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Redirect URL ending in certain `variable=value` query string, to `URL?variable` (i.e., strip `=value`)

I'm trying to create a 301-rewrite for URLs ending with ?amp=1 to nearly the same URL and query string, just stripping the value (=1). Examples: https://example.com/?amp=1 should redirect to https://...
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How can I use .htaccess to respond with 403 forbidden status for URLs that contain a query string?

Some bots have been crawling my site for every link that ends with: ?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter I haven't checked out its IP. Then other bots (10+) follow the link rules ?utm_source=...
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Apache rewrite rule that matches a specific query string

I need to rewrite a specific WordPress URL to a 404 error: ?page_id=15 to 404 How can I match the query string? Apparently Apache doesn't feed that to the rewrite mod...
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How should incorrectly encoded URLs be handled?

Just recently noticed that some sites link with the URL incorrectly percent-encoded, to which my server (LAMP) responds with a 404 Not Found. For example, for a URL of mine like this: http://www....
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