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Arad Winwin

Arad Winwin, stage name of Mahmoud Reza Asefi (born 1989, Tehran), is an Iranian-born American gay adult film performer, model and bodybuilder in Los Angeles, active since 2014, a former military deserter and UN refugee, later known for 2024 Trump-support posts.

Arad, Arad County

Arad (Arad), municipality and seat of Arad County in western Romania on the Mureș River; 164,631 residents (2026), known for its 1763–1783 Vauban fortress, the 1849 execution of 13 generals, and its 1918 role in Transylvania's union with Romania.

Aradel Holdings

Aradel Holdings is a Nigerian integrated energy company spanning exploration and production, gas processing, and refining, listed on the Nigerian Exchange under the ticker ARADEL.

Aradhana (आराधना) (1969 film)

Aradhana (आराधना), 1969 Hindi romantic drama by Shakti Samanta starring Rajesh Khanna in a double role and Sharmila Tagore, based on To Each His Own; golden jubilee hit that made Khanna India's first superstar.

Aradidae

Aradidae, flat bugs (also flat bark bugs), a family of Heteroptera in Aradoidea with about 2,000 species in 8 subfamilies; flattened fungus-feeding bark-dwelling bugs with long coiled stylets; Aradus cinnamomeus is a pine forest pest.

Aradmu

Aradmu was a head agricultural administrator (šabra gud) in the Ur III state, known from an archive of 145 cuneiform tablets looted from a site near Nippur.

Arado Ar 232

The Arado Ar 232 Tausendfüßler was a German Luftwaffe transport aircraft of the Second World War, built in small numbers to replace the Ju 52/3m.

Aradul Nou

Aradul Nou ("New Arad") is a district of Arad, Romania, south of the Mureș on DN69; formerly a German-colonist commune, annexed to Arad in 1948, known for a Celtic necropolis and disputed Roman brick stamps.

Arae Philaenorum

Arae Philaenorum (Altars of the Philaeni, Greek Philainon bomoi), ancient boundary site at Ras al-A'ali, Libya, between Carthage and Cyrene, later Africa and Cyrenaica; legend of two brothers buried alive.

Arafura - Carpentaria

Arafura - Carpentaria, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 805, northern Australia's tropical coastal rivers draining to the Timor Sea, Arafura Sea, Gulf of Carpentaria, and Coral Sea; 1,077,000 km², over 20 endemic fish species, 98% free flow.

Arafura Games

Arafura Games: biennial 'friendly Games' multisport event in Darwin, NT, Australia, founded 1991 as Arafura Sports Festival for developing Asia-Pacific athletes; peaked near 4,500 participants, cancelled 2012, revived 2019, discontinued 2021.

Arafura Sea

The Arafura Sea is a shallow tropical sea lying between northern Australia and southeastern New Guinea, bounded by the Timor Sea, Torres Strait, and Gulf of Carpentaria.

Arafura Swamp

The Arafura Swamp, known to its Yolngu Traditional Owners as Gurruwiling, is a large freshwater wetland in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, holding Australia's largest paperbark swamp and over 300,000 waterbirds.

Aragats

Aragats (Արագած) is Armenia's highest peak, a 4,090-4,095 m andesitic-dacitic stratovolcano 40 km NW of Yerevan, center of the Aragats Volcanic Province with Quaternary ignimbrites, Pleistocene eruptions to ~0.49 Ma, paleoglaciers, and a cosmic ray station.

Aragen

Aragen Life Sciences, formerly GVK Biosciences (GVK BIO), is an Indian contract research, development, and manufacturing organization headquartered in Hyderabad, founded in 2001, backed by Goldman Sachs and Quadria Capital, and seeking an IPO in 2026.

Araghju

Araghju (Arraggio): Bronze Age Torrean fortress, the Casteddu d'Araghju, at 245 m near Porto-Vecchio, San-Gavino-di-Carbini, Corsica; 40 m cyclopean enclosure, torra tower, excavated by Roger Grosjean from 1967, historic monument since 1974.

Arago (Martian crater)

Arago is a 152.35 km diameter impact crater on Mars at 10.22°N, 29.93°E in quadrangle MC-12, named for French astronomer Dominique François Jean Arago and adopted by the IAU in 1973.

Aragon

Aragon (Aragón) is an autonomous community of northeastern Spain with provinces Huesca, Teruel, and Zaragoza, capital Zaragoza. Former kingdom founded 1035; 47,720 km², 1.35 million people; PP–Vox government under Jorge Azcón after the 2026 elections.

Aragon Pharmaceuticals

Aragon Pharmaceuticals, also known as Farallon Biosciences, was a San Diego pharmaceutical company focused on hormonally driven cancers, acquired by Johnson & Johnson in 2013 for $650 million.

Aragonese language

Aragonese (aragonés), a Romance language of the central Pyrenees in northern Aragon, Spain, endangered, with roughly 10,000–25,000 speakers, four dialect groups, recognition under Law 3/2013, and an official orthography adopted in 2023.

Aragonese literature

Aragonese literature is the body of literary writing connected with Aragón, an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, in Castilian, Aragonese, and Catalan, with a modern Aragonese revival since the 1970s.

Aragonese–Hafsid relations

The Aragonese–Hafsid relations were the diplomatic and commercial ties between the Crown of Aragon and the Hafsid dynasty of Tunis from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century.

Aragonite

Aragonite is an orthorhombic calcium carbonate mineral, CaCO₃, less stable than calcite at surface conditions and the classic first example of mineral polymorphism, named in 1788 in Spain.

Aragonite saturation state

The aragonite saturation state (Ωarag) measures how close seawater is to chemical equilibrium with aragonite, a form of calcium carbonate that marine organisms use to build shells and skeletons.

Aragorn

Aragorn II (Strider, Elessar) is the Dúnedain chieftain and heir of Isildur in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings who becomes King of the Reunited Kingdom; distinct from Aragorn I, an earlier chieftain of the same name.

Aragoto

Aragoto (荒事, "rough business") is a bold, exaggerated kabuki acting style created in Edo during the Genroku period by Ichikawa Danjūrō I, known for kumadori makeup and the mie pose.

Araguaia

The Araguaia River is a large river in central Brazil and the main tributary of the Tocantins River, notable for being one of the last large free-flowing tropical rivers.

Araguaia guerrilla

The Araguaia guerrilla (Guerrilha do Araguaia, 1972–1974) was an armed conflict in Brazil's Amazon in which Communist Party of Brazil fighters confronted the military dictatorship.

Araguaína

Araguaína is a municipality in the state of Tocantins in northern Brazil, on the BR-153 highway; created in 1958, it is the state's largest city and principal economic center outside the capital, Palmas.

Araguainha crater

The Araguainha crater, also called the Araguainha Dome (Domo de Araguainha), is a 40 km-wide impact crater in central Brazil and the largest confirmed impact structure in South America.