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Ahatmilku

Ahatmilku, also written Ahat-milki, was a 13th-century BC queen of Ugarit, wife of King Niqmepa and mother of King Ammiṯtamru II, known from tablets excavated at Ras Shamra.

Ahaz

Ahaz, also known as Jehoahaz II, was king of Judah in the 8th century BC, son of Jotham and father of Hezekiah, who made Judah an Assyrian vassal.

Ahaziah of Israel

Ahaziah of Israel (Hebrew אֲחַזְיָה), son of Ahab and Jezebel, was king of Israel for about two years in the mid-9th century BC, dying after a fall in Samaria.

Ahaziah of Judah

Ahaziah of Judah, also called Jehoahaz, was a king of Judah who reigned less than a year and was killed in Jehu's coup in 841 BC.

AHCY

AHCY (adenosylhomocysteinase, SAHH, EC 3.3.1.1) is the sole mammalian enzyme hydrolyzing S-adenosylhomocysteine to adenosine and homocysteine, controlling cellular methylation capacity; its gene sits on chromosome 20q11.22, and biallelic mutations cause rare autosomal recessive hypermethioninemia (OMIM 613752).

Ahdab Oil and Gas Field

The Ahdab oil field (Al-Ahdab, Ahdeb) is an onshore field in Wasit Governorate, Iraq, discovered in 1979 and site of Iraq's first post-2003 technical service contract with China's CNPC.

Ahdath of Baghdad

The Ahdath of Baghdad (أحداث بغداد) were armed bands of young men who fought in the Abbasid capital's streets and were employed by rulers as irregular troops.

AHDC1-related intellectual disability-obstructive sleep apnea-mild dysmorphism syndrome

AHDC1-related intellectual disability-obstructive sleep apnea-mild dysmorphism syndrome, also called Xia-Gibbs syndrome (MIM 615829), is a rare autosomal dominant neurodevelopmental disorder from de novo truncating AHDC1 variants, causing developmental delay, hypotonia, sleep apnea, and dysmorphism.

Ahdname of 1740

The Ahdname of 1740 (عهدنامه ۱۷۴۰) was an Ottoman capitulatory treaty granted to France by Sultan Mahmud I at Constantinople in 1740, rewarding French mediation at Belgrade and making France's trade privileges permanent.

AheadComputing, Inc.

AheadComputing, Inc. is a RISC-V CPU intellectual-property startup founded in 2024 by four former Intel architects, led by CEO Debbie Marr and based in Beaverton, Oregon.

Ahebi Ugbabe

Ahebi Ugbabe was an Igbo woman of Enugu-Ezike, Nigeria, who became the only female warrant chief in colonial Nigeria and king of her community, dying in 1948.

Ahed Tamimi

Ahed Tamimi (عهد التميمي), Palestinian activist born 2001 in Nabi Saleh; jailed eight months in 2018 after a viral slapping video, arrested again November 2023 and released in truce deal.

Ahegao (アヘ顔)

Ahegao (アヘ顔), literally "panting face," is a Japanese adult manga, anime, and game trope of an exaggerated ecstatic expression with rolled eyes and open mouth; documented in 1990s porn magazines, popularized by Takeda's 2009 Tsundero, later an internet meme and fashion print.

Ahhiyawa

Ahhiyawa (earlier Ahhiya) is a Late Bronze Age land known only from Hittite cuneiform texts, most often identified with the Mycenaean palatial states of Greece.

Ahhiyawa texts

The Ahhiyawa texts are about twenty-six Hittite tablets, written between the fifteenth and thirteenth centuries BC, that mention a land most scholars identify with the Mycenaean Greek world.

Ahhotep I

Ahhotep I, also known as Ahhotpe, was an Egyptian queen of Thebes, wife of Seqenenre Tao and mother of Ahmose I, active around 1560-1530 BC.

Ahhotep II

Ahhotep II is the conventional name for a queen of Egypt's Seventeenth Dynasty, hypothetically a wife of King Kamose, whose gilded coffin was found at Thebes in 1859.

Aḫḫulla

Aḫḫulla, also written Aḫḫula, is a land of the Hittite Old Kingdom, attested only in the Proclamation of Telipinu among territories lost under King Ammuna around 1550 BC.

Ahí (Karol G and Drake song)

Ahí is a 2026 reggaeton-pop duet by Karol G and Drake, track four on No Me Arrepiento de Sentir Tanto, their first official collaboration, with Drake singing in Spanish and interpolating his song New Bestie.

Ahi brotherhoods

The Ahi brotherhoods (آخی) were urban fraternities of craftsmen in medieval Anatolia, traditionally founded by the Sufi tanner Ahi Evran in Kayseri in the early 13th century.

Ahí está el Detalle

Ahí está el Detalle (1940), Juan Bustillo Oro's Mexican comedy starring Cantinflas in his first feature, about a confusion between a dog and a gangster both named Bobby, ending in a famous trial scene.

Ahi Evran

Ahi Evran (آخی اوران), born in Hoy around 1171, was a Sufi shaykh and leatherworker who founded the Ahi craftsmen brotherhoods of Anatolia under the Seljuks.

Ahi Evren

Ahi Evren (آخی اورن), born Sheyh Nasreddin Mahmud el-Hoyi, was a 13th-century Sufi shaykh in Seljuk Anatolia who founded the Ahilik craft brotherhood and was killed at Kirshehir in 1261.

Ahiflower (Buglossoides arvensis) seed oil

Ahiflower oil, pressed from the seeds of corn gromwell (Buglossoides arvensis), is a non-GMO plant oil rich in stearidonic acid, an omega-3 the body converts to EPA.

Ahijah of Shiloh

Ahijah of Shiloh, or Ahijah the Shilonite, was an Israelite prophet of the 10th century BC who foretold that Jeroboam would rule ten tribes breaking from Solomon's house.

Ahikam son of Shaphan

Ahikam (Hebrew אֲחִיקָם) was a high royal official of Judah in the late 7th century BC, son of the secretary Shaphan, father of Gedaliah, and protector of Jeremiah.

Ahilyabai Holkar (अहिल्याबाई होळकर)

Ahilyabai Holkar was the queen who ruled the Holkar state of Malwa in central India from 1767 to 1795, best known for rebuilding the Kashi Vishwanath temple in 1780.

Ahimaaz

Ahimaaz, also rendered Achimaas, was the son of the high priest Zadok and a courier for David during Absalom's revolt, outrunning the Cushite to bring news of the victory.

Ahimelech

Ahimelech, also spelled Ahimelek, was a priest at Nob during Saul's reign who gave fleeing David the showbread and Goliath's sword, and was killed on Doeg's denunciation.

Ahimiti (king of Ashdod)

Ahimiti, also Aḫimti, was a king of the Philistine city of Ashdod, placed on the throne by Sargon II after the deposition of his brother Azuri.