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Atahensik Corona

Atahensik Corona (formerly Latona Corona) is one of the four largest coronae on Venus, about 700 x 900 km at 19S 170E, an IAU-named volcano-tectonic structure with arcuate troughs, reactivated low-angle faults, and a diapiric or plume-related origin.

Atahualpa

Atahualpa (Atahuallpa), Inca ruler who won the 1532 civil war against Huáscar, was captured by Pizarro at Cajamarca on 16 November 1532, paid a famous gold-and-silver ransom, and was executed in 1533.

Sep 23, 2026

Atai

Atai (阿台, 1228–1288) was a Yuan dynasty official, grand protector of Pingluan circuit, known for remitting taxes and opening granaries to relieve famine at his own risk.

AtaiBeckley

AtaiBeckley (AtaiBeckley Inc., formerly ATAI Life Sciences) is a New York-based clinical-stage biotech formed in 2025 by the atai–Beckley Psytech merger, developing psychedelic neuroplastogens led by BPL-003 intranasal 5-MeO-DMT for treatment-resistant depression; acquired by Eli Lilly in 2026 for up to $3.8 billion.

Oct 22, 2026

Atake Baatyr

Atake Baatyr (Атаке баатыр), born around 1738, was a Kyrgyz biy of the Sarybagysh tribe in the Chui Valley who initiated the first Kyrgyz diplomatic embassy to Russia.

Atakhebasken

Atakhebasken was a royal wife of Taharqa, king of Kush and Egypt in the 7th century BC, buried in a pyramid at the royal cemetery of Nuri in Sudan.

Oct 20, 2026

Atakor Volcanic Field

Atakor Volcanic Field, Hoggar (Ahaggar) volcanic province, southern Algeria: the province's largest volcanic field, 2,150 km2, Mount Tahat 2,918 m, Quaternary scoria cones, lava domes, and necks with credible but undated recent eruptions.

Atakora Department

Atakora Department (Département de l'Atacora) is a northwestern department of Benin, ISO code BJ-AK, one of six original departments split in 1999 to create Donga; nine communes, Atacora mountain chain, UN-projected 2025 population 1,151,782.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee (अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी)

Atal Bihari Vajpayee (अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी), 1924–2018, Indian statesman, BJP co-founder and three-time Prime Minister (1996, 1998–99, 1999–2004), known for the 1998 Pokhran nuclear tests, the Lahore Declaration, the Golden Quadrilateral, and the 2015 Bharat Ratna.

Atal Pension Yojana (अटल पेंशन योजना)

Atal Pension Yojana (अटल पेंशन योजना) is a voluntary pension scheme of the Government of India, launched in 2015, guaranteeing a fixed monthly pension of Rs. 1,000 to 5,000 from age 60.

Atal Tunnel

Atal Tunnel, also called the Rohtang tunnel, is a 9.02 km highway tunnel in Himachal Pradesh, India, opened in 2020 beneath the Rohtang Pass to keep Lahaul connected year-round.

Atal-shen

Atal-shen was a Hurrian ruler who bore the title king of Urkesh and Nawar in present-day north-eastern Syria around 2000 BC, attested by an Akkadian inscription crediting him with building the temple of Nergal.

Sep 23, 2026

Atala Masjid

The Atala Masjid (अटाला मस्जिद) is a congregational mosque in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, begun under the Tughluq sultans and completed in 1408 by Ibrahim Shah Sharqi.

Atalanta (Ἀταλάντη)

Atalanta (Ἀταλάντη) is a heroine of Greek mythology, famed as a huntress, wrestler, and runner, known above all for the footrace in which golden apples won her a husband.

Atalanta BC

Atalanta BC (La Dea, Orobici), Italian football club founded 1907 in Bergamo; Coppa Italia 1963, Europa League 2023-24; owned by Percassi and Pagliuca families; known for its academy and profitable player-trading model.

Oct 22, 2026

Atalanta in Calydon

Atalanta in Calydon is an 1865 verse tragedy in Greek dramatic form by the English poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, his first critically successful work of poetry.

Atalanta Planitia

Atalanta Planitia, a large circular volcanic lowland basin on Venus at 45.6N 165.8E, about 2,050 km across and 2 km deep, the deepest regional depression, interpreted as a mantle-downwelling site.

Atalaya Asset Income

Atalaya Asset Income is a series of private credit funds, first raised in 2012, managed by Atalaya Capital Management, a New York firm founded by Ivan Zinn in 2006.

Atalia (queen of Sargon II)

Atalia, also written Atalya or Atala, was a queen of the Neo-Assyrian Empire and wife of King Sargon II, known from inscribed grave goods found at Nimrud in northern Iraq.

Ataluren

Ataluren (PTC124, Translarna), an oxadiazole small molecule meant to read through premature stop codons in nonsense mutations; conditionally approved in the EU in 2014 for nonsense-mutation DMD, never FDA-approved, and its EU authorisation was not renewed in March 2025 after efficacy doubts.

Atamestane

Atamestane (SH-489, 1-methyl-1,4-androstadiene-3,17-dione) is an investigational steroidal aromatase inhibitor developed by Schering AG; BPH trials showed no benefit over placebo and its phase III breast cancer trial matched but did not beat letrozole.