Chinua Achebe: A Man of the People (1966) and Anthills of the Savannah (1987) deal with corruption and other aspects of postcolonial African life.

Anthony Mann: The 1950s: westerns of Anthony Mann: …were no such compromises in Man of the West (1958), a brutal but superbly staged drama starring Gary Cooper as a former bank robber who is held hostage by his old gang. The film was not a box-office success but came to be recognized as Mann’s last great western.

Barry Levinson: …Heights (1999), the political thriller Man of the Year (2006), and the comedy Rock the Kasbah (2015).

Viet Thanh Nguyen: Other books: His “meta-narrative” A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial was published two years later. (Its title comes from the first sentence of The Sympathizer.) He has also written the children’s books Chicken of the Sea (2019; authored with his son, Ellison Nguyen) and…

Thomas Kinsella: …Peppercanister included Marginal Economy (2006), Man of War (2007), and Belief and Unbelief (2007). Numerous collections of Kinsella’s poems were released, including Collected Poems, 1956–2001 (2001), Selected Poems (2007), Fat Master (2011), and Late Poems (2013); the latter was published by Carcanet Press, which released several of his works in…

Ed Harris: …Virginia (2010), in the thriller Man on a Ledge (2012), and as Sen. John McCain in the HBO movie Game Change (2012), which dramatized the final months of the 2008 U.S. presidential race from the McCain campaign’s perspective. In the Cold War thriller Phantom (2013) Harris starred as a Soviet…

Frank Perry: After the muddled thriller Man on a Swing (1974), Perry directed Rancho Deluxe (1975), which was scripted by Thomas McGuane. The offbeat contemporary western centres on two cattle rustlers (Jeff Bridges and Sam Waterston) who set their sights on a wealthy rancher (Clifton James). Perry, who occasionally worked in…

Elia Kazan: Films and stage work of the 1950s of Elia Kazan: …was the movie that followed, Man on a Tightrope (1953), an account of a circus troupe’s escape from communist-ruled Czechoslovakia.

Burgess Meredith: Meredith also directed the films The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1950) and The Yin and Yang of Mr. Go (1978), the latter of which he wrote.

Ted Danson: Career: Mayor (2021–22), and A Man on the Inside (2024– ). He made a cameo appearance in the war film Saving Private Ryan (1998).

Jim Carrey: Stardom: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask, and The Truman Show: …a popular television show, and Man on the Moon (1999), in which he portrayed the comedian Andy Kaufman.

man orchid, either of two related species of orchids (family Orchidaceae), named for the humanlike shape of their flowers. The common man orchid (Orchis anthropophora, formerly Aceras anthropophorum) is native to grasslands of Great Britain, Eurasia, and northern Africa. The flower spike, about 10

Man Ray was a photographer, painter, and filmmaker who was the only American to play a major role in both the Dada and Surrealist movements. The son of Jewish immigrants, Radnitzky grew up in New York City, where his father worked as a tailor and his mother a seamstress. He studied architecture,

Jimmy Kimmel: Win Ben Stein’s Money and The Man Show: …Kimmel and Adam Carolla cohosted The Man Show, a talk show aimed at young male audiences with a mix of scantily clad women and irreverent humor. It developed a dedicated following over the following four years, becoming one of the most successful shows on the Comedy Central network. During that…

Rajmahal: Man Singh, a Rajput governor of Bengal under the Mughals, chose the site for his capital in 1595–96 because of its strategic command of the Teliagarh Pass and the Ganges River. The capital of Bengal was transferred to Dacca (now Dhaka, Bangladesh) in 1608, but…

Stieg Larsson: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), which tracked the mismatched protagonists’ investigation into a decades-old disappearance, was swiftly met with praise in Sweden—in particular for Larsson’s indelible characterization of Salander as a surly pixie with a troubled past. Its two sequels—Flickan som lekte med elden…

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg , short story by Mark Twain satirizing the vanity of the virtuous. It was first published in Harper’s Magazine in 1899 and collected in The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Sketches in 1900. The story reflects Twain’s disillusionment and

Garson Kanin: Film directing: …later that year he helmed A Man to Remember, a B-film written by Dalton Trumbo, and Next Time I Marry, a screwball comedy starring Lucille Ball. The Great Man Votes (1939) was Kanin’s first critical success, thanks largely to a moving performance by John Barrymore. An acerbic satire on politicians…

Bob Rafelson: Films of the late 1980s and beyond: …artistically was the screwball comedy Man Trouble (1992), written by Five East Pieces screenwriter Eastman and featuring Nicholson and Ellen Barkin. The complex, tightly woven Blood and Wine (1996), the noirish story of a jewel robbery, which starred Nicholson, Michael Caine, Judy Davis, and Jennifer Lopez, was much better received.…

Manchester United, English professional football (soccer) team based in Manchester, England. Nicknamed “the Red Devils” for its distinctive red jerseys, it is one of the richest and best-supported football clubs not only in England but in the entire world. The club has won the English top-division

Herbert Spencer: Sociology and social philosophy: In The Man Versus the State (1884), he wrote that England’s Tories generally favour a military and Liberals an industrial social order but that the Liberals of the latter half of the 19th century, with their legislation on hours of work, liquor licensing, sanitation (see public…

William Keighley: …their most expensive acquisitions, the Broadway hit The Man Who Came to Dinner, which was written by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The 1942 adaptation was a success, with fine performances by Davis and Monty Woolley, who re-created his stage role with verve. Nearly as funny was George Washington…

William Keighley: …expensive acquisitions, the Broadway hit The Man Who Came to Dinner, which was written by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The 1942 adaptation was a success, with fine performances by Davis and Monty Woolley, who re-created his stage role with verve. Nearly as funny was George Washington Slept Here…

Rudolfo Anaya: …in Serafina’s Stories (2004) and The Man Who Could Fly and Other Stories (2006); and a number of children’s books, as well as plays and poems. An advocate of multiculturalism and bilingualism, he translated, edited, and contributed to numerous anthologies of Hispanic writing. In 2002 he was awarded a National…

African American literature: The Black Arts movement: Williams, particularly The Man Who Cried I Am (1967), a roman à clef about a dying Black novelist intent on maintaining his political integrity in the face of government persecution, communicate the spirit of the new Black ideals. The “tell it like it is” temper of the…

Nicolas Roeg: …du Maurier; the science-fiction film The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), featuring an otherworldly David Bowie; Bad Timing (1980), starring Art Garfunkel; and The Witches (1990), based on Roald Dahl’s popular children’s book of the same name. Bad Timing also starred Theresa Russell, whom Roeg married in 1982 (they…

Dai Vernon was a Canadian magician and sleight-of-hand artist who was one of the 20th century’s most renowned practitioners of “up-close” magic and card tricks. (Read Harry Houdini’s 1926 Britannica essay on magic.) Fascinated with magic from age six, he decided to become a professional conjurer

Don Quixote: Legacy and adaptations: Another notable film adaptation was The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018), a loose retelling of Cervantes’s novel by the director Terry Gilliam, whose attempts to make the film over the course of nearly three decades were beset by various complications, delays, and cancellations, turning Gilliam into a quixotic figure…

Jeremy Irons: … in the Srinivasa Ramanujan biopic The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015); as the architect of a tower that becomes the site of a class war in High-Rise (2015), an adaptation of a J.G. Ballard novel; and as a villain in the fantasy adventure Assassin’s Creed (2016), based on a video…

The Man Who Knew Too Much, American thriller film, released in 1956, that was Alfred Hitchcock’s remake of his 1934 classic and is widely considered equal, if not superior, to the original. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) Dr. Ben McKenna (played by James Stewart) and

Alfred Hitchcock: First international releases: The Man Who Knew Too Much to Jamaica Inn: Hitchcock signed with Gaumont-British in 1934, and his first film for that company, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), was also his first international success. Leslie Banks and Edna Best star as the Lawrences, a…

Richard Wright: Posthumous publications: In addition, The Man Who Lived Underground, a rejected manuscript dating to 1941 that was later condensed into a short story, was released in its entirety in 2021. The novel centers on an African American man who is coerced into confessing to two murders he did not…

Rafael Arévalo Martínez: …title story of his collection El hombre que parecía un caballo (1920; “The Man Who Resembled a Horse”), which was once considered the most famous Latin American short story of the 20th century. First published in 1915, the story was so successful that Arévalo made other experiments in the same…

The Man Who Loved Children, novel by Australian writer Christina Stead, published in 1940 and revised in 1965. Although it went unrecognized for 25 years, The Man Who Loved Children is considered Stead’s finest novel. Unfolding a harrowing portrait of a disintegrating family, Stead examines the

Robert Edmond Jones: His settings for The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife (1915), a version by the French satirist Anatole France of an old French folk drama, employed an austere, gray-and-black, poster-like street facade and brilliant costumes. Jones achieved unencumbered, fluid stage arrangements in which it was possible (as it…

Oliver Sacks: …patients in works such as The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (1985). While most critics found his descriptions of the often strange afflictions to be humane and sympathetic, some accused Sacks of merely attempting to excite and amuse his audience.

Operation Mincemeat: Development and execution: …1953 memoir of the operation, The Man Who Never Was, Montagu wrote of the choice: “My sense of humor having by this time become somewhat macabre…Operation Mincemeat it became.”

Operation Mincemeat: Aftermath and legacy: …was adapted into a 1956 film of the same name. A book titled Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story That Changed the Course of World War II (2010) by well-known British author Ben Macintyre was adapted into an eponymous 2021 Netflix film starring Colin Firth and Matthew Macfadyen.

Bette Davis: …the ingenue in Warner Brothers’ The Man Who Played God (1932). The positive critical response to her work in this film prompted Warner Brothers to sign Davis to a contract.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, American western film, released in 1962, that was John Ford’s poetic and sombre look at the end of the Wild West era. Although atypical of his usual works, it is widely considered Ford’s last great movie and among his best westerns. The story opens with the return

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: The top-selling theme song by Gene Pitney does not appear in the film.

David Bowie: Early career: His first album of note, The Man Who Sold the World (1970), was a prescient hybrid of folk, art rock, and heavy metal, marking a transition in musical direction and vision in which he largely abandoned his previous, more acoustic-influenced sound, and ushered in his hard rock era. With Hunky…

The Man Who Was Thursday, allegorical novel by G.K. Chesterton, published in 1908. It relates the experiences of Gabriel Syme, a poet turned detective, who is hired by a shrouded, nameless person to infiltrate a group of anarchists, each named for a day of the week and all determined to destroy the

The Man Who Was Thursday, allegorical novel by G.K. Chesterton, published in 1908. It relates the experiences of Gabriel Syme, a poet turned detective, who is hired by a shrouded, nameless person to infiltrate a group of anarchists, each named for a day of the week and all determined to destroy the

Coen brothers: The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) won rave reviews for its pitch-perfect film noir style.

The Man Who Would Be King, short story by Rudyard Kipling, first published in The Phantom Rickshaw, and Other Tales in 1888. The piece, which is narrated by a British journalist in India, is about a pair of comic adventurers who briefly establish themselves as godlike leaders of a native tribe in

Michael Caine: …popular films as John Huston’s The Man Who Would Be King (1975) and John Sturges’s The Eagle Has Landed (1976). He continued his prodigious output during the 1980s, appearing in some two dozen films during the decade. Though many of these films were dismal failures, Caine’s reputation did not suffer,…

Western sculpture: Avant-garde sculpture (1909–20): …in this fashion, he produced Man with a Guitar, and “Standing Figure” (1915), in which voids are introduced, while in the early 1920s he developed freer forms more consistently based on curves.

Georges Braque: Cubism: Braque’s Man with a Guitar is an example: the colours are brown, gray, and green, the pictorial space is almost flat, viewpoints and light sources are multiplied, contours are broken, volumes are often transparent, and facets are turned into apparently illogical simultaneous views. While many of…

History of film: The Soviet Union: …is Chelovek s kinoapparatom (Man with a Movie Camera, 1929), a feature-length portrait of Moscow from dawn to dusk. The film plays upon the “city symphony” genre inaugurated by Walter Ruttmann’s Berlin, the Symphony of a Great City (1927), but Vertov repeatedly draws attention to the filmmaking process to…

Andrea Solari: …seen in a fine portrait, A Man with a Pink [Carnation] (c. 1495), which displays Antonello’s sculptural conception of form. Solari’s earliest dated work is a Madonna and Child with Saint Joseph and Saint Simeon, with a fine landscape background, executed for the Church of San Pietro Martire at Murano…

Carrie Fisher: The Blues Brothers (1980), The Man with One Red Shoe (1985), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), and When Harry Met Sally… (1989).

The Man with the Golden Arm, American film drama, released in 1955, that broke new ground with its realistic look at the life of a heroin addict. The film was based on the novel of the same name by Nelson Algren and starred Frank Sinatra as Frankie Machine, a struggling addict who gets clean while

The Man with the Golden Arm, novel by Nelson Algren, published in 1949. It won a National Book Award in 1950. Set on Chicago’s West Side, the novel evokes the gritty street life of petty criminals and hustlers. Hero Frankie Machine is a shrewd poker dealer whose “golden arm” shakes as he relies on

Christopher Lee: …and the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), in which he starred as Bond’s nemesis Scaramanga. Appearances in a steady series of unremarkable films were punctuated by a well-received turn as Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, in Jinnah (1998).

Edwin Markham: …San Francisco Examiner of “The Man with the Hoe.” Inspired by Jean-François Millet’s painting, Markham made the French peasant the symbol of the exploited classes throughout the world. Its success enabled Markham to devote himself to writing and lecturing—in which he concerned himself with social and industrial, as well as…

Miles Davis: Legacy: …returned to public notice with The Man with the Horn (1981), critics felt that Davis’s erratic playing showed the effects of his five-year layoff, but he steadily regained his powers during the next few years. He dabbled in a variety of musical styles throughout the 1980s, concentrating mostly on jazz-rock…

Dave Bautista: Acting: He subsequently appeared in The Man with the Iron Fists (2012) and in Riddick (2013) alongside Vin Diesel.

Carl Reiner: Film directing: Reiner then made The Man with Two Brains (1983), a sci-fi comedy that he also wrote with Martin and Gipe. Martin played a neurosurgeon attending a convention in Vienna. His faithless wife (Kathleen Turner in arguably her best comic performance) becomes insanely jealous when he falls in love…

Archie Mayo: Films of the 1930s: The Man with Two Faces (1934) was a melodrama adapted from a play by George S. Kaufman and Alexander Woollcott, with Edward G. Robinson as a famous actor who is suspected of murdering the overbearing husband (Louis Calhern) of his sister (Mary Astor). After Desirable…

Graham Greene: Early life and career: …success of his first novel, The Man Within (1929; adapted as the film The Smugglers, 1947), he quit The Times and worked as a film critic and literary editor for The Spectator until 1940. He then traveled widely for much of the next three decades as a freelance journalist, searching…

Edward Everett Hale: …for his short story “The Man Without a Country.”

Kurt Vonnegut: Plays, later short stories, and nonfiction: In 2005 he published A Man Without a Country: A Memoir of Life in George W. Bush’s America, a collection of essays and speeches inspired in part by contemporary politics.

Mel Gibson: …made his directorial debut with The Man Without a Face, in which he also starred. Gibson next directed the epic Braveheart (1995), in which he portrayed the Scottish national hero Sir William Wallace. The film won five Academy Awards, including best picture and best director.

King Vidor: Later films: …(although enjoyable) Kirk Douglas western Man Without a Star (1955).

Erik Lindegren: …poetry, Mannen utan väg (1942; The Man Without a Way), marked the beginning of the poetry of the ’40s. Using unconventional imagery and syntax, the poetry in this volume can best be understood in terms of its visions of the stupidities and horrors of the contemporary human scene. Lindegren’s two…

The Man Without Qualities, unfinished novel by Austrian writer Robert Musil, published as Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften in three installments in 1930, 1933, and 1943. Musil’s sprawling masterpiece was his life’s work. On the surface a witty, urbane portrait of life in the last days of the

The Silent Cry, novel by Ōe Kenzaburō, published in Japanese in 1967 as Man’en gannen no futtōbōru (literally, “Football in the First Year of Man’en”) and awarded the Tanizaki Prize. The Silent Cry is a nonlinear and difficult work whose subject matter bears little relationship to the events

Sabrina Carpenter: emails i can’t send, Short N’ Sweet, and Man’s Best Friend: …single of her newest album, Man’s Best Friend. The song, written with American record producer Jack Antonoff, John Ryan, and Amy Allen, found instant popularity, debuting at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The entire album was released in August 2025 and debuting at number one on the Billboard…

Italian literature: Other writings: A Man’s Blessing]). After a Neorealistic phase, Giuseppe Berto plunged into the world of psychological introspection (Il male oscuro [1964; “The Dark Sickness”] and La cosa buffa [1966; “The Funny Thing”; Eng. trans. Antonio in Love]). Natalia Ginzburg’s territory is the family, whether she reminisces…

Frank Borzage: Freelancing after Fox: Man’s Castle (1933) is a colorful romance, starring Tracy as a hard-boiled resident of New York’s “Hoover Flats” shantytown who takes in a homeless woman (Loretta Young); when she becomes pregnant, he decides to rob for her and their unborn child.

André Malraux: Life: …in 1930, and the masterpiece La Condition humaine in 1933 (awarded the Prix Goncourt) established his reputation as a leading French novelist and a charismatic, politically committed intellectual. Though he captivated Paris with his exceptional intelligence, lyrical prose, astonishing memory, and breadth of knowledge, it was not generally appreciated that…

Howard Hawks: Final films: In the comedy Man’s Favorite Sport? (1964), Rock Hudson played a role in the Grant vein of an expert department-store fly caster who is sent by his boss to enter a fishing competition—a sport he knows nothing about. Red Line 7000 (1965) was Hawks’s disappointing return to the…

André Malraux: Life: His novel L’Espoir (Man’s Hope), based on his experiences in Spain, was published in 1937. A motion-picture version of L’Espoir that Malraux produced and directed in Barcelona in 1938 was not shown in France until after the country’s liberation at the end of World War II.

Richard Overton: In Man’s Mortality (1643), he argued that the soul as well as the body dies and must be resurrected. His tracts of 1645–46, published under the pseudonym Martin Marpriest, castigated the Presbyterians and the Westminster Assembly of Divines for their intolerance. In a series of 40…

Xunzi: …to the often-quoted essay “Man’s Nature Is Evil.” Because Mencius believed that human beings were innately disposed toward moral behaviour, Xunzi was perceived, as the author of this essay, to be attacking his illustrious predecessor. The truth is that Xunzi remained Confucian in his firm rejection of the amoral…

Max Scheler: …des Menschen im Kosmos (1928; Man’s Place in Nature) is a sketch for these projected major works. It offers a grandiose vision of a gradual, self-becoming unification of man, Deity, and world. This converging process has two polarities: mind or spirit on the one hand, and impulsion on the other.…

Annie Ernaux: A Man’s Place and A Woman’s Story: …separate volumes, La Place (1983; A Man’s Place) and Une Femme (1987; A Woman’s Story). The former delves into the life of an early 20th-century working-class man with minimal education. It received great acclaim, earning her the Prix Renaudot, the French literary prize for an outstanding original novel, as well…

Japanese art: Calligraphy and painting: …of Chinese characters, known as man’yōgana, were employed to represent Japanese phonetic sounds, and two even more abbreviated phonetic writing systems, hiragana and katakana, were known in nascent form. The former was highly stylized and cursive, while the latter was somewhat more severe and rectilinear in form. Use of hiragana…

Man’yō-shū, (Japanese: “Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves”), oldest (c. 759) and greatest of the imperial anthologies of Japanese poetry. Among the 4,500 poems are some from the 7th century and perhaps earlier. It was celebrated through the centuries for its “man’yō” spirit, a simple freshness and

hiragana: One such adaptation was man’yōgana, a phonetic syllabary that came into use in the 8th century. This system used Chinese characters whose Chinese pronunciation sounded similar to Japanese syllables, rather than using the ideas that the characters represented. In the 9th century man’yōgana was simplified, giving rise to the…

Man’yō-shū, (Japanese: “Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves”), oldest (c. 759) and greatest of the imperial anthologies of Japanese poetry. Among the 4,500 poems are some from the 7th century and perhaps earlier. It was celebrated through the centuries for its “man’yō” spirit, a simple freshness and

Isle of Man: …southwest lies an islet, the Calf of Man, with precipitous cliffs, which is administered by the Manx National Heritage as a bird sanctuary.

St. Augustine: The City of God: …God over and against the City of Man. Rome was dethroned—and the sack of the city shown to be of no spiritual importance—in favour of the heavenly Jerusalem, the true home and source of citizenship for all Christians. The City of Man was doomed to disarray, and wise men would,…

Diego Rivera: Travels to the United States and Rockefeller controversy: …later reproduced the fresco as Man, Controller of the Universe (1934) at the Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City.

Martin Heidegger: Being and Time: …the notion of the anonymous das Man—“the They.” Conversely, the possibility of authentic Being-in-the-world seemed to portend the emergence of a new spiritual aristocracy. Such individuals would be capable of heeding the “call of conscience” to fulfill their potential for Being-a-self.

Fall of Man, in Christian doctrine, the descent of humanity from a state of innocence lived in the presence of God to a sinful world of misery and death. After disobeying God and eating the forbidden fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of

history of photography: Photojournalism: Felix H. Man, encouraged by Stefan Lorant, editor of the Münchner Illustrierte, made sequences of photographs at interviews and cultural and social events, which Lorant then laid out in imaginative picture essays.

Belgium: The interwar period: …ideas of the socialist theorist Hendrik de Man. At the same time, there emerged two Belgian parties: a strictly Flemish party that enjoyed little success and the broader-based Rexists under the leadership of Léon Degrelle. The latter party won 21 seats, more than 10 percent of the chamber, in the…

Isle of Man, one of the British Isles, located in the Irish Sea off the northwest coast of England. The island lies roughly equidistant between England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. The Isle of Man is not part of the United Kingdom but rather is a crown possession (since 1828) that is

Musée de l’Homme, in Paris, museum and library of ethnography and anthropology. It was founded in 1878 and is supported by the state. The institution is attached to the National Museum of Natural History and has a professional staff that engages in postgraduate instruction and supervision of

Paul de Man was a Belgian-born literary critic and theorist, along with Jacques Derrida one of the two major proponents of deconstruction, a controversial form of philosophical and literary analysis that was influential within many academic disciplines in the 1970s and ’80s. De Man was born into a

philosophical anthropology, discipline within philosophy that seeks to unify the several empirical investigations of human nature in an effort to understand individuals as both creatures of their environment and creators of their own values. In the 18th century, “anthropology” was the branch of

Isaac ben Solomon Luria: …and Adam Qadmon, the symbolic “primordial man,” who is the highest configuration of the divine light, is rebuilt. Man plays an important role in this process through various kawwanot used during prayer and through mystical intentions involving secret combinations of words, all of which is directed toward the restoration of…

Kingdom of God: …endowed, intermediary (the Messiah or Son of Man), whose functions would include a judgment to decide who was worthy to “inherit the Kingdom,” an expression which emphasizes that the Kingdom was thought of as a divine gift, not a human achievement.

political science: Systems analysis: In Man, the State, and War (1959), the American international relations theorist Kenneth Waltz applied systems theory to the study of international conflict to develop a view known as structural realism. Waltz argued that the underlying cause of war is an anarchic international system in which…

comparative psychology: One, termed for convenience the man-brute view, stresses differences often to the point of denying similarities altogether and derives from the traditional religious accounts of the separate creations of humans and animals; the other, the evolutionary view, stresses both similarities and differences. Aristotle formalized the man-brute view, attributing a rational…

Manzhouli, city in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, China. It is situated on the border opposite the Russian town of Zabaykalsk and lies 100 miles (160 km) west of Hailar and 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Lake Hulun. Manzhouli was long a small Mongolian settlement in the Hulun Buir League. It

Manchukuo, puppet state created in 1932 by Japan out of the three historic provinces of Manchuria (northeastern China). After the Russo-Japanese War (1904–05), Japan gained control of the Russian-built South Manchurian Railway, and its army established a presence in the region; expansion there was

Nile crocodile: Attacks on people: …per year; however, because many attacks occur in rural areas and may go unreported, the true figure may be higher. Most attacks on people occur near the water’s edge, where people wash their clothes, board and exit fishing boats, or walk along the shore. Children are considered at greatest risk…