Mother Goose Mother Goose is a well-known figure in the literature of fairy tales and nursery rhymes.
	Mother Jones Mary Harris Jones , better known as Mother Jones, was a prominent United States labor and community organizing, and Wobbly.
	Mother Teresa Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Order of Merit was a Roman Catholic Church nun of Albanians descent, who founded the Missionaries of Charity in India. Her work among the poverty of Kolkata made her one of the world's most famous people, and she was Beatification by Pope John Paul II in October 2003.
	Mother's Day Mother's Day is a holiday honouring mothers, celebrated in many places around the world. Mothers often receive gifts on this day. Mother's Day is a strange time of year for mail in many countries. In 1973, mail delivery through the U.S. Postal Service was delayed for eight days because of the amount of mail.
	Motherwell Motherwell is a large town and former burgh in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, south east of Glasgow. The town was a burgh from 1865 until it merged with the burgh of Wishaw in 1920. Motherwell was noted as the steel production capital of Scotland, nicknamed Steelopolis, with its skyline dominated by the water tower and three cooling towers of the Ravenscraig steel plant which closed in 1992.
	Motivation In psychology, motivation refers to the initiation, direction, intensity and persistence of behavior. Motivation is a temporal and dynamic state that should not be confused with personality or emotion. Motivation is having the encouragement to do something. A motivated person can be reaching for a long-term goal such as becoming a professional writer or a more short-term goal like learning how to spell a particular word.
	Motmot The motmots or Momotidae are a family of tropical birds in the order Coraciiformes, which also includes the kingfishers, bee-eaters and rollers. These are medium-sized near passerine species of dense forests. They are restricted to the tropical New World.
	Motor oil Motor oil is a type of liquid Mineral oil used for lubrication by various kinds internal combustion engines. Other benefits from using motor oil include cooling by carrying heat away from moving engine parts and often include cleaning and corrosion inhibition in internal combustion engines.
	Motor Torpedo Boat Motor Torpedo Boat was the name given to fast torpedo boats by the US Navy, the Royal Norwegian Navy and the Royal Navy. During World War II the US Navy boats were usually called by their hull classification symbol of "PT" and are covered under PT boat though the class type was still 'motor torpedo boat'.
	Motorboat A motorboat generally speaking is a Boat other than a sailboat or personal watercraft, propelled by an internal combustion engine driving a jet engine or a propeller. However, the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea defines it as any vessel propelled by machinery.
	Motorcade A motorcade is a procession of cars carrying Very Important Persons, especially political figures. The motorcade of the President of United States is described in the article Presidential limousine.
	Motorcycle A motorcycle is a two-wheeled vehicle powered by an engine. Motorcycles are one of the cheapest and most widespread forms of motorised transport for many parts of the world. On a typical motorcycle the operator sits astride the vehicle on a seat, with the hands on a set of handlebars and the feet supported by footpegs.
	Motorway A motorway is both a type of road and a classification or designation. Motorways are highways designed to carry a large volume of traffic where a normal road would not suffice or would be unsafe, usually between cities. In the UK they are predominantly dual carriageway roads, usually with three lanes in each direction, although four-lane and two-lane carriageways are also common, and all have grade separation Motorway junction.
	Mouflon The Mouflon is a species of wild sheep and as such is one of the Caprinae or "goat antelopes". It is thought to be one of the two ancestors for all modern domestic sheep breeds. It is red-brown with a dark back-stripe, light colored saddle patch and underparts. The males are horned and the females are horned or polled.
	Mound ---- A mound is a general term for an artificial heaped pile of earth, gravel, sand, rocks, or debris. The most common use is in reference to natural earthen formation suchs as hills and mountains, particularly if they appear artificial. The term may also be applied to any rounded area of topography higher elevation on any surface.
	Mound builders Mound Builder is a general term referring to the Indigenous peoples of North America who constructed various styles of earthen mounds for burial, residential, and ceremonial purposes. These included Archaic period, and Woodland period, and Mississippian culture Pre-Columbian cultures.
	Mount Ararat Mount Ararat is the tallest peak in modern Turkey. This snow-capped, dormant volcanic cone is located near the northeast corner of Turkey, 16 km west of the Iran and 32 km south of the Armenia border. The name Agri in Turkish is said to be derived from Agir in Kurdish meaning fire , referring to Ararat being a volcano..
	Mount Athos ????? ????'??t???? ???ast??? ????te?a ????? ?????Aftonomi Monastiki Politia Ayiu OrusAutonomous Monastic State of the Holy Mountain |- | bgcolor="#ffffff" align=center colspan=2 | Mount Athos is a mountain and a peninsula in Macedonia, northern Greece, called ????? ???? in Greek language, transliterated often as.
	Mount Carmel Mount Carmel is a coastal mountain range in Israel overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Its name is derived from the Hebrew "Karem El" which means 'vineyards of God'. In ancient times it was covered by vineyards and was at all times famous for its fertility. A Syrian Philosopher of the 4th century A.D., called Iamblichus, wrote that Mount Carmel was "the most holy of all mountains and forbidden of access to many."
	Mount Etna Mount Etna is an active volcano on the east coast of Sicily, close to Messina, Italy and Catania. It is the largest active volcano in Europe, currently standing about 3,350 m high, though it should be noted that this varies with summit eruptions; the mountain is 21.6 m lower now than it was in 1865.
	Mount Everest Mount Everest is the Extremes of Altitude on Earth, as measured by the height of its Topographical summit above sea level. The mountain is located on the border between Nepal and People's Republic of China.
	Mount Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan. It straddles the boundary of Shizuoka Prefecture and Yamanashi Prefecture Prefectures of Japan just west of Tokyo, from where it can be seen on a clear day. It is located near the Pacific coast of central Honshu.
	Mount Kilimanjaro Kilimanjaro is a mountain in northeastern Tanzania. It includes the Extremes of Altitude in Africa at 5,895 meters. It is a giant stratovolcano, not currently active, with fumaroles that emit gas in the crater on the main summit of Kibo. Scientists concluded in 2003 that molten magma is just 400 meters below the summit Volcanic crater.
	Mount McKinley Mount McKinley or Denali in Alaska is the Extremes on Earth mountain peak in North America, at a height of approximately 20,320 foot. It is the centerpiece of Denali National Park and Preserve. The mountain was also known as Bolshaya Gora in Russian language.
	Mount Olympus Mount Olympus is the highest mountain in Greece, at 2,919 meters high and one of the highest, in real absolute altitude from base to top, of Europe since its base is located at sea level; it is situated at , in mainland Greece. Mount Olympus is noted for its very rich flora with several endemic species.
	Mount Parnassus Mount Parnassus is a mountain of barren limestone in central Greece that towers above Delphi, north of the Gulf of Corinth, and offers scenic views of the surrounding olive groves and countryside. According to Greek mythology, this mountain was sacred to Apollo, the Corycian nymphs, and the home of the Muses.
	Mount Pinatubo Mount Pinatubo is an active volcano located on the island of Luzon in the Philippines, at the intersection of the borders of the provinces of Zambales, Tarlac, and Pampanga. Before 1991, the mountain was inconspicuous and heavily erosion. It was covered in dense forest which supported a population of several thousand indigenous people, the Aeta, who had fled to the mountains from the lowlands when the Spanish Empire conquered the Philippines in 1565.
	Mount Rushmore Mount Rushmore National Memorial, near Keystone, South Dakota, is a United States presidential memorial that represents the first 150 years of the history of the United States with the 60-foot sculptures of former President of the United Statess George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.
	Mount Shasta Mount Shasta, a 14,179-foot stratovolcano, is the second-highest peak in the Cascade Range and the List of California fourteeners in California. The mountain is located in Siskiyou County, and has an estimated volume of 108 cubic miles. Physically unconnected to any nearby mountain, and rising abruptly from miles of level ground which encircle it, Mount Shasta stands some 10,000 feet above the surrounding area.
	Mount Sinai Mount Sinai , also known as Mount Horeb, Mount Musa, Gebel Musa or Jabal Musa by the Bedouins, is the name of a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula. At 2,285 metres high, it is the second highest mountain in the Sinai, after Mount St. Catherine, and is in a mountain range in the southern part of the peninsula.
	Mount St. Helens Mount St. Helens is an active stratovolcano in Skamania County, Washington, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. It is located 96 miles south of Seattle, Washington and 53 miles northeast of Portland, Oregon. The mountain is part of the Cascade Range and was known as Louwala-Clough which means "smoking or fire mountain" in the language of the local Native Americans, the Klickitat Tribes.
	Mount Vesuvius Mount Vesuvius is a volcano east of Naples, Italy, Italy. It is the only volcano on the European mainland to have erupted within the last hundred years, although it is not currently erupting. The only other two such Volcanoes of Italy are located on islands.
	Mount Whitney Mount Whitney is the highest point in the contiguous United States at elevation 14,505 feet. It is located at the boundary between California's Inyo County, California and Tulare County, California counties. The western slope of the mountain lies within Sequoia National Park.
	Mountain A mountain is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area. A mountain is generally higher and steeper than a hill, but there is considerable overlap, and usage often depends on local custom. Mountains cover 52% of Asia, 36% of North America, 25% of Europe, 22% of South America, 17% of Australia, and 3% of Africa.
	Mountain Beaver The Mountain Beaver is a primitive rodent unrelated to beavers and not usually found in mountainous areas. It has several common names including Aplodontia, Sewellel, Boomer, Ground Bear, and Giant Mole. This species is the only member of its genus, Aplodontia, and family, Aplodontiidae.
	Mountain bike A mountain bike, mountain bicycle or ATB is a bicycle designed for mountain biking, either on dirt trails or other pavement environments. In contrast, road bicycles aren't rugged enough for such terrain. Mountain bikes have fat, knobby tires for extra traction.
	Mountain goat The Rocky Mountain goat, often called simply mountain goat, is a large hoofed mammal found only in North America. Although it resembles a goat, it is actually more closely related to the antelopes. It resides at high elevations and is a sure-footed climber, often resting on rocky cliffs that predators cannot reach.
	Mountain Gorilla The Mountain Gorilla is one of two subspecies of Gorillas. They are only found in the Virunga Mountains of Central Africa, within three national parks: Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, in south-west Uganda; Volcanoes National Park, in north-west Rwanda; and Virunga National Park, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
	Mountain Hemlock The Mountain Hemlock is a large evergreen pinophyta tree growing to 20-40 m tall, exceptionally 59 m, and with a trunk diameter of up to 2 m. It is native to the west coast of North America, with its northwestern limit on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, and its southeastern limit in northern Tulare County, California, California.
	Mountain man Mountain men were trappers and List of explorerss that roamed the Rocky Mountains from about 1810 to the early 1840s. These were primarily American Beaver trappers, but included some who mainly just wanted to explore the West. The stereotypical mountain man was depicted as a loner dressed in animal pelts, sporting bushy facial hair and carrying a rifle and butcher knife, commonly referred to as a "scalpin' knife." Although depicted wearing pelts and furs, it is an incorrect descript
	Mountain pass In a range of hills, or especially of mountain range, a pass is a lower point that allows easier access through the range. On the route through the range, it is locally the highest point on the route. Since many of the world's mountain ranges have always presented formidable barriers to travel, passes have been important since before recorded history, and have played a key role in trade, war and migration.
	Mountain Pine Mountain Pine or Mugo Pine is a high altitude European pine, found in the Pyrenees, Alps, Erzgebirge, Carpathian Mountains, northern Apennine Mountains and Balkans mountains from 1,000 m to 2,200 m, occasionally as low as 200 m in the north of the range in Germany and Poland, and as high as 2,700 m in the south of the range in Bulgaria.
	Mountain range A mountain range is a group of mountains bordered by lowlands or separated from other mountain ranges by mountain pass or rivers. Individual mountains within the same mountain range do not necessarily have the same geology; they may be a mix of different orogeny, for example volcanoes, uplifted mountains or Fold mountains and may, therefore, be of different rock.
	Mountain states The Mountain states form one of the nine geographic divisions within the United States which are officially recognized by that country's census bureau. The division consists of eight states: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.
	Mountain Zebra There are two species of Mountain Zebra: the Cape Mountain Zebra and the Hartmann's Mountain Zebra. Previously they were regarded as two subspecies of the Mountain Zebra. Mountain Zebras are native to South West Africa and are found in dry, stony, mountain and hill habitats. Its diet is tufted grass, bark, leaves, fruit and roots.
	Mountaineering Mountaineering is the sport or hobby or profession of walking, hiking and climbing up mountains. It is also sometimes known as alpinism, particularly in Europe. It may be said to consist of two main aspects, rock-craft and snow-craft, depending on whether the route chosen is over rock or over snow and ice.
	Mourning Mourning is in the simplest sense synonymous with grief over the death of someone. The word is also used to describe a cultural complex of behaviours in which the bereaved participate or are expected to participate.
	Mourning Dove The Mourning Dove is a member of the bird family Columbidae, which includes doves and pigeons. The Mourning Dove breeds from Bermuda, to southern Canada, Central America and the Caribbean, laying two white eggs on a flimsy platform built in a tree or shrub, sometimes on a building.
	Mouse A mouse is a mammal that belongs to one of numerous species of small rodents. The best known mouse species is the mus musculus . It is found in nearly all countries and, as the laboratory mouse, serves as an important model organism in biology; it is also a popular pet.
	Mouse-ear Hawkweed Mouse-ear Hawkweed is a yellow-flowered species of Asteraceae, native to Europe and northern Asia. It produces single, citrus-colored inflorescences. It is an allelopathy plant. Like most hawkweed species, it shows tremendous variation and is a complex of several dozens subspecies and hundreds of varieties and forms.
	Mouse-eared bat The mouse-eared bats, genus Myotis, are a vast group of small brown bats, found across the globe. *Myotis abei *Myotis adversus *Myotis aelleni *Myotis albescens *Myotis altarium *Myotis annectans *Myotis atacamensis *Myotis auriculus *Myotis australis *Myotis austroriparius *Myotis bechsteini
	Mousepad A mousepad, or mouse mat, is a surface for enhancing the movement of a computer mouse.
	Mouser Mouser is a fictional mouse featured in the Super Mario Bros. video game Media franchise. He is a minion of Wart and was featured as a sub-boss in Super Mario Bros. 2. His strategy is throwing bombs at his opponents. However, he never seems to do anything about the fact that they can throw the bombs back at him.
	Mousetrap A mousetrap is a device used for trapping or killing small rodents, especially mouse, hence the name "Mouse" trap.
	Moussaka Moussaka is a traditional aubergine-based dish in the Balkans and the Middle East. The word moussaka is from the Arabic musaqqa?a "chilled", but came into English via Greek. The Greece version, which is the best-known outside the region, consists of layers of ground lamb or beef, sliced aubergine, and tomato, topped with a white sauce and baked.
	Moustache A moustache is facial hair usually grown on the upper lip and below the nose. Often the term implies that the wearer grows only the upper lip hair and chooses to shave the hair on his chin and cheeks, whereas growth of all facial hair would constitute a beard.
	Mouth The mouth, also known as the buccal cavity or the oral cavity, is the opening through which an animal takes in food and water. It is usually located in the head . The mouth of a planarium is in the middle of its belly.
	Mouthfuls Mouthfuls is the second album by United States folk-rock band Fruit Bats, released in 2003.
	Mouthparts The mouthparts of arthropods have evolution into a number of forms, each adaptation to a different style of feeding. They are all developed, however, from the same basic form. Most of the parts used for feeding are modified, paired appendages, the exception being the Labrum, which is a single, fused plate; it is the front-most of the mouthparts and located on the midline.
	Movie camera The movie camera is a type of photography camera which takes a rapid sequence of photographs on strips of photographic film; once developed this film can be projected as a film. In contrast to a still camera which captures a single snapshot at a time, the movie camera takes a series of images, each called a "frame".
	Movie projector A movie projector is an opto-mechanical device for displaying Film by projecting them on a movie screen. Most of the optical and mechanical elements, except for the illumination and sound devices, are present in movie cameras.
	Movie theater A movie theater or cinema is a venue, usually a building, for viewing films. Most cinemas are commercial operations catering to the general public, which attend by purchasing a ticket. The film is projected with a movie projector onto a large projection screen at the front of the auditorium.
	Mower A mower is a device for cutting crops or plants that grow on the ground. A smaller mower used for lawns and sports grounds is called a lawn mower. It is often self-powered and may also be small enough to have to be pushed by the groundsman. Grounds mowers have rotary or reel cutters.
	Moxie Moxie, a carbonation beverage, is considered to be the United States first mass produced soft drink. Created in 1876 by Dr. Augustin Thompson of Union, Maine, Moxie was first marketed as a patent medicine in Lowell, Massachusetts under the product name Moxie Nerve Food and was said to cure ailments ranging from Cerebral softening to loss of manhood. In 1884, it was sold in carbonated form and merchandised as an invigorating drink, which claimed to endo
	Mozambique Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordering to the Indian Ocean in the east, Tanzania in the north, Malawi and Zambia in the northwest, Zimbabwe in the west and Swaziland and South Africa in the southwest.
	Mozzarella Mozzarella is a generic term for the several kinds of Italy fresh cheese that are made using spinning and then cutting : mozzarella di latte di bufala made from unpasteurized water buffalo's milk; Mozzarella di Bufala Campana made only from Campania's Water Buffalo milk; mozzarella fior di latte made from fresh pasteurized or unpasteurized cow's milk; and mozzarella made from mixtures, sometimes smoked, and those stored in preservatives..
	MS-DOS MS-DOS is an operating system commercialized by Microsoft. It was the most widely used member of the DOS family of operating systems and was the dominant operating system for the PC compatible platform during the 1980s. It has gradually been replaced on consumer desktop computers with various generations of the Microsoft Windows operating system.
	Mucic acid Mucic acid, C6H10O8 or HOOC-(CHOH)4-COOH, is obtained by the oxidation of milk, sugar, dulcite, galactose, quercite and most varieties of gum by nitric acid. It forms a crystalline powder which melts at 213 C. It is insoluble in alcohol, and nearly insoluble in cold water.
	Mucilage Mucilage is a thick gluey substance produced by most plants and some microorganisms. Mucilage is an polysaccharidea polymer composed of sugar residues and secreted by a microorganism into the surrounding environment. The substance covers the outside of, for example, unicellular or filamentous green algae and cyanobacteria.
	Mucín Muc?n is a village and municipality in the Lucenec District in the Bansk? Bystrica Region of Slovakia. External links *District}} Category:Villages and municipalities in Lucenec District hu:Mucs?ny sk:Muc?n