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Athlophoros of Berenice

The athlophoros of Berenice was an annual eponymous priestly office of the Ptolemaic dynastic cult at Alexandria, serving the deified Queen Berenice II from 211/210 BC.

Athlos

Athlos is a women-only professional track and field meet series founded by Alexis Ohanian via Seven Seven Six, debuting at Icahn Stadium NYC in 2024, expanding to a London-NYC league in 2026 with Tiffany crowns and athlete equity.

Athol Fugard

Athol Fugard (1932–2025) was South Africa's foremost playwright, author of about 40 plays including The Blood Knot, Sizwe Bansi Is Dead, The Island, and "Master Harold" … and the Boys, whose apartheid-era dramas won a 2011 Tony and an Oscar via Tsotsi.

Athol U. Wells

Athol U. Wells, also published as Athol Wells, is a consultant respiratory physician at Royal Brompton Hospital and professor at Imperial College London, known for interstitial lung disease research.

Athos / Ormos Vatopediou

Ormos Vatopediou (Vatopedi Bay) is the broad bay on the northeast coast of the Athos peninsula, Greece, named for Vatopedi Monastery and its harbour Arsanas Vatopedi; boat-only access, Diamonitirion permit, male pilgrims only.

Athribis

Athribis (Egyptian Hut-heri-ib; modern Tell Atrib) was an ancient city in the southern Nile Delta near Benha, capital of the Tenth nome of Lower Egypt.

Athribis Stela

The Athribis Stela is a royal Egyptian inscription from Athribis in the Nile Delta, recording the Libyan attack on Egypt in Merneptah's fifth regnal year.

ATHU herbarium

ATHU is the Index Herbariorum code of the Botanical Museum herbarium of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, founded 1850, holding roughly 117,000 plant specimens including Orphanides' 45,000-specimen herbarium, von Heldreich material, and many nomenclatural types.

Athyreosis

Athyreosis (thyroid agenesis) is the complete absence of thyroid tissue, a rare form of thyroid dysgenesis causing permanent congenital hypothyroidism from birth; ICD-10 E03.1, OMIM 218700, treated with lifelong levothyroxine.

Athyriaceae

Athyriaceae, the lady fern family, is a family of terrestrial ferns with elongated sori along the veins, comprising Athyrium, Deparia, and Diplazium, with about 650 species.

Athyris

Athyris (McCoy, 1844) is an extinct smooth-shelled brachiopod genus, type of Athyrididae and the order Athyridida, widespread in Devonian and Lower Carboniferous seas, with type species Terebratula concentrica Buch, 1834.

Athyrium

Athyrium (ladyfern) is a cosmopolitan fern genus of about 160-220 species in Athyriaceae, centered in temperate Asia; type species Athyrium filix-femina, the common ladyfern, with horseshoe-shaped sori and x=40.

Athyrium filix-femina

Athyrium filix-femina, the lady fern, is a deciduous circumboreal fern of Athyriaceae with bipinnate 60–120 cm fronds and kidney-shaped sori; named by Roth in 1799 from Linnaeus's Polypodium filix-femina, with hundreds of garden cultivars.

Athyrium niponicum

Athyrium niponicum, the Japanese painted fern, is an east Asian perennial fern (basionym Asplenium niponicum, 1865), native from the E. Himalaya to the Russian Far East; var. pictum is a silver-fronded shade garden plant, sometimes placed in Anisocampium.

Athyrium yokoscense

Athyrium yokoscense (Japanese metal-tolerant lady fern, Athyriaceae/Aspleniaceae) is an East Asian perennial fern from Japan, Korea, China, and the Russian Far East, a cadmium hyperaccumulator that also tolerates and accumulates arsenic, copper, lead, and zinc on mine soils.

Ati (queen of Punt)

Ati, also rendered Atiya or Aty, was the wife of Parehu, chief of the land of Punt, one of only two named Puntites, shown in Hatshepsut's reliefs at Deir el-Bahari.

ATI Inc.

ATI Inc. is an American specialty materials company headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, formed in 1996, that produces titanium alloys, nickel-based superalloys, and specialty steels for aerospace and defense.

ATI Physical Therapy

ATI Physical Therapy, founded in 1996 in Willowbrook, Illinois, is one of the largest single-branded outpatient physical therapy providers in the United States, with over 850 clinics.

ATI Radeon 9700

The ATI Radeon 9700 is a graphics card released by ATI Technologies in August 2002, marketed as the first DirectX 9 compliant AGP graphics card, priced at $399.

ATI Technologies

ATI Technologies Inc., originally Array Technology, was a Canadian company in Markham, Ontario that made graphics processors, including the Radeon brand, and was acquired by AMD in 2006.

Ati Vishisht Seva Medal (अति विशिष्ट सेवा पदक)

Ati Vishisht Seva Medal (AVSM), Ati Vishisht Seva Padak, Indian peacetime distinguished service decoration instituted 26 January 1960 as Vishisht Seva Medal Class II and renamed 1967; silver 35 mm medal for exceptional service, second only to PVSM.

Ati-Atihan festival

Ati-Atihan (Kalibo Señor Santo Niño Ati-atihan Festival) is an annual third-Sunday-of-January festival in Kalibo, Aklan, Philippines, honoring the Santo Niño with soot-painted sadsad street dancing, distinct from Dinagyang and Sinulog.

Atia (mother of Augustus)

Atia Balba Caesonia (85-43 BC), Roman matron, daughter of M. Atius Balbus and Julia (sister of Julius Caesar), mother of Augustus and Octavia; remarried L. Marcius Philippus; not the fictionalized Atia of HBO's Rome.

Atiba

Atiba (Atobatele) was Alaafin, or king, of Oyo from about 1838 until his death in 1859, and founded New Oyo, the rebuilt capital, after Old Oyo's destruction.

Atiba Hutchinson

Atiba Hutchinson, Canadian midfielder born 1983 in North York, Ontario; Canada men's all-time caps leader with 104 appearances, six-time Player of the Year, Beşiktaş legend, and captain at Qatar 2022.

Atibadi Jagannath Das

Atibadi Jagannath Das (ଜଗନ୍ନାଥ ଦାସ, c. 1491–1550) was an Odia saint-poet of the Bhakti movement whose Odia Srimad Bhagabata is read in almost every Odisha household.

Aticaprant

Aticaprant is an oral, short-acting kappa opioid receptor antagonist that Johnson & Johnson developed as an add-on therapy for depression, discontinued in March 2025 after its Phase 3 trials failed.

Atidarsagene autotemcel

Atidarsagene autotemcel (Lenmeldy, Libmeldy) is an autologous hematopoietic stem cell gene therapy encoding ARSA, approved by the EMA in 2020 and FDA in 2024 for pre-symptomatic and early juvenile metachromatic leukodystrophy in children.

Atie Voorbij

Atie Voorbij (Aartje Johanna Voorbij-Dorresteijn, 1940-2024), Dutch butterfly swimmer from Hilversum; set the first official 100 m butterfly world record (1:10.5, 1957), missed Melbourne 1956 by the Dutch boycott, 1958 European relay gold, 5th at Rome 1960.

Atif Aslam (عاطف اسلم)

Atif Aslam (عاطف اسلم), born 1983 in Wazirabad, is a Pakistani pop and playback singer who broke through with Jal's 2003 song Aadat, released the albums Jal Pari, Doorie, Meri Kahani, and Subah Aye Na, and received the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz.