosion in population, as indicated by the number of excavations from this period.
Middle kingdoms of India Middle kingdoms of India refers to the political entities in India from the 2nd century BCE since the decline of the Maurya Empire. This period was marked by waves of invasions from Persia and Central Asia, to the spread of Buddhism from India, through to the Muslim conquest in the Indian subcontinent.
Middle latitudes The middle latitudes are the areas between 30 and 60 degrees north latitude and 30 and 60 degrees south, or, roughly, the earth's temperate zones between the tropics and the Arctic and Antarctic. The prevailing winds in the middle latitudes are the westerlies, and are often very strong.
Middle La Have, Nova Scotia Middle La Have is a historic community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located on the La Have River in Lunenburg County. It is located along the Nova Scotia Lighthouse Route in the Bridgewater/Lunenburg region.
Middle Magdalena Bloc of the FARC-EP The Middle Magdalena Bloc of the FARC-EP (Spanish: Magdalena Medio Front) is a FARC-EP bloc, notable for its involvement in the conflict with the AUC until the latter's demobilization in 2004. Since then, it has become one of the Colombian army´s biggest worries, as citizens of these areas are claiming that the FARC are once again gaining control over the territory.
Middle office The middle office is the group of employees in a financial services company that manages risk, calculates profits and losses, and (generally) is in charge of information technology. The middle office draws on the resources of both the front office (sales personnel and corporate finance) and the back office (administration and support).
Middle power Middle power is a term used in the field of international relations to describe states that are not superpowers or great powers, but still have some influence internationally. There is no single specific definition of which countries are middle powers.
Middle Paleolithic The Middle Paleolithic (or Middle Palaeolithic) is the second subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age as it is understood in Europe, Africa and Asia. Very broadly it dates to between around 300,000 and 30,000 years ago.
Middle Park railway station, Melbourne Middle Park was a railway station on the St Kilda line in Melbourne, Australia, the station was closed in 1987, however Melbourne tram route 96 now runs through the former location of the station. The station was located on Canterbury road, just minutes walk from Middle Park the former home of the South Melbourne Soccer Club.
Middle Park Stakes The Middle Park Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in the United Kingdom for two-year-old thoroughbred colts run over a distance of 6 furlongs (1,207 metres) at Newmarket's Rowley Mile course in late September / early October.
Middle Passage The Middle Passage Atlantic slave trade transported African people from Africa to markets in North America, South America and the Caribbean (The Americas). It was called the Middle Passage because the slave trade was a form of Triangular trade; ships left Europe for African markets, sailed to Africa where the goods were sold or traded for people in the African slave markets, then sailed to the Americas and Caribbean (West Indies) where the Africans were sold or traded for goods for European markets, and then returned to Europe.
Middle Peninsula The Middle Peninsula is, as its name implies, the middle of three peninsulas on the western shore of Chesapeake Bay in Virginia. This peninsula is bounded by the Rappahannock River on the north and the York River on the south.
Middle Plantation Middle Plantation in the Virginia Colony was an unincorporated town originally established in 1632. It was located on high ground about half-way across the Virginia Peninsula between the James River and York River.
Middle Platonism Middle Platonism refers to the development of certain philosophical doctrines associated with Plato from approximately 130 BC (the birth of Antiochus of Ascalon) up to and including late 2nd century Numenius of Apamea. Plotinus is thought to have inaugurated the next Platonic school of Neoplatonism.
Middle range theory (archeology) The middle range theory in archaeology describes how people use objects and structures and the human behaviors associated with this use. Middle range theory links archaeological data with the relevant aspects of human behavior or natural processes (such as the actions of water or of animals).
Middle relief pitcher In baseball, middle relief pitchers are relief pitchers who commonly pitch in the 6th or 7th innings or in situations where several innings worth of work is required (such as extra innings or when the starter is pulled early in the game). The 8th and 9th innings are generally reserved for specialty pitchers (such a left-handed specialists, setup pitchers or closers) but middle relief pitchers may work these innings as well, especially if the game is not close.
Middle River (Iowa) The Middle River is a tributary of the Des Moines River in south-central Iowa in the United States. It is 105 miles (169 km) longColumbia Gazetteer of North America entry for Middle River and drains an area of 489.
Middle River, Isle of Man The Middle River is a river in the parish of Braddan in the Isle of Man which runs from Colooneys Farm area on the Marown parish border down under the original Fairy Bridge to Oakhill where it makes a 90 degree turn north eastwards to run past the Pulrose Golf Club to join the River Douglas near The Nunnery.
Middle Road Covered Bridge Middle Road Bridge is a covered bridge spanning Conneaut Creek in Conneaut, Ashtabula County, Ohio, United States. The bridge, one of currently 15 drivable bridges in the county, is a single span Howe truss designhttp://www.
Middle Road, Hong Kong Middle Road (中間道) is a road in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, across Nathan Road and parallel to Salisbury Road. The road was formerly at the bay between Blackhead Point and the hill of Former Marine Police Headquarters Compound is erected.
Middle school Middle school (also known as intermediate school or junior high school) covers a period of education that straddles primary education and secondary education, serving as a bridge between the two. The terms can be used in different ways in different countries.

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