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Uwe-Johnson-Preis

The Uwe-Johnson-Preis is a German literary prize worth 20,000 euros, awarded since 1994 to German-language authors whose work reflects the German past, present, and future in the spirit of Uwe Johnson.

Uwu

Uwu (UwU) is a cute-face text emoticon, u for closed eyes and w for a smiling mouth, derived from Japanese kaomoji like (o・ω・o); first documented by 2005, popularized via anime and furry fandoms, and distinct from owo, which shows surprise.

UX Arietis

UX Arietis, also known as UX Ari, is a magnetically active binary star in Aries, consisting of a K0 subgiant and a G5 dwarf with large starspots and powerful flares.

UX Orionis

UX Orionis, or UX Ori, is a Herbig Ae star in Orion that names the UX Orionis variables, young stars sporadically dimmed by dust clumps in their protoplanetary discs.

UX Tauri

UX Tauri (UX Tau) is a system of four young T Tauri stars in the Taurus molecular cloud, whose primary hosts a well-studied gapped protoplanetary disk.

UX Ursae Majoris

UX Ursae Majoris (UX UMa) is a nova-like cataclysmic variable star in Ursa Major, a white dwarf accreting from a close companion and eclipsed every 4.72 hours.

Uxacona

Uxacona was a Romano-British road-station on Watling Street, identified with Redhill near Telford, Shropshire; named only in the Antonine Itinerary, fortified from the late 2nd century and a 4th-century burgus.

Uxbridge

Uxbridge covers two places sharing the name: a Hillingdon town, London, on the River Colne (Saxon Wixan bridge origin, 1644 Civil War treaty, Brunel University), and a Township of Uxbridge in Durham Region, Ontario, which gained Durham's planning powers on January 1, 2025.

Uxbridge and South Ruislip (UK Parliament constituency)

Uxbridge and South Ruislip: Greater London parliamentary constituency created in 2010, covering Hillingdon wards. Held by Conservatives 2010–2024 (John Randall, Boris Johnson, Steve Tuckwell); won by Labour's Danny Beales in 2024 by 587 votes after the 2023 Ulez-dominated by-election.

Uxbridge, Ontario

Uxbridge is a township in Durham Region, Ontario, about 64 km northeast of Toronto on the Oak Ridges Moraine. Known as the Trail Capital of Canada with 300+ km of trails, it was settled by Quakers from 1806 and counts L.M. Montgomery's Leaskdale years among its heritage.

UxC

UxC, formerly the Ux Consulting Company, is an American nuclear-fuel market research firm founded in 1994 and based in Roswell, Georgia, whose Ux U3O8 Price settles CME uranium futures.

Uxellodunum

Uxellodunum, oppidum of the Cadurci in Quercy (Lot, France), was the last Gallic stronghold besieged by Julius Caesar in 51 BCE; he took it by diverting its spring, an episode told in Hirtius' Book VIII and identified with Puy d'Issolud since 2001.

Uxelodu(nu)m

Uxelodunum, also known as Petriana, was a Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall at Stanwix, now in Carlisle, and the largest fort on the Wall, garrisoned by a thousand-strong cavalry regiment.

Uxin Limited (优信)

Uxin Limited (优信), also known as Uxin Group, is a Chinese used-car e-commerce company founded by Dai Kun in 2011, headquartered in Beijing and NASDAQ-listed since 2018.

Uxmal

Uxmal, a ruined Maya city in Yucatán, Mexico, capital of the Puuc region at its 750–900 AD apogee, famed for the Pyramid of the Magician and Governor's Palace; UNESCO World Heritage site since 1996, declined amid Terminal Classic droughts.

Uxoricide

Uxoricide is the killing of a wife by her husband or partner, from Latin uxor + -cide; contrasted with mariticide. Covers its etymology, legal history, and global prevalence and risk-factor research.

UY Aurigae

UY Aurigae (UY Aur) is a binary system of young T Tauri stars in Auriga, about 140 parsecs away, with one of the few known circumbinary disks.

UY Scuti

UY Scuti (UY Sct) is a red supergiant star in the constellation Scutum, about 5,900 light-years away, once widely reported as the largest known star.

UY Scuti (Young Thug album)

UY Scuti is Young Thug's fourth solo studio album, released September 26, 2025 on Young Stoner Life/300 Entertainment, named after a red supergiant star; distinct from Olamide's 2021 album of the same name.

UY Scuti Bøyz

UY SCUTI BØYZ is the 2026 debut collaborative mixtape by Atlanta rappers Tezzus and diamond of ØWay, released April 17 on Young Stoner Life Records; 18 tracks, 47 minutes, featuring Young Thug, Rylo Rodriguez, and skaiwater.

UY Vol

UY Vol, also known as EXO 0748-676, is an eclipsing low-mass X-ray binary in Volans where a neutron star accretes from a very low-mass companion star.

Uyare (ഉയരെ)

Uyare (ഉയരെ) is a 2019 Malayalam drama directed by Manu Ashokan, written by Bobby-Sanjay, starring Parvathy Thiruvothu as Pallavi, an aspiring pilot who survives an acid attack by her boyfriend; a 2019 box-office success, first Malayalam film released in South Korea.

Uyen Ninh

Uyen Ninh (Ninh Thị Uyên, born 1996) is a Vietnamese creator in Mannheim, Germany, making comedy videos on Vietnam–Germany cultural differences for TikTok (@uyennninh), YouTube, and Instagram, with millions of followers.

Uyghur art of Turfan

Uyghur art of Turfan is the Buddhist, Manichaean, and Christian painting, manuscript illumination, and sculpture of the Turfan oasis, chiefly from the Uyghur settlement there in 843 until Islamicization.

Uyghur Conquest of the Second Turkic Khaganate

The Uyghur conquest of the Second Turkic Khaganate was the overthrow of the Türk ruling house in Mongolia between 742 and 745 by Basmyl, Uyghur, and Karluk tribes.

Uyghur horse trade payments

Uyghur horse trade payments (回紇馬價) were the payments the Tang court owed for horses in the Sino-Uyghur silk-for-horse trade, a burden that strained Tang finance and politics.

Uyghur Intervention in the An Lushan Rebellion

The Uyghur intervention in the An Lushan Rebellion was the Uyghur Khaganate's military aid to the Tang dynasty from 756 to 762, decisive in restoring Tang rule.

Uyghur Khaganate

Uyghur Khaganate (744–840), also called Uighur Empire, a Turkic steppe state on the Orkhon River with capital Ordu-Baliq; allied with Tang China in the silk-for-horse trade and adopted Manichaeism; ended by the Yenisei Kyrgyz in 840.

Uyghur language

Uyghur (ئۇيغۇر تىلى, Uyghur tili) is a southeastern (Qarluq) Turkic language of Xinjiang, China, with about 12 million speakers; agglutinative, SOV, vowel-harmonic, closest to Uzbek, written in an Arabic-based script.

Uyir (2026 film)

Uyir (ഉയിർ) is a 2026 Malayalam crime thriller directed by M. Padmakumar, starring Roshan Mathew as probationary SI Ajeeb at Dharmadam station, Kannur, based on real incidents; released 26 June 2026, streaming on JioHotstar from 4 August 2026.