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Anaxagoras (Ἀναξαγόρας)
Anaxagoras (Ἀναξαγόρας) of Clazomenae, c. 500–428 BCE, Presocratic natural philosopher in Athens and Pericles' associate; taught everything-in-everything mixture, cosmic Mind (nous), correct eclipse theory, and the sun as a red-hot stone; exiled for impiety to Lampsacus.
Anaximander (ναξίμανδρος)
Anaximander (Ἀναξίμανδρος) of Miletus, second philosopher after Thales, held the apeiron (the boundless) as first principle, wrote the first Greek prose treatise on nature, and proposed a ring-based cosmos with an unsupported central earth.
Anba
Anba is a legendary king of Mari, second ruler of the dynasty in the Sumerian King List, son of Anbu, said to have reigned 17 years.
Anbessa Wedem
Anbessa Wedem (Ge'ez: አንበሳ ወደም) is a figure of the late Aksumite royal house, remembered in Ge'ez chronicles as an emperor or kinsman of Dil Na'od.
Anbo Tong
Anbo Tong (北京安博通, Beijing ABT Networks Co., Ltd.) is a Beijing network-security software company that sells its ABT SPOS platform to other security vendors; it listed on the STAR Market in 2019.
Anbu (king of Mari)
Anbu, also known as Anbu of Mari, is the first king of the Mari dynasty in the Sumerian King List, which assigns him a reign of 30 years.
Anbumani Ramadoss (அன்புமணி ராமதாஸ்)
Anbumani Ramadoss (அன்புமணி ராமதாஸ்), born 1968, is a PMK leader from Tamil Nadu, son of founder S. Ramadoss; Union Health Minister 2004–2009, MP in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, and PMK president after a 2024–2026 feud with his father.
ANC military camps in Angola
The ANC military camps in Angola were training bases run from 1976 to 1989 by uMkhonto weSizwe, the armed wing of the exiled African National Congress.
Ancala Infrastructure
Ancala Infrastructure, also known as Ancala Partners LLP, is a private equity firm founded in London in 2010 by Spence Clunie, investing in mid-market infrastructure across Europe and North America.
Ancer L. Haggerty
Ancer L. Haggerty, also known as Ancer Lee Haggerty, is an American jurist who served as a United States district judge for the District of Oregon, appointed by President Clinton in 1994.
Ancestor
Ancestor: a deceased forebear, real or mythical, from whom persons or groups descend. In law, a person whose estate passes by descent; in anthropology, the focal figure of ancestor veneration, studied since Edward Tylor's 1870 comparative religion work.
Ancestor worship
Ancestor worship is the practice of honoring deceased ancestors through offerings, prayers, and rites, based on the belief that the dead can still influence their living descendants.
Ancestral Injunctions
The Ancestral Injunctions (皇明祖训) are the Ming dynasty's ancestral law, promulgated by the founding emperor in 1395 to govern succession and the conduct of imperial princes.
Ancestral Puebloans
Ancestral Puebloans, formerly called the Anasazi, were maize-farming peoples of the Four Corners Southwest (c. 300 BCE–1300 CE), ancestors of the Hopi, Zuni, and modern Pueblos, known for pueblos, kivas, and the abandonments of Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde.
Ancestry.com
Ancestry.com is a commercial genealogy and DNA testing website launched in 1996 by Ancestry (founded 1983 as Ancestry Publishing), offering subscription access to billions of historical records, family tree tools, and AncestryDNA autosomal testing for ethnicity estimates and relative matching.
Anchen
Anchen (按陈) was a Yuan-dynasty nobleman of the Konggirat tribe who fought 32 campaigns under Genghis Khan and was made Prince of Hexi in 1232.
Anchor baby
Anchor baby: pejorative US political term for a child born to non-citizen parents, implying planned birth for citizenship; also niño ancla, bebê âncora. No legal meaning; citizen children sponsor parents only at 21.
Anchorage Capital Group
Anchorage Capital Group is a New York credit and distressed-debt investment firm founded in 2003 by Kevin Ulrich and Tony Davis, both formerly of Goldman Sachs.
Anchorage School District
Anchorage School District (ASD), Alaska's largest public school district, serves about 43,000 students in over 100 schools under Superintendent Jharrett Bryantt, facing a $90 million deficit, staff cuts, and three elementary school closures in 2026.
Anchoring effect
Anchoring effect (anchoring bias, anchoring-and-adjustment heuristic): cognitive bias in which numerical judgments assimilate toward an initial anchor value, introduced by Tversky and Kahneman in 1974; large meta-analytic effect with identified boundary conditions.
Anchorite
An anchorite, also called an anachoret, was a Christian recluse formally enclosed in a cell attached to a church, committed to remaining there for life in prayer.
Ancient Carthage
Ancient Carthage (Qart-ḥadasht), a Phoenician city founded in the 9th century BC on the Gulf of Tunisia, ruled a western Mediterranean trade empire, fought the Punic Wars against Rome, and was destroyed in 146 BC, then rebuilt as Roman Africa's capital.
Ancient Celtic religion
Ancient Celtic religion, also known as Celtic polytheism, is the set of religious beliefs and practices of Iron Age Celtic-speaking peoples in Europe, known chiefly through Greco-Roman written accounts, archaeology, and Gaulish inscriptions.
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt: Nile-valley civilization of pharaohs, unified around 3100 BC by Narmer, lasting about 3,000 years through Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms; hieroglyphic writing, pyramids at Giza and Saqqara, and gods such as Osiris and Amun-Ra.
Ancient Egyptian conception of the soul
Ancient Egyptian conception of the soul: ka, ba, and akh, with body, shadow, heart, and name, forming the multi-part Egyptian person. Distinguished from Greek body-soul dualism by Zabkar; ka fed by tomb offerings, ba as human-headed bird, akh as united effective spirit.
Ancient Egyptian creation myths
Ancient Egyptian creation myths: coexisting cosmogonies of Heliopolis (Atum and the Ennead), Hermopolis (the Ogdoad), and Memphis (Ptah's creative word), all rising from the primeval waters Nun onto a primordial mound.
Ancient Egyptian deities
Ancient Egyptian deities: over 1,500 gods of Egypt's polytheistic religion, from the 4th millennium BCE to Christianity, including Amun-Re, Horus, Osiris, Isis, and Akhenaten's brief Aten monotheism.
Ancient Egyptian funerary practices
Ancient Egyptian funerary practices centered on 70-day mummification with natron, canopic jars, amulets, and coffin burial to secure the afterlife, from Hierakonpolis origins to Roman-era decline.
Ancient Egyptian race controversy
The Ancient Egyptian race controversy disputes the racial classification and origins of ancient Egyptians. Key views: modern-Egyptian continuity, Afrocentric, Eurocentric; modern scholarship treats race as anachronistic, citing genetic continuity and Mesopotamian links in the Nuwayrat genome.
Ancient Egyptian religion
Ancient Egyptian religion, also known as Egyptian polytheism, is the set of beliefs and rituals practiced in Egypt for over 3,000 years, centered on the king and the gods.