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Arameans
Arameans: Semitic tribal groups of ancient Syria and Mesopotamia, first attested late twelfth century BCE, speakers of Aramaic, which became the Achaemenid empire's official written language and survives in Neo-Aramaic dialects.
Aramex
Aramex is a Dubai-headquartered logistics company, founded in 1982 by Fadi Ghandour. It operates in over 70 countries, providing express delivery, freight forwarding, and supply chain solutions.
Aramoana massacre
Aramoana massacre: 13 November 1990 mass shooting at Aramoana, Otago, New Zealand, in which David Gray killed 13 people including Sergeant Stewart Guthrie; led to the Arms Amendment Act 1992.
Aran Biomedical
Aran Biomedical is a Galway, Ireland-based contract design and manufacturing specialist for implantable medical devices, supplying medical textiles, braiding, and coatings, acquired by Integer Holdings in 2022.
Araneta family
Araneta family: Spanish-Filipino family of Basque origin, arrived Manila 1723 aboard La Sacra Familia. Known for Juan Anacleto Araneta's Negros revolt, Araneta Center in Cubao, Araneta Coliseum, and marriages into the Roxas, Marcos, and Arroyo clans.
Araniko
Araniko (अरनिको), also written Arniko or Balbahu, was a Newar architect and sculptor from the Kathmandu Valley who led artisans to Tibet in 1260 and later served Kublai Khan.
Araññaka-Mahābhaya
Araññaka-Mahābhaya is a thera, an elder monk, remembered as the resident of the Mahātala monastery in Ceylon who forgave the thief Harantika, in the Rasavāhinī.
Aranthalawa massacre
Aranthalawa massacre: 2 June 1987 LTTE killing of Buddhist monks, mostly child novices, and civilians on a pilgrimage bus near Nuwaragalatenna, Ampara District, Sri Lanka; 34 of 47 aboard killed; investigation opened only in 2020.
Aranyakas
The Aranyakas (आरण्यक) are Vedic texts standing between the Brahmanas and the Upanishads, composed in India around 700 BCE and explaining the secret meaning of sacrifice.
Arapaho
Arapaho: a Plains Algonquian Native American people, also Hinono'eitiit speakers, split after 1864 into the Northern Arapaho of Wyoming's Wind River Reservation and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma.
Arapzâde Atâullah Efendi
Arapzâde Atâullah Efendi was an Ottoman şeyhülislâm, counted as the 86th holder of the office, serving about two months in 1785 under Abdülhamid I before dying in office.
Arapzâde Mehmed Ârif Efendi
Arapzâde Mehmed Ârif Efendi was an Ottoman scholar, son of a previous Shaykh al-Islam, who held the office for 25 days in 1808 during the dynastic crisis, and died in 1826.
Ararat Mirzoyan
Ararat Mirzoyan is an Armenian politician serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, who has led negotiations on a peace treaty with Azerbaijan.
Araris Biotech
Araris Biotech AG is a Swiss biotechnology company, spun off in 2019 from the Paul Scherrer Institute and ETH Zurich, that develops ADC linker technology.
Arash (آرش)
Arash (آرش; Avestan Ǝrəxša), the legendary Iranian archer who sacrificed his life firing the arrow that fixed the Iran-Turan border; known from Yašt 8, absent from the Shahnameh, tied to the Tirgan festival.
Arash Ferdowsi
Arash Ferdowsi (آرش فردوسی) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Dropbox with Drew Houston in 2007, serving as its first chief technology officer until 2016.
Arata
Arata is an Indian premium haircare brand founded in 2018 by Dhruv Madhok and Dhruv Bhasin, selling plant-based, science-backed products for hair growth, dandruff, and styling through online channels.
Arauco War
The Arauco War (Guerra de Arauco) was the long conflict between Spanish colonizers of Chile and the Mapuche, who after their 1598 victory at Curalaba held the frontier at the Bío-Bío River.
Aravidu dynasty
The Aravidu dynasty (అరవీడు వంశం) was the fourth and last dynasty of the Vijayanagara empire, founded by Tirumala in 1570 after the defeat at Talikota in 1565.
Aravive, Inc.
Aravive, Inc., formerly Versartis, Inc., was a Houston, Texas-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing batiraxcept, an AXL-targeting cancer drug; its Phase 3 trial missed its endpoint in 2023 and it delisted in 2024.
Arawak
Arawak is South America's largest indigenous language family in geographic extension. Its speakers met Columbus in 1492, and words like canoe, hammock, and hurricane entered European languages.
Arba'in pilgrimage (زيارة الأربعين)
The Arba'in pilgrimage (زيارة الأربعين) is the Shia Muslim visitation to Imam Husayn's shrine in Karbala, Iraq, on 20 Safar, the fortieth day after Ashura, drawing tens of millions.
Arbe Robotics Ltd.
Arbe Robotics Ltd. is an Israeli semiconductor company founded in 2015 in Tel Aviv that develops high-resolution 4D imaging radar for driver assistance and autonomous driving.
Arbegnoch
The Arbegnoch, meaning "Patriots" in Amharic, were Ethiopian resistance fighters who waged a five-year guerrilla war against Fascist Italy's occupation of Ethiopia from 1936 until liberation in 1941.
Arbeit macht frei
Arbeit macht frei ("work will set you free"), German slogan from a Lorenz Diefenbach novel placed over Nazi concentration camp gates including Auschwitz I, Dachau, and Sachsenhausen; made at Auschwitz by prisoners under Jan Liwacz, with an inverted B, and twice stolen and recovered.
Arbel Yehoud (ארבל יהוד)
Arbel Yehoud (ארבל יהוד), German-Israeli hostage abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz on 7 October 2023 with partner Ariel Cunio; held 482 days by Islamic Jihad, released 30 January 2025 in Khan Younis after a ceasefire dispute; advocate for remaining hostages.
Arbëreshë people
Arbëreshë (Arbërisht speakers), also called Italo-Albanians: an Albanian ethnolinguistic minority of southern Italy, settled 15th–18th centuries after Skanderbeg's death, about 100,000 speakers in 50 villages, Eastern-rite Catholics distinct from Greece's Arvanites.
Arbinas
Arbinas, also known as Erbbina, was a Lycian dynast of Xanthos in south-west Anatolia who ruled c. 390–380 BC and is known chiefly from the Nereid Monument tomb.
Arbinda attack
The Arbinda attack was a December 2019 simultaneous assault by an armed Islamist group on a gendarme base and an internal displacement camp in Arbinda, Burkina Faso.
Arbitrage
Arbitrage is the simultaneous purchase and sale of the same or equivalent asset in different markets to capture a price differential, ideally with no risk and no capital invested.