Antennaria dioica Antennaria dioica is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is found in cool temperate regions of Europe and Asia, and also in North America in Alaska only. It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to 10-20 cm tall, with a rosette of basal spoon-shaped leaf 4 cm long, and 1 cm broad at their broadest near the apex; and smaller leaves arranged spirally up the flowering stems.
	Anterior pituitary The anterior pituitary comprises the Anterior#Usage in human anatomy lobe of the pituitary gland and is part of the endocrine system. Under the influence of the hypothalamus, the anterior pituitary produces and secretes several peptide hormones that regulate many physiological processes including stress, growth, and reproduction.
	Anthemis Anthemis is a genus of about 100 species of aromatic herbs in the Asteraceae, closely related to Chamaemelum, and like that genus, known by the common name Chamomile; some species are also called Dog-fennel or Mayweed. However, Mayweed is improperly used for this genus since Mayweed refers to the Matricaria genus.
	Anthemis arvensis Anthemis arvensis, which is also known as Corn chamomile or Field Chamomile,, is a species in the genus Anthemis of the Asteraceae family. In addition, this plant is used like a ornamental plant. External links**
	Anthemis cotula Anthemis cotula is an annual flowering plant distinguished by its strong odour, which is often considered unpleasant. It can be found in northern Europe as well as North America, growing on roadsides and beside fields. It may also invade cultivated soil and is therefore considered a weed.
	Anthemis tinctoria Anthemis tinctoria, or Golden Marguerite and Yellow Chamomile, is a species in the genus Anthemis of the Sunflower family. This popular flower has several common names : Golden Marguerite, Marguerite Daisy, Dyer's Chamomile, Ox-eye Chamomile, Boston Daisies, Paris Daisies.
	Antheraea pernyi Antheraea pernyi is a large moth in the family Saturniidae. It is also referred to as China Tasar Oak Moth, Chinese Tussah, Oak Tussah, and Temperate Tussah. They are originally from China but are also used in silk production.
	Antheraea polyphemus The Polyphemus moth is a member of the Saturniidae family, or giant silk moths. It is a tan colored moth, with an average wingspan of 6 inches. The most notable feature of the moth is its large, purplish eye spots on its two hindwings. The eye spots are where it gets its name from the Greek myth of the Cyclops Polyphemus.
	Anthericum Anthericum is a genus of bulbous perennial plants in the Lily family Liliaceae. Species have Rhizome or tuberous roots. They have long narrow leaves and branched stems of starry white flowers. Not many are grown in cultivation. A number of species are now included in the genus Chlorophytum, the Spider Plant, a familiar and popular house plant.
	Anthericum liliago Anthericum liliago is a species of the genus Anthericum. The plant is vigorous, grows 60 to 90 cm high, with spikes of lily-like white flowers in early summer. It can be plant propagation by division of the roots every 3 to 4 years.
	Antheridium An antheridium is a structure or organ of the gametophyte phase of certain plants producing and containing the spermatids or male gametes. It is present in lower plants like mosses and ferns, and also in the primitive vascular psilotophyta, but the comparable structure in gymnosperms' and angiosperms' is comprised mostly of sporophyte tissue that surrounds the haploid gametes.
	Anthesis Anthesis is the period during which a flower is fully open and functional. It may also refer to the onset of that period. The onset of anthesis is spectacular in some species. In Banksia species, for example, anthesis involves the release of the carpel end from the upper perianth parts.
	Anthoceros Anthoceros is a genus of hornworts in the family Anthocerotaceae. The genus is global in its distribution. Its name means 'flower horn', and refers to the characteristic horn-shaped sporophytes that all hornworts produce. The dark color of the spores is the easiest way to distinguish Anthoceros from the related genus Phaeoceros, which produces spores that are yellow.
	ANThology ANThology is the first major label album by Alien Ant Farm. Thier first single, "Smooth Criminal", was a cover of Michael Jackson's song "Smooth Criminal", which started to bring popularity to the band. The song "Wish" was featured on the video game "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3" and "Courage" was featured on the video game "Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder".
	Anthonomus Anthonomus is a genus of weevils. One of the most common species is the Boll weevil.
	Anthony Comstock Anthony Comstock was a former United States Postal Inspector and poltician dedicated to ideas of Victorian morality. He was born in New Canaan, Connecticut. As a young man, he enlisted and fought for the Union in the American Civil War. He served without incident, but objected to the profanity used by his fellow soldiers.
	Anthony Hopkins Sir Anthony Hopkins, Order of the British Empire is an Academy Awards and Emmy Award-winning Wales-born film, theater and television actor.
	Anthony Trollope ---- Anthony Trollope became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English language novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope's best-loved works, known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire, but he also wrote penetrating novels on politics, social, and gender issues and conflicts of his day.
	Anthony Wayne Anthony Wayne, was a United States Army general and statesman. Wayne adopted a military career at the outset of the American Revolutionary War, where his military exploits and fiery personality quickly earned him a promotion to the rank of brigadier general and the sobriquet of Mad Anthony Wayne.
	Anthophyllite Anthophyllite is an amphibole mineral:7Si8O22(OH)2, magnesium iron Silicate minerals hydroxide. Anthophyllite is polymorph with cummingtonite. Some forms of anthophyllite are lamellar or fibrous and are used as asbestos.
	Anthozoa Anthozoa is a class within the phylum Cnidaria that contains the sea anemones and corals. Unlike other cnidarians, anthozoans do not have a medusa_(biology) stage in their development. Instead, they release sperm and eggs that form a planula, which attaches to some Substrate on which the cnidarian grows.
	Anthracite coal Anthracite is a hard, compact variety of mineral coal that has a high lustre. It has the highest carbon count and contains the fewest impurities of all coals, despite its lower Heating value content. Anthracite coal is the highest of the metamorphic rank, in which the carbon content is between 92% and 98%.
	Anthrax Anthrax is an acute infectious diseases caused by the bacteria Bacillus anthracis and is highly lethal in some forms. Anthrax most commonly occurs in wild and domestic ruminants, but it can also occur in humans when they are exposed to infected animals, tissue from infected animals, or high density of anthrax spores.
	Anthriscus Anthriscus, or chervil, is a plant genus with 12 species from the umbelliferous family Apiaceae, growing in Europe and temperate parts of Asia. A very common plant, some are even considered as noxious weeds, it grows in meadows and verges on slightly wet porous soils. Anthriscus species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Mouse Moth.
	Anthropology Anthropology consists of the study of humanity . It is holism in two senses: it is concerned with all humans at all times and with all dimensions of humanity. In principle, it is concerned with all institutions of all societies, but in practice anthropologists have tended to concentrate on the seemingly more "traditional" institutions, usages, and customs of non-Western, often tribal, societies.
	Anthropometry Anthropometry, in physical anthropology, refers to the measurement of living human individuals for the purposes of understanding human physical variation. Today, anthropometry plays an important role in industrial design, clothing design, ergonomics, and architecture, where statistical data about the distribution of body dimensions in the population are used to optimize products.
	Anthropomorphism Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics and qualities to non-human beings, objects, natural, or supernatural phenomena. A form of personification , anthropomorphism is similar to prosopopoeia . Animals, the forces of nature, and unseen or unknown authors of chance are frequent subjects of anthropomorphosis.
	Anthurium Anthurium Heinrich Wilhelm Schott 1829, is a large neotropical genus of about 600- 800 species, belonging to the arum family. It is the largest and probably the most complex genus of this family. Many species are undoubtedly not described yet and new ones are being found every year.
	Anthyllis Anthyllis is a genus of plants in the family Fabaceae. This genus contains both herbaceous and shrubby species and is distributed in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The most widespread and familiar species is Kidney Vetch which is a familiar grassland flower throughout the region and has also been introduced to New Zealand.
	Anti-Catholicism Anti-Catholicism is an institutional, ideological or emotional bias against the Roman Catholic Church and its Religious persecution. It is not to be confused with mere disagreement with the Church's theology or criticisms of its policies, although such disagreement and criticism may at times mask an underlying anti-Catholic disposition.
	Anti-Semitism Anti-Semitism is hostility toward or prejudice against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group, which can range in expression from individual hatred to institutionalized, violent persecution. The highly explicit Nuremberg laws of Adolf Hitler's Nazism was the most extreme example of this phenomenon, leading to a Holocaust. Anti-Semitism can be broadly defined into three different forms:
	Antibody An antibody or immunoglobulin is a large Y-shaped protein used by the immune system to identify and neutralize foreign objects like bacterium and Virus. Each antibody recognizes a specific antigen unique to its target. This is because at the two tips of its "Y", it has structures akin to locks.
	Antichrist In Christian eschatology and Islam, the Antichrist, Anti-christ or Dajjal has come to mean a person, of a person, or other entity that is the embodiment of evil and utterly opposed to truth, according to Christianity, while convincingly disguised as wholly good and a bringer of truth.
	Antics Antics is the Sophomore album album by New York City-based band Interpol, released on September 28 2004, selling 435,000 copies in the US alone. Although more confident than its predecessor, Turn on the Bright Lights, it largely repeats the same formula of sparse arrangement driven by bass throb and strong drums, with powerful, evocative lyrics sung in a resonant, somber voice by vocalist Paul Banks and intricate guitar lines reminiscent of The Chameleons.
	Antifeminism Bold text Antifeminism refers to opposition to feminism, which may take different forms. It refers to a range of views, including many associated with masculism, that either criticize feminist ideology in general or argue that it be restrained. Some critics equate certain neoconservative intellectuals' views with antifeminism, although they say the label is unfair.
	Antifreeze Antifreeze is a water-based liquid coolant used in gasoline and diesel engines. Chemical compound are added to the water to reduce the freezing point of the mixture below the lowest temperature that the engine is likely to be exposed to, and to corrosion inhibitor in cooling systems which often contain a range of electrochemically incompatible metals.
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	Antigua For more information on Antigua see Antigua and Barbuda. Antigua is an island in the Caribbean, part of the country of Antigua and Barbuda. It is also known by another name, Wadadli, which means approximately "our own". It has a population of about 68,000, of which over 24,000 live in the capital of St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda, at 17 6' N.
	Antigua and Barbuda Antigua and Barbuda is an island nation located in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. Antigua and Barbuda are located in the middle of the Leeward Islands in the Eastern Caribbean, roughly 17 degrees north of the equator. Antigua and Barbuda are part of the Lesser Antilles archipelago with the islands of Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St.
	Antihistamine An antihistamine is a drug which serves to reduce or eliminate effects mediated by histamine, an endogenous chemical mediator released during allergy, through action at the histamine receptor. Only agents where the main therapeutic effect is mediated by negative modulation of histamine receptors are termed antihistamines - other agents may have antihistaminergic action but are not true antihistamines.
	Antimony Antimony is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Sb and atomic number 51. A metalloid, antimony has four allotropy forms. The stable form of antimony is a blue-white metal. Yellow and black antimony are unstable non-metals. Antimony is used in flame-proofing, paints, ceramics, Vitreous enamel, a wide variety of alloys, electronics, and rubber.
	Antioch Antioch on the Orontes , the Great Antioch or Syrian Antioch was an ancient city located on the eastern side of the Orontes River about 30 kilometers from the sea and its port, Seleucia of Pieria . The city's ruins are located in Antakya, Turkey. Founded near the end of the 4th century BC by Seleucus I Nicator, one of Alexander the Great's generals, Antioch was destined to rival Alexandria as the chief city of the nearer East and to be the cradle of gentile history of Christianity
	Antiparticle Corresponding to each kind of particle physics, there is an associated antiparticle with the same mass and opposite electric charge. Some particles, such as the photon, are identical to their antiparticle; such particles must have no electric charge, but not all charge-neutral particles are of this kind.
	Antipodes In geography, the antipodes of any place on Earth is its antipodal point; that is, the region on the Earth's surface which is diametrically opposite to it. Two points which are antipodal to one another are connected by a straight line through the centre of the Earth. In Britain, "the Antipodes" is often used to refer to Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and other African countries with a British colonial background, e.g.
	Antipope An antipope is a person who makes a widely accepted claim to be the lawful Pope, in opposition to the Pope recognized by the Catholic Church. Antipopes are typically those supported by a fairly significant faction of Cardinal . Persons who claim to be the Pope but have few followers, such as the modern Sedevacantist antipopes, are not generally counted as antipopes, and therefore ignored for regnal numbering, even though they techically are.
	Antiques Antiques are objects which have reached an age which makes them a witness of a previous era in human society. Antiques are usually objects which show some degree of craftsmanship, or a certain attention to design such as a desk or the early automobile. In a consumer society, an antique is above all an object whose atypical construction and age give it a market value superior to similar objects of recent manufacture.
	Antirrhinum Antirrhinum is a genus of plants that used to be the family Scrophulariaceae, more commonly known as snapdragons from the flowers' fancied resemblance to the face of a European dragon that opens and closes its mouth when properly squeezed. Study of DNA sequences have led to the inclusion of Antirrhinum in a vastly enlarged family Plantaginaceae.
	Antirrhinum majus Antirrhinum majus, the Snapdragon, is an herbaceous Perennial plant. Often planted in gardens for its curious blooms, they are often grown as cool-season annuals. The common name derives from the flowers which, when squeezed, open their "mouths". The plants are pollenated by insects, and the flowers close over the insects when they enter and deposit pollen on their bodies.
	Antiseptic An antiseptic is a substance that prevents the growth and reproduction of various microorganisms on the external surfaces of the body. Some are true germicides, capable of destroying the bacteria, whilst others merely prevent or inhibit their growth. The objective of antiseptics is to reduce the possibility of sepsis, infection, or putrefaction by germs.
	Antlion Antlions are a family of insects in the order Neuroptera, classified as Myrmeleontidae, from the Greek language "myrmex", meaning "ant", and "leon", meaning "lion". Strictly speaking the term antlion applies to the larval form of the members of this family. Antlions are worldwide in distribution, most common in arid and sandy habitats, and can be fairly small to very large.
	Antofagasta Antofagasta is a port city and episcopal see in northern Chile, about 700 miles north of Santiago, Chile. It is the capital of both Antofagasta Province and Antofagasta Region, and according to the 2002 census has a population of 318,779. The city's name comes from either Quechua language term for "town of the great saltpeter bed" or the aymara word that means "Great Salar ".
	Antoine Laurent de Jussieu Antoine Laurent de Jussieu was a France botanist. In his study of flowering plants, Genera plantarum , Jussieu classified many of the family used today. Prior to him, Carolus Linnaeus classified plants into families based on the number of stamens and pistils.
	Antoine Lavoisier Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier was a France nobility prominent in the histories of chemistry, finance, biology, and economics. The "List of people known as the father or mother of something," he stated the first version of the Law of conservation of matter, recognized and named oxygen as well as hydrogen, disproved the phlogiston theory, introduced the Metric system, invented the first periodic table including 33 elements, and helped to re
	Anton Bruckner Anton Bruckner was an Austrian composer whose mature music was written at the end of the Romantic music era. Bruckner's reputation is based on his symphony, mass , and motets. The symphonies in particular are famous for their rich harmonic language and complex polyphony, although they have gained detractors owing to their large size and the fact that many of them exist in several different The Bruckner Problem.
	Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a physician, major Russian short story writer and playwright. Many of his short stories are considered the apotheosis of the form while his playwriting career, though brief, has had a great impact on dramatic literature and performance. From Chekhov, many playwrights have learned how to use mood, apparent trivialities and inaction to highlight the internal psychology of characters.
	Anton van Leeuwenhoek Antony Van Leeuwenhoek's early discoveries in the field of microbiology can be likened to Galileo Galilei early discoveries in the field of astronomy. Both men used the newly improved optical technologies of their day to make major discoveries that entirely overturned traditional beliefs and theories in their respective fields, and both men were initially met with strong skepticism and resistance to the inevitable conclusions that their discoveries led to.
	Antonín Dvorák Antonn Leopold Dvork was a Czechs composer of Romantic music. He successfully combined melodies of a folk idiom with symphonic music and chamber music.
	Antonine Wall The Antonine Wall is a rock and sod fortification, built by the Roman Empire across what is now the central belt of Scotland. It is also known sometimes as Graham's Dyke, this name is locally explained as a legend of a victorious assault on the defences by one Robert Graeme.
	Antonio López de Santa Anna Antonio de Padua Mara Severino Lpez de Santa Anna y Prez de Lebrn, also known simply as Santa Anna was a Mexico patriot and dictator who greatly influenced early Mexican politics and government, first fighting against Mexican War of Independence from Spain, and then becoming its chief general, president and dictator at various times over a turbulent forty-year career.
	Antonio Stradivari Antonio Stradivari was an Italy luthier , the most prominent member of that profession. The Latin form of his surname, "Stradivarius" - sometimes shortened to "Strad" - is often used to refer to his instruments.
	Antonio Vivaldi Antonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed Il Prete Rosso , was a Venetian priest and baroque music composer, as well as a famous violinist.
	Antony Tudor Antony Tudor, born William Cook, was an England Choreography, teacher and dancer who choreographed numerous ballets.
	Antwerp The city and municipality of Antwerp is a centre of commerce in Flanders and Belgium and the capital city of Antwerp province, in Flanders, one of Belgium's three regions. Antwerp's total population is ca. 461,496 and its total area is 204.51 square kilometre with a population density of 2,257 inhabitants per km.
	Anubis Anubis is the Greek language name for the ancient jackal-headed god of the dead in Egyptian mythology whose hieroglyphic is more accurately spelled Anpu . He is also known as Sekhem Em Pet. Prayers to Anubis have been found carved on the most ancient tombs in Egypt; indeed, the Unas text associates him with the Eye of Horus.
	Anunnaki For the fictional Anunnaki from Demon: The Fallen, see Annunaki and the Outlanders series by Mark Ellis. The Anunnaki are a group of Sumerian mythology and Akkadian mythology deity related to, and in some cases overlapping with, the Annuna and the Igigi.
	Anus In anatomy, the anus is the external opening of the rectum. Closure is controlled by sphincter muscles. Feces are expelled from the body through the anus during the act of defecation, which is the primary function of the anus. Most animals — from simple worms to elephants and humans — have a tubular gut, with a mouth at one end and an anus at the other.
	Anvil An anvil is a manufacturing tool, made of a hard and massive block of Rock or metal used as a support for chiseling and hammering other objects, such as in forging iron and steel items.
	Anwar Sadat Field Marshal Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat was an Egyptian soldier and politics, who served as the third President of Egypt from September 28, 1970 until his assassination on October 6, 1981. He is considered in Egypt and in the West to be one of the most influential Egyptian and Middle Eastern figures in modern history.
	Anzac ANZAC originally stood for "The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps" the name used to describe the combination of the Australian Army and New Zealand Army Corps during wartime. It can now also refer to the following: * Anzac biscuit, a traditional Australian or New Zealand biscuit
	Áo dŕi The aodai is a Vietnamese national costume for women. In its current form, it is a tight-fitting silk dress worn over pantaloons. ?o d?i is (ow yai) in the South, and (ow zai) in the North. ?o is derived from a Middle Chinese word meaning "padded coat"