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American Mary
American Mary (2012) is a Canadian body-horror film by twin directors Jen and Sylvia Soska, starring Katharine Isabelle as med student Mary Mason, who funds her studies through underground body-modification surgery and revenge on her rapist professor.
American Mathematics Competitions
The American Mathematics Competitions (AMC) are secondary-school math contests administered by the Mathematical Association of America since 1950, leading through the AIME to the USA Mathematical Olympiad and the International Mathematical Olympiad team.
American McGee
American McGee (full name American James McGee, born 1972) is an American video game designer, creator of American McGee's Alice (2000) and Alice: Madness Returns (2011).
American McGee's Alice
American McGee's Alice (2000) is a third-person psychological horror action game by Rogue Entertainment and EA, built on id Tech 3, reimagining Wonderland after Alice's family dies in a fire; Metascore 85, over 1.5 million sold, sequel Alice: Madness Returns.
American Me
American Me (1992) is Edward James Olmos's directorial debut for Universal, a crime drama about Montoya Santana, a Mexican Mafia leader in Folsom Prison, loosely based on Rodolfo Cadena.
American Medical Association
American Medical Association (AMA), founded 1847 by Nathan S. Davis, largest U.S. physician association with 200,000+ members. Owns CPT billing codes, convenes the RUC for Medicare payments, publishes JAMA, and sets policy through its House of Delegates.
American Megatrends
American Megatrends is an American firmware company in Duluth, Georgia, whose Aptio BIOS and UEFI firmware boots a large share of the world's PCs, and whose MegaRAC supplies server BMC firmware.
American Metal Market
American Metal Market (AMM) is a US metals price reporting service and trade publication strongest in steel and ferrous scrap, whose assessments, especially Chicago scrap, serve as contract benchmarks.
American Meteorological Society
The American Meteorological Society (AMS) is a professional society founded in Boston in 1919 by Charles Franklin Brooks, publishing 12 journals and certifying weather broadcasters and consultants.
American middle class
The American middle class is the broad group of US households between the poor and the affluent; its share fell from 61% in 1971 to 51% in 2023.
American MILF
American MILF is a 2024 five-part adult comedy mockumentary feature from MILFY, Vixen Media Group's imprint, written and directed by Kayden Kross, starring Maitland Ward, Brandi Love, Christy Canyon, Phoenix Marie, and Serenity Cox, released on Vixen Plus and a multi-award winner in 2025.
American militia movement
The American militia movement, also known as the constitutional militia movement, consists of armed anti-government paramilitary groups in the United States that arose in the early 1990s.
American Mineralogist
American Mineralogist, subtitled Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials, is the flagship peer-reviewed mineralogy journal of the Mineralogical Society of America, published since 1916 and covering crystallography, geochemistry, and petrology.
American mink
American mink (Neogale vison, formerly Neovison/Mustela vison): semiaquatic North American mustelid, 800-1,500 g males, farmed for fur since the 1870s, invasive in Europe, H5N1 and SARS-CoV-2 host, EU farming ban from July 2027.
American Morse code
American Morse code, also called Railroad Morse, is the original Morse code created by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail in the 1830s and 1840s for American telegraph lines.
American Motors Corporation
American Motors Corporation (AMC) was an American automaker formed in 1954 by the merger of Hudson and Nash-Kelvinator, known for the Rambler, Gremlin, Pacer, and Jeep before Chrysler bought it in 1987.
American Movie
American Movie is a 1999 documentary by Chris Smith, produced by Sarah Price, following Mark Borchardt making the horror short Coven in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin; it won the 1999 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Documentary and was distributed by Sony Pictures Classics.
American muralism
American muralism is the public wall painting movement that flourished in the United States from the late 1920s through the 1940s, shaped by Mexican muralism.
American Murder: Gabby Petito
American Murder: Gabby Petito is a three-part Netflix true crime docuseries, premiered February 17, 2025, directed by Julia Willoughby Nason and Michael Gasparro, about the 2021 killing of vlogger Gabby Petito by Brian Laundrie.
American Murder: The Family Next Door
American Murder: The Family Next Door is a 2020 American true-crime documentary directed by Jenny Popplewell and released on Netflix, about the 2018 Watts family murders.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History (AMNH): New York City natural history museum founded in 1869, holding 30+ million specimens, about 170 scientists, a Ph.D.-granting graduate school, and the 2023 Gilder Center.
American Music Award for Artist of the Year
American Music Award for Artist of the Year: top fan-voted prize of the AMAs, created by Dick Clark and first awarded 1974. BTS won in 2021 and 2026; Taylor Swift holds the most career AMAs.
American Music Award for Favorite Latin Artist
The American Music Award for Favorite Latin Artist was an annual fan-voted American Music Awards prize, first presented in 1998 to Julio Iglesias and later retitled Best.
American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Artist
The American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Artist was the collective name for the AMAs' pop/rock artist honors, split into male, female, and band/duo/group categories, first awarded in 1974.
American Music Award for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist
The American Music Award for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist is a fan-voted AMA category, first presented in 1989 and since 2025 split into separate male and female hip-hop artist awards.
American Music Award for New Artist of the Year
The American Music Award for New Artist of the Year is a fan-voted AMA honor for breakout acts; KATSEYE won in 2026 and Gracie Abrams in 2025, with nominees set by streaming, sales, airplay, and tour metrics.
American Music Award of Merit
American Music Award of Merit: special career honor of the American Music Awards, initiated 1974, given for exceptional contributions to the music industry; recipients run from Bing Crosby (1974) to Sting (2016), with gaps after 2004 and 2008.
American Music Awards
American Music Awards (AMAs): annual US music awards created by Dick Clark in 1973, first awarded 1974; winners decided entirely by fan voting, nominees from Billboard/Luminate engagement data; distinct from Grammys and Billboard Music Awards.
American Music Awards of 2010
The American Music Awards of 2010, held November 21 in Los Angeles, saw 16-year-old Justin Bieber win all four of his nominations, including Artist of the Year.
American Music Awards of 2013
The American Music Awards of 2013 were held on November 24, 2013, in Los Angeles, where Taylor Swift won Artist of the Year for a record third time.