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Mongolian Academy of Sciences The Mongolian Academy of Sciences is Mongolia's first centre of modern sciences. It was founded in 1921, when the government established an Institute of Literature and Script, which was later upgraded to Institute of Science.
Mongolian beef Mongolian Beef is a dish served in Chinese-American restaurants consisting of sliced beef, typically flank steak, and stir-fried with vegetables in a sweet and savory brown sauce, usually made with hoisin sauce. The beef is most commonly paired with scallions or mixed vegetables and is often spicy.
Mongolian Democratic Union The Mongolian Democratic Union was a coalition of political parties in Mongolia. Its primary constituents were the National Democratic Party and the Social Democratic Party, and its core policies were the implementation of political and economic reforms in the post-communist period.
Mongolian horse The Mongolian horse (Mongolian Мор, mor) is the favorite animal of the Mongols, and not only because Genghis Khan conquered half the world with its help. The traditionally living nomads still hold more than 3 million animals, outnumbering the country's human inhabitants.
Mongolian language Mongolian (монгол хэл) is the best-known member of the Mongolic language family, and the primary language of most of the residents of Mongolia. It is also spoken in some of the surrounding areas in provinces of China and Russia.
Mongolian legislative election, 2004 Parliamentary elections for the State Great Khural in Mongolia took place on 27 June and 17 July, 2004. The Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party emerged as the largest party, but failed to win a parliamentary majority.
Mongolian Migration The Mongolians are an ancient nomadic people from Central Asia who were great conquerors and explorers. The Mongolians traveled widely and lived in large leather tents which were easily disassembled and reassembeled making them very mobile.
Mongolian name This article refers to personal naming customs in Mongolia, known prior to 1995 as the Mongolian People's Republic. Any customs in Mongolia must be distinguished from the Inner Mongolia, also known as Southern Mongolia, which is a province in China.
Mongolian Nuclear-Weapons-Free Status In 1992 the President of Mongolia, Punsalmaagin Ochirbat, announced that his country would seek to become a one-state Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone, or NWFZ. The last Russian troops had left the country that same year, and Mongolia perceived a change in its geopolitical status and sensed an opportunity for neutrality.
Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party The Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (Mongolian: Mongol Ardyn Huv'sgalt Nam, Монгол Ардын Хувьсгалт Нам) is an ex-communist political party in Mongolia. The party is abbreviated MPRP in English and МАХН (MAHN) in (transliterated) Mongolian.
Mongolian Plateau The Mongolian Plateau is part of the larger Central Asian Plateau and has an area of approximately 2,600,000 square kilometres. It is occupied by Mongolia in the north and Inner Mongolia (an autonomous region of China) in the south.
Mongolian Stomper The Mongolian Stomper (real name - Archie Gouldie) was a feared tough guy heel who wrestled primarily in Southeast Championship Wrestling and in Stampede Wrestling in his career. His career began in the early 1960's and continued well into the 1990's, where he would often ride to wrestling shows on bicycle.
Mongolic languages The Mongolic languages are a group of thirteen languages spoken in Central Asia. Some linguists propose the grouping of Mongolic with Turkic (of which Turkish is a member) and Tungusic as Altaic languages, but this hypothesis is not universally agreed upon.
Mongoliyn Skautiyn Holboo The Mongoliyn Skautiyn Holboo (The Scout Association of Mongolia), the national Scouting organization of Mongolia, was founded in 1992, and became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1994. The coeducational Mongoliyn Skautiyn Holboo has 8,209 members as of 2004.
Mongols Mongols (Mongolian: Монгол Mongol, Turkish: Moğollar) are an ethnic group that originated in what is now Mongolia, Russia, and China or more specifically on the Central Asian plateau north of the Gobi desert and south of Siberia.
Mongols (motorcycle club) The Mongols MC is a motorcycle club located in the United States and Mexico that was formed in the San Fernando Valley of California in the 1970s Organized Crime in California Annual Report the California Legislature 2004. The club claims chapters in California, where law enforcement officials estimate there are 200 to 350 members, Nevada, Oklahoma, Colorado, Arizona, and Montana.
Mongoose (bicycles) Mongoose is a brand name of performance bicycles designed, manufactured, and sold by Pacific Cycle, a subsidiary of Dorel Industries. They produce several models of BMX, mountain bikes, and street bicycles, making ample use of light weight alloys and magnesium.
Mongoose Lemur The Mongoose Lemur (Eulemur mongoz) is a lemur ranging from 12 to 18 inches long plus a tail of 16 to 25 inches. The Mongoose Lemur lives in Madagascar dry deciduous forests within Madagascar as well as in Comoros forests on the islands of Comoros.
Mongoose Play The Mongoose Play is a piece of folk theatre from Saint Kitts. The play is based around a battle against mongooses, who threatened the island's chickens, an important food source, after having been imported to exterminate the then-raging snake and rat population.
Mongoose Publishing Mongoose Publishing is a prolific British manufacturer of roleplaying, miniatures, and card games, actively publishing material since 2001. Their licenses include products based on the popular science fiction properties Babylon 5, Judge Dredd, and Starship Troopers, as well as Conan the Barbarian.
Mongrel Nation Mongrel Nation is a 3-part series hosted by Eddie Izzard on the Discovery Channel intending to "Pull the rug from under Little Englanders" telling us that many things we think of as English are in fact foreign in origin.
Mongrelfolk In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, mongrelfolk are humanoids that are the product of several generations of crossbreeding between numerous other humanoid races. Each mongrelfolk, or "mongrelman," has a unique appearance, taking on various features from any or all of its ancestral races.
Mongul Mongul is a fictional character, a DC Comics supervillain created by Jim Starlin and Len Wein. He's notable as one of the few villains to be equally strong as Superman himself, but is still the least known of his enemies.
Monheim am Rhein Monheim am Rhein is a North-Rhine-Westphalian (Germany) medium-sized municipality in the district of Mettmann in the southern suburban area of DĂĽsseldorf on the eastern (right) bank of the river Rhine. It consists of the city districts (from north to south) Baumberg (about one third) and Monheim (two thirds).
Monhysterida The Monhysterida are a member of the order Nematoda. Usually the stoma in Monhysterida is funnel shaped and lightly cuticularized, but it is sometimes spacious and heavily cuticularized and they always have protrusible teeth.
Monchhichis Monchhichis was a Japanese animated series (known as Futago no Monchihichi in Japan), whose American dubbed version was produced by Hanna-Barbera. The cartoon series premiered, in the United States, on ABC on September 10, 1983.
Moni Aizik Moni Aizik, co-creator of Modern Krav Maga for the Israeli army, is the founder of Combat Survival-Commando Krav Maga, one of the most devastating combat systems that includes techniques from Lotar, Kapap and Krav Maga, among others.
Moni Mulepati Moni Mulepati is the first non-Sherpa Nepalese woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, having reached the peak on 30 May 2005. At the same time, she became the first woman to be married at the summit by marrying her climbing partner Pemba Dorjie.
Moni Singh Moni Singh (Bangla: মনি সিংহ) (born 28 June 1901, Susang-Durgapur, Mymensingh district – died 31 December 1990, Dhaka) was the founder of the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB). Prior to the partition of India in August 1947, Singh was a successful workers' leader who led movements to abolish exploitative labour practices.
Monia Mazigh Monia Mazigh () is best known as the wife of Canadian torture victim Maher Arar. A resident of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, she was the New Democratic Party candidate for the riding of Ottawa South, a traditionally Liberal riding, in the 2004 federal election.
Monic languages The Monic languages are a branch of the Austro-Asiatic language family descended from the Old Monic language of the kingdom of Dvaravati in what is now central Thailand. The Nyahkur people continue directly from that kingdom, whereas the Mon are descendants of those who migrated to Pegu after the 11th century Khmer conquest of Dvaravati.
Monica (grape) Monica is a red wine grape that is grown primarily in Sardinia and is one of the few grapes that wine regulations allow to appear on the wine label. The vine originated in Spain but is rarely grown there in recent times.
Monica Abbott Monica Cecilia Abbott (born July 28, 1985) is a American athlete who was born in Salinas, California and attended North Salinas High School from 2000 to 2004; her parents are Bruce and Julie Abbott, and her siblings are Jessica (born 1984), Jared (born 1988) and twins Bina and Gina (born 1992). She is the starting pitcher for the University of Tennessee Lady Volunteers; she has currently amassed 139 wins (the fourth most in NCAA Division I history) and 1,716 strikes (the fourth most in NCAA Division I history).
Monica Baldwin Monica Baldwin (1896-1975) was a niece of Stanley Baldwin. She is chiefly of interest because after spending 28 years in a closed order of nuns (she entered in 1914, a few months before the outbreak of World War I), she left the convent in the middle of World War II, entering a world changed beyond belief from the one she had left.
Monica Breen Monica Owusu-Breen (credited as Monica Breen) is an American television producer, production designer, television writer and an executive story editor. She is currently working on Lost as a supervising producer and Brothers & Sisters as a writer.
Monica Coghlan Monica Coghlan (3 May 1951 – 27 April 2001) was the prostitute at the centre of a scandal that involved English Conservative politician Jeffrey Archer in 1987. Although he won a libel case against the Daily Star newspaper, which had alleged that he slept with her, it was later revealed in a separate legal proceeding in 2001 that he had perjured himself in the trial.
Monica Dixon Monica Dixon, was the Deputy Chief of Staff to former Vice President Al Gore, and was one of his top political aides during the 2000 Presidential Election. During the election she was tasked with running the Nashville war room of the Gore-Lieberman campaign.
Monica Edwards Monica Edwards (born Monica le Doux Newton in 1912, died January 18, 1998) was an English children's writer of the rural, middle-class school which dominated mainstream British children's literature of the mid-20th Century.
Monica Forsberg Monica Forsberg, Monica Yvonne Forsberg, born September 14 1950 in Karlskoga, Sweden, is a Swedish singer, songwriter and actress, She was a member in the group Ritz, which competed in Melodifestivalen in 1983 (number 4 with the song "Marionett") and 1985 (with the song "Nu har det hänt igen", which finished unplaced).
Monica Frassoni Monica Frassoni (born September 10, 1963 in Veracruz, Mexico) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the North West of Italy. She is a member of the Italian Green Party, part of the European Greens.
Monica Horan Monica Horan (born January 29, 1963 in Darby, Pennsylvania) is an American actress best known for her role as Amy MacDougall-Barone on the television sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond. Horan graduated from Hofstra University with a degree in theater performance.
Monica Horgan Monica Horgan had a brief career as a voice actress, but is still remembered by fans of the Silent Hill game series for her dual role as Mary/Maria in Silent Hill 2 and the spinoff minigame, Born From a Wish. Horgan co-starred in Silent Hill 2, but took on the lead role in Born From a Wish.
Monica Keena Monica Keena (born in New Jersey on May 28 1979, raised in Brooklyn) is an American actress best known as Abby Morgan on Dawson's Creek. The daughter of Bill and Mary Keena, she also has an older sister named Samantha.
Monica Lewinsky Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973 in San Francisco) is an American woman who had an affair with President of the United States Bill Clinton while she worked at the White House in 1995-1996. Its repercussions in the Impeachment of Bill Clinton and the surrounding scandals of 1997-99 became known as the Lewinsky scandal or "Monicagate.
Monica Lindeen Monica Lindeen (born May 16, 1962) is an American politician who has been a Democratic member of the Montana House of Representatives since 1999, representing House District 43. Born in Huntley, Montana, Monica Lindeen served as Vice Chair of the Montana Democratic Party from 1997 to -2000.
Monica Litonjua Monica Litonjua was a co-host of the Call For Help television show, she reviewed websites, handed off phone calls to Leo Laporte. Deciding that her schedule was too hectic, she left the show in September 2004 and was replaced by Amber MacArthur.
Monica Lovinescu Monica Lovinescu (she published several works as Monique Saint-Come and Claude Pascal; b. November 19 1923, Bucharest) is a Romanian essayist, short story writer, literary critic, translator, and journalist, noted for her activities as an opponent of the Romanian Communist regime.
Monica Macovei Monica Luisa Macovei (), born 4 February 1959, is a Romanian independent politician and activist. As of 2006 she serves in the Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu cabinet as Minister of Justice, and is the only minister in the current cabinet not to belong to a political party.
Monica Maria Iacob Ridzi Monica Maria Iacob Ridzi (born 30 June 1977 in Petroşani) is a Romanian politician and Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Democratic Party, part of the European People's Party–European Democrats, and became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Romania to the European Union.
Monica Moment Monica Moments are brief lapses in cognitive function similar to that of Alzheimer’s disease. The most striking symptom is short term memory loss (amnesia), which usually manifests as minor forgetfulness that becomes steadily more pronounced with illness progression.
Monica Novotny Monica Novotny joined MSNBC after four years working at the Channel One network as a reporter and anchor, where her work was seen daily by some 8 million teenagers and their teachers. Novotny joined MSNBC as an Internet reporter for HomePage.
Monica Queen Monica Queen is a singer from Glasgow, Scotland who has collaborated with Belle & Sebastian, Chris Coco and Jim White among others. She works with Johnny Smillie, with whom she co-founded Thrum, who were part of the indie scene in Glasgow in the 1990s, signed to Fire Records (home of Teenage Fanclub, Pulp and the Pastels).
Monica Sex Monica Sex (also spelled Monika Sex) is an Israeli rock band that is very popular among young fans and the contemporary music scene.Their music is fairly charectarized by its plain sound and catchy lyrics, which brought many of their songs to be radio hits and greatly recognizable in Israeli culture.
Monica Trapaga Monica Trapaga is an Australian entertainment presenter, jazz singer and actress, best known for her work on the Australian series 'Playschool'. A tall brunette, she worked as a presenter on the children's television program for several years, as well as recorded a number of jazz songs.
Monica's Gang Monica's Gang, originally Turma da MĂ´nica (Portuguese for "Monica's Gang"), is a popular Brazilian comic book series. The series was created by Mauricio de Sousa, who signs his work "Mauricio".
Monidło Monidło is a type of a realistic painting based on the photograph of the bridegroom. The pictures usually featured a black and white photograph, with the lips painted red, eyes painted blue and other spots retouched.
Moniebogue Press The Moniebogue Press was an "alternative" newspaper on eastern Long Island, New York, United States, that lasted for thirty issues, from July 1971 to October 1972. Based in Westhampton Beach, its circulation was 7500-15,000.
Moniem Abdel Moniem (Al) Saleh or Moniem (born 5 December 1972 in Lebanon) is an Emirati singer, music composer and songs' writer, he is well-known for his extraordinary talent in Oud (Lute) playing. He also plays Guitar, Chello and some other turkish and eastern instruments.
Monifah Monifah Carter is an American female R&B/Soul, sometimes Dance-pop singer best known for her hits "I Miss You" (1996), "You" (1997) and "Touch It" in 1998. The song "Touch It" (with samples of Laid Back's "White Horse")
Monika Brodka Monika Brodka (born February 7, 1987) is a Polish singer, who rose to fame as the winner of season three of the Polish Pop Idol in 2004, beating Kuba Kęsy. She was the second female winner of the show, and as of 2006, is the youngest of the four.
Monika Maron Monika Maron (born June 3, 1941 in Berlin) is a German author, formerly of the German Democratic Republic. She moved in 1951 from West to East Berlin with her stepfather, Karl Maron, the GDR Minister of the Interior.
Monika Rosca Monika Rosca (born May 4, 1961 in Łódź) was a Polish one-time-child-starlet - a star of one movie, the 1973 In Desert and Wilderness. It was her the only movie role (if you don't count mini-series created from movie materials and Polish dubbing for The Water Babies (1978) British cartoon, which isn't confirmed thing for now) - half Romanian Rosca was nine when she has beaten over four thousand other girls in the casting for the role of young Nel Rawlison (she was twelve when they have finished making the movie).
Monika Ryniak Monika Ryniak (born January 24, 1960 in Myślenice) is a Polish politician. She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 2193 votes in 13 Kraków district, candidating from Prawo i Sprawiedliwość list.
Moniker A moniker (or "monicker") is a pseudonym, or cognomen, which one gives to oneself. The meaning is distinct from nickname, in that a nickname is generally given to one by another, and not chosen for oneself.
Monin-Obukhov Length The Monin-Obukhov Length is the height over the ground, where mechanically produced (by vertical shear) turbulence is in balance with the dissipative effect of negative buoyancy, thus where Richardson number equals to 1:
Moninder Singh Pandher Moninder Singh Pandher and his domestic servant, Subhash Kohli (alias Surendra) are the prime accused in the Noida serial killing of least thirty people, mostly children, from Nithari village in Sector 31 of Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Monique (Kim Possible) Monique is a fictional character from Disney's animated television series Kim Possible, voiced by Raven-Symoné (That's So Raven). She is a close friend of Kim's, and by far the most "normal" person in Kim's life.
Monique Buzzarté Monique Buzzarté (born in San Pedro, California, United States on August 26, 1960) is a composer, trombonist, and activist who coordinated a worldwide effort on behalf of the International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) leading to the admission of women as members of the Vienna Philharmonic in 1997.
Monique Covét Monique Covét (born July 14, 1976 in Budapest, Hungary) is a highly successful and acclaimed Hungarian adult film actress and model. From 1995 to 2001, she appeared in more than thirty movies for the Private Media Group, often as the star of the fetish-oriented films produced by the company's subsidiary Pirate label.
Monique Ferreira Monique Andrade Ferreira (born June 29, 1980 in Rio de Janeiro) is a freestyle swimmer from Brazil, who won the bronze medal in the women's 400m freestyle at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. A member of Santos, she also represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
Monique Henderson Monique Henderson (born February 18, 1983 in San Diego, California) is a track and field athlete, competing internationally for the United States. She was a gold medalist in the 4x400m relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.
Monique Hennagan Monique Hennagan (born May 26, 1976 in Columbia, South Carolina) is an American athlete who mainly competes in the 400 metres. She won her first relay medal at the 1999 World Indoor Championships and her second in 2003.
Monique Lhuillier Diane Monique Lhuillier (born 1971 in Cebu City, Cebu, Philippines) is a Filipino fashion designer based in the United States. She was born and raised in the Philippine province of Cebu and is of French and Spanish-Filipino descent.
Monique Olsen Monique Grotto Olsen (born September 2, 1990) is Brazilian born fashion model of German descent. Olsen works for Mega Models - Sao Paulo; Mega Models - Miami; Women Management; Women Management - Milan; Traffic Models; Traffic Models; Premier Model Management; and Saturo Japan, INC.
Monique Ortiz Monique Ortiz is a bassist, singer/songwriter and leader of the band Bourbon Princess. She graduated from the Pennsylvania College of Art with a degree in fine art, and worked as a veterinary technician before her musical career took off.
Monique Richard Monique Richard is a former Quebec labour union leader of the Centrale des syndicats du Québec. She is now councilor and spokesperson of the left-wing SPQ Libre, a political faction within the Parti Québécois.
Monique Serf Barbara was a popular French female singer born as Monique Andrée Serf (June 9, 1930 - November 25, 1997) best known under her stage name . Barbara was the title of a famous song in the fifties whose text comes from
Monita Angelica Maharani Tahalea Monita Angelica Maharani Tahalea aka Monita and Momon (born July 21 1987 in Jakarta, Indonesia) is an Indonesian singer who rose to popularity after placing fourth in Indonesian Idol 2, the Indonesian version of Pop Idol, shown by RCTI.
Monito Gecko The Monito Gecko is an endangered gecko endemic to the island of Monito in the archipelago of Puerto Rico belonging to the Sphaerodactylus genus of the Gekkonidae family of reptiles. Contrary to the majority of geckos the species is diurnal.
Monitor (NBC Radio) NBC Monitor was a weekend radio program broadcast from June 12, 1955 to January 26, 1975. Airing live and nationwide on NBC Radio, originally beginning Saturday morning at 8am and continuing through the weekend until midnight on Sunday, it offered a magazine-of-the-air mix of news, sports, comedy, variety, music, celebrity interviews and other short segments.
Monitor (NHS) Monitor, also known as the Independent Regulator for NHS Foundation Trusts, is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom. Its purpose is to regulate NHS Foundation Trusts or Foundation Hospitals - hospitals that have opted out of direct governmental control.
Monitor (Polish newspaper) Monitor was the first newspaper in Poland, printed from 1765 to 1785, during the times of the Polish Enlightenment. It was founded in March 1765 by Ignacy Krasicki and Franciszek Bohomolec, with the active support from Polish king Stanisław August Poniatowski.
Monitor mode Monitor mode, or RFMON mode, allows a computer with a wireless network interface card to monitor all traffic received from the wireless network. Monitor mode is similar to promiscuous mode used for packet sniffing wired networks.
Monitor Magazine (Ottawa) Monitor is a free computer magazine that has been distributed in the Ottawa region since August 1993. 36,000 copies of the magazine get printed each month with an average of over 35,000 reaching people's hands, of which at least two people read each copy.
Monitor Media Monitor Media is a British new media and web development company, located in Surrey, England. Founded at the beginning of the modern internet era in January 1995 by Robert Simmons and Paul Trickey, the company was formed to help clients take advantage of the sales and marketing opportunities that the digital revolution promised.
Monitor Range The Monitor Range is located in south-central Nevada in the United States. The range lies west and northwest of the Hot Creek Range and north of Highway 6 in Nye County, and extends for approximately 106 miles (170 km) into Eureka County at its northern end.
Monitor Records Monitor Records is a Hong Kong-based music shop selling various rare and alterative CDs and music items. Monitor Records is also a distributor of Hong Kong indie bands and independent musicians such as the Pancake, Elf Fatima, Alok etc.
Monitor Records (world music) In 1956, Michael Stillman and his business partner Rose Rubin started Monitor Records in New York City, to fill a gap they perceived in the music available to the American public--music from the then-Soviet Union, the Eastern Bloc, and other parts of Europe. Monitor has more than 250 folk and classical music recordings in its catalogue.
Monitor-E Monitor-E is the first Russian satellite of a fleet of newly designed, small Earth observing satellites. It was launched August 26, 2005 (local time) from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, and placed in a Sun synchronous orbit of 540 km.
Monitoring and Surveillance Agents Monitoring and surveillance agents (also known as predictive agents) are a type of intelligent agent software that observes and reports on computer equipment. Monitoring and surveillance agents are often used to monitor complex computer networks to predict when a crash or some other defect may occur.
Monitoring competence Monitoring competence or self-monitoring can be described as awareness of what you know. A high level of monitoring competence means you can make accurate assessments of your skill or knowledge, while a low level means the opposite.
Monk & Canatella Monk & Canatella The highly original unusual one of a kind musical outfit created by Simon Russell and Jim Johnston in the mid-nineties, and is one of the original definitive cross over indie/breakbeat bands. Their album Care in the Community is a prime example of the trip-hop sound.
Monk (soundtrack) In 2004, following the popular success, critical acclaim and numerous awards and nominations for the cable television series <EM>Monk</EM>, Varese Sarabande released an official soundtrack on compact disc.
Monk boudreaux "Big Chief" Joseph Pierre "Monk" Boudreaux was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1941. He has been "masking Indian" since the 1950's with his longtime friend and collaborator Bo Dollis.
Monk Dawson Monk Dawson is a film that was released in 1998, directed and produced by Tom Waller and starring John Michie, Benedict Taylor, and Paula Hamilton. It was based on the novel of the same name written by Piers Paul Read.
Monk Higgins Monk Higgins (born "Milton Bland") was an American musician and saxophonist who was born in Menifee, Arkansas on October 17, 1936 and died on July 3, 1986, in Los Angeles, California. Higgins biggest hits were the instrumental tracks "Who Dun It" (which reached #30 on the R&B charts in 1966) and "Gotta Be Funky" (#22 on the R&B charts) Higgins worked with a variety of musicians including Bobby Bland, the Chi-Lites, Junior Wells, Muddy Waters, Etta James and the Three Sounds.
Monk Montgomery Monk Montgomery (born October 10, 1921 in Indianapolis, Indiana; died May 20, 1982 in Las Vegas, Nevada) was a jazz bassist. He is perhaps the first electric bassist of significance to jazz, but he also played acoustic.
Monk Parakeet The Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus), also known as the Quaker Parrot, is a species of parrot that originated in the temperate areas of Argentina and Brazil in South America. It is the only member of the genus Myiopsitta.
Monk's Cafe Monk's Café is a fictional coffee shop from the American comedy sitcom Seinfeld. The exterior of Tom's Restaurant, an actual restaurant in Manhattan near Columbia University is often shown on the show as the exterior of Monk's.
Monk's Spade A monk's spade (Chinese: 月牙鏟; pinyin: yuèyáchǎn; literally "Moon-Tooth Spade") is a Chinese pole weapon consisting of a long pole with a flat spade-like blade on one end and a smaller crescent shaped blade on the other. In old China, Buddhist monks often carried spades (shovels) with them when travelling.

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