Amazon

Amazon maist commonly refers tae:

• The Amazons, a legendary naition o female warriors in Greek meethology, frae which the name is derived
• The Amazon River in Sooth Americae, the lairgest river in the warld bi volume
• Amazon.com, an American online sales company based in Seattle, Washington

Amazon can also refer tae:

Geography

• The Amazon Basin, the pairt o Sooth Americae drained bi the Amazon River an its tributaries
• The Amazon rainforest, also kent as Amazonia, a moist broadleaf forest in the Amazon Basin
  • Amazônia Legal, the pairt o the Amazon jungle which is in Brazil
  • The Peruvian Amazon, the Amazon jungle in Peruvian territory
• Amazon Creek, a tributary o the Long Tom River, Eugene, Oregon, Unitit States

Fowk

Amazon is an eponym, derived frae the legend, for ony woman warrior 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 branch o feminism that emphasizes female physical prowess
• The Amazonian Guard, an aw-female 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

• Amazon.com American multinaitional e-commerce company
• Amazon Beukstore Cooperative, a feminist beukstore in Minneapolis, Minnesota, frae 1970-2012
• Amazone, brand name o Amazonen-Werke, a German manufacturer o agricultural machinery

Airts an entertainment

Beuks

• The Amazon (novella), a short 1866 novel bi Nikolai Leskov
• Swallows an Amazons, a 1930 novel bi Arthur Ransome
  • Swallows an Amazons series, series o novels bi Ransome
• Amazons!, a 1979 anthology o fantasy stories, editit bi Jessica Amanda Salmonson
  • Amazons II, a 1982 seicont anthology o fantasy stories, edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• Amazons (novel), a 1980 novel co-written bi Don DeLillo

Comics

• Amazon, also kent as Man-Killer, a Marvel Comics supervillain
• Amazon (Amalgam Comics), an amalgamation o DC's Wonder Weeman an Marvel's Storm
• Amazons (DC Comics), DC Comics warrior weemen characters associated wi Wonder Woman

Film

• The Amazons (1917 film), a 1917 American silent film based on the 1893 play bi Arthur Wing Pinero
• The Amazons, alternate title o Le guerriere dal seno nudo, 1973 film bi Terence Young (director)
• Amazons (1984 film), an American made-for-televeesion thriller directit bi Paul Michael Glaser
• Amazons (1986 film), an Argentine adventure fantasy
• Amazon (1997 film), a documentary aboot the Amazon basin
• Thor an the Amazon Women (1963 film), directit bi Antonio Leonviola

Gemmes

• Amazon (chess), a fairy chess piece combinin the queen an the knight
• Gemme o the Amazons, a 1988 board gemme played wi chess queens on a chess board.
• Amazons (solitaire), a style o solitaire caird play

Computer gemmes

• The Amazon, a playable character in the 1986 video gemme Pro Wrestlin (Nintendo Entertainment Seestem)
• Amazon: Guardians of Eden, a 1992 computer gemme b Access Saftware
• Amazon, a playable character in the 2000 computer gemme Diablo II

Muisic

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

Sculpture

• Amazon statue types, a subject o auncient Greek an Roman sculpture

Televeesion

• Amazon (1999 TV series), an adaptation o a Peter Benchley story
• Amazon (2008 TV series), a documentary aboot the Amazon basin
• Amazon, an upcomin series on the CW Televeesion Network

Theatre

• The Amazons (play), an 1893 play bi Arthur Wing Pinero
• Amazon Theatre, or Teatro Amazonas, an opera hoose in Manaus, Brazil

Life sciences

• Amazon Lily, a plant native tae Central an Sooth Americae
• Amazon parrots, a lairge genus o parrot frae the Americas
• Amazon Warld Zoo, a zoo on the Isle o Wight, Ingland

Transportation

Laund

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

Sea

• Amazon class frigate, fower classes o frigate o the Breetish Ryal Navy
• Amazon class sloop o the Breetish Ryal Navy
• HMS Amazon, nine ships o the Breetish Ryal Navy
• RMS Amazon, twa ships o the Ryal Mail Steam Packet Company
• RMS Amazon (1851), a paddle steamer that burned an sank on her maiden voyage in 1852
• USS Amazon (1861), a Unitit States Navy bark
• Amazon, a Canadian brigantine launched in 1861, baist kent unner its rechristened name, Mary Celeste
• Amazon (yacht), a Breetish screw schooner, built in 1885 as a steam yacht

See also

• Amazonas (disambiguation), for provinces an states named efter the Amazon River
• 1042 Amazone, an asteroid