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Agatha Christie's Marple
Agatha Christie's Marple is the ITV British TV series (2004–2013, 6 series, 23 episodes) adapting the Miss Marple stories, starring Geraldine McEwan then Julia McKenzie, distinct from the BBC's Joan Hickson Miss Marple (1984–1992).
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Agatha Christie's Poirot, the ITV British crime drama (1989–2013), adapted every Hercule Poirot story in 13 series and 70 episodes starring David Suchet, ending with Curtain: Poirot's Last Case.
Agatha Christie's Tommy & Tuppence
Tommy & Tuppence (Tommy and Tuppence Beresford) are Agatha Christie's husband-and-wife detective duo, debuting in The Secret Adversary (1922) and appearing in four novels plus Partners in Crime; the only Christie detectives to age in real time, adapted on screen from 1928 to the 2026 BritBox series.
Agatha Harkness
Agatha Harkness, Marvel witch created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in Fantastic Four #94 (1969), governess to Franklin Richards and Darkhold-linked sorceress, adapted as Kathryn Hahn's villain in WandaVision and Agatha All Along.
Agatha Harkness (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Agatha Harkness (MCU) is the witch played by Kathryn Hahn, introduced as Agnes in WandaVision (2021) and lead of Disney+'s Agatha All Along (2024), adapted from Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's Fantastic Four #94 witch.
Agatha of Sicily
Agatha of Sicily (Sant'Agata), also known as Saint Agatha, is a virgin martyr who died at Catania around 251 and is patroness of Catania against fire and eruptions.
Agatha Raisin
Agatha Raisin is a fictional amateur detective created by Scottish author M.C. Beaton, first appearing in 1992, whose cozy mystery series has run to more than thirty novels and a television adaptation.
Agatha Raisin (TV series)
Agatha Raisin is a British comedy-drama television series starring Ashley Jensen, based on M.C. Beaton's mystery novels about a retired London publicist solving murders in a Cotswolds village.
Agatha: Darkhold Diaries
Agatha: Darkhold Diaries was the 2023 working title of the Marvel Disney+ series released as Agatha All Along, following House of Harkness and Coven of Chaos before the final rename.
Agathangelos
Agathangelos (Ἀγαθάγγελος) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1826 to 1830, spanning the year Greece became independent; he was deposed in 1830 and exiled to Kayseri and Edirne.
Agathe Uwilingiyimana
Agathe Uwilingiyimana, Rwandan MDR politician, education minister 1992–1993 and first female Prime Minister of Rwanda 1993–1994, assassinated by Presidential Guard soldiers with 10 Belgian UNAMIR peacekeepers on 7 April 1994.
Agathis
Agathis (kauri, dammar) is a genus of about 19 large Araucariaceae conifers of Malesia to New Zealand rainforests, valued for timber and copal, sister to Wollemia, with Cenozoic fossils from Australasia and Patagonia.
Agathis australis
Agathis australis (kauri) is New Zealand's giant Araucariaceae conifer, 30–60 m tall, endemic north of 38° S, culturally a Māori taonga, and threatened by the incurable soil-borne pathogen Phytophthora agathidicida (kauri dieback).
Agathis dammara
Agathis dammara (almaciga, dammar pine, East Indian kauri) is a Vulnerable Araucariaceae conifer tree native to the Philippines, Sulawesi, and Maluku, source of dammar copal resin and lightweight kauri timber.
Agathiyan (அகத்தியன்)
Agathiyan (அகத்தியன்), also spelled Ahathian, born Karunanidhi in 1952, is a Tamil film director, screenwriter, producer, lyricist, and actor, first Tamil director to win the National Film Award for Best Direction, for Kadhal Kottai (1996).
Agathoclea
Agathoclea, also transliterated Agathokleia, was a mistress of King Ptolemy IV Philopator who with her brother Agathocles dominated the Alexandrian court until a mob killed the family in 203 BC.
Agathocles (minister of Ptolemy IV)
Agathocles was a Ptolemaic courtier who served as chief minister under Ptolemy IV and then regent for the child Ptolemy V, until an Alexandrian mob killed him in 203 BC.
Agathocles of Bactria
Agathocles (Agathokles) Dikaios, "the Just," Greek king of the Euthydemid house in Bactria and the Indo-Greek lands, second century BC; issued the oldest bilingual coins south of the Hindu Kush, Brahmi legends, first silver coins with Indic deities, and pedigree tetradrachms.
Agathocles's invasion of Africa
Agathocles's invasion of Africa, also called Agathocles's African campaign, was the crossing of a Syracusan army under Agathocles to North Africa in 310 BC to fight Carthage there until the peace of 306 BC.
Agathodaemon
Agathodaemon (Agathos Daimon, Ἀγαθὸς Δαίμων), the ancient Greek "good spirit" of fortune, honored with unmixed wine after meals, paired with Agathe Tyche, shown as a snake, and worshipped as protector of houses and of Alexandria.
Agathokleia (Indo-Greek queen)
Agathokleia (Ἀγαθόκλεια) was an Indo-Greek queen who served as regent for the young king Strato I, generally identified as her son, in the late second century BCE.
Agathoxylon
Agathoxylon Hartig 1848 is a morphogenus for Araucaria-like fossil wood with araucarian tracheid pitting and araucarioid cross-fields, replacing the illegitimate Araucarioxylon; recorded from Devonian to Holocene, especially Mesozoic Gondwana.
Agatolimod
Agatolimod (CpG 7909, PF-3512676, ProMune, VaxImmune, ODN 2006) is a synthetic class B CpG oligodeoxynucleotide TLR9 agonist developed by Coley and Pfizer; its cancer development was discontinued after failed phase III NSCLC trials.
Agave
Agave is a genus of succulent, rosette-forming plants in the family Asparagaceae, native from the southwestern United States to Venezuela and especially numerous in Mexico.
Agave americana
Agave americana, the century plant or maguey americano, is a monocarpic CAM succulent native from the southern USA to Mexico, tolerating −9 °C, flowering once on a stalk up to 10 m, and used for pulque, fiber, medicine, and ornament.
Agave fructans
Agave fructans (agavins) are branched fructose polymers with β(2→1) and β(2→6) linkages from Agave tequilana and related species; GRAS-recognized prebiotic fibers used as fat and sugar replacers.
Agave Landscape and Ancient Industrial Facilities of Tequila
UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape in Jalisco, Mexico, inscribed 12 July 2006 under criteria ii, iv, v, vi; 35,018.85 ha of blue agave fields, distilleries, and Guachimontones between Tequila Volcano and the Rio Grande.
Agave Linea
Agave Linea is a linea, or linear ridge complex, on Jupiter's moon Europa near Conamara Chaos, IAU-approved in 1997, at least 2000 km long with about 5 km of left-lateral offset.
Agave lophantha
Agave lophantha (thorncrest century plant, maguey mezortillo), also called Agave univittata, is a compact succulent agave from SW Texas to NE Mexico, flowering once on a 12-foot stalk; secure (G5), grown as 'Quadricolor' and 'Splendida' ornamentals.
Agave syrup
Agave syrup, or agave nectar, is a post-1990 liquid sweetener from Agave salmiana and A. tequilana sap, made by hydrolyzing fructans; up to 90% fructose, glycemic index 10–27, regulated by NOM-003-SAGARPA-2016.