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Algic Researches

Algic Researches is an 1839 two-volume collection of Native American tales and legends published by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, whose Ojibwe stories supplied material for Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha.

Algiers (الجزائر)

Algiers (الجزائر, al-Jazā'ir) is the capital and largest city of Algeria, a Mediterranean port city of about 3 million. Known for its UNESCO-listed Kasbah (1992), Ottoman Regency history (1516–1830), French rule (1830–1962), and the country's largest port and airport.

Algiers Accord (Mali)

The Algiers Accord is the peace agreement signed in Bamako in 2015 between Mali's government and northern armed-group coalitions, mediated by Algeria, and terminated in 2024.

Algiers Agreement (2000)

The Algiers Agreement of 12 December 2000 is the peace treaty between Eritrea and Ethiopia, signed in Algiers, that permanently ended their 1998–2000 border war.

Sep 23, 2026

Algiers expedition (1541)

The Algiers expedition (حصار الجزائر 1541) was an October 1541 amphibious assault on Algiers led personally by Emperor Charles V of Spain against Khayr al-Din Barbarossa's corsair state.

Algiers putsch of 1961

Failed military coup in Algiers, 21–25 April 1961, by French generals Challe, Jouhaud, Salan, and Zeller to keep Algeria French and oust de Gaulle; crushed after his Article 16 address.

Algimantas Salna

Algimantas Šalna (Algis Shalna), born 1959, Lithuanian biathlete who won 1984 Sarajevo relay gold for the USSR, the first Lithuanian Winter Olympic medalist, and later coached US biathlon 1991–2023.

Oct 15, 2026

Alginate

Alginate is a polysaccharide extracted from brown seaweeds that gels with calcium ions independently of temperature, used as a food thickener, wound dressing, and dental impression material.

Alginate lyase

Alginate lyase (Aly; EC 4.2.2.3, 4.2.2.11) is a polysaccharide lyase that degrades alginate from brown algae via β-elimination, producing unsaturated oligosaccharides; used in AOS production, biofilm disruption, and marine biorefinery.

Alginic acid

Alginic acid (alginate, E 400, INS 400, CAS 9005-32-7) is a polysaccharide from brown seaweed, a copolymer of mannuronic and guluronic acid that gels with calcium by the egg-box model and is used as a thickener, gelling agent, and dental impression material.

Alginor (company)

Alginor ASA is a Norwegian marine biotechnology company based at Avaldsnes on Karmøy that harvests wild kelp Laminaria hyperborea offshore and refines it into ingredients for pharmaceuticals, food, and agriculture.

Sep 24, 2026

Algirdas

Algirdas was grand duke of Lithuania from 1345 to 1377, a son of Gediminas who made Lithuania one of the largest European states of his day.

Algiz

Algiz, or Elhaz, is the fifteenth rune of the Elder Futhark, used from about the second century in early Germanic inscriptions to write a word-final z sound.

Alglucerase

Alglucerase (Ceredase), Genzyme's mannose-terminated placenta-derived glucocerebrosidase, was the first enzyme replacement therapy for type 1 Gaucher disease, FDA-approved April 1991, discontinued 1998 after imiglucerase replaced it.

Alglucosidase alfa

Alglucosidase alfa (Myozyme, Lumizyme) is recombinant human acid alpha-glucosidase, an enzyme replacement therapy for Pompe disease (GAA deficiency), dosed 20 mg/kg intravenously every two weeks, first approved in 2006.

Algo sobre la muerte del mayor Sabines

Algo sobre la muerte del mayor Sabines is a long elegiac poem by the Mexican poet Jaime Sabines about the illness, death, and funeral of his father, a military officer of the Mexican Revolution.

ALGOL

ALGOL, short for Algorithmic Language, is a family of programming languages for scientific computation spanning ALGOL 58, ALGOL 60, and ALGOL 68. Though commercially limited outside Europe, its ideas shaped nearly every later procedural language.

ALGOL 58

ALGOL 58, originally named the International Algebraic Language (IAL), is an algorithmic programming language defined by a joint ACM-GAMM committee at a 1958 conference in Zurich.

ALGOL 60

ALGOL 60 is an algorithmic programming language defined in a May 1960 report edited by Peter Naur, which introduced block structure, lexical scoping, and recursive procedures.

ALGOL 68

ALGOL 68 is a programming language designed by IFIP Working Group 2.1 in the late 1960s, built on orthogonality and the first major language formally defined before implementation.

Algolagnia

Algolagnia: sexual satisfaction from experiencing or inflicting pain; Greek algos (pain) + lagneia (lust). Early sexology umbrella term for sadism (active) and masochism (passive), studied by Havelock Ellis in Love and Pain (1903).

Oct 15, 2026

Algolia

Algolia is a search-as-a-service company founded in Paris in 2012 by Nicolas Dessaigne and Julien Lemoine, providing an API for building fast, typo-tolerant search for websites and mobile apps.

Algoma Steel

Algoma Steel, formally Algoma Steel Group Inc., is a Canadian steelmaker founded in 1901 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, which completed a transition to electric arc furnace steelmaking in 2026.

Sep 29, 2026

Algometry

Algometry is a clinical measurement method that quantifies the pressure pain threshold, the minimal pressure inducing pain, used in pain medicine to assess tenderness and track treatment response.

Algonquian languages

Algonquian languages, an Algic branch including Cree, Ojibwe, Mi'kmaq, and Blackfoot, are North America's second-largest Indigenous family, with 163,815 Canadian speakers in 2021 and polysynthetic, direct-inverse grammar.

Algonquian peoples

Algonquian peoples: Indigenous North American peoples speaking Algonquian languages, a family of about thirty languages within the Algic stock, stretching from the Atlantic coast to the Great Plains, including the Algonquin, Cree, Ojibwe, Mi'kmaq, Powhatan, and Lenape nations.