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INDEX SEARCH RESULTS FOR: AMIENS
 Amiens - peace of 1802
 - and gas lighting
- battle in 1918
Amin, Hafizullah - Afghan politician
- and the Soviet invasion
Amin, Idi - president of Uganda
amino acids - first stirrings of life
Amis, Kingsley
Amithaba - known in Japan as Amida
Amminius - son of Cymbeline
amnesty - for generals in Argentina
- for generals in Uruguay
Amnesty International
Amontons, Guillaume - and mercury
Amores - by Ovid
Amours - of Ronsard
amphibians - in evolution
amphibious warfare - in World War II
Ampleforth College
Ampulla, Holy - brought by Holy Spirit
 amputation - in 16th century
- and infection
- of Nelson's arm
- at Waterloo
- first under anaesthesia
- during the First World War
- in 20th century
- prevented by penicillin
Amritsar - holy city of the Sikhs
Amsterdam - and banking
- and religious freedom in 17th century
- and Rembrandt
- saved from French in 1672
Amundsen, Roald - Northwest Passage
Amyntas III - king of Macedonia
Anabaptists - in Zürich
- and Pennsylvania
Anabasis - by Xenophon
anaemia - and 17th century treatment
anaesthesia - discovery
anaesthetic - in the 13th century
- in 20th century
- in childbirth
- and hospital surgery
- and intensive care units
- development of local anaesthetic
- intravenous and intramuscular
- nerve block analgesia
- pain clinics
- and controlled death
- and 'brain death'
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