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Arapaima
Arapaima (Arapaima gigas), pirarucu or paiche, a giant Amazonian air-breathing freshwater fish up to 200 kg and 3 m, breathing via a lung-like swim bladder; CITES-listed since 1975.
Arapaima gigas
Arapaima gigas (pirarucu, paiche), a giant Amazonian osteoglossiform fish up to 3 m and 200 kg; obligate air breather using a lung-like swim bladder, CITES Appendix II, IUCN Data Deficient, farmed for fast growth.
Arapiraca
Arapiraca, Alagoas, Brazil; second-largest city of Alagoas in the Agreste; 234,696 residents (2022 census); emancipated 1924; former Brazilian tobacco capital, now a vegetable-farming and regional trade hub.
Arapzâde Atâullah Efendi
Arapzâde Atâullah Efendi was an Ottoman şeyhülislâm, counted as the 86th holder of the office, serving about two months in 1785 under Abdülhamid I before dying in office.
Arapzâde Mehmed Ârif Efendi
Arapzâde Mehmed Ârif Efendi was an Ottoman scholar, son of a previous Shaykh al-Islam, who held the office for 25 days in 1808 during the dynastic crisis, and died in 1826.
Arara Azul gas field
Arara Azul is an onshore oil and gas field in Brazil's Solimões Basin, Amazonas, discovered in 2010 and operated by Petrobras as part of the Urucu province.
Araragi (magazine)
Araragi (アララギ) was a Japanese tanka magazine, organ of the Negishi school, published monthly in Tokyo from 1908 to 1997 and issuing 1,047 numbers over its ninety-year run.
Ararat (film)
Ararat (2002) is Atom Egoyan's Canadian drama, a film-within-a-film about making a movie on the 1915 Armenian genocide, starring Charles Aznavour, David Alpay, and Arsinée Khanjian; screened out of competition at Cannes 2002 and winner of five Genie Awards.
Ararat Mirzoyan
Ararat Mirzoyan is an Armenian politician serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, who has led negotiations on a peace treaty with Azerbaijan.
Ararat, Victoria
Ararat, Victoria: regional city 198 km west of Melbourne, gateway to the Grampians, former gold rush town and the only Australian city founded by the Chinese, population over 11,000 in its rural city.
Araria
Araria is a district in Purnea division, Bihar, India, headquarters Araria town, area 2,830 sq km. Formed from Purnea district in January 1990; named from British-era 'R. Area'; population 2,811,569 (2011).
Araripe Júnior
Araripe Júnior, born Tristão de Alencar Araripe Júnior (1848–1911), was a Brazilian literary critic, novelist, and jurist who, with Sílvio Romero and José Veríssimo, dominated Brazilian criticism.
Araripe UNESCO Global Geopark
Araripe UNESCO Global Geopark (Ceará, Brazil): first geopark in the Americas (GGN 2006, UNESCO 2015), 3,796 km², nine geosites, famed for Lower Cretaceous Santana Formation fossils and the Chapada do Araripe plateau.
Araris Biotech
Araris Biotech AG is a Swiss biotechnology company, spun off in 2019 from the Paul Scherrer Institute and ETH Zurich, that develops ADC linker technology.
Aras
Aras (Araxes) River: 1,072-km transboundary river rising near Erzurum, Turkey, flowing past Mount Ararat and forming the Iran-Azerbaijan-Armenia border before joining the Kura and reaching the Caspian Sea.
Aras Bulut İynemli
Aras Bulut İynemli (born 1990, Istanbul) is a Turkish actor known as Mete Akarsu in Öyle Bir Geçer Zaman Ki, Şehzade Bayezid in Muhteşem Yüzyıl, Yamaç Koçovalı in Çukur, Memo in 7. Koğuştaki Mucize, and Atatürk in the 2023 Disney+ films.
Aras UNESCO Global Geopark
Aras UNESCO Global Geopark, a 1,670 km² geopark in Jolfa County, northwest Iran, designated in 2023 as Iran's third UGGp; bounded by the Aras River and famed for its Permian–Triassic Boundary extinction record at the Alli-Bashi geosite.
Arasbaran Biosphere Reserve
Arasbaran Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO Man and Biosphere site in East Azerbaijan Province, northwestern Iran near the Azerbaijan and Armenia borders. Designated 1977; about 164,000 ha of mountain forest with 1,334 plant species, five core zones, and roughly 9,600 residents.
Arase
Arase, also known as ERG, is a JAXA satellite launched in 2016 to study how electrons in the Van Allen radiation belts are accelerated and lost.
Arash (آرش لباف) (singer)
Arash (Arash Labaf, آرش لباف), Iranian-Swedish dance-pop singer born 1977 in Tehran, Sweden-based; known for "Boro Boro", the album Donya, Eurovision 2009 third place for Azerbaijan with "Always", and collaborations with Shaggy and Snoop Dogg.
Arash (آرش)
Arash (آرش; Avestan Ǝrəxša), the legendary Iranian archer who sacrificed his life firing the arrow that fixed the Iran-Turan border; known from Yašt 8, absent from the Shahnameh, tied to the Tirgan festival.
Arash Ferdowsi
Arash Ferdowsi (آرش فردوسی) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Dropbox with Drew Houston in 2007, serving as its first chief technology officer until 2016.
Arash Zaghi
Arash Esmaili Zaghi is a civil and structural engineer, professor at the University of Connecticut since 2011, and a 2025 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Arashi (嵐)
Arashi (嵐), five-member Japanese idol group formed September 1999 under Johnny & Associates, debuted with A・RA・SHI, suspended activities end of 2020, disbanded 31 May 2026 after a final Tokyo Dome concert.
Arata
Arata is an Indian premium haircare brand founded in 2018 by Dhruv Madhok and Dhruv Bhasin, selling plant-based, science-backed products for hair growth, dandruff, and styling through online channels.
Arataki Itto
Arataki Itto (荒瀧一斗) is a 5-star Geo claymore character in Genshin Impact, released in Version 2.3 (2021) as the oni-blooded leader of the Arataki Gang, using Superlative Superstrength stacks for Arataki Kesagiri charged attacks.
Aratinga
Aratinga is a genus of Neotropical parakeets (conures) established by Spix in 1824, formerly holding 20-21 species until DNA studies showed it polyphyletic; it was split into Aratinga, Eupsittula, Psittacara, and Thectocercus, with Nandayus merged in.
Aratozawa Dam
Aratozawa Dam is a 74.4-meter rockfill dam on the Nihasama River in Kurihara, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, completed in 1998 for flood control and irrigation, forming Lake Aizen.
Aratus
Aratus (Ἄρατος, ca. 315–240 BC) was a Greek didactic poet from Soli in Cilicia, known for the Phaenomena, a poem on constellations and weather signs.
Araucana
Araucana, Chilean chicken breed, rumpless and ear-tufted, lays blue eggs via oocyan/EAV-HP SLCO1B3; APA-recognized 1976, distinct from Ameraucana and Easter Egger, critically rare in the US.