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American Journal of Hypertension
The American Journal of Hypertension is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering hypertension, first published in 1988 and published by Oxford University Press since 2013.
American Journal of Philology
The American Journal of Philology (AJP) is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal of classical scholarship covering ancient Greek and Roman literature, philology, and history. It was founded in 1880.
American Journal of Physics
The American Journal of Physics, founded in 1933, is a peer-reviewed monthly journal published by the American Association of Physics Teachers for college and university physics teachers.
American Journal of Sexuality Education
American Journal of Sexuality Education (AJSE), ISSN 1554-6128/1554-6136, is a Taylor & Francis peer-reviewed quarterly for sexuality educators, formerly the Journal of Sex Education and Therapy (1975–2001), AASECT-affiliated and hybrid open access.
American journal of surgery
The American Journal of Surgery (Am J Surg, ISSN 0002-9610) is a monthly Elsevier peer-reviewed general surgery journal founded April 1905, official journal of six surgical societies, Impact Factor 2.3.
American journal of veterinary research
American Journal of Veterinary Research (AJVR), ISSN 0002-9645, is the American Veterinary Medical Association's monthly peer-reviewed veterinary research journal, founded October 1940, MEDLINE-indexed since 1965, print ceased 2022 with online continuation.
American Judicature Society
American Judicature Society (AJS), founded July 15, 1913, the original American "fair courts" citizen organization; developer of the Missouri Plan merit selection, publisher of Judicature; national body dissolved 2014, continued from Honolulu, Hawaii.
American Kennel Club
American Kennel Club (AKC), founded 1884, not-for-profit US purebred dog registry and dog-sport sanctioning body; 205 recognized breeds, publishes annual popularity and rarity rankings, French Bulldog top breed 2025.
American Kenpo
American Kenpo, also called Ed Parker's American Kenpo Karate, is a self-defense-oriented martial art created by Edmund K. Parker (1931–1990) from Hawaiian kenpo, organized around named motion principles, structured technique sequences, and the Long Beach Internationals.
American kestrel
American kestrel (Falco sparverius), North America's smallest falcon, ranges from Alaska to southern South America. Cavity-nesting insect and rodent hunter in long decline, about 53% since 1966, yet IUCN Least Concern with 9.2 million birds.
American Kickboxing Academy
American Kickboxing Academy, or AKA, is a mixed martial arts gym in San Jose, California, founded in 1985 by Javier Mendez and home to UFC champions Cain Velasquez, Daniel Cormier, and Khabib Nurmagomedov.
American Landscape
American Landscape is a 1930 oil painting by Charles Sheeler depicting the Ford River Rouge plant near Detroit in a hard-edged Precisionist style; it is held at the Museum of Modern Art.
American Le Mans Series
American Le Mans Series (ALMS), IMSA-sanctioned North American sports car series 1999–2013 under ACO Le Mans rules, founded by Don Panoz after Petit Le Mans 1998; Audi R10 TDI, Corvette GT1, Petit Le Mans, merged with Grand-Am into United SportsCar Championship.
American League
The American League (AL) is one of MLB's two leagues, founded January 28, 1901 in Milwaukee by Ban Johnson from the Western League. Known for the 1973 designated hitter rule and the 1903 first World Series.
American League Championship Series
American League Championship Series (ALCS), MLB best-of-seven playoff since 1985 (best-of-five 1969-1984) deciding the AL pennant; 2-3-2 format; 2025 winner Blue Jays over Mariners 4-3.
American lean
The American lean is a posture stereotype: US travelers lean on walls or shift weight to one leg, said to mark them abroad. Attributed to former CIA Chief of Disguise Jonna Mendez; not scientifically validated; unrelated to lean manufacturing or lean the drug.
American Left
American Left: the U.S. spectrum of socialist, social-democratic, and progressive movements, from Debs' 1912 Socialist Party through the New Left to the 120,000-member DSA of 2026.
American Legion
The American Legion, founded 1919 and chartered by Congress, is the largest U.S. veterans organization with over 1.2 million members, 55 departments, and 12,000 posts, known for the GI Bill and VA advocacy.
American Legislative Exchange Council
American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), founded 1973, a 501(c)(3) U.S. organization of state legislators and corporate members that drafts model legislation; studied for copy-and-paste bill diffusion across statehouses.
American Library Association
American Library Association (ALA), founded 1876 in Philadelphia, is the Chicago-headquartered US nonprofit for libraries and library workers, governed by a Council and Executive Board, with divisions, round tables, advocacy, and intellectual freedom work.
American Life
American Life is Madonna's ninth studio album, released April 21, 2003 on Warner Bros. Produced and co-written with Mirwais Ahmadzaï, the 11-track, 49-minute folk-electronic record hit number one on the Billboard 200, went RIAA platinum, but became her lowest-selling album after the Iraq War-era video for its title track was withdrawn.
American lion
American lion (Panthera atrox), also called American cave lion, an extinct large Pleistocene felid of North America, 25% larger than the modern lion, closest to the Eurasian cave lion, extinct about 11,000 years ago.
American literature
American literature: the literary and oral tradition of the United States, also called U.S. literature, from Indigenous oral traditions and colonial writing to the present. Distinguished by contested periodization (colonial, romantic, realist, modernist schemes) and canon debates over race and hemispheric scope.
American lobster
American lobster (Homarus americanus), the northern or Maine lobster, a large clawed lobster from Labrador to Cape Hatteras. Two US stocks: Gulf of Maine/Georges Bank (down 34% since 2018, overfishing) and severely depleted Southern New England; 2024 landings 113 million pounds, $720 million.
American Locomotive Company
The American Locomotive Company, commonly known as ALCO, was an American locomotive manufacturer based in Schenectady, New York. Formed in 1901, it was the second largest steam locomotive builder in the United States.
American Made (film)
American Made is a 2017 American action comedy drama directed by Doug Liman, starring Tom Cruise as TWA pilot Barry Seal, a 1980s drug smuggler and DEA informant.
American Made (professional wrestling)
American Made is a WWE professional wrestling stable led by Chad Gable with the Creed Brothers and Ivy Nile, formed on Raw in 2024 after Gable left Alpha Academy.
American Mafia
The American Mafia, or La Cosa Nostra, is Italian-American organized crime operating in the United States since the 1920s through families such as New York's Five Families.
American manual alphabet
American manual alphabet: the one-handed, 26-handshape fingerspelling system of American Sign Language, part of the French Sign Language alphabet family transmitted from Spain, used for proper names, technical terms, and lexicalized signs.
American marten
American marten (Martes americana), also pine marten, a small mustelid of northern North American coniferous and mixedwood forests; 0.5–1.4 kg, litters of 1–5 kits; Newfoundland subspecies M. a. atrata is a Canadian species at risk; Pacific marten M. caurina now often separate.