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Zapovednye leta
Zapovednye leta (Заповедные лета, "forbidden years") were years in which peasant departure on the autumn St George's Day was prohibited, introduced from 1581 under Ivan the Terrible and extended state-wide in 1592/93.
Zappai
Zappai (雑俳, also read zōhai) is the Japanese umbrella term for the playful, miscellaneous forms of haikai verse practiced in the Edo period, including verse-capping games and the origin of senryū.
Zapped!
Zapped! is a 1982 American teen sex comedy directed by Robert J. Rosenthal, starring Scott Baio as a student who gains telekinetic powers from a lab accident.
Zappos
Zappos (Zappos.com), founded 1999 by Nick Swinmurn, is a Las Vegas-based online shoe and clothing retailer owned by Amazon since 2009, known for 365-day free two-way returns, a large customer loyalty team, and its holacracy self-management experiment.
Zaprinast
Zaprinast is a triazolopyrimidine compound, synthesized by May and Baker as an anti-allergy candidate, that became the first reported PDE5 inhibitor and the starting point for sildenafil's development.
Zapruder film
The Zapruder film, also called the Zapruder movie, is Abraham Zapruder's 26-second, 486-frame 8mm home movie of President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas on November 22, 1963, sold to Life for $150,000, bought by the US government for $16 million in 1999, and held at the National Archives with copyright at the Sixth Floor Museum.
Zaptiye
Zaptiye (ضبطیه), officially the Asakir-i Zaptiye, was the Ottoman provincial police and internal security force, created in 1840 and converted into the gendarmerie in 1879.
Zapus
Zapus is a genus of North American hibernating jumping mice (Zapodinae) with three species, meadow, western, and Pacific jumping mice, known for long hind feet, 90-150 cm escape leaps, and threatened subspecies.
Zar Points
Zar Points, or the Zar Petkov hand evaluation method, is a statistically derived contract bridge point count combining HCP, controls, and suit shape; 26 Zars open, 52 bid game, 5 points per level.
Zara (musician)
Zara, born Neşe Yılmaz in Istanbul in 1976, is a Turkish folk-music vocalist and actress, a contracted TRT folk voice artist since 1996, whose 1998 album Avuntu made her nationally known.
Zara (retailer)
Zara is a Spanish fast-fashion clothing retailer headquartered in Arteixo and the flagship brand of Inditex. It opened its first store in 1975 and sells in about 97 countries.
Zara Cully
Zara Cully, also known as Zara Frances Cully, was an American actress. She is best known for playing Olivia "Mother" Jefferson on The Jeffersons from 1974 to 1978.
Zara Hatke Zara Bachke (ज़रा हटके ज़रा बचके)
Zara Hatke Zara Bachke (ज़रा हटके ज़रा बचके) is a 2023 Hindi romantic comedy by Laxman Utekar starring Vicky Kaushal and Sara Ali Khan as an Indore couple faking divorce for a housing scheme; sleeper hit over 85 crore nett.
Zara Larsson
Zara Larsson, Swedish pop singer born 1997 in Stockholm, won Talang at age 10; known for "Lush Life", "Symphony", albums So Good, Poster Girl, Venus, Midnight Sun, and owning her masters.
Zara McDermott
Zara McDermott, full name Zara Nicole McDermott, is a British television presenter and documentary maker who first appeared on Love Island in 2018 and later made investigative BBC Three documentaries.
Zara Noor Abbas
Zara Noor Abbas (زارا نور عباس), aka Zara Noor Abbas Siddiqui, is a Pakistani actress born 1991 in Lahore, daughter of Asma Abbas and niece of Bushra Ansari. Known for Khamoshi, Ehd-e-Wafa, and films Chhalawa and Parey Hut Love.
Zara Rutherford
Zara Rutherford is a Belgian-British pilot who flew solo around the world from August 2021 to January 2022, becoming at 19 the youngest woman to do so.
Zara Tindall
Zara Tindall (née Phillips), British eventing rider, daughter of Princess Anne and Mark Phillips. 2006 world champion, 2012 Olympic team silver, 2026 British Open champion on Class Affair.
Zara Yaqob
Zara Yaqob (Ge'ez: ዘርአ ያዕቆብ) was emperor of Ethiopia from 1434 to 1468, remembered for centralized administration, church reform, and a decisive 1445 victory over Adal.
Zara Yaqob's ecclesiastical reforms
Zara Yaqob's ecclesiastical reforms were the 15th-century religious program of Ethiopian emperor Zara Yaqob (reigned 1434–1468), who settled the Sabbath dispute and subordinated the church to royal authority.
Zara Yaqob's persecution of the Stephanites
Zara Yaqob's persecution of the Stephanites was the suppression, by Ethiopian emperor Zara Yaqob (r. 1434–1468), of the reforming monastic movement founded by Abba Estifanos of Gunde Gwine.
Zara Zya (زار زيا)
Zara Zya (زار زيا), born 1985, stage name of Zainurul Razia binti Mohd Zainuddin, is a Malaysian actress, host, and singer from Lenggong, Perak, best known for the 2013 TV3 drama Love You Mr. Arrogant, not the ZARA AI frameworks.
Zara-class cruiser
The Zara class was a class of four heavy cruisers built for the Italian Regia Marina, with the best armor of any cruiser of its time.
Zaragoza
Zaragoza, capital of Aragon, Spain, grew from the Roman colony Caesaraugusta (also Caesar Augusta), founded by Augustus on the Iberian town of Salduie at the Ebro-Gallego-Huerva confluence; known for Roman museums, the Ruta de Caesaraugusta, and modern river and mobility projects.
Zarah Leander
Zarah Leander (Sara Stina Hedberg, 1907–1981) was a Swedish alto singer and actress, Nazi Germany's biggest film star at Ufa 1937–42 (Die große Liebe, 27 million viewers), later a cult gay icon and postwar diva.
Zarah Sultana
Zarah Sultana, Coventry South MP since 2019 (Labour, then Your Party), suspended by Labour in 2024 over the two-child benefit cap and co-founder with Jeremy Corbyn of Your Party in 2025.
Zarai
Zarai (زراي) was an ancient Roman and Byzantine city in Numidia, at modern Zraia in Algeria, best known for a customs tariff of 202 AD.
Zaramama Corona
Zaramama Corona is a 240-km-wide corona on Venus at 22.0°S, 240.5°E in quadrangle V-40, IAU-approved in 2000 and named for the Quechua maize goddess also called Saramama or Corn Mother.
Zaranj (زرنج)
Zaranj (زرنج), also Zarang, is the capital of Nimruz province, Afghanistan, a hot-desert Helmand River border town, one of two main crossings to Iran, and the medieval capital of Sistan.
Zarankiewicz problem
The Zarankiewicz problem asks for the maximum number of edges in a bipartite graph with given part sizes that contains no complete bipartite subgraph K(s,t), and is central to extremal graph theory.