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Masquerade is a children’s book, written and illustrated by Kit Williams, which sparked a treasure hunt by concealing clues to the location of a jewelled golden hare, hidden somewhere in Britain. It became the inspiration for a genre of books known today as armchair treasure hunts.
The Musical Instrument Museum is a music museum in central Brussels, Belgium. It is part of the Royal Museums for Art and History and internationally renowned for its collection of over 1,500 instruments.
The Majorelle Garden is a botanical garden in Marrakech, Morocco. It was designed by the expatriate French artist Jacques Majorelle in 1924, during the colonial period when Morocco was a protectorate of France. The garden has been open to the public since 1947. Since 1980 the garden has been owned by Yves Saint-Laurent and Pierre Bergé. After Yves Saint Laurent died in 2008 his ashes were scattered in the Majorelle Garden.
In the first half of the 20th century an American couple, Martin and Osa Johnson, captured the public's imagination through their films and books of adventure in exotic, faraway lands. Photographers, explorers, marketers, naturalists and authors, Martin and Osa studied the wildlife and peoples of East and Central Africa, the South Pacific Islands and British North Borneo. They explored then-unknown lands and brought back film footage and photographs, offering many Americans their first understanding of these distant lands.
Musurgia Universalis is one of the seminal works of musicology and was hugely influential in the development of Western music – in particular on J.S.Bach and Beethoven.
Matsuda 2809 are the glasses Linda Hamilton wore in Terminator 2.
Maurice Maeterlink tried to popularize scientific knowledge for an international audience. Writing with characteristic eloquence, Maeterlinck asserts that flowers possess the power of thought without knowledge, a capacity that constitutes a form of intelligence.
The Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center is a civilian command facility in Virginia used as the center of operations for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The facility is a major relocation site for the highest level of civilian and military officials in case of national disaster.
Maledicta, The International Journal of Verbal Aggression, is an academic journal dedicated to the study of offensive and negatively-valued words and expressions. Its main areas of interest are the origin, etymology, meaning, use, and influence of vulgar, obscene, aggressive, abusive, and blasphemous language.
Mata Hari was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was executed by firing squad for espionage during World War I.