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Manila
Manila (Maynila), capital of the Philippines on Manila Bay, founded by Legaspi in 1571; Spanish East Indies capital 1571–1898, US-chartered 1901, core of Metro Manila's 17-LGU, 11.5-million-person region producing 37% of GDP.
Manila Bay
Manila Bay (Look at the bay, Look at Manila) is a semi-enclosed estuary and natural harbor on Luzon, Philippines, site of Dewey's 1898 defeat of the Spanish fleet, 1944 fighting, and modern reclamation and rehabilitation programs.
Manila folder
A manila folder, also called a manila file folder, is a tabbed card stock folder used to hold loose papers upright in filing cabinets, named for the manila hemp fiber that originally made its paper.
Manila galleon
The Manila galleon, or Nao de China, was a Spanish trade route sailing between Manila and Acapulco from 1565 to 1815, exchanging silver for Asian goods.
Manila hostage crisis
Manila hostage crisis (Rizal Park hostage-taking incident): 23 August 2010 bus hijacking at Quirino Grandstand by dismissed officer Rolando Mendoza demanding reinstatement; eight Hong Kong tourists killed after a botched police assault; Hong Kong issued a black travel alert.
Manila International Container Terminal
The Manila International Container Terminal is the Philippines' largest and busiest container terminal, located in the Port of Manila and operated by ICTSI since 1988.
Manila Light Rail Transit System
The Manila Light Rail Transit System, or Manila LRT, is an elevated rail network in Metro Manila whose first line, opened in 1984, was the first in Southeast Asia.
Manila Luzon
Manila Luzon (Karl Philip Michael Westerberg, born 1984) is a Filipino-American drag queen, runner-up of RuPaul's Drag Race season 3 and All Stars 1 and 4, and host of Drag Den on Prime Video.
Manila massacre
Manila massacre: mass killing of Filipino civilians by Japanese troops during the 1945 Battle of Manila, February 3 to March 3, under Rear Admiral Iwabuchi; about 100,000 civilians died from all causes, and Yamashita was hanged under command responsibility.
Manila Metro Rail Transit System
The Manila Metro Rail Transit System, also called Manila MRT or MRT-3, is a 16.9-kilometer light metro line along EDSA in Metro Manila, opened between 1999 and 2000.
Manila North Cemetery
Manila North Cemetery (Cementerio del Norte de Manila) is a 54-hectare public cemetery in Manila, established in 1904, holding an estimated one million dead and three Philippine presidents.
Manila Pact
The Manila Pact, formally the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, is a mutual defense treaty signed at Manila on September 8, 1954, creating the SEATO alliance.
Manila Science High School
Manila Science High School (MaSci), public science high school on Taft Avenue, Ermita, Manila; first science high school in the Philippines, established October 1, 1963 from a 1959 Special Science Class using the Bronx High School of Science curriculum.
Manila's Finest (2025 film)
Manila's Finest is a 2025 Filipino period crime thriller directed by Raymond Red, set in 1969 Manila before martial law, starring Piolo Pascual as police captain Homer Magtibay. An MMFF 2025 entry, it won eight awards including Third Best Picture and Best Cinematography, and streamed on Netflix from August 2026.
Manilal Gandhi (મણિલાલ મોહનદાસ ગાંધી)
Manilal Gandhi (મણિલાલ મોહનદાસ ગાંધી), 1892-1956, second son of Mahatma Gandhi; editor of Indian Opinion in South Africa for 36 years, satyagrahi, 1930 Salt March marcher, 1946 UN deputant, and Defiance Campaign prisoner.
Manilius
Manilius is a Roman poet known only by name who authored the Astronomica, a five-book didactic poem on astrology written partly under Augustus and probably finished under Tiberius.
Manilkara
Manilkara is a pantropical genus of about 75–78 Sapotaceae trees, source of chicle (Manilkara zapota), balata latex (M. bidentata), and heavy durable timber; African origin 32–29 Mya, three Pacific species moved to Abebaia in 2023.
Manilkara zapota
Manilkara zapota (sapodilla, chicle tree; syn. Achras zapota), a Sapotaceae tree native from Mexico to Colombia, grown for sweet brown fruit and formerly tapped for chicle chewing-gum latex; least concern, invasive in south Florida.
Manillen
Manillen, Flemish form of Manille, is a 4-player partnership point-trick card game of West Flanders, Belgium, using a 32-card deck where the 10 (manille) outranks the ace; teams score card points minus 30 toward a 101-point boam.
Manimal
Manimal: 1983 NBC science-fiction crime series created by Glen A. Larson and Donald R. Boyle, starring Simon MacCorkindale as shape-shifting professor Jonathan Chase; canceled after eight episodes, later linked to Marvel via a 1998 Night Man crossover.
Manimals
Manimals is a 2006 real-time observation card game by Bernhard Naegele (Adlung-Spiele) with 60 animal cards; players race one-handed to grab animals matching a revealed characteristic. Not the 2022 Steam game Menimals or Manimal Tales characters.
Manimekalai
Manimekalai (மணிமேகலை) is a Buddhist Tamil epic composed by the grain merchant Sattanar of Madurai, one of the five great Tamil epics and a sequel to the Silappatikaram.
Maninder Sidhu
Maninder Sidhu is a Canadian politician, a Liberal Member of Parliament who serves as Minister of International Trade, representing Canada at G7, OECD, and WTO meetings.
Manindra Agrawal
Manindra Agrawal, born 1966 in Allahabad, is an Indian computer scientist at IIT Kanpur known for co-discovering the AKS primality test and serving as the institute's Director since 2024.
Maniototo County
Maniototo County was a New Zealand county in Central Otago, constituted June 1877 under the Counties Act 1876, covering 1,239 square miles with Naseby and later Ranfurly as its centers, abolished in 1989 into Central Otago District.
Manipal (ಮಣಿಪಾಲ)
Manipal (ಮಣಿಪಾಲ) is a university town in Udupi district, Karnataka, India, about 5 km from Udupi. Founded on land bought by Dr. T. M. A. Pai in 1933, it hosts Manipal Academy of Higher Education and Kasturba Medical College (1953).
Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), formerly Manipal University, is a private deemed university in Udupi, Karnataka, founded in 1953 by T. M. A. Pai; an Institution of Eminence since 2020, NAAC A++, ranked 3rd among Indian universities in NIRF 2025.
Manipal Institute of Technology
Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT Manipal), founded 1957 as Manipal Engineering College by T.M.A. Pai, is a constituent engineering institute of MAHE, India's first self-financed engineering college, with 18 UG and 26 PG programs, distinct from MIT Bengaluru and MIT Sikkim.
Maniple (military unit)
Maniple (Latin manipulus), the basic tactical unit of the mid-Republican Roman legion: two centuries under centurions, 120 or 60 men, fought in checkerboard three-line formation from the 4th century BCE until cohorts replaced it in the late 2nd century BCE.
Manipravalam
Manipravalam, also known as Maṇipravāḷam, is a hybrid literary language of South India, attested from the 11th century, blending Sanskrit with Malayalam or Tamil and codified in the 14th-century Lilatilakam.