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Abyssal Exalted The Abyssal Exalted are a sub-category of semi-divine heroes from the role-playing game Exalted published by White Wolf Game Studio. Their powers and cultural outlook are detailed in the "fatsplat" (hard-cover sourcebook) Exalted: The Abyssals (ISBN 1-58846-665-5).
Abyssal fan Abyssal fans, also known as: deep-sea fans, underwater deltas, and submarine fans, are underwater structures that look like deltas formed at the end of many large rivers, such as the Nile or Mississippi Rivers.
Abyssal grenadier The abyssal grenadier, Coryphaenoides armatus, is a fish of the genus Coryphaenoides, found in all the world's oceans, at depths of between 800 and 4,000 m. Its length is between 20 to 40 cm, although Fishbase gives lengths of up to 1 m.
Abyssal rattail The abyssal rattail, Coryphaenoides murrayi, is a fish of the genus Coryphaenoides, found around southern Australia, Fiji, and the east coast of New Zealand at depths of between 1,200 and 1,300 m. Its length is between 30 to 40 cm.
Abyssinia Crisis The Abyssinia Crisis was a pre-WW2 diplomatic crisis originating in the conflict between Italy and Ethiopia (then called Abyssinia by the British). Its effects were to undermine the credibility of the League of Nations and to encourage Italy to ally with Germany.
Abyssinia Province, Ottoman Empire Abyssinia (Turkish: HabeĹź) was a Red Sea province of the Ottoman Empire in the 16th and early 17th centuries. At various times, it included Massawa (in modern Eritrea), Suakin (Sudan), Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), and Zeila (Somalia).
Abyssinia, Henry "Abyssinia, Henry" was the 72nd episode of the M*A*S*H television series, and the final episode of the series' third season. First aired on March 18, 1975, and written by Everett Greenbaum and Jim Fritzell, the highly rated episode was most notable for its shocking and unexpected ending.
Abyssinian (cat) The Abyssinian is a natural breed of domesticated cat believed to originate from one Egyptian female kitten called Zula that was taken from a port in Alexandria, Egypt, by a British soldier and brought to England where the breed was developed by Zula being bred with an English tabby, and the most 'Abyssinian' looking kitten of her litter being bred with its mother to splice the Abby gene. It is believed all Abyssinians in Europe, the Americas, and Australia are descended from Zula, but there has been at least one and possibly as many as three Abyssinians introduced from Libya (or less likely Egypt) into the existing Abyssinian gene pool in the USA.
Abyssinian Roller The Abyssinian Roller, Coracias abyssinica, is a member of the roller family of birds which breeds across tropical Africa in a belt south of the Sahara. It is resident in the southern part of its range, but northern breeding populations are short-distance migrants, moving further south after the wet season.
Abzyme An abzyme (from antibody and enzyme), also called catmab (from catalytic monoclonal antibody), is a monoclonal antibody with catalytic activity. Molecules which are modified to gain new catalytic activity are called synzymes.
AB 41 The Autoblinda 41 (AB 41) was an Italian armored car in use during World War II. It was armed with a 20 mm Breda 35 autocannon in the same turret as the Fiat L6/40) and two hull mounted 8 mm machine guns, one to the rear and the other to the front.
AB Motorfabriken i Göteborg AB Motorfabriken i Göteborg (AMG) was founded in 1897 in Gothenburg, Sweden as a producer of stationary engines. In 1899 the company also began producing boat engines and started looking into automobile manufacturing.
AB Nyköpings Automobilfabrik AB Nyköpings Automobilfabrik (ANA) founded in 1937 was an automobile manufacturer in Nyköping that assembled trucks from Chrysler, DeSoto, Plymouth, Fargo and later also Škoda and Standard and from the mid 1950s also Simca. In 1960 the company was bought by SAAB and renamed SAAB-ANA and changed into being a SAAB dealership.
AB Svenska Järnvägsverkstädernas Aeroplanavdelning AB Svenska Järnvägsverkstädernas Aeroplanavdelning (ASJA) was a company making aircraft in Linköping, Sweden. The company was started as a subsidiary company of ASJ (AB Svenska Järnvägsverkstäderna (Swedish Railway Workshops Co)).
AB Thulinverken AB Thulinverken was a company in Landskrona, Sweden, founded in 1914 as Enoch Thulins Aeroplanfabrik by the airman and aircraft technician Enoch Thulin. The company came to be Sweden's first aircraft manufacturer.
ABA digital signature guidelines The ABA digital signature guidelines are a set of guidelines published on 1 August 1996 by the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Science and Technology Law. The authors are members of the Section's Information Security Committee.
ABA Games ABA Games is a Japanese creator of freeware video games run by Kenta Cho. Cho is most famous for his shmups, mostly featuring abstract reinterpretations of retro classics with each game having a specific unique feature and using randomly generated levels.
ABA HSA Council The HSA Council is an organization of banks, insurers and technology leaders committed to increasing the distribution of health savings accounts through banks. The HSA Council identifies public policy hurdles and proposes solutions to decision-makers in Congress and the administration in hopes of increasing the adoption velocity of health savings accounts in the health insurance market.
ABA's All-Time Team The ABA All-Time Team were chosen in 1997 on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of the American Basketball Association (ABA) to comprise the thirty best and most influential players of the ABA during its ten years and nine full regular seasons of operation, with respect not only to performance at the professional level but in consideration of sportsmanship, team leadership, and contributions to the growth of the league basketball and irrespective of positions played; only players to have played at least a portion of their careers in the ABA were eligible for selection, although performance in other leagues, most notably the National Basketball Association was ostensibly considered. Selected and announced beside the all-time team were a most valuable player and top head coach.
ABAKO ABAKO or Association des Bakongo was a cultural and political organization, headed by Joseph Kasavabu, which emerged in the late 1950s as vocal opponent of Belgian colonial rule in what today is the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Additionally the organization served as the major ethno-religious organization for the Bakongo and became closely intertwined the Kimbanguist Church which was extremely popular in the lower Congo.
ABAP ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) is a high level programming language created by the German software company SAP. It is currently positioned as the language for programming SAP's Web Application Server, part of its NetWeaver platform for building business applications.
ABATE ABATE is a common acronym for state motorcyclist rights organizations (SMRO) in the United States, and they are best known for their opposition to mandatory motorcycle helmet laws. They advocate other means for improving motorcycle safety.
ABB Industrigymnasium ABB Industrigymnasium is the name of two schools in Västerås and Ludvika, Sweden, secondary schools with a focus on engineering, information technology and enterprising. The Västerås branch was started in 1994 by the industrial corporation Asea Brown Boveri (ABB), merged in 1987 from the Swiss Brown Boveri Corporation and the Swedish ASEA, which is headquartered in Västerås.
ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits is a compilation album by Swedish pop quartet ABBA, released in 1992. It appeared at a time when ABBA's original albums had been off the market for a number of years, and was well received by the music buying public.
ABBA in the United States Contrary to a widespread notion, ABBA did achieve a major success in the United States. During their active career, from 1974 to 1982 fourteen of their singles reached Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and on Cashbox singles chart, ten of them reached Top 20 and four of them placed in Top 10 on both charts, with "Dancing Queen" peaking at No.
ABC (programming language) ABC is an imperative general-purpose programming language and programming environment developed at CWI, Netherlands by Leo Geurts, Lambert Meertens, and Steven Pemberton. It is interactive, structured, high-level, and easy to learn and use, intended to be used instead of BASIC, Pascal, or even AWK.
ABC (song) "ABC" is a 1970 number-one hit single recorded by The Jackson 5 for the Motown label. It held the number one position on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks, from April 18 to May 2, 1970.
ABC 13 ABC 13 can refer to one of the following television stations in the United States that carry the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) network affiliation, and operate on channel 13 (VHF, cable/satellite or logical):
ABC 7 ABC 7 can refer to one of the following television stations in the United States that carry the American Broadcasting Company and broadcast on channel 7, or use ABC7 as a branding after their cable channel. Most use some variation of the circle 7 logo, which originated with ABC's five original owned and operated stations: WABC, KABC, WLS, KGO, and WXYZ (the latter of which is no longer an O&O).
ABC 80 The ABC 80 (Advanced BASIC Computer 80) was a home computer engineered by the Swedish corporation Dataindustrier AB (DIAB) and manufactured by Luxor in Motala, Sweden in the late 1970s (first model August 1978) and early 1980s. It was based on the Zilog Z80 and had 16 KB RAM and 16 KB ROM, the latter containing a BASIC interpreter.
ABC ALGOL ABC ALGOL is an extension of the Algol 60 programming language with arbitrary data structures and user-defined operators, targeted for symbolic mathematics. Despite its advances, it was never used as widely as Algol proper.
ABC Barn Dance ABC Barn Dance was an early television program spun off from the popular radio program National Barn Dance. The show ran on the ABC network on Monday nights from February 21, 1949 until November 14 of that same year.
ABC Classic FM ABC Classic FM is an Australian classical radio station available in major centres around the country. Formed in the 1970s as ABC-FM (also known as ABC Fine Music), it was the ABC's first experiment in FM broadcasting.
ABC Codes ABC Codes are five-digit Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliant alpha codes (eg. AAAAA) used by licensed and non-licensed healthcare practitioners on standard healthcare claim forms (eg.
ABC Daytime ABC Daytime (ABCD) is a programming block on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). The Disney-ABC Television Group named Brian Frons the president of the newly created Daytime, Disney-ABC Television Group in May 2006.
ABC DiG DiG is a digital radio service operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation which began in November 2002. It plays music from the genres of pop, rock, blues, country, soul, jazz and world music, aimed at over-30s (including an audience perhaps graduated from the ABC's youth radio station, Triple J).
ABC Islands (Alaska) The ABC Islands is the colloquial name for the Alaskan islands of Admiralty, Baranof, and Chichagof in the Alexander Archipelago. The islands are known their wilderness and the wildlife, which includes a species of so-called brown bear that is more closely related to polar bearsof the islands' area is federally protected wilderness.
ABC Kids Channel The ABC Kids Channel was an ABC television channel available to digital television viewers in Australia. On August 1 2001, a half-day ABC Kids Channel launched nationally, with ABC's youth-oriented Fly TV airing during ABC Kids' downtime.
ABC Mantrap ABC Mantrap was a short film combining most of the songs from ABC album The Lexicon of Love into a vaguely coherent story line. In the story, the musicians are sent on a fake tour to the Soviet Union as part of a plot to smuggle out a spy.
ABC Motors ABC Motors Ltd (All British (Engine) Company) of Hersham, Surrey, England was a manufacturer of cars, aircraft, motor scooters, and engines for road and air. Established by Ronald Charteris in Byfleet, Surrey in 1912, it was bought by Sopwith in 1919 as that company attempted to diversify its activities following World War I.
ABC Movie of the Week The ABC Movie of the Week was a television series featuring made-for-TV movies which premiered in the fall of 1969 on ABC. It was placed on the schedule by young executive Barry Diller, then head of prime time programming at ABC, later a founder of the FOX.
ABC News & Talk ABC News & Talk is a news/talk and entertainment radio channel programmed and distributed by ABC Radio for satellite radio services. It currently airs on XM Satellite Radio channel 124 in the United States, and Sirius Satellite Radio channel 143 in the United States and Canada.
ABC No Rio ABC No Rio is a social center located at 156 Rivington street in New York City's Lower East Side that was founded in 1980. It features a gallery space, a zine library, a darkroom, a silkscreening studio, and public computer lab.
ABC Powers The ABC Powers refers in diplomacy to the South American countries of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. They have been referred to by this name since the beginning of the 20th century, especially in reference to the diplomatic ABC Powers Conference of 1914:
ABC Radio ABC Radio is a division of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) focused on AM radio and FM radio broadcasting. Twenty-two of ABC Radio's top stations, as well as ABC's talk and music networks, are to be acquired by Forstmann Little & Company's Citadel Broadcasting unit.
ABC Radio Grandstand ABC Radio Grandstand is a live radio sports focussed commentary and talk-back program which runs on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation local radio network across Australia. The program runs on Saturdays and Sundays and includes live commentaries of cricket, football and tennis.
ABC Rollercoaster ABC Rollercoaster is a children's television segment run by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and hosted by Elliot Spencer, a major teen popculture icon in Australia. It is aimed at an older audience than ABC Kids, and is time-shifted between ABC TV and the digital-only ABC2.
ABC Sports (Philippines) ABC Sports is a division of Associated Broadcasting Company, which airs many of the sports events in the Philippines. The world's second oldest professional basketball league, Philippine Basketball Association, is its flagship program since it acquired of the television rights in 2004.
ABC Stage 67 ABC Stage 67 was the umbrella title for a series of entertainments that included dramas, variety shows, documentaries, and original musicals. It premiered on ABC on September 14, 1966 with Murray Schisgal's The Love Song of Barney Kempinksi, starring Alan Arkin as a man enjoying the sights and sounds of New York City in his last remaining hours of bachelorhood.
ABC Warriors ABC Warriors is a long running 2000 AD comic strip written by Pat Mills. The ABC Warriors themselves were a team of seven robots that had fought in the Volgan War (which had featured from the first issue in Invasion!
ABC Weekend Special The ABC Weekend Special was a weekly 30-minute anthology TV series for children which aired Saturday mornings on ABC from 1977 to 1997. It featured a wide variety of stories in both the live-action and animated realms.
ABC West ABC West is a group of television stations in western North Dakota, owned by Forum Communications of Fargo, North Dakota and managed by Prime Cities Broadcasting, owner of West Dakota Fox. The stations are affiliated with the American Broadcasting Company.
ABC-CLIO ABC-CLIO is a publisher of reference works for the study of history in academic, secondary school, and public library settings. The company was founded as the American Bibliographic Company in 1956 and has published one of its flagship products, the history bibliographic and abstract compendium Historical Abstracts, since that time.
ABC2 ABC2 is an ABC television channel available to digital television viewers in Australia. Launched on March 7, 2005, with the first program beginning at 6:25am, the channel broadcasts time-shifted repeats from ABC TV and new content, notably children's programs, magazine shows, and local sport.
ABCA12 ABCA12 (ATP-binding cassette, sub-family A (ABC1), member 12) is a gene that belongs to a group of genes called the ATP-binding cassette family, which makes proteins that transport molecules across cell membranes. The ABCA12 gene is active in some types of skin cells and in several other tissues, such as testis, placenta, lung, stomach, and fetal brain and liver.
ABCB5 ABCB5 [ATP-Binding Cassette Subfamily B (MDR/TAP) Member 5] is a human ABC transporter and P-glycoprotein family member principally expressed in physiological skin and human malignant melanoma. ABCB5 regulates skin progenitor cell fusion and mediates chemotherapeutic drug resistance in stem-like tumor cell subpopulations in human malignant melanoma.
ABCDE ABCDE (A Better CD Encoder) is a CD ripper for Linux, operated entirely from the command line. Starting the program without either command line switches or a config file will query FreeDB for the CD currently in the drive, display a list of possible matches to choose from, then rip, encode, and tag the files.
ABCG5 and ABCG8 ABCG5 and ABCG8 genes encode for two proteins sterolin-1 and -2, respectively. Sterolin-1 and –2 are two ‘half’ adenosine triphosphate binding (ATP) cassette (ABC) transporters which found to be indispensable for the regulation of sterol absorption and excretion.
ABCL/1 ABCL/1 (Actor-Based Concurrent Language) is a prototype-based concurrent programming language for the ABCL MIMD system, created in 1986 by Akinori Yonezawa, of the Department of Information Science at the University of Tokyo.
ABEC scale ABEC (Annular Bearing Engineering Committee) standards define tolerance (engineering) classes for major dimensions and characteristics of steel ball bearings. The ABEC scale of tolerance classes ranges from 1-9 in odd numbers.
ABEL programming language ABEL (short for Advanced Boolean Expression Language) is a programming language and an associated set of design tools for programming PLDs. It was created in 1983 by Data I/O Corporation, in Redmond, Washington.
ABF Freight System, Inc ABF Freight System, Inc was established in 1923 and is headquartered in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Its core business is less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping, consolidating freight from multiple shippers into a single truckload.
ABINIT ABINIT is a free software package for physicists, distributed under the GNU General Public License, whose main program allows one to find the total energy, charge density, and electronic structure of systems made of electrons and nuclei (molecules and periodic solids) within Density Functional Theory (DFT), using pseudopotentials, and a plane wave basis.
ABIT BP6 The ABIT BP6 (introduced in 1999) was the first motherboard to allow for the use of (affordable) Intel Celeron processors in Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) configuration. For this reason (and also for its overclocking capabilities) it became very popular among computer enthusiasts.
ABL 1992-93 The 1992-93 Australian Baseball League Championship was won by the Melbourne Monarchs who were back after being expelled from the league in 1990. The Monarchs defeated Perth Heat in 2 games to take out the Championship.
ABL 1993-94 The 1993-94 Australian Baseball League Championship was won by the Brisbane Bandits who after finishing 3rd defeated Perth Heat to meet the Sydney Blues in the championship series where they won the Championship in 2 games.
ABL 1994-95 The 1994-96 Australian Baseball League Championship was won by the Waverley Reds, who finished the season with a 17 game winning streak. The Reds faced the 4th place Sydney Blues in the semi final and won 2-0, while the 2nd placed Perth Heat defeated the East Coast Cougars 2-1 to win a spot in the Championship Series.
ABL 1997-98 The 1997-98 season of the Australian Baseball League saw the Melbourne Reds become the first champions defeating the Gold Coast Cougars 2 games to 0 in the Championship series, infront of a rather small home crowd of 600 at the Melbourne Ballpark.
ABLA ABLA is a public housing development made up of different public housing projects in Chicago, Illinois, operated by the Chicago Housing Authority. The name “ABLA” is an acronym for four different housing developments that together constitute one large site.
ABM Industries ABM Industries Incorporated is an American corporation involved in outsourced, building maintenance. Divisions include ABM Janitorial, Ampco System Parking, ABM Engineering, American Commercial Security (ACSS), Security Services of America (SSA), Amtech Lighting, and ABM Facility Services.
ABMAP ABMAP, also known as the Animal Bone Metrical Archive Project, consists of a collection of metric data on the main domestic animals recorded at the University of Southampton, together with the data from some other sources, in particular the Museum of London Archaeology Services (MoLAS). Whilst the data is primarily from England, it is applicable to a wider geographical area.
ABO blood group system The ABO blood group system is the most important blood type system (or blood group system) in human blood transfusion. The associated anti-A antibodies and anti-B antibodies are usually IgM antibodies, which are usually produced in the first years of life by sensitization to environmental substances such as food, bacteria and viruses.
ABPA Backgammon ABPA Backgammon is a backgammon video game for Intellivision (ABPA stands for American Backgammon Players Association). This was one of the original four games introduced with the Intellivision system and is in the Intellivision Lives!
ABR Holdings ABR Holdings Limited is a Singapore based food and beverage company listed on the secondary board of the Singapore Exchange, Sesdaq. Established in 1978, it first held the franchise for Swensens in Singapore It holds the franchise of Causal dining restaurant, Swensens in Asia and Oceania, which has restaurants in Singapore and Malaysia.
ABRY Partners ABRY Partners is a private equity firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts that focuses on investments in media. It is one of the most experienced and successful media-focused private equity investment firms in North America.
ABS-CBN Interactive ABS-CBN Interactive or ABSi is the multimedia and interactive subsidiary of ABS-CBN. Established in 2000 in the rise of interactive game shows of some of its weaker rivals, it is responsible for the creation and maintenance of the company's main website as well as the website of some of its shows.
ABS-CBN News & Current Affairs The ABS-CBN Integrated News & Current Affairs Division is the news and public affairs organization of ABS-CBN in the Philippines. The organization is responsible for the daily news and information gathering of the network's news & public affairs programs.
ABS-CBN Publishing ABS-CBN Publishing has the largest and the wildest magazine distribution network in the country, covering 200 key cities and municipalities all over the Philippines. We are the first and only publisher that has a truly nation wide coverage.
ABTI-American University of Nigeria ABTI - American University of Nigeria (AAUN) is the first American university ever to be established in Nigeria. With David Huwiler as its current president, it was commissioned by the Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar, and founded in partnership with the American University in Washington, D.
Acacia Acacia is a genus of shrubs and trees of Gondwanian origin belonging to the Subfamily Mimosoideae of the family Fabaceae, first described from Africa by Linnaeus in 1773. Acacias are also known as thorntrees or wattles, including the yellow-fever acacia and umbrella acacias.
Acacia aneura Acacia aneura, commonly known as Mulga or True Mulga, is a shrub or small tree native to arid outback Australia. Mulga-dominated scrub, and hummock grasslands wooded with mulga, cover roughly 20% of the Australian continent, or about 1.
Acacia auriculiformis Acacia auriculiformis; commonly known as Auri, Earleaf acacia, Earpod wattle, Northern black wattle, Papuan wattle, Tan wattle; is a tree in the family Fabaceae native to Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. This plant grows up as an ornamental plant, and it is also used for fuelwood plantations .
Acacia brachystachya Acacia brachystachya, commonly known as umbrella mulga, turpentine mulga or false bowgada, is a shrub in the family Fabaceae. Endemic to Western Australia, it occurs in mulga communities in the semi-arid land between Carnarvon and Kalgoorlie.
Acacia cardiophylla Acacia cardiophylla (West Wyalong Wattle) grows to around 2 to 3m tall with has feathery like leafs and has bright yellow flowers during July to November. Acacia cardiophylla is indigenous to Central and Southern New South Wales.
Acacia citrinoviridis Acacia citrinoviridis, commonly known as black mulga, river jam, milhan or wantan, is a tree in the family Fabaceae. Endemic to Western Australia, it occurs along creeks and rivers in the semi-arid land north of Carnarvon and Meekatharra.
Acacia class sloop The Acacia class was a class of sloops that 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".
Acacia collinsii This species of Acacia, which grows in secondary succession in seasonally dry ecosystems in southern Central America, exhibits a symbiotic relationship with several species of ant (Pseudomyrmex spinicola, Pseudomyrmex ferruginea). A closer look at the photo in the taxobox will reveal a small hole near the tip of the center stipular thorn.
Acacia coolgardiensis Acacia coolgardiensis, commonly known as sugar brother or spinifex wattle, is a shrub in the family Fabaceae. Endemic to Western Australia, it is widely distributed in the semi-arid spinifex country from Carnarvon to Kalgoorlie.
Acacia coriacea Acacia coriacea, commonly known as river jam, wirewood, wiry wattle, desert oak, or dogwood, is a tree in the family Fabaceae. It occurs throughout northern Australia, growing as a tall tree on the banks of rivers.
Acacia cornigera Acacia cornigera, commonly known as Bullhorn Acacia (family Fabaceae), is a swollen-thorn acacia native to Mexico and Central America. The common name of "bullhorn" refers to the large, enlarged, hollowed-out swollen thorns (technically called stipular spines) that occur in pairs at the base of leaves, and resemble the horns of a steer.
Acacia craspedocarpa Acacia craspedocarpa, commonly known as hop mulga, is a tree in the family Fabaceae. Endemic to Western Australia, it occurs in watercourses, on floodplains and alongside rivers throughout south-central Western Australia.
Acacia cyperophylla Acacia cyperophylla, commonly known as creekline miniritchie or red mulga, is a tree in the family Fabaceae. Endemic to Western Australia, it on the banks of rivers and creeks on the semi-arid plains east of Carnarvon.
Acacia erioloba Acacia erioloba (formerly Acacia giraffae), and commonly known as the Camel Thorn (Kameeldoring in Afrikaans) or Giraffe Thorn, is a thorn acacia native to the drier parts of Southern Africa - the Transvaal, western Free State, northern Cape Province, Botswana and Namibia. It can grow up to 17 metres high.
Acacia farnesiana Acacia farnesiana, commonly known as Needle Bush, is so named because of its long, spiny leaves. A native of Mexico and Central America, it is now spread world wide to the extent that it is considered a serious weed in Fiji.
Acacia Fraternity Acacia Fraternity is a social fraternity originally based out of Masonic tradition. At its founding in 1904, membership was originally restricted to those who had taken the Masonic obligations, and the organization was built on those ideals and principles.
Acacia grasbyi Acacia grasbyi, commonly known as miniritchie, is a tree in the family Fabaceae. Endemic to Australia, it occurs throughout the arid interior of Western Australia, with isolated populations in South Australia and the Northern Territory.
Acacia greggii Acacia greggii is a species of Acacia native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, from the extreme south of Utah (where, at 37°10' N it is the northernmost naturally-occurring Acacia species anywhere in the world) south through southern Nevada, southeast California, Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas to Baja California, Sinaloa and Nuevo León in Mexico.
Acacia inaequilatera Acacia inaequilatera, commonly known as kanji bush or baderi, is a tree in the family Fabaceae. Endemic to Australia, it is widely distributed in the semi-arid spinifex country eastwards from Karratha, Western Australia into the Northern Territory.
Acacia kempeana Acacia kempeana, commonly known as wanderrie wattle, witchetty bush or granite wattle, is a shrub in the family Fabaceae. Endemic to Australia, it is widely distributed through arid and semi-arid inland areas of Western Australia, South Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland.
Acacia leucophloea Acacia leucophloea (Hindi: रेवंजा), also called reonja, is a moderate sized tree sometimes mistaken for prosopis cineraria with spreading crown and somewhat malformed and crooked trunk. It attains a height of about 20 to 30 ft and a girth of 2 to 3 ft.

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