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Allemande
An allemande is one of the most popular instrumental dance forms in Baroque music, and a standard element of a suite

Allen
Allen is a Scottish name and surname which means "handsome". Variant spellings include Alan, Allan, etc. The noble family of this surname, from which a branch went to Portugal, is descended of one Alanus de Buckenhall.Allen may refer to:-Taxonomy:

Allen (Essex cricketer)
Allen was an English professional cricketer who made 4 known appearances in major cricket matches from 1787 to 1793.-Career:He was mainly associated with Essex and also played for Middlesex .-External sources:*

Allen (LACMTA station)
Allen Station is a freeway-median light rail station in the Los Angeles County Metro Rail system. It is located above North Allen Avenue in the median of the 210 Freeway in Pasadena, California

Aller (disambiguation)
Aller may refer to the following places:*rivers:**Aller, a major river in North Germany**River Aller, a small river on Exmoor in Somerset, England**Aller , a river in Asturias, Spain*populated places:**in England:

Aller (surname)
Aller is a surname and may refer to:* Eleanor Aller , a US Jewish cellist* Heinrich Aller , a German politician; * Lawrence Hugh Aller , US astronomer

Allergen
An allergen is any substance that can cause an allergy. In technical terms, an allergen is a non-parasitic antigen capable of stimulating a type-I hypersensitivity reaction in atopic individuals.

Allergy
An Allergy is a hypersensitivity disorder of the immune system. Allergic reactions occur when a person's immune system reacts to normally harmless substances in the environment. A substance that causes a reaction is called an allergen. These reactions are acquired, predictable, and rapid

Allerheiligen
Allerheiligen may refer to the following places:*Kloster Allerheiligen, see All Saints' Abbey *Allerheiligen im Mühlkreis, a municipality in Upper Austria, Austria

Allers (surname)
The surname Allers may refer to:* Arthur Allers , Norwegian Olympian sailor* August Dietrich Allers ; * Christian Wilhelm Allers , German painter, artist* David Allers , a German actor;

Alley
An alley or alleyway is a narrow lane found in urban areas, often for pedestrians only, which usually runs between or behind buildings. In older cities and towns in Europe, alleys are often what is left of a medieval street network, or a right of way or ancient footpath in an urban setting

Alley Cat (album)
Alley Cat is the debut album by Danish pianist Bent Fabric. The album features the Grammy Award single "Alley Cat".-Track listing:#Alley Cat #Across The Alley From The Alamo #You Made Me Love You #Trudie #Markin' Time

Alley Cat (film)
Alley Cat is a 1984 action film about a young female martial arts expert who becomes a one-woman vigilante against a local street gang. The film was directed by Victor M. Ordonez, Eduardo Palmos, and Al Valletta , and stars Karin Mani and Robert Torti.

Alley Oop (football)
The Alley Oop play was developed in the 1950s American football games by San Francisco 49ers Y.A. Tittle and R.C. Owens. Tittle, who played as quarterback, would throw the ball into the end zone high like a jump ball, and Owens would jump up and catch it. The play was named after V. T. Hamlin's comics strip character Alley Oop; and Owens himself was known as "Alley Oop".

Alliance
An alliance is an agreement or friendship between two or more parties, made in order to advance common goals and to secure common interests.See also military alliance and business alliance.-International relations:

Alliance (1904 automobile)
The Alliance was made from 1904 to 1905 by Automobil- und Motorwerke Alliance Fischer & Abele, Berlin. They were powered by either 2- or 4-cylinder engines. Chassis and engines made by the company were often supplied to other factories as proprietary components.-References:*Hans-Otto Neubauer, "Alliance ", in G.N

Alliance (Saint Martin)
The Alliance is a political party in Saint Martin, led by Dominique Riboud. It won in the 1 July and 8 July 2007 Territorial Council elections despite 9.05 % none out of 23 seats.

Alliances
Alliances may refer to:* The plural of alliance, an agreement between two or more parties* Airline alliances, agreements between two or more airlines to cooperate on a substantial level

Alliances (Star Trek: Voyager)
"Alliances" is the 30th episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the 14th episode of the second season.-Synopsis:A Kazon attack takes the life of another Voyager crewman, this time the popular ex-Maquis soldier Kurt Bendera. Chakotay, a good friend of Bendera, delivers the eulogy and tells of a time Bendera rescued him from angry miners

Alliances (The Wire episode)
"Alliances" is the fifth episode of the fourth season of the HBO original series The Wire. Written by Ed Burns story by David Simon & Ed Burns, and directed by David Platt, it originally aired on October 8, 2006.-Title reference:

Allied (automobile)
The Allied automobile was a car produced in the 1930s. Founded in 1932 in Elkhart, Indiana, the Allied Cab Manufacturing Co continued producing automobiles only until 1934 under the Allied brand.

Allies
In everyday English usage, allies are people, groups, or nations that have joined together in an association for mutual benefit or to achieve some common purpose, whether or not explicit agreement has been worked out between them

Allies (disambiguation)
Allies is a term referring to individuals, groups or nations that have joined together in an association for mutual benefit or to achieve some common purpose."Allies" may also refer to:* Allies of World War I* Allies of World War II

Allies (Fred Frith album)
Allies is a studio album by English guitarist, composer and improvisor Fred Frith. It is the second of a series of Music for Dance albums Frith made.-Background:

Alligator
An alligator is a crocodilian in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae. There are two extant alligator species: the American alligator and the Chinese alligator .

Alligator (motorcycle)
The Alligator is a Feet forwards motorcycle built by Dan Gurney Alligator Motorcycle Company which is the motorcycle division of the former driver/racing team owner's All American Racers workshop in Santa Ana, California

Allin
Allin may refer to:People with the given name Allin:* Allin Braund , British artist* Eric Allin Cornell , American physicistPeople with the surname Allin:* Buddy Allin , American professional golfer

Allison (band)
Allison is a pop punk band from Mexico City, Mexico that formed in 2003.-History:The band's self-titled debut album has sold more than 300,000 units sold in Mexico, being certified as platinum

Allison (light novels)
is a Japanese light novel series by Keiichi Sigsawa, with illustrations by Kouhaku Kuroboshi. There are three Allison novels, with the third split into two volumes, published by MediaWorks under their Dengeki Bunko label. The first novel was released on March 10, 2002, and the last novel was published on May 10, 2004

Alliteration
In language, alliteration refers to the repetition of a particular sound in the first syllables of Three or more words or phrases. Alliteration has historically developed largely through poetry, in which it more narrowly refers to the repetition of a consonant in any syllables that, according to the poem's meter, are stressed, as in James Thomson's verse "Come…dragging the lazy

Allium
Allium is a monocot genus of flowering plants, informally referred to as the onion genus. The generic name Allium is the Latin word for garlic.

Allobarbital
Allobarbital is a barbiturate derivative invented in 1912 by Ernst Preiswerk and Ernst Grether working for CIBA. It was used primarily as an anticonvulsant although it has now largely been replaced by newer drugs with improved safety profiles

Allocation
Allocation may refer to:* Computers** Delayed allocation** Block allocation map** FAT** IP address allocation** Memory allocation** C++ allocators** No-write allocation ** Register allocation* Economics** Economic system** Asset allocation

Allomorph
In linguistics, an allomorph is a variant form of a morpheme. The concept occurs when a unit of meaning can vary in sound without changing meaning. The term allomorph explains the comprehension of phonological variations for specific morphemes.

Allophone
In phonology, an allophone is one of a set of multiple possible spoken sounds used to pronounce a single phoneme. For example, and are allophones for the phoneme in the English language

Allot
Allot Communications is a provider of IP service optimization solutions for service providers, carriers and enterprises. Allot solutions use deep packet inspection technology to change broadband pipes into smart networks offering complete network visibility, application control and subscriber management.-Corporate history:Allot Communications was founded in 1996, by Michael

Allot (surname)
Allot is a surname, and may refer to:* Robert Allot , London bookseller and publisher* William Allot , English Roman Catholic priest* William Dixon Allot , Mayor of Adelaide

Allotment
Allotment may refer to:* Allotment , a small area of land, let out at a nominal yearly rent by local government or independent allotment associations, for individuals to grow their own food

Allotropy
Allotropy or allotropism is the property of some chemical elements to exist in two or more different forms, known as allotropes of these elements

Alloue
Alloue is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.Alloue was part of the province of Limousin, and they spoke the Occitan form of Limousin.-Population:

Allouez
Allouez may refer to:People*Claude-Jean Allouez , Jesuit missionary and French explorer in North AmericaPlaces*Allouez, Wisconsin in Brown County*Allouez Bay, in Douglas County Wisconsin on Lake Superior*Allouez Township, Michigan

Allowance
Allowance may refer to:*Allowance *Allowances in accounting, see Accounts receivable*Personal allowance in the United Kingdom's taxing system* Jobseeker's Allowance, a term for unemployment benefit in the United Kingdom* EU Allowances

Allowance (engineering)
In engineering and machining, an allowance is a planned deviation between an actual dimension and a nominal or theoretical dimension, or between an intermediate-stage dimension and an intended final dimension. The unifying abstract concept is that a certain amount of difference allows for some known factor of compensation or interference

Allowance (money)
An allowance is an amount of money set aside for a designated purpose.Allowing another person to have some money is often referred to as an allowance.-Construction contracting:

Alloy
An alloy is a mixture or metallic solid solution composed of two or more elements. Complete solid solution alloys give single solid phase microstructure, while partial solutions give two or more phases that may or may not be homogeneous in distribution, depending on thermal history

Alloy (specification language)
In computer science and software engineering, Alloy is a declarative specification language for expressing complex structural constraints and behavior in a software system. Alloy provides a simple structural modeling tool based on first-order logic

Allspice
Allspice, also called Jamaica pepper, pepper, myrtle pepper, pimenta, or newspice, is a spice that is the dried unripe fruit of Pimenta dioica , a mid-canopy tree native to the Greater Antilles, southern Mexico, and Central America, now cultivated in many warm parts of the world

Alltag
Alltag, released in 2003 by Turkish-German director Neco Celik, is a film depicting life in the Turkish neighborhood of Kreuzberg. The film has particiular significance in the arena of Turkish-German hip-hop and hip-hop life in the neighborhood

Allure
Allure may also refer to:* The power to attract; the quality causing attraction.* The power to entice.*Allure Las Vegas, a condominium project.*MS Allure of the Seas, a cruise ship owned by Royal Caribbean International.*Alure, architectural term.

Allure (album)
Allure was the first album by the band Allure released in 1997. Allure's debut had the mixed blessing of being the first album on Mariah Carey's label, Crave. Carey's certainly helped Allure to line up celebrity collaborators, from Nas and L.L. Cool J to Q-Tip, Carey and Dickie Fung.- Track listing :#"Introduction" Allure was the first album by the band Allure released in 1997. Allure's debut had the mixed blessing of being the first album on Mariah Carey's label, Crave. Carey's certainly helped Allure to line up celebrity collaborators, from Nas and L.L. Cool J to Q-Tip, Carey and Dickie Fung.- Track listing :#"Introduction" (1:45) Allure was the first album by the band Allure released in 1997. Allure's debut had the mixed blessing of being the first album on Mariah Carey's label, Crave. Carey's certainly helped Allure to line up celebrity collaborators, from Nas and L.L. Cool J to Q-Tip, Carey and Dickie Fung.- Track listing :#"Introduction" (1:45) (S. Barnes, Jeff Baxter, B

Allusion
An allusion is a figure of speech that makes a reference to, or representation of, people, places, events, literary work, myths, or works of art, either directly or by implication. M. H

Alluvial (horse)
Alluvial is an American thoroughbred mare racehorse. She is sired by U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Buckpasser, who in turn was sired by the 1953 United States Horse of the Year, Tom Fool, out of the Hill Prince mare Bayou

Alluvial fan
An alluvial fan is a fan-shaped deposit formed where a fast flowing stream flattens, slows, and spreads typically at the exit of a canyon onto a flatter plain. A convergence of neighboring alluvial fans into a single apron of deposits against a slope is called a bajada, or compound alluvial fan.-Formation:As a stream's gradient decreases, it drops coarse-grained material

Alluvium
Alluvium is loose, unconsolidated soil or sediments, eroded, deposited, and reshaped by water in some form in a non-marine setting. Alluvium is typically made up of a variety of materials, including fine particles of silt and clay and larger particles of sand and gravel

Ally
Ally is a common unisex given name. It is a variant of Allie. It can also refer to:* Ally, a 1999 American TV sitcom that was a spin-off of Ally McBeal.* Ally Bank, an internet bank, formerly the banking unit of GMAC.

Ally (novel)
Ally is a science fiction novel written by Karen Traviss and was published in March 2007. It is the fifth book in the Wess'Har Series.-Plot:

Allyl
An allyl group is a substituent with the structural formula H2C=CH-CH2R, where R is the connection to the rest of the molecule. It is made up of a methylene , attached to a vinyl group . The name is derived from the Latin word for garlic, Allium sativum. Theodor Wertheim isolated an allyl derivative from garlic oil and named it Schwefelallyl

Allylprodine
Allylprodine is an opioid analgesic that is an analogue of prodine. It was discovered in by Hoffman-La Roche in 1957 during research into the related drug pethidine

Allyson
Allyson is a given name and family name, a variant form of Alison.-People with the given name Allyson:* Allyson Araújo Santos , Brazilian football player* Allyson Felix , track and field sprint athlete

Alma (French automobile)
The Alma was a French automobile manufactured by Établissements Alma in Courbevoie, Seine, between 1926 and 1929.Only a few cars of this marque were produced. The most significant model was a two-seater coupé called Alma6 or Alma Six, referring to the proprietary in-line six cylinder engine of 1642 cc

Alma (novel)
Alma is the first novel written by the Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade. It was first published in 1922.

Alma (play)
Alma is a play by Israeli writer Joshua Sobol based on the life of Alma Mahler-Werfel. It opened 1996 in Vienna."Alma" is the story of Alma Mahler-Werfel, the famous femme fatale and muse to many geniuses. She was the wife of composer Gustav Mahler, also married to architect Walter Gropius and poet Franz Werfel

Alma mater
Alma mater , pronounced , ), was used in ancient Rome as a title for various mother goddesses, especially Ceres or Cybele, and in Christianity for the Virgin Mary.-General term:

Alma Mater (Illinois sculpture)
The Alma Mater is a bronze statue located on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The long flowerbed stretching from the front of the Alma Mater to the corner of Green Street and Wright Street is known as the Alma Mater Plaza

Alma Mater (play)
Alma Mater was a BBC Play for Today which was originally broadcast on 7 January 1971 and which was written by David Hodson. It was episode 11 in Season 1.

Almanac
An almanac is an annual publication that includes information such as weather forecasts, farmers' planting dates, and tide tables, containing tabular information in a particular field or fields often arranged according to the calendar etc

ALMANAC
ALMANAC is the name of a major breast cancer trial. The acronym stands for "Axillary Lymphatic Mapping Against Nodal Axillary Clearance." This major randomized trial performed in several centres in the UK produced clear evidence that sentinel node biopsy , used to stage axillary spread of disease, can be used with low failed localization and false negative rates, provided both

Almen
Almen is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is located in the municipality Lochem, about 7 km east of the city of Zutphen.Almen has about 1200 inhabitants.

Almendra
-Places:* Almendra, Salamanca, a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, Spain* Almendra , a civil parish in the municipality of Vila Nova de Foz Côa, Portugal-Other:

Almendra (album)
Almendra, Aldemaro Romero en Cuba is the name of a 33-RPM LP album by Venezuelan composer/arranger/conductor Aldemaro Romero, released in 1957, under contract with RCA Victor.* The album was re-released in 1992 on CD.* It was recorded in the Havana, Cuba.