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Arlen Specter
Arlen Specter (1930–2012), Pennsylvania's longest-serving US senator (1981–2011), Warren Commission counsel behind the single-bullet theory, Philadelphia DA, and senator who switched from Republican to Democrat in 2009.
Arlene Dickinson
Arlene Dickinson, born 1956 in Germiston, South Africa, is a Canadian entrepreneur who built Venture Communications, founded District Ventures Capital, and appears as a Dragon on Dragons' Den.
Arlene Foster
Arlene Foster, Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee (born 1970), Northern Irish unionist politician, DUP leader 2015–2021 and first female and youngest First Minister of Northern Ireland (2016–17, 2020–21), later a non-affiliated House of Lords peer and Intertrade UK chair.
Arlington Independent School District
Arlington Independent School District (AISD), founded 1902, is the 13th-largest Texas ISD, serving Arlington, Pantego, Dalworthington Gardens, and part of Grand Prairie with about 51,000 students across 74 campuses.
Arlyn Phoenix
Arlyn Phoenix (born Arlyn Sharon Dunetz), known as Heart Phoenix, is an American peacebuilding and animal-rights activist and mother of actors River, Rain, Joaquin, Liberty, and Summer Phoenix.
Arm China
Arm China, formally Arm Technology (China) Co. Ltd. (安谋科技), is the independent Chinese joint venture that licenses Arm's semiconductor technology and collects royalties in China.
Arm's length principle
Arm's length principle: the international standard, in OECD Model Tax Convention Article 9 and the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines, requiring intra-group transfer prices to match those between independent enterprises, tested by comparability analysis and five methods.
Arma
The Arma are the descendants of Moroccan soldiers who crossed the Sahara in 1591, conquered the Songhai Empire, and ruled Timbuktu and the middle Niger for two centuries.
Armada
Armada: a large fleet of armed ships, from Spanish armare; best known as the Spanish Armada of 1588, Philip II's 132-vessel invasion fleet defeated by England and wrecked by storms.
Armada de Barlovento
The Armada de Barlovento, or Windward Fleet, was a Spanish naval squadron based at Veracruz from 1641 to protect Caribbean shipping from pirates until its dissolution in 1748.
Armadin
Armadin, co-founded in 2025 by Kevin Mandia of Mandiant, is a Palo Alto cybersecurity startup whose coordinated AI agents simulate real attacks to expose exploitable risk, with $189.9 million raised.
Armageddon
Armageddon, or the Battle of Armageddon, is the place named in Revelation 16:16 where the kings of the earth gather for battle on the great day of God.
Armah
Armah, also known as Ashama ibn Abjar, was a king of the Kingdom of Aksum in the early 7th century AD, remembered as its last coin-issuing ruler.
Armand Călinescu
Armand Călinescu (1893–1939) was a Romanian politician and King Carol II's closest collaborator, serving as Prime Minister from March 1939 until his assassination by the Iron Guard.
Armand Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, 5th Duke of Richelieu
Armand Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, 5th Duke of Richelieu (1766-1822), French statesman of the Bourbon Restoration; governor of Odessa 1803-1814; twice president of the Council (1815-1818, 1820-1821); ended the Allied occupation at Aix-la-Chapelle, 1818.
Armand Hammer
Armand Hammer was an American businessman and physician who built Occidental Petroleum into a major oil company while cultivating trade with the Soviet Union from Lenin to Gorbachev.
Armand Jean le Bouthillier de Rancé
Armand Jean le Bouthillier de Rancé (1626–1700) was a French Catholic abbot who, after a life as a courtier, reformed the abbey of La Trappe with a strict regime of labor, silence, and austerity.
Armando Walle
Armando Walle is an American politician and attorney serving as a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives from Houston's 140th district, first elected in 2008.
Armanen runes
Armanen runes: an eighteen-rune row devised by Austrian occultist Guido von List, published in Das Geheimnis der Runen (1908). Built on the Younger Futhark plus two additions, matched to the Havamal's eighteen charms, attested in no medieval source, later used by völkisch and National Socialist circles.
Armant Stela
The Armant Stela is a rose-granite stela of pharaoh Thutmose III erected in the temple of Montu at Armant, found in 1936-1937 and now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
Armed attack
An armed attack is a use of force of sufficient scale and gravity in international law that triggers a state's right of self-defense under Article 51 of the UN Charter.
Armed factions in the Syrian conflict (2024–present)
Armed factions in the Syrian conflict since 2024: HTS-led Military Operations Command that toppled Assad in December 2024, the SNA, SDF, regime remnants, and ISIL, and their dissolution or integration into Syria's new Ministry of Defence army.
Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act
The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, or AFSPA, is a 1958 act of the Parliament of India giving the armed forces powers, including lethal force, in disturbed areas.
Armed Forces Day
Armed Forces Day (US: third Saturday in May, May 16, 2026) honors current U.S. service members; created 1949 by Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, first observed May 20, 1950, fixed by Kennedy's 1961 Proclamation 3399; not a federal holiday. The UK holds its own Armed Forces Day on the last Saturday of June.
Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal
Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (AFEM), a U.S. Department of Defense expeditionary service medal established by Executive Order 10977 on December 4, 1961 for service after July 1, 1958 in operations involving foreign armed opposition or imminent hostilities, when no campaign medal applies.
Armed Forces of Armenia
Armed Forces of Armenia (Հայաստանի Հանրապետության զինված ուժեր), national military founded by the January 28, 1992 Defense Ministry decision under Vazgen Sargsyan. Post-2020 reforms cut conscription to 18 months and shifted procurement from Russia toward India and France.
Armed Forces of Belarus
The Armed Forces of Belarus (Узброеныя сілы Беларусі), formed in 1992, number about 48,000 troops with Soviet-era equipment, two Operational Commands, and deep integration with Russia's military through the Regional Group of Forces, Zapad exercises, and deployed Russian nuclear-capable Oreshnik missiles.
Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina (AFBiH, OS BiH): the country's single professional military, created 1 January 2006 by merging the two entity armies; commanded by the tripartite Presidency, structured around three infantry brigades and an air brigade, pursuing NATO membership.
Armed Forces of Ecuador
Armed Forces of Ecuador (Fuerzas Armadas del Ecuador): unified military of Ecuador with Army, Navy, and Air Force branches under the Joint Command; origins in 1809, branches independent since 1944, in internal security operations since 2024.
Armed Forces of El Salvador
Armed Forces of El Salvador (Fuerza Armada de El Salvador): the Army, Navy, and Air Force under the Ministry of National Defense. Fought the 1980–1992 civil war, was cut to under 15,000 by the 1992 Chapultepec Accords, and is now heavily deployed in domestic policing and in Haiti.