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Unnuneeli Sandesam
Unnuneeli Sandesam (ഉണ്ണുനീലിസന്ദേശം) is a 14th-century Malayalam messenger poem written in Manipravalam, believed to be the first sandesha kavya in Malayalam, dated 1350 to 1365.
Uno (Better Call Saul)
Uno is the 2015 pilot of Better Call Saul, AMC's Breaking Bad prequel, written by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould and directed by Gilligan. It opens with Saul Goodman as Cinnabon manager Gene in Omaha, then flashes back to Jimmy McGill in 2002 Albuquerque, ending on Tuco Salamanca's gun. Its 6.9-million-viewer live premiere set cable records.
Uno (card game)
Uno (UNO) is a crazy eights family shedding card game created by Merle Robbins in 1971 in Cincinnati, Ohio, sold to Mattel in 1992; players match color or number, call UNO at one card, and score to 500 points.
Uno Kōji
Uno Kōji (宇野浩二), real name Uno Kakujiro, was a Japanese novelist, essayist, and critic of the Taishō and Shōwa periods, known for Kura no Naka and Ko o Kashiya.
Uno Lindberg
Uno Lindberg (died 2017) was a Swedish biochemist and cell biologist at Uppsala University, known for discovering profilin and for the DNase I inhibition assay measuring actin.
Unobservables (philosophy of science)
Unobservables in the philosophy of science are entities posited by theories but not directly perceived, like electrons and genes, the central issue dividing scientific realism from antirealism.
Unobtainium
Unobtainium, also spelled unobtanium, is a humorous engineering term for an ideal material that a design requires but that cannot be obtained, dating from 1950s aerospace engineering.
Unobtrusive JavaScript
Unobtrusive JavaScript is a programming philosophy for client-side scripts: crucial site functionality works in plain HTML, and JavaScript is layered on top, avoiding inline event handlers.
uNodada
uNodada is the isiXhosa form of address for a person named Nodada, used for a National Assembly member in Hansard and recorded in Zulu genealogy and Shona.
Unofficial Football World Championships
Unofficial Football World Championships (UFWC): boxing-style lineal title in international football, traced from England v Scotland 1872; any FIFA 'A' match counts, 48 nations have held it, Scotland lead the rankings.
Unopposed by-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom
An unopposed by-election to the Parliament of the United Kingdom is one where a single candidate is nominated and declared elected without a poll, a Victorian-era pattern that ended in 1954.
Unorthodox (miniseries)
Unorthodox is a four-part 2020 Netflix miniseries created by Anna Winger and Alexa Karolinski, directed by Maria Schrader, loosely based on Deborah Feldman's memoir; first Netflix series primarily in Yiddish, starring Shira Haas, Emmy-winning for directing.
Unorthodox Jukebox
Unorthodox Jukebox is Bruno Mars's second studio album, released December 2012 on Atlantic Records; a genre-spanning 10-song set produced with The Smeezingtons, Mark Ronson, and Jeff Bhasker that topped the Billboard 200 and won the 2014 Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album.
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots is Deborah Feldman's 2012 Simon & Schuster memoir of growing up in and leaving Brooklyn's Satmar Hasidic community; it became a New York Times bestseller and the loose basis for Netflix's 2020 series Unorthodox.
Unpaarvaiyil (உன்பார்வையில்)
Unpaarvaiyil (உன் பார்வையில்), a 2025 Tamil psychological thriller directed by Kabir Lal, remakes Julia's Eyes; Parvati Nair plays twins Bhavya and Dhivya, released on Sun NXT 19 December 2025.
Unplanned
Unplanned is a 2019 American drama film written and directed by Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman. It dramatizes Johnson's resignation from a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas.
Unplugged (Alice in Chains album)
Unplugged (MTV Unplugged) is Alice in Chains' live acoustic album, recorded April 10, 1996 at Brooklyn's Majestic Theatre and released July 30, 1996. It captures Layne Staley's final era-defining performance with the band's original lineup.
Unplugged (Eric Clapton album)
Unplugged is a live album by Eric Clapton, recorded acoustically in January 1992 for MTV Unplugged; it won six Grammys and sold over 20 million copies worldwide.
Unplugged: The Complete 1991 and 2001 Sessions
Unplugged: The Complete 1991 and 2001 Sessions is a 2014 Rhino live compilation by R.E.M. collecting both MTV Unplugged appearances, 33 tracks including 11 unaired, first issued on Record Store Day vinyl.
Unprecedented
Unprecedented (2022) is a three-part Discovery+ docuseries by British director Alex Holder following Donald Trump and his family through the 2020 campaign, January 6, and Trump's final presidential interview; its footage was subpoenaed by the House January 6 committee.
Unpregnant
Unpregnant (2020) is an HBO Max comedy-drama road movie directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg, adapted from the Hendriks and Caplan novel, starring Haley Lu Richardson and Barbie Ferreira as teens driving from Missouri to New Mexico for an abortion.
Unprisoned
UnPrisoned is a Hulu comedy-drama created by Tracy McMillan, inspired by her life, starring Kerry Washington as therapist Paige Alexander and Delroy Lindo as her father Edwin, released after 17 years in prison; two seasons, 2023-2024, Onyx Collective's most-viewed premiere, canceled September 2024.
Unprocessed
Unprocessed is a German progressive metalcore/djent band from Wiesbaden (formed 2012/2013), led by guitarist-vocalist Manuel Gardner Fernandes; seven albums from In Concretion (2014) to Angel (2025), tours with Polyphia, TesseracT, Jinjer, and a 2026 Angel world tour.
Unproven
Unproven is the stage name of Stein Bosch, a Dutch uptempo hardcore DJ and producer signed to Barbaric Records who has played Defqon.1 and Masters of Hardcore.
Unquestionable Presence
Unquestionable Presence, Atheist's 1991 second album on Active Records, is a landmark technical death metal record recorded at Morrisound with Scott Burns, dedicated to late bassist Roger Patterson, blending death metal with jazz fusion and shifting time signatures.
Unramified extension
An unramified extension is a field extension in which no prime of the base field acquires ramification, meaning the ramification index is 1 and residue fields extend separably.
Unratified California treaties of 1851–1852
The unratified California treaties of 1851–1852, also called the Barbour Treaties, were eighteen US treaties with California Indian groups that the Senate rejected in 1852.
Unravel (video game)
Unravel is a 2016 physics-based puzzle-platformer by Coldwood Interactive and EA, starring Yarny, a yarn figure unraveling through 12 photo-framed memory levels; praised visuals, mixed puzzle depth.
Unravel Data
Unravel Data, also called Unravel, is a Mountain View, California company (founded 2013 by Kunal Agarwal and Shivnath Babu) selling data observability and autonomous optimization, via its Arvix AI engine, for Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, and Cloudera.
Unravel Two
Unravel Two is a 2018 puzzle-platformer by Coldwood Interactive and EA, released June 9, 2018 on PS4, Xbox One, and PC (Switch 2019), starring two thread-linked Yarnys in local co-op or solo play; Metacritic 77.