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Another One Bites the Dust

"Another One Bites the Dust" is a 1980 song by Queen, written by bassist John Deacon, which topped the US Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks.

Another Period

Another Period is an American period sitcom created by and starring Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome for Comedy Central (2015-2018, 3 seasons, 32 episodes). Set in 1902 Newport, Rhode Island, it parodies Downton Abbey-style period drama as a Kardashians-style faux-reality show about the Bellacourt family; canceled November 29, 2018.

Another Public Enemy (공공의 적 2)

Another Public Enemy (공공의 적 2) is a 2005 South Korean action drama directed by Kang Woo-suk, starring Sol Kyung-gu as a prosecutor investigating his former classmate.

Another Roadside Attraction

Another Roadside Attraction is Tom Robbins's 1971 debut novel (Doubleday), a countercultural seriocomic thriller in which Marx Marvelous, Amanda, John Paul Ziller, and Plucky Purcell run a hot dog stand wildlife preserve hiding Christ's corpse abducted from the Vatican.

Another Round

Another Round (Druk) is a 2020 Danish-Swedish comedy-drama by Thomas Vinterberg starring Mads Mikkelsen as a teacher testing a 0.05% blood alcohol theory; Oscar winner for Best International Feature Film.

Another Side of Bob Dylan

Another Side of Bob Dylan is Bob Dylan's fourth studio album, released August 8, 1964 on Columbia, recorded solo in one June 9, 1964 session and produced by Tom Wilson. It marks his break from protest songwriting toward introspective material, later covered by the Byrds.

Another Simple Favor

Another Simple Favor is Paul Feig's 2025 sequel to A Simple Favor, starring Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively, reuniting on Capri for a wedding thriller. It opened SXSW March 7, 2025 and streamed on Prime Video from May 1, 2025, with a Metacritic score of 54.

Another Stakeout

Another Stakeout, also known as Stakeout 2, is a 1993 American buddy cop action comedy film and the sequel to Stakeout, starring Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez.

Another Thin Man

Another Thin Man (1939) is MGM's third Thin Man comedy-drama, directed by W. S. Van Dyke II, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles investigating Colonel MacFay's Long Island murder; one of 1939's highest-grossing films.

Another Time, Another Place

Another Time, Another Place is Michael Radford's 1983 British debut feature, a Film on Four adaptation of Jessie Kesson's novel in which a Scottish farmer's wife (Phyllis Logan) has an affair with an Italian POW (Giovanni Mauriello); distinct from the 1958 Sean Connery film of the same title.

Another World (TV series)

Another World was an NBC daytime soap opera (May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999) created by Irna Phillips and William J. Bell, the first Procter & Gamble-NBC partnership, first hour-long soap, with spin-offs Somerset and Texas, canceled for Passions.

Another World (video game)

Another World (Out of This World in North America) is a 1991 cinematic platformer by Éric Chahi, made almost solo for Amiga and Atari ST, published by Delphine Software, starring Lester on an alien planet, later ported to over 25 platforms and held by MoMA.

Another World (世外) (2025 film)

Another World (世外, Shì Wài) is a 2025 Hong Kong Cantonese animated fantasy drama directed by Tommy Ng Kai Chung, adapted from Naka Saijo's novel Sennenki (千年鬼), premiering at Annecy 2025 and distributed in North America by GKIDS.

Another Year

Another Year is Mike Leigh's 2010 British comedy-drama, premiered in Competition at Cannes, starring Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen and Lesley Manville as a contented couple and their lonelier friends, Oscar-nominated for Best Original Screenplay.

Anouk (singer)

Anouk (Anouk Teeuwe), Dutch alt-rock singer-songwriter born 1975 in The Hague; broke through with "Nobody's Wife" (1997), earned platinum albums, represented the Netherlands at Eurovision 2013 with "Birds" (ninth place).

Anouk Aimée

Anouk Aimée (Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus, 1932–2024), French film actress of Lola, Fellini's La Dolce Vita and 8½, and Lelouch's A Man and a Woman; Golden Globe winner, Oscar nominee, Cannes Best Actress 1980.

Anouk Matton

Anouk Matton, Belgian DJ, singer and producer performing as MATTN, born 1992 in Antwerp; first female artist on Smash The House, DJ Mag Top 100 2018-2022 (No. 42 in 2020), MTV EMA Best Belgian Act 2019, married to Dimitri Vegas.

Anoura

Anoura (tailless bats), genus of Neotropical nectar-feeding phyllostomid bats from Mexico to northern Argentina; most speciose Glossophaginae genus, 8–10 species, key Andean cloud-forest pollinators; A. fistulata has the longest tongue relative to body size among mammals.

Anous

Anous (noddies) is a genus of tropical terns in Laridae, subfamily Anoinae, established by Stephens in 1826, with five species including the Brown Noddy A. stolidus and Black Noddy A. minutus; Procelsterna is a junior synonym.

Anousheh Ansari

Anousheh Ansari is an Iranian-American engineer and entrepreneur who in 2006 became the first female private space explorer and first Muslim woman in space, and now leads XPRIZE.

Anoushka Shankar

Anoushka Shankar (born 1981, London), British-Indian sitarist and composer, daughter and student of Ravi Shankar, half-sister of Norah Jones; 13-time Grammy nominee known for classical ragas and cross-genre fusion albums.

Anoushka Vaswani

Anoushka Vaswani is a Partner, Growth at Lightspeed Venture Partners, investing in fintech, enterprise software, and infrastructure, with board seats at Fireworks AI, Semgrep, and 1Password.

Anouvong

Anouvong, also Chao Anou, was king of Vientiane, a Lao vassal state of Siam, from 1805 to 1828; his failed 1827 rebellion ended in the kingdom's destruction.

ANOVA gauge R&R

ANOVA gauge R&R (also ANOVA Gage R&R) is a method for gauge repeatability and reproducibility studies that estimates measurement variability by fitting an ANOVA model with parts and operators as factors.

Anovulation

Anovulation is absent ovulation, a leading treatable cause of female infertility (about a quarter of cases). Classified WHO Groups I–III; PCOS dominates; diagnosed by mid-luteal progesterone; letrozole now first-line therapy.

Anovulatory bleeding

Anovulatory bleeding (AUB-O, formerly dysfunctional uterine bleeding): irregular, often heavy uterine bleeding from unopposed estrogen when no ovulation occurs; common at menarche and perimenopause, treated with progestins.

Anovulatory cycle

Anovulatory cycle: a menstrual cycle without ovulation. Common after menarche and before menopause; PCOS causes about 70% of cases. Treated with letrozole, clomiphene, metformin, gonadotrophins, or IVF.

Anoxic waters

Anoxic waters, also called anoxic sea water, are bodies of water lacking dissolved oxygen, occurring naturally in basins like the Black Sea and increasingly in coastal waters receiving nutrient pollution.

Anoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy

Anoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (ICD-11 8B24.0), also called hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, is brain injury from combined cerebral hypoxia and ischemia, occurring after adult cardiac arrest and neonatal asphyxia, treated with cooling in newborns.

ANP32A

ANP32A (PP32, LANP, PHAPI) is a human gene at 15q23 encoding a 249-amino-acid LRR and acidic-tail phosphoprotein of the INHAT complex that regulates histone acetylation, PP2A, apoptosis, and is an essential host factor for influenza virus replication.