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Moria Casán Moria Casán (born Ana María Casanova on August 16,1946 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine actress, dancer and singer. Soon after acting in a revue show with the Argentine icon Nelida Roca, she became a stage sexy symbol and vedette.
Moriah Moriah (Hebrew: מוריה, Moriya = "ordained/considered by YHWH") is the name given to a mountain range by the book of Genesis, in which context it is given as the location of the near sacrifice of Isaac. Traditionally Moriah has been interpreted as the name of the specific mountain at which this occurred, rather than just the name of the range.
Moriah Shock Incarceration Correctional Facility Moriah Shock Incarceration Correctional Facility is a minimum security New York State prison, located outside of Mineville, New York, in a beautiful, but particularly remote part of the Adirondack Mountains. The facility — established in former mine buildings — is home to SHOCK and intensive ASAT programs.
Moriah van Norman Moriah van Norman (born May 30, 1984 in San Diego, California) is an American water polo player for the University of Southern California, who won the Peter J. Cutino Award in 2004, recognized as the best female collegiate player in the nation.
Morialta Conservation Park Morialta Conservation Park is a public reserve 10 km north-east of Adelaide, in the state of South Australia, Australia. The park is in a rugged bush environment, with a narrow gorge set with three waterfalls, bounded by steep ridges and cliffs.
Moriarty Tribunal The Moriarty Tribunal is an Irish Public inquiry established in 1997 into the financial affairs of politicians Charles Haughey and Michael Lowry. It is still ongoing, but has revealed significant tax evasion by these and other politicians and leading businessmen.
Morib Morib was formerly a popular beach located in Selangor, Malaysia.Morib Beach (Pantai Morib) is quiet seaside tourist attraction which is historically noted for being one of the first landing points on the west coast for the British and Indian Army liberation forces during World War II.
Moribana Moribana (盛り花, 盛花) is a type of Japanese flower arrangement Ikebana which uses a shallow container and a kenzan, a holder with many sharp points into which flowers are inserted. The big feature of moribana is the broad expanse of natural-looking shapes and a mound of beautiful flowers.
Moribund language A language is usually considered moribund (literally, 'dying') when it is no longer the language of the community, and is no longer learned by children, so that without massive intervention it will likely become extinct when the last of its current speakers dies. A language can have thousands of speakers and still be moribund, if language learning ceased abruptly in a large community.
Morice Bird Morice Carlos Bird (born March 25, 1888, St Michael's Hamlet, Liverpool, Lancashire, died December 9, 1933, Broadstone, Dorset) was an English cricketer who played in 10 Tests from 1910 to 1914, all of them in South Africa.
Morice Town Morice Town was named after Sir William Morice who owned the land at the time that it was being developed for housing for the employees in the Naval Dockyard. It was originally a part of the town of Devonport but since the amalgamation of the Three Towns in 1914, it is now a part of Plymouth.
Morihei Ueshiba Morihei Ueshiba (植芝 盛平 Ueshiba Morihei, December 14, 1883–April 26, 1969) was a famous martial artist and founder of the Japanese martial art of aikido. He is often referred to as Kaiso 開祖 (founder) or Ōsensei 翁先生 (Great Teacher) by some aikidōka.
Morihiko Hiramatsu Morihiko Hiramatsu (born 12 March 1924), is a Japanese politician who was elected Governor of Oita Prefecture from April 1979 to April 2003. As Governor, he initiated the One Village One Product movement for regional development, which became much copied by developing countries throughout the world.
Morihiro Hosokawa Morihiro Hosokawa (ç´°ĺ·ť č­·ç…• Hosokawa Morihiro, born January 14, 1938) is a Japanese politician who was the 79th Prime Minister of Japan from August 9, 1993 to April 28, 1994. His coalition was the first non-Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) government since 1955.
Morichjhanpi Morichjhanpi (alternatively Morichjhapi) is an island set in the mangrove forests of the Sundarbans in West Bengal, India. It is mostly remembered today for the Morichjhanpi incident of 1978-79 when the West Bengal government forcibly evicted thousands of Bengali refugees who had settled on the island.
Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens is a center for Japanese arts and culture located west of Delray Beach in Palm Beach County, Florida. It is located in Morikami Park, which is operated by the Palm Beach County, Florida Parks and Recreation Department.
Morikami Park Morikami Park is in Delray Beach, Florida, and is operated by the Palm Beach County Parks and Recreation Department. The park is named after George Morikami, who donated the land for the park to Palm Beach County.
Morimond Abbey Morimond Abbey, situated in the present Fresnoy-en-Bassigny in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France, was the fourth of the four great daughter abbeys of Citeaux Abbey, of primary importance in the spread of the Cistercian Order, along with La Ferté to the south, Pontigny to the west and Clairvaux to the north.
Morimura Seiichi Morimura Seiichi (森村誠一) (born January 2, 1933) is a Japanese novelist and author. He is best known for the controversial The Devil's Gluttony (悪魔の飽食) (1981), which revealed the atrocities committed by Unit 731 of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945).
Morin khuur The morin khuur or morin huur (from the Mongolian: морин хуур) or matouqin (from the Chinese: 馬頭琴) is a chordophone of Mongolian origin whose name roughly translates as "horse-head fiddle" in English. It is played with a bow and produces a sound which is poetically described as expansive and unrestrained, like a wild horse neighing, or like a breeze in the grasslands.
Morinda The genus Morinda comprises approximatively 80 species, distributed in all tropical regions of the world. These species may be trees, shrubs or vines; some, like Morinda citrifolia, are trees that very much resemble vines.
Morinda Spruce The Morinda Spruce or West Himalayan Spruce (Picea smithiana) is a spruce native to the western Himalaya and adjacent mountains, from northeast Afghanistan east to central Nepal. It grows at altitudes of 2,400-3,600 m in forests together with Deodar Cedar, Blue Pine and Pindrow Fir.
Moringa drouhardii The Bottle Tree, Moringa drouhardii, is an endemic species of Madagascar. It occurs in the Madagascar spiny thickets ecoregion, especially at the limestone cliffs to the east of Lake Tsimanampetsotsa, on the Mahafaly Plateau.
Morinosaurus Morinosaurus (meaning "Morini lizard", for an ancient people of northern France) was a genus of sauropod dinosaur from an unnamed formation of Kimmeridgian-age Upper Jurassic rocks from Boulogne-sur-Mer, DĂ©partment du Pas-de-Calais, France. It is an obscure tooth genus sometimes referred to the Lower Cretaceous English wastebasket taxon, Pelorosaurus.
Morio Muscat Morio Muscat (also known as Morio-Muskat) is a white wine grape that was created when viticulturalist Peter Mario crossed the Silvaner and Pinot Blanc vines together. The grape is highly aromatic and was used extensively in Germany in the 1970's as a blending companion to Muller-Thurgau.
Moriori language Moriori is a Malayo-Polynesian language most closely related to New Zealand Māori. It is the native language of the Moriori, the indigenous people of the Chatham Islands which are east of and under New Zealand sovereignty.
Morisonianism Morisonianism, the principles of the Evangelical Union, a Scottish denomination founded by the Rev. James Morison of Kilmarnock on his expulsion from the United Secession Church in 1843, and united with the Scottish Congregational Union in 1897; differed from the older Presbyterianism in affirming the freedom of the human will to accept or reject salvation, and the universal scope of the offer of salvation as made by God to all men; in polity the Morisonians observed a modified independency.
Moriss Taylor Moriss Taylor is one of the most recognizable faces in northern California television and an unmistakable voice on the radio. Born in Miami, Oklahoma in 1924, Moriss grew up listening to singing cowboys such as Roy Rogers, the Sons of the Pioneers and Gene Autry and brought his singing talent west to Chico, California, where he would begin his broadcasting career at local country music radio station KHSL-AM 1290.
Morita equivalence In abstract algebra, Morita equivalence is a relationship defined between rings that preserves many ring-theoretic properties. They are named after Japanese mathematician Kiiti Morita who defined equivalence and a similar notion of duality in 1958.
Morita-za The Morita-za (森田座), also known later as the Shintomi-za (新富座), was one of the major Kabuki theaters in Edo (modern-day Tokyo) during the Edo period and into the beginning of the 20th century. It was established in January 1660, and run by the Morita family of actors until its destruction in the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake which destroyed much of Tokyo.
Morituri Morituri (also known as The Saboteur and Code Name Morituri) is a 1965 film about Robert Crain, a German pacifist living in India during the Second World War. He is blackmailed by the Allies into using his demolition expertise to cripple a Nazi ship carrying rubber from Japan, in the hope of recovering it.
Moritz August von Thummel Moritz August von Thummel (1738-1817), German humorist and satirical author, was born on the 27th of May 1738 at Schonefeld near Leipzig. Educated at Rossleben and the University of Leipzig, where he studied law, he held from 1761 until 1783 various offices in the ducal court of Saxe-Coburg, where he became privy councillor and minister of state.
Moritz Hochschild Dr. Moritz (Don Mauricio) Hochschild (1881 in Biblis, Germany - 1965 in Paris) was one of the most famous men in the mining industry in the first half of the twentieth century and was, along with Simón Iturri Patiño and Carlos Victor Aramayo, one of the three South American tin barons.
Moritz Steinschneider Moritz Steinschneider (March 30, 1816, Prostějov (Prossnitz), Moravia – 1907) was an Austrian bibliographer and Orientalist. He received his early instruction in Hebrew from his father, Jacob Steinschneider (b.
Moritz Thomsen Moritz Thomsen (1915-1991) was an American farmer, writer, and Peace Corps volunteer who worked in the small Ecuadorian town of Rio Verde. His books have been praised by writers such as Paul Theroux and Larry McMurtry.
Moritz von Bissing Moritz Ferdinand Freiherr von Bissing (Jan 30 1844- April 1917) was a Prussian General and Baron. After the fall of Belgium during the First World War, Bissing was appointed Military Governor of occupied Belgium (1915-1917).
Moritz von Oswald Mortiz von Oswald, better known as Maurizio, went on to become one of the most influential producers of techno music in the 1990's. In the 1980's he was percussionist for Palais Schaumburg, but would segue into electronic music by the late 80's and early 90's.
Moritz Wahrmann Moritz Wahrmann, Wahrmann MĂłr(ic), Hungarian politician; grandson of Israel Wahrmann; born at Budapest 28 February 1832; died there 26 November 1892. He was educated at the Protestant gymnasium and the university of his native city, and entered his father's mercantile establishment in 1847, becoming its head after his father's death.
Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse HRH Moritz, Prince and Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (full name: Moritz Friedrich Karl Emanuel Humbert Landgraf von Hessen-Kassel) (b. August 6, 1926) is the son of Prince Philip, Landgrave of Hesse and is the head of the House of Hesse.
Moriyama Einosuke was a samurai during the Tokugawa Shogunate, and an interpreter of Dutch and English. He studied English under Ranald MacDonald, and as “Chief Dutch Interpreter” was one of the chief men involved in the negotiations with Commodore Perry in regard to the opening of Japan to the outside world.
Moriz Ludassy (Gans) Moriz Ludassy, Hungarian journalist; born at Komorn in 1825; died at Reichenau 29 August 1885. As early as 1848 he was editor of the "Esti Lapok" in Budapest and of the "Magyar Világ", advocating in both periodicals the cause of the Conservatives.
Moriz Rosenthal Moriz Rosenthal (December 18, 1862 - September 3, 1946) was a Polish-born American pianist. He was generally considered one of the super-technicians of his day, in the category of Godowsky, Friedman, and Josef Lhevinne.
Morjärv railway station Morjärv railway station (Morjärv järnvägsstation in Swedish, Morajärven rautatieasema in Finnish) is a railway station located on the Boden to Haparanda railway line in the village of Morjärv in northern Sweden. The railway was built in 1910, and Morjärv became a railway junction in 1961 when the Morjärv to Karlsborgsbruk secondary line was completed.
Mork (file format) Mork is a computer file format used by several email clients and web browsers produced by Netscape, and later, Mozilla Foundation. It was developed by David McCusker with the aim of creating a minimal database replacement that would be reliable, flexible, efficient and use a file format close to plain text.
Morkinskinna Morkinskinna is an old Norse kings' saga, relating the history of Norwegian kings from approximately 1025 to 1157. The saga was written in Iceland around 1220, and has been preserved in a manuscript from around 1275.
Morlachs Morlachs (in Greek: Μαυροβλάχοι, Mavrovlachi or Mauro-Vlachs, meaning "Black Vlachs"; in Latin sources: Nigri Latini) were a population of Vlach shepherds that lived in the Dinaric Alps (western Balkans in modern use), constantly migrating in search for better pastures for their sheep flocks. They were probably a blend of Romanized indigenous peoples and Roman colonists.
Morlet wavelet In mathematics, the Morlet wavelet, named after Jean Morlet, was originally formulated by Goupillaud, Grossmann and Morlet in 1984 as a constant kappa_{sigma} subtracted from a plane wave and then localised by a Gaussian:
Morley (crater) Morley is a small lunar impact crater that is located in the eastern part of the Moon's near side, to the east of the Mare Fecunditatis lunar mare. It was formerly a satellite crater of Maclaurin crater, being designated 'Maclaurin R', before being given its current name by the IAU.
Morley (UK Parliament constituency) Morley was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Morley in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.
Morley and Leeds South (UK Parliament constituency) Leeds South and Morley (the strict official name of which was Morley and Leeds South) was a parliamentary constituency located on the outskirts of Leeds, West Yorkshire, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 until it was abolished for the 1997 general election.
Morley and Rothwell (UK Parliament constituency) Morley and Rothwell is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Morley Bartnoff Morley Bartnoff is a Los Angeles, California-born keyboardist/guitarist/songwriter/composer who has been performing and recording for the past 30 years. Formerly with LA rock band Burning Sensations, Morley currently leads alternative rock band Cosmo Topper, and whenever possible serves as the “secret weapon” on keyboards for Dramarama, an enduring power pop band best known for its hits “Anything, Anything (I’ll Give You)” and “Last Cigarette”.
Morley College Choir Morley College Choir was founded by Gustav Holst, during the period he was teaching music at Morley College. The choir was led for many years by Michael Tippett and premiered a number of his works, including A Child of Our Time and is known for presenting concerts of great variety and style.
Morley Drury Morley Drury (February 15 1903 in Midland, Ontario, Canada - January 21 1989 in Santa Monica, California), nicknamed "The Noblest Trojan of Them All," was a quarterback for the University of Southern California.
Morley High School Morley High School is located on Fountain Street in Morley, a town situated 5 miles south-west of Leeds, West Yorkshire with a population of about 50,000. The school is an 11-18 co-educational comprehensive school which serves the town and its surrounding area.
Morley Kells Morley Kells is a longtime politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on two separate occasions, and was briefly a cabinet minister in the government of Frank Miller.
Morley Pedals Morley Pedals is a guitar effects pedal company famous for manufacturing, amongst others, wah pedals, with an alternative design to a conventional wah pedal. Instead of a mechanism by which the user rocks the treadle forward and activates a switch to turn the pedal on, and creating the sound with a potentiometer, Morley wah-wah pedals, with the exception of some of their signature artist models, use a switch placed to the right of the treadle and elctro-optical circuitry instead of a potentiometer.
Morley Senior High School Morley Senior High School, (also known as MSHS, Morley High School, Morley or MSHS'ers) is a co-educational government school in the suburb of Noranda, Western Australia. It teaches Year 8 to 12 in the Australian education system.
Morley's trisector theorem In plane geometry, Morley's trisector theorem states that in any triangle, the three points of intersection of the adjacent angle trisectors form an equilateral triangle, called the Morley triangle. The theorem was discovered in 1899 by Anglo-American mathematician Frank Morley.
Morley, West Yorkshire Morley is a town in the county of Yorkshire (since 1974, West Yorkshire), England, in the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds and is situated five miles south-west of Leeds City Centre. A population of roughly 47,579 was recorded by the 2001 censusthis included West] and [[East Ardsley, although these areas are not governed by Morley Town Council, and many locals view them as separate.
Morleys (department store) Morleys is a department store in Brixton Road, Brixton, south London and the flagship of a group comprising five outlets. The Brixton shop was established in the 1880s and originally traded as 'Morley & Lanceley'.
Morlon Wiley Morlon David Wiley (born September 24 1966 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a former professional basketball player and current assistant coach for the National Basketball Association's Orlando Magic. He played for the Dallas Mavericks, Orlando Magic, and Atlanta Hawks over a 7-year career.
Mormaer The title of Mormaer designates a regional or provincial ruler in the medieval Kingdom of the Scots. In theory, although not always in practice, a Mormaer was second only to the King of Scots, and the senior of a toisech.
Mormaer of Angus The Mormaer or Mormaerdom of Angus was the third Mormaerdom in the High Medieval Kingdom of the Scots to pass into the hands of a foreign family. Angus is one of the oldest attested Mormaerdoms, with the earliest attested Mormaer's floruit being the early 10th century, recorded in the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba (See Dubacan of Angus).
Mormaer of Buchan The Mormaer or Mormaerdom of Buchan was the first Mormaerdom in the High Medieval Kingdom of the Scots to pass into the hands of a foreign family. The first Mormaer is usually regarded as Gartnait, whose patronage is noted in the Gaelic Notes on the Book of Deer, the only significant source for the Mormaerdom.
Mormaer of Caithness The Mormaer of Caithness ruled a distinct mormaerdom in medieval Scotland in that it generally was held by a "foreign" prince, the Norse Earl of Orkney, the ruler of neighboring "Norwegian" province.
Mormaer of Lennox The Mormaer or Mormaerdom of Lennox was the long-lasting native Mormaerdom in the High Medieval Kingdom of the Scots. The first Mormaer is usually regarded as Ailin I (also Alpin, or Alwin), but the genealogy of the Mormaers gives earlier names.
Mormaer of Menteith The Mormaer or Mormaerdom of Menteith was, after the Mormaerdom of Buchan, the first Mormaerdom in the High Medieval Kingdom of the Scots to pass into the hands of a foreign family, likewise the Comyns. The first Mormaer is usually regarded as Gille CrĂ­st, simply because he is the earliest on record.
Mormaer of Moray The Mormaerdom or Kingdom of Moray (Middle Irish: Muireb or Moreb; Medieval Latin: Muref or Moravia; Modern Gaelic:Moireabh) was a lordship in High Medieval Scotland that was destroyed by King David I of Scotland in 1130. It did not have the same territory as the modern local government council area of Moray, which is a much small area, around Elgin.
Mormaer of Ross The Mormaer or Mormaerdom of Ross refers to a medieval Gaelic lordship in northern Scotland, roughly between the Oykell and the Beauly. Initially, it was probably confined entirely to Easter Ross to an area between the Dornoch Firth and the Cromarty Firth, i.
Mormaer of Strathearn The Mormaer or Mormaerdom of Strathearn was the most important Mormaerdom in the High Medieval Kingdom of the Scots after the Mormaerdom of Fife. The first Mormaer, Máel Ísu I is recorded by Ailred of Rievaulx, where he is the leading native Scot in the company of King David I at the Battle of the Standard, 1138.
Mormon Mormon is a term used to refer to adherents of the Latter Day Saint movement (a group of related religious sects), and most commonly to the movement's original and largest group, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. According to church history, the term is derived from the Book of Mormon, a religious text that Joseph Smith, Jr.
Mormon Alliance The Mormon Alliance was organized on July 4, 1992 to counter spiritual and ecclesiastical abuse in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and to protect the Church against defamatory actions. During the next few months, the trustees established a broad range of supporting purposes: providing a comprehensive definition of spiritual abuse, working to reconcile leaders and members who were out of harmony, establishing a Members’ Bill of Rights, providing a forum for a reasonable and tempered discussion of governance in the Church, critiquing general conference, and identifying and documenting cases of spiritual and ecclesiastical abuse.
Mormon Battalion The Mormon Battalion was the only religious "unit" in American military history serving from July 1846 to July 1847 during the Mexican War. Unlike other ethnic or racial units such as the United States Colored Troops of the Civil War, the Buffalo Soldiers in the Indian Wars, or the Japanese-American 442nd Infantry Regiment that fought in World War II, the Mormon Battalion was uniquely different.
Mormon Colonies in Mexico The Mormon Colonies in Mexico are towns near the Sierra Madre mountains settled by early Mormon pioneers. They were founded by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the 19th century as part of a large colonizing effort instigated by Brigham Young, which dotted the map of western United States, southern Alberta, and northern MĂ©xico with Mormon settlements.
Mormon Corridor The Mormon Corridor is a term for the areas of Utah south of the Wasatch Front that were settled between 1850 and approximately 1865 by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Stretching from St.
Mormon folk music Mormon folk music was folk music sung by Mormon Pioneers in present-day Utah from the middle 19th century through the early 20th century. A historical component of Utah music, the popularity of Mormon folk music declined like traditional music nationally after the advent of music recording.
Mormon fundamentalism Mormon fundamentalism most often describes splinter movements of Mormonism that believe or practice what its adherents consider to be the fundamental aspects of Mormonism. In general, Mormon fundamentalism represents a break from the dominant brand of Mormonism practiced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and a return to Mormon doctrines and practices which adherents believe the LDS Church has wrongly abandoned, such as plural marriage, the Law of Consecration, the Adam-God theory, the Patriarchal Priesthood, elements of the Mormon Endowment ritual, and often the exclusion of Blacks from the priesthood.
Mormon fundamentalism/merged article Polygamous Mormon Fundamentalists are sects devoted to Mormon fundamentalism who continue to practice plural marriage (a form of polygamy), even though that practice has been abandoned by the larger mainstream denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement. Many polygamous Mormon fundamentalists belong to sects that have separated themselves from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which officially abandoned the practice in 1890.
Mormon handcart pioneers The Mormon handcart pioneers were participants in the migration of members of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the LDS Church) to Salt Lake City, Utah, who used handcarts to transport their belongings. The Mormon handcart movement began in 1856 and lasted until 1860.
Mormon History Association The Mormon History Association (MHA) is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to the study and understanding of all aspects of Mormon history to promote understanding, scholarly research, and publication in the field. MHA was founded in December 1965 at the American Historical Association (AHA) meeting in San Francisco under the leadership of Latter-day Saint and historian, Leonard J.
Mormon Island Mormon Island was once a mining community, which had an abundance of Mormon immigrants, seeking fortune along the American River. The community dwindled after the California gold rush and only a scattered few families were left in the 1940s.
Mormon Lake Mormon Lake is the largest natural lake in the state of Arizona, covering an area of about twelve square miles. Located approximately twenty miles southeast of Flagstaff, it is a shallow lake of no more than ten feet in depth, and fluctuates drastically in area depending on snow runoff and rainfall amounts in the region.
Mormon missionary A Mormon missionary is a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS church), more commonly known as the Mormon Church. The LDS church is one of the most active modern practitioners of missionary work, with around 56,000 full time missionaries worldwide The Missionary Program from LDS.
Mormon music This article deals with music with a Mormon influence; for hymns, see The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hymns or for the hymnal Hymns of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1985 book)
Mormon Miracle Pageant The Mormon Miracle Pageant is a Latter-day Saint Pageant (an annual outdoor theatrical performance) held in Manti, Utah. It is produced with an amateur cast of over five hundred members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (sometimes called the LDS Church).
Mormon Mountains The Mormon Mountains are located in Lincoln County, Nevada, between 16 and 28 miles northwest of Mesquite, and southeast of the Meadow Valley Mountains. The highest point in the range is Mormon Peak, at 7,414 feet above sea level.
Mormon pioneers The Mormon pioneers were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as Latter-day Saints, who migrated across the United States from the midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in what is today the U.S.
Mormon Tabernacle Choir The Mormon Tabernacle Choir (sometimes referred to as MoTab) is a large choir of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons). Since July 15, 1929, the choir has performed a weekly radio broadcast called Music and the Spoken Word, which is the longest-running continuous network broadcast in the world.
Mormon Trail The Mormon Trail or Mormon Pioneer Trail is the 1,300 mile route that members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints traveled from 1846-1857. Today the Mormon Trail is a part of the United States National Trails System, as the Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail.
Mormon wedding open house A Mormon wedding open house is a common element of marriage celebration for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (official site), especially for weddings held in Utah. It is normally a business-casual to semi-formal event held at the local meetinghouse (commonly called “church”), though other popular locations may include parks and gardens.
Mormonism Mormonism is a term used to describe religious, ideological, and cultural aspects of the various denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement. The term Mormonism is often used to describe the belief systems of those who believe in the Book of Mormon, a sacred text which Mormons believe was translated by Joseph Smith, Jr.
Mormonism and authority To a higher degree than most Christian denominations, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints invests its leadership hierarchy with a great deal of spiritual, ideological, and factual authority, because the leading councils of the Church are sustained and believed to be "prophets, seers, and revelators" when they are acting unitedly as such.
Mormonism and history Unlike other 19th-century religious movements such as Bahai, Shakerism, and Christian Science, Mormonism is a religion predicated on both the historicity of a prophet's testimony and a sacred book that describes a detailed pre-Columbian history of North America.
Mormopterus The Bat genus Mormopterus in the mammal order Chiroptera belongs to a group commonly referred to as Free-tailed bats. It was once included in the genus Tadarida but has since been proven genetically distinct.
Mormotomyiidae The family Mormotomyiidae (Diptera: Hippoboscoidea) contains only one known species, Mormotomyia hirsuta Austen, from Kenya. Specimens have been collected from one rock on one mountain, in a cleft where a bat roost is located; this may possibly be the most restricted geographic distribution for any fly.
Morna (music) Morna is a genre of Cape Verdean music, related to Portuguese fado, Brazilian modinha, Argentinian tango, and Angolan lament. Lyrics are usually in Cape Verdean Creole, and instrumentation often includes cavaquinho, clarinet, accordion, violin, piano, and guitar.
Morna Edmundson Morna Edmundson is one of Canada's best-known choral conductors, with special interests in the areas of tone colour, language and interpretation. As a conductor, singer, and administrator, her professional music career spans some twenty five years, including eight years as a professional singer in the Vancouver Chamber Choir.
Morne du Cibao Morne du Cibao is the third highest mountain in Haiti, after Pic la Selle and Pic Macaya. It is the highest point in the Montagnes du Cibao, and rises to an elevation of 2,280 meters (7,480 feet) above sea level.
Morne Morkel Morne Morkel (born October 6, 1984, Vereeniging, Transvaal) is a cricketer who plays Test cricket for South Africa. He is a right-arm fast bowler with "genuine pace" according to former South African fast bowler Allan Donald,Speed trial, by Telford Vice, Cricinfo, retrieved 27 December 2004 and a left handed batsman with one first class fifty to his name.

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