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Unani medicine, also known as yunani tibb or Greco-Islamic medicine, is a therapeutic system used in South and Southwest Asia that developed through the interaction of ancient Greek with some Arab and, perhaps, Ayurvedic medical and pharma...
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UNARIUS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. Ernest Norman (1904–1971) and Ruth Norman (1900–1993) founded in 1954 the Unarius Science of Life, which began with a small circle of students and clients who requested psychic readings. Members re...
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Uncertainty in statistics is measured by the amount of error in an estimate of the mean or average value of a population. The sample mean is the average of a group of measurements or parameters taken from the population, and the standard...
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Principle that states that the position and velocity of an object cannot both be measured exactly at the same time, and that the concepts of exact position and exact velocity together have no meaning in nature. Articulated by Werner Heisen...
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(born Oct. 7, 1870, Smart Station, Warren county, Tenn., U.S.—died March 22, 1952, Readyville, Tenn.) U.S. country music singer and banjo player. He grew up in Nashville, where his parents ran a hotel that catered to traveling perfor...
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Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings by Joel Chandler Harris Joel Chandler Harris was born on December 9, 1848, in Putnam County, Georgia. As a young white man, he became apprenticed to a printer on the Turnwold plantation. He felt comfor...
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's melodramatic novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, which she called in the preface a "series of sketches", was written "to awaken sympathy and feeling for the African race" (Stowe "Preface"). It was so successful as a polemic a...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecherstowe - 1852 Introduction Legend holds that upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe, President Abraham Lincoln greeted her as "the little lady who started the big war." Although the story r...
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An unconformity is a stratigraphic feature that is formed by broad erosion of an area causing a significant gap to occur in the stratigraphic record. Generally, development of an unconformity is accompanied by or preceded by uplift of the ...
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The German mathematician Georg Cantor (1845-1918), who laid the foundation of modernset theory, utilized the idea of "one-to-one correspondence" as a way of "counting" the members of a set. Thus he defined a finite set as either the empty ...
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Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas Dylan Thomas (1914-53), Waless most renowned modern poet, was born in the seaport town of Swansea on the southern Welsh coast. From his father, a school teacher with literary interests and atheistic b...
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Underachiever Also referred to as a latent achiever, a person whose performance is significantly below that which would be predicted by educators. An underachiever's performance in academic studies falls significantly below his scor...
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Underground Comics (or "Comix," with the X understood to signify X-rated material) include strips and books heavily dosed with obscenity, graphic sex, gory violence, glorification of drug use, and general defiance of conventi...
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Leaking underground storage tanks (LUST) that hold toxic substances have come under new regulatory scrutiny in the United States because of the health and environmental hazards posed by the materials that can leak from them. These storag...
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Understand This by Jervey Tervalon Jervey Tervalon's family moved from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Los Angeles, California, when he was four years old. They settled among other working and middle-class black families in a community-oriented,...
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The underwater world is not a hospitable one for humans. Whereas on land, oxygen is freely available in the air we breathe, the oxygen dissolved in water is not available to humans. Breathing in water will produce drowning. As a result, we...
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English engineer and amateur photographer William Thompson devised the first method of taking underwater photographs in 1856. As he watched a swollen river sweep beneath a bridge during a rainstorm, he wondered how photography might be use...
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UNDERWORLD. The term underworld refers to the subterranean region inhabited by the dead. It is often the place of punishment of the wicked, the unrighteous, the unredeemed, the unbelieving, or the lost. The concept of an underworld is an i...
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the condition of one who is capable of working, actively seeking work, but unable to find any work. It is important to note that to be considered unemployed a person must be an active member of the labour force and in search of remunerativ...
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specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that was created in 1946 to promote international collaboration in education, science, and culture. Its permanent headquarters are in Paris, France. UNESCO's initial emphasis was on rebuilding ...
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Located on the Malay Peninsula in Southeast Asia, the Unfederated Malay States (UMS), were Johor, Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan, and Terengganu. The main difference between the five UMS and the four Federated Malay States (FMS) was that British ...
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Of his 1992 film Unforgiven, director and star Clint Eastwood said "the movie summarized everything I feel about the Western." Despite this, the film sparked considerable debate about exactly what it had to say about the Western. Some crit...
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International character-encoding system designed to support the electronic interchange, processing, and display of the written texts of the diverse languages of the modern and classical world. The Unicode Worldwide Character Standard inclu...
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Aerial object or optical phenomenon not readily explainable to the observer. Interest in UFOs increased with developments in aeronautics and astronautics after World War II. A U.S. government panel investigating sightings in the 1950s repo...
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Religious movement founded (1954) in South Korea by Sun Myung Moon. Influenced by yin-yang principles and Korean shamanism, it seeks to establish divine rule on earth through the restoration of the family, based on the union of the Lord an...
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(GUT) Theory that attempts to unify the electroweak force (&see; electroweak theory) with the strong force. The unification of all four fundamental interactions is sometimes called unified field theory. Such theories generally predict that...
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A state transition diagram is a graphical representation of the states of an object as well as the transitions the object may pass through during its lifetime. State transition diagrams are used in object-oriented modeling and design to re...
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On the Korean Peninsula, the Shilla kingdom (57 BCE–935 CE), with the Tang dynasty (618–907 CE) of China as its ally, was able to overpower the Paekche kingdom (18 BCE–663 CE) and then the Koguryo kingdom (37 BCE ...
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Uniform Commercial Code The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) is a collection of recommended laws covering many different issues that arise during commercial transactions, such as sales contracts, leases, negotiable instruments, letters of cre...
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Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. The address contains three elements: the type of protocol used to ...
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The concept of uniformitarianism is commonly oversimplified in geological textbooks as "the present is a guide to interpreting the past" (or words to that effect). This explanation, however, is not correct about the true mean...
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Human activities often produce consequences very different from those intended. Indeed this is a theme of classical tragedy and much premodern argument about the indeterminacy of human affairs. Sociologist Robert K. Merton was one of the f...
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The first action of naval warfare in the American Civil War was the blockade of Southern ports by the Union Navy. Starting on April 19, 1861, the blockade was part of General Winfield Scott's strategy called the Anaconda Plan, which...
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Founded in 1969 by faculty and students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) promotes four core objectives: nuclear arms reduction, a rational national security policy, safe nuclear power,...
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(2002 est. pop. 14 million). India's third-largest city (after Calcutta and Mumbai) and a union territory, Delhi has served as the capital of various regimes for over ten centuries. Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964), India'...
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Normally, individuals inherit their chromosomes in a manner that each pair consists of one homologue from each parent. The genetic state in which both copies of a particular chromosome (or part of a chromosome) have been inherited from onl...
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Unita Blackwell Born March 18, 1933 Lula, Mississippi Mayor and civil rights activist Unita Blackwell was inspired to join the civil rights movement in the early 1960s by student activists. She registered voters, helped found the Mississipp...
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UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST ASSOCIATION. The Unitarian Universalist Association is a religious denomination that is the result of the 1961 merger of the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church of America. Those two denominati...
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federation of seven emirates along the eastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula. The largest of these emirates, Abū &Zsubdot;aby (Abu Dhabi), which comprises more than three-fourths of the federation's total land area, is the centre of...
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U.S. film company. It was founded in 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith so that they could produce and distribute their own movies and distribute other independently produced movies. The first majo...
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U.S.-based industrial union representing automotive and other vehicular workers in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. The UAW was founded in Detroit, Mich., in 1935, when the Committee for Industrial Organization (&see; AFL-CIO) began to o...
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Protestant denomination in the United States, formed by the union of the Evangelical and Reformed Church and the General Council of Congregational Christian Churches. Each was the result of former unions. Negotiations toward union of the t...
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In 1973, the Indonesian New Order government of Suharto merged all existing political parties into two parties—the Partai Demokrasi Indonesia (PDI; Indonesian Democratic Party) and the Partai Persatuan Pembangunan (PPP; United Devel...
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Farming, or agriculture, is the science or art of cultivating the soil, growing and harvesting crops, and the raising of animals. Beginning some 10,000 years ago, people in various places around the world began to grow plants and domestica...
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The United Front strategy grew from the belief of the Soviet Comintern, or international organization of Communist parties, that Communist groups in nations subject to foreign subjugation should form a united front with nationalists to ga...
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Historic U.S.-based produce company that became Chiquita Brands International, Inc., in 1990. It was founded in 1899 when the Boston Fruit Co. merged with other companies selling bananas grown in Central America, Colombia, and the Caribbea...
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island country located off the northwestern coast of mainland Europe. The United Kingdom comprises the whole of the island of Great Britain—which contains England, Wales, and Scotland—as well as the northern portion of the isla...
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in the United States, a major Protestant church formed in 1968 in Dallas, Texas, by the union of The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church. It developed from the British Methodist revival movement led by John Wesley t...
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U.S. labour union. Founded in 1890, the UMWA grew rapidly under the leadership of John Mitchell (president 1898–1908) despite determined opposition from coal-mine operators. By 1920, when John L. Lewis took over, the union had half a...
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international organization established on October 24, 1945. The United Nations was the second multipurpose international organization established in the 20th century that was worldwide in scope and membership. Its predecessor, the League o...
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