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Ahab
Seventh king of the N kingdom of Israel (r.c.874-853 BC). He inherited a realm that included territory east of the Jordan River, in Gilead and probably Bashan, and also the tributary kingdom of Moab. His marriage to Jezebel revived an alliance with the Phoenicians, but her efforts to establish Baal worship provoked bitter opposition from Elijah. Ahab's reign was dominated by a fierce border war with Syria; he died in an attempt to recover Ramoth-Gilead from the Syrians.


Ajax
Greek hero of the Trojan War. In the Iliad Homer described him as of great stature and second only to Achilles in strength and bravery. He fought Hector in single combat and rescued the body of Achilles from the hands of the Trojans. When Achilles' armor was awarded to Odysseus, he was so enraged that he went mad. According to several Greek and Roman poets, Ajax slaughtered a flock of sheep he mistook for his enemies, then returned to his senses and killed himself out of shame.


Arab
Any member of the Arabic-speaking peoples of the Middle East and N. Africa. Before the spread of Islam in the 630s, the term referred to the largely nomadic Semitic peoples of the Arabian Peninsula; it came to apply to Arabic-speaking peoples from Africa's Mauritanian and Moroccan coasts east to Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula and south to N Sudan after their acceptance and promotion of Islam. Traditionally, some Arabs are desert-dwelling pastoral nomads (see Bedouin), whereas others live by oases and in small, isolated farming villages. While most Arabs are Muslims, some are Christian. The term may also be used today in an ethnic ("the Arab nation") or sociolinguistic sense.


Arjan
Fifth Guru of the Sikhs (1581-1606) and its first martyr. He compiled the volume of Sikh scripture on which the Adi Granth is based, and he completed the Golden Temple at Amritsar. The first Guru to serve as both temporal and spiritual head of Sikhism, he built up Amritsar as a commercial center and enlarged missionary efforts. He was also a prolific poet and writer of hymns. He prospered under the tolerant Mughal emperor Akbar, but was tortured to death by Akbar's successor for not altering the Adi Granth to remove passages that gave offense to Hinduism or Islam.


Arrabal
Spanish-French absurdist playwright, novelist, and filmmaker. He turned to writing in the 1950s, and in 1955 he began studying drama in Paris, where he remained. His early plays, in particular Picnic on the Battlefield, brought him to the attention of the French avant-garde. After the mid-1960s his plays evolved into what he termed Thé â tre Panique ("Panic Theater"); typical of this period is And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers. His dramatic and fictional world is often violent, cruel and pornographic.


Calabar
City (pop., 1993 est.: 162,000), SE Nigeria. Lying along the Calabar River above its confluence with the Cross River, it ...

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