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Ardhanarishvara (अर्धनारीश्वर)
Ardhanarishvara (अर्धनारीश्वर), literally "the lord who is half woman", is the androgynous composite form of Shiva and Parvati, depicted in Indian art since the 1st to 3rd century CE.
Ardicino della Porta
Ardicino della Porta the younger (1434–1493) was an Italian jurist and Bishop of Aleria who served as papal legate to Matthias Corvinus and became a cardinal in 1489.
Arditi
Arditi: volunteer assault troops (Reparti d'Assalto) of the Italian Royal Army, founded 1917, armed with daggers, grenades and flamethrowers; the Fiamme Nere of the Piave and Vittorio Veneto offensives.
Ardoq
Ardoq is a Norwegian software-as-a-service company founded in Oslo in 2013 by Magnulf Pilskog and Erik Bakstad that sells enterprise architecture software mapping organizations' people, processes, applications, and data.
Ardys of Lydia
Ardys of Lydia, also known as Ardysus, was king of Lydia, son and successor of Gyges, who captured Priene and invaded Miletus while Cimmerians sacked Sardis.
Arekapudi Gandhi
Arekapudi Gandhi (ఆరెకపూడి గాంధీ) is an Indian politician, MLA for Serilingampally, Telangana, since 2014, winning in 2014 (TDP), 2018 (TRS), and 2023 (BRS); he joined the Congress in July 2024 and chairs the Assembly PAC.
AREMA
AREMA, founded by President Didier Ratsiraka in March 1976 as the Vanguard of the Malagasy Revolution, was the ruling party of Madagascar's socialist Second Republic.
Arena Holdings (investment firm)
Arena Holdings is a New York investment firm founded in 2016 by Feroz Dewan, formerly head of public equities at Tiger Global, focused on technology companies.
Arenda L. W. Allen
Arenda Lauretta Wright Allen is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Virginia since 2011, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Areogun of Osi
Areogun of Osi, born Dada and known by the praise name Arowogun, was a Yoruba woodcarver active from about 1880 to 1954 in Ekiti, present-day Nigeria, known for palace doors and veranda posts.
Areopagitica
Areopagitica is John Milton's November 1644 pamphlet opposing Parliament's 1643 licensing ordinance and pre-publication censorship; a foundational Anglo-American free-speech text, though its arguments had limits and licensing lasted until 1695.
Areopagus (Ἄρειος Πάγος)
Areopagus (Ἄρειος Πάγος), Hill of Ares, the aristocratic Athenian council and homicide court northwest of the Acropolis; reorganized under Solon, stripped of political powers by Ephialtes in 462/1 BC, and namesake of Greece's modern Court of Cassation.
Arequipa Revolution of 1930
The Arequipa Revolution of 1930 was a military uprising in Arequipa, Peru, led by Lieutenant Colonel Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro against Augusto B. Leguía on 22 August 1930.
Ares (Ἄρης)
Ares (Ἄρης), Greek Olympian god of war and battle-frenzy, son of Zeus and Hera, contrasted with Athena; hated in Homer, worshipped in Thrace, Sparta, and northwest Greece, identified with Roman Mars.
Ares Climate Infrastructure Partners
Ares Climate Infrastructure Partners (ACIP) is the dedicated climate infrastructure private equity fund series of Ares Management Corporation, co-led by Keith Derman and Andrew Pike, which raised $2.2 billion for its inaugural fund in 2021.
Ares Corporate
Ares Corporate, or the Ares Corporate Opportunities Funds, is the corporate private equity fund series managed by Ares Management of Los Angeles, running from ACOF I in 2003 through ACOF IV in 2012.
Ares Credit Secondaries
Ares Credit Secondaries is a credit-secondaries investment strategy of Ares Management, based in West Hartford, Connecticut, whose inaugural fund closed in 2026 at about $7.1 billion.
Ares European Real Estate
Ares European Real Estate is a series of European real estate private equity funds within Ares Management, whose Fund V raised about $1.97 billion in 2019 and Fund VI about $1.55 billion in 2023.
Ares Industrial Real Estate
Ares Industrial Real Estate is the industrial real estate strategy of Ares Management, investing in U.S. distribution warehouses through the Ares Industrial Real Estate Fund LP and AIREIT.
Ares Management
Ares Management Corporation is a Los Angeles-based global alternative asset manager specializing in non-investment-grade credit, with $622.5 billion of assets under management as of 2025.
Ares Secondaries Infrastructure Solutions
Ares Secondaries Infrastructure Solutions (ASIS) is the infrastructure secondaries fund program of Ares Management's Secondaries Group; its Fund III closed in October 2025 at about $3.3 billion.
Ares Senior Direct Lending
Ares Senior Direct Lending is a series of senior direct lending fund partnerships within Ares Management's U.S. direct lending platform, first filed in 2018, including Merrill Lynch-distributed Access Funds.
Ares Special Situations
Ares Special Situations is a fund complex within Ares Management, the Los Angeles alternative asset manager, that raised special-situations capital through SEC Form D offerings from 2010 to 2015.
Ares Ssg Capital Partners
Ares SSG Capital Partners VI, L.P. is a Cayman Islands private equity fund formed in 2021 by Ares SSG, a Hong Kong-based manager of distressed and special-situations investments across Asia-Pacific.
Aretas I (king of the Nabataeans)
Aretas I, also known as Harithat, was the earliest known king of the Nabataeans, the Arab people whose capital was Petra, first named in the king list around 168 BC.
Aretas II (king of the Nabataeans)
Aretas II (Nabataean ḥrtt, Arabic Ḥārthah) was king of the Nabataeans around 103–96 BC, known through Josephus and coins, and linked to the siege of Gaza.
Aretas III (king of the Nabataeans)
Aretas III, also known as Aretas Philhellenos or Harithath III, was king of the Nabataeans from about 87 to 62 BC, ruling from Petra and taking Damascus.
Aretas IV (king of the Nabataeans)
Aretas IV, also known as Harithath IV, was king of the Nabataeans from about 9 BC to AD 40, ruling from Petra at the kingdom's peak.
Aretas IV of Nabataea
Aretas IV, also known as Harithat, was king of the Nabataeans from about 9 BCE to 40 CE, defeating Herod Antipas in war and minting most surviving Nabataean coins.
Aretas IV's seizure of Damascus
Aretas IV's seizure of Damascus was the transfer of the city to the Nabataean king Aretas IV around AD 37, known mainly from 2 Corinthians 11:32.