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Augustino Cazalla
Agustín de Cazalla (c. 1510–1559) was a Spanish royal chaplain and preacher who became head of a Protestant circle in Valladolid and was executed by the Inquisition in 1559.
Augusto B. Leguía
Augusto B. Leguía was a Peruvian businessman and politician who served twice as President of Peru, from 1908 to 1912 and from 1919 to 1930.
Augusto César Sandino
Augusto César Sandino (Augusto Nicolás Calderón Sandino, 1895-1934) was a Nicaraguan revolutionary general who led the 1927-1933 guerrilla war against the U.S. occupation, was assassinated by Anastasio Somoza García's National Guard, and gave his name to the Sandinista FSLN.
Augusto Pierantoni
Augusto Francescopaolo Pierantoni (1840–1911) was an Italian international lawyer, parliamentarian, and Garibaldian veteran who co-founded the Institut de droit international in 1873 and held chairs at Modena, Naples, and Rome.
Augusto Pinochet
Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (1915-2006), Chilean general who led the 11 September 1973 coup against Salvador Allende and ruled Chile's military dictatorship until 1990; DINA/CNI repression, 1980 Constitution, defeated in the 1988 plebiscite, arrested in London 1998.
Augustus
Augustus (Gaius Octavius, 63 BCE–AD 14), first Roman emperor, given the name Augustus by the Senate on 16 January 27 BC after victory at Actium in 31 BCE; reformed taxation, the army, and provincial administration.
Augustus (title)
Augustus, plural Augusti: honorific surname ("venerable one") granted Octavian by the Senate in January 27 BC; became the senior title of Roman emperors, with Augusta for imperial women; Greek Sebastos.
Augustus De Morgan
Augustus De Morgan (1806–1871), British mathematician and logician, first professor of mathematics at University College London; author of Formal Logic (1847) and the logic of relations, namesake of De Morgan's laws and the De Morgan Medal.
Augustus II the Strong
Augustus II the Strong (August II Mocny; Friedrich August I, der Starke, 1670–1733), Wettin elector of Saxony and elected king of Poland–Lithuania 1697–1706 and 1709–33; converted to Catholicism for the crown, deposed by Charles XII, restored after Poltava, patron of Dresden baroque and Meissen porcelain.
Augustus III of Poland
Augustus III (1696-1763), also August III Fryderyk or Frederick Augustus II, elector of Saxony and last Wettin king of Poland 1733-1763, placed on the throne by Russian troops against Leszczyński, ruled through Brühl from Dresden, and lost Saxony to Prussian occupation in the Seven Years' War.
Augustus Montague Toplady
Augustus Montague Toplady (1740–1778) was a Church of England clergyman and Calvinist hymn writer, best known for "Rock of Ages" and his polemics against John Wesley's Arminianism.
Augustus Robert Buckland
Augustus Robert Buckland (1857–1942) was a Church of England clergyman, born in Newport, Monmouthshire, who edited the Record, wrote missionary biographies, and led the Religious Tract Society.
Augustus Schultze
Augustus Schultze (August Schultze) was a German-born Moravian theologian who taught for over 40 years and served as president at Moravian Theological Seminary in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Augustus Sol Invictus
Augustus Sol Invictus (Austin Gillespie, born 1983) is a Florida lawyer and far-right figure who lost the 2016 Libertarian Senate primary, spoke at Unite the Right-era rallies, and filed as a Republican in 2017.
Augustyn Rotundus
Augustyn Rotundus (Augustinas Rotundas, c. 1520–1582) was a Polish-born lawyer and royal secretary, wójt of Vilnius, best known for his 1564 dialogue Rozmowa Polaka z Litwinem.
AUKUS
AUKUS is the trilateral Australia-UK-US security partnership announced 15 September 2021: Pillar I delivers nuclear-powered submarines to Australia from the early 2030s, Pillar II develops advanced military technologies such as AI, quantum, and undersea systems.
Auld Alliance
The Auld Alliance (Vieille Alliance) was the Franco-Scottish alliance begun by the treaties of Paris of 22–23 October 1295 against Edward I of England, ending militarily in 1560 but enduring commercially and culturally.
Aulic titulature
Aulic titulature is the system of court ranks and honorific titles that regulated protocol and precedence among officials and courtiers of Ptolemaic Egypt, with titles like philos and syngenes.
Aulikara dynasty
The Aulikara dynasty (औलिकर) ruled western Malwa in central India from the fourth to the sixth century, centered on Dashapura, and rose briefly to independence under Yashodharman, who defeated the Alchon Huns.
Aum Shinrikyo
Aum Shinrikyo (オウム真理教), also called Aum Supreme Truth, was a Japanese doomsday cult founded by Asahara Shoko that carried out the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack.
Auma Obama
Auma Obama (born 1960), Kenyan sociologist and half-sister of Barack Obama, founder of the Sauti Kuu Foundation for disadvantaged youth in Kenya and author of the memoir And Then Life Happens.
Aumann–Shapley value
The Aumann–Shapley value is a solution concept for cooperative games with a continuum of players, introduced by Robert Aumann and Lloyd Shapley in their 1974 monograph Values of Non-Atomic Games.
Aung Gyi
Aung Gyi was a Burmese brigadier who was number two in the Revolutionary Council after Ne Win's 1962 coup and later co-founded the National League for Democracy.
Aung San (အောင်ဆန်း)
Aung San (အောင်ဆန်း, 1915–1947), Bogyoke, Burmese independence leader, founder of the Burma Independence Army via the Thirty Comrades, architect of the Panglong and Aung San–Attlee agreements, assassinated 19 July 1947 with his cabinet before 1948 independence.
Aung San Suu Kyi (အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်)
Aung San Suu Kyi (အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်), Burmese NLD leader and 1991 Nobel Peace laureate, spent 15 years under house arrest, led landslide 2015 and 2020 election wins as State Counselor, drew criticism over the 2017 Rohingya crisis, and has been detained since the February 2021 military coup.
Aung Than
Aung Than, also known as Bo Setkya, was a Burmese politician who founded the People's Peace Front and was the older brother of General Aung San.
Auntea Jenny
Auntea Jenny (沪上阿姨) is a Chinese freshly-made tea franchise chain founded in Shanghai in 2013, selling milk tea and fruit tea through about 11,400 mostly franchised stores.
Auqui Yupanqui
Auqui Yupanqui (Awki Yupanki) was an Inca captain whom Guaman Poma's 1615 chronicle lists as the fifth of fifteen Inca commanders and a son of the ruler Capac Yupanqui.
Aura (paranormal)
In esoteric and New Age belief, the human aura is a luminous energy field said to emanate from bodies, distinct from the medical aura preceding migraines and seizures.
Aura Aero
Aura Aero is a French aerospace manufacturer founded in 2018 at Toulouse-Francazal by three engineers, which builds the certified Integral two-seat aircraft and is developing the 19-seat hybrid-electric ERA regional airliner.