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Visphy Kharradi
Visphy Kharradi (Vispy Kharadi), the "Steel Man of India", is a Surat-born strongman and martial artist holding 17 Guinness World Records, including the longest Hercules pillar hold (2 min 10.75 s, 2024) and 1,819 kg sustained on the body (2025).
Visramiani
Visramiani (ვისრამიანი) is the Old Georgian prose translation of the Persian romance Vis o Ramin, made in the 12th century and attributed to Sargis Tmogveli.
Vissarion
Vissarion, also known as Sergei Torop or Jesus of Siberia, is a Russian who founded the Last Testament Church in 1991, claiming to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ.
Vissarion Belinsky
Vissarion Belinsky (Виссарион Григорьевич Белинский, 1811–1848) was a Russian literary critic and theorist of the Natural School, best known for his uncensored 1847 letter to Nikolai Gogol.
Vissel Kobe (ヴィッセル神戸)
Vissel Kobe (ヴィッセル神戸), a J1 League football club from Kobe, Japan, plays at NOEVIR Stadium Kobe under Michael Skibbe; back-to-back J1 champions in 2023 and 2024, twice Emperor's Cup winners, with revenue shifted from sponsors to matchday income.
Vista
Vista, California: incorporated city in northern San Diego County, founded as a post office in 1882, incorporated January 28, 1963; about 98,400 residents, 18.75 square miles, majority-Latino, known for its avocado-farming past and Business Park.
Vista Chino
Vista Chino, formerly Kyuss Lives!, is an American stoner rock band formed in 2010 in Palm Desert, California, by former Kyuss members; it released the album Peace in 2013.
Vista Coal Mine
The Vista Coal Mine is an open-pit thermal coal mine near Hinton, Alberta, operated by Coalspur Mines and the largest thermal coal mine in Canada.
Vista Energy
Vista Energy, S.A.B. de C.V., is a Mexican oil and gas company founded in 2017 by Miguel Galuccio that develops the Vaca Muerta shale in Argentina's Neuquén Basin.
Vista Equity Partners
Vista Equity Partners is an Austin, Texas-based private equity firm founded by Robert F. Smith in 2000, investing exclusively in enterprise software with $103 billion under management.
Vista Equity Partners Perennial
Vista Equity Partners Perennial is the evergreen, permanent-capital private equity vehicle family of Vista Equity Partners, an enterprise software investment firm, launched in 2017 and recorded as a San Francisco limited partnership.
Vista paradox
The vista paradox, or Sydney Opera House illusion, is an illusion in which an object seen through an aperture appears to shrink as the observer approaches.
VISTA Surveys
The VISTA Surveys are six public near-infrared imaging surveys of the southern sky made with the 4.1-meter VISTA telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile, starting in 2010.
Vistaar Finance
Vistaar Finance, formally Vistaar Financial Services Private Limited, is an RBI-registered NBFC founded in 2010 that lends secured small-ticket loans to micro-enterprises in rural and semi-urban India.
Vistage (Vistage International / Vistage Worldwide)
Vistage Worldwide, founded in 1957 as The Executive Committee, is a San Diego-based organization providing CEO peer advisory groups and executive coaching to small and midsize businesses.
Vistahm's rebellion
Vistahm's rebellion (شورش ویستهم) was the revolt of Vistahm, a former Sasanian general, against King Khusrau II, beginning about 590 and ending with Vistahm's murder in 596.
VistaJet
VistaJet is a private business aviation company founded in 2004 by Swiss entrepreneur Thomas Flohr, selling prepaid flight hours on its own fleet of business jets.
Vistaone
VistaOne is an evergreen private investment vehicle sponsored and managed by Vista Equity Partners, giving eligible individual investors access to Vista's enterprise software private equity strategies.
Vistaprint
Vistaprint is an online printing company serving small businesses with customized business cards, signage, and marketing materials, founded by Robert Keane and owned by Cimpress plc.
Vistara
Vistara, also known as Tata SIA Airlines, was a full-service Indian airline, a Tata Sons–Singapore Airlines joint venture flying from 2015 until its merger into Air India in 2024.
Visteon
Visteon is an American automotive technology company in Van Buren Township, Michigan. Spun off from Ford in 2000, it supplies cockpit electronics, including its SmartCore cockpit domain controller, to global automakers.
Vistra
Vistra Corp. is a Fortune 500 integrated retail electricity and power generation company headquartered in Irving, Texas, serving about 5 million customers with a 44,000 MW fleet.
Vistra Energy
Vistra Energy is an American integrated electricity company pairing one of the largest competitive generation fleets in the United States, about 43,000 MW, with a retail business serving roughly 5 million customers.
Vistria (private equity firm)
Vistria, also known as The Vistria Group, is a Chicago-based middle-market private equity firm founded in 2013 by Kip Kirkpatrick and Marty Nesbitt, focused on healthcare, education, and financial services.
Vistula
The Vistula (Wisła) is Poland's longest river, 1,022 km from Barania Góra to the Baltic, with a 194,000 km² basin covering 54% of Poland. Historic grain-trade artery to Gdańsk, engineered by the Przekop cross-cut and the 2022 Vistula Spit ditch, now hit by salinity, sand extraction, and 2025 record-low levels.
Vistula Valles
Vistula Valles, a 193 km IAU-named valley or channel system on Mars at 13.41°N, 308.03°E, approved 1985 and named for the classical name of Poland's Vistula River, near the eastern end of Valles Marineris.
Visu
Visu (Meenakshisundaram Ramasamy Viswanathan, விசு), 1945-2020, Tamil screenwriter, director, actor, and talk-show host; directed Samsaram Adhu Minsaram, the first Tamil film to win the National Award for Best Popular Film, and hosted Arattai Arangam.
Visual acuity
Visual acuity (VA): the eye's spatial resolving capacity, measured as the reciprocal of the minimum angle of resolution; 20/20 equals 1 arcmin. Tested with Snellen, Landolt C, and logMAR/ETDRS charts.
Visual agnosia
Visual agnosia: inability to recognize visually presented objects despite normal vision, language, and memory, with intact recognition by touch. Subtypes are apperceptive and associative (Lissauer 1890, Seelenblindheit), plus category-selective forms like prosopagnosia.
Visual analog scale
The visual analog scale (VAS) is a psychometric rating instrument on which a respondent marks the intensity of pain, mood, or anxiety along a continuous line.