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

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

Henryk Moruś Henryk Moruś ( 25 March 1943 – August 18, 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 accorda ...

(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 variety ...

(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, and noted Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry VIII as Lord ...

or Morus (1478–1535), English philosopher *

Morus Clynnog Maurice Clenock ( Maurice Clenocke, Maurice Clennock; in Welsh: ''Morus Clynog'', ''Morys Clynog'', ''Morus Clynnog'', ''Morys Clynnog'') was a Welsh Roman Catholic priest and recusant exile. He was the first head of the English College, Rome. He ...

(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 and preser ...

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

Morus Hasratyan Morus (Margar) Stepani Hasratyan ( Armenian: Մորուս Հասրաթյան, September 10, 1902 – February 25, 1979), was an Armenian historian, philologist, associate member at the Armenian National Academy of Sciences (in 1963), honored f ...

(1902–1979), Armenian historian and philologist *

Moors The term Moor, derived from the ancient Mauri, is an exonym first used by Christian Europeans to designate the Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily and Malta during the Middle Ages. Moors are not a distinc ...

, ''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 'hateful' personified spirit of impending doom, who drives mortals to their deadly fate. It was also said that Moros gave peop ...

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

morula A morula (Latin, ''morus'': mulberry) is an early-stage embryo consisting of a solid ball of cells called blastomeres, contained in mammals, and other animals within the zona pellucida shell. The blastomeres are the daughter cells of the zygot ...

, 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 dedicated to archiving the history of community gardens, squatting, and grassroots environmental activism of the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Lo ...

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