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Azu
Azu, also written Azzu, was a Late Bronze Age city on the Middle Euphrates in northern Syria, probably identical with Tell Hadidi, now mostly submerged under Lake Assad.
AZU1
AZU1 (azurocidin 1), also called HBP or CAP37, is a human chromosome 19p13.3 gene encoding a neutrophil azurophil granule protein with antimicrobial and monocyte chemotactic activity, used as an early serum biomarker for sepsis and infection.
Azúcar Moreno
Azúcar Moreno: Spanish duo of sisters Toñi and Encarna Salazar from Badajoz, blending flamenco, rumba, and dance pop. Represented Spain at Eurovision 1990 in Zagreb with "Bandido", finishing fifth after a technical failure; later Latin-pop success with Emilio Estefan.
Azúcar Negra
Azúcar Negra is a Cuban timba and dance orchestra founded in 1998 by pianist and composer Leonel Limonta after he left Bamboleo, remaining popular at home and abroad.
Azuchi Castle
Azuchi Castle (安土城) was a Japanese castle built for the warlord Oda Nobunaga on Mount Azuchi by Lake Biwa, begun in 1576 and burned after his death in 1582.
Azuchi religious debate
The Azuchi religious debate (安土宗論) was a 1579 disputation between the Jōdo and Nichiren sects at Azuchi, judged by Oda Nobunaga, whose judges declared the Jōdo side victorious and punished the Nichiren temples with fines.
Azuchi–Momoyama period
Azuchi–Momoyama period (安土桃山時代), also called the Shokuho era, c. 1568–1600: the unification era of Japan under Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, ending with Tokugawa Ieyasu's 1600 victory at Sekigahara.
Azuero Peninsula
Azuero Peninsula (Península de Azuero), Panama's Pacific cattle-ranching heartland in Herrera, Los Santos, and Veraguas; heavily deforested tropical dry forest, Azuero spider monkey habitat, active restoration programs, and Campanian-Eocene forearc geology with the Cerro Quema gold deposit.
Azufral
Azufral, also known as Azufral de Túquerres and formerly called Chaitán, is an active stratovolcano in Nariño department, southwestern Colombia, rising to 4,070 m (13,353 ft).
Azul (board game)
Azul is a 2018 abstract tile-drafting board game by Michael Kiesling (Next Move Games) for 2–4 players, themed on Portuguese azulejos; Spiel des Jahres and As d'Or winner with Stained Glass of Sintra, Summer Pavilion, Queen's Garden, and Azul Duel spin-offs.
Azul Brazilian Airlines
Azul (Azul Linhas Aéreas Brasileiras) is a Brazilian low-cost airline founded in 2008 by JetBlue founder David Neeleman, serving more Brazilian cities than any other carrier.
Azul, Cerro (volcano, Chile)
Cerro Azul is a 3,788 m stratovolcano at the southern end of the Descabezado Grande system in central Chile, whose Quizapu vent produced one of Chile's largest eruptions in 1932.
Azula
Azula is the Fire Nation princess and Zuko's sister in Avatar: The Last Airbender, a firebending prodigy with blue flames and lightning, voiced by Grey DeLisle and played by Elizabeth Yu in Netflix's live-action series.
Azule Energy
Azule Energy is a 50/50 joint venture of BP and Eni formed in 2022, combining the companies' Angolan oil and gas businesses with its headquarters in Luanda, Angola.
Azulejo
An azulejo is a glazed ceramic tile used as a decorative covering of walls, floors, and façades, identified with Portugal, where it has been applied for five centuries.
Azulene
Azulene is a blue, non-benzenoid aromatic hydrocarbon, C₁₀H₈, an isomer of naphthalene with fused seven- and five-membered rings, named in 1863 for its azure color.
Azuloscurocasinegro
Azuloscurocasinegro (DarkBlueAlmostBlack) is Daniel Sánchez Arévalo's 2006 Spanish debut feature, a tragicomedy about Jorge, a doorman caring for his stroke-stricken father; it won three Goya Awards in 2007.
Azuma Kagami
Azuma Kagami (吾妻鏡) is the chronicle of the Kamakura shogunate, compiled by the bakufu in annalistic form and covering 1180 to 1266, an indispensable source for the period.
Azuma's inequality
Azuma's inequality, more commonly called the Azuma–Hoeffding inequality, is a concentration inequality stating that a martingale with bounded increments is unlikely to move far from its starting value.
Azumanga Daioh (あずまんが大王)
Azumanga Daioh (あずまんが大王) is Kiyohiko Azuma's four-panel school comedy manga serialized in Comic Dengeki Daioh 1999–2002 in four volumes (3.25 million copies), adapted into a 26-episode 2002 J.C.Staff anime, and credited with establishing the moe 4-koma and nichijō-kei slice-of-life tradition.
Azumayama
Azumayama (吾妻山) is an active volcanic group of stratovolcanoes, shields, lava domes, and pyroclastic cones on the Yamagata–Fukushima border, Japan; its highest point reaches 2,035 m.
Azumi (あずみ) (film)
Azumi (あずみ) is a 2003 Japanese samurai action film by Ryuhei Kitamura, adapted from Yu Koyama's manga, starring Aya Ueto as an orphan raised to assassinate warlords for the Tokugawa shogunate.
Azumi Waki
Azumi Waki (和氣あず未) is a Japanese voice actress and singer from Tokyo, known for voicing Special Week in Umamusume: Pretty Derby and Senko in The Helpful Fox Senko-san.
Azupiranu
Azupiranu is a settlement known only from the birth legend of Sargon of Akkad, who names it as his home city on the Euphrates; scholars dispute whether it existed.
Azur (satellite)
Azur, also written AZUR and designated GRS A, was West Germany's first research satellite, launched in 1969 to study Earth's radiation belts, auroral zones, and solar particle streams.
Azur & Asmar
Azur & Asmar (French: Azur et Asmar) is a 2006 animated film by Michel Ocelot about two foster brothers who become rivals on a quest for the Djinn Fairy.
Azur Lane (碧蓝航线)
Azur Lane (碧蓝航线) is a 2017 Chinese side-scrolling shooter RPG by Shanghai Manjuu and Xiamen Yongshi with WWII warships as anime girls, published by Yostar in Japan and English, with 300+ ships, a 7% SSR rate, and a 2019 TV anime.
Azur Lane: Slow Ahead! (アズールレーン びそくぜんしん!)
Azur Lane: Slow Ahead! (アズールレーン びそくぜんしん!), also Bisoku Zenshin!, is Hori's four-panel slice-of-life Azur Lane spin-off manga begun April 23, 2018 on official Twitter, printed by Ichijinsha, adapted into a 12-episode 2021 Studio CANDY BOX anime.
Azura Skye
Azura Skye (Azura Dawn Storozynski, born 1981) is an American actress known as Jane Cooper on Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane, for supporting roles in 28 Days, Bandits, and Red Dragon, and for Best Actress awards for The Swerve (2018).
Azurara
Azurara, a coastal civil parish of Vila do Conde, Porto District, Portugal, on the south bank of the Rio Ave; 2.16 km², 2,305 inhabitants; home of GDC Azurara handball club (founded 1974) and Azurara Parque Aventura.