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Angels (Robbie Williams song)

Angels (Robbie Williams song), a 1997 power ballad from Life Thru a Lens written with Guy Chambers (additional credit Ray Heffernan); UK number 4, over 1.16 million sales, 2005 Brit Awards song of 25 years.

Angels & Airwaves

Angels & Airwaves (AvA) is an American alternative rock band formed in 2005 in San Diego by ex-blink-182 guitarist Tom DeLonge, known for synth-heavy arena rock on six albums from We Don't Need to Whisper (2006) to Lifeforms (2021).

Angels & Demons

Angels & Demons, also called Anges et démons in French, is Dan Brown's 2000 thriller and first Robert Langdon novel, a prequel to The Da Vinci Code involving the Illuminati, stolen antimatter, a Vatican conclave, and a 2009 Ron Howard film with Tom Hanks.

Angels & Demons (film)

Angels & Demons is a 2009 American mystery thriller directed by Ron Howard, starring Tom Hanks as symbologist Robert Langdon racing to stop a bomb threat against Vatican City.

Angels Flight

Angels Flight Railway is a landmark funicular railway in downtown Los Angeles, opened in 1901 to carry passengers up Bunker Hill and billed as the world's shortest railway.

Angels in America

Angels in America, a two-part play by Tony Kushner, is set in mid-1980s New York during the AIDS crisis, following gay men and the historical figure Roy Cohn.

Angels in America (miniseries)

Angels in America is a 2003 HBO miniseries adapted by Tony Kushner from his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Al Pacino and Meryl Streep.

Angels in Christianity

Angels in Christianity, also called Christian angelology, are spiritual beings created by God as messengers and ministers, inherited from Judaism and elaborated by medieval theology.

Angels in Islam

Angels in Islam, known in Arabic as Mala'ikah, are unseen beings created from light who convey revelation, record human deeds, and administer death and the grave; belief in them is a pillar of faith.

Angels in Judaism

Angels in Judaism, called mal'akhim (messengers) in Hebrew, are spiritual beings serving God; Jewish angelology covers their nature, ranks, and roles, including named angels like Michael and Gabriel.

Angels in the Outfield (1994 film)

Angels in the Outfield (1994) is Disney's remake of the 1951 MGM baseball fantasy, directed by William Dear, starring Danny Glover, Christopher Lloyd, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt; it grossed $50,236,831 domestically.

Angels Landing

Angels Landing is a sandstone fin in Zion National Park, Utah, with a 5.4-mile chain-assisted hike; permits via seasonal and day-before lotteries have been required since April 2022.

Angels of Death (殺戮の天使) (video game)

Angels of Death (殺戮の天使, Satsuriku no Tenshi) is a four-episode RPG Maker psychological horror adventure game by Makoto Sanada, serialized from 2015, later on Steam and consoles, with manga and anime adaptations.

Angels of Mons

Angels of Mons: WWI legend of angels or phantom Agincourt bowmen saving the British retreat from Mons, August 1914; traced to Arthur Machen's fictional story "The Bowmen" (Evening News, 29 September 1914), which he admitted inventing.

Angels with Dirty Faces

Angels with Dirty Faces is a 1938 Warner Bros. gangster drama directed by Michael Curtiz, starring James Cagney as Rocky Sullivan, Pat O'Brien as Father Jerry, Humphrey Bogart, and the Dead End Kids, famous for its electric-chair ending and 2024 National Film Registry induction.

Angelus

The Angelus is a Catholic devotion honoring the Incarnation, recited three times daily at 6 a.m., noon, and 6 p.m. at the sound of a bell.

Angelus Silesius

Angelus Silesius, born Johann Scheffler (1624–1677), was a Silesian mystic and Baroque poet who converted to Catholicism in 1653 and is known for the Cherubinic Wanderer, a collection of mystical epigrams first published in 1657.

Angelyne

Angelyne, born Ronia Tamar Goldberg in 1950, is the Los Angeles billboard icon who became famous from 1984 via self-promoting billboards, a pink Corvette, runs for governor, and a 2017 identity reveal.

Angelyne (2022 TV series)

Angelyne is a 2022 Peacock five-episode biographical drama limited series starring Emmy Rossum as the Los Angeles billboard celebrity Angelyne (born Ronia Tamar Goldberg), based on Gary Baum's 2017 Hollywood Reporter exposé; scored 87% on Rotten Tomatoes and 74 on Metacritic.

Anger

Anger is a basic human emotion triggered by perceived offense or obstruction, distinct from hostility (attitude) and aggression (behavior); venting does not reduce it, while CBT and arousal-lowering strategies are effective treatments.

Anger management

Anger management, also called anger management therapy, is CBT-based treatment teaching relaxation, cognitive restructuring, and communication skills; arousal-decreasing activities work (g = -0.63) while venting does not.

Anger Management (film)

Anger Management is a 2003 American buddy comedy directed by Peter Segal, in which court-ordered patient Adam Sandler faces unorthodox therapist Jack Nicholson; Marisa Tomei co-stars.

Anger Management (TV series)

Anger Management is an American FX sitcom (2012–2014) starring Charlie Sheen as therapist Charlie Goodson, created by Bruce Helford, produced under a Debmar-Mercury 10/90 syndication deal yielding 100 episodes, and loosely based on the 2003 film.

Anger Tales

Anger Tales is a 2023 Telugu-language anthology web series on Disney+ Hotstar, directed by Prabhala Tilak, with four episodes (Benefit Show, Food Festival, An Afternoon Nap, Helmet Head) about ordinary people confronting anger, starring Venkatesh Maha, Suhas, Madonna Sebastian, and Bindu Madhavi.

Angerona Tholus

Angerona Tholus is a 200-km-wide volcanic dome (tholus) on Venus at 29.8S, 287.2E in the Themis Regio quadrangle, named in 1997 for the Italian goddess of silence.

Angers

Angers, prefecture of Maine-et-Loire in Pays de la Loire, France; historic capital of Anjou, 159,022 inhabitants (2023), tramway lines B and C opened 2023, mayor Christophe Béchu.

Angers SCO

Angers SCO (Angers Sporting Club de l'Ouest), founded 1919 in Angers, France, is a Ligue 1 football club; promoted in 2015 and 2024, 2017 Coupe de France finalist, home Stade Raymond-Kopa.

Angevin Empire

The Angevin Empire (l'espace Plantagenêt) was the modern name for Henry II's composite lands, 1154–1204, from Northumbria to Gascony, assembled by inheritance and marriage and lost under John.

Angevin kings of England

Angevin kings of England: Henry II (1154–1189), Richard I, and John, founders of the Plantagenet line, ruling England plus the "Angevin Empire" from Normandy to Aquitaine until John lost most French lands by 1215.

Angevin Poland

Angevin Poland is the period of the Kingdom of Poland from 1370 to 1399, ruled by Louis I of Hungary and then his daughter Jadwiga, ending with the Polish-Lithuanian union.