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Atlantic Council
The Atlantic Council is a nonpartisan Washington, DC think tank founded in 1961 to support the Atlantic Alliance; sixteen programs and centers, ranked #7 US think tank in the 2020 UPenn index, CEO Frederick Kempe.
Atlantic Revolutions
Atlantic Revolutions: historiographical term coined by Godechot and Palmer in the 1950s for the connected American, French, Haitian, and Spanish American revolutions, roughly 1776 to 1826, spanning four continents.
Atlantic Wall
The Atlantic Wall (Atlantikwall) was Nazi Germany's 1942–1945 coastal defense line of bunkers and obstacles from northern Norway to the Spanish border, built by Organisation Todt with over 1.5 million workers including forced labor, and breached at Normandy on D-Day, 6 June 1944.
Atlanticism
Atlanticism is the political doctrine favoring close North American-European cooperation, embodied in NATO (founded 1949) and rooted in the Marshall Plan. It contrasts with Europeanism and strategic autonomy in EU security debates.
Atlantis Paradise Island
Atlantis Paradise Island, also known as Atlantis Bahamas, is a mega-resort on Paradise Island in The Bahamas with over 3,800 rooms, a 141-acre water park, and a casino.
Atlas (mythology)
Atlas (Ἄτλας), Greek Titan son of Iapetus, brother of Prometheus, who holds up the sky (not the earth) at the world's edge; tricked by Heracles over the Hesperides' apples, turned to a mountain by Perseus, and namesake of the Atlas Mountains and map atlases.
Atlas Capital Resources
Atlas Capital Resources is a series of private equity funds managed from Greenwich, Connecticut by Atlas Holdings, making control investments in financially or operationally stressed manufacturing and distribution businesses.
Atlas Energy Solutions
Atlas Energy Solutions Inc. is a Permian Basin proppant producer and oilfield logistics company founded by Bud Brigham in 2017, listed on the NYSE as AESI since 2023.
Atlas Holdings
Atlas Holdings is a Greenwich, Connecticut private investment firm, founded in 2002, that makes control investments in distressed industrial businesses, owning 30 companies by 2026.
Atlas linguistique de la France
Atlas linguistique de la France (ALF), dialect atlas by Jules Gilliéron and Edmond Edmont, published Paris 1902–1910 in 10 volumes; 639 communes surveyed 1897–1901, 1,421 complete maps, foundation of linguistic geography and dialectometry.
Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger: reference work mapping endangered languages, print editions 1996, 2001, 2010 (Wurm, then Moseley), online from 2009 with about 2,500 languages on a five-level endangerment scale, feeding Glottolog's AES and succeeded by the World Atlas of Languages.
Atlas Oranto Petroleum
Atlas Oranto Petroleum is an Abuja-headquartered oil and gas exploration and production group founded by Nigerian businessman Prince Arthur Eze, holding 22 licenses across 12 African countries.
Atlas Venture (venture capital firm)
Atlas Venture is a biotechnology-only early-stage venture capital firm headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1980, it has launched 92 startups from its incubator and reports 43 IPOs and 39 M&A exits.
ATLATL Innovation
ATLATL Innovation (飞镖加速器) is a Chinese life-science incubator founded in 2017 in Shanghai's Zhangjiang biotech base, offering shared laboratories, contract R&D services, and investment support to biotech startups.
ATM card
An ATM card is a bank-issued access device that lets a consumer use automated teller machines for withdrawals, balance inquiries, deposits, and transfers, without necessarily allowing point-of-sale purchases.
Ātman (आत्मन्) (Hinduism)
Ātman (आत्मन्), the self or soul in Hindu philosophy, from Sanskrit 'breath' to the Upaniṣadic inner principle identified with Brahman; Advaita, Vishishtadvaita, Sāṃkhya, and Nyāya positions, contrasted with the Buddhist anātman.
Atmanirbhar Bharat
Atmanirbhar Bharat (आत्मनिर्भर भारत), or Self-reliant India, is an Indian economic campaign announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in May 2020, pairing a Rs 20 trillion (Rs 20 lakh crore) COVID-19 stimulus with a doctrine of self-reliance.
Atmaram Pandurang
Atmaram Pandurang (आत्माराम पांडुरंग, 1823–1898) was a Bombay physician and social reformer who founded the Prarthana Samaj, a theistic reform society, in Bombay in 1867 and led it until his death.
Atmel
Atmel Corporation was an American semiconductor company in San Jose, California, founded by George Perlegos in 1984 and known for its AVR microcontrollers; Microchip Technology acquired it in 2016.
Atomberg
Atomberg Technologies Limited is a Mumbai-based Indian consumer-appliance company founded in 2012 by IIT Bombay alumni, best known for energy-efficient BLDC ceiling fans and now IPO-bound.
Atomberg Technologies
Atomberg Technologies is a Mumbai-based Indian consumer appliances company founded in 2012 by Manoj Kumar Meena, known for energy-efficient BLDC ceiling fans that use about 28 watts instead of 75.
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: US atomic attacks of August 6 and 9, 1945 using Little Boy and Fat Man that killed over 200,000 and ended World War II.
Atomic Habits
Atomic Habits is a 2018 self-help book by American author James Clear that builds good habits and breaks bad ones through small changes in behavior, environment, and identity.
Atomic Labs
Atomic Labs is an American venture studio and venture capital fund manager founded by Jack Abraham around 2012, which funds only the startups it co-founds itself.
Atomic spies
Atomic spies were Soviet intelligence recruits who passed secrets of the American atomic program to the USSR, including designs by Klaus Fuchs, accelerating the Soviet bomb's development.
Atomico
Atomico is a European venture capital firm based in London, founded in 2006 by Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström, with investments including Stripe, Klarna, and DeepL.
Atomism
Atomism is the doctrine that reality consists of indivisible minimal parts, from Greek atomos (uncuttable). Founded by Leucippus and Democritus, paralleled in Indian Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika, Buddhist and Jaina theories; revived by Epicurus, Lucretius and seventeenth-century science.
Atomwaffen Division
Atomwaffen Division (AWD, German for "atomic weapons"), later the National Socialist Order, a neo-Nazi accelerationist network founded 2015 by Brandon Russell on Iron March, linked to murders, plots, and prosecutions in the US and proscribed abroad.
Atomwise (now Numerion Labs)
Atomwise, now Numerion Labs, is a San Francisco biotechnology company that applies deep learning to small-molecule drug discovery through its AtomNet platform, co-founded by Abraham Heifets and Izhar Wallach.
Atong Ang
Atong Ang, born Charlie Tiu Hay Sy Ang in 1957, is a Filipino businessman associated with gambling and e-sabong who came to public attention during the 2000 Estrada events.