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Arri Coser

Arri Coser is a Brazilian restaurateur from Encantado, Rio Grande do Sul, who co-founded Fogo de Chão in Porto Alegre and now leads the MDR Group of restaurants.

Arri Priimägi

Arri Priimägi (born 1980 in Tallinn, Estonia) is an Estonian professor of chemistry at Tampere University in Finland, leading the Smart Photonic Materials group on light-driven soft matter.

Arrian

Arrian, in full Lucius Flavius Arrianus, was a Greek historian and Roman official of Nicomedia in Bithynia in the second century CE, best known for the Anabasis of Alexander.

Arriana

Arriana: village in the Rhodope regional unit of northeastern Greece, 34 km from Komotini near the Filiuri River, site of a mid-2nd-century AD Roman bath excavated in 1972, later reused as a cemetery.

Arrietty

Arrietty (借りぐらしのアリエッティ) is Studio Ghibli's 2010 animated film adapted from Mary Norton's The Borrowers, directed by first-timer Hiromasa Yonebayashi from Hayao Miyazaki's screenplay; it was Japan's top-grossing 2010 film and won the Japan Academy Prize for animation.

Arrigas

Arrigas, a commune in the Gard department, Occitanie, France, in the Cévennes near Le Vigan; 219 inhabitants (2023). Known for the former copper-zinc mine at le Teulas, worked from Gallo-Roman times and industrially from 1896 to 1907.

Arrigo Sacchi

Arrigo Sacchi (born 1946, Fusignano) is an Italian football coach, "Prophet of Fusignano", who led AC Milan 1987-91 to back-to-back European Cups and Italy to the 1994 World Cup final, revolutionizing tactics with zonal marking and high pressing.

Arriva

Arriva is a European passenger transport company operating bus and rail services across 11 countries, carrying about 1.5 billion passenger journeys a year from its 1938 founding in Sunderland.

Arrival (ABBA album)

Arrival (ABBA album), ABBA's fourth studio album, released 11 October 1976 on Polar Music. Recorded in Stockholm, it contains Dancing Queen (their only US number one) and topped the UK chart for 10 weeks, becoming 1977's best-selling UK album.

Arrival (film)

Arrival (2016) is a Denis Villeneuve science fiction film, scripted by Eric Heisserer from Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life", in which linguist Louise Banks deciphers heptapod language; eight Oscar nominations, one win.

Arrival of Francis Xavier in Japan

The arrival of Francis Xavier in Japan was the landing of the Spanish Jesuit missionary at Kagoshima on August 15, 1549, the first arrival of Christianity in Japan.

Arrival of Ganjin in Japan

The arrival of Ganjin in Japan was the 753 landing of the Chinese Buddhist master Ganjin at Akizuma-no-ura, Kagoshima, succeeding on his sixth crossing attempt.

ARRIVE guidelines

The ARRIVE guidelines (Animal Research: Reporting In Vivo Experiments) are a checklist of minimum reporting standards for studies involving live animals, first published in 2010 and endorsed by over 1,000 journals.

ArriVent Biopharma

ArriVent Biopharma is an American clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company founded in 2021 that develops firmonertinib, an oral EGFR inhibitor for lung cancer, and antibody-drug conjugates; it listed on Nasdaq in 2024.

Arroba

The arroba is a traditional Iberian unit of weight and liquid capacity, a quarter of a quintal, about 11.5 kilograms in Spain and 14.4 in Portugal.

Arromanches-les-Bains

Arromanches-les-Bains, a Calvados commune on Gold Beach, Normandy, site of the Mulberry B artificial harbour that landed 2.5 million troops after D-Day; home of the Musée du Débarquement and visible harbour remains.

Arron Afflalo

Arron Afflalo, born 1985, is a retired American NBA shooting guard from UCLA, drafted 27th overall by Detroit in 2007; 12-year career averaging 10.8 points with Denver, Orlando, Portland, New York, and Sacramento.

Arron Banks

Arron Banks is a British insurance entrepreneur and political donor who co-founded the Leave.EU campaign. His significant funding led to investigations by the NCA and Electoral Commission.

Arrondissement de Dessalines

Arrondissement de Dessalines: second-level administrative division (arrondissement) of Haiti in the Artibonite department, chief town Dessalines (former Marchand, first imperial capital). Four communes; 453,249 inhabitants on 1,132.46 km² in 2024 estimates.

Arrondissement de Hinche

Arrondissement de Hinche, an arrondissement of Haiti's Centre department on the Central Plateau, chef-lieu Hinche; communes Hinche, Maïssade, Thomonde, Cerca Carvajal; about 302,589 inhabitants in 2024 estimates.

Arrondissement de Jacmel

Arrondissement de Jacmel: an arrondissement of the Sud-Est department, Haiti, chef-lieu Jacmel. Four communes (Jacmel, Marigot, Cayes-Jacmel, La Vallée de Jacmel); IHSI 2024 estimate 401,533 people over 794.77 km².

Arrondissement de Port-au-Prince

Arrondissement de Port-au-Prince: second-order division of Haiti's Ouest Department, 727.64 km², eight communes including the capital, about 2.77 million residents in 2024 IHSI estimates.

Arrondissement de Port-de-Paix

Arrondissement de Port-de-Paix (Pòdpè), an arrondissement of the Nord-Ouest department, Haiti, around the city of Port-de-Paix; four communes: Port-de-Paix, La Tortue, Bassin Bleu, Chansolme; postal codes start 31.

Arrondissement de Saint-Marc

Arrondissement de Saint-Marc, Artibonite department, Haiti; seat Saint-Marc. IHSI 2009 estimate 402,873 people on 1,056.88 km2; communes listed as three (IHSI) or five (press).

Arrondissement des Cayes

Arrondissement des Cayes (Les Cayes arrondissement), Haiti: second-level division of the Sud department, chef-lieu Ville des Cayes; IHSI estimated 427,078 inhabitants, 873.49 km², density 489/km² in 2024.

Arrondissements of France

Arrondissements of France: state administrative districts subdividing each department, headed by a sub-prefect at the sub-prefecture. Created by the law of 28 pluviôse an VIII (17 February 1800); distinct from the municipal arrondissements of Paris, Lyon and Marseille.

Arrondissements of Paris

The arrondissements of Paris are the city's 20 numbered administrative districts, arranged in a clockwise spiral, each with its own council and mayor under the 1982 PLM law.

Arrow

Arrow: the projectile a bow shoots, made of point, shaft, fletching and nock. Modern competition arrows are aluminium, carbon or hybrid, spine-matched to the bow, with 9.3 mm shaft limits in World Archery rules.

Arrow (symbol)

Arrow symbols: line-and-head marks showing direction, electron flow (curved arrows, Robinson 1920s), biological processes, implication, or wayfinding; Unicode encodes them at U+2190–21FF and allied blocks, unmirrored in RTL text.

Arrow (TV series)

Arrow (2012–2020) is The CW superhero series created by Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, and Andrew Kreisberg, starring Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen/Green Arrow; eight seasons, 170 episodes, and the launchpad of the Arrowverse.