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Arabella High-Rise Building The Arabella High-Rise Building is a high-rise residential building with 23 floors, built from 1966 to 1969, by Josef Schörghuber in Munich, Germany. The building is 75 meters heigh and was designed by architect Toby Schmidbauer.
Arabella Churchill (royal mistress) Arabella Churchill (February 23, 1648 - May 30, 1730) was the mistress of King James II of England and VII of Scotland, and the mother of at least four of his children. She was the child of Sir Winston Churchill (an ancestor of Sir Winston Churchill) and Elizabeth Drake.
Arabella Kiesbauer Arabella Cosima-Asereba Kiesbauer (born April 8, 1969 in Vienna, Austria) is a TV presenter, writer and actress. She grew up in Vienna with her grandmother after her mother Hannelore (a German theater actress) and her father Sammy Ammissah (an engineer from Ghana) separated.
Arabella Knight Arabella Knight is an erotic writer from England published by Nexus Books. She specializes in stories of female submission, often set in the world of high fashion or business and involving spanking, caning, and exhibitionism.
Arabesh Arabesh is a modern typing language that was invented by arab mobile phone users to type in arabic using english keypad , mostly the young arab youth that is influenced by the western culture started to combine the english with arabic that was largly descovered is the past ten years after the introduction of satellite-television and the internet. Arabic itself as a language was completely brought up together after the decendance of the Holy Quaran upon the Prophet Muhhamad.
Arabesk Arabesk is a genre termed by Turkish musicologists for a regressive type of sound to come out of Turkey in the 1960's. Orhan Gencebay is generally considered the founder of the genre, though he disagrees with the usage of the term.
Arabesque An element of Islamic art usually found decorating the walls of mosques, the arabesque is an elaborative application of repeating geometric forms that often echo the forms of plants and animals. The choice of which geometric forms are to be used and how they are to be formatted is based upon the Islamic view of the world.
Arabesque (film) Arabesque (1966) is a thriller starring Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren. The movie is based on Gordon Cotler's novel The Cypher and directed by Stanley Donen, who also directed Charade, Indiscreet, Funny Face, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and Saturn 3.
Arabesque music Arabesk is a genre termed by Turkish musicologists for a regressive type of sound to come out of Turkey in the 1960's. Orhan Gencebay is generally considered the founder of the genre, though he disagrees with the usage of the term.
Arabeyes Arabeyes is an Open Source project that is aimed at fully supporting the Arabic language in the Unix/Linux environment. It was established in early 2001 by a number of Arab Linux Lovers including Mohammed Elzubeir, Nadim Shaikli, Chahine Hamila and Isam Bayazidi.
Arabi, Louisiana Arabi is an unincorporated community in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana on the East Bank of the Mississippi River, between the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana and Chalmette within the Greater New Orleans Metropolitan area.
Arabia Deserta Arabia Deserta ("Desert Arabia") in Latin signified the desert interior of the Arabian peninsula. In ancient times this land was populated by nomadic tribes who frequently invaded richer lands, such as Mesopotamia and Arabia Felix.
Arabia Petraea Arabia Petraea, also called Provincia Arabia or simply Arabia, was a frontier province of the Roman Empire beginning in the second century; it consisted of the former Nabataean kingdom in modern Jordan, southern modern Syria Sinai, and northwestern Saudi Arabia. Its capital was Petra.
Arabian carpetshark The Arabian bambooshark, Chiloscyllium arabicum, is a bamboo shark in the family Hemiscylliidae found in the western Indian Ocean from India, Pakistan, and the Persian Gulf between Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula, between latitudes 31° N and 8° S, and longitude 45° E and 78° E. Its length is up to 78 cm.
Arabian catshark The Arabian catshark, Halaelurus alcockii, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae, known only from the holotype which was found on the continental slope of the Arabian Sea at a depth of about 1,200 m. The holotype's length is 30 cm.
Arabian Desert The Arabian Desert is a vast desert wilderness stretching from Yemen to the Persian Gulf and Oman to Jordan and Iraq. It occupies most of the Arabian Peninsula with an area of 2,330,000 square kilometers (900,000 mi²).
Arabian Fight Arabian Fight is a scrolling beat 'em up arcade game released by Sega in 1992, unlike many of Sega's arcade titles the game was never 'ported' to a home console, presumed reasons include size and the impressive sprite scaling and effects used in the gameplay and lack of popularity or notoriety in comparison to other titles, and to this day, has never been issued for the home console market and has become virtually unknown to a large percentage of 'gamers'.
Arabian Gazelle The Arabian gazelle (Gazella arabica) was an elusive gazelle that was hunted to extinction in its Middle Eastern homeland, Saudi Arabia. It is only known from a single specimen collected on the Farasan Islands in the Red Sea in 1825.
Arabian Gulf rugby union team The Arabian Gulf rugby union team, are a combined team of players from Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and represent the Arabian Peninsula region in international rugby union competitions.
Arabian Gulf Rugby Football Union The Arabian Gulf Rugby Football Union is the governing body for rugby union in the Gulf Cooperation Council member countries of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. To begin with most matches were played on sand but today almost all matches are played on grass pitches.
Arabian Horse Association The Arabian Horse Association (AHA) is the single national organization that registers Arabian horses in the United States. It also works with the United States Equestrian Federation to sanction horse shows for Arabian horses.
Arabian mythology Arabian mythology comprises the ancient, pre-Islamic beliefs of the Arabs. Prior to the arrival and initial codification of Islam on the Arabian Peninsula in 622 CE, year one of the Islamic calendar, the physical centre of Islam, the Kaaba of Mecca, did not hold only the single symbol of "the God" as it does now.
Arabian Nights (Magic: The Gathering) Arabian Nights was the fourth Magic: The Gathering set and the first to feature completely new cards, the first "expansion" set. Ali Baba, djinns, deserts, and King Suleiman joined the Magic world on the plane of Rabiah with cards inspired by the themes and characters of the Thousand and One Arabian Nights.
Arabian Nights (TV miniseries) Arabian Nights is a three hour miniseries that was made by Hallmark Entertainment, originally shown over two nights on April 30, and May 1, 2000 on ABC in the United States and BBC One in the United Kingdom. The series was written by Peter Barnes and directed by Steve Barron and is based on the medieval Oriental stories from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights.
Arabian Oryx Sanctuary The Arabian Oryx Sanctuary is an area within the Central Desert and Coastal Hills biogeographical regions of Oman. Seasonal fogs and dews support a unique desert ecosystem whose diverse flora includes several endemic plants.
Arabian Ostrich The Middle Eastern Ostrich or Arabian Ostrich (Struthio camelus syriacus) is an extinct subspecies of the ostrich which once occurred on the Arabian Peninsula and in the Near East. Its range seems to have been continuous in prehistoric times, but with the drying-up of the Arabian Peninsula, it disappeared from the inhospitable areas of the Arabian Desert such as the Rub'al-Khali.
Arabian Parts In astrology, the Arabian/Arabic parts or lots are constructed points based on mathematical calculations of three horoscopic entities such as planets or angles. The distance between two of the points is added to the position of the third (very often the ascendant) to derive the location of the lot.
Arabian Peninsula The Arabian Peninsula (in Arabic: شبه الجزيرة العربية, or جزيرة العرب) is a peninsula in Southwest Asia at the junction of Africa and Asia consisting mainly of desert. The Arabian Peninsula is an important part of the Middle East, and plays a critically important geopolitical role because of its vast reserves of oil and natural gas.
Arabian smooth-hound The Arabian smooth-hound, Mustelus mosis, is a houndshark of the family Triakidae, found on the continental shelves of the tropical western Indian Ocean from the Red Sea and East Africa to the Maldives, India and Sri Lanka between latitudes 30° N and 7° N, at depths of between 20 and 250 m. Its length is up to 1.
Arabian Sea The Arabian Sea (Arabic: بحر العرب; transliterated: Bahr al-'Arab, Latin: Mare Erythraeum) is a region of the Indian Ocean bounded on the east by India, on the north by Pakistan and part of the southern Persian littoral, on the west by Arabian Peninsula, on the south, approximately, by a line between Cape Guardafui, the north-east point of Somalia, Socotra and Kanyakumari (Cape Comorin) in India. It was known as the Sindhu Sagar to Indians in the Vedic period of their history.
Arabianranta Arabianranta is a fast growing residential part of Helsinki, Finland. Situated close to the original Helsingfors as King Gustav I declared it before eventually it was moved some kilometers further south due to better harbour conditions.
Arabic Case On August 19, 1915, a German submarine torpedoed without warning the British White Star Line passenger liner, Arabic, with the loss of two United States citizens. This attack occurred soon after the exchanges of notes that followed the torpedoing similarly of the RMS Lusitania in which the United States had insisted that the lives of noncombatants could not lawfully be put in jeopardy by the capture or destruction of unresisting merchants.
Arabic chat alphabet The Arabic chat alphabet is used to communicate in the Arabic language over the Internet or for sending messages via cellular phones when the actual Arabic alphabet is unavailable for technical reasons. It is mainly a character encoding of Arabic to the Latin alphabet.
Arabic Infancy Gospel The Arabic Infancy Gospel is one of the texts found in the New Testament apocrypha concerning the infancy of Jesus. It is was compiled in the sixth century, and was based on the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, and Protevangelium of James.
Arabic Integrated Services Arabic Integrated Service (AIS) is one of the leading content management provider in Middle East. Their range of services includes document translation, web site localization, Desktop Publishing (DTP) and consultancy.
Arabic literature Arabic literature is the writing produced, both prose and poetry, by speakers of the Arabic language. It does not usually include works written using the Arabic alphabet but not in the Arabic language such as Persian literature and Urdu literature.
Arabic music Arabic music is a term used to describe the music of Arabic-speaking people or Arab countries. It also describe several genres and styles of music ranging from Arab classical to Arabic pop music and from secular to sacred music.
Arabic numerals Arabic numerals, known formally as Hindu-Arabic numerals, and also as Indian numerals, Hindu numerals, Western Arabic numerals, European numerals, or Western numerals, are the most common symbolic representation of numbers around the world. They are considered an important milestone in the development of mathematics.
Arabic star The Arabic star is a punctuation mark developed to be distinct from the asterisk (*). The asterisk had existed in feudal times, and the original shape of the asterisk was six-pointed, each point like a teardrop coming from the center.
Arabidopsis thaliana Arabidopsis thaliana, commonly called arabidopsis, thale cress, or mouse-ear cress, a small flowering plant related to cabbage and mustard, is one of the model organisms for studying plant sciences, including genetics and plant development. It plays the role for agricultural sciences that mice and fruit flies (Drosophila) play in human biology.
Arabis alpina Arabis alpina (Alpine rock-cress) is a flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae that grows in mountainous areas of Europe, north Africa, central and eastern Asia and parts of North America. In the British Isles, it is only known to occur in a few locations in the Cuillin Ridge of the Isle of Skye.
Arabis class sloop The Arabis class sloops were built under the Emergency War Programme for the Royal Navy in World War I as part of the larger "Flower Class", which were also referred to as the "Cabbage Class", or "Herbaceous Borders".
Arabist (political) An Arabist is a specialist in the Arabic language or culture. The word is used in a political context to refer to a non-Arabic (usually Western) individual who is sympathetic towards Arabic culture and policies.
Arabization Arabization is the gradual transformation of an area into one that speaks Arabic and is part of the Arab culture. It can also mean the replacement or displacement of a native population with Arabs, although this rarely happened in ancient times, as there weren't nearly sufficient numbers of original Arabs to replace or displace existing populations.
Arabkir Arabkir or Arabgir (Armenian: ) (During the rule of Byzantine Empire it was called Arabraces) is a town in south-eastern Turkey in the Malatya Province, or Mamuret-el-Aziz Province during the Ottoman Empire rule. As of 2000 it had a population of 17,070 people.
ArabNews Arab News is a leading English language source of news presented from an Arab perspective. It has been published by Hisham Hafiz's Saudi Research & Publishing Company since 1975], and is currently available as both a daily [[newspaper and a website.
Arabs in the Philippines The Philippines, a country with many vast communities of immigrants and foreigners (especially Americans and Chinese), also has a notable Middle Eastern community. According to a recent survey, Arabs in the Philippines number about 22,000.
Arabs in Turkey In 1995 Turkey's ethnic Arab population was estimated at 800,000 to 1 million, according to the US Library of Congress Country Study. The Arabs are heavily concentrated in big cities such as Ä°stanbul, Ankara and along the Syrian border, especially in Hatay Province, which France, having at that time had mandatory power in Syria, ceded to Turkey according to the election polls in 1939.
ArabTeX ArabTeX is a free software package providing support for the Arabic and Hebrew alphabets to TeX and LaTeX. Written by Klaus Lagally, it can take romanized ASCII or native script input to produce quality ligatures for Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Sindhi, Maghribi, Uyghur, Kashmiri, Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, Ladino and Yiddish.
Arabuko Sokoke National Park The Arabuko Sokoke National Park protects the Arabuko Sokoke Forest on the coast of Kenya, 110 km north of Mombassa. This national park protects the largest fragment of coastal forest (420 square km) left in East Africa, and is an area of high endemism, containing endemic mammals, birds and plants.
Araceae The arums comprise the Family Araceae (including the numerous aroids subfamily): monocotyledonous flowering plants in which flowers are borne on a type of inflorescence called a spadix. The spadix is usually accompanied by, and sometimes partially enclosed in, a spathe or leaf-like hood.
Aracuan Bird The Aracuan Bird is a character created by The Walt Disney Company. The Aracuan, is also called the Clown of the Jungle and first appeared in the feature film "The Three Caballeros" (1945); though, despite his apparent on-screen popularity, strangely he did not appear in the comicbook adaptation of that film.
Arad, Israel Arad (Hebrew: ערד, Arabic: عراض) is a modern city in the South District of Israel, on the border of the Judean and Negev deserts, 25 km west of the Dead Sea and 45 km east of Beersheba, near the famous Masada (Metzada).
Aradale Mental Hospital Aradale Mental Hospital was an Australian psychiatric hospital, located in Ararat, Victoria, Australia. Construction began in 1860, and the guardhouses are listed as being built in 1866 though the list of patients extends as far back as the year before (1865).
Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches is a 1899 book by Charles Godfrey Leland. The book is an attempt to portray the beliefs and rituals of an underground religious witchcraft tradition in Tuscany that had survived for centuries until Leland's claimed discovery of its existence in the 1890s.
Arado Ar 196 The Ar 196 was a shipboard reconnaissance aircraft built by Arado starting in 1936. The next year it was selected as the winner of a design contest, and became the standard aircraft of the Kriegsmarine throughout World War II.
Arado Ar 231 The Arado Ar 231 was a light-weight seaplane developed during World War II in Germany as a scout plane for submarines. The need to be stored inside the submarine necessitated compromises in design that left the single-seat seaplane of little practical use.
Arado Ar 232 The Ar 232 TausendfĂĽssler ("millipede" in German) was the first truly modern transport aircraft, designed and built in small numbers by Arado during World War II. The design introduced almost all of the features now considered to be "standard" to transports, including a low-slung box-like fuselage, rear loading ramp, a high tail for easy access to the hold, and various features for operating from rough fields.
Arado Ar 234 The Arado Ar 234 Blitz (Lightning) was the world's first operational jet powered bomber, built by the Arado company in the closing stages of World War II. In the field it was used almost entirely in the reconnaissance role, but in its few uses as a bomber it proved to be nearly impossible to intercept.
Arado Ar 240 The Arado Ar 240 was a twin-engine multi-role heavy fighter aircraft developed for the Luftwaffe during World War II by Arado Flugzeugwerke. Its first flight was in 1940, but problems with the design hampered development and it remained only marginally stable through the prototype phase.
Arado Ar 80 The Arado Ar 80 was a pre-World War II fighter aircraft design by Arado Flugzeugwerke ("Arado"), designed to compete for the Luftwaffe's first fighter contract. The Ar 80 was both uninspiring in terms of performance and also suffered a number of failures.
Arado Balanga Arado Balanga is a fictional character from the Super Robot Wars series. He has appeared as a playable character in the Super Robot Wars Alpha series, as well as the Super Robot Wars Original Generation series.
Arado Flugzeugwerke Arado Flugzeugwerke was a German aircraft manufacturer, originally established as the WarnemĂĽnde factory of the Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen firm. With its parent company, it ceased operations following the First World War when restrictions on German aviation were created by the Treaty of Versailles.
Araeoscelidia Araeoscelidia or Araeoscelida is a clade of extinct diapsid reptiles superficially resembling lizards. It contains the genera Araeoscelis, Petrolacosaurus, the possibly aquatic Spinoaequalis, and less well-known genera such as Kadaliosaurus and Zarcasaurus.
Araeostyle Araeostyle (Gr. αραιος, "weak" or "widely spaced", and στυλος, "column") is an architectural term for the intercolumniation given to those temples where the columns had only timber architraves to carry.
Araeosystyle Araeosystyle (Gr. αραιος, "widely spaced", and συστυλος, "with columns set close together"), an architectural term applied to a colonnade, in which the intercolumniation is alternately wide and narrow, as in the case of the western porch of St Paul's Cathedral and the east front of the Louvre by Perrault.
Araevin Teshurr Araevin Teshurr a character in the Forgotten Realms, is a sun elf of the ancient House of Floshin (the House of Long Silences). In his younger days in Faerun (before he joined the wizards at Tower Reilloch) he formed the Company of the White Star with Grayth Holmfast (a human priest of Lathander), Baron Darthen Ironwright, Theleda Rost (now deceased), and the dwarf cleric of Moradin named Belmora (now deceased).
Arafat Waheed Khan Arafat Waheed Khan (born 18 May 1981) is one of the suspects arrested in the UK in connection to the 2006 transatlantic aircraft terrorist plot in the United Kingdom, and one of the nineteen whose accounts were frozen by the Bank of England.
Arafura Games The Arafura Games is a Multi-sport event usually held every 2 years in the Australian city of Darwin, in the Northern Territory. It is an international event which draws its competitors from around Australasia.
Arafura Sea The Arafura Sea is a shallow arm of the Pacific Ocean overlying the continental shelf between Australia and New Guinea. It is bordered by Torres Strait and through that the Coral Sea to the east, the Gulf of Carpentaria to the south, the Timor Sea to the west and the Banda and Ceram seas to the northwest.
Aragami Aragami is a 2003 Japanese action film directed by Ryuhei Kitamura. It was Kitamura's contribution to the Duel Project, a challenge issued by producer Shinya Kawai to him and fellow director Yukihiki Tsutsumi to film a feature length movie with only two actors, battling in one setting, in only the time frame of one week.
Arago spot In optics, an Arago spot is a bright point which appears at the center of the shadow of a circular object in light from a point source. It is of considerable interest due to the historical part it played in the wave theory of light.
Aragon High School It has been suggested that this school-related article be merged to the appropriate school district or locality article. It may not meet Wikipedia's standards of verifiability or notability, it may not feature multiple independent reliable sources, or it may be a short entry that provides only directory-style information about the school.
Aragon, New Mexico Aragon is an unincorporated community on the Tularosa River in Catron County, New Mexico. It is on the site of former Fort Tularosa (1872 - 1874), which was built to protect the Indian Agency for the Ojo Caliente Band of Apaches.
Aragonaise Aragonaise is from Aragon, a region in Spain, and means "dance of Aragon". There are two famous musical compositions named "Aragonaise", one by Jules Massenet from his opera Le Cid, the other from the opera Carmen by Bizet.
Aragonese cuisine Aragonese cuisine refers to the typical dishes and ingredients of cuisine in the Aragon region of Spain. These include roast lamb (especially ewes); ham (jamón) from Teruel; olive oil from Empeltre and Arbequina; and wines from Cariñena, Somontano (Huesca), Calatayud and Campo de Borja.
Aragonese Crusade The Aragonese Crusade or Crusade of AragĂłn was declared by Pope Martin IV against the King of AragĂłn, Peter III the Great, in 1284 and 1285. Because of the recent conquest of Sicily by Peter, the Pope declared a crusade against him and officially deposed him as king, on the grounds that Sicily was a papal fief: Peter's grandfather and namesake, Peter II, had surrendered the kingdom as a fief to the Holy See.
Aragonese Party The Aragonese Party (Spanish: Partido Aragonés, or PAR) is a political party which advocates the interests of Aragon within Spain. The party was founded in 1978 under the name Aragonese Regionalist Party, but changed its name in 1990, keeping the initials PAR.
Aragoto Aragoto (Japanese: 荒事) is a style of Kabuki acting that uses exaggerated, dynamic kata (forms or movements). Often, aragoto actors wear bold red or blue makeup (kumadori), and have costumes that are padded and enlarged.
Araguari Araguari is a city and municipality in northwestern Minas Gerais state, Brazil. It is located in the northern Triângulo Mineiro region, on the Jordão River, a tributary of the Paranaíba River, at an elevation between 940 and 1,087 meters.
Arahan Arahan (아라한 장풍 대작전, Arahan jangpung daejakjeon) is a 2004 South Korean film. The film was the third feature film directed by Ryu Seung-wan and stars the director's brother Ryu Seung-beom along with Yoon So-Yi.
Arahura Arahura, in Māori mythology (specifically that of the Ngāi Tahu people of the South Island), is a divine canoe which was made of pounamu (greenstone). The chiefs who traveled to New Zealand in her were Pekitahua, Rongokahe, Rangitatau, Hineraho, Te Rangitamau, Taewhenua, Te Mikimiki (Te Mingimingi), Atua-whakanihoniho, Te Atua-whakataratara, and Whakarewa (Tregear 1891:20, White 1887-1891, II:179).
Arachis Arachis is a genus of about 70 species of annual and perennial flowering plants in the pea family (Fabaceae) and native to South America. At least one species, the Peanut (Arachis hypogaea), is a major food crop species of global importance; some of the other species are cultivated to a small extent in South America.
Arachis archeri Arachis archeri (Portuguese common name: Amendoim do campo limpo) is a herb native to Mato Grosso vegetation in Brazil. This plant is cited as gene sources for research in plant biology of peanut (Arachis hypogaea).
Arachis glabrata Arachis glabrata (Creeping forage peanut, Rhizoma peanut, Rhizoma perennial peanut, Perennial forage peanut; Portuguese common names included Amendoim-forrageiro, Amendoim-bravo, Amendoim-do-campo-baixo) is a high quality forage plant native to Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay vegetation. This plant is also used for soil conservation and as an ornamental plant.
Arachnitis Arachnitis uniflora, the sole species in the genus Arachnitis, is a non-photosynthetic species of plant known as a "cheater" that obtains its sugars from fungi instead of vice-versa. It is found in South America.
Arachnodactyly Arachnodactyly, also known as "spider fingers" or achromachia, is a condition in which the fingers are abnormally long and slender in comparison to the palm of the hand. It can be present at birth or develop in later life.
Arachnology Arachnology is the scientific study of spiders and related organisms such as scorpions, pseudoscorpions, harvestmen, collectively called arachnids. However, the study of ticks and mites is sometimes not included in arachnology, but is called Acarology.
Arachnomorpha Arachnomorpha Lameere 1890 is a subdivision of Arthropoda, containing the monophyletic group formed by the trilobites and the chelicerates. Great debate is held on the position of the Pycnogonida, which are currently thought not to be placed in the immediate vicinity of the Chelicerata (Dunlop & Arango, 2005).
Arachnophobia Arachnophobia is a specific phobia, an abnormal fear of spiders and sometimes other arachnids, such as scorpions and harvestmen. With an estimated half of all women, and one quarter of all men in the United States experiencing it in some degree, it is among the most common of phobias.
Arachosia Arachosia is the Greek name of an ancient province of the Achaemenid, Seleucid and Parthian empires and corresponds to the southern part of today's Afghanistan and parts of Pakistan and India. The Helmand River runs through Arachosia and provides the most fertile lands in southern Afghanistan.
Arachthos River The Arachthos River (Greek: Άραχθος) is a river in eastern Epirus in Greece that flows from the Pindus mountains and begins in the area southeast of Metsovo in the Ioannina Prefecture near the Trikala Prefecture and flows by numerous village including Elliniko. It enters the Arta Prefecture and into the Arachthos Dam which is about 20 km² and prevents flooding of the city as well as supplies water to the most of Epirus.
Arai Hakuseki Arai Hakuseki (新井 白石) (March 24, 1657-June 29, 1725) was a Confucianist, poet and politician in Japan during the middle of Edo Period, who advised the Shogun, Ienobu. His personal name is Kinmi (君美).
Arai Toshiya Arai Toshiya is a Japanese arranger, composer, remixer and DJ who produces house, breakbeats and 1960s-inspired music. He has remixed the theme song for the anime Lupin the 3rd, as well as some classical pieces on his album Readymade Digs Classics.
Arajs Commando The Arajs Commando, lead by SS-Sturmbannführer Viktors Arājs, was a unit of Latvian Auxiliary Police (Hilfspolizei) subordinated to SD, and was established by the commander of Einsatzgruppe A and Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer (HSSPF: Higher SS and Police Leader) of Reichskommissariat Ostland, Walter Stahlecker. The unit actively participated in the killing of Jews during the Holocaust as well as punitive actions and Nazi crimes along the Latvia's eastern border in Russia and Belarus.
Arak (distilled beverage) Arak or araq (Arabic: عرق IPA [ʕaraq]) is a clear, colourless, unsweetened aniseed-flavoured distilled alcoholic drink, produced in the eastern Mediterranean, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Israel and Iraq. The word comes from Arabic araq عرق, meaning "sweat" or "juice".
Arakaka Arakaka is a community in the Barima-Waini region of Guyana, standing on the Barima River and 12 miles southerly of Port Kaituma, at an altitude of 63 metres (209 feet). It is the centre of the gold-bearing district, featuring lateritic-saprolitic deposits.
Arakawa River The Arakawa River (Japanese: 荒川) is one of the principal rivers flowing through Tokyo, the capital city of Japan. The point of origin is on Mount Kobushi in Saitama Prefecture, and the Arakawa empties into Tokyo Bay.
Araki Yasusada Araki Yasusada was a non-existent Japanese poet, presumably the creation of US literature professor Kent Johnson. The publication of Yasusada's poetry by major literary journals such as the American Poetry Review, Grand Street and Conjunctions during the early 1990s created an embarrassing scandal for these publications, who had to defend themselves against charges that they only published the poetry because of political correctness.
Arakiel Arakiel (Aramaic: פלא פקתן, Greek: ‘Αραθάκ Κιμβρά) is a fallen angel from the pseudepigraphical Book of Enoch. Some sources list him as Araqiel or Arâkîba and was the second on a list of twenty leaders of a group of 200 fallen angels called Grigori or "Watchers.

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