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10 unusual facts about Mana


¿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.

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".

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.

Bagbahara

:* Raipur: 110 km (Approximately) towards West Direction, Via Mahasamund-Raipur-Mana Road Route.

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).

Expo Forum

Since its opening the Foro de Conciertos y Espectaculos has welcomed such performers as Banda el Recodo, Gloria Trevi, Pedro Fernández, Pepe Aguilar, Lupita D'Alessio, Intocable, Alicia Villarreal, Joan Sebastian, Paulina Rubio, Mana and many others.

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.

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.

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.

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.


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.

Avondale College, Auckland

The school was used in the 1995 feature film Bonjour Timothy, a joint New Zealand/Canadian production, and in the Disney Channel movie, Eddie's Million Dollar Cook-Off and the Te Mana Advertisement.

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.

Clavado En Un Bar

The 11th episode of the third season of the Fox TV show New Girl was titled Clavado en un Bar and the song was featured at the end of the episode when the local drunk of the bar goes to the juke box and plays the Maná hit song.

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.

Déjame Entrar

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

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.

Eravikulangara Temple

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

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.

KCCN-FM

They are also Honolulu's first FM station in this genre to target young adults of Hawaiian/Pacific Islander descent with a hit format that consists of upbeat Contemporary Hawaiian music from Hawaiian acts like The Mana'o Company, Bruddah Waltah & Island Afternoon, and Butch Helemano; along with tracks from other unique national genres, like Reggae, Dancehall and contemporary artists whose music fit those descriptions, like UB40, Bob Marley, Maxi Priest, Big Mountain and others.

Laxmi Puran

The Lakshmi Puja (Mana osha) is celebrated weekly on every Thursday of that month, and mostly the females worship Goddess Lakshmi with all rituals.

Le Marmot

On 5 October, Le Marmot started 2/1 favourite for the 57th running of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe: he was coupled in the betting with Ela-Mana-Mou, as the Irish breeder Tim Rogers owned a share in both horses.

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.

Mana Mana

The name of the band is apparently a reference to the concept of mana in Polynesian mythology.

Mana mana

Mah Nà Mah Nà (sometimes "Mana Mana" or "Mahna Mahna"), a popular song written by Piero Umiliani

Mana Railway Station

The halt (along with the locality) was initially called Dolly Varden, but was changed to Mana in 1960 as many local residents did not like the name (from Dickens's Barnaby Rudge).

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.

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).

Olappamanna

He was born on January 10, 1923 in Vellinezhi in Palakkad district into Olappamanna mana, a wealthy family with a feudal past known for its patronage of artists and musicians.

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.

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.

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.

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.