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Ahab (אַחְאָב)
Ahab (אַחְאָב), ninth-century BC king of Israel and son of Omri, husband of Jezebel, named on the Kurkh Monolith at the Battle of Qarqar (853 BC) with 2,000 chariots, and known biblically for Elijah, Naboth's vineyard, and death at Ramoth-Gilead.
Ahad Khan Cheema
Ahad Khan Cheema is a Pakistani politician serving as Federal Minister for Economic Affairs, with additional charge of the Establishment Division, and a member of the Senate of Pakistan.
Ahad Raza Mir (احاد رضا میر)
Ahad Raza Mir (احاد رضا میر), Pakistani-Canadian actor, son of Asif Raza Mir; starred as Dr. Asfandyar in Yaqeen Ka Safar (Lux Style Award), won a Betty Mitchell Award for Hamlet, and appeared in Resident Evil and World on Fire.
Ahadi cavalry
The Ahadi cavalry (احدی) were troopers of the Mughal Empire enrolled and paid directly by the emperor from crown revenues, reaching about 20,000 under Akbar.
Ahafo
Ahafo is one of Ghana's sixteen administrative regions, created 13 February 2019 by C.I. 114 from Brong-Ahafo, capital Goaso, six districts, population 564,668 (2021), smallest region, gold mining and cocoa economy.
Ahafo North mine
Ahafo North is an open-pit gold mine in Ghana's Ahafo Region, operated by Newmont, with first gold poured in 2025 and commercial production declared that year.
Ahafo South mine
Ahafo South is a large gold mine in Ghana's Ahafo region, near Kenyase and operated by Newmont Ghana Gold Limited, with commercial production since 2006.
Ahaha
Ahaha was an Old Assyrian businesswoman of the nineteenth century BC, daughter of the merchant Pūšu-kēn, known from 47 cuneiform texts at Kanesh in Anatolia.
Ahai hydroelectric plant
The Ahai hydroelectric plant (阿海水电站) is a 2,000 MW hydroelectric station on the middle Jinsha River in Lijiang, Yunnan, China, the fourth of eight cascade steps, fully operational since 2014.
Ahal
Ahal (Ahal welaýaty) is a province of Turkmenistan surrounding but excluding Ashgabat, with 7 districts, capital Arkadag since December 2022, population 886,845 (2022 census), a granary and gas-processing region.
Ahalya (अहल्या)
Ahalya, also spelled Ahilya (अहल्या), is a figure in Hindu mythology, the wife of the sage Gautama, whose encounter with Indra and redemption by Rama form a well-known Ramayana episode.
Ahalyaganj Mound
Ahalyaganj Mound (Ahalyaganj Tila), a destroyed Kushan-period archaeological mound on the Mathura-Brindaban road, Mathura district, Uttar Pradesh; a former ASI centrally protected monument that yielded Buddhist sculptures and was destroyed before 1990.
Aham Reboot
Aham Reboot (అహం రీబూట్) is a 2024 Telugu single-character thriller starring Sumanth as RJ Nilay, written and directed by Prashanth Sagar Atluri, released directly on Aha in mid-2024.
Aham Sharma
Aham Sharma (born 1989, Barh, Bihar) is an Indian television and film actor, an engineering graduate, best known as Karna in Star Plus's Mahabharat (2013–2014); TV debut Chand Ke Paar Chalo (2008), films Blue Oranges and 1962 My Country Land, 2025 return with Sampoorna.
ahamo
ahamo (アハモ) is an online-only mobile phone rate plan and sub-brand of Japanese carrier NTT Docomo, launched in March 2021 with 20 GB of monthly data.
Ahan Shetty
Ahan Shetty, son of Suniel Shetty, is a Hindi-film actor who debuted in Tadap (2021), a remake of RX 100, won the 2022 IIFA Best Debut award, and returned in Border 2 (2026).
Ahanakht I
Ahanakht I, also written Ahanekht, was an ancient Egyptian nomarch and Great Chief of the Hare Nome, buried at Deir el-Bersha in Middle Egypt in the late Eleventh Dynasty.
Ahanta
The Ahanta are an Akan-speaking people of Ghana's western coast, historically organized as a kingdom whose paramount stool sits at Busua in the Western Region.
Ahar-Banas culture
The Ahar-Banas culture, also called the Ahar culture, was a Chalcolithic culture of Mewar in Rajasthan, India, known for copper metallurgy and dated about 3700 to 1800 BCE.
Aharon Appelfeld
Aharon Appelfeld (אהרן אפלפלד; born Erwin Appelfeld, 1932) was an Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor from Bukovina, best known for Badenheim 1939 and the Israel Prize.
Aharon Casher
Aharon Casher (אהרון קאשר), 1941–2018, was an Israeli theoretical physicist at Tel Aviv University, co-discoverer of the Aharonov–Casher effect and known for the Banks–Casher criterion.
Aharon Gedanken
Aharon Gedanken (אהרון גדנקן), born in 1940, is an Israeli chemist and Emeritus Professor at Bar-Ilan University, known for sonochemistry, microwave dielectric heating, and antimicrobial nanoparticle coatings for hospital textiles.
Aharon Kapitulnik
Aharon Kapitulnik is an experimental condensed-matter physicist at Stanford University known for studies of unconventional superconductors, the superconductor-insulator transition, and a Sagnac interferometer detecting broken time-reversal symmetry.
Aharon Katzir
Aharon Katzir (אַהֲרֹן קָצִיר; born Katchalsky) was an Israeli physical chemist who founded polymer research at the Weizmann Institute and won the 1961 Israel Prize.
Aharon Razin
Aharon Razin (אהרן רזין; born Tel Aviv, 1935) was an Israeli biochemist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who established DNA methylation as a mechanism controlling gene expression.
Aharon Rokeach
Aharon Rokeach (1880–1957), called the Wonder Rebbe, was the fourth Rebbe of the Belz Hasidic dynasty from 1926, escaping Nazi-held Galicia in 1943 and rebuilding Belz in Israel.
Aharon Shabtai
Aharon Shabtai (אהרן שבתאי; born 1939 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli poet and translator who rendered Greek drama and Homer into Hebrew and wrote politically charged poetry, including J'Accuse (2003).
Aharonov–Bohm effect
The Aharonov–Bohm effect is a quantum-mechanical phenomenon where a charged particle's phase shifts in field-free regions, predicted by Yakir Aharonov and David Bohm in 1959.
Aharonov–Casher effect
The Aharonov–Casher effect, proposed by Aharonov and Casher in 1984, is the quantum phase a magnetic dipole acquires encircling an electric field, with no force acting.
Ahasuerus (אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ)
Ahasuerus (Hebrew אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ, Achashverosh) is the biblical name of a Persian king, usually identified as Xerxes I, who marries Esther in the Book of Esther.