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Alcatel Mobile
Alcatel Mobile, also known as Alcatel OneTouch, is a brand of mobile phones, tablets, and connected devices designed and marketed by TCL Communication in more than 160 countries.
Alcatel Submarine Networks
Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) is a French manufacturer and installer of submarine telecommunications cable systems, majority owned by the French State since 2024 after its sale by Nokia.
Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent S.A. was a French telecommunications equipment company formed by the 2006 merger of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies; it owned Bell Labs until Nokia acquired it in 2016.
Alcator C
Alcator C was a compact high-field tokamak at MIT that began operating in 1978 and first produced the plasma density and confinement needed for useful fusion.
Alcator C-Mod
Alcator C-Mod was a compact, high-magnetic-field tokamak operated at MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center from 1993 to 2016, setting a world plasma pressure record of 2.05 atmospheres on its final day.
Alcatraz (TV series)
Alcatraz (2012) was a Fox science fiction drama executive produced by J.J. Abrams, created by Sarnoff, Lilien and Wynbrandt, in which 302 prisoners and guards who vanished from Alcatraz in 1963 reappear unaged in San Francisco; 13 episodes, canceled May 2012.
Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary
Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary (USP Alcatraz, "The Rock") was a maximum-security federal prison on Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, open 1934-1963, holding about 1,500 inmates including Al Capone, famous for the 1962 Morris-Anglin escape, now a National Park Service landmark.
Alcatraz Island
Alcatraz Island, Spanish "de los alcatraces," is a 22-acre San Francisco Bay island that was a Pacific Coast fortress and Army prison, the federal penitentiary from 1934 to 1963, site of the 1969–1971 Indian occupation, and since 1973 a National Park Service landmark.
Alcazaba de Mérida
The Alcazaba de Mérida is a ninth-century Muslim fortress in Mérida, Spain, built in 835 by the Umayyad emir Abd al-Rahman II to control the rebellious city.
Alcazar (group)
Alcazar is a Swedish nu-disco group formed in Stockholm by Andreas Lundstedt, Tess Merkel, and Lina Hedlund. The group was active across four periods, ending its run in 2018.
Alcázar of Segovia
The Alcázar of Segovia, or Alcázar de Segovia, is a medieval castle and former royal residence of the kings of Castile in Segovia, Spain, now a museum.
Alcázar of Seville
The Alcázar of Seville (Real Alcázar de Sevilla) is a royal palace complex in Seville, Spain, founded in the 10th century and still used by the Spanish royal family.
Alcázar of Toledo
The Alcázar of Toledo is a large square fortress-palace with a tower at each corner, on the highest ground in Toledo, Spain, now housing the Spanish Army Museum.
Alcea
Alcea (hollyhocks) is a genus of about 83 accepted species of Malvaceae herbs native from East Central Europe to Central Asia; Alcea rosea, the hollyhock, is a cultigen from Türkiye grown as an ornamental and used in traditional medicine.
Alcee Hastings
Alcee Hastings (1936-2021), Florida civil rights lawyer, first Black federal judge in Florida, impeached as a federal judge in 1989, then served 15 terms as Democratic U.S. congressman until his death.
Alcelaphus
Alcelaphus is a genus of African antelopes in the family Bovidae, containing the hartebeest as its only living species, with eight subspecies and a shrinking, fragmented range.
Alcest
Alcest is a French blackgaze band founded by Neige (Stéphane Paut), with drummer Winterhalter, formed around 2000 in Bagnols-sur-Cèze. Pioneers of fusing black metal with shoegaze from the 2005 Le Secret EP, with seven albums through Les Chants de l'Aurore (2024).
Alceste à bicyclette
Alceste à bicyclette is a 2013 French comedy-drama directed by Philippe Le Guay, starring Fabrice Luchini as a retired actor drawn back to the theater.
Alceste De Ambris
Alceste De Ambris (1874–1934), Italian revolutionary syndicalist born at Licciana Nardi; led the 1908 Parma agrarian strike, founded the USI, drafted the Carta del Carnaro at Fiume for D'Annunzio, and died an anti-fascist exile in France.
Alcestis
Alcestis is a Greek tragedy by Euripides, first performed in 438 BC, about a wife who dies for her husband and is rescued by Heracles.
Alceu Amoroso Lima
Alceu Amoroso Lima, who wrote as Tristão de Ataíde, was a Brazilian essayist, literary critic, and journalist who became the leading lay figure of Brazilian Catholic intellectual life after converting in 1928.
Alceu Elias Feldmann
Alceu Elias Feldmann, born in 1949, is a Brazilian businessman who founded Fertipar in 1980, a Curitiba fertilizer group with about 15% of Brazil's market, making him a Forbes billionaire.
Alchemical symbol
An alchemical symbol, part of alchemical notation, is a graphic sign denoting a metal, element, or process, the ancestor of chemical formulae replaced by roughly 1820.
Alchemical: Volume 1
Alchemical: Volume 1 is Dove Cameron's debut EP, released December 1, 2023 on Disruptor/Columbia as the first half of a two-part debut album; eight tracks, 22:45, including Boyfriend, Breakfast, Lethal Woman, and Sand.
Alchemilla
Alchemilla (lady's mantle), Rosaceae genus of perennial herbs with palmately lobed leaves and greenish flowers; apomictic microspecies; used traditionally for gynecological and digestive complaints.
Alchemised
Alchemised is SenLinYu's 1,040-page dark fantasy debut (Del Rey, Sept 23 2025), adapted from their viral Harry Potter Dramione fanfic Manacled; Helena Marino and Kaine Ferron replaced Draco and Hermione; 300,000 first-week copies, fastest-selling adult debut in two decades.
Alchemist
Alchemist (アルケミスト) is a 2007 strategy board game by Carlo A. Rossi (AMIGO, Mayfair Games) where players brew potion recipes from colored cubes, self-assign 1–10 victory points, and earn end-game school bonuses; Spiel des Jahres recommended, distinct from the 2014 app game Alchemists.
Alchemist (restaurant)
Alchemist is Rasmus Munk's two-Michelin-star Copenhagen restaurant on Refshaleøen, opened July 4, 2019, serving about 50 'impressions' over six to seven hours under a planetarium dome; ranked fifth-best restaurant in the world in 2025.
Alchemy
Alchemy was a premodern practice, arising in Greco-Roman Egypt around the third century AD, that sought to transmute base metals into gold and prepare elixirs of health and immortality.
Alchemy of Souls (환혼)
Alchemy of Souls (환혼, Hwanhon) is a 2022–2023 tvN Korean fantasy drama by the Hong sisters and director Park Joon-hwa, in two parts, set in fictional Daeho where soul-shifting magic (hwanhonsool) traps assassin Naksu's soul in Mu-deok's body.