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Ares Special Situations

Ares Special Situations is a fund complex within Ares Management, the Los Angeles alternative asset manager, that raised special-situations capital through SEC Form D offerings from 2010 to 2015.

Ares Ssg Capital Partners

Ares SSG Capital Partners VI, L.P. is a Cayman Islands private equity fund formed in 2021 by Ares SSG, a Hong Kong-based manager of distressed and special-situations investments across Asia-Pacific.

Ares V

Ares V (CaLV, Ares 5) was NASA's heavy-lift cargo launch vehicle for the Constellation program, designed to carry the lunar lander and Earth departure stage.

Ares Vallis

Ares Vallis is a 1,700-km outflow channel on Mars running from Margaritifer Terra into Chryse Planitia, named for the Greek word for Mars, carved by catastrophic floods (or, per one model, lava), and the 1997 Mars Pathfinder landing site.

Areski Belkacem

Areski Belkacem, known as Areski (1940–2026), was a French avant-garde chanson multi-instrumentalist of Kabyle origin who composed for his partner Brigitte Fontaine for over five decades and released only three solo albums.

Aretas I (king of the Nabataeans)

Aretas I, also known as Harithat, was the earliest known king of the Nabataeans, the Arab people whose capital was Petra, first named in the king list around 168 BC.

Aretas II (king of the Nabataeans)

Aretas II (Nabataean ḥrtt, Arabic Ḥārthah) was king of the Nabataeans around 103–96 BC, known through Josephus and coins, and linked to the siege of Gaza.

Aretas III (king of the Nabataeans)

Aretas III, also known as Aretas Philhellenos or Harithath III, was king of the Nabataeans from about 87 to 62 BC, ruling from Petra and taking Damascus.

Aretas IV (king of the Nabataeans)

Aretas IV, also known as Harithath IV, was king of the Nabataeans from about 9 BC to AD 40, ruling from Petra at the kingdom's peak.

Aretas IV of Nabataea

Aretas IV, also known as Harithat, was king of the Nabataeans from about 9 BCE to 40 CE, defeating Herod Antipas in war and minting most surviving Nabataean coins.

Aretas IV's seizure of Damascus

Aretas IV's seizure of Damascus was the transfer of the city to the Nabataean king Aretas IV around AD 37, known mainly from 2 Corinthians 11:32.

Arete (Ἀρετή)

Arete (Ἀρετή) is the ancient Greek term for excellence of any kind, conventionally translated 'virtue' but better rendered 'goodness'; Homeric heroic prowess, Platonic–Aristotelian moral excellence, personified goddess, and modern virtue ethics all descend from it.

Areteia Therapeutics, Inc.

Areteia Therapeutics was a clinical-stage biotechnology company in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, founded in 2022 to develop oral dexpramipexole for severe eosinophilic asthma, raising $425 million before winding down despite a positive Phase III result.

Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin (1942–2018), the Queen of Soul, American singer and pianist from Detroit; 18 Grammys, 75 million records, first woman in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1987), famous for "Respect" and Amazing Grace.

Aretha Franklin discography

Aretha Franklin discography: the recorded output of the Queen of Soul, more than forty studio albums across J.V.B., Columbia, Atlantic, Arista, and RCA, with 112 charting singles, 20 No. 1 R&B hits, and 18 Grammy Awards.

Arethas of Najran

Arethas of Najran, known in Arabic as Harith ibn Ka'b, was the leader of Najran's Christians, martyred in the massacre of 523 by the Himyarite king Dhu Nuwas and venerated as a saint.

Arev Dorsa

Arev Dorsa, a dorsum (ridge system) on Venus, 420 km across, centered at 52°S 216°E, IAU-approved 2000, named for an Armenian female solar deity; part of Venus's deformation-belt tectonics.

Areva

Areva was a French state-owned nuclear industry group created in 2001, spanning the whole fuel cycle, then dismantled between 2016 and 2018 into Orano and Framatome.

Arevon

Arevon Energy is an American independent power producer formed in 2021 and headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, operating more than 5.3 GW of solar and battery storage across 17 states.

Arezzo

Arezzo (Arretium) is a hill city in eastern Tuscany, Italy, provincial capital with about 98,000 residents. An Etruscan dodecapolis member and Roman municipium, conquered by Florence in 1384; home of Piero della Francesca's True Cross frescoes and Cimabue's crucifix.

ArF photoresist

An ArF photoresist is a chemically amplified polymer formulation exposed at the 193 nm wavelength of an argon fluoride excimer laser to print fine circuit patterns in advanced semiconductor manufacturing.

ARF1

ARF1 (ADP-ribosylation factor 1, Gene ID 375) is a 181-amino-acid class I small GTPase of the RAS superfamily, localized to the Golgi apparatus, that recruits COPI and clathrin coats for intra-Golgi vesicle transport; discovered in 1984 as a cholera toxin cofactor.

Arf3-interacting protein 1, N-terminal domain

Arf3-interacting protein 1 N-terminal domain (Afi1p N-terminal conserved region): yeast protein region binding GTP-bound Arf3p; docking factor maintaining Arf3p plasma membrane polarization and budding polarity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Arfa Karim (ارفع عبدالکریم رندھاوا)

Arfa Karim, full name Arfa Abdul Karim Randhawa, was a Pakistani schoolgirl who passed the Microsoft Certified Professional exam at age nine in 2004 and died at 16.

Arfan Bhatti

Arfan Qadeer Bhatti (born 1977) is a Norwegian Islamist, former head of Profetens Ummah, convicted in 2026 to 30 years forvaring for complicity in the 25 June 2022 Oslo Pride terror shooting; he was extradited from Pakistan and has appealed.

Arfin Rumey

Arfin Rumey (আরফিন রুমি) is a Bangladeshi singer, composer, and music director, born in Dhaka in 1984, known for film songs including Projapoti (2011) and two Best Singer awards.

Arfolitixorin

Arfolitixorin (6R-MTHF, Modufolin, Rescufolin) is an investigational direct-acting folate from Isofol Medical that potentiates 5-FU; its phase III AGENT trial in metastatic colorectal cancer failed to show superiority over leucovorin.

Arformoterol

Arformoterol (Brovana) is the (R,R)-enantiomer of formoterol, a long-acting beta2-agonist nebulized twice daily (15 mcg) for COPD maintenance; FDA-approved October 6, 2006, not indicated for asthma, brand discontinued with generics since 2021.

Arg max

Arg max, also known as the argument of the maximum or written argmax, returns the inputs where a function attains its maximum value, not the value itself.

ARG1

ARG1 (arginase 1, HGNC:663) is a human gene on 6q23.2 encoding the liver urea cycle enzyme arginase 1; biallelic loss causes argininemia, an autosomal recessive hyperargininemia with progressive spasticity, treatable with pegzilarginase.