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Utpala dynasty
The Utpala dynasty (उत्पल वंश) was a Kashmiri ruling dynasty founded by Avantivarman in 855 with his minister Shura, replacing the Karkota dynasty and ruling the Kashmir valley until 939.
Utpaladeva
Utpaladeva (उत्पलदेव) was a Kashmiri Shaiva philosopher and poet, c. 925–975 CE, whose Ishvarapratyabhijnakarika founded the Pratyabhijna school and deeply influenced Abhinavagupta.
Utpalamala
Utpalamala (ఉత్పలమాల), a name traditionally glossed as "a wreath of purple lilies," is a fixed vritta meter of Telugu prosody and one of its most common verse forms.
Utpreksha
Utpreksha (उत्प्रेक्षा, utprekṣā) is a figure of speech in Sanskrit and Hindi poetics, called poetic fancy, where the poet supposes rather than states that a subject resembles something else.
Utqiagvik, Alaska
Utqiagvik (Utqiaġvik, formerly Barrow) is Alaska's and the United States' northernmost city, on the Chukchi Sea coast; renamed from Barrow by a 381-375 referendum effective December 1, 2016; about 4,900 residents, mostly Iñupiat, with a subsistence and public-sector economy.
UTRA
UTRA (Universal Terrestrial Radio Access) is the 3GPP radio access technology for the 3G UMTS mobile system, operating in FDD mode (WCDMA) and TDD mode.
Utraquist Consistory
The Utraquist Consistory was the governing body of the Utraquist Church, the moderate Hussite church of Bohemia administering communion in both kinds, serving from the Hussite period until the defeat at White Mountain in 1620.
Utraquists
The Utraquists (Utrakvisté), also called Kališníci, were the moderate wing of the Hussite movement in Bohemia and Moravia, demanding communion under both kinds for the laity.
Utrecht
Utrecht is a city in the central Netherlands, capital of the province of the same name and the country's fourth largest, with 378,140 residents in 2026.
Utrecht Caravaggisti
The Utrecht Caravaggisti were early seventeenth-century Dutch painters, mostly from Utrecht, who absorbed Caravaggio's realistic, dramatically lit style in Rome and influenced Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and Vermeer.
Utrecht Cathedral
Utrecht Cathedral (Domkerk), formally the Cathedral of Saint Martin, is a Gothic church in Utrecht, the Netherlands, begun in 1254; a 1674 storm destroyed its nave.
Utrecht Psalter
The Utrecht Psalter is a richly illustrated Carolingian manuscript of the 150 psalms and 16 canticles, made around 820–835 in Reims and kept in Utrecht since 1716.
Utrecht University
Utrecht University (Universiteit Utrecht), founded 26 March 1636 in Utrecht, Netherlands, is one of the country's oldest universities, with seven faculties, over 35,000 students, Nobel laureates including Eijkman and 't Hooft, and a 2023 withdrawal from ranking submissions.
Utreglutide
Utreglutide (GL0034) is Sun Pharma's investigational once-weekly, G protein-biased GLP-1 receptor agonist for type 2 diabetes and obesity, structurally related to semaglutide, in phase 2 trials, unapproved.
Utrenitsa Vallis
Utrenitsa Vallis is a 700-km valley system (vallis) on Venus at 55°N, 280°E in the Metis Regio quadrangle, named for an Old Russian name for Venus and adopted by the IAU in 1997.
Utricle (ear)
Utricle (ear): otolith organ of the vestibular labyrinth, with the saccule; its horizontal macula, striola, and otoconial membrane sense horizontal linear acceleration and head tilt, tested clinically by oVEMP and SVV.
Utricularia
Utricularia (bladderworts), largest carnivorous plant genus with 288 accepted species in Lentibulariaceae; rootless plants with millisecond suction bladder traps, cosmopolitan distribution, and dynamic 60-1500 Mb genomes.
Utricularia cultivars and hybrids
Utricularia cultivars and hybrids are named forms of the carnivorous bladderwort genus Utricularia, selected for traits like flower size and registered by the International Carnivorous Plant Society, with 16 cultivars recorded.
UTSA Roadrunners football
UTSA Roadrunners football: University of Texas at San Antonio FBS team at the Alamodome, American Conference since 2023. Began 2011; 98-87 all-time; Jeff Traylor 53-26; back-to-back C-USA titles 2021-22; 7 bowls, 3-4.
Utsav (उत्सव)
Utsav (उत्सव) is a 1984 Hindi period drama directed by Girish Karnad, produced by Shashi Kapoor's Film-Valas, adapted from Sudraka's Sanskrit play Mrichchakatika, starring Rekha and Shekhar Suman; a big-budget erotic romance that flopped commercially but gained a cult following.
Utsavam (2024 film)
Utsavam (ఉత్సవం), 2024 Telugu romantic drama directed by Arjun Sai, starring Dilip Prakash and Regina Cassandra as heirs of Surabhi theatre families reviving traditional stage plays; released 13 September 2024, Hornbill Pictures, music Anup Rubens.
Utset Corona
Utset Corona is a circular tectonic feature on Venus near Artemis Chasma, marked by concentric structures and two fracture suites; its classification as a corona is considered suspect by USGS mappers.
Utsu-P
Utsu-P (鬱P) is a Japanese Vocaloid producer who has combined heavy metal and loud rock with synthetic vocals since 2008, writing songs for Hatsune Miku and GUMI.
Utsunomiya
Utsunomiya (宇都宮市), capital and largest city of Tochigi Prefecture, Japan; core city of about 509,000 people, 48-53 min from Tokyo by Shinkansen, known for gyoza, Oya stone, and Japan's first new-build LRT (Light Line, 2023).
Utsunomiya Line (宇都宮線)
The Utsunomiya Line (宇都宮線) is a JR East service covering the 163.5-kilometer southern section of the Tōhoku Main Line, from Tokyo Station to Kuroiso in Tochigi Prefecture.
Utsuro-bune (うつろ舟)
Utsuro-bune (うつろ舟), also read Utsuro-fune or Urobune, is a Japanese legend from 1803 about a round vessel that drifted ashore in Hitachi Province carrying a foreign woman.
Uttam Digga
Uttam Digga is an Indian entrepreneur who co-founded the intra-city logistics company Porter in 2014 and has served as its chief executive officer since August 2023.
Uttam Kumar (উত্তম কুমার)
Uttam Kumar (উত্তম কুমার), born Arun Kumar Chattopadhyay (1926–1980), the Mahanayak of Bengali cinema; star of over 200 films, first National Film Award Best Actor winner (1967), Suchitra Sen's screen partner, and subject of Satyajit Ray's Nayak.
Uttam L. RajBhandary
Uttam L. RajBhandary is a molecular biologist and Lester Wolfe Professor of Molecular Biology Emeritus at MIT, known for sequencing the first mitochondrial tRNA in 1978.
Uttam Manna
Uttam Manna (born 1984) is an Indian chemist and professor at IIT Guwahati known for superhydrophobic, bio-inspired interfaces and the 2019 INSA Young Scientist Award.