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Asper may refer to: *Asper (') breathing mark in romanization of Greek *
Asper (surname) Asper is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * David Asper, Vice-president of CanWest Global Communications Corp. * Frank W. Asper (1892–1973), Latter-day Saint composer and Mormon Tabernacle organist. * Gail Asper, President of ...
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Asper, Missouri Asper is an extinct town in Carroll County, in the U.S. state of Missouri Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee): Io ...
, a ghost town *
Aemilius Asper Aemilius Asper, Latin grammarian, possibly lived in the 1st century AD or late 2nd century AD. Works Aemilius Asper wrote commentaries on Terence, Sallust and Virgil dealing with content and form, and including parallels with other authors. Numero ...
, Latin grammarian *
Aspron The ''aspron'' ( el, ἄσπρον), from Latin ''asper'', was a late Byzantine name for silver or silver-alloy coins. The Latin word ''asper'' originally meant "rough", but had gradually acquired the connotation of "fresh" or "freshly minted", i. ...
, a type of late Byzantine silver or billon coins * Akçe, an Ottoman silver coin, similar to the aspron *
Asper School of Business The Asper School of Business is located on the University of Manitoba, Fort Garry Campus in South Winnipeg, Manitoba. The school began in 1937 as the University of Manitoba Faculty of Management. The school was renamed in 2000 in honour of Izzy ...
, part of the University of Manitoba * Asper, a steel roller coaster manufactured by
Gerstlauer Gerstlauer Amusement Rides GmbH is a German manufacturer of stationary and transportable amusement rides and roller coasters, located in Münsterhausen, Germany. History In 1982, Hubert Gerstlauer, a former employee of the Anton Schwarzkopf ...
that operates at
Fun Land USA Fun is defined by the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' as "Light-hearted pleasure, enjoyment, or amusement; boisterous joviality or merrymaking; entertainment". Etymology and usage The word ''fun'' is associated with sports, entertaining medi ...
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Miami, FL Miami ( ), officially the City of Miami, known as "the 305", "The Magic City", and "Gateway to the Americas", is a coastal metropolis and the county seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida, United States. With a population of 442,241 at the ...


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* Asper, Belgium, a Belgian village belonging to the municipality of Gavere *
Bothrops asper Terciopelo (''Bothrops asper'') is a species of pit vipers occurring at low to moderate elevations in northeast Mexico and Central America, and into South America where it is known from elevations up to 2600 meters in the Colombian and Ecuado ...
, a
species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
of pit vipers {{disambiguation