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Virgin Atlantic

Auto and Transport

Virgin Atlantic, a trading name of Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited and Virgin Atlantic International Limited, is a British airline with its head office in 

Margaret Atwood

Born: November 18, 1939 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Canadian author, novelist, poet and cultural activist One of Canada's best-known writers, Margaret Atwo...

John James Audubon

Born: April 26, 1785 Les Cayes, Saint Dominigue (French colony) Died: January 27, 1851 New York, New York French-born American artis...

Red Auerbach

Red Auerbach (1917–2006), one of the most successful sports coaches and executives over a half-century, was the mastermind behind the Boston Celtics' 16 National Basketball Associa...

Augean

Industry and Production

Augean is provider of waste recycling services intended to serve construction, energy, infrastructure, oil and gas, transportation and logistics industries. The company provides waste remedi

Augustus

Born: September 23, 63 B.C.E. Rome (now in Italy) Died: August 19, C.E. 14 Nola (now in It...

Marcus Aurelius

Born: April 26, 121 Rome (now in Italy) Died: March 17, 180 Vindobona (now Vienna, Austria) Roman emperor The Roman e...

Jane Austen

Born: December 16, 1775 Steventon, England Died: July 18, 1817 Winchester, England English author, novelist, and writer ...

Vogue Australia

Advertising and media

Vogue Australia is the Australian edition of Vogue magazine. The magazine became the fifth edition of Vogue in 1959 following Vogue, British Vogue, Vogue Paris 

UK Trade Remedies Authority

Politics and Administration

The UK Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) is investigating whether new trade remedies are needed to prevent damage to British industry caused by unfair trade practices and unforeseen import surges. These

HP Autonomy

Computers and software

HP Autonomy, previously Autonomy Corporation PLC, was an enterprise software company which was merged with Micro Focus in 2017 and OpenText in 2023 (OpenTe

Aveva

Advertising and media

AVEVA Group plc is a British multinational information technology company headquartered in Cambridge, England. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constitu

Aviva

Insurance

Aviva plc is a British multinational insurance company headquartered in London, England. It has about 33 million customers across 16 countries. In the United Kingdom, Aviva is

Julius Axelrod

Born May 30, 1912, in New York, NY; died December 29, 2004, in Rockville, MD. Biochemist. American biochemist Julius Axelrod conducted important research in brain chemistry that spurred th...

Axios

Advertising and media

Axios is an American news website based in Arlington County, Virginia. It was founded in 2016 and launched the following year by former Politico journalists Jim VandeHei,&nbsp

Iyengar B.k.s.

Yoga instructor and author Born Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar, December 14, 1918, in Karnataka, India; son of a teacher; married Ramamani, 1943; children: Geeta, ...

BMW

Auto and Transport

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, commonly referred to as BMW is a German multinational company which produces luxury vehicles and motorcycles. The company was founded in 1916 as a manu

BP

Industry and Production

BP until may 2001 British Petroleum was a multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London.London. About a third of the company's revenue comes from operations in&nbs

Charles Babbage

Born: December 26, 1791 London, England Died: October 18, 1871 London, England English mathematician and inventor Cha...

Johann Sebastian Bach

Born: March 21, 1685 Eisenach, Germany Died: July 28, 1750 Leipzig, Germany German composer, organist, and musician T...