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unusual facts about Mana, French Guiana


Anne-Marie Javouhey

She is known as the Liberator of the Slaves in the New World, and as the mother of the town of Mana, French Guiana.


¿Dónde Jugarán las Niñas?

The album's title, literally "Where Will The Girls Play?", is a pun on Maná's ¿Dónde Jugarán los Niños? and is also intended as a sexual double-entendre underpinned by the risqué cover featuring a young woman's legs seductively displayed in school uniform.

Al Green Explores Your Mind

"Take Me To The River" has been covered by several other performers including Talking Heads (on 1978's More Songs About Buildings and Food), Ron Fleeger & The Stranger, Al's label mate Syl Johnson, Levon Helm, Annie Lennox, Toni Childs, Max on the Rox, Dave Matthews Band, Grateful Dead, Bryan Ferry, Delbert McClinton, Maná, The Commitments, Foghat, Gov't Mule, Phish and Eva Cassidy.

Aluku

Sinking, slowly, in the Amazonian forest, they finally settled in the end of the eighteenth century along side the riverbanks tributary of Lawa Maroni, now forming the border between French Guiana and Suriname.

Andy Dugan

He produced and directed online spots featuring such talent as Jackson Browne, Sylvester Stallone and Mana for the "BURMA, It Can't Wait" campaign, as well as produced the groundbreaking HIV prevention campaign entitled "In The Moment".

Arrondissement of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni

The arrondissement of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni is an arrondissement of France in the Guyane department in the Guyane region.

Black-headed Parrot

It is found in forest (especially, but not exclusively, humid) and nearby wooded habitats in the Amazon north of the Amazon River and west of the Ucayali River in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.

Burma Muslim Congress

On 25 December 1945 in Pyin Mana, U Razak was elected the President of BMC and decided to join AFPFL.

Children of Mana

Children of Mana is the first game of the World of Mana and was developed by Nex Entertainment under the supervision of Koichi Ishii.

Dawn of Mana

According to producer Koichi Ishii, Dawn of Mana is the first game chronologically in the Mana series, showing the origins of both the Mana Tree and the Spirits of Mana.

De La Tierra

De La Tierra is a Latin American groove metal supergroup formed in late 2012 by Brazilian guitarist Andreas Kisser (of Sepultura), Argentine singer/guitarist and bassist Andrés Giménez (of A.N.I.M.A.L.) and Sr. Flavio (of Los Fabulosos Cadillacs) and Mexican drummer Alex González (of Maná).

Déjame Entrar

"Déjame Entrar" (Maná song), a song by the Mexican group Maná from their 1995 album Cuando los Ángeles Lloran

Demographics of Suriname

Dutch (official), Sranan Tongo (Surinamese, sometimes called Taki-Taki, is native language of Creoles and much of the younger population), Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu), Javanese, English (widely spoken), French due to cultural influence from French Guiana, Portuguese and Spanish.

Eiji Usatsuka

The similarity of "both peoples" designs, were however noticed and later revealed by Tōya Okano (scenario assistant for Visual Art's' Clannad) in a Dengeki G's Magazine interview article presenting Visual Art's brand Mana’s game Angel Magister.

Emerillon language

Emerillon (alternate names Emerilon, Emerion, Mereo, Melejo, Mereyo, Teco) is a Tupi–Guarani language spoken in French Guiana on the rivers Camopi and Tampok.

Eravikulangara Temple

A Brahmachari Brahman scholar in the nearby Padappa Mana, known as Sankara Sarma, was worshiping Bhadrakali in his Illam.

Footprints under the Window

Realizing that several clues point to the involvement of people from Baredo, Frank and Joe and their friend Chet Morton fly down to Cayenne, French Guiana and then Baredo in the nearby Huellas to investigate.

Ghats in Varanasi

Mana-Mandir Ghat: Maharaja Jai Singh II of Jaipur built this Ghat in 1770, as well as the Jantar Mantar equipped with ornate window casings along with those at Delhi, Jaipur, Ujjain, and Mathura.

Groupes d'Intervention de la Police Nationale

The DCSP has competency in 75 departments and within the territorial services of 7 large provincial towns (Lille, Strasbourg, Lyon, Nice, Marseilles, Bordeaux, Rennes) and overseas (La Réunion, New Caledonia and Antilles- French Guiana).

Lesly Malouda

Malouda played in his teenage years football for the French Guiana club ASC Le Geldar and visit the Collége Henri Agrande in Kourou.

Lomagundi College

The senior school boarding hostels were named after areas around Zimbabwe, namely Sebakwe, Mana (the two boys hostels) with Vumba and Charara being the girls hostels.

Maghreb Association of North America

The Maghreb Association of North America (MANA), also called Assembly of the Maghreb is an North African-American organization Chicago-based whose goal is help new immigrants from Maghreb (North Africa) to adapt to American life and maintain, in turn, the principles of Sunni Islam.

Mana Bar

The Mana Bar is a collaboration between Guy "Yug" Blomberg, co-creator of Australian Gamer; Pras Moorthy, senior designer at The Creative Assembly; video game critic Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw; and Shay Leighton, creative director of local cocktail bar The Bowery.

Mana Biyyam

Mana Biyyam is a food welfare Programme by the Government of Andhra Pradesh where rice is supplied at 1 Rupee (about US $0.01618) per kilogram.

Mæl Station

The station is located 16 km from Rjukan and on the mouth of the river Måna in Vestfjorddalen where the river runs into Tinnsjå.

Menny

From now on musical theater and singing were fundamental in life and never stopped Menny appear within his extracurricular activities to the point of dropping out to start a solo career that has taken him to share the stage with artists such as, Maná, Betto Calleti, Fernando Delgadillo, Alejandro Filio, Circle, Conjunto Primavera Diego Torres, Aleks Syntek, Belanova, Jan, Facundo, Jeans, Motel Eduardo Capetillo, etc.

Midi:Nette

Since then, Midi:Nette has released the records of Mana's follow-up project Moi dix Mois, and in 2002, Mana signed on the electronic duo Schwarz Stein, which disbanded in 2004, due to creative differences.

Initially it released most of the discography of the band Mana was in at the time, Malice Mizer, which went on an indefinite hiatus on 11 December 2001.

Mullanezhi

Mullanezhi was born in Mullanezhi Mana, Avinisseri, Ollur on May 16, 1948.

My Life My Way

This album was recorded at Mana Recording Studio in Tampa, Florida by Erik Rutan and produced by Freddy Cricien of Madball, who is the half-brother of Agnostic Front frontman Roger Miret.

Nilesat 101

Launched by an Ariane 4 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana on 28 April 1998 at 22:53:00 UTC by Arianespace, it was manufactured by the European company Matra Marconi Space (Astrium), and started official broadcasting on 31 May 1998 with an Expected Life Time of 15 years.

Ogie Alcasid

He also appeared on other comedy programs such as ABS-CBN's Mana Mana (from 1991 to 1992), ABC's Tropang Trumpo (from 1994 to 1995), GMA Network's Bubble Gang (from 1995 to 2013), QTV's Ay, Robot! (from 2005 to 2007), and a sitcom Show Me Da Manny (from 2010 to 2011).

Paarangot Jyeshtadevan Namboodiri

Jyestadevan Namboodiri was born in Paaragottu Mana near Thrikkandiyur and Aalathur on the banks of river Nila.

Paremata

The area to the north, which included a subdivision called "Dolly Varden" (named after a Charles Dickens character), is now called Mana because the new Mana Railway Station a little further north was given that name; probably because it is the first point on the rail journey north at which travellers get a view of Mana Island.

Parker House and Theory

Recorded with 7x Grammy winner Thom Russo (Audioslave, System Of A Down, Juanes, Maná) “Automatic Stranger” delivers energetic rock, driving funk, infectious pop melodies, intimate moments and mature arrangements.

Pito Pérez

They played festivals such as: Musica por la Tierra, Vive Latino, El Tortazo Festival (Bogota Colombia) and Slam Fest and have palyed with bands like: Maná, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jaguares, El Tri, Molotov, Maldita Vecindad, Jumbo, Kinky and more.

Polifórum Benito Juárez

Among those who have performed at the Poliforum have included Gloria Trevi, Alejandra Guzman, Mana, Juan Gabriel, Los Tigres del Norte, Chris Brown, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Dave Matthews Band, and many other acts.

Poliforum Zamna

Rocio Durcal, Timbiriche, Vicente Fernandez, Gloria Trevi, Veronica Castro, Maribel Guardia, Pepe Aguilar, Mana, Thalia, Lorena Herrera, Banda el Recodo amd many others have performed here in its over 30-year history.

SCIAMACHY

SCIAMACHY, aboard the ENVISAT satellite, was launched by ESA (European Space Agency) from Kourou, French Guiana, in March 2002.

Semirossia tenera

S. tenera is possibly also present in the southwest Atlantic, specifically off the coasts of Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, and Uruguay, although the latter records are questionable.

Tana Mana

In his 1997 autobiography, Raga Mala, Ravi Shankar writes that he started work on Tana Mana in 1983 at the home studio of Frank Serafine, a sound effects designer for Hollywood films such as Tron (1982).

Shankar recorded much of Tana Mana in 1983 with sound effects innovator Frank Serafine, but it remained unreleased until Peter Baumann, head of new age record label Private Music, became attached to the project.

Teotl

The Nahuatl term is often translated as "god", but it may have held more abstract aspects of the numinous or divine, akin to the Polynesian concept of Mana.

Thantri

Prominent thantri families such as Thazhamon Madom, Tharananalloor, Bhadrakali Mattappalli, Chennas Mana etc. hold the position of thantri for a number of temples.

Whitaker's skink

The Department of Conservation and the Friends of Mana Island are running a five year project to catch and breed enough animals from the vulnerable Pukerua Bay colony to establish a sustainable population on nearby predator-free Mana Island.


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