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Mapping torus In mathematics, the mapping torus in topology of a homeomorphism f of some topological space X to itself is a particular geometric construction with f. Take the cartesian product of X with a closed interval I, and glue the boundary components together by the given homeomorphism:
Mapping Unit The Mapping Unit (Modern Hebrew: Yehidat Mipui ) of the Israel Defense Forces military intelligence (Unit 8153) is in charge of strategic mapping of locations. It is known for doing so for both strategic and tactical purposes.
Mappiq The mappiq (Hebrew: מפיק, also mapiq, mapik, mappik) is a diacritic used in the Hebrew alphabet. It is part of the Masoretes system of niqqud (vowel points), and was added to Hebrew orthography at the same time.
MapReduce MapReduce is a programming tool developed by Google in C++ (Python and Java are supported through interfaces), in which parallel computations over large (greater than 1 terabyte) data sets are performed. The terminology of "Map" and "Reduce", and their general idea, is borrowed from functional programming languages' use of the constructs map and reduce in functional programming and features of array programming languages.
Maps for Lost Lovers Maps for Lost Lovers is a novel by the British Pakistani writer Nadeem Aslam. Ostensibly about the murder of a pair of lovers, the book is in fact a minute dissection of working-class Pakistani immigrant communities that have settled in the north of England over the last 40 years.
Maps of American ancestries The ancestry of the people of the United States is widely varied and includes descendants of populations from around the world, some presumably extinct elsewhere. In addition to its variation, the ancestry of people of the United States is also marked by significant amounts of intermarriage between ethnic and racial groups.
Maps of Cornwall Cornwall was originally known as Kernow or West Wales and this name applied to the Kingdom of Cornwall during the period of the Heptarchy (which referred to the separate kingdoms which made up Anglo-Saxon Angleland or England). One of the oldest maps still in existence depicting Cornwall is the 1290 Hereford Mappa Mundi currently on display in Hereford Cathedral in the United Kingdom.
Maps of Los Angeles, California These thematic maps of Los Angeles County California illustrate the different neighborhoods and the contrasting demographics of the diverse county. South Los Angeles, East Los Angeles, the San Fernando Valley, Malibu, Long Beach, Hollywood, Santa Monica and the San Gabriel Valley (including Monterey Park and Alhambra) are shown in these maps.
Maps of Oakland, California These thematic maps of Oakland, California illustrate the different neighborhoods and the contrasting demographics of the diverse city. Please click on the images for a larger view or for more information on it.
Maps of present-day countries and dependencies This is a list of articles holding galleries of maps of present-day countries and dependencies. The list includes all countries listed in the List of countries, the French overseas departments, the Spanish and Portuguese overseas regions and inhabited overseas dependencies.
Maps of San Jose, California These thematic maps of the San Jose, California metropolitan area illustrate the different neighborhoods and the contrasting demographics of the diverse city. East San Jose is a lower-income area consisting mainly of Hispanics.
Mapsolute Mapsolute GmbH, owner and operator of Map24, is a producer of geographic software. Although the headquarters lies in Eschborn, Germany (just outside Frankfurt) Mapsolute is very much an international firm with branches in Great Britain, the USA and Finland.
Mapster Mapster is an enhanced version of the Build Editor, the map editor for computer games using the Build Engine, including Duke Nukem 3D and Shadow Warrior. Authored by Richard Gobeille (TerminX), it was built on Ken Silverman's Build source release and re-added most of the features of Duke Build as well as some significant new ones.
Mapu a Vaea The Mapu a Vaea or Whistle of the Noble are natural blowholes on the island of Tongatapu near the village of Houma in the Kingdom of Tonga. When waves crash into the reef, natural channels in the volcanic rock allow water to forcefully blow through and create a plume-like effect.
Mapudungun Mapudungun (mapu means 'earth' and dungun means 'to speak') is a language isolate spoken in central Chile and west central Argentina by the Mapuche (mapu is 'earth' and che means 'people') people. It is also known as Mapudungu, Araucanian (Araucano) (the name given to the Mapuche people by the Spanish, it sometimes has a negative connotation) and Mapuche.
Mapudungun phonology This article deals with the phonology of the Mapudungun language, and its proposed orthographies. The Mapuche did not have a writing system when the Spanish arrived, and historically there have been a number of proposals for Mapudungun spelling, all of them using the Latin alphabet.
Mapuche Mapuche (Mapudungun; Che, "People" + Mapu, "of the Land") are the original Amerindian inhabitants of Central and Southern Chile and Southern Argentina. They were known as Araucanos (Araucanians) by the Spaniards but this is now considered pejorative by the people and the term Mapuche is the one most often used by people in conversation and in the media in Chile and Argentina and is the one preferred by them.
Mapuche mythology The beliefs of the Mapuche and their mythology, talks about to the world and creatures born of the extensive and old religious beliefs, next to a series of common legend and myths that are own and to the different groups that compose the Mapuche ethnic group (Mapuche, Huilliche, etc).
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Mapungubwe Museum The Mapungubwe Museum houses the national treasures of Mapungubwe, South Africa, a 13th century Iron Age site in the Limpopo Valley and a World Heritage Site. Gold ornaments, ivory, bone, ceramic-ware, clay figurines, trade beads, iron and copper artifacts are on permanent display.
Maputaland coastal forest mosaic The Maputaland coastal forest mosaic is a subtropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of Southern Africa. It covers an area of 30,200 square kilometres (11,700 square miles) in southern Mozambique, Swaziland, and the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa.
Maputaland-Pondoland bushland and thickets The Maputaland-Pondoland bushland and thickets is a montane shrubland ecoregion of South Africa. The ecoregion occupies the foothills of the Drakensberg mountains, covering an area of 19,500 square kilometers (7,500 square miles) in South Africa's Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces.
Mapy Cortés Mapy Cortes (1910-1998), born Maria del Pilar Cordero in Santurce, Puerto Rico, was a famous actress that participated in many films during the Mexican film industry's golden era. Contrary to popular belief, Cortes was not Mexican; she was Puerto Rican, but she adopted Mexico as her residential country from her youth and almost until she died.
Maqaam Maqaam ( the station ) is one's spiritual station or developmental level, as distinct from one's hal, or state of consciousness. This is seen as the outcome of one's effort to transform oneself, whereas the haal is a gift.
Maqam al-iraqi Maqam al-iraqi is a four hundred year old genre of Arab music found in Iraq and often considered the most perfect form of maqam. The instrumentation of the ensemble used in maqam al-iraqi, Jalghi baghdadi, includes a qart' (singer), three santur (hammered dulcimers), juazh (spike fiddle), tablah or dunbak (goblet drum), and sometimes riqq (tambourine).
Maqbaratoshoara On the east side of sayyed Hamzeh's grave and Ghaem Magham's grave, there is a grave yard is the place of too many poets, mystics, scientists and well-known people of Tabriz graves and has a special importance.
Maqbool Maqbool (Hindi: मक़्बूल, Urdu: مقبُول), a 2004 Bollywood film directed by Vishal Bharadwaj and starring Pankaj Kapoor, Irfan Khan and Tabu is an adaptation of the play Macbeth by Shakespeare.
Maqil The Maqil or Maquil were a collection of Arab Bedouin tribes of Yemeni origin who migrated westwards via Egypt during the 13th century. The Beni Hassan tribes claim to be descendants of Maqil, once living in Tunisia.
Maqqari Maqqari, or Makkari, full name Ahmed bin Mohammed al-Maqqari (), (c. 1591-1632), Arabian historian, was born at Tlemcen in Algeria and studied at Fez and Marrakesh, where he remained engaged in literary work until he made the pilgrimage to Mecca in 1618.
Maque choux Maque choux (pronounced: "mock shoe") is a traditional dish of southern Louisiana. It is thought to be an amalgam of Acadian French (Cajun) and Native American cultural influence, and the name is likely to derive from the French interpretation of the Native American name.
Maquenque National Park Maquenque National Park is a proposed National Park, which would form part of the Arenal Huetar Norte Conservation Area, in the northern part of Costa Rica. It would bring together a number of existing Nature Reserves, Wildlife refuges and Forest Reserves to form a new National Park.
Maquette A maquette (sometimes referred to by the Italian name bozzetto) is a small scale model for a finished sculpture or architectural work. It is used to visualise and test shapes and ideas without incurring the cost and effort of producing a full scale product.
Maquila Decree The Maquila Decree, established in 1989, lays out the legal requirements for foreign operations in Mexico. As described by the Bancomext Mexican Showroom, an organization to promote foreign investment in Mexico, this program allows foreign companies to build and operate factories in virtually any Mexican location of their choosing.
Maquiladora A maquiladora (or maquila) is a factory that imports materials and equipment on a duty-free and tariff-free basis for assembly or manufacturing and then re-exports the assembled product usually back to the originating country.
Maquinna Maquinna is the usual spelling of the name of the chief of the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Nootka Sound, during the heyday of the maritime fur trade in the 1780s and 1790s on the Pacific Northwest Coast. His people are known as the Mowachaht and reside today with their kin, the Muchalaht, at Gold River, British Columbia.
Maquis (Star Trek) The Maquis were a fictional group in the Star Trek universe, who served as recurring adversaries in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. The group was made up of humans and members of extraterrestrial races, such as Bajorans, that refused to give up the colony planets on which they lived after they were ceded to the Cardassians as part of the treaty that ended the war between the United Federation of Planets and the Cardassian Union, as well as others who joined out of sympathy to their cause, including a number of Starfleet officers who resigned their posts to join.
Maquis des Glières At the end of 1943, to harass the enemy at the time of the expected Allied assault, the French Resistance in the French Alps of Haute-Savoie badly needed arms. So, to find good dropping zones to supply the Maquis with arms and sabotage equipment, a mission composed of Lt.
Maquis shrubland Maquis (French) or macchia (Italian; plural macchie) is a shrubland biome in Mediterranean countries, typically consisting of densely-growing evergreen shrubs such as sage, juniper and myrtle. It is similar to heath in many aspects, but with taller shrubs, typically 2-4 m high as opposed to 0.
Maquoketa River The Maquoketa River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately 130 mi (209 km) long, in eastern Iowa in the United States. Its watershed encompasses 1879 sq mi (4886 km²) within a rural region of rolling hills and farmland southwest of Dubuque.
Mar Addai II His Holiness Mar Addai II (born Givarghis, 1 August 1950, although to some sources cite 1946 or 1948) is the Patriarch of the Ancient Church of the East and resides in Baghdad, Iraq. He was elected to the position in February 1970, several months after the death of Mar Thoma Darmo, and consecrated 20 February 1972.
Mar Amongo Mar Amongo (October 9, 1936 – August 10, 2005) was born in Santa Cruz, Manila, Philippines. After studying with cartoonist Nestor Redondo, he had a long career doing comic books in his native country and in America for DC Comics.
Mar Athanasius College of Engineering Mar Athanasius College of Engineering (MACE), located in Kothamangalam, Ernakulam, Kerala state, India, is one of the premier Engineering Colleges in Kerala state. MACE campus, set atop a hillock, provides a breathtaking view of Kothamangalam, the town known as the Gateway to the High Ranges.
Mar Augustine Memorial Lisie Hospital, Ernakulam The Mar Augustine Memorial Lisie Hospital, known as Lisie Hospital, is a prominent hospital near Kaloor, in Ernakulam, Kerala, noted for its service to the poor. It was founded in memory of Mar Augustine Kandathil, shortly after his demise, according to his original vision and plans, in the late 1950's, as a token of his devotion to St.
Mar Baselios Christian College of Engineering and Technology, Kuttikanam Mar Baselios Christian College of Engineering and Technology, Kuttikanam, Peermade, Idukki, Kerala, India is a self-financed Engineering College founded in 2001 and run by the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church in Kerala. The college is situated on a sprawling 77 acre campus amidst tea gardens at Pothuppara in the pictureque Peermade hill station which is 80 kms from Kottayam.
Mar Benyamin Shimon XXI Mar Binyamin Shimon XXI (Syriac: ܡܪ ܒܝܢܝܡܢ ܫܝܡܘܢ) was a Catholicos Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East. He was born in 1887 in the village of Qochanis in the district of Hakkari, former Ottoman Empire (now in Turkey).
Mar del Plata Mar del Plata is an Argentine city located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean in the Buenos Aires Province, 400 km south of Buenos Aires. Mar del Plata is one of the major fishing ports and the biggest seaside beach resorts in Argentina.
Mar del Plata Film Festival The Mar del Plata International Film Festival (Spanish: Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata) is a prestigious international film festival that takes place every year, during the month of March in the city of Mar del Plata, Argentina. It is a 'Category A' festival, along with festivals like Cannes, Berlin or Venice.
Mar del Plata Summit of the Americas The seaside resort of Mar del Plata, in the , about 400 km (250 miles) southeast of the capital, was the venue of the Fourth Summit of the Americas between 4 November and 5 November, 2005. The summit gathered together the leaders of all the countries of the American continent, except Cuba.
Mar Elepano Mar Elepano is an animator, filmmaker, photographer and teacher with the Division of Animation and Digital Arts a department in the USC School of Cinematic Arts. In 2002, he was a Fulbright scholar in Malaysia.
Mar Elias Mar Elias () is a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, by Beirut. The camp is exclusively Christian, when the refugees arrived the Christian Palestinians asked for a camp separate from the Muslim Palestinians, the UN complied and established Mar Elias.
Mar Elias Educational Institutions Mar Elias Educational Institutions are constituted by a kindergarten, elementary, junior high, and high school as well as a college and a recently established college.Mar Elias Educational Institutions The institution is under the direction of the archbishop] [[Elias Chacour.
Mar Emmanuel Yosip Mar Emmanuel Yosip is an Assyrian, who was born in the Baghdad suburb of Dora, and is currently the Assyrian Church of the East's Bishop of Canada. He was raised by a very religious Christian family in Iraq, Who have since moved to the USA.
Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII, sometimes known as Mar Shimun XXI Ishaya, Catholicos Patriarch of the Church of the East from 1920 until his assassination on November 6, 1975. (The difference in regnal numbers depends on which members of the Shimun family one counts as Patriarchs; Mar Eshai himself used the regnal number XXIII.
Mar Chiquita (CĂłrdoba) Mar Chiquita (in Spanish literally "Little Sea") or Mar de Ansenuza is an endorheic salt lake located in the northeast of the province of CĂłrdoba, in central Argentina. It is the largest of the naturally occurring saline lakes of Argentina.
Mar Kuriakose Dayara Kuriakose Ramban spent much of his time in prayer and meditation at Pampady Valiyapalli. When he could not tolerate the faction-fighting within the church,he decided to found an ashram where he could lead his sessions of prayer and meditation undisturbed..
Mar Musa Mar Musa or Deir Mar Musa al-Habashi (ﺪﻴﺮ ﻤﺎﺮ ﻤﻭﺴﻰ ﺍﻠﺤﺒﺸﻲ, literally The Monastery of Saint Moses the Abyssinian) is a monastic community of Syriac Catholic rite, situated near the town of Nabk, approximately 80 kilometers north of Damascus.
Mar Sara In the fictional StarCraft universe, Mar Sara was a core Terran Confederacy colony in the Koprulu Sector. It is the setting for the beginning of the game's first campaign; the player's identity is that of the Magistrate of the colony.
Mar Sarkis Deir Mar Sarkis, a well known monastery in Zgharta Lebanon as well as all the Maronite Churches around the world still use Syriac, which is a dialect of Aramaic, during Church liturgies. Maronite priests must learn Aramaic in order to enter priesthood.
Mar Thoma Darmo Mar Thoma Darmo, a native of Mesopotamia, was Metropolitan of the Assyrian Church of the East in India from 1952 to 1968, based at Trichur. In schism against the Catholicos Patriarch Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII because of issues of calendar and succession, he split of the Church of the East, and made himself head of the Ancient Church of the East in October 1968 and relocated to Baghdad.
Mar Thoma Church The Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church, commonly referred to as the Mar Thoma Church is a Reformed but episcopal offshoot of the pre-16th century undivided Saint Thomas Christians, and got its current identity in 1889, even though it was born much earlier. It has its roots in a Reformatory movement started by a teacher-priest of the Syrian Orthodox Church, Palakunnathu Abraham Malpan (popularly known as Abraham Malpan) in the early part of the 19th Century.
Mar Thomas Kurialachery Servant of God Thomas Kurialassery (January 14, 1873 - February 6, 1925 was a Catholic bishop, within the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church. Ten years after his death in 1935 his Cause of Canonisation was initiated giving him the title "Servant of God.
Mar Ukba Mar Ukba, an exilarch at Baghdad in the first half of the tenth century; the second exilarch to die in banishment. When Kohen Ẓedeḳ II was appointed gaon of Pumbedita he became involved in a controversy with Mar 'Uḳba over the revenues from Khorasan; and the calif Al-Muḳtadir (908-932) was induced by Ẓedeḳ's friends to depose Mar 'Uḳba.
Mar Varkey Cardinal Vithayathil Varkey Cardinal Vithayathil (born 29 May 1927) is a senior Eastern Rite cleric of the Roman Catholic Church, serving as the Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly of the Syro-Malabars in India. He is also a member of The Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer.
Mar Vista Gardens, Los Angeles, California Mar Vista Gardens is a housing project in the Del Rey district of southwestern Los Angeles, California, bordering Ballona Creek and situated near Culver City, California. It is operated by the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles.
Mar Vista High School Mar Vista Senior High (MVH), in Imperial Beach, California, United States, is a high school established in 1951. Part of the Sweetwater Union High School District, the school serves the low to mid-level socioeconomic community of Imperial Beach, as well some students living in San Ysidro and Chula Vista.
Mar-Keys The Mar-Keys, formed in 1958, were a studio session band for the Stax label from Memphis, Tennessee in the 1960s. As the first house band for the label, their backing music formed the foundation for the early 1960s Stax sound.
Mara (demon) In Buddhism, Mara is the demon who tempted Gautama Buddha by trying to seduce him with the vision of beautiful women who, in various legends, are often said to be his daughters. In Buddhist cosmology, Mara personifies unskillfulness, the "death" of the spiritual life.
Mara (Doctor Who) The Mara is a fictional villain from the long-running British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. It is a creature that exists in the minds of its victims and can transmit itself telepathically, although it can also take on the physical manifestation of a giant snake.
Mara (folklore) A mara, mare is a kind of malignant female wraith in Scandinavian folklore believed to cause nightmares. She appears as early as in the Norse Ynglinga saga, but the belief itself is probably even older (see below).
Mara Autonomous District Council Mara Autonomous District Council (MADC) is one of the three Autonomous District Councils within Mizoram state of Union India. Primarily, an autonomous administrative government meant for the Mara people living in the state.
Mara Darmousli Mara Darmousli, in Greek: Μάρα Δαρμουσλή, is a Greek fashion model. She has appeared in many international fashion events and magazines, her face appearing on the covers of such magazines as Vogue, Marie Claire and Bazaar.
Mara Gaye Mara Gaye (born Marjorie Helen Ginsberg on 16 September, 1920 in Bronx, New York; died 22 July, 2005) was a professional showgirl, dancer with the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes (1938-1943), and exotic burlesque striptease dancer of the 1940s through the 1960s. She also performed under the name Marjorie Gaye.
Mara Hobel Mara Hobel is an American actress (born June 18, 1971) primarily known for her portrayal of young Christina Crawford in the critical flop (and subesquent camp classic) film Mommie Dearest. That role earned her a Worst Supporting Actress nomination at the 1981 Golden Raspberry Awards.
Mara Junior Science College Taiping Maktab Rendah Sains Mara Taiping, commonly known as MRSM Taiping, is a co-educational boarding school established in 1983 under Education & Training (Secondary) Division of MARA (Majlis Amanah Rakyat, Malay for People's Trust Council). The campus is located in Taiping, a town north-west of Perak, Malaysia.
Mara Liasson Mara Liasson (born June 13, 1955 in New York City) is a national political correspondent for National Public Radio, and a regular panelist on Special Report with Brit Hume and Fox News Sunday on Fox News Channel.
Mara people The Maras (formerly known as the Lakher) are indigenous peoples located in northeastern India, primarily in the Mara Autonomous District Council of the state of Mizoram, where they form the majority of the population. Significant numbers of Maras are also found living south-eastern part of Myanmar, in Chin State and Rakhine State which border the district.
Mara Reyes Mara Reyes (born March 12, 1977, in Pachuca, Mexico) is a Mexican female racecar driver. She drove the 49 Ford for Jay Robinson Racing in 1 race at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in the NASCAR Busch Series in 2005.
Marañón River The river Marañón (Río Marañón in Spanish) rises about 160 kilometers to the northeast of Lima, Peru. It flows through a deeply-eroded Andean valley in a northwesterly direction, along the eastern base of the Cordillera of the Andes, as far as 5 degrees 36' southern latitude; then it makes a great bend to the northeast, and cuts through the inland Andes, until at the Pongo de Manseriche it flows through the plains.
Marabou Stork The Marabou Stork, Leptoptilos crumeniferus, is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It breeds in Africa south of the Sahara, occurring in both wet and arid habitats, often near human habitation, especially waste tips.
Marabout A marabout is a personal spiritual leader in the Islam faith as practiced in West Africa, and still to a limited extent in the Maghreb. The marabout is often a scholar of the Qur'an, and many make amulets for good luck, preside at various ceremonies, and in some cases actively guide the life of the follower.
Maraca Maracas (sometimes called rhumba shakers) are simple percussion instruments (idiophones), usually played in pairs, consisting of a dried calabash or gourd shell (cuia - 'kOO-ya') or coconut shell filled with seeds or dried beans. They may also be made of leather, wood, or plastic.
Maracaibo Metro The Maracaibo Metro, also known as Metro del Sol Amado (due to the city nickname), is a subway system currently under construction in Maracaibo, Venezuela. The metro encompasses the suburbs of Maracaibo and Maracaibo itself as drop off point, the subway is being built by the city government of Maracaibo and the Venezuelan national government.
Maracas-Saint Joseph Maracas-Saint Joseph is a colloquial name used in Trinidad and Tobago to distinguish the Maracas Valley above the town of Saint Joseph from Maracas Beach. Maracas-Saint Joseph is one of the large valleys on the southern side of the Northern Range, while Maracas Beach lies on the opposite side of the mountains.
Marada The Marada were a group of autonomous communities living on Mount Lebanon and the surrounding highlands following the conquest of Syria by the Arab caliphate in the 630s CE. Although some historians claim that the Marada created "states" ruled by a Maronite Christian, Aramaic-speaking warrior elite known as the Mardaites, other historians tend to downplay their relevance and to describe a more complex scenario.
Marada Institution The Marada Instutution has existed ever since the beginning of the ottoman invasion of Lebanon. It was formed in zgharta, north Lebanon by several of the important famillies there to fight ottoman invasion, after the fall of the ottoman empire, the institution was led by the Frangieh familly and became envolved in politics.
Maradona (film) Maradona is a documentary on the life of Argentine footballer Diego Maradona, directed by the award-winning Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica. The film is currently in post-production, and its release is anticipated in 2006.
MaraDNS MaraDNS is a security-aware Domain Name System (DNS) implementation. It can be configured as an authoritative DNS server, as a "recursive" DNS cache that uses the DNS root nameservers, or as a cache which obtains its information from other recursive DNS servers.
Marae A marae (in New Zealand Māori, Cook Islands Maori, Tahitian) malae (in Tongan), malae (in Samoan and Hawaiian) is a sacred place which served both religious and social purposes in ancient Polynesian societies. In all these languages, the word also means "cleared, free of weeds, trees, etc.
Maraghar Massacre The Maraghar Massacre occurred on April 10, 1992, during the Nagorno-Karabakh War, a war in which both the Armenian and Azeri forces involved are alleged to have committed acts of ethnic cleansing upon civilian populations.NKR Office: Ethnic Cleansing CampaignsNew York Times - Massacre by Armenians Being Reported According to Caroline Cox, who observed the damage and interviewed eyewitnesses, Azerbaijani forces attacked the Armenian town of Maraghar, decapitated about forty five villagers, burned and looted much of the town, and kidnapped about one hundred women and childrenChristianity Today Article.
Maraging steel Maraging steel is an iron alloy which is known for possessing superior strength without losing malleability. The iron base is alloyed principally with a large percentage of nickel to produce a very specific heat-treatment product.
Maragogi Maragogi (23.000 inhabitants), 130 km south of Recife and 125 km north of MaceiĂł, is a city situated on the northern coast of Alagoas state, Brazil, a region with fine beaches surrounded by coconut trees and sunny weather all the year round.
Marah (band) Marah is an American rock band that formed in the early 1990s and is closely associated with the city of Philadelphia. The band is known for its intense live performances, Classic Rock production style, and association with writers like Nick Hornby and Sarah Vowell.
Marais des Cygnes massacre The Marais des Cygnes Massacre is considered the last significant act of violence in Bleeding Kansas prior to the outbreak of the American Civil War. On May 19, 1858, approximately thirty men led by Charles Hamilton, a Georgian native and proslavery leader, crossed into Kansas from Missouri.
Marais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge Marais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) is located 39 miles (63 km) south of the Kansas City metropolitan area, along the Marais des Cygnes River. The 7,500 acre (30 km²) Refuge was established in 1992 to protect one of the northwestern-most examples of bottomland hardwood forest in the United States as well as the largest contiguous tract of bottomland hardwood forest in Kansas.
Marais des Cygnes River The Marais des Cygnes River (muhr-ee duh SEEN) is a principal tributary of the Osage River, about 140 mi (225 km) long, in eastern Kansas and western Missouri in the United States. Via the Osage and Missouri Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.
Marais Poitevin The Marais Poitevin, also known as Venise Verte is a marsh region in Western France, a remnant of the former Gulf of Poitou. With a surface area of 970 km², it is the largest marsh on the Atlantic coast and the second largest of the whole country.
Marajó Marajó is an island located at the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil. With a land area of 40,100 km² (15,500 sq mi, see List of islands by area), it is the largest island to be completely surrounded by freshwater.
Marakkalage Although Marakkala is the modern colloquial term for Muslims, Marakkalage is another uniquely Karava ancestral name and is used by several traditional Karava familes of Sri lanka todate. Variant forms are : Maha Marakkalage, Arasa Marakkalage, Andra Marakkalage, Antinna Marakkalage, Kodi Marakkalage, Loku Marakkalage, Manna Marakkalage, Sandra Marakkalage and Marakkala Malimige.
Maraland Maraland is the land of Mara people, it is one of the three Autonous District Councils within Mizoram state of India. The Mara Autonomous District Council government is headed by Chief Executive Member, Puhpa N.
Maralia Maralia (Greek Μαράλια) is a small village in Chania Prefecture on the island of Crete, Greece. It has 40 residents (2001 census source) and it's within the municipality of East Selino (Anatoliko Selino).

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