Madia (disambiguation)

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Madia is a genus of herbs. Madia may also refer to

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<i>Echelon</i> (video game) 2001 video game

Echelon is a 3-D science fiction flight simulator video game developed by Saint Petersburg developers MADia Entertainment. It was published in Russia by Buka Entertainment, and in all other territories by Bethesda Softworks.

<i>Madia</i> Genus of flowering plants

Madia is a genus of annual or perennial usually aromatic herbs with yellow flowers, in the tribe Madieae within the family Asteraceae.

<i>Madia elegans</i> Species of flowering plant

Madia elegans is an annual herbaceous plant species in the family Asteraceae. It is generally known as the common madia, but there are several subspecies known by various common names.

Tarweed or tarplant is a common name for several plants and may refer to:

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Prakash Amte</span> Indian medical doctor and social worker

Prakash Baba Amte is a social worker from Maharashtra, India. Amte and his wife, Mandakini Amte, were awarded the Magsaysay Award for 'Community Leadership' in 2008 for their philanthropic work in the form of the Lok Biradari Prakalp amongst the Madia Gonds in the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra and the neighbouring states of Telangana and Madhya Pradesh. In November 2019 he was awarded with ICMR Lifetime Achievement Award by Bill Gates.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Madia Gond</span> Indigenous tribe of Maharashtra, India

Madia Gonds or Madia or Maria are one of the endogamous Gond tribes living in Chandrapur District and Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra State, and Bastar division of Chhattisgad State India. They have been granted the status of a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups by the Government of India under its affirmative action or reservation programme. The Madia Gonds are strongly affected by Naxal activities. The Madia Gond use the self designation Madia, and call the area where they live Madia Desh. They speak the Madia dialect of Gondi. The shifting agriculture of madia is known as jhoom.
A study mentions living megalithic practices amongst the Madia Gonds. One of the findings of The Bench Mark Survey done in 1997–1998: 91.08 percent of Madia Gond families lived Below Poverty Line.

<i>Dear Father</i> (1979 film) 1979 film

Dear Father is a 1979 Italian drama film directed by Dino Risi. It was entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, where Stefano Madia won the award for Best Supporting Actor.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stefano Madia</span> Italian actor

Stefano Madia was an Italian film actor. He appeared in twelve films between 1978 and 1993. At the 1979 Cannes Film Festival he won the award for Best Supporting Actor, for Vittorio Gassman's film Dear Father.

<i>Madia glomerata</i> Species of flowering plant

Madia glomerata is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name mountain tarweed.

<i>Madia gracilis</i> Species of flowering plant

Madia gracilis is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names grassy tarweed, slender tarweed, and gumweed madia.

M. gracilis may refer to:

M. sativa may refer to:

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chunilal Madia</span>

Chunilal Madia was a Gujarati author from Gujarat, India, primarily known for his novels and short stories set in rural Saurashtra. Recipients of several awards, he is considered one of the leading writers of Gujarati literature.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">William Madia</span> American scientist (born 1947)

William (Bill) J. Madia is an American scientist and laboratory director. Madia holds a Ph.D. in nuclear chemistry, a field in which most of his career was focused at Battelle. In his early twenties, Madia was drafted into the US Army where he trained nuclear reactor operators. He later worked for Battelle, a non-profit research company where he began as a researcher before being promoted to direct various laboratories across the United States and Western Europe. Madia retired in 2007 and joined Stanford University in early 2008. He retired from Stanford in 2019 and is now President of Madia & Associates, Inc. a management consulting firm.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Marianna Madia</span> Italian politician

Maria Anna "Marianna" Madia is an Italian politician of the Democratic Party and a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies since 2008.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sanjay Chhel</span> Indian film director, writer and lyricist

Sanjay Chhel is an Indian film director, writer and lyricist.

Slender tarweed is a common name for several plants and may refer to:

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Free Me (Sia song)</span> 2017 single by Sia

"Free Me" is a song by Sia, released on 9 June 2017. Proceeds from the song support efforts to eliminate HIV/AIDS.

Boyce Makhosonke Maneli is a South African politician from Gauteng who has been Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Communications and a Member of Parliament for the African National Congress since 2019. He had previously served as the Executive Mayor of the West Rand District Municipality from 2016 to 2019 and as the Regional Chairperson of the ANC's West Rand Region from 2014 to 2018.

Madia is the surname of the following notable people: