| Albedo | Alabama | Altruism |
| Alain ConnesAlain Connes (born April 1, 1947) is a French mathematician, currently Professor at the College de France ( Paris, France), IHES ( Bures-sur-Yvette, France) and Vanderbilt University ( Nashville, Tennessee). He is a specialist of Von Neumann algebras and | Allan DwanAllan Dwan ( April 3, 1885 December 21, 1981) was a Canadian born pioneering motion picture director, producer and screenwriter. Born Joseph Aloysius Dwan in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, his family moved to the United States when he was eleven years of age. | AlgeriaAlgeria is a country in northern Africa with a coast on the Mediterranean Sea along the north and bordered by Tunisia in the northeast, Libya in the east, Niger in the southeast, Mali and Mauritania in the southwest, and Morocco in the west (the Moroccan |
| AlchemyJoseph Wright of Derby, 1771) Alchemy is an early protoscientific practice combining elements of chemistry, physics, astrology, art, semiotics, metallurgy, medicine, mysticism, and religion. Two intertwined goals sought by many alchemists were the philoso | AlienFor the 1979 movie, see Alien (movie). For live organisms which are not from Earth, see Extraterrestrial life Aliens are foreigners to their surroundings. The word is commonly used in law to denote non- citizens of the country of their whereabouts, and in | Al GoreAlbert Arnold Gore Jr. born March 31, 1948) is an American Democratic politician who served as the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He ran for President in 2000 following Bill Clinton's two four-year terms, but was defeat |
| AlaskaOn January 3, 1959, Alaska was admitted to the United States as the 49th state. The population of the state is 626,932, as of 2000. The name "Alaska" is most likely derived from the Aleut word for "great country" or "mainland. The natives called it "Alyes | Aldous HuxleyAldous Leonard Huxley ( July 26, 1894 November 22, 1963) was a British writer. Best known for his novels and wide-ranging output of essays, he also published short stories, poetry and travel writing. Biography Early years Huxley was born in Godalming, Sur | AlgaThe algae (singular is alga comprise several different groups of living things that produce energy through photosynthesis. They are generally regarded as simple plants, and some are related to the higher plants. Others represent independent lines of evolu |
| Alkane | Alkali metal | Alphabet |
| Albert Sidney Johnston | Alberta | Albert Einstein |
| Albania | Allah | Alan Alda |
| Algorithm | Alexander the Great | Alfred Korzybski |
| Alismatales | Allocution | Alfred Hitchcock |
| All Saints | Altaic languages | Alfred Nobel |
| Alexander Graham Bell | Alp Arslan | Allegiance |
| Altenberg | Alfons Maria Jakob | Aluminium |
| Alumn | Alpha (letter) | Alvin Toffler |
| Albert Speer | Alliaceae | Alps |
| Albert Camus | Alcohol | Allen Ginsberg |
| Algebraically closed field | Albert Schweitzer | Ale |
| Alexis Carrel | All Souls Day | Algorithms for calculating variance |
| Almond | Alan Garner | Algebraic number |
| Aleister Crowley | Alloy | Alternative history |
| Alternative history (fiction) | Alan Turing | Alexander Mackenzie |
| Alfonso Arau | Alfonso Cuarón | Alpha decay |
| Algernon Swinburne | Alfred Lawson | ALCS |
| Alan Parsons Project | Alan Parsons | Almost all |
| Allosaurus | Albertosaurus | Alpenhorn |
| Alpaca | Alligatoridae | Aleutian Islands |
| Alderfly | Alder | Albatross |
| Alabaster | Algol | Algebra |
| Alcuin | Alan Kay | ALGOL |
| Álfheim | Alabama River | Alain de Lille |
| Alamanni | Alfred Russel Wallace | Albuquerque |
| Albert | Albert I | Albert II |
| Albert the Warlike | Albert I of Brandenburg | Albert of Mainz |
| Albert of Prussia | Albert the Degenerate | Alexander Emanuel Agassiz |
| Alaric I | Alaric II | Albertus Magnus |
| Albion | Alboin | Alfonso d'Albuquerque |
