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Alluru Mound
Alluru Mound (Ailuru), Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh: remains of a 2nd-century CE brick Buddhist stupa with wheel plan, hub 32 ft 8 in, drum 76 ft 8 in, four ayakas; Purvaseliya sect centre excavated by Kuraishi in 1926.
Allusion
Allusion: a brief, indirect literary reference to a person, event, or work (also called literary allusion) that assumes reader recognition; distinguished from quotation and intertextuality, central to Shakespeare's biblical practice and modern theory.
Alluvial fan
An alluvial fan, also known as an alluvial cone, is a fan-shaped sediment body deposited where a stream leaves a mountain valley and spreads onto a plain.
Alluvial plain
An alluvial plain is a level or gently sloping surface built by river flood deposits, typically beside the river; examples include the Huang He plain, about 409,500 square kilometers.
Alluvium
Alluvium, or alluvial deposit, is unconsolidated clay, silt, sand, and gravel deposited by streams and rivers on beds, flood plains, deltas, and mountain bases, and it forms water-bearing alluvial aquifers.
Alluwamna
Alluwamna was a Hittite Great King of the Middle Kingdom who reigned around 1460 BC, probably the son-in-law and adoptive heir of King Telepinu, known from fragmentary cuneiform tablets found at Hattusa.
Alluxio
Alluxio, formerly Tachyon, is an open source (Apache 2.0, Java) data orchestration layer from UC Berkeley AMPLab that caches hot data between compute frameworks like Spark, Presto, and TensorFlow and storage like S3, HDFS, and GCS using memory-first tiered caching.
Allvar Gullstrand
Allvar Gullstrand was a Swedish ophthalmologist at Uppsala University who won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the dioptrics of the eye.
Allwaves
Allwaves (AllWaves) is a wave engineering company founded in 2020, headquartered in Singapore, whose submerged textile-pillow hydraulic wavemaker generates about 500 ocean-quality surf waves per hour; its R&D pool is in Knokke-Heist, Belgium, distinct from identically named bands and venues.
Ally (film)
Ally (앨리) is Bong Joon-ho's first animated feature, a 2027 deep-sea adventure about a piglet squid, budgeted around 70 billion KRW, with CJ ENM, Penture Invest, and Pathé financing and a July 2027 release.
Ally Beardsley
Ally Beardsley (born 1988), American actor, writer, and comedian; Intrepid Heroes player on Dimension 20 and CollegeHumor/Dropout cast member; characters include Kristen Applebees, Pete Conlan, and Margaret Encino.
Ally Brooke
Ally Brooke (Allyson Brooke Hernandez, born 1993, San Antonio) is an American pop and Latin singer, Fifth Harmony member 2012–2018, later a solo Atlantic/Duars/Snafu artist known for "Low Key," DWTS season 28 third place, and the memoir Finding Your Harmony.
Ally Clark
Ally Clark: upcoming American conspiracy thriller directed by Phillip Noyce, written by Jose Ruisanchez and Irwin Winkler, starring Viola Davis as an investigator; Amazon MGM, JuVee, Winkler Films; filmed in Baton Rouge 2026, due 2027.
Ally Financial
Ally Financial, founded in 1919 as General Motors' captive lender GMAC and rebranded in 2010, is an American branchless bank and the country's largest bank-owned auto finance operation.
Ally Hartman
Ally Hartman, born Aloysius Hartman, was an American beverage bottler in Knoxville, Tennessee, who co-created Mountain Dew with his brother Barney and registered the trademark in 1953.
Ally Lotti
Ally Lotti (Alicia L. Leon), American model and influencer, girlfriend of rapper Juice WRLD from 2018 until his 2019 death; Rolling Loud tribute, HBO Into the Abyss, 2023 Arkansas arrest, 2024 OnlyFans controversy.
Ally Louks
Ally Louks, born Amelia Mary Louks, is an English literary academic at Cambridge who studies smell and literature and went viral in 2024 when her PhD thesis drew mass abuse online.
Ally Maki
Ally Maki (born 1986) is a Japanese American actress and entrepreneur from Seattle, known for Toy Story 4's Giggle McDimples, Wrecked, The Big Door Prize, Shortcomings, and founding Asian American Girl Club in 2018.
Ally McBeal
Ally McBeal is an American legal comedy-drama series created by David E. Kelley that aired on Fox from 1997 to 2002, starring Calista Flockhart as a Boston lawyer.
Ally McCoist
Ally McCoist (Alistair Murdoch McCoist), born 1962 in Bellshill, Scottish striker, Rangers' all-time top scorer with 355 goals in 581 games, back-to-back European Golden Boot winner 1992-93, 61 Scotland caps, and Rangers manager 2011-2014.
Ally Sentnor
Ally Sentnor (born 2004, Hanson, Mass.) is an American soccer forward, last No. 1 NWSL Draft pick (2024, Utah Royals), 2024 U.S. Soccer Young Female Player of the Year, now with Angel City FC and the USWNT.
Ally Sheedy
Ally Sheedy (born 1962) is an American actress, Brat Pack member of WarGames, The Breakfast Club, and St. Elmo's Fire, Independent Spirit Award winner for High Art, now teaching at City College of New York.
Ally the Piper
Ally the Piper, real name Ally Crowley-Duncan, is an American bagpiper from Schenectady, New York, famous for viral rock covers like Free Bird (100M+ views), EUSPBA Grade 1 piping credentials, Mia x Ally tours, and the 2025 album The Session.
Ally Walker
Ally Walker (Allene Damian Walker, born 1961) is an American actress, writer, and director known for Dr. Samantha Waters on Profiler, June Stahl on Sons of Anarchy, and films like Universal Soldier; distinct from the Syracuse mural artist and country singer of similar names.
Allyce Beasley
Allyce Beasley (Alice Tannenberg), American actress born 1954, Brooklyn; played rhyming receptionist Agnes DiPesto on Moonlighting (1985–89), voiced Miss Grotke on Recess and announced Playhouse Disney.
Allyl alcohol
Allyl alcohol, also known as vinyl carbinol, is a colorless, highly toxic and flammable liquid alcohol produced from propylene at about 1 million tons per year as an intermediate for glycerol and resins.
Allyl glycidyl ether
Allyl glycidyl ether (AGE) is a colorless flammable liquid with one epoxide ring and one allyl group, used mainly as a reactive diluent in epoxy resins.
Allyl group
The allyl group, systematically named prop-2-en-1-yl, is the CH2=CHCH2- substituent in organic chemistry, whose adjacent double bond stabilizes reactive intermediates and underlies allylic bromination and Tsuji-Trost substitution.
Allyl isothiocyanate
Allyl isothiocyanate, also known as volatile mustard oil, is an organosulfur compound that gives mustard and wasabi their pungent taste and occurs naturally in cruciferous vegetables like mustard, horseradish, and wasabi.
Allylamine
Allylamine is the simplest allylic amine, a colorless, flammable liquid with an ammonia-like odor, used as a pharmaceutical intermediate and studied as a cardiovascular toxin metabolized to acrolein in vascular tissue.