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Annie-Flore Batchiellilys
Annie-Flore Batchiellilys is a Gabonese singer, composer, and acoustic guitarist born in 1967 in Tchibanga, known for adapting Bapunu traditional music and named a senator of Gabon's Transition in 2023.
Annie's Song
"Annie's Song" is a 1974 John Denver love song for his wife Annie Martell, written in ten minutes on a ski lift for the album Back Home Again; it topped the US Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart.
Annihilation
Annihilation, also called particle-antiparticle annihilation, is the process in which a particle and its antiparticle collide and both are destroyed, their mass converted into photons and pions.
Annihilation (comics)
Annihilation is Marvel Comics' 2006 cosmic crossover written by Keith Giffen, in which Annihilus' Negative Zone Annihilation Wave devastates space, decimates the Nova Corps, and revives Marvel's cosmic line.
Annihilation (film)
Annihilation (2018) is a sci-fi film written and directed by Alex Garland, adapted from Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach novel, starring Natalie Portman as biologist Lena exploring the mutating zone Area X; 88% on Rotten Tomatoes, $11 million opening.
Annihilation (VanderMeer novel)
Annihilation (2014) by Jeff VanderMeer, first volume of the Southern Reach trilogy, follows a twelfth expedition of four women into the mysterious Area X; Nebula Award winner, adapted by Alex Garland in 2018.
Annihilation of Caste
Annihilation of Caste is B. R. Ambedkar's 1936 undelivered presidential address to the Jat-Pat-Todak Mandal of Lahore, self-published after the invitation was revoked, arguing caste can end only by discarding the Shastras' authority.
Annihilation radiation
Annihilation radiation is the electromagnetic radiation emitted when a particle and its antiparticle annihilate, most commonly two 511 keV photons from electron-positron annihilation, the basis of PET imaging.
Annihilationism
Annihilationism is the Christian doctrine that the unsaved are ultimately destroyed rather than tormented forever, tied to conditional immortality and taught formally by Seventh-day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses.
Annihilator (band)
Annihilator is a Canadian thrash metal band founded in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1984 by Jeff Waters, its sole constant member, best known for Alice in Hell (1989).
Annihilus
Annihilus, the Living Death That Walks, is a Marvel Comics insectoid tyrant of the Negative Zone, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, debuting in Fantastic Four Annual #6 (1968) and wielding the life-sustaining Cosmic Control Rod; he led the Annihilation Wave in the 2006 Annihilation event.
Annik Honoré
Annik Honoré, also known as Annik Honore, Belgian journalist and music promoter (1957–2014) who booked Joy Division's first concerts outside the UK at Brussels's Plan K and co-founded Factory Benelux and Les Disques du Crépuscule with Michel Duval.
Annika Dries
Annika Dries, American water polo center (born 1992, La Jolla, California), 2012 Olympic gold medalist with Team USA, three-time Stanford NCAA champion, two-time Cutino Award winner, 2026 USA Water Polo Hall of Fame inductee, now a UCLA Health internal medicine resident.
Annika Lurz
Annika Lurz, née Liebs, German swimmer born 1979 in Karlsruhe; 2006 world-record 4x100m and 4x200m freestyle relays, 2007 world silver 200m freestyle, 2008 Olympian for SV Würzburg 05.
Annika Rosengren
Annika Rosengren is a Swedish cardiologist and professor of medicine at the University of Gothenburg, known for landmark studies of type 1 diabetes and heart disease.
Annika Sörenstam
Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer born 1970 in Bro, dominated women's golf 1995-2008: 72 LPGA wins, 10 majors, the only LPGA 59 (2001), 2003 Colonial PGA Tour appearance, Hall of Famer.
Annika Wedderkopp
Annika Wedderkopp (stage name Annika), Danish actress and singer born 2004 in Gentofte; child star of The Hunt (2012), TikTok breakthrough, debut album AW topped Danish charts, P3 Prisen winner.
Annike Krahn
Annike Krahn (born 1985, Bochum) is a German former defender, 137-time international, World Cup 2007 and Euro 2009/2013 winner, Olympic gold 2016 and bronze 2008; now VfL Bochum women's football director.
Anning Lin
Anning Lin (林安宁) is a biochemist who studies JNK, NF-κB, and TNFα cell signaling, and has been founding dean of Nanjing University's Institute of Modern Biology since 2020.
Anniston and Tinsley Price
Anniston and Tinsley Price are identical twin American actresses who shared the role of Judith Grimes on The Walking Dead and played Holly Wheeler in Stranger Things.
Anniversaries
Anniversaries, Jahrestage in German, is a four-volume novel by the German writer Uwe Johnson, published 1970 to 1983 and regarded as his principal work. It follows Gesine Cresspahl through one year in New York.
Anniversary
Anniversary: the annual recurrence of a notable date, from Latin anniversarius; covers personal milestones (wedding gifts, bar/bat mitzvah), public commemorations like the US semiquincentennial, and leap-day date issues.
Anniya
Anniya, also written Anniyas or Anniyash, was the last named king of Azzi-Hayasa in eastern Anatolia, defeated by the Hittite king Mursili II around 1321–1295 BC.
Anniyan (அன்னியன்)
Anniyan (அன்னியன்), 2005 Tamil psychological thriller by S. Shankar starring Vikram as three personalities (Ambi, Anniyan, Remo), with Sadha, Prakash Raj, Harris Jayaraj's music; released 17 June 2005, 181 minutes, first Indian film dubbed into French.
AnnMaria De Mars
AnnMaria De Mars is an American judoka who won the 1984 World Judo Championships in the -56 kg class and is the mother of MMA star Ronda Rousey.
Annmarie Surprenant
Annmarie Surprenant is a physiologist and pharmacologist who established ATP as a fast synaptic transmitter in the mammalian nervous system and characterized the P2X receptor family.
AnnMarie Thomas
AnnMarie Thomas is an American mechanical engineer best known for creating Squishy Circuits, a method for teaching circuits with play dough, and for winning the 2020 LEGO Prize.
Anno 117
Anno 117: Pax Romana is a 2025 city-building and economic simulation game by Ubisoft Mainz, set in the Roman Empire's Pax Romana, released for PC and consoles on November 13, 2025.
Anno 1404
Anno 1404, released in North America as Dawn of Discovery, is a 2009 city-building and economic simulation game developed by Related Designs and published by Ubisoft.
Anno 1602
Anno 1602: Creation of a New World (1602 A.D. in North America) is a 1998 real-time city-building strategy game by Max Design and Sunflowers, the first Anno game, set on the island world of Anker; Germany's best-selling game with over a million copies sold.