There are many indigenous cultures in South America, mostly in the Upper Amazon Basin whose traditional religious practices include the use of ayahuasca.

Some later recovered and surpassed their dot-com-bubble peaks, e. g., Amazon. com, whose stock went from 107 to 7 dollars per share, but a decade later exceeded 200.

Critic Billy Altman, whose work has appeared in many publications including Entertainment Weekly and The New York Times, wrote the following for Amazon. com: " One of rock's most overlooked masterpieces, this third album by the L. A. folk-rock outfit led by inscrutable singer-songwriter Arthur Lee sounds as fresh and innovative today as it did upon its original release in 1968.

Emma Peel, whose husband went missing while flying over the Amazon, retained the self-assuredness of Gale, combined with superior fighting skills, intelligence, and a contemporary fashion sense.

He has served on the Board of Directors since 2009 for the Amazon Conservation Association, whose mission is to conserve the biological diversity of the Amazon.

The Amazon holds 3, 000 species of fresh water fish species within the boundaries of its basin whose function it is to disperse the seeds of trees.

He has also served on the Board of Directors since 2009 for the Amazon Conservation Association, whose mission is to conserve the biological diversity of the Amazon.

Echoes was created in 1989 by Kimberly Haas and John Diliberto, a music journalist whose works have appeared in Billboard, Pulse, Jazziz, Down Beat, Musician, and Amazon. com.

It also celebrates the Day of San Juan, referring to John the Baptist as patron saint in the Peruvian Amazon, whose feast is celebrated on June 24.

His illegitimate son Hippolytus, whose mother is the Amazon Hippolyta, has been trained here since childhood by the king of Troezen, Pittheus.

# That it became, in the course of ages, a populous and mighty nation, from whose emigrants the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi River, the Amazon River, the Pacific coast of South America, the Mediterranean, the west coast of Europe and Africa, the Baltic, the Black Sea, and the Caspian were populated by civilized nations.

" Denise Sheppard from Amazon. ca also noted, " is a teen-targeted pop phenom " whose " music has the one-two punch of melodic hooks and the voice to back them up ; a combination that can and will appeal to dance / pop music fans of any age.

The Tambo is part of the headwaters of the Amazon River whose origin is the Apúrimac River at Nevado Mismi and which becomes Ene River before its waters form the Tambo River.

The Río Ene is part of the headwaters of the Amazon River whose origin is at the Nevado Mismi south of Cuzco where it first becomes Apurímac River, then the Ene River and Tambo River before its waters meet the Ucayali River which later forms the Amazon.

The tomb of Myrine is mentioned in the Iliad ; later interpretation made of her an Amazon: according to Diodorus, Queen Myrine led her Amazons to victory against Libya and much of Gorgon.

His metier was the American tropics, and he had lived all over Latin America and among the primitive tribes on the Amazon river.

It was also turned into the female form Ἀχιλλεία ( Achilleía ) attested in Attica in the 4th century BC ( IG II² 1617 ) and, in the form Achillia, on a stele in Halicarnassus as the name of a female gladiator fighting an " Amazon ".

One of the few Inca sites the Spanish never found in their conquest was Machu Picchu, which lay hidden on a peak on the eastern edge of the Andes where they descend to the Amazon.

In his writing he makes mention of a moment when Alexander's secondary naval commander, Onesicritus, was reading the Amazon passage of his Alexander history to King Lysimachus of Thrace who was on the original expedition: the king smiled at him and said " And where was I, then?

* Andromache, an Amazon who fought Heracles and was defeated ; only known from vase paintings.

* Ephesos, a Lydian Amazon, after whom the city of Ephesus was thought to have been named ; she was also said to have been the first to honor Artemis and to have surnamed the goddess Ephesia.

* Gryne, an Amazon who was thought to be the eponym of the Gryneian grove in Asia Minor.

According to ancient sources, ( Plutarch Theseus, Pausanias ), Amazon tombs could be found frequently throughout what was once known as the ancient Greek world.

Guido Gelli, director of science at the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics ( IBGE ), told the Brazilian TV network Globo in June 2007 that it could be considered as a fact that the Amazon was the longest river in the world.

In 1995, Hofstadter's book Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought was the first book ever sold by Amazon. com.

“ On the Amazon ” from the 1920s musical Mr Cinders was an unusual choice but became an audience favorite in concerts and featured in “ Till Tomorrow ”, a documentary film about McLean produced by Bob Elfstrom.

Amazon was spending on expanding customer base and alerting people to its existence and Google was busy spending on creating more powerful machine capacity to serve its expanding search engine.

It was initially conceived of in order to help minister to remote Amazon rainforest communities, but will also be marketed for visual pipeline inspection and other similar activities in desolate areas or difficult terrain.

As part of this treaty, the border town of Leticia and its surrounding area was ceded from Peru to Colombia, giving Colombia access to the Amazon River.

In May 1934, a final peace agreement was signed, resulting in the return of Leticia to Colombia, a formal apology from Peru for the 1932 invasion, demilitarization of the area around Leticia, free navigation on the Amazon and Putumayo Rivers, and a pledge of non-aggression.

" Mr Cameron replied to concerns about the " Devonwall " constituency by stating that " It's the Tamar, not the Amazon, for Heaven's sake "; a move that was read in the press as indicative of his plan not to oppose the merger of the constituencies in Devon and Cornwall.

It was by this River, that the Nation of Topinambes passed into the River Amazon.

The digital album was released as download versions only on Amazon. com, iTunes, spotify.

In 2009, King published Ur, a novella written exclusively for the launch of the second-generation Amazon Kindle and available only on Amazon. com, and Throttle, a novella co-written with his son Joe Hill, which later was released as an audiobook Road Rage, which included Richard Matheson's short story " Duel ".

The Yellow-faced Parrot ( Alipiopsitta xanthops ) was traditionally placed within this genus of Amazon parrots, but recent research has shown that it is closer to the Short-tailed Parrot and the species from the genus Pionus, resulting in it being transferred to the monotypic genus Alipiopsitta.

In April 2010 Kemp's documentary, Battle For The Amazon, was shown on Sky 1, Kemp travelled to areas of the Amazon basin in Brazil and Ecuador, filming the practices of cattle farming, soya bean farming and oil exploration that are causing rapid de-forestation in the region.

In the popular TV series Xena: Warrior Princess, Cyane is a recurring name of prominent Amazon warriors, each considered the reincarnation of the former one: five different Cyanes ( from different times ) are shown in " Xenaverse ", played respectively by Vicky Pratt as " Cyane III ", Selma Blair as " Cyane I ", Shelley Edwards as " Cyane IV " and Morgan Reese Fairhead as " Cyane V ".

After giving consultations and treating patients for a few weeks, Guevara and Granado leave abord the Mambo-Tango raft ( shown ) for Leticia, Colombia via the Amazon River.

It has also been shown that the ozone levels differ between the dry and wet seasons in the Amazon, with the level being substantially higher in the dry season than in wet season.

" In 2008 Themyscira is shown in the animated film Justice League: The New Frontier, showing Wonder Woman sparring with a fellow Amazon on a beach.

As a naturalist living for two years at the headwaters of the Amazon, he had collected specimens for Mexican museums, and he had taken to the London zoo a live quetzal, the sacred bird of the old Mayans.

The set started selling on eBay at very high prices, sometimes over $ 300 USD ; As well as fetching over $ 1000 USD in ' New ' condition on websites such as " Amazon. com ".

Copies may be obtained at your local library, or purchased used at bookstores, or through eBay or Amazon. com.

During a 1924 – 25 expedition, Alexander H. Rice, Jr. of Harvard University traveled up the Orinoco, traversed the Casiquiare canal, and descended the Rio Negro to the Amazon at Manaus.

Its mouth at the Rio Negro, an affluent of the Amazon River, is near the town of San Carlos and is above sea level.

* A 2000 edition of Allen's Narrative available at Amazon in March 2009

A lifelong fan of science fiction " B-movies ", Ackerman had cameos in over 210 films, including bit parts in many monster movies and science fiction films ( The Howling, Innocent Blood, Return of the Living Dead Part II ), more traditional " imagi-movies " The Time Travelers, Future War, spoofs and comedies ( Amazon Women on the Moon, Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold, The Wizard of Speed and Time ), and at least one major music video ( Michael Jackson's Thriller ).

One of its marked features is the five parallel furos which from the north-west at almost regular intervals the Amazon sends to the Purus ; the most south-westerly one being about 150 miles ( 240 km ) above the mouth of the latter river.

The Ucayali, together with Apurímac River, Ene River, and Tambo River, is today considered the main headwater of the Amazon River, totaling a length of from the source of the Apurímac at Nevado Mismi to the confluence of the Ucayali and Marañón Rivers:

Flowing more than 2, 500 kilometers to the Atlantic from its source in the Guiana highlands at the Brazilian border, the Orinoco is the world's eighth largest river and the largest in South America after the Amazon.

* May 5 – Border Treaty between Brazil and Venezuela: The two countries agree their borders should be traced at the water divide between the Amazon and the Orinoco basins.

* September 20 – The Brazilian river boat Sobral Santos capsizes in the Amazon River, Óbidos, Brazil, killing at least 300.

) makes Panel from the Amazon frieze, south side of the Mausoleum at Halikarnassos.

The album was released 6 January 2009 exclusively at Amazon. com on CD, with downloadable format and other stores scheduled for a month later on 3 February.

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The river also has the second-largest flow in the world, behind the Amazon ; the third-largest drainage basin of any river, behind the Amazon and Río de la Plata rivers ; and is one of the deepest rivers in the world, at depths greater than.

It has been suggested this claim evolved out of the real observation that certain species of fish in the Amazon will gather at the surface near the point where a urine stream enters, having been attracted by the noise and agitation of the water.

The BBC's Unnatural Histories claimed that the Amazon rainforest, rather than being a pristine wilderness, has been shaped by man for at least 11, 000 years through practices such as forest gardening.

Some 5 million people may have lived in the Amazon region in 1500, divided between dense coastal settlements, such as that at Marajó, and inland dwellers.

Consequently, Baen also makes its entire catalog available in multiple formats for downloading and typically prices electronic versions of its books at or below that of paperback editions — and makes a profit doing it .</ span > According to essays on Baen's science fiction e-magazine Jim Baen's Universe, also edited by Flint, the strategy is if anything, getting stronger and more fruitful with the passage of time, especially with the advent of e-book readers such as the Amazon Kindle, and the Barnes & Noble Nook.