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Arundinaria

Arundinaria (river cane, switch cane) is a genus of four temperate bamboo species in Poaceae, the only New World genus of tribe Arundinarieae, native to central and eastern USA, formerly canebrake-forming and now under restoration.

Arundo

Arundo (giant reeds), Poaceae genus with five accepted species including Arundo donax, giant reed; Mediterranean-to-East Asian rhizomatous reeds used for bioenergy and reed instruments, and highly invasive elsewhere.

Arundo donax

Arundo donax, called giant reed or giant cane, is a tall perennial grass grown as a bioenergy crop and managed as one of the most damaging invasive riparian plants.

Arung Palakka

Arung Palakka was a Bugis ruler who reigned as king of Bone in South Sulawesi from 1672 to 1696, allied with the Dutch East India Company.

Arunima Sinha (अरुणिमा सिन्हा)

Arunima Sinha (अरुणिमा सिन्हा), Indian mountaineer from Uttar Pradesh; first female amputee and first Indian amputee to climb Mount Everest, summiting 21 May 2013 at 10:55 am after losing her left leg in a 2011 train accident; Padma Shri 2015; later climbed Mount Vinson.

Arunoday Singh (अरुणोदय सिंह)

Arunoday Singh (अरुणोदय सिंह), born 1983 in Bhopal, is an Indian actor, grandson of Arjun Singh, known for Sikandar, Jism 2, Mohenjo Daro, and the web series Apharan, plus the poetry collection Unsung.

Arunraja Kamaraj (அருண்ராஜா காமராஜ்)

Arunraja Kamaraj (அருண்ராஜா காமராஜ்) is a Tamil cinema singer, lyricist, actor, and director, born June 15, known for "Neruppu Da" (Kabali), "Kaavaalaa" (Jailer), and directing Kanaa (2018) and Nenjukku Needhi (2022).

Arup

Arup is an independent, multinational engineering and design consultancy headquartered in London. Founded by Ove Arup in 1946, it engineered the Sydney Opera House and the Centre Pompidou.

Arup Chakraborty

Arup Chakraborty, born in 1955, is an Indian politician elected in 2024 as a Trinamool Congress candidate to the Lok Sabha from Bankura, West Bengal.

Arup Group

Arup Group, formally Ove Arup & Partners, is a British multinational engineering and consulting firm founded in 1946, known for the Sydney Opera House and Centre Pompidou.

Arup K. Chakraborty

Arup K. Chakraborty is an Indian-born American theoretical immunologist at MIT, an Institute Professor who uses statistical physics to study T cells and design vaccines.

Arup Sen

Arup Sen is a biochemist known for identifying the RNA-binding phosphoproteins of type C retroviruses in papers from the National Cancer Institute between 1976 and 1979.

Aruru Corona

Aruru Corona is a 450-km-wide corona, a quasi-circular volcano-tectonic feature, on Venus at 9°N 262°E in the Beta-Atla-Themis region; a rimmed plateau and large volcanic centre with lava flows showing 90°-145° surface reorientation and gravity evidence of an active mantle plume.

Arusha

Arusha is a city in northeastern Tanzania on the slopes of Mount Meru, the country's third-largest city, a safari and tanzanite trade hub, township 1948, municipality 1980, city 2012.

Arusha Accords (Rwanda)

Arusha Accords: August 1993 peace agreement between Rwanda's government and the RPF, signed in Arusha, Tanzania, covering power-sharing, refugee return, and army integration; never implemented, collapsing into the 1994 genocide.

Arusha Declaration

The Arusha Declaration (Swahili: Azimio la Arusha) was a 1967 policy statement by Tanzania's TANU party, written by Julius Nyerere, committing the country to socialism, self-reliance, and nationalization.

Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agreement for Burundi

The Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agreement for Burundi is a peace agreement signed in Arusha, Tanzania, on 28 August 2000 to end the civil war through Hutu and Tutsi power-sharing.

Arusha Region

Arusha Region (Mkoa wa Arusha), northeastern Tanzania, capital Arusha city under Mount Meru; 2,356,255 people (2022 census), 37,576 km², one city and six districts, tourism hub drawing over 80 percent of Tanzania's visitors.

Arushi Jain

Arushi Jain is an Indian-born composer and modular synthesist living between New York and New Delhi, known for fusing Hindustani classical raga with ambient synthesizer music.

Arutela

Arutela (Alutela), Roman auxiliary fort at Păușa-Poiana Bivolari near Călimănești, Romania, on the limes Alutanus along the Olt; built AD 138 under Hadrian by Syrian archers, UNESCO Frontiers of the Roman Empire – Dacia since 2024.

Aruvam

Aruvam (அருவம்) is a 2019 Tamil horror thriller directed by debutant Sai Sekhar, starring Siddharth as a slain food safety officer whose spirit aids anosmic teacher Jyothi (Catherine Tresa) against a food adulteration mafia; released 11 October 2019, it flopped.

Aruvi (அருவி)

Aruvi (அருவி) is a 2017 Tamil drama film, the debut of director Arun Prabu Purushothaman, starring Aditi Balan as an HIV-positive young woman confronting a reality TV show; produced by Dream Warrior Pictures, released 15 December 2017.

Aruz

Aruz (Arabic عروض), in Turkish aruz vezi, is a quantitative system of poetic meter based on long and short syllables and the meter of Ottoman divan poetry.

Arv1 protein

ARV1 protein, a 271 amino acid ER transmembrane protein encoded at 1q42.2, mediates GPI-anchor biosynthesis as a GPI-GnT component and sterol homeostasis; biallelic mutations cause epileptic encephalopathy 38.

Arvada

Arvada is a Colorado city of about 123,000 northwest of Denver, founded in 1870 and named by Mary Ann Wadsworth after Hiram Arvada Haskins; site of Colorado's first gold discovery (1850) and once the 'celery capital of the world.'

Arvell Reese

Arvell Reese, Cleveland-born Ohio State linebacker/edge rusher; consensus All-American 2025 (69 tackles, 6.5 sacks); drafted fifth overall by the New York Giants in 2026; Micah Parsons comparison.

Arveprinsen Ejland

Arveprinsen Ejland (Arveprinsens Ejland) is the older Danish name for Alluttoq, a 655 km2 uninhabited island in Disko Bay, West Greenland, with Archaean greenstone geology and a 1784 whaling station, Klokkerhuk.

Arvicola

Arvicola (water voles) is a Eurasian genus of Cricetidae rodents with semi-aquatic and fossorial ecotypes; species limits among A. amphibius, A. sapidus, A. scherman, A. italicus, and A. persicus remain taxonomically contested.

Arvid Andersson (olympedia 18123)

Arvid Andersson, several Swedish Olympians in the Olympedia database: Karl Arvid Andersson (1896-1992), 1920 Antwerp gymnastics team gold, and Olov Arvid 'Starke Arvid' Andersson (1919-2011), 1946 world weightlifting champion.

Arvid Andersson (olympedia 31061)

Arvid Andersson (Karl Arvid Andersson-Holtman, 1896–1992), Swedish gymnast with Stockholms GF who won team artistic gymnastics gold for Sweden at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics; distinct from the 1912 tug-of-war and 1946 weightlifting champions of the same name.