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Usurpation of Sima Lun
The Usurpation of Sima Lun (赵王伦篡位) was the seizure of the Jin dynasty throne by Sima Lun, Prince of Zhao, who deposed Emperor Hui before armies drove him out.
Usurpation of the Kanvas
The Usurpation of the Kanvas (कण्व वंश की स्थापना) was the overthrow of the last Shunga king, Devabhuti, by his Brahman minister Vasudeva Kanva, who founded the Kanva dynasty.
Usurpation of the throne by Askia Muhammad
The usurpation of the throne by Askia Muhammad was the 1493 seizure of power in the Songhai Empire by the general Muhammad Ture, founding the Askia dynasty.
Usurpation of Tiridates II
The Usurpation of Tiridates II (شورش تیرداد دوم) was the revolt of the Parthian pretender Tiridates against King Phraates IV around 32 BC; Tiridates briefly took the throne.
Usurpation of Urhi-Teshub by Hattusili III
The usurpation of Urhi-Teshub by Hattusili III, also known as the deposition of Mursili III, ended the five-year reign of the Hittite Great King around 1267 BC.
Usurpation of Vonones I
The Usurpation of Vonones I (ونون یکم و اردوان دوم) was the overthrow of the Parthian king Vonones I by Artabanus II, c. AD 8 to 12.
Usury
Usury is the lending of money at interest, in modern usage specifically at an exorbitant, excessive, or unlawful rate; pre-Reformation Christianity treated any interest as usury.
Usv Climate
USV Climate is the climate technology investment effort of New York venture capital firm Union Square Ventures, with a $162 million fund announced in 2021.
USV Private Limited
USV Private Limited is an Indian pharmaceutical company in Mumbai, founded in 1961 by Vithal Balkrishna Gandhi and led for over two decades in India's oral anti-diabetic market.
UT Austin Villa
UT Austin Villa is the RoboCup robot soccer team of the University of Texas at Austin, led by Peter Stone, competing since 2003 with multiple 3D simulation world titles.
UT Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros football
UT Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros football: UTRGV's NCAA Division I FCS team in the Southland Conference, launched 2025 under Travis Bush; went 9-3, a first-year FCS record, at Vackar Stadium, Edinburg.
Ut Rupes
Ut Rupes is a 676-km-wide scarp (rupes) on Venus at 55.3N, 321.9E, IAU-approved in 1982 and named for a Turco-Tatar hearth-fire goddess; it borders Lakshmi Planum's southern edge near Vesta Rupes.
UT-7
UT-7 (UT7, CVCL_2233) is a human megakaryoblastic leukemia cell line established in 1991 from a 64-year-old Japanese man's bone marrow, absolutely dependent on GM-CSF, IL-3, or erythropoietin, with sublines UT-7/Epo, UT-7/GM, and UT-7/TPO.
UT1
UT1, or Universal Time 1, is the time scale determined from the Earth's rotation, a modern form of mean solar time on the Greenwich meridian.
UT69
UT69 (UT 69) is a 2023 Hindi satirical biographical drama directed by Shahnawaz Ali, starring businessman Raj Kundra as himself during his 63 days in Mumbai's Arthur Road Jail after a 2021 pornography-case arrest; released 3 November 2023, U/A, 117 minutes.
Uta Abe
Uta Abe (阿部 詩), born 2000 in Kobe, is a Japanese judoka, −52 kg half-lightweight: Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion, sister of Hifumi Abe, record 12 women's Grand Slam titles, six world golds by 2026.
Uta Fluctus
Uta Fluctus is a 366.67 km lava flow field (fluctus) on Jupiter's moon Io, IAU-approved in 1985 and named for the Sumerian sun god; one of 19 named Io fluctus.
Uta Francke
Uta Francke is a German-American human geneticist and Stanford professor emerita whose lab mapped human chromosomes, cloned the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome gene, and later worked at 23andMe.
Uta Frith
Uta Frith is a German-born British developmental psychologist and emeritus professor at University College London whose work linked autism and dyslexia to the brain, developing the mindblindness and weak central coherence theories.
Uta Hagen
Uta Hagen (1919–2004), German-born American Broadway actress and master acting teacher at HB Studio, New York; Tony winner for The Country Girl and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, author of Respect for Acting and creator of the object exercises and substitution technique.
Uta monogatari
Uta monogatari (歌物語, "poem tales") is a Heian-period Japanese literary genre of short episodes explaining how waka poems were composed, including Ise monogatari and Yamato monogatari.
Uta no Prince-sama
Uta no Prince-sama (うたの☆プリンスさまっ♪), also UtaPri, is a Broccoli multimedia franchise begun with a 2010 PSP otome game about idol trainees at Saotome Gakuen, expanded through the Maji LOVE anime series, Elements Garden CDs, and rhythm games like Shining Live.
Uta Pippig
Uta Pippig, German long-distance runner born 1965 in Leipzig; won Berlin Marathon 1990, 1992, 1995, Boston 1994-96 (first woman with three consecutive Boston wins), New York 1993; marathon best 2:21:45; two-time Olympian.
Uta Uta Tjangala
Uta Uta Tjangala (c. 1926–1990) was a Pintupi artist from Australia's Western Desert, a founding figure of the Papunya Tula painting movement begun in 1971.
Utaawase
Utaawase (歌合) was a Japanese waka poetry contest in which paired poems from left and right teams were judged round by round, flourishing from the Heian period onward.
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (歌川国芳, 1797–1861) was a Japanese ukiyo-e printmaker of the Utagawa school in Edo, famous from 1827 for warrior prints of the Suikoden heroes.
Utagawa school
The Utagawa school (歌川派, Utagawa-ha) was the largest school of ukiyo-e, the Japanese woodblock-print tradition, founded in the late 18th century by Utagawa Toyoharu and led by Kunisada, Kuniyoshi, and Hiroshige.
Utagawa Toyoharu
Utagawa Toyoharu (歌川豊春, 1735–1814) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period who founded the Utagawa school and was known for uki-e perspective prints of Edo that influenced Hiroshige and Hokusai.
Utagawa Toyokuni I
Utagawa Toyokuni I (歌川豊国) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, best known for his kabuki actor prints and portraits of beautiful women.
Utah
Utah, the Beehive State, a western U.S. state admitted January 4, 1896 as the 45th state, capital Salt Lake City, area 84,900 square miles, population about 3.54 million in 2025, defined by Wasatch Front urbanization and ongoing drought and Great Salt Lake water policy.