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Untold
Untold is a Netflix sports documentary anthology created by Chapman and Maclain Way, premiering August 10, 2021, with standalone films on sports scandals and figures such as Malice at the Palace, BALCO, Brett Favre, and Raygun, plus the Untold UK football spinoff.
Untold Festival
Untold Festival is an annual music festival held each August in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, founded in 2015 by Bogdan Buta, known for its main stage at Cluj Arena, themed storytelling, hundreds of thousands of attendees, and large local economic impact.
Untold Herstory (流麻沟十五号)
Untold Herstory (流麻溝十五號) is a 2022 Taiwanese historical drama directed by Zero Chou, depicting women held for thought re-education on Green Island during the 1950s White Terror.
Untold Scandal (스캔들: 조선남녀상열지사)
Untold Scandal (스캔들: 조선남녀상열지사) is a 2003 South Korean period drama directed by E J-yong, adapting Les Liaisons dangereuses to Joseon Korea and starring Bae Yong-joon, Lee Mi-sook, and Jeon Do-yeon.
Untouchability
Untouchability, the social disabilities imposed on people born into certain Indian castes (Dalits, Scheduled Castes), abolished by Article 17 of India's Constitution and the Protection of Civil Rights Act 1955, yet persisting in manual scavenging and caste exclusion despite later laws.
Untouchable
Untouchable is a 1935 novel by Indian writer Mulk Raj Anand, following a single day in the life of Bakha, a young Dalit sweeper in colonial India.
Untouchable number
An untouchable number, also called a nonaliquot number, is a positive integer that cannot be written as the sum of the proper divisors of any integer.
Untouchables (album)
Untouchables is the fifth studio album by American nu metal band Korn, released June 11, 2002, produced by Michael Beinhorn. It won a Grammy for its lead single, "Here to Stay."
Untouchables (law enforcement)
The Untouchables were Eliot Ness's handpicked squad of Treasury Prohibition agents in Chicago whose evidence work helped convict Al Capone in 1931; not FBI agents, later famous via Fraley's novel, TV series, and films.
Untraceable
Untraceable is a 2008 American thriller directed by Gregory Hoblit, starring Diane Lane as an FBI cyber-crimes agent tracking a killer who streams his victims' deaths live online.
Untranslated region
Untranslated regions (5' and 3' UTRs) are noncoding mRNA segments flanking the coding sequence that regulate translation, mRNA stability, localization, and alternative polyadenylation, and are key design elements in mRNA vaccines and gene therapy.
Untung Suropati
Untung Suropati, born in Bali in 1660, rose from VOC slavery to become Bupati of Pasuruan, killed VOC Captain Francois Tack, and died resisting the Dutch in 1706.
Unuk Dorsa
Unuk Dorsa is a 400 km ridge (dorsum) on Venus at 4.5°S, 351.5°E, IAU approved 1997, named for an Eskimo (Chukotka) night maiden; one of 99 named Venusian dorsa.
Unum computing
Unum computing is an approach to computer arithmetic based on the unum number format proposed by John L. Gustafson in 2013, later evolving into the posit.
Unum Group
Unum Group is a Chattanooga, Tennessee-based insurer of workplace benefits, selling disability, life, accident, critical illness, dental, and vision insurance primarily through employers since 1848.
Ununennium
Ununennium (Uue), also called eka-francium, is the hypothetical element with atomic number 119, expected as the first group 1 element of period 8 and not yet synthesized despite searches.
Unusual morbidity or mortality event
Unusual morbidity or mortality event (cause undetermined): a WOAH reporting category for clustered wildlife sickness or death of unknown or atypical cause, reported voluntarily, with no trade consequences.
Unusual types of gramophone records
Unusual gramophone records: nonstandard disc formats from 6-inch children's records and 16-inch Vitaphone discs to chocolate records, multiple-groove and locked-groove novelties, picture discs, and inside-out acetates.
Unvinskoye oil field
Unvinskoye oil field (Уньвинское) is an operating oil field in Usolsky District, Perm Krai, Russia, discovered in 1980 and wholly owned by operator Lukoil-Perm, with reserves of about 166 million barrels.
Unwind (novel)
Unwind (2007) is Neal Shusterman's YA dystopian novel, first of the Unwind Dystology, in which teens 13 to 18 can be legally dissected for organs under the Bill of Life; protagonists Connor, Risa, and Lev flee unwinding.
Unwritten (song)
"Unwritten" is a 2004 pop song by Natasha Bedingfield, co-written with Danielle Brisebois and Wayne Rodrigues for her debut album Unwritten. UK peak Number 6, theme of MTV's The Hills, revived to UK Number 18 in 2024 via Anyone But You.
Unyago
Unyago is a Swahili initiation rite, the female counterpart of jando, in which girls approaching puberty or marriage are secluded and taught adult womanhood through songs, dances, and oral instruction.
Unyanyembe
Unyanyembe was a Nyamwezi chiefdom and kingdom in Unyamwezi, in present-day west-central Tanzania, which grew in the nineteenth century into one of the region's most influential kingdoms.
Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas
Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (UMPIL) is the largest organization of Filipino writers, founded in 1974 to promote Philippine literature and protect writers' rights.
Unyong Jeong
Unyong Jeong (정운룡) is a South Korean materials scientist, a professor at POSTECH since 2016, known for stretchable electronics, printed liquid-metal electrodes, and electronic skin for robots.
Unzi of Akshak
Unzi of Akshak is the first king of Akshak in the Sumerian King List, credited with a 30-year reign and treated by scholars as a legendary figure.
Uogashi
Uogashi (魚河岸) is a Japanese word for a riverside fish market, and in Tokyo the name of the Nihonbashi fish market that ran from the early Edo period until 1923.
Uorsar Rupes
Uorsar Rupes is an 820 km scarp on Venus at 76.8N, 341.2E, the northern boundary of Ishtar Terra, IAU-approved 1985, named for an Adygan hearth goddess, interpreted as a fold-and-thrust or normal-fault margin.
Uoto (魚豊)
Uoto (魚豊, born 1997, Tokyo) is a Japanese manga artist, creator of Hyakuemu (100 Meters) and Chi. — On the Movements of the Earth (Orb), youngest Tezuka Prize Manga Taisho winner.
Uottakh-sulus Valles
Uottakh-sulus Valles, a 1,100-km lava channel system (valles) on Venus at 12.5N, 239.0E, IAU-approved 1997; named with the Yakutian/Saha word for the planet Venus.