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Arcade Comics Arcade Comics is an independent comic book company founded by, former Image Comics mainstay, Rob Liefeld and Jimmy Jay of "Jay Company Comics". This is Liefeld's 4th publishing label after Extreme Studios, Maximum Press and Awesome Comics.
Arcade game An arcade game is a coin-operated entertainment machine, typically installed in businesses such as restaurants, pubs, video arcades, and Family Entertainment Centers. Most arcade games are redemption games, video games or pinball machines.
Arcade perfect Arcade perfect is a term used to describe video games which have been ported from an arcade version to another platform, such as a console, without any alterations to the game's workings. This means that graphics, sound and gameplay, along with the game's other characteristics, are identical to the arcade version.
Arcade Racer Joystick Arcade Racer was a steering wheel type of joystick for the Sega Saturn video game console, helpful when playing racing games. Unlike most controllers at that time which were digital, the Arcade Racer is analog.
Arcade style controller An arcade style controller is a high quality gaming controller for a home console that is designed to replicate the arcade experience as closely as possible. Sometimes there are official controllers, but many times it is up to the fans of the game to create their own.
Arcades Project The Passagenwerk or Arcades Project was Walter Benjamin's lifelong project, an enormous collection of writings on the city life of Paris in the 19th century, especially concerned with the roofed outdoor "arcades" which created the city's distinctive street life and culture of flânerie. The project, which many scholars believe might have become one of the great texts of 20th-century cultural criticism, was never completed.
Arcadi Gaydamak Arcadi Gaydamak (also spelled Arkadi Gaydamak, Russian: Аркадий Гайдамак, Hebrew: ארקדי גיידמק) (born 1952 in Ukraine (USSR)) is an Israeli billionaire businessman, and member of the wealthy Gaydamak family. Gaydamak holds French and Israeli passports in addition to diplomatic Canadian and Angola passports.
Arcadia (band) Arcadia was the pop group formed in 1985 by Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes and Roger Taylor of Duran Duran, during a break in that band's schedule. However, Roger Taylor appeared in only a few band photographs and in none of the music videos, and stated he was only to be involved in the recording side of the project (he also had minor involvement in The Power Station, the other Duran Duran splinter group).
Arcadia (Dungeons & Dragons) In Dungeons & Dragons, the fantasy role-playing game, Arcadia or more fully, the Peaceable Kingdoms of Arcadia, is a lawful neutral/lawful good-aligned plane of existence. It is one of a number of alignment-based Outer Planes that form part of the standard Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) cosmology, used in the Planescape, Greyhawk and some editions of the Forgotten Realms campaign settings.
Arcadia (The Longest Journey) Arcadia is one of the twin worlds that the Earth has been Divided into, as featured in the adventure game The Longest Journey and its sequel, Dreamfall. Unlike its cyberpunk counterpart Stark, Arcadia is a fantasy realm, where magic, ancient mysteries and a number of fantasy races and creatures are native.
Arcadia (utopia) Arcadia (Greek: ) was a province of ancient Greece. It has become a poetical name for fantasy land (having more or less the same connotation as Utopia), a concept originating in Renaissance mythology of a land of outstanding natural beauty unspoiled by human civilisation, free of war and pain and offering boundless pleasures both spiritual and physical.
Arcadia Ægypti Arcadia or Arcadia Ægypti was an ancient region in Roman controlled Egypt. The territory was mostly carved from the former region, Heptanomis, and included the nomes of Memphites, Heracleopolites, Arsinoites, Aphroditopolites, Oxyrhyncites, which together form the northern portion of the Heptanomis, and Leptopolites.
Arcadia Group The Arcadia Group is a British company that owns several high street clothing retailers including Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge, Burton, Evans, Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Outfit. Together, the group is responsible for around 2,000 shops.
Arcadia Historic District The Arcadia Historic District is a historic district in Arcadia, Florida. It is bounded by Lee and Miles Avenues, Imogene, Cypress, Pine, and Magnolia Streets, encompasses approximately 3400 acres, and contains 293 historic buildings.
Arcadia of My Youth is an anime film depicting the origin of Leiji Matusmoto's seminal character Captain Harlock. At one time, it was considered to be the central hub of the so called Leijiverse with other works such as Galaxy Express 999 and 1978's Space Pirate Captain Harlock television series occurring sometime after.
Arcadia Publishing Arcadia Publishing is the leading publisher of local and regional history in the United States, with over 3,500 local history books currently in print. Arcadia maintains its headquarters and southeast regional editorial office in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.
Arcadia Sawmill and Arcadia Cotton Mill The Arcadia Sawmill and Arcadia Cotton Mill (also known as the Arcadia Mill Site or Escambia Manufacturing Company) is a historic site a mile southwest of Milton, Florida, United States. On August 3, 1987, it was added to the U.
Arcadia University Arcadia University is a private liberal arts university located in Glenside, Pennsylvania, on the outskirts of Philadelphia. The university has a co-educational student population of 3,600, with 300 faculty members.
Arcadia VZW Arcadia VZW is a Belgian organisation dedicated to informing the public about, teaching and promoting spiritual self-development in the Wiccan religious path. The name was chosen because, according to their beliefs, mythical Arcadia housed those entities who did not wish to conform to the rigid laws of the "official" gods of Mount Olympus, but preferred a more intuitive and open approach to life.
Arcadian Court The Arcadian Court is an Art Deco restaurant and banquet hall on the eighth floor of the downtown Toronto location of the Canadian department store The Bay, whose wrought iron railings, arched windows and huge chandeliers made it one of Toronto's most exclusive dining spots for many years. Three skylights allow light to enter the white wash hall interior.
Arcadian Del Sol Arcadian Del Sol was the pen name of a writer who focused on news and issues relating to MMORPGs. Arcadian wrote for the blog The Rantings of Lum The Mad and then went on to write freelance for Computer Gaming World magazine.
Arcadius of Antioch Arcadius of Antioch was a Greek grammarian who flourished in the 2nd century CE. According to the Suda, he wrote treatises on orthography and syntax, and an onomasticon (vocabulary), described as "a wonderful production".
Arcaicam Esperantom Arcaicam Esperantom is a constructed language created to act as a fictional 'Old Esperanto,' in the vein of languages such as Old English. It was proposed by the Hungarian poet Kalman Kalocsay, and created by Manuel Halvelik.
Arcan (dance) The Arcan is the name of a custom, and of the associated popular dance and melody, of Romania. It is sometimes also called laĹŁ or pripon, meaning "lasso"/"tether" or "aiguillette".
Arcana Unearthed Arcana Unearthed (properly Monte Cook's Arcana Unearthed, ISBN 1-58846-065-7) is a popular role-playing game created by Monte Cook and first published in 2003. Described as a "variant player's handbook", the 256 page hardcover core rulebook bears many similarities to the Players Handbook of 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons, on which Cook worked a few years prior.
Arcandam Arcandam was a celebrated astrological pseudonym of the sixteenth century, under which books of predictions were published in Latin and French from about 1540.The Arcandam doctor peritissimus ac non vulgaris astrologus dates from 1541.
Arcane Archer (Dungeons & Dragons) Arcane archer is a prestige class in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. It is also a prestige class introduced in the first expansion pack to the D&D computer game Neverwinter Nights (NWN), titled Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide.
Arcangues (horse) Arcangues (foaled March 12, 1988) is a Thoroughbred racehorse from France. Sired by owner Daniel Wildenstein's 1984 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Sagace, he was given the name of the village of Arcangues in the Pyrenees Atlantiques departement in the Aquitaine region.
Arcanine is one of fictional species of Pokémon in the Pokémon franchise. Because Arcanine is considered a legendary beast (albeit with a small "l"), and is a cross of a few mythical, magical beings (most notably the dragon and the Chinese fu dog), its name is most likely a portmanteau of the words "arcane" (in the sense of "mystical") and "canine.
Arcanum corallinum Arcanum corallinum, in alchemy, is a preparation of red precipitate, made by distilling it with spirit of nitre, and repeating the distillation again and again, till a red powder is produced. This powder is then boiled in water, and the water poured off, and tartarized spirit of wine put to the powder.
Arcanum duplicatum Arcanum duplicatum (potassium sulfate), also known as panacea duplicata, in pre-modern medicine, is a preparation of the caput mortuum, or the remaining residue from distillation or sublimation, of aqua fortis, by dissolving it in hot water, filtering, and evaporating it to a cuticle. It is then left to shoot.
Arcanum joviale Arcanum joviale, in pre-modern medicine, is a preparation made of an amalgama of mercury and tin, digested in spirit of nitre. The nitre being drawn off, the remaining matter is wetted with spirit of wine, and the spirit burnt away.
Arcas (rocket) Arcas was the designation of an American sounding rocket, which was launched between July 31, 1959 and August 9, 1991 at least 421 times. The Arcas has a maximum flight altitude of 52 kilometers, a takeoff thrust of 1.
Arcata and Mad River Railroad The Arcata and Mad River Railroad, , was affectionately known as the "Annie and Mary". AMR's predecessor, the Union Wharf and Plank Walk Company was incorporated on December 15 1854, to provide access over the mud flats near the town of Union (later Arcata) to ocean going shipping for a distance of .
Arcediano Arcediano is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 16 kilometres from the city of Salamanca and has a population of 108 people.
Arcetri Arcetri is a region of Florence in the hills to the south of the city centre. A number of historic buildings are situated there, including the house of the famous scientist Galileo (called Villa il Gioiello), the Convent of San Matteo and the Torre del Gallo.
Arceuthobium The genus Arceuthobium, commonly called Dwarf Mistletoes, are a genus of 46 species of parasitic plants found in North America, Central America, across Asia and the Mediterranean region, occurring in coniferous forests. They all have very reduced shoots and leaves (mostly reduced to scales) with the bulk of the plant living under the host's bark.
ArcGIS ArcGIS (Arc gee-eye-ESS) is the name of a group of Geographic Information System software product lines produced by ESRI. At the desktop GIS level, ArcGIS can include: ArcReader, which allows one to view and query maps created with the other Arc products; ArcView, which allows one to view spatial data, create maps, and perform basic spatial analysis; ArcEditor which includes all the functionality of ArcView, includes more advanced tools for manipulation of shapefiles and geodatabases; or ArcInfo the most advanced version of ArcGIS, which includes added capabilities for data manipulation, editing, and analysis.
Arcjet rocket Arcjets are a form of electric propulsion, whereby an electrical discharge (arc) is created in a flow of propellant (typically hydrazine or ammonia). This imparts additional energy to the propellant, so that one can extract more work out of each kilogram of propellant, at the
Arcminute Microkelvin Imager The Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI) is an interferometer radio telescope designed principally to image secondary anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) at higher angular resolution than the Very Small Array. It consists of two interferometric arrays sited at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory in Cambridge, both operating in the frequency range 12-18 GHz.
Arco di Portogallo The Arco di Portogallo is an arch over the via Lata in Rome close to the Ara Pacis, which is often called Arcus Hadriani (Arch of Hadrian), because of two reliefs of the Hadrianic period that adorned it and are now in the Palazzo dei Conservatori (Helbig, Führer3, 897, 900; Strong, Sculpture 236‑8; SScR 213‑215; PBS IV.258‑263; v.
Arco Iris Arco Iris were a rock group from the late 60s until the late 70s in Argentina, and one of the most influential in argentine rock history in more ways than just music. While tagged as an 'acoustic' argentine rock band in the beginning, Arco Iris were pioneers (with Chilean band Los Jaivas), infusing rock with regional folk music, as well as one of the first bands that projected their beliefs through their music and lifestyle (in their case around the art of yoga).
Arcola Arcola is an offshoot of the Intelligent Dance Music record label Warp Records. It was set up in late 2003, and takes its name from the Arcola Theatre, Arcola Street in Dalston, London where Warp held the launch parties for the label.
Arcola Theatre Arcola Theatre is a renowned Fringe theatre on Arcola Street, Dalston, London Borough of Hackney, which aims to create and present high-quality theatre with a social and political relevance to its multicultural local community as well as a wider audience.
Arcomage Arcomage is a minigame included in two installments of the Might and Magic series of fantasy role-playing games. It is included in both Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor and Might and Magic VIII: Day of the Destroyer.
Arcot Arcot is a city and a municipality in Vellore district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. Located on the Palar River at , the city straddles a highly strategic trade route between Chennai (Madras) and Bangalore, between the Mysore Ghat and the Javadi Hills.
ArcReader ArcReader is a basic data viewer for maps and GIS data published in the proprietary ESRI format using ArcPublisher. The software also provides some basic tools for map viewing, printing and querying of spatial data.
Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, or AARI (, abbreviated as ААНИИ) is the oldest and largest Russian research institute in the field of comprehensive studies of Arctic and Antarctica, located in St.Petersburg.
Arctic Bay, Nunavut Arctic Bay (Inuktitut syllabics: ᐃᒃᐱᐊᕐᔪᒃ, ikpiarjuk) is an Inuit hamlet located in the northern part of the Borden Peninsula on Baffin Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. The predominant languages are Inuktitut and English.
Arctic convoys of World War II The Arctic convoys of World War II travelled from the United Kingdom and the United States to the northern ports of the Soviet Union - Archangel and Murmansk. There were 78 convoys between August 1941 and May 1945 (although there were two gaps with no sailings between July and September 1942, and March and November 1943).
Arctic Cape The Arctic Cape (also called Mys Arkticheskiy from the Russian Мыс Арктический) is the northernmost point of Komsomolets Island, which in turn is the northernmost island of the Russian Severnaya Zemlya archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. Its coordinates are approximately 81°13' N and 95°15' E.
Arctic Cat Arctic Cat is a producer of all-terrain vehicles and Snowmobiles in the United States. Located in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, they are a top competitor with other snowmobile companies such as Polaris, Ski-Doo by Bombardier, and Yamaha Motor Company Ltd..
Arctic Cathedral The Tromsdalen Church (Tromsdalen Kirke), which is more commonly known as The Arctic Cathedral (Ishavskatedralen), is a church in Tromsø, Norway, built in 1965. The church is a parish church and not, strictly speaking, a cathedral.
Arctic Circle Restaurants Arctic Circle Restaurants is a chain of burger and shake restaurants based in Midvale, Utah. There are several dozen stores, with about a third owned by the company and two-thirds by franchisees, in Utah, California, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming.
Arctic Climate Impact Assessment The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) is a study describing the ongoing climate change in the Arctic and its consequences: rising temperatures, loss of sea ice, unprecedented melting of the Greenland ice sheet, and many impacts on ecosystems, animals, and people. The ACIA is the first comprehensively researched, fully referenced, and independently reviewed evaluation of arctic climate change and its impacts for the region and for the world.
Arctic Glacier Arctic Glacier is a manufacturer of packaged ice in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The company was founded in 1996 and has rapidly grown to become the largest producer of ice for the Canadian market and one of the largest for the American market.
Arctic Hospital Arctic Hospital (Eric Patterson Bray born January 11, 1978 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an American DJ and record producer. He began DJing industrial and EBM at age 14, and began producing urban techno on a Macintosh using the software sequencer Logic when he was 17.
Arctic char Arctic char or Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) is both a freshwater and saltwater fish in the Salmonidae family, native to Arctic, sub-Arctic and alpine lakes and coastal waters. No other freshwater fish is found as far north.
Arctic Mars Analog Svalbard Expedition (AMASE) 2006 Arctic Mars Analog Svalbard Expedition (AMASE) 2006 is the title of a two and a half week long expedition during the summer of 2006. AMASE is a team of international experts, scientists, engineers and filmmakers.
Arctic Monkeys Arctic Monkeys are a four-piece indie rock/post-punk revival band from High Green, a suburb of Sheffield, England. Their first two singles, "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" and "When the Sun Goes Down", went straight to number one in the UK Singles Chart.
Arctic Monkeys members Arctic Monkeys are a British indie post-punk revival rock band from Sheffield, England. The band is best known for their first two singles, "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" and "When the Sun Goes Down", both of which went straight to number one in the UK Singles Chart while the band's debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, sold 360,000 copies in its first week alone, setting the record for the largest first week sales of a debut album in UK history.
Arctic Monkeys tour history Arctic Monkeys are a four-piece, indie rock band from Sheffield, England. Since signing for Domino Records in 2005, the band have gained popularity in many parts of the world, and have gradually progressed to playing larger venues.
Arctic MUD Arctic MUD is a multiplayer role-playing game set in the world of the popular Dragonlance fantasy series. In this text-based MUD or Multi User Dungeon, the player creates and develops an in-game persona, advancing their character through adventuring, defeating monsters and completing quests.
Arctic oscillation The Arctic oscillation (AO) is the dominant pattern of non-seasonal sea-level pressure (SLP) variations north of 20N, and it is characterized by SLP anomalies of one sign in the Arctic and anomalies of opposite sign centered about 37-45N. The North Atlantic oscillation (NAO) is a close relative of the AO and there exist arguments about whether one or the other is more fundamentally representative of the atmosphere's dynamics.
Arctic Ocean The Arctic Ocean, located mostly in the Arctic north polar region, is the smallest of the world's five oceans and the shallowest. Even though the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) recognizes it as an ocean, oceanographers may call it the Arctic Mediterranean Sea or simply the Arctic Sea, classifying it as one of the mediterranean seas of the Atlantic Ocean.
Arctic Refuge drilling controversy The question of whether or not to allow drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been a political football for every sitting American president since Jimmy Carter. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is just east of Prudhoe Bay in Alaska's "North Slope," which is North America's largest oil field.
Arctic Region Supercomputing Center The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC) is a research facility organized under the University of Alaska Fairbanks. It is funded by the United States Department of Defense, and is a member of the DoD's High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP).
Arctic small tool tradition The arctic small tool tradition is a broad cultural entity that developed along the Alaska Peninsula, round Bristol Bay, and on the eastern shores of the Bering Strait around 2500 BC. This was a terrestrial entity that had a highly distinctive toolkit of small blades (microblades) that were pointed at both ends and used as side or end barbs on arrows or spears made of other materials, such as bone or antler.
Arctic Sea Flotilla Arctic Sea Flotilla (ASF) (Флотилия Северного Ледовитого океана in Russian, or Flotiliya Severnogo Ledovitogo okeana), Russian military flotilla that was stationed in Murmansk and Iokanga.
Arctic Silver Arctic Silver Inc. is a California-based company that manufactures thermally conductive compounds (sometimes called "thermal grease") and adhesives commonly used for the application of heat sinks to high-powered electronic components.
Arctic Team Challenge The Arctic Team Challenge (ATC) is a race in Adventure Racing taking place annually in East Greenland (Ammassalik). It includes different competitive disciplines such as orienteering, glacier trekking, mountainbiking, sea kayaking/canoeing, mountain running and some mountainclimbing.
Arctic Technology Centre The Arctic Technology Centre, commonly called Artek, was formally established in late summer 2000 to teach and provide in-service training for Greenlandic and Danish students and businessmen in Arctic technology. Artek also runs courses and seminars about Arctic conditions and contributes to research into Arctic technology.
Arctic Thunder Arctic Thunder is a snowmobile racing game developed by Midway Games released as an arcade game as well as on Playstation 2 and XBox consoles. In the arcade version of the game, jets blow cold or hot winds, depending on the setting, in the player's face while he or she plays the game.
Arctic warfare Arctic warfare or winter warfare is a term used to describe conflict that takes place in an exceptionally cold climate. One must note the distinction between alpine and arctic warfare - Arctic war does not always take place in mountainous terrain.
Arctic Warbler The Arctic Warbler, Phylloscopus borealis , is a widespread leaf warbler in birch or mixed birch forest near water throughout its breeding range in Fennoscandia and northern Asia. It has established a foothold in North America, breeding in Alaska.
Arctic Wolf The Arctic Wolf (Canis lupus arctos), also called Polar Wolf or White Wolf, is a mammal of the Canidae family, and a subspecies of the Gray Wolf. It is often confused with the Tundra Wolf (Canis lupus albus), which can be found throughout northern Europe and Asia.
Arctic-alpine An arctic-alpine taxon is one whose natural distribution includes the Arctic and more southerly mountain ranges, particularly the Alps. The presence of identical or similar taxa in both the tundra of the far north, and high mountain ranges much further south is testament to the similar environmental conditions found in the two locations.
Arctic-alpine botanic garden Arctic-alpine botanic garden located in Tromsø, Norway opened in 1994 is the worlds northernmost botanical garden. Open from late May to early October, the garden displays arctic and alpine plants from all over the northern hemisphere.
Arctiidae Arctiidae is a large and diverse family of moths with around 11,000 species found all over the world, with 6000 Neotropical species (Scoble 1995). This family includes the groups commonly known as tiger moths (or tigers), which usually have bright colours, footmen (which are usually much drabber), lichen moths and wasp moths.
Arctomecon Arctomecon is a genus of the poppy family Papaveraceae commonly called the bear poppies or bear-paw poppies, after the distinctive appearance of the leaves. The three species occur only in the eastern part of the Mojave Desert of North America, and are all uncommon.
Arctometatarsalian An arctometatarsalian organism is one in which the proximal part of the third metatarsal is pinched between metatarsals II and IV. The trait appears to be highly homoplastic, common in certain sorts of dinosaurs accustomed to running (among them the tyrannosaurids), to evenly transmit force to the metatarsals.
Arctotis Arctotis is a genus of about 40-50 species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to southern Africa, from South Africa north to Angola. Some of the plants are alternatively placed in the genus Venidium.
Arcturus Arcturus (α Boo / α Boötis / Alpha Boötis) () is the brightest star in the constellation Boötes, and the third brightest star in the night sky, with a visual magnitude of −0.05, after Sirius and Canopus.
Arcturus in fiction Arcturus, the brightest star in the constellation of Boötes and the third brightest star in the sky, is frequently referred to as a location in works of science fiction, and is also used as a memorable name in other fictional works.
Arcuate foramen In human anatomy, arcuate foramen, also known as ponticulus posticus (Latin for "little posterior bridge"), refers to a bony bridge on the atlas (C1 vertebra) that covers the groove for the vertebral artery. It is a common anatomic variant and estimated to occur in approximately 3-15% of the population.
Arcuate nucleus (medulla) In the medulla oblongata, the arcuate nucleus is a group of neurons located on the anterior surface of the medullary pyramids. They receive fibers from the corticospinal tract and send their axons through the external arcuate fibers and striae medullares to the cerebellum via the inferior cerebellar peduncle.
Arcus Argentariorum The Arcus Argentariorum (Latin, "Arch of the money-changers", in Italian Arco degli Argentari), is an arch that was partly incorporated in the 7th century into the western wall of the nearby church of San Giorgio al Velabro.
ArcWeb Services ArcWeb Services is a GIS product offered by ESRI to provide Web-oriented spatial data services. ArcWeb Services is a Hosted GIS that provides geographic web services (W3C/SOAP and others) to web browsers and other Internet-enabled technology.
Ard Fheis An Ard Fheis (pronounced ; plural ard fheiseanna) is an annual convention or special convention, usually of a political party. It is an Irish and Scottish Gaelic word, which can be translated loosely as "high festival".
Ard na Caithne Ard na Caithne, meaning height of the arbutus or strawberry tree, (formerly also known as Smerwick in English, a name which lost all legal standing under the Placenames Order (Gaeltacht Regions) 2004 ) in the heart of the Kerry Gaeltacht is one of the principal bays of Corca Dhuibhne. It is nestled at the foot of An Triúr Deirfiúr and Cnoc Bhréanainn, which at 952 metres is the highest mountain in the Brandon group.
Arda Ocal Arda Ocal (born in North York, Ontario) is a Turkish Canadian TV and radio broadcaster and writer. He is currently a co host of Swap Shop on the Canadian channel Rogers Television in Mississauga, Ontario, as well as editor-in-chief for Think Impact (a division of Impact, Canada's largest entrepreneurial organization).
Arda Peak Arda Peak (Vrah Arda 'vr&h 'ar-da) is located in the east of Livingston Island, Antarctica. The peak rises to approximately 470 m and is located in the Friesland Ridge, Tangra Mountains, overlooking the lower course of Charity Glacier to the northwest and Tarnovo Ice Piedmont to the southeast.
Arda River (Maritsa) The Arda (, , Ardas) is a river whose source lies in the Bulgarian Rhodope Mountains near the town of Smolyan, flowing 290 kilometres eastward past Kardzhali and Ivaylovgrad and through Greece in the northern portion of the Evros prefecture including Kastanies. It then enters the Maritsa, just west of Edirne, Turkey.
Ardabīl Province Ardabīl (Persian: اردبیل; also known as: Ardebil; ancient name: Artavil) is one of 28 provinces of Iran. It is in the north-west of the country, bordering the Republic of Azerbaijan and the provinces of East Azarbaijan, Zanjan, and Gilan.
Ardabil Ardabil (Persian: اردبیل; Azeri: اردبيل; also known as Ardebil; ancient name: Artavil) is a historical city in north-western Iran. The name Ardabil comes from the Zoroastrian name of "Artavil" (mentioned in Avesta) which means a holy place Ardabil is the center of Ardabil] [[Provinces of Iran|province.
Ardahan Ardahan is a city in north-eastern Turkey on the Georgian border and it is the seat of Ardahan Province. Its historical names include Ардаган (Ardagan) in Russian, არტაანი, artaani in Georgian and Արդահան in Armenian.
Ardala Ardala is a small village outside the city of Skara, Sweden. It has a population of 800 and used to have a grocery store and a library as a full community with its own council, but is now only a residential area with mostly villas and one-family-houses.
Ardalan Ardalan or (Erdelan) (1169-1867) was the name of a semi-independent state in north-western Iran which ruled an area encompassing present day Iranian province of Kurdistan from medieval period up to mid 19th century. Ardalan is also the name of the ruling family of that state.
Ardant du Picq Charles Jean Jacques Joseph Ardant du Picq (19 October, 1819 – 15 August 1870) was a French colonel and military theorist of the mid-nineteenth century whose writings, as they were later interpreted by other theorists, had a great effect on French military theory and doctrine.
Ardashir I Ardashir I (early Middle Persian Arđaxšēr "Who has the Divine Order as his Kingdom"), also known as Ardashīr-i Pāpagān "Ardashir, son of Pāpağ" Ardeshiri Babakan, and as Artaxerxes, was ruler of Persia (226–241) and the founder of the Sassanid dynasty (226–651). Other variants of his name appear as Artaxares, Artashastra and Artakhshathra

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