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* [[Monkey Morality Pose]]: Dates back to the days of Confucius.
* [[Moon Rabbit]]: Earliest recorded reference found during the Warring States period of Ancient China.
* [[Mooning]]: According to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus Josephus], leave it to a random Roman solider to [[Ur Example| moon]] a group of Jews, who were on a pilgrimage Passover. The Jews weren't [https://books.google.com/books?id=AEOiDBTXya8C&pg=PA55#v=onepage&q&f=false amused].
* [[Morton's Fork]]: In [[The Four Gospels|the New Testament]] (Mark 12:13) the Pharisees try to catch Jesus in one by asking if they should pay taxes to Caesar.
* [[Moses in the Bulrushes]]: Moses himself, in the [[Book of Exodus]]. Also Oedipus in [[Greek Mythology]], Romulus and Remus in [[Roman Mythology]], and Karna in the ''[[Mahabharata]]''.
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* [[Purpose Driven Immortality]]: ''[[The Bible]]'' contains several examples of people who were promised that they would not die until they saw some prophesy fulfilled, such as Simeon who was promised he would live to see the Lord's Messiah.
* [[Pyrrhic Victory]]: The [[Trope Namer]] is the Greek general and king [[wikipedia:Pyrrhus of Epirus|Pyrrhus of Epirus]], who tried to conquer Italy. Rome beat him in a war of attrition partly because of Roman improvements on Greek military doctrine (combined arms tactics, and generals commanding from the rear instead of leading from the front), but mostly because they could replace their forces fairly readily and Pyrrhus couldn't.
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