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Amanishakheto
Amanishakheto was a ruling queen of Kush around the turn of the era, best known for the gold treasure dug from her pyramid at Meroe in the 1830s.
Amanislo
Amanislo was a king of Kush in the early Meroitic period, ruling around 260 to 250 BC between Arkamani-qo and Amanitekha, and buried in a pyramid at Meroë.
Amanita
Amanita is a genus of about 500-plus described ectomycorrhizal agaric fungi, including the lethal death cap (Amanita phalloides, amatoxins) and the psychoactive fly agaric (A. muscaria), plus edible caesaras.
Amanita muscaria
Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric, is a toxic, psychoactive mushroom recognized by its red cap with white spots and found throughout temperate Northern Hemisphere forests.
Amanita phalloides
Amanita phalloides, the death cap, is a European amanita mushroom now spread worldwide whose amatoxins cause over 90% of fatal mushroom poisonings, with delayed gastrointestinal symptoms progressing to liver failure.
Amanita smithiana
Amanita smithiana (Smith's amanita), Bas 1969, is a white ectomycorrhizal Amanita of the Pacific Northwest that contains the nephrotoxin allenic norleucine, causing GI symptoms within 6 hours and delayed acute kidney injury; it is mistaken for matsutake.
Amanita virosa
Amanita virosa (ドクツルタケ), the European destroying angel, is a pure-white deadly Amanita containing 10–12 mg α-amanitin per mushroom (human LD50 ~0.1 mg/kg), causing delayed liver and kidney failure; distinct from A. phalloides and North American A. bisporigera.
Amanitaceae
Amanitaceae, a family of Agaricales fungi (E.-J. Gilbert, 1940) with five genera including Amanita, Limacella, and Saproamanita; ectomycorrhizal, ca. 700 species, source of amatoxins and ibotenic acid.
Amanitaraqide
Amanitaraqide was a king of Kush (Meroitic), the kingdom centered on Meroe in what is now Sudan, dated to A.D. 228–246 by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Amanitenmemide
Amanitenmemide was a king of Kush who ruled from Meroë in what is now Sudan, known from a funerary chapel relief in Berlin dated to 60–62 CE.
Amanitenmomide
Amanitenmomide was a king of Kush who ruled from Meroë in the first century AD, known chiefly from a sandstone relief from his pyramid chapel, now in Berlin.
Amanitin
Amanitin is a bicyclic octapeptide toxin from deadly Amanita mushrooms such as the death cap; it blocks RNA polymerase II and causes fatal liver failure.
Amanitore
Amanitore was a kandake, or queen, of the Meroitic kingdom of Kush who reigned around 1–25 CE as co-regent with King Natakamani, known for the temples she built across the middle Nile Valley in present-day Sudan.
Amankeldy Imanov
Amankeldy Imanov (Амангельды Иманов), 1873–1919, was a Kazakh leader of the 1916 uprising against the Russian Empire in Turgai, later a Soviet commander killed there in 1919.
Amankwatia Baffour
Amankwatia Baffour (Amankwatia) was a 19th-century Asante war chief who held the Bantama stool at Kumasi and died fighting the British at Amoafo in 1874.
Amanmašša
Amanmašša, also Amanmasha or Amanmassa, is the name of an Egyptian official, probably two separate men, in the Amarna letters of the mid-14th century BC.
Amantadine
Amantadine (1-aminoadamantane, Symmetrel, GOCOVRI) is an adamantane antiviral approved in 1966 for influenza A2, serendipitously found to treat Parkinson's disease, now used for dyskinesia; CDC no longer recommends it for flu due to resistance.
Amantekha
Amantekha was a king of Kush of the Meroitic period, when the Middle Nile kingdom was ruled from Meroe and its kings were buried in pyramids there.
Amantes
Amantes (Lovers: A True Story) is Vicente Aranda's 1991 Spanish drama starring Victoria Abril, Jorge Sanz, and Maribel Verdú, based on the real 1949 Crimen de la calle Tetuán; it won two Goyas and a Berlin Silver Bear.
Amanuban Kingdom
The Amanuban Kingdom (Kerajaan Amanuban, Banam) was an Atoni principality in the mountains of West Timor, Indonesia, founded in the 17th century by Bil Banu of the Nope clan.
Amanuensis
Amanuensis (plural amanuenses): a person employed to write from dictation or copy for another, from Latin servus a manu. Covers Roman secretaries like Tiro, monastic scriptoria, Milton, and modern exam-scribe use.
Amanullah Khan (امانالله خان)
Amanullah Khan (امانالله خان), also known as King Amanullah, ruled Afghanistan from 1919 to 1929, winning full independence from Britain and launching major modernizing reforms.
Amanush (अमानुष)
Amanush (अमानुष) is a 1974/1975 Indian action drama directed by Shakti Samanta, shot simultaneously in Bengali and Hindi with Uttam Kumar and Sharmila Tagore, based on Shaktipada Rajguru's novel Naya Basat; it won two 1976 Filmfare Awards and was Uttam Kumar's only Hindi hit.
Amaoni Mound
Amaoni Mound, a conical stupa-shaped archaeological mound at Amaoni village, Deoria district, Uttar Pradesh, India, about 2 miles north of Rudrapur; described by Carlleyle in 1875-77, topped by a black stone lingam, ASI-protected since 1920.
Amap (application)
Amap (高德地图), also known as AutoNavi, is a Chinese web mapping and navigation app founded in 2002 and owned by Alibaba Group since 2014. It supplies the map data for Apple Maps in mainland China.
Amapiano
Amapiano is a South African electronic dance music genre whose name means "the pianos" in isiZulu, blending house, jazz, and kwaito; it emerged in Gauteng townships in the early 2010s.
Amar Akbar Anthony
Amar Akbar Anthony (अमर अकबर एंथोनी), 1977 Manmohan Desai Hindi masala classic: three brothers (Khanna, Kapoor, Bachchan) raised Hindu, Muslim, Christian, reunited; biggest hit of its era, three Filmfare Awards.
Amar Akbar Anthony (2015 film)
Amar Akbar Anthony (അമര് അക്ബര് അന്തോണി) is a 2015 Malayalam comedy, the directorial debut of Nadirshah, starring Prithviraj, Jayasurya, and Indrajith as Kochi friends investigating a neighbor's murder; it grossed ₹46.40 crore worldwide.
Amar Akbar Anthony (అమర్ అక్బర్ ఆంథోనీ) (2018 film)
Amar Akbar Anthony (అమర్ అక్బర్ ఆంథోనీ) is a 2018 Telugu action-romance film directed by Sreenu Vaitla, starring Ravi Teja and Ileana D'Cruz, produced by Mythri Movie Makers with music by Thaman S; a revenge drama about dissociative identity disorder that flopped.
Amar Bendjama
Amar Bendjama, Algerian diplomat, Permanent Representative to the UN since April 2023, Security Council voice on Gaza and Western Sahara 2024-2025, unanimously endorsed next ECOSOC President for 2026-2027.