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Asplenium trichomanes
Asplenium trichomanes, maidenhair spleenwort, is a small evergreen rock fern of the Aspleniaceae, described by Linnaeus in 1753, with dark brown stipes, once-pinnate fronds, diploid 2n=72 and tetraploid 2n=144 cytotypes, and a G5/LC conservation status.
Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory
The Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory is an underground research laboratory in crystalline rock at Oskarshamn, Sweden, where SKB develops the KBS-3 method for disposing of spent nuclear fuel.
ASPREE study
ASPREE (ASPirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly) was a 19,114-partner placebo-controlled trial of 100 mg daily aspirin in healthy adults 70 and older in Australia and the US; it found no disability-free survival benefit, more bleeding, and higher mortality.
Aspripetra
Aspripetra (Aspri Petra, Σπήλαιο της Άσπρης Πέτρας), Cave of the White Stone on Mount Zini, Kefalos, Kos: prehistoric cave and sanctuary of Pan and the Nymphs, excavated by Della Seta and Levi in June 1922.
Aspromonte UNESCO Global Geopark
Aspromonte UNESCO Global Geopark, in Calabria, Italy, designated 2021, coincides with Aspromonte National Park (65,645 ha, Montalto 1,956 m), on the Calabrian-Peloritano Orogen with fiumare, waterfalls, and 8 international geosites.
Aspyn Ovard
Aspyn Ovard, Utah-born lifestyle YouTuber and influencer (also of the Aspyn and Parker channel), married Parker Ferris in 2015, has three daughters, filed for divorce in 2024, hides her kids' faces, and stars in Hulu's Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County.
Asqudum
Asqudum, also written Ašqudum, was a diviner at the court of Mari who served King Zimri-Lim in the eighteenth century BC, with diplomatic and commercial duties.
Asr Nederland
ASR Nederland N.V. is a Dutch insurance company headquartered in Utrecht, the second-largest insurer in the Netherlands, nationalized in 2008 and listed on Euronext Amsterdam since June 2016.
ASRAAM
ASRAAM (Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missile), designated AIM-132, is a British infrared-homing air-to-air missile built by MBDA UK, serving on RAF Typhoon and F-35B aircraft.
Asrani (गोवर्धन असरानी)
Govardhan Asrani (गोवर्धन असरानी), known as Asrani, was an Indian Hindi and Gujarati film actor, director, and FTII first-batch graduate, famous as the Jailor of Sholay (1975); he acted in over 300 films and died in Mumbai on 20 October 2025 at 84.
Asrar al-Balagha
Asrar al-Balagha (أسرار البلاغة, The Secrets of Eloquence) is an 11th-century Arabic treatise on rhetoric by Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani, devoted to the study of figurative speech.
Asrar B. Malik
Asrar B. Malik is an American pharmacologist and vascular biologist at the University of Illinois Chicago, known for work on endothelial permeability, lung inflammation, and acute lung injury.
Asrar-e-Khudi
Asrar-e-Khudi (اسرار خودی, The Secrets of the Self) is a Persian philosophical poem by Muhammad Iqbal, first published at Lahore in 1915, setting out his doctrine of khudi, or selfhood, in verse.
ASRock
ASRock is a Taiwanese computer hardware company headquartered in Taipei, founded in 2002 with investments from Asustek, which designs motherboards, graphics cards, monitors, mini PCs, and power supplies.
Ass
Ass (Equus asinus), the domestic donkey, a beast of burden domesticated once in Africa ~5000 BCE from the Nubian wild ass; earliest evidence at Abydos, Egypt; parent of mules and hinnies.
Ass Clowns
Ass Clowns is a four-part American adult video series (2000-2002) directed by Thomas Zupko for Extreme Associates; Ass Clowns 3 became evidence in the federal obscenity case United States v. Extreme Associates.
Assa Abloy
Assa Abloy AB is a Swedish company headquartered in Stockholm and the world's largest group in access solutions, formed in 1994 by a merger of lock businesses.
Assaba
Assaba (لعصابة, Wilāyat Lʿaṣṣābah) is a wilaya of south-central Mauritania with capital Kiffa, five moughataa, about 355,000 people, a rural agricultural economy, and some of the country's highest poverty rates.
Assad Mausoleum
Assad Mausoleum in Qardaha, Latakia, Syria, held the tombs of Bassel al-Assad (1994) and President Hafez al-Assad (2000); rebel fighters burned it on 11 December 2024 after the Assad regime fell.
Assadism
Assadism: the authoritarian political system founded by Hafez al-Assad in Syria in 1970 and continued by Bashar al-Assad until December 2024, blending Baathist rhetoric with Alawite-based security rule, personality cult, and dynastic succession.
Assadist–Saddamist conflict
Assadist–Saddamist conflict: the rivalry between Ba'athist Syria under Hafez al-Assad and Ba'athist Iraq under Saddam Hussein, from the 1966 party split through the Iran-Iraq War, the 1982 rupture, and the 2006 rapprochement.
Assaf Feldman
Assaf Feldman is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded Riskified, the NYSE-listed ecommerce fraud-prevention company, in 2012 with Eido Gal, and has served as its Chief Technology Officer since inception.
Assaf Mischari
Assaf Mischari is a venture investor and Managing Partner at Team8, where he leads the digital health arm after more than 25 years in cybersecurity.
Assaf Naor
Assaf Naor, born 1975 in Rehovot, Israel, is an Israeli-born mathematician, professor at Princeton University since 2014, known for metric embedding theory and approximation algorithms.
Assaf Rappaport (אסף רפפורט)
Assaf Rappaport (אסף רפפורט) is an Israeli technology entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of Wiz, the cloud security company Google acquired in 2026 after he previously sold Adallom to Microsoft in 2015.
Assaf Razin
Assaf Razin was an Israeli economist who taught at Tel Aviv University and Cornell, known for the Razin-Sadka result on capital taxation and work on migration economics.
Assaf Vardi
Assaf Vardi (אסף ורדי) is an Israeli marine microbiologist at the Weizmann Institute, elected to EMBO in 2025, known for work on algal viruses, the viral shunt, and dimethyl sulfide.
Assagutta
Assagutta is an elder monk of the Vattaniya hermitage, known from the Milindapañha as the teacher of Nāgasena and leader of the Sangha under King Milinda.
Assaji
Assaji (Sanskrit Aśvajit, अश्वजित्) was the fifth and last of the five monks who received the Buddha's first discourse at the Deer Park near Benares.
Assajipunabbasuka
Assajipunabbasuka (अस्सजिपुनब्बासुक) is the Pali Vinaya name for monks of the Chabbaggiya led by Assaji and Punabbasu, whose misconduct at Kīṭāgiri led the Buddha to send Sāriputta and Moggallāna to banish them.