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2 unusual facts about AMA


Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade is an historical novel by Manu Herbstein.

Manu Herbstein

Manu Herbstein (born 1936) is the South African author of Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade (2001), which won the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, the first time the award had been given to an electronic book.


3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows

It is a spin-off to The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series as main characters Polly, Jo and Ama are about to attend South Bethesda High School, the school the original sisterhood (Bridget "Bee" Vreeland, Lena Kaligaris, Carmen Lowell and Tibby Rollins) attended.

Academy of Model Aeronautics

See also: Model Aeronautics Association of Canada, with which the AMA has a reciprocal agreement allowing its own insurance to apply to AMA members flying in Canada, and vice versa.

Ama Agbeze

Ama Agbeze (surname pronounced "Ab-wear-zeh") (born 12 November 1982 in Selly Oak, England) is an English international netball player.

Ama Ata Aidoo

Professor Ama Ata Aidoo, née Christina Ama Aidoo (born 23 March 1940, Saltpond) is a Ghanaian author, poet, playwright and academic, who is also a former Minister of Education in the Ghana government.

Ama Dablam

Apple included an image of Ama Dablam by photographer Nick Meek in the set of new wallpapers included with the mobile operating system iOS 7, released on September 18, 2013.

AMA Formula Xtreme

Manufacturers represented in the AMA Formula Xtreme Series included the Big Four; Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki and Yamaha, and in 2008 BMW, Ducati, Triumph and Buell were represented as well.

Amatsu-Mikaboshi

In Japanese mythology, Ama-tsu-Mikaboshi (ja:天津甕星, "August Star of Heaven"), also called Ame-no-Kagaseo (ja:天香香背男, "Brilliant Male"), is a god of the stars, specifically Venus.

American Society of Addiction Medicine

ASAM was admitted to the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates as a voting member in June 1988, and in June 1990 the AMA added addiction medicine (ADM) to its list of designated specialties.

Athena, Oregon

The Hodaka marque is recognized as an American vintage cycle; it was the vintage marque at the 2006 AMA Vintage Motorcycle Days at Mid-Ohio.

B4U Music

Since 2008, the yearly UK Asian Music Awards (UK AMA) have been produced and broadcast by the channel.

Boldly Going Nowhere

On October 16, 2013, McElhenney confirmed in a Reddit AMA that they are once again working on the show.

Brendan Nelson

After the preselection, Nelson worked on an Aboriginal health program for the Cape York Peninsula; and, in June, following his retirement as president of the AMA, went to the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, on behalf of World Vision to hear about that country's struggles with AIDS—only three months after losing his younger brother to the disease.

Brian Blume

The Blumes brought in three outside directors from the AMA to increase the Board of Directors to six: a lawyer from a large Milwaukee firm, a personnel officer from a Milwaukee area company, and an owner of a company that made medical equipment, none of whom knew anything about gaming but always voted with the Blumes.

Bridgewater Bank

Wholly owned by the Alberta Motor Association (AMA), the bank offers mortgages, guaranteed investment certificates (GICs) and is a MasterCard provider to members of the Canadian Automobile Association (CAA) clubs across Canada.

Carrie Brady

Lexie tries to plead her case and apologize, but Carrie doesn't care and promises to pay Lexie back by reporting her to the hospital board and the AMA, upon which Lexie is subsequently fired.

Edmund S. Crelin, Jr.

Crelin was a member of the American Association of Anatomists, Sigma Xi, AAAS and AMA, served as associate editor of the Anatomical Record from 1968 to 1974 and was an editor for Gray's Anatomy

Elsa Martinez Coscolluela

In My Father's House was also staged at the Ateneo de Manila University in January 2010 as Sa Tahanan ng Aking Ama, produced by ENTABLADO (ENterteynment para sa TAo, Bayan, LAnsangan at DiyOs, Eng. Entertainment for the People, Country, Street and God), the socio-political theater organization of the university, in line with its 27th* season: Taon ng Pagbanyuhay.

Exercise is Medicine

Exercise is Medicine is a nonprofit initiative launched by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and the American Medical Association (AMA).

Han shot first

Peter Mayhew, the actor who played Chewbacca in the original series, was asked in a Reddit AMA, "Mr Mayhew. Did Han really shoot first ? You were there. You saw it first hand. The truth needs to come out !"

James Dobb

Whilst not winning any major titles, he was one of the series' top riders, winning an AMA National at Southwick.

Jeric Raval

Jeric was a star of OctoArts Films and was introduced by the movie "Valentin Zapanta: Alyas Ninong" a movie by Eddie Garcia where he played the bodyguard of Ninong and he did his first solo action movie was Kalaban Mortal Ni Baby Ama together with John Regala, Willie Revillame.

Kaiser Permanente

Meanwhile, during the war years, the American Medical Association (AMA) (which opposed managed care organizations from their very beginning) tried to defuse demand for managed care by promoting the rapid expansion of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield preferred provider organization networks.

Lowest safe altitude

The AMA is the lowest off-airway altitude to be used under Instrument Meteorological Conditions (IMC) that will provide a minimum vertical clearance of 1 000 feet (AGL), or in designated mountainous terrain 2 000 feet above all obstacles located in the area specified, rounded up to the nearest 100 foot increment.

Maad a Sinig Ama Joof Gnilane Faye Joof

The throne of his son secured, Ama Kumba Mbodj was exiled, and he had to seek refuge in Mbodiène.

Mat Mladin

The Team Rockstar Makita Yoshimura Suzuki's appeal of the penalty was summarily dismissed as being, "without merit," by AMA/DMG on 5 September 2008.

Mercy Adoma Owusu-Nimoh

Mercy Adoma Owusu Nimoh was a Ghanaian author and also the founder-proprietor of Ama Nipaa Memorial Preparatory and Junior Secondary School in Kade, Ghana.

Miguel Duhamel

He stunned the crowd by winning both the AMA Superbike and 600 SuperSport events at season-opening Daytona 200 races.

Mike Kiedrowski

Mike Kiedrowski (born January 13, 1969 in Canyon Country, Santa Clarita, California) is a four-time AMA Motocross national champion.

Motorex

Just to mention a few examples, since 2005, sponsorship agreements brought forward 11 Off-road World Champions such as Yves Demaria and Marvin Musquin; 8 World Champions in the Enduro class such as David Knight and Iván Cervantes; Mat Rebeaud was able to win the World Championship in Freestyle twice; and within the AMA Superbike more than 7 champion titles were collected by stars like Mat Mladin.

National Patient Safety Foundation

The National Patient Safety Foundation began as an idea proposed in 1996 at a large conference on medical error that was organized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Medical Association (AMA), and the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower Medical Center in California and funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Nri-Igbo

Nri (the founder of Nri clan) was the son of Eri (founder of Aguleri) and had migrated to the present day Nri from the Anambra (Ama-Mbala) river valley in Northern Igboland.

Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse

The Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse at the American Medical Association (AMA) was established by the temperance-oriented Robert Wood Johnson Foundation with an initial grant of $5 million, followed by more substantial funding.

Oko Jumbo

The Kingdom of Bonny, originally called Okolo-Ama, is a traditional state based on the town of Bonny in Rivers State, Nigeria.

Outrigger canoe

The paddlers need to be careful to avoid leaning too far on the opposite side of the ama, as that may cause the canoe to capsize (huli or lumaʻi).

Phoebus, Virginia

The American Missionary Association (AMA), whose leaders included both black and white ministers, hired her to teach and arranged for her to use the Brown Cottage.

Suresh Kumar

Kumar has also served on the Board and councils of several organizations, including World Self-Medication Industry (WSMI), the American Management Association (AMA), the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) and the Thunderbird School of Global Management.

Tatiana Pagés

Additionally, she is a member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), the American Marketing Association (AMA), the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council, The Art Director’s Club and, last, The Americas Society.

Thomas Percival

Percival's Medical Ethics served as a key source for the American Medical Association (AMA) code, adopted in 1847.

Victoria Zormelo-Gorleku

Mrs. Victoria Ama Zormelo-Gorleku (born 14 September 1907, Keta) was the first woman Prisons Officer in Ghana, and the first ordained woman priest in any of the established Mission Churches in Ghana.


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