Amazon

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Amazon most often refers to:

  • Amazon River, in South America
  • Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin
  • Amazon (company), an American multinational technology company
  • Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek mythology

Amazon or Amazone may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

  • Amazon (Amalgam Comics)
  • Amazon, an alias of the Marvel supervillain Man-Killer
  • Amazons (DC Comics), a group of superhuman characters
  • The Amazon, a Diablo II character
  • The Amazon, a Pro Wrestling character
  • Amazon (Dragon's Crown), a character from the Dragon's Crown game
  • Kamen Rider Amazon, title character in the fourth installment of the Kamen Rider series

Film and television

  • The Amazons (1917 film), an American silent tragedy film
  • The Amazon (film), a 1921 German silent film
  • War Goddess, also known as The Amazons, a 1973 Italian adventure fantasy drama
  • Amazons (1984 film), an American thriller
  • Amazons (1986 film), an Argentine adventure fantasy
  • Amazon (1990 film), a 1990 drama
  • Amazon (1997 film), a short documentary
  • Amazon (1999 TV series), a Canadian drama
  • Amazon (2000 film), a 2000 French film
  • Amazon (2008 TV series), a British documentary series

Gaming

  • Amazon (chess), a fairy chess piece
  • Amazons (solitaire), a card game
  • Amazon (video game), a 1984 interactive fiction graphic adventure game
  • Amazon: Guardians of Eden, a 1991 video game
  • Game of the Amazons, a board game

Literature

  • Amazons (novel), a 1980 novel co-written by Don DeLillo, published under the pseudonym Cleo Birdwell
  • Amazons!, a fantasy anthology edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
  • Swallows and Amazons series, twelve children's novels by Arthur Ransome
  • The Amazon (novella), by Nikolai Leskov
  • The Amazons (play), by Arthur Wing Pinero

Music

  • The Amazons (band), a British indie band from Reading, Berkshire

Businesses and organizations

  • Amazon Bookstore Cooperative, a feminist bookstore (1970–2012)
  • Amazonen-Werke, a German agricultural machinery manufacturer (founded 1883)
  • Café Amazon, Thai coffee chain
  • Los Angeles Amazons, an American football team (2002–2012)
  • Takembeng, or les Amazones des SDF, a 1990s women's social movement in Cameroon

Military units

  • Amazonian Guard, or "the Amazons", a bodyguard unit of Muammar Gaddafi
  • Amazons Company, a Greek ceremonial female battalion
  • Dahomey Amazons, a Fon regiment

People

  • Amazon Eve (born 1979), American model, fitness trainer, and actress
  • Lesa Lewis (born 1967), American professional bodybuilder nicknamed "Amazon"

Places

  • Amazon Basin (sedimentary basin), a sedimentary basin at the middle and lower course of the river
  • Amazon basin, the part of South America drained by the river and its tributaries
  • Amazon Reef, at the mouth of the Amazon basin
  • 1042 Amazone, an asteroid
  • Amazon Creek, a stream in Oregon, US

Transportation

Land vehicles

Ships

  • Amazon (1780 ship), launched in France in 1775 under another name
  • Amazon (brigitane), a Canadian brigantine launched 1861, later more famously named Mary Celeste
  • Amazon (yacht), a British screw schooner built 1885
  • Amazon-class frigate, four classes of frigate of the British Royal Navy
  • Amazon-class sloop, of the British Royal Navy
  • French submarine Amazone (1916), an Armide-class diesel-electric attack submarine
  • HMS Amazon, nine ships of the Royal Navy
  • RMS Amazon, two ships of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
  • SMS Amazone (1843), a 3-masted sail corvette of the Prussian Navy
  • SMS Amazone, a 1900 2,700 ton Gazelle-class light cruiser
  • USS Amazon (1861), a US Navy bark

Other uses

  • Amazon (color), a variant of jungle green

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Amazon
  • All pages with titles containing Amazon
  • Amason (disambiguation)
  • Amazonas (disambiguation)
  • Amazonia (disambiguation)
  • Amazonian (disambiguation)
  • Amyzon (disambiguation)
  • Amazonka, a 2008 album by Ruslana
  • Amazon parrot, a bird genus
  • Amazonis Planitia, on Mars
  • Amazonsaurus, a dinosaur genus
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