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Aelita: Queen of Mars
Aelita: Queen of Mars (Аэлита) is Yakov Protazanov's 1924 Soviet silent science-fiction film based on Aleksei Tolstoy's novella, the first Soviet space-travel feature, with constructivist Martian sets and costumes by Alexandra Exter, a dream-frame plot, and a 2018 NFSA restoration.
Aelius Gallus expedition
The Aelius Gallus expedition was a failed Roman invasion of Arabia Felix in 25–24 BC, led by Aelius Gallus, prefect of Egypt, on Augustus's orders; disease and treachery doomed it.
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.
Aelred of Rievaulx
Aelred of Rievaulx (Ailred, Æthelred; 1110–1167), English Cistercian abbot, third abbot of Rievaulx Abbey from 1147, former steward to David I of Scotland, author of On Spiritual Friendship and The Mirror of Charity, called the Bernard of the North.
Aema
Aema (애마) is a 2025 Netflix Korean limited series, six episodes, written and directed by Lee Hae-young, starring Lee Hanee, Bang Hyo-rin, Jin Sun-kyu, and Cho Hyun-chul. Set in 1980s Chungmuro, it fictionalizes the making of the 1982 erotic film Madame Aema under Chun Doo-hwan's 3S policy.
Aemilianus
Marcus Aemilius Aemilianus (Aemilian), Roman emperor for a few months in 253 CE. Governor of Moesia who defeated the Goths, overthrew Trebonianus Gallus at Interamna, and was killed by his own troops when Valerian approached.
Aemines
Aemines (Portus Aemines, variants Hemines, Mines) was a Roman harbor or coastal station in Gallia Narbonensis, attested in the Antonine Maritime Itinerary 506.6; proposed sites include Embiez, La Ciotat, Sormiou, and Cassis, distinct from Aeminium (Coimbra).
Aena
Aena, from Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea, is a Spanish state-majority airport operator managing 46 Spanish airports, London Luton, and 17 Brazilian airports, the largest European airport group.
Aeneas (crater on Dione)
Aeneas is a 161 km IAU-approved 1982 impact crater on Saturn's moon Dione at 25.89N, 46.27W, named for the Aeneid hero; Dione's largest unequivocal impact, a partially relaxed central peak crater about 3.5 km deep.
Aeneas (Αἰνέας)
Aeneas (Αἰνέας) is the Trojan hero, son of Anchises and Aphrodite, saved in Homer's Iliad as fated to rule the Trojans, later protagonist of Virgil's Aeneid and legendary ancestor of the Romans via Lavinium and Alba Longa.
Aeneas Peebles
Aeneas Peebles (born 2001) is a Baltimore Ravens defensive tackle, drafted 210th overall in 2025 out of Virginia Tech after Duke; First-Team All-ACC and AP Third-Team All-American in 2024.
Aeneas Williams
Aeneas Williams, born 1968 in New Orleans, is a Hall of Fame NFL cornerback and safety (Cardinals 1991-2000, Rams 2001-04) with 55 interceptions, 8 Pro Bowls, and 9 pick-sixes, inducted in 2014.
Aeneid
The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem in twelve books by the Roman poet Virgil, written between 29 and 19 BC, telling how Aeneas journeys from Troy to Italy.
Aenigmarchaeota
Aenigmarchaeota, also called the Deep Sea Euryarchaeotic Group, is a candidate phylum of uncultured, small-genomed archaea in the DPANN superphylum, first detected in deep-sea samples in 2001.
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.
Aenos
Aenos, also spelled Ainos or Aenus, was an ancient Greek city on the northern Aegean coast of Thrace, at the mouth of the Hebrus river in modern Turkey.
Aeolia family
The Aeolia family is an X-type asteroid family in the outer main belt, named for asteroid 396 Aeolia; a young collisional family linked to the disrupted asteroid P/2015 X6 (PANSTARRS).
Aeolian Islands
Aeolian Islands (Isole Eolie): seven volcanic islands off Sicily, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000 that gave volcanology the Vulcanian and Strombolian eruption types.
Aeolian mode
Aeolian mode (natural minor) is the sixth mode of the major scale, acting as the default minor mode in Western music and having the degree pattern 1-2-b3-4-5-b6-b7.
Aeolian processes
Aeolian processes are the erosion, transportation, and deposition of sediment by wind, active where vegetation is sparse, including deserts and coasts, and also shaping dunes on Mars.
Aeolian vibration
Aeolian vibration is a high-frequency, low-amplitude oscillation of overhead power line conductors caused by wind flowing across them, and the leading cause of fatigue damage at conductor clamps, countered by Stockbridge dampers.
Aeolic lyric
Aeolic lyric is Greek lyric poetry in the Aeolic dialect, composed above all by Sappho and Alcaeus of Lesbos in the late seventh and sixth centuries BCE.
Aeolipile
The aeolipile, known as Hero's engine, is a spinning steam device described by Hero of Alexandria in the 1st century, regarded as the first steam engine.
Aeolis
Aeolis (Aiolis, Αἰολίς), ancient Greek region on the northwest coast of Asia Minor north of Ionia, settled by Aeolians from Boeotia and Thessaly; chief city Cyme, eleven Herodotean cities, boundaries fluctuating between Troad and Mysia.
Aeolis Chaos
Aeolis Chaos is a chaotic-terrain feature on Mars, an elongated basin in the Aeolis Dorsa region about 201 km across, named by the IAU in 2018.
Aeolis Dorsa
Aeolis Dorsa is a Mars region near 5S, 152.6E, also called Aeolis Serpens area, holding the planet's densest inverted river-ridge networks, deltaic deposits, and stratigraphic evidence for ancient fluvial activity and a possible northern ocean margin.
Aeolis Mensae
Aeolis Mensae, an 820-km-wide mesa terrain on Mars at about 3°S, 140°E, straddles the crustal dichotomy boundary near Elysium; known for fretted terrain, yardangs, graben, and a late Noachian sedimentary deposit dissected by wind, water, or ice.
Aeolis Mons
Aeolis Mons (Mount Sharp) is the ~5 km high layered sedimentary mound at the center of Gale crater, Mars, formed by wind exhumation and climbed by NASA's Curiosity rover since 2012.
Aeolis Palus
Aeolis Palus is the IAU-named plain in Gale crater, Mars, between the crater rim and Aeolis Mons (Mount Sharp); Curiosity landed there on August 6, 2012, at Bradbury Landing, exploring fluvial, lacustrine, and flood deposits.
Aeolis Serpens
Aeolis Serpens is the longest (~500-900 km) sinuous ridge in Aeolis Dorsa, Mars, an inverted ancient river channel near the Medusae Fossae Formation, approved by the IAU in 2012.