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Places

United States

Ames, Colorado Ames is an unincorporated community in San Miguel County, Colorado, United States. Ames is the site of the world's first system to generate and transmit alternating current electricity for industrial purposes (mining), the Ames Hydroelectric G ...

Ames, Illinois Ames is an unincorporated community in the Renault Precinct of Monroe County, Illinois, United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily locate ...

Ames, Indiana Ames is an unincorporated community in Union Township, Montgomery County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. It is located within the city limits City limits or city boundaries refer to the defined boundary or border of a city. The area within t ...

Ames, Iowa Ames () is a city in Story County, Iowa, United States, located approximately north of Des Moines in central Iowa. It is best known as the home of Iowa State University (ISU), with leading agriculture, design, engineering, and veterinary medici ...

, the most populous city bearing this name *

Ames, Kansas Ames is an unincorporated community in Cloud County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the community and nearby areas was 33. It is located a couple miles southwest of Clyde next to state highway K-9. History A ...

Ames, Nebraska Ames is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in southern Dodge County, Nebraska, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 24. Ames lies along U.S. Route 30, west of the city of Fremont, the county seat of ...

Ames, New York Ames is a village in Montgomery County, New York, United States. The population was 145 at the 2010 census. The Village of Ames is in the south-central part of the Town of Canajoharie and is south of the Village of Canajoharie. Ames is one of ...

Ames, Oklahoma Ames is a town in southeastern Major County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 239 at the 2010 census. This was a 20.1 percent increase from the figure of 199 in 2000. Ames is best known for being located within the boundary of a geol ...

Ames, Texas Ames is a city in Liberty County, Texas, United States. The population was 937 at the 2020 census. Geography Ames is located at (30.0535, –94.7435). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. Dem ...

* Ames, West Virginia

Europe

* Ames, Pas-de-Calais, France *

Ames, Spain Ames is a municipality of the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain in the province of A Coruña The province of A Coruña (; es, La Coruña ; historical en, link=no, Corunna) is the northwesternmost province of Spain, and one of the four ...

Acronyms

Air Ministry Experimental Station AMES, short Air Ministry Experimental Station, was the name given to the British Air Ministry's radar development team at Bawdsey Manor (afterwards RAF Bawdsey) in the immediate pre-World War II era. The team was forced to move on three occasions ...

, used in radar designations *

AMES (school) The Academy for Math, Engineering, & Science (AMES) is a public charter high school founded in 2003. AMES primarily focuses on a STEM based advanced curriculum and is recognized as one of Utah's best high schools. AMES serves grades 9-12 in Mur ...

, Academy for Math, Engineering, and Science, in Salt Lake City, Utah *

Apparent mineralocorticoid excess syndrome Apparent mineralocorticoid excess is an autosomal recessive disorder causing hypertension (high blood pressure), hypernatremia (increased blood sodium concentration) and hypokalemia (decreased blood potassium concentration). It results from mutati ...

Other uses

Ames (automobile) The Ames () company, originally established in 1881 by Frederick A. Ames, was a buggy manufacturer and later an American automobile manufacturer in Owensboro, Kentucky, from 1910 to 1925. A beetle-backed " gentleman's roadster" and a five-passen ...

, an American brand *

Ames Department Stores Inc. Ames Department Stores Inc. was an American chain of discount stores based in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, United States. The company was founded in 1958 with a store in Southbridge, Massachusetts, and at its peak operated 700 stores in 20 states, i ...

, a defunct department store chain based in Connecticut *

Ames (surname) The surname Ames is usually either French, English or German in origin. The French name comes from the noun , meaning a friend or a beloved. The surname also derives from the Old French and Middle English personal name Amys or Amice, the Latin amic ...

Ames family The Ames family is one of the oldest and most illustrious families of the United States. The family's branches are descended from John Ames, the son of a 17th-century settler of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, and numerous public and private wo ...

, the family associated with Ames True Temper *

Ames Manufacturing Company Ames Manufacturing Company was a manufacturer of swords, tools and cutlery in Chicopee, Massachusetts, as well as an iron and bronze foundry. They were a major provider of side arms, swords, light artillery, and heavy ordnance for the Union in the ...

Ames Range The Ames Range is an Antarctic range of snow-covered, flat-topped, steep-sided mountains, extending in a N-S direction for 32 km (20 mi) and forming a right angle with the eastern end of the Flood Range in Marie Byrd Land. They were disc ...

, a mountain range in Antarctica *

Ames Research Center The Ames Research Center (ARC), also known as NASA Ames, is a major NASA research center at Moffett Federal Airfield in California's Silicon Valley. It was founded in 1939 as the second National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) laborat ...

, NASA research center in California's Silicon Valley *

Ames True Temper Ames True Temper is a multinational corporation headquartered in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, USA. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Griffon Corporation. Ames True Temper specializes in the manufacture of non-powered lawn and garden products. The ...

, a manufacturing company which produces non-powered lawn and garden products *

Aldrich Ames Aldrich Hazen "Rick" Ames (; born May 26, 1941) is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer turned KGB double agent, who was convicted of espionage in 1994. He is serving a life sentence, without the possibility of parole, in the Federa ...

, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer turned KGB double agent now imprisoned for life with no parole *

Oakes Ames (botanist) Oakes Ames (; September 26, 1874 – April 28, 1950) was an American biologist specializing in orchids. His estate is now the Borderland State Park in Massachusetts. He was the son of Governor of Massachusetts, Oliver Ames, and grandson of Con ...

, an American botanist specializing in orchids, known by the author abbreviation "Ames"

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