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Amateur sports
Amateur sports: unpaid sport participation, from grassroots clubs to the former Olympic amateur rule. Covers WHO health benefits (150 min/week), participation data, Olympic amateurism history, and NIL-era college sports.
Amateur wrestling
Amateur wrestling, also called Olympic wrestling, is a mat combat sport governed by United World Wrestling in Greco-Roman, freestyle, and women's styles; contested since the ancient Games of 708 BC and at every modern Olympics except 1900.
Amathole District Municipality
Amathole District Municipality (code DC12) is a district municipality in South Africa's Eastern Cape that governs water and sanitation for six local municipalities, with headquarters in East London.
Amathous
Amathous, also written Amathus, was an ancient Cypriot city-kingdom on the island's southern coast near Limassol, known for its sanctuary of Aphrodite Kypria and abandoned after Arab attacks in 649.
Amato J. Giaccia
Amato J. Giaccia is a radiation and cancer biologist, emeritus professor at Stanford School of Medicine and Director of the Oxford Institute of Radiation Oncology.
Amatol
Amatol is a binary explosive mixture of ammonium nitrate and TNT developed in Britain during the 1915 Shell Crisis to stretch scarce TNT for shell and bomb fillings.
Amatolo - Winterberg Highlands
Amatolo-Winterberg Highlands, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 577, montane freshwaters in South Africa's Eastern Cape; headwaters of Buffalo, Great Fish, Keiskamma, Swart Kei; endemic endangered Sandelia bainsii and critically endangered Barbus trevelyani.
Amatoxin
Amatoxins, chiefly α-amanitin from Amanita phalloides (death cap), are bicyclic octapeptide mushroom toxins that inhibit RNA polymerase II, causing delayed liver failure; 90–95% of fatal mushroom poisonings.
Amatoxin poisoning
Amatoxin poisoning is the clinical syndrome caused by eating mushrooms containing amatoxins, found in Amanita, Galerina, and Lepiota species, which cause delayed gastrointestinal illness, hepatic necrosis, and over 90% of mushroom-poisoning deaths worldwide.
Amatriciana sauce
Amatriciana (sugo all'amatriciana) is an Italian pasta sauce from Amatrice, Lazio, made of guanciale, tomato, and Pecorino Romano; the tomato version of gricia, EU-registered TSG since 2020.
Amaurobiidae
Amaurobiidae (Thorell, 1869) is a spider family of the marronoid clade, 27 genera and 210 species, including Amaurobius, Callobius, and Pimus; cribellate lace weavers building irregular meshed webs, repeatedly reclassified by phylogenomic studies.
Amauropelta
Amauropelta Kunze, marsh fern genus of Thelypteridaceae with about 215 species, mostly Neotropical; formerly a subgenus of Thelypteris, restored to genus rank after 2015 molecular phylogenetic work.
Amauropelta noveboracensis
Amauropelta noveboracensis, New York fern (thélyptère de New York), a deciduous Thelypteridaceae fern of eastern North America and the Russian Far East; fronds taper at both ends, 2n=54, moved from Thelypteris to Amauropelta in 2021.
Amaurosis fugax
Amaurosis fugax (transient monocular blindness) is brief, painless one-eye vision loss from retinal ischemia, usually carotid emboli; carries about half the stroke risk of cerebral TIA.
Amaury Guichon
Amaury Guichon (born 1991) is a French-Swiss pastry chef and chocolatier in Las Vegas, known for fully edible dark-chocolate sculptures, The Pastry Academy, the Netflix series School of Chocolate, and millions of social media followers.
Amaury Leveaux
Amaury Leveaux, French sprint swimmer (born 1985, Delle), Mulhouse ON; Olympic 4x100 m freestyle relay gold London 2012, three silvers; short course world records 20.48, 44.94, 22.18 set at Rijeka 2008.
Amaury Nolasco
Amaury Nolasco (Amaury Nolasco Garrido), Puerto Rican actor and producer (born 1970), best known as Fernando Sucre on Prison Break (2005–2017) and for Transformers, 2 Fast 2 Furious, and A Good Day to Die Hard; later Hightown.
Amaury Scognamillo Surfboards
Amaury Scognamillo Surfboards is a surfboard repair and restoration shop at 67-106 Kealohanui St, Waialua, Hawaii, run by Amaury Scognamillo, formerly owner of the Topanga Surf House in Topanga Canyon, California.
Amauta
Amauta was a Peruvian cultural and political magazine founded and directed by José Carlos Mariátegui in Lima, published in 32 issues from 1926 to 1930.
Amavasya
Amavasya (अमावस्या), also called Amavasai, is the new-moon day of the Hindu calendar, when Sun and Moon are in conjunction; it is the principal day for ancestor worship through tarpan offerings.
Amavatari rasa
Amavatari rasa (आमवातारी रस), also Amavatari Ras, is a mercury-containing Kharaliya herbo-mineral Ayurvedic formulation from Bhaishajya Ratnavalli used for Amavata (rheumatoid arthritis); kajjali, Triphala, Chitraka, Guggulu, castor oil; 5-year shelf life.
Amavatura
Amavatura ("Ambrosial Water") is a Sinhala devotional biography of the Buddha by Gurulugomi, who lived in Sri Lanka in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; it is considered the first extant Sinhala prose narrative.
Amaya Espinal
Amaya "Papaya" Espinal, Dominican American nurse from New York City, won Love Island USA Season 7 in July 2025 with Bryan Arenales, the first Latino winning couple; later Beyond the Villa, breakup, and rap music plans.
Amazan
Amazan, stage name of José Silva, is a Brazilian forró singer and accordion maker from Paraíba whose solo career began with the LP Naturalmente in 1989.
amazarashi
amazarashi (あまざらし) is a Japanese rock band centered on singer and lyricist Hiromu Akita, based in Aomori Prefecture and known for anime themes including My Hero Academia and NieR:Automata.
Amaze Entertainment
Amaze Entertainment, formerly KnowWonder, was an American game developer in Kirkland, Washington (1996–late 2000s), with studios Griptonite, KnowWonder, Adrenium, and The Fizz Factor; it made licensed handheld games and joined Foundation 9 in 2006.
Amaziah of Judah
Amaziah of Judah was a king of Judah, son of Joash, who defeated the Edomites, lost a war against Israel, and was assassinated at Lachish.
Amazigh literature
Amazigh literature is the body of literature in the Amazigh (Berber) languages of North Africa, oral for most of its history and written in Morocco since the 1960s.
Amazing Grace
"Amazing Grace", originally titled "Faith's Review and Expectation", is a Christian hymn written by John Newton, a former slave trader, and first published in 1779.
Amazing Grace (2006 film)
Amazing Grace (2006 film) is a historical drama directed by Michael Apted, starring Ioan Gruffudd as William Wilberforce during his campaign to end the slave trade.