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Ashtapada

Ashtapada (aṣṭāpada), ancient Indian 8x8 board game and race game with dice, named in the Vinayapitaka among games Buddha would not play; the board later carried chaturanga, the ancestor of chess.

Sep 23, 2026

Ashtapradhan

The Ashtapradhan (अष्टप्रधान) was the council of eight ministers, headed by the Peshwa, that Maratha ruler Shivaji established to govern his state; his son Sambhaji later scattered it.

Ashtar (extraterrestrial being)

Ashtar is an extraterrestrial being in UFO contactee tradition, first reported by George Van Tassel in 1952 as commander of a spacecraft fleet guarding Earth, central to the Ashtar Command.

Ashtart Tholus

Ashtart Tholus is a 138-km-wide tholus (volcanic dome) on Venus at 48.7N, 247.0E, IAU-approved in 1985 and named for the Phoenician goddess of love, fertility and war.

Ashtavinayaka (अष्टविनायक)

Ashtavinayaka (अष्टविनायक, also spelled Asthavinayak) is a pilgrimage circuit of eight Ganesha temples in Maharashtra, India, a 300 km route around Pune traditionally begun and ended at Morgaon.

Oct 10, 2026

Ashtead Group

Ashtead Group was a British equipment rental holding company whose operating business, Sunbelt Rentals, rented construction and industrial equipment in the US, Canada, and the UK.

Ashtead Roman villa: scheduled minor Romano-British villa on Ashtead Common, Surrey, with detached bath house and tileworks; excavated by Lowther 1924-9, Hampton 1960s, Surrey Archaeological Society 2006-2013.

Ashtekar variables

Ashtekar variables are a reformulation of the canonical variables of general relativity, introduced by Abhay Ashtekar in 1986, simplifying its constraints and founding loop quantum gravity.

Ashteroth Karnaim

Ashteroth Karnaim, also spelled Ashteroth-Karnaim, was an ancient town of Bashan in what is now southern Syria, first overrun by Chedorlaomer in Genesis 14:5 and never fixed by excavation.

Ashtine Olviga

Ashtine Olviga is a Filipino actress, singer, and model known for her breakout lead role as Jay-Jay Mariano in the 2025 Viva One series Ang Mutya ng Section E.

Ashton Agar

Ashton Agar (Ashton Charles Agar, born 1993) is an Australian left-arm orthodox all-rounder from Melbourne who scored a record 98 on Test debut in the 2013 Ashes, played 49 T20Is, and won the 2021 T20 World Cup.

Ashton Bell

Ashton Bell, Canadian ice hockey defenceman (born 1999, Deloraine, Manitoba); 2022 Olympic gold and 2021/2022 world champion with Team Canada; first captain of the PWHL's Vancouver Goldeneyes after the 2025 expansion draft.

Ashton Court

Ashton Court is an 850-acre Bristol country park and Grade I listed mansion at Long Ashton, a former Smyth family deer park with Repton landscaping, now owned by Bristol City Council and balloon fiesta venue.

Ashton Eaton

Ashton Eaton (born 1988, Portland, Oregon) is a retired American decathlete, two-time Olympic champion (2012, 2016), decathlon world record holder (9,045, 2015) and heptathlon record holder (6,645), later broken by Kevin Mayer.

Ashton Gillotte

Ashton Gillotte (born 2002) is an American football defensive end for the Kansas City Chiefs, drafted 66th overall in 2025 from Louisville, a First-Team All-ACC pass rusher with 26.5 college sacks.

Ashton Holmes

Ashton Holmes (born 1978, Albany, New York) is an American actor known for Jack Stall in A History of Violence, PFC Sidney Phillips in The Pacific, and roles in Nikita and Revenge; the name also denotes a British interior designer and a recruitment firm.

Ashton Irwin

Ashton Fletcher Irwin (born 1994, Hornsby, Sydney) is the Australian drummer and vocalist of pop rock band 5 Seconds of Summer, which he joined in December 2011, and the first band member to release solo albums: Superbloom (2020) and BLOOD ON THE DRUMS (2024).

Ashton Kutcher

Ashton Kutcher (born 1978, Cedar Rapids, Iowa) is an American actor, producer, and venture capitalist: Kelso on That '70s Show, creator of Punk'd, lead of Two and a Half Men and The Ranch, co-founder of A-Grade Investments, Sound Ventures, and Thorn.

Ashton Sanders

Ashton Sanders (born 1995, Carson, California) is an American actor known for teenage Chiron in Moonlight, Native Son's Bigger Thomas, Wu-Tang: An American Saga's Bobby Diggs, and Bobby Brown in I Wanna Dance with Somebody.

Ashton-Tate

Ashton-Tate was an American personal-computer software company founded in 1980, best known for the dBASE database program, which it sold to Borland in 1991 for $439 million.

Ashton-under-Lyne

Ashton-under-Lyne, shortened to Ashton, is a market town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, about six miles east of Manchester. Chartered 1284; cotton and coal mill town; population 8,000 in 1800, 36,000 by 1851.

Sep 23, 2026

Ashu

Ashu (阿术), 1234 to 1287, was a Yuan dynasty general of the Uriankhi clan who besieged Xiangyang and led the Yangtze campaign that ended Southern Song resistance.

Ashu Garg

Ashu Garg is a venture capitalist and General Partner at Foundation Capital since 2008, an early investor in Databricks and unicorns including Cohesity, Eightfold AI, and Turing.

Ashuganj City

Ashuganj (আশুগঞ্জ) is a river-port town in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh, on the Meghna River, founded 1898; a power-generation and fertilizer hub with major paddy-rice trade and the Ashuganj-Akhaura four-lane corridor.

Oct 15, 2026

Ashuganj Power Station

Ashuganj Power Station (আশুগঞ্জ পাওয়ার স্টেশন) is a gas-fired power complex at Ashuganj, Bangladesh, on the Meghna River about 90 km northeast of Dhaka, with about 1,588 MW capacity.

Ashur (god)

Ashur (Aššur, Assur) was the national god and chief deity of the Assyrian pantheon, personifying the city of Ashur on the Tigris; land, city, and god shared one name, and Assyria derives from it.

Ashur (Qal'at Sherqat)

Ashur (Qal'at Sherqat), ancient Assur, Iraq: first capital of the Assyrian Empire (14th–9th centuries BC), religious capital of the god Ashur, UNESCO World Heritage site since 2003 and on the danger list.

Ashur temple

The Ashur temple, or Temple of Ashur at Assur, was the main sanctuary of Assyria's national god at Assur in northern Iraq, destroyed in 614 BC.

Ashur-bel-kala

Ashur-bel-kala, also written Aššur-bēl-kala, was king of Assyria from about 1074 to 1056 BC, a son of Tiglath-Pileser I who fought the Arameans and rebuilt temples at Assur.