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Awami League (বাংলাদেশ আওয়ামী লীগ)

Bangladesh Awami League (বাংলাদেশ আওয়ামী লীগ), founded 1949 in Dhaka as Awami Muslim League, led Bangladesh's 1971 independence and ruled 2009–2024 under Sheikh Hasina before a 2024 uprising, a May 2025 activity ban, and suspended registration.

Awamori (泡盛)

Awamori (泡盛), or Ryukyu awamori, is Okinawa's traditional pot-still distilled rice spirit made with Thai indica rice and black koji mold (Aspergillus luchuensis) via whole koji preparation; aged three years or more it is called kusu, and it is Japan's oldest distilled spirit.

Awan

Awan was an ancient city and region of Elam in western Iran, probably near Susa, best known as the name of the first Elamite dynasty in the Sumerian King List.

Awan dynasty

The Awan dynasty, also known as the Dynasty of Awan, was a dynasty of Elam in southwestern Iran, known from the Sumerian King List and a king list from Susa.

Awara Paagal Deewana (आवारा पागल दीवाना)

Awara Paagal Deewana (आवारा पागल दीवाना), 2002 Hindi action comedy by Vikram Bhatt starring Akshay Kumar, Suniel Shetty, Aftab Shivdasani; mafia-will plot, Average verdict, about ₹16 crore India net.

Awarapan (आवारापन)

Awarapan (आवारापन) is a 2007 Hindi action crime drama directed by Mohit Suri, starring Emraan Hashmi as hitman Shivam Pandit; a flop remake of A Bittersweet Life that became a cult classic and gained a 2026 sequel.

Awarapan 2 (आवारापन 2)

Awarapan 2 (आवारापन 2), 2026 Hindi action drama sequel to Awarapan (2007), directed by Nitin Kakkar, produced by Vishesh Bhatt, starring Emraan Hashmi as Shivam Pandit; released 14 August 2026, grossed about ₹253 crore worldwide, streamed on Prime Video from 9 October 2026.

Awarapan 2 (आवारापन 2) (soundtrack)

Awarapan 2 (आवारापन 2) soundtrack: 8-song Hindi album for the 2026 Nitin Kakkar sequel, released 11 August 2026 by Sony Music India; composers Mithoon, Amaal Mallik, Jeet Gannguli, Akhil Sachdeva, Wasif Ahmad; reimagines 2007's Toh Phir Aao and Tera Mera Rishta; Yeh Awarapan sung by Arijit Singh.

Award of Garden Merit

Award of Garden Merit (AGM), now RHS Recommended: Award of Garden Merit, is a Royal Horticultural Society plant award established in 1922 for Hamamelis mollis, granted after expert trials to reliable, available, stable, disease-resistant garden plants.

Award of Garden Merit tulip cultivars

AGM tulip cultivars are Tulipa varieties granted the RHS Award of Garden Merit, renamed RHS Recommended: AGM in 2026, after Wisley trials; recent trials awarded 28–29 new AGMs per group, e.g. 'Queen of Night'.

Awardco

Awardco is a Lindon, Utah-based employee recognition software company whose platform lets employers reward workers with points redeemable through a marketplace built around Amazon Business.

Awards and decorations of the Indian Armed Forces

Awards and decorations of the Indian Armed Forces: India's military honours system, built on six gallantry awards in wartime (Param Vir Chakra) and peacetime (Ashoka Chakra) tracks, plus distinguished-service and campaign medals.

Awards and decorations of the United States Armed Forces

Awards and decorations of the United States Armed Forces: the U.S. military medal system, led by the Medal of Honor, the three service crosses (Distinguished Service Cross, Navy Cross, Air Force Cross), and the Silver Star, governed by Title 10 U.S.C. and DoD Instruction 1348.33.

Awards and decorations of the United States government

Awards and decorations of the United States government: military medals under 10 USC ch. 57 and DoDI 1348.33, led by the Medal of Honor, plus civilian honors such as the Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal.

Awards and honors in economics

Awards and honors in economics are the medals, prizes, and lectureships granted by associations, universities, and foundations, led by the American Economic Association's John Bates Clark Medal.

Aware Super

Aware Super is an Australian profit-for-members superannuation fund open to all Australians, managing over $246 billion for 1.26 million members, grown from First State Super, founded in 1992.

Awareness

Awareness: the mind's registration of stimuli, states, or the self; near-synonymous with consciousness in philosophy and neuroscience. Distinguishes perceptual from self-awareness, and access from phenomenal awareness (Block 1995).

Awareness League

The Awareness League was a Nigerian anarcho-syndicalist organization founded in Enugu around 1990 by former Marxists, admitted in 1996 as the International Workers' Association's first African section.

Awareness under general anaesthesia

Awareness under general anaesthesia (ICD-11 NE89; AAGA, anesthesia awareness): consciousness with recall during intended general anaesthesia, affecting about 1-2 per 1,000 cases; neuromuscular blockade raises risk over 16-fold, and distress or PTSD can follow.

Awari

Awari (Oware, Awele, wari) is a West African two-player mancala game on two rows of six pits with 48 seeds, won by capturing more than 24. Romein and Bal strongly solved it in 2002: perfect play is a draw.

Awarikus

Awarikus, also written Awariku or Warika and probably the Urikki of Assyrian records, was an 8th-century BC king of Ḫiyawa, the Iron Age kingdom in the Cilician plain that Assyrian sources call Que.

Awarua Wetland

Awarua Wetland (Ramsar Site No. 102), Southland, New Zealand: ~20,000 ha coastal lagoon, peatland, swamp and estuary complex; Waituna Lagoon designated 1976 as New Zealand's first Ramsar site, extended and renamed 2008.

Awasa

Awasa, also spelled Hawassa (ሀዋሳ), is a city in southern Ethiopia and capital of the Sidama Region since 2020, on the eastern shore of Lake Hawassa.

Awash

Awash, river and basin in Ethiopia; also Awash River Basin. A roughly 1,200 km endorheic river ending in salt lakes in the Danakil Plain; Ethiopia's most intensively irrigated basin, home to Koka Dam, Wonji and Metehara sugar estates, severe water pollution, and major flood management works.

Awater

Awater is a 273-line narrative poem by the Dutch poet Martinus Nijhoff, published in 1934 in Nieuwe gedichten and often called the Dutch answer to Eliot's The Waste Land.

Awawa

Awawa (Egyptian AwAw) was a Kushite ruler known only from Middle Kingdom Egyptian execration texts, dated to about 1800–1700 BCE, son of KAny and brother of the Kushite ruler SriAhi.

Away (TV series)

Away (2020) is a Netflix science fiction drama created by Andrew Hinderaker, starring Hilary Swank as astronaut Emma Green commanding a Mars mission. Ten episodes premiered September 4, 2020; cancelled October 20, 2020 after one season.

Away colours

Away colors, also known as away kits or road uniforms, are the uniforms a sports team wears when its primary home outfit would visually clash with an opponent's.

Away from Her

Away from Her is a 2006 Canadian drama, Sarah Polley's directorial debut, adapted from Alice Munro's "The Bear Came Over the Mountain," starring Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsent as a couple divided by Alzheimer's; it earned two Oscar nominations and seven Genies.

Away goals rule

The away goals rule (regla del gol de visitante) was a football tiebreaker, used by UEFA from 1965 until its abolition in 2021/22, under which the team scoring more goals away from home advanced in level two-legged knockout ties.