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Attalea speciosa
Attalea speciosa (babassu, babaçu; syn. Orbignya phalerata) is a South American palm from Suriname to Bolivia whose lauric-acid-rich kernel oil supports over 300,000 Brazilian extractivists; IUCN Least Concern.
Attallah Kappas
Attallah Kappas (1926–2018) was an American physician-scientist in clinical pharmacology who spent over fifty years at The Rockefeller University, serving as physician-in-chief from 1974 to 1991.
Attallah Shabazz
Attallah Shabazz (born 1958, New York City), eldest daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz, is a diplomat, producer, actress, and lecturer, Belize's Ambassador-at-Large since 2002, witness to her father's 1965 assassination, and foreword author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X; distinct from unrelated namesakes such as the DC educator Attalah Shabazz.
Attanum
Attanum, an ancient villa in Gaul cited as BAtlas 14 G3, near Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, France; Pleiades place 138199, dated 30 BC to AD 640, at 45.516213 N, 1.206092 E.
Attaprakaram
Attaprakaram (ആട്ടപ്രകാരം), meaning "the procedure for acting," is the Malayalam acting manual of Kutiyattam, the Sanskrit theater of Kerala, preserved secretly by Chakyar families from the 12th to 18th centuries.
Attaque 77
Attaque 77 is an Argentine punk rock band formed in Buenos Aires in 1987, a reference for Latin American punk, best known for the 1990 hit "Hacelo por mí".
Attar of Nishapur
Attar of Nishapur (عطار نیشاپوری), also called Farid al-Din, was a Persian Sufi poet of Nishapur, killed in the Mongol massacre of 1221, best known for The Conference of the Birds.
Attari
Attari is a border village in Amritsar district, Punjab, India, opposite Wagah, Pakistan. Site of India's first Land Port and Integrated Check Post (2012), the only land trade route between India and Pakistan, closed since May 2025.
Attari–Wagah border ceremony
The Attari–Wagah border ceremony, or Beating Retreat, is a daily sunset ceremony where the BSF and Pakistan Rangers close the border gates and lower flags.
Attarintiki Daredi (అత్తారింటికి దారేది)
Attarintiki Daredi (అత్తారింటికి దారేది), also romanized Atharintiki Daaredi, is a 2013 Telugu action comedy-drama directed by Trivikram Srinivas, starring Pawan Kalyan, Samantha, and Boman Irani; despite a 90-minute pre-release piracy leak, it became the highest-grossing Telugu film of its time.
Attarissiya
Attarissiya, also written Attariššiya, was a leader called the "man of Ahhiyawa" in Hittite texts of the late 15th and early 14th century BC, known for attacking the Hittite vassal Madduwatta and raiding Cyprus.
Attarouthi Treasure
The Attarouthi Treasure is a hoard of 15 Byzantine silver liturgical vessels made in Attarouthi, Syria, between 500 and 650, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Attaullah Khan Esakhelvi (عطاء اللہ خان عیسٰی خیلوی)
Attaullah Khan Esakhelvi (عطاء اللہ خان عیسٰی خیلوی), also called Lala, born 1951 in Esakhel, Mianwali, is a Pakistani Saraiki and Punjabi folk singer with over 50,000 songs, a 1994 Guinness record, Pride of Performance (1991), and Sitara-e-Imtiaz (2019).
Attawapiskat First Nation
Attawapiskat First Nation (band 143) is a Mushkegowuk Cree nation on western James Bay, Ontario, signatory to Treaty 9 in 1930, known for its 2011 housing crisis, 2016 suicide emergency, the De Beers Victor Mine agreement, and a $200 million diesel-contamination lawsuit.
Atte Ohtamaa
Atte Petteri Ohtamaa, Finnish ice hockey defenceman born 1987 in Nivala; Olympic gold 2022 Beijing, world champion 2019 and 2022, Finnish champion with Kärpät 2008 and 2014, KHL champion 2018 with Ak Bars Kazan.
Attelabidae
Attelabidae (leaf-rolling weevils), family of Curculionoidea beetles; synonym Rhynchitidae. Females cut and roll leaves into niduses for larvae; Euops chinensis protofarms Penicillium herquei; about 1300 species worldwide.
Attempt
Attempt (criminal attempt, inchoate offense) punishes intent plus a substantial step toward a crime never completed. Common law uses dangerous proximity; the Model Penal Code uses substantial step; federal law has no general attempt statute.
Attempt at a History of Carniola
Attempt at a History of Carniola (Slovene: Poskus zgodovine Kranjske) is a two-volume history by Anton Tomaž Linhart, published in Ljubljana in 1788 and 1791.
Attempted acquisition of Albertsons by Kroger
The attempted acquisition of Albertsons by Kroger, also known as the Kroger-Albertsons merger, was a $24.6 billion deal announced in October 2022 and blocked by federal and state courts in December 2024.
Attempted assassination of Alexander II by Karakozov
Dmitry Karakozov fired a pistol at Tsar Alexander II at the Summer Garden gate in Saint Petersburg on 4 April 1866, missed, and was hanged.
Attempted assassination of Andrew Jackson
Richard Lawrence's failed January 30, 1835 attempt to shoot President Andrew Jackson at the Capitol; both derringer pistols misfired, Jackson beat him with a cane, and Lawrence was found insane.
Attempted assassination of Andy Warhol
Attempted assassination of Andy Warhol: on June 3, 1968 Valerie Solanas, author of the SCUM Manifesto, shot Warhol at his Factory studio at 33 Union Square West, also wounding Mario Amaya; Warhol survived after five hours of surgery.
Attempted assassination of Bob Marley
Attempted assassination of Bob Marley: December 3, 1976 shooting at 56 Hope Road, Kingston, by gunmen two days before the Smile Jamaica concert; Marley, Rita Marley, and Don Taylor wounded, no deaths, CIA theories unverified.
Attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Florida
Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, allegedly hid with a scoped SKS-style rifle in the tree line of Trump International Golf Club, West Palm Beach, on September 15, 2024; a Secret Service agent spotted the rifle, fired, and Routh fled and was arrested without firing a shot.
Attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania
Attempted assassination of Donald Trump: Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, fired eight AR-15 rounds at Trump from an AGR building roof at the July 13, 2024 Butler, Pennsylvania rally, grazing his ear, killing Corey Comperatore; Secret Service failures and discipline followed.
Attempted assassination of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Giuseppe Zangara's February 15, 1933 attempt to kill President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami's Bayfront Park; FDR was unhurt, Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak died, and Zangara was executed March 20, 1933.
Attempted assassination of Jair Bolsonaro
Stabbing attack on Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro, 6 September 2018, in Juiz de Fora, by Adélio Bispo de Oliveira; he acted alone per Federal Police inquiries, was acquitted as legally insane, and Bolsonaro won the 2018 election.
Attempted assassination of Lee Jae Myung
The attempted assassination of Lee Jae Myung (이재명 피격 사건): 2 January 2024 stabbing in the neck of the DPK chairman in Busan by a man in his 60s; 15-year sentence, later terrorism designation, Lee elected president in 2025.
Attempted assassination of Lenin
The attempted assassination of Lenin (Покушение на Ленина) was the shooting of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin by Fanny Kaplan after a rally at a Moscow factory on 30 August 1918.
Attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II
The attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II took place on 13 May 1981, when Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Ağca shot and seriously wounded him in St Peter's Square.