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Ansar
The Ansar (الأنصار) were the followers of Muhammad Ahmad, the self-proclaimed Mahdi who overthrew Turco-Egyptian rule in Sudan in 1885 and later became the base of the Umma Party.
Ansar al-Sharia (Libya)
Ansar al-Sharia in Libya (أنصار الشريعة), a Salafist jihadist group founded in Benghazi in early 2012, differed from same-named groups in Tunisia and Yemen by its Rafallah al-Sahati origins, blame for the 2012 Benghazi consulate attack it denied, UN and US terror listings, and May 2017 dissolution.
Ansar Shaikh
Ansar Shaikh (Shaikh Ansar Ahamad), IAS officer of the 2016 West Bengal cadre who cleared UPSC CSE at 21 with AIR 361 on his first attempt, becoming India's youngest IAS officer; currently ADM, Malda.
Ansari X Prize
The Ansari X Prize, also known as the X Prize, was a $10 million competition announced in 1996 and won in 2004 by SpaceShipOne, the first privately financed crewed spacecraft.
Ansbert Gadicke
Ansbert Gadicke is a German-trained physician and venture capitalist who founded the Boston biotech venture capital firm MPM Capital, which has raised roughly $4 billion.
Anschluss
The Anschluss was the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany, March 11–13, 1938, also called the 1938 annexation of Austria. German troops entered unopposed, Seyss-Inquart signed the union law, a rigged plebiscite followed, and the takeover violated Versailles and Saint-Germain and began Hitler's territorial expansion.
Anschutz Entertainment Group
Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG, AEG Worldwide), Los Angeles-based sports and live entertainment company owned by Philip Anschutz via The Anschutz Corporation; operates Crypto.com Arena, The O2, AEG Presents, and AXS ticketing.
Anscombe's quartet
Anscombe's quartet is a set of four small datasets constructed by statistician Francis J. Anscombe in 1973, sharing nearly identical summary statistics while their scatter plots show completely different patterns.
Anseba Region
Anseba Region (Zoba Anseba) is one of Eritrea's six administrative regions, in the central-northern part of the country, with its capital at Keren, about 91 km northwest of Asmara.
Ansegis
Ansegis, also Ansegisus (c. 770 to 833), was a Frankish Benedictine monk and abbot of Fontenelle, remembered for compiling the first systematic collection of Carolingian capitularies in 827.
Ansei Purge
The Ansei Purge (安政の大獄) was a campaign of arrests, exiles, and executions ordered by tairō Ii Naosuke in 1858 and 1859 against over 100 opponents of the shogunate.
Ansei Treaties
The Ansei Treaties (安政五カ国条約) are five unequal treaties of amity and commerce the Tokugawa shogunate signed in 1858 with the United States, the Netherlands, Russia, Britain, and France.
Ansel Adams
Ansel Easton Adams (1902-1984), American landscape photographer and environmentalist of Yosemite and the American West; cofounder of Group f/64, developer of the Zone System, Sierra Club conservationist, and 1980 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.
Ansel Elgort
Ansel Elgort (born 1994, New York City) is an American actor and DJ known as Augustus Waters in The Fault in Our Stars, the title character of Baby Driver, Tony in Spielberg's West Side Story, and Jake Adelstein in Tokyo Vice.
Ansell gas field
The Ansell gas field is a liquids-rich natural gas field in the Deep Basin of west-central Alberta, near Edson, producing from multiple Cretaceous formations including Cardium, Viking, and Cadomin.
Anselm
Anselm (2023) is Wim Wenders' 3D, 6K documentary portrait of German painter Anselm Kiefer, shot over two years at his French studios, premiered at Cannes, released by Sideshow and Janus Films.
Anselm Eckart
Anselm Eckart (1721–1809) was a German Jesuit missionary and scholar who worked in Brazilian Amazonia, spent 18 years imprisoned in Portugal, and wrote a prison memoir.
Anselm Kiefer
Anselm Kiefer (born 1945, Donaueschingen) is a German painter and sculptor of monumental Neo-Expressionist works on German history, myth, and the Nazi past, using lead, ash, and sediment of electrolysis; based in France since 1992.
Anselm of Canterbury
Anselm of Canterbury, also known as Anselm of Bec, was a Benedictine monk who became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1093 and is called the Father of Scholasticism.
Anselm of Laon
Anselm of Laon (Anselmus Laudunensis, died 1117) was a French scholastic theologian and Bible teacher at Laon, styled Doctor Scholasticus and linked to the Glossa ordinaria.
Anselm of Lucca the Younger
Anselm of Lucca the Younger (Anselmo da Lucca, also called Anselm II, c. 1036–1086) was an Italian bishop of Lucca from 1073, nephew of Pope Alexander II, and canonist who compiled the influential Collectio canonum.
Anser
Anser is a genus of geese in Anatidae established by Brisson in 1760, with the greylag goose Anser anser as type species; it includes white geese (formerly Chen) and ancestors of domestic geese.
Anser albifrons
Anser albifrons, the greater white-fronted goose, is a stocky brown goose with a white patch at the bill base, breeding across Arctic tundra of North America and Eurasia.
Anser fabalis
Anser fabalis, the taiga bean goose (Saatgans), is a migratory grey goose of northern Eurasia, 65–90 cm long, split from tundra bean goose A. serrirostris in 2007; declining in Europe, increasing in East Asia.
Anseriformes
Anseriformes, the waterfowl order (ducks, geese, swans, screamers, magpie goose), is a bird order of three families and 161 species, sister to Galliformes in Galloanserae, with a Cretaceous fossil history.
Ansett Australia
Ansett Australia was a major Australian airline founded by Sir Reginald Ansett in 1936 and one of the country's two dominant domestic carriers until its 2001 collapse.
Anseung
Anseung (안승), also recorded as Ansun, was a Goguryeo royal claimant enthroned in 670 by Geommojam, then King of Bodeok over a refugee polity at Iksan under Silla.
Ansgar
Ansgar, also Anskar or Anschar, was a Benedictine monk of Corbie who preached to the Danes and Swedes, became the first archbishop of Hamburg, and died in 865.
Ansgar Wessling
Ansgar Wessling, born 1961 in Essen, is a retired German rower who won Olympic gold in the men's eight for West Germany at Seoul 1988 and bronze for unified Germany at Barcelona 1992, plus world titles in 1989 and 1991.
Ansgarius (lunar crater)
Ansgarius is a 91.42 km Imbrian-age impact crater on the Moon at 12.92°S, 79.72°E, named for St. Ansgar (IAU 1935), marking the outermost ring crest of the Smythii basin.