champaka, (Magnolia champaca), tree native to tropical Asia that is best known for its pleasant fragrance. The essential oils taken from its strong-scented flowers were famously used in Joy by Jean Patou, once one of the world’s most expensive perfumes, and continue to be used in other perfumes.

Michelin, leading French brand and manufacturer of tires and other rubber products. Headquarters are at Clermont-Ferrand. Founded in 1888 by the Michelin brothers, André (1853–1931) and Édouard (1859–1940), the company manufactured tires for bicycles and horse-drawn carriages before introducing

content marketing: Origins of Content Marketing: …published in 1895, and the Michelin Travel Guides, launched in 1900, are early examples of custom publishing that still build upon and enhance the values of their respective brands today. Martha White, a flour and baking-products company, was the sole sponsor of the Grand Ole Opry’s radio program for decades,…

Michelin: Founded in 1888 by the Michelin brothers, André (1853–1931) and Édouard (1859–1940), the company manufactured tires for bicycles and horse-drawn carriages before introducing pneumatic tires for automobiles in the 1890s. To show that demountable pneumatic tires could be used successfully on motor vehicles, the Michelins equipped a car with such…

Michelin: …Michelin brothers, André (1853–1931) and Édouard (1859–1940), the company manufactured tires for bicycles and horse-drawn carriages before introducing pneumatic tires for automobiles in the 1890s. To show that demountable pneumatic tires could be used successfully on motor vehicles, the Michelins equipped a car with such tires held onto the rims…

Micheline Ostermeyer of France created magic with her hands, both on the track and off. A two-time Olympic gold medalist, Ostermeyer was an accomplished pianist who excelled artistically at the same time she was a track-and-field star. Ostermeyer’s first love was music, and at age 14 she enrolled

John Michell was a British geologist and astronomer who is considered one of the fathers of seismology, the science of earthquakes. In 1760, the year in which he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London, Michell finished writing “Conjectures Concerning the Cause, and Observations upon

Michelle Obama: In 2020 she also hosted The Michelle Obama Podcast, which was available on Spotify, an Internet music-streaming service. Two years later Michelle published The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times, in which she offered insights into handling difficult times, using her own personal experiences as examples.

Prior to 1996, Irish swimmer Michelle Smith hadn’t had much success in Olympic competition. Although she had made the Olympic team for the 1988 Games in Seoul, South Korea, and 1992 Games in Barcelona, Spain, Smith fizzled in preliminary races of both Games. In addition, her homeland wasn’t a

Michelozzo was an architect and sculptor, notable in the development of Florentine Renaissance architecture. Michelozzo studied with the celebrated sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti, in whose workshop he acquired the skills of a bronze founder. After 1420 they collaborated on the “St. Matthew” for the

Michelozzo was an architect and sculptor, notable in the development of Florentine Renaissance architecture. Michelozzo studied with the celebrated sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti, in whose workshop he acquired the skills of a bronze founder. After 1420 they collaborated on the “St. Matthew” for the

Rinus Michels was a Dutch football (soccer) player and coach credited with having created “total football,” an aggressive style of play in which players adapt, shift positions, and improvise on the field as needed. Michels played professionally (1946–58) for Ajax, scoring 121 goals in 269 matches

Rinus Michels was a Dutch football (soccer) player and coach credited with having created “total football,” an aggressive style of play in which players adapt, shift positions, and improvise on the field as needed. Michels played professionally (1946–58) for Ajax, scoring 121 goals in 269 matches

Robert Michels was a German-born Italian political sociologist and economist, noted for his formulation of the “iron law of oligarchy,” which states that political parties and other membership organizations inevitably tend toward oligarchy, authoritarianism, and bureaucracy. Born into a wealthy

history of the Low Countries: Neolithic (4000–2900 bce): …the northwesternmost branch of the Michelsberg culture in Belgium and, somewhat later, the Funnel Beaker culture in the Netherlands. The evolution of these groups represents principally a transformation in the style of material culture of native communities. Among the most significant Michelsberg remains are the extensive fields of deep flint…

Christian Michelsen was a Norwegian statesman who, as prime minister, proclaimed his country’s separation from Sweden in 1905. Michelsen began his career as a lawyer; later he started his own shipping firm, which became one of the largest in Norway. A member of the Storting (parliament) from 1891,

Christian Michelsen was a Norwegian statesman who, as prime minister, proclaimed his country’s separation from Sweden in 1905. Michelsen began his career as a lawyer; later he started his own shipping firm, which became one of the largest in Norway. A member of the Storting (parliament) from 1891,

Michelson interferometer, optical instrument that splits a beam of light in two, sends the parts along perpendicular paths, and then brings them back together. It was invented in 1881 by the American physicist A.A. Michelson. The instrument consists of a half-silvered mirror that divides a light

A.A. Michelson was a German-born American physicist who established the speed of light as a fundamental constant and pursued other spectroscopic and metrological investigations. He received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Physics. Michelson came to the United States with his parents when he was two years

A.A. Michelson was a German-born American physicist who established the speed of light as a fundamental constant and pursued other spectroscopic and metrological investigations. He received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Physics. Michelson came to the United States with his parents when he was two years

A.A. Michelson was a German-born American physicist who established the speed of light as a fundamental constant and pursued other spectroscopic and metrological investigations. He received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Physics. Michelson came to the United States with his parents when he was two years

Michelson-Morley experiment, an attempt to detect the velocity of Earth with respect to the hypothetical luminiferous ether, a medium in space proposed to carry light waves. First performed in Germany in 1880–81 by the physicist A.A. Michelson, the test was later refined in 1887 by Michelson and

James Michener was an American novelist and short-story writer who, perhaps more than any other single author, made foreign environments accessible to Americans through fiction. Best known for his novels, he wrote epic and detailed works classified as fictional documentaries. Michener was a

James Michener was an American novelist and short-story writer who, perhaps more than any other single author, made foreign environments accessible to Americans through fiction. Best known for his novels, he wrote epic and detailed works classified as fictional documentaries. Michener was a

Order of Canada: Roland Michener, thus expressed his hope that the order would allow Canadians to recognize one another as constituting a collective through the examples provided by the order’s appointees:

Giorgione: Works: …1543 by the Venetian patrician Marcantonio Michiel, contain references to pictures by Giorgione. This information occurs so shortly after the master’s death that it is considered generally reliable. Of the 12 paintings and 1 drawing listed, 5 works have survived: The Tempest, The Three Philosophers, Sleeping Venus, Boy with an…

Vitale II Michiel was the doge of Venice who ruled during an important crisis in the Venetian Republic’s relations with the Byzantine Empire and whose assassination led to a significant revision of the Venetian constitution. Elected at the beginning of the Guelf–Ghibelline (papal–imperial)

Belgian literature: After World War II: …the works of Hugo Raes, Ivo Michiels, and Paul de Wispelaere) or consisting of introverted “texts” dwelling largely on the act of writing itself (as in the works of Willy Roggeman and Daniel Robberechts). The latter gained posthumous recognition for his uncompromising break with the narrative tradition. Michiels embarked on…

Indigenous languages of North America: Language contact: Speakers of Michif, a French and Cree trade language of Canada, identify themselves ethnically as Métis, descendants of French-speaking fur traders and Cree women. Michif is mixed where most nouns and adjectives (and their pronunciation and grammar) are French but the verbs are Plains Cree (including their…

Illinois: tribes were the Cahokia, Kaskaskia, Michigamea, Peoria, and Tamaroa.

Lansing, capital of Michigan, U.S., located in Ingham county. The city site, on the Grand River at its junction with the Red Cedar River, was a wilderness when the state capital was moved there from Detroit (about 85 miles [140 km] southeast) in 1847. At first called Village of Michigan, in 1849 it

Michigan, constituent state of the United States of America. Although by the size of its land Michigan ranks only 22nd of the 50 states, the inclusion of the Great Lakes waters over which it has jurisdiction increases its area considerably, placing it 11th in terms of total area. The capital is

Grand Valley State University: The Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center (MAREC) and the Robert B. Annis Water Resources Institute (AWRI), both in Muskegon, also operate under the aegis of the university. MAREC is dedicated to the research and development of alternative energy technologies, while AWRI studies freshwater resources and…

Kalamazoo College, private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Kalamazoo, Mich., U.S. It is a liberal arts college dedicated to undergraduate studies. In addition to the arts and sciences, the college offers instruction in business, economics, and the health sciences. The majority of

Stanley Ketchel was an American professional boxer, considered by some boxing historians to be the greatest fighter in the history of the middleweight division. (Read Gene Tunney’s 1929 Britannica essay on boxing.) Upon the death of his parents, Ketchel left Michigan and began riding boxcars to the

Chicago: Cultural institutions: Michigan Avenue might fairly be called the main cultural thoroughfare of Chicago, because most of the major institutions are located on or near it. South of the Loop and east of Michigan Avenue is the Museum Campus (created in the 1990s by relocating part of…

Hillsdale College, private, nonsectarian liberal-arts institution of higher learning in Hillsdale, south-central Michigan, U.S. Hillsdale students are required to take a core curriculum of courses in humanities and natural and social sciences (including Western and American heritage), and they must

Michigan City, city, La Porte county, northern Indiana, U.S. The city is situated at the southern end of Lake Michigan, 25 miles (40 km) east-northeast of Gary. It was laid out in 1832 by Major Isaac Elston as the terminus of the Michigan Road (whence its name) from the Ohio River. Once a major

Michigan: Education: The Michigan Technological University at Houghton, a state institution, was established in 1885 as the Michigan Mining School. In 1956 the state acquired Wayne University, a Detroit municipal university. Wayne State University, as it was renamed, has fostered much educational experimentation and has become a broadly…

econometrics: …form known as the “Michigan model.” A later generation of models, based on quarterly data, permits the analysis of short-term movements of the economy and better estimates the lags between different variables.

South Bend: In 1828 the Michigan Road, the state’s first north-south highway, was laid down nearby, and the next year the settlement became known as Southold. The community was subsequently renamed (1830) for the great bend in the St. Joseph River.

Michigan Stadium, the home field of the University of Michigan’s gridiron football team, located in Ann Arbor. It was completed in 1927 but underwent numerous renovations and is currently the largest stadium in the United States and the third largest in the world, with a listed capacity of 107,601.

Eastern Michigan University, public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Ypsilanti, Mich., U.S. It consists of the colleges of arts and sciences, business, education, health and human services, and technology. In addition to undergraduate programs, the university offers graduate

Michigan State University, public, coeducational institution of higher learning in East Lansing, Mich., U.S. It was a pioneer among land-grant universities and is a noted institution of research. Through its more than a dozen colleges it provides comprehensive undergraduate, graduate, and

Michigan: Education: The Michigan Technological University at Houghton, a state institution, was established in 1885 as the Michigan Mining School. In 1956 the state acquired Wayne University, a Detroit municipal university. Wayne State University, as it was renamed, has fostered much educational experimentation and has become a broadly…

College football is all about rivalries, often colorfully nicknamed or contested for trophies. There’s the Old Oaken Bucket (Purdue vs. Indiana), Paul Bunyan’s Axe (Wisconsin vs. Minnesota), Bedlam (Oklahoma vs. Oklahoma State), and the Iron Bowl (Auburn vs. Alabama). But for many fans, the biggest

The coat of arms, derived from the Michigan state seal, has three Latin mottoes: “E pluribus unum” (“One out of many”), “Tuebor” (“I will defend”), and “Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam circumspice” (“If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you”). The bald eagle of the United States serves as a

Lake Michigan, third largest of the five Great Lakes of North America and the only one lying wholly within the United States. Bordered by the states of Michigan (east and north), Wisconsin (west), Illinois (southwest), and Indiana (southeast), it connects with Lake Huron through the Straits of

University of Michigan, state university of Michigan, located in Ann Arbor. It originated as a preparatory school in Detroit in 1817 and moved to its present site in 1837. It began to offer postsecondary instruction in 1841 and developed into one of the leading research universities of the world.

Mackinaw City, village, Cheboygan and Emmet counties, northern Michigan, U.S. It lies on the Straits of Mackinac opposite St. Ignace, with which it is linked northward by the 5-mile- (8-km-) long Mackinac Bridge. The village is located at the northernmost point of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula.

Mackinaw City, village, Cheboygan and Emmet counties, northern Michigan, U.S. It lies on the Straits of Mackinac opposite St. Ignace, with which it is linked northward by the 5-mile- (8-km-) long Mackinac Bridge. The village is located at the northernmost point of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula.

Fujiwara Michinaga was the most powerful of the Fujiwara regents, during whose reign the Imperial capital in Kyōto achieved its greatest splendour, and the Fujiwara family, which dominated the Japanese court between 857 and 1160, reached the apogee of its rule. Michinaga was the son of Kaneie, the

Hirohito was the emperor of Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989. He was the longest-reigning monarch in Japan’s history. Hirohito was born at the Aoyama Palace in Tokyo, the son of the Taishō emperor and grandson of the Meiji emperor. He was educated at the Peers’ School and at the Crown

Michoacán, estado (state), west-central Mexico. It is bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the southwest and by the states of Colima and Jalisco to the west, Guanajuato to the north, Querétaro to the northeast, México to the east, and Guerrero to the south. The capital is Morelia. The state’s relief

Michoacán, estado (state), west-central Mexico. It is bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the southwest and by the states of Colima and Jalisco to the west, Guanajuato to the north, Querétaro to the northeast, México to the east, and Guerrero to the south. The capital is Morelia. The state’s relief

university: First universities in the Western Hemisphere: …the Dominican Republic and the University of Michoacán (1539) in Mexico. The earliest American institutions of higher learning were the four-year colleges of Harvard (1636), William and Mary (1693), Yale (1701), Princeton (1746), and King’s College

university: First universities in the Western Hemisphere: …the Dominican Republic and the University of Michoacán (1539) in Mexico. The earliest American institutions of higher learning were the four-year colleges of Harvard (1636), William and Mary (1693), Yale (1701), Princeton (1746), and King’s College

New Orleans: Industry: …and Space Administration established the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans in 1961 to produce the giant Saturn rocket boosters used in flights to the Moon. The principal goods manufactured in the Greater New Orleans area are food products, clothing and related items, stone, clay and glass articles, primary metal…

Simeon Saxecoburggotski: …former war minister Lieutenant General Nikolai Michov, and former premier Bogdan Filov. After Bulgaria quit the Axis Powers and was overrun by the Soviet Red Army, the regents were arrested, and on Feb. 2, 1945, all three were executed as enemies of the state and as collaborators with the Germans.…

Lebanon: Michter’s Distillery, one of America’s first legal distilleries, produced corn mash whiskey along Snitz Creek from 1753 to about 1990. The county was created in 1813. County traffic increased after the completion of a mountain tunnel for the Union Canal (1827) and the arrival of…

Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin was a Russian horticulturist who earned the praise of the Soviet government by developing more than 300 new types of fruit trees and berries in an attempt to prove the inheritance of acquired characteristics. When Mendelian genetics came under attack in the Soviet Union,

Lamarckism: Lamarckism in politics: …Trofim Lysenko, the proponent of Michurinism, became the dictator of Soviet biology. A number of Communists in Western Europe followed the Soviet directives and sought to rehabilitate Lamarckism. During the next decade the discussions of Lamarckism were political rather than scientific, and a great deal of confusion was naturally introduced…

Michurinsk, city, Tambov oblast (region), western Russia, on the Lesnoy Voronezh River. Founded in 1636 as a fortress named Kozlov, it was chartered in 1779. Locomotive repair works reflect its junction position, and there are vegetable- and fruit-processing industries. It is a horticulture centre,

Tadeusz Miciński was a Polish poet and playwright, a forerunner of Expressionism and Surrealism who was noted for his mysticism and apocalyptic vision. Miciński studied philosophy at the University of Kraków, traveled in Germany and Spain, and was influenced by Polish messianism and by Friedrich

North Africa: The rise and decline of native kingdoms: …prevent it from reunifying under Micipsa (148–118 bc). The progress begun under Masinissa continued as refugees from the destruction of Carthage fled to Numidia. Meanwhile, the Romans had formed a province in the area of Tunisia northeast of a line from Thabraca (Tabarka) to Thaenae but showed little interest in…

Mozi was a Chinese philosopher whose fundamental doctrine of undifferentiated love (jianai) challenged Confucianism for several centuries and became the basis of a socioreligious movement known as Mohism. Born a few years after Confucius’s death, Mozi was raised in a period when the feudal

Mickey Mantle was a professional American League baseball player for the New York Yankees (1951–68), who was a powerful switch-hitter (right- and left-handed) and who hit 536 home runs. He helped the Yankees win seven World Series (1951–53, 1956, 1958, 1961–62). Mantle began playing baseball as a

Phil Mickelson is an American professional golfer who became one of the most dominant players on the Professional Golfers’ Association of America (PGA) Tour in the 1990s and early 2000s. Mickelson took to golf at an extremely young age, hitting his first golf balls when just 18 months old. He

Phil Mickelson is an American professional golfer who became one of the most dominant players on the Professional Golfers’ Association of America (PGA) Tour in the 1990s and early 2000s. Mickelson took to golf at an extremely young age, hitting his first golf balls when just 18 months old. He

Phil Mickelson is an American professional golfer who became one of the most dominant players on the Professional Golfers’ Association of America (PGA) Tour in the 1990s and early 2000s. Mickelson took to golf at an extremely young age, hitting his first golf balls when just 18 months old. He

Kool & the Gang: The group’s

Mabel Normand: The firm produced the comedy-drama Mickey, but Sennett delayed the picture’s release until 1918, when it proved enormously successful. Normand, however, having broken her engagement to Sennett and frustrated by the delays on Mickey, left Keystone in 1917 to join the new Goldwyn Film Company, where she made such movies…

Robert Pattinson: Good Time, The Lighthouse, and The Batman: …Bong Joon-Ho’s dystopian sci-fi comedy Mickey 17 as Mickey Barnes, a worker on a spaceship who is repeatedly killed and reanimated to serve the cruel colonization scheme of the ship’s fascistic leader, Kenneth Marshall (Mark Ruffalo). That year he also starred opposite Jennifer Lawrence in the Lynne Ramsay-directed Die My…

Buddy Holly: Influences and musical style: …and “Love Is Strange” by Mickey and Sylvia. Guitar riffs and rhythmic ideas from these three records crop up repeatedly in his work. Already well versed in country music, bluegrass, and gospel and a seasoned performer by age 16, he became a rhythm-and-blues devotee.

Mickey Mouse, the most popular character of Walt Disney’s animated cartoons and arguably the most popular cartoon star in the world. Walt Disney began his first series of fully animated films in 1927, featuring the character Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. When his distributor appropriated the rights to

Barbie: …fact, upon sponsoring Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse Club program in 1955, became the first toy company to broadcast commercials to children.

Arthur Penn: Early films: His next film, the complex Mickey One (1965), offered an unconventional narrative and was characterized by some critics as ambitious and by others as pretentious. Warren Beatty, who was also the film’s producer, played a nightclub comedian undergoing delusions of persecution by the mob. Far more commercial was The Chase…

Holland-Dozier-Holland: …These Memories”), the Miracles (“Mickey’s Monkey”), and Marvin Gaye (“How Sweet It Is to Be Loved by You”)—but they were most closely associated with the Four Tops (“I Can’t Help Myself [Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch]”) and the Supremes.

Blake Edwards: Later films: …Reynolds in the lead roles, Micki & Maude (1984), with Moore playing a philandering husband, and the disappointing A Fine Mess (1986) followed.

Adam Mickiewicz was one of the greatest poets of Poland and a lifelong apostle of Polish national freedom. Born into an impoverished noble family, Mickiewicz studied at the University of Wilno (now Vilnius University) between 1815 and 1819; in 1817 he joined a secret patriotic student society,

Adam Mickiewicz was one of the greatest poets of Poland and a lifelong apostle of Polish national freedom. Born into an impoverished noble family, Mickiewicz studied at the University of Wilno (now Vilnius University) between 1815 and 1819; in 1817 he joined a secret patriotic student society,

Michael Caine is an internationally successful British actor renowned for his versatility in numerous leading and character roles. He appeared in more than 100 films, and his amiable Cockney persona was usually present in each performance. The former Maurice Micklewhite took his screen name from

Mi’kmaq, the largest of the Native American (First Nations) peoples traditionally occupying what are now Canada’s eastern Maritime Provinces (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island) and parts of the present U.S. states of Maine and Massachusetts. Because their Algonquian dialect

Burundi: The First and Second republics: …control was further strengthened when Michel Micombero was appointed prime minister in July 1966. A Tutsi-Bahima from Bururi province, Micombero had played a key role in thwarting the 1965 coup and in organizing anti-Hutu riots in the countryside. Also in July 1966, Mwambutsa was deposed by his son, who began…

Micon was a Greek painter and sculptor, a contemporary and pupil of Polygnotus, who, with him, was among the first to develop the treatment of space in Greek painting. As a painter Micon is known for the mural painting on the Stoa Poikile (“Painted Portico”) on the Agora at Athens and for the

athlete’s foot: Treatment: …such as terbinafine (Lamisil) or miconazole (Micatin), which can be purchased over the counter. Prescription-strength topicals, such as clotrimazole, may also be used. Oral prescription medications such as fluconazole may be required for severe or resilient infections. If complicated with bacterial infection, antibiotics may also be necessary.

Canadian literature: The cosmopolitan culture of French Canada and Quebec: The Italo-Québécois poet and playwright Marco Micone startled the Quebec literary world when he responded to Michèle Lalonde’s “Speak White” with his own poem “Speak What” (first published in 1989), calling for a more inclusive Quebec society and suggesting that immigrants have replaced the Québécois as the new exploited class.…

Myrtales: Family distributions and abundance: …flowering plants in general is Miconia, with more than 1,900 species. Most members of the family are shrubs or small trees, but there are some large trees as well as herbaceous perennials and annuals (plants that complete an entire life cycle in one growing season), root climbers, and true epiphytes…

Acheulean industry: …Acheulean stage is sometimes called Micoquian. Industries that existed at the same time and overlapped in geographic range, but specialized in flake tools and lacked hand axes, are known as Clactonian (England) and Tayacian (western and central Europe). Acheulean industries are found in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and

computer: The Altair: …French company, R2E, developed the Micral microcomputer using the 8008 processor. The Micral was the first commercial, non-kit microcomputer. Although the company sold 500 Micrals in France that year, it was little known among American hobbyists.

falcon: The forest falcon (Micrastur semitorquatus) of tropical America hunts birds and reptiles in the jungles. The laughing falcon (Herpetotheres cachinnans) of the wooded lowlands of Central and South America is a noisy brown bird that eats snakes. The prairie falcon (F. mexicanus), a desert falcon, inhabits…

elf owl, (Micrathene whitneyi), tiny bird of prey of the family Strigidae (order Strigiformes) of Mexico and the southwestern United States. It is the smallest owl and is about the size of a sparrow. In the cactus deserts, elf owls are among the most common birds, but they also inhabit forested

micrite, sedimentary rock formed of calcareous particles ranging in diameter from 0.06 to 2 mm (0.002 to 0.08 inch) that have been deposited mechanically rather than from solution. The particles, which consist of fossil materials, pebbles and granules of carbonate rock, and oölites (spherical

10 Critically Endangered Animals of India: Cave dancing frog (Micrixalus spelunca): Dancing frogs are named for the unique foot-flagging behavior of the males, wherein a male extends his hind legs one at a time and spreads out his webbed feet as part of a territorial display to establish a nesting site.…

Michael Crichton: Micro (2011), which imagines the sinister applications of miniaturization technology, derived from a partially finished manuscript that was expanded by science writer Richard Preston at the behest of Crichton’s family.

corydoras: …patch on its body; the dwarf, or pygmy, corydoras (C. hastatus), an active, 4-centimetre-long species with a black band on each side; the leopard corydoras (C. julii), a silvery catfish patterned in black with stripes, short lines, and numerous small spots; and the peppered corydoras (C. paleatus), a pale, yellowish…

teacup dog, unofficial name for any of several breeds of dogs that are bred to be less than 4 to 6 pounds (1.8–2.7 kg), often through pairing the smallest members of a litter. Such dogs are typically one of six breeds: Maltese, Chihuahua, Poodle, Pomeranian, Yorkshire Terrier, or Shih Tzu. Teacup

computer: The Altair: Instead, a company called Micro Instrumentation Telemetry Systems, which rapidly became known as MITS, made the big American splash. This company, located in a tiny office in an Albuquerque, New Mexico, shopping center, had started out selling radio transmitters for model airplanes in 1968. It expanded into the kit…

microRNA (miRNA), small molecule in cells, typically about 21–25 nucleotides in length, that plays a crucial role in the regulation of gene expression. MicroRNA (miRNA) is unique relative to other forms of RNA, which function primarily to carry and translate the genetic code from DNA into protein.

biogenic landform: …constitute what may be termed micro topography. Some of these are produced by individual creatures or groups of such creatures. Examples include the cylindrical mud towers that stand 40–50 centimetres high atop crayfish burrows in the southern part of the United States; badger and bear den burrows; elephant waterholes on…