Society and history

Ansbert Gadicke

Ansbert Gadicke is a German-trained physician and venture capitalist who founded the Boston biotech venture capital firm MPM Capital, which has raised roughly $4 billion.

The Anschluss was the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany, March 11–13, 1938, also called the 1938 annexation of Austria. German troops entered unopposed, Seyss-Inquart signed the union law, a rigged plebiscite followed, and the takeover violated Versailles and Saint-Germain and began Hitler's territorial expansion.

Ansegis

Ansegis, also Ansegisus (c. 770 to 833), was a Frankish Benedictine monk and abbot of Fontenelle, remembered for compiling the first systematic collection of Carolingian capitularies in 827.

Sep 24, 2026

Ansei Purge

The Ansei Purge (安政の大獄) was a campaign of arrests, exiles, and executions ordered by tairō Ii Naosuke in 1858 and 1859 against over 100 opponents of the shogunate.

Sep 24, 2026

Ansei Treaties

The Ansei Treaties (安政五カ国条約) are five unequal treaties of amity and commerce the Tokugawa shogunate signed in 1858 with the United States, the Netherlands, Russia, Britain, and France.

Anselm Eckart

Anselm Eckart (1721–1809) was a German Jesuit missionary and scholar who worked in Brazilian Amazonia, spent 18 years imprisoned in Portugal, and wrote a prison memoir.

Anselm of Canterbury

Anselm of Canterbury, also known as Anselm of Bec, was a Benedictine monk who became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1093 and is called the Father of Scholasticism.

Anselm of Laon

Anselm of Laon (Anselmus Laudunensis, died 1117) was a French scholastic theologian and Bible teacher at Laon, styled Doctor Scholasticus and linked to the Glossa ordinaria.

Anselm of Lucca the Younger

Anselm of Lucca the Younger (Anselmo da Lucca, also called Anselm II, c. 1036–1086) was an Italian bishop of Lucca from 1073, nephew of Pope Alexander II, and canonist who compiled the influential Collectio canonum.

Sep 24, 2026

Anseung

Anseung (안승), also recorded as Ansun, was a Goguryeo royal claimant enthroned in 670 by Geommojam, then King of Bodeok over a refugee polity at Iksan under Silla.

Ansgar

Ansgar, also Anskar or Anschar, was a Benedictine monk of Corbie who preached to the Danes and Swedes, became the first archbishop of Hamburg, and died in 865.

Anshar

Anshar (Anšar), with Kishar, is a primordial Mesopotamian god pair from Enūma eliš, meaning 'entirety of heavens' and 'entirety of earth'; parents of Anu, later equated with the Assyrian god Ashur.

Anshu Jain

Anshu Jain (1963–2022) was an Indian-born investment banker who built Deutsche Bank's markets business into a global trading powerhouse and served as its co-CEO from 2012 to 2015.

Sep 21, 2026

Ansley J. Coale

Ansley J. Coale (Ansley Johnson Coale, 1917–2002) was an American demographer who spent his career at Princeton, directing the European Fertility Project and creating the Coale–Demeny model life tables.

Ansoff matrix

The Ansoff matrix is a two-by-two business strategy tool described by Igor Ansoff in 1957, naming four growth strategies: market penetration, market development, product development, and diversification.

Anssi Paasi

Anssi Paasi is a Finnish geographer, emeritus professor at the University of Oulu, known for his theory of the institutionalization of regions and work on borders and territoriality.

Ansteel Group

Ansteel Group Corporation Limited (鞍钢集团有限公司) is a Chinese state-owned steelmaker controlled by SASAC and headquartered in Anshan, Liaoning. It produced 59.55 million tonnes of crude steel in 2024, ranking third in the world.

Ansu Satpathy

Ansuman (Ansu) Satpathy is an American physician-scientist and Associate Professor of Pathology and Immunology at Stanford who co-founded Cartography Biosciences, Immunai, Santa Ana Bio, and Prox Biosciences.

Ansud

Ansud, also written Ansub or Hanusu, was an Early Dynastic king of Mari on the middle Euphrates, roughly contemporary with Mesannepada of Ur and known from short excavated inscriptions.

Ansun Biopharma

Ansun Biopharma, formerly NexBio, Inc., is a San Diego biotechnology company founded in 2003 that develops DAS181, a Phase 3 antiviral drug candidate for respiratory virus infections.

Answer Me!

Answer Me! was a 1991–1994 American transgressive 'hate zine' by Jim and Debbie Goad, four annual issues; its 1994 'Rape Issue' triggered a Bellingham obscenity trial ending in acquittal.

Answers in Genesis

Answers in Genesis is an American young-Earth creationist apologetics ministry founded by Ken Ham in 1994, operating the Creation Museum and Ark Encounter theme park in Kentucky.

Ant Consumer Finance

Ant Consumer Finance is a licensed consumer finance company in Chongqing, China, founded in 2021 to take over Ant Group's Huabei and Jiebei consumer lending brands.

Ant Lingbo (蚂蚁灵波)

Ant Lingbo (蚂蚁灵波), formally Shanghai Ant Lingbo Technology Co., Ltd., is a Shanghai embodied-AI company founded by Ant Group in 2024, building foundation models as robot 'brains'.

Ant Middleton

Ant Middleton (Anthony Middleton), British ex-Special Boat Service operator and TV personality, chief instructor of SAS: Who Dares Wins (2015-2021) and SAS Australia, Sunday Times bestselling author, convicted of assault in 2013.

Anta Group

Anta Group (安踏) is China's largest sportswear company by revenue, founded by the Ding family in Jinjiang, Fujian, in 1991 and listed in Hong Kong in 2007.

Antaeus (νταῖος)

Antaeus (Ἀνταῖος, Antaios) is the Libyan giant of Greek myth, son of Poseidon and Gaia, who forced strangers to wrestle and drew strength from the earth until Heracles lifted and crushed him; tomb at Tingis, subject of ancient and Renaissance art.

Antakya Stele

The Antakya Stele, also known as the Tavla Stele, is a Neo-Assyrian stela of Adad-nirari III recording a border settlement between Ataršumki of Arpad and Zakkur of Hamath.

AntalGenics

AntalGenics is a Spanish biotech startup founded in 2015 as a spin-off of Universidad Miguel Hernández in Elche, developing small-molecule drugs for pain and itch and selling dermocosmetic ingredients.