Amazon

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Amazon maist commonly refers tae:

  • The Amazon River in Sooth Americae, the lairgest watter in the warld bi vollum
  • The Amazon rainforest, kent as Amazonia forby, the liargest mochie braidleaf forest in the Amazon Basin
  • The Amazons, a legendar naition o female warriors in Greek meethology, frae whilk the name is derived
  • Amazon.com, an American online merchan company based in Seattle, Washington

Amazon can forby refer tae:

Geography[eedit | eedit soorce]

  • The Amazon Basin, the pairt o Sooth Americae drained bi the Amazon River an its tributaries
  • Amazon Creek, a tributar o the Lang Tom River, Eugene, Oregon, Unitit States

Fowk[eedit | eedit soorce]

Amazon is an eponym, derived frae the legend, for ony wumman kemp or athlete, includin:

  • Amazon, nom de guerre o a Roman gladiatrix at Halicarnassus
  • The Dahomey Amazons, an aw-female regiment o the Kinrick o Dahomey
  • Amazon feminism, a brainch o feminism that emphasises weemanlie phìsical prowess
  • The Amazonian Guard, an aw-weemen bodyguard unit o Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi
  • Amazons, or les Amazones des SDF, the Takembeng female protesters o Cameroon
  • The Los Angeles Amazons, a weemen's semi-professional American fitbaa team

Companies[eedit | eedit soorce]

Airts an entertainment[eedit | eedit soorce]

Beuks[eedit | eedit soorce]

Comics[eedit | eedit soorce]

Film[eedit | eedit soorce]

Gemmes[eedit | eedit soorce]

Computer gemmes[eedit | eedit soorce]

Muisic[eedit | eedit soorce]

  • Amazon, Inglish title o Amazonka, a 2008 album bi Ukrainian sangster Ruslana

Sculpture[eedit | eedit soorce]

Televeesion[eedit | eedit soorce]

Theatre[eedit | eedit soorce]

Life sciences[eedit | eedit soorce]

Transportation[eedit | eedit soorce]

Laund[eedit | eedit soorce]

  • Amazon, a GWR Iron Duke Class stame locomotive run bi the Great Wastren Railwey in 1851
  • Amazon, a GWR 3031 Class locomotive biggit bi Great Wastern Railwey in 1892
  • Amazon (automobile), a 1920s Breetish cyclecaur
  • Volvo Amazon, a caur model produced frae 1956–1970
  • Amazon, class 47 diesel locomotive no: D1675 (later 47089), uised on Breetish Rail frae Aprile 1965 tae Juin 1987

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