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Mandjet Chasma

Mandjet Chasma is a 385 km diameter canyon (chasma) on Charon, Pluto's largest moon, named for the Egyptian solar boat of Ra; IAU-approved 2018, at least 450 km long and 5–7 km deep, part of Charon's extensional tectonic belt.

Oct 22, 2026

Mandla Langa

Mandla Langa (born 1950) is a South African novelist, poet, and journalist who wrote from exile for the ANC and won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize.

Sep 27, 2026

Mandla Ndlovu

Mandla Ndlovu is a South African politician and African National Congress member serving as Premier of Mpumalanga and as the ANC's provincial chairperson, re-elected unopposed.

Mando Diao

Mando Diao, Swedish rock band from Borlänge formed 1999 from the band Butler; garage rock act led by Björn Dixgård and Gustaf Norén; known for Bring 'Em In, Give Me Fire, and the quadruple-platinum Swedish album Infruset.

Sep 27, 2026

Mando Martinez

Armando "Mando" Martinez is a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 39 in Hidalgo County, first elected in 2004 and serving in his 11th term.

Mandodari

Mandodari (मन्दोदरी), also Mandodari of Lanka, is Ravana's chief wife and queen in Valmiki's Ramayana, mother of Meghanada, famed for her lament over Ravana and counted among the Panchakanya.

Sep 24, 2026

Mandokoro

The Mandokoro (政所) was the administrative office of the Kamakura shogunate, handling its finances, document issuance, and general administration, and later a financial organ of the Muromachi shogunate.

Mandolin

Mandolin: small plucked lute-family instrument with eight strings in four unison courses tuned GDAE like a violin. Developed in Naples by the Vinaccia family in the 1740s; fueled the American mandolin craze of 1880-1920 and became bluegrass's lead voice through Bill Monroe.

Oct 15, 2026

Mandoline (slicer)

A mandoline is a hand-operated kitchen utensil with adjustable blades that slices vegetables and fruits uniformly, named for its resemblance to playing the mandolin instrument.

Mandopop

Mandopop (华语流行音乐), Mandarin-language Chinese pop, rooted in 1920s Shanghai shidaiqu and modernized by Taiwan from the 1980s; dominant in Chinese-speaking Asia and now tied to China's fourth-largest recorded music market.

Mandra (Despotiko)

Mandra (Μάνδρα) is the archaeological site of the Archaic sanctuary of Apollo on Despotiko, an uninhabited Cycladic islet near Antiparos; excavated since 1997/2001 by Yannos Kourayos, with a 1600 m² temenos, five-room Building A, and a 650-object deposit.

Mandra di Mezzo

Mandra di Mezzo is a locality in the Belice valley of western Sicily, near ancient Entella, known as the findspot of an archaic Greek inscription to Heracles.

Mandragora

Mandragora (mandrake), a Solanaceae genus of four accepted species from the Mediterranean to the Tibetan Plateau, known for tropane alkaloids, ancient medicinal and mythological use, and an Eocene origin.

Mandragora officinarum

Mandragora officinarum, commonly called mandrake, is a perennial herb of the nightshade family native to the Mediterranean, used medicinally since antiquity and known for its human-shaped root in folklore.

Mandraka Reptile Farm

Mandraka Reptile Farm, also Peyrieras Reptile Reserve or Madagascar Exotic, is a small private reserve at Marozevo, 75 km east of Antananarivo on RN2, founded by André Peyriéras to breed chameleons, distinct from Mandraka Park and the ESSA Mandraka site.

Mandrake

Mandrake (Mandragora officinarum, Solanaceae), also called satan's apple, is a Mediterranean perennial herb with a human-shaped root containing atropine and scopolamine; used medicinally since 2000 BC and abandoned after volatile anaesthetics appeared.

Mandrake the Magician

Mandrake the Magician: Lee Falk's American adventure comic strip, first published by King Features on June 11, 1934, about a stage magician with real hypnotic powers, often called comics' first superhero; drawn by Phil Davis, later Fred Fredericks.

Mandrill

Mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) are the largest living monkeys, Vulnerable IUCN primates of Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and Congo, known for male red-and-blue facial coloration, huge hordes, and bushmeat-driven decline.

Mandrillus

Mandrillus is a genus of two large, colorful African rainforest monkeys, the mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx, Vulnerable) and the drill (M. leucophaeus, Endangered), closely related to Cercocebus mangabeys, split by the Sanaga River.

Mandrillus leucophaeus

Mandrillus leucophaeus, the drill, an endangered West African forest monkey related to the mandrill, found in Nigeria, Cameroon, and Bioko Island; about 4,000 mature individuals, threatened by hunting and habitat loss.

Mandriva Linux

Mandriva Linux, also known as Linux-Mandrake or Mandrake Linux, was a French, ease-of-use-focused Linux distribution produced from 1998 to 2011; its company was liquidated in 2015, leaving community forks such as Mageia and OpenMandriva.

Mandsaur

Mandsaur (मंदसौर), ancient Dashapura, is a city and district in western Malwa, Madhya Pradesh, India. Known for the Aulikara dynasty, the 436 CE silk-weavers' Sun temple, Yashodharman's 528 CE victory over the Hunas, and as India's top licensed opium-producing district.

Mandu, Madhya Pradesh

Mandu (Mandavgad), a ruined fortress city in Dhar district, Madhya Pradesh, was the Malwa Sultans' capital in the 15th–16th centuries, famed for Jahaz Mahal, Jami Masjid, Hoshang Shah's marble tomb, and its UNESCO Tentative List status.

Manduca quinquemaculata

Manduca quinquemaculata, the five-spotted hawkmoth, is a North American Sphingidae moth whose larva, the tomato hornworm, pests tomato and other Solanaceae; distinguished from M. sexta by eight V-shaped stripes, a black horn, and five abdominal spots.

Manduca sexta

Manduca sexta, the tobacco hornworm (larva) and Carolina sphinx moth (adult), is a Sphingidae pest of Solanaceae crops and a leading insect model organism, with a 419.4 Mbp genome, five larval instars, and extensive use in endocrinology and immunity research.