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- (from the article "Hindu Kush") ...mountain mass) of Saraghrara (24,111 feet [7,349 metres]). Another line of imposing mountains, which includes Mounts Langar (23,162 feet [7,060 metres]), Shachaur (23,346 feet [7,116 metres]), Udrem Zom (23,376 feet ...
- Udrzal, Frantisek
- (from the article "Austria") ...continued to assign to the monarchy the role of an outpost of German culture; the Slavs increasingly wanted to make Austria the home of Slav national aspirations. The Czech agrarian ...
- ue-no-hakama
- (from the article "sokutai") ...worn for coronations and other important ceremonies. The costume, which has many Chinese characteristics, has changed little since the 12th century. It consists of baggy white damask trousers (ue-no-hakama) and ...
- Ueberroth, Peter
- (from the article "baseball") ...and television rights for regular-season games remained with each club. Later commissioners included Ford C. Frick (1951-65), William D. Eckert (1965-69), Bowie Kuhn (1969-84), Peter Ueberroth (1984-89), A. Bartlett Giamatti ...
- Ueda
- city, Nagano ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies along the Chikuma River. Ueda was a castle town during the Tokugawa period (1603-1867) and later became a centre of silk manufacturing ...
- Ueda Akinari
- preeminent writer and poet of late 18th-century Japan, best known for his tales of the supernatural. [1 Related Articles]
- Ueda Bin
- (from the article "Japanese literature") A decade after the works of English Romantic poets such as Shelley and William Wordsworth had influenced Japanese poetry, the translations made by Ueda Bin of the French Parnassian and ...
- UEFA Cup
- (from the article "football (soccer)") ...league champions, first played in 1955, was initially dominated by Real Madrid; other regular winners have been AC Milan, Bayern Munich (Germany), Ajax of Amsterdam, and Liverpool (England). The UEFA ...
- Ueland, Ole Gabriel Gabrielson
- teacher and politician, the foremost champion of Norway's peasant class during the middle of the 19th century.
- Uele River
- (from the article "Schweinfurth, Georg August") German botanist and traveler who explored the region of the upper Nile River basin known as the Bahr al Ghazal and discovered the Uele River, a tributary of the Congo.exploration ...
- Uemura Shoen
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...realism of the Maruyama-Shijo school of painters. Takeuchi Seiho (1864-1942) was the most successful proponent of this lineage. Interestingly, his most distinguished student was Uemura Shoen (1875-1949), a woman who ...
- Ueno
- city, Mie ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies in an intermontane basin at the head of the Kii Peninsula. The city developed around a castle built in 1611 and still ...
- Ueno Zoological Gardens
- oldest and most famous zoological garden in Japan. It was founded in 1882, and its administration was transferred to the Tokyo city government in 1924. Occupying a 32-acre (13-hectare) site ... [1 Related Articles]
- Ueshiba Morihei
- (from the article "aikido") ...skills of aikido probably originated in Japan in about the 14th century. In the early 20th century they were systematized in their modern form through the work of the Japanese ...
- Uesugi Family
- one of the most important warrior clans in Japan from early in the 15th century until the last half of the 19th.
- Uesugi Harunori
- (from the article "Yonezawa") ...castle site, contains the shrines of two well-known members of the Uesugi family-Uesugi Kenshin (1530-78), who won a battle in defense of his fief against the Hojo clan, and Uesugi ...
- Uesugi Kagekatsu
- (from the article "Uesugi Family") Uesugi Kagekatsu (1555-1623), who succeeded Kenshin as head of the clan, became one of the early allies in the campaign of Toyotomi Hideyoshi to reunify Japan. Before Hideyoshi died, he ...
- Uesugi Kenshin
- one of the most powerful military figures in 16th-century Japan. [3 Related Articles]
- Uesugi Norimasa
- (from the article "Uesugi Kenshin") In 1552 Uesugi Norimasa, who had inherited the position of kanrei, or governor-general, of Kanto and whose family had long been the most powerful in the area, was defeated by ...
- Ufa
- city and capital, Bashkortostan republic, western Russia. It lies along the Belaya (White) River just below its confluence with the Ufa River. A defensive site in a loop formed by ... [1 Related Articles]
- UFA
- German motion-picture production company that made artistically outstanding and technically competent films during the silent era. Located in Berlin, its studios were the best equipped and most modern in the ... [2 Related Articles]
- Ufa Plateau
- plateau lying immediately to the west of the central Ural Mountains in Bashkortostan and in Sverdlovsk oblast (province), west-central Russia. The plateau embraces parts of the basins of the Ufa, ...
- Ufa River
- (from the article "Ural Mountains") ...the ridges in narrow valleys, and descend to the plains, particularly in the Northern and Southern Urals. The main watershed does not correspond with the highest ridges everywhere. The Chusovaya ...
- Ufer, Walter
- American painter who was a member of the Taos Society of Artists and who specialized in portraits of Indians and landscapes of the southwestern United States.
- Uffington White Horse
- (from the article "Berkshire") ...linked by ridgeways that led particularly to the focus of Stonehenge in the adjoining county of Wiltshire. The major archaeological monument in the historic county, dating from the Iron Age, ...
- Uffizi Gallery
- art museum in Florence that has the world's finest collection of Italian Renaissance painting, particularly of the Florentine school. It also has antiques, sculpture, and more than 100,000 drawings and ... [6 Related Articles]
- Ufimian Stage
- (from the article "Permian Period") ...equivalent to the Capitanian Stage plus a portion of the Wordian Stage) in its upper part. The upper portion of these nonmarine beds was subsequently shown to be Early Triassic ...
- UFJ Holdings, Inc.
- Japanese bank holding company that became one of the world's largest banking institutions through the merger of Sanwa Bank, Tokai Bank, and Toyo Trust in 2001. With headquarters in Osaka, ...
- UFO group
- (from the article "New Religious Movement") Many NRMs claim to be not religions at all but rather "scientific truth" that has not yet been acknowledged or discovered by the official scientific community. In the search for ...
- Ugaki Kazushige
- Japanese soldier-statesman, who in the years before World War II headed the so-called Control Faction of the Japanese army, a group that stressed the development of new weapons and opposed ...
- ugali
- (from the article "Kenya") Kenyan cooking reflects British, Arab, and Indian influences. Foods common throughout Kenya include ugali, a mush made from corn (maize) and often served with such greens as ...
- Uganda
- country in east-central Africa. About the size of Great Britain, Uganda is populated by dozens of ethnic groups. The English language and Christianity help unite these diverse peoples, who come ... [40 Related Articles]
- Uganda kob
- (from the article "artiodactyl") ...range including resting, feeding, drinking, and wallowing places. There is little sign of territorial defense, and the herd (called the sounder) may move to a new area. At the other ...
- Uganda Museum
- (from the article "museums, history of") In central and southern Africa, museums were founded early in the 20th century. Zimbabwe's national museums at Bulawayo and Harare (then known as Salisbury) were founded in 1901, the Uganda ...
- Uganda National Liberation Front
- (from the article "Uganda") ...Ugandan exiles, quickly put Amin's demoralized army to flight and invaded Uganda. With these troops closing in, Amin escaped the capital. A coalition government of former exiles, calling itself the ...
- Uganda Peoples Congress
- (from the article "Uganda, flag of") ...yellow stripes, with the silhouette of a yellow crane in the centre. The colours were those of the ruling Democratic Party, and when it lost national elections on April 25, ...
- Uganda protectorate
- (from the article "Kenya") ...in that part of the world. The financial resources of the company, however, were inadequate for any large-scale development of the region. The company also administered territory in what is ...
- Uganda railway
- (from the article "Kenya") The East Africa Protectorate was valued by Europeans as a corridor to the fertile land around Lake Victoria, but the government's offer to lease land to British settlers was initially ...
- Uganda, Bank of
- (from the article "Uganda") Uganda's central bank, the Bank of Uganda, was founded in 1966. It monitors Uganda's commercial banks, serves as the government's bank, and issues the national currency, the Uganda shilling. The ...
- Uganda, flag of
- national flag consisting of six horizontal stripes of black, yellow, and red, with a central white disk bearing a crested crane. The flag has a width-to-length ratio of 2 to ...
- Uganda, history of
- (from the article "Uganda") This discussion focuses on the history of Uganda since the 19th century. For a detailed treatment of Uganda's early history and of the country in its regional context, see Eastern ...
- Uganda, Martyrs of
- group of 45 Anglican and Roman Catholic martyrs who were executed during the persecution of Christians under Mwanga, kabaka (ruler) of Buganda (now part of Uganda), from 1885 to 1887. ... [1 Related Articles]
- Ugarit
- ancient city lying in a large artificial mound called Ras Shamra (Ra's Shamrah), 6 miles (10 km) north of Al-Ladhiqiyah (Latakia) on the Mediterranean coast of northern Syria. Its ruins, ... [16 Related Articles]
- Ugaritic alphabet
- cuneiform writing system used on the Syrian coast from the 15th to 13th century BC. It is believed that it was invented independent of other cuneiform writing systems and of ... [2 Related Articles]
- Ugaritic language
- (from the article "cuneiform") ...that an early North Semitic Canaanite dialect was involved. Thus the script was solved with astonishing speed by Hans Bauer, Edouard Dhorme, and Charles Virolleaud, yielding a Semitic dialect named ...
- Ughelli
- town, Delta state, southern Nigeria. Ughelli lies in the western Niger River delta east of Warri. Originally an agricultural-trade centre (cassava, plantains, sugarcane, palm oil and kernels) for the Urhobo ...
- Ughoton
- (from the article "art, African") ...founder heroes. The ekpo masquerade, occurring to the south and east of Benin, is performed by the warrior age group in ceremonies to purify the village ritually and to maintain ...
- Uglich
- (from the article "Volga River") ...hydroelectric power stations and navigation locks. The uppermost complex on the Volga, the Ivankovo , with a reservoir covering 126 square miles, was completed in 1937, and the next complex, ...
- Uglow, Euan Ernest Richard
- British painter (b. March 10, 1932, London, Eng.-d. Aug. 31, 2000, London), was a representational artist appreciated as much for the painstaking perfectionism that he applied to his work as ...
- Ugokai
- (from the article "Kaburagi Kiyokata") ...and wood-block prints of the "floating world"). Around the age of 17 he became a well-known illustrator for newspapers, and in 1900 he organized a group of painter friends, called ...
- Ugra, Battle of the
- (1480), bloodless confrontation between the armies of Muscovy and the Golden Horde, traditionally marking the end of the "Mongol yoke" in Russia. By 1480 the Golden Horde had lost control ...
- Ugresic, Dubravka
- (from the article "Croatian literature") ...Marina ili o biografiji [1985; Marina; or, About Biography]), playing with the boundaries between autobiography and biography; spirited stories and novels by Dubravka Ugresic; essays and novels ...
- Ugrian
- (from the article "Finno-Ugric religion") ...on the shores of the Arctic Ocean between the Taymyr and the Kanin peninsulas. In the south the original speakers of the parent Finno-Ugric language probably began to disperse by ...
- Ugric languages
- (from the article "Uralic languages") The two major branches of Uralic are themselves composed of numerous subgroupings of member languages on the basis of closeness of linguistic relationship. Finno-Ugric can first be divided into the ...
- Uguay, Marie
- (from the article "Canadian literature") ...from politics to sexuality and spirituality. The emphasis on the personal is particularly poignant in the posthumous collection Autoportraits (1982; "Self-Portraits") by Marie Uguay, stricken at a young age by ...
- ugubhu
- (from the article "African music") ...gourd resonator, is commonly used in southern, central, and East Africa for self-accompanied solo singing. The string is struck with a thin stick or grass stem. The Zulu
- Uguccione Della Faggiuola
- Tuscan noble who, as tyrant of Pisa and Lucca, played a role in the 14th-century Italian struggle between papal and imperial factions. [1 Related Articles]
- Uguccione, Saint Ricoverus
- (from the article "Seven Holy Founders") saints Bonfilius, Alexis Falconieri, John Bonagiunta, Benedict dell'Antella, Bartholomew Amidei, Gerard Sostegni, and Ricoverus Uguccione, who founded the Ordo Fratrum Servorum Sanctae Mariae ("Order of Friar Servants of St. Mary"). ...
- Uhde, Wilhelm
- (from the article "art criticism") ...make a new art for a new century and led to the recognition of modern primitive or "outsider" art, as it has been called. In Five Primitive Masters (1949), the ...
- UHF
- conventionally defined portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, encompassing radiations having a wavelength between 0.1 and 1 m and a frequency between 3,000 and 300 megahertz. UHF signals are used extensively ... [4 Related Articles]
- Uhlaender, Katie
- (from the article "Bobsleigh, Skeleton, and Luge") American sliders dominated throughout the 2006-07 skeleton season. Katie Uhlaender found her way consistently to the World Cup podium, earning five gold medals and the overall title. She finished third ...
- Uhlan
- (from the article "lance") ...to peacetime military pageantry. In 1889, despite the indifferent success of lancers in the Franco-German War, Germany converted all of its remaining cavalry regiments into lancers known as Uhlans. In ...
- Uhland, Ludwig
- German Romantic poet and political figure important to the development of German medieval studies. [1 Related Articles]
- Uhlenbeck, George Eugene
- Dutch-American physicist who, with Samuel A. Goudsmit, proposed the concept of electron spin. [3 Related Articles]
- uho samai no mai
- (from the article "bugaku") ...Southeast Asia. The dances comprise two basic forms: saho no mai ("dances of the left"), accompanied by togaku (music derived mainly from Chinese forms); and uho samai no mai ("dances ...
- Uhry, Alfred
- (from the article "1989: Other Winners") Original Screenplay: Tom Schulman for Dead Poets SocietyAdapted Screenplay: Alfred Uhry for Driving Miss DaisyCinematography: Freddie Francis for GloryArt Direction: Anton Furst for BatmanOriginal Score: Alan Menken for The Little...
- Uhse, Beate
- German entrepreneur (b. Oct. 25, 1919, Wargenau, German East Prussia [now in Poland]-d. July 16, 2001, Switzerland), revolutionized sexual attitudes in post-World War II Germany as the founder of Beate ... [1 Related Articles]
- Uhud, Battle of
- (from the article "Muhammad") ...With that goal in mind, in 624-625 they dispatched an army of 3,000 men under the leader of Mecca, Abu Sufyan. Muhammad led his forces to the side of a ...
- Uhuru Peak
- (from the article "East African mountains") Set amid low plateaus, Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa, rising to 19,340 feet (5,895 metres) at Uhuru peak on the Kibo cone. The generally smooth outlines of the ...
- Ui-sang
- (from the article "Buddhism") ...ecumenical version of Buddhism that included all branches and sects. He tried to use music, literature, and dance to express the meaning of Buddhism. Another important scholar of the Silla ...
- Ui-te-Rangiora
- (from the article "Antarctica") ...European geographers of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance were to conjecture about the mythical Terra Australis, Maori legend tells of a New Zealand Polynesian war canoe, under the command ...
- Uige
- city, northwestern Angola. Settled by Portuguese colonists, Uige grew from a small market centre in 1945 to become Angola's major centre for coffee production in the 1950s and was designated ...
- Uighur
- Turkic-speaking people of interior Asia who live for the most part in northwestern China, in the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang; a small number live in the Central Asian republics. ... [21 Related Articles]
- Uighur confederacy
- (from the article "Central Asia, history of") This new empire comprised many tribes and seems to have been headed by a smaller tribal confederation standing under Uighur leadership. This federation is referred to in Chinese sources as ...
- Uighur language
- member of the Turkic subfamily of the Altaic language family, spoken by Uighurs in the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang of northwestern China and in portions of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and ... [4 Related Articles]
- Uijongbu
- city, Kyonggi do (province), north western South Korea. Uijongbu lies 12 miles (20 km) north of Seoul. Its name, meaning "the Cabinet" in old Korean, derives from its being the ...
- Uinta Basin
- (from the article "Colorado Plateau") ...into six sections. The highest of these is the High Plateaus of Utah, featuring great rock cliffs and terraces ascending to 11,000 feet (3,353 m) in central Utah. The northernmost ...
- Uinta chipmunk
- (from the article "chipmunk") ...eastern chipmunk. The Hopi chipmunk (T. rufus) lives among the buttes and canyonlands of the American Southwest and is remarkably adept at climbing sheer rock faces and overhangs. The Uinta ...
- Uinta ground squirrel
- (from the article "ground squirrel") ...beetles and their larvae, and ants), vertebrates (toads, frogs, the eggs and chicks of ducks and songbirds, mice, smaller ground squirrels, and small rabbits), and carrion. Others, such as the ...
- Uinta Mountains
- segment of the south-central Rocky Mountains, extending eastward for more than 100 miles (160 km) from the Wasatch Range across northeastern Utah and slightly into southwestern Wyoming, U.S. Many of ... [3 Related Articles]
- Uintatherium
- extinct genus of large, hoofed mammals found as fossils in North America and Asia in terrestrial deposits that date from the middle of the Eocene Epoch (55.8-33.9 million years ago). ...
- Uisang
- Buddhist monk and founder of the Hwaom (Chinese: Hua-yen) sect of Korean Buddhism. He devoted himself to the propagation of the teaching of the Avatamsaka-sutra (Garland Sutra), which provided ideological ...
- Uitenhage
- town, Eastern Cape province, South Africa, near the Indian Ocean, northwest of Port Elizabeth. It was founded in 1804 by J.A. Uitenhage de Mist, a Dutch governmental official sent to ... [1 Related Articles]
- Uitlander
- (Afrikaans: "outlander"), any British or other non-Afrikaner immigrant in the Transvaal region in the 1880s and '90s. The prospect of gold lured large numbers of newcomers to Johannesburg, where they ... [4 Related Articles]
- ujamaa
- (from the article "socialism") ...with the Marxist-Leninist model of one-party rule for the purpose of rapid modernization. In Tanzania, for example, Julius Nyerere developed an egalitarian program of ujamaa (Swahili: "familyhood") ...
- Ujayli, 'Abd al-Salam al-
- Syrian author, physician, and politician (b. 1918/19, Al-Raqqah, Syria-d. April 5, 2006, Al-Raqqah), was a prolific and well-regarded writer primarily of short stories but also of novels, poetry, travel books, ...
- Uji
- city, Kyoto fu (urban prefecture), west-central Honshu, Japan. It lies along the Uji River in the southeastern corner of the Kyoto Basin. It developed in about the 7th century as ...
- uji
- any of the hereditary lineage groups that, until their official abolition in AD 604, formed the basic, decentralized ruling structure of early Japan. They are often referred to as the ... [3 Related Articles]
- ujigami
- in the Shinto religion of Japan, the tutelary deity of a village or geographic area. The meaning of ujigami has undergone considerable evolution over the centuries, mainly because of the ... [3 Related Articles]
- Ujiji
- (from the article "Tanganyika, Lake") ...eastern borders trace their origins to areas in the Congo River basin. The lake was first visited by Europeans in 1858, when the British explorers Sir Richard Burton and John ...
- Ujjain
- city, western Madhya Pradesh state, central India. It is located just east of the Sipra River. Ujjain, one of seven sacred Hindu cities, is the site of the Kumbh Mela ...
- Ujjayini
- (from the article "Avanti") In the 4th century BC Candra Gupta Maurya of Magadha conquered and annexed Avanti to his dominions. Ujjayini, one of the seven holy cities of the Hindus, renowned for its ...
- Ujung Kulon National Park
- national park on the island of Java, in Jawa Barat provinsi (province), Indonesia. It is best known as the last refuge of the one-horned Javan rhinoceros. A remote area of ... [2 Related Articles]
- UK Independence Party
- (from the article "United Kingdom") In the European elections Conservative support fell to 27%, down from 36% in 1999, as many of the party's traditional voters switched to the previously tiny UK Independence Party (UKIP), ...
- Ukaan-Akpes languages
- (from the article "Benue-Congo languages") These two groups together consist of three languages spoken by relatively small numbers of people living near the confluence of the Niger and Benue rivers.
- Ukemochi no Kami
- (Japanese: "Goddess Who Possesses Food"), in Shinto mythology, the goddess of food. She is also sometimes identified as Wakaukanome ("Young Woman with Food") and is associated with Toyuke (Toyouke) Okami, ...
- Ukerewe
- (from the article "art, African") The Kerewe of Ukerewe Island in Lake Victoria carved large wooden figures, about 3 feet (90 cm) high, which appear to have been effigies of deceased chiefs. Other examples of ...
- ukha
- (from the article "ceremonial object") ...a communal meal. Vessels for holding and maintaining the sacrificial fire may be used in such situations. Two such vessels have been well described in religious literature: the Vedic Indian ...
- Ukhaydir
- (from the article "Islamic arts") ...of pleasure. This aspect of these establishments is peculiar to the Umayyad dynasty in Syria and Palestine. Outside of this area and period only one comparable structure has been found-at ...
- Ukhta
- industrial city, Komi republic, northwestern Russia, on the Ukhta River. It was founded as the village of Chibyu in 1931 and became a city in 1943, when it was linked ...
- uki-e
- (from the article "Hokusai") ...married in his mid-20s. Possibly under the influence of family life, from this period his designs tended to turn from prints of actors and women to historical and landscape subjects, ...
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