By the terms of the Protocol, Ecuador agreed to withdraw its long-standing claim for rights to direct land access to the Marañon and Amazon rivers ; Peru agreed to withdraw Peruvian military forces from Ecuadorian territory.

In the alternate timeline of the Flashpoint event, Red Tornadoes are created by Doctor Morrow to defend Japan from war between Amazon and Atlantean forces.

Amazon preparing for a battle ( Queen Antiop or Armed Venus ), by Pierre-Eugène-Emile Hébert 1860 ( National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. )

In some versions, however, Theseus marries Hippolyta and in others, he marries Antiope and she does not die ; by this marriage with the Amazon Theseus had a son Hippolytus.

They are heard of in the time of Alexander, when some of the king's biographers make mention of Amazon Queen Thalestris visiting him and becoming a mother by him ( the story is known from the Alexander Romance ).

A study by Brazilian scientists concluded that the Amazon is actually longer than the Nile.

They made it possible by measuring the Amazon downstream to the beginning of the tidal estuary of Canal do Sul and then, after a sharp turn back, following tidal canals surrounding the isle of Marajó and finally including the marine Waters of the Río Pará bay in its entire length.

In 1999 they brought a legal challenge to this patent which had granted a private US citizen " ownership " of the knowledge of a plant that is well-known and sacred to many indigenous peoples of the Amazon, and used by them in religious and healing ceremonies.

* Shamans of the Amazon ( 2001 ), directed by Dean Jefferys.

* Woven Songs of the Amazon ( 2006 ), directed by Anna Stevens.

Between 1992 and 2008, the 1st, 2nd and 16th Jungle Infantry Brigades, the 3rd Infantry Battalion, the 19th Logistics Battalion, and the 22nd Army Police Platoon were transferred by the Army from the states of Rio de Janeiro and Rio Grande do Sul to the Amazon region in accordance with the friendship policy with Argentina.

Estimates are produced by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research ( INPE ) for the entire Brazilian Legal Amazon by visually interpreting satellite imagery from the Landsat Thematic Mapper.

This may exemplify a rare example of insular dwarfing in a mainland context, with the " islands " being formed by the extensive river networks in the Amazon Basin, which form effective biogeographic barriers.

Movies have even achieved cult status by successfully imitating the awfulnesses of so-bad-it's-good movies ( The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra and Amazon Women on the Moon being just two examples ).

The Casiquiare is not a sluggish canal on a flat tableland, but a great, rapid river which, if its upper waters had not found contact with the Orinoco, perhaps by cutting back, would belong entirely to the Negro branch of the Amazon.

To the west of the Casiquiare, there is a much shorter and easier portage between the Orinoco and Amazon basins, called the isthmus of Pimichin, which is reached by ascending the Terni branch of the Atabapo River, an affluent of the Orinoco.

However, in regions where the sylvatic habitat and its fauna are thinned by economic exploitation and human habitation, such as in newly deforested areas, piassava palm culture areas, and some parts of the Amazon region, a human transmission cycle may develop as the insects search for new food sources.

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.

Ecuadorians often describe the country as a series of " micro-environments " and economic-cultural regions that are reflected in the country's cultural and geographic diversity of coastal fishing and trade ( with Guayaquil as a port ), highland Quichua-speaking peoples ( with Quito as a center, and the Amazon or jungle region, with several indigenous populations continually facing intrusions by " colonos " ( colonists ) seeking to use land for farming including palm oil, or for oil and resource exploitation.

* 2009: Zappos. com acquired by Amazon. com for $ 928 million.

* 2011: Quidsi. com, parent company of Diapers. com, acquired by Amazon. com for $ 500 million in cash plus $ 45 million in debt and other obligations.

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Notably, Amazon UK also took advantage of this by dispatching some low-value items from Jersey.

This title was also given to the DC Comics character Artemis of Bana-Mighdall, an Amazon in the Wonder Woman comic books.

After a lengthy battle, the Doomsday clones are halted by Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and her Amazon army, before being annihilated en masse by a blast from Superman's heat vision.

First Lady Lois Luthor visits Themyscira to forge an alliance with the Amazon empire, now ruled by an embittered and vengeful Wonder Woman.

His first appearance on screen was in the Wonder Woman episode " Amazon Hot Wax " ( 1979 ), in which he played Jeff Gordon, a singer who gets caught up in an extortion ring in the music business.

She also sang two of her songs in the 1979 Wonder Woman episode, " Amazon Hot Wax ".

While he is recovering in the hospital, Wonder Woman began courting Tresser, in the traditional Amazon manner.

After Wonder Woman was broadcast worldwide killing a villain named Maxwell Lord, as he was controlling Superman and said the only way to stop him was to kill him, so his neck was snapped, the Amazon went into a year's exile.

The first effort at a pilot presentation for a television series was based on a comedic conceit that the homely Diana Prince saw herself as a gorgeous Amazon whenever she becomes Wonder Woman — although no one else sees such a change in her looks.

The explanation was that Amazon scientists treated Wonder Woman's clothes with a special chemical that would respond to the vibrations of the magic lasso ; whenever Diana stepped into the lasso loop and brought it up and down, her Diana Prince clothes would transform into the Wonder Woman armor.

During this time she had the chance to meet Wonder Woman when her mother took in the Amazon when she first arrived in the United States.

Not to be confused with the Amazon Artemis, who took the identity of Wonder Woman for a time.

Jean-Marc Lofficier wrote Superman's Metropolis, a trilogy of graphic novels for DC Comics illustrated by Ted McKeever, the third of which was entitled Wonder Woman: The Blue Amazon, with the plot derived partly from Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler.

Unable to find any parents or family, Wonder Woman brings the child to Paradise Island, where she is eventually given Amazon powers by the Purple Ray.

# Rescued orphan: Donna Troy was rescued from an orphanage fire by Wonder Woman, who took her to Paradise Island to be raised as an Amazon and little sister of Diana.

In this version, Donna was not an Amazon and had no connection to Wonder Woman.

# Infinite Lives of Donna Troy: In a revision that incorporated the Titan Seed continuity while reattaching Donna Troy to Wonder Woman, it is revealed that the Amazon sorceress Magala had animated a mirror image of young Princess Diana to create for her a mystical, " identical twin " playmate.

* Persephone, an Amazon in Wonder Woman ( film )

* Lara: The daughter of Superman and Wonder Woman, with the powers of a Kryptonian and the warrior attitude of an Amazon.

In 1975 she appeared as the Amazon Doctor in the pilot for The New Adventures of Wonder Woman.

The goddess Aphrodite directs the rocket bearing the unconscious Wonder Woman to the planet Venus, and the Amazon is brought before Queen Desira of the race of Fairies who live there, who immediately recognizes her as the oracle of Aphrodite.

and Wonder Woman: The Blue Amazon, all retellings of the DC mythos.

* Wonder Woman: The Blue Amazon ( written by Randy & Jean-Marc Lofficier, Elseworlds 2003 )

Unable to find any parents or family, Wonder Woman had brought the child to Paradise Island, where she had eventually been given Amazon powers by Paula Von Gunther's Purple Ray.