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Aramm

Aramm (அறம், "virtue") is a 2017 Tamil political drama, Gopi Nainar's directorial debut, starring Nayanthara as District Collector Madhivadhani leading a borewell rescue in a water-scarce village; released 10 November 2017, a commercial and critical success.

Aramoana massacre

Aramoana massacre: 13 November 1990 mass shooting at Aramoana, Otago, New Zealand, in which David Gray killed 13 people including Sergeant Stewart Guthrie; led to the Arms Amendment Act 1992.

Aramus

Aramus is a monotypic genus of gruiform wading birds (family Aramidae, Vieillot 1816) containing only the limpkin, Aramus guarauna (Linnaeus 1766), an apple-snail-eating wetland bird of the Americas, IUCN Least Concern.

Aran Biomedical

Aran Biomedical is a Galway, Ireland-based contract design and manufacturing specialist for implantable medical devices, supplying medical textiles, braiding, and coatings, acquired by Integer Holdings in 2022.

Aran Islands

The Aran Islands (Oileáin Árann) are three limestone Gaeltacht islands at the mouth of Galway Bay, Ireland: Inis Mór, Inis Meáin, Inis Oírr. Population 1,347 (2022), famous for Dún Aonghasa, St Enda's monastery, and the Aran sweater.

Aran jumper

Aran jumper (geansaí Árann), also called Aran or fisherman sweater: a heavy cream cable-knit Irish sweater from the Aran Islands, Galway Bay. A 20th-century invention tied to the 1891 Congested Districts Board, popularized by Vogue in 1956, with later myths of clan patterns and drowned fishermen.

Aran knitting

Aran knitting is the Irish tradition of hand-knitted cream sweaters with cabled panels, associated with the Aran Islands and dating only to the early 20th century.

Arancini

Arancini are fried rice balls coated in breadcrumbs, a staple of Sicilian street food. They feature regional fillings like meat ragù with peas or melted cheese and ham.

Arandala gas field

Arandala (Campo Arándala) is a natural gas field in the Lower Magdalena Valley basin of Córdoba, northern Colombia, operated by Canacol Energy and placed in production in October 2020.

Araneomorph spider fauna by continent

A comparison of araneomorph spider faunas by continent: which families dominate where, with the Neotropics richest and North America led by orb-weavers, wolf spiders, and jumping spiders.

Araneomorphae

Araneomorphae (Labidognatha), the modern spiders: the spider infraorder with opposed, pinching chelicerae, six spinnerets, one book-lung pair plus tracheae, over 100 families and about 47,500 of the 52,744 described spider species.

Araneta family

Araneta family: Spanish-Filipino family of Basque origin, arrived Manila 1723 aboard La Sacra Familia. Known for Juan Anacleto Araneta's Negros revolt, Araneta Center in Cubao, Araneta Coliseum, and marriages into the Roxas, Marcos, and Arroyo clans.

Arang and the Magistrate (아랑사또전)

Arang and the Magistrate (아랑사또전) is a 2012 MBC Wednesday-Thursday fantasy romance period drama, 20 episodes, starring Lee Joon-gi and Shin Min-a, based on the Miryang Arang ghost legend, sold to Japan at a record price.

ArangoDB

ArangoDB is a multi-model database system, written in C++ and developed by ArangoDB GmbH in Cologne since 2014, unifying graph, document, and key-value models under one query language, AQL.

Araniko

Araniko (अरनिको), also written Arniko or Balbahu, was a Newar architect and sculptor from the Kathmandu Valley who led artisans to Tibet in 1260 and later served Kublai Khan.

Aranka Kazi

Aranka Kazi (1933-1972), Hungarian middle-distance runner, first Hungarian woman to hold a world running record: 880 yards 2:11.6 and 3x880y relay 6:36.2 in 1954; fourth in the 1954 European 800m final.

Aranmanai (அரண்மனை)

Aranmanai (அரண்மனை, Palace) is a 2014 Tamil horror-comedy by Sundar C. about a family selling a haunted ancestral mansion; it spawned sequels in 2016, 2021, and 2024.

Aranmanai 2

Aranmanai 2 (அரண்மனை 2), aka Kalavathi in Telugu, is a 2016 Tamil horror comedy directed by Sundar C., sequel to Aranmanai (2014), starring Siddharth, Trisha, Hansika Motwani, and Soori, released 29 January 2016.

Aranmanai 3 (அரண்மனை 3)

Aranmanai 3 (அரண்மனை 3) is a 2021 Tamil comedy horror film, the third in Sundar C's Aranmanai series, starring Arya, Raashi Khanna, and Andrea Jeremiah; released 14 October 2021, streamed on Zee5, grossing about ₹50 crore.

Aranmanai 4 (அரண்மனை 4)

Aranmanai 4 (அரண்மனை 4), also released in Telugu as Baak, is a 2024 Tamil comedy horror film directed by and starring Sundar C., with Tamannaah Bhatia and Raashii Khanna; fourth in the Aranmanai series, released 3 May 2024, grossing about Rs 100 crore worldwide.

Araññaka-Mahābhaya

Araññaka-Mahābhaya is a thera, an elder monk, remembered as the resident of the Mahātala monastery in Ceylon who forgave the thief Harantika, in the Rasavāhinī.

Aranthalawa massacre

Aranthalawa massacre: 2 June 1987 LTTE killing of Buddhist monks, mostly child novices, and civilians on a pilgrimage bus near Nuwaragalatenna, Ampara District, Sri Lanka; 34 of 47 aboard killed; investigation opened only in 2020.

Arantxa Sánchez Vicario

Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, born in 1971 in Barcelona, is a Spanish former tennis player who won four Grand Slam singles titles and was world No. 1 in 1995.

Aranyak

Aranyak is a 2021 Hindi Netflix crime thriller, 8 episodes, set in the fictional Himalayan hill town Sironah, starring Raveena Tandon as cop Kasturi Dogra with Parambrata Chatterjee; directed by Vinay Waikul, written by Charudutt Acharya; season 2 shelved in 2025.

Aranyakas

The Aranyakas (आरण्यक) are Vedic texts standing between the Brahmanas and the Upanishads, composed in India around 700 BCE and explaining the secret meaning of sacrifice.

Aranyani Chasma

Aranyani Chasma is a 718-km-diameter chasma (trough) on Venus at 69.30°N, 74.40°E, in quadrangle v03. Named for the Indian forest goddess, adopted by the IAU in 1985.

Aránzazu del Campo

Aránzazu del Campo Bécares is a Spanish-born biomaterials chemist who leads the INM Leibniz Institute for New Materials in Saarbrücken and researches light-responsive hydrogels and gecko-inspired adhesives.

Araon

Araon (아라온) is a South Korean icebreaking research vessel operated by the Korea Polar Research Institute, delivered in 2009 as Korea's first icebreaking research ship.

Arapaho

Arapaho: a Plains Algonquian Native American people, also Hinono'eitiit speakers, split after 1864 into the Northern Arapaho of Wyoming's Wind River Reservation and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma.

Arapahoe County

Arapahoe County, Colorado: Denver-metro county, county seat Littleton, one of the 17 original 1861 counties, named for the Arapaho people. Third most populous Colorado county, 673,820 residents (2025 estimate), 797.86 square miles.