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Uluru Rock Art
Uluru Rock Art consists of paintings in caves and rock shelters around the base of Uluru in central Australia, made by the Aṉangu people to teach Tjukurpa, their traditional law.
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park (protected area)
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park is a national park in the Northern Territory of Australia, home to Uluru and the Kata Tjuta rock domes and jointly managed with the Aṉangu.
Uluzibbira Roman amphitheater
Uluzibbira (Ulissipira, Henchir Zembra) amphitheater: a second-century Roman amphitheater near Sidi Bou Ali, Sousse governorate, Tunisia; ca. 69 x 53 m, arena 48 x 32 m, seating roughly 2,800 to 5,400, partly rock cut.
Ulva lactuca
Ulva lactuca (sea lettuce) is a green macroalga in Ulvaceae, type species of the genus Ulva, described by Linnaeus in 1753; thin two-layered edible blades, worldwide coastal distribution, used as food, feed, biofuel feedstock, and pollution bioindicator.
Ulvedybet and Nibe Bredning
Ulvedybet and Nibe Bredning, Ramsar site 146 in Denmark's Limfjord (Nordjylland, 18,575 ha, designated 1977), a shallow fjord and dammed brackish lagoon of international importance for Whooper Swan, Bewick's Swan, and Light-bellied Brent Goose.
Ulver
Ulver (Norwegian for "wolves") is an Oslo experimental collective formed in 1993, led by Kristoffer Rygg, that moved from black metal (Bergtatt) through ambient, trip hop, and synthpop to the 2025 instrumental album Neverland.
Ulverstone, Tasmania
Ulverstone is a seaside town on Tasmania's northwest coast, at the mouth of the Leven River between Devonport and Burnie. Gazetted in 1861, it had 12,723 people in 2021.
Ulya (film)
Ulya (Uļa) is a 2026 Latvian biographical drama directed by Viesturs Kairišs about basketball player Uļjana Semjonova; Cannes Un Certain Regard premiere and Latvia's 99th Academy Awards submission.
Ulyana Donskova
Ulyana Donskova (Ульяна Донскова), born 1992, is a Russian group rhythmic gymnast who captained Russia to 2012 London Olympic group all-around gold and won four world titles before retiring that year.
Ulyana Kaysheva Nigmatullina
Ulyana Kaysheva-Nigmatullina (Ульяна Кайшева-Нигматуллина), Russian biathlete born 1994 in Mozhga; 2022 Olympic relay silver and bronze medalist, 2012 Youth Olympic pursuit champion, formerly competed as Ulyana Kaysheva.
Ulyanovsk (Ульяновск)
Ulyanovsk (Ульяновск), formerly Simbirsk, is a Volga city and capital of Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia; founded 1648, renamed 9 May 1924 for Lenin (born there as Ulyanov), 632,771 residents in 2024, UNESCO City of Literature since 2015.
Ulyanovsk Oblast
Ulyanovsk Oblast (Ульяновская область), a Volga Federal District region of Russia formed 19 January 1943 with capital Ulyanovsk; 37.2 thousand km², about 1.17 million people, machine-building and aviation economy.
Ulysse Nardin
Ulysse Nardin SA is a Swiss luxury watchmaker founded in Le Locle in 1846, historically known for marine chronometers and today for the Freak, which pioneered silicon escapements.
Ulysses (novel)
Ulysses, James Joyce's 1922 modernist novel published by Sylvia Beach in Paris, follows Leopold Bloom through Dublin on 16 June 1904 in 18 episodes paralleling Homer's Odyssey; serialized in The Little Review, censored, and celebrated on Bloomsday.
Ulysses (poem)
Tennyson's "Ulysses" (1833, published 1842), a blank-verse dramatic monologue of the aging Odysseus resolving on a final voyage, written after Arthur Hallam's death, based on Dante's Inferno Canto XXVI, closing "to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
Ulysses (spacecraft)
Ulysses was a joint ESA/NASA space probe that, from 1990 to 2009, made the first surveys of the Sun's polar regions from a near-polar solar orbit.
Ulysses 31 (宇宙伝説ユリシーズ31)
Ulysses 31 (宇宙伝説ユリシーズ31, Ulysse 31) is a 1981 Franco-Japanese animated space opera by DiC and Tokyo Movie Shinsha, 26 episodes adapting Homer's Odyssey in the 31st century; a European hit but barely aired in Japan.
Ulysses Bentley IV
Ulysses Bentley IV, born 2000, is an NFL running back from Houston who starred at SMU (913 yards, 11 TDs in 2020), transferred to Ole Miss, went undrafted in 2025, and signed with the Colts and Saints practice squad.
Ulysses Colles
Ulysses Colles is a group of small hills in the Tharsis region of Mars, named by the IAU in 2012 and interpreted as scoria cones formed by explosive volcanic eruptions.
Ulysses J. Lupien
Ulysses J. Lupien (1883–1965), Massachusetts businessman and government official: Harvard graduate, Pacific Mills industrial relations head, state Director of Civil Service 1939–1944, and Lowell's second city manager (1952–1953). Father of ballplayer Tony Lupien.
Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), Union Civil War commanding general and 18th U.S. president (1869-1877), accepted Lee's surrender at Appomattox, created the Department of Justice, pushed the 15th Amendment, established Yellowstone, and was long ranked low for scandals but has risen in historian surveys.
Ulysses Tholus
Ulysses Tholus is an IAU-named volcanic edifice (tholus) on Mars in Tharsis, about 101.7 km across, centered at 2.87°N, 238.40°E; its summit caldera is separately named Ulysses Patera.
Ulysses' Gaze
Ulysses' Gaze (To Vlemma tou Odyssea) is Theo Angelopoulos's 1995 Greek-French drama starring Harvey Keitel as filmmaker A, who crosses the post-Cold War Balkans seeking three lost Manakis brothers reels; it won the 1995 Cannes Grand Prize.
Ulyxis Rupes
Ulyxis Rupes is a roughly 390 km-long scarp in Mars' southern highlands near 68 degrees S, 160 degrees E, an IAU-approved 1976 classical albedo feature name exposing south polar layered deposits.
Ulzana's Raid
Ulzana's Raid: 1972 Robert Aldrich Western (also La venganza de Ulzana) starring Burt Lancaster as scout McIntosh tracking Apache leader Ulzana in 1880s Arizona; Universal, 103 min, Vietnam-era allegory, AHA 'Unacceptable' rating.
UM 287
UM 287 is a distant quasar around which a giant gas nebula was discovered in 2014, seen as a possible direct image of a cosmic web filament.
UM Capital LLC
UM Capital LLC is a Wyoming limited liability company, incorporated in 2023 and based in Sheridan, known for SEC Form D filings reporting $300 million in equity offerings.
Um Copo de Cólera
Um Copo de Cólera (A Cup of Rage) is a 1978 short novel by the Brazilian writer Raduan Nassar, depicting a violent weekend quarrel between a smallholder and his younger lover.
Um el-Bagara
Um el-Bagara (أم البقارة, the Cow Game), also called Mangala, is a two-row mancala-style sowing game from Sudan played by the Kababish Arabs of Kordofan on a 2x5 sand board, first described by R. Davies in 1925.
Um er-Rasas (Kastrom Mefa'a)
Um er-Rasas (Umm ar-Rasas, أم الرصاص; ancient Kastron Mefa'a/Mephaat) is a UNESCO World Heritage site in Jordan, inscribed 2004: a Roman castrum turned Byzantine-Umayyad town with 16 churches, the St Stephen mosaic floor, and a 14 m stylite tower.