Angola Angola is a country in south-west Africa bordering Namibia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Zambia, and with a west coast along the Atlantic Ocean. The Enclave and exclave province Cabinda has a border with Republic of the Congo. A former Portugal colony, it has considerable natural resources, among which oil and diamonds are the most significant.
	Angora goat The Angora goat is a goat from the Angora region in Asia Minor, near present-day Ankara. It is first mentioned in the time of Moses, roughly 1500 B.C. The first Angora goats were brought to Europe by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, about 1554, but, like later imports, were not very successful.
	Angora rabbit The Angora rabbit is a variety of domestic rabbit bred for its long, soft hair. They are believed to have originated in Turkey, along with the Angora cat and Angora goat. The rabbits were popular pets with France royalty in the mid 1700s, and spread to other parts of Europe by the end of the century.
	Angostura Bridge Angostura Bridge is a suspension bridge that spans the Orinoco River at Ciudad Bolķvar, Venezuela. Built in 1967, it has a main span of 712 meters.
	Angraecum Angraecum Bory, 1804 contains 221 species, some of the most magnificent of all orchids. They belong to the subtribe Angraecinae and as such, do not possess pseudobulbs but have an ever growing monopodial stem or stems. They are quite varied vegetatively and florally and are adapted to dry tropical woodland habitat and have quite fleshy leaves as a consequence.
	Angst Angst is a Dutch language, German language, and Scandinavian word for fear or anxiety. It is used in English to describe an intense feeling of emotional strife. A different but related meaning is attributed to Denmark philosopher Sren Kierkegaard .
	Anguidae A family of lizards commonly known as slowworms (British) or glass lizards (American) in English. A number of anguids lack legs, giving them the appearance of small snakes, but not all.
	Anguilla Anguilla is a British overseas territories in the Caribbean, the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles. It consists of the main island of Anguilla itself, approximately 16 miles long by 3 miles wide at its widest point, together with a number of much smaller islands and cays with no permanent population.
	Anguillidae Anguillidae is a family of fishes that contains many of the freshwater eels. There are 16 to 20 species in this family, all in genus Anguilla. They are catadromous, meaning they spend their lives in fresh water rivers and return to the ocean to spawn.
	Anguis The genus Anguis, or the slow worms, is a typical example of the Adaptation of a species to its surroundings, in this case a burrowing, subterranean existence. They Hibernation under the ground in a hole, twisted together with many of its kind. Slow worms have lost their limbs completely and look like snakes.
	Anguis fragilis Anguis fragilis is a limbless reptile native to Eurasia. Slow-worms are lizards. The skin of the varieties of slow-worm is smooth with scales that do not overlap one another. Like some other lizards, slow-worms autotomy, meaning that they have the ability to shed their tails in order to escape predators.
	Angular momentum In physics the angular momentum of an object with respect to a reference point is a measure for the extent to which, and the direction in which, the object rotates about the reference point. In lay terms, angular momentum can be thought of as the "amount of rotation" of the body. In particular, if the body rotates about an axis, then the angular momentum with respect to a point on the axis is related to the mass of the object, the velocity and the distance of the mass to the axis.
	Angus Angus is one of the 32 Local government in Scotland council areas of Scotland, and a Lieutenancy areas of Scotland. The council area borders onto Aberdeenshire, Perth and Kinross and the City of Dundee. Main industries include agriculture and fishing.
	Anhinga The Anhinga, sometimes called Snakebird, Darter, or American Darter, is a water bird of the warmer parts of North America and South America. It is a cormorant-like bird with an average body length of 85 cm, a wingspan of 117 cm, and a weight of 1,350 g. It is a dark-plumaged fish-eater with a very long neck, and often swims with only the neck above water.
	Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius was a Christian philosophy of the 6th century. He was born in Rome to an ancient and important family which included the emperor Olybrius and many consuls. His father Fl. Manlius Boethius held that position in 487 after Odoacer deposed the last Western Roman Emperor.
	Aniline Aniline, phenylamine or aminobenzene is an organic compound with the formula Carbon6Hydrogen5NitrogenHydrogen2. It is an organic compound, specifically an aromatic amine, consisting of a benzene ring attached to an amino group.
	Animal Animals are a major group of organisms, classified as the kingdom Animalia or Meta­zoa. In general they are multicellular, capable of animal locomotion, responsive to their environment, and feed by consuming other organisms.
	Animal communication Animal communication is any behaviour on the part of one animal that has an effect on the current or future behaviour of another animal. The study of animal communication, sometimes called zoosemiotics has played an important part in the development of ethology, sociobiology, and the study of animal cognition.
	Animal husbandry Animal husbandry is the agriculture practice of breeding and raising livestock. As such, it is a vital skill for farmers and, in some countries in many ways, as much art as it is science. Other countries have strict laws on the qualifications needed to treat animals and ensure that scientific methods are used to care for them.
	Animality An Animality is a finishing move from the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. It has appeared only in Mortal Kombat 3, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 and Mortal Kombat Trilogy. In addition to Fatality, Animalities were used to kill an opponent following a victorious match-up.
	Animate Animate is the retailing arm of MOVIC and is the largest retailer of anime, games, and manga in Japan. The first and headquarters store of Animate opened in 1983 and is located in Ikebukuro, a district in Tokyo, Japan. Currently, there are 38 Animate stores in Japan, and one in Taipei, Republic of China.
	Animated cartoon An animated cartoon is a short, hand-drawn film for the Movie theater, television or computer screen, featuring some kind of story or plot . This article is not about Animation in general, but only about ones which follow the above definition. Although cartoons can use many different Animation#Styles and techniques of animation, they all fall under the traditional animation category.
	Animation Animation is the optical illusion of Motion created by the consecutive display of images of static elements. In film and video production, this refers to techniques by which each frame of a film is produced individually. These frames may be generated by computers, or by photographing a drawn or painted image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model unit , and then photographing the result with a special animation camera.
	Anime is an abbreviation of the English language word "animation" but in Japanese is spelled ??????? written in katakana. Outside Japan, the term most popularly refers to the genre of animation originating in Japan, with distinctive character and background aesthetics that visually set it apart from other forms of animation .
	Animism In religion, the term "Animism" is used in a number of ways. *Animism , originally means the doctrine of spiritual beings. *It is often extended to include the belief that personalized, supernatural beings endowed with reason, intelligence and volition inhabit ordinary objects as well as animate beings, and govern their existence .
	Anise Anise or Aniseed, less commonly ans is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native to the eastern Mediterranean region and southwest Asia. It is a herbaceous annual plant growing to 50 cm tall. The leaf at the base of the plant are simple, 2-5 cm long and shallowly lobed, while leaves higher on the stems are feathery pinnate, divided into numerous leaflets.
	Anisotropy Anisotropy is the property of being directionally dependent. Something which is anisotropic, may appear different, or have different characteristics in different directions. An example is the Polarization lens in a pair of polarized sunglasses, in which if you hold the lens in one direction, polarized light streams through, whereas if you hold the lens in another direction, light is blocked.
	Ankara Ankara is the capital city of Turkey and the country's second largest List of cities in Turkey after Istanbul. The city has a population of 4,319,167 , and a mean elevation of 850 m . It was formerly known as Angora or Engr, and in Roman times as Ancyra, and in the classical period and Hellenistic period periods as nkyra.
	Ankle In human anatomy, the ankle joint is formed where the foot and the human leg meet. The ankle, or talocrural joint, is a synovial hinge joint that connects the distal ends of the tibia and fibula in the lower limb with the proximal end of the talus bone in the foot.
	Ankyloglossia Ankyloglossia, commonly known as 'tongue tie', is a congenital oral anomaly which may decrease mobility of the tongue tip and is caused by a short, thick frenulum. Ankyloglossia varies in degree of severity from mild cases characterized by mucous membrane bands to complete ankyloglossia whereby the tongue is tethered to the floor of the mouth.
	Ankylosaurus Ankylosaurus is a genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur, containing one species, A. magniventris. Fossils of Ankylosaurus are found in geologic formations dating to the very end of the Cretaceous Period in western North America. Although a complete skeleton has not been discovered and several other species are represented by more extensive fossil material, Ankylosaurus is often considered the archetype Armour dinosaur.
	Anna Howard Shaw Anna Howard Shaw, was a leading United States civil rights leader; a physician; and the first female Methodism minister in the United States. She was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, but was brought to the United States as a small child. She studied at Albion College in 1872-1875, graduated from the Boston University School of Theology in 1878, and received an Doctor of Medicine from Boston University in 1885.
	Annapurna Annapurna is a series of mountain in the Himalaya, a 55-km-long massif whose highest point, Annapurna I, stands at 8,091 m, making it the 10th-highest summit in the world and one of the 14 "eight-thousanders". It is located east of a great gorge cut through the Himalaya by the Kali Gandaki river, which separates it from the Dhaulagiri massif.
	Anne Boleyn Queen Anne of England nee Anne Boleyn, 1st Marchioness of Pembroke , was the second wife and Queen Consort of Henry VIII of England and mother of Elizabeth I of England. Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and marriage to Anne was part of the complex beginning of the considerable political and religious upheaval which was the English Reformation, with Anne herself actively promoting the cause of Church Reform.
	Anne Bradstreet Anne Bradstreet was the first United States female writer as well as the first American female poet to have her works published. Bradstreet was born as Anne Dudley in Northampton, England. She was the daughter of Thomas Dudley and Dorothy Dudley. Her father was chief steward to the Earl of Lincoln, and she grew up in cultured circumstances.
	Anne Brontė Anne Bront was a British novelist and poet, the youngest of the Bront literary family. She was born in the village of Thornton, Bradford, Yorkshire, England, the last of six siblings. Anne's mother, Maria Branwell Bront, died of cancer a year later in 1821, after the family had moved to Haworth where her father, Patrick Bront, was appointed vicar.
	Anne Hutchinson Anne Hutchinson was the unauthorized Puritan preacher of a dissident church discussion group and a pioneer in Rhode Island and the Bronx.
	Anne Sexton Anne Sexton, born Anne Gray Harvey, was an United States poet and author.
	Anne Sullivan Anne Sullivan, Annie Sullivan, or Johanna Mansfield Sullivan Macy, was a teacher best known as the tutor of Helen Keller. Sullivan was born in Feeding Hills, Massachusetts. Her parents, Thomas Sullivan and Alice Clohessy, were poor Ireland farmers who left Ireland in 1847 because of the Irish Potato Famine.
	Annelid The annelids, collectively called Annelida , are a large Scientific classification of animals, comprising the segmented worms, with about 15,000 modern species including the well-known earthworms and leech. They are found in most wet environments, and include many terrestrial, freshwater, and especially marine species , as well as some which are parasitic or mutualistic.
	Annie Oakley Annie Oakley b. Phoebe Ann Mosey was an American sharpshooter and exhibition shooting . Oakley's amazing talent and luck led to a starring role in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, and propelled her to become the first American female superstar. Using a .22 caliber rifle at 90 feet, Oakley could split a playing card edge-on and put five or six more holes in it before it touched the ground.
	Annihilation Annihilation is defined as "total destruction" or "complete obliteration" of an object; having its root in the Latin nihil. A literal translation is "to make into nothing". In physics, the word is used to denote the process that occurs when a subatomic particle collides with its respective antiparticle.
	Anno Domini Anno Domini , abbreviated as AD, defines an epoch based on the traditionally-reckoned year of the birth of Jesus. Similarly, Before Christ , abbreviated as BC, is used in the English language to denote years before the start of this epoch.
	Annona Annona is the biological type of the plant family Annonaceae. This large genus comprises about 100-150 species of mostly Neotropical trees and shrubs with alternate, simple, leathery leaf and most of which have edible fruit. In the family Annonaceae, only Guatteria has more species.
	Annonaceae The Annonaceae, also called custard apple family or soursop family, is a family of flowering plants consisting of trees, shrubs or lianas. With about 2300 to 2500 species in 120 to 130 genera, it is the largest family in the Magnoliales. Its type genus is Annona.
	Annulment Annulment is a legal procedure for declaring a marriage null and void. Annulment differs from divorce where the court ends an otherwise legal marriage on a specific date. In strict legal terminology, annulment refers only to making a voidable marriage null; if the marriage is void ab initio, then it is automatically null, although a legal declaration of nullity is required to establish this.
	Annunciation In Christianity, the Annunciation is the revelation to Mary, the mother of Jesus by the archangel Gabriel that she would conception a child to be born the Son of God. The Christian churches celebrate this with the feast of Annunciation on March 25, which is nine months before the feast of the Nativity of Jesus, or Christmas.
	Anoa There are two species of anoa: the Mountain Anoa and the Lowland Anoa . Both live in undisturbed forest, and although they are essentially miniature Water Buffalo, are similar in appearance to a deer, weighing 150–300 kg . Both are found on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia; the Mountain Anoa is also found on the nearby island of Butung.
	Anobiidae Anobiidae is a family of beetles. The larvae of a number of species bore into wood, earning the name "woodworm" or "wood borer". A few species are pests, causing damage to wooden furniture and house structures, notably the death watch beetle, Xestobium rufovillosum, and the common furniture beetle, Anobium punctatum.
	Anode An anode is the electrode in a device that electrons flow out of to return to the circuit. Literally, the path through which the electrons ascend out of an electrolyte solution. The other charged electrode in the same cell or device is the cathode.
	Anointing of the Sick Anointing of the Sick, in which a sick person is ritually anointed, is one of the sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Oriental Orthodoxy . Some Anglicans consider it a sacrament, others as a sacramentals .
	Anolis Anolis is a genus of lizards belonging to the family Iguanidae. With nearly 400 species, Anolis represents the world's most species rich amniote genus. Several species of Anolis are occasionally referred to the genus Norops, but this arrangement is problematic because it renders remaining members of the genus non-monophyletic.
	Anorak An anorak or parka is a type of heavy jacket with a hood, often lined with fur or fun fur, so as to protect the face from a combination of freezing temperatures and wind. This kind of garment was invented by the indigenous inhabitants of the Arctic region, who needed clothing that would protect them from windchill and wet while hunting and kayaking.
	Anorexia nervosa Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatry diagnosis that describes an eating disorder characterized by low body weight and body image distortion. Individuals with anorexia often control body weight by voluntary starvation, purging, vomiting, excessive exercise, or other weight control measures, such as diet pills or diuretic drugs.
	Anseriformes The order Anseriformes contains about 150 species of birds in three families: the Anhimidae, Anseranatidae, and the Anatidae, which includes over 140 species of waterfowl, among them the ducks, goose, and swans. All species in the order are highly adapted for an aquatic existence at the water surface.
	Anserinae The Anserinae is a subfamily of the waterfowl family Anatidae. It includes the swans and Goose; this article deals with the swans and true geese in the subfamily Anserinae. See swan and goose, and the individual species, for more details. A number of other waterbirds, mainly related to the Tadorninaes, have "goose" as part of their name; see the family page at Anatidae for these and others.
	Answering machine An answering machine, also known as an answer machine, ansafone, ansaphone, answerphone or telephone answering device, is a device for automatically answering telephone calls and recording messages left by callers when the party called is unable to answer the phone.
	Ant Ants are one of the most successful groups of insects in the animal kingdom . They are of particular interest because they are social insects and form highly organized colony or nests which sometimes consist of millions of individuals. Colonies of invasive ant species will sometimes work together and form super-colonies, spanning a very wide area of land.
	Antakya Antakya, located on the eastern side of the Orontes River about 20 miles from the sea, is the seat of Hatay Province, Turkey. It has a population of 144,910.
	Antalya Antalya is the capital city of the Antalya Province Provinces of Turkey, located on the Gulf of Antalya on the Mediterranean Sea coast of Turkey. The population of the city is 603,190 but reaches up to 2 million in summers at the height of the tourist season.
	Antananarivo Antannarvo , population 1,403,449 , is the capital of Madagascar, in Antananarivo province.
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	Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica, and almost the only part of that continent that extends outside the Antarctic Circle. It lies in the Western Hemisphere, facing South America. It extends from a line between Cape Adams and a point on the mainland south of Eklund Islands, to Prime Head.
	Antarctica Antarctica is the southernmost continent and encompasses the South Pole. Antarctica is surrounded by the Southern Ocean and divided by the Transantarctic Mountains. On average, it is the coldest, driest, and windiest continent and has the highest average elevation of all the continents.
	Antares Antares is the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius and list of brightest stars in the nighttime sky. Along with Aldebaran, Spica, and Regulus it is one of the four brightest stars near the ecliptic. The similarly colored Aldebaran lies almost directly opposite Antares in the Zodiac.
	Anteater Anteaters are the four mammal species of the suborder Vermilingua commonly known for eating ants and termites. Together with the sloths and armadillos, they make up the superorder Xenarthra.
	Antediluvian The word antediluvian is used to describe a period of time that allegedly preceded the Great Flood of Noah as related in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. creationism view it as an important feature of natural history, a view which was more widely held in the past.
	Antelope Antelopes are a polyphyly group of herbivorous African and Asian animals of the family Bovidae, distinguished by a pair of hollow horns on their heads. These animals are spread relatively evenly throughout the various subfamilies of Bovidae; many are more closely related to cows or goats than to each other.
	Antelope squirrel The antelope squirrels or antelope ground squirrels are the genus Ammospermophilus of sciurids found in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. The antelope squirrels are ground squirrels. They live in desert or dry scrub areas. Five species are currently recognised, with ranges that overlap little.
	Antennaria Antennaria is a genus of about 45 species of herbaceous perennial plants in the family Asteraceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with one species in temperate southern South America; the highest species diversity is in North America. Common names include catsfoot or cat's-foot, pussytoes and everlasting.