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American Top 40
American Top 40, known as AT40, is the longest-running American radio countdown show, launched by Casey Kasem on July 4, 1970, and hosted since 2004 by Ryan Seacrest.
American Top Team
American Top Team (ATT), founded 2001 by Dan Lambert and Conan Silveira in Coconut Creek, Florida, is a private, invite-only professional MMA training camp, six-time MMA Gym of the Year, home to UFC champions such as Amanda Nunes, Kayla Harrison, and Dustin Poirier.
American Tower
American Tower Corporation is a real estate investment trust that owns and leases multitenant communications towers to wireless carriers; created in 1995, it became a public company in 1998.
American Trailer Works
American Trailer Works was a Southlake, Texas manufacturer of utility and cargo trailers, formed in 2010 as a private-equity roll-up and merged into Big Tex Trailers in 2016.
American Transmission Company
American Transmission Company (ATC) is a Wisconsin-based, transmission-only electric utility that began operations in 2001 as the first multi-state utility of its kind in the United States.
American Transmission Systems
American Transmission Systems, also known as ATSI, is a transmission-only utility subsidiary of FirstEnergy that owns about 7,965 circuit miles of lines in Ohio and western Pennsylvania within PJM.
American Truck Simulator
American Truck Simulator (ATS) is SCS Software's 2016 PC truck simulation game, sister to Euro Truck Simulator 2, in which players haul cargo across a scaled-down US map, run a trucking company, and expand via state DLCs like Illinois and South Dakota.
American Ultra
American Ultra is a 2015 American action comedy directed by Nima Nourizadeh and written by Max Landis, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart as a stoner and his girlfriend.
American University
American University, also known as AU, is a private research university in Washington, DC, chartered by Congress in 1893 and dedicated by Woodrow Wilson in 1914.
American University of Beirut (الجامعة الأمريكية في بيروت)
American University of Beirut (الجامعة الأمريكية في بيروت, AUB), private university in Beirut founded 1866 as Syrian Protestant College; New York-chartered, seven faculties, MSCHE-accredited, Cyprus branch campus, top-ranked in Lebanon.
American upper class
The American upper class is the highest U.S. socioeconomic bracket, roughly 0.5–1% of the population, defined by great wealth, exclusive social institutions such as prep schools and country clubs, and corporate and political influence, distinct from the occupationally based upper middle class.
American Vandal
American Vandal is a Netflix true-crime mockumentary comedy (2017-2018) by Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault, following teen documentarians Peter Maldonado and Sam Ecklund investigating high school pranks; Peabody winner, cancelled after two seasons.
American Veterinary Medical Association
The American Veterinary Medical Association, founded in 1863 as the U.S. Veterinary Medical Association, represents American veterinarians, accredits veterinary schools, and had a record 111,257 members in 2025.
American Viticultural Area
American Viticultural Area (AVA): a TTB-designated delimited US grape-growing region under 27 CFR part 9, first established as Augusta, Missouri in 1980; 280 AVAs exist, requiring 85% local grapes for labeling, regulating geography only.
American Water Works
American Water Works Company is the largest publicly traded water and wastewater utility in the United States, serving about 14 million people in 24 states from Camden, New Jersey.
American Wedding
American Wedding is a 2003 American sex comedy directed by Jesse Dylan, the third film in the American Pie series, following Jim and Michelle as they prepare to marry.
American whiskey
American whiskey: federally regulated U.S. grain spirits (bourbon, rye, Tennessee, wheat, malt, corn, and American single malt) distilled from grain, aged in oak, bottled at 80 proof minimum; bourbon requires 51% corn and new charred oak.
American white ibis
American white ibis (Eudocimus albus), also Corocoro Blanco, a white colonial wading bird with red curved bill and black wingtips of southeastern US wetlands; tactile prober, Everglades indicator species, IUCN Least Concern.
American white pelican
American white pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos), a huge white North American waterbird with a 244–290 cm wingspan. Surface-feeds on fish with a pouched bill, breeds colonially on inland islands, winters on coasts; does not plunge-dive.
American wire gauge
American wire gauge (AWG), also known as Brown and Sharpe gauge, is the standardized scale used in North America to specify wire diameter, where a larger number means a smaller wire.
American Woman
"American Woman" is a 1970 hard rock song by Canada's the Guess Who (Bachman, Cummings, Kale, Peterson), the first Canadian group to top the Billboard Hot 100; Lenny Kravitz's 1999 Austin Powers cover is its best-known remake.
American Woman (2018 film)
American Woman (2018) is a Jake Scott drama, written by Brad Ingelsby, starring Sienna Miller as a Pennsylvania mother raising her grandson after her teenage daughter disappears; premiered at TIFF 2018, released June 14, 2019, distinct from the 2019 Canadian film and the TV series of the same name.
American Woman (TV series)
American Woman (2018) was a one-season Paramount Network comedy-drama starring Alicia Silverstone as Bonnie Nolan, a 1975 Beverly Hills divorcée, loosely based on Kyle Richards' mother Kathleen Richards; canceled two weeks after its finale.
American Woman Suffrage Association
American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), American suffrage organization founded 1869 by Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson; rival of the NWSA, worked state by state, merged into NAWSA in 1890.
American Wrestling Association
The American Wrestling Association (AWA) was a professional wrestling promotion based in Minneapolis, founded in 1960 by Verne Gagne and Wally Karbo, and folded in 1991.
American Zoetrope
American Zoetrope is a San Francisco film production company founded in 1969 by Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas, also known as Omni Zoetrope and Zoetrope Studios, producer of The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, and Megalopolis.
Americana
Americana: a noun for objects and traditions typical of the United States, and a roots-music genre institutionalized by the Americana Music Association (1999) and its Nashville AMERICANAFEST; also the name of Ohio's largest single-day Fourth of July festival in Centerville.
Americana (The Offspring album)
Americana is the fifth studio album by American punk rock band the Offspring, released in 1998 and featuring the hit "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)".
Americana Music Association
The Americana Music Association is a Nashville-based trade organization for American roots music, founded in 1999, which publishes the Americana Airplay Chart and hosts AMERICANAFEST.
Americana, São Paulo
Americana, São Paulo: Brazilian municipality (IBGE code 3501608) in the Campinas metropolitan region, founded from Confederate immigration after 1865, emancipated in 1924, historically a textile center known as the Capital do Rayon, population 237,240 (2022 census).