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The Mambo Kings The Mambo Kings is a 1992 film starring Antonio Banderas and Armand Assante and directed by Arne Glimcher based on the novel by Oscar Hijuelos. The story is set in the early 1950s and follows the journey of two musician brothers who must flee Havana after getting into trouble with the mobster owners of the club where they played.
The Mammoth Cheese The Mammoth Cheese was a gift to president Thomas Jefferson to celebrate his success in the United States presidential election of 1800 over incumbent John Adams. It was presented to the president by John Leland, a Baptist minister and ardent Democratic-Republican, on behalf of the people of Cheshire, a small agricultural village in Western Massachusetts.
The Man and Scythe One of Britain's top ten oldest public houses and the oldest in Bolton (1251 first recorded mention of it by name), the Ye Olde Man and Scythe, located on Church Gate, is the most well known and a part of Bolton's heritage.
The Man and the Journey The Man and the Journey is the name of a conceptual music piece performed at Pink Floyd live shows in 1969. It consists of several of their early songs coupled with material that would appear on Music from the Film More and Ummagumma, as well as unreleased songs.
The Man Born to be King The Man Born to be King is a radio drama based on the life of Jesus, produced and broadcast by the BBC during the Second World War. It is a play cycle consisting of twelve plays depicting specific periods in Jesus' life, from the events surrounding his birth to his death and resurrection.
The Man Called X The Man Called X was an espionage radio drama which aired on CBS and NBC from July 10 1944 to May 20 1952. Herbert Marshall had the lead role of agent Ken Thurston who took on dangerous cases in a variety of exotic locations.
The Man from Barbarossa The Man from Barbarossa, first published in 1991, was the eleventh novel by John Gardner featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond. Carrying the Glidrose Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton and in the United States by Putnam.
The Man from Nowhere The Man from Nowhere is the fifteenth episode of the popular 1969 ITC British television series Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) starring Mike Pratt, Kenneth Cope and Annette Andre. The episode was first broadcast on 28 December 1969 on the ITV.
The Man from Snowy River: Arena Spectacular The Man from Snowy River: Arena Spectacular, which was based on Banjo Paterson's poem The Man from Snowy River, was a very popular musical theatre production which toured Australian capital cities twice during 2002. The production was filmed at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, during its second run in Brisbane during October, 2002.
The Man From Nowhere The Man from Nowhere was a Dan Dare Story that ran in the original Eagle comic from Volume 6 Issue 19 (Dated 13 May 1955) to Volume 6 Issue 47 (Dated 25 November 1955). It was drawn by Frank Hampson and Don Harley.
The Man in the Funny Suit The Man in the Funny Suit (1960) is a television drama detailing the agony endured by actor Keenan Wynn while helping his father, legendary comedian Ed Wynn, play a serious role in the original television production of Rod Serling's Requiem for a Heavyweight.
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, by Sloan Wilson, is a novel about the American search for purpose in world dominated by business. Tom and Betsy Rath share a struggle to find contentment in their hectic and material culture while a slew of other characters fight essentially the same battle, but struggle in it for different reasons.
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit II Sloan Wilson intended the sequel to the original novel, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, to explain what happened to those young stars of his novel as they approached middle age. However it was not a commercial success.
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film) The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) is a film directed by Randall Wallace, and is considered to be an unofficial sequel to The Three Musketeers. The movie circles around the aging Musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, and the reign of King Louis XIV of France, the son of the now-deceased Louis XIII.
The Man in the Iron Mask (film) There have been several movies entitled The Man in the Iron Mask, all based on the final section of the novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, which was itself based on the 18th century legend of The Man in the Iron Mask.
The Man in the Maze The Man in the Maze is a novel written by Robert Silverberg, published in 1968. It tells the tale of a man rendered incapable of interacting normally with other human beings by his uncontrollable psychic abilities.
The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late is the imagined original ditty that is recorded in 'our time' as the simplified nursery rhyme "Hey Diddle Diddle". The supposed original was invented (by back formation) by J.
The Man of Feeling The Man of Feeling is a 1771 picaresque novel by Scottish author Henry Mackenzie. In contrast to the masculine ideals of the Age of Reason, it inaugurated a long-lasting vogue for a new kind of hero, "the man of feeling," a sensitive male.
The Man of Law's Prologue and Tale The Man of Law's Tale is the fifth of the Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer written around 1387. The Man of Law tells a Romance tale of a Christian princess named Custance or Shannon who is betrothed to the Syrian Sultan on condition that he convert to Christianity.
The Man of Steel (comic book) The Man of Steel was a six-issue comic book limited series released in 1986 by DC Comics, several months after the 12-issue limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths completed. The Man of Steel was written and penciled by John Byrne and inked by Dick Giordano.
The Man on the Balcony The Man on the Balcony is the third novel in the detective series revolving around Swedish police detective Martin Beck, and was written by Sjöwall and Wahlöö and originally published as Mannen på balkongen in 1967.
The Man on the Moor The Man on the Moor is a novel by John Van der Kiste, published in 2004 and set in 1913 immediately before the Great War. ‘The man on the moor’ is George Stephens, an insurance office clerk who works in London, but regularly visits friends on Dartmoor in Devon.
The Man on the Roof The Man on the Roof (Mannen på taket) is a 1976 Swedish film directed by Bo Widerberg, based on the novel The Abominable Man by Sjöwall and Wahlöö. The film is a crime thriller about the police officer Martin Beck trying to catch a killer, and it reaches its climax when the killer barricades himself on a roof top in central Stockholm with an automatic rifle.
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg is a piece of short fiction by Mark Twain. It first appeared in Harper's Monthly in December 1899, and was subsequently published by Harper Collins in the collection The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Sketches (1900).
The Man They Could Not Hang (book) The Man They Could Not Hang is a non-fiction novel about the life story of John 'Babbacombe' Lee, the butler who was convicted of the murder of Emma Keyse, his elderly employer. The title refers to the legendary fact that the attempts to execute John Lee by hanging had failed three times.
The Man with 80 Wives The Man With 80 Wives is a British documentary that aired on Channel 4 on July 19, 2006. It featured journalist Sanjiv Bhattacharya trying to find the whereabouts of Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints leader Warren Jeffs.
The Man with the Golden Arm The Man with the Golden Arm is a 1955 film, based on the novel by Nelson Algren, which tells the story of a morphine addict who got clean while in prison but struggles to stay straight in the outside world. It stars Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak, Arnold Stang and Darren McGavin.
The Man with the Golden Arm (novel) The Man with the Golden Arm is a novel by Nelson Algren that recounts the life of "Frankie the Machine", a card-dealer in an illicit poker game being run not far from the tenement in which he lives. The Machine is a morphine junky just back to Chicago's North Side after detoxing in the federal prison for narcotics addicts in Louisville, Kentucky, being exposed again to all the pressures, anxieties and temptations that put him there in the first place.
The Man with the Golden Gun (film) The Man with the Golden Gun is the ninth film in the EON Productions James Bond series and the second to star Roger Moore as British Secret Service agent, Commander James Bond 007. Released in 1974, it was the fourth and final film in the series to be directed by Guy Hamilton.
The Man with the Golden Gun (novel) The Man with the Golden Gun is the thirteenth and final James Bond novel written by Ian Fleming and posthumously published in the United Kingdom and the United States by Glidrose Productions, in 1965. A year later, it was followed by the short story collection, Octopussy and The Living Daylights.
The Man with the Chocolate Robe A Night with: The Man with the Chocolate Robe was the title of an event held on December 22, 2005, in honor of former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami after the end of his last term in office. The controversial ceremony was organized by the monthly magazine Chelcheragh.
The Man with the Red Tattoo The Man with the Red Tattoo, first published in 2002, was the sixth and final original novel by Raymond Benson featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond (including film novelisations). Carrying the Ian Fleming Publications copyright, it was first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder & Stoughton and in the United States by Putnam.
The Man with the Twisted Lip "The Man with the Twisted Lip", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the sixth of the twelve stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The story was first published in the Strand Magazine in December 1891.
The Man Who Counted The Man Who Counted (O Homem que Calculava in Portuguese) is a book on recreational mathematics and curious word problems by Brazilian writer JĂşlio CĂ©sar de Mello e Souza, published under the pen name Malba Tahan. Since its first publication in 1949, the book has been immensely popular in Brazil and abroad, not only among mathematics teachers but among the general public as well.
The Man Who Evolved The Man Who Evolved is a science fiction short story by Edmond Hamilton that was first published in the April 1931 issue of Wonder Stories. In his comments on the story in Before the Golden Age, Isaac Asimov called it the first science fiction short story (as opposed to novel) that impressed him so much it stayed in his mind permanently.
The Man Who Fell to Earth The Man Who Fell to Earth is a 1963 novel by Walter Tevis about an extraterrestrial who lands on Earth seeking a way to ferry his people to Earth from his home planet, which is suffering from a severe drought. The novel served as the basis for the 1976 cult film by Nicolas Roeg as well as a 1987 television adaptation.
The Man Who Fell to Earth (film) The Man Who Fell to Earth is a 1976 science fiction film directed by Nicolas Roeg about an extraterrestrial who crash lands on Earth seeking a way to ship water to his planet, which is suffering from a severe drought. The film maintains a strong cult status for its strong use of surreal imagery and its performances by David Bowie, Candy Clark, and Rip Torn.
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, a doomed feature film from director Terry Gilliam, commenced filming in 2000, but shooting stopped within a week when star Jean Rochefort was injured. The only result of the production that was ever released was the documentary Lost in La Mancha (2002), chronicling the attempt at making this "film that didn't want to be made".
The Man Who Knew Infinity The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan is the biography of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel. The book gives a detailed account of his upbringing in Tamil Nadu, his mathematical achievements and his mathematical collaboration with G.
The Man Who Knew Too Little The Man Who Knew Too Little is a 1997 comedy starring Bill Murray. The movie is based on Robert Farrar's novel Watch That Man, and the title is a parody of Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 film The Man Who Knew Too Much (though the film itself makes no reference to it.
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film) The Man Who Knew Too Much is a 1934 suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It was one of the most successful and critically acclaimed films of Hitchcock's British period, and was an important step in paving the way for his move to America.
The Man Who Knew Too Much (article) "The Man Who Knew Too Much" was an influential article on the tobacco industry "whistle-blower" Jeffrey Wigand, written by journalist Marie Brenner for the May 1996 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. The article was subsequently adapted into the 1999 film The Insider, starring Russell Crowe.
The Man Who Laughs The Man Who Laughs is a novel by Victor Hugo, originally published in April 1869 under the French title L'Homme qui Rit. Although among Hugo's more obscure works, it was adapted into a popular 1928 film, directed by Paul Leni and starring Conrad Veidt and Olga Baclanova.
The Man Who Laughs (1928 film) The Man Who Laughs is a 1928 American silent Romantic drama film directed by German expressionist filmmaker Paul Leni. The film is an adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel of the same name and stars Conrad Veidt as Gwynplaine and Mary Philbin as the blind Dea.
The Man Who Loved Children The Man Who Loved Children is a 1940 novel by Australian writer Christina Stead. Although the novel was published much earlier, it wasn't until it was reissued in 1965 that the book found widespread critical acclaim and popularity.
The Man Who Melted Jack Dann The Man Who Melted Jack Dann is the name of a word game inspired by Jack Dann's book The Man Who Melted (1984). The aim of the game is to place the writer's name in front or behind the title of one of the writer's book and see if you get a funny sentence.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is a 1985 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks describing the case histories of some of his patients. The title of the book comes from the case study of a man with visual agnosia.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (opera) The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is a one-act chamber opera by Michael Nyman to an English-language libretto by Christopher Rawlence, adapted from the case study of the same name by Oliver Sacks by Nyman, Rawlence, and Michael Morris. It was first performed at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, on 27 October 1986.
The Man Who Never Was The Man Who Never Was is a 1954 book by Ewen Montagu and a 1956 2nd World War war film based on the book. It is about Operation 'Mincemeat', a 1943 British Intelligence plan to deceive the Axis powers into thinking Operation 'Husky', the Allied invasion of Sicily, would take place elsewhere.
The Man Who Planted Trees The Man Who Planted Trees (French title L'homme qui plantait des arbres), also known as "The Story of Elzéard Bouffier"; "The Most Extraordinary Character I Ever Met"; and "The Man who Planted Hope and Reaped Happiness" is an allegorical tale by French author Jean Giono.
The Man Who Predicted 9/11 The Man Who Predicted 9/11 is a docudrama that talks about the director of security of Morgan Stanley, Rick Rescorla, who predicts an attack on the World Trade Center and leads hundreds out of the South Tower before dying in its collapse.
The Man Who Quit Smoking The Man Who Quit Smoking (original title: Mannen som slutade röka) is a 1972 Swedish film comedy directed by Tage Danielsson, starring Gösta Ekman, Grynet Mollvig, Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt and Gunn Wållgren, a.o.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a classic Western movie made in 1962, starring James Stewart, John Wayne and Lee Marvin, and directed by John Ford. The story is adapted from a short story written by Dorothy M.
The Man Who Sold the Moon The Man Who Sold the Moon is a science fiction novella by Robert A. Heinlein written in 1949 and first published on February 23, 1951, part of his "Future History" of stories sharing a common background from "Life-Line" to "Da Capo".
The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday was the senior thesis of Trey Anastasio, guitarist and primary vocalist of the rock band Phish, written while he attended Goddard College in 1987. The story was both a studio album and an essay piece and is composed primarily of a collection of songs performed by Phish that tell the tale of the fictional land of Gamehendge.
The Man Who Sued God The Man Who Sued God is a 2001 Australian movie in which Billy Connolly plays Steve Myers, an ex-lawyer who sues God because his boat is struck by lightning, and his insurance company refuses to pay, claiming it to be an act of God. By claiming to be God's representatives on Earth, the Christian and Jewish churches are held to be the liable party, putting them in the difficult position of either having to pay out large sums of money, or proving that God does not exist.
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers The Man Who Walked Between the Towers is a 2003 children's book by Mordicai Gerstein that won the 2004 Caldecott Medal. It tells the true story of Philippe Petit, a man who walked the space of the World Trade Center in New York City on August 7, 1974 on a tightrope.
The Man Who Would Be King "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888) is a short story by Rudyard Kipling concerning two British ex-soldiers who set off from 19th century British India in search of adventure and end up as kings of Kafiristan (now part of Afghanistan). The story was inspired by the travels of American adventurer Josiah Harlan who claimed the title Prince of Ghor around the year 1840 thanks to the military force he led into Afghanistan.
The Man Who Would Be King (film) The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 film adapted from the Rudyard Kipling story of the same title. It was adapted and directed by John Huston and starred Sean Connery as Daniel Dravot, Michael Caine as Peachey Carnehan, Saeed Jaffrey as Billy Fish , and Christopher Plummer as Kipling (giving a name to the story's anonymous narrator).
The Man With the Flower in His Mouth The Man With the Flower in His Mouth is a play by the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello. It is particularly noteworthy for becoming, in 1930, the first piece of television drama ever to be produced anywhere in the world, when a version was screened by the British Broadcasting Corporation as part of their experimental transmissions.
The Man Without a Country The Man Without a Country was a short story published anonymously by Edward Everett Hale, in the Atlantic Monthly in 1863. Although the events of the novel were set in the early 1800s, the story was an allegory and implicitly referred to the upheaval of the American Civil War (especially in Ohio, with the expatriation of Clement Vallandigham).
The Manciple's Prologue and Tale The Manciple's Tale is part of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. It appears in its own manuscript fragment, Group H, but the prologue to the Parson's Tale makes it clear it is the penultimate story in the collection.
The Mandala The Mandala is a boulder problem in The Buttermilks, which is a popular bouldering area near Bishop, California. The problem climbs a steep prow on a large granite boulder and was considered a great project for many years before it was first climbed by Chris Sharma in early 2000.
The Mandarin Oriental, Hyde Park The Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park is set between London’s Hyde Park and exclusive Knightsbridge. From this central location, the hotel offers access to major business areas as well as the shopping and cultural attractions of the West End.
The Mandarin's Son The Mandarin's Son (Сын мандарина in Cyrillic; Syn mandarina in transliteration) is comic opera in one act by César Cui, composed in 1859. The libretto, which includes spoken dialogue, was written by Alexander Krylov.
The Mandrake The Mandrake, (Mandragola) by Niccolò Machiavelli (written in 1518 and first printed in 1524) is an acclaimed satirical play on the corruption of Italian society written while Machiavelli was in exile having plotted against the Medici. The play, alleged to be based on an actual occurrence in 1504, was performed and acclaimed in Venice in 1525 and revised by Machiavelli in 1526, with the addition of music by Philippe Verdelot.
The Maneater The Maneater student newspaper is the official, but independent student-run newspaper of the University of Missouri-Columbia. The Maneater editorial and advertising staffs are composed entirely of students with the exception of a business adviser and a receptionist.
The Mangledwurzels The Mangledwurzels is an English Scrumpy and Western tribute band to Adge Cutler & The Wurzels. The Mangledwurzels play Wurzels songs, old and new, blended with self-penned titles and pop standards 'Mangled' in true Wurzels tradition.
The Manhattan Transfer (album) The Manhattan Transfer is the first of four albums to be released by Tim Hauser, Laurel Massé, Alan Paul and Janis Siegel as The Manhattan Transfer. It was released on April 2, 1975 on the Atlantic Records label.
The Manhole The Manhole is a computer adventure game intended for children in which the player opens a manhole and reveals a gigantic beanstalk that can be climbed either up or down, leading to fantastic worlds. The game was first released on floppy discs in 1988 by Cyan, Inc.
The Manchester Regiment The Manchester Regiment was a regiment of the British army, formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 63rd Regiment of Foot and the 96th Regiment of Foot. The regiment amalgamated with the King's Regiment (Liverpool) in 1958, to form what became the King's Regiment.
The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film) The Manchurian Candidate is a film adapted from the 1959 thriller novel written by Richard Condon. A Cold War thriller, it was directed by John Frankenheimer and starred Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Angela Lansbury and Janet Leigh.
The Manchurian Candidate (2004 film) The Manchurian Candidate is a 2004 American film based on the 1959 novel The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon, and a reimagining of the previous 1962 film. The film stars Denzel Washington as Ben Marco, a tenacious, virtuous soldier, Liev Schreiber as Raymond Shaw, a U.
The Maniacs The most passionate fans of FK Željezničar, known as The Maniacs, are one of the top supporter groups in Bosnia-Herzegovina. They are carrying that tradition from the former Yugoslavia, where they belonged to the second quality group, together with Horde zla, Armada and Red Firm.
The Manifestation The Manifestation is the seventh album release from experimental indie rock band Six Organs of Admittance released in 2004. It contains the lengthy single release of Manifestation from 2000, and a new six-part suite, The Six Stations, composed by Ben Chasny as he improvised around the noise produced by playing on a turntable the etching of the sun that appears on the back of the original single.
The Manifesto of 101 Following the Soviet invasion of Hungary in October 1956, the Budapest uprising and its ruthless repression by the Red Army, a document expressing strong dissent from the Soviets was subscribed by Italian Communist intellectuals. The document (known as "Il Manifesto dei 101"- "The Manifesto of 101") was written by historians Luciano Cafagna and Francesco Sirugo, both Communist Party (PCI) members, and co-signed by 99 more intellectuals, among whom philosopher Lucio Colletti, economist and politician Antonio Giolitti, historians Alberto Caracciolo and Renzo De Felice.
The Manitoban The Manitoban is the official student newspaper at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Published for the first time on November 5, 1914, the Toban, as it is called for short, is one of the oldest and largest (by circulation and budget) student newspapers in Canada.
The Manitowoc Company The Manitowoc Company () is a manufacturer of high-capacity lattice-boom crawler cranes, tower cranes, and mobile telescopic cranes for heavy construction, commercial construction, energy-related, infrastructure, duty-cycle, and crane-rental applications. It is also a producer of boom trucks.
The Manor (Cambridgeshire) The Manor is a house in the village of Hemingford Grey, Cambridgeshire (formerly Huntingdonshire and then, briefly, Huntingdon and Peterborough). It was built in the 1130s and is one of the oldest continuously inhabited houses in Britain - often claimed as the oldest, although this is disputed.
The Manor (Los Angeles) Producer Aaron Spelling's 6-acre mansion, "The Manor" is located at 594 S Mapleton Drive in Bel Air, Los Angeles and is thought to be the largest house in Los Angeles. It is also reported to be the largest house in California.
The Mansion The Mansion is a mansion owned by famed music producer Rick Rubin in Los Angeles. The house was built in 1918 and it is the site of recording for many significant albums, including the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Audioslave's Out of Exile and The Mars Volta's De-Loused in the Comatorium.
The Mansions of the Gods The Mansions of the Gods is the seventeenth volume of the Asterix comic book series, by René Goscinny (stories) and Albert Uderzo (illustrations). It was originally serialized in Pilote issues 591-612 in 1971.
The Mansions, Brisbane "The Mansions", on the corner of George Street and Margaret Street, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, was built during the Victorian era in 1889. It is of a similar vintage to the Queensland Parliament House building, and is located in the same vicinity.
The Manster The Manster is a 1962 tokusatsu horror movie, a coproduction between the US and Japan, starring Peter Dyneley in which an American working in Japan is subjected to the experiments of a mad scientist and develops a monster head making him half-man half-monster. The film was notable for its creative use of special effects.
The Manual of the Warrior of Light The Manual of the Warrior of Light is a collection of Paulo Coelho's teachings summed up into one volume. It includes proverbs, extracts from the Tao Te Ching, the Bible, the book of Chuang Tzu, the Talmud and various other sources, and is written in the form of short philosophical passages.
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (original French title: Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse; known in English as The Saragossa Manuscript, and in Polish as Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie), by the Polish author Jan Potocki (1761-1815), is a frame-tale novel from before the Napoleonic Wars.
The Manuscripts of Oscar Wilde The original manuscripts of Oscar Wilde today reside in many collections, including the British Library. But by far the largest and most comprehensive is to be found at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA.
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is a full-length animated film produced by Walt Disney Productions and first released on March 11, 1977. It is the twenty-second animated feature in the Disney animated features canon.
The Maori Troubadours The Maori Troubadours were a Maori-based showband which performed in Australia and Southeast Asia, beginning in 1958 and continuing well into the 1960s. The three original members were Prince Tui Latui (aka Tui Teka), Matt Tenana and Johnny Kealoah (real name Johnny Nicol).
The Marble Faun The Marble Faun (1860) was the last of the four major romances by Nathaniel Hawthorne. After writing The Blithedale Romance in 1852, Hawthorne, approaching fifty, turned away from publication and obtained a political appointment as American Consul in Liverpool, England, an appointment which he held from 1853 to 1857.
The Marcels The Marcels were a doo-wop group known for turning beloved American classical pop songs into rock and roll. The group formed in 1959 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with lead Cornelius Harp, bass Fred Johnson, Gene Bricker, Ron Mundy, and Richard Knauss.
The Marco Polo Club The Marco Polo Club or The Club (Chinese: 馬可孛羅會) is one of two frequent flyer programmes of both Cathay Pacific Airways and Dragonair, 2007), the other being Asia Miles. The Marco Polo Club offers a range of special privileges to frequent flyers depending on their membership tier.
The March (1945) "The March" was a death march during the final months of the Second World War in Europe. About 30,000 Allied PoWs were force-marched westward across Poland and Germany in appalling winter conditions, lasting about four months from January to April 1945.
The March of Democracy The March of Democracy (ASIN: B0006AOBNQ) is a two-volume book by James Truslow Adams, published in 1932 and 1933, chronicling the history of the United States of America. Its full name is The March of Democracy: A History of the United States.
The March Violets The March Violets were an English goth rock band in the 1980s, incorporating singers of both sexes, drum machine rhythms and echoey electric guitar, much in the way of scene mates The Sisters of Mercy, who also originated from the city of Leeds.
The Marching Virginians The Marching Virginians are one of two collegiate marching bands at Virginia Tech (the other being the Highty Tighties, the regimental band of the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets). Established in 1974, their shows feature standard DCI techniques.
The Marian School The Marian School is a Catholic private school, located in Townsville, Queensland. The School was formed in 1988 from the reminants of the former St John Fischer's School that was located on the current site of the Marian School.
The Marina Bay Sands The Marina Bay Sands (Chinese: 滨海湾金沙综合娱乐城) is the tentative name for an Integrated Resort being developed by Las Vegas Sands at Marina South, Singapore. The complex is expected to be completed in 2009 and will contain Singapore's first casino.
The Marine Society The Marine Society was the world's first seafarers’ charity. In 1756, at the beginning of the Seven Years' War against France, Austria, Russia, Sweden and Saxony (and subsequently Spain and Portugal) Britain urgently needed to recruit men for the navy.
The Marine Society & Sea Cadets The Marine Society & Sea Cadets resulted from the merging of The Navy League (the charity that supported the Royal Navy, and the oldest such organisation worldwide) and The Marine Society, the world's oldest seafarers' charity. The Marine Society & Sea Cadets administers the Sea Cadet Corps in the United Kingdom, and owns the training ship TS Royalist, a tall ship, which teaches Sea Cadets teamwork, cameraderie, and seamanship.

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