All articles A–Z
519,064 articles
Alchemy: Dire Straits Live
Alchemy: Dire Straits Live, Dire Straits' first live album, a 1984 double recorded 22–23 July 1983 at London's Hammersmith Odeon on the Love Over Gold tour, released without overdubs, UK No. 3.
Alcheon
Alcheon (알천, 閼川) was a Silla general and aristocrat of the Three Kingdoms period who served Queens Seondeok and Jindeok and declined the regency in favor of Kim Chunchu.
Alchi murals
The Alchi Monastery murals are Buddhist wall paintings in Alchi, a village in western Ladakh, India, painted mainly from the 11th to 13th centuries in the Kashmiri tradition.
Alchi Sumtsek
The Alchi Sumtsek (གསུམ་བརྩེགས, "three-storeyed") is a three-storey temple in the Alchi Choskhor complex in Ladakh, India, celebrated for its Kashmiri-style murals and clay sculpture.
Alchip
Alchip Technologies, also known as 世芯電子, is a Taiwanese ASIC design service company founded in 2003 and headquartered in Taipei, specializing in high-performance computing and AI chips.
Alchon Huns
The Alchon Huns (अल्चोन हूण), called Hunas in Indian sources, were a Hunnic dynasty of the southern Hindu Kush that invaded Gupta India; Mihirakula was decisively defeated in 528.
Alchornea
Alchornea Sw. is a genus of about 51 accepted species of dioecious Euphorbiaceae shrubs and small trees native to the tropics and subtropics, used in traditional medicine; A. cordifolia, A. floribunda, and A. laxiflora are the most studied medicinal species.
Alcian blue
Alcian blue is a copper phthalocyanine dye used as a biological stain for acidic carbohydrates such as mucins and glycosaminoglycans, at pH 2.5 or pH 1.0.
Alcibiades
Alcibiades (451/450–404/403 BCE), Athenian general and politician, ward of Pericles and friend of Socrates; advocated the Sicilian Expedition, defected to Sparta, then won at Abydos and Cyzicus for Athens.
Alcide De Gasperi
Alcide De Gasperi (1881-1954), Italian statesman and Christian Democracy founder, prime minister 1945-1953 across eight governments, provisional head of state in 1946, and ECSC Assembly president, a founding father of European integration.
Alcides Arguedas
Alcides Arguedas (1879–1946) was a Bolivian novelist, essayist, historian, and diplomat whose essay Pueblo enfermo (1909) and novel Raza de bronce (1919) made him the most recognized Bolivian writer of his era.
Alcino J. Silva
Alcino J. Silva is a Portuguese-born American neuroscientist and UCLA Distinguished Professor who studies learning and memory, known for transgenic mouse memory research and founding Molecular and Cellular Cognition.
Alcione
Alcione, also known as Alcione Nazaré, is a Brazilian samba singer born in 1947 in São Luís, Maranhão, best known for the 1975 hit "Não Deixe o Samba Morrer".
Alcippe
Alcippe is a genus of Asian fulvetta songbirds erected by Blyth in 1844, now the namesake of family Alcippeidae; the same name, given to a boring barnacle by Hancock in 1849, is an invalid junior homonym replaced by Trypetesa.
Alclofenac
Alclofenac (Mervan, Prinalgin) is a withdrawn phenylacetic acid NSAID, C11H11ClO3, ATC M01AB06, used for rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis; withdrawn from the UK in 1979 over vasculitis and rash.
Alcman
Alcman (Ἀλκμάν) was a Greek choral lyric poet active in Sparta in the later seventh century BC, best known for his partheneia, songs for choruses of girls.
Alcmene (λκμένη)
Alcmene (Ἀλκμήνη, Alcmena), daughter of Electryon and wife of Amphitryon, mother of Heracles by Zeus and of Iphicles by Amphitryon; her extended wedding night, Hera's birth obstruction, and her contested tomb traditions.
ALCO diesel locomotives
The ALCO diesel locomotives were built by the American Locomotive Company in Schenectady, New York, from 1920s experiments until the final units in January 1969.
ALCO PA
The ALCO PA is a streamlined diesel passenger locomotive built by the American Locomotive Company with General Electric from 1946 to 1953, selling in the hundreds against EMD's thousands.
ALCO RS series
The ALCO RS series was a family of four-axle diesel-electric road switcher locomotives built by ALCO and its Canadian affiliate Montreal Locomotive Works from 1941 into the 1960s.
ALCO S-2 and S-4
The ALCO S-2 and S-4 were 1,000 horsepower diesel-electric switcher locomotives built by the American Locomotive Company and Montreal Locomotive Works from 1940 to 1961.
Alcoa
Alcoa, formally the Aluminum Company of America, is an American aluminum producer headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with mining, refining, and smelting operations in 25 locations across eight countries.
Alcobaça Formation
Alcobaça Formation: Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) mixed carbonate-siliciclastic unit of the central Lusitanian Basin, Portugal, between the Abadia and Lourinhã formations; formally defined 2021, seven members, fossil-rich including Guimarota mammal beds.
Alcobaça Monastery
Alcobaça Monastery, the Mosteiro de Santa Maria de Alcobaça, is a Cistercian abbey in central Portugal founded in 1153 by King Afonso Henriques and inscribed by UNESCO in 1989.
Alcobendas
Alcobendas, city and municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain, north of Madrid; 123,222 residents (2025), 45 km², major business hub with over 16,000 companies and the La Moraleja district.
Alcohol (chemistry)
In chemistry, an alcohol is an organic compound with a hydroxy group, -OH, attached to a saturated carbon atom; ethanol is the most familiar member.
Alcohol (drug)
Alcohol (ethanol, CH3CH2OH) is the psychoactive, dependence-producing drug in beer, wine, and spirits; WHO attributes 2.6 million deaths in 2019 to it, and no consumption level is risk-free.
Alcohol abuse
Alcohol abuse, now diagnosed as alcohol use disorder (AUD, formerly alcoholism, harmful use), is problematic drinking causing impairment or distress; DSM-5-TR uses 11 symptoms, WHO links alcohol to over 200 conditions.
Alcohol acetyltransferase/N-acetyltransferase-like
Alcohol acetyltransferase/N-acetyltransferase-like (Pfam PF07247, InterPro IPR010828) is a protein family of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase-like enzymes, including yeast AATases Atf1p, Atf2p, Lg-Atf1p that make fermentation esters, and N-acetyltransferases such as Sli1p.
Alcohol and Native Americans
Alcohol and Native Americans: history, genetics, epidemiology, law, and treatment of alcohol use among American Indian/Alaska Native peoples; higher abstinence than US average, no distinctive alcohol-metabolism genetics, but elevated alcohol-attributable mortality.