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Anabaptism
Anabaptism, also called Täufer, was a Radical Reformation movement begun in Zurich in 1525 that rejected infant baptism; its descendants include the Amish, Mennonites, and Hutterites.
Anabasis (νάβασις) (Xenophon)
Anabasis (Κύρου Ανάβασις) is Xenophon's seven-book firsthand account of Cyrus the Younger's 401 BC campaign against Artaxerxes II and the Ten Thousand's retreat after Cunaxa, reaching Trapezus in February 400 BC.
Anabasis of Alexander (Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀνάβασις)
Anabasis of Alexander (Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀνάβασις), Arrian's seven-book 2nd-century Greek history of Alexander the Great, modeled on Xenophon's Anabasis, based on Ptolemy and Aristobulus, with the Indica as companion.
Anabasis of Antiochus III
The Anabasis of Antiochus III was the Seleucid king's eastern expedition of 212–205 BC through Parthia, Bactria, and India, earning him the title "the Great".
Anabel Pereira Fernandez
Anabel Pereira Fernandez is a Venezuelan economist and lawyer who serves as Minister of Economy and Finance and Sectorial Vice President of Administration and Digital Government.
Anacaona
Anacaona was a Taíno female chief, or cacica, who governed the chiefdom of Jaragua in southwestern Hispaniola and was hanged by Spanish governor Nicolás de Ovando in 1503.
Anachronism
Anachronism: something placed outside its proper time, from Greek ana- (against) and khronos (time). Covers accidental and deliberate errors in literature and film, and the historiographic sin of judging the past by present-day categories, related to presentism and Whig history.
Anacleto Angelini
Anacleto Angelini Fabbri, known in Chile as Don Cleto, was an Italian-born Chilean businessman who arrived in 1948, built the AntarChile conglomerate around Empresas Copec, and became Chile's first billionaire.
Anaconda Plan
The Anaconda Plan, Winfield Scott's 1861 Union Civil War strategy: blockade Southern ports and seize the Mississippi River to strangle the Confederacy; derided by the press, later vindicated.
Anacyclosis
Anacyclosis is a theory that political constitutions pass through a fixed sequence of regime types. Polybius laid out this cycle in his Histories in the second century BCE.
Anadolu Group
Anadolu Group is a family-owned Turkish conglomerate founded in Istanbul in 1950 by Kamil Yazıcı and İzzet Özilhan, spanning beer, soft drinks, retail, and automotive.
Anagarika Dharmapala
Anagarika Dharmapala (අනගාරික ධර්මපාල), born Don David Hewavitarane, was a Ceylonese Buddhist reformer who founded the Maha Bodhi Society in 1891 and led the campaign to restore Buddhist worship at Bodh Gaya.
Anahata (अनाहत)
Anahata, also called the heart chakra, is the fourth chakra of the tantric subtle body, a twelve-petalled heart lotus named for the unstruck sound heard there.
Anahita
Anahita (Arədvī Sūrā Anāhitā, Nāhīd, Anaitis) is the Old Iranian Zoroastrian goddess of waters and fertility, elevated by Artaxerxes II, worshipped across the Achaemenid, Parthian, and Sasanian empires, with debated Mesopotamian origins.
Anak (עֲנָק)
Anak (עֲנָק) is a figure of the Hebrew Bible, ancestor of the Anakim, giants of the hill country around Hebron whose three sons were Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai.
Anal masturbation
Anal masturbation: self-stimulation of the anus and rectum with fingers or anal toys (butt plugs, beads, prostate massagers). Key points: needs lubricant, flared-based toys, cleaning; negligible HIV risk per CDC.
Anal sex
Anal sex is sexual activity involving the anus, also called anal intercourse, practiced across orientations. Covers anatomy, injury and STI risks, condoms, PrEP, doxyPEP, prevalence, stigma, and historical attitudes from antiquity onward.
Anal stage
Anal stage: second of Freud's five psychosexual stages, roughly 1–3 years, centered on anus, defecation, and toilet training; fixation yields anal-retentive or anal-expulsive character, a claim with weak empirical support.
Analects
The Analects (论语, Lunyu) is the Confucian classic of compiled sayings of Confucius and his disciples, in 20 chapters, canonized from the Eastern Han, made one of Zhu Xi's 1190 Four Books, and widely translated.
Anales de Cuauhtitlan
The Anales de Cuauhtitlan is a Nahuatl annalistic chronicle of the lordship of Cuauhtitlan, north of Mexico City, written between 1563 and 1570 by Nahua authors.
Anales de la Universidad de Chile
Anales de la Universidad de Chile is the official review of the Universidad de Chile, founded in 1843 and one of the oldest journals on the continent.
Analilia Mejia
Analilia Mejia, Democratic U.S. representative for New Jersey's 11th District since April 2026, former Sanders 2020 political director, first Afro-Latina in Congress, won a special election after Mikie Sherrill's resignation.
Analisa N. Torres
Analisa Nadine Torres, born 1959 in New York, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of New York since 2013.
Analise Ortiz
Analise Ortiz is an American Democratic politician who represents Arizona's 24th district in the State Senate, where she leads Democrats on housing affordability, after serving in the Arizona House.
Analmaye
Analmaye, also printed Analmaaye, was a king of Kush of the Napatan period who ruled c. 542–538 BC, succeeded Amaninatakilebte after Malonaqen, and was buried in pyramid Nu. 18 at Nuri.
Analogy
An analogy is a comparison between two objects or systems that highlights their believed similarities; analogical reasoning uses accepted similarities to support a further similarity, from the Greek analogia, meaning proportion.
Analogy of the divided line
Analogy of the divided line: image at Republic 509d–511e (also called Plato's divided line) cutting a line in the same ratio into four segments matched to eikasia, pistis, dianoia, and noesis, from images to forms.
Analysis paralysis
Analysis paralysis, or paralysis by analysis, is overthinking a decision to the point of inaction, closely tied to choice overload. Key evidence includes the Iyengar–Lepper jam study, 401(k) participation data, and meta-analyses showing overload occurs only under specific moderators.
Analytic aesthetics
Analytic aesthetics is the practice of aesthetics and philosophy of art within the analytic tradition of philosophy, using conceptual analysis and formal logic, emerging around the mid-20th century.
Analytic language
Analytic language (analytisk språk): a language with little or no inflection, expressing grammar through word order, particles, and auxiliaries, as in Vietnamese and Mandarin; contrasted with synthetic and polysynthetic types on a continuum.