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Uh Huh Her (album)
Uh Huh Her is PJ Harvey's sixth studio album, self-produced and released May 2004 on Island Records; darker and rawer than Stories from the City, UK number 12, Grammy-nominated, with singles 'The Letter', 'You Come Through' and 'Shame'.
Uhehe
Uhehe is the kingdom of the Hehe people in Tanzania's Southern Highlands, best known for resisting German conquest from 1891 to 1898 under Chief Mkwawa.
Úherce
Úherce: name of two Czech villages, one in Louny District (German Auretz, first mentioned 1088) and one near Nýřany (first mentioned 1213), both with historic municipal cemeteries.
Uherské Hradiště
Uherské Hradiště, royal town in Zlín Region, Czechia, center of Slovácko; founded 1257 by Přemysl Otakar II as a Morava-river border fortress, about 24,850 inhabitants, leaning town hall, wine cellars.
UHF – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff
UHF – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff is "Weird Al" Yankovic's July 1989 album for his film UHF: 13 tracks, six from the movie, plus parodies of Dire Straits, R.E.M., and Fine Young Cannibals, produced by Rick Derringer.
UHF (film)
UHF, also known as The Vidiot from UHF, is a 1989 American comedy film starring "Weird Al" Yankovic, whose bizarre programming revives a bankrupt TV station.
UHF television broadcasting
UHF television broadcasting is the transmission of television signals in the ultra high frequency band above 300 MHz, first broadcast in the United States in 1952.
Uhha-Ziti
Uhha-Ziti, also written Uḫḫa-ziti, was a king of Arzawa in western Anatolia in the 14th century BC, defeated and deposed by the Hittite king Mursili II around 1318 BC.
Uhl anomaly
Uhl anomaly (parchment heart), an extremely rare congenital heart defect first described by Henry Uhl in 1952, in which right ventricular myocardium is absent, causing right heart failure and arrhythmias; fewer than 100 cases reported.
Uhlan
Uhlan (Polish ułan, German Ulan): originally a Polish lance-armed light cavalryman, later lancer regiments in Prussian, Austrian, Russian, and British armies; distinguished by the czapka cap and Polish-style dress.
Uhlmann Group
The Uhlmann Group is a family-owned German corporate group headquartered in Laupheim that builds pharmaceutical packaging machinery; founded in 1948, it comprises six companies and employs about 2,500 people.
Uhm Ji-won (엄지원)
Uhm Ji-won (엄지원), born 1977, is a South Korean actress who debuted in The Record (2000), won film critics' Best Actress for Hope (2013), and the 2025 KBS Drama Awards Grand Prize for For Eagle Brothers.
Uhm Jung-hwa (엄정화)
Uhm Jung-hwa (엄정화), the "Korean Madonna", is a South Korean singer and actress who debuted via MBC in 1989, led 1990s dance-pop hits like "Rose of Betrayal", starred in Haeundae (2009) and Doctor Cha, and returns in Okay! Madam: Bon Voyage (2026).
Uhm Tae-woong (엄태웅)
Uhm Tae-woong (엄태웅, born 1974) is a South Korean actor, brother of Uhm Jung-hwa, known for Resurrection, The Devil, Queen Seondeok, Cyrano Agency, and Architecture 101; his career paused after a 2016 case and resumed in 2025.
Uḫna
Uḫna (Uhna) was a king of Zalpuwa in north-central Anatolia who flourished in the 19th to 18th centuries BC and abducted the statue of the god Šiu-šummi from Neša.
Uhola Catenae
Uhola Catenae: chains of troughs and elongated pits on dwarf planet Ceres, north of the Yalode basin; IAU-named 2016 after a Nigerian harvest festival; 400 km across, partly radial to Yalode.
UHRF1
UHRF1 (ICBP90, Np95) is a multi-domain E3 ubiquitin ligase at 19p13.3 that maintains DNA methylation by binding hemi-methylated DNA and recruiting DNMT1; overexpressed in cancers, it is a biomarker and epigenetic drug target.
Uhtred of Bamburgh
Uhtred of Bamburgh, called Uhtred the Bold (died 1016), ealdorman of all Northumbria under Æthelred II; defeated the Scots at Durham in 1006, married Ælfgifu the king's daughter, and was murdered on Cnut's orders at Wiheal; inspiration for Cornwell's Uhtred of Bebbanburg.
Uhub
Uhub was an Early Dynastic ruler of the Mesopotamian city of Kish, known only from inscriptions, including a vase fragment in the British Museum; his title, king or governor, is unresolved.
Uhuru (satellite)
Uhuru, also designated Explorer 42 or SAS-1, was an American X-ray astronomy satellite launched in 1970, the first satellite entirely devoted to studying cosmic X-ray sources.
Uhuru Kenyatta
Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, son of Jomo Kenyatta, fourth President of Kenya 2013–2022: Jubilee Alliance and Party leader, ICC accused until 2014 charge withdrawal, Big Four Agenda, BBI Handshake with Odinga, and 2022 handover to William Ruto.
Uhuru Park
Uhuru Park is a public park in central Nairobi, Kenya, opened in 1969 and known as the site of landmark protests led by Wangari Maathai.
UHZ1
UHZ1, also cataloged as UNCOVER-26185, is a galaxy at redshift z = 10.073, lensed by the cluster Abell 2744 and seen about 470 million years after the Big Bang.
UI (film)
UI is a 2024 Kannada sci-fi dystopian action film written and directed by Upendra, who stars as Satya and Kalki. Released 20 December 2024 by Lahari Films and Venus Entertainers, it is a surreal film-within-a-film political satire set in 2040 AD.
UI-TARS
UI-TARS is a family of vision-language models from ByteDance's Seed team that acts as a GUI agent, taking screenshots and outputting keyboard and mouse actions.
UIC classification of goods wagons
The UIC classification of goods wagons is the European system identifying freight wagons by a twelve-digit number and letter marking, defined by the International Union of Railways.
UIC classification of locomotive axle arrangements
The UIC classification of locomotive axle arrangements, also called the German classification, describes the wheel arrangement of locomotives, multiple units, and trams by counting axles and marking which are driven.
UIC wagon numbers
UIC wagon numbers, known as European Vehicle Numbers (EVNs), are 12-digit numbers assigned to railway rolling stock in Europe under a scheme published in 1964.
UICC
The Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC) is the smart card platform in mobile devices that securely stores subscriber identity data; the SIM is an application running on it.
Uicheon
Uicheon (의천, 1055–1101), a prince of Korea's Goryeo dynasty, became a monk and founded the Cheontae order in 1097, compiling Korea's first catalog of Buddhist commentaries.