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August: Osage County (film)

August: Osage County is a 2013 American comedy-drama film directed by John Wells, adapted by Tracy Letts from his own Pulitzer Prize-winning 2007 play about a dysfunctional Oklahoma family.

Augusta Bagiennorum, an Augustan Roman colony in Regio IX Liguria near Benevagienna, Piedmont, chief settlement of the Ligurian Bagienni; about 21 hectares with forum, theatre, amphitheatre, and aqueduct, excavated from 1892.

Augusta Bagiennorum amphitheater

Roman amphitheater at Augusta Bagiennorum, Bene Vagienna, Italy; elliptical, 105 x 77 m, built on an embankment shortly after the city's late 1st-century BC founding, used to the 3rd century AD, western sector excavated in the early 2000s.

Augusta GreenJackets

Augusta GreenJackets: Single-A Carolina League affiliate of the Atlanta Braves, based in North Augusta, South Carolina, at SRP Park since 2018; founded 1988 as the Augusta Pirates, with league titles in 1989, 1995, 1999, and 2008.

Augusta Lynx

Augusta Lynx: ECHL hockey team of Augusta, Georgia. Original franchise played 1998-2008 (suspended December 2008); revived expansion team owned by Tim Tebow and David Hodges begins play 2027-28 at New Augusta Arena.

Augusta National Golf Club

Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Georgia: private club founded 1931-33 by Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts, designed by Alister MacKenzie; permanent home of the Masters since 1934, with Amen Corner and no USGA rating.

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Augusta Savage

Augusta Savage, born Augusta Christine Fells, was an American sculptor and art teacher, a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance best known for the bust Gamin and The Harp.

Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein

Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (Auguste Viktoria, 1858–1921), called Dona, was German Empress and Queen of Prussia as wife of Kaiser Wilhelm II from 1888, mother of seven, church patron, and died in exile at Haus Doorn.

Augusta, Georgia

Augusta, Georgia: consolidated city-county seat of Richmond County on the Savannah River, founded 1736 by Oglethorpe, Georgia's second-largest city (201,999), home of the Masters Tournament and Fort Gordon.

Augusta, Maine

Augusta, Maine: capital city on the Kennebec River, seat of Kennebec County, population 18,899 (2020). Founded at the 1628 Cushnoc trading post; home to 1754 Fort Western and the Maine State House (1832).

Augustae

Augustae (Avgustis, Avgustas), Roman Danube frontier fortress and early Byzantine town near Kozloduy, Bulgaria; mid-1st-century wood-and-earth camp, 9 ha, ended by Avars in 583. Distinct from Augustea, buildings of imperial worship.

Augustan literature

Augustan literature is the Latin literature produced at Rome during the reign of Augustus, 27 BC to AD 14, an era of great poetry by Virgil and Horace.

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Augustan settlement with Parthia

The Augustan settlement with Parthia was a 20 BC agreement in which the Parthian king Phraates IV returned to Augustus the standards and prisoners Rome had lost since Carrhae.

Auguste and Louis Lumière

Auguste and Louis Lumière, French inventors born in Besançon, patented the Cinématographe camera-projector in 1895, held the first commercial film screening in Paris, and invented the Autochrome color photography process.

Auguste Aulnette

Auguste Aulnette, French alpine skier (born 2002, Cluses), Ski Club Mieussy slalom and giant slalom specialist; 2020 Youth Olympic combined gold, European Cup slalom runner-up 2025-26, France A team member.

Auguste Beernaert

Auguste Beernaert was a Belgian lawyer and statesman, prime minister and finance minister from 1884 to 1894, who shared the 1909 Nobel Peace Prize for his arbitration work.

Auguste Carayon

Auguste Carayon (1813–1874) was a French Jesuit historian, librarian, and bibliographer, best known for his 1864 Bibliographie historique de la Compagnie de Jésus and edited collections of unpublished Jesuit documents.

Auguste Comte

Auguste Comte (1798–1857), French philosopher, founder of positivism and coiner of 'sociology'; author of the Cours de philosophie positive, the law of three stages, and the Religion of Humanity.

Auguste Escoffier

Auguste Escoffier (1846–1935) was a French chef who modernized haute cuisine through Le Guide Culinaire (1903) and the kitchen brigade system, working with César Ritz at the Savoy and Carlton.

Auguste Forel

Auguste-Henri Forel (1848–1931) was a Swiss psychiatrist, neuroanatomist, and entomologist who directed Zurich's Burghölzli asylum and became a founding figure of myrmecology, the study of ants.

Auguste G. Ferrie

Auguste G. Ferrie, born Gustave Auguste Ferrié, was a French army engineer and radio pioneer who directed French military radiotelegraphy from 1899 to 1932 and built the Eiffel Tower into a long-wave transmitter reaching 6,000 km.

Auguste Giroux

Auguste Paul Almire Giroux (1874–1953), French rugby union wing and physician with Stade Français; won gold in men's rugby at the 1900 Paris Olympics with the USFSA team.

Auguste Houzeau de Lehaie

Auguste Houzeau de Lehaie (1832–1922) was a Belgian professor, geographer, and politician who served in the Chamber of Representatives and the Senate, ending as its doyen.

Auguste Island

Auguste Island is a small flat-topped island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica, charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1898 and named by Adrien de Gerlache for his father.

Auguste Kerckhoffs

Auguste Kerckhoffs (1835–1903) was a Dutch-born linguist and cryptologist teaching in Paris whose 1883 article La cryptographie militaire set out six conditions for military ciphers, one becoming Kerckhoffs's principle.

Auguste Lichtenberger

Frédéric Auguste Lichtenberger (1832–1899) was a French Protestant theologian born in Strasbourg who refused a German chair after 1870 and became the first dean of the Faculté de théologie protestante de Paris.

Auguste Lumière

Auguste Lumière (1862–1954) was a French inventor and industrialist who, with his younger brother Louis, patented the Cinématographe in 1895, then spent five decades on medical and photographic research.

Auguste Piccard

Auguste Piccard (Auguste Antoine Piccard) was a Swiss physicist who made one of the first manned stratosphere balloon flights in 1931 and invented the bathyscaphe.

Auguste Rodin

Auguste Rodin (1840–1917), French sculptor and founder of modern sculpture; creator of The Thinker, The Kiss, The Gates of Hell, and The Burghers of Calais; failed the Beaux-Arts three times, gained state patronage in 1880, retained rough unfinished surfaces, and donated his works to France in 1916.