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Andaman Sea
Andaman Sea, or Burma Sea, a ~790,000 km2 marginal sea of the eastern Indian Ocean between the Andaman-Nicobar Islands and Myanmar and Thailand, defined by IHO limits, monsoon-driven circulation, coral reefs, mangroves, seagrass, and the 2004 earthquake zone.
Andamanese peoples
Andamanese peoples are the indigenous Negrito groups of India's Andaman Islands: Great Andamanese, Jarawa, Onge, and Sentinelese. Once about 6,500 people in 1780, they declined catastrophically under colonization; the Sentinelese remain uncontacted.
Andamertinib
Andamertinib (安达艾替尼, brand 安比锐) is an oral, irreversible EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor by Avistone for EGFR exon 20 insertion-mutant NSCLC; approved in China April 2026 after the phase 2 KANNON study showed 42.7% response rate.
Andantino
Andantino is a boardless abstract strategy game for two players, invented by David L. Smith, in which hexagonal tiles build the playing area as the game progresses.
Andarig
Andarig, also known as Andariq, was a kingdom and city on the Sinjar plain in northern Mesopotamia, flourishing in the 18th century BC and known almost entirely from the archives of Mari.
Andarraya
Andarraya, a fifteenth-century Spanish capturing board game of the draughts family, first mentioned in 1429 and in Juan de Mena's 1454 verse; a possible stage between alquerque and marro de punta, reconstructed in Ludii.
Andasol Solar Power Station
The Andasol Solar Power Station is a group of three 50 MW parabolic trough solar thermal plants in Granada, Spain, using molten-salt storage to generate power after sunset.
Andaz (अंदाज़) (1949 film)
Andaz (अंदाज़, "Style"), also A Matter of Style, is a 1949 Hindi black-and-white melodrama directed and produced by Mehboob Khan, starring Dilip Kumar, Nargis, and Raj Kapoor in the only film pairing of Kumar and Kapoor, with Naushad's music and a love-triangle plot ending in Neena's jailing for murder.
Andaz (अंदाज़) (1994 film)
Andaz (अंदाज़, 1994) is a David Dhawan-directed Hindi action comedy drama starring Anil Kapoor as teacher Ajay Kumar Saxena, Juhi Chawla as Saraswati, and Karisma Kapoor as Jaya; released 8 April 1994, music by Bappi Lahiri, distinct from Andaz Apna Apna.
Andaz Apna Apna (अंदाज़ अपना अपना)
Andaz Apna Apna (अंदाज़ अपना अपना) is a 1994 Hindi comedy directed by Rajkumar Santoshi, starring Aamir Khan and Salman Khan as slackers wooing an heiress; a box-office disappointment that became a cult classic.
Andean Community
The Andean Community (Comunidad Andina, CAN) is a South American trade bloc of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, created in 1969 by the Cartagena Agreement and headquartered in Lima, Peru.
Andean condor
Andean condor (Vultur gryphus), a New World vulture of the Andes and South American coasts; heaviest soaring bird at up to 15 kg with a 3.2 m wingspan, flapping only 1% of flight time; IUCN Vulnerable with about 6,700 mature individuals.
Andean preceramic
The Andean preceramic is the period of Andean prehistory before pottery, spanning hunter-gatherer and early sedentary societies from about 12,800 years ago until ceramics arrived after 1200 BC.
Andean textiles
Andean textiles: cloth traditions of the Andes from 8000 BC Guitarrero Cave basketry through Chavín, Paracas, Wari, Chimú, and Inka cumbi weaving, colonial-era hybrid garments, and living Aymara and Cusco weaving communities today.
Andebu
Andebu, former municipality in Vestfold, Norway (no. 0719), covering the parishes Andebu, Høyjord, and Kodal; merged with Sandefjord and Stokke into Sandefjord on 1 January 2017, the first merger of Norway's municipal reform.
Andecaliximab
Andecaliximab (GS-5745), a Gilead-developed humanized IgG4 monoclonal antibody inhibiting MMP-9, failed phase 2/3 trials in ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, and gastric cancer (GAMMA-1), and is now in the ANDECAL trial for fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva.
Andela
Andela is a global talent marketplace connecting technologists in emerging markets with enterprises hiring remote software engineers. It was founded in Lagos, Nigeria in 2014 and valued at $1.5 billion in 2021.
Andelos
Andelos (Andelo), Roman city of the Vascones at Muruzábal de Andión, Mendigorría, Navarre, Spain. Cited by Pliny and Ptolemy; civitas in 74 CE; 18 ha; famed for its preserved dam, reservoir, and aqueduct; abandoned after the 1348 plague.
Andemta
Andemta (አንድምታ, also written Amdemta) is the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church's traditional Amharic translation and commentary on Ge'ez biblical texts, reaching its definitive form in the Gondarine period.
Ander Herrera
Ander Herrera Agüera (born 1989, Bilbao), Spanish central midfielder of Athletic Club, Manchester United, PSG, and Boca Juniors; 2 Spain caps; won the 2024 Copa del Rey and returned to Real Zaragoza in 2026.
Ander Puig
Ander Puig (Ander Puig Marsol), Spanish actor born 2001 in Barcelona, trans man; plays Nico, Élite's first transgender character (2022–2024), and Joel in RTVE's Ser o no ser.
Andera Partners
Andera Partners is a Paris-headquartered European multi-specialist private equity firm with six investment teams and about €6 billion under management, backing 370 companies over nearly 25 years.
Anderidos
Anderidos (Anderitum, Anderida) was the Roman Saxon Shore fort at Pevensey, East Sussex, built about AD 290, garrisoned by the numerus Abulcorum, sacked by Saxons in 491, and later the site of William the Conqueror's 1066 landing.
Anderl Ostler
Anderl Ostler (Andreas Benedikt Ostler, 1921–1988), West German bobsleigh pilot of SC Riessersee; won two-man and four-man gold at Oslo 1952, the first driver's Olympic double, prompting the 420 kg weight limit.
Anderlecht
Anderlecht is a municipality in the west of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium, with about 122,000 inhabitants and a medieval center around the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter and Saint Guido.
Anders A. F. Sima
Anders A. F. Sima is a Swedish-trained neuropathologist known for research on diabetic neuropathy and the polyol pathway, and a professor at Wayne State University.
Anders Adlercreutz
Anders Adlercreutz is a Finnish politician and trained architect, an MP since 2015 who has served as Minister of Education and led the Swedish People's Party of Finland since 2024.
Anders Aukland
Anders Aukland (born 1972, Tønsberg), Norwegian cross-country skier; 2002 Olympic relay gold, 2003 world relay champion, Vasaloppet and Marcialonga winner, Ski Classics champion 2012-2013, retired 2023.
Anders Behring Breivik
Anders Behring Breivik (Fjotolf Hansen), Norwegian far-right terrorist born 1979, killed 77 people on 22 July 2011 in an Oslo government-quarter bombing and Utøya youth-camp shooting; convicted 2012, sentenced to preventive detention.
Anders Björklund
Anders Björklund, born 1945, is a Swedish neuroscientist at Lund University known for pioneering cell transplantation and gene-transfer approaches to brain repair, above all dopamine cell replacement in Parkinson's disease.