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Amazonian Guard
The Amazonian Guard, officially the Revolutionary Nuns, was an all-female elite bodyguard unit that protected Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's head of state, from the early 1980s until 2011.
Amazonis Mensa
Amazonis Mensa is a large flat-topped mesa on Mars, more than 400 kilometers long, near the equator at the transition from the volcanic Tharsis region to the lowlands of Amazonis Planitia.
Amazonis Sulci
Amazonis Sulci: IAU-approved sulcus (subparallel furrows and ridges) on Mars in the Memnonia quadrangle, 250.59 km across, centered at 2.15S, 216.29E; named 1985 from the classical albedo feature, home of the Amazons.
Amazonite
Amazonite, also called amazon stone, is a green to blue-green gem variety of potassium feldspar, named in 1847 for an area near the Amazon River, though no deposits exist there.
Amazons (DC Comics)
Amazons (DC Comics): the fictional warrior women of Themyscira, also called Paradise Island, created by William Moulton Marston and Harry Peter in All-Star Comics #8 (1941); ruled by Queen Hippolyta, mother of Wonder Woman.
Amazons (game)
Amazons, or Game of the Amazons, is a 1988 abstract board game by Walter Zamkauskas: four queen-moving amazons per side on a 10×10 board, each move burning a square; last player able to move wins.
Amazons (Ἀμαζόνες)
Amazons (Ἀμαζόνες, Amazones) are the fierce female warriors of Greek myth, enemies of Heracles, Theseus, and Achilles. The legend may reflect real Scythian horsewomen-archers; the a-mazos breast etymology is folk etymology.
Amazwi South African Museum of Literature
Amazwi South African Museum of Literature is a national museum in Makhanda, South Africa, collecting literature in all official languages; it was renamed from the National English Literary Museum in 2019.
Amb a 3
Amb a 3 (formerly Ra3) is a minor 11 kDa plastocyanin-family glycoprotein allergen of short ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) pollen, with IgE sensitization in roughly 30–51% of ragweed hay fever patients; two natural variants, Ra3I and Ra3II, exist.
Amba (Mahabharata)
Amba (अंबा) is a princess of Kashi in the Sanskrit epic the Mahabharata, abducted by Bhishma and reborn as the warrior Shikhandi to cause his fall at Kurukshetra.
Amba Farit
Amba Farit (also Monte Amba Farit, Mount Amba Ferit) is a mountain in the Amhara Region, Ethiopia, near Koso Beret and T'ire Neza. GeoNames lists 3,824 m at 10.93333 N, 38.96667 E; other sources give 3,975 to 4,270 m.
Amba Yahaluwo
Amba Yahaluwo (අඹ යහළුවෝ), meaning "The Best of Friends," is a Sinhala novel by T. B. Ilangaratne, published in Colombo in 1957, about two boys kept apart by caste.
Ambadeva
Ambadeva (అంబదేవ) was a Kayastha chief who ruled the southern Deccan from 1272 to 1305, first as a Kakatiya subordinate and later as a rebel against Prataparudra.
Ambahan
Ambahan is a traditional poetic form of the Hanunuo and Buhid Mangyan peoples of Mindoro, Philippines, with seven-syllable lines chanted or recited and traditionally carved on bamboo.
Ambaji (અંબાજી)
Ambaji (અંબાજી), also Arasuri Ambaji, is a pilgrimage town in Banaskantha district, Gujarat, on the Rajasthan border, home to a major Shakti Peetha temple where the Visa Yantra, not an idol, is worshipped.
Ambaji Mata Temple
Ambaji Mata Temple is a major Shakti Peetha in Banaskantha district, Gujarat, near the Rajasthan border, where the goddess is worshipped as the Shree Visa Yantra rather than an idol.
Ambajipeta Marriage Band (అంబాజీపేట మ్యారేజ్ బ్యాండ్)
Ambajipeta Marriage Band (అంబాజీపేట మ్యారేజ్ బ్యాండ్) is a 2024 Telugu comedy-drama directed by debutant Dushyanth Katikaneni, starring Suhas, Shivani Nagaram, and Saranya Pradeep; released 2 February 2024, streaming on Aha from 1 March 2024.
Ambala (अंबाला)
Ambala (अंबाला), twin city in Haryana, India: Ambala City and Ambala Cantonment about 3 km apart. Cantonment founded 1843; district population 1,128,350 (2011); known for its cloth market, scientific-instruments industry, and Army and Air Force presence.
Ambalamani
Ambalamani (അമ്പലമണി, "temple bell") is a 1981 Malayalam poetry collection by Sugathakumari, published by D.C. Books, whose title poem is a staple of Kerala school syllabi and which won the Odakkuzhal, Asan, and Vayalar awards.
Ambalamukkile Visheshangal (അമ്പലമുക്കിലെ വിശേഷങ്ങൾ)
Ambalamukkile Visheshangal (അമ്പലമുക്കിലെ വിശേഷങ്ങൾ) is a 2025 Malayalam comedy directed by Jayaram Kailas, starring Gokul Suresh as jobless Pappu; released 12 December 2025, produced by Chand Creations.
Ambalema
Ambalema is a municipality and river port in northern Tolima, Colombia, on the Magdalena River, founded in 1627 and known for its 19th-century tobacco boom.
Amban (High Commissioner) in Tibet
The Amban in Tibet (驻藏大臣) was the Qing dynasty's high commissioner resident in Lhasa, established in 1728 and ranked, at its 1793 peak, equal to the Dalai Lama.
Amban Beach
Amban Beach (Pantai Amban), Manokwari, West Papua: a one-kilometer black-sand Pacific beach with two-meter waves, a PSOI/WSL-licensed international surfing venue hosting the Manokwari Pro QS 1000, swimmable only April to September.
AmBank Group
AmBank Group is a Malaysian banking and financial services group, the country's sixth-largest by assets, founded in 1975 and known for its central role in the 1MDB scandal, settled for RM2.83 billion in 2021.
Ambar-ona Corona
Ambar-ona Corona is a corona, a large quasi-circular volcano-tectonic feature about 550 km across, centered at 70 degrees south latitude on Venus and named after an Uzbek fertility goddess.
Ambaran Mound
Ambaran Mound (Pambaran/Pambarwan), early Buddhist stupa and monastery site near Akhnoor on the Chenab, Jammu; ASI excavations 1999-2001 revealed a relic casket, terracotta heads, and four occupation periods.
Ambareesh (ಅಂಬರೀಶ್)
Ambareesh (ಅಂಬರೀಶ್), born Malavalli Huchche Gowda Amarnath, was a Kannada film actor and politician, the "Rebel Star" of Mandya, who debuted in Naagarahaavu (1972), starred in Antha, served three Lok Sabha terms, and died in 2018.
Ambaris
Ambaris, also known as Ambaris of Bit-Purutash, was a king of Tabal in central Anatolia, placed on his throne by Sargon II and deported to Assyria after rebelling in 713 BC.
Ambarish Mitra
Ambarish Mitra (born 1977) is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded and led Blippar, the British augmented reality unicorn that collapsed into administration in December 2018.
Ambarish Pandey
Ambarish Pandey is an American cardiologist and physician-scientist at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, specializing in preventive cardiology and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.