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Amaravati Quantum Valley

Amaravati Quantum Valley is India's first integrated quantum technology ecosystem, a 50-acre hub at Uddandarayunipalem in Andhra Pradesh, founded in 2026 with IBM, TCS, and L&T.

Amaravati Stupa

Amaravati Stupa (mahācetiya), ruined Buddhist monument at Amaravathi, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, built in phases from the 3rd century BCE to about 250 CE; its limestone sculptures are now chiefly in Chennai, the site museum, and the British Museum.

Amaravati stupa sculptures

The Amaravati stupa sculptures (अमरावती स्तूप) are limestone reliefs from the Great Stupa at Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh, carved between about 200 BC and AD 250.

Amarcord

Amarcord (1973) is Federico Fellini's Oscar-winning reminiscence of his Rimini childhood under fascism, written with Tonino Guerra, scored by Nino Rota, and named from Romagnol 'a m'arcord', I remember.

Amarenco

Amarenco is a Franco-Irish solar independent power producer headquartered in Cork, Ireland, founded in 2013 by Alain Desvigne and John Mullins, operating across five European countries.

Amaretto

Amaretto, Italian almond-flavored liqueur from Saronno; key brands Disaronno and Lazzaroni. Flavor comes mostly from apricot-kernel benzaldehyde, not almonds; Disaronno is 28% ABV.

Amargosa Opera House and Hotel

Amargosa Opera House and Hotel: 1923–1925 Pacific Coast Borax company complex in Death Valley Junction, California, where dancer Marta Becket painted a mural audience and performed from 1968 to 2012; now a nonprofit-run venue, hotel, and National Register site.

Amari Cooper

Amari Cooper, NFL wide receiver (2015-2024) for the Raiders, Cowboys, Browns, and Bills; Alabama star, 2015 draft fourth overall pick; 711 catches, 10,045 yards, 64 touchdowns.

Amari Williams

Amari Williams (born 2002) is a British center from Nottingham, a 2025 second-round pick (46th overall) of the Boston Celtics, the first British-born Celtic, a three-time CAA Defensive Player of the Year at Drexel, and a Kentucky transfer.

Amarillo Independent School District

Amarillo Independent School District (Amarillo ISD) is a Texas Panhandle public district in Potter and Randall Counties serving about 28,172 students across 52 schools, rated B (85/100) by TEA, led by Superintendent Dr Deidre Parish, and facing enrollment decline and school closures.

Amarillo, Texas

Amarillo, Texas: largest city of the Texas Panhandle, founded 1887 as a railroad cattle-shipping town, county seat of Potter County, helium capital, home of Pantex, population about 205,000.

Amarinder Singh (ਅਮਰਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ)

Amarinder Singh (ਅਮਰਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ), Captain Amarinder Singh, Indian politician and two-time Punjab chief minister (2002–07, 2017–21), Patiala royal family scion, ex-army officer; left Congress in 2021, founded Punjab Lok Congress, merged it with BJP in 2022.

Amarjit Chandan

Amarjit Chandan (ਅਮਰਜੀਤ ਚੰਦਨ), born 1946 in Nairobi, is a Punjabi poet, essayist, and translator who has lived in London since 1980 and bridges East and West Punjab.

Amarkalam (அமர்கலம்)

Amarkalam (அமர்கலம்) is a 1999 Tamil film directed by Saran, starring Ajith Kumar and Shalini, who later married. It was Ajith's 25th film and a major commercial success.

Amarkant

Amarkant (अमरकांत, 1925–2014) was an Indian writer of Hindi fiction, a leading post-independence realist whose novel Inhin Hathiyaron Se won the 2007 Sahitya Akademi Award.

Amarkantak (अमरकंटक)

Amarkantak (अमरकंटक), Teerthraj or king of pilgrimages, is a town in Anuppur district, Madhya Pradesh, at the Maikal Hills source of the Narmada, Sone, and Johila rivers, with Kalachuri-era temples and the Achanakmar-Amarkantak Biosphere Reserve nearby.

Amarna

Amarna (Tell el-Amarna; ancient Akhetaten) is the ruins of Akhenaten's short-lived Egyptian capital, built c. 1350 BC for the Aten cult, abandoned after his death, and famed for the Amarna Letters and boundary stelae.

Amarna art

Amarna art, also known as the Amarna style, is the unconventional Egyptian art of Akhenaten's reign, about 1353–1336 BCE, with elongated bodies and intimate royal family scenes.

Amarna diplomatic marriages

The Amarna diplomatic marriages were royal marriage alliances between Egypt, Babylonia, Mitanni, and Assyria in the 14th century BC, documented chiefly in the Amarna letters found at Tell el-Amarna.

Amarna gift exchange

The Amarna gift exchange was the reciprocal exchange of diplomatic gifts among the Near Eastern great powers in the 14th century BC, recorded in the Amarna letters.

Amarna letter EA 1

Amarna letter EA 1 is an Akkadian cuneiform clay-tablet letter sent by Amenhotep III of Egypt to Kadashman-Enlil I of Babylon, replying to complaints about disrespected messengers and withheld gifts.

Amarna letter EA 10

Amarna letter EA 10 is a clay cuneiform tablet from the Amarna archive, now in the British Museum, recalling that Kara-indaš opened diplomatic relations with an Egyptian pharaoh.

Amarna letter EA 100

Amarna letter EA 100 is a 14th-century BC clay tablet in which the city of Irqata and its elders pledge loyalty to the king of Egypt.

Amarna letter EA 12

Amarna letter EA 12 is a clay tablet in the Amarna archive, written in Akkadian cuneiform by an unnamed Babylonian princess to the pharaoh in the mid-fourteenth century BC.

Amarna letter EA 144

Amarna letter EA 144 is a mid-14th-century BC cuneiform tablet sent by the ruler of Sidon to the Egyptian court, part of the Amarna correspondence found at Tell el-Amarna.

Amarna letter EA 147

Amarna letter EA 147 is an Akkadian cuneiform letter from Abimilku, vassal ruler of Tyre, to the pharaoh, written in the mid-14th century BC and found at Tell el-Amarna in 1887.

Amarna letter EA 149

Amarna letter EA 149 is a clay tablet letter from Abimilku of Tyre to the Egyptian pharaoh, found at el-Amarna and kept in the British Museum.

Amarna letter EA 153

Amarna letter EA 153 is an Akkadian cuneiform letter from Abi-milku, ruler of Tyre, to the Egyptian king during Akhenaten's reign, one of ten Tyrian letters.

Amarna letter EA 158

Amarna letter EA 158 is a clay tablet letter from Aziru, ruler of Amurru, to the Egyptian official Tutu, written in Akkadian cuneiform in the mid-14th century BC.

Amarna letter EA 16

Amarna letter EA 16 is a clay-tablet letter in Assyrian Akkadian from king Ashur-uballit I to the Egyptian king Akhenaten, asking much gold for a new palace and asserting Assyria's equality among the great powers.