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Amurru (god)
Amurru (Sumerian Martu, dMAR.TU), the Mesopotamian god of the West and of the Amorites, worshiped in Babylonia especially in the Old Babylonian period; depicted with a crook and caprid on Old Babylonian cylinder seals.
Amurru (kingdom)
Amurru, also known as the Kingdom of Amurru, was a Late Bronze Age kingdom in western Syria and northern Lebanon, at times a Hittite vassal.
Amurru defection to the Hittites
The Amurru defection to the Hittites was King Aziru's abandonment of Egyptian overlordship for a vassal treaty with Šuppiluliuma I of Hatti, costing Egypt its main foothold on the northern Levantine coast.
Amursana
Amursana (Амарсанаа) was an Oirat prince who led an anti-Qing uprising for Dzungar independence, proclaimed khan in 1755 and dying of smallpox in Russian exile in 1757.
Amursana's rebellion
Amursana's revolt (1755–1757) was the rebellion of the Oirat prince Amursana against the Qing dynasty after they denied him rule over Dzungaria, ending with the Qing extermination of the Dzungars.
Amuse
アミューズ (Amuse, 株式会社アミューズ), Japanese pachinko hall operator founded 1993 in Osaka, HQ in Suita; runs Amuse and Dokiwaku Land halls, flagship Amuse Chiba (opened 2016, 1,125 machines), group revenue 120 billion yen, president Kazuma Iwaya.
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), Neil Postman's media ecology critique of television, argues TV turned public discourse into entertainment; Huxley's dystopia, not Orwell's, describes us.
Amut-pi'el II
Amut-pi'el II, also known as Amut-Pi-El, was a king of Qatna, a Middle Bronze Age kingdom in western Syria at Tall Mišrife, who reigned around 1720–1700 BC.
Amway
Amway is an American multi-level marketing company selling nutrition, beauty, and home products, founded in 1959 by Jay Van Andel and Rich DeVos in Ada, Michigan.
Amwell (company)
Amwell, formally American Well Corporation, is a Boston-based telehealth company founded by brothers Ido and Roy Schoenberg in 2006, whose Amwell Converge platform lets health systems and health plans deliver virtual care under their own brands.
AMX (company)
AMX is an American brand of audiovisual control and automation systems under HARMAN Professional, supplying control processors, touch panels, and signal distribution for conference rooms, classrooms, hotels, and command centers.
Amy Acton
Amy Acton is an American politician and the Democratic nominee for governor of Ohio in 2026, her first race for the office, with a campaign focused on public education, jobs, and health care.
Amy Archer-Gilligan
Amy Archer-Gilligan (Amy Duggan, 1873-1962) ran the Archer Home for the elderly in Windsor, Connecticut, and was convicted in 1917 of arsenic-poisoning boarder Franklin Andrews; suspected of up to two dozen deaths, she inspired Arsenic and Old Lace.
Amy Ashwood Garvey
Amy Ashwood Garvey was a Jamaican Pan-Africanist and feminist who helped found the UNIA in 1914, served as its first secretary, and married Marcus Garvey in 1919.
Amy Berman Jackson
Amy Berman Jackson (born 1954, Baltimore) is a senior U.S. district judge in Washington, D.C., appointed by Obama in 2011 and confirmed 97-0, known for the Manafort and Stone cases, Mueller report FOIA rulings, and Strzok and SNAP decisions.
Amy Boleyn
Amy (Amata) Boleyn, Lady Calthorpe (died c. 1543), English noblewoman, sister of Thomas Boleyn and aunt of Queen Anne Boleyn; married Sir Philip Calthorpe in 1518, governess to Princess Mary from 1521, often misnamed Jane in pedigrees.
Amy Carlson (religious leader)
Amy Carlson, known as Mother God, was an American who founded the new religious movement Love Has Won in Colorado; her mummified remains were found in 2021.
Amy Carmichael
Amy Carmichael, fully Amy Beatrice Carmichael, was a Belfast-born Protestant missionary who spent 55 years in south India, founding the Dohnavur Fellowship to shelter children.
Amy Carter
Amy Lynn Carter (born 1967, Plains, Georgia), only daughter of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, White House child 1977-1981, Senate page 1982, anti-apartheid and CIA-recruiting protester arrested 1985 and 1986, later art historian in Atlanta.
Amy Chai
Amy Chai is an American physician and Republican nominee for the U.S. House in Connecticut's 1st District in 2026, facing Democrat Luke Bronin; she previously ran as an Independent in 2022.
Amy Chua
Amy Chua (born 1962) is the John M. Duff Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School and author of World on Fire and Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, the 2011 memoir that popularized 'Tiger Mom' parenting and sparked global debate.
Amy Coney Barrett
Amy Coney Barrett, US Supreme Court associate justice since October 2020 (Ginsburg seat), former Notre Dame Law professor and Seventh Circuit judge, Scalia clerk, originalist and textualist, confirmed 52–48.
Amy Cuddy
Amy Cuddy, American social psychologist, Princeton PhD 2005, Harvard Business School 2004–2016. Co-developer of the Stereotype Content Model; known for power posing, her 2012 TED talk, and the replication debate over its hormonal claims.
Amy Elik
Amy Elik is an American politician and Republican member of the Illinois House of Representatives from the 111th district, first elected in 2020 and re-elected in 2022 and 2024.
Amy Finkelstein
Amy Finkelstein is an American health economist and professor at MIT, best known as a principal investigator of the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, a randomized trial of Medicaid's effects.
Amy Fisher
Amy Fisher (born 1974), the "Long Island Lolita," shot Mary Jo Buttafuoco in Massapequa, New York on May 19, 1992 during an affair with Joey Buttafuoco; she served nearly seven years in prison.
Amy Galey
Amy Galey is an American politician and Republican member of the North Carolina State Senate representing District 25 in Alamance County, serving as Senate Majority Whip since 2025.
Amy Gaston Charles Auguste Bonet-Maury
Amy Gaston Charles Auguste Bonet-Maury (1842–1919) was a French Reformed pastor and church historian who taught ecclesiastical history at the Paris Protestant faculty from 1879 to 1912.
Amy Gleason
Amy Gleason, American nurse turned health-care technology executive; co-founder of CareSync, former USDS staffer under Trump and Biden, acting administrator of the U.S. DOGE Service since February 2025.
Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman is an American broadcast journalist, co-founder in 1996 and host of Democracy Now!, airing on 1,400+ stations, known for East Timor and Nigeria reporting, the Right Livelihood Award, and six bestsellers.