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Anbo Tong
Anbo Tong (北京安博通, Beijing ABT Networks Co., Ltd.) is a Beijing network-security software company that sells its ABT SPOS platform to other security vendors; it listed on the STAR Market in 2019.
Anbu (king of Mari)
Anbu, also known as Anbu of Mari, is the first king of the Mari dynasty in the Sumerian King List, which assigns him a reign of 30 years.
Anbumani Ramadoss (அன்புமணி ராமதாஸ்)
Anbumani Ramadoss (அன்புமணி ராமதாஸ்), born 1968, is a PMK leader from Tamil Nadu, son of founder S. Ramadoss; Union Health Minister 2004–2009, MP in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, and PMK president after a 2024–2026 feud with his father.
Anbus Labyrinthus
Anbus Labyrinthus is a 120-km-wide labyrinth terrain of intersecting valleys on Titan at 39.2N, 215W, IAU-named in 2017 after the Dune planet IV Anbus; a northern radial labyrinth dome studied for cryomagmatic or salt-tectonic uplift.
ANC military camps in Angola
The ANC military camps in Angola were training bases run from 1976 to 1989 by uMkhonto weSizwe, the armed wing of the exiled African National Congress.
Anca Dragan
Anca Dragan is a computer scientist and roboticist, associate professor at UC Berkeley heading the InterACT lab and Director of AI Safety and Alignment at Google DeepMind since 2024.
Anca Tanase
Anca Tănase (born 1968, Bunești, Vaslui), Romanian rower, also Tănase-Ruican, wife of Iulică Ruican; Olympic gold in the women's coxed eight at Atlanta 1996 in 6:19.73.
Ancaeus Linea
Ancaeus Linea is a 145-km-wide linea, a linear fracture band, on Jupiter's moon Europa at 57.82°S, 182.46°W, IAU-approved May 27, 2022, named for Europa's mythological nephew.
Ancala Infrastructure
Ancala Infrastructure, also known as Ancala Partners LLP, is a private equity firm founded in London in 2010 by Spence Clunie, investing in mid-market infrastructure across Europe and North America.
Ancalagon the Black
Ancalagon the Black: mightiest of Morgoth's winged dragons in Tolkien's legendarium, unleashed from Angband in the War of Wrath (F.A. 587) and slain by Eärendil; his fall broke Thangorodrim.
Ancash
Ancash (Áncash) is a department and region of Peru, capital Huaraz, spanning Pacific coast and the glaciated Cordillera Blanca; a mining-heavy economy of 20 provinces facing glacier retreat, acid drainage, and GLOF risk.
Ancel Keys
Ancel Keys (1904–2004), American University of Minnesota physiologist, K-ration designer, Minnesota Starvation Experiment leader, and proposer of the diet-heart hypothesis and Seven Countries Study linking saturated fat to heart disease.
Ancer L. Haggerty
Ancer L. Haggerty, also known as Ancer Lee Haggerty, is an American jurist who served as a United States district judge for the District of Oregon, appointed by President Clinton in 1994.
Ancestor
Ancestor: a deceased forebear, real or mythical, from whom persons or groups descend. In law, a person whose estate passes by descent; in anthropology, the focal figure of ancestor veneration, studied since Edward Tylor's 1870 comparative religion work.
Ancestor worship
Ancestor worship is the practice of honoring deceased ancestors through offerings, prayers, and rites, based on the belief that the dead can still influence their living descendants.
Ancestors (2026 film)
Ancestors (2026 film): David Turpin's feature debut, an Ireland-UK drama about Beau searching 1980s London for his missing friend Tiny during the AIDS crisis; premiered at TIFF 2026 Discovery and won the FIPRESCI Prize.
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is a 2019 third-person open-world survival game by Panache Digital Games, published by Private Division, guiding a hominid clan through Neogene Africa from 10 to 2 million years ago via neuronal, generational, and evolutionary progression.
Ancestral Beasts
Ancestral Beasts is a 2026 Canadian Métis psychological horror film written and directed by Tim Riedel, starring Morgan Holmstrom, Darla Contois, and Asivak Koostachin; it premiered at Fantasia on July 22, 2026.
Ancestral Injunctions
The Ancestral Injunctions (皇明祖训) are the Ming dynasty's ancestral law, promulgated by the founding emperor in 1395 to govern succession and the conduct of imperial princes.
Ancestral Puebloans
Ancestral Puebloans, formerly called the Anasazi, were maize-farming peoples of the Four Corners Southwest (c. 300 BCE–1300 CE), ancestors of the Hopi, Zuni, and modern Pueblos, known for pueblos, kivas, and the abandonments of Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde.
Ancestral sampling
Ancestral sampling is the standard way of generating data with a trained diffusion model, drawing from the learned reverse transition at each step to turn Gaussian noise into a sample.
Ancestral sequence reconstruction
Ancestral sequence reconstruction (ASR) is a computational method that infers the sequences of extinct ancestors from an alignment and phylogenetic tree, using a probabilistic model of evolution.
Ancestry.com
Ancestry.com is a commercial genealogy and DNA testing website launched in 1996 by Ancestry (founded 1983 as Ancestry Publishing), offering subscription access to billions of historical records, family tree tools, and AncestryDNA autosomal testing for ethnicity estimates and relative matching.
Anchakkallakokkan
Anchakkallakokkan (അഞ്ചക്കള്ളക്കോക്കാൻ) is a 2024 Malayalam action crime thriller, the directorial debut of Ullas Chemban, starring Lukman Avaran and Chemban Vinod Jose, released 15 March 2024 and built on the Porattu Nadakam folk art form.
Anchen
Anchen (按陈) was a Yuan-dynasty nobleman of the Konggirat tribe who fought 32 campaigns under Genghis Khan and was made Prince of Hexi in 1232.
Anchialine system
An anchialine system, also called an anchialine pond, is a coastal body of groundwater in caves or pools, linked to the sea underground and rising and falling with the tide.
Anchitherium
Anchitherium, extinct three-toed browsing horse genus (Equidae, Anchitheriinae) named by von Meyer 1844, type species A. aurelianense; widespread Miocene equid of Eurasia and the Americas with low-crowned teeth.
Anchor
An anchor is a device, typically a heavy object with shaped flukes, lowered to the seabed on a rope or chain to hold a vessel in place by gripping the sea floor.
Anchor (brand)
Anchor is a New Zealand dairy brand founded by Henry Reynolds in 1886 at Pukekura, Waikato, known for Anchor butter and milk. Sold to the NZ Dairy Association in 1896, later Fonterra; its global consumer business went to Lactalis in 2026, with Fonterra keeping Anchor in Greater China.
Anchor baby
Anchor baby: pejorative US political term for a child born to non-citizen parents, implying planned birth for citizenship; also niño ancla, bebê âncora. No legal meaning; citizen children sponsor parents only at 21.