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Movie Love Movie Love (1991) is the tenth and last collection of movie reviews by the critic Pauline Kael, from the year 1988, until she resigned from regular film reviewing duties at The New Yorker in 1991. In the "Author's Note" that begins the anthology, Kael notes that this period had "not been a time of great moviemaking fervor," but "what has been sustaining is that there is so much to love in movies besides great moviemaking.
Movie Making Software Movie making software is a type of software that allows users to create Hollywood-style movies using a personal computer by capturing and editing digital video, usually obtained from a digital camcorder, and burning it onto a DVD.
Movie projector A movie projector is an opto-mechanical device for displaying moving pictures by projecting them on a projection screen. Most of the optical and mechanical elements, except for the illumination and sound devices, are present in movie cameras.
Movie serial Movie serials were short subjects originally shown in theaters in conjunction with a feature film. Known as "chapter plays," they were extended motion pictures broken into a number of segments called "chapters" or "episodes.
Movie star A movie star or film star is a celebrity who is well known for his or her roles in motion pictures. The word "star" actually originated from people believing they glistened like stars in the sky and they are above the rest of the public.
Movie Surfers Movie Surfers is the Disney Channel's mini-show, that now appears in commercial-like form, where 4 teenagers go behind the scenes of Walt Disney-related films. It started out as a TV special that would air when a new Disney movie came out.
Movie theater A movie theater (North America), also known as cinema (Australia and United Kingdom, as well as North America) or pictures, is a venue, usually a building, for viewing movies. Most cinemas are commercial operations catering to the general public, who attend by purchasing a ticket.
Moviecam Moviecam is a motion picture equipment company specializing in movie camera systems for 35 mm film. Originally started in Vienna as an in-house project of Fritz Gabriel Bauer and Walter Kindler's Moviegroup film production company in the late 1960's, the amount of research and development needed to create a new and modern motion picture camera system from scratch led to the formal creation of Moviecam as an independent corporate entity in 1976.
Moviefone Moviefone is the United States' most popular movie listing and information service, where moviegoers can obtain local showtimes, theater information, film reviews, or advance tickets by dialing the local telephone service (e.g.
Movielink Movielink is a web-based video on demand (VOD) service offering movies, TV shows and other material for rental or purchase. The service is owned and operated by Movielink, LLC, a joint venture of Paramount Pictures (owned by Viacom), Sony Pictures Entertainment (including Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's share when SPE acquired MGM in 2005), Universal Studios (owned by NBC Universal/General Electric) and Warner Bros.
Movienights Movie Nights is a video and DVD racking company in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1996, and currently operates and supplies over 200 retail stores, including Co-op, Alldays, TM Retail, Texaco and Somerfield Independent Convenience Stores.
Movieoke Movieoke(Japanese: ムービー“movie", and オーケストラ ōkesutora, "orchestra") is a form of entertainment in which an amateur actor or actors perform along with a DVD on a computer. The DVD is typically of a well-known movie in which the voice and perhaps camera shot of the original actor in a scene is absent or reduced in volume.
Movies in Fifteen Minutes Movies in Fifteen Minutes (known as m15m for short) is primarily the name of a set of Internet-based movie parodies by Cleolinda Jones (not her real name). The parodies first appeared in 2004 on Jones' Livejournal, but have now been moved to a Livejournal community of their own.
Movies With No Title While many films omit any opening credits at all, such as The Godfather, Star Wars, and The Lord of the Rings, a couple of notable films have gone so far as to not even include a title at the start of the film. Films that do this usually come in two categories.
Movies Worth Watching Movies Worth Watching is a television series that airs on ACCESS. The show airs contemporary major motion pictures, with commentary from professors from Athabasca University, Red Deer College and Mount Royal College.
Movies, Games and Videos Movies, Games and Videos (originally called Movies, Movies, Movies) was a television programme shown on ITV in the United Kingdom on Saturdays in the 1990s and early 2000s about reviewing movies, games and videos voiced by Steve Priestley. It was dropped by most regions and in the end was only shown in one region - Northern Ireland by the local contractor UTV.
Movies4Men 2 Movies4Men 2 is a satellite television film channel in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, available as a free-to-air service on Sky Digital. Different to Movies4Men; the channel is aimed at the young to middle aged male viewer, with films not transmitted before in the country predominantly shown, focusing on action, thriller, and science fiction cinematic genres.
Movieshack Movieshack is an online DVD rental company in New Zealand. It was launched on June 28, 2004 and introduced commercial online DVD rentals to New Zealand, but is now the smallest of the three companies currently in the market.
MovieStop MovieStop is a wholly owned subsidiary of GameStop Corp. Unlike GameStop, Funcoland, Babbage's, Software Etc, Planet X, EB Games, EBX, and Rhino stores, MovieStop deals only in the sale of new and used DVDs, HD-DVDs and Blu-Ray discs.
Movietone sound system The Movietone sound system is a sound-on-film method of recording sound for motion pictures which guarantees synchronisation between the sound and the picture. It achieves this by recording the sound as an optical strip on the same strip of film used to record the pictures.
Movil@ccess Movil@access is a Mexican company that offers two-way paging services owned by Grupo Salinas. The company is listed on the Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (BMV: MOVILAB) and its Chief Executive Officer is Gustavo Guzmán.
Movimento das Forças Armadas The Movement of the Armed Forces (Movimento das Forças Armadas - MFA) was an organisation of lower-ranked officers in the military which was responsible for the Carnation Revolution of 25 April 1974, coup which ended the fascist 'New State' in Portugal.
Movimento Federalista Europeo Movimento Federalista Europeo (commonly abbreviated as MFE) was founded in Milan in 1943 by a group of activists led by Altiero Spinelli. The principles which inspired its foundation are contained in the Ventotene Manifesto, drawn up in 1941 by Spinelli himself, in collaboration with E.
Movimento Popolare Il Movimento Popolare ("People's Movement" or "Popular Movement") was an Italian political organization within the Democrazia Cristiana (DC, Christian Democracy) party founded in 1975 by Roberto Formigoni and other members of the Catholic group Comunione e Liberazione. It ceased activity at the time of the demise of the DC party in 1992-94.
Movin' (brand) "Movin'" (capitalized as "MOViN'") is a brand name used for a variety of radio stations in numerous broadcast markets in the United States. The name is a registered trademark of Alan Burns & Associates, a radio consultancy firm based in Washington, D.
Movin' Out "Movin' Out" is a hit song written and recorded by Billy Joel. Subtitled "Anthony's Song", the track details the singer's disgust with the upwardly-mobile bourgeois aspirations of working and lower-middle class New Yorkers - aspirations he finds to be ultimately empty.
Movin' Right Along About half an hour into the Muppet Movie, Kermit and Fozzie are driving across the USA in Fozzie's Studebaker towards Hollywood. Kermit is playing the banjo and singing while Fozzie, also singing, has his hands on the steering wheel.
Moving America Forward Foundation The Moving America Forward Foundation (MAFF) is a Get Out The Vote 527 organization that was formed in April 2003 by Democratic New Mexico governor Bill Richardson to empower Native American and Hispanic communities by voter registration, education and protection. MAFF is coordinating efforts with the Native Vote 2004, hosted by the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI).
Moving cluster method In astrometry, the moving cluster method and the closely related convergent point method are means, primarily of historical interest, for determining the distance to star clusters. They were used on several nearby clusters in the first half of the 1900s to determine distance.
Moving company A moving company, removalist or van line is a company that helps people and businesses relocate their goods from one place to another. Typically they use moving vans, but for international moves or where storage is required they may use special containerised vans or shipping containers.
Moving Centre In Gurdjieff's Fourth Way teachings, one of the three Centres possessed by humans, regulating basic physiological functions and instincts. Gurdjieff categorized a human whose Centre of gravity resides here as Man Number One or Instinctive Man.
Moving frame In mathematics, the idea of a frame in the theory of smooth manifolds is understood in terms meaning it can vary from point to point. Given such a manifold M and a point P in it, a frame at P means a vector space basis of the tangent space to M at P.
Moving Hearts Moving Hearts was an Irish folk-rock band, formed in 1981 by seven established musicians. They followed in the footsteps of Horslips in combining Irish traditional music with rock and roll, and also added elements of jazz to their sound.
Moving industry The moving industry is a term that normally refers to the accumulation of local and long distance professional moving companies providing household goods packing, moving and storage services within any given state or country. In some countries, such companies are referred to as a removalists.
Moving least squares Moving least squares is a method of reconstructing continuous functions from a set of unorganized point samples via the calculation of a weighted least squares measure biased towards the region around the point at which the reconstructed value is requested.
Moving light Moving lights or automated luminaires (sometimes erroneously called intelligent fixtures, see Intelligent lighting) are stage lighting fixtures. They were originally implemented in 1972, but the first computer-controlled stage lighting fixtures began to gain widespread acceptance in the concert industry in the early 1980's.
Moving magnet and conductor problem In the Moving magnet and conductor problem the force on a conductor moving with constant speed, v, with respect to a magnet is calculated in the frame of reference of the magnet and in the frame of reference of the conductor. It is found that the conductor experiences a magnetic force in the frame of the magnet and an electric force in the frame of the conductor.
Moving Malcolm Moving Malcolm is a 2003 movie directed, written, produced, and starring Benjamin Ratner as a man who is forced to piece his life back together after being dumped at the altar by his fiancé (Elizabeth Berkley).
Moving On Up (On The Right Side) Moving on Up (On the Right Side) was the fourth single released by British soul singer, Beverley Knight. The track, which peaked at #42 on the UK Singles Chart when it was released in April 1996, did not have a promotional video made to accompany it but it still received wide support from urban radio which helped the release chart inside the top 75.
Moving parts Moving parts are the components of a device that undergo continuous or frequent motion, most commonly rotation. "Parts" only include the mechanical components which does not include fuel, or any other gas or liquid.
Moving proteins Moving Proteins all have a similar purpose in many different cell types, but are distinguished from each other by their unique physical properties and by their methods of motility. Each moves by transforming the chemical energy present in ATP into mechanical energy.
Moving Panorama The "Moving Panorama", so called, was a relative more in concept than design to the Panoramic painting, but proved to be more durable than its fixed and immense cousin. These paintings were not true panoramas, but rather contiguous views of passing scenery, as if seen from a boat or a train window.
Moving Picture Institute The Moving Picture Institute is a non-profit organization and production company based in Tribeca, New York, and West Hollywood, California. It was founded by writer/producer/human rights advocate Thor Halvorssen in 2005.
Moving Robe Woman Moving Robe Woman (Sioux name Tashna Mani), also known as Mary Crawler, Her Eagle Robe, She Walks With Her Shawl, and Walking Blanket Woman, was a Hunkpapa Sioux woman who fought against Custer during the Battle of Little Big Horn to avenge her brother, One Hawk, who had been killed. Her father's name was Crawler, and he was also present at the battle.
Moving sale A moving sale is a type of informal sale often held by either a homeowner or the owner of a small business. It is similar to a yard sale or garage sale but held for the purpose of selling items that a household or small store does not need so that the costs and effort of moving are reduced.
Moving Shadow Moving Shadow is a UK based jungle/drum and bass record label that was started in 1990 by Rob Playford (aka Timecode). It is one of the oldest and most respected labels in drum and bass, with many seminal tracks amongst its back catalogue.
Moving Sidewalks The Moving Sidewalks was a 1960s psychedelic blues-rock band, most notable for giving future ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons his start in the music business. The group members were Billy Gibbons on guitar, Don Summers on bass, Dan Mitchell on drums and Tom Moore on keyboards.
Moving the yardsticks Moving the yardsticks is a common expression which means "making progress" and is used in political and corporate venues to express proactive actions. The phrase originates from American football, where every ten yards of forward progress by the offense moves the yardsticks ahead to measure the next ten yards of progress.
Moving Units EP Moving Units is the first release by the band of the same name, Moving Units. It was first released early 2002 on Festival Of Dead Deer's former label, Three One G, in 12" vinyl; the first pressing was on pink vinyl and the second on green.
Moving wall Moving wall in academic publishing refers to the time period between the last issue of an academic journal available in a given online database and the most recently published print issue of a journal. It is specified by publishers in their license agreements with databases
Moving Waves Moving Waves is the second album by Focus released in October 1971 and contained the hit "Hocus Pocus" which contained manic yodelling from Thijs van Leer combined with Jan Akkerman's heavy metal guitar sound, harmonicas, panflutes and much more. Even though the sound was highly experimental, it became very successful peaking at #9 in the Dutch Top 40 and later becoming popular in the United States with a #9 position on the Billboard Hot 100 and a #20 position in the UK Singles Chart.
Moviola The Moviola was the first machine for motion picture editing when it was invented by Iwan Serrurier in 1924. It allowed editors to study individual shots in their cutting rooms, thus to determine more precisely where the best cut-point might be.
Movitz Movitz is an implementation of the Common Lisp programming language for x86 computers. It runs with no underlying operating system and is intended as "a development platform for operating system kernels, embedded, and single-purpose applications".
Movius Line The Movius Line is a theoretical line drawn across northern India first proposed by the American archaeologist Hallam L. Movius in 1948 to demonstrate a technological difference between the early prehistoric tool technologies of the east and west of the Old World.
MoviX MoviX is a bootable Linux CD that can convert a PC, even a HDD-less one, into a command-line driven, MPlayer-based multimedia player, which plays audio and video files, Internet radio, and can also make use of a TV tuner card.
Movri Movri (Greek: Μόβρη), is a mountain range that is in the municipalities of Movri, Dymi to the northeast, Oleni in the western part of the prefecture of Achaea and the western part was partly in the prefecture of Elis with the municipality of Vouprasia until the 1970s. It is located about 30 km SW of Patras, W of Chalandritsa, NE of Amaliada and Pyrgos, SE of the Ionian Sea and S of the Gulf of Patras.
Movsar Barayev Movsar Barayev (Мовсар Бараев; died October 26, 2002), earlier known as Suleimanov, was a Chechen terrorist and militia leader who led the seizure of a Moscow theater (see Moscow theater hostage crisis) that led to the deaths of over 120 civilians.
Movses Kagankatvatsi Movses Kagankatvatsi (Kalankatuatsi) (VII or X century) - Armenian historian, author or editor of the "The History of the Country of Aluank" – composition or, most likely, compilation, assigned to him or to Movses Daskhurantsi.
Mowaffak al-Rubaie Dr Mowaffak Baqer al-Rubaie (alternative transliterations Muwaffaq al-Rubaie and Muwaffaq al-Rubay'i) (Arabic: موفق الربيعي ) is an Iraqi politician, and the current Iraqi National Security Advisor in the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. He was elected to the Iraqi Council of Representatives in December 2005 as a nominee of the United Iraqi Alliance.
Mowag Piranha The Mowag Piranha is a family of armoured fighting vehicles designed and manufactured by the Swiss Mowag corporation (now General Dynamics European Land Combat Systems). Three generations of vehicles have been produced, and variants include the LAV or Light Armoured Vehicle in service with many militaries.
Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nations The Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nations are a First Nations government on the west coast of Vancouver Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nations are a member nation of the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council, which spans all Nuu-chah-nulth-aht peoples (incorrectly known as "Nootka") except for the Pacheedaht.
Mowat Block The Mowat Block is an office building in Toronto, Ontario, home to Ontario's provincial Ministry of Education. It is part of a massive 24 storey government complex east of the Queen's Park at College Street and University Avenue.
Mowe class destroyer The 'Mowe class were a group of destroyers built for the German Navy in the 1920's. They were re-rated as Flooten torpedoboote or fleet torpedo boats when larger destroyers were built by the Kriegsmarine in the 1930's.
Mowgli Mowgli is a fictional feral child character who originally appeared in Rudyard Kipling's short story "In the Rukh" (collected in Many Inventions, 1893) and then went on to become the most prominent and memorable character in his fantasies, The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book (1894-1895), which also featured non-Mowgli stories.
Mowgli Syndrome Mowgli Syndrome is a term that is often given to children that are found with severe cognitive and/or physical deficiencies that are not the result of any biological cause, but rather are due to severe neglect. These children originally comprised of two recognized categories
Mowich Lake Mowich Lake is a lake located in the northwestern corner of Mount Rainier National Park in Washington State at an elevation of 4,929 feet. Access to the lake is provided by a 17 mile unpaved road which opens in mid June to early July.
Mox McQuery William Thomas "Mox" McQuery (June 28, 1861 - June 12, 1900) was a Major League Baseball first baseman. He played for the Cincinnati Outlaw Reds (1884) of the Union Association, the Detroit Wolverines (1885) and the Kansas City Cowboys (1886), both of the National League, and the Syracuse Stars (1890) and Washington Statesmen (1891), both of the American Association.
Moxhull Hall The original Manor House at Moxhull in the parish of Wishaw,near Sutton Coldfield, which was destroyed by fire in about 1900 stood in Moxhull Park, which is now the site of the De Vere Belfry Hotel and Golf Centre. The then Lord of the Manor, Howard Ryland, Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire, built a new Manor House, Moxhull Hall a short distance away at Holly Lane, Wishaw.
Moxi The Moxi media center utilizes a special user interface with a two-tuner HDTV DVR unit. It is an electronic device that allows users to record television programming to an internal hard drive for reviewing at a later time.
Moxidectin Moxidectin is an active ingredient found in products given to animals, such as dogs, cats, horses, and cattle, for the prevention and treatment of common internal and external parsites, such as heartworm disease. Products with moxidectin come in different forms, including orals, topical solutions, and injectables.
Moxley Moxley is a part of Darlaston in the West Midlands. It was first developed during the early part of the 19th century when a handful of terraced houses were built to accommodate locals working in factories and mines.
Moxon's Master "Moxon's Master" is a short story by the late 19th Century American author Ambrose Bierce that speculates on the nature of life and intelligence. It describes a chess-playing robot automaton that murders its creator.
Moxos Moxos (or the Llanos de Moxos) is a seasonally flooded tropical savanna located in the Bolivian Amazon. It was the setting for many complex prehispanic societies, many of which constructed agricultural earthworks such as raised fields, causeways, canals and mounds.
Moxy Engineering Moxy Engineering is a Norwegian manufacturer of articulated dump trucks for off-road use in the earth moving and construction industries. Moxy was founded by the industrialist Birger Hatlebakk, who had previously founded the Glamox factory in Molde.
Moy Hit 1 Мой HiT Выпуск #1 (My HiT Volume #1) is the compilation album of songs performed by Kazakh singers & musical artists plus two bonus tracks from Danish singer N'Evergreen. The album includes tracks composed in the English, Russian & Kazakh languages.
Moya Lear Moya Marie Olsen Lear (March 27 1915 – December 16 2001) was an American businesswoman and the wife of aviation pioneer Bill Lear. Her father was vaudeville genius John "Ole" Olson whose depression-era show Hellzapoppin' was the longest running Broadway hit in history.
Moyale (woreda) Moyale is one of the 47 woredas in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. The population estimates of the Central Statistical Agency (CSA) include Moyale as part of the Liben Zone; however, this woreda is not shown on the OCHA map for the Somali Region.
Moyamensing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Moyamensing was originally a township on the fast land of the Neck, lying between Passyunk and Wicaco. It was incorporated into the Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania and is today primarily a neighborhood in the South Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
MoyĂşa MoyĂşa or Elliptic square is a public square located in the center of Bilbao's extension, in the district of Abando. The square was conceived in 1876 as a central hub from where the main eight streets depart in radius-like shape and was merely called Elliptic Square because of its form.
Moyglare Stud Stakes The Moyglare Stud Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in the Republic of Ireland for two-year-old thoroughbred fillies run over a distance of 7 furlongs (1,408 metres) at the Curragh in late August / early September.
Moylan-Rose Valley (SEPTA station) Moylan-Rose Valley is a station along the SEPTA R3 line, the former Pennsylvania West Chester Line. It is located at 4 Manchester Road (Manchester & Woodward Road) in Nether Providence Township, Pennsylvania.
Moyle District Council Moyle District Council is a Local Council in County Antrim in the north-east corner of Northern Ireland. It covers a largely rural area of approximately 190 square miles (including 42 miles of coastline) and has a population of 15,000.
Moyle Park College Moyle Park College is a well known school in Clondalkin, South Dublin, Ireland. Founded in 1957 by the Marist Brothers the school has produced many of Ireland's leading professionals including doctors, solicitors, politicians and on a global scale has even produced world bank economists.
Moynalty Moynalty (from the Irish Mágh nEalta) is a small rural village in the north-west of County Meath in Ireland. Located 8 km north of Kells, where it borders County Cavan and was part of the Kells Poor Law Union.
Moynihan Commission on Government Secrecy Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy, also called the Moynihan Secrecy Commission, was a bipartisan statutory commission in the United States created under Title IX of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (P.L.
Moynihan's law Daniel Patrick Moynihan, former Democratic Senator from New York and United States Ambassador to the United Nations during the Gerald Ford administration, said regarding allegations of human rights abuses: "The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country.
Moyns Park Moyns Park is a Grade I listed Elizabethan country house located in Halstead, Essex, CO9 4BP. The home of the Gent family until the late 19th century, it was once owned by Ivar Bryce, a friend of Ian Fleming, who stayed at the house in the summer of 1956.
Moyoco Anno Moyoco Anno (安野モヨコ An'no Moyoko, born March 26, 1971) is a mangaka and she also writes about fashion with lots of books about this subject. Her mangas and books are very popular among young women and she write mostly josei manga, but currently she's doing the very popular Sugar Sugar Rune published in Nakayoshi for elementary-school girls.
Moyola Park Moyola Park is an 18-hole championship golf course set in 130 acres (53 hectares) of wooded parkland in the Shanemullagh Estate of Castledawson, County Londonderry. It was founded in 1977 by James Chichester-Clark Lord Moyola and his wife, Lady Moyola.
Moyshe-Leyb Halpern Moyshe-Leyb Halpern (1886, Zlotshev, Galicia–1932) was an American Yiddish poet. Having grown up with a traditional Jewish upbringing in eastern Europe, Halpern began writing modernist poetry in German while living in Vienna.
Moytoy I Amatoya Moytoy of Chota was a Cherokee town chief of the early eighteenth century, Moytoy I is also called Amatoya Moytoy, Moytoy of Chota, and Moytoy the Elder. Although he held prominent position among the Cherokee, it is unclear if he ever held the title "Principal Chief" (Ukuwiyu'i Yunwiya).
Moytoy II Moytoy Pigeon of Tellico, Principal Chief and Emperor of the Cherokee was the leading Chief of the Cherokee tribe from April 3, 1730 to 1760. He was also created "Emperor of the Cherokees" by the British envoy Sir Alexander Cumming in 1730, and had previously been Chief of Great Tellico.
Moyvane Moyvane (Irish: Maigh Mheáin, meaning "main or middle plain") is a small village in County Kerry in the south west of Ireland. It is situated off the N69 between Listowel to the South-West and Tarbert to the North.
Mozaic Apartments Mozaic Apartments, developed by Lincoln Property Company, are located at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles. The two-building, five-story apartment development features a total of 272 new apartments, including a variety of studio, one and two-bedroom floorplans.
Mozambican Civil War The Mozambican Civil War started in Mozambique during the 1970s following independence in 1975. The ruling party Front for Liberation of Mozambique, Frelimo, was violently opposed from 1977 by the Rhodesian and later South African funded Mozambique Resistance Movement, Renamo.
Mozambican Liberation Front The Liberation Front of Mozambique (better known under its abbreviation FRELIMO, IPA: ; Portuguese: Frente de Libertação de Moçambique) is a political party that has ruled Mozambique since independence in 1975. Its power base is derived from the minority Shangaan ethnic group.
Mozambican Tupolev Tu-134 air disaster The Mozambican presidential Tupolev Tu-134A aircraft crashed just inside South African territory on 19 October, 1986. The aircraft was carrying Mozambican president Samora Machel and 33 others on a flight from Zambia to the Mozambique capital Maputo when it crashed in the Lebombo Mountains, near Mbuzini.
Mozambican War of Independence The Mozambican War of Independence was a conflict from 1964 until 1975 between the Mozambique Liberation Front or Frelimo (Frente de Libertação de Moçambique), and Portugal. While from a military standpoint the Portuguese held the upper hand during the conflict with guerrilla forces, due to a coup d'état in Portugal, Mozambique succeeded in achieving independence on 25 June 1975, after 470 years as a Portuguese colony.
Mozambique Drill The Mozambique Drill was added to the modern technique of gunfighting by Jeff Cooper based on the experience of one of his students, Mike Rouseau, while on duty in Mozambique. Rouseau was later killed in action in the Rhodesian War.
Mozarab The Mozarabs (in Spanish, mozárabes; in Portuguese, moçárabes; from Arabic musta'rib, “arabicized”) were Iberian Christians living under Muslim dominion, and their descendants who while unconverted to Islam, adopted Arabic language and culture.

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