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- any North American herb of the family Martyniaceae of the flowering plant order Lamiales, and particularly Proboseidea louisianica. There are nine species of unicorn plants, most having large purple or ...
- unicorn team
- (from the article "driving and coaching") ...horses, or a four-in-hand, are harnessed in two pairs, one following the other, and called, respectively, the leaders and the wheelers. Three horses, two wheelers and a single leader, are ...
- unidentified flying object
- any aerial object or optical phenomenon not readily identifiable to the observer. UFOs became a major subject of interest following the development of rocketry after World War II and were ... [2 Related Articles]
- Unidroit
- (from the article "conflict of laws") ...(1980) and the Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters (1965). The International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (Unidroit), established ...
- Unidroit Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects
- (from the article "museum, operation of") ...However, a number of countries involved in international trade found it difficult to ratify the 1970 convention, and certain difficulties arose over the definition of cultural property. The 1995 Unidroit ...
- unifacial tool
- (from the article "hand tool") ...a manner that a skillfully applied last blow would detach a large, preshaped flake directly usable as an implement; the core was discarded. Such a flake tool, with one flat ...
- unification
- (from the article "Athanasius I") ...Athanasius journeyed to the Holy Land and lived as a solitary on Mt. Galesios, Palestine, where he was ordained priest. Later he returned to Mt. Athos and founded a monastery. ...
- Unification Church
- religious movement founded in Pusan, South Korea, by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon in 1954. Known for its mass weddings, the church teaches a unique Christian theology. It has generated ... [2 Related Articles]
- Unification National Party
- (from the article "Korea, South") ...Party), the ruling party since its founding in 1963, was renamed the Democratic Liberal Party in 1990, following the merger of the DJP with two opposition parties. The Democratic Party ...
- unified budget
- (from the article "government budget") The U.S. government, in an effort to reduce public confusion over the large variety of budgetary concepts, has adopted a so-called unified budget concept that is more logical than the ...
- unified field theory
- in particle physics, an attempt to describe all fundamental forces and the relationships between elementary particles in terms of a single theoretical framework. In physics, forces can be described by ... [11 Related Articles]
- Unified National Command of the Uprising
- (from the article "Palestine") ...soldiers responded by shooting and arresting them. Women, and women's organizations, were prominent. The persistent disturbances, initially spontaneous, before long came under the leadership of the Unified National Command of ...
- unified science
- in the philosophy of logical positivism, a doctrine holding that all sciences share the same language, laws, and method or at least one or two of these features. A unity-of-science ... [2 Related Articles]
- Unified Silla Dynasty
- (668-935), dynasty that unified the three kingdoms of the Korean peninsula-Silla, Paekche, and Koguryo. The old Silla kingdom had forged an alliance with T'ang China (618-907) and had conquered the ... [5 Related Articles]
- Unified Team
- (from the article "Olympic Games") ...of Yugoslavia was banned, athletes from Serbia and Montenegro were allowed to compete as individuals. Athletes from the former Soviet republics competed for the last time as a team. Known ...
- Unified Workers Central
- (from the article "Paraguay") ...trade union, the Confederation of Paraguayan Workers (Confederacion Paraguaya de Trabajadores; CPT). After Stroessner's fall, a number of independent union groupings emerged, most notably the Unified Workers Central (Central Unitaria ...
- uniflow engine
- (from the article "technology, history of") ...under pressure. The Willans engine design, for instance, was of this type and was widely adopted in early British power stations. Another important modification in the reciprocating design was the ...
- uniflow two-stroke-cycle engine
- (from the article "gasoline engine") ...the crankshaft to complete the cycle. The fresh fuel mixture is forced into the cylinder through circumferential ports by a rotary blower (see figure) in the two-stroke-cycle engine of a ...
- uniform acceleration
- (from the article "mechanics") During the 14th century, the French scholar Nicole Oresme studied the mathematical properties of uniformly accelerated motion. He had little interest in whether that kind of motion could be observed ...
- Uniform Arbitration Act
- (from the article "arbitration") ...in federal courts of arbitration agreements and awards in maritime transactions and those involving interstate and foreign commerce. Most U.S. states adopted, sometimes with minor changes, the Uniform Arbitration Act ...
- uniform circular motion
- motion of a particle moving at a constant speed on a circle. In the , the velocity vector v of the particle is constant in magnitude, but it changes in ... [1 Related Articles]
- Uniform Code of Military Justice
- (from the article "Law") ...alleged to have violated the laws of war. In Hamdan the court by a vote of 5-3 held that those military commissions were unlawful both because they were inconsistent with ...
- Uniform Commercial Code
- (from the article "contract") ...doctrine of consideration; as the offeree does not give anything in exchange for the offer's irrevocability, consideration is lacking to support an obligation not to revoke. (On the other hand, ...
- Uniform Crime Reports
- (from the article "police") ...to strive toward, Vollmer also helped to transform the International Association of Chiefs of Police, founded in 1893, into a truly national police organization. Under its auspices he created the ...
- Uniform Determination of Death Act
- (from the article "death") ...and Behavioral Research published a report ("Defining Death") and a list of guidelines very similar to the British ones. The commission also proposed a model statute, called the Uniform Determination ...
- Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy
- (from the article "ICANN") On taking over administration of the Internet, ICANN promulgated a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy to resolve domain name controversies. ICANN also licensed several arbitration services to interpret and ...
- uniform field
- (from the article "electron tube") Fundamental to all electron devices are the dynamics of charged particles under different electric and magnetic fields. The motion of an electron in a uniform field is given by a ...
- Uniform Monday Holiday Bill
- (from the article "Presidents' Day") ...of the Continental Army during the American Revolution and the first president of the United States-was first celebrated as a federal holiday. In 1968 Congress passed the Uniform Monday Holiday ...
- uniform motion
- (from the article "mechanics") According to Newton's first law (also known as the principle of inertia), a body with no net force acting on it will either remain at rest or continue to move ...
- Uniform Probate Code
- (from the article "inheritance") The latest state of U.S. thinking is expressed in the Uniform Probate Code, approved in 1969 and amended in 1975, 1982, 1987, 1989, 1990-91, and 1997 by ...
- Uniform Resource Locator
- (from the article "World Wide Web") A hypertext document with its corresponding text and hyperlinks is written in HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and is assigned an online address called a Uniform Resource Locator (URL).
- uniform spacing
- (from the article "dispersion") A specific type of organism can establish one of three possible patterns of dispersion in a given area: a random pattern; an aggregated pattern, in which organisms gather in clumps; ...
- uniformitarianism
- in geology, the doctrine that existing processes acting in the same manner and with essentially the same intensity as at present are sufficient to account for all geologic change. Uniformitarianism ... [6 Related Articles]
- uniformity
- (from the article "measurement system") Basic to the whole idea of weights and measures are the concepts of uniformity, units, and standards. Uniformity, the essence of any system of weights and measures, requires accurate, reliable ...
- Uniformity, Acts of
- (from the article "Book of Common Prayer") The First Prayer Book, enacted by the first Act of Uniformity of Edward VI in 1549, was prepared primarily by Thomas Cranmer, who became archbishop of Canterbury in 1533. It ...
- Unigenitus
- bull issued by Pope Clement XI on Sept. 8, 1713, condemning the doctrines of Jansenism, a dissident religious movement within France. The publication of the bull began a doctrinal controversy ... [9 Related Articles]
- Unilateral Declaration of Independence
- (from the article "Zimbabwe") ...and Smith used this parliamentary strength to tighten controls on the political opposition. After several attempts to persuade Britain to grant independence, Smith's government announced the Unilateral Declaration of Independence ...
- unilateral emphysema
- (from the article "respiratory disease") Unusual forms of emphysema also occur. In one form the disease appears to be unilateral, involving one lung only and causing few symptoms. Unilateral emphysema is believed to result from ...
- unilateral shock therapy
- (from the article "mental disorder") ...applying an electrode to each side of the head; in unilateral ECT both electrodes are placed over the nondominant cerebral hemisphere-i.e., the right side of the head in a right-handed ...
- unilateral transfer
- (from the article "international payment and exchange") Among unilateral transfers the more important are outright aid by governments, subscriptions to international agencies, grants by charitable foundations, and remittances by immigrants to their former home countries.
- Unilever
- either of twin companies, Unilever PLC (based in London) and Unilever NV (based in Rotterdam), which are the holding companies for more than 500 companies worldwide engaged in the manufacture ...
- Unilever NV
- (from the article "Unilever") either of twin companies, Unilever PLC (based in London) and Unilever NV (based in Rotterdam), which are the holding companies for more than 500 companies worldwide engaged in the manufacture ...
- Unilever PLC
- (from the article "Unilever") either of twin companies, Unilever PLC (based in London) and Unilever NV (based in Rotterdam), which are the holding companies for more than 500 companies worldwide engaged in the manufacture ...
- unilineal cultural evolution
- (from the article "matriarchy") Under the influence of Charles Darwin's theories of biological evolution, many 19th-century scholars sought to formulate a theory of cultural evolution. The theory known as unilineal cultural evolution, now discredited, ...
- unilineal descent
- (from the article "clan") kin group used as an organizational device in many traditional societies. Membership in a clan is traditionally defined in terms of descent from a common ancestor. This descent is usually ...
- Unimak
- (from the article "Alaska") ...(1,770-km-) long Aleutian chain that separates the North Pacific from the Bering Sea. The chain includes 14 large islands, 55 significant but smaller ones, and numerous islets. The largest are ...
- Unimate
- (from the article "robot") Though not humanoid in form, machines with flexible behaviour and a few humanlike physical attributes have been developed for industry. The first stationary industrial robot was the programmable Unimate, an ...
- Unimation Inc.
- (from the article "robot") ...Unimate, an electronically controlled hydraulic heavy-lifting arm that could repeat arbitrary sequences of motions. It was invented in 1954 by the American engineer George Devol and was developed by Unimation ...
- unimolecular nucleophilic substitution reaction
- (from the article "reaction mechanism") Unimolecular nucleophilic substitution reactions proceed by a two-stage mechanism in which heterolysis precedes reaction with the nucleophile. The following equation is a typical example:alkyl halides
- unio mystica
- (from the article "Protestantism") ...His chief work, Four Books on True Christianity (1606-10), was soon being read in countless homes. Although Arndt stressed the notion of the unio ...
- Union
- county, central Pennsylvania, U.S., bounded by the West Branch Susquehanna River to the east and Penns Creek Mountain to the south. The mountainous ridge-and-valley terrain includes Buffalo, Paddy, and Nittany ...
- Union
- county, northern South Carolina, U.S. It is bordered by the Pacolet River to the north, the Broad River to the east, and the Enoree River to the south. The southern ...
- Union
- city, seat of Union county, northern South Carolina, U.S. It lies in hilly piedmont country near the Broad River, 68 miles (109 km) northwest of Columbia. Union was first settled ...
- Union
- (from the article "Italy") The February crisis emerged from a rift within Prodi's ruling Union coalition, which comprised both moderate parties and representatives of Italy's staunch far left, including the powerful nucleus of Italy's ...
- union
- (from the article "formal logic") ...and y-in this case the dots within the area where the arms cross-i.e., {z : z ∈ x · z ∈ y}. Similarly, the union of x and y, symbolized ...
- Union
- township (town), Union county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S., on the Elizabeth River, 5 miles (8 km) northwest of the town of Elizabeth, New Jersey. Settled in 1749 as Connecticut Farms, ...
- Union
- county, northeastern New Mexico, U.S., bordered on the north by Colorado and on the east by Oklahoma and Texas. It lies in the Great Plains. The eastern landscape is marked ...
- Union
- county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S., bounded by the Passaic River to the west, Newark Bay and Arthur Kill to the east, the Rahway River to the southeast, and Green Brook ...
- Union and Progress, Committee of
- (from the article "Defense of Rights, Associations for the") ...a coalition of middle-class organizations, composed of town notables, ulama (men of religious learning), landlords, merchants, and petty government officials (many of whom were members of the Committee of Union ...
- Union Aragonesa
- (from the article "Peter III") ...at Palermo, despite strong Guelph and papal opposition (see Sicilian Vespers). His Sicilian enterprise was unpopular in Aragon, where an association of nobles and some municipalities, the Union Aragonesa, forced ...
- Union Bank of Switzerland
- one of the largest commercial banks in Switzerland, with overseas representative offices and branches. Headquarters are in Zurich. [1 Related Articles]
- Union Carbide Corporation
- major American manufacturer of chemicals, petrochemicals, and related products. It became a subsidiary of the Dow Chemical Company in 2001. [1 Related Articles]
- Union City
- city, Hudson county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S., just north of Hoboken. It lies near the western end of the Lincoln Tunnel, on the Palisades overlooking the Hudson River and New ...
- Union College
- private, coeducational institution of higher education located in Schenectady, New York, U.S. Comprising about 20 academic departments, it offers a curriculum in liberal arts and engineering, with an emphasis on ...
- Union Cycliste Internationale
- (from the article "Cycling") ...other major national tour, the Tour of Italy (Giro d'Italia) in May, was won by Paolo Savoldelli of Italy, the 2002 victor. The inaugural ProTour, introduced by cycling's governing body, ...
- Union des Associations Europeennes de Football
- (from the article "Football") Racist behaviour continued to be a problem, but despite heavy fines imposed by the Union des Associations Europeennes de Football (UEFA) and matches staged behind closed doors, there seemed to ...
- Union Fenosa
- (from the article "Nicaragua") There were transport strikes in April and September. The weeks-long April strike in several cities saw many violent clashes. For two weeks in September, Nicaragua's Spanish-owned electric utility, Union Fenosa, ...
- Union Flag
- (from the article "United Kingdom, flag of the") ...and Protectorate period (1649-60), the Irish harp was incorporated in the Union Jack, but the flag resumed its original form on the Restoration of Charles II in 1660. Thus did ...
- Union for a Popular Movement
- (from the article "France") France turned to a new political generation in 2007. In the May 6 runoff of the presidential election, the voters chose 52-year-old Nicolas Sarkozy of the centre-right Union for a ...
- Union for French Democracy
- (from the article "The French Elections of 2007") Even faster was the poll-rating improvement of the centrist Union for French Democracy (UDF) candidate, Francois Bayrou, who went from less than 10% support in early February to more than ...
- Union for National Progress
- (from the article "Burundi") ...World War II, Burundians began to press for independence. Although the traditional leaders of Burundi and Rwanda were denied legal status for a political party they formed in 1955, three ...
- Union for the Defense of the Fatherland and Freedom
- (from the article "Savinkov, Boris Viktorovich") After the Bolshevik Revolution, Savinkov established a clandestine military organization, the Union for the Defense of the Fatherland and Freedom. This group organized an uprising in Yaroslavl (July 6-21, 1918) ...
- Union for the New Republic
- (from the article "Rally for the Republic") ...to power as the only figure capable of resolving the national crisis over Algeria; his victory did not result from party politicking. His supporters coalesced into three main groups, of ...
- Union for the Progress of Chad
- (from the article "Chad") ...leader, who became the first president of the republic. In March 1961 Tombalbaye achieved a fusion of the PPT with the principal opposition party, the National African Party (PNA), to ...
- Union for the Republic and Democracy
- (from the article "Mali") ...district assemblies throughout the country. The Alliance for Democracy in Mali (ADEMA), the party of former president Alpha Konare, topped the field by taking 28% of the seats; the Union ...
- Union for the Struggle for the Liberation of the Working Class, The
- (from the article "Lenin, Vladimir Ilich") ...return to Russia in 1895, Lenin and other Marxists, including L. Martov, the future leader of the Mensheviks, succeeded in unifying the Marxist groups of the capital in an organization ...
- Union General de Trabajadores
- (from the article "Iglesias, Pablo") ...the PSOE's central committee. The following year El Socialistica, the socialist newspaper, was founded, with Iglesias as editor. He also headed the socialist-affiliated Union General de Trabajadores ...
- Union Internationale de la Marionnette
- (from the article "puppetry") ...meeting each other and seeing each other's performances at international festivals of the puppet theatre. These festivals now take place almost every year and are usually sponsored by UNIMA, the ...
- Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne et Biathlon
- (from the article "biathlon") ...held in Chamonix, France, in 1924. The event was then called "military patrol" and was again included (still with demonstration status) at the Winter Games of 1928, 1936, and 1948. ...
- Union Internationale de Radiophonie
- (from the article "broadcasting") ...in 1903 and 1906 on radiotelegraph, and still another in London in 1912 to cover the whole field of radio communications. An informal conference of 10 countries held in London ...
- Union League
- in U.S. history, any of the associations originally organized in the North to inspire loyalty to the Union cause during the American Civil War. During Reconstruction, they spread to the ...
- Union Line
- (from the article "Currie, Sir Donald") ...the Castle Line of sailing ships between Liverpool and Calcutta in 1862 and, in 1872, the Castle Line to South Africa. From 1876 the South African mail contract was divided ...
- Union Marocaine du Travail, L'
- (from the article "Morocco") ...among university graduates holding nontechnical degrees is especially high. Several trade unions exist in the country; the largest of these, with nearly 700,000 members, is L'Union Marocaine du Travail, which ...
- Union Mondiale de Billard
- (from the article "Billiard Games") ...billiards tournaments, the Billiards Worldcup Association folded in 2004 because of declining corporate sponsorships. As a result, the world's best players had to depend for income on the Union Mondiale ...
- Union Movement
- (from the article "Mosley, Sir Oswald, 6th Baronet") English politician who was the leader of the British Union of Fascists from 1932 to 1940 and of its successor, the Union Movement, from 1948 until his death. These groups ...
- Union Nacional Sinarquista
- (from the article "Sinarquism") (from Spanish sin, "without," anarquia, "anarchy"), fascist movement in Mexico, based on the Union Nacional Sinarquista, a political party founded in 1937 at Leon, Guanajuato state, in opposition to policies ...
- Union Nationale
- (from the article "Canada") ...new came to a head in the last years of the regime of Premier Maurice Duplessis, an economic conservative and Quebec nationalist who led Quebec in 1936-39 and 1944-59. As ...
- Union of Citizens of Georgia
- (from the article "Saakashvili, Mikhail") ...and at Columbia University, New York City. From 1993 to 1995 he worked for a New York law firm. Saakashvili returned to Georgia in 1995 at the invitation of Zurab ...
- Union of Evangelical Christian Baptists
- voluntary association of Baptist churches in Russia that was formed (in the Soviet Union) in 1944 by uniting the Union of Evangelical Christians and the Russian Baptist Union. The Baptists ...
- Union of Moderate Parties
- (from the article "Vanuatu") ...Natapei of the Vanua'aku Party called a snap election in July 2004 rather than face a no-confidence vote in Parliament. He was defeated at the polls, and former prime minister ...
- Union of Republican Forces in Guinea
- (from the article "Guinea") ...Dec. 21, 2003, presidential elections, the government of Guinea stopped former prime minister Sidya Toure and his associate Mamadou Ba from leaving the country. As leader of the opposition Union ...
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- former northern Eurasian empire (1917/22-1991) stretching from the Baltic and Black seas to the Pacific Ocean and, in its final years, consisting of 15 Soviet Socialist Republics (S.S.R.'s)-Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belorussia ... [420 Related Articles]
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, flag of
- national flag consisting of a red field with a crossed gold hammer and sickle in the upper hoist corner and beneath a gold-bordered red star. The flag's width-to-length ratio is ...
- Union Pacific Railroad Company
- company that extended the American railway system to the Pacific Coast; it was incorporated by an act of the U.S. Congress on July 1, 1862. The original rail line was ... [16 Related Articles]
- Union Party
- (from the article "Puerto Rico") ...Rican political parties since 1898 had attempted to modify the political relations between the island and the U.S. federal government; the island's Republican Party favoured statehood, whereas the Union Party ...
- Union Party
- (from the article "War Democrat") ...the war, objected to Republican economic policies and to President Abraham Lincoln's abrogation of civil rights. During the 1864 presidential election, they joined with Republicans in forming the Union Party, ...
- Union Populaire Algerienne
- (from the article "Abbas, Ferhat") ...element in French society," and the abolition of colonialism to bring about the emancipation of the Algerian Muslims as French citizens. Disillusioned by the French in 1938, he organized the ...
- union shop
- arrangement requiring workers to join a particular union and pay dues within a specified period of time after beginning employment-usually 30 to 90 days. Such an arrangement guarantees that workers ... [1 Related Articles]
- Union Solidarity and Development Association
- (from the article "Myanmar") ...the convention had failed to complete its task; it did not reconvene until 2004. Also in 1993 the military government sought to ensure its continued support by forming a new ...
- Union Sulphur Company
- (from the article "Frasch, Herman") ...called the Frasch process) of removing sulfur from crude oil. He also patented processes for manufacturing white lead, sodium carbonate, and carbon for the filaments in electric light bulbs. The ...
- Union Tank Car Company
- (from the article "Fuller, R Buckminster") ...parts of the world, the most publicized of which was the United States exhibition dome at Expo 67 in Montreal. One houses the tropical exhibit area of a St. Louis ...
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