A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 0-9 U Cephei ... Uffington White Horse U Cephei (from the article "star") ...falls under the gravitational influence of the smaller star. Matter is continuously fed from the ... U component (from the article "Milky Way Galaxy") Space motions comprise a three-dimensional determination of stellar motion. They may be divided into a ... U Geminorum star any of a class of irregular variable stars that display sudden increases in brightness so ... U kalicha (from the article "Prague") ...lyric music of the great Czech composers Bedrich Smetana, Antonin Dvorak, and Leos Janacek is ... U Ku (from the article "Burmese literature") ...Burmese literature. From 1875 onward, under British rule, the owners of printing presses began to ... U Thong style one of the canonical styles for Buddha icons developed in Thailand (Siam) in the southern ... 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U.S. News & World Report weekly news magazine published in Washington, D.C., one of the most influential of its kind ... [1 Related Articles] U.S. Open (from the article "Football") ...kicks against the New England Revolution. It was New England's second straight MLS Cup loss ... U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (from the article "therapeutics") Following earlier work by the Canadian Task Force on the Periodic Health Examination, the U.S. ... U.S. Rabbit Experimental Station (from the article "Fontana") ...was bought by Fontana Development Company. It was renamed Fontana (Italian: "Fountain") in 1913 by ... U.S. Seventh Cavalry (from the article "Elizabethtown") ...km) southeast of the city. During the American Civil War, the town was occupied by ... U.S. Soil Taxonomy (from the article "U.S. Soil Taxonomy") The U.S. Soil Taxonomy classifies soils within a hierarchy of six categories. Only the highest-level ... 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Ubaidian (from the article "Sumer") Sumer was first settled between 4500 and 4000 BC by a non-Semitic people who did ... Ubaldi, Baldo degli (from the article "international law") ...of governance and relations between nations included the Italian lawyers Bartolo da Sassoferrato (1313/14-1357), regarded ... Ubaldini, Ruggieri degli (from the article "Gherardesca family") ...his position to banish his personal enemies and to destroy their castles. He soon quarreled ... Ubange-Uele plateau (from the article "Congo") The high plateaus border almost every side of the central basin. In the north the ... Ubangi (from the article "Congo") ...clusters. The southern region between Brazzaville and the coast is inhabited by the Kongo peoples. ... Ubangi languages (from the article "Adamawa-Ubangi languages") ...hypothesis, therefore, these two groups-Gur and Adamawa-Ubangi-are being linked together as North Volta-Congo. The Adamawa-Ubangi ... Ubangi River largest right-bank tributary of the Congo River, marking the border between Congo (Kinshasa) and Congo ... [4 Related Articles] Ubayd, Tall al- ancient site that gave its name to a prehistoric cultural period, the Ubaid, in Mesopotamia; ... [3 Related Articles] Ubayyid, al- town, central Sudan. It lies on a sandy, scrub-covered plateau at an elevation of 1,869 ... [1 Related Articles] Ube city, Yamaguchi ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, on the Inland Sea. Coal was mined in the ... Ubeda city, Jaen provincia (province), in the comunidad autonoma (autonomous ... Ubehebe Crater (from the article "Death Valley") ...of unique landforms. The five dune areas include the 680-foot- (205-metre-) high Eureka Sand Dunes, ... Ubelherr, Johann Georg (from the article "Western sculpture") ...glory of these Rococo interiors. Feichtmayr was a member of the group of families from ... Uber Cup trophy representing the women's world championship in the sport of badminton. The cup was contributed ... [2 Related Articles] Uberaba city, western Minas Gerais estado (state), southern Brazil. It is located in ... Uberlandia city, western Minas Gerais estado (state), southern Brazil. It lies along the ... Ubermarionette (from the article "theatre") ...to all actors; his admiration of Irving, his mother Ellen Terry, and Duse was profound, ... Uberti, Farinata degli Florentine nobleman who became the leader of the Florentine Ghibellines, the proimperial party. According to ... ubi sunt a verse form in which the poem or its stanzas begin with the Latin words ... [1 Related Articles] Ubi-Ogazu (from the article "African dance") The Igbo dance to a complex of sophisticated rhythms. In the Ubi-Ogazu dance, a version ... Ubico (Castaneda), Jorge soldier and dictator who ruled Guatemala for 13 years (1931-44). [1 Related Articles] ubiquinone any of several members of a series of organic compounds belonging to a class called ... [4 Related Articles] ubiquitin (from the article "Ciechanover, Aaron J.") ...that they discovered involves a series of carefully orchestrated steps by which cells degrade, or ... ubiquitin ligase (from the article "Life Sciences") ...the means by which the receptor interacts with a hormone. A team led by Ning ... ubiquitous computing (from the article "computer") Some researchers call this trend ubiquitous computing or pervasive computing. Ubiquitous computing would extend the ... Ubon Ratchathani town, eastern Thailand, on the Khorat Plateau. It lies near the confluence of the Mun ... UBS AG major bank formed in 1998 by the merger of two of Switzerland's largest banks, the ... [1 Related Articles] UBV system system of classifying stars by spectral type, based on photometric measurements of the ultraviolet (U), ... 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Uchida, Shungiku In Japan, as elsewhere, success was part luck, part talent, and part hard work. For ... Uchimura Kanzo Japanese Christian who was an important formative influence on many writers and intellectual leaders of ... Uchqurghon hydroelectric station (from the article "Naryn River") ...River flows westward for 430 miles (700 km), receiving many tributaries and draining an area ... Ucicky, Gustav Austrian film director known for historical and nationalistic German films done during Adolf Hitler's rise ... Ucka, Mount (from the article "Istria") ...a limestone plateau, much of which lacks water owing to its karst topography. The northeast ... Ucko, Peter John British archaeologist brought about a revolution in the way that archaeological study was approached and ... ud stringed musical instrument prominent in medieval and modern Islamic music. It was the parent of ... [6 Related Articles] Uda 59th emperor of Japan, from 887 to 897. 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Udayadityavarman II (from the article "Angkor") ...later history of the city, the central temples were completely architectural creations (i.e., pyramid temples), ... Udayagiri village and archaeological site, south-central Orissa state, eastern India. In the village are located several ... [3 Related Articles] Udayanacarya Hindu logician who attempted to reconcile the views held by the two major schools of ... [2 Related Articles] Udayesvara (from the article "South Asian arts") ...unfortunately, they are considerably damaged, judging from the remains, they must have been very elegant ... Udden Grade Scale (from the article "sedimentary rock") ...scale, each size grade differs from its predecessor by the constant ratio of 1:2; each ... udder (from the article "dairying") ...produced by the cow from her blood, and a large amount of food is necessary ... Uddyotakara (from the article "Indian philosophy") Although as early as the commentators Prasastapaha (5th century AD) and Uddyotakara (7th century AD) ... Udegey (from the article "Amur River") The Amur River basin originally was populated by hunting and cattle-breeding nomadic people. North of ... Uderzo, Albert (from the article "Goscinny, Rene") ...and later worked on children's books in New York City. In 1954 he returned to ... Udhagamandalam town, western Tamil Nadu state, southern India. It is situated in the Nilgiri Hills at ... Udhampur town in Jammu and Kashmir state, northern India, in the Kashmir region of the Indian ... Udi language (from the article "Caucasian languages") ...Tabasaran (about 90,000); Agul (about 12,000); Rutul (about 15,000); Tsakhur (about 11,000); Archi (fewer than ... Udi-Nsukka Plateau pair of plateaus in south-central Nigeria that form a nearly continuous elevated area. The Nsukka ... [1 Related Articles] Udina, Antonio (from the article "Romance languages") Many Romance dialects have virtually ceased to be spoken in the 20th century. Of these, ... Udine city, Friuli-Venezia Giulia regione, northeastern Italy. It lies northwest of Trieste, near the border with ... Udipi (from the article "Karnataka Coast") ...and sandy. The region forms a transitional zone between Maharashtra and Kerala states. The southern, ... Udmurt (from the article "Slavic religion") ...Wooden buildings (the so-called continae) in which the faithful Baltic Slavs used to assemble for ... Udmurt language (from the article "Finno-Ugric languages") ...at different periods in history. Loanwords from Indo-Iranian seem to be the oldest. Finnish borrowed ... Udmurtiya republic in west-central Russia. It lies partly in the basin of the middle Kama River, ... Udon Thani town, northeastern Thailand, near the northern (Laotian) border. Udon Thani is the major town of ... UDP-glucose (from the article "metabolism") the products are UDP-glucose and pyrophosphate. In bacteria, fungi, and plants, ATP, CTP, or GTP ... Udrem Zom, Mount (from the article "Hindu Kush") ...mountain mass) of Saraghrara (24,111 feet [7,349 metres]). Another line of imposing mountains, which includes ... Udrzal, Frantisek (from the article "Austria") ...continued to assign to the monarchy the role of an outpost of German culture; the ... ue-no-hakama (from the article "sokutai") ...worn for coronations and other important ceremonies. The costume, which has many Chinese characteristics, has ... Ueberroth, Peter (from the article "baseball") ...and television rights for regular-season games remained with each club. Later commissioners included Ford C. ... Ueda city, Nagano ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies along the Chikuma River. Ueda was a ... Ueda Akinari preeminent writer and poet of late 18th-century Japan, best known for his tales of the ... 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