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AGS-17 (Пламя)
AGS-17 Plamya (АГС-17 «Пламя", "Flame") is a Soviet 30 mm automatic, tripod-mounted, belt-fed grenade launcher adopted in 1971, prominent in Afghanistan and still widely in service.
AGT Food and Ingredients Inc.
AGT Food and Ingredients Inc. is a Regina, Saskatchewan-based processor and exporter of pulses, staple foods, and plant-based ingredients, co-founded in 2001 by Murad Al-Katib as Saskcan Pulse Trading.
AGTR1
AGTR1, also known as angiotensin II receptor type 1 (AT1R), is a human gene on chromosome 3 encoding a G protein-coupled receptor targeted by ARB drugs.
AGTR2
AGTR2 (angiotensin II receptor type 2, AT2, MRX88) is an Xq23 gene encoding a GPCR for angiotensin II, highly expressed in fetal tissue, pro-apoptotic, linked to disputed X-linked cognitive disability and cardiovascular SNP associations.
Agua
Volcan de Agua (Hunahpu), a 3,760 m dormant Guatemalan stratovolcano near Antigua; no historical eruptions, but its 1541 lahar destroyed Ciudad Vieja, first capital, killing over 600.
Agua Dulce (natural gas hub)
Agua Dulce is a natural gas trading hub in Nueces County, South Texas, linking Permian Basin and Eagle Ford production to Gulf Coast LNG terminals and Mexican demand.
Agua Dulce, California
Agua Dulce is an unincorporated census-designated place in Los Angeles County, California, population 3,451 (2020), home to the 945-acre Vasquez Rocks Natural Area and governed under a low-density rural Community Standards District.
Água Grande Oil and Gas Field
Água Grande, also known as Campo de Petróleo e Gás de Água Grande, is an onshore oil and gas field in Bahia, Brazil, discovered in 1951.
Agua Marina
Agua Marina is a Peruvian cumbia orchestra formed in 1976 in Sechura, Piura, by the Quiroga Querevalú brothers and known as "La Universidad de la Cumbia".
Agua Negra Pass
Agua Negra Pass (Paso de Agua Negra) is a 4,780-meter Andean pass linking San Juan Province, Argentina, with Chile's Coquimbo Region, the highest Argentina–Chile border crossing.
Agua Nueva Formation
Agua Nueva Formation: Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) marine limestone-marl-bentonite unit of northeastern Mexico, defined by Muir 1934, type locality Cañon de la Borrega, Sierra de Tamaulipas; also an Eagle Ford-like shale play.
Água Vermelha hydroelectric plant
The Água Vermelha hydroelectric plant, officially Usina Hidrelétrica Senador José Ermírio de Moraes, stands on the Grande River between São Paulo and Minas Gerais, Brazil, generating 1,396 MW from six Francis turbines.
Água Viva
Água Viva is a 1973 book by the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, a plotless hybrid of novel, poetry, and essay narrated by an unnamed female painter.
Agua y Paz Biosphere Reserve
Agua y Paz Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de Biosfera Agua y Paz), a UNESCO MAB site designated 2007 in northern Costa Rica, covering 916,121 ha of the San Juan River basin with volcanoes, Ramsar wetlands like Caño Negro, Maleku indigenous territory, and major hydro, geothermal and wind energy plants.
Aguada de la Arena Oil and Gas Field
Aguada de la Arena is a hydrocarbon field in the Vaca Muerta shale, Neuquén Province, Argentina, granted as a concession in 1997 and owned and operated by YPF.
Aguada Pichana
Aguada Pichana is a major natural gas and condensate field in Neuquén province, Argentina, one of the country's main gas producers, first developed in 1996.
Aguadilla-Isabela, PR Metro Area
Aguadilla-Isabela, PR Metro Area (CBSA 10380), also titled Aguadilla-Isabela-San Sebastián, is a northwestern Puerto Rico metropolitan statistical area of eight municipios, with about 250,000 residents in 2023 and 53,100 nonfarm jobs.
Aguardiente
Aguardiente (Spanish/Portuguese aguardente, "burning water") is a general term for distilled spirits, chiefly sugarcane liquor in Latin America; in Brazil a byproduct of sugar mills used as trade currency, in Colombia an anise-flavored national drink.
Aguas Andinas
Aguas Andinas is a Chilean publicly traded water utility that produces, distributes, and treats water for the Metropolitan Region of Santiago, serving about 8.5 million people.
Aguas Blancas massacre
The Aguas Blancas massacre was the 1995 killing of 17 unarmed peasants by Guerrero state police in Mexico; the recorded video forced the governor's resignation.
Aguas de Barcelona
Aguas de Barcelona, known as Agbar, is a Spanish water group founded in 1867 whose operating company supplies drinking water to 23 Barcelona-area municipalities, serving about 3 million people.
Águas de Portugal
Águas de Portugal (AdP) is the Portuguese state-owned holding company that develops and operates the country's bulk water supply and wastewater systems, created in 1993.
Águas Lindas de Goiás
Águas Lindas de Goiás, a municipality in Goiás, Brazil, 50 km from Brasília; created 1995 from Santo Antônio do Descoberto, 225,693 residents (2022 census), 191.817 km², fast migrant-driven growth, RIDE member.
Aguas Vivas Gas Field
Aguas Vivas is a natural gas field in the Lower Magdalena Valley basin of Colombia, in the Sucre and Córdoba departments, discovered in 2021 and operated by Canacol Energy.
Aguascalientes
Aguascalientes: small landlocked state in central Mexico, capital Ciudad de Aguascalientes, 11 municipalities, founded as a villa in 1575, statehood 1857; major producer of guava, vehicles, and exports.
Aguateca
Aguateca was a fortified Classic Maya city in the Petexbatun region of Peten, Guatemala, serving as the second, twin capital of the Petexbatun kingdom alongside Dos Pilas until its violent end around AD 810.
Agüeybaná II
Agüeybaná II, also called Agüeybaná El Bravo, was the principal Taíno cacique of Puerto Rico who led the island's first indigenous revolt against Spain in 1511.
Aguilera
Aguilera (Volcán Aguilera) is a 2,546 m dacitic stratovolcano in the southernmost Chilean Andes, part of the Austral Volcanic Zone, whose large eruption around 1253 BCE left a widespread ash layer used to date Patagonian sediments.
Aguinaldo Ribeiro
Aguinaldo Ribeiro is a Brazilian politician, Federal Deputy for Paraíba since 2011, Minister of Cities under Dilma Rousseff, and since 2024 Leader of the Majority in the National Congress.
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes) is Werner Herzog's 1972 New German Cinema feature starring Klaus Kinski as the mutinous conquistador Lope de Aguirre, a doomed 1560 El Dorado expedition filmed in the Peruvian Amazon.