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Ancient Site Measuring 7 Acres and 800 Links in Khasra No. 384

Ancient Site Measuring 7 Acres and 800 Links in Khasra No. 384, Amavey, Ballia district, Uttar Pradesh: a centrally protected ASI archaeological site named by its land-record plot and surveyed area.

Ancient South Arabian script

The Ancient South Arabian script, or musnad, is a 29-letter consonantal alphabet used in ancient Yemen from the late 2nd millennium BC to the 6th century AD.

Ancient warfare

Ancient warfare, also called warfare in antiquity, covers organized conflict from early antiquity to about AD 645: Greek hoplite phalanx, Persian armies, Roman legions, siegecraft, and logistics.

Anco Ayllo

Anco Ayllo (Anku Ayllu) is the Chanka leader who, after the Inca victory around 1438, led a group of Chankas east to settle at Lamas, Peru.

Áncora

Áncora is the cultural supplement of the Costa Rican daily La Nación, publishing essays and literary texts since the early 1970s, and also the name of the Premios Áncora awards founded in 1973.

Ancora Heart

Ancora Heart is a privately held Santa Clara, California medical device company developing the investigational AccuCinch Ventricular Restoration System, a catheter-based therapy for heart failure.

Ancrene Wisse

Ancrene Wisse, also known as the Guide for Anchoresses or Ancren Riwle, is an anonymous early-thirteenth-century Middle English rule for anchoresses, composed in the West Midlands of England.

And the Band Played On

And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts's 1987 investigative history of the early American AIDS epidemic, its institutional failures, the disputed Patient Zero narrative, and the 1993 HBO film adaptation.

AnD Ventures

AnD Ventures is an Israeli early-stage venture capital firm in Tel Aviv, founded in 2021, investing in Israeli founders at the pre-Seed and Seed stages.

And you are lynching Negroes (А у вас негров линчуют)

"And you are lynching Negroes" (А у вас негров линчуют) is a Soviet-era retort that deflected criticism of Soviet conduct by citing American racism, the classic example of whataboutism.

And/or

And/or is an English conjunction meaning either of two things or both, first recorded in 1853 and rooted in legal terminology; most style authorities, including CMOS, recommend avoiding it.

Andal (ஆண்டாள்)

Andal (ஆண்டாள்), also known as Kodai or Goda, is the only woman among the twelve Alvar poet-saints of South India, whose Tiruppavai is recited daily during Margazhi.

Andalusi Arabic (العربية الأندلسية)

Andalusi Arabic (العربية الأندلسية), also called Andalusian Arabic, was the Neo-Arabic dialect bundle of Muslim Iberia (al-Andalus), the earliest extensively recorded Arabic dialect, marked by n- first-person verbs, the -an linker, and Romance and Berber contact.

Andalusi coinage

Andalusi coinage (سكة الأندلس) is the gold, silver, and copper currency of al-Andalus, beginning with a bilingual dinar in 716 and ending with the Nasrids.

Andalusi refugee influx after the fall of Granada

The Andalusi refugee influx after the fall of Granada was the mass emigration of Muslims from Iberia to North Africa, beginning after Granada surrendered in 1492.

Andamanese peoples

Andamanese peoples are the indigenous Negrito groups of India's Andaman Islands: Great Andamanese, Jarawa, Onge, and Sentinelese. Once about 6,500 people in 1780, they declined catastrophically under colonization; the Sentinelese remain uncontacted.

Andean Community

The Andean Community (Comunidad Andina, CAN) is a South American trade bloc of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, created in 1969 by the Cartagena Agreement and headquartered in Lima, Peru.

Andean preceramic

The Andean preceramic is the period of Andean prehistory before pottery, spanning hunter-gatherer and early sedentary societies from about 12,800 years ago until ceramics arrived after 1200 BC.

Andela

Andela is a global talent marketplace connecting technologists in emerging markets with enterprises hiring remote software engineers. It was founded in Lagos, Nigeria in 2014 and valued at $1.5 billion in 2021.

Andemta

Andemta (አንድምታ, also written Amdemta) is the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church's traditional Amharic translation and commentary on Ge'ez biblical texts, reaching its definitive form in the Gondarine period.

Andera Partners

Andera Partners is a Paris-headquartered European multi-specialist private equity firm with six investment teams and about €6 billion under management, backing 370 companies over nearly 25 years.

Anders Adlercreutz

Anders Adlercreutz is a Finnish politician and trained architect, an MP since 2015 who has served as Minister of Education and led the Swedish People's Party of Finland since 2024.

Anders Behring Breivik

Anders Behring Breivik (Fjotolf Hansen), Norwegian far-right terrorist born 1979, killed 77 people on 22 July 2011 in an Oslo government-quarter bombing and Utøya youth-camp shooting; convicted 2012, sentenced to preventive detention.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Anders Fogh Rasmussen (born 1953, Ginnerup) is a Danish Venstre politician, Prime Minister of Denmark 2001–2009 and NATO's 12th Secretary General 2009–2014, later founder of Rasmussen Global and the Alliance of Democracies Foundation.

Anders Holch Povlsen

Anders Holch Povlsen is a Danish billionaire retailer who is chief executive and sole owner of the fashion company Bestseller, the largest shareholder in Asos, and Scotland's largest private landowner.

Anders Lassen

Anders Lassen (1920-1945), Danish officer in the British Army's SOE, Small Scale Raiding Force, and Special Boat Service; Victoria Cross and three Military Crosses; killed at Lake Comacchio, Italy, 9 April 1945.

Anders Ljungqvist

Anders Ljungqvist (full name Bo Anders Ljungqvist) was a Danish life-science executive who co-founded the cancer-vaccine company IO Biotech in 2014 and earlier co-founded and led RhoVac as chief executive until 2020.

Anders Rylander

Anders Rylander (born 1970) is a Swedish diagnostics executive who led Biovica International, a Uppsala-based cancer diagnostics company, as CEO for roughly 15 years until 2026.

Anderson Cooper

Anderson Cooper (born 1967), son of Gloria Vanderbilt, is CNN's anchor of Anderson Cooper 360° since 2003 and a former two-decade 60 Minutes correspondent, known for on-location war and disaster reporting, including Hurricane Katrina, and for his 2026 exit from CBS.

Andersonville Prison

Andersonville Prison, officially Camp Sumter, was the largest Confederate Civil War prison in Georgia, holding 45,000 Union soldiers in 14 months; 12,920 died, and commandant Henry Wirz was hanged in 1865.