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Albinism in humans

Albinism in humans: inherited conditions with reduced or absent melanin, causing hypopigmented hair, skin, and eyes plus vision problems; forms include OCA1-8, ocular albinism, and Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome.

Albinism-deafness syndrome

Albinism-deafness syndrome (albinism-hearing loss syndrome, ADFN, OMIM 300700) is an X-linked recessive rare disorder of congenital sensorineural deafness with piebaldness, no ocular albinism, mapped to Xq26.3-q27.1, distinct from Tietz syndrome.

Albino Gomes

Albino Geovanni Gomes, born 1994 in Goa, is an Indian goalkeeper (1.87 m) who won the 2016-17 I-League with Aizawl FC and later starred for Kerala Blasters, Jamshedpur FC, and Inter Kashi in the ISL; distinct from footballer Angel Gomes.

Albinus

Albinus was abbot of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, from 708 until his death in 732, the first native Englishman to hold the post and Bede's chief helper in writing the Historia ecclesiastica.

Albion

Albion, ancient name for the island of Great Britain, first recorded in the 1st century CE and superseded by Britannia; from Proto-Celtic Albiū, 'upper world' or 'white'; revived poetically by Blake, Drayton, and in Perfidious Albion.

Albion Online

Albion Online is a free-to-play sandbox MMORPG by Sandbox Interactive, launched July 17, 2017, with classless gear-based progression, full-loot PvP zones, a player-driven economy, and cross-platform play on PC, mobile, and Xbox.

Albion Rovers F.C.

Albion Rovers F.C., "The Wee Rovers", is a semi-professional Scottish football club founded in Coatbridge in 1882 from a merger of Albion FC and Rovers FC; Scottish Cup finalist 1920, second-tier champion 1933-34 and 1988-89, now in the Lowland League.

Oct 15, 2026

Albite

Albite is a rock-forming mineral, the sodium end member of the plagioclase feldspar series with formula NaAlSi₃O₈, named in 1815 by Gahn and Berzelius from the Latin albus, white.

Albizia

Albizia is a genus of woody trees and shrubs in the legume family Fabaceae, published in 1772 and best known for the silktree, Albizia julibrissin.

Albizia julibrissin

Albizia julibrissin, silktree or mimosa (Persian silk tree), a Fabaceae tree native from Iran to Japan, grown as an ornamental since the 18th century and now a Category I invasive in Florida and much of the southeastern US.

Albizia lebbeck

Albizia lebbeck, the woman's tongue tree or siris (Mimosa lebbeck L.), a Fabaceae tree native from the Indian subcontinent to Myanmar, grown for fodder, timber, and shade, invasive in Florida and elsewhere.

Albonica

Albonica: an unlocated Roman mansio on route 31 of the Antonine Itinerary between Laminium and Caesarea Augusta (Zaragoza), and a Basque toponym (Alboniga/Almika, Bermeo) first recorded in a 1093 monastery charter.

Albor Fossae

Albor Fossae: IAU-named trough system (fossae) on Mars in the Elysium region, 155 km across, centered 18.09°N 150.78°E, approved 1985 from Antoniadi's albedo feature at 20N, 205W, near Albor Tholus.

Oct 20, 2026

Albor Tholus

Albor Tholus is a basaltic shield-like volcano in Mars' Elysium province, southeast of Elysium Mons, about 160 km across with a 32 km caldera, active over 2 billion years.

Alboran Sea

Alboran Sea (mar de Alborán), westernmost Mediterranean basin between Spain, Morocco, and Algeria at the Strait of Gibraltar; known for its two-layer Atlantic-Mediterranean exchange, Alboran gyres, Almeria-Oran front, and Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot status.

Ålborg Kommune

Aalborg Kommune, written Aalborg Kommune in most official usage, is a Danish municipality in the Region of Northern Jutland governed from the city of Aalborg on the Limfjord.

Alborz Province

Alborz Province (استان البرز, Ostān-e Alborz), Iranian province created June 2010 from Karaj, Savojbolagh, and Nazarabad counties of Tehran Province; capital Karaj, ISO code IR-30, Iran's second most densely populated province.

Albota

Albota is the site of a Roman earth-and-timber auxiliary fort in Argeș County, southern Romania, part of the Limes Transalutanus, the frontier line of Roman Dacia.

Oct 20, 2026

Alboudozerah

Alboudozerah (البودزيرة) is a park and recreation area in Benghazi, Libya, about 7 km north of the city center in Al-Kuwaifiya, built around a natural lake.

Oct 22, 2026

Alboury Ndiaye

Alboury Ndiaye, also rendered Albuuri Njaay (c. 1847–1901), was the last independent king (buurba) of Jolof, a Wolof kingdom in what is now Senegal, and a leader of resistance to the French conquest.

Oct 22, 2026

Albrecht Altdorfer

Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480–1538) was a German painter, printmaker, and architect of the Northern Renaissance active in Regensburg, a leading figure of the Danube School.

Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528), Nuremberg painter, printmaker, and theorist; master of woodcut and engraving (Apocalypse, Melencolia I); first Renaissance artist known firsthand across Europe.

Albrecht E. Sippel

Albrecht E. Sippel is a molecular biologist known for his work on the chicken lysozyme gene, showing it yields multiple mRNAs and mapping protein-DNA interactions around it.

Albrecht Fröhlich

Albrecht Fröhlich (1916–2001) was a British mathematician, born in Munich, who founded the arithmetic theory of Galois module structure and formulated two conjectures proved by his student Martin Taylor.

Albrecht Hofmann

Albrecht Hofmann, also known as Albrecht W. Hofmann, is a German isotope geochemist born in 1939 who showed the mantle's chemical heterogeneity is dominated by recycled ocean crust.

Albrecht III Achilles

Albrecht III Achilles (1414–1486), Hohenzollern margrave of Ansbach and Kulmbach and Elector of Brandenburg 1470–1486; nicknamed the German Achilles by Enea Silvio Piccolomini; issued the Dispositio Achillea of 1473.

Albrecht Kleinschmidt

Albrecht Kleinschmidt, also known as Albrecht Karl Kleinschmidt, was a German physician and microbiologist whose 1959 protein-monolayer technique made individual DNA molecules visible and measurable in the electron microscope.

Albrecht Kossel

Albrecht Kossel (1853–1927) was a German biochemist at the University of Heidelberg who identified the nucleobases adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine, winning the 1910 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Albrecht Penck

Albrecht Penck (1858–1945) was a German geographer and geologist who held chairs of geography at Vienna and Berlin and named the four alpine ice ages.