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An Unmarried Woman An Unmarried Woman is a 1978 film which tells the story of a wealthy New York woman whose “perfect” life is shattered when her stockbroker husband leaves her for another woman. It stars Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy and Cliff Gorman.
An Young-Su An Young-Su (born February 20, 1964) is a retired boxer from South Korea, who won the silver medal in the men's welterweight division (– 67kg) at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. In the final he was beaten by Mark Breland of the United States.
An-Nisa, 24 An-Nisa () is the fourth chapter of the Qur'an, and this article is about its twenty-fourth verse, the controversial verse that has been called "the verse of Mut'ah" due to its reference to Nikah Mut'ah], a temporary marriage form legalized during the era of the [[Islamic prophet Muhammad.
An-Nisa, 34 Verse 34 of an-Nisa is one of the most important verses for husband and wife relationship in Islam. This verse is frequently interpreted as giving women complete control over their own income and property, while men should be responsible for maintaining their female relatives.
Ana (language) In contexts of solar physics and data analysis, ana is a somewhat whimsically named computer language that is designed for array processing and image data analysis. The name is an acronym for "A Non Acronym".
Ana Alicia Ana Alicia (born Ana Alicia Ortiz on December 12, 1956 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican-born actress, who moved to El Paso, Texas when she was a child. She is most known for her role as Jane Wyman's archenemy and Lorenzo Lamas's first wife, Melissa Agretti on the primetime soap opera Falcon Crest.
Ana Belén Palomo Ana Belén Palomo Jiménez (born October 20, 1977 in Algeciras, Cádiz) is a freestyle swimmer from Spain, who competed for her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000 in Sydney, Australia. In both tournaments she was eliminated in the qualifying heats of the 50m Freestyle.
Ana Clara Guerra Marques In 1970, at 8 years old, Ana Clara Guerra Marques started to learn classical dancing at the Dancing Academy of Luanda (Angola). In 1975, Angola reaches the independence and all the dancing teachers leave the country.
Ana Cristina Ana Cristina Alvarez is a Cuban-American singer born on June 2, 1985 in Miami, Florida, to Cuban-American parents of European origin. At the age of 15, the 6-octave-vocal-range prodigy was signed by Sony International's label, Sony Discos.
Ana Dolidze Ana Dolidze ()is the current Chair and former Deputy Chair of an influential Georgian non-governmental organization, the Georgian Young Lawyers' Association (GYLA). Dolidze graduated from Tbilisi State University and completed an LLM in Public International Law at Leiden University in the Netherlands.
Ana Egge Ana Egge, born in 1977 in Estevan, Saskatchewan and raised in Ambrose, North Dakota, is an American folk singer/songwriter. In 1994 (at age 17), she moved from New Mexico to Austin, Texas and recorded a demo tape.
Ana Francisca de Borja y Doria Ana Francisca Hermenegilda de Borja y Doria, condesa de Lemos (1640-1706) was the wife of Peruvian Viceroy Pedro Antonio Fernández de Castro, conde de Lemos. During his absence from the capital from June 7, 1668 to November 12, 1668, she was governor of the colony.
Ana Isobel Alonso Ana Isobel Alonso Nieto (born August 16, 1963 in Villaherreros, Palencia) is a former long-distance runner from Spain, who represented her native country in three Summer Olympics: 1988, 1996 and 2000. Her best finish came at her Olympic debut in Seoul, South Korea, where Alonso ended up in 25th place in the women's 10.
Ana MarĂ­a Matute Ana Maria Matute (born 26 July 1926) is an internationally acclaimed author. She is one of the strongest voices from the posguerra, or period immediately following the Spanish civil war, and is considered a spokesperson for her generation.
Ana María Orozco Ana María Orozco (July 4 1973, Bogotá, Colombia) is a Colombian television actress. She best known to fans around the world as the "Original Betty" from the popular Colombian telenovela "Yo soy Betty, la fea" (I am Betty, the ugly) and its spinoff "Eco moda.
Ana Maria Conseco Ana Maria Conseco is the co-host of the hugely-popular Univision morning talk show Despierta América every weekday morning. She also serves as guest host on the network's afternoon talk show El Gordo y La Flaca.
Ana Maria Pacheco Ana Maria Pacheco (born 1943) is a Brazilian artist who works in the United Kingdom. Her work is partly inspired by the troubled period of Brazil's history, culminating in the takeover by the military junta in 1969, to which she was an eyewitness.
Ana Mirjana Račanović Ana Mirjana Račanović (Serbian Cyrillic:Ана Мирјана Рачанобић) was Miss Bosnia & Herzegovina in 2001 and was in the top 12 at the Miss World contest of the same year. She is the most popular beauty queen in her home country, and has been declared the most beautiful woman in Bosnia & Herzegovina of all time (according to polls in three local magazines).
Ana Montes Ana Belen Montes is a former senior analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency in the United States. On September 21 2001, she was arrested on charges of Conspiracy to Commit Espionage for the government of Cuba and is currently in prison.
Ana Ng "Ana Ng" is a song by They Might Be Giants. It was originally from the album Lincoln, but has also appeared on Then: The Earlier Years (which was a compilation of their first two albums including Lincoln), Severe Tire Damage, Dial-A-Song: 20 Years Of They Might Be Giants and A User's Guide to They Might Be Giants.
Ana Pauker Ana Pauker (born Hannah Rabinsohn; Yiddish: חנה רבינסון; February 13, 1893 – June 14, 1960) was a Romanian communist leader and served as the country's foreign minister in the late 1940s and early 1950s. She was the unofficial leader of the Romanian Communist Party after World War II.
Ana Paula Connelly Ana Paula Rodrigues Connelly (born February 13, 1972 in Lavras, Minas Gerais) is a beach volleyball player from Brazil, who represented her native country at three Summer Olympics: 1992, 1996, and 2004. At her second Olympic appearance she was a member of the team that won the bronze medal in the women's competition.
Ana Roque Ana Roque Giegel de Duprey, also known as "Flor del Valle" (Flower of the Valley), (April 18, 1853-1933 born in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico), was an educator, suffragist and one of the founders of the University of Puerto Rico.
Ana Sanchez Ana Belen Sanchez (born 16 February 1976 in Málaga) is a Spanish golfer who plays on the Ladies European Tour. She represented Spain in the 1996 Espirito Santo Trophy and turned professional the following year.
Ana Teresa Aranda Ana Teresa Aranda Orozco (b. January 26, 1954 in LeĂłn, Guanajuato) is a Mexican politician affiliated to the National Action Party who served as Director of the DIF (Spanish acronym for Sistema Nacional para el Desarrollo Integral de la Familia).
Ana Urkijo Ana Urkijo Elorriaga is the president of Spanish Basque football club Athletic Bilbao. Urkijo was elected following the resignation of Fernando Lamikiz in September 2006, becoming the first female president in the history of Athletic Bilbao.
AnaĂ­s AnaĂ­s (born AnaĂ­s MartĂ­nez on June 22, 1984 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) is the winner of the second season of Objetivo Fama, a Puerto Rican reality-show-contest that airs on Univision Puerto Rico in that Caribbean island and the Telefutura network in the U.S.
AnaĂŻs Nin AnaĂŻs Nin (pronounced // "ana-EESE neen") (February 21 1903 - January 14 1977) was a French-born author of Catalan, Cuban, and Danish descent who became famous for her published diaries, which span more than sixty years, beginning when she was eleven years old and ending shortly before her death, as well as for her erotica.
Anabaena Anabaena is a genus of filamentous cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, found as plankton. It is known for its nitrogen fixing abilities, and they form symbiotic relationships with certain plants, such as the mosquito fern.
Anabaptist Anabaptists (Greek ανα (again) +βαπτιζω (baptize), thus, "re-baptizers"German]: Wiedertäufer) are [[Christianity|Christians of the Radical Reformation. Various groups at various times have been called Anabaptist, but this article focuses primarily on the Anabaptists of 16th century Europe.
Anabasii Anabasii, in antiquity, were couriers who travelled on horseback or in chariots, quickly bringing messages and commands from elsewhere. The word comes from the Greek αναβασις (adscensus, "mounting").
Anabisetia Anabisetia (AH-nah-bee-SET-ee-a; "for Ana Biset") is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of Patagonia, South America. It was a small bipedal herbivore, almost seven feet (2 meters) long.
Anablepidae Anablepidae is a family of freshwater and brackish water fishes living on river estuaries in Central and South America. There are three genera with sixteen species: the four-eyed fishes (genus Anableps), the onesided livebearers (genus Jenynsia) and the white-eye, Oxyzygonectes dovii.
Anabolic steroid Anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) are a class of natural and synthetic steroid hormones that promote cell growth and division, resulting in growth of several types of tissues, especially muscle and bone. Different anabolic androgenic steroids have varying combinations of androgenic and anabolic properties, and are often referred to in medical texts as AAS (anabolic/androgenic steroids).
Anabolism Anabolism is the metabolic process that builds larger molecules from smaller ones. One way of categorizing metabolic processes, whether at the cellular, organ or organism level is as 'anabolic' or 'catabolic', which is the opposite.
Anabritannica AnaBritannica started publication in Turkey by Ana Publishing House in Turkey on 5 November 1986 in a period that could be said to be under the rule of the military of the 12 September 2000 coup d'etat in Turkey.
Anacalypsis Anacalypsis is the short title of a lengthy two-volume treatise written by religious historian Godfrey Higgins, and published upon his death in 1833. The book was published in two quarto volumes numbering 1,436 pages, and contains meticulous references to hundreds of books.
Anacalyteria Anacalyteria, in Ancient Greece, were matrimonial feasts celebrated among pagans on the day that the bride was permitted to lay aside her veil, and to be seen in public. They were thus called from the Greek ανακαλύψει ("to discover, uncover").
Anacleteria Anacleteria, in antiquity, were feasts celebrated in honor of kings and princes, when they took upon them the administration of their state, and made a solemn declaration thereof to the people. This is synonymous with the modern day coronation.
Anacleto Formation The Anacleto Formation is a geologic formation with outcroppings in the Argentine Patagonian provinces of Mendoza, Río Negro, and Neuquén. It is the youngest formaton within the Neuquén Group and belongs to the Río Colorado Subgroup.
Anaclitism In the field of sexology, anaclitism involves deriving adult sexual arousal from objects that one was exposed to as an infant. The fetish value often stems from tactile stimulation similar to that experienced by the infant before it could see well.
Anacoluthon An anacoluthon is a rhetorical device that can be loosely defined as a change of syntax within a sentence. More specifically, anacoluthons (or "anacolutha") are created when a sentence abruptly changes from one structure to another.
Anaconda Anacondas (local names: JibĂłia and Sucuri) are four species of aquatic boa inhabiting the swamps and rivers of the dense forests of tropical South America. The Yellow Anaconda can be found as far south as Argentina.
Anaconda Copper Anaconda Copper Mining Company (until 1915 known as the Amalgamated Copper Mining Company), one of the largest trusts of the early 20th century which owned all the mines on Butte Hill (Montana, USA). The Anaconda Company was purchased by Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) on January 12, 1977.
Anaconda Plan The Anaconda Plan was proposed in 1861 by Union General Winfield Scott to win the American Civil War with minimal loss of life, enveloping the Confederacy by blockade at sea and control of the Mississippi River.
Anaconda Range The Anaconda Range is a group of high mountains located in southwestern Montana, in the northwestern United States. It runs northeast approximately 50 miles (80 km) from Lost Trail Pass to a point near the community of Anaconda.
Anaconda Road Massacre The Anaconda Road Massacre is an incident that occurred on April 21 1920 during a miners' strike in Butte, Montana. 15 strikers were shot and two were killed by agents allegedly hired by the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, though no party was found guilty.
Anaconda Smelter Stack The Anaconda Smelter Stack is a radial brick smoke stack, once part of the Anaconda Smelter at Anaconda, Montana in the United States. The stack rests on a concrete foundation and measures 585 feet (178 meters) high.
Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness The Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness Area is located in southwestern Montana, in the northwestern United States. It runs for 40 miles (65 km) along both sides of the crest of the Anaconda Range, covering almost 250 square miles (640 km²).
Anaconda, Montana Anaconda, county seat of Anaconda City/Deer Lodge County, is located in mountainous southwestern Montana. The Continental Divide passes within 8 miles (13 km) of the community with the local Pintler Mountain range reaching 10,379 feet (3,164 m).
Anaconda, New Mexico Anaconda was a small mining community that came into existence in the early 1950s when the Anaconda Copper Company of Butte, Montana opened up a Uranium Ore Processing Plant 10 miles west of Grants, New Mexico. Anaconda was the site of somewhere around 100 homes for the Supervior's or then management of the company.
Anacréon Anacréon is the title given to two separate operas by Jean-Philippe Rameau. Both are in the form of a one-act acte de ballet and both feature the Ancient Greek poet Anacreon, but otherwise they are totally different.
Anacreon (computer game) Anacreon is a DOS computer game originally written by George Moromisato, and published by TMA in 1988. The game's theme was galactic conquest, with the setting strongly inspired by Isaac Asimov's Foundation series of novels.
Anacreon Province The Anacreon Province was an administrative division within Isaac Asimov's Galactic Empire. The third largest administrative division in Asimov's Imperium, the province was made up of a grouping of prefects, and was itself part of a sector.
Anacreontics Anacreontics (from the name of the Greek poet Anacreon), the title given to short lyrical pieces, of an easy kind, dealing with love and wine. The English word appears to have been first used in 1656 by Abraham Cowley, who called a section of his poems "anacreontiques" because they were paraphrased out of the so-called writings of Anacreon into a familiar measure which was supposed to represent the meter of the Greek.
Anacronym An anacronym (short for "anachronistic] [[acronym") is a pronounceable word which originated as an acronym or other representative letters of other words, but over time that origin has become unknown to most people, and sometimes the word has become habitually lowercased. Examples are SCUBA, LASER, COBOL, radar, gulag.
Anacrusis In poetry, anacrusis is the lead-in syllables, collectively, that precede the first full measure, while, similarly, in music, it is the note or notes (even a phrase) which precede the first downbeat in a group. In the latter sense an anacrusis is often called a pickup, pickup note, or pickup measure.
Anacyclosis The sociological doctrine of Anacyclosis states that the three basic forms of "benign" government (monarchy, aristocracy, and politeia) are inherently weak and unstable, tending to degenerate rapidly into the three basic forms of "malignant" government (dictatorship, oligarchy, and ochlocracy). Note that "ochlocracy" refers to mob rule, not the concept of democracy created in the late 18th century.
Anacyclus pyrethrum Anacyclus pyrethrum (pellitory, Spanish chamomile, or Mount Atlas daisy) is perennial herb much alike chamomile in habitat and appearance. It is unrelated to the plants known as pellitory-of-the-wall (Parietaria officinalis) and spreading pellitory (Parietaria judaica).
Anadama bread Anadama bread is a traditional bread of New England made with white flour, corn flour, molasses and sometimes rye flour. There are several popular myths about the origin of the name, which mostly take this form:
Anadolu Agency Anadolu Agency (AA) (Turkish: Anadolu Ajansı) is the Turkish state news agency commissioned with producing news releases pertaining to the country. Anadolu Agency was set up on April 6th, 1920 by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Modern Turkish Republic, and is the biggest news agency of Turkey.
Anadolu Pop Anadolu Pop is a musical style created by Murat Ses of Mogollar in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The style is a synthesis of Western and Turkish musical styles and elements and is possibly the first fusion from this geographic region.
Anadoluhisarı Anadoluhisarı is a fortress located in Istanbul, Turkey on the Anatolian (Asian) side of the Bosporus giving the name of the quarter around it. It was built in 1394 by Ottoman sultan Bayezid I "The Thunderbolt" in order to prepare to lay siege at Constantinople.
Anaerobic Anaerobic is a technical word which literally means without air (where "air" usually means oxygen), as opposed to aerobic. In wastewater treatment the absence of oxygen is indicated as anoxic; and anaerobic is used to indicate the absence of any electron acceptor (nitrate, sulfate or oxygen).
Anaerobic digestion Anaerobic digestion (AD) is the harnessed and contained, naturally occurring process of anaerobic decomposition.Friends of the Earth FOE (2004 Anaerobic digestion Briefing of the breakdown of organic matter by anaerobic organisms in environments lacking oxygenAnaerobic Digestion Cardiff University Anaerobic Digestion Page An anaerobic digester is an industrial system that harnesses these natural process to treat waste, produce biogas that can be used to power electricity generators, provide heat and produce soil improving material.
Anaerobic exercise Anaerobic exercise comprises brief, strength-based activities, such as sprinting or weight training, whereas aerobic exercise is centered around endurance activities, such as marathon running or long-distance cycling. However, the early stage of all exercise is anaerobic.
Anaerobic/Aerobic static piles Anaerobic/Aerobic Static Piles - Within the parameters of a berm, formed on a solid base (concrete, graded soil, rubber rolled roofing or concrete slab) a carbonaceous based volume of aerobic material (wood chips, sawdust, bark, straw) . The size of the pile is determined by the waste stream.
Anaesthetic machine The anaesthetic machine (or anesthesia machine in America) is used by anaesthetists to support the administration of anaesthesia. The most common type of anaesthetic machine in use in the developed world is the continuous-flow anaesthetic machine, which is designed to provide an accurate and continuous supply of medical gases (such as oxygen and nitrous oxide), mixed with an accurate concentration of anaesthetic vapour (such as isoflurane), and deliver this to the patient at a safe pressure and flow.
Anaesthetic Technician Anaesthetic Technicians are healthcare workers employed in the New Zealand health service and the Australian Health Service. Anaesthetic Technicians are mainly employed by Anaesthetic Departments or Operating theatre Suites, but can be found in other areas of clinical practice including Emergency Departments, Intensive Care Units and Day Surgery Clinics.
Anafiel Delaunay In Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy series, Anafiel Delaunay is a clever spymaster and poet, the man who buys Phèdre nó Delaunay's marque and trains her. He has very fine features, grey eyes, and ginger hair, and was educated at the University of Tiberium.
Anagarika In Buddhist context, an anagarika is a white-robed student in the Theravada tradition who, for a few months, awaits being considered for Samaneris ordination. The student's time is generally spent helping others with tasks, while adapting to their new life.
Anagarika Dharmapala Anagarika Dharmapala (1864 - 1933) was a leading figure in initiating two outstanding features of Buddhism in the twentieth century. He was a pioneer in the revival of Buddhism in India after it had been virtually extinct there for several centuries, and he was the first Buddhist in modern times to preach the Dharma in three continents: Asia, North America, and Europe.
Anagenesis Anagenesis, also known as "phyletic change", is the progressive evolution of species involving a change in gene frequency in an entire population rather than a cladogenetic branching event. When enough mutations reach fixation in a population to significantly differentiate from an ancestral population a new species name may be assigned.
Anagennisi Karditsa Anagennisi Karditsa (Greek: Αναγέννηση Καρδίτσας), also known as ASA (Greek: Αθλητικός Σύλλογος Αναγέννησης - Athlitikos Syllogos Anagennisis), the Anagennisi Athletic Association, is a professional football (soccer) club based in the city of Karditsa, Greece.
Anagnorisis Anagnorisis (Ancient Greek: ), also known as discovery, originally meant recognition in its Greek context, not only of a person but also of what that person stood for, what he or she represented; it was the hero's suddenly becoming aware of a real situation and therefore the realization of things as they stood; and finally it was a perception that resulted in an insight the hero had into his relationship with often antagonistic characters within Aristotelian tragedy.
Anago fish is the Japanese word for saltwater eels, which are a seafood dish in Japan. Anago are often simmered (sushi) or deep-fried (tempura), compared to unagi (freshwater eels) which are usually barbecued with a sauce (kabayaki).
Anagram An anagram (Greek ana- = "back" or "again", and graphein = "to write") is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce other words, using all the original letters exactly once. Someone who creates anagrams is called an anagrammist.
Anagram dictionary In the main type of anagram dictionary, the letters in words or phrases are rearranged in alphabetical order, and these transpositions are themselves then ordered alphabetically within word-length groups, so that any words consisting of this group of letters can be found. This arrangement is designed for use in solving word puzzles such as crosswords, or for playing games such as Scrabble.
Anagrams of Desire Anagrams of Desire is an academic text book about Angela Carter's dramatic writings. Written by Charlotte Crofts and published by Manchester University Press in 2003, the full title is Anagrams of Desire: Angela Carter's Writing for Radio, Film and Television.
Anah Anah, or `Ana, a town on the Euphrates, about mid-way between the Gulf of Alexandretta and the Persian Gulf. It is called Hanat in a Babylonian letter (about 2200 BC), and An-at by the scribe of Assur-nasir-pal (879 B.
Anahareo Anahareo (June 18, 1906 – July 1, 1986) was the wife of Grey Owl, later known as Archibald Belaney, a writer and one of Canada's first conservationists. Anahareo encouraged him to stop trapping and publish his writings about wilderness life.
Anaheim (Amtrak station) Anaheim Station is an Amtrak and Metrolink rail station south of Los Angeles Union Station in the city of Anaheim. It serves both Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner from San Luis Obispo to San Diego and Metrolink's Orange County Line from Los Angeles to Oceanside.
Anaheim Aces The Anaheim Aces were a charter member of baseball's California League, founded in 1941 as a Class "C" minor league. The remaining charter teams were the Bakersfield Badgers, Fresno Cardinals, Merced Bears, Riverside Reds, San Bernardino Stars, Santa Barbara Saints, and Stockton Fliers.
Anaheim Bullfrogs The Anaheim Bullfrogs were a southern Californian professional inline hockey team which played in Roller Hockey International from 1993 to 1997, then joined Major League Roller Hockey for 1998 and 1999. The team's home games were played at the Anaheim Arena, which was later renamed the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim, and is now called the Honda Center.
Anaheim Electronics Anaheim Electronics is a fictional civilian manufacturing company that appeared in the Universal Century timeline of the Gundam anime metaseries. Based on the Moon, Anaheim Electronics originally produced a wide range of technological applications from consumer electronics to battleships and even space colonies.
Anaheim Football Stadium Anaheim Football Stadium is a proposed football stadium in Anaheim, California that would be built if the National Football League were to grant Anaheim a franchise. It would be located in what is now the parking lot for Angel Stadium, and would be a part of Anaheim's Platinum Triangle district.
Anaheim High School Anaheim High School is a public, four-year (grades 9 through 12) high school in the city of Anaheim, California, United States. Anaheim High School was first established in 1898, which makes it the oldest of nine comprehensive high schools in the Anaheim Union High School District.
Anaheim Hills, Anaheim, California Anaheim Hills is a community encompassing the eastern portions of the city of Anaheim, in Orange County, California. The area's western border is the 55 freeway and its eastern border extends to Gypsum Canyon and the Riverside County Line, its northern border is the city of Yorba Linda, and its southern border is the city of Orange.
Anaheim Union High School District The Anaheim Union High School District is a public school district serving portions of the Orange County cities of Anaheim, Buena Park, Cypress, La Palma, and Stanton. It oversees eight junior high schools (7-8), eight high schools (9-12), and one magnet school, Oxford Academy (7-12).
Anaheim Walk of Stars The Anaheim Walk of Stars is a venue in Anaheim, California which honors those who have made significant contributions to Anaheim's and Orange County's national and international prominence. Recipients are honored with granite stars on sidewalks in the Anaheim Resort area, similar to the well-known Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Anahim Volcanic Belt The Anahim Volcanic Belt is a range of volcanoes in British Columbia, stretching from just north of Vancouver Island to near Quesnel, British Columbia. The belt includes the Rainbow, Ilgachuz, Itcha, and the Nazko Cone which is only 7,200 years old.
Anahuac Anahuac is an ancient name for a Mesoamerican, particularly Aztec, area or areas, usually identified as located within or even coterminous with the Valley of Mexico. It can also refer to the former lake basins around Mexico City, often including the Lerma and Pánuco river systems.
Anahuac (automobile) The Anahuac was a short-lived United States automobile styled after a contemporary Polish car and manufactured in 1922 in Indianapolis by the Frontenac Motor Corp. Intended for the export market (it was to have been marketed in Mexico by a Mexican concern), the car had a wheelbase of 115 inches; only four were ever completed.
Anahuac Disturbances The Anahuac Disturbances, occurring in and around Anahuac, Texas, in 1832 and 1835 helped to precipitate the Texas Revolution that led to the secession of Texas from Mexico and the formation of the Republic of Texas.
Anahuac University The Anahuac University was founded in 1964 as a central institution belonging to the Legion of Christ Educational Project. It is one of the best private universities in Mexico, with more than 28 undergraduate programs, and more than 40 postgraduate programs.
Anacharsis Anacharsis was a Scythian philosopher who travelled from his homeland on the northern shores of the Black Sea to Athens in the early 6th century BCE and made a great impression as a forthright, outspoken "barbarian," apparently a forerunner of the Skeptics and Cynics, though none of his authentic works have survived.
Anachronauts The Anachronauts are group of warriors existing in the Marvel Universe that serve Kang the Conqueror as his personal guard.The Anachronauts were brought together by Kang,after having bested each of them in personal combat and extracting their allegiance to him.
Anachronism An anachronism (from the Greek "ανά," "against," and "χρόνος," "time") is anything that is temporally incongruous — that is, it appears in a temporal context in which it appears sufficiently out of place as to be peculiar, incomprehensible or impossible. The item is often an object, but may be a verbal expression, a technology, a philosophical idea, a musical style, a material, a custom, or anything else closely enough bound to a particular period as to seem odd outside it.
Anachronism (game) Anachronism is a tabletop game with aspects of both miniatures and collectible card genres. The creators of the game, TriKing Games and The History Channel, have dubbed it "The Greatest Game in History".
Anachronistic displacement Anachronistic displacement is a psychological condition referring to an obsessive or dysfunctional belief or claim that a person "belongs" or should properly exist in another time period, and are thus unable to deal with ordinary factors in the everyday world. Senior citizens in particular can often experience feelings of anachronistic displacement if they feel the modern world has evolved to the point where they no longer "fit in" or understand their surroundings.

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