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Armada de Barlovento

The Armada de Barlovento, or Windward Fleet, was a Spanish naval squadron based at Veracruz from 1641 to protect Caribbean shipping from pirates until its dissolution in 1748.

Armada Night

Armada Night is a club-night event concept of Dutch label Armada Music, organized by ALDA Events and a yearly fixture of the Amsterdam Dance Event.

Armadillidiidae

Armadillidiidae (pill bugs, roly-polies) is a family of terrestrial isopod woodlice, type genus Armadillidium, established by Brandt in 1833 with 27 accepted genera; the only woodlouse family that can roll into a ball (conglobation), which cuts water loss by about 35%.

Armadillidium vulgare

Armadillidium vulgare, the common pillbug or roly-poly, is a terrestrial isopod crustacean native to the Mediterranean, introduced worldwide, that rolls into a ball, tolerates desiccation, and decomposes leaf litter.

Armadillo

Armadillo: armored New World mammals of order Cingulata (Xenarthra), also called cingulates; 21 extant South American species with bony scute armor, burrowing habits, and the three-banded armadillo's unique ball-curling defense.

Armadillo girdled lizard

Armadillo girdled lizard (Ouroborus cataphractus, formerly Cordylus cataphractus), a small spiny lizard endemic to South Africa that bites its tail and rolls into a ball; Near Threatened, CITES Appendix II, termite-eating and group-living.

Armadillo/HEAT repeat family

Armadillo/HEAT repeat family: tandem ~50-residue helical repeats in eukaryotic proteins forming superhelical binding scaffolds; ARM repeats have three helices, HEAT two, with a common evolutionary origin.

Armadin

Armadin, co-founded in 2025 by Kevin Mandia of Mandiant, is a Palo Alto cybersecurity startup whose coordinated AI agents simulate real attacks to expose exploitable risk, with $189.9 million raised.

Armageddon

Armageddon, or the Battle of Armageddon, is the place named in Revelation 16:16 where the kings of the earth gather for battle on the great day of God.

Armageddon (1998 film)

Armageddon (1998) is Michael Bay's Touchstone disaster film in which Bruce Willis's oil drillers destroy a Texas-sized asteroid. Grossed $553.7 million worldwide on a $140 million budget; released July 1, 1998, opposite Deep Impact.

Armageddon (2000)

Armageddon 2000, WWF pay-per-view, December 10, 2000, Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center, Alabama; first Six-Man Hell in a Cell for the WWF Championship, Kurt Angle retaining against Rock, Austin, Triple H, Undertaker, and Rikishi.

Armageddon (Aespa album)

Armageddon is the first full-length studio album by K-pop girl group aespa, released 27 May 2024 by SM Entertainment with double title tracks Supernova and Armageddon, a multiverse concept, and 1,321,648 copies sold on the 2024 Circle Chart.

Armageddon (pepper)

Armageddon is a super-hot chilli pepper cultivar bred by the British seed company Tozer Seeds, marketed as the first hybrid super-hot and rated at 1.3 million Scoville units.

Armageddon Time

Armageddon Time is James Gray's 2022 semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama about an 11-year-old Jewish boy in 1980 Queens, New York, and his friendship with a Black classmate; it competed at Cannes and stars Banks Repeta, Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, and Anthony Hopkins.

Armagh

Armagh (Ard Mhacha) is Northern Ireland's ecclesiastical capital, a small cathedral city where St Patrick founded his church in 445; it has twin St Patrick's cathedrals, Georgian heritage, and about 15,000 residents.

Armagh City Banbridge and Craigavon

Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon (ABC) is a Northern Ireland local government district formed in 2015 from Armagh, Banbridge, and Craigavon; population 218,656 (2021 census), second largest council area, 41 councillors, seven DEAs.

Armaghan-e-Hijaz

Armaghan-e-Hijaz (ارمغان حجاز, "The Gift of Hijaz") is the final poetry collection of Muhammad Iqbal, published posthumously in 1938 and written in both Persian and Urdu.

Armagnac

Armagnac is a grape brandy from Gascony, southwestern France, and the oldest French eau-de-vie, first documented in 1310. AOC since 1936 across Bas-Armagnac, Ténarèze, and Haut-Armagnac, it is typically single-distilled in a continuous alambic armagnacais and has a strong vintage tradition.

Armaguerra Mod. 39 rifle

The Armaguerra Mod. 39 (Fucile Semiautomatico Mod. 39) was an Italian semi-automatic military rifle designed by Gino Revelli, adopted in November 1939 and produced only in small numbers.

Armah

Armah, also known as Ashama ibn Abjar, was a king of the Kingdom of Aksum in the early 7th century AD, remembered as its last coin-issuing ruler.

ArmaLite

ArmaLite is an American small arms company founded in 1954, best known as the origin of the AR-10 and the AR-15, which became the military M16.

ArmaLite AR-10

The ArmaLite AR-10 is a select-fire battle rifle in 7.62×51mm NATO designed by Eugene Stoner between 1954 and 1956; fewer than 10,000 were built, ending in 1961.

ArmaLite AR-100

The ArmaLite AR-100 was a series of 5.56×45mm firearms developed in the mid-1980s by Elisco Tool Manufacturing of the Philippines after it bought ArmaLite in 1983.

ArmaLite AR-15

The ArmaLite AR-15 is a lightweight 5.56 mm military rifle designed by Eugene Stoner at ArmaLite in the late 1950s; sold to Colt in 1959, it became the M16.

ArmaLite AR-18

The ArmaLite AR-18 is a select-fire assault rifle in 5.56×45mm NATO, developed at ArmaLite in California from 1963 as a lower-cost, stamped-steel rival to the M16 that was never adopted.

Arman Tsarukyan

Arman Tsarukyan, nicknamed Akhalkalakets (The Batman), is an Armenian professional mixed martial artist, submission grappler, and freestyle wrestler born in Akhalkalaki, Georgia, in 1996, competing in the UFC lightweight division.

Armand (film)

Armand (2024) is Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel's Norwegian debut drama, also called La tutoría, starring Renate Reinsve. It won the Caméra d'Or at Cannes 2024, the first Norwegian film to do so, and was Norway's 97th Academy Awards entry.

Armand (The Vampire Chronicles)

Armand is a vampire in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, first appearing in Interview with the Vampire (1976) and narrator of The Vampire Armand (1998); portrayed on screen by Antonio Banderas, Matthew Newton, and Assad Zaman.

Armand Assante

Armand Assante, born Armand Anthony Assante Jr. in 1949, is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning portrayal of mob boss John Gotti in HBO's 1996 film Gotti.

Armand Blanchonnet

Armand Blanchonnet (1903–1968), French road cyclist nicknamed Le phénomène, won both individual and team road race gold at the 1924 Paris Olympics, taking the 188 km time trial by almost 10 minutes, and later won the 1931 French professional road title.