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Umbennum
Umbennum, or Mutatio Umbenno, was a Roman road station (mutatio) in Gallia Narbonensis, attested in the 333 Itinerarium Burdigalense on the Rhône valley road, tentatively identified with Étoile-sur-Rhône or Ambonil in the Drôme, France.
Umberto Bindi
Umberto Bindi (1932–2002) was an Italian singer-songwriter and composer from Bogliasco near Genoa, best known for 'Il nostro concerto' (1960) and remembered as a founder of the Genoese school of cantautori.
Umberto Boccioni
Umberto Boccioni (1882–1916) was an Italian painter and sculptor, the leading artist of Italian Futurism, best known for the 1913 sculpture Unique Forms of Continuity in Space.
Umberto D.
Umberto D. (1952), Vittorio De Sica's neorealist drama written by Cesare Zavattini, follows retired pensioner Umberto Ferrari and his dog Flike facing eviction in postwar Rome; often dated as the last neorealist film, a flop in Italy later honored abroad.
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco (1932–2016), Italian novelist, semiotician, and medievalist, professor of Semiotics at Bologna; author of The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, Opera aperta, and Trattato di semiotica generale.
Umberto I of Italy
Umberto I of Italy (1844-1900), House of Savoy, reigned 1878-1900 as second king of united Italy; chose the national regnal name Umberto I over Umberto IV, backed the Triple Alliance, decorated Bava Beccaris after the 1898 Milan repression, and was assassinated by anarchist Gaetano Bresci at Monza.
Umberto II of Italy
Umberto II (1904–1983), last king of Italy, reigned 34 days in May–June 1946 before the referendum chose a republic; exiled to Cascais, Portugal, as Count of Sarre, he died in Geneva and was buried at Hautecombe.
Umberto Nobile
Umberto Nobile (1885–1978), Italian airship engineer and general: designed and commanded the Norge on the 1926 first verified polar crossing, led the 1928 Italia expedition that crashed, and was later rehabilitated after fascist-era disgrace.
Umberto P. Colombo
Umberto P. Colombo (1927–2006) was an Italian physical chemist and energy specialist who led CNEN, ENI, and ENEA and served as research minister in 1993–94.
Umberto Veronesi
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) was an Italian surgical oncologist whose Milan trials replaced radical mastectomy with breast-conserving surgery; he developed sentinel node biopsy, founded the European Institute of Oncology, and served as Italy's Minister of Health.
Umberto Zanolini
Umberto Zanolini (Noè Umberto Antonio Zanolini, 1887–1973), Italian artistic gymnast from Brescia, Victoria Brescia club; won 1912 Stockholm Olympic men's team all-around gold in the European System, Italy scoring 53.15 points.
Umbilical cord
Umbilical cord: fetal-placental conduit with two arteries and one vein in Wharton jelly, 50–60 cm at term; carries oxygenated blood via the vein; delayed clamping 30–60 seconds is now recommended; single umbilical artery affects under 1% of pregnancies.
Umbilical hernia
An umbilical hernia is a bulge at the belly button where bowel or fat pushes through a weakness in the abdominal muscles, common in infants and adults.
Umbilical hernia repair
Umbilical hernia repair is surgery that closes a defect in the abdominal wall at the navel, using suture or mesh, open, laparoscopic, or robotic, in adults and children.
Umbilical vein
The umbilical vein is the single cord vessel carrying oxygenated placental blood to the fetus; normally the left of two embryonic veins, it becomes the ligamentum teres after birth and supports neonatal catheterization.
Umbilicus
Umbilicus (navelworts) is a genus of about 12 succulent Crassulaceae herbs with peltate, navel-marked basal leaves and urn-shaped flowers, native from Macaronesia and Europe to Iran, Arabia, and Tanzania.
Umbilicus urbis Romae
Umbilicus urbis Romae (Umbilicus Romae), the 'navel of the city of Rome': circular brick monument at the north end of the Rostra hemicycle in the Roman Forum, Severan reconstruction marking the symbolic center of city and empire, debated with the mundus and Milliarium Aureum.
Umbo
Umbo, born Otto Maximilian Umbehr (1902–1980), was a German photographer, a leading figure of Bauhaus photography known for close-up portraits and high-angle Berlin street scenes such as Mystery of the Street.
Umboi Island
Umboi Island, a 930 km2 volcanic island in Vitiaz Strait, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea, largest of PNG's north coastal volcanic islands; 13 x 17 km caldera, no historical eruptions, rich endemic biodiversity and Kovai population.
Umbra (satellite constellation)
Umbra is a commercial X-band synthetic aperture radar satellite constellation operated by Umbra Lab in Santa Barbara, California, imaging Earth day and night in any weather at 25 cm resolution.
Umbra, penumbra and antumbra
The umbra, penumbra, and antumbra are the three regions of a shadow cast by an opaque object in front of an extended light source such as the Sun.
Umbraculida
Umbraculida is a small order of marine heterobranch sea slugs, about ten species worldwide, that carry an external limpet-shaped shell on their backs; its best-known member, the Atlantic umbrella slug, preys on sponges.
Umbraculum umbraculum
Umbraculum umbraculum, the Atlantic umbrella slug (ヒトエガイ属 genus), is a large cosmopolitan false limpet gastropod in Umbraculidae, up to 20 cm, spongivorous, with a flat visible shell and over 20 synonyms.
Umbral calculus
Umbral calculus, also known as Blissard's symbolic method, is an algebraic technique treating a sequence's index as an exponent, made rigorous by Gian-Carlo Rota in the 1970s.
Umbralisib
Umbralisib (Ukoniq), an oral dual PI3Kδ/CK1ε inhibitor by TG Therapeutics, won accelerated FDA approval in February 2021 for relapsed/refractory marginal zone and follicular lymphoma; approval was withdrawn May 31, 2022 over UNITY-CLL survival and safety concerns.
Umbrella
An umbrella is a handheld canopy on a folding rib frame used against rain or, in its parasol form, against the sun; Samuel Fox introduced steel ribs in 1852.
Umbrella (song)
Umbrella, Rihanna's 2007 single featuring Jay-Z from Good Girl Gone Bad, written by Tricky Stewart, The-Dream, Kuk Harrell, and Jay-Z; ten weeks at UK number one, Grammy-winning, originally offered to Britney Spears.
Umbrella Corporation
Umbrella Corporation is the fictional pharmaceutical-biotech company in Capcom's Resident Evil franchise, founded in-universe in 1968 by Spencer, Ashford, and Marcus; secretly a bioweapons developer whose T-Virus destroyed Raccoon City before its 2003 collapse.
Umbrella Corps
Umbrella Corps (Biohazard Umbrella Corps, バイオハザード アンブレラコア) is Capcom's 2016 3v3 third-person shooter set in the Resident Evil universe, released June 21, 2016 on PS4 and PC; it scored 38 on Metacritic and its multiplayer died within months.
Umbrella man (JFK assassination)
The "umbrella man" was Louie Steven Witt, a Dallas insurance employee who held an open black umbrella in sunny Dealey Plaza during the JFK assassination, identified 15 years later and identified by the HSCA as a heckler referencing Chamberlain, not a signaler.