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Mandasor Inscription of Kumaragupta I
The Mandasor Inscription of Kumaragupta I (मन्दसौर अभिलेख) is a Sanskrit prashasti composed by Vatsabhatti, recording a silk-weavers' guild building and repairing a Sun temple at Dashapura.
Mandate (international law)
A mandate in international law was a League of Nations agreement letting a state administer territory detached from a defeated power after the First World War.
Mandate (legal history)
A League of Nations mandate was a legal instrument under Article 22 of the Covenant placing former German and Ottoman territories under Mandatory administration after the First World War.
Mandate for Palestine
Mandate for Palestine: League of Nations Class A mandate granted to Britain at San Remo (25 April 1920), confirmed 24 July 1922, embedding the Balfour Declaration's Jewish national home clause; administered until termination in May 1948, distinct from the Transjordan memorandum of 16 September 1922.
Mandate for Syria and Lebanon
The Mandate for Syria and Lebanon (الانتداب الفرنسي) was the League of Nations mandate entrusting former Ottoman Syria and Lebanon to French administration, in force from 1923 until 1946.
Mandate of Heaven (天命)
The Mandate of Heaven (天命, tianming) is the Chinese doctrine that Heaven grants and withdraws a ruler's right to govern. Originating with the Zhou conquest of the Shang, it legitimized dynastic change for three millennia, unlike Europe's unconditional divine right.
Mandate system of the Treaty of Versailles
The mandate system of the Treaty of Versailles placed former German and Ottoman territories under Allied rule on behalf of the League of Nations from 1919.
Mandatory access control
Mandatory access control (MAC) is an access control model in which a central authority rather than object owners decides access, used in SELinux, AppArmor, and Android.
Mandatory audit firm rotation
Mandatory audit firm rotation (MAFR) is a legal requirement that companies replace their external audit firm after a fixed maximum tenure, applied mainly to listed companies and banks.
Mandatory Fun
Mandatory Fun, "Weird Al" Yankovic's 14th studio album (RCA, July 15, 2014), was his first Billboard 200 No. 1 and the first comedy album to top the chart since 1963, promoted by eight videos in eight days and a 2015 Grammy winner.
Mandatory Palestine (פלשתינה (א״י))
Mandatory Palestine (פלשתינה (א״י)): the League of Nations Class A mandate territory administered by Britain from 1920 until 14 May 1948, incorporating the Balfour Declaration's Jewish national home pledge, ending with Israeli independence.
Mandatory rules and public policy in contract conflict of laws
Mandatory rules and public policy in contract conflict of laws are limits in the EU's Rome I Regulation that let courts displace the law parties choose for a contract.
Mandatory sentencing
Mandatory sentencing, also known as mandatory minimum sentencing, is a criminal justice system in which conviction for a defined offense requires a judge to impose a statutory fixed or minimum penalty.
Mandaue City
Mandaue City (Dakbayan sa Mandaue), a highly urbanized city in Cebu province, Metro Cebu, Philippines; chartered 1969, industrial hub with about 10,000 locators, two Mactan bridges, 2023 GDP PhP 117.99 billion.
Mande expansion
Mande expansion is the southward and westward movement of Mande-speaking peoples from the Niger basin, driven by the rise and later decline of the Mali Empire.
Mandë Holford
Mandë Holford is a marine chemical biologist who studies the venoms of predatory marine snails as a source of peptide-based drugs for pain and cancer.
Mande languages
Mande languages: a West African language family of about 60-75 languages and 30-40 million speakers, centered in southwestern Mali, divided into Western and Southeastern branches; its Niger-Congo affiliation is disputed.
Mandeep Dhillon
Mandeep Dhillon (born 1990) is a British actress from Letchworth, Hertfordshire, known for Saz Kaur in Some Girls, Sandy in After Life, Allie Rajan in CSI: Vegas, and Seraphina Harrigan in Guy Ritchie's MobLand, plus Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
Mandeep R. Mehra
Mandeep R. Mehra (MBBS, MSc, FRCP) is a Harvard cardiologist, William Harvey Chair and medical director of the Brigham and Women's Hospital Heart and Vascular Center, editor of the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, and lead author of the retracted 2020 Lancet and NEJM Surgisphere COVID-19 studies.
Mandela (2021 film)
Mandela (மண்டேலா) is a 2021 Tamil political satire, Madonne Ashwin's directorial debut, starring Yogi Babu as a barber whose deciding vote swings a caste-divided village panchayat election; a Star Vijay/Netflix release that won two National Awards.
Mandela Barnes
Mandela Barnes, Wisconsin Democratic politician, 45th lieutenant governor (2019-2023), first Black Wisconsinite in that office, 2022 Senate nominee who lost narrowly to Ron Johnson, and 2026 gubernatorial candidate who dropped out in July 2026.
Mandela United Football Club
Mandela United Football Club (MUFC), late-1980s Soweto bodyguard and vigilante group of youths around Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, linked by the TRC to at least 18 killings, including Stompie Seipei's 1989 murder, and to assaults, torture, and arson.
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom is Justin Chadwick's 2013 biopic of Nelson Mandela, adapted by William Nicholson from Mandela's 1994 autobiography, starring Idris Elba and Naomie Harris; it earned mixed reviews (RT 61%, Metascore 60) and one Oscar nomination.
Mandelate racemase
Mandelate racemase (EC 5.1.2.2), also called MR or PpMR, is a Mg2+-dependent enolase-superfamily enzyme from Pseudomonas putida that interconverts (R)- and (S)-mandelate via a two-base Lys166/His297 mechanism and serves in dynamic kinetic resolution.
Mandelbrot set
The Mandelbrot set, also known as the Mandelbrot fractal, is a set of complex numbers whose iterated quadratic map stays bounded, the most recognizable image of fractal geometry.
Mandelic acid
Mandelic acid (2-hydroxy-2-phenylacetic acid, C₈H₈O₃) is a chiral aromatic alpha-hydroxy acid isolated from bitter almonds in 1831, used in drug synthesis, chemical peels, and biodegradable polymers.
Mandelieu
Mandelieu (Mandelieu-La Napoule), Alpes-Maritimes commune on the Siagne mouth, Côte d'Azur: Roman villa and 1st-century pottery workshop at Minelle, lord Eucher around 400, Saracen destructions, castles of Avinionet, La Napoule rebuilt by Henry Clews, and Agecroft.
Mandell Creighton
Mandell Creighton (1843–1901) was an English historian and Anglican bishop of London from 1897, best known for his five-volume History of the Papacy during the Period of the Reformation (1882–94).
Mandera
Mandera, a county in Kenya's former North Eastern Province (capital Mandera Town), borders Ethiopia and Somalia. Established 2013; 867,457 people (2019 census); pastoral economy; weak own-source revenue and recurrent drought.
Manderlay
Manderlay is a 2005 drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier, starring Bryce Dallas Howard and the second film in his unfinished trilogy begun with Dogville.