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Assateague State Park
Assateague State Park is Maryland's only oceanfront state park, on Assateague Island's northern two miles, opened in 1965 with 345 beachside campsites, lifeguarded swimming, and wild horses.
Assault
Assault, in tort and criminal law, is an intentional act creating reasonable apprehension of imminent harmful or offensive contact, or in many criminal codes an attempt or act causing physical injury; distinct from battery, definitions vary by jurisdiction.
Assault (horse)
Assault (1943-1971) was a Texas-bred King Ranch Thoroughbred, the seventh and only Texas-bred American Triple Crown winner, taking the 1946 Derby, Preakness, and Belmont for trainer Max Hirsch; nicknamed the Club-Footed Comet.
Assault Amphibious Vehicle
The Assault Amphibious Vehicle (AAV), also known as the LVTP-7, was a tracked amphibious carrier of the US Marine Corps, introduced in 1972 and retired in 2025.
Assault gun
An assault gun is an armored, tracked self-propelled gun with a fixed superstructure instead of a turret, built for direct-fire support of infantry against fortifications.
Assault of Abner Louima
The 1997 assault of Abner Louima: NYPD officers beat and sodomized the Haitian immigrant at Brooklyn's 70th Precinct; Justin Volpe got 30 years, Schwarz's conviction was reversed, and the city paid $8.7 million.
Assault of Nancy Kerrigan
Assault of Nancy Kerrigan: January 6, 1994 baton attack on the figure skater at Cobo Arena, Detroit, plotted by Jeff Gillooly, Tonya Harding's ex-husband; led to Harding's hindering-prosecution plea, lifetime skating ban, and the 1994 Lillehammer scandal.
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976 film)
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) is John Carpenter's low-budget siege thriller, an homage to Rio Bravo and Night of the Living Dead, starring Austin Stoker and Darwin Joston, a 1976 US failure that became a cult classic.
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005 film)
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) is Jean-François Richet's remake of John Carpenter's 1976 siege thriller, starring Ethan Hawke and Laurence Fishburne, set in a snowbound Detroit precinct attacked by corrupt cops on New Year's Eve.
Assault rifle
An assault rifle is a selective-fire rifle chambered for an intermediate-power cartridge, fed from a detachable magazine; the German StG44 of 1944 was the first mass-produced example.
Assault weapon
An assault weapon, also called an assault-style weapon, is a legal classification in United States law for certain semiautomatic firearms defined by features rather than firepower.
Assault weapons legislation in the United States
Assault weapons legislation in the United States: the 1994-2004 federal ban on semiautomatic assault weapons and magazines over 10 rounds, its definitions and expiry, state bans such as California's 1989 law, and current Second Amendment litigation.
Assay
An assay is an analytical method in which a set of reagents generates a detectable signal used to quantify a biological process, drug development, and clinical diagnostics.
Assay office
An assay office is an official institution that tests the purity of precious metals such as gold and silver and applies a hallmark certifying legal fineness.
Asse
Asse is a municipality in Flemish Brabant, Belgium, also recorded as an ancient place (Pleiades 108762). First documented in 1015; a Roman vicus and road hub of the Civitas Nerviorum with a Kalkoven settlement.
Asse II
Asse II, also known as Schachtanlage Asse II, is a former salt mine in Lower Saxony, Germany, where radioactive waste was emplaced from 1967 to 1978.
Assemblage (art)
Assemblage is a sculptural technique in which artworks are assembled from found objects, discarded materials, and everyday items rather than carved or modeled, a term coined by Jean Dubuffet in the early 1950s.
Assemblies of God
The Assemblies of God, a Pentecostal Christian fellowship founded in Hot Springs, Arkansas, in 1914, reports 3 million US and over 88 million worldwide adherents.
Assemblies of God USA
The Assemblies of God USA is a Trinitarian Pentecostal denomination organized at Hot Springs, Arkansas, in 1914, with about 13,000 US churches and 3 million adherents.
Assembly (Cape Town)
The Assembly is a nightclub and live-music venue in a converted warehouse on Harrington Street in District 6, Cape Town, opened in 2007 and known for electronic and local acts.
Assembly (集结号) (2007 film)
Assembly (集结号, Ji jie hao) is Feng Xiaogang's 2007 Chinese war film starring Zhang Hanyu as Captain Gu Zidi, a civil war survivor seeking recognition for 46 dead comrades; it won Golden Rooster Best Film and grossed about RMB 260 million.
Assembly at Huangchi
The Assembly at Huangchi (黄池之会) was a 482 BC covenant assembly at Huangchi, Henan, where Fu Cha of Wu contested Jin Dinggong for covenant leadership.
Assembly at Kannauj
The Assembly at Kannauj (कन्नौज महासभा) was a great religious assembly convened by Emperor Harsha at his capital Kannauj around 643 in honor of the Chinese Buddhist pilgrim Xuanzang.
Assembly language
Assembly language, also called assembly code, is a symbolic programming language where each statement corresponds to one machine instruction; an assembler translates it into machine code.
Assembly line
An assembly line is a production arrangement where a product moves through a sequence of workstations, each performing fixed assembly operations, famously pioneered by Henry Ford in 1913.
Assembly line balancing problem
The assembly line balancing problem is the optimization problem of assigning assembly tasks to an ordered set of workstations, minimizing idle time while respecting precedence constraints; it is NP-hard.
Assembly of Experts (مجلس خبرگان رهبری)
Assembly of Experts (Majles-e Khobregan-e Rahbari), Iran's 88-member elected clerical body that appoints and may dismiss the supreme leader under Articles 107 and 111; Guardian Council vets candidates; chose Khamenei in 1989 and Mojtaba Khamenei in 2026.
Assembly of People of Kazakhstan
The Assembly of People of Kazakhstan (Қазақстан халқы Ассамблеясы) is a state consultative institution created in 1995 on Nursultan Nazarbayev's initiative, uniting representatives of 100 ethnic groups to promote public accord and national unity.
Assembly of Russian Factory Workers
The Assembly of Russian Factory Workers (Собрание русских фабрично-заводских рабочих) was a police-sponsored legal workers' society in St. Petersburg, led by the priest Georgy Gapon from 1903 to 1905.
Assembly of the African Union
The Assembly of the African Union, or Assembly of Heads of State and Government, is the AU's supreme decision-making organ of all 55 member states' leaders. It meets annually in Addis Ababa, decides by consensus or two-thirds vote, and elects the annual AU Chairperson, currently Burundi's Évariste Ndayishimiye for 2026.