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Manatee
Manatee (Trichechus), sea cow, sirenian: large herbivorous aquatic mammal; three species, West Indian manatee split into Florida and Antillean subspecies; Florida population 8,350–11,730, threatened under the ESA.
Manatee pavilion
Manatee Pavilion (マナティー館) is a free manatee exhibit at Ocean Expo Park, Okinawa, near Churaumi Aquarium, holding Mexican-donated West Indian manatees, first Japanese breeding (YUMA, 2001), and Japan's only visitor manatee-feeding program.
Manatee power station
The Manatee power station is a Florida Power & Light generating complex in Parrish, Manatee County, Florida, home to a 409 MW battery storage system commissioned in 2021.
Manathi Ganesan
Manathi P. Ganesan (மணத்தி கணேசன்), Tamil Nadu kabaddi player and coach, Arjuna Award 1995, subject of Mari Selvaraj's 2025 film Bison starring Dhruv Vikram, whom he trained for two years.
Manati Oil and Gas Field
Manati, or Campo de Manati, is a natural gas and condensate field in the Camamu-Almada Basin, offshore Bahia, Brazil, discovered by Petrobras in 2000 and producing since 2007.
Manatsu Akimoto
Manatsu Akimoto (秋元真夏, born 1993) is a Japanese actress and former idol from Saitama who was a first-generation member of Nogizaka46 and its second captain from 2019 to 2023.
Manatum Tessera
Manatum Tessera, a 3,800-km-wide tessera of deformed ridged terrain on Venus at 4°S 64°E, west of Ovda Regio in Aphrodite Terra; IAU-named 1997 for a Semitic goddess of fate.
Manaus
Manaus, capital of Amazonas, Brazil, is the Amazon's largest city (2.06 million, 2022 census) on the Rio Negro–Solimões confluence, anchored by the 1967 Manaus Free Trade Zone and its Industrial Pole.
Manav Gohil (मनव गोहिल)
Manav Gohil (मनव गोहिल) is an Indian actor in Hindi and Gujarati television and film, known for Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii, Kaamnaa, and as IB deputy director Sushant Bansal in Aditya Dhar's Dhurandhar films.
Manav Kaul (मनव कौल)
Manav Kaul (मानव कौल), born 1976 in Baramulla, Kashmir, is an Indian actor, theatre director, playwright, and Hindi author. Known for Kai Po Che!, Tumhari Sulu, Thappad, and Baramulla, he also directed Hansa and writes Hindi fiction, calling writing his primary identity.
Manavala Mamuni
Manavala Mamuni (மணவாள மாமுனி), also known as Varavara Muni, was a Srivaishnava religious teacher of Tamil Nadu, 1370 to 1443, recognized as head of the Tenkalai tradition.
Manawatū River mouth and estuary
Manawatū River mouth and estuary (Manawatū Estuary), a 200-plus-hectare bar-built estuary at Foxton Beach, New Zealand; Ramsar site no. 1491 (2005), famed for 95 bird species, migratory bar-tailed godwits, and wrybills.
Manawatu-Wanganui
Manawatu-Wanganui, officially Manawatū-Whanganui Region since 2019, is a New Zealand region in the lower central North Island with seven districts, governed by the Manawatū-Whanganui Regional Council trading as Horizons Regional Council, established in 1989.
ManBearPig
ManBearPig is South Park Season 10 Episode 6 (April 26, 2006), Trey Parker's parody of Al Gore's climate activism via a half man, half bear, half pig monster; the show apologized in 2018's Time to Get Cereal arc.
Manbij
Manbij, known in antiquity as Mabbug, is an ancient city in northern Syria, northeast of Aleppo, and a center of the worship of the goddess Atargatis.
Manbij offensive
Manbij offensive (2024): the Syrian National Army's capture of Manbij from the SDF during Operation Dawn of Freedom, launched 30 November 2024; city fell 8 December, US-mediated ceasefire and SDF withdrawal followed on 11 December 2024.
Mancala
Mancala, from Arabic naqala (to move), is a family of sowing-and-capture board games across Africa, Asia, and beyond; variants include Oware, Bao, ayo, wari, and the 1940 American Kalah sold as Mancala.
Mance Warner
Mance Warner (Quirt Miller, born 1988, Bucksnort, Tennessee) is an American hardcore brawler, the "Southern Psycho," a former CZW World, AAW, GCW World, and IWTV champion now working ROH, GCW, and the indies.
Mancha Húmeda Biosphere Reserve
The Mancha Húmeda Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO biosphere reserve in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, designated in 1980 and expanded in 2014, protecting wetlands including Tablas de Daimiel National Park.
Manche
Manche (50) is a Normandy department in northwestern France, named after the English Channel (La Manche). Prefecture Saint-Lô; 497,522 inhabitants (2023); Cotentin peninsula, Mont-Saint-Michel, Utah Beach, Cherbourg port.
Manche Ch'ol
The Manche Ch'ol were a Cholan-speaking Maya people of the lowlands of southern Petén, the Lake Izabal area, and southern Belize, known for cacao, annatto, and vanilla.
Manchego
Manchego (Queso Manchego) is Spain's PDO-protected hard sheep cheese, made only from Manchega ewe milk in Albacete, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, and Toledo, aged at least 30-60 days, distinct from imitators by its regulation.
Manchester
Manchester, a major city in North West England and center of Greater Manchester (about 3 million people), grew from the Roman fort Mamucium into Cottonopolis, the first great industrial city, now a knowledge-economy hub with 627,700 residents and over 100,000 students.
Manchester Airport
Manchester Airport, also known as Manchester Ringway, is an international airport at Ringway, south of Manchester, England. Opened in 1938, it is the third busiest airport in the United Kingdom.
Manchester Arena
Manchester Arena, the AO Arena since 2020, is an indoor arena above Manchester Victoria station, opened 1995, capacity 23,000 after a £50m refurbishment; site of the 22 May 2017 bombing that killed 22.
Manchester Arena bombing
Suicide bombing by Salman Abedi at the Manchester Arena on 22 May 2017, at the end of an Ariana Grande concert; 22 killed, over 100 injured; inquiry found MI5 and venue security failures.
Manchester Art Gallery
Manchester Art Gallery, also known as City Art Gallery, is Manchester's civic art museum, with over 46,000 works of fine art, craft and design, and costume, free to visit on Mosley Street since 1883.
Manchester Basketball
Manchester Basketball is a British professional club launched September 11, 2024, succeeding the Manchester Giants; owned by the Sherwood Family Investment Office, its men's team plays in Super League Basketball at Belle Vue's National Basketball Performance Centre.
Manchester Black
Manchester Black is a British DC Comics anti-hero, telepath and telekinetic leader of the Elite, created by Joe Kelly and Doug Mahnke in Action Comics #775 (2001) as a foil for Superman and a commentary on the Authority.
Manchester by the Sea (film)
Manchester by the Sea (2016), Kenneth Lonergan's drama starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, and Lucas Hedges; a Boston janitor returns home as his nephew's guardian. 96% RT, two Oscars.