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Alexander Morus Alexander Morus (or Moir or More) (25 September 1616, Castres – 28 September 1670, Paris) was a Franco-Scottish Protestantism, Protestant preacher. Biography More's father, born in Scotland, was a rector at a Huguenot college in the town of C ...

(1616–1670), Franco-Scottish Protestant preacher *

Henryk Moruś Henryk Moruś (25 March 1943 – 18 August 2013) was a Polish serial killer who was convicted in 1993 for committing seven murders in the territory of Piotrków Voivodeship. He was the last prisoner to be sentenced to death in Poland in accordan ...

(1943–2013), Polish serial killer *

Huw Morus Huw Morus or Morys (1622 – 31 August 1709), also known by his bardic name ''Eos Ceiriog'' ("the nightingale of Ceiriog"), was a Welsh poet. One of the most popular and prolific poets of his time, he composed a large number of poems in a variet ...

(1622–1709), Welsh poet *

Thomas More Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, theologian, and noted Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry VII ...

or Morus (1478–1535), English philosopher *

Morus Clynnog Morys Clynnog (also Morus or Clynog; c. 1525–1581), also known as Maurice Clen(n)ock(e), was a Welsh people, Welsh Roman Catholic priest and recusant exile. He was the first head of the English College, Rome. He was born at Llŷn or Eifionydd (p ...

(c. 1525–1581), Welsh Roman Catholic priest and recusant exile *

Morus Dwyfach Morus Dwyfach (fl. c. 1523–1590) – otherwise, Morus ap Dafydd ab Ifan ab Einion – was a Welsh-language poet. He was domestic bard to the Griffith family at Cefnamlwch on the Llŷn Peninsula in Gwynedd Gwynedd () is a county in the ...

(fl. c. 1523–1590), Welsh-language poet *

Morus Hasratyan Morus (Margar) Stepani Hasratyan (Armenian: Մորուս Հասրաթյան, September 10, 1902 – February 25, 1979) was a Soviet Armenian historian and philologist. He was the director of the History Museum of Armenia from 1964 to 1975. He w ...

(1902–1979), Armenian historian and philologist *

Moors The term Moor is an Endonym and exonym, exonym used in European languages to designate the Muslims, Muslim populations of North Africa (the Maghreb) and the Iberian Peninsula (particularly al-Andalus) during the Middle Ages. Moors are not a s ...

, ''Mōrus'' in late Latin, people of the Maghreb region

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* ''Morus'' (plant), a genus of trees in the family Moraceae commonly known as mulberries * ''Morus'' (bird), a genus of seabirds in the family Sulidae commonly known as gannets *

Moros In Greek mythology, Moros /ˈmɔːrɒs/ or Morus /ˈmɔːrəs/ (Ancient Greek: Μόρος means 'doom, fate') is the personified spirit of impending doom, who drives mortals to their deadly fate. It was also said that Moros gave people the abi ...

, the personified spirit of impending doom in Greek mythology * Latin for

morula In embryology, cleavage is the division of cells in the early development of the embryo, following fertilization. The zygotes of many species undergo rapid cell cycles with no significant overall growth, producing a cluster of cells the same siz ...

, an early-stage embryo consisting of 16 cells *

Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS) is a not-for profit museum founded by the Times Up! Environmental Organization in 2012. It is dedicated to archiving the history of community gardens, squatting, and grassroots environmental activis ...

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