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Monster truck A monster truck is an automobile, typically a pickup truck, which has been modified or purposely built with extremely large wheels and suspension. They are used for popular entertainment and in some cases they are featured alongside Motocross races, mud bogging, tractor pulls and car-eating robots.
Monster Truck Madness Monster Truck Madness is a PC game developed by Terminal Reality and published by Microsoft, in 1996. A racing game, Monster Truck Madness allows players to select a truck and compete with AI players in one of four modes - Drag, Circuit, Rally and Tournament.
Monster Voodoo Machine Formed in Canada in 1991, Monster Voodoo Machine was the modern metal brainchild of Toronto musician/vocalist Adam Sewell. The singer culled the ranks of bands such as Totentanz and Backlash to create the first band lineup consisting of Mark Gibson on guitar, Drew Gauley on drums, and bassist Terry Landry.
Monster: Living Off the Big Screen Monster: Living Off the Big Screen is a 1997 book in which John Gregory Dunne recounts his experiences as a screenwriter in Hollywood. The book focuses on the process of drafting the screenplay for Up Close & Personal, 1996, a movie starring Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer.
Monstera Monstera is a genus of 22 species of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to tropical regions of the Americas. The genus is named from the Latin word for "monstrous" or "abnormal", the members of the genus are distinguished by their unusual leaves with natural holes.
Monstera deliciosa Monstera deliciosa (also called Fruit Salad Plant, Ceriman, Monster fruit, Monsterio Delicio, Monstereo, Swiss Cheese Plant, Mexican Breadfruit, Monstera, split-leaf philodendron and Windowleaf) is a creeping vine native to tropical rainforests from southern Mexico south to Panama.
Monsterbots The Monsterbots (known as the Firebots in Japan) is the name for a sub-group of three fictional characters from the Transformers universes. Released in 1987, the unifying characteristic of the three Monsterbots - Doublecross, Grotusque and Repugnus - is evident from the group’s name: they all transform into monstrous creatures of various types.
Monsterbowl Monsterbowl is an online MMORPG where Managers take control of an American Football style team of players of every shape and size and lead their team to victory in the Battleball league. This is done by scoring Touchdowns whilst taking down your opponents runners and defending your backline
Monsterpiece Theater Monsterpiece Theater is a recurring segment on the American version of the internationally acclaimed children's educational program Sesame Street. While using Muppet characters to act out educational principles, Monsterpiece Theater is also a parody of the similarly acclaimed PBS show Masterpiece Theatre.
Monsters of Grace Monsters of Grace is a multimedia chamber opera in 13 short acts directed by Robert Wilson, with music by Philip Glass and libretto from the works of 13th-century Sufi mystic Jalaluddin Rumi. The title is said to be a reference to Wilson's corruption of a line from Hamlet: "Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
Monsters of the Midway The "Monsters of the Midway" is most widely known as the nickname for the National Football League's Chicago Bears — particularly the dominant teams of 1940 and 1941. The name underwent something of a revival when the 1985 edition of the Bears proved to be similarly dominant.
Monsters, Inc. Monsters, Inc. is the fourth animated feature produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released to theaters by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution in the United States on November 2 2001, and in the United Kingdom on February 8, 2002.
Monstrance Monstrance is the vessel used in the Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, and Anglo-Catholic Churches to display the consecrated Eucharistic Host, during Eucharistic adoration or Benediction. The word monstrance comes from the Latin word monstrare, meaning "to show".
Monstress Monstress (Candi Pyponte-Le Parc III) is a fictional character, a superheroine in the future of the DC Comics universe, a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes. She was a pampered princess from Xanthu who gained her abilities and monstrous appearance from an explosion caused by a gene-altering bomb within a plant on one of Candi's father's labor farms.
Monstrosity (band) Monstrosity is a technical death metal band originating from Fort Lauderdale, Florida during the death metal scene of the late 1980's. Monstrosity was home to a number of session and full-time musicians whom later resurfaced in acts like Cynic, Malevolent Creation, Cannibal Corpse, Capharnaum and Hate Plow.
Monstrous humanoid (Dungeons & Dragons) Monstrous humanoids are a "creature type" in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. Monstrous humanoids are differentiated from humanoids by their monstrous or animalistic features, and not all are technically "humanoid" in body form.
Monstrous moonshine In mathematics, monstrous moonshine is a term devised by John Horton Conway and Simon P. Norton in 1979, used to describe the (then totally unexpected) connection between the monster group M and modular functions (particularly, the j function).
Monstrous Regiment Monstrous Regiment is an abbreviation of the title of a 16th century tract by John Knox, the full title of which was, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women (the women in question were Mary, Queen of Scots, Mary Tudor and Mary of Guise).
Monstrous Regiment (novel) Monstrous Regiment is the 31st novel in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. It takes its name from the anti-Catholic 16th century tract by John Knox, the full title of which is The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women.
Monstrous spider In the Dungeons and Dragons fantasy role-playing game, a Monstrous Spider is one of the most common types of Giant spider. No one is quite sure which real-life spider they are based on, although many, including a lot of D&D developers believe them to look somewhat akin to a Tarantula crossed with an Australian House Spider.
Mont Alto Rail Road The Mont Alto Rail Road was a railroad in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, originally built to connect the blast furnaces of the Mont Alto Iron Company to the Cumberland Valley Railroad. It was later extended south to reach Waynesboro.
Mont Blanc Tunnel The Mont Blanc Tunnel is a road tunnel in the Alps under the Mont Blanc mountain, linking Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, France, and Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy. It is one of the major trans-Alpine transport routes particularly for Italy which relies on the tunnel for transporting as much as one-third of its freight to northern Europe.
Mont Fleury, Kinshasa The quartier Mont Fleury (Mont Fleury quarter) is an exclusive gated community located in the Ngaliema district of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is known for its large mansions, sprawling compounds and recently-constructed fully-furnished apartment buildings that are rented to those Western diplomats, businesspeople and expatriates that can afford the high price for the peace and comfort it provides.
Mont Mégantic Observatory The Observatoire du Mont Mégantic (Mont Mégantic Observatory in English) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated jointly by the Université de Montréal and the Université Laval. Founded in 1978, it is the largest observatory of eastern Canada, and is situated at the summit of Mont Mégantic, the highest point of the province of Québec to be accessible by car.
Mont Pelerin Society The Mont Pelerin Society (MPS) is an international organization composed of economists, intellectuals, business leaders, and others who favour economic liberalism. The society advocates free market economic policies and the political values of an "open society.
Mont Tremblant Resort Mont Tremblant Resort is a large year round resort about one and a half hours north of Montreal. It is best known as a ski destination, but also features a lake suitable for swimming, and a golf course in the summer months.
Mont-Bouët The marché Mont-Bouët (Mont-Bouet market), in Libreville is Gabon's largest market, with hundreds of stalls selling fruits, vegetables, meat, poultry (live and dead), fabric, clothing, jewelry, household goods, traditional medicine and a variety of other goods. It is easy to get lost in the narrow passageways of the market and there are pickpockets, so visitors should keep track of their money and valuables at all times.
Mont-Laurier, Quebec Mont-Laurier is a town in northwest Quebec, Canada located on the banks of the Rivière du Lièvre, a tributary of the Ottawa River. Known as "the capital of the Haute-Laurentides", Mont-Laurier was founded in 1885 by Solime Alix.
Mont-Saint-Hilaire Line (AMT) The Mont-Saint-Hilaire line is a commuter rail line operated in the Greater Montreal, Quebec, Canada area, by the Agence métropolitaine de transport, or AMT, (in English, the "Metropolitan transportation agency"), the umbrella organization that plans, integrates, and coordinates public transportation services across this region.
Monta Vista, Cupertino, California Monta Vista is an upper-income residential neighborhood in western Cupertino, California. "Monta Vista" does not mean anything in any language but is very similar to "Monte Vista," which means "mountain view" in Spanish.
Montaña Clara Montaña Clara (Spanish meaning "light-colored mountain") is a small islet belonging to the so-called Chinijo Archipelago, in the northeastern part of the Canary Islands, only a short distance (about 2 km) northwest of La Graciosa. The islet is only 1.
Montaña Corona Montaña Corona is a volcano on the Canary Island of Lanzarote, near the village of YĂ© in the municipality of HarĂa. Its eruption around 3000 years ago covered a large area of the northeast of the island with lava, creating the Malpais de la Corona and two of the island's most-visited geological attractions, the Cueva de los Verdes and the Jameos del Agua.
Montañita (Ecuador) Montañita is a small village on Ecuador's Pacific coast. It is known by Ecuadorians and international visitors alike as one of the best surfing locales in the country; this recognition is one of the main reasons it is able to draw large crowd of eclectic visitors year-round.
Montae Reagor Montae Reagor (born June 29, 1977 in Waxahachie, Texas) is an American football player who currently plays defensive tackle for the Indianapolis Colts. He was a four-year starter at Texas Tech who opened 41 of 44 career games and holds a school record with 24.
Montage of Heck Montage of Heck is the name of two commercially unreleased sound collages put together by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain at his home in the summer of 1988. The two collages (the five-minute "short version" and the 35-minute "long version") were included on Cobain's "Mellow 4-track Shit" demo tape of acoustic songs he had written that summer, including early acoustic versions of "Sappy" and "Polly".
Montage sequence A montage sequence is a technique in film editing in which a series of short shots is edited into a sequence to condense narrative. It is usually used to advance the story as a whole (often to suggest the passage of time), rather than to create symbolic meaning.
Montagnes du Cibao The Montagnes du Cibao (Mountains of Cibao) are located in Haiti. The highest point of the range, Morne du Cibao, is 2,280 meters (7,480 feet) above sea level, making it the third highest peak in Haiti, behind Pic la Selle and Pic Macaya.
Montagnola Montagnola is a small Swiss village part of Collina d'Oro which looks over Lake Lugano and the city of Lugano upon it. Located in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino it is close to the border between Switzerland and Italy.
Montagu Bay, Tasmania Montagu Bay is a suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, located in the City of Clarence on the eastern shore of the Derwent River, about four kilometres from the city centre of greater Hobart. It is a small primarily residential suburb squeezed in between Rosny, Rose Bay and Lindisfarne and is centred around a small bay of the same name.
Montagu Bertie, 7th Earl of Abingdon Montagu Arthur Bertie, 7th Earl of Abingdon (13th May 1836 - 10th March 1928) was the fifth child of Montagu Bertie, 6th Earl of Abingdon and Elizabeth Lavinia Vernon-Harcourt. His granddaughter, Clarissa Churchill, married Anthony Eden, Prime Minister 1955-7, and became Countess of Avon when Eden was raised to the peerage in 1961.
Montagu Burrows Montagu Burrows (born 27 October 1819 at Hadley, England - died 10 July 1905 at Oxford, England) was an officer in the Royal Navy and subsequently the first Chichele Professor of Modern History at Oxford University. He was probably the very first academic to lecture on naval history at Oxford or at any university in Britain.
Montagu Corry, 1st Baron Rowton Montagu William Lowry-Corry, 1st Baron Rowton (8 October 1838–9 November 1903), also known as "Monty," was a British philanthropist and minor diplomat, best known for serving as Benjamin Disraeli's private secretary from 1866 until the latter's death in 1881.
Montagu Place Montagu Place is a street in the Marylebone district of the City of Westminster in London (postcode prefix: W1H). Montagu Place's architecture is largely Georgian, and is the site of both the Swiss and Swedish embassies in London.
Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms The Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms were reforms introduced by the British Government in India to introduce self-governing institutions gradually to India. The reforms take their name from Edwin Samuel Montagu, the Secretary of State for India during the latter parts of World War I and Lord Chelmsford, Viceroy of India between 1916 and 1921.
Montague Burton Residences Montague Burton Residences is a self-catering hall of residence owned and managed by the University of Leeds. Sometimes referred to as Monty B among students, it is located approximately a quarter of a mile from the university's main campus and under a mile from central Leeds.
Montague Eliot, 8th Earl of St Germans Montague Charles Eliot, 8th Earl of St Germans was born on May 13 1870 in Pimlico, Middlesex to Charles George Cornwallis Eliot (October 16 1839 - May 22 1901) and his wife Constance Rhiannon Guest (November 1844 - 1916).
Montague grammar Montague grammar is an approach to natural language semantics, named after American logician Richard Montague. The Montague grammar is based on formal logic, especially lambda calculus and set theory, and makes use of the notions of intensional logic and type theory.
Montague Gold Mines, Nova Scotia Montague Gold Mines located at 44°43'06"N, 63°30'48"W is a community in the Halifax Regional Municipality on the Montague Road off of exit 14 of Nova Scotia Highway 107 three kilometers from Dartmouth.
Montague Shadworth Seymour Moore Montague Shadworth Seymour Moore (9 October 1896- 12 September 1966) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Montague Summers Augustus Montague Summers (10 April, 1880 - 10 August, 1948) was an eccentric English author and clergyman. He is known primarily for his 1928 English translation of the medieval witch hunter's manual, the Malleus Maleficarum, as well as for several studies on witches, vampires, and werewolves, in all of which he professed to believe.
Montague Ullman Montague Ullman, MD, (born 1916) is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded the Dream Laboratory at the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York and for over three decades has been actively promoting public interest in dreams and dream sharing groups.
Montaigut-le-Blanc, Puy-de-DĂ´me Montaigut-le-blanc in the Puy-de-DĂ´me departement in the Auvergne region is a little medieval village on the French mountainsides. The medieval castle at the top of the walled village is now a hotel with restaurant.
Montalivet Islands East Montalivet Island and West Montalivet Island are islands off the north west coast of Australia, in the state of Western Australia, in the Indian Ocean. They are often referred to together as the Montlivet Islands although this is not a gazetted name.
Montalvo (Metrolink station) The Montalvo Metrolink Station is a Metrolink rail station in the community of Montalvo in the city of Ventura, California. It is served by Metrolink's Ventura County Line from Los Angeles Union Station to Montalvo.
Montalvo, Ventura, California Montalvo is a district in Ventura, California located in the south part of the city. It is named after Garci RodrĂguez de Montalvo, the Spanish author who first described the Island of California in the 1510 novel Las Sergas de Esplandián.
Montana Arboretum and Gardens The Montana Arboretum and Gardens are located on the Montana State University campus in Bozeman, Montana. The Arboretum proper is located at the northwestern corner of campus by the intersection of West College Avenue and South 11th Avenue, but plantings occur throughout campus.
Montana Avenue Montana Avenue is a primarily residential street that stretches from Ocean Avenue to Barrington Avenue in Brentwood. The intersection of Montana and Barrington is one of the busiest in the area, due to its proximity to Sunset Boulevard.
Montana class battleship The Montana class battleships of the United States Navy were proposed successors to the Iowa class, being slower, but larger, better armored, and carrying more guns. Five ships of the Montana class were approved for construction during World War II; however, changes in priority during the war resulted in cancellation of the new design in favour of aircraft carriers before the first keel was laid.
Montana Conservation Corps The Montana Conservation Corps (MCC) is a young adult development program modeled after the Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930s, using conservation projects to foster citizenship and personal growth in its members. The MCC operates crews in six towns throughout Montana: Missoula; Kalispell; Great Falls; Helena; Billings; and Bozeman, which also serves as the program’s central office.
Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame The Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame is a proposed hall of fame designated in 2003 by the State of Montana to be located in Wolf Point, Montana. The stated goal is to "honor those cowboys of the State of Montana who have led their lives in the companionship and duty of the cowboy spirit".
Montana District (LCMS) The Montana District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS), and comprises the state of Montana, also including one congregation in Idaho; the rest of Idaho is included in the Northwest District. The Montana District includes approximately 65 congregations and missions, subdivided into 6 circuits, as well as 14 preschools and 3 elementary schools.
Montana Freemen The Montana Freemen were a Christian Patriot group based in Montana, United States, near the town of Jordan. The Montana Freemen believed in the doctrine of individual sovereignty and rejected the authority of the U.
Montana Grizzlies football The Montana Grizzlies football program (or "Griz") represents the University of Montana in the NCAA Division I Championship Subdivision, better known as Division I-AA. The Grizzlies won national championships in 1995 and 2001 and have qualified for a record 14 consecutive playoffs.
Montana Initiative 96 (2004) Initiative 96 of 2004 is a so-called "defense of marriage amendment" that amended the Montana Constitution by adding a definition of marriage that prevents same-sex marriages from being conducted or recognized in Montana. The Initiative passed via public referendum on November 2, 2004 with 67% of voters supporting and 33% opposing.
Montana Jones is a comedy adventure anime television series which was broadcast in Japan on NHK from April 2, 1994 through April 8, 1995. Studio Jueno (Japan) and REVER (Italy) created the 52 episode series as a joint production.
Montana Max (Hellsing) is a character in the manga Hellsing. While he only appears in the promotional piece made before the series itself began production, he is the leader of Millennium in the manga and OVA, (in which he is voiced by Nobuo Tobita and in english by Gildart Jackson) and is constantly scheming from the shadows.
Montana Meth Project The Montana Meth Project is a Montana-based anti-drug organization founded by billionaire Thomas Siebel. The main focus of the project is an advertising campaign, based on ads that are intended to horrify viewers concerning the possible dangers of methamphetamines.
Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry The Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry is one category of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, given out annually. The award carries a $5,000 prize for each winner of the category awards, including the award for poetry.
Montana New Zealand Book Awards The Montana New Zealand Book Awards are a series of literary awards to works of New Zealand citizens. They were created in 1996, as a merge of the two previously most relevant awards in New Zealand: the Montana Book Awards and the New Zealand Book Awards.
Montana Province Montana (Монтана) is a province in northwestern Bulgaria, bordering Serbia and Romania. Its main city is Montana, while other towns include Berkovitsa, Lom, Chiprovtsi, Boychinovtsi, Valchredram, Varshets and Brusartsi.
Montana Southern Railway The Montana Southern Railway, now defunct, was an American narrow-gauge railroad constructed between Divide, Montana and the mining district of Coolidge, Montana. The short-lived line is noteworthy as the last common-carrier narrow-gauge railroad to be constructed in the United States.
Montana State University - Billings Montana State University - Billings is a state university located in Billings, Montana (USA). It was named Eastern Montana Normal School when it was founded and then named Eastern Montana College before being renamed to its present name when the Montana State University System reorganized in 1994.
Montana State University System The Montana State University System was created on July 1, 1994, when the Montana Board of Regents of Higher Education restructured the state's colleges and universities into two umbrella universities, Montana State University System and the University of Montana System. Each of these two subsystems has campuses in four cities, with a university President at the main campus, and Chancellors at each of the three smaller units.
Montana Television Network The Montana Television Network is a regional television network connecting eight CBS television affiliates in Montana, all but one owned by the Evening Post Publishing Company. It is based in Billings, Montana.
Montana Western Railway The Montana Western Railway (MWRR) was an American railroad. In 1986 the MWRR leased and began operating trackage owned by the Burlington Northern Railroad between the towns of Butte and Garrison, Montana, a distance of 52 miles.
Montana Western Railway (1909) The Montana Western Railway (MW) was an American railroad constructed between the towns of Conrad, Montana and Valier, Montana, a distance of 20 miles. The railroad was constructed in 1909 by the Valier Land and Water Company, as part of an effort to develop new agricultural lands in the Valier area.
Montana Wilderness Association The Montana Wilderness Association was founded in 1958 by Montana volunteers and is governed by a state council of citizen volunteers from across the state, elected by the membership. As a community-based organization, it works at the local level through seven chapters and field offices in Billings, Bozeman, Choteau, Dillon, Great Falls, Helena and Kalispell.
Montana's Cookhouse Montana's Cookhouse is a Canadian restaurant headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario. There are restaurants across Canada from British Columbia to Quebec plus Nova Scotia and also locations in Michigan and New York State.
Montane Montane is a biogeographic term which refers to highland areas located below the timberline. Montane regions generally have cooler temperatures and often have higher rainfall than the adjacent lowland regions, and are frequently home to distinct communities of plants and animals.
Montani semper liberi Montani Semper Liberi (Latin for "Mountaineers are Always Free") is the official motto of the state of West Virginia in the United States. It was adopted as the official motto of the state in Article II, Section 2-7, of the state constitution signed in 1872.
Montauk Highway Montauk Highway is one of the original through highways of Long Island, New York, extending from Jamaica, in the New York City borough of Queens to Montauk Point in Suffolk County, a distance of approximately 100 miles (~160 km).
Montauk Point State Park Montauk Point State Park is located in the village of Montauk at the eastern tip of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York. Montauk Point is the easternmost extremity of the South Fork of Long Island, and thus also of New York State.
Montauk Project The Montauk Project was purportedly a series of secret United States government projects conducted at Camp Hero and/or Montauk Air Force Station on Montauk, Long Island. It was claimed by a small number of conspiracy theorists to be secretly developing a powerful psychological war weapon.
Montauk Project (book) The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time by Preston B. Nichols and Peter Moon is the first book (ISBN 0-9631889-0-9) in a popular series detailing time travel experiments at the Montauk Air Force Base at the eastern tip of Long Island as part of the Montauk Project.
MontaVista Software MontaVista Software develops systems software, development tools and Embedded Linux-based software targeting embedded systems such as automotive electronics, communications equipment, and television set-top boxes and other connected devices and infrastructure. It is based in Sunnyvale, California and was founded in 1999 by James "Jim" Ready (previously at Mentor Graphics and creator of VRTX) and others.
Monté La Riviè Monté La Riviè (English translation: "Go Up The River") was the French entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1992, performed in Haitian Creole and French (the first occasion on which France had not sung almost entirely in French) by Kali.
Montbello, Denver, Colorado Montbello is a neighborhood in the City and County of Denver, Colorado and appears on a map as a northeast appendage of the city. The neighborhood lies north of I-70 and was isolated from the rest of the city by Stapleton International Airport, now under redevelopment.
Montcalm (D642) The Montcalm is a F70 type anti-submarine frigate of the French Marine Nationale. She is the fourth French vessel named after the 18th century Marshal marquess Louis de Montcalm de Saint VĂ©ran (see French ship Montcalm for the others).
Montceau-les-Mines Montceau-les-Mines is a commune in the département of Saône-et-Loire and the Bourgogne region of France. It is the second-largest commune of the metropolitan Communauté urbaine Creusot-Montceau, which lies southwest of the city of Dijon.
Montclair College Preparatory School Montclair College Preparatory School, also commonly known as "Montclair Prep" is a combined elementary and secondary school located in Van Nuys, California which teaches grades 6 through 12. As of 2005, the headmaster is Dr.
Montclair Connection The Montclair Connection is a short section of double-track New Jersey Transit rail connecting the former end of the Montclair Branch at Bay Street Station to the old Boonton Line southeast of Walnut Street Station. When it opened on Monday, September 30, 2002, the Montclair and Boonton lines were combined into the Montclair-Boonton Line, and passenger service was ended on the old Boonton Line east of the connection; it is now only used by Norfolk Southern for freight.
Montclair High School (New Jersey) Montclair High School is a comprehensive four-year public high school located in Montclair, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Montclair Public Schools. The school is for residents of both Upper Montclair (a distinction made, among other reasons, for postal code variation) and Montclair.
Montclair Public Schools The Montclair Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through twelfth grade from the Township of Montclair, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. The district consists of seven elementary schools, three Middle schools and one high school.
Montclair State University Montclair State University is a public university located in Montclair, New Jersey, Little Falls, New Jersey, & Clifton, New Jersey. As of Fall 2004, there are about 9,600 full-time and 2,200 part-time undergraduate and 3,800 graduate students.
Montclair-Boonton Line The Montclair-Boonton Line is a commuter rail line on New Jersey Transit Rail's Hoboken Division. It is a consolidiation of the Montclair Branch and the Boonton Line, formed when the Montclair Connection opened on September 30, 2002.
Monte Albán Monte Albán is a large pre-Columbian center and archaeological site in the Oaxacan sub-region of Mesoamerica, whose major developments are attributed to the Zapotec civilization with a later occupational phase by the Mixtec. The site is located in southern Mexico's Valley of Oaxaca, in the present-day state of Oaxaca, at an elevation of 1941 m (6368 ft) above mean sea level.
Monte Amundsen American opera and musical singer who appeared on Broadway in Marc Blitzstein's musical Juno in 1959. She was briefly married to her co-star from that show, dancer Tommy Rall and later married opera star Giorgio Tozzi.
Monte Barrett Monte Barrett (born May 26, 1971, Greenville, North Carolina) is a professional boxer. Known as "Two Gunz", the American fighter has been a top rated heavyweight for the past five years, and recently dropped a lackluster decision to WBC Heavyweight champion Hasim Rahman.
Monte Berico The Sanctuary and Basilica of Monte Berico dominates the city of Vicenza from the hills above. The first structure was a small gothic chapel that housed a statue of the Madonna of Monte Berico, as sculpted by Nicolò da Venezia in 1430, two years after her second apparition.
Monte Carlo Monte Carlo (Occitan: Montcarles, Monégasque: Monte-Carlu) is the wealthiest of Monaco's 4 quarters, sometimes erroneously believed to be the country's capital, even though there formally is none. Monte Carlo is known for its casinos, gambling, glamour, and for sightings of famous people.
Monster Truck Madness Monster Truck Madness is a PC game developed by Terminal Reality and published by Microsoft, in 1996. A racing game, Monster Truck Madness allows players to select a truck and compete with AI players in one of four modes - Drag, Circuit, Rally and Tournament.
Monster Voodoo Machine Formed in Canada in 1991, Monster Voodoo Machine was the modern metal brainchild of Toronto musician/vocalist Adam Sewell. The singer culled the ranks of bands such as Totentanz and Backlash to create the first band lineup consisting of Mark Gibson on guitar, Drew Gauley on drums, and bassist Terry Landry.
Monster: Living Off the Big Screen Monster: Living Off the Big Screen is a 1997 book in which John Gregory Dunne recounts his experiences as a screenwriter in Hollywood. The book focuses on the process of drafting the screenplay for Up Close & Personal, 1996, a movie starring Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer.
Monstera Monstera is a genus of 22 species of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to tropical regions of the Americas. The genus is named from the Latin word for "monstrous" or "abnormal", the members of the genus are distinguished by their unusual leaves with natural holes.
Monstera deliciosa Monstera deliciosa (also called Fruit Salad Plant, Ceriman, Monster fruit, Monsterio Delicio, Monstereo, Swiss Cheese Plant, Mexican Breadfruit, Monstera, split-leaf philodendron and Windowleaf) is a creeping vine native to tropical rainforests from southern Mexico south to Panama.
Monsterbots The Monsterbots (known as the Firebots in Japan) is the name for a sub-group of three fictional characters from the Transformers universes. Released in 1987, the unifying characteristic of the three Monsterbots - Doublecross, Grotusque and Repugnus - is evident from the group’s name: they all transform into monstrous creatures of various types.
Monsterbowl Monsterbowl is an online MMORPG where Managers take control of an American Football style team of players of every shape and size and lead their team to victory in the Battleball league. This is done by scoring Touchdowns whilst taking down your opponents runners and defending your backline
Monsterpiece Theater Monsterpiece Theater is a recurring segment on the American version of the internationally acclaimed children's educational program Sesame Street. While using Muppet characters to act out educational principles, Monsterpiece Theater is also a parody of the similarly acclaimed PBS show Masterpiece Theatre.
Monsters of Grace Monsters of Grace is a multimedia chamber opera in 13 short acts directed by Robert Wilson, with music by Philip Glass and libretto from the works of 13th-century Sufi mystic Jalaluddin Rumi. The title is said to be a reference to Wilson's corruption of a line from Hamlet: "Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
Monsters of the Midway The "Monsters of the Midway" is most widely known as the nickname for the National Football League's Chicago Bears — particularly the dominant teams of 1940 and 1941. The name underwent something of a revival when the 1985 edition of the Bears proved to be similarly dominant.
Monsters, Inc. Monsters, Inc. is the fourth animated feature produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released to theaters by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution in the United States on November 2 2001, and in the United Kingdom on February 8, 2002.
Monstrance Monstrance is the vessel used in the Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, and Anglo-Catholic Churches to display the consecrated Eucharistic Host, during Eucharistic adoration or Benediction. The word monstrance comes from the Latin word monstrare, meaning "to show".
Monstress Monstress (Candi Pyponte-Le Parc III) is a fictional character, a superheroine in the future of the DC Comics universe, a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes. She was a pampered princess from Xanthu who gained her abilities and monstrous appearance from an explosion caused by a gene-altering bomb within a plant on one of Candi's father's labor farms.
Monstrosity (band) Monstrosity is a technical death metal band originating from Fort Lauderdale, Florida during the death metal scene of the late 1980's. Monstrosity was home to a number of session and full-time musicians whom later resurfaced in acts like Cynic, Malevolent Creation, Cannibal Corpse, Capharnaum and Hate Plow.
Monstrous humanoid (Dungeons & Dragons) Monstrous humanoids are a "creature type" in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. Monstrous humanoids are differentiated from humanoids by their monstrous or animalistic features, and not all are technically "humanoid" in body form.
Monstrous moonshine In mathematics, monstrous moonshine is a term devised by John Horton Conway and Simon P. Norton in 1979, used to describe the (then totally unexpected) connection between the monster group M and modular functions (particularly, the j function).
Monstrous Regiment Monstrous Regiment is an abbreviation of the title of a 16th century tract by John Knox, the full title of which was, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women (the women in question were Mary, Queen of Scots, Mary Tudor and Mary of Guise).
Monstrous Regiment (novel) Monstrous Regiment is the 31st novel in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. It takes its name from the anti-Catholic 16th century tract by John Knox, the full title of which is The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women.
Monstrous spider In the Dungeons and Dragons fantasy role-playing game, a Monstrous Spider is one of the most common types of Giant spider. No one is quite sure which real-life spider they are based on, although many, including a lot of D&D developers believe them to look somewhat akin to a Tarantula crossed with an Australian House Spider.
Mont Alto Rail Road The Mont Alto Rail Road was a railroad in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, originally built to connect the blast furnaces of the Mont Alto Iron Company to the Cumberland Valley Railroad. It was later extended south to reach Waynesboro.
Mont Blanc Tunnel The Mont Blanc Tunnel is a road tunnel in the Alps under the Mont Blanc mountain, linking Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, France, and Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy. It is one of the major trans-Alpine transport routes particularly for Italy which relies on the tunnel for transporting as much as one-third of its freight to northern Europe.
Mont Fleury, Kinshasa The quartier Mont Fleury (Mont Fleury quarter) is an exclusive gated community located in the Ngaliema district of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is known for its large mansions, sprawling compounds and recently-constructed fully-furnished apartment buildings that are rented to those Western diplomats, businesspeople and expatriates that can afford the high price for the peace and comfort it provides.
Mont Mégantic Observatory The Observatoire du Mont Mégantic (Mont Mégantic Observatory in English) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated jointly by the Université de Montréal and the Université Laval. Founded in 1978, it is the largest observatory of eastern Canada, and is situated at the summit of Mont Mégantic, the highest point of the province of Québec to be accessible by car.
Mont Pelerin Society The Mont Pelerin Society (MPS) is an international organization composed of economists, intellectuals, business leaders, and others who favour economic liberalism. The society advocates free market economic policies and the political values of an "open society.
Mont Tremblant Resort Mont Tremblant Resort is a large year round resort about one and a half hours north of Montreal. It is best known as a ski destination, but also features a lake suitable for swimming, and a golf course in the summer months.
Mont-Bouët The marché Mont-Bouët (Mont-Bouet market), in Libreville is Gabon's largest market, with hundreds of stalls selling fruits, vegetables, meat, poultry (live and dead), fabric, clothing, jewelry, household goods, traditional medicine and a variety of other goods. It is easy to get lost in the narrow passageways of the market and there are pickpockets, so visitors should keep track of their money and valuables at all times.
Mont-Laurier, Quebec Mont-Laurier is a town in northwest Quebec, Canada located on the banks of the Rivière du Lièvre, a tributary of the Ottawa River. Known as "the capital of the Haute-Laurentides", Mont-Laurier was founded in 1885 by Solime Alix.
Mont-Saint-Hilaire Line (AMT) The Mont-Saint-Hilaire line is a commuter rail line operated in the Greater Montreal, Quebec, Canada area, by the Agence métropolitaine de transport, or AMT, (in English, the "Metropolitan transportation agency"), the umbrella organization that plans, integrates, and coordinates public transportation services across this region.
Monta Vista, Cupertino, California Monta Vista is an upper-income residential neighborhood in western Cupertino, California. "Monta Vista" does not mean anything in any language but is very similar to "Monte Vista," which means "mountain view" in Spanish.
Montaña Clara Montaña Clara (Spanish meaning "light-colored mountain") is a small islet belonging to the so-called Chinijo Archipelago, in the northeastern part of the Canary Islands, only a short distance (about 2 km) northwest of La Graciosa. The islet is only 1.
Montaña Corona Montaña Corona is a volcano on the Canary Island of Lanzarote, near the village of YĂ© in the municipality of HarĂa. Its eruption around 3000 years ago covered a large area of the northeast of the island with lava, creating the Malpais de la Corona and two of the island's most-visited geological attractions, the Cueva de los Verdes and the Jameos del Agua.
Montañita (Ecuador) Montañita is a small village on Ecuador's Pacific coast. It is known by Ecuadorians and international visitors alike as one of the best surfing locales in the country; this recognition is one of the main reasons it is able to draw large crowd of eclectic visitors year-round.
Montae Reagor Montae Reagor (born June 29, 1977 in Waxahachie, Texas) is an American football player who currently plays defensive tackle for the Indianapolis Colts. He was a four-year starter at Texas Tech who opened 41 of 44 career games and holds a school record with 24.
Montage of Heck Montage of Heck is the name of two commercially unreleased sound collages put together by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain at his home in the summer of 1988. The two collages (the five-minute "short version" and the 35-minute "long version") were included on Cobain's "Mellow 4-track Shit" demo tape of acoustic songs he had written that summer, including early acoustic versions of "Sappy" and "Polly".
Montage sequence A montage sequence is a technique in film editing in which a series of short shots is edited into a sequence to condense narrative. It is usually used to advance the story as a whole (often to suggest the passage of time), rather than to create symbolic meaning.
Montagnes du Cibao The Montagnes du Cibao (Mountains of Cibao) are located in Haiti. The highest point of the range, Morne du Cibao, is 2,280 meters (7,480 feet) above sea level, making it the third highest peak in Haiti, behind Pic la Selle and Pic Macaya.
Montagnola Montagnola is a small Swiss village part of Collina d'Oro which looks over Lake Lugano and the city of Lugano upon it. Located in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino it is close to the border between Switzerland and Italy.
Montagu Bay, Tasmania Montagu Bay is a suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, located in the City of Clarence on the eastern shore of the Derwent River, about four kilometres from the city centre of greater Hobart. It is a small primarily residential suburb squeezed in between Rosny, Rose Bay and Lindisfarne and is centred around a small bay of the same name.
Montagu Bertie, 7th Earl of Abingdon Montagu Arthur Bertie, 7th Earl of Abingdon (13th May 1836 - 10th March 1928) was the fifth child of Montagu Bertie, 6th Earl of Abingdon and Elizabeth Lavinia Vernon-Harcourt. His granddaughter, Clarissa Churchill, married Anthony Eden, Prime Minister 1955-7, and became Countess of Avon when Eden was raised to the peerage in 1961.
Montagu Burrows Montagu Burrows (born 27 October 1819 at Hadley, England - died 10 July 1905 at Oxford, England) was an officer in the Royal Navy and subsequently the first Chichele Professor of Modern History at Oxford University. He was probably the very first academic to lecture on naval history at Oxford or at any university in Britain.
Montagu Corry, 1st Baron Rowton Montagu William Lowry-Corry, 1st Baron Rowton (8 October 1838–9 November 1903), also known as "Monty," was a British philanthropist and minor diplomat, best known for serving as Benjamin Disraeli's private secretary from 1866 until the latter's death in 1881.
Montagu Place Montagu Place is a street in the Marylebone district of the City of Westminster in London (postcode prefix: W1H). Montagu Place's architecture is largely Georgian, and is the site of both the Swiss and Swedish embassies in London.
Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms The Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms were reforms introduced by the British Government in India to introduce self-governing institutions gradually to India. The reforms take their name from Edwin Samuel Montagu, the Secretary of State for India during the latter parts of World War I and Lord Chelmsford, Viceroy of India between 1916 and 1921.
Montague Burton Residences Montague Burton Residences is a self-catering hall of residence owned and managed by the University of Leeds. Sometimes referred to as Monty B among students, it is located approximately a quarter of a mile from the university's main campus and under a mile from central Leeds.
Montague Eliot, 8th Earl of St Germans Montague Charles Eliot, 8th Earl of St Germans was born on May 13 1870 in Pimlico, Middlesex to Charles George Cornwallis Eliot (October 16 1839 - May 22 1901) and his wife Constance Rhiannon Guest (November 1844 - 1916).
Montague grammar Montague grammar is an approach to natural language semantics, named after American logician Richard Montague. The Montague grammar is based on formal logic, especially lambda calculus and set theory, and makes use of the notions of intensional logic and type theory.
Montague Gold Mines, Nova Scotia Montague Gold Mines located at 44°43'06"N, 63°30'48"W is a community in the Halifax Regional Municipality on the Montague Road off of exit 14 of Nova Scotia Highway 107 three kilometers from Dartmouth.
Montague Shadworth Seymour Moore Montague Shadworth Seymour Moore (9 October 1896- 12 September 1966) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Montague Summers Augustus Montague Summers (10 April, 1880 - 10 August, 1948) was an eccentric English author and clergyman. He is known primarily for his 1928 English translation of the medieval witch hunter's manual, the Malleus Maleficarum, as well as for several studies on witches, vampires, and werewolves, in all of which he professed to believe.
Montague Ullman Montague Ullman, MD, (born 1916) is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded the Dream Laboratory at the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York and for over three decades has been actively promoting public interest in dreams and dream sharing groups.
Montaigut-le-Blanc, Puy-de-DĂ´me Montaigut-le-blanc in the Puy-de-DĂ´me departement in the Auvergne region is a little medieval village on the French mountainsides. The medieval castle at the top of the walled village is now a hotel with restaurant.
Montalivet Islands East Montalivet Island and West Montalivet Island are islands off the north west coast of Australia, in the state of Western Australia, in the Indian Ocean. They are often referred to together as the Montlivet Islands although this is not a gazetted name.
Montalvo (Metrolink station) The Montalvo Metrolink Station is a Metrolink rail station in the community of Montalvo in the city of Ventura, California. It is served by Metrolink's Ventura County Line from Los Angeles Union Station to Montalvo.
Montalvo, Ventura, California Montalvo is a district in Ventura, California located in the south part of the city. It is named after Garci RodrĂguez de Montalvo, the Spanish author who first described the Island of California in the 1510 novel Las Sergas de Esplandián.
Montana Arboretum and Gardens The Montana Arboretum and Gardens are located on the Montana State University campus in Bozeman, Montana. The Arboretum proper is located at the northwestern corner of campus by the intersection of West College Avenue and South 11th Avenue, but plantings occur throughout campus.
Montana Avenue Montana Avenue is a primarily residential street that stretches from Ocean Avenue to Barrington Avenue in Brentwood. The intersection of Montana and Barrington is one of the busiest in the area, due to its proximity to Sunset Boulevard.
Montana class battleship The Montana class battleships of the United States Navy were proposed successors to the Iowa class, being slower, but larger, better armored, and carrying more guns. Five ships of the Montana class were approved for construction during World War II; however, changes in priority during the war resulted in cancellation of the new design in favour of aircraft carriers before the first keel was laid.
Montana Conservation Corps The Montana Conservation Corps (MCC) is a young adult development program modeled after the Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930s, using conservation projects to foster citizenship and personal growth in its members. The MCC operates crews in six towns throughout Montana: Missoula; Kalispell; Great Falls; Helena; Billings; and Bozeman, which also serves as the program’s central office.
Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame The Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame is a proposed hall of fame designated in 2003 by the State of Montana to be located in Wolf Point, Montana. The stated goal is to "honor those cowboys of the State of Montana who have led their lives in the companionship and duty of the cowboy spirit".
Montana District (LCMS) The Montana District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS), and comprises the state of Montana, also including one congregation in Idaho; the rest of Idaho is included in the Northwest District. The Montana District includes approximately 65 congregations and missions, subdivided into 6 circuits, as well as 14 preschools and 3 elementary schools.
Montana Freemen The Montana Freemen were a Christian Patriot group based in Montana, United States, near the town of Jordan. The Montana Freemen believed in the doctrine of individual sovereignty and rejected the authority of the U.
Montana Grizzlies football The Montana Grizzlies football program (or "Griz") represents the University of Montana in the NCAA Division I Championship Subdivision, better known as Division I-AA. The Grizzlies won national championships in 1995 and 2001 and have qualified for a record 14 consecutive playoffs.
Montana Initiative 96 (2004) Initiative 96 of 2004 is a so-called "defense of marriage amendment" that amended the Montana Constitution by adding a definition of marriage that prevents same-sex marriages from being conducted or recognized in Montana. The Initiative passed via public referendum on November 2, 2004 with 67% of voters supporting and 33% opposing.
Montana Jones is a comedy adventure anime television series which was broadcast in Japan on NHK from April 2, 1994 through April 8, 1995. Studio Jueno (Japan) and REVER (Italy) created the 52 episode series as a joint production.
Montana Max (Hellsing) is a character in the manga Hellsing. While he only appears in the promotional piece made before the series itself began production, he is the leader of Millennium in the manga and OVA, (in which he is voiced by Nobuo Tobita and in english by Gildart Jackson) and is constantly scheming from the shadows.
Montana Meth Project The Montana Meth Project is a Montana-based anti-drug organization founded by billionaire Thomas Siebel. The main focus of the project is an advertising campaign, based on ads that are intended to horrify viewers concerning the possible dangers of methamphetamines.
Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry The Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry is one category of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, given out annually. The award carries a $5,000 prize for each winner of the category awards, including the award for poetry.
Montana New Zealand Book Awards The Montana New Zealand Book Awards are a series of literary awards to works of New Zealand citizens. They were created in 1996, as a merge of the two previously most relevant awards in New Zealand: the Montana Book Awards and the New Zealand Book Awards.
Montana Province Montana (Монтана) is a province in northwestern Bulgaria, bordering Serbia and Romania. Its main city is Montana, while other towns include Berkovitsa, Lom, Chiprovtsi, Boychinovtsi, Valchredram, Varshets and Brusartsi.
Montana Southern Railway The Montana Southern Railway, now defunct, was an American narrow-gauge railroad constructed between Divide, Montana and the mining district of Coolidge, Montana. The short-lived line is noteworthy as the last common-carrier narrow-gauge railroad to be constructed in the United States.
Montana State University - Billings Montana State University - Billings is a state university located in Billings, Montana (USA). It was named Eastern Montana Normal School when it was founded and then named Eastern Montana College before being renamed to its present name when the Montana State University System reorganized in 1994.
Montana State University System The Montana State University System was created on July 1, 1994, when the Montana Board of Regents of Higher Education restructured the state's colleges and universities into two umbrella universities, Montana State University System and the University of Montana System. Each of these two subsystems has campuses in four cities, with a university President at the main campus, and Chancellors at each of the three smaller units.
Montana Television Network The Montana Television Network is a regional television network connecting eight CBS television affiliates in Montana, all but one owned by the Evening Post Publishing Company. It is based in Billings, Montana.
Montana Western Railway The Montana Western Railway (MWRR) was an American railroad. In 1986 the MWRR leased and began operating trackage owned by the Burlington Northern Railroad between the towns of Butte and Garrison, Montana, a distance of 52 miles.
Montana Western Railway (1909) The Montana Western Railway (MW) was an American railroad constructed between the towns of Conrad, Montana and Valier, Montana, a distance of 20 miles. The railroad was constructed in 1909 by the Valier Land and Water Company, as part of an effort to develop new agricultural lands in the Valier area.
Montana Wilderness Association The Montana Wilderness Association was founded in 1958 by Montana volunteers and is governed by a state council of citizen volunteers from across the state, elected by the membership. As a community-based organization, it works at the local level through seven chapters and field offices in Billings, Bozeman, Choteau, Dillon, Great Falls, Helena and Kalispell.
Montana's Cookhouse Montana's Cookhouse is a Canadian restaurant headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario. There are restaurants across Canada from British Columbia to Quebec plus Nova Scotia and also locations in Michigan and New York State.
Montane Montane is a biogeographic term which refers to highland areas located below the timberline. Montane regions generally have cooler temperatures and often have higher rainfall than the adjacent lowland regions, and are frequently home to distinct communities of plants and animals.
Montani semper liberi Montani Semper Liberi (Latin for "Mountaineers are Always Free") is the official motto of the state of West Virginia in the United States. It was adopted as the official motto of the state in Article II, Section 2-7, of the state constitution signed in 1872.
Montauk Highway Montauk Highway is one of the original through highways of Long Island, New York, extending from Jamaica, in the New York City borough of Queens to Montauk Point in Suffolk County, a distance of approximately 100 miles (~160 km).
Montauk Point State Park Montauk Point State Park is located in the village of Montauk at the eastern tip of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York. Montauk Point is the easternmost extremity of the South Fork of Long Island, and thus also of New York State.
Montauk Project The Montauk Project was purportedly a series of secret United States government projects conducted at Camp Hero and/or Montauk Air Force Station on Montauk, Long Island. It was claimed by a small number of conspiracy theorists to be secretly developing a powerful psychological war weapon.
Montauk Project (book) The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time by Preston B. Nichols and Peter Moon is the first book (ISBN 0-9631889-0-9) in a popular series detailing time travel experiments at the Montauk Air Force Base at the eastern tip of Long Island as part of the Montauk Project.
MontaVista Software MontaVista Software develops systems software, development tools and Embedded Linux-based software targeting embedded systems such as automotive electronics, communications equipment, and television set-top boxes and other connected devices and infrastructure. It is based in Sunnyvale, California and was founded in 1999 by James "Jim" Ready (previously at Mentor Graphics and creator of VRTX) and others.
Monté La Riviè Monté La Riviè (English translation: "Go Up The River") was the French entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1992, performed in Haitian Creole and French (the first occasion on which France had not sung almost entirely in French) by Kali.
Montbello, Denver, Colorado Montbello is a neighborhood in the City and County of Denver, Colorado and appears on a map as a northeast appendage of the city. The neighborhood lies north of I-70 and was isolated from the rest of the city by Stapleton International Airport, now under redevelopment.
Montcalm (D642) The Montcalm is a F70 type anti-submarine frigate of the French Marine Nationale. She is the fourth French vessel named after the 18th century Marshal marquess Louis de Montcalm de Saint VĂ©ran (see French ship Montcalm for the others).
Montceau-les-Mines Montceau-les-Mines is a commune in the département of Saône-et-Loire and the Bourgogne region of France. It is the second-largest commune of the metropolitan Communauté urbaine Creusot-Montceau, which lies southwest of the city of Dijon.
Montclair College Preparatory School Montclair College Preparatory School, also commonly known as "Montclair Prep" is a combined elementary and secondary school located in Van Nuys, California which teaches grades 6 through 12. As of 2005, the headmaster is Dr.
Montclair Connection The Montclair Connection is a short section of double-track New Jersey Transit rail connecting the former end of the Montclair Branch at Bay Street Station to the old Boonton Line southeast of Walnut Street Station. When it opened on Monday, September 30, 2002, the Montclair and Boonton lines were combined into the Montclair-Boonton Line, and passenger service was ended on the old Boonton Line east of the connection; it is now only used by Norfolk Southern for freight.
Montclair High School (New Jersey) Montclair High School is a comprehensive four-year public high school located in Montclair, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Montclair Public Schools. The school is for residents of both Upper Montclair (a distinction made, among other reasons, for postal code variation) and Montclair.
Montclair Public Schools The Montclair Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in kindergarten through twelfth grade from the Township of Montclair, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. The district consists of seven elementary schools, three Middle schools and one high school.
Montclair State University Montclair State University is a public university located in Montclair, New Jersey, Little Falls, New Jersey, & Clifton, New Jersey. As of Fall 2004, there are about 9,600 full-time and 2,200 part-time undergraduate and 3,800 graduate students.
Montclair-Boonton Line The Montclair-Boonton Line is a commuter rail line on New Jersey Transit Rail's Hoboken Division. It is a consolidiation of the Montclair Branch and the Boonton Line, formed when the Montclair Connection opened on September 30, 2002.
Monte Albán Monte Albán is a large pre-Columbian center and archaeological site in the Oaxacan sub-region of Mesoamerica, whose major developments are attributed to the Zapotec civilization with a later occupational phase by the Mixtec. The site is located in southern Mexico's Valley of Oaxaca, in the present-day state of Oaxaca, at an elevation of 1941 m (6368 ft) above mean sea level.
Monte Amundsen American opera and musical singer who appeared on Broadway in Marc Blitzstein's musical Juno in 1959. She was briefly married to her co-star from that show, dancer Tommy Rall and later married opera star Giorgio Tozzi.
Monte Barrett Monte Barrett (born May 26, 1971, Greenville, North Carolina) is a professional boxer. Known as "Two Gunz", the American fighter has been a top rated heavyweight for the past five years, and recently dropped a lackluster decision to WBC Heavyweight champion Hasim Rahman.
Monte Berico The Sanctuary and Basilica of Monte Berico dominates the city of Vicenza from the hills above. The first structure was a small gothic chapel that housed a statue of the Madonna of Monte Berico, as sculpted by Nicolò da Venezia in 1430, two years after her second apparition.
Monte Carlo Monte Carlo (Occitan: Montcarles, Monégasque: Monte-Carlu) is the wealthiest of Monaco's 4 quarters, sometimes erroneously believed to be the country's capital, even though there formally is none. Monte Carlo is known for its casinos, gambling, glamour, and for sightings of famous people.
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