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Miss Woodford Foaled in 1880, Miss Woodford was a big brown Thoroughbred racing filly bred by Colonel Catesby Woodford and Colonel Ezekial Clay of Runnymead Farm near Paris, Kentucky. (Ezekial Clay was chairman of the Kentucky State Racing Commission.
Miss World (song) Miss World is the first single by the band Hole from their album Live Through This. Apart from the cover version of Echo & the Bunnymen's "Do It Clean", the songwriting credits goes collectively to Hole, although according to BMI's website, both Miss World and Rock Star were written only by leader Courtney Love and guitarist Eric Erlandson.
Miss World 2002 The 52nd Miss World pageant was held on 7th December 2002. The pageant was initially slated for Abuja, Nigeria but due to conflict in the city of Kaduna arising from a publication of an article in a Lagos based newspaper the pageant was relocated to London at the Alexandra Palace.
Miss World 2005 The 55th Miss World Pageant took place on December 10, 2005 in Sanya, China for the third consecutive year. This was one of the most unique pageants to be hosted in the history of Miss World by pageant chairwoman Mrs.
Miss World 2006 The 56th Miss World pageant took place in Warsaw, Poland on Saturday, September 30th at Sala Kongresowa, the main 2,897-seat auditorium at the Palace of Culture and Science. It was the first time ever that the pageant was held in an European city other than London, United Kingdom, having previously been held there in 2002 after the Nigeria Controversy.
Miss World Beach Beauty Miss World Beach Beauty is a swimsuit or fast track competition in the Miss World pageant. The event first started in 2003, where the Miss World Organization wanted to have preliminary or "fast track events" to allow delegates to get into the top 20 or top 15.
Miss World Sports Miss World Sports, Miss World Sport, or Miss Sport is a title and award given to the winner of a sports event at Miss World. It is a fast track or preliminary event, giving the winner a automatically spot in the semifinals.
Miss You "Miss You" is a 1978 hit song by The Rolling Stones, from their album Some Girls. It was written by singer Mick Jagger while jamming with Billy Preston during rehearsals for the March 1977 El Mocambo club gigs (yielding Side Three of the Love You Live album).
Miss You (song) "Miss You" is the first single from Aaliyah's posthumously released greatest hits album I Care 4 U. Released in fall 2002, the song became a worldwide hit, peaking at #8 in the UK, #13 in Australia and at #3 on the US Billboard 100.
Miss Yvonne Miss Yvonne is a character from Pee-wee's Playhouse, played by Lynne Marie Stewart. The role was of a woman literally obsessed with being beautiful, even going as far as to say that beauty is her life and that beauty is her work.
Missa Cantata Missa Cantata (Latin for "sung Mass") is a Tridentine Mass "in which the liturgical parts are sung as in the High Mass, but which is ceremonially less elaborate" (The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, 2000);"a Mass whose music is equivalent to that of the High Mass but that is less elaborate in its celebration. Also called Sung Mass" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 1997);[http://www.
Missa Caput The Missa Caput was an musical setting of the Roman Catholic mass, dating from the 1440s, by an anonymous English composer. It circulated widely on the European continent in the mid-15th century, and was one of the best-loved musical works of the early Renaissance in Europe, judging by the amount of copies that have survived, and the amount of imitations it inspired.
Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae The Missa Hercules dux Ferrariae is a mass composed by Josquin des Prez dedicated to Ercole d'Este I, Duke of Ferrara, in which the cantus firmus is derived from the musical letters in the Duke's name, a technique called soggetto cavato.
Missa in angustiis The "Lord Nelson Mass" or Missa in Angustiis ("Mass for troubled times") is one of twelve Masses written by (Franz) Joseph Haydn, six of them near the end of his composing career. The final six Masses constitute a magnificent oeuvre, though not fully recognized as such until fairly recently.
Missa La sol fa re mi The Missa La sol fa re mi is a musical setting of the mass by Josquin des Prez, first published in 1502. It is one of his most famous masses, and one of the most earliest and most renowned examples of the soggetto cavato technique – the technique of deriving musical notes from the syllables of a phrase, in this case "Lascia fare mi" (Italian: "leave me alone").
Missa Salisburgensis Ă  53 voci The Missa Salisburgensis Ă  53 voci is, perhaps, the most large-scale piece of extant sacred Baroque music, an archetypical work of the Colossal Baroque. The author of this work is anonymous, however, recent studies of the work suggest that is almost certainly the work of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber.
Missa Solemnis Missa Solemnis is Latin for solemn mass, and is a name which has been applied to a number of musical settings of the mass, especially particularly serious or large-scale ones. When used without qualification, the name usually refers to the 1823 setting by Ludwig van Beethoven (see Missa Solemnis (Beethoven)), but there are several other works known by the title:
Missak Manouchian Missak Manouchian (Armenian: Միսաք Մանուշյան; September 1 1906 – February 21 1944) was an Armenian-French communist militant in the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans de la Main d'Oeuvre Immigrée (FTP-MOI) and the Resistance movement against the Nazi occupation of France.
Missal of Silos The Missal of Silos is the oldest known paper document created in the Christian West. Paper was invented in China around the 2nd century and papyrus in Egypt much earlier; the paper for the Missal probably came from Islamic Spain.
MissĂŁo ArtĂ­stica Francesa The French Artistic Mission in Brazil was composed by a group of French artists and architects that came to Rio de Janeiro, then the capital city of the United Kingdom of Brazil in March 1816, under the auspices of the royal court of Portugal, which was exiled in Brazil since 1808 due the invasion of the country by Napoleon Bonaparte. The official aim of the Mission was to establish a Royal School of Sciences, Arts and Offices, which later became the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts (Academia Imperial de Belas Artes).
Missed approach Missed Approach is an instrument flight rules procedure which is a standard (but optional) component segment of an instrument approach.FAA Decision Makers Guide Generally, if the pilot in command determines by the time the aircraft is at the decision height (for a precision approach) or missed approach point (for a non-precision approach), that the runway or its environment is not in sight, or that a safe landing cannot be accomplished for any reason, the landing approach must be discontinued and the missed approach procedure must be initiated immediately.
Missed approach point Missed approach point (MAPt or MAP) is the point during a non-precision instrument approach at which a pilot must execute a missed approach if a required visual reference (normally the runway or its environment) is not in sight or the pilot decides it is unsafe to continue with the approach and landing to the runway. The missed approach point is published in the approach plates and contains instructions for missed approach procedures to be executed at this point.
Missenden Abbey Missenden Abbey (also referred to as Great Missenden Abbey) was an Augustinian monastery founded in 1133 in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. It was ruined in the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the ruins later incorporated into a Georgian mansion.
Missense mutation In genetics, missense mutations or nonsynonymous mutations are types of point mutations where a single nucleotide is changed to cause substitution of a different amino acid. This in turn can render the resulting protein nonfunctional.
Misshitsu A major obscenity trial in the Tokyo District Court was held, as one had not been held for more than 20 years. The results of the trial was the conviction of Suwa Yuuji in January 2004 (on the charges of violating article 175 of the "National Penal Code", the Japanese penal code, which forbids creating and distributing "indecent" materials).
Missi Pyle Andrea Kay Pyle (born November 16, 1972 in Houston, Texas) is an American actress who uses the stage name Missi Pyle. She has appeared in several films, including Galaxy Quest, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Missile (film) Missile is a 1987 documentary film by Frederick Wiseman. It chronicles the 14 week training course for the men and women of the United States Air Force who are charged with manning the ICBM silos in remote places like Minot AFB and Whiteman AFB.
Missile and Space Intelligence Center The Missile and Space Intelligence Center (MSIC) is an intelligence organization that is part of the Defense Intelligence Agency of the United States. MSIC is located at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama.
Missile Badge The Missile Badge is a military decoration of the United States Air Force which was first created in the 1960s. The badge recognizes those commissioned officers and enlisted personnel of the US Air Force who have qualified as ICBM silo personnel and have been trained in the launching of landbased nuclear weapons under the direction of the National Command Authority.
Missile Boat (Star Wars) In the fictional Star Wars Expanded Universe, the XM-1 Novawing, commonly known as the Missile Boat was an Imperial starfighter built by Cygnus Spaceworks that was rushed into service to counter Grand Admiral Zaarin's TIE Defenders. It is the successor to the Alpha XG-1 Starwing Assault Gunboat, and has similar characteristics including the overall hull design and cockpit configuration.
Missile defense Missile Defense is a term referring to systems, weapon programs, or technology involved in the detection, tracking, interception and destruction of attacking missiles. As an open-ended term, its precise meaning has changed over the years and been modified by specialized communities.
Missile Datcom Missile DATCOM is a widely used semi-empirical datasheet component build-up method for the preliminary design and analysis of missile aerodynamics and performance. It has been in continual development for over twenty years with the latest version scheduled for release in January 2006.
Missile Defense Agency The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is the section of the United States government's Department of Defense responsible for developing a layered defense against ballistic missiles. See National Missile Defense for the history of DoD missile defense programs.
Missile guidance Missile guidance technologies of missile systems use a variety of methods to guide a missile to its intended target. These can generally be classified into a number of categories, with the broadest categories being active vs.
Missile Men Evil robot Z-1 had been dropped on an uninhabited planetoid used as a space junk dumping ground, lay there for centuries until a solar flare re-animated him. Alone he set about creating a queen but only managed to to create replicas of himself creating an army.
Missile pouch In recent years some swimwear/underwear designers have created daring and erotic "missile pouches" or "torpedo pouches" for the male genitals. These consist of several "compartments," one for the penis and another for the testicles.
Missile Range Instrumentation Ship Missile Range Instrumentations Ships, Range Ships, or Tracking Ships, are ships equipped with antennas and electronics to support the launching and tracking of missiles and rockets. Since many missile ranges launch over ocean areas for safety reasons, the Range Ships extend the range of shore based tracking facilities.
Missile silo A missile silo is an underground vertical cylindrical container for the storage and launching of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). They typically have the missile some distance under the surface, protected by a large "blast door" on top.
Missile tank A missile tank is a hypothetical armoured fighting vehicle fulfilling the role of a main battle tank, but using only guided missiles for main armament. Several nations have experimented with prototypes, notably the Soviet Union during the tenure of Nikita Khrushchev (projects Obyekt 167, Obyekt 137Ml, Obyekt 155Ml), but none has been put into service.
Missile turret A missile turret is a specific type of weapon turret -- a device for aiming missiles towards their intended target before launch. Similarly to gun turrets they have been used on warships and vehices on the ground.
Missilier Missilier is the unofficial term for an individual who operates and launches missiles in the military. The term mainly refers to Air Force officers who have the duty of launching nuclear missiles from missile silos.
Missinaibi River The Missinaibi River is a river in northern Ontario, Canada, which flows northeast from Missinaibi Lake north of Chapleau, Ontario and empties into the Moose River, which empties into James Bay. This river is approximately 713 km in length.
Missing energy In experimental particle physics, missing energy refers to energy which is not detected in a particle detector, but is expected because of conservation of energy and conservation of momentum. For example, if an electron and a positron collide head-on at equal speeds in the lab frame, any net momentum of outgoing particles indicates missing energy in the opposite direction.
Missing fundamental A sound is said to have a missing fundamental, suppressed fundamental, or phantom fundamental when its overtones suggest a fundamental frequency but the sound lacks a component at the fundamental frequency itself. Every periodic sound has a fundamental frequency.
Missing in Action (film) Missing in Action is a 1984 action film directed by Joseph Zito and starring Chuck Norris. Colonel Braddock, who escaped a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp 10 years earlier, returns to Vietnam to find American soldiers listed as missing in action during the Vietnam War.
Missing in America Missing in America is a 2005 drama film, directed, produced, and written by Gabrielle Savage Dockterman. It is based on a story by Ken Miller, a former Green Beret who was a helicopter pilot in the Vietnam War.
Missing letter effect Missing letter effect refers to the finding when people are asked to consciously detect target letters while reading, they miss more letters in frequent function words than in less frequent content words.First article mentioning the missing letter effect:
Missing Links (album) Missing Links is a 1988 compilation album by The Monkees. While "Apples, Peaches, Bananas And Pears" was featured in their 1960s television series, none of the tracks had ever been issued commercially.
Missing Links (game show) Missing Links was a Goodson-Todman game show hosted by Ed McMahon, and future Pyramid host Dick Clark that aired on two networks. On NBC from September 9, 1963 - March 27, 1964, and on ABC from March 30, 1964 - December 25 (Christmas), 1964.
Missing Links Volume Three Missing Links, Volume Three is the third, and final, in a series of "Missing Links" compilations by the Monkees. Like the other two Missing Link compilations, the album is made up of unreleased material.
Missing person A missing person is a person who has disappeared for no known reason. Missing persons' photographs may be posted on bulletin boards, postcards, and websites, along with a phone number to be contacted if a sighting has been made.
Missing square puzzle The missing square puzzle is an optical illusion used in mathematics classes, to help students reason about geometrical figures. It depicts two arrangements of shapes, each of which apparently forms a 13x5 right-angled triangle, but one of which has a 1x1 "hole" in it.
Missing time Missing time is a controversial phenomenon reported by some people in connection with close encounters with UFOs and abduction phenomena. The term "missing time" refers to a gap in conscious memory relating to a specific period in time, from several minutes to several days in length.
Missing trader fraud Missing trader fraud (also called Missing Trader Intra-Community, MTIC, or carousel fraud) is the theft of Value Added Tax (VAT) from a government by exploiting the way VAT is treated within multi-jurisdictional trading. The fraud exploits the fact that the movement of goods between EU member states is VAT-free.
Missing White House Tapes Missing White House Tapes was a radio program produced by the National Lampoon as satiric commentary on the Watergate scandal. The program originally aired on December 29, 1973, it was later released as an album.
Missing years (Hebrew calendar) The missing years in the Hebrew calendar refer to a discrepancy of some 165 years between the traditional Hebrew dating for the destruction of the First Temple (3338 AM) and the modern secular dating for it (586 BCE) that results if the traditional date is interpreted according to the standard Hebrew calendar (making 3338 AM = 421 BCE).
Missing You (Diana Ross song) "Missing You" is a 1984 single recorded by R&B singer Diana Ross. Derived from her album Swept Away, the song was written and produced by Lionel Richie as a tribute to Marvin Gaye, who died early that year.
Missiology Missiology, or mission science, is the area of practical theology which investigates the mandate, message and work of the Christian missionary. Missiology is a multidisciplinary and crosscultural reflection on all aspects of the propagation of the Christian faith, embracing theology, anthropology, history, geography, theories and methods of communication, comparative religion, Christian apologetics, methodology, and interdenominational relations.
Mission (grape) Mission grapes are a variety of Vitis vinifera introduced from Spain to the western coasts of North and South America in the 1500s by Roman Catholic missionaries for use in making sacramental wine and table wine. The original European strain has been lost, thus the grapes' being named "Mission grapes" since the Catholic missions are where they were generally grown.
Mission (Christian) A Christian mission has been widely defined, since the Lausanne Congress of 1974, as that which is designed "to form a viable indigenous church-planting movement." This definition is motivated by theological analyses of the acts required to enhance God's reputation (his "glory" or "honor" in the Christian vernacular).
Mission (station) A Mission station is a location for missionary work. Historically, Christian missions would attempt to convert locals to Christianity, teach Western culture and language, and offer some kind of social service.
Mission Accomplished "Mission Accomplished", a military phrase associated with completing a mission, is in recent years particularly associated with a sign displayed on the USS Abraham Lincoln as President George W. Bush addressed the United States on May 1, 2003.
Mission Accomplished (The Wire episode) "Mission Accomplished" is the twelfth and final episode of the third season of the HBO original series, The Wire. The episode was written by David Simon from a story by David Simon & Ed Burns and was directed by Ernest Dickerson.
Mission Africa Mission Africa (formerly known as the Qua Iboe Fellowship) is an interdenominational, evangelical, Christian mission organisation. When founded in 1887, by the Irish independent missionary Samuel Bill, the organisation ministered in Nigeria.
Mission America (Columbus, Ohio) Mission America, based in Columbus, Ohio, USA, is a Christian public policy and commentary organization founded by Linda Harvey. The organization's major area of focus is homosexuality from a conservative Christian viewpoint, particularly as it relates to American youth, condemning lesbian and gay relationships as "very, very wrong" in all cases.
Mission Australia Mission Australia is a provider of family and community services throughout Australia. The organisation has 3200 staff, 1,000 volunteers and 300 services in every state and territory of Australia, and is one of the largest community organisations in the nation.
Mission blue butterfly The mission blue butterfly Icaricia icarioides missionensis is a blue or lycaenid butterfly species that is native to the San Francisco Bay Area of the United States. The butterfly has been declared as endangered by the Federal Government.
Mission Barrio Adentro Mission Barrio Adentro (English: "Mission Into the Neighborhood") is a Bolivarian national social welfare program established under current Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. The program seeks to provide comprehensive publicly-funded health care, dental care, and sports training to poor and marginalized communities in Venezuela.
Mission Bay, San Francisco, California Mission Bay is a 303 acre neighborhood on the central bayshore of San Francisco, roughly bounded by Townsend Street on the north, Third Street and San Francisco Bay on the east, Mariposa Street on the south, and 7th Street and Interstate 280 on the west. It was created in 1998 by the Board of Supervisors as a redevelopment project.
Mission Boulevard (East Bay, California) Mission Boulevard is a road in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. It consists of two state routes, California State Route 262 from Interstate 880 to Interstate 680, California State Route 238 from the road's second crossing of Interstate 680 to the intersection of SH 92 and SH 185 in Hayward and California State Route 185 from that intersection to the northern end of Hayward.
Mission Bridge The Mission Bridge is a steel girder bridge linking the City Of Mission to the City of Abbotsford, British Columbia. The bridge is measured at 3,695 feet long and is now the only direct link between the two cities when it comes to Automobile use.
Mission College Mission College, as it is today, represents a union of three Seventh-day Adventist institutions: Southeast Asia Union College, Singapore (est 1906), Bangkok Adventist Hospital School of Nursing (est 1947) and Mission College, Muak Lek Campus (est 1988).
Mission Command Mission Command is a style of military command promoting decentralised command, freedom and speed of action, and initiative. Subordinates, understanding the commander's intentions, their own missions and the context of those missions, are told what effect they are to achieve and the reason why it needs to be achieved.
Mission County proposal Mission County was a proposed county in the northern part of Santa Barbara County, California initiated in 2002 by disaffected residents who felt their interests were not being heard. An advisory commission was formed to look into the formation of the proposed county.
Mission Critical (game) Mission Critical is an adventure game released in 1995 by Legend Entertainment. Though its main advertising point was the presence of Star Trek: The Next Generation actor Michael Dorn, he played a very small role in the game.
Mission discovery Mission Discovery is an interdenominational Christian evangelical parachurch short-term missions organization whose purpose is to serve Jesus Christ by mobilizing the Church to meet the physical and spiritual needs of the world's poor.
Mission District, San Francisco, California The Inner Mission, often called "The Mission" or "The Heart of the Mission" (La MisiĂłn or El CorazĂłn de la MisiĂłn in Spanish) is a neighborhood in the Mission District of San Francisco. It is built roughly on what used to be Spanish-Mexican ranchos owned by the Valencianos, Guerreros, Dolores, Bernals, Noes and DeHaros and built near the sixth Alta California mission - Mission San Francisco de Asis.
Mission EDitor Mission EDitor is a map editing tool for most NovaLogic games, which is in your game folder, and every game has a different MED (short of Mission EDitor). In Delta Force: Black Hawk Down it is called DFBHDMED, in Delta Force Xtreme, DFXMED.
Mission fig The mission fig is a particular strain of the fig fruit that was introduced to Northern California by the Franciscan missionaries, who also provided the name "San Francisco." Other plants introduced by the Franciscans also bear the name "mission.
Mission Florentino Mission Florentino was a Bolivarian mission organized by the government of Venezuelan President, Hugo Chávez, to coordinate the populace to vote "No" in the Venezuelan recall referendum of 2004 to keep him in office. The organizational centers of the Mission were named Comando Maisanta, as the ideological central headquarters (election brigades) for those who wished to keep Chávez as the President of Venezuela for the remainder of his presidential term.
Mission Guaicaipuro Misión Guaicaipuro (launched 12 October 2003) is one of the Bolivarian Missions (a series of anti-poverty and social welfare programs) implemented by current Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. The program is carried out by the Venezuelan Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources; the program seeks to restore communal land titles and human rights to Venezuela's numerous indigenous communities, in addition to defending their these rights against resource and financial speculation by the dominant culture.
Mission Habitat Mision Hábitat ("Mission Habitat") is a Venezuelan Bolivarian Mission that has as its goal the construction of thousands of new housing units for the poor. The program also seeks to develop agreeable and integrated housing zones that make available a full range of social services — from education to healthcare — which likens its vision to that of New Urbanism.
Mission Hill, Boston, Massachusetts Mission Hill is a one square mile neighborhood of approximately 18,000 people in Boston, Massachusetts. The neighborhood is located about one mile from Downtown Crossing and roughly bounded by Columbus Avenue and Roxbury to the east, Longwood Avenue to the northeast and the Olmsted designed Riverway/Jamaicaway and the town of Brookline to the west.
Mission Hills Golf Club Mission Hills Golf Club is a 10-course golf resort, located in the town of Guanlan (觀瀾) in Shenzhen, between the cities of Shenzhen and Dongguan. It is accredited as the world's largest golf facility by the Guinness World Records, surpassing the Pinehurst Resort in the United States.
Mission House The Mission House at Kerikeri in New Zealand was completed in 1822 as part of the Kerikeri Mission Station by the Church Missionary Society, and is New Zealand’s oldest surviving building. It is sometimes known as Kemp House.
Mission Identidad Mission Identidad is one of the Bolivarian Missions (a series of anti-poverty and social welfare programs) implemented by current Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. This program provides Venezuelan national identity cards to facilitate access to the social services provided by the other Missions.
Mission Indians Mission Indians, predominantly from present-day California (although members of the Shoshoni also joined), were groups of Native Americans who lived with the Franciscan fathers as early as 1769 when the Mission of San Diego was established. Mission Indians were from many tribes: the ones who were baptized and living in the missions.
Mission Kashmir Mission Kashmir is a Bollywood movie, released in India on October 27, 2000, directed and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. Sanjay Dutt, Hrithik Roshan, Preity Zinta and Jackie Shroff star as the main characters.
Mission La PurĂ­sima ConcepciĂłn Mission La PurĂ­sima ConcepciĂłn, the second mission site to bear the name, was founded on the "Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin" (December 8), 1787. The present site is located east of the City of Lompoc, California between Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo.
Mission Los Santos Ángeles de Guevavi Mission Los Santos Ángeles de Guevavi was founded by Jesuit missionary Fathers Kino and Salvatierra in 1701 as La Misión de San Gabriel de Guevavi, a district headquarters in what is now Arizona, near Tumacácori. Subsequent missionaries called it San Rafael and San Miguel, resulting in the common historical name of Los Santos Ángeles de Guevavi.
Mission Mercal Mission Mercal (officially launched on April 24, 2003) is a Bolivarian Mission established in Venezuela under the government of Hugo Chávez. The government has set up subsidized grocery stores in a state-run company called Mercal.
Mission Mill Museum Mission Mill Museum is a historic museum located in Salem, Oregon, United States. It features working displays of a woolen mill, the Thomas Kay Woolen Mill, and several historic Salem buildings that have been relocated to the mill site.
Mission Miranda Mission Miranda is one of the Bolivarian Missions (a series of anti-poverty and social welfare programs) implemented by current Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. The program establishes a Venezuelan military reserve composed of ordinary Venezuelan citizens given light arms to defend the territory in an eventual invasion by foreign forces.
Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad was founded on October 9, 1791 to minister and take in the Indians of the Salinas Valley. The Ohlone, the original residents of the valley, were converted and brought to live here, followed by Esselen and Yokuts.
Mission Nuestra Señora de los Dolores Mission Nuestra Señora de los Dolores was founded by Jesuit missionary Father Kino on March 13, 1687. The Mission church was built in what is now Arizona, near the Pima settlement of Cosari, south of Tumacácori.
Mission of Burma Mission of Burma is a post-punk band from Boston, Massachusetts, USA comprising guitarist Roger Miller, bassist Clint Conley and drummer Peter Prescott, with Bob Weston (originally Martin Swope) as tape manipulator and sound engineer. They were first active from 1979-1983, then reformed in 2002.
Mission president In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a Mission President is a man who presides over a mission, and the group of missionaries, in the mission. Depending on the particular mission, he may also preside over the church members in the mission area.
Mission Piar Misión Piar is one of the Bolivarian Missions (a series of anti-poverty and social welfare programs) implemented by current Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. The mission falls in line with the current Integral Plan of Sustainable Development for Mining Communities (Plan Integral de Desarrollo Sustentable de las Comunidades Mineras) advanced by Chávez.
Mission Puerto de Purísima Concepción Mission Puerto de Purísima Concepción was founded in October, 1780 by Father Francisco Garcés. The settlement was not part of the California mission chain, but was administered as a part of the Arizona missions.
Mission Reds The Mission Reds were a minor league baseball team located in San Francisco, California which played in the Pacific Coast League from 1926 through 1937. Earlier, in 1914, a failed Sacramento Solons team had been moved to San Francisco midway through the season.

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