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Anno 1800
Anno 1800 is a 2019 city-building and real-time strategy game by Ubisoft Blue Byte set in the Industrial Revolution, with tiered population needs, production chains, Old World and New World maps, trade routes, and DLC seasons; Metacritic 81/100.
Anno 2205
Anno 2205 is a 2015 city-building and economic simulation game by Blue Byte and Ubisoft, in which the player colonizes the Moon to end an energy crisis.
Anno Birkin
Anno Birkin (1980-2001), English poet and musician of the band Kicks Joy Darkness, son of Andrew Birkin; died in a car crash near Milan; author of Who Said The Race Is Over? and namesake of the Anno's Africa charity.
Anno Domini
Anno Domini (AD), also called the Christian Era, is a calendar era counting years from the Incarnation of Jesus, devised by Dionysius Exiguus in 525.
Anno Domini 1989–1995
Anno Domini 1989–1995 is Black Sabbath's 2024 box set (Rhino/BMG, 4-LP/4-CD) of the Tony Martin era: remastered Headless Cross, Tyr, Cross Purposes, plus Iommi's new Forbidden remix; Eternal Idol excluded on label rights.
Anno Domini MCMXXI
Anno Domini MCMXXI, usually known simply as Anno Domini, is the fifth poetry collection of Anna Akhmatova, printed for the publisher Petropolis in Petrograd in 1921, the only separate lifetime edition of the book.
Anno Mundi
Anno Mundi, also called Annus Mundi, is a calendar era counting years from a calculated date of creation, used officially by the Byzantine Empire from an epoch of 5509 BC.
Annona
Annona L. (custard apple genus), family Annonaceae, about 120-170 species of tropical American and African trees and shrubs; source of cherimoya, soursop, sugar apple, and atemoya fruits, beetle-pollinated and often hand-pollinated.
Annona squamosa
Annona squamosa, the sugar apple or sweetsop (custard apple), a small Annonaceae tree native to Mexico to Colombia, grown for its knobby sweet fruit; beetle-pollinated, hand-pollinated commercially, seeds toxic, India the largest producer.
Annonaceae
Annonaceae, commonly known as the custard apple family, is a pantropical family of flowering plants with roughly 108 genera and 2,400 to 2,500 species, including fruit crops like soursop.
Annonay
Annonay, commune in north Ardèche, France, at the Cance-Deûme confluence; 16,912 residents (2018); historic paper and leather industrial town of the Montgolfier brothers, first hot-air balloon flight 1783.
Annotated bibliography
Annotated bibliography: a list of citations each followed by a brief annotation summarizing and evaluating the source. Differs from abstracts and literature reviews; types include descriptive, evaluative, and combination annotations.
Annotation
An annotation is a note, label, or explanatory remark added to a text, image, or dataset, ranging from marginalia in books to labels training AI systems.
Annotations to the Records of the Three Kingdoms
Annotations to the Records of the Three Kingdoms (三国志注) is a commentary on Chen Shou's Records, written by Pei Songzhi under a 429 imperial commission from Emperor Wen of Liu Song.
Announcement about Drunkenness (Jiu Gao)
The Announcement about Drunkenness (酒诰) is a Book of Documents chapter in which the Duke of Zhou instructs Kang Shu, regarded as China's earliest criticism of alcohol.
Annoy (software)
Annoy (Approximate Nearest Neighbors Oh Yeah) is a C++ library with Python bindings for approximate nearest-neighbor search, built by Erik Bernhardsson at Spotify in 2013.
Annoying Orange
Annoying Orange: American comedy web series created by Dane Boedigheimer (Gagfilms), first video October 9, 2009; talking orange with human eyes and mouth annoys fruit; over 1 billion views by 2012, Cartoon Network TV series 2012-2014, still running.
Annpurna Devi
Annpurna Devi, born in 1970, is an Indian BJP politician serving as Union Cabinet Minister for Women and Child Development and representing Kodarma, Jharkhand, in the Lok Sabha.
Annu Kapoor (अन्नू कपूर)
Annu Kapoor (अन्नू कपूर), born Anil Kapoor in 1956 in Bhopal, is an Indian character actor, singer, director, and radio and TV host. Known for Mandi (1983), hosting Antakshari (1993–2005), radio show Suhaana Safar, and the National Award-winning role in Vicky Donor (2012).
Annual Avant Garde Festival of New York
Annual Avant Garde Festival of New York, also called New York Avant Garde Festival: experimental music and intermedia festival organized by cellist Charlotte Moorman, 1963–1980, fifteen editions at venues from Judson Hall to Shea Stadium, peaking at 650-plus artists.
Annual Customs of Dahomey
The Annual Customs of Dahomey, called Xwetanu by the Fon, were yearly ceremonies at the capital Abomey where tribute was paid, ancestors honored, and state policy decided.
Annual exceedance probability
Annual exceedance probability is the probability, expressed as a percentage, that a flood or rainfall event of a given magnitude will be equaled or exceeded in any given year.
Annual general meeting
An annual general meeting, or AGM, is a yearly meeting a company holds with its shareholders, who hear from the board, vote on directors, and question management face to face.
Annual growth cycle of grapevines
Annual growth cycle of grapevines (Vitis vinifera): dormancy, budburst, shoot growth, flowering, fruit set, veraison, harvest, leaf fall; two-year reproductive cycle, 14–15 months, tracked via Eichhorn-Lorenz phenology stages.
Annual immigration statistics of Canada
Annual immigration statistics of Canada record yearly permanent resident admissions, peaking at 400,870 in 1913 and 483,640 in 2024, governed by IRPA and the Immigration Levels Plan tabled in Parliament.
Annual leave
Annual leave, also called paid vacation, is a worker's statutory entitlement to paid time off, accrued over a leave year and distinct from public holidays.
Annual meetings of the American Economic Association
The annual meeting of the American Economic Association convenes each January with the Allied Social Science Associations, drawing thousands of economists for sessions and the job market.
Annual payments (suibi) to Liao, Xia, and Jin
Annual payments (suibi, 岁币) were yearly deliveries of silver and silk the Song dynasty paid to the Liao, Western Xia, and Jin states under peace settlements.
Annual percentage rate
The annual percentage rate (APR) is a standardized, legally required measure of the yearly cost of consumer credit, reflecting interest plus, depending on the jurisdiction, certain fees and charges.
Annual plant
Annual plant: a flowering plant completing its life cycle from seed to seed in one growing season, then dying. Includes winter annuals (fall germination, spring flowering) and summer annuals; contrasted with perennials in ecology, biogeography, and agriculture.