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Allied leaders of World War II
Allied leaders of World War II: the Big Three (Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin) and Chiang Kai-shek, plus commanders like Eisenhower, who directed the 1941 United Nations coalition, its Combined Chiefs of Staff, and the Casablanca, Cairo, Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam conferences.
Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories
AMGOT (Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories) was the Anglo-American occupation administration created 1 May 1943 by AFHQ, first applied in Sicily and southern Italy under Alexander and Lord Rennell, using indirect rule, and rejected for north-west Europe.
Allied military phonetic spelling alphabets
The Allied military phonetic spelling alphabets are word-for-letter radio code systems, from the wartime Able Baker alphabet to Alfa Bravo Charlie, adopted between the 1940s and 1956.
Allied prisoners of war of Japan
Allied prisoners of war of Japan: about 150,000 US, UK, Australian, Dutch and other troops captured in WWII, held across Asia and Japan; 12,500 died building the Thai-Burma Railway and American prisoners died at a 40 percent rate.
Allied Rapid Reaction Corps
Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC), British-led multinational NATO corps headquarters at Imjin Barracks, Gloucestershire; formed from 1st British Corps in 1991/1992; commanded IFOR Bosnia, Kosovo 1999, and ISAF Afghanistan 2006.
Allied war crimes during World War II
Allied war crimes during World War II covers area bombing of German and Japanese cities, prisoner killings, Soviet sexual violence in Germany, and the absence of any international tribunal trying Allied personnel, unlike the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials of Axis leaders.
Allied-occupied Austria
Allied-occupied Austria (1945–1955): four-power occupation with zones under USSR, US, UK, and France, divided Vienna, an Allied Council that never broke down, and the 1955 State Treaty restoring sovereignty and neutrality.
Allied-occupied Germany
Allied-occupied Germany (1945-1949): the four-zone regime of the Soviet, U.S., British, and French powers after Nazi Germany's surrender, marked by the Four D's, denazification, divided Berlin, and the 1949 founding of two German states.
Allies Day, May 1917
Allies Day, May 1917 is an oil painting by the American Impressionist Childe Hassam showing Fifth Avenue in New York decorated with the flags of the United States, Great Britain, and France.
Allies of World War I
Allies of World War I (Allied or Entente Powers): coalition led by France, Russia, and the British Empire, joined by Italy in 1915 and the Associated Power United States in 1917, that defeated the Central Powers in 1918.
Allies of World War II
The Allies of World War II, formally the United Nations, were the coalition led by Britain, the US, the USSR, and China against the Axis; 26 nations signed the January 1942 declaration, with 21 more joining before victory in 1945.
Alligator
The two living species of the crocodilian genus Alligator are the American alligator and the Chinese alligator, which are found in the southeastern United States and lower China, respectively.
Alligator (film)
Alligator (1980) is an American horror film directed by Lewis Teague, written by John Sayles with Frank Ray Perilli, starring Robert Forster and Robin Riker; a flushed pet alligator grows huge on hormone-laced lab animals and rampages from the sewers.
Alligator Alcatraz
Alligator Alcatraz, officially the Florida Soft Sided Facility South, was an Everglades immigration detention facility at Dade-Collier Airport, opened July 1, 2025, built in eight days, costing over $1 billion, and emptied June 2026.
Alligator Bites Never Heal
Alligator Bites Never Heal is Doechii's second mixtape, released August 30, 2024 on Top Dawg Entertainment/Capitol. The 19-track Tampa rapper's project won Best Rap Album at the 2025 Grammys, making her the third woman to win the category.
Alligator cracking
Alligator cracking, also called fatigue cracking, is a network of interconnecting cracks in asphalt pavement resembling alligator skin, caused by fatigue failure from repeated heavy traffic loading.
Alligator gar
Alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula), a large North American freshwater fish with a broad alligator-like snout and double tooth row; a slow-evolving living fossil reaching 10 feet and 350 pounds, now managed and restocked across its range.
Alligator Lake
Alligator Lake volcanic complex, Yukon, Canada: a basaltic volcanic field 30 km southwest of Whitehorse with two cinder cones on a small shield volcano, 2,217 m summit, ~3 Ma age, no known Holocene eruptions.
Alligator snapping turtle
Alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys temminckii), largest freshwater turtle in North America, up to 249 lb, with a worm-like lingual lure; Gulf-drainage range, proposed ESA threatened listing 2021, IUCN Vulnerable.
Alligatoridae
Alligatoridae (alligators and caimans) is a crocodilian family of eight species in four genera, defined by hidden mandibular teeth, 2n=32/42 chromosomes, and no functional salt glands; ranges from the southeastern US and China to South America.
Alline Bullock
Alline Bullock (Ruby Alline Bullock, later Selico; 1936–2010), American songwriter, older sister of Tina Turner, manager of the Ikettes; wrote "Funkier Than a Mosquita's Tweeter" on Workin' Together (1970), covered by Nina Simone.
Allis-Chalmers
Allis-Chalmers was an American heavy machinery manufacturer in Milwaukee, formed by a 1901 merger and known for hydroelectric turbines and Persian Orange farm tractors; it went bankrupt in 1987.
Allisartan isoproxil
Allisartan isoproxil (阿利沙坦酯, Xinlitang) is China's first domestically developed class 1.1 ARB antihypertensive, dosed 240 mg daily, activated to EXP3174 by gut esterases, marketed by Shenzhen Salubris since 2013.
Allisha Gray
Allisha Gray (born 1995) is an American WNBA guard for the Atlanta Dream, 2017 Rookie of the Year, four-time All-Star, and gold medalist in the inaugural women's 3x3 basketball event at Tokyo 2020.
Allison B. Goldfine
Allison B. Goldfine is an American physician-scientist in endocrinology and diabetes at Joslin Diabetes Center, known for research on insulin sensitivity, inflammation in obesity, and cardiovascular safety of diabetes therapies.
Allison Black
Allison Black, nicknamed the "Angel of Death", is a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and AC-130H Spectre navigator who flew combat missions in Afghanistan in 2001, became the first female Air Force Combat Action Medal recipient, and commanded the 1st Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field.
Allison Cameron
Dr. Allison Cameron is a fictional immunologist on the Fox medical drama House, M.D. (2004–2012), played by Jennifer Morrison as a member of Dr. Gregory House's diagnostic team.
Allison D. Burroughs
Allison Dale Burroughs is a United States district judge in Boston, appointed by Barack Obama in 2015, best known for ruling for Harvard in a 2019 affirmative action case.
Allison DuBois
Allison DuBois is an American self-described medium from Phoenix, Arizona, inspiration for NBC's Medium starring Patricia Arquette, author of six books, host of The Dead Life podcast, whose law-enforcement claims skeptics have found unsupported.
Allison Dunbar
Allison Dunbar (born 1972) is an American actress and Groundlings main company member, known for Nicole Lupertazzi on The Sopranos, Honey Shaw on Quick Draw, Kelly on StartUp, Maggie Moore(s), and her 2022 marriage to Ron Perlman.