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Manfredonia: town and archiepiscopal see, Foggia province, Puglia (Apulia) region, east central Italy, on the southern slope of the Promontorio del Gargano at the head of the Golfo (gulf) di Manfredonia, ...
mangabey: any of 10 species of slender, rather long-limbed monkeys found in African tropical forests. Mangabeys are fairly large quadrupedal monkeys with cheek pouches and deep depressions under the cheekbones. Species ...
mangal-kavya: (Bengali: "auspicious poems"), a type of eulogistic verse in honour of a popular god or goddess in Bengal (India). The poems are sometimes associated with a Pan-Indian deity, such as ...
Mangalore: town, administrative headquarters of Dakshin Kannad district, southwestern Karnataka (formerly Mysore) state, southern India, a port on the Arabian Sea. Lying on the backwaters formed by the Netravati and Gurpur ...
Mangan, James Clarence: a prolific and uneven writer of almost every kind of verse whose best work, inspired by love of Ireland, ranks high in Irish poetry.
Manganelli, Giorgio: Italian critical theorist and novelist, one of the leaders of the avant-garde in the 1960s.
manganese: chemical element, one of the silvery-white, hard, brittle metals of Group VIIb of the periodic table. It was recognized as an element (1774) by the Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele ...
manganese processing: preparation of the ore for use in various products.
Mangang: village, Sikkim state, northeastern India, on the North Sikkim Highway. A trading centre, it lies on the east bank of the Tista River, south of where it joins the Talung. ...
manganite: an ore mineral of manganese, basic manganese oxide [MnO(OH)] that forms dark gray to black crystal bundles or fibrous masses. Important deposits exist at Ilfeld, Ilmenau, Siegen, and Horhausen, Ger.; ...
Mangas Coloradas: Mimbreno Apache chief noted for uniting the Apache nation.
Mangbetu: peoples of Central Africa living to the south of the Zande in northeastern Congo (Kinshasa). They speak a Central Sudanic language of the Nilo-Saharan language family. The Mangbetu are a ...
mange: skin disease of animals caused by any of six varieties of mites, characterized by inflammation, itching, thickening of the skin, and hair loss. The most severe variety is caused by ...
Mangelsdorff, Albert: German trombonist, who began playing bop and in time became an outstanding modal, free jazz, and jazz-rock improviser. He was among the first post-World War II European jazz musicians to ...
Manggarai: Indonesian people inhabiting western Flores, one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, in Indonesia. Numbering more than 400,000 in the mid-1980s, they are of Proto-Malay stock and speak a language in ...
Mangiarotti, Edoardo: Italian fencer who was one of the most successful performers in the history of the sport. Over a 40-year career, Mangiarotti won 13 Olympic medals and 13 team world championships ...
Mangla Dam: embankment dam on the Jhelum River, Pakistan, completed in 1967. Mangla Dam is one of the two main structures in the Indus Basin project (the other is Tarbela Dam (q.v.). ...
Mango: town, northern Togo, western Africa, situated on the Oti River near the Keran National Park. The town served as the principal locale of Savanes until the late 1970s, when Dapango ...
mango: member of the cashew family (Anacardiaceae), one of the most important and widely cultivated fruits of the tropical world, considered indigenous to eastern Asia, Myanmar (Burma), and Assam state of ...
Mangoaela, Z D: Southern Sotho writer and folklorist whose early work set the stage for much South African indigenous literature.
Mangochi: town, south-central Malawi, on the Shire River below its efflux from Lake Nyasa (Malawi) and 5 miles (8 km) south of its entrance into Lake Malombe. The town began as ...
mangosteen: (species Garcinia mangostana), handsome tropical tree of the family Guttiferae, native to Southeast Asia, and its tart-sweet fruit. In Myanmar (Burma) it is called men-gu. Under favourable conditions, the slow-growing ...
Mangrai: Thai founder of the city of Chiang Mai and the kingdom of Lan Na (reigned 1296-1317) in the north region of present Thailand, which remained an independent state until its ...
mangrove: any of certain shrubs and trees, of the families Rhizophoraceae, Verbenaceae, Sonneratiaceae, and Arecaceae (Palmae), that grow in dense thickets or forests along tidal estuaries, in salt marshes, and on ...
mangrove snake: (genus Boiga), any of about 30 species (family Colubridae) of weakly venomous, rear-fanged snakes, ranging from tropical Africa to Australia and Polynesian islands. They are at home on the ground ...
Mangunkusumo, Tjipto: early 20th-century Indonesian nationalist leader whose resistance to Dutch colonial rule brought him exile and long imprisonment.
Mangyshlak: oblast (province), southwestern Kazakhstan, east of the Caspian sea. The oblast covers an area of 64,320 square miles (166,600 square km) and consists of vast flatlands, with some depressions (the ...
Manhattan: city, seat (1857) of Riley county and partly in Pottawatomie county, northeastern Kansas, U.S. The city lies where the Big Blue and Kansas rivers meet, there dammed to form Tuttle ...
Manhattan: borough of New York City, coextensive with New York county, in southeastern New York state, U.S. The borough, mainly on Manhattan Island, spills over into the Marble Hill section on ...
Manhattan Project: U.S. government research project (1942-45) that produced the first atomic bombs.
Mani: Iranian founder of the Manichaean religion, a church advocating a dualistic doctrine that viewed the world as a fusion of spirit and matter, the original contrary principles of good and ...
mania: in psychiatric terminology, any abnormal or unusual state of excitement, as in the manic phase of bipolar disorder.
Manichaeism: dualistic religious movement founded in Persia in the 3rd century AD by Mani (q.v.), who was known as the "Apostle of Light" and supreme "Illuminator." Although Manichaeism was long considered ...
Manicouagan River: river in the Cote-Nord (North Shore) region, eastern Quebec province, Canada. Rising near the Labrador border, the river drains lakes Muskalagan and Manicouagan southward into the mouth of the St. ...
maniera: (Italian: "manner," "style"), in art criticism, certain stylistic characteristics, primarily in Mannerist painting (see Mannerism). In the 14th and 15th centuries, maniere in France and maniera in Italy designated refined, ...
Manifest Destiny: in U.S. history, the supposed inevitability of the continued territorial expansion of U.S. boundaries westward to the Pacific, and even beyond. The idea of "Manifest Destiny" was often used by ...
manifold: in mathematics, topological space equipped with a family of local coordinate systems that are related to each other by coordinate transformations belonging to a specified class. Manifolds occur in algebraic ...
Manila: capital and chief city of the Philippines. The city is the centre of the country's economic, political, social, and cultural activity. It is located on the island of Luzon and ...
Manila Bay: bay of the South China Sea extending into southwestern Luzon Island, Philippines. Almost completely landlocked, it is considered one of the world's great harbours and has an area of 770 ...
Manila Bay, Battle of: (May 1, 1898), defeat of the Spanish Pacific fleet by the U.S. Navy, resulting in the fall of the Philippines and contributing to the final U.S. victory in the Spanish-American ...
Manila galleon: Spanish sailing vessel that made an annual round trip (one vessel per year) across the Pacific between Manila, in the Philippines, and Acapulco, in present Mexico, during the period 1565-1815. ...
Manilius, Marcus: last of the Roman didactic poets. Little of his life is known. He was the author of Astronomica, an unfinished poem on astronomy and astrology probably written between the years ...
Manin, Daniele: leader of the Risorgimento in Venice.
Maning, Frederick: New Zealand author and judge, who was known for his histories of the British colony in New Zealand and for his service as a judge (1865-76) in land disputes, the ...
maniple: in early Christianity, narrow silk band worn over the left forearm, with ends hanging down on each side, and formerly used by clergy when celebrating or assisting at mass. It ...
Manipur: state of India. It is located in the northeastern part of the country. It has an area of 8,621 square miles (22,327 square kilometres), making it one of the smaller ...
manipuri: one of the six classical dance styles of India, the others being bharata-natya, kathak, kathakali, kuchipudi, and orissi. It is indigenous to Manipur and is characterized by a variety of ...
Manisa: city, western Turkey. It lies in the valley of the Gediz River (ancient Hermus River), below Mount Sipylus (Manisa Dagi), 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Izmir. It was called ...
Manises ware: in ceramics, a style that evolved at Manises, Spain, in the 14th and 15th centuries. It combined Arabic and Christian Gothic influences, the former evident in rhythmic drawing, the latter ...
Manistee: city, seat (1855) of Manistee county, northwestern Michigan, U.S., between Lake Michigan and Manistee Lake. The city is situated at the mouth of the Manistee River, 85 miles (137 km) ...
Manitoba: province of Canada, one of the Prairie Provinces, lying midway between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. Of its more than 38,500 lakes, Lake Winnipeg is the 13th largest in ...
Manitoba, Lake: narrow, irregularly shaped lake in south-central Manitoba, Canada, 45 miles (72 km) northwest of Winnipeg. Fed by many small streams and by Crane Narrows (the outlet from Lake Winnipegosis [north]), ...
Manitoulin Islands: archipelago of limestone-cored islands in northern Lake Huron, straddling the U.S.-Canadian border and forming one of the prominent features of the Niagara Escarpment. The Ontario island of Manitoulin, the largest ...
Manitowoc: city, seat (1853) of Manitowoc county, eastern Wisconsin, U.S. It lies on the western shore of Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Manitowoc River. Manitowoc adjoins the city of ...
Maniu, Iuliu: statesman who served as prime minister of Romania (1928-30, 1930, 1932-33) and as head of the National Peasant Party. Maniu was one of the most important Romanian political leaders of ...
Manizales: capital of Caldas departamento, central Colombia, situated on a commanding ridge of the Andean Cordillera (mountains) Central, 6,975 feet (2,126 m) above sea level. Its gray cathedral is visible for ...
Manjusri: in Mahayana Buddhism, the bodhisattva ("Buddha-to-be") personifying supreme wisdom. His name in Sanskrit means "gentle, or sweet, glory"; he is also known as Manjughosa ("Sweet Voice") and Vagisvara ("Lord of ...
Mankato: city, seat of Blue Earth county, south-central Minnesota, U.S. It lies on the Minnesota River, opposite North Mankato, near the mouth of the Blue Earth River, in a farming and ...
Mankiewicz, Herman: American screenwriter, journalist, playwright, and wit, notable as a member of the Algonquin Round Table and as the coauthor of the screenplay for Citizen Kane (1941).
Mankiewicz, Joseph L.: major American producer, director, and screenwriter known for his witty, literary, urbane dialogue and memorable characters. He worked with many of Hollywood's major stars and earned the reputation of being ...
Mankiller, Wilma Pearl: Native American leader and activist, the first woman chief of a major tribe.
Manley, Mary de la Riviere: British writer who achieved notoriety through presenting political scandal in the form of romance. Her Secret Memoirs . . . of Several Persons of Quality (1709) was a chronicle seeking ...
Manley, Michael: Jamaican politician who served three terms as prime minister of Jamaica (1972-80 and 1989-92) and was a powerful champion of Third World issues.
Mann, Heinrich: German novelist and essayist, a socially committed writer whose best known works are intemperate attacks on the authoritarian social structure of German society under William II.
Mann, Horace: U.S. educator, the first great American advocate of public education, who believed that, in a democratic society, education should be free and universal, nonsectarian, democratic in method, and reliant on ...
Mann, Thomas: German novelist and essayist whose early novels-Buddenbrooks (1900), Der Tod in Venedig (1912; Death in Venice), and Der Zauberberg (1924; The Magic Mountain)-earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in ...
Mann, Tom: radical labour leader, founder and member of numerous British labour unions and organizations.
manna: in botany, any of a variety of plants and plant products. Manna is the common name for certain lichens of the genus Lecanora native to Turkey, especially L. esculenta. In ...
manna: in biblical literature, one or more of the foods that sustained the Hebrews during the 40 years that intervened between their Exodus from Egypt and their arrival in the Promised ...
Mannai: ancient country in northwestern Iran, south of Lake Urmia. During the period of its existence in the early 1st millennium BC, Mannai was surrounded by three major powers: Assyria, Urartu, ...
Mannar Island: dry, barren island that lies at the eastern end of Adam's Bridge, a chain of shoals off the northwestern coast of Sri Lanka. Mannar Island has an area of about ...
Mannar, Gulf of: inlet of the Indian Ocean, between southeastern India and western Sri Lanka. It is bounded to the northeast by Rameswaram (island), Adam's (Rama's) Bridge (a chain of shoals), and Mannar ...
Manner, Eeva Liisa: lyrical poet and dramatist, a central figure in the Finnish modernist movement of the 1950s.
Mannerheim, Carl Gustaf: Finnish military leader and conservative statesman who successfully defended Finland against greatly superior Soviet forces during World War II and served as the country's president (1944-46).
Mannerism: (from maniera, "manner," or "style"), artistic style that predominated in Italy from the end of the High Renaissance in the 1520s to the beginnings of the Baroque style around 1590. ...
manners, comedy of: witty, cerebral form of dramatic comedy that depicts and often satirizes the manners and affectations of a contemporary society. A comedy of manners is concerned with social usage and the ...