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Agogo Oil Field
The Agogo oil field is a deepwater field in Block 15/06, about 180 kilometers off Angola, discovered by Eni in 2019 and now producing through the Agogo Integrated West Hub.
Agomab Therapeutics
AgomAb Therapeutics NV is a clinical-stage Belgian biopharmaceutical company in Antwerp developing tissue-restricted TGFβ pathway inhibitors for fibrostenosing Crohn's disease and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, listed on Nasdaq since 2026.
Agomelatine
Agomelatine (Valdoxan, Thymanax) is a melatonin MT1/MT2 agonist and 5-HT2C antagonist antidepressant approved in Europe in 2009 for major depressive episodes in adults, taken 25–50 mg at bedtime with mandatory liver monitoring.
Agon
Agon, also sold as Queen's Guard, is a two-player abstract strategy game on a hexagonal board of 91 cells, won by seating a queen on the central throne.
Agonda Surf School
Agonda Surf School: surf schools on Agonda Beach, South Goa, led by Aloha Surf India (founded 2014 by pioneer surfer Velu), teaching on Goa's most consistent South Goa beach break, 2–5 ft waves, October–May season.
Agonglo
Agonglo was King of Dahomey, a West African kingdom in present-day Benin, reigning from 1789 to 1797 as the eighth king of the dynasty at Abomey.
Agonis
Agonis (peppermints) is a genus of aromatic Myrtaceae shrubs and trees endemic to south-west Western Australia, with white flowers in globular heads and woody 3-valved capsules; type species Agonis flexuosa, the willow myrtle.
Agonist
Agonist: a receptor-binding ligand that activates signaling, defined by affinity and efficacy. Covers full, partial, inverse, and biased agonists, Stephenson's 1956 efficacy concept, and the affinity-efficacy problem.
Agonium Rupes
Agonium Rupes, a large scarp (rupes) on asteroid 4 Vesta, 111 km across, centered near 53°S 316°E. IAU-approved 2011; named for the Roman Agonia festival, when the Rex sacrorum offered a ram in the Regia.
Agony (2018 video game)
Agony (Madmind Studio, Playway S.A., 29 May 2018) is a first-person survival horror set in hell with demon possession; Kickstarter-funded, censorship controversy, Agony Unrated edition, Metacritic 47 on PC.
Agony (Агония) (1981 film)
Agony (Агония), also released as Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin, is Elem Klimov's 1981 Mosfilm two-part historical drama on Rasputin and Nicholas II in 1916, completed in 1975, shelved by censors, and released in the USSR only in 1985.
Agony in the Garden
The Agony in the Garden is the Gospel episode of Jesus praying in anguish at Gethsemane the night before his crucifixion, and the First Sorrowful Mystery of the Rosary.
Agora (film)
Agora (Ágora) is a 2009 Spanish historical drama directed by Alejandro Amenábar, starring Rachel Weisz as Hypatia of Alexandria amid 4th-century Christian-pagan conflict; 7 Goya wins, 55% Tomatometer, $617.8K US gross.
Agora (ἀγορά)
The agora (ἀγορά) was the open public square of an ancient Greek city, serving as marketplace and civic center for government, religion, and culture, like the Roman forum.
Agora at Malia
Agora at Malia: the so-called "agora", a large open courtyard northwest of the Middle Minoan palace at Malia, Crete; once read as a popular assembly place, now re-dated as a multi-phase urban sector (c. 2350–1200 BC).
Agora of Halaesa
Agora of Halaesa: excavated principal public square of Halaesa Arconidea (Tusa, Sicily), founded 403 BC; second-century-BC brick-paved square with L-shaped double portico, cult chambers, and imperial-period remodeling.
Agora of the Competaliasts or Hermaists
Agora of the Competaliasts or Hermaists (Agora des Compétaliastes, GD 2): paved trapezoidal marketplace and sanctuary of Italian merchant colleges at the harbor of Delos, created late 3rd-2nd century BC, later residential.
Agora of the Italians
Agora of the Italians (Porticus Italica), a late 2nd-century BC porticoed enclosure of 3440 m2 on Delos, built by Italian merchants; reinterpreted by Trümper as a luxurious porticoed garden with baths, not a marketplace.
Agora, Inc.
Agora, Inc., also known as Shengwang (声网) in China, is a technology company founded by Tony Zhao in 2014 that provides APIs for real-time video, voice, and chat in apps.
Agoraphobia
Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder involving marked fear of two or more situations, such as public transport, open or enclosed spaces, crowds, or leaving home alone, where escape seems difficult; formerly tied to panic disorder, it became an independent DSM-5 diagnosis with about 1%–1.7% annual prevalence.
Agoraphobic Nosebleed
Agoraphobic Nosebleed (ANb), American grindcore/cybergrind band formed 1994 in Springfield, Massachusetts, led by Scott Hull of Pig Destroyer; known for drum-machine grind, the 100-song Altered States of America, and the 2016 sludge EP Arc.
Agostinho Neto
Agostinho Neto was an Angolan poet, physician, and nationalist leader who led the MPLA and became the first president of Angola on its independence in 1975.
Agostino Abbagnale
Agostino Abbagnale, Italian rower (born 1966, Pompei), brother of Giuseppe and Carmine Abbagnale; won three Olympic rowing golds (quadruple sculls 1988 and 2000, double sculls 1996) despite thrombophlebitis, plus 2006 Thomas Keller Medal.
Agostino Rocca
Agostino Rocca (1895–1978) was an Italian-born engineer and industrialist who founded the Techint group in Milan in 1945 and built it into the biggest business group in Argentina.
Agostino Steffani
Agostino Steffani (1655–1728) was an Italian composer, Catholic priest, and diplomat who served as Kapellmeister at Hanover and ended his career as a bishop in Germany.
Agostino Straulino
Agostino Straulino (1914–2004) was an Italian admiral and competitive sailor who won Olympic gold in the Star class at Helsinki in 1952 and took three world championships.
Agoura Hills, California
Agoura Hills is a city in Los Angeles County, California, in the Santa Monica Mountains foothills near the eastern Conejo Valley, straddling U.S. 101 about 36 miles west of downtown Los Angeles, incorporated December 8, 1982.
Agouti
Agouti (Dasyprocta), also called red-rumped agouti, a Neotropical rodent genus of about 11 species from Central and South American rainforests; omnivorous scatter-hoarders, the only mammals able to open Brazil nut husks.
AGP Inline Memory Module
The AGP Inline Memory Module (AIMM), also sold as the Graphics Performance Accelerator, is a 4 MB daughterboard that plugs into an AGP slot as display cache for Intel 815E integrated graphics.
AGR2
AGR2 (anterior gradient 2, PDIA17, HAG-2) is a human ER-resident protein disulfide isomerase on chromosome 7p21.1 with a non-canonical CXXS active site; it folds mucins and EGFR, is overexpressed in many cancers, and is secreted pro-oncogenically.