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American Psychiatric Association
American Psychiatric Association (APA), founded 1844, is the US medical specialty society of psychiatrists and publisher of the DSM, with 40,000+ members in over 100 countries, headquartered in Washington, D.C.
American Psycho
American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis's 1991 satirical novel (his third), follows Wall Street serial killer Patrick Bateman; canceled by Simon & Schuster, published by Vintage, later a Mary Harron film and musical.
American Psycho (film)
American Psycho (2000), Mary Harron's satirical thriller adapted from Bret Easton Ellis's 1991 novel, stars Christian Bale as Wall Street serial killer Patrick Bateman in 1987 New York; Lions Gate release, $15M US gross, 69% Tomatometer.
American Psycho (musical)
American Psycho is a two-act musical thriller with music and lyrics by Duncan Sheik and book by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, based on Bret Easton Ellis's 1991 novel. It premiered at London's Almeida Theatre in December 2013 under Rupert Goold, flopped on Broadway in 2016, and returned to the Almeida in a 2026 revival with Arty Froushan.
American Psycho (soundtrack)
American Psycho (soundtrack): 2000 Koch Records album of remixed 1980s-1990s pop and rock with Christian Bale monologues, plus John Cale's score, famous for the "Hip to Be Square" recall after Huey Lewis & the News denied soundtrack rights.
American Psycho 2
American Psycho 2 (American Psycho II: All American Girl), 2002 direct-to-video Lionsgate horror comedy directed by Morgan J. Freeman, starring Mila Kunis and William Shatner; originally The Girl Who Wouldn't Die, repurposed as a sequel, disowned by Ellis and Kunis.
American Psychological Association
The American Psychological Association, founded in 1892, is the largest US organization of psychologists, with over 172,000 members. It publishes APA Style, maintains PsycInfo, and accredits training programs.
American Public Health Association
American Public Health Association (APHA), founded 1872 by Dr. Stephen Smith in New York City, is a Washington, D.C.-based professional public health organization publishing the American Journal of Public Health and advocating federal health policy.
American Public Media
American Public Media (APM), founded 2004, is the national production and distribution division of Minnesota Public Radio, producing Marketplace, The Splendid Table, and Performance Today for 1,000 stations and about 15 million weekly listeners; largest US distributor of classical music programming.
American Public Transportation Association
The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) is a nonprofit association of more than 1,500 member organizations representing the public transportation industry in the United States and Canada, founded in 1882.
American Quarter Horse
The American Quarter Horse, or Quarter Horse, is an American breed of horse that excels at sprinting short distances, named for outrunning other breeds over a quarter mile.
American Queen (steamboat)
The American Queen was an overnight sternwheel steamboat built in 1995, generally described as the largest steamboat ever built, which cruised the Mississippi, Ohio, and Tennessee rivers until 2024.
American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association
The American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association (AREMA) is a North American professional association for railway engineering, formed in 1997 and publishing the Manual for Railway Engineering.
American realism
American realism is a literary and artistic movement that began after the Civil War, depicting ordinary American lives faithfully through writers like Mark Twain and Henry James.
American Recordings (album)
American Recordings is Johnny Cash's April 26, 1994 solo acoustic album, produced by Rick Rubin for Rubin's American Recordings label. Recorded in Cash's Tennessee cabin and Rubin's LA home, it won the 1995 Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album and launched a six-album series.
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also called the Obama stimulus plan, was a $787 billion federal stimulus package signed in 2009 to counter the Great Recession.
American Red Cross
The American Red Cross is a US humanitarian organization founded by Clara Barton in 1881, providing disaster relief and collecting about 46 percent of the nation's blood supply.
American red squirrel
American red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus), or pine squirrel: small territorial conifer-forest tree squirrel of Alaska, Canada, and the northern and western US, caching cones in middens; Least Concern, unlike the Eurasian red squirrel.
American Regions Mathematics League
American Regions Mathematics League (ARML), founded 1976 as the Atlantic Region Mathematics League, is a US team math competition: 15-student regional teams compete in Team, Power, Individual, and Relay rounds at simultaneous university sites each late May.
American Renaissance (literature)
The American Renaissance is the period of American literature, roughly the 1830s to the Civil War, whose classics include Melville's Moby-Dick, Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, and Whitman's Leaves of Grass.
American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 was a $1.9 trillion US stimulus law, signed March 11, 2021, providing direct payments, an expanded Child Tax Credit, and state aid.
American Research and Development Corporation
American Research and Development Corporation (ARD) was a venture capital firm founded in Boston in 1946 by Georges Doriot and partners, known for its $70,000 investment in Digital Equipment Corporation in 1957, which yielded $355 million.
American Resources Corp
American Resources Corporation (NASDAQ: AREC) is a Fishers, Indiana raw materials company founded in 2013, producing rare earth and critical mineral concentrates and refining them through ReElement Technologies.
American Restoration
American Restoration is a History Channel unscripted restoration series (2010–2016, 7 seasons), the first Pawn Stars spin-off, following Rick Dale's Las Vegas shop Rick's Restorations and later five US restoration shops.
American Reunion
American Reunion, also known as American Pie 4, is a 2012 American comedy directed by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, reuniting the original American Pie cast as adults.
American Revolution
The American Revolution: the 1775-1783 war and political movement by which thirteen British colonies declared independence in 1776 and formed the United States; also called the War of Independence; key events include Saratoga, the French alliance of 1778, and the Treaty of Paris.
American Revolutionary War
American Revolutionary War, also called the War of American Independence (1775–1783), the war in which thirteen British colonies won independence as the United States, with French aid after Saratoga and decisive victory at Yorktown in 1781.
American robin
American robin (Turdus migratorius), also zorzal americano or merle d'Amérique, a widespread North American thrush with an orange breast, about 366 million breeding individuals, Least Concern, diet roughly 40% invertebrates and 60% fruit.
American Rocketry Challenge
The American Rocketry Challenge is an annual US student model rocket competition for grades 6 to 12, run by the Aerospace Industries Association and National Association of Rocketry.
American romance
American romance is a tradition of American prose fiction, running from Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe, in which writers called their long narratives romances rather than novels.