Mga
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MGA
(1) (Monochrome Graphics Adapter) A Hercules-compliant graphics card. See Hercules Graphics.(2) (Matrox Graphics Accelerator) A trade name for earlier graphics cards from Matrox Graphics Inc., Dorval, Quebec; for example, the MGA Millennium.
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Mga
an urban-type settlement in Leningrad Oblast, RSFSR. A junction for railroad lines to Leningrad, Volkhov, Gatchina, and Kaliazin. Located 50 km southeast of Leningrad, with which it is linked by highway. Population, 10,600 (1970). Railroad transport enterprises and a plant making reinforced-concrete items are located there. During the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45, fascist German troops captured Mga on Aug. 31, 1941, cutting off the last railroad linking Leningrad with the center of the country. The settlement was liberated on Jan. 21, 1944.
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