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'Adud al-Daula
Adud al-Dowleh (Azod o-dowleh) was an Emir of the Buwayhid dynasty in Iran. He held power in Iraq and Iran from 945 to 983 CE, when he died. He is especially remembered for being a great sponsor and patron of scientific projects during his time. An observatory was built by his orders in Isfahan w..
Adu
ADU can stand for: The soccer player Freddy AduIn metadata the acronym Application Discovery and UnderstandingAnalog-to-digital unit AdU can stand for: Adamson University of Manila This page disambiguates a three-character combination which might be any or all of an abbreviation, an acronym, an ini..
Aduaneiros sem Fronteiras
Aduaneiros sem fronteiras is a Galician design project focused on social, political and cultural analysis. It is published in a weblog format and usually a new design is posted every 15 days. Obra Social is more participative and open part of the website to involve the community on the project, de..
Aduatuci
The Aduatuci or Atuatuci were a tribe formed in Southern Gaul by remnants of the Celtic Ambrones, originally from Northern Germany/Southern Jutland, and local fragments of Celtic peoples and tribes. ..
Adua e le compagne
Adua e le compagne (Adua and Friends) is a 1960 Italian film directed by Antonio Pietrangeli with a collaborative screenplay by the film's director together with Ruggero Maccari, Ettore Scola and Tullio Pinelli. The plot concerns the efforts of four prostitutes to eke out a living after being thrown..
Aduba-3
In the fictional Star Wars universe, Aduba-3 or Aduba III was a planet in the Aduba system with three million inhabitants and a starport. It was mostly covered by desert and plains. Most of the plant life on Aduba-3 grew thorns as forms of protection. In 1,010 BBY, a Sith Lord created the Behemo..
Adularia
Adularia is a tectosilicate mineral with formula KAlSi3O8. It is a form of orthoclase which crystallizes at unusually low temepratures. It is found in the Adula Mountains of Switzerland. ..
Adulf
Adulf (d c680) was an Anglo-Saxon saint. He is said to have been the brother of Saint Botolph, but virtually nothing is known about his life. The story, which originated with Folkard's account of Botolph's life, that Adulf was at one time bishop of Maastricht, is now generally thought to rest on a ..
Adulis
Adulis is an archeological site in Eritrea, about 30 miles south of Massawa. It was the port of the Kingdom of Aksum, located on the coast of the Red Sea. History Pliny the Elder is the earliest writer to mention Adulis (N.H. 6.34), who misunderstood the name of the place, and thought its name mea..
Adullam
This entry incorporates text from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897. Adullam is a town referred to in the Hebrew Bible. It was one of the royal cities of the Canaanites, now 'Aid-el-ma (Joshua 12:15; 15:35). It stood on what later became the Roman road in..
Adullamites
The Adullamites were a short-lived rogue faction within the UK Liberal Party in 1866. The name is a biblical reference to the cave of Adullam. After the death of Palmerston in 1865, a second Reform Act became a priority for the Liberal Party. However, not all sections of the party agreed with this..
Adult
redirect [[Template:Not verified]]For the band, see ADULT. The term adult describes any mature organism, but normally it refers to a human: one that is no longer a child / minor and is now either a man or a woman. Coming of age is the event of becoming an adult, i.e. of entering adulthood. Historic..
ADULT.
ADULT. is a band from Detroit, Michigan that integrates vocals with drum machines, analog synths and electronic/punk elements. They have made it a point to stress that the band's name must be spelled with all-capital letters and always include the period that follows it. They started releasing albu..
Adult/Sex Jewellery
Adult or Sex jewellery (Jewelry in American English) is jewellery which is sexual in nature and can range from collars and nipple rings to, cock rings and butt plugs. These sex toys have been around for centuries, but a recent increase in popularity and social acceptance has resulted in the fusion b..
Adulterant
Adulterants are chemical impurities or substances that by law do not belong in a food, pesticide, or other substance. Some are added intentionally to lower the manufacturing cost of the product, or to modify its characteristics in a deceptive way. Usage of adulterants was very common and often was..
Adultery
Man and woman undergoing public exposure for adultery in Japan, around 1860 Adultery is generally defined as consensual sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than his or her lawful spouse. In many jurisdictions, an unmarried person who is sexually involved with a married p..
Adultery (album)
Adultery is Dog Fashion Disco's sixth studio album, released on April 4, 2006. The new album is a metal, hardcore, jazz and lounge fusion. It is a concept album that takes the listener on a journey through one man's self destruction. A "dark and twisted" video has been shot for the track "Silent F..
Adultery in literature
The theme of adultery features in a wide range of literature through the ages. This is hardly surprising, as the fact of adultery has been a part of the human existence for as long as there has been marriage. As a theme it automatically brings its own conflict, between the people concerned and betwe..
Adultism
Adultism is a term, originating from co-counseling, used to refer to the "oppression of young people through attitudinal, cultural and systematic discrimination against children and youth". It is also used to refer to any bias against young people, and is distinguished from ageism — which is si..
Adults Only
Adults Only is the first album recorded by Ray Dorset, also known as Mungo Jerry, with his German blues band. Some of the songs are blues standards that have been in his set for several years, others are new recordings of numbers from the Mungo back catalogue, including 'I Just Can't Say Goodbye'..
AdulTv
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Adult album alternative
Adult Album Alternative (also Triple-A, AAA, or Adult Alternative) is a radio format broadcast mostly on FM. Its roots may have been established sometime during the 60's from what was called Underground music and later progressive. The radio format has a broader, more diverse playlist than most othe..
Adult animation
It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a [Disambiguationdisambiguation page]. ([[Wikipedia talk:|Discuss]]) Adult animation is animation that is targeted at adults. For American audiences, the primary reason for a program to be describe..
Adult attention-deficit disorder
This article is intended to focus on the condition in adults. Please see also main article Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder Adult attention deficit disorder (AADD) refers to the psychiatric condition currently known as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (also known as attention..
Adult at 14 season
The Channel 4, Adult at 14 season was part of the 2003 autumn season which heavily indulges in human obsession. Adult at 14 is a provocotive insight into the lives of Britsh teenagers. Entering the world of today's 14-year-olds, a place of extremes, of conflicting pressures and ever-changing bounda..
Adult comics
Adult comics are comic books intended for adults. They may contain material that might be considered obscene, profane, immoral, and even pornographic, in contrast to the traditionally considered kid-friendly mainstream world of comics. Many adult comics, however, feature none of this, and simply tel..
Adult Contemporary (Billboard chart)
The Adult Contemporary chart (formerly known as Adult Contemporary Singles) lists the most popular songs weekly calculated by airplay and occasionally sales. Billboard magazine publishes this listing which includes Adult Contemporary and pop songs played on "lite-pop" and adult contemporary radio st..
Adult contemporary music
Adult contemporary music, frequently abbreviated AC, is a type of radio format that plays mainstream contemporary pop music, excluding hip hop and hard rock (mainly since it is geared more toward adults than teens, despite the fact that most singers are adults, yet perform music for all ages.). AC i..
Adult Contemporary radio panel
The Billboard Radio Monitor Adult Contemporary radio panel is a list of Adult Contemporary stations that are monitored by BDS Nielsen Data Systems. The stations are ranked by the highest audience cumes based on Arbitron ratings and are modified twice a year. There are 85 reporters as of June 23, 20..
Adult Daycare Center
An adult daycare center is a non-residential health care facility specializing in providing activities for elderly and/or handicapped individuals. Most centers operate 10 - 12 hours per day and provide meals, social/recreational outings, and general supervision. They frequently maintain a nurse o..
Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center
The Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center is a correctional facility governed by the New Jersey Department of corrections. The facility is located in the Avenel section of Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. ADTC provides treatment to convicted sex offenders. The Bureau of State Use Industries/DEPTCOR ..
Adult education
Libraries are a useful resource for adult learners. Adult education is the practice of teaching and educating adults. This is often done in the workplace, or through 'extension' or 'continuing education' courses at secondary schools, or at a College or University. The practice is also often ..
Adult Education (song)
Adult Education was one of Hall and Oates' big hits in the 1980s. ..
Adult Entertainment Working Group
The Adult Entertainment Working Group (AEWG) is the Scottish governmental advisory body set up within the Scottish Executive to investigate the legislative issues involved in the current proposed lapdancing ban in Scotland. The working group has been in place from March 2005 to April 2006, is headed..
Adult Film Association of America
The Adult Film Association of America, the AFAA, was the first American association of pornographic film producers. It fought against censorship laws, attempted to defend the industry against prosecution for obscenity, and held an annual adult film awards ceremony. It was founded in 1969 in Kansas ..
Adult Film Database
The Adult Film Database is a website that attempts to keep records of all pornographic movies and adult film stars. This includes filmographies, partial biographies and reviews. It was originally created in 1998 under the name Sodomite by a college student. This was an attempt to fill the void of t..
Adult FriendFinder
Adult Friend Finder (AFF) is a commercial website that claims to be the world's largest sex and swinger personals community online [link]. The site is consistently ranked between the 40th and 60th most visited website on the internet,[link] and claims to have over 20 million ..
Adult high school
An adult high school is a high school facility designed for adult education. It is intended primarily for adults who have not completed high school to continue their education in a facility which offers child care for single parents, special integration programs for immigrants, career counseling and..
Adult High School (Ottawa)
Ottawa's Adult High School The Adult High School is a Ottawa-Carleton District School Board high school for adults in Ottawa, Canada. It is the only regular high school entirely for adults in the province of Ontario. Current enrollment is some 1100 students. It is located at 300 Rochester St..
Adult hits
Adult hits (sometimes also called variety hits or classic hits) is a radio format which emerged in the early 2000s. The format is most famously associated with the Jack FM brand, although the format and the Bob FM brand both predate Jack. However, not all stations which play the format use one of th..
Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation
The Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation is an organization which tests erotic actors for AIDS on a scheduled basis. In the 1980s, an outbreak of AIDS caused a number of deaths of erotic actors. This led to the creation of the Foundation which helped set up a system in the U.S. where erotic..
Adult learner
Adult learner is a term used to describe any person socially accepted as an adult who is in a learning process, whether it is formal education, informal learning, or corporate-sponsored learning. Adult learners are considered distinct from child learners due primarily to the work of Malcolm Knowl..
Adult oriented pop music
Adult Oriented Pop Music is a term used in music radio programming. Although the specific composition of this genre of radio programming is debatable, it generally combines music selections from established formats such as Adult Contemporary (AC), Hot Adult Contemporary (Hot AC), Contemporary Hit Ra..
Adult Protective Services
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.Please help [[help:link|introduce links]] in articles on [related topics]. After links have been created, remove this message.This article has been tagged since June 2006. } Adult Protective Services (APS) are social services ..
Adult puppeteering
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Adult R&B Airplay panel
The Billboard Radio Monitor Adult R&B panel is a list of Adult R&B stations that are monitored by BDS Nielsen Data Systems. The stations are ranked by the highest audience cumes based on Arbitron ratings and are modified twice a year. Reporting panels WRKS New YorkWBLS New YorkKHHT Los AngelesKKBT..
Adult service provider
An Adult Service Provider (ASP), or Adult Sex Provider, provides sexual services for adults. This can include escorts, call girls, prostitutes, sex workers, adult webmasters, erotic dancers and the independent contractors sometimes associated with brothels. See also Call girlEscortBrothelMega-bro..
Adult standards
Adult Standards is a North American radio format heard primarily on AM or class A FM stations. Adult Standards is aimed at "mature" adults, meaning mainly those 50 and older, often considerably older. It is primarily on AM because market research reveals that only persons in that age group listen ..
Adult stem cell
Adult stem cells are undifferentiated cells found throughout the body that divide to replenish dying cells and regenerate damaged tissues. Also known as somatic (from Greek Σωματικóς, of the body) stem cells, they can be found in children, as well as adults. Research into adult stem cel..
Adult Students
The Adult Students (Fred Armisen, Rachel Dratch, Tracy Morgan, and Horatio Sanz) are recurrent characters in sketches on Saturday Night Live. They are socially awkward individuals who enroll in night school classes such as dance class (taught by host Adrien Brody), or a class in social communicatio..
Adult Swim
The Adult Swim logo Adult Swim, usually rendered [adult swim] on bumps, is the name for the adult-oriented television programming block on Cartoon Network featuring absurdist and often ribald comedy in contrast to the more tame daytime Cartoon Network. It premiered on September 2, 2001..
Adult Swim Fix
The Adult Swim Fix is a free Video on demand service on the Adult Swim website that operates every hour of every day, and shows premiere episodes on Fridays at 6pm Eastern Time, and last all week until the next Friday when more premieres come along (Eureka Seven being the exception, due to Bandai..
Adult T-cell leukemia
Human T cell leukemia/lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is believed to be the cause of several diseases, including adult T cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL), a rare cancer of the immune system's own T-cells. ATLL is usually a highly aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with no characteristic histologic ..
Adult Themes for Voice
Adult Themes for Voice is an album recorded by Mike Patton (vocalist for Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, Tomahawk, Peeping Tom (album), etc.) in hotel rooms during a Faith No More tour. It has no music and consists simply of vocal noises by Patton himself. The 34 tracks can't be considered si..
Adult Top 40
Adult Top 40 is a variation on the United States Billboard charts. It is a format in which this genre is more geared towards an adult audience who are not into Rock music, teen Pop, Dance music, Hip-Hop, Modern Rock or slower Adult Contemporary fare. The chart roughly corresponds to what is played ..
Adult Top 40 radio panel
The Billboard Radio Monitor Adult Top 40 radio panel is a list of Adult Top 40 stations that are monitored by BDS Nielsen Data Systems. The stations are ranked by the highest audience cumes based on Arbitron ratings and are modified twice a year. There are 76 reporters as of June 23, 2006 Reporter..
Adult Verification System
An Adult Verification System is a computing system used by a website to confirm that the user attempting to access their website is of the age required (usually by law) to view the website's content, which could include sex, nudity, violence or profanity. The system is used to legally protect compan..
Adult video arcade
MILIEU: Adult video arcades are X-rated movie previewing areas. They are almost always attached to a sex shop or an adult book store (ABS), where magazines, movies, and sexual aids are sold. An arcade consists of typically a dozen or more private (or sometimes semi-private) viewing booths, c..
Adult video games
Adult video games, like adult movies or other media, are intended for an adult audience. There exists a wide variety of adult games, though many lack mainstream appeal and represent a niche category. The object of an adult game may differ from a mainstream video game or computer game, in that the ..
Adummim
This entry incorporates text from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897. Adummim - the red ones, a place apparently on the road between Jericho and Jerusalem, "on the south side of the torrent" Wady Kelt, looking toward Gilgal, mentioned Josh. 15:7; 18:17. It w..
Adun
Adun can refer to: a molecular dynamics simulation application ([Adun])a character in the fictional game Starcraftan alternative name for the ancient city of Dion, IsraelThis is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an ref..
Aduna
Aduna is a town located in the province of Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, in the North of Spain. On 2003 Aduna had a total population of 341. [Aduna AutoFocus] is a visual desktop search application in Java. External links [Official Website] Informatio..
Adungu
The adungu is a 9-string arched harp of the Alur people in the northwest of Uganda. The adungu may be played alone (in which case the soloist often sings as they play the adungu) or in an ensemble. The adungu is but one of many arched harps found in sub-Saharan Africa. The adungu may be played for d..
Adur
Adur District Shown within West Sussex Geography Status: District Region: South East England Admin. County: West Sussex Area:- Total Ranked 313th41.80 km² Admin. HQ: Shoreham-by-Sea ONS code: 45UB Demographics Population:- Total ()- Density ..
Adur local elections
Half of Adur Council is elected every two years. Until 2003 the council was elected by thirds. Contents 1 Political control2 Council elections3 By-election results4 External links Political control No overall control 1973 - 1979 Conservative 1979 - 1980 SDP-Liberal Allianc..
Aduthurai
Aduthurai alias Maruthuvakudi is a panchayat town in Thanjavur district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. Demographics As of 2001 India census[Geographic references#IndiaGRIndia], Aduthurai alias Maruthuvakudi had a population of 11,455. Males constitute 50% of the population and femal..
AD Universidad de Oviedo
Asociación Deportiva Universidad de Oviedo is a football team based in Oviedo in the autonomous community of Asturias. Founded in 1962, its plays in Segunda División B - Group 2. Her stadium is Estadio San Gregorio with capacity of 4,000 seaters. Seasons 2004/2005: Tercera División 8th2005/200..
A Duel in Love
A Duel in Love, known in Japan as Etoile Cyber (エトワール・サイバー) is the third episode of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (known in Japan as Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX). It was first broadcast in Japan on October 20, 2004. Dr. Vellian Crowler (Cronos de Medici in the Japanese version) decides to use..
A Duel with Destiny (1)
A Duel with Destiny (1) (Japanese: 海馬ｖｓ8人目のデュエリスト, Kaiba VS The 8th Duelist) is episode 93 of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters. Contents 1 In other languages2 Synopsis3 Major events3.1 Debuts3.2 Duel4 Characters4.1 Duel Cards5 Voice C..
A Duel with Destiny (2)
A Duel with Destiny (2) (Japanese: 未来を変える一撃, An Attack that Changes the Future) is episode 93 of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters. Contents 1 In other languages2 Synopsis3 Major events3.1 Debuts3.2 Duel4 Characters4.1 Duel Cards5 Voice Credits..
A Dump of My Own
A Dump of My Own is the 5h episode of season three of the television sitcom Married... with Children. First Aired: Sunday January 8, 1989 on FOX. [Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow. Plot Al plans on building his dream - an executive's type of bathroom ..
A Duo Occasion
A Duo Occasion is live performance DVD with Harry Connick, Jr. on piano and Branford Marsalis on saxophone(s). Recorded at the Library and Archives Canada as part of the 25th Anniversary of the Ottawa Jazz Festival on June 24, 2005. Chattanooga Choo Choo (Harry Warren) - Connick soloBrown World (H..
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