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Mythological Warrior Women of the Steppes
"Amazon" is a very popular word referring to a number of things, but they all refer back to the Amazons, a tribe of warrior women most notably found in Greek mythology.
If you seek "The Earth's Biggest Bookstore" ... oops!. I'm testing search engines, including the aggressively non-commercial ODP, so this is about everything except what you were looking for. Try "any" search engine, like the Squidoo search at the top of this page.
Table of Contents
Mozzification
- Society: Activism: Anti-Corporation: Amazon.com
- Jeff Bezos & Company applied for a patent on "One Click Ordering" much to the consternation of some "techies" ... five or six years ago. Compelling.
- Shopping: Publications: Books
- As long as you don't actually want a book, you can read about it here, but the most-accessed source of online bibliographic information is conspicuously absent.
- Games: Video Games: Adventure: Text Adventures: Amazon
- Before CGA graphics were common, text adventure games like Colossal Cave Adventure were very popular.
- Games: Video Games: Adventure: Graphical Adventures: Flight of the Amazon Queen
- This 1995 game by Australian Interactive Binary Illusions, actually is available (sporadically, used) online. Guess where.
- Arts: Television: Programs: Reality-Based: Survivor: Survivor 6 - The Amazon
- I guess "Survivor" is part of the culture. Not a commercial enterprise of a major television network.
Carla & Her Autopistol
Photo: Michael Jastremski-openphoto.net-CC:Attribution-ShareAlike
Searching around in the Creative Commons site I drilled down to this picture of "Carla" and her auto-pistol. Not exactly a mythology reference, but legal photos of Wonder Woman and Xena were in short supply.
It just goes to show you how hard it is to find affiliate-link-free sites, and how marginally appropriate they can be.
Search Results
- MSN Search
- MSN Search
- Ask
- Ask
- Yahoo! Search
- Yahoo! Search
- AOL Search
- AOL Search
Amazon Warrior Women
Myth or Fact?
Secrets of the Dead is an odd program produced by WNET. Odd because sometimes it's really good, other times not so much. I suppose different people produce different programs ...
They did manage a pretty interesting show on Amazon Warrior Women, in which archaeologist Jeannine Davis-Kimball unearths a 2300-year-old "priestess warrior" kurgan (burial mound) which seems to indicate that the mythical Amazons may have been real, or at least based on a real culture.
If the force is with you, you may be able to Watch a Video Clip
Actual Links
Here's a public-domain painting of the Shieldmaiden Hevor by Peter Nicolai Arbo
Brave Women Warriors of Greek Myth -
Actually on-topic, but a front for a Xena fan-site
Amazon (infoplease) -
After you reject a dozen cookies, you'll get a hundred ads and a brief, superficial "encyclopedia" article on Amazons.
Amazons : Warrior Women or Ancient Myth? -
An amalgamation of historical and mythological assertions, a little hard to keep straight, but interesting.
Amazons Links and Bibliography -
I keep clicking on the underlined titles, but nothing happens.
Amazon Search : "Amazon"
I started this page in May 2006, and as of today (August 2009) it doesn't seem to have been listed by the Open Directory Project. They have however listed Amazon.com. Very decent of them.
I am now declaring victory and listing Amazon links at Amazon here.
Constrained Search vs Random Results
Amazon's search function, like most others, claims to use a logical AND operator on keywords. That is search results for "Amazon Warriors" should contain both "Amazon" AND "Warriors."
In fact, you will find that, all things being equal -- "Amazon" AND "Warriors" results will appear higher than "Amazon" OR "Warriors" results. Unfortunately, all things are not equal. An item that is very popular will appear earlier in the search results than an unpopular one regardless of its "relevance" ranking.
The way to find needles in the immense haystack of Amazon.com is through constrained search.
You need to "drill down" through the thousands of Amazon Categories to find the results that meet your criteria. I could go on and on (there really are thousands of categories) but I think this small sample will illustrate how different your results can be for a single search term
- Amazon Search (All Categories) : "Amazon"
- Amazon Book Search : "Amazon"
- Amazon Book Search : "Amazon" in Ancient History
- Amazon Book Search : "Amazon" in Ancient Greek History
- Amazon Book Search : "Amazon" in South American History
- Amazon Book Search : "Amazon" in Gay & Lesbian
- Amazon Book Search : "Amazon" in Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Amazon DVD Search : "Amazon"
- Amazon DVD Search : "Amazon" In Documentaries
- Amazon DVD Search : "Amazon" In Blue Underground
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