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Zsolt Semjén
Zsolt Semjén is a Hungarian politician who led the Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP) and served as Deputy Prime Minister for nation and church policy under the Fidesz alliance.
Zsolt Szoboszlai
Zsolt Szoboszlai (born 1974) is a Hungarian former footballer, a 15-time NB I midfielder with Lombard Tatabánya and 1999 Magyar Kupa finalist, father and first coach of Liverpool and Hungary captain Dominik Szoboszlai, and founder of Főnix Gold FC.
Zsolt Varga
Zsolt Varga (born 1972, Budapest) is a Hungarian water polo center and coach; Olympic gold 2000 Sydney, 295 caps, head coach of Hungary men's team since 2022, 4th at Paris 2024. Not the shot putter born 1972.
ŽSR
ŽSR (Železnice Slovenskej republiky, Railways of the Slovak Republic) is the state-owned railway infrastructure manager of Slovakia, headquartered in Bratislava and established on January 1, 1993.
ZSU-23-4 Shilka
The ZSU-23-4 Shilka (ЗСУ-23-4) is a Soviet self-propelled anti-aircraft gun mounting four 23 mm autocannons and a Gun Dish radar on a tracked chassis, first fielded in 1964.
ZSU-57-2 (ЗСУ-57-2)
The ZSU-57-2 (ЗСУ-57-2) was a Soviet self-propelled anti-aircraft gun with twin 57 mm autocannons on a T-54 chassis, accepted into service in 1955 and replaced by the radar-equipped ZSU-23-4.
Zsuzsa Szabo Nagy
Zsuzsa Szabo Nagy (Szabóné Nagy Zsuzsa), Hungarian 800 m runner born 1940 in Pécs; fourth at Tokyo 1964 Olympics, 1966 European indoor gold and outdoor silver, 880 yd and 500 m world records; distinct from pole vaulter Zsuzsanna Szabó-Olgyay.
Zsuzsa Voros
Zsuzsa Voros (Vörös Zsuzsanna, born 1977) is a Hungarian modern pentathlete, Olympic gold medalist at Athens 2004, three-time individual world champion, and later coach and Alba Volán director.
Zsuzsanna Izsvák
Zsuzsanna Izsvák is a Hungarian molecular geneticist who leads the Mobile DNA group at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin and reconstructed the Sleeping Beauty transposon.
ZT-40
ZT-40, later upgraded to ZT-40M, was a reversed-field pinch magnetic confinement experiment built at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1979 to test compact fusion reactors.
ZTE (中兴通讯股份有限公司)
ZTE Corporation (中兴通讯) is a Chinese telecommunications equipment company founded in 1985 and headquartered in Shenzhen, serving over 160 countries but restricted in US and European markets.
ZTF Bright Transient Survey
The ZTF Bright Transient Survey (BTS) is a spectroscopic classification program of the Zwicky Transient Facility that, since 2018, has cataloged more than 10,000 supernovae plus tidal disruption events.
ZTF J1539+5027
ZTF J1539+5027 is an eclipsing double white dwarf binary with an orbital period of 6.91 minutes, the shortest of any known eclipsing binary, found in Zwicky Transient Facility data in 2019.
ZTO Express
ZTO Express (中通快递) is a Chinese express delivery company founded in 2002 and headquartered in Shanghai, listed in New York and Hong Kong and led by founder Lai Meisong.
ZTO Freight (Zhongtong Kuaiyun)
ZTO Freight, also known as Zhongtong Kuaiyun, is a Chinese less-than-truckload road-freight operator founded in 2016 as the freight unit of ZTO Express, carrying shipments of 10 to 300 kilograms.
ZTTK syndrome
ZTTK syndrome, also called Zhu-Tokita-Takenouchi-Kim or SON-related neurodevelopmental disorder, is a rare autosomal dominant disorder from de novo SON (21q22.11) loss-of-function variants, causing developmental delay, intellectual disability, hypotonia, seizures, facial dysmorphism, and brain, eye, skeletal, and heart-kidney anomalies.
Zu Chongzhi
Zu Chongzhi (祖冲之) was a Chinese mathematician, astronomer, and inventor of the Southern dynasties who calculated π to seven decimal places and created the Daming calendar, adopted in 510.
Zu Fossae
Zu Fossae is a 2900 km system of north–south tectonic furrows in Galileo Regio on Ganymede, named for the Assyro-Babylonian dragon of chaos slain by Marduk, IAU-approved in 1985, crosscutting the older Lakhmu Fossae.
Zu Ti's northern expeditions
Zu Ti's northern expeditions (祖逖北伐) were the campaigns of the Jin general Zu Ti against Later Zhao, recovering all territory south of the Yellow River by 321.
Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain (新蜀山剑侠)
Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (新蜀山劍俠) is Tsui Hark's 1983 Golden Harvest fantasy wuxia film adapted from Huanzhu Louzhu's Shu Mountain novel, the first 1980s Hong Kong film to import Hollywood special effects, starring Adam Cheng, Brigitte Lin, and Yuen Biao.
Zu Wuze
Zu Wuze (祖无择, 1011–1084) was a Northern Song Confucian scholar-official from Shangcai, Henan, remembered for changing Confucius's descendants' title and for the 1069 trial that ended his career.
ZU-23-2 (ЗУ-23-2)
The ZU-23-2 (ЗУ-23-2) is a Soviet towed, twin-barrel 23 mm light anti-aircraft gun with two 2A14 autocannons, entered service with the Soviet Army in 1960 and still in widespread use.
Zu-diao tax system
The zu-diao tax system (租调制) combined a grain tax on land with a household cloth tax, China's standard fiscal formula from Cao Wei into the Tang.
zu-yong-diao tax system
The zu-yong-diao tax system (租庸调制) was the basic tax and labor regime of the early Tang dynasty, fixed by Emperor Gaozu and replaced in 780.
Zu‐Hang Sheng
Zu-Hang Sheng is an American neurobiologist and Chief of the Synaptic Function Section at NINDS, NIH, known for discovering how syntaphilin, snapin, and syntabulin regulate axonal transport of mitochondria.
Zuabu
Zuabu is an early ruler of Assyria known only from the Assyrian King List, where he appears as the eleventh of seventeen tent-dwelling kings, between Hanu and Nuabu.
Zuangua
Zuangua (c. 1479–1520) was cazonci, ruler of the Tarascan (Purépecha) state centered on Tzintzuntzan in Michoacán, western Mexico, who died of smallpox in 1520, before the Spanish arrived.
Zuata Norte Oil Field
Zuata Norte Oil Field, also called Norte Zuata (San Cristóbal), is an extra-heavy-oil field in the Orinoco Belt in eastern Venezuela that averaged 38,000 barrels per day in 2012.
Zuata Principal Oil Field
Zuata Principal is a large extra-heavy oil field in the Junín Block of Venezuela's Orinoco Belt, discovered in 1985, with peak production of 298,000 barrels a day in 2004.
Zubah
Zubah is an Atlanta-based riddim and dubstep DJ and producer, active since 2012, known for releases on Excision's Subsidia label and performances at Imagine Music Festival and Lost Lands.