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Ubba
Ubba (Hubba, Ubbe, Ubbi), ninth-century Viking commander of the Great Heathen Army, traditionally but uncertainly a son of Ragnar Lothbrok; attested in Northumbria 867, possibly killed in Devon 878.
Ubbi Dubbi Gets Freaky Deaky
Ubbi Dubbi Gets Freaky Deaky was a planned two-day EDM festival merging Ubbi Dubbi with Freaky Deaky, set for Houston Raceway Park in October 2020 but canceled.
Ubbirī
Ubbirī (उब्बरी) was an arahant therī, an elder nun of the early Buddhist sangha, remembered for three Therīgāthā verses tracing her passage from mourning to liberation.
Ube
Ube (宇部市, Ube-shi) is a city in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, facing the Seto Inland Sea, known for the Ube Method pollution controls and its sculpture exhibition.
Ube halaya
Ube halaya is a Filipino dessert in which grated purple yam is slow-cooked with coconut milk, condensed milk, butter, and sugar into a thick, deeply purple jam, likely arising as a Spanish colonial-era fiesta food.
Ube Industries
Ube Industries (宇部興産) was a Japanese chemical and diversified manufacturing company based in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, which became UBE Corporation in 2022 after spinning off machinery and cement businesses.
UBE2C
UBE2C (UBCH10), human E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme on chromosome 20q13.12, initiates K11-linked ubiquitin chains on APC/C substrates during mitosis; overexpressed in many cancers and a prognostic biomarker.
UBE2N
UBE2N (Ubc13) is a 16 kDa human E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme on 12q22 that, with UBE2V1 or UBE2V2, builds K63-linked polyubiquitin chains for NF-κB signaling and DNA damage response; covalently inhibited by NSC697923.
Ubekendt Ejland
Ubekendt Ejland (Illorsuit, Igdlorssuit) is a volcanic island in the Uummannaq region of central West Greenland, built of Vaigat Formation picrites and hosting the Sarqâta qáqâ gabbro-granophyre complex.
Ubenimex
Ubenimex, also known as bestatin, is a protease inhibitor isolated from Streptomyces olivoreticuli in 1976 and used as an anticancer adjuvant in Japan, Korea, and China.
Uber
Uber, also known as Uber Technologies, is an American platform for ride-hailing and food delivery through a smartphone app, serving over 40 million daily trips in 70+ countries.
Über
Über, German preposition, adverb, and prefix über- (also spelled ueber), meaning over, above, across, about, more than; two-way preposition with dative/accusative, cognate with English over and Latin super, borrowed into English as uber-.
Uber BV v Aslam
Uber BV v Aslam [2021] UKSC 5: UK Supreme Court case holding unanimously that Uber drivers are 'workers' under the Employment Rights Act 1996, entitled to minimum wage and holiday pay, and working whenever logged into the Uber app.
Uber Cup
The Uber Cup, officially the World Women's Team Championships, is the biennial BWF badminton championship for women's national teams, first contested in 1957; China leads with 16 titles.
Uber Eats
Uber Eats, first launched as UberFRESH in 2014, is an online food ordering and delivery platform by Uber Technologies connecting restaurants, couriers, and customers in over 11,000 cities worldwide.
Uber Eats Music Hall
Uber Eats Music Hall, formerly Verti Music Hall, is a 2,250-seat (up to 4,500 standing) AEG-run indoor arena at Uber Platz 2 in Berlin-Friedrichshain, opened 13 October 2018 and renamed in March 2024.
Uber Freight
Uber Freight is a digital freight brokerage and logistics platform operated by Uber Technologies that matches shippers with truck carriers, launched as an app in May 2017.
Uberaba
Uberaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil: Triângulo Mineiro municipality, 337,836 people (2022), founded 19th century, zebu cattle capital hosting ABCZ and ExpoZebu, with UNESCO Uberaba Geopark.
Uberaba UNESCO Global Geopark
Uberaba UNESCO Global Geopark, or Terra de Gigantes, is a 2024 UNESCO geopark in Minas Gerais, Brazil, covering Uberaba municipality, with over 10,000 Late Cretaceous fossils including Uberabatitan ribeiroi, Brazil's largest dinosaur.
Überhaus
Überhaus is a Lebanese nightlife brand and clubbing company founded in Beirut in 2012, best known for its winter club and its outdoor summer venue The Gärten.
Uberlândia
Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil: second-largest city in the state, in the Triângulo Mineiro. Formerly Uberabinha (renamed 1929); 713,224 residents (2022 census); logistics, agribusiness, and technology hub.
Übermensch
Übermensch, German for overman or overhuman, is Friedrich Nietzsche's concept from Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883–85) of a human who overcomes man himself; translated superman (Shaw, 1903) and overman, later misused by the Nazis and debated against transhumanism.
Übermensch (album)
Übermensch (위버맨쉬) is G-Dragon's third studio album, released February 25, 2025 by Galaxy Corporation/EMPIRE; his first full-length since 2013's Coup d'Etat, eight tracks drawing on Nietzsche's Übermensch, followed by a world tour.
Übermensch World Tour
Übermensch World Tour (위버맨쉬): G-Dragon's 2025 world tour supporting his album Übermensch, his first since 2017; 39 shows in 17 cities, 12 countries, about 825,000 attendees, ending with a Seoul encore at Gocheok Sky Dome.
Ubhay Bharati (उभयभारती)
Ubhay Bharati (उभयभारती), also Ubhayabharati, is the traditional wife of Mandana Mishra and arbiter of his debate with Adi Shankaracharya, later challenging Shankara on kamashastra; known only through hagiography such as the Madhaviya Shankara Digvijaya.
Ubhayabhisarika
Ubhayabhisarika (उभयाभिसारिका) is a Sanskrit one-act monologue play attributed to Vararuci, in which a single actor narrates a walk through the courtesans' quarter to reconcile two estranged lovers.
Ubicquia
Ubicquia is a Fort Lauderdale, Florida smart-city technology company founded in 2014 that attaches sensor and communications modules to existing streetlights, transformers, and utility poles for lighting control and grid monitoring.
Ubik
Ubik is Philip K. Dick's 1969 science fiction novel. It explores themes of half-life and reality regression, and was included in Time's All-Time 100 Novels.
Ubinas
Ubinas, Peru's most active andesitic stratovolcano in Moquegua region, 70 km from Arequipa; frequent VEI 2-3 eruptions from a 1.4-km-wide summit crater, most recently 2023-2024.
Ubiquant
Ubiquant (九坤投资) is one of China's largest quantitative hedge funds, founded in Beijing in 2012 by two former Millennium quants, Wang Chen and Yao Qicong.