Marsupial Marsupials are mammals in which the female typically has a Pouch in which it rears its young through early infancy. They differ from placental mammals in their reproductive traits. The female has two vaginas, both of which open externally through one orifice but lead to different compartments within the uterus.
	Martello tower Martello towers are small defensive Fortification built by the British Empire during the 19th century, from the time of the Napoleonic Wars onwards. They stand about 40 feet high and had a garrison of one officer and 25 men. Their round structure and thick walls of solid masonry made them very resistant to cannon fire, while their height made them an ideal platform for a single heavy artillery piece, mounted on the flat roof and able to traverse a 360 arc.
	Marten The Martens constitute the genus Martes within the subfamily Mustelinae, in family Mustelidae. Martens are carnivorous animals related to wolverines, minks and weasels. Many are tree-dwellers, preying most commonly on squirrels. Their diet also consists of birds and eggs.
	Martensite Martensite, named after the German metallurgy Adolf Martens, is any cystal structure that was formed by displacive transformation, as opposed to much slower diffusive transformations. It includes a class of hard minerals occurring as lathe- or plate-shaped crystal grains.
	Martha Graham * American Dance Festival * Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance * Agnes de Mille * Modern dance * Postmodern dance * 20th century concert dance * List of dance companies
	Martha's Vineyard Martha's Vineyard , is an 89.48 square mile island off the southern coast of Cape Cod and is often known simply as "the Vineyard". Located in the United States Massachusetts, the Vineyard makes up most of Dukes County, Massachusetts .
	Martial Marcus Valerius Martialis, known in English language as Martial, was a Latin language poet from Hispania best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Ancient Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the Roman emperor Domitian, Nerva and Trajan.
	Martial arts Martial arts are systems of codified practices and traditions of training for combat. Today, martial arts are studied for various reasons including combat skills, physical fitness, self-defense, sport, self-cultivation , mental discipline, character development and building self-confidence.
	Martial music Martial music, also known as military pop and martial industrial, is a music genre originating in late 20th century Europe. It often borrows musically from european classical music, neofolk, neoclassicism, traditional European marches and from elements of industrial music and dark ambient.
	Martin Buber Martin Buber was an Austrian-Jew philosopher, translator, and educator, whose work centered around theistic ideals of religious consciousness, interpersonal relations, and community. Buber's evocative, sometimes poetic writing style have marked the major themes in his work: the retelling of Hasidism tales, Biblical commentary, and metaphysical dialogue.
	Martin Heinrich Klaproth Martin Heinrich Klaproth was a Germany chemist. Klaproth was born at Wernigerode. During a large portion of his life he followed the profession of an apothecary. After acting as assistant in pharmacies at Quedlinburg, Hanover, Berlin and Gdansk successively he came to Berlin on the death of Valentin Rose the elder in 1771 as manager of his business, and in 1780 he started an establishment on his own account in the same city, where from 1782 he was pharmaceutical assessor of the O
	Martin Luther Martin Luther was a German people monk, priest, professor, theology, and church reformer. His teachings inspired the Protestant Reformation and deeply influenced the doctrines and culture of the Lutheranism and Protestantism traditions, as well as the course of Western civilization.
	Martin Scorsese Martin Luciano Scorsese is an acclaimed United States film director. Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Italian-American identity, Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, machismo and the violence endemic in American society. Although he has received much critical acclaim he has never won an Academy Awards despite numerous nominations .
	Martin Van Buren Martin Van Buren , nicknamed Old Kinderhook, was the eighth President of the United States. He was the next-to-last President born before the adoption of the U.S. Constitution. He was a key organizer of the United States Democratic Party, a dominant figure in the Second Party System, and the first president who was not of English, Irish, or Scottish descent.
	Martina Navratilova Martina Navratilova is a former List of WTA number 1 ranked players woman tennis player. She is generally considered to be one of the greatest female tennis players of all time. As a serve and volley player, her best surface was grass, although she was able to capture at least two Grand Slam singles title on each surface.
	Martinet A martinet is either a punitive device or a stickler for rules, apparently unrelated.
	Martinique Martinique is an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, having a total area of 1,128 km. It is an overseas dpartement in France of France. Like the other DOMs, Martinique is also one of the 26 Rgion in France of France , and an integral part of the Republic.
	Martyr In the classical Christian view, a martyr is an innocent Christian who, without seeking death , is murdered or put to death unjustly for his or her religion faith or beliefs. An example is the persecution of early Christianitys in the Roman Empire.
	Marx Brothers The Marx Brothers were a team of sibling comedians that appeared in vaudeville, stage plays, film and television. Born in New York City, the Marx Brothers were the sons of Jewish immigration from different parts of Germany. Their mother, Minnie Schnberg, originally hailed from Dornum in East Frisia, Germany, and their father Simon "Frenchie" Marrix from Alsace, now a part of France.
	Marxism Marxism refers to the Marxist philosophy and social theory based on Karl Marx's work on one hand, and to the politics practice based on Marxist theory on the other hand. Marx, a 19th century Germany, Jewish born atheist, socialist philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary, often in collaboration with Friedrich Engels, developed a critique of society which he claimed was both scientific and revolutionary.
	Mary Baker Eddy Mary Baker Eddy founded the Church of Christ, Scientist in 1879 and was the author of its fundamental doctrinal textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. She took the name Mary Baker Glover from her first marriage and was also known as Mary Baker Glover Eddy or Mary Baker G.
	Mary Magdalene Mary Magdalene is described, both in the canonical New Testament and in the New Testament apocrypha, as a devoted Disciple of Jesus. She is considered by the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, and Anglicanism churches to be a saint, with a Calendar of saints of July 22.
	Mary Mallon Mary Mallon, also known as Typhoid Mary, was an Irish immigrant who was the first identified Asymptomatic carrier of typhoid in the United States.
	Mary Martin Mary Virginia Martin born in Weatherford, Texas was an United States star of musicals. Amongst the roles originally created by her were those of Nellie Forbush in South Pacific and Maria in The Sound of Music.
	Mary McLeod Bethune Mary Jane McLeod Bethune, born to former History of slavery in the United Statess a decade after the end of the American Civil War, devoted her life to ensuring the right to education and freedom from discrimination for black Americans. Bethune believed that through education, blacks could begin to earn a living in a country that still opposed racial equality.
	Mary Pickford Mary Pickford was an Academy Awards-winning Canada-born film actor and co-founder of United Artists, known as "America's Sweetheart," "Little Mary" and "the girl with the golden curls." She was one of the first Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood and one of film's greatest pioneers regardless of nationality or background.
	Mary Shelley Mary Shelley was an England novelist, the author of Frankenstein. She was married to the notable Romanticism poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
	Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft was a British writer, Philosophy, and early Feminism. She wrote several novels, essays, and children's books, but is best known for her A Vindication of the Rights of Men , a criticism of Edmund Burke's pamphlet on the French Revolution, and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman , regarded as her most important work.
	Maryland Maryland , is a Mid-Atlantic States U.S. state located on the East Coast of the United States of the United States and is classified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a South Atlantic States. It was the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution, and is nicknamed the Old Line State and the Free State.
	Marzipan Marzipan is a confectionery consisting primarily of ground almonds and sugar that derives its characteristic flavor from bitter almonds, which constitute 4% to 6% of total almond content by weight. Some marzipan is also flavored with rosewater. Although it is believed to have originated in Persian Empire and to have been introduced to Europe through the Turks, there is some dispute between Hungary and Italy over its origin.
	Mascara Mascara is a cosmetic used to darken, thicken and define eyelashes. Mascara comes in three forms: liquid, cake and cream. It also comes in many formulas, tints and colors. The general purpose of mascara is to emphasize, thicken, lengthen, and define lashes. Mascara is available with tube and wand applicators.
	Mascarpone Original mascarpone is a triple-creme cheese made from crme fraiche, fresh double cream by fermentation with rennet. Sometimes buttermilk is added as well, depending on brand. After fermentation whey is removed without pressing or aging. One can manufacture some sort of mascarpone oneself by using cream, tartaric or citric acid or even lemon juice.
	Mascot A mascot, originally a fetish-like term for any person, animal, or thing supposed to bring luck, is now something—typically an animal or human character—used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team, society or corporation.
	Masculinity Masculinity comprises culturally of the traits assigned to the male in various contexts. The word masculine can refer to: * The property of being biologically male, more precisely expressed in biology as "sex" * A gender role or behaviour traditionally associated with males
	Masdevallia Masdevallia is a large genus of impressive plants of the Pleurothallidinae, subtribe of the orchid family. There are over 500 rather different species, grouped into several subgenera. The genus is named for Jose Masdeval, a physician and botanist in the court of Charles III of Spain.
	Maser A maser is a device that produces coherence 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.
	Maseru Maseru is the capital of Lesotho. Located on the Caledon River, bordering South Africa, it is Lesotho's only sizable city, with a population of approximately 180,000 . It is the capital or camptown of the Maseru District. Up until 2004 Maseru had a growing textile industry supported by and invested in by Chinese manufactures.
	Mashed potato Mashed potato,, is a common way of serving potato in many countries worldwide. It is made by mashing boiled potatoes and mixing in milk, cream, butter or vegetable oil, and sometimes cheese. A French variation adds egg yolk for Pommes duchesse that is piped through a pastry tube into wavy ribbons and rosettes, brushed with butter and lightly browned.
	Mashhad Mashhad 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, and the center of the province of Razavi Khorasan. Its population is 2.5 million people .
	Mask A mask is a piece of material or kit worn on the face. Masks have been used since antiquity for both ceremony and practical purposes. The word mask came via French language masque and either Italian language maschera or Spanish language mscara.
	Masked Shrew The Masked Shrew is a small shrew found in Alaska, Canada, the northern United States, and northeastern Siberia. This is the most widely distributed shrew in North America where it is also known as the Common Shrew.
	Masking tape Masking tape is a type of adhesive tape made of easy-to-tear paper backed with a weak adhesive. It is used mainly in painting, to mask off areas that should not be painted. The adhesive is the key element to its usefulness, as it allows the tape to be easily removed. The tape is available in several strengths, rated on a 1-100 scale based on the strength of the adhesive.
	Mason bee Mason bee is a general term for certain species of bees in the family Megachilidae, primarily the genus Osmia, such as the orchard mason bee, the blueberry bee, and the hornfaced bee. 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-Dixon line The MasonDixon Line is a line of demarcation between four U.S. state in the United States. Properly, the Mason-Dixon line is part of the borders of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland, surveyed when they were still British colony. After Pennsylvania began abolishing slavery within the Commonwealth, in 1781, this line, and the Ohio River, became most of the border between the free and slave states.
	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, rock such as marble, granite, travertine, limestone; concrete block, glass block, and tile.
	Masque The masque was a form of festive Noble court entertainment which flourished in 16th century and early 17th century Europe, though it was developed earlier in Italy. Masque involved music and dancing, singing and acting, within an elaborate stage design, in which the architectural framing and costumes might be designed by a renowned architect, to present a deferential allegory flattering to the patron.
	Masquerade ball A masquerade ball is an event which the participants attend in costume, usually including a mask. Such gatherings were based on increasingly elaborate allegorical pageants and triumphal processions celebrating marriages and other dynastic events of late medieval court life. Masquerade balls were extended into costumed public festivities in Italy during the 15th century Renaissance.
	Masquerade Party Masquerade Party was an United States television game show. During its original run from 1952 to 1960, the show appeared at various times on all three major networks.
	Mass Mass is a property of a physics 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 . In the theory of relativity, the quantity invariant mass, which in concept is close to the classical idea of mass, does not vary between single observers in different reference frames.
	Massachusetts The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a U.S. state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States. With a population approaching 6.5 million in a relatively small area, it is mostly urban and suburban in its eastern half and still primarily rural in the west.
	Massachusetts Bay Massachusetts Bay is one of the large headlands and bays of the Atlantic Ocean that form the distinctive shape of the coastline of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The bay is enclosed on the north by Cape Ann; at the bay's westernmost point are situated Boston Harbor and the city of Boston.
	Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a private world-leading research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, USA. Founded in 1861, its mission and culture are guided by an emphasis on teaching and research grounded in practical applications of science and technology.
	Massasoit Massasoit was actually a title, Great Sachem, used by Ousamequin, sachem of the Pokanoket, and Great Sachem, or "Massasoit," of the Wampanoag Confederacy.
	Massawa Massawa is a port on the Red Sea coast of Eritrea. Important for many centuries, it has been colonised by Portugal, Egypt, the Ottoman Empire, Britain and finally Italy from 1885. It became the capital of Eritrea until this was moved to Asmara in 1900.
	Massif Central The Massif Central is an elevated region in south-central France, consisting of mountains and plateaux. Subject to volcanism that has subsided in the last 10,000 years, these central mountains are separated from the Alps by a deep north-south cleft created by the Rhne River and known in French language as the sillon rhodanien.
	Mast cell A mast cell is a resident cell of areolar connective tissue that contains many granules rich in histamine and heparin. Although best known for their role in allergy and anaphylaxis, mast cells play an important protective role as well, being intimately involved in wound healing and defense against pathogens.
	Mastaba A mastaba was a flatroofed, mudbrick, rectangular building with sloping sides that marked the burial site of many eminent Egyptians of Egypt's History of Egypt. Mastaba comes from the Arabic for bench, because they look like a mud bench when seen from a distance. In a mastaba, a deep chamber was dug out and lined with stone, mud bricks or wood.
	Master Key Master Key is a List of The Price Is Right pricing games on the United States television game show The Price Is Right. It is played for three prizes a car, and two smaller prizes. This game uses small prizes.
	Master Sergeant United States U.S. Air Force enlisted rank insignia]] * U.S. Army enlisted rank insignia * U.S. Marine Corps enlisted rank insignia * U.S. military ranks Category:Military ranks of Singapore Category:Military ranks of the United States Army Category:Military ranks of the United States Air Force
	Masterwort Masterwort typically refers to the plant Peucedanum ostruthium or Imperatoria ostruthium in the Family Apiaceae, and not to be confused with great masterwort, Astrantia major, in the same family.
	Mastic Mastic is an evergreen shrub or small tree growing to 3-4 m tall, native throughout the Mediterranean region from Morocco and Iberian peninsula east to Syria and Israel and north to southern France, Turkey, and Greece; it is also native on the Canary Islands.
	Masticophis Masticophis is a genus of colubrid snakes that are commonly referred to as whip snakes or coachwhips. They are characterized by having a long, thin body.
	Masticophis flagellum Masticophis flagellum is a species of non-venomous colubrid snakes commonly referred to as coachwhips or whip snakes. There are 7 recognized subspecies.
	Mastodon Mastodons or Mastodonts are members of an extinction genus Mammut of the order Proboscidea; they resembled, but were distinct from, the woolly mammoth. Unlike the woolly mammoth, they did not belong to the family Elephantidae.
	Masturbation Masturbation is the manual excitation of the sex organ , most often to the point of orgasm. It can refer to excitation either by oneself or by another . It is part of a larger set of activities known as Autosexuality#Autoeroticism , which also includes the use of sex toys and non-genital stimulation.
	Mat A mat is a generic term for a piece of fabric or flat material, generally placed on a floor or other flat surface, and serving a range of purposes including: * providing a regular or flat surface, such as a mousepad * protecting that which is beneath the mat, such as a place mat or the matting used in framing and preservation of documents and paintings
	Mata Hari Mata Hari was the stage name of Margaretha Geertruida Zelle , an exotic dancer and courtesan who was Execution by firing squad for espionage during World War I.
	Matador A torero is the main performer in bullfighting events in Spain and other Spanish language-speaking countries. He or she is the person who performs with and finally kills the bull. The role is also called toreador in English language, but this term is almost never used in Spain or in Latin America.
	Match A match is a simple and convenient means of producing fire under controlled circumstances on demand, typically a wood or stiff paper stick coated at one end with a material -- often containing the element phosphorus -- that will ignite from the heat of friction if rubbed against a suitable surface.
	Match Game The Match Game was a long-running United States television game show, most often hosted by Gene Rayburn. The show featured celebrities and contestants answering fill-in-the-blank questions. The most famous versions of the 1970s and 1980s, starting with Match Game '73, were remembered for their bawdy humor and involved contestants trying to match six celebrities.