After years and years of experience in foreign diplomacy one would think that the United States would try to increase awareness about foreign cultures. But instead this country remains ignorant to culture and customs; this takes its toll o...

The Ugly Little Boy is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. The story first appeared in the September 1958 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction under the title Lastborn, and was reprinted under its current title in the 1959 collection ...

The Italian playwright Ugo Betti (1892-1953) was one of the major figures of Italian theater in the 20th century. In his plays the question of guilt, justice, and redemption is of central concern. Ugo Betti was born on Feb. 4, 1892, in Cam...

The Italian author Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827) was a poet, critic, and dramatist as well as a patriot. His romantic temperament and flamboyant life characterize his role as a key transitional figure in Italian literary history. Born Niccol&ogr...

UHF is a 1989 film about a hapless dreamer who suddenly becomes in charge of a rinky-dink UHF television station and turns it into the most popular channel in town. Directed by Jay Levey. Written by Weird Al Yankovic and Jay Levey. Starrin...

ŬISANG (625–702), also known as the National Master Taesŏng Wŏn'gyo; founder of the Hwaŏm (Chin., Huayan) school of Korean Buddhism. Ŭisang, one of the most important scholiasts of the Unifi...

UKKO. Finnish incantations dating from the Middle Ages call upon Ukko, the supreme god or the god in heaven. Typical is the following such invocation: "O Ukko, god supreme, old man in heaven, god of the skies." His name, whic...

(2000 est. pop. 774,000). Ulaanbaatar (also Ulan Bator, Urga, Niislel Huree), situated at an altitude of 1,350 meters in central Mongolia, is the capital of the Mongolian People's Republic and is the country's largest city. ...

Ulcerative colitis (pronounced UHL-suh-RATE-ihv kuh-LY-tiss) is an inflammation of the large intestine that causes swelling, ulcerations (open sores), and loss of function in the large intestine. Ulcerative colitis is a form of inflammat...

Although nothing at all is known about Niclas Ulenhart himself, his Historia von Isaac Winckelfelder und Jobst von der Schneid (History of Isaac Winckelfelder und Jobst von der Schneid, 1617), published half a dozen times during the sevent...

Ulfilas (ca. 311-ca. 382), Arian bishop of the Visigoths, or West Goths, translated at least part of the Bible into Gothic. He developed the Gothic alphabet on the basis of the Greek and Roman alphabets and enriched the Gothic, or East Ger...

1522-1605 Italian physician and one of the founders of modern natural science. Aldrovani studied law, mathematics, philosophy, and medicine at the universities of Bologna, Pisa, and Padua, receiving his medical degree from Bologna in 1553....

1845-1918 Italian mathematician whose most important work was on the theory of functions of real variables. He also conducted studies on surfaces and on some of the work performed by Joseph Liouville and Eugenio Beltrami, solving a difficu...

B. George Ulizio's copy of the first edition of Sister Carrie (1900) bears Theodore Dreiser's inscription citing the collector's "vigorous and forthright approach to life." Dreiser indulged in understatement. Ulizio's capacity to dominate ...

Domitius Ulpian (died 228), or Domitius Ulpianus, was one of the most distinguished Roman jurists. He served as praetorian prefect and chief adviser to the emperor Alexander Severus. Ulpian was born in Tyre in Phoenicia in the eastern part...

The name Ulrich Bonnell Phillips is indelibly imprinted in the annals of American and Southern history. Not only was he the author or editor of nine major historical works but he also contributed numerous articles to professional journals,...

Ulrich Plenzdorf suddenly became a household name in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1972-1973, the years during which his Die neuen Leiden des jungen W. (1973; translated as The New Sufferings of Young W., 1979) was produced on se...

Ulrich von Liechtenstein is by far the best-documented author of the high courtly period of medieval German literature. What is known about his life, however, seems not at all compatible with what one learns about him from his work. His ma...

Ulrike Meinhof (October 7, 1934 - May 9, 1976) was a German radical left-wing militant who started out as a journalist. She was one of the founders of the Red Army Faction (in German: Rote Armee Fraktion ), which is also known as the Baade...

Ultima is a series of fantasy computer role-playing games from Origin Systems, Inc. . Ultima was created by Richard Garriott , a.k.a. Lord British. Several games of the series are considered seminal games of their genre. Today, Electronic ...

The Ultimate Escape is the second full length album by Tsunami Bomb, released in 2002. "Take The Reins" was the first single to be released from the album....

Ultimate Spider-Man (2000-present) is a superhero comic book series published by Marvel Comics . The series is a modernized reimagining of the long-running marvel comic Spider-Man. It is set outside of the Marvel Universe continuity in the...

The Ultimates is a comic book published by Marvel comics and set in the Ultimate Marvel universe. Contents 1 Ultimates 1.1 Issue #2 1.2 Issue #3 1.3 Issue #4 1.4 Issue #12 2 The Ultimates 2 2.1 Issue #2 2.2 Issue #6 2.3 Issue #7 2.4 Issue ...

ULTRAMONTANISM is the tendency of Roman Catholicism that emphasizes the authority of the papacy in the government and teaching of the church. Originally articulated in opposition to Gallicanism, ultramontanism stressed the unity of the chu...