The Alans, Alani, Alauni or Halani were an Iranian nomadic group among the Sarmatian people, warlike nomadic pastoralists of mixed backgrounds, who spoke an Iranian language and shared, in a broad sense, a common culture. Alans - Name. The various forms of Alan, as well as the Iron of the Ossetes (descendants of the Alans), are an Iranian dialectical form of Aryan. The ancient Alans were on what is generally conceded (although not without contest) to be the original or one of the origin ...

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Alan tribes living north of the Black Sea may have moved northwest into what is now Poland, merging with Slavic peoples there to become the precursors of historic Slav nations (notably Serbs and Croats). Third-century inscriptions from Tanais, a town on the Don River in modern Ukraine, mention a nearby Alan tribe called the Choroatos or Chorouatos. The historian Ptolemy identifies the 'Serboi' as a Sarmatian tribe who lived north of the Caucasus, and other sources identify the Serboi as an Alan tribe in t ...

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The first mentions of names that historians link with "Alani" appear almost at the same time in Greco-Roman geography and somewhat later Chinese dynastic chronicles of the 1st century BCE. The Geography (book 23, ch.XI.v) of Strabo, who was born in Pontus on the Black Sea, but was also working with Persian sources, to judge from the forms he gives to tribal names, mentions Aorsi that he links with Siraces and claims that a Spadines, king of the Aorsi, could assemble two hundred thousand mounted archers in the mid-1st cen ...

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Alans, Alans - Name, Alans - Early Alans, Alans - The 'western' Alans and Vandals, Alans - Alans and Slavs, Alans - The 'eastern' Alans and Huns, Alans - Medieval Alania, Alans - The Mongol Invasions and their aftermath

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Alan Davidson is the name of two people: Alan Davidson (food writer) (1924-2003), also British diplomat Alan Davidson (cricketer) (b. 1929), Australian Other related archivesAlan Davidson (cricketer), Alan Davidson (food writer)

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Alan Baddeley is professor of psychology at the University of York. He is known for his work in memory, in particular for the concept of working memory. Further Information: Alan Baddeley's biography at the University of York: http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/psych/www/people/biogs/ab50.html ...

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Alan Thicke, born Alan Willis Jeffrey (March 1, 1947 in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actor, songwriter, game show host and talk-show emcee. Throughout the late 1980s to early 1990s, he was most famous as Jason Seaver, the patriarch on the ABC television series Growing Pains, which also starred Joanna Kerns and Kirk Cameron. He graduated from Elliot Lake High School in 1965 as homecoming king. He attended the University of Western Ontari ...

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Alan Young (born November 19, 1919) is an actor best known for his television role opposite a talking horse, Mister Ed. He was born in Tyne and Wear, England, and raised in Edinburgh and in Canada. He grew to love radio when bedbound as a child because of severe asthma, and became a radio broadcaster on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, then moved to New York where he was given his own television program, The Alan Young Show in 1950. After the cancellation of his show, he made several films: Margie (19 ...

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Alan McGee is a British music industry mogul famed for founding the independent Creation Records label which ran from 1983 to 2000. Born in Glasgow in the early 1960s, he had originally hoped to become a musician before moving to London in the aftermath of the punk movement. Whilst working for British Rail he began managing a band called The Jesus and Mary Chain who became an underground sensation when McGee issued their first single on his slend ...

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Alan Cedric Page (born August 7, 1945 in Canton, Ohio) is a former football player who starred as a defensive lineman in the NFL, primarily with the Minnesota Vikings, and then went on to have a distinguished legal career, serving as a current member of the Minnesota Supreme Court. After graduating from a Catholic high school in his hometown of Canton, Page received a B.A. in political science from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. He was an All-American in football in 1966, and was selected by the Vikings in ...

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Alan David Sokal (born 1955) is a physicist at New York University. Politically leftist, Sokal previously taught mathematics at the National University of Nicaragua during the Sandinista government. He is best known to the general public for the Sokal Affair of 1996. Curious to see whether the postmodern cultural studies journal Social Text would publish any submission which "flattered the editors' ideological preconceptions", Sokal submitted for publication a nonsensical paper entitled "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a ...

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Alan Tam Wing Lun (Traditional: 譚詠麟; Simplified: 谭咏麟; Hanyu Pinyin: Tán Yǒnglín; born 23 August 1952) is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer and is a film actor. During the golden age of Cantopop, he was well-known in Hong Kong for singing romantic ballads and other songs and was not renowned for singing fast songs in the style of fellow Cantopop star Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui. He is also known as 'Lucky Lun' (幸運麟 homonym word play on "Wheel of Fortune") as well as his affectionate title 'Principal' (校長/譚校長 ...

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Alan Clarke (28 October 1935 - 24 July 1990) was a film director, producer and writer, born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England. Much of Clarke's output was for television rather than cinema, and featured from 1969 onwards in The Wednesday Play, and Play for Today. His subject matter tended towards social realism, especially with respect to deprived or oppressed communities. A number of his works achieved notoriety and widespread criticism from the more reactionary end of the media spectrum; such as Scum

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Alan M. Arakawa, Mayor of the County of Maui from 2002 to present. Born in Wailuku, Maui in 1951, Arakawa graduated from Maui High School and attended the University of Hawai'i at Manoa as a business major. He then entered civil service in 1984 as a wastewater plant worker for Maui County. He rose to the post of supervisor in the wastewater division of the Department of Public Works and he was both a United Public Workers Chief Steward and a Hawai'i Gov ...

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Professor Sir Alan Arthur Walters is a British economist, best known as the former personal economic advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher from 1981 to 1989. His differences with the policies of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nigel Lawson, led to both men's resignations in 1989. Alan Walters - Publications. ...

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Alan H. Guth (born February 27, 1947) is a physicist and cosmologist. Guth has researched elementary particle theory (and how particle theory is applicable to the early universe). As a junior particle physicist, Guth first developed the idea of inflation in 1979 at Stanford University after attending a Big Bang lecture by Robert Dicke. In 1981, Guth formally proposed the idea of cosmic inflation, the idea that the nascent universe passed through a phase of exponential expansion that was driven by a negative v ...

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Alan Abel (b. 1930) is an American prankster, writer, filmmaker, and jazz percussionist famous for a several hoaxes that he was able to turn into major media circuses. Abel graduated from Ohio State University with a B.S. in Comparative Religion. One of Abel's earliest hoaxes took place in the late 1950s. Abel posed as a golf pro who taught Westinghouse executives how to use ballet positions to improve their game. Beginning May 27, 1959 with a story on the Today Show, the Society for Indecency to Naked A ...

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Alan Morton Dershowitz (born September 1, 1938) is an American lawyer and jurist. He has spent most of his career at Harvard Law School, where at the age of 28 he became the youngest full professor in the law school's history, and is now the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law. In addition to his teaching, Dershowitz is a prolific author who makes frequent media and public speaking appearances a ...

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Alan Mitchell (4 November 1922 - 3 August 1995) was a British forester, dendrologist and botanist, and author of several books on trees. He almost single-handedly measured every notable tree in the British Isles, founding the Tree Register of the British Isles (T.R.O.B.I.), which held records of over 100,000 individual notable trees at the time of his death. Alan Mitchell - Selected bibliography. 1972. Conifers in the British Isles. A Descriptive Handbook. Forestry Commission Boo ...

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Alan Moore (born November 18, 1953, in Northampton, England) is a British writer most famous for his work in comics, including the acclaimed graphic novels Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell. He has also written a novel, Voice of the Fire, and performs "workings" (one-off performance art/spoken word pieces) with the Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels. As a comics writer, Moore is renowned for bringing more mature, literary sensibilities to a medium often dismissed as juvenile and ...

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Alan Moore - Marvelman/Miracleman Alan Moore - V for Vendetta Alan Moore - Swamp Thing Alan Moore - Watchmen Alan Moore - Supreme Alan Moore - From Hell
Alan Moore - Prose Alan Moore - Film Alan Moore - Music and performance art Alan Moore - Partial bibliography
Alan Moore - Comics Alan Moore - Comics adaptations of Moore works in other media Alan Moore - Novels Alan Moore - Recorded works Alan Moore - Films

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