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Akashic records
The Akashic records, also called the Memory of Nature, are an esoteric doctrine holding that all events and thoughts are recorded in akasha and readable by clairvoyants.
Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor
Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor (ロクでなし魔術講師と禁忌教典, Rokudenashi Majutsu Kōshi to Akashic Records) is a 24-volume light novel by Tarō Hitsuji (2014–2023), 26th Fantasia Taisho Grand Prize winner, with a 2017 Liden Films anime and a completed 16-volume manga.
Akashteer
Akashteer is an automated air defense control and reporting system built by Bharat Electronics Limited for the Indian Army, first used in combat in May 2025.
Akasol
Akasol is a German manufacturer of lithium-ion battery systems for buses, commercial vehicles, rail, and marine applications, based in Darmstadt and owned by BorgWarner since 2022.
Akassa raid
The Akassa raid was a January 1895 attack by King Koko and some 1,500 Nembe warriors on the Royal Niger Company's headquarters depot at Akassa, in present-day Nigeria.
Akassia Aqua Park
Akassia Aqua Park (Akassia Splash World) is the resort water park of Akassia Swiss Resort, 36 km north of Marsa Alam Airport, El Quseir, Egypt, with 22 attractions including 12 adult slides, a wave pool, lazy river, and kids' Aqua Tower; shared by three hotels until its 2026 split into fenced zones.
Akathisia
Akathisia: drug-induced movement disorder with inner restlessness and compulsive movement, mainly from antipsychotics; assessed with the Barnes Akathisia Rating Scale; treated with mirtazapine, propranolol, biperiden, or vitamin B6.
Akatsuki
Akatsuki, also designated PLANET-C, was JAXA's Venus Climate Orbiter, launched in 2010; after a failed 2010 orbit insertion it reached Venus in 2015 and studied its atmosphere for over 8 years.
Akaval
Akaval (அகவல்) is the Tamil name for the āciriyappā verse meter, one of four classical meters in Tamil prosody, known for its flowing, speech-like sound and used in works like Avvaiyar's Vinayagar Agaval.
Akayla (अकेला)
Akayla (अकेला, "Alone") is a 1991 Hindi action thriller directed by Ramesh Sippy, produced by Mushir-Riaz, starring Amitabh Bachchan as Inspector Vijay Verma; loosely based on Dirty Harry, released 8 November 1991, mixed reviews, weak box office.
Akaysha Energy
Akaysha Energy is an Australian utility-scale battery storage developer, founded in 2021 and owned by BlackRock, best known for the Waratah Super Battery in New South Wales.
Akazome Emon
Akazome Emon (赤染衛門, ca. 960–after 1041) was a Japanese waka poet and court lady of the mid-Heian period, traditionally credited with the first part of Eiga monogatari.
Akazu
The akazu, meaning "little house" in Kinyarwanda, was the inner circle around Agathe Kanziga, wife of Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana, that held power until 1994.
AKB48
AKB48 (Akihabara48) is the Tokyo-based female idol group founded by producer Yasushi Akimoto in 2005 around the "idols you can meet" concept, with its Akihabara theater, Senbatsu General Election, and 12 sister groups across Japan and Asia; known for record Oricon singles streaks, distinct from Nogizaka46 and SNH48.
AKB48 Theater (Akihabara)
AKB48 Theater (AKB48劇場) is the performance venue of the Japanese idol group AKB48, on the 8th floor of a Don Quijote store in Akihabara, Tokyo, opened in 2005.
Akbaba
Akbaba was a weekly Turkish political humor magazine published, with interruptions, from 1922 to 1977, the longest-running humor magazine of the Republican era, combining satire with literary content.
Akbank
Akbank is a Turkish private universal bank founded in Adana in 1948 to finance cotton producers, now headquartered in Istanbul and majority held by Sabancı Holding.
Akbar (اکبر)
Akbar (اکبر, 1542-1605), third Mughal emperor, reigned 1556-1605, built the empire's mansabdari administration, tax system, and sulh-e kull religious tolerance policy.
Akbar Al Baker (أكبر الباكر)
Akbar Al Baker (أكبر الباكر) is a Qatari executive who served as Group Chief Executive of Qatar Airways from 1997 to 2023, building it into a major international carrier.
Akbar Bugti
Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti (1927–2006), Baloch tribal chief and Pakistani politician, served as governor and chief minister of Balochistan and federal minister of state, founded the Jamhoori Watan Party, and was killed by Pakistani forces in Kohlu in 2006.
Akbar Djuraev
Akbar Djuraev (Акбар Джураев), Uzbek weightlifter born 1999 in Tashkent; Tokyo 2020 Olympic 109 kg champion with 430 kg Olympic record total, Paris 2024 102 kg silver medallist, world champion 2021 and 2023.
Akbar Gbaja-Biamila
Akbar Gbajabiamila (Akbar Oluwakemi-Idowu Gbaja-Biamila), American TV host and former NFL linebacker/defensive end (Raiders, Chargers, Dolphins); co-host of American Ninja Warrior, The Talk, and Good Morning Football.
Akbar Hydari
Akbar Hydari (اکبر حیدری) was an Indian civil servant who served as prime minister of Hyderabad State from 1937 to 1941 and founded Osmania University.
Akbar II (اکبر شاہ دوم)
Akbar II (اکبر شاہ دوم), Mu'in al-Din Abu Nasr Muhammad, penultimate Mughal emperor 1806–1837, nominal ruler under East India Company paramountcy, father and predecessor of Bahadur Shah Zafar, buried at Mehrauli.
Akbar Khan (director)
Akbar Khan (born 1949, Bangalore) is an Indian actor, producer, screenwriter and director, youngest brother of Feroz and Sanjay Khan; maker of Haadsa (1983) and Taj Mahal: An Eternal Love Story (2005), which won two National Film Awards.
Akbar Padamsee
Akbar Padamsee (1928–2020) was an Indian modernist painter, sculptor, and filmmaker in Bombay, known for his monochrome Grey Series, abstract metascapes, and Mirror Image paintings, awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2010.
Akbar Rafsanjanī (اکبر هاشمی رفسنجانی)
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (اکبر هاشمی رفسنجانی), Iranian cleric-statesman born 1934 in Rafsanjan, first parliament speaker, Iran's president 1989-1997, kingmaker of Khamenei's succession, later ally of reformists; died 2017.
Akbar's conquest of Kashmir
Akbar's conquest of Kashmir (اکبر کی کشمیر فتح) was the Mughal annexation of the Kashmir valley in 1586, ending Chak rule; Mughal forces under Qasim Khan took Srinagar that October.
Akbar's tomb
Akbar's tomb at Sikandra near Agra is the five-storey pyramidal mausoleum of Mughal emperor Akbar, begun by Akbar himself and completed by Jahangir (1612–1614), a red-sandstone and marble charbagh monument managed by the ASI.
Akbarnama (اکبرنامه)
Akbarnama (اکبرنامه, Book of Akbar): Abu'l-Fazl ʿAllāmī's official Persian chronicle of Mughal emperor Akbar's reign (1556–1605), commissioned 1590, in three volumes, the third being the Ain-i Akbari gazetteer.