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American Petroleum Institute
The American Petroleum Institute (API) is a United States trade association for the oil and natural gas industry, founded in 1919, with more than 800 technical standards published.
American Pharoah
American Pharoah (foaled 2012) is a Thoroughbred racehorse, the 12th Triple Crown winner (2015), first since Affirmed 1978; by Pioneerof the Nile, trained by Bob Baffert, ridden by Victor Espinoza, later at Ashford Stud.
American Philosophical Society
American Philosophical Society (APS), Philadelphia learned society founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743 to promote useful knowledge; oldest learned society in the United States, electing members, awarding the 1786 Magellanic Premium, granting research funds, and maintaining a research library.
American Physical Society
The American Physical Society is a nonprofit membership organization of physicists founded in 1899, with more than 50,000 members, known for publishing the Physical Review journals and convening major physics meetings.
American Phytopathological Society
The American Phytopathological Society (APS) is a nonprofit professional society founded in 1908 to advance knowledge of plant diseases, headquartered in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with over 5,000 members worldwide.
American Pickers
American Pickers is a History channel reality series premiered January 18, 2010, created by Mike Wolfe, following pickers buying antiques for Antique Archaeology in Le Claire, Iowa; 27 seasons, 416 episodes, Frank Fritz died 2024.
American Pie (Don McLean album)
American Pie is a 1971 studio album by Don McLean. The title track, an eight-minute song about the changing American landscape, reached number one on the Billboard 200.
American Pie (film series)
American Pie is a teen sex comedy franchise begun with the 1999 Universal film about four seniors pledging to lose virginity by prom night, comprising four theatrical films (1999-2012) plus five direct-to-video American Pie Presents spin-offs.
American Pie (film)
American Pie is a 1999 American teen comedy directed by Paul Weitz, in which four high school friends make a pact to lose their virginity by prom night.
American Pie (song)
"American Pie" is Don McLean's roughly 8:31 folk-rock song, released October 24, 1971 on United Artists; four weeks at US number 1 in 1972, "the day the music died" refers to Buddy Holly's 1959 crash, and it held the longest-number-one record for 49 years.
American Pie 2
American Pie 2 (2001) is a J.B. Rogers-directed teen comedy sequel to American Pie, written by Adam Herz, reuniting Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, and the original cast at a beach house; it grossed about $287 million worldwide, the franchise's highest.
American Pie Presents (film series)
American Pie Presents is Universal's direct-to-video spin-off line of the American Pie teen sex comedy franchise: five films, Band Camp (2005) through Girls' Rules (2020), sold millions of DVDs with new casts plus Eugene Levy.
American Pie Presents: Band Camp
American Pie Presents: Band Camp (2005) is the first direct-to-video American Pie spin-off, directed by Steve Rash, starring Tad Hilgenbrink as Matt Stifler at Tall Oaks band camp with Arielle Kebbel and Eugene Levy.
American Pie Presents: Beta House
American Pie Presents: Beta House (2007) is a direct-to-video teen sex comedy, third in the American Pie Presents spin-offs and sixth overall, directed by Andrew Waller, starring John White, Steve Talley, Jake Siegel, and Eugene Levy, about pledges defending Beta House against a Geek fraternity in the Greek Games.
American Pie Presents: Girls' Rules
American Pie Presents: Girls' Rules (2020) is the fifth American Pie Presents direct-to-video teen comedy, directed by Mike Elliott, with the franchise's first female-led cast (Madison Pettis, Lizze Broadway), released digitally and on DVD October 6, 2020.
American Pie Presents: The Book of Love
American Pie Presents: The Book of Love (2009) is the third American Pie Presents direct-to-video teen comedy, directed by John Putch, starring Bug Hall, Kevin M. Horton, Brandon Hardesty, and Eugene Levy as Mr. Levenstein, about three virgins using a ruined sex manual.
American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile
American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile, also known as American Pie 5, is a 2006 American teen sex comedy, the second direct-to-video American Pie spin-off.
American Pit Bull Terrier
American Pit Bull Terrier (APBT), a medium-sized bull-and-terrier dog breed from 19th-century England, Ireland, and Scotland; UKC-recognized since 1898, not AKC-recognized; 35-60 lb males, all colors except merle.
American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story
American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story is a 2017 Amazon Prime Video docudrama, 10 episodes, on Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, told from his perspective with his archives, starring Matt Whelan; mixed reviews.
American poetry
American poetry: verse of the United States from 1610 colonial beginnings through the nineteenth century, Eliot, and the postwar anti-tradition to today's diverse, prize-supported scene, marked by openness to outside traditions and formal reinvention.
American Pony
American Pony (美国矮马) is a small zoo attraction in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, China, at 47.38°N 123.93°E beside the Longsha Zoological and Botanical Garden; the name uses the Chinese term for miniature horses under 106 cm.
American Pop
American Pop (1981) is Ralph Bakshi's rotoscoped animated musical drama, written by Ronni Kern, following four generations of a Russian Jewish immigrant family through the history of American popular music, released by Columbia Pictures in February 1981.
American Postal Workers Union
The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) is an AFL-CIO labor union for United States Postal Service employees, founded on July 1, 1971 by a merger of five postal unions.
American Presbyterian mission in Iran
The American Presbyterian mission in Iran (مأموریت آمریکایی) ran churches, schools, and hospitals from 1834, beginning at Urmia and later leading Alborz College in Tehran.
American Primeval
American Primeval is a six-episode Netflix Western limited series (premiered January 9, 2025) written by Mark L. Smith, directed by Peter Berg, starring Taylor Kitsch and Betty Gilpin, dramatizing the 1857 Utah War and Mountain Meadows Massacre.
American Priorities
American Priorities (AP) is a federal super PAC, FEC C00932723, registered January 2, 2026 in Wilmington, Delaware, that funds left-of-center candidates critical of Israel, positioned as an anti-AIPAC counterweight, spending over $6 million in the 2026 midterms.
American Process (company)
American Process Inc. is an American biorefinery technology company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1994, it built early demonstration cellulosic ethanol plants in Michigan and Georgia.
American Progress
American Progress (1872) is John Gast's oil painting of Manifest Destiny, commissioned by publisher George Crofutt, showing Columbia leading settlers west while Native Americans and buffalo retreat; held at the Autry Museum.
American Prometheus
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer is a 2005 biography by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin that won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
American propaganda during World War II
American propaganda during World War II: government persuasion campaign run by the Office of War Information (OWI) from June 1942 to 1945, using posters, radio, and film to promote bonds, rationing, recruitment, and secrecy.