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Aterui
Aterui (阿弖流為) was an Emishi chieftain of Isawa, in present-day Iwate Prefecture, who defeated a court army in 789 and was executed after surrendering in 802.
ATF gunwalking scandal
ATF gunwalking scandal centers on Operation Fast and Furious (2009-2011), an ATF Phoenix firearms trafficking probe in which roughly 2,000 guns were allowed to reach Mexican cartels, leading to Agent Brian Terry's death, a contempt vote against Holder, and the 2012 DOJ Inspector General report.
ATG / USM Holdings, LLC
ATG / USM Holdings, LLC was a Delaware holding company formed in 2013 to merge wheelchair distributors ATG Rehab and United Seating & Mobility, reporting $182.1 million raised.
Athabaskan languages
Athabaskan (Dene) is a family of about forty Indigenous North American languages. Spoken in Alaska, western Canada, and the American Southwest, it is the core of Na-Dene.
Athaliah (עֲתַלְיָה)
Athaliah was a queen of Judah who reigned from 841 to 835 BC, the only ruling queen in the biblical record, before being deposed by the priest Jehoiada.
Athame
An athame is a usually black-handled ritual knife used in Wicca and related magical traditions to direct energy and cast the ritual circle, not for cutting.
Athanasian Creed
The Athanasian Creed, also called Quicumque Vult, is a Christian profession of faith setting out the Trinity and the incarnation, probably written in southern Gaul in the fifth or sixth century.
Athanasios Davakis
Athanasios Davakis (Greek: Θανάσης Δαβάκης), born in 1962, is a Greek New Democracy politician and lawyer who has represented Laconia in parliament since 1993 and serves as Deputy Minister of National Defence.
Athanasios Diakos
Athanasios Diakos (Αθανάσιος Διάκος), born Athanasios Massavetas, was a Greek armatolos who became an early hero of the Greek War of Independence, dying impaled in 1821.
Athanasios Orphanides
Athanasios Orphanides is a Cypriot economist, MIT Sloan professor, and former Governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus (2007–2012) known for his real-time data critique of monetary policy rules.
Athanasios Plevris
Athanasios (Thanos) Plevris, born 1977 in Athens, is a Greek New Democracy politician and lawyer, Minister of Migration and Asylum since June 2025 and previously Minister of Health.
Athanasios Tsakalov
Athanasios Tsakalov (Αθανάσιος Τσακάλωφ) was a Greek, born in Ioannina around 1788, who co-founded the Filiki Eteria in 1814 and died in Moscow in 1851.
Athanasius I
Athanasius I, born Alexius around 1230 in Adrianople, was a Byzantine ascetic monk who served twice as Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, 1289 to 1293 and 1303 to 1309.
Athanasius II
Athanasius II, a Cretan born early in the fifteenth century, was elected Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in 1450, succeeding the deposed Gregory III as the Ottomans prepared their attack on the city.
Athanasius III
Athanasius III, born Alexios Patellarios, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople twice, in 1634 and for fifteen days in 1652, and is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Athanasius IV
Athanasius IV (Αθανάσιος Δ΄) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in 1679, holding the throne for only about 12 days between the terms of Dionysios IV.
Athanasius Kircher
Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680), German Jesuit polymath of the Collegio Romano, author of Oedipus Aegyptiacus and founder of the Musaeum Kircherianum; first to link Coptic to hieroglyphs, though his hieroglyphic translations were discredited.
Athanasius Nikitin
Athanasius Nikitin (Афанасий Никитин) was a Russian merchant from Tver and the earliest known Russian visitor to India, whose Journey Beyond Three Seas is one of the earliest European accounts of India.
Athanasius of Alexandria
Saint Athanasius of Alexandria (c. 296–373) was bishop of Alexandria from 328 to 373, defending Nicaea against four Roman emperors and spending 15 years in exile.
Athanasius Schneider
Athanasius Schneider, born Anton Schneider in Kyrgyzstan in 1961, is a Catholic auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, and a leading critic of Communion in the hand.
Athanasius V
Athanasius V (Ἀθανάσιος Ε΄), known as Athanasios Margounios, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1709 to 1711, imposed by the Ottoman Grand Vizier and later deposed.
Atharvaveda (अथर्ववेद)
The Atharvaveda (अथर्ववेद), also called Atharvāṅgirasa, is the fourth Veda of Hindu scripture, a collection of healing charms, sorcery spells, and domestic prayers, second only to the Rigveda in antiquity.
Atheism
Atheism is the denial that God or gods exist; in philosophy it names the proposition that no gods exist, in common usage the lack of theistic belief. Covers definitions, Greek and Enlightenment history, arguments from evil and hiddenness, and global demographics.
Atheistic Satanism
Atheistic Satanism is religious Satanism without belief in Satan, treating him as a symbol of rebellion; its main bodies are the Church of Satan and The Satanic Temple.
Athena (Ἀθηνᾶ)
Athena (Ἀθηνᾶ, Athene, Roman Minerva) was the Greek Olympian goddess of wisdom, strategic warfare, crafts, and city protection, daughter of Zeus, patron of Athens, worshipped at the Panathenaia and honored in the Parthenon.
Athena Michaelidou
Athena Michaelidou (Greek: Αθηνά Μιχαηλίδου) is a Cypriot politician and educator, Minister of Education, Sport and Youth since 2023, who previously directed the Cyprus Pedagogical Institute.
Athenagoras
Athenagoras, also known as Athenagoras I, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1948 to 1972, who met Pope Paul VI and lifted the anathemas of 1054 in 1965.
Athenex
Athenex, formerly Kinex Pharmaceuticals, was a Buffalo, New York-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that developed oral cancer treatments, including oral paclitaxel, before filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2023.
Athenian democracy
Athenian democracy (dēmokratia): the direct democracy of ancient Athens, 508/507–322 BCE, where a sovereign citizen Assembly, a lot-selected Council of 500, and large citizen jury courts governed, twice collapsing to oligarchy in 411 and 404/403 BCE and twice being restored.
Atheros Communications
Atheros Communications was a California developer of wireless chipsets, founded in 1998 by Stanford's Teresa Meng and John Hennessy, and acquired by Qualcomm in 2011 for $3.1 billion.