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Ape Drums
Ape Drums is the professional name of Eric Alberto-Lopez, a Houston-born, Miami-based record producer and DJ known for blending Caribbean and Latin riddims into electronic dance music.
Ape Echoes
Ape Echoes is a Mumbai-based Indian band of producers and multi-instrumentalists blending jazz, electronica, funk, and R&B, known for its debut album Charlie Dreams of Escape (2020).
Ape Escape (サルゲッチュ)
Ape Escape (Saru Getchu, サルゲッチュ) is Sony's 1999 PlayStation 3D platformer, the first game requiring the DualShock, in which players catch time-traveling monkeys with right-stick gadgets; it spawned sequels and the Astro Bot legacy.
APEC Business Travel Card
The APEC Business Travel Card (ABTC) is a five-year travel document that pre-clears business people for visa-free short-term travel across the 21 APEC economies, begun as a trial in 1997.
APEC China 2026
APEC China 2026 is China's third APEC chairmanship, culminating in the 33rd Economic Leaders' Meeting in Shenzhen on 18–19 November 2026 under the theme "Building an Asia-Pacific Community to Prosper Together".
APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules
The APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) system is a voluntary certification scheme, endorsed in 2011 and first practiced by the United States and Mexico, letting companies move personal data across participating Asia-Pacific economies.
APEC Philippines 2015
APEC Philippines 2015: the Philippines chaired APEC, hosting the 23rd Economic Leaders' Meeting in Manila, November 18-19, 2015, under the theme Building Inclusive Economies, Building a Better World, with the Boracay Action Agenda, Cebu Action Plan, and RAASR as key outcomes.
APEC South Korea 2025
APEC South Korea 2025: the Republic of Korea's APEC chairmanship culminating in the 32nd Economic Leaders' Meeting in Gyeongju, October 31 to November 1, 2025, chaired by President Lee Jae Myung, which adopted the Gyeongju Declaration, APEC AI Initiative, and Demographic Changes Framework.
Apedemak temples
Apedemak temples are single-room Meroitic temples of the lion-headed god Apedemak, built from the late third century BC at Musawwarat es-Sufra and Naqa in present-day Sudan, unlike multi-room Egyptian-plan temples.
Apeiron Presight Capital
Apeiron Presight Capital is the fundraising name of Presight Capital's second venture fund, a biotech and deep tech investor backed by Christian Angermayer's Apeiron Investment Group.
Apeiruss
Apeiruss is a Bangladeshi electronic music duo of brothers Sheikh Saami and Sheikh Shafi Mahmud, formed in 2014, best known for "Ishqam", credited with over 300 million views.
Apeldoorn
Apeldoorn, Gelderland municipality in the central Netherlands on the Veluwe; 170,000 residents (2026), town plus eleven villages, rooted in the House of Orange's Het Loo; Paleis Het Loo, Apenheul, canal and railway growth history.
Apelin
Apelin, also known as APLN, is an endogenous peptide hormone discovered in 1998 as the ligand of the APJ receptor, lowering blood pressure and promoting diuresis and angiogenesis.
Apelin receptor
Apelin receptor (APJ, APLNR): a class A GPCR on human chromosome 11q12.1, 380 amino acids, binding apelin and Elabela/Toddler peptides; regulates vasodilation, cardiac contractility, angiogenesis, and fluid homeostasis; drug target in heart failure and PAH.
Apellis Pharmaceuticals
Apellis Pharmaceuticals was a biopharmaceutical company, founded in 2009 in Kentucky and later based in Waltham, Massachusetts, that developed the complement C3 inhibitors EMPAVELI and SYFOVRE.
Apennine Base Tunnel
The Apennine Base Tunnel (Italian: Grande Galleria dell'Appennino) is an 18.5 km double-track railway tunnel carrying the Bologna–Florence line under the Apennines, opened in 1934.
Apennine culture
The Apennine culture was a Bronze Age archaeological culture of peninsular Italy, known above all for its hand-made pottery, flourishing from the 16th to 13th centuries BCE.
Apennine Mountains
Apennine Mountains (Appennini): the mountain chain forming the geological spine of Italy, running over 1,000 km from the Alps to Sicily. An active orogenic belt from African-European plate convergence and Adriatic subduction, with 2-4 mm/yr extension and frequent earthquakes.
Apensen
Apensen, Lower Saxony: village in the district of Stade with the Roman Iron Age burial ground Apensen 1 (703 excavated cremations, est. 2,000-3,000 burials) and 5,500-year-old megalithic tombs at Grundoldendorf.
Apep (star system)
Apep is a triple star system roughly 2.4 kiloparsecs away in which two Wolf–Rayet stars collide winds and shed spiral dust plumes, named for the Egyptian serpent god of chaos.
Apepi
Apepi, also Apophis or Ipepi, was a Hyksos king of the Fifteenth Dynasty who ruled from Avaris around 1585 to 1542 BC and fought the Theban kings Seqenenre and Kamose.
Apera
Apera (silkybent) is a genus of about five annual grasses in Poaceae, tribe Poeae, native from Europe to Central Asia; its type species Apera spica-venti is a major herbicide-resistant weed of European winter cereals.
Aperam
Aperam is a Luxembourg-based producer of stainless, electrical, and specialty steels, spun off from ArcelorMittal in January 2011, with 16 production facilities and over 13,000 employees.
Aperanat
Aperanat, also written Aper-Anati, was a ruler of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period known from a single scarab in the Petrie Museum bearing the title heqa khasut, meaning ruler of foreign lands.
Aperel
Aperel ('Aper-El, also written 'Aperia) was a vizier of Egypt under Amenhotep III and probably Akhenaten, c. 1391–1353 BC, known from his rock-cut tomb at Saqqara, reached in 1987.
Aperia Technologies, Inc.
Aperia Technologies, Inc. is a tire-management technology company founded in 2010 in Burlingame, California, known for its self-powered Halo automatic tire inflation system for commercial trucks and trailers.
Aperiodic crystal
An aperiodic crystal is a solid with sharp Bragg diffraction peaks showing long-range order, yet without three-dimensional lattice periodicity; the IUCr adopted this definition in 1992.
Aperiodic tiling
An aperiodic tiling, or aperiodic tessellation, is a nonperiodic tiling of the plane containing no arbitrarily large periodic patches, best exemplified by Roger Penrose's tiles.
Apéritif and digestif
Apéritif and digestif: pre-meal and post-meal drinks, French apéritif/digestif, Italian aperitivo/digestivo. Aperitifs 10–25% ABV and drier; digestifs 25–45% ABV, bitter or sweet, served neat.
Aperlae (Turkey)
Aperlae (Aperlai, Greek Apérlai, Lycian Aprillai), a small fortified Lycian port on the Sıçak Peninsula between Kaş and Kekova, Turkey, flourished from the late 4th century BC to the late 7th century AD on murex purple dye and cabotage trade.