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Amu Darya (آمودریا)

Amu Darya (آمودریا), the ancient Oxus, is a ~2,500 km Central Asian river flowing from the Pamirs to the Aral Sea, shared by five states and contested by Afghanistan's Qosh Tepa Canal.

Amubarvimab

Amubarvimab (BRII-196), a fully human IgG1 antibody against the SARS-CoV-2 spike RBD, paired with romlusevimab; first COVID-19 antibody combination approved in China (December 2021), later discontinued.

Amud

Amud Cave, a Middle Paleolithic Neanderthal site in Nahal Amud, northern Israel; excavated 1961, 1964, and the 1990s; yielded Amud 1 (1,740 cc cranium) and the infant Amud 7, dated 70–53 ka.

Amuersana

Amuersana (阿睦尔撒纳), also romanized Amursana, was an Oirat prince who served the Qing as a general, rebelled in 1755, and died of smallpox in Russian exile in 1757.

Amuktamalyada

Amuktamalyada (ఆముక్తమాల్యద), also known as Vishnuchittiya, is an early sixteenth-century Telugu court poem by Krishnadevaraya, king of Vijayanagara, telling the life of the saintess Andal and setting out his principles of kingship.

Amul

Amul, brand of the Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers' Union (founded 1946, Anand, Gujarat) and marketed by GCMMF since 1973; India's largest dairy brand, model for Operation Flood, turnover over Rs 1 lakh crore in FY 2025-26.

Amul Thapar

Amul Roger Thapar (born 1969, Detroit) is a Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals judge, formerly the first South Asian American federal judge on the Eastern District of Kentucky bench, a Trump Supreme Court shortlister and textualist.

Amulet

An amulet, also called a good-luck charm, is a natural or man-made object believed to protect its carrier or bring good fortune, known from prehistoric times onward.

Amulet (comics)

Amulet, also known as Kazu Kibuishi's Amulet, is a graphic novel series by Kazu Kibuishi, published by Scholastic, following siblings Emily and Navin Hayes in a fantastical underground world.

Amulet Capital

Amulet Capital Partners, LP is a Greenwich, Connecticut private equity firm focused exclusively on healthcare, led by Ramsey Frank and Jay Rose, with about $2.7 billion under management.

Amulirafusp alfa

Amulirafusp alfa (IMM0306) is ImmuneOnco's CD47×CD20 bispecific mAb-Trap fusion protein for B-cell lymphoma and autoimmune diseases; phase 1/2 RP2D 2000 μg/kg, no DLT or CRS, phase III in follicular lymphoma begun 2026.

Amulya (ಅಮೂಲ್ಯ)

Amulya (ಅಮೂಲ್ಯ), born Moulya in 1993, Kannada film actress; child artist debut in Parva, lead debut in Cheluvina Chittara (2007), Filmfare-winning Shravani Subramanya (2013), retired after Maasthi Gudi (2017), comeback with Peekaboo.

Amun

Amun (Imen, "the hidden one"), also Amon or Amun-Re, was the ancient Egyptian creator and air god of Thebes who rose to king of the gods in the New Kingdom, centered at Karnak, with consort Mut and son Khonsu.

Amun re

Amun-Re (Amun re) is Reiner Knizia's 2003 Egyptian auction and development board game, published by Hans im Glück and Rio Grande Games, for 3-5 players over Old and New Kingdoms, reprinted in 2023 with expansions.

Amun Temple (Naqa)

The Temple of Amun at Naqa is a large Meroitic temple in the ruined city of Naqa, Sudan, about 100 meters long and dedicated to the god Amun.

Amun-her-khepeshef (son of Ramesses II)

Amun-her-khepeshef, also known as Amun-her-khepsef, was the firstborn son of Pharaoh Ramesses II, who served as an army general and overseer of the chariotry and was buried in tomb KV5 in the Valley of the Kings.

Amun-her-khepeshef (son of Ramesses III)

Amun-her-khepeshef, also written Amenherkhepshef, was a prince of Egypt's 20th Dynasty, a son of Ramesses III, buried in tomb QV55 in the Valley of the Queens.

Amund Ringnes Island

Amund Ringnes Island is an uninhabited island in Nunavut, Canada, covering 5,255 km² in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, discovered in 1901 during Otto Sverdrup's second Fram expedition.

Amundi

Amundi is a French asset management company created in 2009 and majority-owned by Crédit Agricole, with €2.38 trillion in assets under management at end-2025, one of Europe's largest.

Amundsen (lunar crater)

Amundsen is a 103.39-km lunar impact crater at 84.44°S, 83.07°E, about 170 km from the Moon's south pole in the South Pole-Aitken basin, named for Roald Amundsen; its flat floor, PSRs, and hydrogen-rich cold traps make it a leading volatile-exploration site.

Amundsen Basin

Amundsen Basin: deep Arctic Ocean basin (~4,400 m) of the Eurasian Basin, between the Lomonosov and Gakkel ridges, named for Roald Amundsen; fresher Transpolar Drift surface water, NP-28 channel, MOSAiC drift start site.

Amundsen Gulf

Amundsen Gulf: Arctic embayment, 400 km long, between Banks Island and Canada's mainland coast, westernmost Northwest Passage entrance; named for Roald Amundsen, entered 1905; Cape Bathurst polynya.

Amundsen Sea

Amundsen Sea (Amundsenhavet), a marginal sea of the Southern Ocean off Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica, named in 1929 for Roald Amundsen; warm Circumpolar Deep Water melts Thwaites and Pine Island ice shelves, driving Antarctic sea-level rise.

Amundsen Sea Low

The Amundsen Sea Low (ASL) is a quasi-stationary climatological low-pressure center off West Antarctica, the deepest of three lows around Antarctica and a key control on the region's climate.

Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station

The Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station is a United States Antarctic research station standing at the geographic South Pole, continuously occupied since 1956 and home to the IceCube neutrino detector.

Amundsen's South Pole expedition

Amundsen's South Pole expedition (Fram expedition, 1910–1912): Roald Amundsen, Bjaaland, Hanssen, Hassel, and Wisting reached the geographic South Pole on 14 December 1911 from Framheim, beating Scott by about a month.

Amunet

Amunet (Amaunet, Jmn.t), ancient Egyptian goddess, feminine counterpart of Amun in the Hermopolitan Ogdoad and a Theban consort of Amun; wears the Red Crown, later superseded by Mut, fused with Neith, worshipped into the Ptolemaic period.

Amunix

Amunix was a South San Francisco biotechnology company, founded in 2006, that developed masked T-cell engagers for solid tumors and was acquired by Sanofi in 2022.

Amunix Pharmaceuticals

Amunix Pharmaceuticals was an immuno-oncology biotechnology company in South San Francisco, California, founded in 2006, that developed masked, protease-activated T-cell engagers and cytokines for solid tumors.

Amur (river, China)

The Amur (Heilong Jiang) is a 2,824 km Northeast Asian river formed by the Argun and Shilka confluence, flowing to the Sea of Okhotsk and forming the Russia-China border for 1,880 km, with a basin shared by Russia, China, and Mongolia.