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Adel Mohanned Abdul Almagid Bary Adel Mohanned Abdul Almagid Bary was a main perpetrator of the 1998 United States embassy bombings. His exact connection is unknown, but his fingerprints were found on the letter claiming responsibility for the attack.
Adel Mouwda Sheikh Adel Al Mouwda was the second deputy chairman of Bahrain's parliament of 2002, the Chamber of Deputies, and the former leader of salafist party, Asalah. Sheikh Al Mouwda is considered the leading spokesman for political Islam in Bahrain and is known for his forthright views, which has seen him often quoted in the international press.
Adel Sedra Adel Sedra is an electrical engineer whose research specialization is microelectronics, with particular emphasis on applications in communication and instrumentation systems. He received his bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Cairo University in 1964.
Adel Sellimi Adel Sellimi (Arabic: عادل السليمي) was born on 16 November, 1972 in the Bab Jedid district of Tunis. As a child, he drew inspiration from the 1978 World Cup team who became the first African nation to win a World Cup match.
Adela Capet Adela of Flanders (1009-June 5, 1063) was the Countess of Contenance, later the Countess of Flanders, and second daughter of Robert II of France (Robert le Pieux) and Constance of Arles. Her first husband, Richard III of Normandy (997 - 1027), had a short and inconsequential reign over the Duchy of Normandy before dying under mysterious circumstances in 1027.
Adela Micha Adela Micha (born on May 25, 1963) is a Mexican journalist with her own nightly 90 minute (9PM to 10:30 Central Time) news program on Televisa called Las Noticias por Adela. Trilingual, she recently interviewed in English, the British rockers of the Rolling Stones (Keith Richards and Mick Jagger) before Super Bowl XL as well as Italien singer Andrea Bocelli when he was on tour in Guerrero, Mexico.
Adela Pankhurst Adela Pankhurst Walsh (1885-1961) was an Australian suffragette, political organizer, and co-founder of the Communist Party of Australia. Adela was born in England into a politicized family: her father, Richard Pankhurst was a socialist and candidate for Parliament, and her mother Emmeline Pankhurst and sisters Sylvia and Christabel were leaders of the British suffragist movement.
Adelaide 36ers The Adelaide 36ers are Adelaide's men's professional basketball team, established as the Adelaide City Eagles when they joined the National Basketball League (NBL) in 1982. The Adelaide 36ers tally of four championships is equal with the Perth Wildcats as the most by any team in the NBL's history.
Adelaide 500 The Adelaide 500, commonly known as the Clipsal 500, is an annual racing carnival for Touring Cars held in the east end of Adelaide on a shortened form of the Adelaide Street Circuit, the former Australian Grand Prix track. The event is named for naming rights sponsor Clipsal Electronics.
Adelaide Avenue/Yarra Glen Adelaide Avenue is a beautiful freeway linking up Woden Valley in the South West to Parliament House in South Canberra. It is a very popular tourist route as tourists travelling from Parliament house travel past the lodge which is the residence of the Australian Prime Minister and the Royal Australian Mint in Yarralumla.
Adelaide Bank The Adelaide Bank () is a publicly listed regional bank with its head office in the state of South Australia. The bank was established on 1 January1994 from the Co-operative Building Society of South Australia Limited, which was Australia's largest building society.
Adelaide class frigate The Adelaide class is the name given to the Oliver Hazard Perry class frigates in service in the Royal Australian Navy. The first four units were built as the eleventh, twelfth, twenty-ninth and thirty-eighth in the US Navy production run, with the final two units built in Australia.
Adelaide creative writing course The Adelaide Creative Writing Programme is part of the English Discipline in Humanities and Social Sciences, which have been taught at the University of Adelaide for over 120 years. Creative writing develops a writer's skills through student-directed learning.
Adelaide Central Market The Adelaide Central Market is a major tourist attraction and large multicultural market in the centre of the CBD in Adelaide, Australia and is often referred to as the Central Market. The Central Market sells a wide variety of goods, including food, toys, jewellery, rugs, seafood, gourmet items, groceries and much more.
Adelaide College of Divinity The Adelaide College of Divinity Inc. (ACD) started as an ecumenical consortium of the theological colleges of the Anglican, Baptist, Roman Catholic and Uniting Churches, and the Bible College of South Australia in Adelaide, South Australia in 1979.
Adelaide Crapsey Adelaide Crapsey (September 9, 1878–October 8, 1914), was an American poet. Born in Brooklyn, New York, she was raised in Rochester, New York, daughter of Episcopal priest Algernon Sidney Crapsey, who had been transferred from New York City to Rochester, and Adelaide T.
Adelaide del Vasto Adelaide del Vasto (Adelasia, Azalaïs) (c. 1075 – April 16, 1118) was the third wife of Roger I of Sicily and mother of Roger II of Sicily, as well as Queen consort of the Kingdom of Jerusalem Jerusalem due to her later marriage to Baldwin I of Jerusalem, as his third wife.
Adelaide Entertainment Centre The Adelaide Entertainment Centre is an indoor arena located in the South Australian capital of Adelaide used for sporting and entertainment. Opened in 1991, the arena is second-largest auditorium in South Australia.
Adelaide Festival Centre The Adelaide Festival Centre is Adelaide's first multi-purpose art center. The Festival Centre is located approximately 50 metres north of the corner of North Terrace and King William Street, lying near the banks of the River Torrens and adjacent to Elder Park.
Adelaide Festival of Arts The Adelaide Festival of Arts is an arts festival held biennially in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. One of the world's greatest celebrations of the arts, it is internationally renowned and the pre-eminent cultural event in Australia.
Adelaide Fries Adelaide Lisetta Fries (12 November 1871–29 November 1949) was the foremost scholar of the history and genealogy of the Moravians in the southern United States. Her contributions to the field, as archivist, translator, author and editor, are incomparable.
Adelaide Geosyncline The Adelaide Geosyncline (also known as Adelaide Rift Complex) is a major geological province in central South Australia. It stretches from the northernmost parts of the Flinders Ranges, narrowing at the Fleurieu Peninsula, and composes the two major mountain ranges of the State: the Flinders and the Mount Lofty Ranges.
Adelaide High School Adelaide High School is a school situated on the corner of West Terrace and Glover Avenue in the Adelaide Parklands. It is considered to be one of South Australia's most prestigious Public Schools and has a proud history.
Adelaide Hills The Adelaide Hills are part of the Mount Lofty Ranges, east of the city of Adelaide in the state of South Australia. It is unofficially centered around the largest town in the area, Mount Barker, which has a population of around nine and a half thousand people and which is also one of Australia's fastest growing towns.
Adelaide Hills Council Adelaide Hills Council was established in 1997 by the amalgamation of four smaller district councils (East Torrens, Gumeracha, Onkaparinga and Stirling). It is in the hills east of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, and extends from the South Para Reservoir in the north to the Mount Bold Reservoir in the south.
Adelaide Christmas Pageant The Adelaide Christmas Pageant is a parade held annually in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. It is the largest event of its kind in the world, attracting crowds of over 400,000 and televised to millions more.
Adelaide International Horse Trials Adelaide International Horse Trials is an annual three-day event held in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. It is comprised of dressage, cross-country and show-jumping and is usually staged in early November.
Adelaide Island Adelaide Island or Isla Adelaida or Isla Belgrano is a large, mainly ice-covered island, 75 miles long and 20 miles wide, lying at the north side of Marguerite Bay off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. Adelaide Island is located at .
Adelaide Kane Adelaide Kane is an actress from Claremont, Western Australia. She is soon to become the third actress to play Louise "Lolly" Carpenter in the Network Ten soap opera Neighbours, having won the role through a Dolly Magazine competition.
Adelaide Medical Students' Society The Adelaide Medical Students' Society (AMSS) was founded in 1889 to represent and protect the interests of medical students studying at University of Adelaide. Since these early and historical beginnings the AMSS has grown impressively and exists today, over a century later, as the primary body of medical student representation at Adelaide University.
Adelaide Metro The Adelaide Metro is the name for the public transport system of Adelaide, South Australia, governed by the Public Transport Division of the South Australian Department of Transport, Energy and Infrastructure. It is operated by four companies under contract and consists of three modes of transport, buses, trams and trains, with the majority of services operating to and from the Central business district (CBD).
Adelaide of Holland Adelaide of Holland or Aleide (Aleidis) van Holland (circa 1222 – 1284) was a daughter of Floris IV, Count of Holland and sister of William II, Count of Holland and King of Germany. On October 9, 1246, Adelaide married John I of Avesnes, Count of Hainaut and had the following issue:
Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (Adelheid Amalie Luise Therese Caroline) (13 August 1792–2 December 1849) later Queen Adelaide, was the Queen Consort of King William IV of the United Kingdom. Prior to becoming Queen, she was known as Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Clarence.
Adelaide Ornithologists Club The Adelaide Ornithologists Club (AOC) was founded by Alan Lendon, a leading surgeon and prominent aviculturist, in 1960, as a breakaway group from the South Australian Ornithological Association, with John Neil McGilp as its first President. It followed dissension within the SAOA about the live bird export trade, in which the Adelaide Zoo was a leading player and Lendon a member of the Zoo Council.
Adelaide Phillips Adelaide Phillips (October 26, 1833 – 3 October, 1882), American contralto singer, was born at Stratford-upon-Avon, England, her family emigrating to America in 1840. Her mother taught dancing, and Adelaide began a career on the Boston stage at ten years old.
Adelaide Plains Football League The Adelaide Plains Football League (APFL) is an Australian rules football competition based in the Adelaide Plains region immediately north of Adelaide, South Australia. It is a affiliated member of the South Australian National Football League.
Adelaide Productions Adelaide Productions is an animation division of Sony Pictures Television. Originally named Columbia TriStar Children's Television, Adelaide has produced numerous animated television series including Men in Black: The Series (with Amblin Entertainment), Channel Umptee-3 (executive produced by live-action TV veteran, Norman Lear), Jackie Chan Adventures, Project G.
Adelaide River Adelaide River is a river in the Northern Territory of Australia. It starts in Litchfield National Park and flows generally northwards to Clarence Strait, being crossed by both the Stuart Highway (at the township of Adelaide River) and the Arnhem Highway (near Humpty Doo).
Adelaide River, Northern Territory Adelaide River (, population 280) is a town where the Stuart Highway crosses the Adelaide River in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is renowned for the fresh barramundi served at the hotel on the banks of the river.
Adelaide Sinclair Adelaide Helen Grant Sinclair (January 16 1900 - November 20, 1982) was a Canadian public servant. From 1957 to 1967, she was the deputy executive director for programs of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and one of the highest ranking women at the United Nations.
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (also known as the ASO) was founded as a 17 player radio ensemble in 1936, in Adelaide, South Australia. The orchestra reformed in 1949 as the 55 member South Australian Symphony Orchestra.
Adelaide Tambo Adelaide Frances Tambo (née Tshukudu, affectionately also known as Mama Tambo in South Africa) is a former South African member of parliament. She has been involved in South African politics for five decades and was married to the late Oliver Tambo president of the African National Congress (ANC).
Adelaide Terrace Adelaide Terrace, Perth, is an easterly extension of, the main street in the city of Perth, Western Australia, St Georges Terrace (). It runs parallel to the Swan River and is a major arterial road through the central business district.
Adelaide Thunderbirds The Adelaide Thunderbirds are an Australian netball team, playing in the national Commonwealth Bank Trophy. They have been South Australia's only team in the competition since the axing of the Adelaide Ravens in 2003, and are based out of ETSA Park in the Adelaide suburb of Mile End.
Adelaide Town Hall Adelaide Town Hall is a landmark building on King William Street in Adelaide, South Australia. The structure was designed by Edmund Wright and Edward Woods, with construction commencing in 1863 and completed in 1866.
Adelaide United FC Adelaide United FC is an A-League football (soccer) club based in Adelaide, Australia. The club was founded in 2003, to fill the place vacated by Adelaide City Force in the former National Soccer League (NSL).
Adelaide United FC Season 2003-04 Despite the mad rush to form the team, and starting five weeks into the season (the first four rounds of matches were squeezed in later in the season), the team lost just twice in its first 13 matches. Hectic catch up phases in November and December (7 matches in 31 days for 4 wins and 3 draws) and February (6 matches in 24 days for 4 wins and 2 losses) passed by with success.
Adelaide United FC Season 2005-06 As one of eight clubs participating in the A-League Adelaide United had to wait awhile before competitive matches started. United played friendly matches against local teams and A-League teams and participated in two pre-season tournaments: the Club World Cup Qualification tournament and the Pre-Season Cup.
Adelaide United FC Season 2006-07 Adelaide United FC had a successful Season One of the A-League winning the Minor Premiership before choking in the Finals Series and finishing third. United will look to improve on this opening effort with a bigger and better Season Two.
Adelaide United FFSA Cup The Adelaide United FFSA Federation Cup is a knockout football (soccer) competition played in South Australia. It is run by the Football Federation of South Australia and the makor sponsors are A-League club Adelaide United FC.
Adelaide University School of Architecture Landscape Architecture and Urban Design The School of Architecture Landscape Architecture and Urban Design is a school of Adelaide University, contained within the facualty of the professions. The school runs undergraduate and postgraduate programes within the areas of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Digital Media.
Adelaide Writers' Week Considered one of the world's pre-eminent literary events, Adelaide Writers' Week is a traditional part of the Adelaide Festival of Arts fortnight where festival attendees meet and discuss literature with Australian and international writers in "Meet the Author" sessions, readings and lectures. It is held in Adelaide's Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden and is free to the public.
Adelaide Zoo Adelaide Zoo is Australia second oldest zoo, located in Adelaide, South Australia and the only major metropolitan zoo in Australia to be owned and operated on a non-profit basis. The zoo also owns the Monarto open plains zoo near Murray Bridge.
Adelaide-Crafers Highway The Adelaide-Crafers Highway is a freeway-grade road leading through the Adelaide hills, linking the city of Adelaide with the South Eastern Freeway. It is the largest road project South Australia has ever undertaken, costing a total of A$151 million, which was wholly funded by the Australian Federal Government.
Adelantado Adelantado was a Governor-like military office held by the Spanish Conquistadores of the 16th and 17th centuries. The men that held this post were usually granted the government of the regions they were sent to in exchange of doing the initial explorations, settlements and pacification of the target area on behalf of the Crown.
Adelardo LĂłpez de Ayala y Herrera Adelardo LĂłpez de Ayala y Herrera (1828-1879), Spanish writer and politician, was born at Guadalcanal on 1 May 1828, and at a very early age began writing for the theatre of his native town. The titles of these juvenile performances, which were played by amateurs, were Salga por donde saliere, Me voy a Sevilla and La Corona y el Fugal.
Adelardo Rodríguez Adelardo Rodríguez Sánchez, usually referred to simply as Adelardo (born 26 September 1939 at Badajoz) is a former Spanish footballer. He played for Atlético Madrid from 1959 to 1976, winning three La Liga titles (65-66, 69-70 and 72-73), five Copa del Reys (1960, 1961, 1965, 1972 and 1976), the 1962 European Cup Winners' Cup, the 1974 Intercontinental Cup.
Adelbert Ames Adelbert Ames (October 31 1835 – April 12 1933) was a Union general in the American Civil War, a Mississippi politician, and a general in the Spanish-American War. He was the last general officer of the American Civil War to die, passing away at age 97 in 1933.
Adelbert Mühlschlegel Adelbert Mühlschlegel (1897–1980) was a prominent German Bahá'í from a Protestant family. He became a Bahá'í in 1920, translated Bahá'í literature and served as a member of the National Spiritual Assembly of Germany.
Adelbert Range Trek The Adelbert Range Trek is a moderate to hard walk commencing from a point west of Malolo Plantation Lodge in Papua New Guinea. It goes up along old trading trails which were later used by the kiaps and the missionaries to link the coast with the mountain ridges.
Adelbert Schulz Adelbert Schulz (20 December 1903 - 28 January 1944) was a generalmajor and division commander in the German Wehrmacht during the second world war. He was one of only 27 people to be awarded the Knights Cross with oakleaves, swords, and diamonds and one of the youngest German generals.
Adele Cosgrove-Bray Adele Cosgrove-Bray is a horror writer and fantasy writer, poet and artist living in West Kirby on the Wirral Peninsula in Cheshire, England. She has also written freelance non-fiction on folklore and dream analysis for Your Future Magazine (now defunct).
Adele Diamond Adele Diamond is one of the founders of the field of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. She holds the Canada Research Chair Tier 1 Professorship in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver.
Adele Dixon Adele Dixon (June 3, 1908 – April 11, 1992) was a London-born British musical theatre and film actor best known for performing in Broadway musicals, British musicals and in musical, comedy films of the 1930s and 1940s.
Adele Girard Adele Girard Marsala (born 1913; died September 7, 1993 in Denver, Colorado) was a jazz harpist associated with the Dixieland and swing (genre)s. In music she is known by her birth name "Adele Girard", but she became "Adele Girard Marsala" on marriage to jazz clarinetist Joe Marsala.
Adele Goldstine Adele Goldstine (December 21, 1920 - November, 1964), born Adele Katz, wrote the complete technical description for the first digital computer, ENIAC. She attended the University of Chicago, and was married to Herman Goldstine, the military liason and administrator for the construction of the ENIAC.
Adele King Adele King (born 4 April 1951) is an Irish professional entertainer and variety artist, better known in Ireland as "Twink" from her time as a member of a group called Maxi, Dick and Twink, which was a popular girl band in Ireland in the late 1960s. She and her estranged husband, the musician, David Agnew, have two daughters, Chloë (of Celtic Woman) and Naomi.
Adele language The Adele language is spoken in central eastern Ghana and central western Togo by about 21000 people. It belongs to the Ghana Togo Mountain languages (traditionally called the Togorestsprachen or Togo Remnant languages) of the Kwa branch of Volta-Congo, Niger-Congo.
Adele Mara Adele Mara, also known as Adelaide Delgado is an American actress, active in the mid 20th-century, most famous for her roles in the films Angel in Exile and Sands of Iwo Jima. She also appeared in Count the Hours, a 1953 Don Siegel film.
Adele Rein Adele Rein is an actress who appeared in a few films between 1966 and 1970, including Russ Meyer's Common Law Cabin (1967) and William Rostler's The Girl with the Hungry Eyes (also 1967). Her measurements, according to cover art for Common Law Cabin, are 42-24-36 (but so are those of the other actresses Babette Bardot and Alaina Capri).
Adele Reinhartz Adele Reinhartz is a Canadian academic and a specialist in the history and literature of Christianity and Judaism in the Greco-Roman period, the Gospel of John, feminist literary criticism, and depictions of biblical characters in film and the visual arts.
Adelfoi Islets Adelfoi (Greek: Αδελφοί) is a Greek island in the Sporades. The island is located about 10 km east-southeast of the main island of Alonissos and also administered by a municipality of the same main island name.
Adelheid Amalie Gallitzin Princess Adelheid Amalie Gallitzin (28 August 1748, Berlin – 17 April 1806, Angelmodde), was the daughter of the Prussian Field Marshal Count von Schmettau and the mother of Prince Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin.
Adelic algebraic group In mathematics, an adelic algebraic group is a topological group defined by an algebraic group G over a number field K, and the adele ring A = A(K) of K. It consists of the points of G having values in A; the definition of the appropriate topology is straightforward only in case G is a linear algebraic group.
Adelie Penguin The Adélie Penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) is, together with the Emperor Penguin, one of the only two types of penguin living on the Antarctic mainland. This species is common along the entire Antarctic coast and nearby islands.
Adelina Domingues Adelina Engargiola Domingues (February 19, 1888 - August 21, 2002) was born to an Italian sea captain and a Cape Verdean woman in Brava when it was a colony of Portugal, and married there by arrangement to Mr. José Manuel Domingues in 1906.
Adelina Ismajli Adelina Ismajli (Serbian: Аделина Исмајли) was born in Priština, Kosovo, Yugoslavia on 14 December, 1979 and is one the most popular female Albanian pop artists throughout Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro.
Adeline Countess of Cardigan and Lancastre Adeline Louisa Maria, Countess of Cardigan and Lancastre (1825 - 1915), nee de Horsey, was the wife of James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, and later the wife of Don Antonio Manuel de Lancastere Soldana, Conde de Lancastre. She published her memoirs under the title My Recollections in 1909 using her full name of Adeline Louis Maria de Horsey Cardigan and Lancastre, strictly speaking she was not allowed by the rules governing the British peerage to join both her titles together.
Adeline Hazan Adeline Hazan (born 21 January 1956 in Paris) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the east of France. She is a member of the Socialist Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.
Adeline records A punk rock record company founded by Billie Joe Armstrong (the singer of the band Green day), and his wife Adrienne Armstrong in the late 1990's. The company offers music from punk bands, and the site even has a store featuring clothing and other things, the name of their online store is Adeline Street.
Adeline Records Adeline Records is a record label which was formed in Oakland, California in late 1997. It is co-owned by Billie Joe Armstrong, lead singer of Green Day, his wife Adrienne Armstrong, and Jim Thiebaud, professional skateboarder.
Adeliza de Borgomanero Adeliza de Borgomanero (c1350 - c1370) was an Italian murderess. The wife of a count from the Val d'Ossola region, she was exiled to a remote castle at Bellogio, near Lake Como, because of her iniquitous behaviour.
Adeliza of Louvain Adeliza of Leuven (1103-1151), also called Adela and Aleidis, was Queen consort of the Kingdom of England from 1121 to 1135, the second wife of King Henry I of England. She was the daughter of Godfrey I of Leuven, Duke of Lower Lotharingia, Landgrave of Brabant and Count of Leuven and Brussels.
Adelle Davis Daisie Adelle Davis (1904-1974), popularly known as Adelle Davis, was an American pioneer in the fledgling field of nutrition during the mid-20th century. She was an outspoken advocate of the superior value of whole unprocessed foods, the dangers of food additives, and the dominant role that all nutrients play in maintaining health, preventing disease, and restoring health after the onset of disease:
Adelmann Adelmann was the Bishop of Brescia, (a region in Northern Italy) during the eleventh century. Adelmann seems to have become Bishop of Brescia in 1050, and to have taken an active share in the church-reform movement of the period, especially against the clerical abuses of simony and concubinage.
Adelmar Tavares Adelmar Tavares da Silva Cavalcanti (Recife, February 16, 1888 - June 20, 1963 Rio de Janeiro) was a lawyer, magistrate, jurist, professor and poet from Recife. He was a member of Brazilian Societies devoted to criminology and law.
Adelobasileus cromptoni Adelobasileus cromptoni is a species of an extinct genus of proto-mammals from the middle Triassic, about 225 million years ago. It is poorly represented in the fossil record and is known only from a partial skull recovered from the Tecovas formation in western Texas.
Adelophagi Adelophagi (from the greek terms Adelos = secretly, and phago = I eat) were a sect mentioned by the anonymous author known as Praedestinatus. They pretended that a Christian ought to conceal himself from other men to take his nourishment, imagining that thus he imitated the Prophets, and basing their view on certain passages of Scripture.
Adelphi Buildings Adelphi Buildings (Greek: adelphoi, "brothers"), a block of 24 unified neoclassical terrace houses occupying the land between The Strand and the River Thames. They were built by the Adam brothers, with the ruins of Durham House on the site being demolished for their construction.
Adelphi Charter The Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property is the result of a project commissioned by the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce, London, UK, and is intended as a positive statement of what good intellectual property policy is.
Adelphi, Texas The Adelphi Community is an intentional community (current population 16) located approximately 25 miles east of Dallas, Texas. The community consists of streets, several private homes, eight townhouses, a community well, community gardens and a sewage treatment plant.
Adelphia (genus of Malpighiaceae) Adelphia is a genus in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Adelphia comprises four species of woody vines native to the West Indies, Mesoamerica, and western South America.
Adelphikos The Adelphikos Fraternity (spelled αδελφιkοσ), formed in 1913, is a Grove City College fraternity that originally consisted of 10 members. It was the first Greek lettered organization to be founded at Grove City College, and one of the few Christian Fraternities in the nation.
Adelphogamy Adelphogamy is a form of sexual partnership between sibling eukaryotes, for example in some species of fungi, flowering plants or ants, or in humans. In sociology, the term adelphogamy may also refer to fraternal polyandry.
Adelphopoiesis Adelphopoiesis, or adelphopoiia from the Greek , derived from (adelphos) "brother" and (poio) "I make", literally "brother-making" is a ceremony practiced at one time by various Christian churches to unite together two people of the same sex (normally men). It is documented by the historian John Boswell in his book Same-sex unions in pre-modern Europe, also published as The marriage of likeness.
Adelsö Adelsö is an island in the middle of Lake Mälaren in Sweden, near southern and northern Björkfjärden. The administrative center of the important Viking settlement Birka (on the neighbouring island Björkö) was situated at Hovgården on Adelsö.
Adelson e Salvini Adelson e Salvini (Adelson and Salvini) is a three act opera buffa composed by Vincenzo Bellini and first performed at the Teatro del Conservatorio di San Sebastiano in Naples on February 12 1825. The libretto was by Andrea Leone Tottola.
Adem Demaçi Adem Demaçi (Born February 26, 1936 in Pristina, Kosovo, in Yugoslavia) is a Kosovo Albanian politician and a longtime political prisoner who spent a total of 28 years in prison for speaking out against the poor treatment of the Albanian minority in Yugoslavia as well as criticizing communism and the Tito regime. During his imprisonment he was recognized as a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International.
Ademir Marques de Menezes Ademir Marques de Menezes, best known as Ademir (born November 8, 1922 – died May 11, 1996) was a Brazilian football player, regarded as one of the best centre forwards in the history of the Brazil national team and indeed, of the world game. His prominent jawbone earned him the nickname Queixada, which means "Jaw".
Adempiere Adempiere is a community driven project which develops and supports an open source business solution of the same name, that delivers Enterprise Resource Planning, Customer Relationship Management and Supply Chain Management functionality.

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