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Andhra Sahitya Parishat

The Andhra Sahitya Parishat (ఆంధ్ర సాహిత్య పరిషత్తు), also known as the Telugu Academy, is a Telugu literary society founded in Madras in 1911 by Jayanti Ramayya Pantulu, now a museum in Kakinada.

Andhra Shabda Chintamani

Andhra Shabda Chintamani is a grammar of Telugu composed in Sanskrit, traditionally attributed to the eleventh-century poet Nannaya Bhattu; its disputed authorship shaped Telugu learning for centuries.

Andhra State (ఆంధ్ర రాష్ట్రం)

Andhra State (ఆంధ్ర రాష్ట్రం), 1953-1956, was India's first linguistic state, carved from Telugu-speaking Madras districts after Potti Sriramulu's fatal fast, with Kurnool as capital and Prakasam as first Chief Minister, merged into Andhra Pradesh in 1956.

Andhrula Charitra

Andhrula Charitra (ఆంధ్రుల చరిత్ర, "History of the Andhras") is the title of several Telugu works on Telugu history, the best known being Suravaram Pratapa Reddy's 1949 social history.

Andi Eigenmann

Andi Eigenmann (Andrea Nicole Guck Eigenmann, born 1990) is a Filipina actress, daughter of Mark Gil and Jaclyn Jose, star of Agua Bendita and Ma' Rosa, now living in Siargao.

Andi Mack

Andi Mack is an American teen comedy-drama that aired on Disney Channel from 2017 to 2019, about a girl who learns her older sister is her mother.

Andi Oliver

Andi Oliver (Andrea Oliver), British-Antiguan chef, broadcaster and former Rip Rig + Panic singer; Great British Menu judge 2017, host since 2020; runs Wadadli Kitchen; wrote The Pepperpot Diaries (2023).

Andi Osho

Andi Osho (Yewande Osho, born 1973) is a British stand-up comedian and actor, a regular on Stand Up For The Week and the only person to win two Celebrity Mastermind episodes.

Andi Peters

Andi Eleazu Peters (born 1970, Chelsea, London) is a British TV presenter known for Children's BBC's Broom Cupboard, Live & Kicking, Top of the Pops editorship, and ITV daytime competitions since 2014.

Andie MacDowell

Andie MacDowell (Rosalie Anderson MacDowell), American actress and model born 1958 in Gaffney, SC; Elite model and L'Oréal face; star of Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Groundhog Day, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Maid, and The Way Home.

Andier Ancient City Site

安迪尔古城遗址 (Andier/Endere ancient city site): Han-to-Tang ruins in Minfeng County, Xinjiang, 27 km southeast of Andier ranch in the Taklamakan; stupas, square fort, Tibetan-Brahmi-Chinese documents; fifth-batch national heritage site, 2001.

Andigena

Andigena (mountain-toucans), genus of Andean toucans in Ramphastidae established by Gould 1851; includes hypoglauca, laminirostris, nigrirostris, cucullata; montane cloud-forest frugivores, Selenidera paraphyletic.

Andijan Region

Andijan Region (Andijan viloyati) is Uzbekistan's smallest but most densely populated region, in the eastern Fergana Valley. Center: Andijan city, Babur's birthplace; over 3.5 million people; GRP 107.7 trillion soums in 2025.

Andijan uprising of 1898

The Andijan uprising of 1898 was an anti-colonial revolt in the Ferghana Valley of Russian Turkestan, led by the Sufi shaykh Dukchi Eshan against Russian troops.

Andijon

Andijon (Andijan, Andizhan) is a city in eastern Uzbekistan, administrative center of Andijon Region in the Fergana Valley, birthplace of Babur (1483), former Silk Road trade hub, rebuilt after the 1902 earthquake, population about 497,500 in 2025.

Andilly-en-Bassigny

Andilly-en-Bassigny, Haute-Marne commune (pop. 110) with a Gallo-Roman villa (1st-4th c. AD) with large private baths and a Merovingian necropolis; discovered 1832/1879, classified Monument historique 1986.

Andimba Toivo ya Toivo

Andimba Toivo ya Toivo (1924–2017) was a Namibian anti-apartheid activist who co-founded SWAPO, served 16 years on Robben Island, and held three ministerial posts after independence in 1990.

Andino Norpatagonica Biosphere Reserve

Andino Norpatagonica Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de Biosfera Andino Norpatagónica), UNESCO MAB site designated 2007 in Argentina; 2,323,218 ha of Valdivian temperate forests, Andean mountains, and Patagonian steppe with 21 core zones including Los Alerces National Park.

Andinobates

Andinobates (also called Andean poison frogs) is a genus of 16 small dendrobatid poison frogs split from Ranitomeya in 2011, native to Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador, with bromeliad tadpole deposition and mite-derived alkaloid defenses.

Andira

Andira Lam. (angelins) is a conserved genus of about 30 Fabaceae tree species, subfamily Faboideae, tribe Dalbergieae, native from Mexico to tropical America and West Africa, with drupaceous one-seeded legumes and a four-toothed calyx.

Andira inermis

Andira inermis (cabbage bark, angelin, almendro) is a nitrogen-fixing Fabaceae tree native from Mexico to tropical America and West Africa to Uganda, used in traditional medicine as a vermifuge and purgative, with toxic seeds and Least Concern status.

Andisols

Andisols, known as Andosols in the World Reference Base, are volcanic-ash soils of USDA Soil Taxonomy, covering under 1 percent of land but rich in organic carbon.

Andō Nobumasa

Andō Nobumasa (安藤信正, 1819–1871) was a Japanese statesman and lord of Iwaki-Taira who co-led the Tokugawa shogunate after Ii Naosuke's assassination and arranged the shōgun's marriage to Princess Kazu-no-miya.

Ando Yuko

Ando Yuko (安藤裕子), also known as Andō Yūko, is a Japanese singer-songwriter born in 1977 who debuted in 2003 and drew wide attention in 2005 when her song was used in a TV commercial.

Andon (land confirmation documents)

Andon (安堵状) were documents recording the confirmation of land possession in medieval Japan, issued to warriors, shrines, and temples, in the Muromachi period by the Ashikaga shogunate.

Andon Dimitrov

Andon Dimitrov (Андон Димитров) was a Bulgarian revolutionary, lawyer, and educator who founded the Macedonian Revolutionary Organization in Salonika in 1893 and served on its Central Committee.

Andon Nikolov

Andon Nikolov (Андон Костадинов Николов, born 1951, Sofia) is a Bulgarian weightlifter, 1972 Munich Olympic and world middle-heavyweight champion with a 525.0 kg total; later a national coach and federation president 2004–2007.

Andong Folk Village (安東民俗村)

Andong Folk Village (안동민속촌), in Seonggok-dong, Andong, South Korea, is an open-air site of traditional houses relocated in 1976 to escape flooding by Andong Dam; free entry, near Weolyeonggyo Bridge, distinct from Hahoe Folk Village.

Andong Kim clan

The Andong Kim clan (안동 김씨) is a Korean lineage from Andong whose Jangdong branch dominated Joseon politics for about sixty years by marrying its daughters to three successive kings.

Andong Protectorate

The Andong Protectorate (安東都護府) was a Tang dynasty protectorate established over former Goguryeo territory, divided into 42 states and governed jointly with Goguryeo elites until its disputed abolition after 758.