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Anthony Salvin Anthony Salvin (1799, Worthing, England - 1881, Worthing, England) was an eminent Victorian architect, renowned for his restoration of Medieval buildings, including parts of Windsor Castle. His ebullient masterpiece, Harlaxton Manor, is in a rich mix of Jacobean detailing with Baroque massing and symmetry.
Anthony Salz Anthony Salz, a prominent solicitor, sat on the Board of Governors of the BBC and was Acting Chairman in 2006. Salz assumed the position on 1 August 2004 after the resignation of the former Vice Chairman, Lord Ryder.
Anthony Sampson Anthony Terrell Seward Sampson (3 August 1926 – 18 December 2004) was a British writer; he was also a founding member of the (defunct) Social Democratic Party (SDP) . During the 1950s he edited the magazine Drum in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Anthony Scarpa Anthony Scarpa is a filmmaker and musician born and raised in New York City. His family emigrated to Brooklyn from the small Sicilian town of Polizzi Generosa, the same town from which Martin Scorsese’s family came.
Anthony Smith Anthony Smith (born March 30, 1926) is, among other things, an explorer, author and former Tomorrow's World television presenter. He is perhaps best known for his bestselling work The Body (originally published in 1968 and later renamed The Human Body), which has sold over 800,000 copies worldwide and tied in with a BBC television series, known in America by the name Intimate Universe: The Human Body.
Anthony Spilotro Anthony "Tony the Ant" Spilotro (May 19, 1938 - June 14, 1986) was a mafia enforcer for the Chicago Outfit who worked in Las Vegas in the 1970s and 1980s. It is generally thought his job was to protect and oversee the mafia's illegal casino profits.
Anthony Steen Anthony David Steen (born 22 July 1939) is a politician in the United Kingdom. Since 1997 he has been Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Totnes in Devon, previously he was the MP for South Hams between 1983 and 1997, and the MP for Liverpool Wavertree, since February 1974.
Anthony Steven Anthony Steven was a veteran television screenwriter who worked on many programmes including All Creatures Great and Small, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and several historically based dramas. His career began in 1959 with a television episode of The Third Man.
Anthony Stockwell Professor Anthony John "Tony" Stockwell is a British academic. His is considered to be one of the UK's leading researchers into the history of British imperialism and decolonisation in Southeast Asia.
Anthony Strollo Anthony C. Strollo (June 18, 1899 - April 8, 1962), also known under his alias "Tony Bender", was a New York mobster who served as a high ranking member in three of New York's "Five Families".
Anthony Stuart Lloyd Anthony Stuart Lloyd is a baritone opera singer from Cardiff in Wales. He attended school at Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf, and then studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Anthony Suau Anthony Suau, an award-winning photographer, was born in the United States in 1956. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for his photographs of the famine in Ethiopia, the World Press Photo of the Year in 1987 for a photo taken during a demonstration in South Korea, and the Robert Capa Gold medal in 1995 for his photos from Chechnya.
Anthony Sweijs Anthony Sweijs was a Dutch sports shooter who competed in the early 20th century in pistol shooting. He participated in Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and won a bronze medal with the Dutch pistol team.
Anthony Swofford Anthony Swofford, born 12 August 1970 in Fairfield, California, is the author of the book Jarhead, published in 2003. He was a lance corporal while serving as a Scout Sniper with the STA (Surveillance and Target Acquisition) Platoon of 2nd Battalion 7th Marines.
Anthony the Great Saint Anthony the Great (251 - 356), also known as Saint Anthony Abbot, Saint Anthony of Egypt, Saint Anthony of the Desert, Saint Anthony the Anchorite, and The Father of All Monks, was an Egyptian Christian saint and the outstanding leader among the Desert Fathers, who were Christian monks in the Egyptian desert in the 3rd and 4th centuries. He was located in Alexandria, Egypt for some of his life.
Anthony T. Rossi Anthony Talamo Rossi (1900-1993) was an Italian immigrant who founded Tropicana Products, a producer of orange juice founded in 1947 in Bradenton, Florida in the United States which grew from 50 employees to over 8,000 in 2004, expanding into multiple product lines and became one of the world's largest producers and marketers of citrus juice.
Anthony Taylor Anthony Taylor (born November 30, 1965 in Los Angeles, California), is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the Atlanta Hawks in the 2nd round (44th overall) of the 1988 NBA Draft. A 6'4" guard from the University of Oregon, Taylor played in only one NBA season with the Miami Heat.
Anthony Terpiloff Anthony Terpiloff was a British TV-playwright active in the period 1961-1978. He is particularly known for The Poet Game (1972) and his high quality contributions to Gerry Anderson's science fiction series Space 1999.
Anthony Thistlethwaite Anthony Thistlethwaite, sometimes Anto Thistlethwaite, born 31 August 1955 in the town of Lutterworth, Leicestershire, England, was a member of the folk-rock group The Waterboys. He and leader Mike Scott remained the nucleus of the band for many years until Thistlethwaite's departure in 1992.
Anthony Thornton Anthony Mark Thornton (born March 27, 1967 in Wanganui) is a former field hockey player from New Zealand, who finished in eighth position with the Men's National Team, nicknamed Black Sticks, at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.
Anthony Tohill Anthony Tohill (Irish: AntĂłin Ă“ Tuathail) is a former Gaelic Footballer for the Derry senior football team. He won an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship medal in 1993 with Derry and played club football with Swatragh.
Anthony Tol Dr. Anthony Tol served in the Documentation Center of the Free University (Vrije Universiteit - VU) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, as an archivist for the collection of materials assembled there for 19th Century historical developments in that country.
Anthony Towns Anthony Towns is an Australian programmer and the current Debian Project Leader. He is also one of the Debian ftpmasters, secretary of Linux Australia and has been an active member of HUMBUG since the late 1990s in his home down of Brisbane, Queensland.
Anthony Tuckney Anthony Tuckney (1599 - 1670) was an English Puritan theologian and scholar. He was the chairman of the committee of the Westminster Assembly in 1643 and was responsible for its section on the Decalogue in the "Larger Catechism.
Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Anthony Ulrich (German: Anton Ulrich; 4 October 1633, Hitzacker – 27 March 1714, Salzdahlum) was duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and ruled over the Wolfenbüttel subdivision of the duchy from 1685 until 1702 jointly with his brother, and solely from 1704 until his death.
Anthony van Diemen Anthony van Diemen (Culemborg, 1593– Batavia, 19 April 1645), or Antonius, Dutch colonial governor, was born in Culemborg in the Netherlands, the son of Bartholomeus van Diemen and Elisabeth Hoevenaar. In 1616 he became a merchant and moved to Amsterdam.
Anthony van Dyck Sir Anthony (Anton) van Dyck (22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish artist who became the leading court painter in England. He is most famous for his portraits of royalty, painted with a preternatural facility which set the standard for elegance in the genre.
Anthony Villanueva Anthony Villanueva is an amateur boxer from the Philippines who competed at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics in the Featherweight (-57 kg) division winning the silver medal in a lost bout against Soviet Union's Stanislav Stepashkin.
Anthony W. Gardiner Anthony William Gardiner (1820–1885) was the 9th President of Liberia from 1878 until 1883. He was the second member of the True Whig Party to hold that office, and the first of a series of True Whig presidents who held power uninterruptedly until 1980.
Anthony Wagner Sir Anthony Richard Wagner, KCB, KCVO, FSA (6 September, 1908–5 May 1995) was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. He served as Garter Principal King of Arms before retiring to the post of Clarenceux King of Arms.
Anthony Walter Dayrell Brooke Anthony Walter Dayrell Brooke, (b. 10 December 1912), was appointed Rajah Muda of Sarawak (heir apparent) on 25 August 1937 but in 1951 he renounced any claim to the title, following the dissolution of Sarawak in 1946.
Anthony Walton Anthony John Walton (1962- ) is a former New Zealand political party president. He was leader of the Future New Zealand party, having previously been a prominent member of Future New Zealand's predecessor, the Christian Democrat Party.
Anthony Washington Anthony Washington (born January 16, 1966 in Glasgow, Montana) is a former American discus thrower from the United States, who competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country. At the 1999 World Championships in Seville, Washington won the gold medal in discus throw.
Anthony Watson Anthony Raynard Watson possesses a versatile voice that's capable of rumbling bass and a falsetto so piercing dogs can pick it up a mile away. Watson toured and recorded with the Chi-Lites in the late '80s and off and on in the '90s.
Anthony Way Anthony Way (born December 14, 1982) was an English chorister and classical singer who shot to fame after appearing as a chorister in a BBC TV series. He has since had success as a recording artist, with gold and platinum discs to his credit.
Anthony Wayne Anthony Wayne (January 1, 1745 - December 15, 1796), was a United States Army general and statesman. Wayne adopted a military career at the outset of the American Revolutionary War, where his military exploits and fiery personality quickly earned him a promotion to the rank of brigadier general and the [of 'Mad Anthony'.
Anthony Whitfield Anthony Whitfield is an African American male, convicted in 2004 in Olympia, Washington on 17 counts of first-degree assault for knowingly exposing multiple sexual partners to HIV. He was diagnosed with the disease in 1992 after being sexually assaulted in an Oklahoma prison.
Anthony Wilden Anthony Wilden ( December 14, 1935 - ) who was born in London, England is a writer, social theorist, college lecturer, and consultant. Wilden has published numerous books and articles which intersect a number of fields, including film theory, structuralism, cybernetics, psychiatry, anthropological theory, water control projects, urban ecosystems, resource conservation, and communications and social relations.
Anthony William Hall Anthony William Hall (1898–1947) was a Shropshire man who claimed to be descended directly through the male line from Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn (from an illegitimate son, born before their marriage). In 1931, Hall attempted — in an "open letter" to King George V — to claim the British throne.
Anthony Wong (Australian actor) Anthony Wong (born May 12, 1965) is an Australian actor of Asian descent. His most well known role is that of Ghost from The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, a role which was greatly expanded in the video game Enter the Matrix, in which he starred alongside Jada Pinkett Smith as the lead.
Anthony Yerkovich Anthony Yerkovich is an American TV producer who is perhaps best known for creating the 1980s cop show Miami Vice. He served as the show's executive producer along with Michael Mann before handing over full executive responsibilties to Mann after only seven episodes.
Anthony Young, Baron Young of Norwood Green Anthony Ian Young, Baron Young of Norwood Green (born April 14, 1942) is a British politician and Labour Party life peer in the House of Lords. had previously been senior deputy general secretary of the Communication Workers Union], and as a Governor of the [[BBC.
Anthony Zee Anthony Zee is a Chinese American physicist, writer, and currently a professor at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and the physics department of the University of California at Santa Barbara, California.
Anthony's Anthony's is a chain of seafood restaurants located throughout the USA's Pacific Northwest. They have a popular spot on pier 66 in downtown Seattle, one in downtown Edmonds and Richland, and are planning on opening a new restaurant in Bremerton's new conference center.
Anthony-Noel Kelly Anthony-Noel Kelly (d. 1956) is a British artist who was charged with graverobbing after his involvement with a lab technician to illegally smuggle out cadavers and body parts from the Royal College of Surgeons in London for use in his exhibition at the London Contemporary Art Fair in 1997.
Anthony-Scott Hobbs Anthony-Scott Hobbs is a businessman, former radio talk show host, and Republican Party grass roots political leader from Cobb County, Georgia. He is chairman of the Cobb County Republican Party and a rumored candidate for State Chairman of the Georgia Republican Party.
Anthony, Duke of Brabant Antoine of Burgundy (August 1384 – October 25 1415, in the battle of Agincourt), was Duke of Brabant and Limburg and Margrave of Antwerp. Anthony was the son of Philip II, Duke of Burgundy and Margaret III of Flanders, and brother of John the Fearless.
Anthophora The genus Anthophora is one of the largest in the family Apidae, with over 450 species worldwide in 14 different subgenera. They are most abundant and diverse in the Holarctic and African biogeogrpahic regions.
Anthophorini The Anthophorini is a large tribe in the family Apidae, with over 750 species worldwide that were previously classified in the family Anthophoridae; the vast majority of species are in the genera Amegilla and Anthophora. All species are solitary, though many nest in large aggregations.
Anthopoulos Costaki Anthopoulos Costaki (Greek: Ανθοπουλος Κοστακι) (1835-1902) was a Ottoman pasha of Greek origin. He became a professor at the Ottoman naval college; then entered the legal branch of the Turkish service, rising to the post of procureur imperial at the court of cassation.
Anthotyros cheese Anthotyros (Greek: Ανθότυρος, masculine gender) is a traditional, unpasteurized, cheese made from sheep's and/or goat's whey with the addition of milk. It has various sizes and its shape is usually truncated cone or ball.
Anthracite coal Anthracite (Greek Ανθρακίτης, literally "a form of coal", from Anthrax [Άνθραξ], coal) is a hard, compact variety of mineral coal that has a high luster. It has the highest carbon count and contains the fewest impurities of all coals, despite its lower calorific content.
Anthracite iron Anthracite iron is the substance created by the smelting together of anthracite coal and iron ore. The process of making anthracite iron was first performed by David Thomas on February 5, 1837 in the Swansea Valley of Wales.
Anthraconite Anthraconite or stinkstone is a form of black, bituminous bearing marble or calcite which produces an unpleasant odour when struck or rubbed. It is thought to have been formed when limestone is deposited under anaerobic conditions.
Anthracosauria Anthracosauria refers to a group of extinct reptile-like, amphibian-like tetrapods that flourished during the Carboniferous and early Permian periods, although precisely which species are included depends on one's definition of the taxon.
Anthracotheriidae Anthracotheriidae is a family of extinct, hippopotamus-like artiodactyl ungulates related to both hippopotami and pigs. They thrived in Africa and Eurasia during the Oligocene, and eventually died out during the Miocene, possibly due to climatic changes.
Anthracotherium Anthracotherium ("coal-animal," so called from the fact of the remains first described having been obtained from the Tertiary lignite-beds of Europe), a genus of extinct artiodactyl ungulate mammals, characterized by having 44 teeth, with five semi-crescentic cusps on the crowns of the upper molars. In many respects, especially the form of the lower jaw, Anthracotherium, which is of Oligocene and Miocene age in Europe, and typifies the family Anthracotheriidae, is allied to the hippopotamus, of which it is probably an ancestral form.
Anthracycline Anthracyclines are a class of chemotherapeutic agents based upon daunosamine and tetra-hydro-naphthacene-dione. These compounds are used to treat a wide range of cancers, including (but not limited to) leukemias, lymphomas, and breast, uterine, ovarian, and lung cancers.
Anthrax (UK band) Anthrax were an anarcho punk band formed in Gravesend, Kent, England in 1980. They released singles on the Crass Records and Small wonder labels, as well as having tracks on the Crass Records released Bullshit Detector Volume 2 in 1982 and A Sides Part Two 1982-1985 compilations, recording their first demo in 1982 at Oakwood Studios.
Anthrax toxin Anthrax toxin refers to three proteins secreted by virulent strains of the bacteria Bacillus anthracis. These three proteins act together in a synergistic way in which they are endocytosed and translocated into the cytoplasm of a macrophage, where it disrupts cellular signaling and induces cell death, allowing the bacteria to evade the immune system.
Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program The Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program (AVIP), is the name of the policy set forth by the United States government to immunize its military and specific civilian personnel with the anthrax vaccine. It began in earnest in 1997 by the Clinton administration.
Anthraxus In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Anthraxus the Decayed is a powerful altraloth, a unique magically augmented yugoloth. Anthraxus was once the Oinoloth, the lord of the Wasting Tower of Khin-Oin, a position and title held by one of the most powerful of the yugoloth race.
Anthrocon Anthrocon is the world's largest furry convention, taking place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania each July. Its focus is on anthropomorphics: fictional animal characters given human personalities and characteristics.
Anthropic bias Anthropic bias, coined by the philosopher Nick Bostrom, is the bias arising when "your evidence is biased by observation selection effects". This is, basically an extreme generalisation of the confirmation bias and the cognitive bias, involving not only mind-set, memory and methodology, but the whole way in which one sees oneself as an entity investigating an environment.
Anthropic principle In physics and cosmology, the anthropic principle is an umbrella term for various dissimilar attempts to explain the structure of the universe by way of coincidentally balanced features that are necessary and relevant to the existence on Earth of biochemistry, carbon-based life, and eventually human beings to observe such a universe. The common (and "weak") form of the anthropic principle is a truism or tautology that begins with the observation that the universe appears surprisingly hospitable to the emergence of life, particularly complex multicellular life, that can make such an observation and concludes with that premise that in only such a fine-tuned universe can such living observers exist.
Anthropocene The term Anthropocene is used by some scientists to describe the most recent period in the Earth's history, starting in the 18th century when the activities of the human race first began to have a significant global impact on the Earth's climate and ecosystems. The term was coined in 2000 by the Nobel Prize winning scientist Paul Crutzen, who regards the influence of mankind on the Earth in recent centuries as so significant as to constitute a new geological era.
Anthropocentrism Anthropocentrism (Greek άνθρωπος, anthropos, human being, κέντρον, kentron, "center") is the idea that, for humans, humans must be the central concern, and that humanity must judge all things accordingly: Anthropos (the term, like “human”, refers to both men and women) must be considered, looked after and cared for, above all other real or imaginary beings. Anthropocentrism is a secular, rational and realistic perspective that is closely related to humanism.
Anthropod Anthropods are a race of aliens found in the computer game, X-COM: Apocalypse. They are among the first creatures encountered by the player, and as such have no major resistances, making them fairly easy to defeat.
Anthropogenic metabolism Anthropogenic metabolism is a term used in material flow analysis, substance flow analysis and waste management. It covers not only the physiological metabolism but also includes the thousands of goods and substances necessary to sustain modern life.
Anthropological criminology Anthropological criminology (sometimes referred to as criminal anthropology, literally a combination of the study of the human species and the study of criminals) is a field of criminal profiling, based on perceived links between the nature of a crime and the personality or physical appearance of the offender. Although similar to Physiognomy and Phrenology, the term criminal anthropology is generally reserved for the works of Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909), his theory which evolved to state that criminals were born with inferior physiological differences which were detectable.
Anthropological Index Online The Anthropological Index Online (AIO) is a searchable online database of periodicals held in the Centre for Anthropology at the British Museum. Run by the Royal Anthropological Institute, it is a bibliographic resource for researchers, teachers and students of anthropology worldwide.
Anthropological linguistics Anthropological linguistics is the study of language through human genetics and human development. This strongly overlaps the field of linguistic anthropology, which is the branch of anthropology that studies humans through the languages that they use.
Anthropological theories of value Anthropological theories of value attempt to expand on the traditional theories of value used by economists or ethicists. They are often broader in scope than the theories of value of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, etc.
Anthropology Anthropology (from the Greek word , "man" or "person") consists of the study of humanity (see genus Homo). It is holistic in two senses: it is concerned with all human beings at all times and with all dimensions of humanity.
Anthropology of media Anthropology of media (also anthropology of mass media, media anthropology) is an area of study within social or cultural anthropology that emphasizes ethnographic studies as a means of understanding producers, audiences, and other cultural and social aspects of mass media.
Anthropology of religion The anthropology of religion involves the study of religious institutions in relation to other social institutions, and the comparison of religious beliefs and practices across cultures. In the 19th century, cultural anthropology was dominated by an interest in cultural evolution; most anthropologists assumed that there was a simple distinction between “primitive” and “modern” religion and tried to provide accounts of how the former evolved into the latter.
Anthropomancy Anthropomancy (from Greek anthropos, 'man', and manteia, 'divination') is a method of divination by the entrails of dead or dying men or women, often young virgin female children through sacrifice. This practice was sometimes also called Splanchomancy (divination by examining the entrails of sacrificial victims).
Anthropometric history Anthropometric history is a term coined by John Komlos (Komlos 1989) to refer to the study of the history of human height, focusing on explaining secular trends, cycles of various lengths and cross sectional patterns by changes in the socio-economic and epidemiological environment (Komlos 1989).
Anthropometry Anthropometry (Greek ανθρωπος, man, and μετρον, measure, literally meaning "measurement of humans"), in physical anthropology, refers to the measurement of living human individuals for the purposes of understanding human physical variation.
Anthropomorphism Anthropomorphism, also called personification, anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics and qualities to nonhuman beings, inanimate objects, or natural or supernatural phenomena. A form of personification (applying human or animal qualities to inanimate objects), anthropomorphism is similar to prosopopoeia (adopting the persona of another person).
Anthropomorphobia Anthropomorphobia is the fear or hate of acknowledging in non-humans qualities we wish to consider only human. Anthropomorphobia is traditionally associated with anxiety responses to fictional animal characters displaying human behavior in works of fiction like The Secret of NIMH.
Anthropopath Anthropopathism, from the Greek "Anthropos", meaning "man" and "Pathos", meaning to feel or suffer. This is the assignation of human emotional characteristics to a non-human subject, when these are traits they do not possess.
Anthroposophical Medicine Anthroposophical medicine is a holistic and salutogenetic approach to health. It thus focuses on ensuring that the conditions for health are present in a person; combating illness is often necessary but is insufficient alone.
Anthroposophical Society The Anthroposophical Society is an organization dedicated to supporting the community of those interested in the form of spirituality known as Anthroposophy. The society was founded by Rudolf Steiner, at the time General Secretary of the Theosophical Society in Germany and members of that society in 1913 and refounded in 1923/4 "to nurture the life of the soul, both in the individual and in human society, on the basis of a true knowledge of the spiritual world".
Anthroposystem The term anthroposystem is used to describe the anthropological analogue to the ecosystem. In other words, the anthroposystem model serves to compare the flow of materials through human systems to those in naturally occurring systems.
Anthropotheism Anthropotheism is ascribing human form and nature to gods, or the belief that gods are only deified human beings. Associated with classical Greek and Roman beliefs, a type of anthropotheism finds a modern expression in the Mormon world-view of eternal progression.
Anthropotokos Anthropotokos, roughly translated, means "mother of man," (from Greek) and was ascribed to Mary the Mother of Jesus by certain Christians around the time of the Nestorian debates. Cyril (representing the orthodox viewpoint) and Nestorius both denied the use of this word.
Anthrozoology Anthrozoology is the study of human-animal interaction ("animal" referring to all non-human animals), also described as the science focusing on all aspects of the human-animal bond. and a bridge between the natural and social sciences [http://www.
Anthuan Maybank Anthuan Maybank (born December 30, 1969) was a 1996 Olympic Games gold medalist in the men's 4x400 meter relay for the United States. Maybank ran the last leg for the United States and surprisingly shrugged off an attack from Roger Black (UK) who had won a silver medal in the individual event.
Anthypolokhagos Anthypolokhagos is used in the Greek language to mean "Second Lieutenant". In the modern Hellenic Army the rank is the lowest commissioned officer rank and is inferior to an Ypolokhagos (First Lieutenant).
Anti addition In organic chemistry, anti addition is the addition of two substituents to opposite sides (or faces) of a double bond or triple bond, resulting in a decrease in bond order but an increase in number of substituents. Generally the substrate will be an alkene or alkyne.
Anti de Sitter space In mathematics and physics, n-dimensional anti de Sitter space, denoted AdS_n, is the maximally symmetric, simply-connected, Lorentzian manifold with constant negative curvature. It may be regarded as the Lorentzian analog of n-dimensional hyperbolic space.
Anti Horse Thief Association The Anti Horse Thief Association was a vigilance committee, organized at Fort Scott, Kansas, in 1859 to provide protection against marauders thriving on border warfare. It resembled other vigilance societies in organization and methods, though did not some of the shadier tactics of some other vigilance committies and members of the regulator movement.
Anti Terrorism Court of Pakistan Anti Terrorism Court (Urdu: عدالت انسداد دہشتگردی ) was established in Pakistan to deal with terrorism cases. It has been created after the amendment to the Pakistan Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Ordinance, 1999.
Anti-abolitionist riots (1834) The Anti-abolitionist riots of 1834, also known as the Farren Riots, occurred in New York City over a series of four nights, beginning on 7 July 1834. The reported impetus was an anti-American remark made by George P.
Anti-aging cream Anti-aging creams are heavily marketed and advertised on television, with the promise of making the consumer look younger and reducing visible wrinkles on the skin. Traditionally, they have been targeted towards women, but products specifically targeting men are now common, often sold as part of collections of men's grooming and skin-care products by major brands like ZirhBiotherm] and many others.
Anti-aircraft warfare Anti-aircraft warfare, or air defense, is any method of engaging military aircraft in combat from the ground. Various guns and cannons have been used in this role since the first military aircraft were used in World War I, growing in power and accuracy over the years.
Anti-aliasing In digital signal processing, anti-aliasing is the technique of minimizing aliasing (jagged, blocky or moiré patterns, popping, strobing, or unwanted sparkling) when representing a high-resolution signal at a lower resolution.
Anti-alienation clause An Anti-alienation clause is a provision in the governing document for an arrangement such as a trust that specifies that the beneficial or equitable owner of the property held in that arrangement cannot transfer his or her interest to a third party. This rule is an exception to the general rule in property law that favors free alienability.
Anti-anarchism Anti-anarchism is an ideology of opposition to anarchist movement and ideology. It is often incorporated into opposition to other policies and ideologies that threaten property interests or advocate left radicalism (e.

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