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Manala: in Finnish mythology, the realm of the dead. The word is possibly derived from the compound maan-ala, "the space (or area) under the earth." It is also called Tuonela, the ...
Manama: capital and largest city of the state and emirate of Bahrain. It lies at the northeast tip of Bahrain island, in the Persian Gulf. About one-fifth of the emirate's population ...
Mananjary: town, eastern Madagascar. It lies at the mouth of the Mananjary River. A port on the Indian Ocean and the Pangalanes Canal, it handles coastal shipments of coffee, vanilla, cacao, ...
Manannan mac Lir: (Celtic: "Manannan, Son of the Sea"), Irish sea god from whom the name of the Isle of Man allegedly derived. Manannan traditionally ruled an island paradise, protected sailors, and provided ...
Manapouri, Lake: lake, southwestern South Island, New Zealand, the deepest lake in the country. It is one of the Southern Lakes, found in the highland section of Fiordland National Park, which were ...
manas: (Sanskrit: "thought"), in Indian philosophy, the human "mind," that faculty which coordinates sensory impressions before they are presented to the consciousness. Thus, when a person sees, hears, and smells an ...
Manas Wild Life Sanctuary: wildlife sanctuary in western Assam state, eastern India. It is situated at the foot of the Himalayas on the eastern bank of the Manas River, 92 miles (153 km) west ...
Manasa: folk goddess of snakes, worshiped mainly in Bengal and other parts of northeastern India, chiefly for the prevention and cure of snakebite and also for fertility and general prosperity. As ...
Manaslu I: one of the world's highest mountains (26,781 feet [8,163 m]); it lies in the Himalayas of north Nepal, 38 miles (61 km) north of the town of Gurkha. The summit ...
Manassas: residential city, seat (1892) of Prince William county, northeastern Virginia, U.S. It is situated near the creek Bull Run, 35 miles (56 km) southwest of Washington, D.C. Originally known as ...
Manasseh: one of the 12 tribes of Israel that in biblical times comprised the people of Israel. The tribe was named after a younger son of Joseph, himself a son of ...
Manasseh ben Israel: major Hebraic scholar of the Jewish community of Amsterdam and the founder of the modern Jewish community in England.
Manasseh, Prayer of: apocryphal work (noncanonical for Jews and Protestants), one of a collection of songs appended to the Old Testament book of Psalms in several manuscripts of the Septuagint (the Greek version ...
Manasses, Constantine: Byzantine chronicler, metropolitan of Naupactus, and the author of a verse chronicle (Synopsis historike; "Historical Synopsis") from the Creation to 1081. Written at the request of Emperor ...
manatee: any of three species of large, slow aquatic mammals found along tropical and subtropical Atlantic coasts and associated inland waters. Dull gray, blackish, or brown in colour, all three manatee ...
Manati: town, north-central Puerto Rico, situated on the humid coastal lowlands. Of Indian origins, the name Manati refers to a sea mammal, the manatee. Founded in 1738 on the northernmost point ...
Manaus: city and river port, capital of Amazonas estado ("state"), northwestern Brazil. It lies along the north bank of the Negro River, 11 miles (18 km) above that ...
Manawatu River: river, in south-central North Island, New Zealand, rising on the east slopes of the Ruahine Range. The river, 113 miles (182 km) long, flows west and southwest for 30 miles ...
Manawatu-Wanganui: local government region, southern North Island, New Zealand. It includes a major portion of one of the largest plains of the North Island and encompasses the Whanganui River valley. The ...
Mance, Sir Henry Christopher: British scientist and engineer who invented the heliograph, a signaling device that employs two mirrors to gather sunlight and send it to a prearranged spot as a coded series of ...
Manchester: city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, northwestern England. Most of the city, including the historic core, is in the historic county of Lancashire, but it ...
Manchester: city, Hillsborough county, southern New Hampshire, U.S. It lies along the Amoskeag Falls (named for the Amoskeag Indians who once inhabited the area) of the Merrimack River, the 55-foot (17-metre) ...
Manchester: town (township), which includes Manchester Village, Manchester Center, and Manchester Depot in southwestern Vermont, U.S. It lies near the Batten Kill River between the Taconic Range and the Green Mountains. ...
Manchester: urban town (township), Hartford county, central Connecticut, U.S. It lies east of Hartford on the Hockanum River. The area was settled in 1672, when it was purchased from the Mohegan ...
Manchester Ship Canal: waterway opened in 1894 linking Eastham, Merseyside, Eng., to the city of Manchester. The canal made Manchester accessible to large oceangoing vessels. It is 36 miles (58 km) long, 45-80 ...
Manchester terrier: breed of dog developed in England from the whippet, a racing dog, and the black-and-tan terrier, a valued ratter, to combine the talents of each. In 1860 the breed was ...
Manchester, Edward Montagu, 2nd earl of, Viscount Mandeville, Baron Kimbolton Of Kimbolton: Parliamentary general in the English Civil Wars.
manchineel: (Hippomane mancinella), tree of the genus Hippomane, of the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae), that is famous for its poisonous fruits. The manchineel is native mostly to sandy beaches of the Caribbean ...
Manchu: people who lived for many centuries mainly in Manchuria (now Northeast) and adjacent areas of China and who in the 17th century conquered China and ruled for more than 250 ...
Manchu language: the most important of the Manchu-Tungus languages (a subfamily of the Altaic languages), formerly spoken by the Manchu people in Manchuria. In 1995, fewer than 70 Manchu, all of whom ...
Manchu-Tungus languages: smallest of three subfamilies of the Altaic language family. The Manchu-Tungus languages are a group of 10 to 17 languages spoken by fewer than 70,000 people scattered across a vast ...
Manchuria: historical region of northeastern China. Strictly speaking, it consists of the modern provinces (sheng) of Liaoning (south), Kirin (central), and Heilungkiang (north); often, however, the northeastern portion of the Inner ...
Mancini, Pasquale Stanislao: leader of the Risorgimento in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, who played a prominent role in the government of united Italy.
Mandaeanism: (from Mandaean mandayya, "having knowledge"), ancient Middle Eastern religion still surviving in Iraq and Khuzistan (southwest Iran). The religion is usually treated as a Gnostic sect; it resembles Manichaeism in ...
mandala: ("circle"), in Hindu and Buddhist Tantrism, a symbolic diagram used in the performance of sacred rites and as an instrument of meditation. The mandala is basically a representation of the ...
Mandalay: city, north-central Myanmar (Burma), the second largest in the country (after Yangon [Rangoon]). Located on the Irrawaddy River, it lies at the centre of mainland Myanmar and is the focus ...
Mandalgovi: town, central Mongolian People's Republic. The town is located on the transition zone of scattered bunch grass of the great Gobi (desert) about 186 miles (300 km) south of Ulaanbaatar, ...
mandamus: originally a formal writ issued by the English crown commanding an official to perform a specific act within the duty of his office. It later became a judicial writ issued ...
Mandan: city, seat (1881) of Morton county, south-central North Dakota, U.S. It lies across the Missouri River from Bismarck, the state capital. The Lewis and Clark Expedition passed through the area ...
Mandan: North American Plains Indian people of Siouan linguistic stock who lived along the Missouri River between the Heart and the Little Missouri rivers. They were linguistically related to the Winnebago, ...
Mandara Mountains: volcanic range extending about 120 miles (193 km) along the northern part of the Nigeria-Cameroon border from the Benue River (south) to Mora, Cameroon (north). The mountains rise to more ...
mandarin: in imperial China, a public official of any of nine grades or classes that were filled by individuals from the ranks of lesser officeholders who passed examinations in Chinese literary ...
Mandarin language: the most widely spoken form of Chinese. Mandarin Chinese is spoken in all of China north of the Yangtze River and in much of the rest of the country and ...
Mandarin porcelain: ware produced in China for export in the late 18th century. It is called Mandarin because of the groups of figures in mandarin dress that appear in the decorative panels-painted ...
Mandasor: city, northwestern Madhya Pradesh state, west-central India. The city lies along the Sau River, a tributary of the Chambal. Mandasor is of considerable antiquity. Just southeast lie monolithic stone pillars ...
mandate: an authorization granted by the League of Nations to a member nation to govern a former German or Turkish colony. The territory was called a mandated territory, or mandate.
Mandaue: city, east-central Cebu island, Philippines. It lies along the coast of the Camotes Sea just northeast of the city of Cebu, which it serves as an industrial suburb. Mandaue guards ...
Mande: , group of peoples of western Africa, whose various Mande languages form a branch of the Niger-Congo language family. The Mande are located primarily on the savanna plateau of the ...
Mande languages: a branch of the Niger-Congo language family comprising 40 languages spoken by some 20 million people in a more or less contiguous area of southeastern Senegal, The Gambia, southern Mauritania, ...
Mandel, Georges: French political leader noted for his hostility toward Nazi Germany.
Mandela, Nelson: South African black nationalist and statesman whose long imprisonment (1962-90) and subsequent ascension to the presidency (1994) symbolized the aspirations of South Africa's black majority. He led the country until ...
Mandelshtam, Osip Emilyevich: major Russian poet and literary critic. Most of his works went unpublished in the Soviet Union during the Stalin era (1929-53) and were almost unknown outside that country until the ...
Mander, Carel van: Dutch Mannerist painter, poet, and writer whose fame is principally based upon a biographical work on painters-Het Schilder-boeck (1604; "The Book of Painters")-that has become for the northern countries what ...
Mander, Jane: writer noted for her realistic novels about her native land and her frank treatment of sexual issues.
Mandeville, Bernard de: Dutch prose writer and philosopher who won European fame with The Fable of the Bees.
Mandeville, Sir John: purported author of a collection of travelers' tales from around the world, The Voyage and Travels of Sir John Mandeville, Knight, generally known as The Travels of Sir John Mandeville. ...
Mandi: city, central Himachal Pradesh state, northwestern India. The city lies along the Beas River north-northwest of Simla (Shimla), the state capital. It is a trade centre for agricultural produce and ...
mandibulofacial dysostosis: a rare, genetic disorder, inherited as an autosomal-dominant trait and characterized by some or all of the following: underdevelopment of the cheek and jaw bones, widely separated eyes, malformation of ...
Mandla: city, east-central Madhya Pradesh state, central India. It lies just north of the Narmada River. Formerly the capital of the Garh-Mandla Gond kingdom, it was constituted a municipality in 1867. ...
mandolin: small stringed musical instrument related to the lute. It evolved in the 18th century and was built in several varieties in different Italian towns, the Neapolitan mandolin becoming the representative ...
mandora: small, pear-shaped stringed instrument of the lute family, played from the 12th to the 18th century. Probably of Persian origin, it was known in the Middle Ages as the
mandorla: (Italian: "almond"), in religious art, almond-shaped aureole of light surrounding the entire figure of a holy person; it was used in Christian art usually for the figure of Christ and ...
mandrake: any of six plant species belonging to the genus Mandragora (family Solanaceae) that are native to the Mediterranean region and the Himalayas. The best-known species, M. officinarum, has a short ...
mandrel: cylinder, usually steel, used to support a partly machined workpiece while it is being finished, or as a core around which parts may be bent or other material forged or ...
mandrill: colourful and primarily ground-dwelling monkey that inhabits the rainforests of equatorial Africa from the Sanaga River (Cameroon) southward to the Congo River. The mandrill is stout-bodied and has a short ...
Mandu: ruined city, southwestern Madhya Pradesh state, central India. It lies 38 miles (60 km) southwest of the city of Indore. Said to have been founded in the 6th century AD, ...
Mandurah: resort town, southwestern Western Australia. It lies at the entrance to Peel Inlet, 40 miles (65 km) south of Perth. Founded in 1895, it lies on the original land tract ...
Manduria: town, Taranto provincia, Puglia (Apulia) regione, southeastern Italy. Of pre-Roman origin, it is the site of a well that was probably a pagan sanctuary and was named for Pliny the ...
Mandya: city, southern Karnataka (formerly Mysore) state, southwestern India. It lies about 26 miles (41 km) northeast of Mysore on the Chamrajnagar-Bangalore Railway. The centre of a sugarcane region, its processing ...
mandyas: long, full, purple or blue cloak worn as a processional garment by bishops and some other dignitaries in the Eastern Orthodox churches. It is open down the front but fastened ...
maned rat: a long-haired and bushy-tailed East African rodent that resembles a porcupine and is named for its mane of long, coarse black-and-white-banded hairs that begins at the top of the head ...
maned wolf: (species Chrysocyon brachyurus), rare, large-eared member of the dog family (Canidae) found in remote plains areas of central South America. The maned wolf has a foxlike head, long reddish brown ...
Manet, Edouard: French painter who broke new ground by defying traditional techniques of representation and by choosing subjects from the events and circumstances of his own time. His Dejeuner ...
Manetho: Egyptian priest who wrote a history of Egypt in Greek, probably for Ptolemy I (305-282).
Manfaluti, Mustafa Lutfi al-: essayist, short-story writer, and pioneer of modern Arabic prose.
Manfred: effective king of Sicily from 1258, during a period of civil wars and succession disputes between imperial claimants and the House of Anjou.