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Agbada

Agbada (agbada, also riga or boubou) is the voluminous, wide-sleeved embroidered robe worn by elite men across West Africa, the outer piece of a four-piece Yoruba formal outfit adopted from the Hausa-Fulani riga in the nineteenth century.

Agbadza

Agbadza is a music and dance tradition of the Ewe people of Ghana, Togo, and Benin, combining singing, drumming, and group dance, performed mainly at funerals.

Agbani Darego

Agbani Darego (Ibiagbanidokibubo Asenite Darego, born 1982) is a Nigerian model and beauty queen crowned Miss World 2001 at Sun City, the first Black African winner in the pageant's history.

Agbara Oil and Gas Field

Agbara is a producing oil and gas field in block OML 116 in the offshore Niger Delta, Nigeria, on stream since 1989 with nearly 100 million barrels produced by 2009.

Agbekor

Agbekor, also called Atsiagbekor, is a war music and dance-drumming genre of the Anlo-Ewe people of Ghana, known in Ewe as Atamga, meaning "the great oath."

Agbekoya

Agbekoya, Yoruba for "farmers reject suffering," was a peasant farmers' revolt against taxation in Western State, Nigeria, from 1968 to 1969, forcing the government to cut the flat-rate tax.

Agbia amphitheater

The Agbia amphitheater is a small second-century Roman amphitheater at Henchir Ain Hedja, Tunisia, about 3 km from Dougga, measuring roughly 57 x 42 m with an arena of about 946 m2 and seating near 3,000.

AgBiome

AgBiome was an agricultural biotechnology company founded in 2012 in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, that developed microbial fungicides, including Howler and Theia, from environmental microbes.

AgBiS2 nanocrystal solar cells

AgBiS2 nanocrystal solar cells are thin-film photovoltaic devices using a nontoxic silver bismuth sulfide nanocrystal absorber, first reported in 2016 with 6.3% efficiency and now reaching 10.84%.

AGBO

AGBO, also known as AGBO Films, is an independent film and television studio founded in Los Angeles in 2017 by the Russo brothers and producer Mike Larocca, known for Everything Everywhere All at Once and Extraction.

AGC Inc.

AGC Inc., formerly Asahi Glass Co., is a Japanese glass and chemicals manufacturer founded in 1907, headquartered in Tokyo and known for architectural and automotive glass.

AGCO

AGCO Corporation is an American agricultural equipment manufacturer founded in 1990 and headquartered in Duluth, Georgia, selling tractors and combines under the Fendt, Massey Ferguson, Valtra, and PTx brands.

AGCO Power

AGCO Power is a Finnish diesel engine manufacturer in Nokia, a subsidiary of AGCO Corporation that builds off-road engines for Fendt, Massey Ferguson, and Valtra tractors.

AGCOM

AGCOM (Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni) is Italy's independent regulatory authority for electronic communications, media, and postal services, established by Law No. 249 of 1997.

Agda

Agda is a dependently typed programming language that doubles as a proof assistant, based on Martin-Löf type theory; the current version, Agda 2, was developed at Chalmers from 2005 onward.

Agda Kontula

Agda Kontula, Finnish sprinter of the 1910s; ran 7.0 seconds over 50 metres at Metsäkylä on 24 June 1916, listed in the FSFI-era women's 50 metres world record progression.

Agdenes

Agdenes, former municipality in Trøndelag, Norway, at the entrance to Trondheimsfjorden; created 1896 and 1964, merged into Orkland 1 January 2020; 1,693 inhabitants (2019), center Selbekken.

Agder

Agder is Norway's southernmost county, created in 2020 from Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder, with 25 municipalities, 323,930 residents (2026), and Kristiansand as its largest town and seat.

Sep 29, 2026

Age adjustment

Age adjustment is a statistical standardization method that replaces a population's age distribution with a standard one, allowing fair comparison of disease or death rates.

Age Ain't Nothing but a Number

Age Ain't Nothing but a Number is Aaliyah's 1994 debut R&B album on Blackground/Jive, written and produced almost entirely by R. Kelly. Peaked at No. 18 Billboard 200, double platinum, with singles 'Back & Forth' and 'At Your Best'; overshadowed by her illegal 1994 marriage to Kelly, annulled in 1995.

Age and female fertility

Age and female fertility: the age-linked decline in women's conception and live-birth chances from a fixed, depleting oocyte pool and rising egg aneuploidy; fecundity falls from ~32, faster after 37, with miscarriage and IVF outcomes quantified by age.

Age and health concerns about Donald Trump

Age and health concerns about Donald Trump: the oldest inaugurated U.S. president (80 in 2026), his White House physicals, chronic venous insufficiency, hand bruising, Montreal Cognitive Assessment claims rated False by PolitiFact, and disputed physician disclosures.

Age and health concerns about Joe Biden

Age and health concerns about Joe Biden: public questions about the oldest U.S. president's fitness, intensified by the June 27, 2024 debate, his July 2024 withdrawal, and his 2025 prostate cancer diagnosis.

Age Appropriate Design Code

The Age Appropriate Design Code, known as the Children's code, is a UK Information Commissioner's code setting 15 standards to protect children's online privacy, in force since 2021.

Age Determination by Skeleton

Age determination by skeleton (bone age assessment) estimates skeletal maturity from left hand-wrist radiographs using Greulich-Pyle or Tanner-Whitehouse methods, now increasingly automated by AI software matching human readers, with limited forensic accuracy at age 18.

Age disparity in sexual relationships

Age disparity in sexual relationships: the age gap between sexual or romantic partners. Also called age heterogamy or age-disparate partnerships; typically men are older, gaps average 2–3 years in high-income countries and shrink with development.

Age Distribution

Age distribution is the breakdown of a population by age and sex, shown as population pyramids and tracked in UN World Population Prospects; key facts include 8.2 billion people in 2024, a projected 10.3 billion peak in the mid-2080s, and rising shares of people over 65.