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Mason Crosby Mason Walker Crosby (born September 3, 1984 in Lubbock, Texas), is an American college football placekicker for the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is widely considered the best kicker in college football, as evidenced by his current number one spot on ESPN's Mel Kiper Jr.
Mason Dixon (Rocky Balboa character) Mason "The Line" Dixon, played by real-life boxer Antonio Tarver, is the primary opponent of fictional boxer Rocky Balboa in the 2006 motion picture Rocky Balboa. His nickname references the historic Mason-Dixon line.
Mason General Hospital Mason General Hospital was a psychiatric hospital run by the United States War Department on Long Island during World War II. The facility consisted of all of the buildings that comprised Edgewood State Hospital and three buildings from Pilgrim State Hospital, in addition to numerous temporary buildings, and was named in honor of Brigadier General Charles Field Mason, who had served in the US Army Medical Corps.
Mason Hawkins Otis "Mason" Hawkins is a noted investor, who manages Southeastern Asset Management. Prior to founding Southeastern, Hawkins was Director of Research at First Tennessee Investment Management (1974-1975) and Director of Research at Atlantic National Bank (1972-1973).
Mason Jennings Mason Jennings (born 1975 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is a Minnesota-based pop-folk singer-songwriter. He is well known for his simple yet catchy melodies, intimate lyrics, literary and historical themes, and baritone voice.
Mason Monsevais Mason Monsevais (born August 11, 1990 in Bakersfield, California), is a semi-professional golfer for Bullard High School in Fresno, California. He is most famous for sinking a hole-in-one shot against San Joaquin Memorial High School on May 9th, 2006.
Mason Reese Mason Reese (born April 11, 1965 in Los Angeles) was a child star in numerous television commercials in the 1970s, particularly for Underwood Deviled Ham. He was somewhat overweight and spoke with a slight lisp, making him a very recognizable figure.
Mason Remey Charles Mason Remey (May 15 1874 - February 4 1974) was an eminent and controversial American Bahá'í with a distinguished life of service to the Bahá'í Faith. In 1960 Remey claimed to be the second Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith Because of this controversial claim, he and his followers split from the majority of Bahá'ís who believed that no appointment had been made, and they mutually excommunicated each other as Covenant-breakers].
Mason's Island Mason's Island (Algonquin: Chippachaug); mapan inhabited island in the mouth of the Mystic River (Connecticut), Connecticut USA, part of the town of Mystic, Connecticut. It is connected to the mainland by a causeway.
Mason's mark A mason's mark is a symbol often found on dressed stone in buildings and other public structures. It is also found in some forms of freemasonry as a type of unique signature or identifying mark: Mark Masonry is a separate degree in freemasonry, and Scottish rules issued in 1598 stated that on admission to a fraternity, every mason had to enter his name and his mark in a register.
Mason's mitre A mason's mitre is a type of mitre joint, traditionally used in stonework or masonry but commonly seen in kitchen countertops. In a mason's mitre, the two members being joined meet as for a butt joint but a small section of one member is removed creating a socket to receive the end of the other.
Mason-Dixon line The Mason–Dixon Line (or "Mason and Dixon's Line") is a line of demarcation between four states in the United States. It forms part of the borders of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Delaware, and Maryland, surveyed when they were still British colonies.
Masonia Masonia is a five-piece rock band from Sydney, Australia. The members are Altijan Childs, lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist, Daniel Rivers, keyboardist and backing vocalist, Mo Bloomfield, bassist and backing vocalist, Nathan Merryment, drummer, and Kris Peterson, backing vocalist and guitarist.
Masonic conspiracy theories Due to its secretive nature Freemasonry has long been a target of conspiracy theories in which it is either bent on world domination or already secretly in control of world politics. Subjects of such conspiracies often involve linked symbols and numbers associated with Freemasonry, however coincidental.
Masonic Children's Home of Georgia The Masonic Children's Home of Georgia was erected in 1905 and has since provided for the care of both children and the widowed. Originally, the Home (as it is referred to by its residents) provided care for widows and their children.
Masonic Landmarks Masonic Landmarks are a set of principles which many Freemasons claim to be "both ancient and unchangeable precepts of Masonry". Issues of the "regularity" of a Freemasonic Lodge, Grand Lodge or Grand Orient are judged in the context of the Landmarks.
Masonic Lodge A Masonic Lodge, often termed a Private Lodge or Constituent Lodge in Books of Constitutions, is the basic organisation of Freemasonry. Every new Lodge must be warranted by a Grand Lodge, but is subject to its direction only in enforcing the published Constitution of the jurisdiction.
Masonic Lodge Officers This article relates to mainstream 'Craft Freemasonry', sometimes known in America as 'Blue Lodge Freemasonry'. Every Masonic Lodge appoints Masonic Lodge Officers to execute the necessary functions of the lodge's life and work.
Masonic Order of Liberia The Masonic Order of Liberia is a fraternal organization in that West African country. It was based on principles of Freemasonry which had been gleaned by former slaves from their masters in the United States prior to their being "returned" to Africa under the auspices of the American Colonization Society, a 19th century U.
Masonic Temple (Chicago) The Masonic Temple Building was a skyscraper built in Chicago, Illinois in 1892. Constructed by early skyscraper pioneer, Daniel Burnham, it was briefly the tallest building in the world, at 302 feet (92 meters) tall.
Masonic Temple (Providence) The Masonic Temple is one of two monumental buildings in central Providence that have remained unfinished and abandoned for decades. Originally planed as a Freemason temple, construction work was abandoned in 1929 as a result of financial difficultes caused by the Great Depression and WW II.
Masonic Youth Organizations Freemasonry has formed several youth organizations over the course of its history. Most of these organizations originated in the United States during the early 20th Century but have since branched out internationally.
Masonite International Masonite International Corporation is a Mississauga, Ontario based company which manufactures doors, door components, and door entry systems. It is one of the world's largest manufacturer and merchandiser of commercial and residential doors.
Masonry Masonry is the building of structures from individual units laid in and bound together by mortar. The common materials of masonry construction are brick, stone such as marble, granite, travertine, limestone; concrete block, glass block, and tile.
Masonry heater A masonry heater (or masonry stove) is a device for warming a home (or any interior space) that captures the heat from periodic burning of fuels (primarily wood), and then radiates that heat over a long period at a fairly constant temperature. The technology exists in many forms from the Roman hypocaust to the Austrian kachelofen.
Masonry oven A masonry oven, sometimes colloquially known as a brick oven, is an oven consisting of a baking chamber made of fireproof brick, concrete, stone, or clay. Though traditionally wood-fired, coal-fired ovens were common in the 19th century and modern masonry ovens are often fired with natural gas or even electricity.
Masonwabe Maseti Masonwabe Maseti (born June 8, 1987 in Cape Town, Republic of South Africa) is a football midfielder who currently plays for the South African team Ajax Cape Town. Maseti signed for Ajax CT in 2004, having came through their youth academy, and made his first team debut in the same year.
Masoom Masoom (1983)( translation : Innocent ) was Shekhar Kapur's first directorial venture. The critically acclaimed film starred Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Supriya Pathak and Saeed Jaffrey, as well as child actors Jugal Hansraj and Urmila Matondkar.
Masoretes The Masoretes (ba'alei hamasorah, Hebrew בעלי המסורה) were groups of scribes working between the 7th and 11th centuries based primarily in Tiberias; Jerusalem; and Babylonia. Each group compiled a system of pronunciation and grammatical guides in the form of diacritical notes on the external form of the Biblical text in an attempt to fix the pronunciation, paragraph and verse divisions and cantillation of Tanakh for the worldwide Jewish community.
Masoretic Text The Masoretic Text (MT) is the Hebrew text of the Tanakh approved for general use in Judaism. It is also widely used in translations of the Hebrew Bible, commonly referred to as the Old Testament of the Protestant Bible, and in recent decades also for Roman Catholic Bibles.
Masoud Ahmadi Moghaddasi Judge Masoud Ahmadi Moghaddasi (مسعود احمدی مقدسی‎; 1963–August 2, 2005) was an Iranian judge, and deputy to Saeed Mortazavi. He was assassinated by a gunman around 16:00 in Tehran's Ahmad Ghasir Avenue while commuting home from work.
Masoud Banisadr Masoud Banisadr is an Iranian historian and political analyst. He is a former senior member of the Iranian opposition group the Mujahideen-e-Khalq Organization (MEK), and was its representative in the United States from 1990-96.
Masoud Dehnamaki Masoud Dehnamaki is a right wing journalist in Iran who recently directed a documentary on prostitution that traces its roots to the evils of poverty.His documentary shows the rampant prostitution that is so strictly forbidden and suppressed by the Islamic Regime in control of the country.
Masoumeh Ebtekar Masoumeh Ebtekar (Persian: معصومه ابتکار; born 1960) was the first female Vice President of Iran, as the head of the Environment Protection Organization of Iran during the administration of President Mohammad Khatami, and is currently a city councilwoman elect of Tehran.Ebtekar is also famous for being the spokeswoman of the students who had occupied the US Embassy during the Iran hostage crisis] and as a crtic of the [[Taliban's oppresion of women.
Masovian Blessed Virgin Mary Cathedral Masovian Blessed Virgin Mary Cathedral in PĹ‚ock is one of the most valuable representatives of renaissance architecture in Middle Europe. From the antecedent, Romanesque cathedral are presumably the bronze door (now in Velikiy Novgorod), with the figurative bas-reliefs depicting the verses of so-called "Roman Confession of Faith", and the figure of Alexander of Malonne, bishop of PĹ‚ock.
Masovian Voivodeship (1526-1795) Masovian Voivodeship, 1526-1795 () was an administrative region of the Kingdom of Poland, and of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, from the 15th century to the partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1795). Together with PĹ‚ock and Rawa Voivodeships, it formed the province of Masovia.
Maspalomas Station Maspalomas Station is an INSA operated, ESTRACK radio antenna station for communication with spacecraft located at the southern area of Gran Canaria island, on the INTA campus. The site hosts a 15-metre antenna with reception in S- and X-band and transmission in S-band.
Maspeth, Queens Maspeth is a small community in the borough of Queens in New York City. Neighborhoods sharing borders with Maspeth are Woodside and Sunnyside to the north, Long Island City to the northwest, Williamsburg to the southwest, Ridgewood to the south and Middle Village and Elmhurst to the east.
Masque The masque was a form of festive courtly entertainment which flourished in sixteenth and early seventeenth century Europe, though it was developed earlier in Italy. (A public version of the masque was the pageant.
Masque of the Red Death (Ravenloft) Masque of the Red Death is a campaign setting for the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. The setting was published after the release of the Ravenloft campaign setting and is regarded as an add-on for that line.
Masquerade (book) Masquerade is a children’s book, written and painted by Kit Williams, which sparked a worldwide treasure hunt by concealing clues to the location of a jeweled golden hare, created and hidden somewhere in the British Isles by Williams. It became the inspiration for a genre of books known today as armchair treasure hunts.
Masquerade (competition) A masquerade is a staged costume competition popularized by science fiction conventions. Entries are introduced one at a time by the master of ceremonies, enter the stage, display their costume or act out a short scene, then exit the stage.
Mass Mass is a property of a physical object that quantifies the amount of matter and energy it is equivalent to. Mass is a central concept of classical mechanics and related subjects, and there are several forms of mass within the framework of relativistic kinematics (see mass in special relativity and mass in General Relativity).
Mass (liturgy) Mass is the term used to describe celebration of the Eucharist in the Western liturgical rites of the Roman Catholic Church, Old Catholic Churches, in the Anglo-Catholic tradition of Anglicanism, and in some largely High Church Lutheran regions: in Scandinavian and Baltic countries the Lutheran Eucharistic service is also known as "the Mass".
Mass (music) The Mass, a form of sacred musical composition, is a choral composition that sets the fixed portions of the Eucharistic liturgy (principally that of the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Church, generally known in the US as the Episcopal Church, and also the Lutheran Church) to music. Most Masses are settings of the liturgy in Latin, the traditional language of the Roman Catholic Church, but there are a significant number written in the languages of non-Catholic countries where vernacular worship has long been the norm.
Mass (Stravinsky) Igor Stravinsky composed his Mass between 1944 and 1948. This 19-minute setting of the Roman Catholic Mass exhibits the austere, Neoclassic, anti-Romantic aesthetic that characterizes his work from about 1923 to 1951.
Mass (theatre) MASS (formally, "MASS: A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players, and Dancers") is a musical piece composed by Leonard Bernstein. Specifically commissioned by First Lady of the United States Jacqueline Kennedy, wife of President John F.
Mass affluent Mass affluent is a marketing term used to refer to the growing high end of the mass market. It is most commonly used by the financial services industry to refer to individuals with US$100,000 to US$1,000,000 of liquid financial assets, although the exact definition varies.
Mass Appeal Entertainment Mass Appeal Entertainment is an American record label owned and operated by producer/writer Marcus "DL" Siskind (Backstreet Boys, Lauryn Hill, Queen Latifah, etc). Mass Appeal Entertainment is a Boston, MA based company with a multitude of artists currently signed from various musical genres.
Mass behavior A field founded by multi-disciplinarian Howard Bloom in the 1990s. Says Bloom, "Mass behavior encompasses the collective action of everything from the quarks in the first 10(-32) second of the cosmos and from the atoms that coagulate in galaxies to the mass emotions of human beings".
Mass collaboration Mass collaboration is a form of collective action that occurs when large numbers of people work independently on a single project, often modular in its nature. Such projects typically take place on the internet using social software and computer-supported collaboration tools such as wiki technologies, which provide a potentially infinite hypertextual substrate within which the collaboration may be situated.
Mass concentration A mass concentration or mascon is a region of a planet or moon's crust that contains a large positive gravitational anomaly. In general, the word "mascon" can be used as a noun to describe an excess distribution of mass on or beneath the surface of a planet (with respect to some suitable average), such as Hawaii.
Mass customization Mass customization, in marketing, manufacturing, and management, is the use of flexible computer-aided manufacturing systems to produce custom output. Those systems combine the low unit costs of mass production processes with the flexibility of individual customization.
Mass deacidification Mass deacidification is a term used in Library and Information Science for one possible measure against the degradation of paper in old books (the so-called "slow fires"). The goal of the process is to increase the pH of acidic paper works on a large scale.
Mass deaths and atrocities of the twentieth century Philosophers and social scientists have frequently noted the propensity of humans to commit violent acts not only as individuals but as groups. The twentieth century is a legacy of the ability of humanity to engage willingly in acts of warfare and atrocity.
Mass decontamination Mass decontamination (abbreviated mass decon) is the decontamination of large numbers of people, in the event of industrial, accidental, or intentional contamination by toxic, infective, caustic, polluted, or otherwise unhealthful or damaging substances.
Mass distribution Mass distribution is a term used in physics, geosciences and mechanics and describes the spatial distribution of mass within a solid body. On principal, it is relevant also for gases or liquids, but on earth their mass distribution is almost homogeneous.
Mass driver A mass driver or electromagnetic catapult is a method of spacecraft propulsion that would use a linear motor to accelerate payloads up to high speeds. All existing and contemplated mass drivers use coils of wire energized by electricity to make electromagnets.
Mass Driver 1 Constructed in 1976 and 1977, Mass Driver 1 was an early demonstration of the concept of the mass driver, a form of electromagnetic launch. It consisted of a series of coils through which a small bucket would travel, pushed by the magnetic field of each coil as it was energized.
Mass Effect Mass Effect is an action role-playing game under development by BioWare exclusively for the Xbox 360. It is scheduled for release in the first half of 2007 and it will be the first installment of a planned trilogy.
Mass flow meter A mass flow meter, also known as inertial flow meter and coriolis flow meter, is a device that measures how much liquid is flowing through a tube. It does not measure the volume of the liquid passing through the tube, it measures the amount of mass flowing through the device.
Mass fraction In aerospace engineering, the mass fraction is a measure of a vehicle's performance, determined as the portion of the vehicle's mass which does not reach the destination. In a spacecraft, this is an orbit, while for aircraft it is their landing location.
Mass games Mass games or mass gymnastics are a form of gymnastics in which large numbers of performers take part in a highly regimented performance that emphasizes group dynamics rather than individual prowess. Because of the vast scale of the performance, with often tens of thousands of performers, mass games are performed in stadiums, often accompanied by a background of card-turners occupying the seats on the opposite side from the viewers.
Mass gap A quantum field theory model is said to have a mass gap if the energy spectrum not including zero has a positive greatest lower bound. In Yang-Mills theory, which is a quantum field theory, it is assumed to have a mass gap, however nobody managed to prove it mathematically.
Mass grave A mass grave is a grave containing more than one often unidentified human corpse. Mass graves are usually created after a large number of people die or are killed, and there is a desire to bury the corpses quickly.
Mass hallucination A mass hallucination is a phenomenon in which a large group of people, usually in physical proximity to each other, all experience the same hallucination simultaneously. Mass hallucination is a common explanation for mass UFO sightings, appearances of the Virgin Mary, and other paranormal phenomena.
Mass chromatogram The term mass chromatogram refers to the representation of mass spectrometry data as a chromatogram, where the x-axis represents time and the y-axis represents signal intensity. The source data contains mass information; however, it is not graphically represented in a mass chromatogram in favor of visualizing the time and signal intensity data.
Mass in B Minor The Mass in B minor (BWV 232) is a musical setting of the Latin Mass by Johann Sebastian Bach. Although parts of the Mass in B minor date to 1724, the whole was assembled in its present form in 1749, just before the composer's death in 1750.
Mass in C major (Beethoven) Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his Mass in C major (or Mass in C; opus 86) to a commission from Prince Nikolaus Esterházy II in 1807. In fulfilling this commission, Beethoven was extending a tradition established by Joseph Haydn, who following his return from England in 1795 had composed one mass per year for the Esterházy family, to celebrate the name day of the Prince's wife.
Mass in F Minor Mass in F Minor is a 1968 album by the The Electric Prunes, consisting of a musical setting of the mass sung in Latin and arranged in the psychedelic style of the band. At the time of its release it was seen as innovative and adventurous.
Mass in general relativity The concept of mass in general relativity (GR) is more complex than the concept of mass in special relativity. In fact, general relativity does not offer a single definition for the term mass, but offers several different definitions which are applicable under different circumstances.
Mass index The mass index is an indicator, developed by Donald Dorsey, used in technical analysis to predict trend reversals. It is based on the notion that there in a tendency for reversal when the price range widens, and therefore compares previous trading ranges (highs minus lows).
Mass lexical comparison Mass lexical comparison or mass comparison is a highly controversial method developed by the well-known linguist Joseph Greenberg to find genetic relationships among languages in the remote past, which he considered unsuitable for the mainstream comparative method, or in situations where there are too many languages to practically apply the latter without many generations of work.
Mass market paperback A mass market paperback (MMP) is a small, usually non-illustrated, and inexpensive bookbinding format. They are commonly released after the hardback edition, and often sold in non-traditional bookselling locations such as airports and supermarkets, as well as in traditional bookstores.
Mass marketing Mass-marketing is the process of widely marketing a product to the masses, using the mass media. The product may or may not be mass-produced, although that is usually most practical if the marketing campaign happens to be successful.
Mass media Mass media is a term used to denote, as a class, that section of the media specifically conceived and designed to reach a very large audience such as the population of a nation state. It was coined in the 1920s with the advent of nationwide radio networks, mass-circulation newspapers and magazines, although mass media was present centuries before the term became common.
Mass media and public opinion The mass media plays a crucial role in forming and reflecting public opinion: it communicates the world to individuals, and it reproduces modern society's self-image. Critiques in the early-to-mid twentieth century suggested that the media destroys the individual's capacity to act autonomously - sometimes being ascribed an influence reminiscent of the telescreens of the dystopian novel 1984.
Mass media in Communist Czechoslovakia The mass media in Communist Czechoslovakia was controlled by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSÄŚ). Private ownership of any publication or agency of the mass media was generally forbidden, although churches and other organizations published small periodicals and newspapers.
Mass migrations Mass migration refers to the movement of a large group of people from one geographical area to another, as distinguished from individual, smaller scale or seasonal migrations that occur all the time. See human migration for more information about the phenomenon of migration in general.
Mass mobilization Mass mobilization (also known as social mobilization or popular mobilization) refers to mobilization of civilian population as part of the contentious politics. Mass mobilization can be used by social movements, including revolutionary movements, but also by the state itself.
Mass Machine Mass Machine was a premier youth soccer team that competed primarily in indoor soccer tournaments. The team was formed in the fall of 1993 with the sole purpose of going to the National Indoor Soccer Tournament in Atlanta, GA the following April of 1994.
Mass noun In linguistics, a mass noun (also uncountable noun or non-count noun) is a type of common noun that cannot be modified by a number without specifying a unit of measurement. Thus, depending on one's epistemology, it can be said of mass nouns either (a) that they have singular but no plural forms, or (b) that the grammatical concept of singular-vs-plural does not apply to them.
Mass number The mass number (A), also called atomic mass number or nucleon number, is the number of nucleons (protons and neutrons) in an atomic nucleus. The mass number is unique for each isotope of an element and is written either after the element name or as a superscript to the left of an element's symbol.
Mass of the Catechumens The Mass (or Liturgy) of the Catechumens is an ancient title for the first half of the Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox worship service known as the Mass. This part of the Mass is now referred to by the Catholic Church as the Liturgy of the Word.
Mass of the observable universe The mass of the observable universe can be estimated using estimations for its density and size. Estimates of its density are obtained by studying fluctuations in cosmic microwave background radiation, superclusters, and Big Bang nucleosynthesis.
Mass operations of the NKVD Mass operations of the NKVD were carried out during the Great Purge and targeted specific categories of people. As a rule, they were carried out according to the corresponding order of the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs Nikolai Yezhov.
Mass production Mass production (also called flow production or repetitive flow production) is the production of large amounts of standardized products on production lines. It was popularised by Henry Ford in the early 20th Century, notably in his Ford Model T.
Mass Production (band) Mass Production was an American funk/disco musical group, best known for their 1979 hit, "Firecracker". Based in Richmond, Virginia, the ten-piece group had a series of minor R&B hits in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Mass ratio In aerospace engineering, mass ratio is a measure of the proportion of a rocket that is propellant. It is the ratio of the rocket's wet mass (vehicle plus contents plus propellant) to its dry mass (vehicle plus contents).
Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) The Mass Rapid Transit or MRT (Chinese: 大众快速交通 or more commonly known as 地铁; Malay: Sistem Pengangkutan Gerak Cepat; Tamil: சிங்கை துரிதக் கடவு ரயில்) is a rapid transit system that forms the backbone of the railway system in Singapore with a network spanning the entire city-state. The initial section of the MRT, between Yio Chu Kang and Toa Payoh, was opened in 1987, establishing the MRT as the second oldest metro system in Southeast Asia after Manila's LRT System.
Mass society Mass society is a society in which the concerns of the majority – the lower and middle social classes – play a prominent role, characterized by extension of voting rights, an improved standard of living for the lower classes and mass education. Less often, the term mass society is also used by sociologists simply to describe a large society - i.
Mass storage In computing, mass storage refers to storage of large amounts of information in a persisting and machine-readable fashion. Storage media for mass storage include hard disks, floppy disks, flash memory, optical discs, magneto-optical discs, drum memory, magnetic tape, punched tape (historic) and holographic memory (experimental).
Mass surveillance Mass surveillance is the pervasive surveillance of an entire population, or a substantial fraction thereof. Mass surveillance may be done either with or without the consent of those under surveillance, and may or may not serve their interests.
Mass transfer Mass transfer is the phrase commonly used in engineering for physical processes that involve molecular and convective transport of atoms and molecules within physical systems. Mass transfer includes both fluid flow and separation unit operations.
Mass transit in Chicago Mass Transit in much of Chicagoland is managed through the Regional Transportation Authority ("RTA"), which was installed by referendum in 1974. The RTA provides transportation services through the funding of three subordinate agencies:
Mass transit in New York City New York City's public transportation network is the most extensive in North America. About one in every three users of mass transit in the United States and two-thirds of the nation's rail riders live in New York and its suburbs.
Mass trespass of Kinder Scout The mass trespass of Kinder Scout was a notable act of willful trespass by ramblers. It was undertaken at Kinder Scout, in the Peak District of England, on 24 April 1932, to highlight weaknesses in English law of the time.
Mass wasting Mass wasting, also known as mass movement or slope movement, is the geomorphic process by which soil, regolith, and rock move downslope under the force of gravity. Types of mass wasting include creep, slides, flows, topples, and falls, each with their own characteristic features, and take place over timescales from seconds to years.
Mass with Mary Mass with Mary: The Prison Years is a book by child-molester Mary Kay Letourneau, written in conjunction with two other inmates, Christina Dress, and Tama-Lisa Johnson, telling the stories of their incarcerations.
Mass'oud Mirza Zell-e Soltan Mass'oud Mirza Zell-e Soltan ("Mass'oud Mirza the Sultan's Shadow") was a Persian prince of the Qajar Dynasty; he was known as the "Yamin-al-Dowleh" ("Right Hand of the Government"). He was Nasser-al-Din Shah's eldest son, and the brother of Kamran Mirza Nayeb-Saltaneh and of Mozzafar-al-Din Soltan (who eventually became Mozzafar-al-Din Shah), but Mass'oud Mirza could not ascend as Shah as his mother was from outside the Qajar dynasty's family group.

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