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Athinkhaya
Athinkhaya (အသင်္ခယာ, c. 1261–1310) was a Burmese prince who co-founded the Myinsaing Kingdom in central Myanmar with his brothers Yazathingyan and Thihathu, overthrowing King Kyawswa of Pagan in 1297 and defending central Burma against the Mongols.
Athir al-Din al-Abhari
Athir al-Din al-Abhari (أثير الدين الأبهري), a thirteenth-century logician, mathematician, philosopher, and astronomer, wrote the philosophical handbook Hidayat al-hikma and fled the Mongol invasions westward.
Athletic director
Athletic director (AD): senior administrator running a school's or college athletics program, reporting to the president; duties include budgets, fundraising, NCAA compliance, and post-2025 House settlement revenue sharing up to $20.5 million per Division I school.
Athletic Media Co
Athletic Media Co is a San Francisco digital sports media company founded in 2015, known for The Athletic, which it sold to The New York Times Company in 2022.
Athlophoros of Berenice
The athlophoros of Berenice was an annual eponymous priestly office of the Ptolemaic dynastic cult at Alexandria, serving the deified Queen Berenice II from 211/210 BC.
Athribis Stela
The Athribis Stela is a royal Egyptian inscription from Athribis in the Nile Delta, recording the Libyan attack on Egypt in Merneptah's fifth regnal year.
ATHU herbarium
ATHU is the Index Herbariorum code of the Botanical Museum herbarium of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, founded 1850, holding roughly 117,000 plant specimens including Orphanides' 45,000-specimen herbarium, von Heldreich material, and many nomenclatural types.
Ati (queen of Punt)
Ati, also rendered Atiya or Aty, was the wife of Parehu, chief of the land of Punt, one of only two named Puntites, shown in Hatshepsut's reliefs at Deir el-Bahari.
ATI Physical Therapy
ATI Physical Therapy, founded in 1996 in Willowbrook, Illinois, is one of the largest single-branded outpatient physical therapy providers in the United States, with over 850 clinics.
Ati Vishisht Seva Medal (अति विशिष्ट सेवा पदक)
Ati Vishisht Seva Medal (AVSM), Ati Vishisht Seva Padak, Indian peacetime distinguished service decoration instituted 26 January 1960 as Vishisht Seva Medal Class II and renamed 1967; silver 35 mm medal for exceptional service, second only to PVSM.
Atia (mother of Augustus)
Atia Balba Caesonia (85-43 BC), Roman matron, daughter of M. Atius Balbus and Julia (sister of Julius Caesar), mother of Augustus and Octavia; remarried L. Marcius Philippus; not the fictionalized Atia of HBO's Rome.
Atiba
Atiba (Atobatele) was Alaafin, or king, of Oyo from about 1838 until his death in 1859, and founded New Oyo, the rebuilt capital, after Old Oyo's destruction.
Atif Mian
Atif Mian is a Princeton University economist whose work shows that mortgage credit expansion and household debt drove the Great Recession, as argued in his 2014 book House of Debt.
Atiku Abubakar
Atiku Abubakar, Nigerian politician, businessman and philanthropist, 11th Vice President (1999-2007) under Obasanjo, chaired the privatization council, ran for president in 2007, 2019, 2023, and is the ADC candidate for 2027.
Atiq al-Sulamani
Atiq al-Sulamani (عتيق السلماني), kunya Abu Bakr, was a hadith transmitter and professional witness of Damascus who died in 643 AH (c. 1245 CE), graded truthful of good hadith.
Atis Kronvalds
Atis Kronvalds, also written Kronvalda Atis, was a Latvian teacher, publicist, and linguist, a leader of the Young Latvian movement who coined lasting words like dzeja and nākotne.
Atiśa
Atiśa (Bengali: অতীশ দীপঙ্কর শ্রীজ্ঞান), c. 982–1054, was a Bengali-born Indian Buddhist master who reached Tibet in 1042 and wrote the Bodhipathapradīpa, the model for lamrim teachings.
Atisha Dipankara
Atisha Dipankara (अतिश दीपंकर), fully Atisha Dipamkarashrijnana, was an Indian Buddhist scholar and tantric master from Bengal, born in 982, who revitalized Buddhism in Tibet.
Atishi (आतिशी)
Atishi (आतिशी), born 1981, AAP politician, Kalkaji MLA, Rhodes scholar and Delhi education reform advisor; Delhi's youngest Chief Minister (2024-2025), now Leader of Opposition in the Delhi Assembly.
Atiyya ibn Sa'd al-Awfi
Atiyya ibn Sa'd al-Awfi (عطية بن سعد العوفي) was a Kufan Shia hadith narrator and Quranic exegete who died in 111 AH, whose lost tafsir survives through al-Tabari's citations.
Atiyya ibn Sa'id al-Andalusi
Atiyya ibn Sa'id al-Andalusi (عطية بن سعيد الأندلسي) was an Andalusi hadith scholar and Sufi ascetic who left al-Andalus before 400 AH and settled in Mecca.
Âtıfzâde Hüsâmeddin Efendi
Âtıfzâde Hüsâmeddin Efendi was an Ottoman scholar-official who served as şeyhülislam, the chief mufti of the empire, from November 1863 until his dismissal in August 1866.
Atlanersa
Atlanersa was a king of Kush of the Napatan period, reigning about 653 to 643 BC, after the end of the 25th Dynasty's rule in Egypt.
Atlanta campaign
The Atlanta campaign (May 7 to September 2, 1864) was Sherman's Union advance from Chattanooga against Johnston's, then Hood's, Confederate Army of Tennessee, ending with the capture of Atlanta, about 70,000 casualties, Lincoln's reelection, and the March to the Sea.
Atlanta murders of 1979–1981
Atlanta murders of 1979–1981, the Atlanta child murders: at least 29 Black victims aged 7–27 killed 1979–1981; Wayne Williams convicted 1982 of two adult murders; child cases never prosecuted.
Atlanta Nights
Atlanta Nights (2005) is a deliberately terrible collaborative novel by over thirty SF/F authors as "Travis Tea", led by James D. Macdonald, created to sting the vanity publisher PublishAmerica, which accepted it; proceeds went to SFWA's Emergency Medical Fund.
Atlanta-class cruiser
Atlanta-class cruiser: eleven US Navy light cruisers (CL 51-54, 95-98, 119-121) designed 1938 as destroyer flotilla leaders, armed with sixteen 5-inch/38 dual-purpose guns, and used in World War II as antiaircraft escorts; Atlanta and Juneau were sunk at Guadalcanal in November 1942.
Atlantic 10 Conference
Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10), formerly the Eastern Eight, is a 14-school NCAA Division I conference founded in 1975, based in Washington, D.C., sponsoring 23 sports and known as a basketball-centric league.
Atlantic Charter
The Atlantic Charter, a joint Roosevelt-Churchill declaration of 14 August 1941 at Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, set eight Anglo-American war aims including self-determination, freer trade, and freedom of the seas; unsigned and non-treaty, it inspired anticolonial movements worldwide.
Atlantic Coast Conference
Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), NCAA Division I college athletic conference founded 1953 in Greensboro, North Carolina. 18 members including Cal, SMU, Stanford; ESPN media rights through 2036; third in Power Four revenue.