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Amal gas field

The Amal gas field is an offshore oil and gas field in the southern Gulf of Suez, Egypt, discovered in 1968, with first production in 1989 and later commercial gas output.

Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri

Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri (1923–2005) was an Indian physicist who derived the Raychaudhuri equation in 1955, the starting point for the Hawking–Penrose singularity theorems, while teaching in Calcutta colleges.

Amal Maher

Amal Maher (آمال ماهر) is an Egyptian singer born in Cairo in 1985, known for the 2015 hit Seket El Salama and called the "Queen of Singing".

Amal Movement (حركة أمل)

Amal Movement (حركة أمل), Lebanese Shia party and former militia founded by Musa Sadr in 1975 as armed branch of the Movement of the Disinherited; led by Nabih Berri since 1980, Hezbollah's main ally since 1992.

Amal N. Trivedi

Amal N. Trivedi is a general internist and health services researcher, Professor at Brown University and a Providence VA physician, known for NEJM studies on Medicare cost sharing and racial disparities.

Amal Neerad (അമൽ നീരദ്)

Amal Neerad (അമൽ നീരദ്), Malayalam cinema director, cinematographer and producer; debut Big B (2007) with Mammootty, hits Varathan and Bheeshma Parvam (2022), 2024 film Bougainvillea with Fahadh Faasil.

Amal Oil Field

The Amal Oil Field is a giant onshore oil field in the eastern Sirte Basin of Libya, discovered in 1959 and operated by Harouge Oil Operations.

Amal Parikh

Amal Parikh is a Mumbai-based value investor who founded Ohm Stock Broker in 1999 and holds a personal shareholding portfolio of roughly Rs 3.35 billion (Rs 335 crore).

Amal Suhail Bahwan

Amal Suhail Bahwan is an Omani businesswoman, daughter of Suhail Bahwan Group founder Suhail Bahwan, who took over its management in 2016 and chairs National Bank of Oman.

Amal-Ra's Lanuf Oil Pipeline

Amal-Ra's Lanuf Oil Pipeline (خط آنابيب آمال - رأس لانوف) is an operating crude oil pipeline in central Libya running from the Amal oilfield to the Ras Lanuf terminal.

Amal'ezulu

Amal'ezulu (Zulu Horizons) is a 1945 collection of isiZulu poems by Benedict Wallet Vilakazi, expressing longing for his rural home and the suffering of black gold miners.

AMALA

AMALA (AZL, CVCL_E456) is an EBV-transformed human B-lymphoblastoid cell line from a homozygous female Warao donor, part of the 10IHW HLA reference panel, ECACC 88052064, source of HLA allele A*0217.

Amala (album)

Amala is the 2018 debut studio album by Doja Cat (Amala Zandile Dlamini), released March 30, 2018 on Kemosabe/RCA with 13 tracks; a February 2019 deluxe added Juicy, Tia Tamera, and MOOO! after that song went viral.

Amala Akkineni (அமலா அக்கினேனி)

Amala Akkineni (அமலா அக்கினேனி), born Amala Mukherjee in 1967, is an Indian actress known for Tamil and Telugu films and founder of the Blue Cross of Hyderabad.

Amala Paul (அமலா பால்)

Amala Paul (அமலா பால்), born 1991 in Kochi, is an Indian actress and producer in Tamil, Malayalam, and Telugu cinema, known for Mynaa (2010), Aadai (2019), and producing Cadaver (2022).

Amalakyadi Curna

Amalakyadi Curna (Āmalakyādi cūrṇa) is a classical Ayurvedic powder of five equal parts: amla, haritaki, pippali, chitraka, and rock salt, used as appetizer, digestive, and antipyretic, official in the Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India.

Amalarius of Metz

Amalarius of Metz, also written Amalar (ca. 775–ca. 850), was a Frankish archbishop of Trier and liturgical writer whose Liber officialis inaugurated Western allegorical liturgical exegesis.

Amalda Liz

Amalda Liz (Amalda Liz Joseph), born 1990 in Wayanad, Kerala, is an Indian actress and model in Malayalam cinema. Debuting in Kammatti Paadam (2016), she is best known as the Yakshi in Bramayugam (2024).

AmaLee

AmaLee (Amanda Lee, born 1992) is an American singer, voice actress, YouTuber, and VTuber known as LeeandLie for English anime and game song covers, the Nostalgia album series, roles like Marin Kitagawa and Uta, and her VTuber persona Monarch.

Amalek (עמלק)

Amalek (עמלק), Amalekites: biblical nomadic people of the Negeb and Sinai, grandson of Esau in Genesis 36, Israel's arch-enemy from Rephidim to Saul and Agag, commanded blotted out, read on Shabbat Zakhor before Purim.

Amalfi

Amalfi is a town in Salerno province, Campania, Italy, namesake of the Costiera Amalfitana UNESCO World Heritage site (1997, criteria ii, iv, v) and center of the medieval Amalfi Sea Republic.

Amalfi Coast

The Amalfi Coast (Costiera Amalfitana) is a 40 km cliff-lined shore on the Sorrentine Peninsula, Salerno, Italy; UNESCO World Heritage site since 1997, heart of the medieval Maritime Republic of Amalfi and its terraced lemon groves.

Amalgam (chemistry)

An amalgam is an alloy containing mercury, formed when mercury dissolves another metal; it may be liquid or solid, and is used in dental fillings, gold extraction, and the chlor-alkali industry.

Amalgam (dentistry)

Dental amalgam, the "silver filling" material of roughly 50% elemental mercury with silver, tin, and copper, has been used over 150 years; it outlasts composite but is being phased out under the Minamata Convention by 2034.

Amalgam Comics

Amalgam Comics (also called the Amalgam Universe) was a joint Marvel–DC imprint producing 24 one-shots in April 1996 and June 1997 that fused characters from both publishers, such as Dark Claw (Batman+Wolverine), Super-Soldier, and Amazon, following DC versus Marvel.

Amalgamated Weavers' Association

Amalgamated Weavers' Association (Weavers' Amalgamation, AWA), British trade union founded May 1884 as the Northern Counties Amalgamated Association of Weavers; federated Lancashire cotton weavers' unions, led the 1930-31 more looms dispute, and merged into the Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union in 1974.

Amalgamation of Nigeria

The amalgamation of Nigeria was the January 1, 1914 consolidation, signed by Governor Frederick Lugard, joining the Northern and Southern Nigeria protectorates into one Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria.

Amalgamation of Toronto

Amalgamation of Toronto (1998 megacity merger): Bill 103, the City of Toronto Act, merged East York, Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough, York, old Toronto, and Metro Toronto into one 44-ward single-tier city on January 1, 1998.

Amalia Beres

Amalia Bereș, full name Amalia Bereș-Chelaru, is a Romanian rower, born in 1997, who won gold in the women's eight at the 2024 Paris Olympics for CS Dinamo București.

Amalia Mendoza

Amalia Mendoza, known as La Tariácuri, was a Mexican singer and actress born in Huetamo, Michoacán, a leading ranchera voice famous for "Échame a mí la culpa".