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Man-portable air-defense system
A man-portable air-defense system (MANPADS) is a shoulder-fired short-range surface-to-air missile used against aircraft and drones; the US Redeye and Soviet Strela began the field in the 1960s.
Man-Thing
Man-Thing is a Marvel Comics swamp monster, Ted Sallis transformed by a super-soldier serum and the Nexus of All Realities; debuted Savage Tales #1 (May 1971), burns those who know fear, defined by Steve Gerber.
Man-Thing (film)
Man-Thing (2005) is a Brett Leonard horror film from a Hans Rodionoff screenplay, part of Marvel's Artisan deal, released on the Sci Fi Channel with a 14% Rotten Tomatoes score and a practical creature suit worn by Conan Stevens.
Man! I Feel Like a Woman!
"Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" is a 1999 country-pop single by Shania Twain, written with Mutt Lange for Come On Over; UK number 3, quadruple platinum in Canada, famous for "Let's go, girls."
Man’gyŏngdae-ri
Man'gyŏngdae-guyŏk is one of the 19 districts of Pyongyang, North Korea, on the city's western side, created in September 1959 and best known as Kim Il-sung's official birthplace.
Man's Best Friend (Sabrina Carpenter album)
Man's Best Friend is Sabrina Carpenter's seventh studio album, released August 29, 2025 on Island Records; a 12-track disco-tinged breakup follow-up to Short n' Sweet, led by the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 single "Manchild," with a controversial cover and six Grammy nominations.
Man's Cloth
Man's Cloth is a large 2001 metal wall hanging by Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui, made from recycled liquor bottle-top wrappers stitched with copper wire, and was his first work using bottle caps.
Man's Love Story (Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri)
Man's Love Story is a series of paintings by Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, best known through his large 1978 canvas in the Art Gallery of South Australia.
Man's Not Hot
"Man's Not Hot" is the 2017 debut single by Big Shaq, the comic rapper played by English comedian Michael Dapaah, reaching number 3 on the UK chart.
Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning (Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager) is Viktor Frankl's 1946 Holocaust memoir and introduction to logotherapy, his meaning-centered psychotherapy; over 16 million copies in 50-plus languages, a 1991 Library of Congress top-ten influential book.
Man'yōgana (万葉仮名)
Man'yōgana (万葉仮名, magana) is the oldest Japanese phonetic script, using kanji for sound alone; it wrote the Man'yōshū and is ancestral to hiragana and katakana.
Man'yōshū (万葉集)
Man'yōshū (万葉集) is Japan's oldest extant waka anthology: 20 volumes, about 4,500 poems spanning 629–759, written in man'yōgana, compiled in stages with Ōtomo no Yakamochi's certain involvement, and later a model for the Kokinshū.
Man/Woman/Chainsaw
Man/Woman/Chainsaw: London six-piece art rock/post-punk band (art-punk) around vocalists Billy Ward and Vera Leppänen; released Eazy Peazy (2024, Fat Possum) and debut album Cannonball (2026, Fiction Records), Metascore 83.
MAN1B1-CDG
MAN1B1-CDG, also called congenital disorder of glycosylation type II due to MAN1B1 deficiency, is a rare autosomal recessive Golgi glycosylation disorder (MAN1B1, 9q34.3) causing intellectual disability, hypotonia, truncal obesity, facial dysmorphism, and a type 2 transferrin IEF pattern.
Maná
Maná is a Mexican rock band from Guadalajara formed in 1986 (roots in Sombrero Verde), known for rock en español hits like Rayando el Sol, over 40 million records sold, four Grammys, and a 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nomination.
Mana (musician)
Mana (魔名) is a Japanese visual kei musician: guitarist and leader of Malice Mizer (1992–2001), founder of the gothic project Moi dix Mois (2002–present), the label Midi:Nette, and the Gothic Lolita fashion brand Moi-même-Moitié. Not the Hawaiian, Italian, or Mexican artists of the same name.
Mana (series)
Mana (Seiken Densetsu) is Square Enix's action RPG series begun in 1991 as Final Fantasy Adventure; best known for Secret of Mana (1993) and Visions of Mana (2024).
Mana Atsumi
Mana Atsumi (渥美万奈, born 1989) is a Japanese softball infielder for Toyota Red Terriers who won gold in women's softball at Tokyo 2020 and at the 2018 Asian Games.
Mana Pools National Park
Mana Pools National Park, a 2,196 km² park in northern Zimbabwe on the Zambezi River, named from Shona 'mana' (four) for its four pools; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1984 with Sapi and Chewore Safari Areas, famed for dry-season elephant gatherings and walking safaris.
Mana Pools National Park, Sapi and Chewore Safari Areas
Mana Pools National Park, Sapi and Chewore Safari Areas: 676,600-ha UNESCO World Heritage Site (1984, criteria vii, ix, x) on Zimbabwe's Zambezi floodplain, a Ramsar site and Important Bird Area famed for dry-season elephant and buffalo concentrations.
Mana Shankara Vara Prasad Garu
Mana Shankara Vara Prasad Garu (మన శంకర వర ప్రసాద్ గారు) is a 2026 Telugu action-comedy directed by Anil Ravipudi, starring Chiranjeevi, Nayanthara, and Venkatesh; released 12 January 2026, it grossed over ₹225 crore.
Mana Shankara Vara Prasad Garu (soundtrack)
Mana Shankara Vara Prasad Garu (soundtrack), Telugu album by Bheems Ceciroleo for the 2026 Anil Ravipudi film starring Chiranjeevi; T-Series label; songs include Meesala Pilla, Sasirekha, Mega Victory Mass.
Manabu Horii
Manabu Horii (堀井学), born 1972 in Muroran, is a Japanese speed skater who won 500 m bronze at the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics, set 1000 m world records, and later served in Japan's House of Representatives.
Manabu Koga
Manabu Koga (古賀•学), Japanese freestyle swimmer (1935–1974) of Waseda University; 1956 Olympian (100 m freestyle =10, 4×200 m relay 4th), holder of 4×100 m freestyle and medley relay world records, and double 1958 Tokyo Asian Games gold medalist.
Manache Shlok
Manache Shlok (मनाचे श्लोक), also known as Manobodh, is a set of 205 Marathi devotional verses in which 17th-century saint-poet Samarth Ramdas counsels his own mind toward ethical conduct and devotion to Rama.
Manacled Mormon case
The Manacled Mormon case, or Mormon sex-in-chains case: Joyce McKinney's 1977 alleged kidnap and rape of LDS missionary Kirk Anderson in a Devon cottage; no trial, bail jumped, later the subject of the documentary Tabloid.
Manada Kadalu
Manada Kadalu (Kannada: ಮನದ ಕಡಲು) is a 2025 Indian Kannada-language coming-of-age romantic drama directed by Yogaraj Bhat, starring newcomers Sumukha, Rashika Shetty, and Anjali Anish, released on 28 March 2025.
Manadeva
Manadeva (मानदेव) was a Licchavi king of Nepal who reigned from about 464 to 505 CE; his 464 CE pillar inscription at Changu Narayan is the earliest dated record of the Kathmandu Valley.
Manado
Manado (Menado), capital of North Sulawesi, Indonesia, on Manado Bay; second largest Sulawesi city after Makassar, over 458,000 people (2024), Minahasa-majority, Protestant-majority, exposed to tsunami and volcanic hazards, home of Bunaken island tourism.
Managed care
Managed care: US health care delivery system managing cost, utilization, and quality via HMO, PPO, and POS plans and capitation-paid MCOs in Medicaid and Medicare Advantage; regulated by CMS rules of 2016–2024.