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Masculism Masculism (also referred to as masculinism) is a number of ideologies found in the streams of the men's movement. It consists of social theories, political movements, and moral philosophies primarily based on the experiences of men.
Masei Masei, Mas’ei, or Masse (מסעי – Hebrew for “journeys,” the second word, and the first distinctive word, in the parshah) is the 43rd weekly parshah or portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the 10th and last in the book of Numbers. It constitutes Jews in the Diaspora generally read it in July or August.
Maser A maser is a device that produces coherent electromagnetic waves through amplification due to stimulated emission. Historically the term came from the acronym "microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation", although modern masers emit over a broad portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Maserati 3200 GT The Maserati 3200 GT was an automobile produced by Maserati from 1998 to 2001. The luxury coupé was styled by Italdesign, whose founder and head Giorgetto Giugiaro previously designed, among others, the Ghibli, Bora and Merak.
Maserati Barchetta The Maserati Barchetta was a mid-engined, no-door 2-seat Le Mans-style supercar, in the spirit of the 350 and 450S, that was designed as a way to inject much needed excitement and enthusiasm for the carmake whose reputation had been badly ruined by years of producing notoriously unreliable products,cf. e.
Maserati Boomerang The Maserati Boomerang was a concept car designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro. First revealed at the Turin Auto Show in 1971 as a non-functional model, but by the time the 1972 Geneva Auto Show came around they had worked it into a fully functional vehicle.
Maserati Indy Named to celebrate Maserati's two victories at the Indy 500, the Maserati Indy first appeared in 1968, at the Salon dell'Automobile di Torino as a prototype by Carrozzeria Vignale that was to replace the ageing Mexico and Quattroporte.
Maserati Khamsin The Maserati Khamsin (named after the Khamsin, a hot, violent wind in the Egyptian desert) was a sports car introduced in 1974 by Italian automaker Maserati as a successor to the Maserati Ghibli. It sported front mounted 4.
Maserati Mexico The Maserati Mexico was originally a prototype of a commission for a 5000 GT one-off. It made an appearance at the Vignale stand at the Salon di Torino in 1965 and was so well received that Maserati immediately made plans to put a version into limited production.
Maserati Mistral The Maserati Mistral, named after a cold northerly wind of southern France, was the successor to the iconic 3500 GT. It was the first in a series a classic Maseratis to be given the name of a wind and the last model from the "Casa del Tridente" to be equipped with a straight six cylinder engine before Maserati moved on to V8 engines for their production cars.
Maserati Sebring Maserati Sebring was a 2-door coupé and convertible made by Maserati of Italy, based on the Maserati 3500, aimed at the American Gran Turismo market the car was named 3500 GTiS, «S» named after the 12 Hours of Sebring racing victory (1957).
Maserati Tipo 151 The Maserati Tipo 151 marked a return to more traditional concepts of car design and used a frame comprising a trellis of both round and oval large tubes, an independent front suspension and a De Dion axle which had many similarities to that used on the Type 64 completed a month or so before. The engine was derived from the 450S with a reduced displacement of just under 4.
Maserati Tipo 154 The Maserati Tipo 154, also known as 151/4 and jokingly dubbed "Racing Van" for its characteristic look, was a racecar produced in 1965 as an improved version of the Tipo 152, sporting a reworked frame, a few more vents and ducts and a larger displacement. During the official Le Mans testing weekend in May, driver Lloyd "Lucky" Casner was killed in one after leaving the road as he exited out of the Mulsanne Straight kink, barrel rolling the Tipo 154 and wiping out two trees in the process.
Masereelfonds The Masereelfonds, named after Frans Masereel, is a Flemish non-profit cultural organization, for the promotion and support of the Dutch language in Flanders (north of Belgium). It is one of a family of five cultural organizations in Flanders, such as the Davidsfonds, Vermeylenfonds, Willemsfonds, and the Rodenbachfonds.
Mash ingredients In brewing, the act of creating and extracting fermentable and non-fermentable sugars and flavor components from grain is called mashing. Mash ingredients are those materials from which these sugars and flavor components can be obtained.
Mash mixer A mash mixer is used in the Beer Brewing process for the enzymatic digestion of starch to fermentable sugars. It is a large insulated vessel which can be heated and held at temperatures which optimize enzymatic activity.
Masha Allen Masha Allen (born Мария Николаевна Яшенкова, (Russian:Mariya Nikolaevna Yashenkova, August 25, 1992; Novoshakhtinsk, Russia)) is a girl previously known only as Disney World Girl, Internet Girl or Internet Porn Girl. She has appeared in almost 400 sexually explicit images that are distributed on the Internet worldwide.
Masha Anderacha Masha Anderacha is one of the 77 woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Keficho Shekicho Zone, Masha Anderacha is bordered on the south by Yeki, on the west and north by the Oromia Region, and on the east by Gesha.
Masha Bruskina Masha Bruskina was a 17-year-old Soviet Jewish partisan who was captured by the Germans along with 2 others for killing a German soldier in Minsk, Belorussia, in October 1941. Before being hanged, she was paraded through the streets with a plaque around her neck which read (in both German and Russian): "We are partisans and have shot at German troops".
Masha'Allah () is an Arabic phrase evoked by Muslims to indicate appreciation for an aforementioned individual or event. The closest English translation is "God has willed it," the past tense of God's will accentuating the essential Islamic doctrine of belief in fate.
Mashal Mashal is a non-commercial and non-profit organization located in Lahore, Pakistan which promotes and conducts educational and social activities, and publishes books in Urdu on women's rights, education, environmental issues, philosophy, and modern thought.
Masham Masham (pronounced Massam) is a small market town in Harrogate borough of North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Of note for a relatively small town is that it is home to two working breweries, Black Sheep Brewery and Theakston, situated a few yards from one another.
Mashed potato Mashed potato (mashed potatoes and sometimes called smashed potato) is a common way of serving potato in many countries worldwide. It is made by mashing boiled potatoes (peeled or unpeeled) and mixing in milk, cream, butter or vegetable oil, and sometimes garlic, cheese, bacon bits, and sour cream.
Mashgiach ruchani Mashgiach ruchani or Mashgiach (Heb. משגיח רוחני "Spiritual supervisor/guide") is a title that usually refers to a rabbi who has an official position within a yeshiva responsible for the non-academic areas of yeshiva students' lives.
Mashhad Mashhad (also spelt Mashad,, literally matyrdom ) is the second largest city in Iran and one of the holiest cities in the Shi'a world. It is located 850 kilometers East of Tehran, Iran (Persia), and the center of the province of Razavi Khorasan.
Mashina Mashina is an Israeli pop rock band which was active from 1984 to 1995, and then again from 2003 to the present. The band is considered by many to be Israel's most important and influential rock band and has sold approximately 400,000 albums in Israel.
Mashina Vremeni Mashina Vremeni (Машина времени, Russian for Time Machine), which formed in Moscow in the late 1960's, is recognized as one of the two "patriarchs" of Russian rock music (the other one being Aquarium). This indirectly dates the Russian rock-n-roll tradition: the leaders of both bands (Andrei Makarevich and Boris Grebenshchikov, who share a career-long friendship) were born in 1953 and admitted to getting into rock-n-roll due a high-school fascination with The Beatles.
Mashinalno (album) Mashinalno (in Russian: "Машинально"; translation to English: "Mechanically") - is an album released in 2004 by the company Sintez Records which consists of 12 songs of the popular Russian rock band Mashina Vremeni ("Time Machine").
Mashing In the act of brewing, mashing is the process of mixing milled grain (typically malted grain) with water, and heating this mixture up with rests at certain temperatures to allow enzymes in the malt to break down the starch in the grain into sugars, typically maltose.
Mashiro Blan de Windbloom - The princess (and later Queen) of Windbloom in the My-Otome series and serves as another main character along side with Arika Yumemiya and Nina Wáng. She is the complete opposite of her counterpart character from My-HiME where she was mature and wise.
Mashita District, Gifu Mashita (益田郡;-gun) was a district located in Gifu, Japan. All towns and villages in the district merged to form the city of Gero on March 1, 2004, and the district no longer exists as an independent entity.
Mashobra Mashobra is a town in the Shimla district of Himachal Pradesh. Mashobra is located at a height of 2,500 metres (8,200 feet) above sea level and is connected to the state capital Shimla through the historic Hindustan-Tibet Road built in 1850 by Lord Dalhousie.
Mashrabiya Mashrabiya is the Arabic term given to a type of projecting oriel window enclosed with carved wood latticework, often located on the second storey of a house. A good view of the street can be obtained by the occupants without being seen, offering privacy for women and protection from the hot sun.
Mashramani Mashramani, often abbreviated to "Mash", is an annual festival that celebrates Guyana's 1966 independence from the United Kingdom. The festival, usually held on 23 February – Guyanese Republic Day – includes a parade, music, games and cooking and is intended to commemorate the "Birth of the Republic".
MashreqBank Mashreq Bank PSC is one of the leading banks in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), with total assets as at 31 December 2004, of AED 31,949 million (US$ 8,698 million). It is the second oldest commercial bank in the UAE having originally been established as Bank of Oman Ltd.
Mashriq (disambiguation) Mashriq or Mashreq (Arabic: مشرق) is derived from the Arabic consonantal root sh-r-q (ش ر ق) relating to the east or the sunrise, and essentially means "east" (most literally or poetically, "place of sunrise"). Relevant articles are:
Mashu Mashu, as described in the Epic of Gilgamesh of Mesopotamian mythology, is a great mountain through which the hero-king Gilgamesh passes via a tunnel on his journey after leaving the Cedar Forest, a forest of ten thousand leagues span. The corresponding location in reality has been the topic of speculation, as no confirming evidence has been found.
Mashu (band) Mashu was a Canterbury scene improvisational supergroup that lasted from 1995 to 1998. The name is a reference to Mashu (a mountain in the Epic of Gilgamesh) and a play on the three band members' names: Hugh Hopper (bass), Mark Hewins (guitar) and Shyamal MaĂŻtra (percussion).
Mashup (music) Mashup, or bastard pop, or bootleg, is a musical genre which, in its purest form, consists of the combination (usually by digital means) of the music from one song with the a cappella from another. Typically, the music and vocals belong to completely different genres.
Mashwanis The Mashwani (also Moshwani, Mishwani, Miswani) are a tribal group, living predominantly in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The progenitor of the Mashwanis was a Syed, that is a descendant of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, Sayed Muhammad Hamzah married a Pashtun woman of Kakar Tribe and he has a son name Sayed Masud (Moshwani).
Mashya and Mashyana According to the Zoroastrian creation myth, Mashya and Mashyana (also Mashyane, Mashîyôî) were the first man and woman whose procreation gave rise to the human race. It is said that the Creator, Ahura Mazda, created the First Human, Gayomard, who was neither man nor woman, as his sixth creation.
Mascha Kaléko Mascha Kaléko (June 7th 1907 in Chrzanow (Poland); died January 21st 1975 in Zürich) was a German language poet. Her family moved from Galicia to Germany, from where she managed to emigrate to the USA during the Nazi era in 1938.
Maschalismos Maschalismos was the name for the practice of physically rendering the dead incapable of rising or haunting the living in undead form. It comes from the Ancient Greek word and was also the term for procedural rules on such matters in later Greek customary law.
Maschinenfest Maschinenfest is a yearly, three-day underground music festival featuring industrial, power electronics, noise and other alternative electronic performers. There are both independent and signed bands who are booked to play, as well as many vendors for music and related paraphernalia.
Maschinengewehr Maschinengewehr is German for "machine gun" (literally, "machine rifle"). The standard naming system for German machine guns was a prefix of "Maschinengewehr" (abbreviated as MG) and a two-number suffix giving the year in which the gun was designed.
Maschinenmensch The Maschinenmensch from Metropolis, played by German actress Brigitte Helm in both her robotic and human incarnations, is one of cinema's most famous icons. The haunting blank face and pronounced female curves have been the subject of disgust and fascination alike.
Maschke theorem In mathematics, or more specifically in particular group representation theory, Maschke's theorem is the basic result proving that linear representations of a finite group over fields of characteristic 0, such as the complex, real, and rational numbers, break up into irreducible pieces. This is fundamental, for example, to the application of character tables.
Masinissa Guermah Massinissa Guermah of northern Algeria was a young Kabyle (Berber) killed by gendarmes in 2001. The violence was sparked by an Algerian national campaign to impose Arabic language on its people in place of indigenous languages including Kabyle.
Masis (city) Masis () is a city in Armenia in the Ararat province (marz), located on the left bank of the Hrazdan River, 14 km south of Yerevan. Large railroad commodity station of international significance, serving the city Yerevan.
Masivo Integrado de Occidente El Masivo Integrado de Occidente "EL MIO" (The Massive Integrated Transportation System) - The most important project that is taking place in Cali, Colombia at this present time. This project offers la possibility of generating a sustainable economical growth process for the region, and most importantly transform the concept of urban transportation for that of mobility, where all the elements are united to transport individuals to different points in the city by more efficient means.
Masjed Soleyman Masjed Soleiman (also transcribed as Masjid Soleyman and Masjid-e-Soleiman) (مسجد سلیمان in Persian) is a city in the Khuzestan province in southwestern Iran. The first modern oil wells of the Middle East were discovered and drilled in this area.
Masjid al-Haram Al-Masjid al-Ḥarām ( "The Sacred Mosque"), is a large mosque in the city of Mecca, and the largest in Islam. It surrounds the Kaaba, the place which all Muslims turn towards each day in prayer and consider to be the holiest place on Earth.
Masjid al-Qiblatain Masjid al-Qiblatain is a mosque in Medina that is historically important for Muslims as the place where the prophet Muhammad is said to have been commanded to change the direction of prayer (qibla) from Jerusalem to Mecca. The name of the mosque literally means 'mosque of the two qiblas'.
Masjid Al-Abrar Masjid Al-Abrar (Malay for Al-Abrar Mosque; Chinese: 阿尔阿布拉回教堂) is one of the earliest mosques in Singapore, and is located along Telok Ayer Street in the Chinatown district within the Central Area, Singapore's central business district.
Masjid Al-Dahab (The Golden Mosque) Masjid Al-Dahab (or The Golden Mosque; Tagalog: Masjid Ginto; Malay: Masjid Emas) is situated in the predominantly Muslim section of Quiapo District in Manila, Philippines, and is considered the largest mosque in metro Manila. The Golden Mosque was named so because of its dome being supposedly in shining gold.
Masjid Al-Istiqamah Masjid Al-Istiqamah, or Al-Istiqamah Mosque (Arabic: المسجد الإستقامة), is a mosque in Singapore which was completed in 1999. It is the only mosque in Singapore to have land allocated for it before the appointment of its Mosque Building Committee by the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore, MUIS.
Masjid Hajjah Fatimah Masjid Hajjah Fatimah (Malay for Hajjah Fatimah Mosque; Chinese: 哈贾•法蒂玛回教堂) is a mosque located along Beach Road in the Kampong Glam district within the Kallang Planning Area in Singapore. The mosque was completed in 1846.
Masjid Jamae Masjid Jamae (Malay for Jamae Mosque; Chinese: 詹美回教堂) is one of the earliest mosques in Singapore, and is located in the Chinatown district within the Central Area, Singapore's central business district. The mosque was established in 1826.
Masjid Jamek LRT station Masjid Jamek station is a set of LRT stations operated by Rapid KL. The Kelana Jaya Line runs through the underground station and both the Ampang and Sri Petaling lines run through the elevated station above Jalan Tun Perak.
Masjid Malabar Masjid Malabar (full name: Malabar Muslim Jama-Ath Mosque, Malay for Malabar Mosque; Chinese: 马拉巴回教堂) is Singapore's only Malabar Muslim mosque. The mosque is located at the junction of Victoria Street and Jalan Sultan in the Kampong Glam district, in the Rochor Planning Area within the Central Area, Singapore's central business district.
Masjid Omar Kampong Melaka Masjid Omar Kampong Melaka (or Omar Kampong Malacca Mosque; Chinese: 奥玛甘榜马六甲回教堂) is a mosque in Singapore, and is located at Keng Cheow Street in the Singapore River Planning Area, within the Central Area, Singapore's central business district.
Masjid Sultan Masjid Sultan (Malay for Sultan Mosque; Chinese: 苏丹回教堂) is located at Muscat Street and North Bridge Road within the Kampong Glam district of Rochor Planning Area in Singapore. The mosque is considered one of the most important mosques in Singapore.
Masjid-u-Shajarah Masjid-u-Shajarah (mosque of the tree) is a miqat (place where ihram is put on) for those going to Mecca for umrah or hajj. Abar Ali is the name of a place where Masjid-u-Shajarah is situated, 7 km outside of Medina in Dhul Hulaifah.
Mask (god) Mask is the calculating, mysterious god of shadows, thievery, and thieves in the Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms setting. Ed Greenwood created Mask for his home Dungeons & Dragons game, loosely inspired by the Greek deity Hermes.
Mask and Wig The Mask and Wig Club, founded in 1889 by Clayton Fotterall McMichael, is the oldest all-male collegiate musical comedy troupe in the United States. Founded as an alternative to the existing dramatic outlets at the University of Pennsylvania, Mask and Wig has presented comedy, music, and dancing to the University of Pennsylvania, to Philadelphia and to audiences across the country.
Mask data preparation Mask data preparation is the step that translates an intended set of polygons on an integrated circuit layout into a form that can be physically written by the photomask writer. Usually this involves fracturing complex polygons into simpler shapes, often rectangles and trapezoids, that can be written by the mask writing hardware.
Mask of Sorrow The Mask of Sorrow is a monument is perched on a hill above Magadan, Russia, commemorating the millions of prisoners who suffered and died in the Gulag prison camps in the Kolyma region of the Soviet Union during the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. It consists of a large stone statue of a face, with tears coming from the left eye in the form of small masks.
Mask of the Wraith The Mask of the Wraith, is a magical item in the game Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. Its purpose is to allow a person to avoid their destined fate - it does so by allowing them to exist in the Timeline in two different places at once.
Mask ROM Mask ROM refers to a kind of ROM (read-only memory) whose contents are programmed by the IC manufacturer (rather than by the user). The terminology "mask" comes from IC fabrication, where where regions of the chip are masked off before during the process of lithography.
Mask Trilogy The Mask Trilogy refers to three award-winning German-style board games designed by Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling. The trilogy is given this name because the box of each game features a Mask from the region which gives the game its theme.
Maskanda Maskanda (or maskandi) is a kind of Zulu folk music that is evolving with South African society. Ethekwini Online describes it as "The music played by the man on the move, the modern minstrel, today’s troubadour.
Masked Avengers The Masked Avengers are a Canadian radio duo, made up of disk jockeys Sebastian Trudel and Marc-Antoine Audette, known for making prank calls to famous persons by pretending to be government officials or officers in charitable organizations.
Masked Booby The Masked Booby, Sula dactylatra, is a large seabird of the gannet family, Sulidae. This species breeds on islands in tropical oceans, except in the eastern Atlantic; in the eastern Pacific it is replaced by the Nazca Booby, Sula granti, which was formerly regarded as a subspecies of Masked Booby (Pitman & Jehl 1998, Friesen et al.
Masked corydoras The masked corydoras, bandit catfish, bandit corydoras, or Meta River corydoras, Corydoras metae, is a tropical freshwater fish belonging to the Corydoradinae sub-family of the Callichthyidae family. It originates in inland waters in South America, and is found in the Meta River basin in Colombia.
Masked Finfoot The Masked Finfoot, (Heliopais personata), is an aquatic bird from the fresh and brackish wetlands of southeastern Asia, Indochina, Malaysia and Indonesia. Like the rest of the family, the African Finfoot and the Sungrebe, the relationship to other birds is poorly understood.
Masked Finch The Masked Finch (Poephila personata) is a common resident of grasslands with at least a few shrubs and grassy tropical woodlands across northern Australia, from the Kimberley, across the Top End, the Gulf country and the southern part of Cape York Peninsula, as far east as Chillagoe, but always near water.
Masked Lapwing The Masked Lapwing (Vanellus miles) (aka Tasmanian Plover) is a large, common and conspicuous bird native to Australia, particularly the northern and eastern parts of the continent. It spends most of its time on the ground searching for food and has several distinctive calls.
Masked man fallacy The masked man fallacy is a fallacy of formal logic in which substitution of identical designators in a true statement can lead to a false one. The name comes from the example "I do not know who the masked man is", which can be true even though the masked man is Jones, and I know who Jones is.
Masked Marvel (comics) The Masked Marvel (Adam Austin), is a fictional satirical superhero in the Marvel Comics universe, created by writer Karl Kesel. Austin first appeared in X-Men #187, where he debuted in "The Masked Marvel" - an additional mini-comic which appeared at the end of the issue.
Masked Owl The Australian Masked Owl (Tyto novaehollandiae) is a barn owl of Southern New Guinea and the non-desert areas of Australia. The facial disk is white and has short brown feathers around dark brown or black eyes forming a heart shaped outline.
Masked Rider (TV series) Masked Rider is an American adaptation of the Japanese television series Kamen Rider BLACK RX, one of the many sequels of the popular Kamen Rider franchise. It was produced by Saban and aired on FOX part of the Fox Kids program block from September 16, 1995 to November 20, 1996.
Masked Yellowthroat The Masked Yellowthroat, Geothlypis aequinoctialis, is a New World warbler. It has a number of separate resident breeding populations in Central and South America, some of which may be considered to form separate species.
Maskerade Maskerade is the eighteenth novel in the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. The witches Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg visit the Ankh-Morpork Opera House to find Agnes Nitt and get caught up in a story similar to The Phantom of the Opera.
Masking Masking is a drawing technique invented in Japan in the mid- to late 20th century employed in comics and animation. It is the use of simplistic, iconic characters in order to assist readers or viewers in associating themselves with them as coupled with highly detailed, nearly photorealistic backgrounds to add visual interest.
Masking (personality) Masking (Personality Theory) - Masking is a process in which an individual changes or "masks" his or her natural personality to conform to social pressures, abuse, and or harassment. Some examples of masking are a single overly dominant temperament, or humor, two incongruent temperaments, or displaying three of the four main temperaments within the same individual.
Masking threshold The masking threshold is the sound pressure level (SPL) of a sound you need to make hearing another in presence of a masker signal. This threshold depends on the frequency and the kind of the masker and maskee.
Maskless lithography In maskless lithography, light used to expose the photosensitive emulsion (or photoresist) is not projected from, or transmitted through, a photomask. Instead, most commonly, the radiation is focused to a narrow beam.
Masks, weapons and items from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask Many fictional weapons and other items are collected by the player in the Nintendo 64 game The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (2000) to help him on his quest. The player is allowed to assign 3 different objects to the C buttons (, , ) for quick access.
Maslak Maslak is one of the main business districts of Istanbul, Turkey, located on the European side of the city. It is administered by the borough of Şişli, though being far north and actually closer to the boroughs of Beşiktaş and Sarıyer.
Maslawi A Maslawi is a person who is from the city of Mosul, Iraq. A Maslawi does not indicate ones race, religion or religious sector, as a maslawi can either be an Arab, Kurd, or Assyrian (although, most Kurds of Mosul do not prefer to be grouped under the term maslawi).
Maslenitsa Maslenitsa or Pancake week (, also called Pancake week) is a Russian folk holiday that dates back to the pagan times. It is celebrated during the last week before the Great Lent that is the seventh week before the Easter.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is a theory in psychology that Abraham Maslow proposed in his 1943 paper A Theory of Human Motivation, which he subsequently extended to include his observations of man's innate curiosity. His theory contends that as humans meet 'basic needs', they seek to satisfy successively 'higher needs' that occupy a set hierarchy.
Masmak Castle The Masmak Castle (Qasr al-Masmak قصر المصمك, Arabic for Old building) is a clay and mud brick fort, with four watch towers and thick walls, founded on stone blocks, lying in the center of Riyadh, in the old quarters. This building played a major part in the Kingdom History, as here where took place the Recapture of Riyadh, led by Ibn Saud on 14 January 1902.
Masmedia MASMEDIA is a Croatian company, established in 1990 as a publishing house that publishes business, professional and specialized books; magazines; and electronic publications. The company publishes its own works, translations of recognized foreign authors, professional and specialized magazines covering different subjects such as economics, construction engineering, electricity, installations, tourism, and the car industry.
Masnavi The Masnavi or Masnavi-I Ma'navi (Persian: مثنوی معنوی), also written Mathnawi or Mesnevi, written in Persian by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, the celebrated Persian Sufi saint and poet, is one of the best known and most influential works of both Sufism and Persian literature. Comprising six books of poems that amount to more than 25,000 verses, it pursues its way through hundreds of stories that illustrate man's predicament in his search for God.
Masoala National Park Masoala National Park, in northeast Madagascar, is the largest of the island's protected areas. Created in 1997, the park protects 2,300 square kilometres of rainforest and 100 square kilometres of marine parks.
Mason & Dixon Mason & Dixon, an epic postmodernist novel by Thomas Pynchon first published in 1997, centers on the collaboration of the historical Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in their astronomical and surveying exploits in Cape Colony, Saint Helena, Great Britain and along the Mason-Dixon line in British North America on the eve of the American Revolutionary War.
Mason and Hamlin Mason & Hamlin, one of the earliest American piano manufacturing companies, was founded by Henry Mason and Emmons Hamlin in Boston in 1854. Mason was the son of Lowell Mason, the famous American hymn composer and musical educator.
Mason bee Mason bee is a general term for certain species of bees in the family Megachilidae, most appropriately restricted to the genus Osmia, such as the orchard mason bee (Osmia lignaria), the blueberry bee (Osmia ribifloris), and the hornfaced bee (Osmia cornifrons). They are named from their habit of making compartments of mud in their nests, which are made in hollow reeds or holes in wood made by wood boring insects.
Mason Bogie The Mason Bogie is a type of articulated steam locomotive suited for sharp curves and uneven track, once commonly used on narrow gauge lines in the United States. The design is a development of the single Fairlie, and is sometimes, and perhaps more properly known as the Mason Fairlie.

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