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Administrative Review Tribunal
The Administrative Review Tribunal (ART) is an Australian Commonwealth tribunal that reviews federal government decisions, replacing the Administrative Appeals Tribunal when it commenced operation on 14 October 2024.
Administrative units of Pakistan
Administrative units of Pakistan: the four provinces (Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan), Islamabad Capital Territory, and AJK and Gilgit-Baltistan, organized into divisions, districts, and tehsils, with Census 2023 unit counts and the 2018 FATA merger.
Administrative-Territorial Units of the Left Bank of the Dniester
The Administrative-Territorial Units of the Left Bank of the Dniester is a Moldovan autonomous unit demarcating Transnistria, a Russian-occupied unrecognized state with its capital at Tiraspol.
Admira Wacker
Admira Wacker (FC Admira Wacker, Flyeralarm Admira) is an Austrian football club from Moedling, founded 1905, nine-time Austrian champion and six-time cup winner, now playing in the 2. Liga at the BSFZ Arena.
Admirable Campaign
The Admirable Campaign (Campaña Admirable) was the military offensive Simón Bolívar led from New Granada into western Venezuela between May and August 1813, ending with his entry into Caracas.
Admiral
Admiral: the highest naval officer rank, from Arabic amīr-al-baḥr "commander of the sea" via Old French amiral; English use from c. 1200, naval sense from the early 15th century.
Admiral (United States)
Admiral (ADM) is the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard's O-10, four-star flag rank, equivalent to General. Created for Farragut in 1866 after rear admiral's 1862 introduction; Fleet Admiral (five stars) was WWII-only.
Admiral Ackbar
Admiral Ackbar (Gial Ackbar) is the Mon Calamari fleet commander created for Return of the Jedi (1983), famous for "It's a trap!" at Endor, later a New Republic Grand Admiral killed aboard the Raddus in The Last Jedi.
Admiral Group
Admiral Group plc is a Wales-headquartered insurance group listed on the London Stock Exchange, holding an estimated 19% of the UK private car insurance market in 2023.
Admiral Hipper-class cruiser
Admiral Hipper-class cruiser: five German Kriegsmarine heavy cruisers (Admiral Hipper, Blücher, Prinz Eugen, Seydlitz, Lützow) laid down 1935-1937; three completed, over treaty weight, designed for commerce war but limited by range and unreliable high-pressure machinery.
Admiral of the fleet
Admiral of the fleet: the Royal Navy's highest, five-star rank (NATO OF-10), equivalent to field marshal; traced to 1360, held in peacetime abeyance since 1995, last honorary appointment 2014.
Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy)
Admiral of the Fleet is the Royal Navy's highest rank, a five-star OF-10 rank equivalent to field marshal. The last substantive promotion was Sir Benjamin Bathurst in 1995.
Admiral of the Navy
Admiral of the Navy was a unique US Navy grade created 2 March 1899 for George Dewey, hero of Manila Bay; he was its only holder, and the rank lapsed at his death on 16 January 1917.
Admiral T
Admiral T (Christy Campbell, born 1981 in Guadeloupe) is a French reggae and dancehall artist blending Creole into his music, a leading Antillean dancehall figure since the early 2000s.
AdmiralBet
AdmiralBet, also written ADMIRAL BET, is a NOVOMATIC/Greentube gambling brand used by separately licensed operators in Spain (BeatYa Online), Italy (Admiral Bet S.r.l.), Romania (Megabet International), Serbia, Montenegro, and Germany, combining online casino, sports betting, and retail venues.
Admiralty Bay
Admiralty Bay, King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica: a glacial fjord bay opening to Bransfield Strait, about 120-150 km2, up to roughly 600 m deep, fed by twenty marine-terminating glaciers, designated ASMA No. 1 with Brazilian, Polish, and Peruvian stations.
Admiralty chart
An Admiralty chart is a nautical chart issued by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office since 1800, showing depths, dangers, and aids to navigation for safe voyages.
Admiralty College
The Admiralty College (Адмиралтейская коллегия) was the highest organ of naval administration in the Russian Empire, created by Peter I in 1717 and headed by a president until 1802.
Admiralty House
Admiralty House, Whitehall, London: Grade I listed residence built 1786-88 by S. P. Cockerell for the First Lord of the Admiralty; now Cabinet Office state rooms and three ministerial flats. Namesakes include the Governor-General's Sydney residence.
Admiralty Island
Admiralty Island (Tlingit Kootznoowoo, "fortress of the bears") is a 1,664-square-mile island in Alaska's Tongass National Forest, second largest in the Alexander Archipelago, mostly national monument and wilderness, with about 1,500 brown bears, the world's densest bald eagle nests, and the village of Angoon.
Admiralty Islands campaign
The Admiralty Islands campaign, known as Operation Brewer, was a 1944 World War II battle in which the US 1st Cavalry Division seized the Japanese-held Admiralty Islands.
Admiralty Mountains
Admiralty Mountains, also Admiralty Range, a mountain group in northeastern Victoria Land, Antarctica, on the Ross Sea coast. Discovered by James Clark Ross (1839-41); highest peak Mount Minto, 4,165 m.
Admire Vega (アドマイヤベガ)
Admire Vega (アドマイヤベガ), 1996–2004, Japanese Thoroughbred by Sunday Silence out of Vega; won the 1999 Japanese Derby (G1) under Yutaka Take, then sired G1 winners Kiss to Heaven and Blumenblatt.
Admissibility (statistics)
Admissibility in statistics means a decision rule, such as an estimator, is not dominated: no other rule has risk at least as small everywhere and strictly smaller somewhere.
Admissible set
An admissible set is a transitive set whose membership relation models Kripke–Platek set theory, a weak ZF fragment; the hereditarily finite sets are the smallest example.
Admission to practice law
Admission to practice law: the formal authorization, by courts or bar associations, to work as a lawyer. Covers bar examinations, character and fitness, supervised training routes, and requalification for foreign-qualified lawyers.
Admission to the bar in the United States
Admission to the bar in the United States: jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction lawyer licensing via bar exams (MBE, UBE, NextGen UBE), character and fitness review, and apprenticeship alternatives.
Admission to the Union
Admission to the Union, also known as US statehood, is the constitutional process by which a territory becomes a US state under the Admissions Clause.
Admittance
Admittance, also called electrical admittance, measures how readily an electrical circuit allows alternating current to flow. It is the reciprocal of impedance, measured in siemens.
Admittance spectroscopy
Admittance spectroscopy is a non-destructive electrical characterization technique, introduced by D.L. Losee in 1972, that measures admittance versus frequency and temperature to extract defect levels in semiconductors, solar cells, and LEDs.