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Ancient theater of Kourion
Ancient theater of Kourion, Roman theatre at Kourion, Cyprus, over a late 2nd-century BC Hellenistic theatre; Trajanic enlargement AD 102-117, arena phase AD 214-250, restored 1961-1963, still used for performances.
Ancient Theater of Teos
Roman-period theatre at Teos, an Ionian city near Seferihisar, Turkey, on the Kocakır hill slope facing the southern harbour. Horseshoe cavea 86 m in diameter, about 7,000 seats, scaenae frons funded by Tiberius Claudius Philistes in the late 1st century AD.
Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus
Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus: late-4th-century-BC Greek theatre in the Sanctuary of Asklepios, attributed by Pausanias to Polykleitos the Younger, with 14,000 seats, famed for its acoustics, and hosting the Athens and Epidaurus Festival since 1955.
Ancient Villa at Homs, Libya
Ancient Villa at Homs, Libya (Al-Khums): Roman villas near Leptis Magna, including the gladiator-mosaic villa found by University of Hamburg archaeologists in 2000 and the 2nd-century AD Villa Selene/Silin with 46 rooms and 400 m2 of mosaics.
Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui – Xidi and Hongcun
Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui – Xidi and Hongcun (皖南古村落) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site of two Huizhou villages in Anhui, China, inscribed in 2000.
Ancient warfare
Ancient warfare, also called warfare in antiquity, covers organized conflict from early antiquity to about AD 645: Greek hoplite phalanx, Persian armies, Roman legions, siegecraft, and logistics.
Ancilla qubits and uncomputation
An ancilla qubit is an extra qubit a quantum circuit uses as temporary workspace, storing partial results; uncomputation reverses the work to return it to |0⟩.
Ancillary Justice
Ancillary Justice (2013), Ann Leckie's debut and first Imperial Radch novel, narrated by ship-AI fragment Breq seeking revenge on Anaander Mianaai; won Hugo, Nebula, Clarke, Locus, BSFA, and Seiun awards.
Ancillary revenue (airlines)
Ancillary revenue for airlines is revenue beyond ticket sales from fees for bags, seats, and other services, estimated at $148.4 billion worldwide in 2024, about 15% of airline revenue.
Anco Ayllo
Anco Ayllo (Anku Ayllu) is the Chanka leader who, after the Inca victory around 1438, led a group of Chankas east to settle at Lamas, Peru.
Ancohuma
Ancohuma, also known as Janqutma, is a 6,427 m snow peak in Bolivia's Cordillera Real, rising above Sorata. It is the range's second-highest peak, following its neighbor Illampu.
Ancol Dreamland Theme Park (dunia fantasi)
Ancol Dreamland Theme Park, also known as Dunia Fantasi or Dufan, is Indonesia's biggest outdoor amusement center, covering 21 hectares on Jakarta's northern waterfront since 1985.
Ancona
Ancona is a port city on the Adriatic in the Marche region, capital of its province. Known as Ankon to Greek colonists, it leads Ro/Pax ferry traffic to Greece and is a TEN-T core port.
Áncora
Áncora is the cultural supplement of the Costa Rican daily La Nación, publishing essays and literary texts since the early 1970s, and also the name of the Premios Áncora awards founded in 1973.
Ancora Heart
Ancora Heart is a privately held Santa Clara, California medical device company developing the investigational AccuCinch Ventricular Restoration System, a catheter-based therapy for heart failure.
Ancoz
Ancoz is an Iron Age settlement site on the north bank of the Euphrates in Adıyaman Province, southeastern Turkey, known for Hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions of the Neo-Hittite kingdom of Kummuh.
Ancrene Wisse
Ancrene Wisse, also known as the Guide for Anchoresses or Ancren Riwle, is an anonymous early-thirteenth-century Middle English rule for anchoresses, composed in the West Midlands of England.
Ancrod
Ancrod (Arvin, Viprinex) is a thrombin-like enzyme from Malayan pit viper venom that defibrinogenates blood by cleaving fibrinopeptide A; tested for acute ischemic stroke in STAT and ESTAT trials, never US-approved, production discontinued in 2002.
Ancuța's Inn
Ancuța's Inn (Hanu Ancuței) is a 1928 volume of nine stories by the Romanian writer Mihail Sadoveanu, told by travelers at a Moldavian inn and widely regarded as a masterpiece of Romanian prose.
Ancyloceras
Ancyloceras d'Orbigny, 1842, type genus of Ancyloceratidae, a Lower Cretaceous (Barremian-lower Aptian) heteromorph ammonite with an open spiral, long shaft and terminal hook; type species A. matheronianum.
Ancyloceratina
Ancyloceratina, a suborder of heteromorph ammonite cephalopods named by Wiedmann, appeared at the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary and radiated in the Cretaceous with irregularly coiled shells, aptychus jaws, and extinction at the K/Pg boundary.
Ancylostoma duodenale
Ancylostoma duodenale, the Old World hookworm, is a human intestinal nematode transmitted by skin penetration, oral ingestion, and transmammary routes; distinguished from Necator americanus by teeth, larger size, higher blood loss, and hypobiosis.
Ancylostoma-associated secreted protein related
Ancylostoma-associated secreted protein related (ASPR, Pfam PF17641, InterPro IPR035109): a family of secreted cysteine-rich hookworm proteins, distant homologs of Ancylostoma-secreted proteins, first found upregulated after infection in Ancylostoma ceylanicum.
Ancylus Lake
Ancylus Lake was a freshwater lake stage in the postglacial Baltic Sea basin, following the Yoldia Sea and preceding the Littorina Sea, lasting roughly from 8800 to 6700 BC.
Ancymidol
Ancymidol (A-Rest, Abide; CAS 12771-68-5), a pyrimidine tertiary alcohol plant growth retardant first registered in the US in 1973, inhibits ent-kaurene oxidase in gibberellin biosynthesis and, at 100 μM, cellulose synthesis.
Ancyrodella
Ancyrodella, Ulrich and Bassler 1926, an extinct Frasnian (Late Devonian) conodont genus; A. rotundiloba defines the Frasnian GSSP base, 17 species in Klapper's 2021 revision, extinct at the Upper Kellwasser event.
Ancyrognathus
Ancyrognathus is an extinct Late Devonian conodont genus (Branson & Mehl, 1934; type species A. symmetricus) in family Polygnathidae, used as a Frasnian-Famennian index fossil; Klapper's 1990 revision recognized fifteen Frasnian species.
And Another Thing... (novel)
And Another Thing... is Eoin Colfer's 2009 sixth Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy novel, authorized by Douglas Adams's estate and widow Jane Belson, reuniting Arthur Dent and companions after Mostly Harmless; Colfer wrote no seventh book.
And Atoll Biosphere Reserve
And (Ant) Atoll Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB reserve designated 2007 in Pohnpei State, Federated States of Micronesia; an uninhabited, co-managed atoll with 13 reptile, 25 bird, and 7 mammal species.
And death shall have no dominion
"And death shall have no dominion" is a poem by Dylan Thomas, first published in 1933 and collected in Twenty-five Poems, one of his most popular works.