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Manus (other)
Manus may refer to: Relating to locations around New Guinea *Manus Island, a Papua New Guinean island in the Admiralty Archipelago ** Manus languages, languages spoken on Manus and islands close by ** Manus Regional Processing Centre, an offshore Australian immigration detention facility on Manus Island ***''Manus'', 2017 Behrouz Boochani#Manus (play), play by Nazanin Sahamizadeh *** ''Manus'', 2019 short documentary film about asylum seekers in the detention centre, made by Angus McDonald (artist), Angus McDonald * Manus Plate, a tiny tectonic plate northeast of New Guinea * Manus Province, a province of Papua New Guinea encompassing several islands, including Manus Island ** Manus District, the only district of Manus Province People First name * Manuş Baba (born 1986), Turkish singer * Manus Boonjumnong (born 1980), Thai Olympic medalist * Manus Boyle (born c. 1965/6), Irish Gaelic footballer * Manus Canning (died 2018), Irish politician and paramilitary * Manus Kelly (1978– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manus Island
Manus Island is part of Manus Province in northern Papua New Guinea and is the largest of the Admiralty Islands. It is the fifth-largest island in Papua New Guinea, with an area of , measuring around . Manus Island is covered in rugged jungles which can be broadly described as lowland tropical rain forest. The highest point on Manus Island is Mt. Dremsel, above sea level at the centre of the south coast. Manus Island is Volcanic rock, volcanic in origin and probably broke through the ocean's surface in the late Miocene, 8 to 10 million years ago. The substrate of the island is either directly volcanic or from uplifted coral limestone. Lorengau, the capital of Manus Province, is located on the island. Momote Airport, the terminal for Manus Province, is located on nearby Los Negros Island. A bridge connects Los Negros Island to Manus Island and the provincial capital of Lorengau. In the 2000 census, the whole Manus Province had a population of 50,321. The Austronesian Manus l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manus O'Donnell
Manus O'Donnell ( Irish: ''Maghnas Ó Domhnaill'' or ''Manus Ó Domhnaill''; 1490 – 9 February 1563) was a Gaelic Irish lord and King of Tyrconnell. After his father Hugh Dubh's death in 1537, Manus succeeded as Tyrconnell's ruler.The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica (29 March 2024)"Manus O'Donnell" ''Encyclopedia Britannica''. Archived frothe originalon 3 September 2024. In 1555 he was imprisoned and deposed by his son Calvagh, who effectively took over the kingdom's leadership. Manus died during his imprisonment in Lifford. Early life Manus O'Donnell was born in 1490 into the O'Donnell clan, a Gaelic Irish noble family which ruled Tyrconnell, a kingdom geographically associated with present-day County Donegal. Manus's father, Hugh Dubh (pronounced in Ulster Irish as 'Hugh Doo'), had been '' Rí'' (king) of the O'Donnells during one of the bitterest and most protracted of the feuds between his clan and the O'Neills, which in 1491 led to a war lasting more than te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manus Marriage
Manus ( ; ) was an Ancient Roman type of Marriage in ancient Rome, marriage,Jane F. Gardner, ''Women in Roman Law and Society'', First Midland Book Edition, 1991, 11 of which there were two forms: ''cum manu'' and ''sine manu''. In a ''cum manu'' marriage, the wife was placed under the legal control of the husband. In a ''sine manu'' marriage, the wife remained under the legal control of her father.Marcia L. Colish, ''The Stoic Tradition from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages'', Brill Academic Publishers, 1990, 2 Edition, 383 In both ''cum manu'' and ''sine manu'' marriages, if both the husband and wife were ''Status in Roman legal system, alieni iuris'' (persons under ''patria potestas''; that is, under the power of their respective ''pater familias, patres familias''), the marriage could only take place with the approval of both ''patres familias''. Procedures for initiating and terminating marriage varied with the type of union. Initially, ''cum manu'' was the sole form of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manus (anatomy)
The manus (Latin for '' hand'', plural manus) is the zoological term for the distal portion of the forelimb of an animal. In tetrapods, it is the part of the pentadactyl limb that includes the metacarpals and digits ( phalanges). During evolution, it has taken many forms and served a variety of functions. It can be represented by the hand of primates, the lower front limb of hoofed animals or the forepaw and is represented in the wing of birds, bats and prehistoric flying reptiles ( pterosaurs), the flipper of marine mammals and the 'paddle' of extinct marine reptile Reptiles, as commonly defined, are a group of tetrapods with an ectothermic metabolism and Amniotic egg, amniotic development. Living traditional reptiles comprise four Order (biology), orders: Testudines, Crocodilia, Squamata, and Rhynchocepha ...s, such as plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs. In cephalopods, the ''manus'' is the end, broader part of a tentacle, and its suckers are often larger and arrange ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manus (AI Agent)
Manus (''hand'' in Latin) is an autonomous artificial intelligence agent developed by startup company Monica, based in Singapore. The agent is designed to independently carry out complex online tasks without direct/continuous human guidance. History Manus was founded to create artificial intelligence agents capable of operating independently, based on large language models A large language model (LLM) is a language model trained with Self-supervised learning, self-supervised machine learning on a vast amount of text, designed for natural language processing tasks, especially Natural language generation, language g ... (LLM). The official launch of Manus on March 6, 2025, drew international attention. Experts and media described Manus as a major advance because it could autonomously handle complex tasks, including writing and deploying code, without direct human intervention. Performance Manus is claimed as a fully autonomous AI agent, designed to handle tasks like webs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artorias Of The Abyss
''Dark Souls: Artorias of the Abyss'' is a downloadable content pack for the 2011 action role-playing game ''Dark Souls''. Developed by FromSoftware and published by Namco Bandai Games, it released as part of the ''Prepare to Die Edition'' version of the game for Windows in August 2012. The pack was later sold separately for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game two months later. ''Artorias of the Abyss'' takes the player a hundred years into ''Dark Souls past, where they must save the land of Oolacile from destruction at the hands of Manus, Father of the Abyss. The pack received positive reviews from critics, who praised the boss battles and additional story and gameplay content. Gameplay ''Dark Souls'' is an action role-playing game in which the player controls a customized character whose appearance and skills are determined by the player. The game requires the player to explore areas and progress through them by fighting bosses at certain points. ''Artorias ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willard Manus
Willard M. Manus (September 28, 1930 – January 19, 2023) was an American novelist, playwright, and journalist based in Los Angeles. His best known book is '' Mott the Hoople'' (1966), the novel from which the British 1970s hard rock band derived their name. Biography Willard M. Manus was born in New York on September 28, 1930. He was the author of ''This Way to Paradise: Dancing on the Tables'', a memoir of life in Lindos, Rhodes, Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th ..., from the 1960s to the 1990s. Additionally he had a dozen other books published, including a young adult novel, ''A Dog Called Leka'', which deals with a young lad sailing the Aegean islands in the company of an exceptional dog. More than two dozen of his plays have been produced in Los Angeles, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tikken Manus
Ida Nikoline "Tikken" Manus (''née'' Lindebrække, previously Bernardes; 28 June 1914 – 12 October 2010) was a member of the Norwegian resistance movement, Norwegian resistance during World War II. Born Ida Nikoline Lie Lindebrække, she was a daughter of County Governor Gjert Lindebrække (1879–1960) and Ida Bessesen Lie (1881–1944), and a sister of politician Sjur Lindebrække. She was also a niece of writer Bernt Lie, Bernt Bessesen Lie. She hailed from Kalfaret in Bergen, and tried different ventures before the Second World War. She worked an office job in England, and attended French classes while socializing in Paris. She returned to England, where she married diplomat George Bernardes, and had a son (George Jr.) in 1939. They moved to Norway, where her husband was a consul (representative), consul in Haugesund. When the Second World War reached Norway on 9 April 1940 with the Operation Weserübung, German invasion, Tikken was in Bergen. Her husband was injured while v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosa Manus
Rosette Susanna "Rosa" Manus (; 20 August 1881 – 1942) was a Jewish Dutch pacifist and female suffragist involved in women's movements and anti-war movements, who was a victim of the Holocaust. She served as the President of the Society for Female Suffrage, the Vice President of the Dutch Association for Women's Interests and Equal Citizenship, and was one of the founding members of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) as well as its secretary. She firmly believed that women could work together across the world to bring peace. Although Manus was fairly well known in feminist circles in the 1920s and 1930s, she remains relatively unknown today. She was involved in feminist work for about thirty years during her lifetime and was known as a "feminist liberal internationalist." Early years Rosette Susanna Manus was born in 1881 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the second of seven children to affluent Jewish parents. Her father was Henry Philip Manus, a toba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Mac Manus
Patrick Mac Manus (1944 - 12 August 2011 ) was an Irish-Danish political activist. Mac Manus immigrated to Denmark in 1966 and remained there the rest of his life. His activism included supporting the FARC rebels in the Colombian civil war; campaigning against the Turkish Occupation of Cyprus, and supporting the recognition of the Armenian and Greek genocides, he supported the creation of a Kurdish state in the Kurdish conflict in Turkey, and called for the cessation of The Troubles, against neoliberalism and also against the authoritarian governments of the Arab States. Mac Manus was a member of the Communist Party (Denmark). In the 2004, Mac Manus became a leading member of ("Rebellion"), a pro-Communist organisation. In August 2005, due to his activity on behalf of Foreningen Oprør, Mac Manus was arrested by Danish police and questioned about attempting to provide financial aid to a number of groups on EU's list of banned terrorist organisations, which included FARC, E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Manus
Maximo Guillermo Manus DSO, MC & Bar (9 December 1914 – 20 September 1996) was a Norwegian resistance fighter during World War II, specialising in sabotage in occupied Norway. After the war he wrote several books about his adventures and started the successful office supply company ''Max Manus AS''. Early life Manus was born in Bergen, Norway in 1914, to a Norwegian father and a Danish mother. His father's name was originally Johan Magnussen, but he changed his name to Juan Manus after living several years in foreign (mainly Spanish-speaking) countries. Career After many years of extensive travelling, Manus returned to Scandinavia before the outbreak of World War II, upon which he soon joined up with the Norwegian Army and went to fight in a volunteer detachment with the Finns against the Soviets in the Winter War (1939–1940). Manus returned to Norway upon hearing the news of the German invasion on 9 April 1940. He fought during the Norwegian campaign, after which he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Manus
Henry Philip Manus (21 July 1851 – 24 October 1931) was a Dutch philatelist who signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1924.Background notes on The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists September 2011', Roll of Distinguished Philatelists Trust, London, 2011Archived here./ref> He was a member of the Royal Philatelic Society London The Royal Philatelic Society London (RPSL) is the oldest philately, philatelic society in the world. It was founded on 10 April 1869 as ''The Philatelic Society, London''. The society runs a postal museum, the Spear Museum of Philatelic History ... from 1910 and that society's special representative in the Netherlands. References Signatories to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists Dutch philatelists Fellows of the Royal Philatelic Society London 1851 births 1931 deaths {{philatelist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
