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Manorialism Manorialism or Seigneurialism is the organization of rural economy and society in medieval western and parts of central Europe, characterised by the vesting of legal and economic power in a lord supported economically from his own direct landholding and from the obligatory contributions of a legally subject part of the peasant population under his jurisdiction. These obligations could be payable in labour (the French term corvée is conventionally applied), produce ("in kind") or rarely money.
Manors station Manors station is located in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It is connected to the East Coast Main Line and the Tyne and Wear Metro system, though the mainline and metro platforms are completely segregated.
Manos Loïzos Manos Loïzos (Μάνος Λοΐζος, also transliterated as Loizos and Loisos, October 22, 1937 in Alexandria, Egypt – September 17, 1982 in Moscow, Soviet Union) was one of the most important Greek music composers, yet nearly unknown outside Greece.
Manouchehr Mottaki Manouchehr Mottaki (In Persian: منوچهر متکی) is the Minister of Foreign Affairs appointed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. During the 2005 presidential election, he was the campaign manager of Ali Larijani, the right-conservative candidate.
Manouk Abeghian Manouk Abeghian (alternatively Manuk Abeghian, or Manuk Abeghyan) (1865-1944) was a scholar of Armenian literature and folklore. He is the author of a comprehensive history of Armenian literature, the Russian translation of which is entitled, Istoriya drevnearmyanskoi literatury, and of a volume on Armenian folkore, the German translation of which is entitled, Der Armenische Volksglaube.
Manoush Manoush is an (actress) born Marcia Nicole Lakatos in 1971. Although she appreared in several TV productions as well as in blockbusters like Jean-Pierre Jeunet´s Amélie, Manoush often gets credited as an action and horror actress or a specialist for roles difficult to play.
ManOpen ManOpen is a utility to view unix manuals in a graphical environment instead of in the terminal. Included with the application is a command line utility called openman that will open invoked man pages in ManOpen.
Manpreet Darroch - Member Of Youth Parliament, West Midlands Procedures Group In February 2006, Manpreet Darroch aged 18 became the first ever Sikh male from the constituency of Walsall to represent almost 25,000 young people in the UK Youth Parliament. for the region of the West Midlands.
Manqabat A manqabat is a Qawwali or Sufi devotional song, in praise of Ameer - ul - Momineen Hazrat Ali (AS). The most famous Manqabat, which is sung at all functions, is "Mun kunto Maula" by Amir Khusrau, sung in praise of Maula Ali.
Manresa Manresa is the capital of the Bages comarca (county), located in the geographic centre of Catalonia, Spain, and crossed by the river Cardener. It is an industrial area with textile, metallurgical, and glass industries.
Manriki-gusari The Manrikigusari (万力鎖) or Kusarifundo is a traditional Japanese chain weapon with two steel-weights on the ends designed to strike, ensnare or trap an opponent. One tactic was to bunch the chain in a fist and fling one weighted end into the face, groin or solar plexus of an opponent, quickly and discreetly disabling or even killing them.
Mansaku Itami Mansaku Itami (伊丹万作; real name Yoshitoyo Ikeuchi 池内義豊 1900-1946) was a Japanese film director. His samurai movies diverged from the norm in that they were not heroic epics of the sort which had by that time become formulaic, but rather satires that used the established symbols and iconography of the samurai culture to comment on both historical and modern society.
Mansard roof A Mansard or Mansard roof in architecture refers to a style of hip roof characterized by two slopes on each of its four sides with the lower slope being much steeper, almost a vertical wall, while the upper slope, usually not visible from the ground, is pitched at the minimum needed to shed water. This form makes maximum use of the interior space of the attic and is considered a practical form for adding a story to an existing building.
Mansasa Barangay Mansâsâ is one of the 15 districts or barangays of Tagbilaran City, capital of the province of Bohol, in the Philippines. It is located on the southern part of the city, just a minute ride from the city proper.
Manscaping Manscaping is a neologism that was brought into American homes in the early 2000's by "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy;" portmanteau for "landscaping" the male body by shaving, trimming, waxing, or brushing the body hair.
Mansehra Mansehra (Urdu: مانسہرہ) is city located in Mansehra District, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan. Apart from being a major stop on the Karakoram Highway, it also links to the road to Kaghan Valley, Naran, Shogran, Lake Saiful Mulook and Babusar Top.
Mansehra District Mansehra (Urdu: مانسہرہ) is a district in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan that contains the town of Mansehra, and the Kaghan Valley area, a popular tourist destination in Pakistan. The Karakoram Highway passes through the district.
Mansel Island Mansel Island (Pujjunaq in Inuktitut) is an island located in Hudson Bay, off the Ungava Peninsula of Quebec. At 3,180 km² (1,228 square miles) in size, it is the 159th largest island in the world, and Canada's 28th largest island.
Mansell Street (London) Mansell Street is a short road in London, part of the A1211. For most of its length, it marks the boundary between the City of London and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, though the southernmost part is entirely in Tower Hamlets.
Mansfelder Land Mansfelder Land is a district (Kreis) in the middle of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Aschersleben-StaĂźfurt, Bernburg, Saalkreis, Merseburg-Querfurt, Sangerhausen and Quedlinburg.
Mansfield and Pinxton Railway The Mansfield and Pinxton Railway was an early horse-drawn railway company in the United Kingdom, constructed in 1819 to transport coal between Mansfield and the head of the Pinxton branch of the Cromford Canal and thence by the Erewash Valley and the Trent to Leicester. Its importance lies in its influence on later railway building in the area, particularly the development of the Midland Counties Railway.
Mansfield Club Grounds Mansfield Club Grounds, also know as Mansfield Park and Fort Hill Grounds, is a former baseball ground located in Middletown, Connecticut. The ground was home to the Middletown Mansfields baseball club during the 1872 season.
Mansfield College, Oxford Mansfield College is one of the 39 constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Notably, it is both the youngest and smallest undergraduate college within Oxford University, a title of which 'Mansfielders' are proud.
Mansfield Dam Mansfield Dam is a dam located at (WGS 84 datum) across a canyon at Marshall Ford on the Colorado River, 21 km (13 miles) northwest of Austin, Texas. Built from 1937 to 1941 by the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) and the United States Bureau of Reclamation, the dam is 84.
Mansfield Designer Outlet The East Midlands Designer Outlet is run by the company McArthurGlen, the outlet has 70 stores and is located at South Normanton, Derbyshire in the East Midlands, just off Junction 28 of the M1. There are 14 million people living within 90 minutes’ drive of East Midlands Designer Outlet and 2.
Mansfield Hawks The Mansfield Hawks were an International Basketball Association (IBA) professional basketball team that existed for exactly two basketball seasons in 1998-99 and 1999-2000. After a successful inaugural season, the Hawks won the IBA championship in their second, and final, season of existence.
Mansfield High School (Mansfield, Massachusetts) Mansfield High School (MHS) is a four year, comprehensive public high school located in Mansfield, Massachusetts. MHS is the only high school in the Mansfield Public Schools system and it serves 1,315 students in grades nine though twelve.
Mansfield Motorsports Park Mansfield Motorsports Park is a half-mile automobile race track located on the north-side of Mansfield, Ohio. Featuring moderately high banks and a wide racing surface, it is suitable for close racing and passing.
Mansfield Park, South Australia Mansfield Park is a north-western suburb of Adelaide 10km from the CBD, in the state of South Australia, Australia and falls under the City of Port Adelaide Enfield. It is adjacent to Wingfield, Angle Park, Woodville Gardens, and Athol Park.
Mansfield Road Football Club Mansfield Road Football Club (MRFC) is the umbrella organisation for association football at the University Club of the University of Oxford. All staff and post-graduate students at the University of Oxford are eligible to join the Club and the football section.
Mansfield Smith-Cumming Captain Sir George Mansfield Smith-Cumming, KCMG, CB (1 April 1859 – 14 June 1923) was the first director of what would become the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), also known as MI6. In this role he was particularly successful in building a post-imperial intelligence service.
Mansfield State High School Mansfield State High School is a co-educational government secondary school located in Mansfield, a suburb in the south of Brisbane, Australia. Opened in 1974, the school in more recent years has become renowned for its excellence in music, and its French immersion program, though the school also has very high academic and sporting standards.
Mansfield, Queensland Mansfield is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia, situated approximately 11 kilometres south-east of the CBD. It is located in the region of the city which is now colloquially known as the "Bible Belt" due to the large number of people who have settled there to be close to Christian schools and churches.
Manshūkoku Hikōki Seizo KK Manshūkoku Hikōki Seizo Kabushiki Kaisha (満州国飛行機製造株式会社, Manchurian Aircraft Company) was the aircraft factory in Manchukuo for Nakajima Hikoki KK (Nakajima Aircraft Company) of Japan. For short it was Manshū.
Manshuk Mametova Manshuk Mametova (Mansiya) Zheengaleevna was a Kazakh machine gunner of the 21 rifle division of the 3 guardian shock army and the first Soviet Asian woman to receive the Hero of the Soviet Union for acts of bravery.
Mansi Mansi (obsolete: Voguls) are an endangered indigenous people living in Khantia-Mansia, an autonomous okrug within Tyumen Oblast in Russia. In Khantia-Mansia, the Khanty and Mansi languages have co-official status with Russian.
Mansi language The Mansi language (also known as Vogul, though this name is now old-fashioned and largely disused), is a language of the Mansi people. It is spoken in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, along the Ob River and its tributaries, and parts of Sverdlovsk Oblast in Russia.
Mansio In the Roman Empire, a mansio (from the Latin word mansus the perfect passive participle of manere "to remain" or "to stay") was an official stopping place on a Roman road, or via, maintained by the central government for the use of officials and those on official business whilst travelling.
Mansion A mansion is a large and stately dwelling house for the wealthy. The word itself derives (through Old French) from the Latin word mansus the perfect passive participle of manere "to remain" or "to stay".
Mansion House tube station Mansion House is a London Underground station in the City of London, near Mansion House (although Bank is actually closer). It is a sub-surface station served by trains on the Circle Line and District Line between Blackfriars and Cannon Street.
Mansion of Hidden Souls Mansion of Hidden Souls was a game released for the Sega CD with a similar format to other puzzle computer games such as Myst, Uninvited or D. Despite the hardware limitations of the Sega CD, the game featured impressive pre-rendered polygon graphics as you wandered through an old mansion in an effort to save your sister.
Mansiri Himal The Mansiri Himal is a small, high subrange of the Himalaya in north-central Nepal. It rises between the Marsyangdi River on the west, and the Burhi (Budhi) Gandaki on the east, and lies roughly 100km northwest of Kathmandu.
Mansize Rooster "Mansize Rooster" was the second single to be taken from the Britpop band Supergrass' debut album I Should Coco. It reached #20 in the charts, and the band would only begin to achieve proper recognition over their next few releases.
Manslaughter The law generally differentiates between levels of criminal culpability based on the mens rea, or state of mind. This is particularly true within the law of homicide, where murder requires either the intent to kill, or a state of mind called malice, or malice aforethought, which may involve an unintentional killing but with a willful disregard for life.
Manslaughter in English law In the English law of homicide, manslaughter is a less serious offence than murder with the law differentiating between levels of fault based on the mens rea (Latin for a "guilty mind"). Manslaughter may be either:
Manso I of Amalfi Manso I () (died 1004) was the duke of Amalfi (966–1004) and prince of Salerno (981–983). He was the son of Duke Sergius I and the greatest independent ruler of Amalfi, which he controlled for nearly half a century.
Manson (film) Manson is a 1973 Oscar nominated documentary directed by Robert Hendrickson and Laurence Merrick. It deals with the "Manson family" and has many interviews with the members of the group, including Charles Manson, "Squeaky" Fromme, and Sandra Good.
Manson crater The Manson impact crater is located near the site of Manson, Iowa where a meteorite landed during the Cretaceous Period, 74 million years ago. It was one of the biggest impacts by an object from outer space to happen in North America and was previously thought to have led to the extinction of the dinosaurs until age dating tests proved that it was too old.
Manson, Washington Manson is an unincorporated community (it is advertised as a "village," but not considered as such by the Census Bureau) in Chelan County in the state of Washington. It is located in the north-central portion of the state on the shore of Lake Chelan, approximately seven miles from the nearby town of Chelan.
Mansoor Hekmat Mansoor Hekmat (original name Zhoobin Razani; June 4 1951 - July 4 2002) was an Iranian Marxist theorist and leader of the worker-communist movement. He led the Worker-Communist Party of Iran (WPI), which opposed both the Shah and the Islamic Republic.
Mansoor Ijaz Mansoor Ijaz is a Pakistani-American businessman, the founder and chairman of Crescent Investment Management LLC (CIM), a New York investment partnership since 1990 that includes among others Lt Gen James Alan Abrahamson (USAF Ret), former director of President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative and the renowned German architect Joachim Hauser. Crescent specializes in the use of quantitative modeling techniques to manage investment portfolios.
Mansoor Khan Mansoor Khan, son of film maker Nasir Hussain, made his directorial debut with Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (1988) which launched the career of his cousin Aamir Khan. The film, a soft Romeo-Juliet romantic, was a huge success.
Mansour Ahani Mansour Ahani entered Canada on October 14, 1991, and was subsequently granted Convention refugee status. He quickly became the subject of a CSIS investigation based on suspected membership in the Iranian state security agency MOIS.
Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan is one of the sons of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan and hails from the Royal Family of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. Sheikh Mansour is an accomplished horse rider and has won a number of Endurance Racing tournaments held in the Middle East region.
Mansour Boutabout Mansour Boutabout () (born September 20, 1978 in Le Creusot, France) is an Algerian football player who, as of July 2006, plays for Sedan of the French Ligue 1. He has previously played for Le Mans, Gueugnon and Sete.
Mansour Farhang Mansour Farhang is an Iranian-born anti-imperialist and anti-Shah writer. He served as revolutionary Iran's first ambassador to the United Nations, resigning in protest when the Khomeini regime refused to accept the U.
Mansour Ojjeh Mansour Ojjeh is a Saudi Arabia-born entrepreneur who owns part of TAG, a Luxembourg-based holding company with interests worldwide. Ojjeh owns 30% of the McLaren Group, the most important assets of which is the McLaren Formula One team.
Mansour Osanlou Mansour Osanlou is head of the executive committee of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (SWTBC), the transport workers' trade union in Tehran in Iran. He is in custody as of November 19 2006.
Mansueto Velasco Mansueto ("Onyok") Velasco (born June 26, 1972) is a Filipino boxer from Bago City, Negros Occidental. He competed in the Men's 48 kg (light-flyweight) category at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, and took home the silver medal, the Philippines' only medal of the games.
Mansur Kamaletdinov Mansur Kamaletdinov (Russian Мансур Фатхинурович Камалетдинов) (1926-) is a Russian-born Ballet Dancer, Teacher, Ballet Master and Choreographer of Classical Ballet and Classical character dance.
Mansur Mozaffarov Mozaffarov Mansur Äxmät ulı ([] aka Mansur MozaffarovEnglish spelling: mahn-SOOR mo-zah-FAR-off ; Tatar Cyrillic: Мозаффаров Мансур Әхмәт улы; ; 1902-1966) was a Tatar composer and pedagogue. TASSR Honoured Worker of Culture (1950), People's Artist of TASSR (1964).
Manta Force Manta Force was a toyline produced by Bluebird Plc in the 1980s. MANTA was an acronym for Multiple-Air-Naval-Terrain-Assault Force, which referred to both the "good guys" and their spacecraft, searching the galaxy for a "New Earth".
Manta Mirage The Manta Mirage was an exotic sports car produced by brothers, Brad and Tim Lovette in California in the 1970s. It was a light-weight road-legal racer with high-output engine based on the McLaren M6A Can-Am racing car.
Manta Oyamada Manta Oyamada (小山田まん太 Oyamada Manta), known as Mortimer "Morty" in the English anime and English video games, is a fictional character in the anime and manga Shaman King. The name Morty is a pun of the Latin prefix for "death" (with which words begin with mort-, mor-, or mori-).
Manta ray The manta ray, or giant manta (Manta birostris), is the largest of the rays, with the largest known specimen having been nearly 7.6 meters (25 ft) across its pectoral fins (or "wings") and weighed in at 3,000 kg (6,600 lb).
Mantadia National Park Mantadia National Park is a nature reserve consisting principally of secondary growth forest in the northeastern part of Madagascar. This rainforest is habitat to a vast species biodiversity, including many endemic rare species and endangered species.
Mantan Moreland Mantan Moreland (3 September 1902 - 28 September 1973) was a comic and actor most popular in the 1930s and 1940s. Some of his roles were considered to be controversial, as he often played a superstitious, easily frightened manservant, ready to flee at the first sign of danger, much like the roles played by Stepin Fetchit.
Mantaro Muscle Mantaro Muscle (nickname Kid Muscle), known in the original Japanese versions as , is a fictional character from the manga Ultimate Muscle (Kinnikuman Nisei). In the anime he is voiced by Masaya Onosaka (Marc Thompson in the english dub).
Mantaro Valley The Mantaro Valley, with its main city of Huancayo, lies east of the capital of Peru, Lima. It is a fertile valley containing fields of corn, artichokes, carrots and potatoes, alongside which flows the Mantaro river.
Mantegna Tarocchi The Mantegna Tarocchi, also known as the Tarocchi Cards, Tarocchi in the style of Mantegna, Baldini Cards are two Italian sets of fifty 15th century old master prints in engraving, by two different unknown artists. The sets are known as the E-series Tarocchi Cards and the S-series Tarocchi Cards (or E series, e-series etc).
Mantel clock Mantel clocks are relatively small, moveable clocks traditionally placed on the shelf, or mantel, above the fireplace. The form, first developed in France in the 1750s, can be distinguished from earlier clocks of similar size due to a lack of carrying handles.
Mantel test The Mantel test is a statistical test of the correlation between two matrices. The matrices must be of the same rank, and in the usual applications, they are matrices of interrelations between the same vectors of objects.
Mantell Incident The Mantell Incident is among the most publicised early UFO reports: the crash and death of 25-year-old Kentucky Air National Guard pilot, Captain Thomas F. Mantell, on 7 January 1948, while in pursuit of a UFO.
Mantelletta A mantelletta, Italian diminutive of Latin mantellum 'mantle', is a sleeveless, knee-length, vest-like garment, open in front, with slits instead of sleeves on the sides, fastened at the neck, once even more common than the mozzetta.
Mantelpiece A mantelpiece or chimneypiece is the projecting hood which in medieval times was built over a fireplace to catch the smoke, and at a later date to the decorative framework, often carried up to the ceiling. Mantelpiece is now the general term for the jambs, mantel shelf, and external accessories of a fireplace.
Manti Utah Temple The Manti Utah Temple is the fifth constructed temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Located in the city of Manti, Utah, it was the third LDS temple built in the Rocky Mountains (after the St.
Manticore The manticore is a legendary creature, a kind of chimera with the head of a man—often with horns, gray eyes, three rows of iron shark-like teeth, and a loud, trumpet/pipe-like roar—the body of a (sometimes red-furred) lion, and the tail of a dragon or scorpion, which may shoot out venomous spines or hairs to incapacitate prey (thus confusing its imagery with the cryptozoology of a porcupine, though tarantulas do something similar with their hairs). Occasionally, a manticore will possess wings of some description.
Manticore (Dungeons & Dragons) In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the manticore is a large magical beast with the body of a lion, dragon wings, and a somewhat humanoid head. Its long tail has a cluster of deadly spikes, which the creature can launch at its foes as weapons.
Mantilla A mantilla is "a lightweight lace or silk scarf worn over the head and shoulders, often over a high comb, by women in Spain and Latin America" (The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000).
Mantine are one of the fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar Pokémon media franchise—a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards, and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. The purpose of Mantine in the games, anime, and manga, as with all other Pokémon, is to battle both wild Pokémon—untamed creatures encountered while the player passes through various environments—and tamed Pokémon owned by Pokémon trainers.
Mantineia Mantineia (Greek: Mαντίνεια, formerly also Antigonia - Αντιγόνεια) was a city in ancient Arcadia in the central Peloponnese that was the site of two significant battles in Classical Greek history. It is also a municipality in modern Arcadia, Greece, with its seat in the village Nestani.
Mantiqueira Mountains The Mantiqueira Mountains (Portuguese: Serra Da Mantiqueira) is a mountain range in southeastern Brazil, rising abruptly from the northwestern bank of the Paraíba do Sul River and extending northeastward for approximately 320 km, reaching a height of 2,791 m in the Pico das Agulhas Negras. The mountains, which eventually merge with the Serra do Espinhaço, were originally forest-covered except for the peaks that rise above the tree line.
Mantis fly MANTIS-FLY, the name given to neuropterous insects of the family Mantispidae, related to the ant-lions, lace-wing flies, ext., and named from their superficial resemblance to a Mantis owing to the length of the prothorax and the shape and prehensorial nature of the anterior legs.
Mantis shrimp Mantis shrimp or stomatopods are marine crustaceans belonging to the order Stomatopoda, one part of the class Malacostraca, the largest class of crustaceans. They are neither shrimps nor mantids, but receive their name purely from the physical resemblance to both the terrestrial praying mantis and the shrimp.
Mantle convection Mantle convection is the slow creeping motion of Earth's rocky mantle in response to perpetual gravitationally unstable variations in its density. Material near the surface of Earth, particularly oceanic lithosphere, cools down by conduction of heat into the oceans and atmosphere, then thermally contracts to become dense, and then sinks under its own weight at plate boundaries.
Mantle Hood Mantle Hood (born June 24, 1918 in Springfield, Illinois, died July 31, 2005 in Ellicott City, Maryland) was an American ethnomusicologist. Among other areas, he specialized in studying gamelan music from Indonesia.
Mantle plume A mantle plume is an upwelling of abnormally hot rock within the Earth's mantle. As the heads of mantle plumes can partly melt when they reach shallow depths, they are thought to be the cause of volcanic centers known as hotspots and probably also to have caused flood basalts.
Manto There are two figures in Greek mythology named Manto, one a daughter of Tiresias, the other a daughter of Heracles. The name Manto derives from Ancient Greek mantis, "seer, prophet" (<PIE *men-, "to think").
Manto (Greek mythology) There are two figures in Greek mythology named Manto, one a daughter of Tiresias, the other a daughter of Heracles. The name Manto derives from Ancient Greek mantis, "seer, prophet" (<PIE *men-, "to think").
Manto (poem) Manto is a didactic poem written in Latin in the 1480s by the Italian poet and humanist Poliziano. In it Poliziano pairs the goddesses of Revenge and Fate--Nemesis and Fortuna--to introduce the works of Virgil.
Manto (singer) Manto or Mando (Μαντώ in Greek), was born Adamantia Stamatopoulou (Αδαμαντία Σταματοπουλου in Greek), is a popular Greek singer. She was born in Piraeus on April 13 and raised in Athens by her jazz pianist father and a classic soprano opera mother.
Manto Mavrogenous Manto Magdalena Mavrogenous (Greek: Μαντώ Μαγδαληνή Μαυρογένους), (1796-July 1840) was a Greek heroine of the Greek War of Independence in 1821. A rich woman, she spent all her fortune for the Hellenic cause.
Mantodea The order Mantodea (which includes the Praying mantis) consists of approximatively 2,300 species, of which a majority are in the family Mantidae. The closest relatives of mantids are the orders Isoptera (termites) and Blattaria (cockroaches), and these three groups together are sometimes ranked as an order rather than a superorder.
Manton, Kentucky Manton, Kentucky is a village in the heart of the state on the western edge of Washington County, Kentucky nearly at the spot where Nelson, Marion and Washington counties converge. Formerly this village was called "Blincoe".
Mantophasmatodea Mantophasmatodea is an order of African carnivorous insects discovered in 2002, the first new insect order to be described since 1914. The most common vernacular name for this order is gladiators, although they are also called mantophasmids, mantos and heelwalkers.
Mantoux test The Mantoux test (or Mantoux screening test, Tuberculin Sensitivity Test, Pirquet test, or PPD test for Purified Protein Derivative) is a diagnostic tool for tuberculosis. The Mantoux test is used in the United States and is endorsed by the American Thoracic Society and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Mantovani Annunzio Paolo Mantovani (November 15, 1905 – March 29, 1980) was a popular conductor and entertainer in the "easy listening" style. Mantovani is probably more associated with the easy listening genre than any other person.
Mantra (comic book) Mantra was a comic book series written by Mike Barr, pencilled by Terry Dodson and published by Malibu Comics in the mid 1990s until it was purchased by Marvel Comics, leading to the cancellation of the title after 24 issues. Adam Hughes is credited for the character designs
Mantra (Stockhausen) Mantra is a composition by the German avant garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, composed in 1970. Scored for two ring-modulated pianos (each player is also equipped with crotales and wood blocks), the piece represents a turning-point in Stockhausen's music, being the first instance of the technique the composer calls formula composition (though the technique was already foreshadowed in the withdrawn Formel some two decades previously).
Mantra Films, Inc. Mantra Films, Inc. also known as Mantra Entertainment, founded by Joe Francis in 1998, produces the Girls Gone Wild and Guys Gone Wild DVD series and other films which are marketed directly to the consumer via television advertisements which are primarily run late at night.

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