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A. L. Sadler
A.L. Sadler was a Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Sydney from 1922-1948. He also taught at the Royal Military College of Australia. His publications include A Short History of Japanese Architecture, Maker of Modern Japan: The Life of Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Cha-No-Yu: The Japanese T..

Al's Breakfast
The front of Al's Breakfast At a width of ten feet (3 m), Al's Breakfast is reportedly the smallest restaurant in the city of Minneapolis, and possibly the smallest restaurant in the world. A site with a colorful history, it is crammed into a former alleyway between two much larger buildings ..

Al-Saadi Qadhafi
Al-Saadi Qadhafi (Arabic: السعدي القذافي) (born May 28, 1973, in Tripoli) is the son of Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi. A professional soccer player, he signed for Italian Serie B team Perugia in 2003, playing only one match before failing a drugs test. He was also captain of the Lib..

Al-Sabah
The Al-Sabah (Arabic: الصباح) are the ruling family of Kuwait. They are one of the clans of the Bani Utub tribe, which hold other notable royal families. The Emir of Kuwait makes all the decisions for the country. Every male member of the ruling family (regardless of his age) is locally ref..

Al-Sadaqua Walsalam Stadium
Al-Sadaqua Walsalam Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Kuwait City, Kuwait. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 21,500. ..

Al-Sadd
The Al-Sadd Sports Club (Arabic: ‎) is a sports club, best known for its football team of the Qatar National First Division from Doha, Qatar. The club goes with the Nickname "Al Zaeem" which translates to "The Boss" and was founded by students on the 21 October 1969 in Qatar's capital city. ..

Al-Safa and Al-Marwah
Al-Safa and Al-Marwah (Safa and Marwah) (Arabic: الصفا Aş-Şafā ; المروة Al-Marwah) are two small hills now located in the Masjid al Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia between which Muslims travel back and forth seven times during the ritual pilgrimages of Hajj and Umrah. History In I..

Al-saghani
Abu Hamid Ahmed ibn Mohammed al-Saghani al-Asturlabi, i. e., the astrolabe maker of Saghan, near Merv, was a Persian astronomer. He flourished in Baghdad, where he died in 990 AD. An inventor and maker of instruments, he worked in Sharaf al-dawla's observatory and, perhaps, constructed the instrum..

Al-Sakhawi
Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn `Abd al-Rahman al-Sakhawi (831— 902) was a reputable Egyptian Islamic scholar, a hafiz, excelling in knowledge of hadith, tafsir, literature and history. "Al-Sakhawi" refers to the village of Sakha in Egypt, where his relatives belonged. He was born in Cairo and died..

Al-Samawal
Ibn Yahya al-Maghribi Al-Samawal was a Moroccan born muslim mathematician and astronomer of the 12th century. He wrote the mathematical treatise al-Bahir fi'l-jabr, meaning "The brilliant in algebra", at the young age of nineteen. He moved to Baghdad, and then to Maragheh, Persia, where he died. ..

Al-Samh ibn Malik al-Khawlani
Al-Samh ibn Malik al-Khawlani (Arabic: السمح بن مالك الخولاني) was the Arab governor general of the Muslim occupied region of the Iberian Peninsula called Al-Andalus in the beginning of the 8th century. He led a Muslim incursion into southern France in the early part of the 8th c..

Al-Samoud 2
Al-Samoud (الصمود, alternately "Al-Samed") of the former Iraq regime is a liquid-fuel missile which is essentially a scaled-down Scud, though parts are also derived from the Russian SA-2 'Guideline' surface-to-air missile. The rocket engine is from the SA-2 design and the thrust vector control..

Al-Sarafand
Until 1948, Al-Sarafand was an Arab village close to the Mediterranean shore south of Haifa. It is not known when the village was founded, or how the name originated. However, from Ottoman records it is known that in the 16-th century it was a small village with 11 households. The inhabitants gr..

Al-Sawa'iq al-Muhriqah
Part of the series on Hadith collections [ v]·[ d]·[ e] Most famous Sunni six major collections (Al-Kutub al-Sittah): Sahih Bukhari Sahih MuslimSunan al-SughraSunan Abi Da'udSunan al-TirmidhiSunan Ibn Maja/Al-Muwatta Shi'a collections: Nahj al-..

Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language
The Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language (ABSL) is a sign language used by about 150 deaf and many hearing members of a Bedouin community in the Negev desert of southern Israel. As both deaf and hearing people share a language, deaf people are not stigmatised in this community, and marriage between dea..

Al-Shabbab
Al-Shabab (Arabic: الشباب) is a football club in the United Arab Emirates. Famous players for this club include Iranian international top goalscorer Ali Daei. They won the Emir Cup (also known as the President Cup) in seasons 1980/81; 1989/90; 1993/94; 1996/97 ..

Al-Shahrazuri
Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Mahmud Shahrazuri was a 13th century Kurdish physician and philosopher of the Ilkhanate and late Abbasid era of Iran. Shahrazur is a region in Hawraman, in what is today Iraqi Kurdistan. Shahrazuri was an important historian and scholar of the late 13th century who compose..

Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper
Ash-Sharq al-Awsat ("The Middle-East") is one of the leading pan-Arab daily newspaper, with a circulation of 200 000. A Saudi newspaper, it is based in London (UK). It is edited by the Saudi Research and Marketing Ltd., directed by the Saudi prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz, half-brother of the king. Si..

Al-Sharurah
Al-Sharurah is located in the south of Saudi Arabia. It is a little more than 200 miles east of the town of Najran and is within the Rub_al-Khali desert. ..

Al-Shaykh Muwannis
Al-Shaykh Muwannis was an Arab town in the British Mandate of Palestine. A religious shrine was there. The town was approximately 8.5 kilometers from the center of the District of Jaffa. The Yarqon River flows through what was the the farming area of the town. The Tel Aviv University occupies part o..

Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory
The Al-Shifa ("Health") pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum, Sudan was constructed between 1992 and 1996 with components imported from the United States, Sweden, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, India, and Thailand. It was the largest pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum and it employed over 300 workers, p..

Al-Sijzi
Abu Sa'id Ahmed ibn Mohammed ibn Abd al-Jalil al-Sijzi (short for al-Sijistani) was a Persian mathematician. Sijistan from the word Sagz is a region in southeast and east in current Iran. It is mentioned in abundance in the Shahnama. Sijzi was a Mathematician who made a special study of the inters..

Al-Siliya
Al-Siliya (Arabic: السيلية) is a Qatari professional football (soccer) club. They are based in Siliya. ..

Al-Sirât
Al-Sirât (Arabic: الصراط) is the hair-narrow bridge of Islam, which according to Muslim belief every person must pass on the Day of Judgement to enter Paradise. American science fiction author Frank Herbert adopted the idea for his novel Dune. In the Orange Catholic Bible, the most important ..

Al-Sumayriyya
al-Sumayriyya was a Palestinian town that was captured by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Its name is Arabic for "Little Samaria": it may have been inhabited by Samaritans in former centuries, but in the 18th century the Samaritans were expelled from the area and moved to Nablus. At the sta..

Alès
For other uses of Ales, see Ales. You may also be searching for Alias Alès Country France Région Languedoc-Roussillon Départment Gard (sous-préfecture) Arrondissement Alès Canton Chief town of 3 cantons INSEE 30007 Postal Code 3010..

Alésia (Paris Metro)
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ALS
ALS may stand for: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a form of motor neurone disease more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease or Maladie de CharcotAdvanced Life Support, a protocolised form of cardiopulmonary resuscitationAutomatic Landing System, an instrument based Landing SystemAudio Lossless Co..

Als
For the motor neuron disease, see amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Augustenborg Palace on the island of Als, Denmark. Als (German, Alsen) is a Danish island in the Baltic Sea. It lies east of the Jutland peninsula of Denmark at the town of Sønderborg, and north of the German coast at Schleswi..

ALSA
The acronym ALSA can refer to: ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture), a Linux kernel componentALSA (Autobuses Luarca, S.A.), a Spain-based international bus companyALSA (Australian Law Students Association), the national Law Student Representative Body Alsa is also the name of a Mappila dish in..

Alsace
Région Alsace (New région flag) (logo) Most major car journeys are made on the A35 motorway (with intermittent areas of dual carriageways), which links Saint-Louis on the Swiss border to Lauterbourg on the German border. The A4 toll-road (towards Paris) begins 20 km northwest o..

Alsace-Lorraine
Imperial Province of Elsaß-Lothringen Alsace-Lorraine (French: Alsace-Lorraine; German: Elsaß-Lothringen) was a territory disputed between the nation states of France and Germany. The territory, composed of Alsace and parts of Lorraine, originally belonged to the Holy Roman Empire of the G..

Alsace-Moselle
The Alsace-Moselle is the current legal name of the Alsace-Lorraine territory, the part of France that was part of Germany from 1871 to 1919 (and then from 1940 to 1944–1945), consisting of the départements of Haut-Rhin and Bas-Rhin (both of which make up Alsace), and the département of Moselle ..

AlsaceExcel
AlsaceExel is an airline based in Strasbourg, France. It is part of the ExelAviation Group operating services from Strasbourg to regional destinations in Europe. The future of the airline is in doubt following the cessation of services by the parent company on 31 January 2005. History The airline ..

Alsace (automobile)
The Alsace was an American automobile manufactured by Piedmont between 1920 and 1921. Built for export, the car differed from other Piedmont products chiefly because it used a Rolls-Royce-shaped radiator. It had a wheelbase of 116 inches and employed a four-cylinder Herschell-Spillman engine. ..

Alsace AOC
Alsace is an Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée for wines made in the Alsace wine region of France. Unlike most other French wine regions, there is only one AOC appellation for most wines made in the whole of Alsace. Other French wine regions have numerous appellations within them, often designatin..

Alsace Grand Cru AOC
Alsace Grand Cru is an Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée for wines made in the Alsace wine region of France. The wines come from selected sites in the Alsace AOC region, currently 50 are listed, although experts believe that some of these sites are not of Grand Cru status, and may also have boundar..

Alsace Regional Council
The Alsace Regional Council is the Conseil régional of Alsace (France). It is chaired by Adrien Zeller (as of 2005). It includes 47 members. Contents 1 2004 Elections1.1 First election1.2 Second election2 Previous Councils2.1 1998-20042.2 1992-19982.3 1986-199..

Alsace Soviet Republic
The Alsace Soviet Republic was a short-lived Soviet republic created during the German Revolution at the end of World War I in the province of Alsace, which had been part of Germany since 1871. Contents 1 Trivia2 See also3 References4 Further reading At the end of World W..

Alsace Township, Pennsylvania
Alsace Township is a township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,689 at the 2000 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 31.6 km² (12.2 mi²), all land. Demographics As of the census2 of 2000, there were 3,68..

Alsace wine
Alsatian wine (French: Vin d'Alsace) has a long history. The wine producing region of Alsace in France primarily produces white wines. Its wines, which have a strong Germanic influence, have the Appellation d'Origine Contrôlées Alsace AOC, Alsace Grand Cru AOC and Crémant d'Alsace AOC. Along with..

Alsager
Alsager is a town in Cheshire, England, to the north-west of the city of Stoke-on-Trent, and east of the railway town of Crewe. The town has a population of 12,578 (2001 census), and is administered by Congleton Borough Council. Although Alsager is in Cheshire, it has a Stoke-on-Trent post code ..

Alsager Cricket Club
Alsager Cricket Club now nicknamed the "Alsager Atoms" was formed in 1874, and are members of the Cheshire County League. There latest success was the win in the Coors Twenty20 cup final. They have a 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th team and also have many successful youth teams. The club captain for the past ..

Alsager railway station
Alsager railway station serves the town of Alsager in Cheshire. It was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway company October 9, 1848. It is situated next to a level crossing approximately 600 yards from the town centre. The line through Alsager was electrified in 2003 so that it could be used a..

Alsager Town F.C.
Alsager Town F.C. is a football club, nicknamed "the Bullets", based at Wood Park in Alsager, Cheshire, England. They currently play in the Northern Premier League First Division. Alsager AFC was formed in 1965, from the merger of Alsager Institute and Alsager United, and the current ground was..

Alsaha
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Alsamixer
The correct title of this } is }}}. The initial letter is capitalized due to [Naming conventions #Lower case first lettertechnical restrictions]. alsamixer is the mixer program for The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA). It is used to configure sound settings and to adjust the volu..

Alsancak
Alsancak is a district in İzmir, Turkey, where the city port and central railway station is located. Through Birinci Kordon, it is connected to Konak and it is opposite to Karşıyaka. ..

Alsancak Stadı
Alsancak Stadı is a stadium in Izmir, Turkey. ..

Alsask, Saskatchewan
Alsask is a village in west central Saskatchewan, Canada, 60 km west of Kindersley and a few kilometres east of the Alberta border. Provincial highway 44 runs to the east of Alsask, and highway 7 lies just to the north. Its name combines the names of Alberta and Saskatchewan, although it is a miscon..

Alsatia
See also: Alsace Alsatia in London, was the name given to an area lying north of the River Thames covered by the Whitefriars monastery, to the south of the west end of Fleet Street and adjacent to the Temple. Between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries it had the privilege of a sanctuary, exce..

Alsatian
Alsatian can refer to: A person from Alsace, FranceAlsatian languageGerman Shepherd Dog This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ar..

Alsatian language
This inscription in Alsatian on a window in Eguisheim, Alsace, reads: Dis Hausz sted in Godes Hand - God bewar es vor Feyru ("This house stands in God's hand - God beware it for fire") Alsatian (French Alsacien, German Elsässisch) is a Low Alemannic German dialect spoken in Alsace, a region ..

Alsayed Ali Ahmad Alshaykh
Alsayed Ali Ahmad Alshaykh (1759 – 1848) was born in Alexandria and trained in Al Azhar University as a physician. He traveled around Egypt, the Middle East and Central Europe. These years were crucial to shaping his thoughts. On his return, he began to gather students in Cairo before Napoleon's F..

ALSA (bus company)
ALSA (Autobuses Luarca, S.A.) is a Spain-based international bus company operating in several countries across Europe (including Andorra, Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland and Ukraine, apart from i..

ALSA (Linux)
A screenshot of alsamixer ALSA (an acronym for Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) is a Linux kernel component intended to replace the original Open Sound System (OSS) for providing drivers for sound cards. Some of the goals of the ALSA project at its inception were automatic configuration of..

Alsbach
There are places that have the name Alsbach in Germany: Alsbach (Westerwald), in the Westerwaldkreis district, Rhineland-PalatinateAlsbach-Hähnlein, in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district, HesseAlsbach (Nümbrecht), a part of Nümbrecht in the district Oberbergischer Kreis, North Rhine-WestphaliaScheib..

Alscheid
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. } Alscheid (Luxembourgish: Alschent) is a village in t..

Alsciaukat
Alsciaukat is the name of the star 31 Lyncis. Alsciaukat has a brightness of +4,25 mag and belongs to the spectral class K4.5III-IIIb. Coordinates (equinox 2000) Right Ascension:8h22m50.10sDeclination:+43°11'17.0 ..

Alsdorf
Alsdorf [ˈalsdɔʁf] is a town in the district of Aachen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located approx. 15 km north-east of Aachen. ..

Alsea
The Alsea were a Native American tribe of Western Oregon. They are probably extinct, although a few members may be mixed in with the Confederated Tribes of Siletz, where the remaining members were relocated. Contents 1 Geography2 Culture2.1 Language2.2 Religion2.3 Art..

Alsean languages
Pre-contact distribution of Alsean languages The Alsean (also Yakonan) language family consists of two closely related languages that were spoken along the central Oregon coast. Contents 1 Family division2 Sounds2.1 Consonants2.2 Vowels3 Bibliography Family divis..

Alsea Bay Bridge
The Alsea Bay Bridge is a concrete arch bridge that spans the Alsea Bay near Waldport, Oregon. The original bridge was designed by Conde McCullough and opened in 1936. The hostile environment caused significant corrosion to the steel reinforcements. In 1972 the Oregon Department of Transportatio..

Alsea River
The Alsea River is small river, approximately 40 mi (64 km) long along the Pacific coast of western Oregon in the United States. It drains an area of Coastal Range southwest of Corvallis. It rises in several forks in northwestern Lane County, approximately 15 mi (24 km) northwest of Eugene. It flows..

Alseid
Greek deitiesseries Primordial deities Titans and Olympians Aquatic deities Chthonic deities Personified concepts Other deities Asclepius, god of medicineLeto, mother of Apolloand ArtemisPan, shepherd god Nymphs AlseidAuloniadCrinaeaeDryadsHamadryadsHesperidesLimnades MeliaeNaiad..

Alsek River
The Alsek River is a wilderness river flowing from the Yukon into Northern British Columbia and into Alaska. It starts at the confluence of the Dezadeash and Kaskawulsh rivers in Kluane National Park and Reserve. After flowing south into the northwestern tip of British Columbia, it is joined by th..

Alsen, North Dakota
Alsen is a city in Cavalier County, North Dakota in the United States. The population was 68 at the 2000 census. Alsen was founded in 1905. Geography Alsen is located at [48°37′39″N, 98°42′21″W] (48.627575, -98.705831)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the U..

Alsenz
The Alsenz is a river in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, a tributary to the Nahe. It rises in Enkenbach-Alsenborn, north-east of Kaiserslautern, flows generally north, and joins the Nahe in Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg. Its length is approx. 57 km. Towns along the Alsenz include Winnweiler, Rocken..

Alsenz-Obermoschel
Alsenz-Obermoschel is a Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") in the Donnersbergkreis, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the river Alsenz, approx. 15 km south of Bad Kreuznach, and 30 km north of Kaiserslautern. The seat of the municipality is in Alsenz. The Verbandsgemeind..

Alsergrund
9th District of Vienna Coat of Arms Map Name: Alsergrund Area: 2.99 km² Population: 37,108 (as of 2001) Density: 12,411 people per km² Postal code: A-1090 Address of District Office: Währinger Straße 43A-1090 Wien Official Website: [www.wien.gv.at/alsergr..

Alsetex 410
Used for restoring order under difficult conditions, the Alsetex Splinterless stun hand grenade (code 410) is designed to disorient groups of mobile individuals. This is achieved by causing temporary deafness, through the aggressive effects of intense noise, thus rendering neutralisation both rapid ..

Alseuosmiaceae
Alseuosmiaceae is a plant family of the order Asterales, found in New Caledonia and New Zealand. They are shrubs with simple, alternate leaves, spiral or whorled, with entire or dentate margins. The solitary flowers are terminal or axillary, or aggregated in fascicles and rarely in racemes. The f..

Alsey, Illinois
Alsey is a village in Scott County, Illinois, USA. The population was 246 at the 2000 census. Geography Alsey is located at [39°33′37″N, 90°26′1″W] (39.560288, -90.433730)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a tot..

Alsfeld
Alsfeld [ˈalsfεlt] is a town in the center of Hesse. Large towns nearby are Bad Hersfeld about 33 km to the east, Fulda 36 km to the southeast, Gießen 47 km to the west and Marburg an der Lahn about 36 km to the northwest. Alsfeld is located on the upper part of the Schwalm in the nort..

Alshard
Alshard is a Japanese role-playing game which released in July 2002. Alshard fortissimo (Alshard ff) is Alshard's 2nd edition which released in July 2005. Alshard Gaia is a contemporary fantasy role-playing game with Alshard's system which will be released in August 2006. Alshard’ｓ game system..

Alshus
Alshus is a village in the municipality of Fredrikstad, Norway, situated on the island and former municipality Kråkerøy. Its population (SSB 2005) is 1,019. ..

Alsietinus Lacus
Alsietinus Lacus (modern: Lago di Martignano), was a small lake in southern Etruria, 15 m. due N.N.W. of Rome, in an extinct crater. Augustus drew from it the Aqua Alsietina; the water was hardly fit to drink, and was mainly intended to supply his naumachia (lake made for a sham naval battle) at Rom..

Alsip, Illinois
Alsip, Illinois Location within Chicagoland. The Chicagoland tristate area. Incorporated Village in 1927. County, State Cook County, Illinois Township Worth Government Mayor-council Mayor Patrick E. Kitching 2000) 19,725 (up 8.22% from 1990) Pop. density 1,195.6/km² (3,0..

Alsium
Alsium (modern: Palo) was an ancient town of Etruria, on the Via Aurelia, by which it is about 22 miles from Rome. It was one of the oldest cities of Etruria, but does not appear in history until the Roman colonization of 247 BCE, and was never of great importance, except as a resort of wealthy Roma..

Alsleben
Alsleben is a town in the district of Bernburg, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated on the river Saale, south of Bernburg. It is part of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft ("collective municipality") Saale-Wipper. ..

Alsnö hus
A ruin of a summer palace at Hovgården, Adelsö, Sweden. ..

Alsó-Fehér
Alsó-Fehér > County seat in 1910 NagyenyedRO Aiud Area in 1910 km² Population in 1910 221,600 Present country Romania Alsó-Fehér is the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is presently in western Romania ..

Alsobia
Alsobia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Gesneriaceae, native to Mexico, Guatemala and Costa Rica. The two species are succulent, stoloniferous herbs and were previously included in the genus Episcia. Recent molecular studies have supported the separation of Alsobia from Episcia. S..

Alsodes
Alsodes is a genus of leptodactylid frogs. These frogs are found in Chile and Argentina. Species Alsodes australis Formas, Úbeda, Cuevas & Nuñez, 1997.Alsodes barrioi Veloso, Diaz, Iturra & Penna, 1981.Alsodes gargola Gallardo, 1970.Alsodes hugoi Cuevas & Formas, 2001.Alsodes igneus Cuevas & Fo..

Alson S. Clark
Alson S. Clark (b. 25 March 1876 in Chicago, Illinois, d. 23 March 1949 in Pasadena, California) was an American painter best remembered for his impressionist landscapes. His art education included training at the Art Institute of Chicago (where he enrolled at Saturday classes at the age of 11), the..

Alson Sherman
Alson Sherman (born: April 21, 1811; died: September 27, 1903; buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Waukegan, IL) served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1844-1845) for the Independent Democratic Party. |- style="text-align: center;" ..

Alson Weber
Alson Menno Weber (November 7, 1910 – December 29, 2005, pronounced "weeber") was a Canadian volleyball player. He played for the Kitchener-Waterloo Y.M.C.A. Volleyball Team from 1932 to 1946. The K-W YMCA team won the Ontario Senior Open Championship every year from 1932-1946, the Eastern C..

Alsop
Alsop is a surname, and may refer to Dee Alsop, American consultantGilbert Alsop, English footballerJohn Alsop, American merchant or politicianJulian Alsop, English footballerMarin Alsop, American conductorPeter Alsop, American children's entertainerSam Alsop, English footballerStewart Alsop, Ameri..

Alsophylax
Classification of genus Alsophylax: Alsophylax boehmeiAlsophylax laevisAlsophylax loricatus : Strauch's Even-fingered GeckoAlsophylax pipiens : Caspian Straight-fingered Gecko, Ground Gecko, Squeaky GeckoAlsophylax przewalskii : Xinjiang Even-fingered GeckoAlsophylax tadjikiensis : Tajikistan Eve..

Alsophylax boehmei
Böhme's Mountain Gecko, Alsophylax boehmei, is a species of gecko found in Pakistan (Ladakh Skardu) and India. Named after Wolfgang Böhme, German herpetologist. Type locality: Skardu/Karakorum, Ladak, NE Pakistan. External links [EMBL reptile database] References Shcherbak N N 1991 ..

Alsou
Alsou Ralifovna /Rälif qızı/ Abramova (Tatar: Alsu Rälif qızı Abramova, Russian: Алсу́ Рали́фовна Абрамова), better known as just Alsou (Russian: Алсу́), is a popular Tatar-Russian singer. Contents 1 Biography2 Celebrity3 Discography3.1 Single..

Also sprach Zarathustra (Strauss)
This article is about the musical composition by Richard Strauss. For the book by Friedrich Nietzsche, see Thus Spoke Zarathustra. For the painting cycle, see Lena Hades. Also sprach Zarathustra, op. 30 is a symphonic poem by Richard Strauss, composed in 1896 and inspired by the book of the same ti..

Alstahaug
Alstahaug kommune County Nordland District Helgeland Municipality NO-1820]] Administrative centre Sandnessjøen Mayor (2003) Magne Greger (Ap) Official language form Neutral Area - Total - Land - Percentage km²186 km²0.06 % 2004) - Percen..

Alstead, New Hampshire
Alstead is a town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA. The population was 1,944 at the 2000 census. Alstead is home to Feuer State Forest. Contents 1 History2 Geography3 Demographics4 External links History The town began in 1735 as "Number Four" in a line of nine fort..

Alsten
Alsten is an island off the coast of Nordland, Norway, with seven snow-capped hills, called the Seven Sisters. ..

Alster
The Alster is a 53 km long tributary of the river Elbe in Northern Germany. It has its source in Henstedt-Ulzburg in Schleswig-Holstein, appoximately 25km north of Hamburg. The Alster flows roughly southwards and reaches the Elbe in Hamburg, which was founded on its shore. In the centre of Hamburg t..

Alsterdorfer Sporthalle
Alsterdorfer Sporthalle is an indoor arena in Hamburg, Germany. It hosts mainly indoor sporting events and trade shows. Alsterdorfer Sporthalle holds 7,000 people. ..

Alstom
Alstom (formerly GEC-Alsthom) (Euronext: [ALO]) is a large French company whose businesses are power generation and manufacturing trains (e.g. the TGV and Eurostar as well as Citadis trams) and ships (e.g. the Queen Mary 2). According to the company website, in the year 2004/05 Alstom had ..

Alstom LHB Coradia LINT
The Alstom LHB Coradia LINT is a multiple unit passenger train manufactured by Alstom. The acronym LINT is short for the German „Leichter Innovativer Nahverkehrstriebwagen“ (light innovative rail vehicle). It was designed by Linke-Hofmann-Busch (LHB) and after the buyout of LHB by Alstom distrib..

Alstom Metropolis Cars
Alstom Metropolis Cars are the first generation of communication-based train control (CBTC) rolling stock that has been in use in Singapore’s Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) lines since 2003. Alstom was contracted in 1997 and 1998 by the Land Transport Authority (LTA) in Singapore to supply for it..

Alston
There are several places in the world with the name Alston: Alston, CumbriaAlstonvale, Quebec, CanadaAlston, Georgia Alston is also a name, coming from Old_English and meaning from the old manor (or maybe Elf Stone). There are a number of people with the surname Alston:*Richard Alston - choreograp..

Alston's Mouse Opossum
Alston's Mouse Opossum (Micoureus alstoni), also known as Alston's Opossum, is a medium sized pouchless marsupial of the family Didelphidae. It is arboreal and nocturnal, inhabitting forests from Belize to northern Colombia. The main components of its diet are insects and fruits, but it may also ea..

Alston, Cumbria
redirect [[Template:Infobox England place]] Alston is a small town in Cumbria, England on the River Tyne. It is said to be the highest market town in the country, at about 1000 feet (300 m) above sea level. A trade directory of 1829 described the region as "a region of dreary wastes and narrow dale..

Alston, Georgia
Alston is a town in Montgomery County, Georgia, United States. The population was 159 at the 2000 census. Geography Alston is located at [32°4′49″N, 82°28′42″W] (32.080405, -82.478460)[Geographic references#1GR1]. According to the United States Census Bureau, the tow..

Alstone
Alstone is a village in the parish of Teddington, Gloucestershire. ..

Alstonefield
Alstonefield is a village and civil parish in the Peak District National Park and the Staffordshire Moorlands district of Staffordshire, England. It is about 14 miles drive east from Leek and 16 south from Buxton. The parish had a population of 274 according to the 2001 census. External links �..

Alstonia
Alstonia is a widespread genus of evergreen trees and shrubs from the dogbane family (Apocynaceae). It was named by Robert Brown in 1811, after Charles Alston (1685-1760), Professor of botany at Edinburgh from 1716-1760. The type species Alstonia scholaris (L.) R.Br. was originally named Echite..

Alstonite
Alstonite, also known as Bromlite is a member of the aragonite group of carbonate minerals. It consists of an isomorphous mixture of calcium and barium carbonates in various proportions, CaBa(C03)2, it is triclinic in crystal structure and differs structurally from barytocalcite, which has a monocli..

Alston Moor
Alston Moor is a moor and civil parish in Cumbria, England, based around the small town of Alston. The parish has a population of 2,156 (2001 census). Apart from the town of Alston, the parish also includes the villages of Garrigill and Nenthead, along with the hamlets of Nenthall, Nentsberry, Gal..

Alston Scott Householder
Alston Scott Householder (Rockford, Illinois, USA, 5 May 1904 – Malibu, California, USA, 4 July 1993) is an American mathematician who specialized in mathematical biology and numerical analysis, inventor of the Householder transformation. Married to Belle Householder (d. 1975), children: John, Jac..

Alston Works
The Alston Works is a factory building located on Alston Road in Barnet, Herts. The building was originally a factory owned by the Dental Manufacturing Company Ltd, but is now owned privately. The Alston Works also has an association with local football club Barnet F.C., after Mr Alfred Shilling, G..

Alstroemeria
Alstroemeria, commonly called the Peruvian Lily or Lily of the Incas, is a South American genus of about 50 species of flowering plants, mainly from cool, mountainous regions in the Andes. It was named after the Swedish baron Clas Alströmer (Claus von Alstroemer) by his close friend Carolus Linn..

Alstroemeriaceae
Alstroemeriaceae is the botanical name of a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by relatively few taxonomists. The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, of 1998), does recognize such a family and places it in the order Liliales, in the clade monocots. ..

Alstrom syndrome
Alstrom syndrome is a rare genetic disorder. It is among the rarest genetic disorders in the world, as currently it has only 266 reported cases in medical literature and only 391 known cases in 42 countries. It was first described by C.H. Alström in Sweden in 1959. Alstrom syndrome is sometimes con..

Alsvåg
Alsvåg is a village in Øksnes municipality, Norway, located on the western bank of the Gavlefjord and east of Myre. Its population is 347. References ..

Alsvågvatnet
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. } Alsvågvatnet is a lake which lies in the municipa..

Als Het Weer Lente Is
Als Het Weer Lente Is (English translation: "When It's Springtime Again") was the Belgian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1965, performed in Dutch by Lize Marke. The song was performed eighth on the night (following Norway's Kirsti Sparboe with Karusell and preceding Monaco's Marjorie Noël wit..

ALS Therapy Development Foundation
The ALS Therapy Development Foundation is a charity headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts part of the BBB Wise Giving Alliance (see List of charities in the BBB Wise Giving Alliance) that support research into motor neuron disease (commonly known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS). Exter..

Al Sadeeq training camp
The Al-Sadeeq training camp is one of the training camps in Afghanistan that American intelligence officials have asserted were used to train individuals with ties to al Qaeda or the Taliban.[Factors for and against the continued detention (.pdf)] of Salah Muhammad Salih Al Dhabi Administr..

Al Sahariar
Al SahariarBangladesh (Ban) Batting style Right-hand bat Bowling type Legbreak Tests ODIs Matches 15 29 '''Runs scored 683 374 Batting average 22.76 13.35 100s/50s -/4 -/2 Top score 71 62* ..

Al Salamah
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Al Salih Tala'i Mosque
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. } The Mosque of Al Salih Tala'i is one of about 43 his..

Al Salmiya Club
Al Salmiya Club (Arabic: نادي السالمية) is a Kuwaiti professional football (soccer) club. They have won the Kuwait division four times, most recently in 2000. ..

Al Salvi
Albert J. Salvi (born April 25, 1960 in Evanston, Illinois) is a radio talk show host, attorney, and former Illinois State Representative and Republican candidate for U.S. Senate and Secretary of State. Al Salvi was elected to the Illinois State legislature in 1992 and served there until 1996 when ..

Al Santos
Alfred "Al" Santos (born July 13, 1976 in New York, New York) is an actor/model who is best remembered as the character Dante Belasco, the boy who gets his head ripped off, in the 2003 sequel Jeepers Creepers 2. He also had starring roles in the television series "The Help" and "Grosse Pointe." He i..

Al Sapienza
This does not cite its [[Opentopia:Citing sources|references or sources]]. You can [[Opentopia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check|help]] Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. Al Sapienza(1962-) is an American actor on television and film. He is most well know for his role as Mikey Pal..

Al Saunders
Al Saunders (born February 1, 1947 in London, England) is an American football coach. He is the Associate Head Coach - Offense, a top assistant coach, for the Washington Redskins. Al Saunders played Defensive Back at San Jose State from 1966-1968 where he was a three-year starter, team captain an..

Al Savage
Alfred H. Savage was General Manager of the Toronto Transit Commission from 1985 to 1990 and also served as head of Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, the public transit operator in Buffalo, New York. |- style="text-align: center;" ..

Al Scaduto
Al Scaduto is a comic strip cartoonist. He has worked on such strips as They'll Do It Every Time. In 1979, he received the National Cartoonist Society Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award for the strip, together with Bob Dunn. In 1991 and 1997, he received the same award again. References [NCS Awa..

Al Schmitt
Al Schmitt is a thirteen-time Grammy Award winning music engineer and producer. Schmitt grew up in New York City. After serving in the U.S. Navy he began working at Apex Recording Studios at the age of 19. In the late 50's Schmitt moved to Los Angeles and became a staff engineer at Radio Recorders o..

Al Schnier
Al Schnier is a musician most noted for being one of two guitarists for the American jam band moe. Contents 1 History2 Music career3 Gear4 References History Schnier was born on January 9, 1968 in Utica, New York. He attended New Hartford Central High School in Oneida Count..

Al Seckel
Al Seckel (born 1958) is an American authority on visual and other types of sensory illusions, and how they relate to perception. Seckel collects, researches, and experiments with illusions to understand what conditions are necessary for them to work, with particular focus on how they can be explain..

Al Secord
Al Secord (born March 3, 1958 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada) is a retired professional ice hockey left wing who played in the National Hockey League for twelve seasons from 1978-79 until 1989-90. He called Espanola, Ontario his hometown. Secord was drafted 16th overall by the Boston Bruins in the 197..

Al Shaab Club
Al Shaab (Arabic: الشعب) Club is a football club in the Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. it is one of the first division clubs in the Emirates and had many players in the national team. The team never won the national league, and won the President's cup only once. This won qualified t..

Al Shaab Stadium
Al Shaab Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Baghdad, Iraq. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 45,000. It was built in 1966. ..

Al Sharpton
redirect [[Template:Not verified]] --> Alfred Charles "Al" Sharpton Jr. (born October 3, 1954) is a Pentecostal minister, a political activist, civil rights activist and film actor. Sharpton sought the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States in 2004 but was seen as a per..

Al Shean
Al Shean (May 12, 1868 in Germany - August 12, 1949) was the stage name for comedian Albert Schönberg. Schönberg's father was a magician. His sister, Minnie, married Simon "Frenchie" Marx, whose children would become the Marx Brothers. After making a name for himself in vaudeville, Shean team..

Al Sherman
Al Sherman (September 7, 1897 - September 16, 1973) was an important Jewish-American, Tin Pan Alley songwriter from the first half of the twentieth century. Sherman is a link in a long chain of musical Sherman family members. Contents 1 Early Life2 Marriage3 Songwriting Sons4&nb..

Al Siebert
Dr. Al Siebert is internationally recognized for his research into the inner nature of highly resilient survivors. His new book, The Resiliency Advantage was released in June 2005 and recently won the 2006 Independent Publisher's IPPY award for best self-help book. His previous book The Survivor Per..

Al Silm Haji Hajjaj Awwad Al Hajjaji
Al Silm Haji Hajjaj Awwad Al Hajjaji is a citizen of Saudi Arabia, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba. [list of prisoners (.pdf)], US Department of Defense, April 20 2006 His detainee ID number is 245. Combatant Status Review Tribunal ..

Al Simmons
Aloysius Harry Simmons (May 22, 1902 - May 26, 1956), born Aloysius Szymański in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was an American player in Major League Baseball over three decades. Aloysius Szymanski changed his name to Al Simmons after seeing an ad for a hardware store in the newspaper. A "bucketfoot" hi..

Al Sims
Allan Eugene Sims was a professional hockey player and later a head coach in the NHL. Born in Toronto, Ontario on April 18, 1953, he stands 6 foot tall and his playing weight was 182 pounds. In 1972 he was the first round and first ever draft pick of the New York Raiders of the World Hockey Associ..

Al Singleton
Alshermond Glendale Singleton (born August 7, 1975 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American football linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys of the NFL. He was originally selected with the thirty second pick of the fourth round of the 1997 NFL Draft out of Temple University by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers where ..

Al Skinner
Albert L. Skinner (born June 16 1952 in Mount Vernon, New York) is currently the men's college basketball head coach of the Boston College Eagles and has been since April 17, 1997. He was an assistant at Marist from 1982-84, then became an assistant at Rhode Island. He was named head coach of the Un..

Al Smith
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. Al Smith waves to crowds, 1928 Alfred Emanuel "Al" Smith (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was Governor of New York, and Democratic U.S. presidential candidate in 1928. He lost the election to Herbert Hoover. He was a prominent Catholic and ..

Al Smith (baseball)
Alphonse Eugene Smith (born February 7, 1928 in Kirkwood, Missouri, died January 3, 2002.) was a MLB outfielder and third baseman. Signed as a free agent by the Cleveland Indians in 1948, Smith made his Major League debut in 1953. In 1954, he emerged as a minor threat, with 11 home runs and 50 RBI'..

Al Smith (baseball outfielder)
Alphonse Eugene (Al) Smith (February 7, 1928 - January 3, 2002) was a left fielder/third baseman in Major League Baseball. From 1953 through 1964, he played for the Cleveland Indians (1953-1957, 1964[start]), Chicago White Sox (1958-1962), Baltimore Orioles (1963) and Boston Red Sox (1964..

Al Smith (cartoonist)
Al Smith (March 2, 1902 - November 24, 1986) was an American cartoonist whose work included a run on the comic strip Mutt and Jeff. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Smith was the art editor for the syndicate department of the New York World from 1920 to 1930. He then moved to work for a syndicate company..

Al Smith (disambiguation)
Al Smith is the name of: Al Smith (1873–1944), a U.S. politicianAl Smith (baseball outfielder) (1928–2002), a baseball outfielderAl Smith (baseball pitcher) (1907–1977), a baseball pitcherAl Smith (cartoonist), a cartoonist whose work includes Mutt and JeffAl Smith (hockey), a for..

Al Snow
Allen Sarven (born July 18, 1963 in Lima, Ohio) is a professional wrestler better known by his stage name of Al Snow. He currently works in World Wrestling Entertainment for Extreme Championship Wrestling. Contents 1 Career2 In wrestling3 Championships and accomplishments4 P..

Al Sobrante
Al Sobrante (born John Kiffmeyer) was the original drummer for the punk rock band Green Day. His name is a reference to El Sobrante, California, a town north of Berkeley. Sobrante's first exposure in the punk scene was as the drummer of the band Isocracy. The group was popular in the East Bay, and..

Al Steiner
Al Steiner is the pseudonym of a prolific author of adult novels. He is a nine year paramedic who lives on the west coast of the United States. He has been writing short stories and attempting novels since high school. In the late 1990s he began posting erotic fiction to Usenet as a way of getting ..

Al Stewart
--> Al Stewart (born September 5, 1945) is a British songwriter and musician. He is best known for his 1976 single "Year of the Cat" and its 1978 follow-up "Time Passages" (both produced by Alan Parsons). Many of Stewart's songs are inspired by history; indeed, he is credited with creating his ..

Al Stillman
Al Stillman (born June 26, 1906) was an American lyricist. Stillman was born in New York City. He attended New York University. After graduation, he contributed to Franklin P. Adams' newspaper column, and in 1933 became a staff writer at Radio City Music Hall, a position he held for almost 40 years..

Al Suhail
Al Suhail is a traditional name that can be used to refer to two different stars: Gamma VelorumLambda Velorum This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point direct..

Al Swearengen
The Gem Theater circa 1878. The man in the buggy at left is thought to be Al Swearengen. Ian McShane as Al Swearengen in HBO's Deadwood. Ellis Alfred Swearengen, known as Al Swearengen, (b. Oskaloosa, Iowa, July 8, 1845 – d. Colorado, 1899) was an early entertainment entrepreneur ..

Al Swift
Allan Byron Swift (born 12 September 1935), an American politician, served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1995. He represented the Second Congressional District of Washington as a Democrat. Swift was born in Tacoma, Washington on 12 September 1935. He recei..

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