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Alarum (film)
Alarum (2025 American action thriller, UK title Mission Alarum), directed by Michael Polish, starring Scott Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone, Willa Fitzgerald, Mike Colter; Lionsgate limited release January 17, 2025; 0% Rotten Tomatoes, $254,370 gross.
Alaryngeal Speech
Alaryngeal speech is speech without a larynx after total laryngectomy, using an electrolarynx, esophageal speech, or tracheoesophageal puncture (TEP) prosthesis; TEP is the gold standard, used by 61.5% of patients.
ALAS2
ALAS2 (5'-aminolevulinate synthase 2, HGNC:397) is an X-chromosome gene encoding the erythroid-specific mitochondrial enzyme catalyzing the first step of heme synthesis; mutations cause X-linked sideroblastic anemia and X-linked protoporphyria.
Alasdair C. Steven
Alasdair C. Steven is a structural biologist who spent his career at NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, using cryo-electron microscopy to study virus capsids and how DNA is packaged inside them.
Alasdair Coles
Alasdair Coles is a British neurologist and neuroimmunologist at the University of Cambridge who developed alemtuzumab as a treatment for relapsing multiple sclerosis and now leads remyelinating drug trials.
Alasdair Gray
Alasdair Gray (1934–2019), Scottish writer and artist from Glasgow, author of Lanark, 1982 Janine, and Poor Things (Whitbread winner), muralist of the Òran Mór ceiling and author of the motto 'Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation'.
Alasdair MacIntyre
Alasdair MacIntyre (1929–2025) was a Scottish-born moral philosopher, author of After Virtue (1981), who diagnosed modern ethics as emotivist and revived Aristotelian virtue ethics, later developing a Thomistic tradition-constituted account of rationality.
Alasdair McDowall
Alasdair McDowall is an electron microscopist who, working with Jacques Dubochet at EMBL Heidelberg, co-developed the 1981 vitrified water film method that made cryo-electron microscopy of biological specimens possible.
Alash Autonomy
The Alash Autonomy (Алаш автономиясы), also called Alash-Orda, was an unrecognized Kazakh autonomy proclaimed in December 1917 on the territory of present-day Kazakhstan and liquidated in 1920.
Alash literature
Alash literature (Алаш әдебиеті) is the body of Kazakh writing produced by the Alash movement from about 1905 to 1930, shaping the national press and literary language.
Alashiya
Alashiya, also written Alasiya or Alasia, was a Late Bronze Age kingdom generally identified with Cyprus, whose kings traded copper with Egypt as equals of the pharaoh.
Alaska
Alaska, the 49th U.S. state (admitted January 3, 1959), largest by area at 570,641 square miles and least densely populated; purchased from Russia in 1867, capital Juneau, population about 738,000 in 2025.
Alaska (singer)
Alaska (Olvido Gara Jova, born 1963, Mexico City) is a Spanish-Mexican singer of the Movida Madrileña, fronting Kaka de Luxe, Alaska y los Pegamoides, Alaska y Dinarama, and since 1989 the electronic duo Fangoria with Nacho Canut.
Alaska & Canada Pacific Coastal
Alaska & Canada Pacific Coastal, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 103, Nearctic temperate coastal rivers from southeastern Alaska through British Columbia to northwestern Washington; main rivers Copper, Fraser, Skagit; endemic Vancouver lamprey.
Alaska Air Group
Alaska Air Group is a Seattle-based airline holding company that operates Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, and Horizon Air, serving more than 140 destinations from hubs including Seattle and Honolulu.
Alaska Airlines
Alaska Airlines, also known as Alaska Air, is a major American airline organized in 1932, operated by Alaska Air Group with hubs in Seattle, Anchorage, Portland, and Honolulu.
Alaska Airlines fleet
The Alaska Airlines fleet is the mainline aircraft fleet of Alaska Airlines, built around Boeing 737 narrowbodies and joined since the 2024 Hawaiian merger by 787 and A330 widebodies.
Alaska Airlines Flight 1282
Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 was a 2024 flight on which a Boeing 737-9 MAX lost its door plug after takeoff from Portland and returned safely.
Alaska Airlines Flight 261
Alaska Airlines Flight 261, MD-83 N963AS, crashed January 31, 2000 near Anacapa Island, killing 88; a worn, unlubricated stabilizer jackscrew acme nut failed, causing loss of pitch control.
Alaska boundary dispute
Alaska boundary dispute: US–Canada disagreement over the Alaska Panhandle border set by the 1825 Anglo-Russian treaty and inherited with the 1867 Alaska purchase; settled October 20, 1903 by the six-member Alaska Boundary Tribunal in London, which upheld the American interpretation.
Alaska Daily
Alaska Daily (ABC, 2022-2023) is an American crime drama created by Tom McCarthy, starring Hilary Swank as disgraced journalist Eileen Fitzgerald investigating missing and murdered Indigenous women in Anchorage; canceled after one 11-episode season in May 2023.
Alaska Democratic Party
The Alaska Democratic Party is the state affiliate of the Democratic Party in Alaska, with over 75,000 registered members and an organized history predating statehood in 1959.
Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G), state agency managing Alaska's fisheries, wildlife, and subsistence programs since 1959; successor to the 1949 territorial fishery service, operating under the Board of Fisheries and Board of Game.
Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities
The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (DOT&PF) is the Alaska state agency responsible for highways, airports, bridges, ferries, and public buildings, with the mission "Keep Alaska Moving."
Alaska Highway
The Alaska Highway, originally the Alcan Highway, is a 2,450-kilometer all-weather road from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, through the Yukon to Delta Junction, built by the U.S. Army in 1942.
Alaska Marine Highway
The Alaska Marine Highway System, also known as the Alaska State Ferries, is Alaska's state-run ferry network linking more than 30 coastal communities, many without road access.
Alaska Native Language Archive
Alaska Native Language Archive (ANLA), at Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks, is the repository for documentation of Alaska's 20+ Native languages, over 15,000 documents dating to the late 1700s, 5,000+ recordings from 1943, formally independent from the ANLC since 2009.
Alaska Natives
Alaska Natives are Alaska's indigenous peoples, including Iñupiat, Yup'ik, Aleut, Athabascan, and Tlingit groups; over 15 percent of Alaskans identify as Native alone, and the 1971 ANCSA settlement created 12 regional Native corporations.
Alaska North Slope
The Alaska North Slope is the petroleum province covering northern Alaska north of the Brooks Range, home to Prudhoe Bay, North America's largest oil field.
Alaska Peninsula
Alaska Peninsula: mainland extension of southwest Alaska between the Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea, ending in the Aleutian Islands. Aleutian volcanic arc, Aniakchak caldera, Area M salmon fisheries, Katmai brown bears, Unangax̂ and Alutiiq homelands.