Amazon
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Amazon or Amazons may refer to:
- Amazons, members of a legendary nation of female warriors in Greek mythology
- more generally, any "woman warrior"
- History of women in the military
- Dahomey Amazons, an all-female regiment of the African kingdom of Dahomey
- Amazon feminism, dedicated to the image of the female hero in fiction and in fact
- Amazon River, the largest river in the world by volume
- Amazon Rainforest, a moist broadleaf forest in the Amazon Basin of South America
- Amazon Basin, the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries
- Amazon parrots, a large genuses of parrot from the American, popular in aviatation
- brands and titles
companies:
- Amazon.com, an American electronic commerce company based in Seattle, Washington, and its separate websites in seven other countries
- Amazon Bookstore Cooperative, an "independent feminist bookstore" in Minneapolis, Minnesota
literature:
- Amazons (comics), legendary warrior women from the DC Comics universe associated with the superheroine Wonder Woman
- Swallows and Amazons (series), a series by Arthur Ransome about two girl sailors and would-be pirates
- Amazon (comics), also known as Man-Killer, a villain in the Marvel Comics universe
- The Amazon (book), a book by Frederick Smith, 3rd Earl of Birkenhead
music:
- Amazon (band), a Brazilian heavy metal band formed in 2002
- Amazon (Ruslana song), song by the winner of the 2004 Eurovision , Ruslana
television and film:
- Amazons (1984 film), a TV-Movie starring Tamara Dobson
- Amazons (1986 film), a 1986 Argentine adventure science fiction fantasy epic
- Amazon (TV series), a 1999 TV series adaptation of a Peter Benchley story
- Amazon Women on the Moon, a 1987 film written by comedy duo Michael Barrie and Jim Mulholland
- Amazon Women in the Mood, an episode from the 3rd season of Futurama.
- Kamen Rider Amazon, a japanese television show.
vehicles:
- HMS Amazon, the name of four ships of the British Royal Navy
- Amazon, an historic ship, built in 1885 as a screw schooner yacht
- Volvo Amazon, a car model from Volvo produced from 1956-1970
- Amazon, a GWR Iron Duke Class steam locomotive
- Amazon (automobile), an interwar British car
other:
- Amazon (Fairy chess piece), a fairy chess piece which is used in some variants of chess
- Game of the Amazons, a board game
- Military - Libya's Col. Kadaffi's Personal Bodyguards called "The Amazonian Guard". See Women in military history, Re.: Countries, Re.: Libya. Libya is the only Islamic Nation that has women in the military.
- 1984 Adventure game created by Michael Crichton.
[edit] See also
- Amazonas (disambiguation)
- Amazon Fund