Amnesty
Amnesty is an official clemency act exempting groups or classes from prosecution, usually for political offenses, distinct from individual pardons; used in peace processes but constrained by international human rights law, as in Peru, Iraq, and Thailand.
Amnesty International
Amnesty International, founded by Peter Benenson in London in 1961 after 'The Forgotten Prisoners', is a 10-million-member human rights movement known for prisoners of conscience, annual reports, and independence from governments.
Amnex Infotechnologies
Amnex Infotechnologies, formerly Infinium Solutionz Private Limited, is an Ahmedabad-based Indian IT company founded in 2008 that builds IoT, GIS, and AI platforms for traffic management and smart cities.
Amnex Technologies
Amnex Technologies, formally Amnex Infotechnologies Private Limited, is an Indian technology company founded in Ahmedabad in 2008 that builds applied AI, IoT, and geospatial solutions for government customers.
Amnon Yitzhak (אמנון יצחק)
Amnon Yitzhak (אמנון יצחק), born 1953, is an Israeli Haredi rabbi who heads Shofar, an outreach organization credited with tens of thousands of returnees to observance.
Amoashtart
Amoashtart was a royal woman of Sidon in the Persian period, priestess of Astarte and mother of King Eshmunazar II, known from his sarcophagus inscription (KAI 14).
Amod Malviya
Amod Malviya is an Indian engineer and entrepreneur who was Chief Technology Officer at Flipkart before co-founding Udaan, India's largest business-to-business e-commerce platform, in 2016.
Amoghavajra
Amoghavajra (不空) was a Tang dynasty Buddhist monk of foreign origin who translated Esoteric scriptures, rose to directorate rank and a ducal title, and is counted among the four great translators of Chinese Buddhism.
Amoi
Amoi (夏新, formerly Amoisonic) is a Xiamen-based Chinese consumer-electronics company founded in 1981 as Xiamen's first Sino-foreign joint venture, best known for its 2001 A8 "dancing phone".
Amol Kolhe
Amol Kolhe is an Indian politician and Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) member who has represented the Shirur constituency of Maharashtra in the Lok Sabha since 2019.
Amol Rajan
Amol Rajan, born Amol Varadarajan, is a British journalist who presents BBC Radio 4's Today program and University Challenge, and was editor of The Independent from 2013.
Amolyt Pharma
Amolyt Pharma was a French clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company based near Lyon that developed peptide treatments for rare endocrine diseases and agreed in 2024 to acquisition by AstraZeneca for up to $1.05 billion.
Amon Göth
Amon Leopold Göth (1908–1946), SS officer and commandant of the Płaszów camp outside Kraków from 11 February 1943; oversaw ghetto liquidations, was tried by Poland's Supreme National Tribunal in 1946, sentenced to death, and hanged; later portrayed by Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List.
Amon of Judah
Amon (2 Kings 21; 2 Chronicles 33), son of Manasseh, king of Judah from age 22 for two years (c. 642-640 BCE); assassinated by his servants, avenged by the people of the land, succeeded by Josiah.
Among the Flowers: The Huajian ji
Among the Flowers: The Huajian ji (花间集) is a 940 anthology of song lyrics compiled by Zhao Chongzuo of Later Shu, the earliest surviving collection of literati ci.
Amor fati
Amor fati, Latin for "love of fate," is a philosophical ideal coined by Friedrich Nietzsche in The Gay Science (1882) and Ecce Homo, related to but distinct from Stoic acceptance of fate, and now studied in positive psychology.
Amoraim (אָמוֹרָאִים)
The Amoraim (אמוראים) were the rabbis of the Talmudic era who expounded the Mishnah in academies in Israel and Babylonia from about 200 CE to around 500 CE, and their teachings form the two Talmuds.
Amoris laetitia
Amoris laetitia (The Joy of Love), Pope Francis's 2016 post-synodal apostolic exhortation on love in the family, 325 paragraphs over nine chapters; its treatment of divorced and remarried Catholics' access to Communion sparked lasting controversy.
Amorite language
Amorite is an extinct Northwest Semitic language spoken by the Amorites of the Syrian steppe, known almost entirely from proper names in Akkadian cuneiform texts.
Amorite migrations into Mesopotamia
The Amorite migrations into Mesopotamia were the movements of West Semitic-speaking groups, called Amurru in cuneiform texts, into Mesopotamia around the 21st and 20th centuries BC.
Amorites
Amorites (Akkadian amurru, Sumerian MAR.TU): West Semitic-speaking peoples of the Syrian steppe who dominated Syro-Mesopotamia in the early second millennium BCE, founded dynasties at Babylon, Mari, and Yamhad-Aleppo, and appear in the Hebrew Bible as pre-Israelite inhabitants of Palestine.
Amortization (accounting)
Amortization in accounting is the systematic allocation of an intangible asset's cost, such as a patent or customer list, over its useful life, mirroring depreciation for physical assets.
Amortization calculator
An amortization calculator computes a loan's fixed periodic payment from its principal, interest rate, and term, and produces a schedule showing how each payment divides between interest and principal.
Amos (עָמוֹס) (prophet)
Amos (עָמוֹס) was a prophet from Tekoa in Judah who preached in the northern kingdom of Israel around 750 BCE, during the reigns of Uzziah and Jeroboam II.
Amos L. Mazzant III
Amos L. Mazzant III, born 1965, is a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Texas since 2014 and its chief judge since 2025.
Amos Robinson and Abron Scott
Amos Robinson and Abron Scott are Florida men convicted of the 1983 murder of Carlos Orellana. They were later indicted for the rapes and murders of Linda Lansen and Barbara Grams.
Amos Yee
Amos Yee Pang Sang, born 1998, Singaporean blogger imprisoned in 2015 over a Lee Kuan Yew criticism video, granted US asylum in 2017, jailed in the US for sex offences, and deported to Singapore in 2026 for National Service default.
Amoy Diagnostics (艾德生物)
Amoy Diagnostics (艾德生物) is a Xiamen-based molecular diagnostics company founded by Zheng Limou in 2008, making oncology gene tests and companion diagnostics, listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange since 2017.
Amp Capital Global Infrastructure
Amp Capital Global Infrastructure is a family of parallel fund vehicles for AMP Capital's global infrastructure equity program, whose GIF II closed at $3.4 billion in 2019.
Ampersand
Ampersand: the & character, a ligature of Latin et meaning "and", first seen in Pompeiian graffiti; its name comes from the alphabet recitation "and per se and", recorded from 1795-1797.