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Ahmed Mohamed clock incident
September 14, 2015 arrest of Ahmed Mohamed, 14, at MacArthur High School, Irving, Texas, after his homemade digital clock was mistaken for a bomb; no charges, #IStandWithAhmed, lawsuit dismissed 2017.
Ahom people
The Ahom people are a Tai-origin ethnic community of Assam, India, founded by migrants under Sukaphaa in 1228 who ruled the region for roughly six hundred years.
Ahoo Daryaei (آهو داریایی)
Ahoo Daryaei (آهو داریایی), the "Science and Research Girl," is an Iranian French-literature student who stripped in protest against compulsory hijab at Azad University, Tehran, on 2 November 2024, was detained, hospitalized psychiatrically, released without charge, and later alleged to face forced medication.
Aidan Kearney (journalist)
Aidan Kearney, aka Turtleboy (@DoctorTurtleboy), is a Massachusetts blogger who founded Turtleboy Sports/TB Daily News in 2013, drove Karen Read case coverage, and faces witness intimidation indictments and a defamation suit.
Ain't I a Woman?
Sojourner Truth's 1851 Akron, Ohio women's rights speech, also called "Ar'n't I a Woman?". Best-known text is Frances Gage's 1863 rewrite in fabricated slave dialect; Marius Robinson's 1851 Bugle transcription, in standard English without the refrain, is considered more accurate.
Ainu people
Ainu (アイヌ): indigenous people of Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and the Kurils with a distinct language isolate and animist bear-centered religion; subject of 1899 assimilation law, 2019 recognition act, and 2024 fishing-rights ruling.
Air Force Amy
Air Force Amy is the professional name of an American legal courtesan and USAF veteran working in Nevada brothels since 1990, known for the Moonlite BunnyRanch and HBO's Cathouse series.
Air rage
Air rage: popular, non-legal term for disruptive or violent airline passenger behavior aboard aircraft or in terminals, coined in the 1990s; alcohol is the leading precipitant, and IATA rates incidents at one per 395 flights in 2024.
Aja people
The Aja (Adja) are a Gbe-speaking people of southern Benin and Togo whose Agasuvi clan founded Allada, Dahomey, and Porto-Novo; the Fon descend from Aja migrants intermarrying the Gedevi.
Akan people
Akan people: West African peoples of Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire speaking Akan (Twi) languages, with matrilineal kinship (abusua), subgroups such as Asante and Fante, and a noted tradition of brass goldweights.
Akha people
Akha people: Tibeto-Burman-speaking (Southern Loloish) highland people of Yunnan, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam, also called E Kaw; patrilineal, swidden-farming, animist, with AkhaZah customary law and growing Christian conversion.
Akimel Oʼodham
Akimel O'odham (Pima), "River People", are an Indigenous people of Arizona's Gila and Salt Rivers, descendants of the Huhugam (Hohokam) canal farmers, now living mainly in the Gila River Indian Community and Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community.
Akua Njeri
Akua Njeri, born Deborah Johnson, is an American activist and writer, a former Black Panther and the widow of Fred Hampton, killed in a 1969 police raid.
Al Sharpton
Al Sharpton is an American Baptist minister, civil rights activist, and MS NOW host who founded the National Action Network in 1991, led protests in cases such as Howard Beach, Diallo, Garner, and Floyd, and ran for president in 2004.
Al-Houthi family
Al-Houthi family (آل الحوثي), the Hashemite sayyid family of Saada, Yemen, that founded and leads the Ansar Allah (Houthi) movement; patriarch Badreddine al-Houthi, founder Hussein killed in 2004, current leader Abdul-Malik.
Al-Waleed bin Khalid Al-Saud
Al-Waleed bin Khalid Al-Saud, also known as Al-Walid ibn Khalid, was a Saudi prince called the "Sleeping Prince," comatose for twenty years after a 2005 car accident.
Alan MacMasters hoax
The Alan MacMasters hoax was a Wikipedia prank, begun in 2012 by British university students, that falsely credited a fictional Scottish inventor, Alan MacMasters, with inventing the electric toaster in Edinburgh in 1893; exposed in July 2022.
Alan Turing law
Alan Turing law: informal name for section 166 of the UK Policing and Crime Act 2017, which pardoned about 49,000 deceased men convicted of abolished same-sex offences; living men apply via the Home Office disregard process.
Alans
The Alans, also known as the Alani, were an ancient Iranian nomadic tribe of the Pontic steppe, first recorded by classical writers in the first centuries A.D.
Alaska Natives
Alaska Natives are Alaska's indigenous peoples, including Iñupiat, Yup'ik, Aleut, Athabascan, and Tlingit groups; over 15 percent of Alaskans identify as Native alone, and the 1971 ANCSA settlement created 12 regional Native corporations.
Albanians
Albanians (shqiptarë) are the native Balkan people of Albania and Kosovo, speakers of Albanian, a separate Indo-European branch with Gheg and Tosk dialects; first attested in the eleventh century, independent since 1912, with a large diaspora.
Albert Bandura
Albert Bandura (1925–2021) was a Canadian-American psychologist at Stanford University who developed social learning theory, demonstrated observational learning in the Bobo doll experiments, and introduced self-efficacy.
Albert Ellis
Albert Ellis (1913–2007), American psychologist and founder of rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT), the first cognitive behavior therapy. Developed the ABC model, founded the Albert Ellis Institute in 1959, ranked second most influential psychotherapist in a 1982 poll.
Alberta Gay
Alberta Gay, born Alberta Williams Cooper (1913–1987), was the mother of five children, including recording artists Marvin Gaye and Frankie Gaye, and witnessed Marvin's fatal 1984 shooting by his father.
Alberta Williams King
Alberta Williams King (1903–1974), mother of Martin Luther King Jr., organist and choir founder at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta; shot dead there June 30, 1974 by Marcus Wayne Chenault while playing the organ.
Alberto Rivera (activist)
Alberto Magno Rivera Romero (1935-1997), Spanish-born US anti-Catholic activist, source of Jack Chick's Vatican conspiracy comics; his Jesuit-priest claims were exposed as fraud by Cornerstone, Christianity Today, and the Christian Research Institute.
Alcohol in Indonesia
Alcohol in Indonesia (minuman beralkohol, miras) covers drinking culture and regulation in Muslim-majority Indonesia: 0.10 litres per capita, 88% abstainers, Aceh sharia caning, bootleg methanol deaths, Arak Bali.
Alcor Life Extension Foundation
Alcor Life Extension Foundation, founded 1972 by Fred and Linda Chamberlain, is a Scottsdale, Arizona 501(c)(3) cryonics nonprofit storing 263 patients in liquid nitrogen, using M22 vitrification, with 1,535 members and a Patient Care Trust.
Alejandra Silva
Alejandra Silva (Alejandra Gere), born 1983 in A Coruña, Spain, is a Spanish publicist, activist, and philanthropist; founder of Fundación Beautiful Life and wife of Richard Gere since 2018, with sons Alexander and James.
Alex Clark (commentator)
Alex Clark (Alexandra Clark) is an American conservative podcast host at Turning Point USA, hosting Culture Apothecary and formerly POPlitics, and a leading MAHA wellness influencer; distinct from Guardian and CBS journalists of the same name.