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Agios Georgios (Vrachneika), Greece Agios Georgios (Greek: Άγιος Γεώργιος, Saint George), formerly Vrachneika is a village that is in the northeastern part of the municipality of Andravida in the prefecture of Ilia. It is connected only with one paved road.
Agios Ilias (Pineia), Greece Agios Ilias, Agios Ilias or Ayios Ilias (Greek: Άγιος Ηλίας meaning Saint Elias) is a village located in the municipality of Amaliada in the northern part of the prefecture of Ilia in the western part of the Peloponnese. It is passed by a road linking Kentro and Keramidia which is mainly gravel and paved in the village area.
Agios Ioannis (Amaliada), Greece Agios Ioannis (Greek:Άγιος Ιωάννης for Saint John) is a village of the community of Amalias in the municipality of Amaliada and the prefecture of Ilia. It's located between Chavari and Amaliada on a road linking Amaliada and Simopoulo.
Agios Ioannis Rentis Agios Ioannis Rentis (Greek: Άγιος Ιωάννης Ρέντης, first part meaning Saint John) is a suburb in the southwestern part of Athens, Greece. It is located S of Athinon Avenue, about 6 km W of Athens, N of Poseidonos Avenue and NE of Piraeus.
Agios Isidoros (Lesbos), Greece Agios Isidoros is located just one kilometer outside the town of Plomari, South Lesvos. It has a unique pebbled beach which is one of the longest in Lesvos and voted as The 7th best beach in Greece due to the safety provided, the clean water and care for the environment.
Agios Konstantinos, East Attica Agios Konstantinos (Greek: Άγιος Κωνσταντίνος meaning Saint Constantine) is a community of the Greek prefecture of East Attica. Agios Konstantinos is about 2 km east of the Glyka Nera-Sounio highway (GR-91 linking Glyka Nera and Sounio.
Agios Nikitas (Lefkada), Greece Agios Nikitas (Greek: Άγιος Νικήτας) is a town and a municipal district of the Lefkada Prefecture on Lefkada island as well as the municipality of the island's name in Greece, not far from the prefectural capital.
Agios Nikolaos Agios Nikolaos or Ayios Nikolaos (Greek: Άγιος Νικόλαος, meaning "Saint Nicholas") is a common place name in Greece and Cyprus since Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of sailors and of all of Greece.
Agios Nikolaos (Methana), Greece Agios Nikolaos (Greek: Άγιος Νικόλαος meaning Saint Nicholas) is a village in the northern end of the Methana peninsula in the Troizina area in the peninsula of the Peloponnese. Agios Nikolaos is famous for its hydrothermal crater and the coastal area is rarely hydrothermally active.
Agios Nikolaos, Crete Agios Nikolaos (or Aghios Nikolaos, Greek: Άγιος Νικόλαος) is a coastal town on the Greek island of Crete. It is east of the island's capital Heraklion, north of the town of Ierapetra and west of the town of Sitia.
Agios Panteleimonas Agios Panteleimonas (Greek, modern: Άγιος Παντελέιμωνας, ancient: Άγιος Παντελέιμων), also Lechaina/Lechena Beach (Greek: Παραλία Λεχαινων) is a small community in the northwestern part of Lechaina. Its population is about seventy.
Agios Petros (Lefkada), Greece Agios Petros (Greek: Άγιος Πέτρος) is a town in the municipality of Apollonii of the Lefkada Prefecture in the southern part of the Lefkada Island in Greece. Agios Petros is 6 km northwest of Vassiliki and is linked with a road linking with Vassiliki and Lefkada as well as the GR-42 which links with the mainland with a drawbridge.
Agios Serafim Agios Serafim, also Agios Serafeim (Greek: Άγιος Σεραφείμ meaning Saint Seraphim), other romanizations: Ayios Serafim and Ayios Serafeim is a village near the town of Molos in the Greek prefecture of Fthiotis or Fthiotida. It is situated by the Malian Gulf.
Agios Stefanos Agios Stefanos (Greek: Άγιος Στέφανος, meaning Saint Stephen) is a rather exclusive suburb in Attica, Greece, about 23 km north of Athens. Agios Stefanos is almost entirely residential, but a few shops line its main street.
Agios Vasileios (Achaia), Greece Agios Vasileios (Greek: Άγιος Βασίλειος) is a village located in the municipality of Rio in the northern part of the prefecture of Achaia in the Peloponnese. The village is connected slightly northwest of the old GR-8 linking Patras and Corinth.
Agios Vlasios Agios Vlasios and Agios Vlassios (Greek: Άγιος Βλάσιος), also: Ayios Vlasios and Ayios Vlassios is a settlement of Greece that is part of the municipal district of Chalkiopoulo in the northwestern part part of the prefecture named Aetolia and Acarnania. The population is about 16 inhabitants.
Agiou Andreou Street Agiou Andreou Street (Greek: Odos Agiou Andreou), is Patras' major street running one way northbound entirely from Trion Navarcheiou Street to Agiou Dionysiou Street. It was partly the northbound part of the GR-8 (E55) and is partly the northbound of a branches of the GR-5 (E55) and the GR-8 (E65).
Agiou Nikolaou Street Agiou Nikolaou Street (Greek: Odos Agiou Nikolaou, meaning Saint Nicholas in which a church is nearby), is one of the major streets in Patras and it runs partially one way eastbound from Korinthou, until 1994, the street ran one way throughout. The street begins from Agiou Andreas near the square up to near the access with Kolokotronis Street, motorists no longer uses the road strecthing from Agios Andreas to Maizonos Streets in which the three-block part is now entirely a walkway which is also filled with restaurant chairs and is a popular shopping area.
Agiou Pavlou monastery Agiou Pavlou monastery (Greek: Μονή Αγίου Παύλου) is an Eastern Orthodox monastery at the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece. The monastery ranks fourteenth in the hierarchy of the Athonite monasteries.
Agistment To agist is, in English law, to take cattle to graze, for a remuneration. Agistment, in the first instance, referred more particularly to the proceeds of pasturage in the king's forests, but now means either (a) the contract for taking in and feeding horses or other cattle on pasture land, for the consideration of a weekly payment of money, or (b) the profit derived from such pasturing.
Agit-prop (band) Agit-prop is a finnish communist singer group, whose career began in the 1970s, and after a break have now started touring again. The band was a part of the minority wing in SKP and most of their songs were used to get their cause through.
Agitated Nutsche Filter Agitated Nutsche filter (ANF) is a filtration technique used with dyes, paints, fine chemical industries. Safety requirement and environmental concerns due to solvents evaporation lead to development of this type of filter wherein filtration under vacuum or pressure can be carried out in closed vessel .
Agitation Free Agitation Free was a German avant-garde rock band. The band was formed in 1967 with Michael "Fame" GĂĽnther (bass), Lutz "LĂĽĂĽl" Ulbrich (guitar), Lutz Ludwig Kramer (guitar) and Christopher Franke (drums).
Agitprop Agit-prop is a contraction of agitational propaganda. The term originated in Bolshevist Russia (future Soviet Union), where the term was a shortened form of отдел агитации и пропаганды (otdel agitatsii i propagandy), i.
AgInSbTe AgInSbTe, or Silver-Indium-Antimony-Tellurium, is a phase change material from the group of chalcogenide glasses, used in rewritable optical discs and phase-change memory applications. It is a quaternary compound of silver, indium, antimony, and tellurium.
AgION AgION is the brand name for an anti-microbial compound used to coat surfaces. Produced by AgION Technologies, this silver-based coating can be applied to many surfaces, including stainless steel, bottles, ballpoint pens, and others.
Agkistrodon contortrix laticinctus Agkistrodon contortrix laticinctus is a subspecies of the North American copperhead snake, found in the southern United States, from Kansas, through Oklahoma and throughout central Texas. Common names: broad-banded copperhead, copperhead.
Aglaonema Aglaonema is a genus of about 20 species of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to the tropical swamps and rainforests of southeastern Asia from Bangladesh east to the Philippines and north to southern China. No common name is widely used, though they are sometimes called "Chinese evergreen".
Aglaonike Aglaonike (circa 200-unknown), also known as Aganice of Thessaly is cited as the first female Astronomer in Ancient Greece. She is mentioned in the writings of Plutarch and Apollonius of Rhodes as the daughter of Hegetor of Thessaly.
Aglet An aglet or aiglet is a small plastic or metal cladding on the end of shoelaces (or any type of lace, though shoelaces are the most commonly referenced) that keeps the twine from unraveling. The word "aglet" (or "aiglet") comes from Old French "aguillette" (or "aiguillette"), which is the diminutive of "aguille" (or "aiguilee"), meaning "needle".
Aglets Aglets is a java based mobile agent platform and library for building mobile agents based applications. An aglet is a Java agent which can autonomously and spontanously move from one host to another carrying a piece of code with it.
Aglianico Aglianico is a red wine grape grown in the Campania and Basilicata regions of Italy. The grape is believed to have originated in Greece, introduced to Italy by the Phoenicians around the same time as the Gaglioppo vine.
Agliberto Meléndez Agliberto Melendez is a Dominican film director best known as the director of A One Way Ticket (Un Pasaje de Ida), the Dominican Republic's first feature length film, produced entirely in the Dominican Republic by a Dominican cast and crew. The film became known to American audiences after its 1989 debut in New York at the Museum of Modern Art's New Directors New Films series.
Aglypha Aglypha is term used to describe a group of colubrid snakes which do not have grooved or hollow fangs for venom delivery, but instead must rely on chewing their victim to allow the venom to do its job. The word comes from the Greek homonym meaning 'without grooves'.
Agmatine Agmatine ((4-aminobutyl)guanidine, NH2-CH2-CH2-CH2-CH2-NH-C(-NH2)(=NH)) is the decarboxylation product of the amino acid arginine and is an intermediate in polyamine biosynthesis. It is discussed as a putative neurotransmitter.
AgMES AgMES is the abbreviation for Agricultural Metadata Element Set. AgMES is the metadata standard developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations for the description and discovery of agricultural information resources.
Agnanta Agnanta (Άγναντα) is one of the largest villages of an area called Tzoumerka in the prefecture of Arta, Ipeiros, Greece. With a population of 4,022 in 2001, it is located at a distance of 55 km north of the city of Arta and east of the city of Ioannina.
Agnatha Agnatha (Greek, "no jaws") is a paraphyletic superclass of jawless fish in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata. There are two extant groups of jawless fish (sometimes called cyclostomes), the lampreys and the hagfish, with about 60 species between them.
Agnatic seniority Agnatic (or patrilineal) descent is established by tracing descent exclusively through males from a founding male ancestor. In hereditary monarchies, particularly in more ancient times, seniority was a much-used principle of order of succession.
Agnéz Deréon Agnéz Deréon, later Agnéz Beyincé (~1908?? – 1984) was a Louisiana native who's surname and passion for creating beauty from the mundane are the inspiration for the clothing line House of Deréon, a couture fashion line founded by her daughter Tina Knowles, and granddaughter Beyoncé Knowles.
Agnès Varda Agnès Varda (born May 30, 1928) is a French film director based in Paris and one of the key figures in modern film. Her movies, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary—with a distinct experimental style.
Agnelli & Nelson Agnelli & Nelson, the collective name of Northern Irish pair Chris Agnelli and Robbie Nelson (who also produce under the names Afterburn, Cortez, Green Atlas, and Quincey & Sonance), writers and producers of dance music, are notable for helping to define the genre of Trance music since 1997.
Agnello Participazio Agnello Participazio (Angelo Particiaco) was the tenth (traditional) or eighth (historical) Doge of Venice from 811 to 827. He was born to a rich merchant family in Heraclea and was one of the earliest settlers of the island of Rialto, which civitas Rivoalti became, under him, the civitas Venetiarum.
Agnes (gallery) Agnes was a Birmingham, Alabama photography gallery from 1992 to 2000. Jon Coffelt, Shawn Boley and Jan Hughes opened the gallery with the mission of attempting to raise awareness of social issues — such as cancer, AIDS, death and dying, the environment, homelessness, ethics, racism, classism, imprisonment — through photojournalism, film, video, poetry, and book arts.
Agnes Arber Agnes Arber (1879-1960) was a renowned British plant morphologist and anatomist, historian of botany and philosopher of biology. She was born in London but lived most of her life in Cambridge, including the last 51 years of her life.
Agnes Ayres Agnes Ayres (April 4, 1898 – December 25, 1940) was a silent film star in the 1920s. Born Agnes Hinkle in Carbondale, Illinois, she had planned to have a career in law, but in 1915 at the age of 17 she made her film debut at Essanay Studios in Chicago, and was signed by Fox Studios in 1919.
Agnes Baden-Powell Agnes Smyth Baden-Powell (1858-12-16 – 1945-06-02) is the younger sister of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, and is most noted for her work in establishing the Girl Guides movement as a female counterpart to her older brother's Scouting Movement.
Agnes Bernelle Agnes Bernelle née Bernauer (7 March 1923 in Berlin-15 February 1999) was an actress and singer based in the United Kingdom for much of her career, though she later settled in the Irish Republic. Her family fled from Berlin in 1936.
Agnes Booth Agnes Booth (1843–1910), born Marion Agnes Land Rookes, was an American actress and in-law of Junius Brutus Booth, John Wilkes Booth, and Edwin Booth. She was born in Sydney, Australia, but migrated to California in 1858 at the age of 14.
Agnes Boulton Agnes Boulton was a successful "pulp fiction" writer in the 1910s, later the wife of Eugene O'Neill. Prior to their marriage, she wrote for such magazines as Breezy Stories, Snappy Stories, and Young's Magazine.
Agnes Bruckner Agnes Bruckner (born August 16 1985) is an American film and television actress. She began acting on television in the late 1990s, and has since appeared in several Hollywood films, including 2007's Blood and Chocolate.
Agnes Buen GarnĂĄs Agnes Buen GarnĂĄs (surname Buen GarnĂĄs; born 1946) is a Norwegian folk singer from the county of Telemark. She comes from a famous musical family and is known particularly for her singing of ancient unaccompanied Norwegian ballads, as well as her updated arrangements of these songs in collaboration with the Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek on the ECM album Rosensfole.
Agnes de Mille Agnes George de Mille (September 18, 1905 – October 7 1993) was an American dancer and choreographer. She was born in Harlem into a well-connected family of theater professionals (her uncle was Hollywood director Cecil B.
Agnes de Mille Dance Theatre The Agnes de Mille Dance Theatre toured the United States from 1953 to 1954 under the aegis of producer Sol Hurok. The company offered an overview of Agnes de Mille's choreography to that date, with the addition of Anna Sokolow's "Short Lecture & Demonstration on the Evolution of Ragtime" (set to music by Billy Taylor) and Danny Daniels's "Razamatazz" (set to music by Jelly Roll Morton).
Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award The Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award was established in 1951 by the Iota Sigma Pi honorary society for women in chemistry. The award is given for research achievement in chemistry or biochemistry to a woman not over forty years of age at the time of her nomination.
Agnes Giberne Agnes Giberne (19 November 1845, Belgaum, India - 20 August 1939 Eastbourne, England) was a prolific British author who wrote fiction with moral or religious themes for children and also books on astronomy for young people.
Agnes Hijman Agnes Hijman (born January 17, 1966) is a long-distance runner from The Netherlands, who won the Eindhoven Marathon on October 8, 2006, clocking a total time of 2:54:36. She lives in Mijdrecht, and previously won the title in the Amsterdam Marathon, on September 24, 1995 in 2:48:57.
Agnes Howard, Duchess of Norfolk Agnes Howard [née Tilney] (c. 1477 - 1545) was the second wife of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk and the stepmother of the parents of Anne Boleyn, second wife and queen consort, and Catherine Howard, fifth wife and queen consort, of Henry VIII of England.
Agnes Irwin Agnes Irwin (1841-1914) was the first dean of Radcliffe College. In 1869, she founded the Young Ladies' School of Philadelphia, later re-named the Agnes Irwin School now a private PreK-12 school for girls in suburban Rosemont, Pennsylvania].
Agnes Keyser Agnes Keyser was the wealthy daughter of a Stock Exchange member, a humanitarian, courtesan and longtime mistress to Edward VII of the United Kingdom. Of all of Edward VII's mistresses, with the exception of socialite Jennie Jerome, Keyser was the best accepted within royal circles, to include having the acceptance of Edward VII's wife, Alexandra of Denmark.
Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels (born 1909; died November 30, 1993, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina) known as "Nan" to her friends, was a leading twentieth century scholar of Roman religion and daily life and a daughter of the Biblical scholar Kirsopp Lake (1872-1946).
Agnes Macphail Agnes Campbell Macphail (March 24, 1890 — February 13, 1954) was the first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons, and one of the first two women elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Active throughout her life in progressive Canadian politics, Macphail worked for two separate parties and promoted her ideas through column-writing, activist organizing, and legislation.
Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, known after her first marriage as Agnes-Marie-François Darmesteter, second as Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux (1857-1944) was an English writer and scholar on many subjects connected with France and French literature, and a poet.
Agnes Moorehead Agnes Robertson Moorehead (December 6, 1900 – April 30, 1974) was an Oscar-nominated American character actress. Although she appeared in more than 70 films and on dozens of television shows during a career that spanned more than 30 years, she is most widely known for her role as the witch Endora in the television series Bewitched.
Agnes Morton Agnes Morton (born March 6 1872, Halstead, Essex, England - died April 5, Kensington, London, England) was a former British female tennis player. She is best remembered for reaching the finals at the 1908 and 1909 Wimbledon Championships.
Agnes of Germany Agnes of Germany (1072 – September 24, 1143), was the daughter of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor and Bertha of Savoy. Her maternal grandparents were Otto, Count of Savoy, Aosta and Moriana and Adelaide, Marchioness of Turin and Susa.
Agnes of God Agnes of God is a play by John Pielmeier which tells the story of a novice nun who gives birth, insisting that the dead child was the result of a virgin birth. A psychiatrist and the mother superior of the convent clash during the resulting investigation.
Agnes Owens Agnes Owens is a Scottish author who has spent most of her life on the west coast, Owens has been married twice and raised seven children, also working as a cleaner, typist and factory worker. Attending a writer's group late in life, she has gone on to draw upon this background in a series of novels noted for their accomplishement, humour and powers of observation.
Agnes Ozman Agnes Ozman (1870-1937) was a female student at Charles Fox Parham's Bethel Bible School in Topeka, Kansas. Ozman's experience was considered by many as “the first to speak in tongues,” which sparked the modern Pentecostal-Holiness movement in the early 20th century.
Agnes Skinner Agnes Skinner (voiced by Tress MacNeille) is a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons, and Principal Seymour Skinner's mother, with whom he still lives. Her voice and her laugh are reminiscent of Phyllis Diller.
Agnes von Kurowsky Agnes von Kurowsky (1892-1984) served as a nurse in an American Red Cross hospital in Milan, Italy during World War I. One of her patients was Ernest Hemingway, who fell in love with Kurowsky in spite of a 6-year age difference between them.
Agnese Possamai Agnese Possamai (born January 17, 1953 in Lentiai) is a retired middle distance runner from Italy. Her greatest achievements were the 1985 World Indoor bronze medal as well as three European Indoor gold medals.
Agnete Hoy As an artist potter Agnete Hoy, also known as Anita Hoy, managed successfully to create a bridge between industrial ceramics and work of the studio potters. Having studied in Copenhagen she went on to work for the Holbaek and Saxbo potteries in the late-1930s before returning to England.
Agnetha Fältskogs bästa Agnetha Fältskogs bästa is a compilation album by Swedish pop singer Agnetha Fältskog, released in 1973 to fill the gap between her last album När en vacker tanke blir en sång and the next album eventually called Elva kvinnor i ett hus. Because of her pregnancy and the upcoming fame of ABBA the release of the album "Elva kvinnor i ett hus" had to wait until late 1975.
Agni missile system The Agni missile (from Sanskrit Agnī meaning "Fire", one of the 5 elements of nature) is an IRBM developed under the IGMDP by India. It was first tested at the Interim Test Range in Chandipur in 1989, and is capable of carrying a conventional payload of 1000 kg (2,200 lb) or a nuclear warhead.
Agni Natchathiram Agni Natchathiram (Fire Star) (in reference to the hottest part of May in South India) (1988) is a Tamil feature film directed by Mani Ratnam. The movie is about two half-brothers who come into conflict with each other in their claim for legitimacy as sons of a common father.
Agni Purana Agni Purana, one of the major eighteen Puranas, a Hindu religious text, contains descriptions and details of various incarnations (avatars) of Vishnu. It also has details account about Rama, Krishna, Prithvi, and the stars.
Agni Yoga Agni Yoga, also called the "Teaching of Living Ethics" or (in Russian) the Живая этика (Zhivaya etika), is an esoteric teaching founded by the Russian painter Nicholas Roerich (Nikolai Konstantinovitch Rerikh) and his highly adept empathic wife, Helena Roerich (Elena Ivanovna Rerikh). Inspired by the Vedic traditions, as well as by Buddhism and writings of H.
Agnicayana The Atiratra Agnicayana ( "the building up of the fireplace performed over-night") or piling of the altar of Agni is an ancient ritual of Vedic religion. The entire ritual takes twelve days to perform, in the course of which a great bird-shaped altar, the uttaravedi "northern altar" is built out of 10,800 bricks.
Agnico-Eagle Mines Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited is a Quebec, Canada gold producing company and is involved in the acquisition, exploration and development of precious metal properties. The company's operations are located principally in Northwestern Quebec, with exploration and development activities in Quebec and Ontario.
Agnihotra Agnihotra (अग्निहोत्र) is a Vedic yajna (ritual or sacrifice), performed at dawn and dusk. Practitioners will purify themselves with water, stir a sacred fire, chant sacred verses, and recite a prayer to Agni.
Agnikaryam Agnikaryam is the Yajna performed in a loukika agni (worldly fire) by brahmacharis (celibate bachelors). The Agnikarya is performed with the help of Samits or small wooden sticks or twigs usually of Arali tree.
Agnodike Agnodike (last third of the 4th century BCE) was an Athenian physician who is said to have disguised herself as a man to study under Herophilus. When she completed her studies she attempted to practice medicine on women while still presenting herself as a man, women refused her service until she confessed she was a women.
Agnoetae Agnoetae was a monophysite sect who maintained that Jesus was God but his human form was like others in all respects, including limited knowledge. Its founder was Themistius, a deacon in Alexandria in the 6th century.
Agnolo di Cosimo Agnolo di Cosimo (November 17, 1503 – November 23,1572), also known as Agnolo Bronzino, Agnolo Toriand even Angelo (Agnolo) Allori, was a Florentine Mannerist painter. The origin of his nickname, Bronzino is unknown, but could derive from his dark complexion.
Agnolotti Agnolotti ('priest hats' in Italian) is a kind of ravioli made with a small round piece of flattened pasta dough, folded over with a meat and vegetable stuffing inside. They are prepared by either poaching them or by browning them in a frying pan with butter.
Agnondas Agnondas is a small port and summer community on the island of Skopelos, Greece. Agnondas is the alternative port for ferryboats and passenger hydrofoils when bad weather closes the main port of the town of Skopelos.
Agnontas Agnontas is a beach located on the Greek island of Skopelos.Agnontas on the Greek Travel Pages (accessed November 24, 2006) It was named after a local runner by the same name who disembarked on this beach after winning the 569 BC Olympic Games.
Agnostic atheism Agnostic atheism is a philosophical doctrine that encompasses both atheism and agnosticism. While the concepts of atheism and agnosticism occasionally overlap, they are distinct: atheism is generally defined as "a condition of being without theistic beliefs" while agnosticism is usually defined as "an absence of knowledge (or any claim of knowledge)".
Agnostic christian While the separate terms agnostic and Christian have a well-defined context in Western history, philosophy, and theology, the concept of “Agnostic Christian” is a relatively new idea. This expression juxtaposes two seemingly contradictory ideas, but with an ironic force that is intended to focus attention, in a critically postmodern way, on each term in a play of meaning and thought.
Agnostic theism Agnostic Theism is the philosophical view that encompasses both theism and agnosticism. An agnostic theist is one who views that the truth value of certain claims particularly existence of god(s) is unknown or inherently unknowable but chooses to believe in god(s) in spite of this.
Agnosticism Agnosticism (from the Greek a, meaning "without" and gnosis, "knowledge", translating to unknowable) is the philosophical view that the truth value of certain claims—particularly theological claims regarding metaphysics, afterlife or the existence of God, god(s), or deities—is unknown or (possibly) inherently unknowable. Some agnostics take a stronger view that the concept of a deity is incoherent, thus meaningless and irrelevant to life.
Agnus Dei Agnus Dei is a Latin term meaning Lamb of God, and was originally used to refer to Jesus Christ in his role of the perfect sacrificial offering that atones for the sins of man in Christian theology, harkening back to ancient Jewish Temple sacrifices. See Lamb of God for an explanation of this.
Agobot (computer worm) Agobot, also frequently known as Gaobot, is a family of computer worms that infects the Microsoft Windows operating system, though there is also a Linux port of the bot. Because development was a team-based effort, and because the bot was to be modified by the community through its modular design, the authors of this family chose to make Agobot open source.
Agogô An agogô or agogo bell (gong in English) is a single or multiple bell used in traditional African music and also in the samba baterías (percussion ensembles). It is also used in the ceremonial music of those religions in Africa as well as in their new world practice, which are based on beliefs brought by slaves from Africa such as candomblé.
Agoge The agoge was a rigorous education and training regime undergone by all Spartan citizens (with the exception of future kings). It involved separation from the family, cultivation of loyalty to one's group, loving mentorship, military training, hunting, dance and social preparation.
Agomelatine Agomelatine (Valdoxan®) is chemical compound that is structurally closely related to melatonin. Agomelatine is a potent agonist at melatonin receptors and an antagonist at serotonin-2C (5-HT2C) receptors, tested in an animal model of depression (forced swimming test in rodents).
Agon In Ancient Greek drama, particularly old comedy (5th century BC), the agon refers to the formal convention according to which the struggle between the characters should be scripted in order to supply the basis of the action. The meaning of the term has escaped the circumscriptions of its classical origins to signify, more generally, the conflict on which a literary work turns.
Agon (Stravinsky) Agon (1957), a dodecaphonic composition for a 12-dancer ballet, was a collaborative effort between composer Igor Stravinsky and choreographer George Balanchine. Together they discussed the score and choreography as specifically as possible: negotiating lengths of movements, pas de deux requirements, character of the combined piece, and the tempi of sections.
Agonal respiration Agonal respiration is an abnormal pattern of breathing characterized by shallow, slow (3-4 per minute), irregular inspirations followed by irregular pauses. They may also be characterized as gasping, labored breathing, accompanied by strange vocalizations and myoclonus.

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