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Manhaixin / Menhycia (MCV4, ACYW135 meningococcal conjugate vaccine, CRM197)
Manhycia (曼海欣, Manhaixin) is CanSino Biologics' quadrivalent ACYW135 meningococcal conjugate vaccine using CRM197 carrier, the first MCV4 approved in China (December 2021), for children 3 months to 6 years.
Manhandled
Manhandled (1924) is a silent comedy-drama directed by Allan Dwan, starring Gloria Swanson as shopgirl Tessie McGuire, based on Arthur Stringer's short story; it survives only as an abridged 16mm Kodascope print.
Manhasset, New York
Manhasset, New York: a North Shore Long Island hamlet and CDP in the Town of North Hempstead, Nassau County; 8,176 residents (2020), town seat since 1907, known for Americana Manhasset shopping and the LIRR Port Washington Branch.
Manhat
Manhata was a foreign royal wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose III, likely from western Asia, buried with two other foreign wives in a cliff tomb at Thebes.
Manhattan
Manhattan, a borough of New York City coextensive with New York County, also called Mannahatta by the Lenape; dense island borough, 1,694,251 residents in 2020, Dutch New Amsterdam origins, 1811 grid plan.
Manhattan (1979 film)
Manhattan (1979) is Woody Allen's black-and-white romantic comedy-drama about TV writer Isaac Davis, co-written with Marshall Brickman, shot by Gordon Willis, scored with Gershwin, and released 25 April 1979.
Manhattan (cocktail)
The Manhattan is a classic American cocktail of whiskey, sweet vermouth, and bitters, stirred and served with a cherry, created around the 1880s in New York.
Manhattan (TV series)
Manhattan is a WGN America period drama (2014–2015, two seasons, 23 episodes) created by Sam Shaw about fictional scientists at the 1943 Los Alamos Manhattan Project, starring John Benjamin Hickey, cancelled in 2015 despite strong reviews.
Manhattan Beach, California
Manhattan Beach, California: coastal city in Los Angeles County's South Bay, incorporated 1912, population about 33,000-35,500, 928-foot pier, 2.1 miles of beachfront, median home value over $2 million, site of Bruce's Beach land return.
Manhattan blackout of July 2019
The Manhattan blackout of July 13, 2019: a Con Edison West Side outage that cut power to about 73,000 customers across six networks for roughly five hours, caused by mis-operating protective relays with missing neutral wire connections.
Manhattan Bridge
The Manhattan Bridge is a suspension bridge completed in 1909 that crosses the East River between Lower Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn, carrying vehicles, subway trains, pedestrians, and cyclists.
Manhattan Cafe (マンハッタンカフェ)
Manhattan Cafe (マンハッタンカフェ), 1998-2015, Japanese Thoroughbred by Sunday Silence; won Kikuka Sho, Arima Kinen, Tenno Sho (spring); 2002 Best Older Horse; champion sire 2009; sire of Hiruno d'Amour and Red Desire.
Manhattan distance
Manhattan distance, also known as the taxicab metric or city block distance, is the sum of absolute coordinate differences between two points, measuring travel along a rectangular grid rather than a straight line.
Manhattan Melodrama
Manhattan Melodrama: 1934 MGM crime drama directed by W. S. Van Dyke, starring Clark Gable, William Powell, and Myrna Loy; won Arthur Caesar a Best Story Oscar, introduced "Blue Moon," and was the last film John Dillinger saw before FBI agents shot him in 1934.
Manhattan Murder Mystery
Manhattan Murder Mystery is Woody Allen's 1993 TriStar comedy-mystery, also written by Marshall Brickman, starring Allen and Diane Keaton as Manhattan couple sleuths after a neighbor's suspicious death, with Alan Alda and Anjelica Huston; born from an early Annie Hall draft, made after the Mia Farrow split.
Manhattan Night
Manhattan Night (2016), also known as an adaptation of Manhattan Nocturne, is a Brian DeCubellis neo-noir thriller starring Adrien Brody as tabloid columnist Porter Wren, entangled in murder, blackmail, and an affair with Yvonne Strahovski's widow character.
Manhattan Plaza
Manhattan Plaza is a subsidized housing complex of two apartment towers in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, opened in 1977 and known as "Broadway's Bedroom" for its performing artists.
Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was the top-secret United States World War II program that developed the first atomic bombs, employing 130,000 workers at a cost of about $2 billion.
Manhattan, Kansas
Manhattan, Kansas, the Little Apple, is a Flint Hills city of about 54,700 at the Big Blue and Kansas Rivers, home to Kansas State University, the county seat of Riley County, and neighbor to Fort Riley.
Manhattanhenge
Manhattanhenge, also known as the Manhattan solstice, is an event four evenings a year when the setting sun aligns with Manhattan's east-west cross streets in New York City.
Manhattanville University
Manhattanville University, formerly Manhattanville College, is a private university in Purchase, New York, founded in 1841 as the Academy of the Sacred Heart; it became coeducational and non-denominational in the 1960s and adopted university status in April 2024.
Manhole
A manhole, also known as a maintenance hole or utility hole, is an access point to an underground utility network, most commonly a sewer, used for inspection, maintenance, and ventilating sewage.
Manhole cover
A manhole cover, sometimes called a personhole cover, is a removable cast-iron plate set flush in the street over an access shaft to sewers and other underground utilities.
Manhua (漫画)
Manhua (漫画) is the Chinese word for comics, covering works from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, distinct from Japanese manga and Korean manhwa. Known for full-color vertical-scroll webcomics, cultivation and wuxia genres, and platforms like KuaiKan and Tencent Comics.
Manhunt (2017 TV series)
Manhunt (2017) is a US true-crime anthology series, also called Manhunt: Unabomber; season 1 dramatizes the FBI hunt for Ted Kaczynski with Paul Bettany and Sam Worthington, and season 2, Deadly Games, is set in Atlanta.
Manhunt (2019 TV series)
Manhunt (2019 TV series) is an ITV true-crime drama starring Martin Clunes as DCI Colin Sutton, dramatizing his memoirs of catching Levi Bellfield (Delagrange, McDonnell, Dowler murders); sequel The Night Stalker (2021) covers Delroy Grant. Distinct from Discovery's Unabomber and Apple TV+'s Lincoln series.
Manhunt (miniseries)
Manhunt (miniseries): 2024 Apple TV+ seven-episode limited series by Monica Beletsky, starring Tobias Menzies as Edwin Stanton hunting John Wilkes Booth, based on James L. Swanson's book; distinct from the 2017 Discovery anthology and ITV's Manhunt.
Manhunt (novel)
Manhunt (2022) is Gretchen Felker-Martin's debut post-apocalyptic horror novel from Tor Nightfire, following trans women Beth and Fran harvesting hormones from feral infected men amid TERF militias; a Vulture #1 book of 2022.
Manhunt (video game)
Manhunt is Rockstar North's 2003 stealth horror game for PS2, starring death row inmate James Earl Cash in a snuff-film gauntlet; famous for tiered executions and bans in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK (Manhunt 2).
Manhunt (追捕) (2017 film)
Manhunt (追捕) is John Woo's 2017 Hong Kong/China action thriller starring Zhang Hanyu and Masaharu Fukuyama, adapting Juko Nishimura's novel and the 1976 Ken Takakura film about a lawyer framed for murder in Osaka.