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Mansukhbhai Vasava
Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who has represented the Bharuch constituency of Gujarat in the Lok Sabha since 1998.
Mansur (Mercurian crater)
Mansur is a 100-km-diameter impact crater on Mercury at 47.8°N, 162.6°W, the type crater for the Mansurian period (~1.7–0.28 Ga), Mercury's era of morphologically fresh craters comparable to Mansur itself.
Mansur al-Dhahli
Mansur al-Dhahli was a Sunni hadith transmitter of Herat in Khurasan who traveled in search of hadith to Baghdad, Samarkand, and Nishapur, dying around 402 AH.
Mansur Ali Khan
Mansur Ali Khan (منصور علی خان; 1830–1884) was the last Nawab Nazim of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, reigning from 1838 until he abdicated in 1880.
Mansur I
Mansur I (منصور بن نوح) was the Samanid amir of Transoxania and Khurasan who reigned from 961 until his death in 976, when his young son Nuh II succeeded him.
Mansur ibn Abd al-Mun'im al-Sa'idi
Mansur ibn Abd al-Mun'im al-Sa'idi (منصور الصاعدي) was a hadith transmitter of Nishapur, born in 522 AH and remembered as the son of the musnid of his time.
Mansur ibn Ilyas
Mansur ibn Ilyas (منصور بن الیاس) was a Persian physician from Shiraz whose Tashrih-i Mansuri holds the earliest surviving Islamic illustrations of the whole human body.
Mansur ibn Salama al-Khuza'i
>24 words: Mansur ibn Salama al-Khuza'i is a third/ninth-century hadith scholar and judge, famous for narrating hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari and influencing figures like Ahmad ibn Hanbal.
Mansur Isayev
Mansur Isayev (Мансур Мустафаевич Исаев), Russian judoka born 1986 in Kizilyurt, Dagestan; Olympic gold medalist in men's 73 kg judo at London 2012, beating world champion Riki Nakaya; 2009 world bronze medalist; retired 2017.
Mansur Khan (Moghul Khan)
Mansur Khan, or Sultan Mansur Khan, was a Chaghatay khan who ruled Turfan from 1503 to 1543 and fought a twelve-year war with Ming China over Hami.
Mansur Shah of Malacca
Mansur Shah of Malacca, also known as Sultan Mansur Syah, was a sultan of Malacca whose reign from about 1459 to 1477 marked the peak of the sultanate's rise to empire.
Mansure Army
The Mansure Army (عساكر منصورة محمدية, Asakir-i Mansure-i Muhammediyye) was the regular Ottoman army founded by Sultan Mahmud II in 1826, replacing the Janissaries he had abolished.
MANTA (software)
MANTA (Manta Software Inc., manta.io) is an automated data lineage platform founded in 2016 by Tomas Kratky, spun off from Profinit; it scans databases, ETL, and BI tools to map data flows. Raised $52M, acquired by IBM on 24 October 2023 and folded into watsonx governance.
Manta ray
Manta rays are giant plankton-feeding rays of the genus Mobula, represented by three species including the reef manta and the giant oceanic manta, the largest ray in the world.
Manta ray foraging optimization
Manta ray foraging optimization (MRFO) is a nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithm that mimics manta rays' chain, cyclone, and somersault feeding behaviors to solve engineering optimization problems.
Manta, Ecuador
Manta is a port city on the Pacific coast of Ecuador in Manabí province, the country's second largest port and its principal tuna fishing port.
Mantak Chia (谢明德)
Mantak Chia (谢明德) is a Thai-Chinese teacher of Daoist internal alchemy and qigong, born in Thailand in 1944, who founded the Healing Tao system in New York in 1979.
Mantampay
Mantampay (also spelled Matampay) is a locality in Iligan City, Lanao del Norte, Northern Mindanao, Philippines, at 8.1667°N, 124.2167°E, elevation 172 m; distinct barangays named Matampay exist in Lanao del Sur and Lanao del Norte.
Mantaro hydroelectric plant
The Mantaro hydroelectric plant (Central Hidroeléctrica del Mantaro), usually called the Mantaro Hydroelectric Complex, is a 1,008 MW storage-type hydropower scheme in Peru's Huancavelica region, the country's largest after 2012.
Mantel clock
A mantel clock is a small, typically spring-driven clock made to stand on a mantel shelf above a fireplace, classified by case form rather than by mechanism.
Mantel test
The Mantel test is a permutation-based statistical test that assesses the association between two distance matrices for the same objects, such as geographic and genetic distances.
Mantel–Haenszel method
The Mantel–Haenszel method is a statistical technique for combining stratified two-by-two tables into a single adjusted estimate of an effect, introduced by Nathan Mantel and William Haenszel in 1959.
Mantella
Mantella (Malagasy poison frogs, Golden Frogs) is a genus of 16 small, diurnal, toxic frog species endemic to Madagascar, family Mantellidae, subfamily Mantellinae, sister to Wakea, with alkaloids sequestered from mites and ants.
Mantelliceras
Mantelliceras, an extinct Lower Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) ammonite genus of the Acanthoceratidae, type species Ammonites mantelli Sowerby 1814; index for the M. mantelli and M. dixoni zones.
Manteño culture
The Manteño culture was a pre-Columbian culture of coastal Ecuador, flourishing from about 600 to 1532 CE and known for maritime trade in balsa rafts and Spondylus shell.
Manthan (मंथन)
Manthan (मंथन, The Churning) is Shyam Benegal's 1976 Hindi drama on Gujarat's dairy cooperative movement, India's first crowdfunded film, financed by 500,000 farmers at Rs 2 each, restored in 4K and screened at Cannes 2024.
Manthaturath
Manthaturath (ມັນທາຕຸຣາດ), also spelled Manthathourat, was king of Luang Prabang, a Lao vassal kingdom of Siam, from 1817 or 1819 until his death in 1836 or 1837.
Manti (food)
Manti (mantı, mantu, mantou) is a family of filled wheat dumplings from Turkey, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Afghanistan: tiny boiled Turkish mantı with yogurt and browned butter, large steamed Uzbek manti, Afghan steamed mantu with split-pea sauce, and baked Armenian sini mantı.
Manti Te'o
Manti Te'o, Notre Dame linebacker and 2012 Heisman runner-up, played eight NFL seasons with the Chargers, Saints, and Bears; known for the Lennay Kekua catfishing hoax and now an NFL Network analyst.
Manticoceras
Manticoceras, a Late Devonian (Frasnian) goniatite ammonoid genus of family Gephuroceratidae; discoidal conch with goniatitic suture, small asellate-prosuture ammonitella, index for the M. cordatum zone, species about 11 to 19 cm across.