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Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen

Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen (Erzherzog Karl) was an Austrian field marshal, brother of Emperor Francis, who defeated Napoleon at Aspern-Essling in 1809 before losing at Wagram.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was heir presumptive to the Austria-Hungary throne from 1896 until his 1914 assassination in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, triggering World War I.

Archduke Franz Karl of Austria

Archduke Franz Karl of Austria (1802–1878), third son of Emperor Franz II (I), brother of Ferdinand I, and father of Franz Joseph I; member of the 1836–1848 Privy State Conference who renounced the throne in December 1848 in favor of his son.

Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary

Archduke Joseph (József nádor, 1776–1847) was a Habsburg archduke who served as Palatine of Hungary, the king's deputy, from 1795 until his death, elected unanimously by the Diet at 19.

Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria

Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria (1833–1896), brother of Emperor Franz Joseph, heir presumptive after 1889, father of Franz Ferdinand and grandfather of Emperor Karl I, progenitor of the main Habsburg line.

Archduke Stephen, Palatine of Hungary

Archduke Stephen of Austria (1817–1867), son of Archduke Joseph, was the last Palatine of Hungary, serving from 1847 to 1848 before the revolution ended the office.

Archegos Capital Management

Archegos Capital Management, also known as Archegos Capital, was a US family office run by Bill Hwang that collapsed in March 2021, costing its banks more than $10 billion.

Archelaus of Macedon

Archelaus I (Greek Ἀρχέλαος), king of Macedon 413–399 BC, illegitimate son of Perdiccas II; reformed army, coinage, and capital at Pella, patronized Euripides, and died in a royal hunt assassination.

Archer Alexander

Archer Alexander (died December 8, 1880) was a Missouri enslaved man who warned Union troops of a Confederate sabotage plot, was emancipated in 1863, and served as the model for the freedman in Washington's 1876 Emancipation Memorial.

Archer Blood

Archer Kent Blood (1923–2004), U.S. consul general in Dacca, East Pakistan, endorsed the 1971 Blood Telegram protesting U.S. silence on the Pakistani crackdown; recalled by Nixon, he never became an ambassador.

Archer Chen

Archer Chen is a partner at Vision Plus Capital, a venture firm founded in 2015 by Alibaba co-founder Eddie Wu, where he invests in Hard Tech and Enterprise Services.

ArcherDX

ArcherDX was a Boulder, Colorado genomics company focused on precision oncology, founded in 2013, built on Anchored Multiplex PCR sequencing, and acquired by Invitae in 2020.

Archetype

Archetype: from Greek archetypon, a pattern or model. Covers Plato's Forms, Jung's central analytical-psychology concept, the Stevens-versus-emergence controversy, the Pearson 12-archetype model, and non-psychological uses.

Archian Foods Pvt Ltd

Archian Foods Pvt Ltd is an Indian beverage manufacturer in Chandigarh, founded in 2017 by three cousins, selling traditional flavored soft drinks under the Lahori Zeera brand.

Archibald Alexander

Archibald Alexander (1772–1851) was an American Presbyterian theologian, born near Lexington, Virginia, who served as the first professor of Princeton Theological Seminary from 1812 and became the chief theologian of the Old School party.

Archibald Campbell Tait

Archibald Campbell Tait was a Church of England clergyman who served as bishop of London from 1856 and as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1868 until his death in 1882.

Archibald Cox

Archibald Cox (1912–2004) was a Harvard Law professor, 32nd U.S. Solicitor General (1961–1965), and first Watergate special prosecutor, fired by Nixon in the 1973 Saturday Night Massacre after subpoenaing the White House tapes.

Archibald Hamilton Charteris

Archibald Hamilton Charteris (1835–1908) was a Church of Scotland minister, Regius Professor of Biblical Criticism at Edinburgh, and founder of the Life and Work movement.

Archibald Henry Sayce

Archibald Henry Sayce (1845–1933) was a British orientalist, Anglican clergyman, and Oxford's first Professor of Assyriology, best known for arguing that the Hittite civilization was in Anatolia.

Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847–1929), British Liberal Prime Minister 1894–95, twice Foreign Secretary, first chairman of the London County Council, and a leading racehorse owner who won eleven classics.

Archibald Robertson (bishop)

Archibald Robertson (1853–1931) was an Anglican bishop and theologian, Bishop of Exeter from 1903 to 1916 and a liberal modernist in the Church of England.

Archibald Roosevelt

Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt (Archie, 1894-1979), third son of President Theodore Roosevelt, US Army officer wounded in both world wars, the only American medically discharged twice for the same wound, and founder of investment firm Roosevelt and Cross.

Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (1883–1950), British field marshal and Viceroy of India: victor over the Italians in North and East Africa 1940–41 (130,000 prisoners), later ABDA commander, and author of Generals and Generalship and Other Men's Flowers.

Archie Christie

Archibald "Archie" Christie was a British Royal Flying Corps officer and businessman who married Agatha Christie in 1914, fathered her daughter Rosalind, and divorced her in 1928.

Archie Comics

Archie Comics (Archie Comic Publications, Inc.), founded 1939 as MLJ Magazines, publishes Riverdale teens Archie, Betty, Veronica, and Jughead; Archie debuted in Pep Comics #22 in 1941, and Oni Press becomes its first publishing partner in 2026.

Archie Stirling

Archie Stirling (Archibald Hugh Stirling, born 1941) is a British businessman, former Scots Guards officer, and current Laird of the Keir estate, nephew of SAS founder David Stirling; distinct from earlier Archibald Stirlings of the same family.

Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth

Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911Truth) is a Berkeley, California 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2006 by architect Richard Gage, claiming the World Trade Center towers and Building 7 were destroyed by controlled demolition and petitioning for a new investigation with subpoena power, contrary to NIST findings.

Architectural Association School of Architecture

The Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA), founded in 1847, is the oldest independent school of architecture in the UK, based at Bedford Square, London, known for its unit system of studio teaching and ARB/RIBA-recognized qualifications.

Architecture of Mesopotamia

Architecture of Mesopotamia: the mud-brick building tradition of the Tigris-Euphrates plain, from Ubaid temples and Uruk's first cities to ziggurats, Early Dynastic palaces, brick vaulting, and the Ishtar Gate.

Archival resources for broadcast history research

Archival resources for broadcast history research are the finding aids and collections, like the Library of Congress NBC holdings and BBC Written Archives Centre, used to study broadcasting's past.