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Autumn Harvest Uprising
The Autumn Harvest Uprising (秋收起义) was a series of armed peasant insurrections planned by the Chinese Communist Party in 1927; after Mao Zedong's assault on Changsha failed, his force withdrew to the Jinggang Mountains.
Autumn Phillips
Autumn Phillips (nee Kelly), Canadian-born former management consultant, born 1978 in Montreal; married Peter Phillips, Queen Elizabeth II's eldest grandchild, in 2008; two daughters; divorced 2021.
Autumn Uprising of 1946
The Autumn Uprising of 1946 (10월 항쟁), also called the October People's Uprising, was a large-scale popular uprising that began in Daegu, Korea, when police fired on striking workers on 1 October 1946.
Auwalu Abdullahi Rano
Auwalu Abdullahi Rano, born 1974 in Kano State, is a Nigerian oil and gas entrepreneur who founded the A.A. Rano group, starting petroleum marketing in 1994.
Auxiliary Division
The Auxiliary Division (ADRIC) was a paramilitary police unit of the Royal Irish Constabulary, raised in July 1920 from ex-commissioned officers, paid £1 a day, organized in 21 companies, and distinct from the Black and Tans.
Auxiliary Territorial Service
Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), the women's branch of the British Army, formed September 1938 and absorbed into the Women's Royal Army Corps in 1949; about 250,000 women served, including anti-aircraft crews who could not fire the guns.
Auxiliary verb
Auxiliary verb (helping verb): a verb used with a main verb to express tense, aspect, mood, voice, or polarity. English auxiliaries are be, do, have plus modals like can, may, must, will; they invert with subjects and resist inflection.
Auxilo Finserve
Auxilo Finserve Private Limited, formerly Stellenyak General Finance Private Limited, is a Mumbai-headquartered education finance NBFC in India, lending to students studying in India and abroad and to educational institutions.
Av HaRachamim
Av HaRachamim (אב הרחמים, Father of Mercy) is an Ashkenazi Jewish memorial prayer recited on Shabbat morning after the Torah reading, composed in memory of communities killed in the Crusades.
Ava Alice Muriel Astor
Ava Alice Muriel Astor (1902–1956) was an American heiress and daughter of John Jacob Astor IV, who left her a $5 million trust after he died in the 1912 Titanic sinking.
Ava Kingdom
The Ava Kingdom (Inwa) was the dominant Upper Burmese kingdom of 1364 to 1555, founded by Thadominbya at Ava and ended when King Bayinnaung of Toungoo conquered it in 1555.
Ava Lowle Willing
Ava Lowle Willing (1868-1958), later Baroness Ribblesdale, American socialite, first wife of John Jacob Astor IV, mother of Vincent Astor; divorced 1910, remarried Thomas Lister 1919.
Avaaz
Avaaz is a global online campaigning organization founded in January 2007, co-founded by Res Publica and MoveOn.org with Ricken Patel as founding president, member-funded, working in many languages on climate, human rights, corruption, and misinformation.
Avadim Health
Avadim Health, formerly Avadim Technologies, was an Asheville, North Carolina healthcare company selling topical products like Theraworx Relief; it filed Chapter 11 in 2021 and sold its assets to Hayfin.
Availability heuristic
Availability heuristic: judging event frequency or probability by how easily instances come to mind, introduced by Tversky and Kahneman in 1973; related to representativeness, risk perception, and systematic biases like illusory correlation.
Avalo Therapeutics
Avalo Therapeutics, formerly Cerecor Inc., is a clinical-stage biotechnology company in Rockville, Maryland, founded in 2011, whose lead asset since March 2024 has been the anti-IL-1β antibody abdakibart.
Avalokiteśvara (अवलोकितेश्वर)
Avalokiteśvara (अवलोकितेश्वर), also known as Chenrezig or Lokesvara, is the bodhisattva of compassion in Mahayana Buddhism, venerated across Asia as Guanyin in China and Kannon in Japan.
Avalon
Avalon (Ynys Afallach, Isle of Apples) is the legendary Arthurian island where Excalibur was forged and wounded King Arthur was taken after Camlann; first attested by Geoffrey of Monmouth c. 1136, later identified with Glastonbury.
Avalon Ventures
Avalon Ventures is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm founded by Kevin J. Kinsella in 1983 and based in La Jolla, California, investing in life sciences and information technology.
Avalyn Pharma
Avalyn Pharma Inc., formerly Genoa Pharmaceuticals, is a Boston-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing inhaled medicines for pulmonary fibrosis, including AP01, an inhaled pirfenidone; it went public on Nasdaq in 2026.
Avaneer Health
Avaneer Health is an American healthcare technology startup founded in 2020 by insurers and health systems including Aetna and Cleveland Clinic, operating a blockchain-built peer-to-peer data exchange network.
Avanidhar Subrahmanyam
Avanidhar Subrahmanyam is Distinguished Professor of Finance at UCLA Anderson School of Management, known for behavioral finance work linking investor psychology and market liquidity to stock returns.
Avanse
Avanse Financial Services, founded in 2013 as Abhivruddhi Holdings, is an Indian education-loan NBFC majority-owned by Warburg Pincus, with Rs 189.8 billion (Rs 18,985 crore) in assets and 24% of India's overseas education loan market.
Avanse Financial Services
Avanse Financial Services, incorporated in 1992 as Abhivruddhi Holdings Private Limited, is a Mumbai-based education-finance NBFC, India's second-largest private education lender, majority-owned by Warburg Pincus.
Avanti kingdom
Avanti (अवंति) was an ancient Indian kingdom in present-day Madhya Pradesh and one of the sixteen mahajanapadas, a leading power under King Pradyota before absorption into Magadha.
Avantium
Avantium N.V. is an Amsterdam-based renewable-chemistry company founded in 2000 as a Shell spin-off, listed on Euronext, whose technology turns plant sugars into FDCA and the 100% plant-based polymer PEF.
Avantivarman (king of Kashmir)
Avantivarman (अवन्तिवर्मन्) was the founder of Kashmir's Utpala dynasty, reigning from 855 to 883 CE, known for his minister Suyya's river works and the twin temples at Avantipora.
Avar Khanate
The Avar Khanate, also called the Khunzakh Khanate, was a state in the mountains of central Dagestan from the late 12th century until Russia abolished it in 1864.
Avar migration into Pannonia
The Avar migration into Pannonia was the movement of mounted steppe warriors into the Carpathian Basin in 567–568 after the Turks destroyed the Rouran Empire, founding the Avar Khaganate.
Avars (Caucasus)
Avars (Caucasus), self-name ma'arulal, largest indigenous people of Dagestan, Russia, speaking the Northeast Caucasian Avar language (~700,000 speakers), historically centered on the Khunzakh khanate; distinct from the Pannonian Avars.