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American Gladiators (1989 TV series)
American Gladiators (1989 TV series): syndicated American competition show, 1989-1996, seven seasons, created by Johnny Ferraro; amateur Contenders faced professional Gladiators in events like Joust, Powerball, and the Eliminator.
American Gladiators (2008 TV series)
American Gladiators (2008) was the NBC revival of the 1989-1996 competition series, hosted by Hulk Hogan and Laila Ali, produced by Reveille and MGM, with 24 contenders, the Eliminator final, and a $100,000 grand prize.
American Gladiators (2026 TV series)
American Gladiators (2026) is a Prime Video revival of the 1989–1996 syndicated competition series, created by Johnny C. Ferraro, hosted by Mike "The Miz" Mizanin and Rocsi Diaz, with 16 new Gladiators and a $100,000 champion prize.
American Gods
American Gods is a 2001 fantasy novel by Neil Gaiman. It won multiple awards and details the struggle of old gods against new gods of media and technology.
American Gods (TV series)
American Gods: Starz fantasy drama series (2017–2021, 26 episodes) adapted from Neil Gaiman's 2001 novel, developed by Bryan Fuller and Michael Green, starring Ricky Whittle and Ian McShane; Metacritic scores fell from 77 to 47 then rose to 69.
American goiter association. transactions of the american goiter association
Transactions of the American Goiter Association (Trans. Am. Goiter Assoc., ISSN 0096-7173), annual hard-cover proceedings of the American Goiter Association, published 1924-1957, later absorbed by Endocrinology and JCEM; society became the American Thyroid Association.
American Gold Eagle
American Gold Eagle (AGE): official US Mint 22-karat gold bullion coin since 1986, authorized by the 1985 Gold Bullion Coin Act and Liberty Coin Act, in 1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/10 oz sizes with $50 to $5 face values and a government purity guarantee.
American goldfinch
American goldfinch (Spinus tristis), also wild canary, a small yellow North American finch, state bird of Iowa, New Jersey, and Washington; seed-eating, late-nesting, about 44 million birds, IUCN Least Concern.
American Gothic
American Gothic is Grant Wood's 1930 oil-on-beaverboard painting of a pitchfork-holding farmer and a woman before an Eldon, Iowa Carpenter Gothic house, held by the Art Institute of Chicago and modeled on his sister Nan and dentist Dr. B.H. McKeeby.
American Gothic (1995 TV series)
American Gothic (1995 TV series): Shaun Cassidy-created CBS supernatural horror drama (1995-1996) starring Gary Cole as demonic Sheriff Lucas Buck of Trinity, South Carolina; one season, 22 episodes, Sam Raimi produced; distinct from the unrelated 2016 CBS series.
American Gothic fiction
American Gothic fiction is a tradition of Gothic literature written in the United States from the late eighteenth century, adapting European Gothic terror to frontier, Puritan, and racial themes.
American Gothic, Washington, D.C.
American Gothic, Washington, D.C. is a 1942 gelatin silver photograph by Gordon Parks showing Ella Watson, an FSA cleaning worker, standing with a broom and mop before an American flag.
American Graffiti
American Graffiti is George Lucas's 1973 coming-of-age comedy-drama about teenagers cruising Modesto, California, in 1962. Produced by Coppola for about $770,000, it earned over $200 million, received five Oscar nominations, and made Star Wars possible.
American green tree frog
American green tree frog (Dryophytes cinereus, formerly Hyla cinerea), a hylid tree frog of the southeastern and central United States; bright green, 34–62 mm, breeds after rainfall, IUCN least concern.
American handball
American handball: players strike a small rubber ball with either hand against one, three, or four walls; games to 21, side-out scoring. Irish-origin sport behind racquetball; USHA-governed, big in New York one-wall courts.
American Health Care Act of 2017
American Health Care Act of 2017 (AHCA, H.R. 1628), the House Republican bill to repeal and replace the ACA; passed the House 217-213 on May 4, 2017, cut Medicaid $880 billion per CBO, projected 23-24 million more uninsured, and died in the Senate.
American Heart (Benson Boone album)
American Heart (2025) is Benson Boone's second album on Night Street/Warner Records: 10 tracks, 30 minutes, co-written with Jack LaFrantz, debuting at No. 2 with 61,000 units.
American Heart Association
American Heart Association (AHA), not to be confused with the American Hospital Association: US nonprofit founded June 10, 1924 in Chicago by six cardiologists; reorganized 1948; funds cardiovascular and stroke research, issues ACC/AHA guidelines, and runs CPR training.
American Heart Association Distinguished Scientist Award
The American Heart Association Distinguished Scientist Award is the AHA's highest scientific honor, created in 2003 and given yearly to about six members for sustained cardiovascular research.
American Heart World Tour
American Heart World Tour: Benson Boone's third concert tour, his first all-arena run, supporting the 2025 album American Heart. 49-50 shows across North America and Europe, August 22, 2025 to March 15, 2026; won the AMA Breakout Tour award.
American Heist
American Heist (2014) is a Sarik Andreasyan crime drama starring Hayden Christensen, Adrien Brody, Jordana Brewster, and Akon; a New Orleans-set remake of The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery and Glacier Films' first production, released at TIFF 2014 and critically panned (Metascore 23).
American High (company)
American High is a Syracuse-area, New York film and TV production company founded by Jeremy Garelick and Will Phelps, based in a former middle school, known for teen comedies on Hulu and the Netflix series Minimum Wage.
American Highland
American Highland, interior plateau of eastern Antarctica between Enderby Land and Wilkes Land, inland of Ingrid Christensen Coast; ice-capped upland about 2,000–3,000 m high, discovered and named by Lincoln Ellsworth in 1939.
American Historic Racing Motorcycle Association
American Historic Racing Motorcycle Association (AHRMA), Knoxville, TN-based member-owned 501(c)(4) sanctioning vintage motorcycle road racing, motocross, flat track, trials, and cross country; about 3,000 members, largest vintage racing group in North America.
American History X
American History X is a 1998 American drama directed by Tony Kaye, starring Edward Norton as reformed neo-Nazi Derek Vinyard and Edward Furlong as his brother Danny, released by New Line Cinema after a famous editing dispute.
American Hockey League
American Hockey League (AHL), top development league for the NHL, founded 1936 as the International-American Hockey League; 32 teams in four divisions, Calder Cup champion, development rule requiring 12 of 18 skaters with 260 or fewer pro games.
American Home Shield
American Home Shield is an American home warranty company founded in 1971, the largest in the United States, serving more than 2.1 million members as a Frontdoor subsidiary.
American Honey (film)
American Honey is a 2016 road drama by Andrea Arnold, starring Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, and Riley Keough, about a teen joining a magazine sales crew; it won the Cannes Jury Prize.
American Horror Stories
American Horror Stories is a 2021 FX on Hulu horror anthology spin-off of American Horror Story by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, with a different self-contained horror story each episode across three seasons (24 episodes, 2021–2024).
American Horror Story
American Horror Story (AHS) is FX's horror anthology series created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk in 2011, with 13 self-contained installments from Murder House to AHS: 13, over 100 Emmy nominations, and the spin-off American Horror Stories.