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Mantua
Mantua (Mantova), Lombard city on three Mincio lakes, ruled by the Gonzaga 1328-1707; Renaissance court city with Palazzo Ducale, Mantegna's Camera Picta, Palazzo Te; UNESCO site with Sabbioneta since 2008.
Mantua and Sabbioneta
Mantua and Sabbioneta: serial UNESCO World Heritage site (2008, criteria ii, iii) in Lombardy, Italy, pairing Gonzaga-ruled Renaissance cities: transformed Mantua and the ideal grid city Sabbioneta built by Vespasiano Gonzaga Colonna, 1556-1591.
Mantua Regio
Mantua Regio is a large region on Miranda, the smallest and innermost of Uranus's five major moons; at 399 km across, it is Miranda's largest named regio.
Manu
Manu is a nineteenth-century Hawaiian hunt game recorded by Stewart Culin (1899): thirteen pieces versus one leaping Punipeki on a cross-shaped board; capture all versus immobilize. Not the Māori kite or the MANU game engine.
Manu (Hinduism)
Manu (मनु), in Hinduism the first man, progenitor, first king, and flood survivor saved by the fish Matsya; also the traditional namesake of the Manusmṛti law code and one of fourteen Manus ruling manvantaras.
Manu Bennett
Manu Bennett (Jonathan Manu Bennett, born 1969, Rotorua) is a New Zealand-Australian actor known for Crixus in Spartacus, Azog in The Hobbit trilogy, Deathstroke in Arrow, and Allanon in The Shannara Chronicles.
Manu Bhaker (मनु भाकर)
Manu Bhaker (मनु भाकर), born 2002 in Jhajjar, Haryana, is an Indian pistol shooter. She won bronze in women's 10m air pistol and mixed team at Paris 2024, the first Indian woman Olympic shooting medalist, and Youth Olympic gold in 2018.
Manu Chandaria
Manu Chandaria (Manilal Premchand Chandaria), born 1929, is a Kenyan industrialist who chairs Comcraft Group, a family-owned steel and aluminum manufacturer, and founded the Chandaria Foundation in 1955.
Manu Chao
Manu Chao, born 1961 in Paris to Spanish parents, is a French-Spanish singer of Latin alternative music, founder of Mano Negra, solo star of Clandestino (1998) and Viva Tu (2024).
Manu Delago
Manu Delago is an Austrian handpan player, drummer, and composer, a two-time Grammy nominee best known for popularizing the handpan and for touring with Björk and collaborating with Anoushka Shankar.
Manu Duah
Manu Duah (Kojo Manu Duah, born 2005) is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as a center-back for San Diego FC, selected first overall in the 2025 MLS SuperDraft.
Manu Feildel
Manu Feildel, French-born chef from Nantes, Brittany, is co-host and judge of Australia's My Kitchen Rules since 2010. Trained in London (Cafe Royal, Livebait), he ran Bilsons (3 hats) and L'etoile in Sydney, won Dancing with the Stars 2011, and launched The Sauce By Manu.
Manu García (footballer, born 1998)
Manu García (Manuel García Alonso, born 1998, Oviedo) is a Spanish attacking midfielder from Manchester City's academy who played for Sporting Gijón, Alavés, Aris Thessaloniki, and Sporting KC, and won one Spain cap in 2021.
Manu Ginóbili
Manu Ginóbili (Emanuel David Ginóbili, b. 1977), Argentine Spurs guard, four-time NBA champion, 2004 Olympic gold medalist, 2008 Sixth Man of the Year, euro-step popularizer, Hall of Famer 2022, now Spurs special advisor.
Manu Kyaung Dhammathat
Manu Kyaung Dhammathat (မနုကျောင်း ဓမ္မသတ်) is a Burmese dhammathat, a written law text of the pre-colonial Burmese kingdoms, covering civil matters such as debt, marriage, divorce, inheritance, and slavery.
Manú National Park
Manú National Park (Parque Nacional del Manu), Peru: a 1,716,295-ha Andes-to-Amazon World Heritage park created in 1973, protecting the whole Manu River basin with over 200 mammal and 800 bird species and indigenous residents including groups in voluntary isolation.
Manu Prakash
Manu Prakash is a bioengineer at Stanford University whose frugal-science inventions include the Foldscope, a paper microscope costing under a dollar, and the 20-cent paperfuge centrifuge; he received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2016.
Manu Ríos
Manu Ríos (Manuel Ríos Fernández), Spanish actor, singer, and model born 1998 in Calzada de Calatrava, known for Patrick Blanco in Netflix's Élite, Almodóvar's Strange Way of Life, Respira, and his fashion brand Carrer.
Manu Sharma
Manu Sharma (Siddharth Vashisht), son of Haryana Congress leader Venod Sharma, convicted of murdering model Jessica Lall in Delhi in 1999; acquitted in 2006, convicted by the Delhi High Court, upheld by the Supreme Court in 2010, released in 2020.
Manu Tuilagi
Manu Tuilagi (Etuale Manusamoa Tuilagi), Samoan-born rugby union centre, born 1991 in Fogapoa; 60 England caps 2011-2024, 2013 British & Irish Lion, played for Leicester Tigers, Sale Sharks, and Bayonne.
Manu Xi Tang
玛奴西汤 (Tibetan མ་ནུ་སི་ཐང་), also 四味藏木香汤散, a four-herb Tibetan decoction (土木香, 悬钩木, 宽筋藤, 干姜) for early-stage epidemic fever and flu; listed in China's 2023 second-batch Ancient Classic Formulas Catalogue.
Manua Patera
Manua Patera is a 111-km-wide volcanic depression (patera) on Jupiter's moon Io at 35.9°N, 321.8°W, named for a Hawaiian sun god in 1979; Juno/JIRAM observed it as a persistently active hot spot and likely lava lake.
Manual Communication
Manual communication: conveying language through hand movements as speech equivalents, covering natural sign languages, fingerspelling, manually coded spoken languages, and cued speech, central to deaf education's oral-manual controversy.
Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware
Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware (MASH) is an AASHTO crash-testing standard, first published in 2009, giving uniform guidelines for testing guardrails, bridge rails, crash cushions, and work zone barriers.
Manual labour
Manual labor, also called manual work or physical labor, is work performed mainly with the body, like lifting and carrying loads, common in agriculture, construction, and manufacturing.
Manual lymphatic drainage
Manual lymphatic drainage (MLD), Vodder method, is a light massage technique for lymphedema, a component of complete decongestive therapy; trials show no added volume reduction but possible pain and quality-of-life benefits.
Manual of Conchology
The Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, was a serial on molluscs begun in Philadelphia in 1879 by George Washington Tryon Jr., later edited by Henry Augustus Pilsbry.
Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices
The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) is the Federal Highway Administration's national standard for traffic signs, signals, and markings, first published in 1935.
Manual reduction
Manual reduction, also called closed reduction, is a procedure in which a physician manipulates a fractured bone or dislocated joint through intact skin to restore alignment.
Manual telephone exchange
A manual telephone exchange is a telephone switching system where an operator connects calls by plugging cords into jacks at a switchboard, standard from 1878 until automation displaced it.