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Apystomyiidae
Apystomyiidae (Nagatomi & Liu 1994) is a small fly family whose sole living species, Apystomyia elinguis Melander 1950, occurs in California; extinct genera Apystomimus and Hilarimorphites come from Cretaceous amber, and its phylogenetic placement has shifted among Bombyliidae, Hilarimorphidae, Scenopinidae, and sister to Cyclorrhapha.
Aq Chapar 1
Aq Chapar 1 (BALL-43), also Aq Chapur 1, a Kushan-period (1st c. BC-3rd c. AD) circular monumental building 130 m across in the Dashli Oasis, northern Afghanistan, surveyed in 1973 by Sarianidi.
Aq Qoyunlu
The Aq Qoyunlu, or White Sheep Turkmen, was a confederation of Turkman tribes ruling eastern Anatolia and western Iran until the Safavid conquest in 1508.
Aq Qoyunlu civil wars and the fall of the dynasty
The Aq Qoyunlu civil wars were succession struggles among the Turkmen Aq Qoyunlu rulers after Sultan Ya'qub's death in 1490, ending with the dynasty's fall to Shah Isma'il I by 1508.
Aq Qoyunlu conquest of western Iran under Uzun Hasan
The Aq Qoyunlu conquest of western Iran under Uzun Hasan (اوزون حسن) destroyed the Qara Qoyunlu state between 1467 and 1469, making Tabriz the capital.
Aq Qoyunlu succession war after Uzun Hasan
The Aq Qoyunlu succession war after Uzun Hasan (جنگ جانشینی آققویونلو) was the 1478 struggle between Uzun Hasan's sons Khalil and Ya'qub, ending with Ya'qub on the throne.
Aq Sunqur al-Hajib
Aq Sunqur al-Hajib (أق سنقر الحاجب), titled Qasim al-Dawla, was a Turkic mamluk commander of Sultan Malikshah I and governor of Aleppo from 1087 to 1094.
Aqa Mirak
Aqa Mirak (آقا میرک), full name Sayyed Jalal-al-Din Hosayni Esfahani, was a 16th-century Persian painter at the Safavid court of Shah Tahmasp I, famed for animal painting.
Aqa Riza
Aqa Riza (آقا رضا), also known as Aqa Reza Heravi, was a Persian painter trained in the Safavid tradition who served Prince Salim, later Emperor Jahangir, in Kabul, Allahabad, and Agra.
Aqaba (العقبة)
Aqaba (العقبة) is Jordan's only coastal city and seaport, on the Gulf of Aqaba at the Red Sea's northern head, known for its 27 km coastline, coral reefs, medieval Ayla, and the Aqaba Special Economic Zone.
Aqaba FSRU
The Aqaba FSRU is Jordan's floating storage and regasification unit, moored at the port of Aqaba on the Red Sea and the country's sole LNG import facility since 2015.
Aqemia
Aqemia is a French drug-discovery company, founded in 2019 in Paris, that uses generative AI built on quantum and statistical physics to design small-molecule drugs.
Aqib Talib
Aqib Talib, born 1986 in Cleveland, Ohio, is a former NFL cornerback who played 12 seasons, winning Super Bowl 50 with Denver and earning five Pro Bowls.
Aqidah (عقيدة)
Aqidah (عقيدة), also Aqeedah, is the Islamic term for creed, the set of core beliefs a Muslim holds with certainty, stated in texts from short formulas to treatises.
Aqif Pasha Biçakçiu
Aqif Pasha Biçakçiu, known as Aqif Pashë Elbasani, was an Albanian statesman (1860–1926) who chaired the Congress of Lushnja and served on the High Council.
Aqiqah
Aqiqah, also known as Aqeeqah or Akika (عقيقة), is the Islamic sacrifice for a newborn, performed on the seventh day after birth with head shaving, naming, and a meal.
Aqit family of Timbuktu
The Aqit family of Timbuktu was a Sanhaja Berber scholarly household that supplied the city's chief judges and most imams of the Sankore mosque in the sixteenth century.
Aql X-1
Aql X-1, also written Aquila X-1, is a transient low-mass X-ray binary in Aquila where a neutron star accretes from a companion, erupting roughly yearly since 1965.
Aqlam Foundation Club for Freedom of Press and Media
Aqlam Foundation Club for Freedom of Press and Media (أقلام) is a place in Al-Rusafa, Baghdad, Iraq, mapped in OpenStreetMap as a casino despite its press-freedom name; it lies near Biblioteca Pública, Abu Nuwas Park, and the Ministry of Communications.
Aqllakuna (chosen women)
The aqllakuna (acllas) were girls chosen by the Inca state for ritual labor, weaving fine cumbi cloth, and political marriage, housed in state buildings called acllahuasis.
Aqllawasi
An aqllawasi, also written acllawasi, was an Inca institution, the "House of the Chosen Women," where secluded girls were trained in textile production and religious service.
AQP1
AQP1 (aquaporin 1, formerly CHIP28) is the first discovered membrane water channel, a homotetramer on chromosome 7p14 that carries the Colton blood group antigens, reabsorbs over 70% of glomerular filtrate water, and excludes protons.
AQP2
AQP2 (aquaporin-2, gene AQP2 at 12q13) is the vasopressin-regulated water channel of kidney collecting duct principal cells; its PKA-driven trafficking to the apical membrane controls urine concentration, and mutations cause nephrogenic diabetes insipidus.
AQP4
AQP4, or aquaporin 4, is a human gene coding the water-channel protein most abundant in the brain and the target of the autoantibody defining neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder.
AQP9
AQP9 is a human gene on chromosome 15 that encodes an aquaglyceroporin, a membrane channel transporting water, glycerol, urea, and other solutes, most strongly expressed in the liver.
Aqqush al-Afram
Aqqush al-Afram (أقوش الأفرم) was a Circassian Mamluk emir and viceroy of Damascus, best known for the 1300 punitive campaign against the Druze of Kisrawan.
AQR
AQR (Applied Quantitative Research) is a quantitative investment management firm founded in 1998 by Cliff Asness and three Goldman Sachs colleagues, headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, managing about $187 billion.
AQR Capital Management
AQR Capital Management, originally Applied Quantitative Research, is a quantitative investment firm founded in 1998 by Cliff Asness and colleagues, managing about $187 billion from Greenwich, Connecticut.
Aqsunqur al-Bursuqi
Aqsunqur al-Bursuqi (اقسنقر البرسقی) was a Turkish Seljuk military commander, shihna of Baghdad and governor of Mosul, who united Aleppo with Mosul before his assassination in 1126.
Aqtay
Aqtay (عقطاي) was a Turkish mamluk officer of Sultan al-Salih Ayyub who helped defeat the Seventh Crusade at Mansura in 1250 and ruled Egypt until his murder in 1254.