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“A” ... Aaron, Hank
Aaronic benediction ... Abbott and Costello
Abbott, Bud ... Abdim’s stork
abdomen ... Aberdeen, University of
Aberdeen, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of, Viscount Gordon Of Aberdeen, Viscount Of Formartine, Lord Haddo, Methlick, Tarves, And Kellie ... Abo Elementary School
Åbo, Swedish University of ... Aberon Peninsula
absinthe ... Ab af
Ab af 'Umar ... abyssalpelagic zone
Abyssinia ... accent
accent ... Acerbo Law
Acerentomidae ... Achinese War
Achinsk ... acorn and nut weevil
acorn weevil ... Act in Restraint of Appeals to Rome
ACT New Zealand ... Acton
Acton, Sir Harold Mario Mitchell ... Adalbert
Adalbert ... Adamson Act
Adamson, Andrew ... Ade, George
Adeang, David ... adiaphorism
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi ... Admiralty Inlet
Admiralty Island ... Adrian VI
Adrian, Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron ... “Adversus nationes”
“Adversus Praxean” ... Aeolic dialect
aeolipile ... Aethelberht I
Aethelflaed ... Afranius, Lucius
Afrenulata ... African Standby Force
African striped weasel ... “Against the Academics”
“Against the Christians” ... Agelena naevia
Agen ... AGM-65 Maverick
AGM-78 Standard ARM ... Agricultural Labourers, Federation of
agricultural law ... Ahdut ha-'Avoda–Po'ale Tziyyon
aheho-t’ang ... Ahram, Al-
Ahrens, Wilhelm Ernst Martin Georg ... Aïn Temouchent
ainame ... airborne moving-target indication radar
airborne radar ... ajoene
Ajun ... khndzdeh, Mrz Fat 'Al
Akhurst, Daphne ... “Al Que Quiere!”
“'Al tehi ka'-avotekha” ... Alaric
Alaric II ... Albarno, Montréal d’
Albatros ... Albida acacia
“Albigenser, Die” ... “Alchemy, Medicine, and Religion in China of A.D. 320, The Nei P’ien of Ko Hung”
Alchevsk ... aldosterone
Aldrich, Lyman T. ... Alexander
Alexander ... Alexandria, School of
Alexandria, Synod of ... algebra, modern
algebraic curve ... Ali Paa Tepelenë
Âli Paa, Mehmed Emin ... alkaline plutonic rock
alkaline rock ... “All Tomorrow’s Parties”
All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets ... Allen, Peter
Allen, Ralph ... Alliluyeva, Svetlana
Allin, Erskine S. ... Almaty
“Almayer’s Folly” ... Alpha and Omega
alpha-beta alloy ... Alsted, Johann Heinrich
Alster River ... altocumulus undulatus
Alton ... Alvise I
Alvise II ... Amanita ocreata
Amanita verna ... Amazonia, Parque Nacional da
Amazonian Cooperation, Treaty of ... Amda Tseyon
Amdahl Corporation ... American beaver
American beech ... American germander
“American Gigolo” ... American paddlefish
American Paint Horse ... American Woman Suffrage Association
American Women’s Voluntary Services ... Amigoni, Jacopo
Amiiformes ... Ammonius Hermiae
Ammonius Saccas ... amphibian
amphibian papilla ... amta
Amsberg, Claus George Willem Otto Frederik Geert von ... Anacharsis
anachronism ... analytic philosophy
analytic proposition ... Anatoli, Jacob
Anatolia ... “Ancient Voices of Children”
Ancients and Moderns ... Anderson, Michael
Anderson, Michael P. ... “Andrea Doria”
Andreä, Jakob ... Andronicos, Manolis
Andronicus I Comnenus ... “Angel Pavement”
angel shark ... anglesite
Angleterre ... Angula, Nahas
angular acceleration ... animal worship
animalcule ... “Annales: économies, sociétés, civilisations”
“Annales et Historiae de Rebus Belgicis” ... annuity depreciation
annular eclipse ... Anselm of Canterbury, Saint
Anselm Of Laon ... Antelope, Morris
Antemoro ... anthropocentrism
anthropogenic scrubland ... Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Piracy Act
anticyclone ... Antiochene rite
“Antiochus and Stratonice” ... Antler orogeny
antlerite ... anuvd
auvrata ... Apapa Quay
apapane ... aplastic anemia
aplastic crisis ... “Apology Against the Arians”
“Apology for Actors, An” ... apparent solar time
apparent velocity ... applied psychology
applied research ... aquamanile
aquamarine ... Arabian-Iranian sedimentary basin
Arabian Iraq ... Arao
Arapaho ... arc welding
Arca ... Archidiidae
Archidium ... Ardabl Carpet
Ardagh Chalice ... Areva
Arevaci ... Arguedas Mendieta, Antonio
Arguedas, Alcides ... arika
Arikamedu ... Arizona white oak
Arizona woodrat ... Armatrading, Joan
armature ... Armstrong, David Malet
Armstrong, Debbie ... Arnulf I
Arnulf III ... Arron, Henck
arrondissement ... art conservation and restoration
“Art Critic” ... artemisinin
Artemisium, Battle of ... Artinian, Artine
Artinskian Stage ... Aryana Vaejah
Aryandes ... asbestos cement
asbestos-cement wallboard ... ash-flow tuff
Ash, James ... Ashtabula
Ashtar ... Ask Jeeves
Askaniya-Nova Nature Reserve ... aspirin
Aspiring, Mount ... Assiniboine River
Assiniwi, Bernard ... Asterousia Mountains
Asteroxylon ... astronomy
Astropecten ... Atar
“Atarashii hito yo meza meyo” ... Athens, Academy of
Athens, National Technical University of ... Atlantic North Equatorial Current
Atlantic Ocean ... atomic proposition
atomic radius ... “Attempt Towards a Chemical Conception of the Ether, An”
Attenborough, Richard ... Auburn
Auburn ... augmentor wing
Augrabies Falls ... “Aurelia”
Aurelia ... austracismo
Austral English ... australite
australopith ... autochrome process
autochthon ... autorefrigerated cascade cycle
autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity ... “Ave Maria”
“Ave maris stella” ... Avis, Warren Edward
Avisha' Scroll ... Axelrod, George
Axelrod, Julius ... “Ayenbite of Inwit”
Ayer, Francis Wayland ... Azerbaijan State University
Azerbaijani ... Azzone Dei Porci