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Augustine of Canterbury Augustine of Canterbury (birth unknown, died May 26, 604) was the first Archbishop of Canterbury, sent to Ethelbert of Kent, Bretwalda (ruler) of England by Pope Gregory the Great in 597. He was accompanied by Laurence of Canterbury, the second archbishop.
Augustine of Hippo Aurelius Augustinus, Augustine of Hippo, or Saint Augustine (November 13, 354 – August 28, 430) was one of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity. In Roman Catholicism and the Anglican Communion, he is a saint and pre-eminent Doctor of the Church, and the patron of the Augustinian religious order.
Augustine Phillips Augustine Phillips (died May 4, 1605) was an Elizabethan actor who performed in troupes with Edward Alleyn and William Shakespeare. He was one of the first generation of English actors to achieve wealth and a degree of social status by means of his trade.
Augustine Tolton Augustine Tolton (April 1, 1854 - July 9, 1897) was the first African-American Roman Catholic priest in the United States. He was born the son of slaves, Peter Paul Tolton and Martha Jane Tolton and was baptised in St.
Augustine Ukattah Augustine Echewodo Ukattah was born at Ahaba-Oloko, in Ikwuano Local Government Area of Abia State Nigeria, on August 28, 1918. He was the fourth son of the Royal Ukattah Nkor Abajuo and Ejighiato Nwamgbede Ukattah, both of Ahaba-Oloko.
Augustine United Church Augustine United Church in Edinburgh, Scotland is part of the United Reformed Church and is part of a local Ecumenical Partnership with St. Columba's-by-the-Castle, Scottish Episcopal Church and Greyfriars Tolbooth and Highland Kirk, Church of Scotland.
Augustine Warner Robins General Augustine Warner Robins (1882-1940) is often credited as the Father of Logistics in the modern United States Air Force, then known as the Army Air Corps. He was instrumental in the establishment of the first official and workable Air Force supply maintenance and accountability system, and helped establish official guidelines for the training of logistics officers, NCOs, and civilians working for the Air Force.
Augustine Washington Augustine Washington (circa 1694 - April 23, 1743) is the father of George Washington. Augustine was born at Bridges Creek in Westmoreland County, Virginia, the son of Lawrence and Mildred Washington (née Warner).
Augustinian hypothesis The Augustinian hypothesis is a solution to the synoptic problem, which concerns the origin of the Gospels of the New Testament. The hypothesis holds that Matthew was written first, by Matthew the Evangelist, a disciple of Jesus of Nazareth.
Augustinian nuns Augustinian nuns are the most ancient and continuous segment of the Roman Catholic Augustinian religious order under the canons of contemporary historical method. The Augustinian nuns, named after Saint Augustine of Hippo (died AD 430), are several Roman Catholic enclosed monastic orders of women living according to a guide to religious life known as the Rule of St.
Augustinian Recollects The Augustinian Recollects or the Order of the Augustinians Recollects are a Roman Catholic monastic order of men and women. They are a reformist offshoot from the Augustinian hermit friars and follow the Augustinian Rule.
Augustinian values Augustinian values refer to values which are Christian and which Augustine of Hippo has colored with his saintly life and deepened by his teaching. A "value" is a "good that contributes to the perfection of being (not having or doing).
Augustinians The Augustinians, named after Saint Augustine of Hippo (died AD 430), are several Roman Catholic monastic orders and congregations of both men and women living according to a guide to religious life known as the Rule of Saint Augustine. Prominent Augustinians include the only English Pope Adrian IVSources quoted in the New Advent Encyclopaedia, cf.
Augusto Benedico Augusto Benedico (December 20, 1909–January 19, 1992), born Augusto Pérez Lias, was a Mexican actor of Spanish origin best known for his role as "Don Alberto Salvatierra" in the soap opera Los ricos también lloran and his role as "Don Fernando" in the American educational television program Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish.
Augusto dos Anjos Augusto dos Anjos (April 20 1884–November 12 1914) was a Brazilian poet born in Paraíba. He composed his first verses at the age of seven, but his first published book, Homesickness, came out in 1900, and, in spite of being translated this way the actual title of the book was Eu which, in Portuguese, means "I".
Augusto Hamann Rademaker GrĂĽnewald Augusto Hamann Rademaker GrĂĽnewald (May 11, 1905 - 1985) was an admiral in the Brazilian navy. GrĂĽnewald was one of the military in the Military Junta (August 30, 1969 - October 30, 1969) that ruled Brazil between the illness of Artur da Costa e Silva in August of 1969 and the investiture ceremony of EmĂ­lio GarrastazĂş MĂ©dici in October of that same year, "elected" by Congress earlier in that year (as a matter of fact he was chosen by his fellow officer generals).
Augusto maz Augusto Roberto Maz (born on May 1, 1982) is a Peruvian pop singer best known for his crooning vocals and romantic ballads. He has been one of the most popular singers of Latin American musi in the east coast since the early 2000's,
Augusto Martínez Olmedilla Augusto Martínez Olmedilla (1880–1965) was a Spanish writer and journalist. A prolific writer, he contributed to periodicals including Blanco y Negro, La Esfera and Nuevo Mundo and was the author of over 30 novels, over 70 short novels and some 40 plays.
Augusto Pinochet Augusto José Ramón Pinochet UgartePronunciation (IPA): or the common, but less correct (in terms of Chilean pronunciation) variants or . He Wasn't the Dictator of France, Slate; No Shet, Shirlock, Slate; Augusto Pino-qué?
Augusto Pinochet's arrest and trial General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (November 25, 1915-December 10, 2006) was head of the military dictatorship that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990. He came to power in a violent coup which deposed the democratically elected socialist President Salvador Allende.
Augusto Roa Bastos Augusto Roa Bastos, (June 13 1917 – April 26 2005), was a Paraguayan novelist, widely acclaimed as one of the greatest that nation has produced. He was best known for Yo el Supremo (1974; translated as "I, the Supreme"), one of the foremost Latin American novels to tackle the question of dictators and dictatorships, in the person of José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, who ruled Paraguay with an iron fist and no little eccentricity for 26 years in the early 19th century.
Augusto Tasso Fragoso Augusto Tasso Fragoso (August 28, 1869 - September 20, 1945) was the head of the government of Brazil in 1930, between the overthrow of President Washington LuĂ­s Pereira de Sousa and the oath of GetĂşlio Dornelles Vargas.
Augustus Augustus (Latin: IMP•CAESAR•DIVI•F•AVGVSTVS;Imperator Caesar, son of the Deified, Augustus. September 23, 63 BC–August 19, AD 14), known as Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (English Octavian; Latin: C•IVLIVS•C•F•CAESAR•OCTAVIANVS) for the period of his life prior to 27 BC, was the first and among the most important of the Roman Emperors.
Augustus Agar Commodore Augustus Willington Shelton Agar, VC, DSO, RN (1890-1968) was a noted Royal Navy officer in both World War I and World War II and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Augustus Anson Lieutenant-Colonel Augustus Henry Archibald Anson VC (5 March 1835 – 17 November 1877) was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Augustus B. Woodward Augustus Brevoort Woodward (born Elias Brevoort Woodward November 1774, died July 12, 1827) was the first Chief Justice of the Michigan Territory. In that position, he played a prominent role in the planning and reconstruction of Detroit following a devastating fire.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (September 22, 1790-September 9, 1870) was an American lawyer, minster, educator, and humorist, born in Augusta, Ga. He graduated at Yale (1813) and practiced law in Georgia, becoming a district judge in 1822 and holding the position for several years, after which he resumed his legal practice in Augusta, did editorial work, and established the Sentinel, which soon merged with the Chronicle (1838).
Augustus Brandegee Augustus Brandegee (12 July 1828, New London, Connecticut - 10 November 1904, New London, Connecticut) was the son of a New Orleans cotton broker. His first place of education was the Union Academy in New London.
Augustus C. Dodge Augustus Caesar Dodge (January 2, 1812 - November 20, 1883) was one of the first two United States Senators to represent the state of Iowa after it was admitted to the Union as a state in 1846. Immediately prior to his service as a Senator, Dodge represented the Territory of Iowa in Congress from 1839 to 1846.
Augustus Daniel Sir Augustus Moore Daniel KBE (1866–1950) was the Director of the National Gallery in London, England, for five years from January 1929 to December 1933. Like many directors of the National Gallery, he was a trustee of the Iveagh Bequest.
Augustus De Morgan Augustus De Morgan (June 27, 1806 – March 18, 1871) was an Indian-born British mathematician and logician. He formulated De Morgan's laws and was the first to introduce the term, and make rigorous the idea of mathematical induction.
Augustus Edward Hough Love Augustus Edward Hough Love (17 April 1863, Weston-super-Mare - 5 June 1940, Oxford) was a mathematician famous for his work on the mathematical theory of elasticity. He also worked on wave propagation and his work on the structure of the Earth in Some Problems in Geodynamics won for him the Adams prize in 1911 when he developed a mathematical model of surface waves known as Love waves.
Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, KG, PC (28 September 1735 – 14 March 1811), styled Earl of Euston between 1747 and 1757, was a British Whig statesman of the Georgian era. He was one of a handful of dukes who served as Prime Minister.
Augustus Gloop Augustus Gloop is the glutton of the five main child characters in Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He is the first of the children to find the golden ticket that signifies one's invitation to the factory.
Augustus Herman Pettibone Augustus Herman Pettibone was a American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 1st congressional district of Tennessee. He was born in Bedford, Ohio in Cuyahoga County on January 21, 1835.
Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol Augustus John Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, PC (19 May 1724 – 23 December 1779) was a British admiral and politician. He was known as the English Casanova, due to his huge success with women, including deflowering a dozen Portuguese nuns.
Augustus Hill Garland Augustus Hill Garland (June 11, 1832 – January 26, 1899) was an Attorney General of the United States, Democratic United States Senator, Confederate States Senator, Confederate States Representative, and Governor of the State of Arkansas.
Augustus Charles Newman Augustus Charles Newman (VC, OBE, TD, Legion d'Honneur and Croix de Guerre (France))(19 August 1904-26 April 1972) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Augustus Charles Pugin Augustus Charles Pugin, born Auguste Charles Pugin, (1768 or 1769 to 1832) was an Anglo-French artist and architectural draftsman. He was born in Paris, France, but his father was Swiss, and Pugin himself was to spend most of his life in England.
Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel PC (25 April 1725 – 2 October 1786), was a British admiral who held sea commands during the Seven Years' War and the War of American Independence. During the final years of the latter conflict he served as First Lord of the Admiralty.
Augustus Le Plongeon Augustus Le Plongeon (1826-1908) was a photographer, antiquarian and amateur archaeologist. He studied the pre-Columbian ruins of America, particularly those of the Maya civilization on the northern Yucatán Peninsula.
Augustus Leopold Kuper Admiral Sir Augustus Leopold Kuper, GCB (1809-1885), whose ancestry was German, joined the Royal Navy in 1823. In 1841 he was promoted to Captain and fought in the first China war (1840-1842) including the operations which led to the capitulation of Canton, China (now Guangzhou).
Augustus Montague Toplady Augustus Montague Toplady (November 4, 1740 – August 11, 1778), Anglican divine, was born at Farnham, Surrey, and educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Dublin. His father, Major Toplady, died in May 1741 of yellow fever at the siege of Cartagena.
Augustus Noble Hand Augustus Noble Hand (July 26, 1869–October 28, 1954) was an American judge who served on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and later on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. His most notable rulings restricted the reach of obscenity statutes in the areas of literature and contraceptives.
Augustus Pablo Horace Swaby (June 21, 1954 – May 18, 1999), better known as Augustus Pablo, was a Jamaican roots reggae and dub record producer and keyboardist, active from the 1970s onwards. He was perhaps the first person to use the melodica as a viable musical instrument.
Augustus Pitt Rivers Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (14th April, 1827–4 May, 1900) was an English officer, ethnologist, and archaeologist. He was noted for his innovations in archaeological methods, and in the museum display of archaeological and collections.
Augustus Porter Augustus Porter along with his brother Peter Porter purchased the land near Niagara Falls, United States at a public auction in order to open a grist mill and tannery around 1805. Later, around 1847, the brothers attempted to interest investors to develop power from the water drop of the falls by developing a "hydraulic raceway" for both power and transportation.
Augustus Pugin Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (March 1, 1812–September 14, 1852) was an English-born architect, designer and theorist of design now best remembered for his work on churches and on the Houses of Parliament. He was the son of a French draughtsman, Augustus Charles Pugin, who trained him to draw Gothic buildings for use as illustrations in his books.
Augustus Rhodes Sollers Augustus Rhodes Sollers (May 1, 1814 – November 26, 1862) was an American politician who represented the seventh congressional district of the state of Maryland from 1841 to 1843, and the sixth congressional district from 1853 to 1855. Hw was a member of the Whig Party (United States).
Augustus Saint-Gaudens Augustus Saint-Gaudens (Dublin, March 1, 1848 - Cornish, New Hampshire, August 3, 1907), was the Irish-born American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts generation who most embodied the ideals of the "American Renaissance." Raised in New York City, he traveled to Europe for further training and artistic study, and then returned to major critical success in the design of monuments commemorating heroes of the American Civil War, many of which still stand.
Augustus Shears The Reverend Augustus Shears was the sixth and youngest son of Daniel Towers Shears (1784-1860), a partner of James Shears and Sons, and Frances Spurrell (1788-1834), daughter of John Spurrell of Bessingham, Norfolk. Born on 28 July 1827 in Wimbledon, he was educated at Rugby and St John's College, Cambridge, and in 1851 was ordained a deacon in the Church of England.
Augustus Schoonmaker, Jr. Augustus Schoonmaker, Jr. (born March 2, 1828, Rochester, New York; died April 9, 1894, Kingston, New York) was New York State Attorney General under Governor Lucius Robinson from November 6, 1877 to November 4, 1879.
Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg Augustus (10 April 1579, Dannenberg – 17 September 1666, Wolfenbüttel), called the Younger, was duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. In the estate division of the House of Welf of 1635, he received the Principality of Wolfenbüttel.
Augustus Walley Augustus Walley (March 10 1856 – April 9 1938) was a Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States.
Augustusburg and Falkenlust Palaces, BrĂĽhl The Augustusburg and Falkenlust palaces in BrĂĽhl, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany have been listed as a UNESCO cultural World Heritage Site since 1984. They are connected by the spacious gardens and trees of the Schlosspark.
Auch Auch (pronounced in French) (Gascon Occitan: Aush, pronounced ) is a town and commune in southwestern France. Located inside the région Midi-Pyrénées, it is the préfecture (capital) of the Gers département.
Auchenorrhyncha The Auchenorrhyncha is the suborder of the Hemiptera which contains most of the familiar members of what was traditionally called the Homoptera - groups such as cicadas, leafhoppers, treehoppers, planthoppers, and spittlebugs. The aphids and scale insects are the other well-known "Homoptera", and they are in the suborder Sternorrhyncha.
Auchincruive railway station Auchincruive railway station was a railway station serving the former settlement and estate of Auchincruive, South Ayrshire, Scotland. The station was part of the Ayr to Mauchline Branch of the Glasgow and South Western Railway.
Auchinleck Auchinleck ,sometimes pronounced Affleck, (Gaelic: Achadh nan Leac) is a small village with a population of ca. 3,900 situated 8 km south-east of Mauchline, and a few kilometres north-west of Cumnock in East Ayrshire, Scotland.
Auchinloch Auchinloch (Gaelic: Achadh an Locha) is a village in North Lanarkshire, near Lenzie. The village's name - "Field of the Little Loch" - derives from its proximity to a little lake locally called the "Gadloch".
Auchlyne Auchlyne (Gaelic: Achadh Loinne) is a small hamlet in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, in the west part of the former county of Perthshire. It is located approximately five miles west of Killin on Loch Tay, off the main A85 road that runs from Perth to Oban.
Auchmithie Auchmithie is a fishing village in Angus, Scotland, three miles north east of the town of Arbroath. It sits atop a red sandstone cliff, approximately 120 feet above a shingle beach which contains an unusual amount of jasper.
Auchterarder Auchterarder (Scottish Gaelic: <I>Uachdar Ardair</I>) is a small town located in Perth and Kinross, Scotland and home to the famous Gleneagles Hotel. The mile and a half long High Street of Auchterarder gave the town its popular name of the "Lang Toon".
Auchtermuchty Auchtermuchty (Gaelic: Uachdar Mucadaidh - English interpretation: "Field of Boars") is a town in Fife, Scotland, situated beside Pitlour Hill nine miles north of Glenrothes. Until 1975 it was a royal burgh, established under charter of King James V in 1517.
Aujla Khurd Aujla Khurd is a village, situated in the Gujranwala district of Pakistan, located at geographical coordinates 32° 20' 20" North, 74° 9' 30" East and its original name (with diacritics) is Aujla Khurd.
Aukai Collins Aukai Collins, also known as "Aqil Collins" is a Hawaiian American convert to Islam who fought with Islamic Chechen rebels and later became an FBI informer. His exploits, which included contacts with Al Qaeda leading operatives, are described in the autobiographical book My Jihad (ISBN 0-7434-7059-1).
Auke Indians The Auke are an American Native people, now generally known as or included with the Tlingit. The Auke lived along the northwestern coast of North America, in the area that is now the Alexander Archipelago of Alaska.
Aukštadvaris Aukštadvaris (Polish: Wysoki Dwór) - a town in Trakai district in Lithuania on Verknė river. Aukštadvaris features Maliwski Palace, built in 1837 by Antoni Malewski, which remained with the family until First World War (and housed a hospital after WW2).
Aukštojas Hill Aukštojas Hill is the highest point in Lithuania; it is located in the Medininkai highlands, Migūnai forestry, approximately 24 kilometers (15 miles) southeast of the capital city of Vilnius. Its elevation was measured in 2004 at 293.
Aul An aul (derived from Tatar language awıl) is a type of fortified village found throughout the Caucasus mountains, especially in Dagestan. They are generally built out of stone on faces of ridges or against cliffs to guard against surprise attacks.
Aulacidae The family Aulacidae is a small cosmopolitan group, with 3 extant genera containing some 200 known species. They are primarily endoparasitoids of wood wasps (Xiphydriidae) and xylophagous beetles (Cerambycidae and Buprestidae).
Aulakh Aulakh (Hindi: औलख) or Ola (ओला) or Aula (औला) is a clan or gotra of Jats found in Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. The inhabitants of Uluka state and the descendants of Raja Uluka during Mahabharata period were known as Aulakh or Aula or Ola.
Aulavik National Park Aulavik National Park is a national park located on Banks Island in the Northwest Territories of Canada. It is known for its access to the Thomsen River, one of the most northerly navigable rivers in North America.
Auld Alliance The Auld Alliance refers to a series of treaties, offensive and defensive in nature, between Scotland and France aimed specifically against an aggressive and expansionist England. The first such agreement was signed in Paris on 23 October 1295--subsequently ratified at Dunfermline the following February--during the reign of John Balliol and Philip the Fair.
Auld Kirk Scotch Settlement The Auld Kirk Scotch Settlement is a historic settlement located in the former township of West Gwillimbury (now Bradford West Gwillimbury). It is located on the 6th Line, west of the 10th Sideroad, street number 3380.
Auld Robin Gray Auld Robin Gray is the title of a Scots ballad by the Scottish poet Lady Anne Lindsay, from the name of its hero, a good old man who married a young girl whose lover is thought to be dead, but who turns up to claim her a month after.
Auldbrass Plantation Auldbrass Plantation or Auldbrass is located in Beaufort County, South Carolina, near the town of Yemassee. The name is a variation of "Old Brass" which was the name given to the farmland and the local river landing.
Aulie-Ata Cattle Aulie-Ata is a breed of cattle, developed in the town of Aulie-Ata (now Taraz) in late 19th early 20th century by breeding local Kazakh cattle with Dutch Black Pied Cattle. Planned breeding began in 1935 and the new breed was officially recognized in 1950.
Aulne The Aulne is a 140 km long river in the Western part of France, flowing down the hills in French Bretagne and emptying into one of the many fjord-like bays just south of Brest. The river is part of the Canal de Nantes Ă  Brest, the navigation canal that once connected the city of Nantes on the Loire river with the port town of Brest on the Atlantic coast.
Auloniad The names of the species of the nymphs varied according to their natural abode. The Auloniad (from the classical Greek αύλών; valley, ravine) was a nymph who could be found in the mountain pastures and vales, often in the company of Pan, the god of nature.
Aulos The aulos (Greek αυλός, plural αυλόι, auloi) or tibia (Latin) was an ancient Greek musical instrument. Different kinds of instruments bore the name, including a single pipe without a reed called the monaulos (μόναυλος, from μόνος "single"), and a single pipe held horizontally, as the modern flute, called the plagiaulos (πλαγίαυλος, from πλᾰγιος "sideways"), but the most common variety must have been a reed instrument.
Aulostomidae The family Aulostomidae is a monogeneric family of highly-specialized, tubularly-elongated marine fishes commonly known as trumpetfishes. Aulostomids belong to the order Syngnathiformes, along with the popular seahorses and the similarly-built cornetfishes.
Ault Foods Ault Foods Limited was a Toronto-based dairy processor and Canada's largest dairy company acquiring other dairy companies across Canada. Ault sold off parts of their business in the mid-1990s; milk division (Sealtest Dairy and Silverwood Dairy) was sold to Agropur.
Aulularia Aulularia is a Latin play by the early Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus. The title has been translated as The Pot of Gold, and the plot revolves around a literal pot of gold that the miserly protagonist, Euclio, guards zealously.
Aulus Atilius Calatinus Aulus Atilius Calatinus was the son of Aulus Atilius Calatinus, who had been accused of betraying the city of Sora in the Samnite Wars. Standing in disgrace of his imminent condemnation, he was saved by a few timely words from the great Fabius Maximus Rullianus (the first Maximus and at that time (306 BC) the thrice consul and acting praetor), his very father in law.
Aulus Caecina Severus Aulus Caecina, son of Aulus Caecina who was defended by Cicero (69 BC) in a speech still extant, took the side of Pompey in the civil wars, and published a violent tirade against Caesar, for which he was banished.
Aulus Didius Gallus Fabricius Veiento Aulus Didius Gallus Fabricius Veiento was a Roman politician and an adept in the art of political survival. In AD 62, early in Nero's reign, he was impeached, while Praetor, as the author of Codicilli, mock wills which libelled priests and senators.
Aulus Persius Flaccus Persius, in full Aulus Persius Flaccus (AD 34-62), was a Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan origin. In his works, poems and satires, he shows a stoic wisdom and a strong criticism for the abuses of his contemporaries.
Aušrinė Aušrinė is the Morning Star (Venus) in Lithuanian, feminine deity in Lithuanian mythology. Some mythologists reconstruct her as the goddess of beauty, youth and health, the queen of all stars Žvaigždės, showing the sky way for her mother Sun (Saulė) at morning.
Aum Namah Sivaya Aum Namah Śivāya (IAST transliteration, refer to Sanskrit for pronunciation, Devanagari: ॐ नमः शिवाय) is among the foremost Vedic mantras. Its general translation is "adoration (namas) to Śiva", preceded by the mystical syllable Aum.
Aum Shinrikyo Aum Shinrikyo, now known as Aleph, is a Japanese religious group founded by Shoko Asahara. The group gained international notoriety in 1995, when several of its followers carried out a Sarin gas attack in the Tokyo subways.
Aumanil In Inuit mythology, Aumanil (pronounced au-MAHN-EL) is a kind and beneficent spirit. Also, it is said[Please name specific person or group]Category:Articles with weasel words that this god lived on land and controlled the movement of the whales.
Aumbry In mediaeval times, an aumbry was a cupboard in the wall of a Christian church or in the sacristy which was used to store chalices and other vessels and which was used also for the reserved sacrament, the consecrated elements from the communion service. This was an uncommon usage in pre-Reformation churches, (though it was known in Scotland, Sweden, Germany and Italy).
Aun Ane, On, One, Auchun or Aun the Old (Audhun, the same name as the A-S name Edwin) was the son of Jorund and one of the Swedish kings of the House of Yngling, the ancestors of Norway's first king, Harald Fairhair.
Aundh (Pune) Aundh is a suburb in the North-West of city Pune in Maharashtra, India. Since around mid 1990's it has developed significantly as a residential area with proximity to the University of Pune and one of the Software Technology Parks of India complex at Hinjewadi.
Aung San Suu Kyi Aung San Suu Kyi (; ); born 19 June 1945 in Yangon (Rangoon), is a nonviolent pro-democracy activist and leader of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar (Burma), and a noted prisoner of conscience. A devout Buddhist, Suu Kyi won the Rafto Prize and the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1990 and in 1991 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her peaceful and non-violent struggle under a repressive military dictatorship.
Aunque me Cueste la Vida Aunque me Cueste la Vida (1998) was a Venezuelan telenovela that was produced by and seen on Venezuela's Radio Caracas Televisión. It was written by José Simón Escalona, Salvador Garmendia, and Martin Hahn and directed by Olegario Barrera.
Aunt Arctic Adventure Aunt Arctic Adventure was released in 1988 by Mindware, as an Amiga game. It's a platform game in which the player must guide Charlie the chimp through the various levels to rescue his aunt, who was kidnapped and taken to the Arctic to work as a circus performer.
Aunt Dan and Lemon Aunt Dan and Lemon is a play by Wallace Shawn. The world premiere was produced by the New York Shakespeare Festival (Joseph Papp, producer) at the Royal Court Theatre in London, England on August 27 1985, under the direction of Max Stafford-Clark.
Aunt Jenny Aunt Jenny was an advertising character created for Spry Vegetable Shortening. Primarily portrayed by Edith Spencer, Aunt Jenny was best known as host and narrator of the long-lived radio show, Aunt Jenny’s Real Life Stories (1937-56), but she was also seen promoting the product in drawings, photographs and cookbooks.

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