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Away in a Manger

"Away in a Manger", also known as Luther's Cradle Hymn, is a Christmas carol sung as a lullaby about the infant Jesus, first printed in America in 1868.

Away We Go

Away We Go (2009) is a comedy-drama road movie directed by Sam Mendes, written by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, starring John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph as expectant parents Burt and Verona touring America to find a home; Focus Features, 98 minutes, R, $9.4 million US gross.

Awdal

Awdal (Somali: Awdal, Arabic: أودَل) is the westernmost region of Somaliland, capital Borama, four districts (Zeylac, Lughaye, Baki, Borama), population about 661,373, under Somaliland administration with Gadabursi-led separatist currents.

Awdl

An awdl (plural awdlau) is a long Welsh poem written in cynghanedd and strict bardic meters, the form required to win the chair at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.

Awe (film)

Awe! (Telugu: అ!), 2018 Telugu psychological drama, Prasanth Varma's directorial debut produced by Nani; converging storylines on mental health, sexuality, and time travel; won two 66th National Film Awards.

Aweil East

Aweil East is a county in Northern Bahr el-Ghazal State, South Sudan, on the disputed border with Sudan's West Kordofan. Dinka Malual agro-pastoralist county marked by murahalin raiding, the 1988 famine, cross-border trade, and severe food insecurity and returnee influx since 2023.

Awel y Môr

Awel y Môr is a consented offshore wind farm in the Irish Sea off north Wales, planned as an extension to Gwynt y Môr with up to 50 turbines.

Awele Elumelu

Awele Vivien Elumelu (born 1970, Lagos) is a Nigerian physician and healthcare entrepreneur, chair of Avon Healthcare and Avon Medical Practice, Tony Elumelu Foundation co-founder, OFR 2023, and Transcorp Hotels board chair from January 2026.

Awenhai Mons

Awenhai Mons is a 100 km diameter mountain feature (mons) on Venus at 60°S, 248°E, named in 1997 for the Mohawk/Iroquois fertility goddess, per the IAU Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature.

Awesome City Club

Awesome City Club is a Japanese band formed in 2013 in Shibuya, Tokyo, known for funk and city-pop sounds with male-female twin vocals; its 2021 song "勿忘" won a Japan Record Award.

Awesome Kong

Awesome Kong, ring name of Kia Stevens, American wrestler; Amazing Kong in Japan, two-time TNA Knockouts Champion, Kharma in WWE, GLOW's Tammé Dawson, and an AEW founding-era star.

Awi

Awi (Agaw/Agew) Zone is a nationality administrative zone in Ethiopia's Amhara Region, capital Injibara, Awngi-speaking people, about 9,148 sq km, known for horse-based ploughing.

Awich

Awich (エーウィッチ) is the stage name of Akiko Urasaki, a Japanese rapper from Naha, Okinawa, born in 1986, who made her major debut in 2020 and headlined Nippon Budokan.

Awilo Longomba

Awilo Longomba is a Congolese singer and former drummer born in 1962 in Kinshasa, whose 1998 hit album Coupé Bibamba made him a pan-African star.

Awirs power station

Awirs power station (Centrale des Awirs) was a thermal power station at Les Awirs, Flémalle, Belgium, opened in 1951; its last unit, converted to burn wood pellets in 2005, closed in 2020.

Awit

Awit, a Tagalog word meaning "song," also names a Philippine narrative romance in 12-syllable quatrains from the Spanish colonial period, best known through Balagtas's Florante at Laura.

Awit Awards

The Awit Awards are the Philippine music industry's awards honoring Filipino recording artists and producers, presented by PARI since 1969 and often called the local Grammys.

Awit ni Labaw Donggon

Awit ni Labaw Donggon ("The Song of Labaw Donggon") is a Philippine epic cycle of the Sulod people's Hinilawod chant tradition, published by F. Landa Jocano in 1965.

AWK

AWK, or the Awk programming language, is a pattern-scanning language for textual data manipulation, created in 1977 at AT&T Bell Labs by Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan.

Awkwafina

Awkwafina is the stage name of Nora Lum, an American actress, comedian, and rapper from New York who starred in Ocean's 8, Crazy Rich Asians, and The Farewell.

Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens

Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens: Comedy Central single-camera sitcom (2020-2023, 3 seasons, 27 episodes) created by Awkwafina and Teresa Hsiao, starring Awkwafina as Nora Lin with BD Wong, Lori Tan Chinn, and Bowen Yang, loosely based on her Queens upbringing.

Awkward (TV series)

Awkward. is an MTV high school comedy (2011–2016) created by Lauren Iungerich, starring Ashley Rickards as Jenna Hamilton, narrated via her snarky blog voice-over; Metascore 75, now on Paramount+ and Pluto TV.

Awkward Black Girl

The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl (ABG) is Issa Rae's two-season YouTube comedy web series, premiered February 3, 2011, starring J, an awkward Black office worker; it won the 2012 Shorty Award and led to HBO's Insecure.

Awn ibn Abd Allah ibn Utba al-Hadhali

Awn ibn Abd Allah ibn Utba al-Hadhali (عون بن عبد الله بن عتبة الهذلي) was a Kufan ascetic and hadith transmitter who narrated from senior Companions, including Abu Hurayra.

Awolnation

AWOLNATION is an American rock band formed in 2010 in Los Angeles by Aaron Bruno, known for the triple-platinum 2011 single "Sail" and six albums including Megalithic Symphony, Run, and The Phantom Five.

Awori people

The Awori are a Yoruba subgroup of southwestern Nigeria, concentrated in Lagos and Ogun states and widely credited as the first settlers of the area that became Lagos city.

AWOS

AWOS, the Automated Weather Observing System, is a computerized airport weather station that measures weather parameters and broadcasts minute-by-minute reports to pilots, typically by VHF radio.

AWQ

AWQ (Activation-aware Weight Quantization) is a quantization method that compresses large language model weights to 4 bits with minimal accuracy loss, introduced by MIT Han Lab in 2023.

AWS Academy

AWS Academy is an Amazon Web Services program offering higher education institutions a free cloud computing curriculum, preparing students for AWS certifications and cloud careers through accredited educators.

AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation is an Amazon Web Services infrastructure-as-code service that provisions collections of AWS resources from YAML or JSON templates, launched in 2011 at no extra charge.