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Amber Lancaster
Amber Leigh Lancaster (born 1980, Tacoma, Washington) is an American model, actress, and interior designer, a Price Is Right model since 2008 and Jenny Swanson on MTV's The Hard Times of RJ Berger; distinct from the Chicago chef of the same name.
Amber Rose
Amber Rose (Amber Levonchuck), Philadelphia-born model, TV personality, and activist; rose to fame via 2008 'Put On' video, led SlutWalk anti-slut-shaming campaign, wrote How to Be a Bad Bitch, and spoke for Trump at the 2024 RNC.
Amber Smith
Amber Smith names several Americans: model-actress Amber Lee Smith (born 1971, Tampa), SI Swimsuit 1993-94, Esquire's first Vargas Girl, Celebrity Rehab; plus Army pilot-commentator Amber Lane Smith and YA novelist Amber Smith.
Amber Valletta
Amber Valletta, a member of the Cherokee Nation, is an American supermodel and environmental advocate who rose to prominence in the 1990s.
Amêijoas à Bulhão Pato
Amêijoas à Bulhão Pato is a Portuguese clam dish of clams opened in olive oil with garlic, coriander, and lemon, named for poet Raimundo António de Bulhão Pato; white wine is common but debated, and it ranked 18th in Taste Atlas's 2025 world ranking.
Amelia Vega
Amelia Vega (Amelia Vega Polanco), Dominican model and singer born 1984, won Miss Universe 2003 in Panama City, the first and only Dominican titleholder, at 18 the youngest winner since 1994; later married Al Horford and released the album Agua Dulce.
Amer Sports
Amer Sports: global sports and outdoor brand group (Arc'teryx, Salomon, Wilson, Atomic, Peak Performance). Founded 1950 in Finland as a tobacco firm; ANTA-led consortium buyout 2019; NYSE-listed since February 1, 2024; 2025 revenue $6.6 billion, up 27%.
America's Test Kitchen
America's Test Kitchen (ATK), founded 1992 in Boston, is a culinary media company behind Cook's Illustrated, Cook's Country, and the PBS show, known for recipes tested dozens of times by staff and 30,000 volunteer home testers.
American Apparel
American Apparel is an American basics clothing brand founded by Dov Charney, famous for Los Angeles sweatshop-free manufacturing and provocative ads; bankrupt in 2015 and 2016, it is now owned by Gildan Activewear.
American cheese
American cheese is a pasteurized process cheese blending cheddar or colby with emulsifying salts such as sodium citrate, invented in Switzerland in 1911 and commercialized by J. L. Kraft in 1916; known for smooth melting, wrapped slices, and high sodium.
American Chinese cuisine
American Chinese cuisine is a Chinese immigrant cooking tradition developed in the United States, rooted in Cantonese food and shaped by exclusion-era immigration law, the 1915 restaurant visa loophole, and the 1965 Immigration Act; distinct from China's regional cuisines, with over 45,000 restaurants and a growing fine-dining wing.
American cuisine
American cuisine: US cooking shaped by indigenous crops, enslaved Africans, immigrant waves, and industrial processing; a Creole mix with regional traditions like Cajun, Soul food, Tex-Mex, and New England.
American Eagle Outfitters
American Eagle Outfitters is an American specialty apparel retailer, founded in 1977 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, that sells casual clothing and denim under its American Eagle and Aerie brands.
American Girl
American Girl is an American 18-inch doll and book brand founded in 1986 by Pleasant T. Rowland as Pleasant Company, known for historical characters like Kirsten, Samantha, and Molly, and owned by Mattel since 1998.
American Gold Eagle
American Gold Eagle (AGE): official US Mint 22-karat gold bullion coin since 1986, authorized by the 1985 Gold Bullion Coin Act and Liberty Coin Act, in 1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/10 oz sizes with $50 to $5 face values and a government purity guarantee.
American Hotel and Lodging Association
American Hotel and Lodging Association (AHLA, formerly AH&LA): the sole national trade association of the U.S. lodging industry, based in Washington, D.C., with 32,000+ member properties covering about 80% of franchised U.S. hotels; advocates on labor, visas, franchising, and tax policy.
American lean
The American lean is a posture stereotype: US travelers lean on walls or shift weight to one leg, said to mark them abroad. Attributed to former CIA Chief of Disguise Jonna Mendez; not scientifically validated; unrelated to lean manufacturing or lean the drug.
American Silver Eagle
American Silver Eagle, the official one-ounce silver bullion dollar of the United States Mint, first struck October 29, 1986 under the Liberty Coin Act; 99.9% silver, Weinman Walking Liberty obverse, bullion, proof, and burnished finishes.
American Textile History Museum
American Textile History Museum (ATHM), also Merrimack Valley Textile Museum, was a Lowell, Massachusetts museum of American textile industry history, founded 1960, closed 2016, collections dispersed to Cornell and others.
American Viticultural Area
American Viticultural Area (AVA): a TTB-designated delimited US grape-growing region under 27 CFR part 9, first established as Augusta, Missouri in 1980; 280 AVAs exist, requiring 85% local grapes for labeling, regulating geography only.
American whiskey
American whiskey: federally regulated U.S. grain spirits (bourbon, rye, Tennessee, wheat, malt, corn, and American single malt) distilled from grain, aged in oak, bottled at 80 proof minimum; bourbon requires 51% corn and new charred oak.
Americana
Americana: a noun for objects and traditions typical of the United States, and a roots-music genre institutionalized by the Americana Music Association (1999) and its Nashville AMERICANAFEST; also the name of Ohio's largest single-day Fourth of July festival in Centerville.
Ami James (עמי ג'יימס)
Ami James (עמי ג'יימס), born 1972, is an Israeli-born tattoo artist, co-owner of Love Hate Tattoos in Miami Beach, star of TLC's Miami Ink and NY Ink, and co-founder of Tattoodo.
Amigurumi (編みぐるみ)
Amigurumi (あみぐるみ, 編み包み) is the Japanese craft of small knitted or crocheted stuffed yarn figures, usually crocheted in spiral single-crochet rounds from a magic ring; popular in 1970s Japan, the English word dates to 2006.
Amontillado
Amontillado, an aged dry sherry style from the Jerez-Xérès-Sherry and Montilla-Moriles PDOs, matures first under flor yeast and then oxidatively; 16–22% alcohol, nutty, amber, under 4 g/L sugar.
Ampallang
Ampallang: a horizontal genital piercing through the glans penis, above or through the urethra; traditionally from Borneo and the Philippines (Kayan, palang), revived in the West in the 1970s; heals in months and requires an experienced piercer.
Ampelography
Ampelography, from Greek ampelos and graphein, is the identification and classification of grapevine varieties by leaf, shoot, and bunch morphology, standardized by OIV descriptors and extended since the 1990s by DNA markers.
Amphora
Amphora (Greek ἀμφορεύς): two-handled ancient Mediterranean ceramic jar for storing and transporting wine, oil, and other goods; also a capacity measure (Roman amphora two-thirds of the Greek), used from the Neolithic to after the Middle Ages.
Amrut (अमृत) (whisky)
Amrut (अमृत) is an Indian single malt whisky from Amrut Distilleries of Bengaluru, founded in 1948 and the first Indian single malt, launched in Glasgow in 2004; Amrut Fusion ranked third-best whisky in the world in Jim Murray's 2010 Whisky Bible.
Amstel Brewery
Amstel Brewery (Beiersch Bierbrouwerij De Amstel), founded 1870 in Amsterdam by De Pesters, Van Marwijk Kooy, and Uhlenbroek, brewed Bavarian-style lager; merged into Heineken 1968, Amsterdam plant closed 1983, brand continues worldwide.