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An Nafud
An Nafud (al-Nufud al-Kabir, Great Nafud) is Saudi Arabia's second-largest sand sea, about 65,000 km² across Hail, al-Jawf, and Tabuk provinces, with red iron-oxide dunes up to 200 m, mostly stable, and Pleistocene lake and human-occupation records.
An Najaf
An Najaf (النجف) is a governorate in southwestern Iraq, capital Najaf city, site of the shrine of Ali and Wadi Al-Salam. Area 28,532 km²; population grew from 775,042 (1997) to 1,950,833 (2024); tourism is about 30% of GDP.
An Nhơn
An Nhơn, town (thị xã) in southern Bình Định province, Vietnam, near Quy Nhơn; former Champa capital Đồ Bàn (Vijaya) and Tây Sơn capital; established as a town in 2011, population about 208,000, seeking city status.
An Observation Log of My Fiancée Who Calls Herself a Villainess (自称悪役令嬢な婚約者の観察記録)
自称悪役令嬢な婚約者の観察記録。 (An Observation Log of My Fiancée Who Calls Herself a Villainess) is a Japanese villainess light novel by Shiki and Wan Hachipisu, AlphaPolis 2017, two volumes, with a completed Regina manga, Hanashi Media English license, and a 2026 Ashi Productions anime.
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Ambrose Bierce's 1890 Civil War short story: Peyton Farquhar, a Confederate sympathizer, imagines escaping his hanging in the instant before his neck breaks; adapted by Robert Enrico in 1962 and shown on The Twilight Zone.
An Offer from a Gentleman
An Offer from a Gentleman is Julia Quinn's 2001 Bridgerton novel, book 3, a Cinderella-style Regency romance of Benedict Bridgerton and Sophie Beckett; it became Quinn's first New York Times bestseller and the basis of Netflix Bridgerton season 4.
An Officer and a Gentleman
An Officer and a Gentleman is a 1982 Taylor Hackford romantic drama starring Richard Gere, Debra Winger, and Oscar winner Louis Gossett Jr., about a Navy officer candidate's training and romance; it won two Academy Awards and grossed about $130 million.
An Officer and a Spy (film)
An Officer and a Spy (J'accuse) is Roman Polanski's 2019 French-language Dreyfus affair drama adapted from Robert Harris's novel, starring Jean Dujardin as Picquart; it won the Venice Grand Jury Prize and reached US theaters only in 2025.
An Open Secret
An Open Secret is Amy Berg's 2014 documentary on sexual abuse of child actors in Hollywood, premiered at DOC NYC, given a failed limited 2015 release, and rediscovered online in 2017 amid the Weinstein allegations.
An Optimistic Theory of Our People
An Optimistic Theory of Our People (Оптимистична теория за нашия народ) is a collection of studies on Bulgarian national psychology by Ivan Hadzhiyski, published after his death.
An Orchestra of Minorities
An Orchestra of Minorities is a 2019 novel by the Nigerian writer Chigozie Obioma, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and narrated by a guardian spirit, or chi.
An Ordinary Miracle
An Ordinary Miracle (Обыкновенное чудо) is a three-act fairy-tale comedy by Soviet playwright Yevgeny Schwartz, completed in 1954 and first staged in Moscow and Leningrad in 1956.
An Ordinary Story
An Ordinary Story (Обыкновенная история; A Common Story) is the 1847 debut novel of Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, about a young idealist sobered by his pragmatic uncle in St. Petersburg.
An Outing (외출)
An Outing (외출), internationally titled April Snow, is Hur Jin-ho's 2005 Korean romance starring Bae Yong-joon and Son Ye-jin; spouses' affair revealed by a car crash, record Japanese box office via Hallyu.
An Qingxu
An Qingxu (安庆绪) was the son of the rebel general An Lushan, whom he murdered in 757 to take over the rebellion against the Tang dynasty.
An San
An San (안산), born 2001 in Gwangju, is a South Korean recurve archer and the first archer to win three golds at one Olympics (Tokyo 2020: mixed team, women's team, individual), with a 680 ranking-round Olympic record.
An Sang Mi
An Sang Mi (안상미), born 1979, is a South Korean short track speed skater who won gold in the women's relay at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics with a 4:16.260 world record, and later became a sports commentator.
An Schwager Kronos
An Schwager Kronos is a hymn-length poem by Goethe, written on 10 October 1774 in a post coach and read as a picture of a human life.
An Se-young (안세영)
An Se-young (안세영), born 2002 in Gwangju, is a South Korean women's singles badminton player, Paris 2024 Olympic champion, 2023 world champion, and long-running BWF world No. 1 with 11 titles in 2025.
An Shigao
An Shigao (安世高), personal name An Qing, was a prince of Parthia who became the first known translator of Buddhist texts into Chinese, working in Luoyang for about twenty years until roughly 170.
An t-Eilean
An t-Eilean (The Island) is a Scottish Gaelic-language BBC ALBA crime drama, the UK's first high-end Gaelic series, costing over £1m per episode, set on Lewis and Harris, winner of the Prix CIRCOM 2025 Grand Prix, with a second series in production.
An Unbelievable Story of Rape
An Unbelievable Story of Rape, a 2015 ProPublica and Marshall Project investigation by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting and inspired Netflix's Unbelievable.
An Uncertain Glory
An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions is a 2013 book by economists Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen arguing India's growth has not improved health and education.
An Undying Love for a Burning World
An Undying Love for a Burning World is a 2026 studio album by Neurosis, its first in a decade, introducing Aaron Turner of Sumac and Isis.
An Unearthly Child
An Unearthly Child (also 100,000 BC, The Tribe of Gum) is the first Doctor Who serial, four episodes on BBC TV, 23 November to 14 December 1963, written by Anthony Coburn, directed by Waris Hussein, starring William Hartnell, and now withheld from BBC iPlayer by a rights dispute.
An Unfinished Life
An Unfinished Life is a 2005 American drama film directed by Lasse Hallström, starring Robert Redford, Jennifer Lopez, and Morgan Freeman, set on a Wyoming ranch.
An Unmarried Woman
An Unmarried Woman is Paul Mazursky's 1978 American comedy-drama starring Jill Clayburgh as Erica Benton, a divorced Manhattan woman seeking independence; Oscar-nominated, Cannes Best Actress winner, distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox.
An Update on Our Family
An Update on Our Family: three-part 2025 HBO docuseries directed by Rachel Mason about family vloggers Myka and James Stauffer, who rehomed their adopted son Huxley, and the ethics of monetizing children online.
AN Venture Partners
AN Venture Partners is a Tokyo and San Francisco-based biotech venture capital firm, founded in 2022 in alliance with ARCH Venture Partners to build US startups from Japanese science.
An Wang
An Wang (王安) was a Chinese-American engineer who invented magnetic-core memory and founded Wang Laboratories in Boston in 1951, building it into a $3 billion company.