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Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra
Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra (異世界黙示録マイノグーラ), also Isekai Mokushiroku Mynoghra, is a Japanese isekai light novel by Fehu Kazuno and Jun about dying gamer Takuto Ira rebuilding the evil civilization Mynoghra; adapted into manga and a 2025 MAHO FILM anime.
Apocalypse Culture
Apocalypse Culture is Adam Parfrey's 1987 Amok Press anthology of fringe essays, interviews, and manifestos, reissued expanded by Feral House in 1990; a subcultural classic, sequel 2000, 100,000 copies by 2010, banned in Russia.
Apocalypse Hotel
Apocalypse Hotel (アポカリプスホテル) is a 2025 original TV anime by CyberAgent and CygamesPictures about robot staff led by Yachiyo running Tokyo's Gingarou Hotel after humanity leaves Earth; 12 episodes, aiko themes, Seiun Award winner.
Apocalypse in the Tropics
Apocalypse in the Tropics (Apocalipse nos Trópicos) is Petra Costa's 2024 Netflix documentary on evangelical influence in Brazilian politics, featuring Lula, Bolsonaro, and pastor Silas Malafaia; Venice premiere, 91% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now: 1979 Francis Ford Coppola war film, also known as Apocalypse Now Redux and Final Cut, adapting Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness to the Vietnam War; shot in the Philippines over 238 days, won the 1979 Palme d'Or.
Apocalypse Now (soundtrack)
Apocalypse Now (soundtrack): the 1979 electronic score by Carmine and Francis Coppola, realized by synthesists under David Rubinson, mixed by Walter Murch's team in pioneering 5.1 surround, with The Doors and Wagner, plus album releases and later Redux and Final Cut remixes.
Apocalypse Now Redux
Apocalypse Now Redux, also called Apocalypse Now: Redux, is Francis Ford Coppola's 2001 extended re-edit of his 1979 Vietnam War film, restoring 49 (some sources say 53) minutes of deleted footage, including the French plantation scene.
Apocalypse of Peter
The Apocalypse of Peter, also called the Revelation of Peter, is an early second-century apocryphal text in which the risen Christ shows Peter the punishments of the wicked.
Apocalypse Tapestry
The Apocalypse Tapestry (French: Tenture de l'Apocalypse) is a monumental medieval tapestry woven in Paris from 1373 to 1382 for Louis I, Duke of Anjou, illustrating the Book of Revelation.
Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End
Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End (Apocalipsis Z: El principio del fin) is a 2024 Spanish zombie film by Carles Torrens, adapting Manel Loureiro's blog-born novel; it premiered on Prime Video 2024, and became the streamer's top non-English subscriber driver.
Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction: literary genre depicting the end or aftermath of civilization. Began secularly with Grainville (1805) and Mary Shelley's The Last Man (1826); became an SF staple after Hiroshima; now spans nuclear, pandemic, and climate themes.
Apocalyptic literature
Apocalyptic literature is a genre of Jewish and early Christian texts, written from the third century BCE to the second century CE, revealing the end times.
Apocalyptica
Apocalyptica is a Finnish cello-metal band formed 1993 at the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, debuting with Plays Metallica by Four Cellos (1996), selling about six million records, now Eicca Toppinen, Paavo Lötjönen, and Perttu Kivilaakso on cellos.
Apocalypticism
Apocalypticism, also called apocalyptic eschatology, is belief in an impending world destruction or radical transformation of the social, political, or religious order, expressed in texts like Daniel and Revelation.
Apocalypto
Apocalypto, also known as Mel Gibson's Apocalypto, is a 2006 American action-adventure film directed by Mel Gibson, set in the declining days of the Maya civilization and spoken entirely in Yucatec Maya.
Apochromat
An apochromat, or apochromatic lens, is an optical system corrected to bring three wavelengths of light to a common focus, giving better color correction than an achromat.
Apocolocyntosis
The Apocolocyntosis is a short Latin satire, ascribed to Seneca, mocking the death of Emperor Claudius and the gods' refusal to make him a god.
Apocrine sweat gland
Apocrine sweat gland: large skin gland opening into hair follicles in the axilla, anogenital region, ear canal, and areola; inactive until puberty; its milky secretion is broken down by skin bacteria to produce body odor.
Apocrypha
The Apocrypha is a set of Jewish religious writings from about 200 BC to AD 100, included in Catholic and Orthodox Bibles but not in Protestant ones.
Apocrypha in Old Rus'
Apocrypha in Old Rus' (Апокрифы Древней Руси) are non-canonical religious tales and books that circulated in medieval Rus' manuscript culture from the 11th to the 17th century.
Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles
The Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles are early Christian narratives, written from the late second century onward, recounting the apostles' missionary journeys, miracles, and martyrdoms outside the New Testament.
Apocryphon of John
The Apocryphon of John, also called the Secret Book of John, is a Sethian Gnostic text attributed to John son of Zebedee, surviving in four Coptic copies.
Apocynaceae
Apocynaceae (dogbane family), formerly including Asclepiadaceae and Periplocaceae, is a large Gentianales flowering-plant family of about 392 genera and 5,747 species, mostly tropical, with milky latex, gynostegia, pollinia, and medicinal plants like Catharanthus roseus.
Apocynum
Apocynum (dogbane, Indian hemp) is a genus of Apocynaceae herbs native from SE/E Europe to W China and North America, with milky latex, paired follicles, and species including A. cannabinum, A. androsaemifolium, and A. venetum (Luobuma).
Apocynum androsaemifolium
Apocynum androsaemifolium (spreading dogbane, bitter-root) is a rhizomatous, poisonous perennial herb of the dogbane family, native from Subarctic America to NE Mexico, type species of Apocynum, hybridizing with A. cannabinum.
APOD
APOD (apolipoprotein D, ApoD) is an atypical 29 kDa HDL-associated glycoprotein of the lipocalin family on chromosome 3q29, binding hydrophobic ligands and upregulated in aging, oxidative stress, and neurodegeneration; distinct from the 2026 APOD ODE-discovery method.
Apodemus
Apodemus (Old World field mice), genus Kaup 1829 of Muridae rodents across Eurasia; includes wood mouse, yellow-necked, striped field mice; taxonomically debated, zoonotic reservoirs.
Apodid sea cucumbers (Synaptidae and Chiridotidae)
Apodid sea cucumbers (Synaptidae, Chiridotidae; order Apodida) are tube-foot-less, worm-like holothuroids, about 270 species, basal in Holothuroidea, with highly rearranged mitochondrial genomes and partly non-monophyletic families.
Apodidae
Apodidae, the swifts, a cosmopolitan family of Apodiformes birds that eat, sleep, and mate on the wing, cannot perch, glue saliva nests to vertical surfaces, and include the 169 km/h White-throated Needletail.
Apodiformes
Apodiformes, the order of swifts, treeswifts, and hummingbirds, holds about 480 species in three families; genetically nested in Caprimulgiformes, it was merged by Clements in 2016 and restored in 2024.