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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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Classical physicists were convinced that the only limitations on the knowledge would derive from limitations inherent in our ability to make measurements of the phenomena in question. However, in 1927, Werner Heisenberg, while studying the...
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Uncle Dave Macon, singer, songwriter, and banjo player, was one of the earliest pioneers of country music. Born in 1870 in Smart Station, Tennessee, David Harrison Macon grew up in Nashville in the boarding house run by his parents that wa...
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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), Wales’s 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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Unemployment is when somebody is not employed. In the UK, many people are not working but also are not ¡§officially unemployed.¡¨ These people are inactive members of the working age. To be an active member, you have to ...
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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was conceived within the United Nations (UN) Charter, which was ratified on October 24, 1945. In the view of its founders, it was to revive within the new UN sys...
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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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Unicode is a standard for the representation of characters as integers. Another means of character representation, the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII), is a more commonly used form of character representation. Al...
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In the 1980s, people across North America saw bizarre-shaped airships with gleaming search lights soaring above their farms and towns. Some people claimed that those were only human-constructed aircraft. However researchers disagreed even t...
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UNIFICATION CHURCH. The Unification Church is a messianic, millenarian religion, dedicated to the goal of restoring the kingdom of heaven on earth. It was founded in Korea in 1954 by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon (b. 1920) as the Holy Spirit...
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Scientists develop theories as attempts to understand the physical world. The more observed phenomena a theory can account for, the more promising it is. One of the main goals of modern physics is to construct a single theory that would e...
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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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The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is the standard method of specifying the location (or address) of an object (or resource) on the Internet. The URL for a particular site on the World Wide Web (WWW or Web) can be compared to a postal addr...
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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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United Arab Emirates Al-Imarat al-'Arabiyah al-Muttahidah CAPITAL: Abu Dhabi (Abu Zaby) FLAG: The flag consists of a red vertical stripe at the hoist and three equal horizontal stripes of green, white, and black. ANTHEM: The Nationa...
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Founded in 1919 by Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and D.W. Griffith, United Artists (UA) began as a distributor and financier of independent films and their producers; it was not a studio and never had stars under contr...
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United States 1941 By 1941 the United Automobile Workers (UAW) had been successful in establishing union representation at all automotive plants in the United States except for the Ford Motor Company. Henry Ford, the company's foun...
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Christianity: United Church of Christ FOUNDED: 1957 C.E. RELIGION AS A PERCENTAGE OF WORLD POPULATION: .02 percent Overview The United Church of Christ (UCC), founded in the United States in 1957, was the product of four preexisting religi...
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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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Colombia 1928 In 1928 workers in the Colombian banana zone in the Department of Magdalena went on strike against the United Fruit Company. Workers in the region had been organizing for a decade, creating unions such as the Unión Sind...
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland CAPITAL: London FLAG: The Union Jack, adopted in 1800, is a combination of the banners of England (St. George's flag: a red cross with extended horizontals on a white field), Scot...
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METHODIST CHURCHES. Methodism arose from the search of John Wesley and his brother Charles for a deepened religious life within the ordered ways of the Church of England, which John described as "the best constituted national church...
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United States 1890 The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) is an industrial labor union that was formed in 1890 by the joining of the National Progressive Union of Miners and Mine Laborers and the Knights of Labor Trade Assembly No. 135...
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The Vicious Cycle The League of Nations was conceived during the First World War.  It was established "under the idealistic leadership of U.S. president Woodrow Wilson" (Westell) in order to "promote international coope...
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