MS = Moldy Strawberries
The common mold found on supermarket strawberries is a gray mold called Botrytis cinerea. It is not really harmful to eat this mold, but it is kind of gross just the same.
MT - Muffy Tepperman (played by Jami Gertz) was the main antagonist on the 80’s TV show Square Pegs.
MU = Miskatonic University. Miskatonic University is famous for its collection of occult books. The library holds one of the very few genuine copies of the Necronomicon. Other tomes include the Unaussprechlichen Kulten by Friedrich von Junzt and the fragmentary Book of Eibon.
MV- Martin Van Buren was the first President who was born a citizen of the USA, rather than a subject of a British monarch.
MW = Martha Washington, wife of Pres. George Washington, who never lived in the White House. Martha’s first husband, Daniel Parke Custis, however, had a large estate and the Custis home was known as the White House. He died when she was 25, and they had four children.
MX - Missile eXperimental, the common name for the LGM-118 Peacekeeper, an ICBM announced by Reagan toward the end of the cold war. It was designed to carry multiple warheads(it was a MIRV), but after the signing of the START II treaty only one warhead would be allowed to be carried by any single missile. The last MX was decommissioned in 2005.
MY- Michael York played British spymaster Basil Exposition in the Austin Powers comedy series.
MZ = Mountain Zebra
Mountain Zebrasare the ones with a dewlap.
NA = Netherland Antilles (or Dutch Antilles), later Curaçao and Dependencies. All the island territories that belonged to the Netherlands Antilles remain part of the kingdom of the Netherlands today, although the legal status of each differs. Two of the Better known islands are Aruba and Curaçao.
NB - New Brunswick
The only Canadian province that is officially bilingual.
NC = Noel Coward. Songwriter who started the turtleneck fashion fad of 1920.
ND = Nancy Drew. Star of a large number of “young-adult” mysteries, beginning in 1930. The character has continued in various forms into the 21st century.
NE = New England. Precipitation has increased in this region on the average by 17% from the period of 1890-1950.
NF = Niagara Falls
Over 5000 bodies have been recovered at the base of Niagara Falls. They average about 40 a year. Most are suicides. Here is an interesting list of some of the objects, people, and animals that have gone over Niagara Falls
NG = National Geographic. It was during the tenure of Society President Alexander Graham Bel****l and editor Gilbert H. Grosvenor (GHG) that the significance of illustration was first emphasized, in spite of criticism from some of the Board of Managers who considered the many illustrations an indicator of an “unscientific” conception of geography. By 1910, photographs had become the magazine’s trademark and Grosvenor was constantly on the search for “dynamical pictures” as Graham Bell called them, particularly those that provided a sense of motion in a still image. (from Wiki)
NH = November Hurricane
While hurricanes are rare in November, they do occur. The 1932 Cuba Hurricane is the only recorded Atlantic category 5 storm ever in November. It killed over 3000 when it struck Cuba on November 9 of that year.
NI - Norfolk Island is a small island in the Pacific Ocean located between Australia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia. The island is part of the Commonwealth of Australia; and, together with two neighboring islands, forms one of Australia’s external territories.
Naughty Jokes - risque anecdotes that make people laugh ( usually)
NK = Night Kill, in online Werewolf or Mafia games the good guys “lynch” suspected scum during the days, and then the scum retaliate with an NK. And then it gets complicated.
NL - New London is a seaport city and a port of entry, located at the mouth of the Thames River in New London County, Southeastern Connecticut.