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Arindam Chaudhuri (অরিন্দম চৌধুরী)
Arindam Chaudhuri (অরিন্দম চৌধুরী) is an Indian management author and businessman who built the business school IIPM into one of India's best known before its 2015 windup.
Ariobarzanes of Persis
Ariobarzanes of Persis (آریوبرزن) was a Persian nobleman and military commander under Darius III who ambushed Alexander the Great's army at the Persian Gate in January 330 BC.
Ariosophy
Ariosophy, also called Armanism or Wotanism, is an esoteric racial and occult doctrine developed by Guido von List and Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels in prewar Vienna.
Ariq Böke
Ariq Böke (Аригбөх, 阿里不哥), c. 1219–1266, youngest son of Tolui and rival Great Khan at Karakorum, fought the Toluid Civil War against his brother Kublai 1260–1264, surrendered, and died in 1266.
Arishem the Judge
Arishem the Judge is a Marvel Comics Celestial created by Jack Kirby, first appearing in The Eternals #2 (1976); leader of the four Celestial Hosts on Earth-616, he judges whether seeded civilizations live or die, and appears as the Prime Celestial in the 2021 MCU film Eternals.
Aristagoras
Aristagoras (Ἀρισταγόρας), son of Molpagoras, was tyrant of Miletus and instigator of the Ionian Revolt against Persia in 499 BC, winning Athenian support before dying in Thrace.
Aristakes Lastivertsi
Aristakes Lastivertsi (Armenian: Արիստակես Լաստիվերցի, c. 1002–1080) was an Armenian cleric and historian whose History covers 1000 to 1071, including the Saljuq invasions and the fall of Ani.
Aristasia
Aristasia was a British feminine-centered religious and cultural movement of the 1990s, growing out of Madrianism, a 1970s Oxford religion now called Filianism, and built around an imagined world of seven period-themed nations.
Aristide Briand
Aristide Briand was a French statesman who led the government eleven times, served as foreign minister from 1925 to 1932, and shared the 1926 Nobel Peace Prize.
Aristides de Sousa Mendes
Aristides de Sousa Mendes (1885-1954), Portuguese consul in Bordeaux, defied Salazar in June 1940 by issuing visas to refugees fleeing the Nazis; punished, he died poor, later honored as Righteous Among the Nations.
Aristo of Chios
Aristo of Chios (Ἀρίστων ὁ Χῖος), early 3rd-century BC heterodox Stoic, pupil of Zeno of Citium; taught ethics alone, held all indifferents equal, called "the Siren"; no writings survive.
Aristo Pharmaceuticals
Aristo Pharmaceuticals is an unlisted Indian pharmaceutical company founded by Mahendra Prasad in Mumbai in 1971, best known for the Monocef antibiotic and Pantop brands.
Aristobulus III
Aristobulus III, Hebrew name Jonathan, was the last Hasmonean high priest of Judea and brother of Herod the Great's wife Mariamne, appointed in 36 BCE and drowned at Jericho in 35 BCE.
Aristocracy
Aristocracy (Greek aristokratia, rule of the best): originally government by the best citizens, later a hereditary noble class; covers classical theory, European nobility, and the British peerage's removal from the House of Lords.
Aristocracy (class)
Aristocracy (class): hereditary privileged elite, also meaning rule by a small privileged minority (Greek-derived term, cognate with nobility). Distinguished by inherited land, titles, and legal privilege; classical examples include Rome's patricians and Europe's medieval nobility.
Aristocrat Leisure
Aristocrat Leisure Limited is an Australian gambling company that sells gaming machines to casinos and pubs, runs a large leased-machine business in North America, and publishes social casino mobile games.
Aristomenes of Alyzia
Aristomenes of Alyzia, also known as Aristomenes of Alyzeia, was an Acarnanian Greek who served as regent of Ptolemaic Egypt for the child king Ptolemy V.
Ariston (explorer)
Ariston (Ἀρίστων) was a Greek explorer dispatched by Ptolemy II Philadelphos to investigate the Arabian coast, remembered for an altar to Poseidon Pelagios at Poseideion.
Ariston of Tyre
Ariston of Tyre, a Tyrian also called Aristo, was an agent sent by Hannibal in 193 BCE to carry secret verbal instructions to Hannibal's friends in Carthage.
Aristonicus (eunuch)
Aristonicus was a eunuch of Ptolemy V of Egypt, raised with the king, who commanded the cavalry against the Egyptian revolt in the Delta in 185/4 BC.
Aristotelian ethics
Aristotelian ethics: Aristotle's moral philosophy in the Nicomachean and Eudemian Ethics, centered on eudaimonia, virtue acquired by habituation, and practical wisdom; basis of modern virtue ethics.
Aristotelian Society
The Aristotelian Society is a London-based philosophical society founded in 1880 that meets fortnightly to discuss philosophical papers, and jointly runs Britain's largest annual philosophy conference.
Aristotelianism
Aristotelianism: the philosophical tradition following Aristotle (384–322 BCE), marked by the four causes, natural teleology, and hylomorphism; transmitted through Islamic and Christian scholasticism, dominant in medieval and Renaissance universities, and challenged by early modern science.
Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης)
Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης), 384–322 BCE, Greek philosopher of Stagira, Plato's Academy student, Alexander's tutor, and founder of the Lyceum; about 31 of some 200 treatises survive, spanning logic, biology, ethics, and politics.
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης)
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης), also known as University of Thessaloniki, is the largest public university in Greece. It was founded in 1925 and opened in 1926.
Aristotle's biology
Aristotle's biology: the systematic, empirical zoological research of Aristotle (384–322 BCE) in History of Animals, Parts of Animals, and Generation of Animals, the first comprehensive study of life, using historia-then-causes method and teleological explanation.
Aristu Jah
Aristu Jah (ارسطو جاہ) was the diwan, or chief minister, of Hyderabad under Nizam Ali Khan, holding office from 1778 to 1795 until his death in 1804.
Arius (Ἄρειος)
Arius (Ἄρειος) was an Alexandrian presbyter whose teaching that the Son is a created being provoked the Arian controversy and the Council of Nicaea in 325.
Ariwara no Yukihira
Ariwara no Yukihira (在原行平, 818–893) was a Japanese court noble and waka poet of the early Heian period, elder brother of the poet Ariwara no Narihira.
Ariyamuni
Ariyamuni, in Thai พระอริยมุนี, was a Siamese Buddhist monk who served as deputy to Upali in the 1753 mission from Ayutthaya to Kandy that restored Buddhist higher ordination in Sri Lanka.