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9th Wonder
9th Wonder: American hip-hop producer, DJ, and educator from Winston-Salem, NC; founding producer of Little Brother, head of Jamla Records, producer for Jay-Z, Destiny's Child, Kendrick Lamar's "Duckworth.", and teacher at Duke and NC Central.
9X Media (9XM)
9X Media is an Indian music television network, best known for 9XM, a Hindi Bollywood music channel launched in 2007 with animated characters instead of video jockeys.
Æ
Æ (æ), called ash, is a Latin ligature of a and e originally writing the Latin diphthong ae; a separate letter in Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese, encoded at U+00C6/U+00E6, and the IPA symbol [æ].
Æbleskiver
Æbleskiver (aebleskiver, ebelskiver) are Danish round pancake puffs fried in a seven-well cast-iron pan, served with powdered sugar, jam, and gløgg at Christmas. Named "apple slices" after the original apple-filled medieval version; oldest printed recipe 1703.
Ægishjálmur (occult symbol)
Ægishjálmur (ægishjálmr, Helm of Awe) is an Icelandic magical stave, not a Viking Age symbol: the name is 13th-century Old Norse (Fáfnismál), the drawn eight-armed figure first appears in grimoires such as Galdrakver (1670) and the Huld manuscript (1860).
Ælfric of Eynsham
Ælfric of Eynsham (c. 955 – c. 1010) was an English abbot and the most prolific author in Old English, writing the Catholic Homilies and about 15% of surviving prose.
Ælfweard of Wessex
Ælfweard of Wessex (d. 924), son of Edward the Elder and Ælfflæd, was elected king in Wessex in 924 while Æthelstan took Mercia; he died at Oxford sixteen days after his father, with disputed royal status.
Ælfwynn
Ælfwynn (Aelfwynn, Elfwynn), only daughter of Æthelred of Mercia and Æthelflæd, granddaughter of Alfred the Great; briefly ruled Mercia after her mother's June 918 death before Edward the Elder deposed her in December 918.
Ælla of Northumbria
Ælla (died 21 March 867) was a non-royal king of Northumbria, raised after Osberht's deposition and killed at York fighting the Viking Great Army; later Norse legend casts him as Ragnar Lothbrok's snake-pit executioner and the blood eagle's victim.
Ænima
Ænima (1996) is Tool's second studio album, produced with David Bottrill at Ocean Way and The Hook; a 77-minute platinum progressive-metal record whose single "Ænema" won the 1997 Grammy for Best Metal Performance.
Æon Flux
Æon Flux: American adult animated science fiction series created by Peter Chung for MTV (1991–1995), also known as Aeon Flux. Wordless Liquid Television shorts about agent Æon versus Bregna's Trevor Goodchild; later ten half-hour episodes and a poorly received 2005 Charlize Theron film.
Æon Flux (film)
Æon Flux is a 2005 American science fiction action film directed by Karyn Kusama, starring Charlize Theron as an assassin in Earth's last surviving city, adapted from the MTV animated series.
ÆON:MODE
ÆON:MODE is the drum & bass project of Australian-born, Denver-based producer JP Orchison, better known as Blanke, launched in 2022 on Deadbeats to separate his drum & bass output.
Ærfugl (gas field)
Ærfugl is a gas condensate field in the Norwegian Sea, discovered in 2000 as Snadd and operated by Aker BP as a subsea tie-back to the Skarv FPSO, on stream since 2020.
Æsir
Æsir, Old Norse plural of áss, the principal family of Norse gods under Óðinn in the Eddas; cognate with Gothic ansis and Old English ēse; Snorri's Asia etymology is false, and the Æsir–Vanir split is debated.
Æthelbald, King of Wessex
Æthelbald (d. 860), king of Wessex 855/856–860, son of Æthelwulf; fought at Aclea 851, rebelled against his father in 856, married his stepmother Judith of the Franks, died at Sherborne.
Æthelberht of Kent
Æthelberht of Kent (c. 560 – 616) was an Anglo-Saxon king, the first to accept Christianity, and issuer of the earliest surviving Germanic law code.
Æthelberht, King of Wessex
Æthelberht (d. 865), Ethelbert of Wessex, third son of Æthelwulf, was sub-king of Kent and then sole king of Wessex and Kent from 860 to 865; Æthelred and Alfred renounced claims, Danes destroyed Winchester in 860 and ravaged Kent in 865.
Æthelflæd
Æthelflæd, also spelled Ethelfleda, ruled the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia from 911 until 918 as Lady of the Mercians, building fortresses and campaigning against the Vikings.
Ætheling
Ætheling (Old English æþeling) denoted a man of noble birth in Anglo-Saxon England, later a prince of the royal house eligible for kingship; distinct from the flower edelweiss, the name Adeline, and the footballer Aetheling.
Æthelred (archbishop of Canterbury)
Æthelred (Old English: Æðered) was archbishop of Canterbury from 870 until his death in 888, succeeding Ceolnoth; his thin surviving record includes two charters and a papal letter.
Æthelred the Unready
Æthelred the Unready, also known as Æthelred II, was king of the English from 978 to 1013 and again from 1014 until his death in 1016.
Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians
Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians (Myrcna hlaford), ruled Mercia c. 881–911 as Alfred the Great's ealdorman ally and son-in-law, married Æthelflæd, led the defence against the 892–896 Viking invasion, and was succeeded by his wife.
Æthelstan
Æthelstan (Athelstan, Æþelstan), king of the Anglo-Saxons 924–939 and of the English from 927, first king of a unified England; took York in 927, won Brunanburh in 937, died childless in 939.
Æthelwold ætheling
Æthelwold ætheling (died 902), son of King Æthelred I of Wessex, contested Edward the Elder's succession in 899, seized Wimborne and Christchurch, was accepted as king by the Northumbrian Danes, and died at the battle of the Holme.
Æthelwulf, King of Wessex
Æthelwulf (d. 858), king of Wessex 839–858 and sub-king of Kent under Ecgberht; father of Alfred the Great; victor over 350 Viking ships at Ockley in 851; pilgrim to Rome 855; husband of Judith of West Francia.
Đački rastanak
Đački rastanak (Ђачки растанак, "The Students' Farewell") is an 1844 lyric poem by the Serbian Romantic poet Branko Radičević, farewell to his school days in Sremski Karlovci.
Đại Cồ Việt
Đại Cồ Việt (大瞿越) was the official name of Vietnam from 968 to 1054, proclaimed by emperor Đinh Bộ Lĩnh after unifying the Red River Delta, and renamed Đại Việt in 1054.
Đại Nam quốc sử diễn ca
Đại Nam quốc sử diễn ca (大南國史演歌) is a Vietnamese verse chronicle in lục bát meter by Lê Ngô Cát and Phạm Đình Toái, printed in the 1860s and 1870s.
Đại Việt Quốc dân Đảng
Đại Việt Quốc dân Đảng (大越國民黨), often shortened to Đảng Đại Việt, was a Vietnamese nationalist party founded by Trương Tử Anh in 1939, one of the main non-communist nationalist parties in Vietnam until 1975.