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Apollo School

The Apollo School (مدرسة أبولو) was a literary society founded in Cairo in 1932 by Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi, a leading force in romantic Arabic poetry.

The Apollo Theater, Harlem's historic venue at 253 W 125th St, opened in 1914 as a burlesque house and became the Apollo in 1934–1935. Famous for Amateur Night and launching Black music stars, it is now a nonprofit closed for a $65 million renovation reopening late 2026.

Apollo Theatre

Apollo Theatre (London) is a Grade II listed West End playhouse at 29 Shaftesbury Avenue, opened 21 February 1901, the first London theatre completed in the Edwardian era; 775 seats, Nimax-owned since 2005; distinct from the Apollo Victoria, Eventim Apollo, and Harlem Apollo.

Apollo Tyres

Apollo Tyres Limited is an Indian multinational tire manufacturer founded in 1972 and headquartered in Gurgaon, India, making tires under the Apollo and Vredestein brands in more than 100 countries.

Apollo-Grannus-Tempel

The Apollo-Grannus-Tempel is a Roman temple in Faimingen, Bavaria, Germany, dedicated to the Gallo-Roman healing god Apollo Grannus, among the most important sanctuaries north of the Alps.

Oct 15, 2026

Apollo–Soyuz Test Project

The Apollo–Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) was the first international crewed spaceflight, in July 1975, when an American Apollo docked with a Soviet Soyuz; it ended the Apollo program.

Apollo, Aedes

Apollo, Aedes (aedes Apollinis): the Temple of Apollo Medicus, later Apollo Sosianus, in Rome's Campus Martius, vowed 433 BC after a plague, rebuilt by C. Sosius, Rome's only Apollo temple until 28 BC.

Apollodorus of Athens

Apollodorus of Athens (Ἀπολλόδωρος) was a Greek grammarian and chronographer of the second century BC whose verse Chronica became the standard work of Greek chronology.

Apollodorus of Damascus

Apollodorus of Damascus (Ἀπολλόδωρος ὁ Δαμασκηνός) was a Greek engineer and architect active c. AD 98–125, Trajan's chief military engineer, credited with Trajan's Forum and a bridge over the Danube.

Sep 23, 2026

Apollodotus I

Apollodotus I (Ἀπολλόδοτος) was an Indo-Greek king of the early second century BC whose square silver drachms became the standard for all later Indo-Greek kingdoms.

Apollon Grigoryev

Apollon Grigoryev, also known as Apollon Aleksandrovich Grigoryev (Аполлон Александрович Григорьев), was a Russian poet and literary and theater critic, 1822–1864, who created "organic criticism" and worked with Dostoevsky on the journals Vremia and Epokha.

Apollon Maykov

Apollon Maykov (1821–1897) was a Russian poet of the art-for-art's-sake school, elected to the Academy of Sciences in 1853 and awarded the Pushkin Prize in 1882 for Two Worlds.

Apollonas (quarry)

Apollonas quarry: ancient marble quarry on Naxos' northeastern tip, one of the island's two ancient quarries with Melanes, home of the unfinished 10.45 m Archaic Kouros of Apollonas and the Apollo sacred-precinct inscription.

Apollonia (Albania)

Apollonia, also known as Apollonia of Illyria, was an ancient Greek colony in southwestern Albania founded in the 6th century BC, where Octavian studied; it is now an archaeological park on the UNESCO Tentative List.

Apollonia (wife of Dryton)

Apollonia, also called Senmonthis, was a Greek-Egyptian woman of Pathyris in Upper Egypt who married the Cretan cavalry officer Dryton in 150 BC and is known through his family's bilingual papyrus archive.

Apollonia 6

Apollonia 6, Prince's all-female trio formed in 1983 from Vanity 6 after Denise Matthews left, with Patricia Kotero (Apollonia), Brenda Bennett, and Susan Moonsie; one 1984 Warner Bros. album, "Sex Shooter" hit, Purple Rain appearance, disbanded 1985.

Apollonia Kotero

Apollonia Kotero (Patricia Apollonia Kotero, born 1959), American actress and singer, Prince's co-star in Purple Rain (1984) and lead singer of Apollonia 6, whose "Sex Shooter" hit #7 R&B; later Falcon Crest actress in a settled trademark dispute over her name.

Apollonia–Arsuf

Apollonia–Arsuf is an ancient coastal city in Herzliya, Israel, occupied from the 6th century BCE to 1265, when the Mamluks under Baybars destroyed it; it is now Apollonia National Park.

Apollonia/Sozousa

Apollonia (Greek Ἀπολλωνία), later renamed Sozousa, was the seaport and naval base of the Greek city of Cyrene in eastern Libya, serving it for more than 1,200 years.

Apollonian and Dionysian

Apollonian and Dionysian: Nietzsche's two opposing aesthetic principles from The Birth of Tragedy (1872), Apollonian order and form versus Dionysian intoxication and self-dissolution, unified in Greek tragedy.

Apollonius (dioiketes)

Apollonius was the dioiketes, chief financial official of Ptolemaic Egypt under Ptolemy II Philadelphos, serving about fifteen years until his dismissal and confiscation of property after 246 BC.

Apollonius of Tyana (Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Τυανεύς)

Apollonius of Tyana (Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Τυανεύς), first-century Pythagorean philosopher and miracle worker from Cappadocia, died 97 CE; known chiefly through Philostratus' heavily fictionalized Life of Apollonius, later compared with Jesus by Hierocles and answered by Eusebius.

Apollonius of Tyre

Apollonius of Tyre is the fictional hero of an anonymous Latin romance, the Historia Apollonii regis Tyri, whose tale of shipwreck and reunion shaped medieval retellings and Shakespeare's Pericles.

Apollonos Hydreium

Apollonos Hydreium, Latinized as Apollonis hydreuma, was a fortified watering station in Egypt's Eastern Desert on the Koptos–Berenike road, likely at Wadi Gemal, fortified under Vespasian.

Apollophanes Cave

The Apollophanes Cave is a large rock-cut burial tomb in the eastern necropolis of Marisa, Israel, used from the third century BCE and known for its painted animal frieze.

Oct 15, 2026

ApolloScape

ApolloScape is a large-scale open dataset for autonomous driving research, published by Baidu Research in 2018 with per-pixel semantic labels, 3D point clouds, and traffic trajectories.

Sep 24, 2026

Apolo Kagwa

Apolo Kagwa was the katikiro, or chief minister, of Buganda and chief regent during the minority of Kabaka Daudi Chwa, signing the Uganda Agreement of 1900 and writing foundational histories of the kingdom.

Sep 24, 2026

Apolo Kivebulaya

Apolo Kivebulaya, born Waswa in Buganda, was a Baganda Anglican evangelist, teacher, and priest who carried Christianity from Buganda into Toro and the Mboga and Ituri forest region of the eastern Congo.

Apolo Ohno

Apolo Anton Ohno (born 1982, Seattle) is an American short-track speedskater, the most decorated U.S. Winter Olympian with eight medals (2 gold, 2 silver, 4 bronze) across the 2002, 2006, and 2010 Games.