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Alaksandu
Alakšandu, also known as Alaksandu of Wilusa, was a Late Bronze Age king of Wilusa in western Anatolia who concluded a treaty with Muwatalli II around 1280 BC.
Alal O Dulal
Alal O Dulal (আলাল ও দুলাল) is a Bengali pop song by Bangladeshi singer Azam Khan, recorded around 1975–76 for Bangladesh Television and regarded as his signature song.
Alalakh
Alalakh, also written Alalah, was a Bronze Age city in the Amuq Valley of southern Turkey, now the mound of Tell Atchana, and capital of Mukish.
Alalakh Level VII tablets
The Alalakh Level VII tablets, or Alalah VII archive, are cuneiform tablets from a palace at Tell Atchana, Turkey, dating to the 17th century BC.
Alalakh tablets
The Alalakh tablets are two cuneiform archives excavated at Tell Atchana, ancient Alalakh, in Turkey, from the 18th or 17th and the 15th centuries BC, written chiefly in Akkadian.
Alaler Gharer Dulal
Alaler Gharer Dulal (আলালের ঘরের দুলাল, "The Spoiled Child") is an 1858 Bengali novel by Peary Chand Mitra, writing as Tekchand Thakur, generally counted as the first Bengali novel.
Alalevonadifloxacin
Alalevonadifloxacin (WCK 2349, EMROK O) is an oral L-alanine ester prodrug of the benzoquinolizine fluoroquinolone levonadifloxacin, approved in India in 2019 for ABSSSI including diabetic foot infection, with ~89-90% bioavailability and anti-MRSA activity.
Alalgar
Alalgar, also written Alaljar, is the second legendary antediluvian king of Eridu in the Sumerian King List, credited with a 36,000-year reign after Alulim; Berossus' Alaparos may correspond to him.
Alam Ara
Alam Ara (आलम आरा), 1931 Hindi-Urdu film directed by Ardeshir Irani for Imperial Movietone, was India's first sound (talkie) film, released 14 March 1931 at Bombay's Majestic Cinema; its seven songs founded the Indian film-song tradition, and no print survives.
Alam-ara-ye Nadiri
Alam-ara-ye Nadiri (عالمآرای نادری, "The World-Illuminating History of Nadir") is a Persian chronicle of Nader Shah by Mohammad Kazem Marvi, covering the Afghan revolt through Nader's death.
Alam-Pedja
Alam-Pedja Nature Reserve (Alam-Pedja looduskaitseala), a 34,396 ha protected area in Estonia's Võrtsjärv basin established in 1994; Ramsar site 905 (1997), IBA (2003), Natura 2000, managed by the Environmental Board.
Alamance County
Alamance County, North Carolina: Piedmont county formed in 1849 from western Orange County, seat Graham, named for the 1771 Battle of Alamance; 171,415 residents in 2020, historically a Haw River textile mill region.
Alamania spp.
Alamania (spp.) is a monotypic Mexican orchid genus (Orchidaceae, Laeliinae) with the single species Alamania punicea, described in 1825 and named for Lucas Alamán; it grows as a creeping epiphyte in high oak-pine forests.
Alamar Biosciences
Alamar Biosciences is an American proteomics company founded by Yuling Luo whose NULISA technology detects very low concentrations of protein biomarkers in blood; it trades on Nasdaq as ALMR.
ALAMAT
ALAMAT is a Filipino P-pop boy group formed in 2020 by Viva Artists Agency, which debuted in 2021 with "kbye" and sings in several Philippine languages.
Alameda County, California
Alameda County, California: East Bay county established 1853, seat Oakland, 14 cities, 1,682,353 residents (2020), seventh most populous in California, $6.7B FY 2026-27 budget, AAA credit rating.
Alameda Research
Alameda Research was a cryptocurrency trading firm founded by Sam Bankman-Fried in 2017 that misappropriated roughly $8 billion of FTX customer funds before collapsing in 2022.
Alameda, California
Alameda, California: island city in Alameda County next to Oakland; 78,280 residents (2020 census), incorporated 1872, former Naval Air Station town, low-lying and planning for sea level rise.
Alameddine crime network
Alameddine crime network: family-based Western Sydney organised crime group, rival of the Hamzy family since October 2020; police allege drug importation, extortion, murder for hire; leadership fled to Lebanon in 2023; denied by associates.
Alamein Oil Field
The Alamein oil field is an onshore oil field in Egypt's Western Desert near the Mediterranean coast, discovered in 1966 and among the Western Desert's first producing fields.
Alamgir II (عالمگیر دوم)
Alamgir II (عالمگیر دوم), born Aziz-ud-din, was the sixteenth Mughal emperor, reigning 2 June 1754 to 29 November 1759 as a figurehead under wazir Imad-ul-Mulk, who installed and then assassinated him; his son became Shah Alam II.
Alamgir Karim
Alamgir Karim is a polymer scientist who holds the Dow Chair Professorship at the University of Houston, known for work on polymer thin films and block copolymer self-assembly.
Alamgirnama
The Alamgirnama (عالمگیرنامه) is the official Persian court chronicle of Aurangzeb's first ten regnal years, 1658 to 1668, written by Muhammad Kazim on imperial orders.
Alamgirpur
Alamgirpur, known locally as Parasuram-ka-khera, is an archaeological mound in Meerut district, Uttar Pradesh, India, and the easternmost excavated site of the Indus civilization, occupied from about 2600 BCE.
Alamin Uddin
Alamin Uddin is a software entrepreneur who co-founded NexHealth in 2017 with Waleed Asif, a San Francisco patient experience platform for dental and medical practices.
Alamitos energy center
The Alamitos Energy Center is a natural gas-fired power plant and battery storage site in Long Beach, California, built by AES Corporation and reaching commercial operation in 2020.
Alamkara
Alamkara (अलंकार) is the Sanskrit term for the ornamental figures of speech that embellish poetry; the whole discipline of Sanskrit literary theory is named Alamkara Shastra after it.
Alaṃkāraśāstra of Kashmir
Alaṃkāraśāstra of Kashmir (कश्मीर का अलंकारशास्त्र) is the Kashmiri branch of Sanskrit poetics, the discipline that analyzes the beauty of poetry rather than merely cataloging figures of speech.
Alamo (sculpture)
Alamo, the Astor Place Cube, is Tony Rosenthal's 1967 rotating black Cor-Ten steel cube at Astor Place, Manhattan; the first permanent contemporary outdoor sculpture in New York City, restored in 2005, 2016, and 2023.
Alamo Christian Foundation
The Alamo Christian Foundation, also known as Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, was a communal new religious movement founded by street preachers Tony and Susan Alamo in California in 1969.