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Alexandreis
The Alexandreis is a Latin epic poem in ten books by Walter of Châtillon, written in the 1170s, telling the life and deeds of Alexander the Great.
Alexandria (الإسكندرية)
Alexandria (الإسكندرية) is a Mediterranean port city in northern Egypt at the Nile Delta's northwest corner, founded by Alexander the Great in 332 BC and the capital of Ptolemaic Egypt.
Alexandria B. Boehm
Alexandria B. Boehm, also known as Alexandria Boehm, is a Stanford environmental engineer who studies pathogens in water, feces, and surfaces, and leads the WastewaterSCAN wastewater surveillance program.
Alexandria City High School
Alexandria City High School (formerly T.C. Williams High School), Alexandria, Virginia's only public high school, opened in 1965; renamed July 2021 over its segregationist namesake; home of the 1971 state-champion Titans of Remember the Titans.
Alexandria database
The Alexandria database is an open collection of millions of density-functional theory calculations for inorganic crystals, including convex-hull stability analyses and phonons, maintained at Ruhr University Bochum and used to train machine-learning models for materials discovery.
Alexandria in Carmania
Alexandria in Carmania (Alexandria of Carmania, Alexandria Gulashkird): a city in ancient Carmania, modern Kerman Province, Iran, founded by Alexander the Great around 324 BC for his veterans; attested by Pliny, Ptolemy, and Ammianus, but unlocated, with proposed sites including Golashkerd and Tepe Yahya.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), Democrat representing New York's 14th District since 2019, defeated Joe Crowley in the 2018 primary; Green New Deal co-sponsor, Energy and Commerce member, weighing a 2028 presidential or Senate run.
Alexandria Riley
Alexandria Riley is a Welsh actress and writer from Newport, South Wales, known for Camille Sims in Silo, DI Ella Richards in The Pembrokeshire Murders, and Natalie Tucker in The Tuckers; BAFTA Cymru-nominated, also a Torchwood voice actor.
Alexandria School of Medicine
The Alexandria School of Medicine was a Greek medical school in Ptolemaic Alexandria from the third century BC, where Herophilus and Erasistratus performed antiquity's only systematic human dissections.
Alexandria Station (Northern Territory)
Alexandria Station, also called Alexandria Downs, is a Barkly Tableland cattle station in the Northern Territory, first leased in 1877 and the oldest, largest property of the North Australian Pastoral Company, running about 55,000 cattle.
Alexandria Sulcus
Alexandria Sulcus, one of Enceladus' four tiger stripe fractures, an IAU-approved sulcus (2006) named from Burton's Arabian Nights; a plume source about 111 km long near the moon's south pole.
Alexandria Zoo
Alexandria Zoo refers to two unrelated zoos: the AZA-accredited Alexandria Zoological Park in Alexandria, Louisiana (founded 1922, about 500 animals), and Egypt's government-run Nozha Zoo (حديقة النزهة) in Alexandria, the second largest zoo in Egypt.
Alexandria, Louisiana
Alexandria, Louisiana: parish seat of Rapides Parish on the Red River near the state's geographic center; founded by Alexander Fulton in 1805; 2020 population 45,275; regional hub and major ICE deportation-flight airport.
Alexandria, Virginia
Alexandria, Virginia: independent city in Northern Virginia on the Potomac across from Washington, D.C. Founded 1749 as a tobacco port; part of D.C. 1801-1847; Union supply center in the Civil War; population about 159,467.
Alexandria... Why?
Alexandria... Why? (Iskandariyya lih?, إسكندرية .. ليه؟) is Youssef Chahine's 1978 semi-autobiographical Egyptian drama set in 1942 wartime Alexandria; it won the 1979 Berlin Silver Bear and opened his autobiographical quartet.
Alexandria/Antiochia/Merv
Alexandria/Antiochia/Merv, also Antiochia Margiana, is the Barrington Atlas name for ancient Merv in Turkmenistan: Alexander's Alexandria in Margiana, refounded as Antiochia by Antiochus I Soter, identified with Gyaur Kala.
Alexandrian civil war of 88 BC
The Alexandrian civil war of 88 BC was an uprising that expelled King Ptolemy X from Egypt, restored his brother Ptolemy IX, and ended with Ptolemy X's death.
Alexandrian Pleiad
The Alexandrian Pleiad, also called the Pleias, was a group of seven tragic poets active in Ptolemaic Alexandria, named for the seven-star Pleiades; none of their tragedies survives except Lycophron's Alexandra.
Alexandrian scholarship
Alexandrian scholarship is the literary and scientific research carried out at Alexandria's Museum and Library between about 285 and 145 BCE, producing the first systematic Greek philology.
Alexandrian War
The Alexandrian War, also called the Alexandrine Civil War, was the 48–47 BC siege in which Julius Caesar and Cleopatra VII defeated Ptolemy XIII in Alexandria.
Alexandrianism
Alexandrianism is the poetic practice of the Greek poets of Ptolemaic Alexandria in the Hellenistic age, marked by learned allusion and polish, exemplified by Callimachus and Theocritus.
Alexandrine
The alexandrine (French: alexandrin), also called grand vers, is the French verse of twelve syllables divided by a central pause, dominant in French poetry from the seventeenth century onward.
Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Alexandrine Auguste, 1879–1952), Queen of Denmark 1912–1947 as consort of Christian X and last Queen of Iceland 1918–1944; German-born queen who became a national symbol during the occupation.
Alexandrine parakeet
Alexandrine parakeet (Psittacula eupatria, 亞歷山大鸚鵡), a large green Asian parakeet with a maroon shoulder patch, heavy red bill, and male pink-black neck ring; native to the Indian subcontinent and Indochina, introduced in European cities, CITES Appendix II, IUCN Least Concern since 2024.
Alexandrite laser
The alexandrite laser is a solid-state laser using chromium-doped chrysoberyl, tunable from about 701 to 858 nm and best known for hair removal since 1997.
Alexandros (band)
[Alexandros] (アレキサンドロス), formerly [Champagne], is a Japanese rock quartet formed in 2001 at Aoyama Gakuin University, renamed in 2014 after a Champagne-committee request, with major debut 2015 and Oricon No. 1 album EXIST!.
Alexandros Koumoundouros
Alexandros Koumoundouros (Αλέξανδρος Κουμουνδούρος, born 1814 or 1815, died 1883) was a Greek statesman who served ten times as Prime Minister of Greece between 1865 and 1882.
Alexandros Logothetis (Αλέξανδρος Λογοθέτης)
Alexandros Logothetis (Αλέξανδρος Λογοθέτης), Greek actor born 1970 in Athens; known for To Nisi (Dr Kyritsis), Magpie Murders, Adults in the Room; National Theatre of Greece Drama School graduate, twice Thessaloniki festival award winner.
Alexandros Mavrokordatos
Alexandros Mavrokordatos (Αλέξανδρος Μαυροκορδάτος, 1791–1865) was a Greek statesman and diplomat from Constantinople's Phanariot elite who led the English party and served several terms as Greek prime minister under King Otto.
Alexandros Papadiamantis
Alexandros Papadiamantis (Αλέξανδρος Παπαδιαμάντης, 1851–1911) was a Greek short-story writer and translator who lived in poverty in Athens and wrote about the poor of Skiathos, his masterpiece being The Murderess of 1903.