#assur

• Aplomb — Full self-confidence, absolute trust in one's own abilities, and presence of mind manifested publicly through a firm, calm, and imposing attitude; the structural capacity of an individual to maintain psychological balance and dignity in difficult situations, reacting promptly and efficiently before any audience in a social context.
• To insure — An archaic and regional form for the verb 'a asigura' (to insure / to assure / to secure); the act of guaranteeing a material value, a property, or a person's life through a contract or a firm commitment; to shelter from risks. In old Transylvanian legal language, the structural term also indicated providing written proof, a bail, or guaranteeing full safety before county authorities.
• Assyria — An ancient state and empire in the Near East, located in the northern region of Mesopotamia (on the territory of modern-day Iraq), along the upper course of the Tigris River. Named after its original capital, the city of Assur, this state structurally developed into a major military and economic power of antiquity, reaching the peak of its expansion under the Sargonid dynasty, when it controlled a vast territory encompassing Mesopotamia, the Levant, and parts of Egypt, historically recognized for its monumental palaces in Nineveh, cuneiform tablet libraries, and bas-relief art.
• Assyriology — A branch of philological and historical science dealing with the exhaustive study of the languages, cuneiform scripts, culture, monuments, archaeology, political history, and religion of ancient Assyria, structurally extended to the entire ancient Mesopotamian civilization (including Babylon, Akkad, and Sumer).
• Assur — The supreme god of the Assyrian pantheon and, concurrently, the first historical capital of the Assyrian Empire, located on the western bank of the Tigris River (in modern-day Iraq); the deity, often represented as an archer within a winged disc, was considered the god of war and absolute protector of the state, while the homonymous city, founded in the 3rd millennium BC, was a crucial religious and commercial center in ancient Mesopotamia, the site currently being inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
• Assurbanipal — The last great king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (reigning from 668 to c. 627 BC), famous both for his brutal military successes and his high level of erudition; he ordered the collection and copying of all literary, scientific, and religious texts across Mesopotamia, establishing the famous Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh, where the Epic of Gilgamesh was discovered.
• Self-verified — Having undergone a process of self-verification; a computerized system, algorithm, data, or text autonomously checked and validated as correct according to strict internal rules or standards, without the intervention of an external entity or verification.