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Alonzo Mourning
Alonzo Mourning (Zo), American NBA center born 1970, Georgetown star, 1992 draft No. 2 pick, 7-time All-Star, 2-time Defensive Player of the Year, 2006 Heat champion, kidney transplant survivor, 2014 Hall of Famer.
Alonzo Washington
Alonzo Washington is an American Democratic politician who has represented District 22 in the Maryland State Senate since January 2023, serving on the Finance Committee and formerly working for the Prince George's County Council.
Alonzo Yerby
Alonzo Smythe Yerby (1921–1994) was an American physician and public health administrator who served as New York City's Commissioner of Hospitals and later headed health services administration at Harvard.
Alooma
Alooma was a data-pipeline startup founded in 2013 by Israelis Yoni Broyde and Yair Weinberger that moved enterprise data into cloud warehouses; Google Cloud acquired it in 2019.
Alopecia areata
Alopecia areata is an autoimmune, T-cell–mediated disease attacking hair follicles, causing nonscarring patchy hair loss, alopecia totalis, or universalis; treated with corticosteroids and FDA-approved JAK inhibitors baricitinib, ritlecitinib, and deuruxolitinib.
Alopecia totalis
Alopecia totalis is complete scalp hair loss from the autoimmune disease alopecia areata, non-scarring, often progressing within 6 months, with no FDA-approved therapy and limited treatment evidence including JAK inhibitors.
Alopecia universalis
Alopecia universalis (AU), the most severe form of alopecia areata, is complete autoimmune loss of all scalp and body hair, affecting about 0.03% of people; treated with JAK inhibitors or contact immunotherapy.
Alopecia-intellectual disability syndrome
Alopecia-intellectual disability syndrome, also called APMR or Perniola-Krajewska-Carnevale syndrome, is an extremely rare autosomal recessive genetic disorder combining hair loss with intellectual disability, described in fewer than 20 families worldwide.
Alopecurus
Alopecurus (foxtail grasses), Poaceae genus published by Linnaeus in 1753 with 45 temperate-zone species; includes meadow foxtail (A. pratensis) and black-grass (A. myosuroides), a major herbicide-resistant cereal weed in Europe.
Alopecurus myosuroides
Alopecurus myosuroides, black-grass, is an annual cross-pollinating grass weed of European winter cereals, the most important herbicide-resistant weed in European agriculture, with resistance to seven herbicide modes of action and estimated UK losses of £0.4 billion yearly.
Alopecurus pratensis
Alopecurus pratensis, the meadow foxtail (French vulpin des prés), is a perennial grass native from Europe to Mongolia, among the earliest-heading forage grasses of European meadows.
Alopias pelagicus
Alopias pelagicus, the pelagic thresher shark (Nakamura 1935), an Endangered Indo-Pacific thresher with a tail nearly as long as its body, two pups per litter, and slow growth; distinct from A. vulpinus and A. superciliosus.
Alopias superciliosus
Alopias superciliosus, the bigeye thresher shark (tiburón zorro ojón), a large pelagic Alopiidae shark with helmet-like head grooves and upward eyes; Vulnerable IUCN, declining 30–49% over three generations, CITES Appendix II.
Aloppkölen-Köpmankölen
Aloppkölen-Köpmankölen, Ramsar site no. 1113, is a 20,079-hectare wetland mire complex in Jämtland, Sweden, designated 19 November 2001, with string fens, bogs, wet forests, threatened waders, and Sami reindeer husbandry.
Alor Gajah power station
The Alor Gajah power station, also called the Edra Melaka Power Plant, is a 2,242 MW combined cycle gas plant at Kuala Sungai Baru in Melaka, Malaysia, owned by Edra Energy.
Alor Island
Alor Island (Pulau Alor), largest island of Indonesia's Alor Archipelago in East Nusa Tenggara, volcanic inner Banda Arc island of about 2,119 km² with 40,000-year-old Makpan cave occupation, high seismicity, and Kalabahi as main town.
Alor Setar
Alor Setar is the capital city of Kedah, Malaysia, founded in 1735 by Sultan Muhammad Jiwa Zainal Adilin Mu'adzam Shah II as the sultanate's eighth administrative centre; made Malaysia's ninth city in 2003 under Majlis Bandaraya Alor Setar.
Alors on danse
Alors on danse, 2009 electro-hip-hop single by Belgian artist Stromae (Paul Van Haver) from the album Cheese; saxophone-loop dance track about work, debt and escapism that hit No. 1 across Europe and passed one billion Spotify streams.
ALOS (satellite)
ALOS (Advanced Land Observing Satellite), nicknamed Daichi, was a Japanese Earth observation satellite launched by JAXA in 2006 for mapping, disaster monitoring, and resource surveying until 2011.
ALOS PALSAR
PALSAR, the Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar, was an imaging radar on Japan's ALOS satellite providing all-weather land observation from 2006 to 2011.
Alosa aestivalis
Alosa aestivalis, the blueback herring (alose d'été), is an anadromous Atlantic herring from Nova Scotia to Florida, one of two "river herring" with the alewife; distinguished by a black peritoneum, IUCN Vulnerable, ESA listing not warranted in 2019.
Alosa alosa
Alosa alosa, the allis shad, is an anadromous Alosidae herring of the northeast Atlantic from Norway to Morocco, distinguished from twaite shad by 85-155 gill rakers; now IUCN Critically Endangered after range collapse.
Alosa fallax
Alosa fallax, the twaite shad (alose feinte, cheppia), is an anadromous clupeid fish from Iceland to the Black Sea; globally Least Concern but Vulnerable in Spain and Italy, threatened by river barriers, pollution, and overfishing.
Alosa sapidissima
Alosa sapidissima, the American shad (alose savoureuse), an anadromous herring native from Labrador to Florida, introduced to the Pacific in 1871; Atlantic stocks depleted, Columbia River runs 2-4 million adults yearly.
Alosetron
Alosetron (Lotronex), a 5-HT3 antagonist for severe IBS-D in women; approved 2000, withdrawn 2000, reintroduced 2002 under REMS; risks include ischemic colitis and severe constipation.
Alouatta caraya
Alouatta caraya, the black howler or black-and-gold howler monkey (carayá), is a South American atelid primate of Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina; males are black and loud, females olive-gold, and the species is IUCN Near Threatened.
Alouatta palliata
Alouatta palliata, the mantled howler monkey, is an Atelid primate from southern Mexico to Ecuador and northern Peru; folivore-frugivore, IUCN Vulnerable, with the Endangered subspecies mexicana and trabeata.
Alouatta pigra
Alouatta pigra, the black howler or Yucatán black howler (Lawrence, 1933), is an Endangered howler monkey endemic to southeastern Mexico, Belize, and northern Guatemala; the largest, most sexually dimorphic howler, howling at about 88 dB.
Alouatta seniculus
Alouatta seniculus, the Colombian red howler monkey, is a large New World monkey living in forests across northern South America, known for dawn howls audible up to 5 kilometers away.
Alouette (song)
Alouette, gentille alouette: French-Canadian cumulative folk song about plucking a lark, first printed in a McGill College song book in Montreal in 1879; a voyageur paddling song, unofficial anthem of French Canada, and a common tool for teaching French body parts, distinct from Gilles Dreu's 1968 hit of the same name.