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Zarathos
Zarathos is a Marvel Comics demon, created by Gary Friedrich and Mike Ploog, first appearing in Marvel Spotlight #5 (1972). Bonded to Johnny Blaze, he forms the original Ghost Rider and rivals Mephisto in power.
Zarb (missile)
Zarb is a shore-based, land-launched anti-ship cruise missile of the Pakistan Navy, first tested in the Arabian Sea on April 9, 2016, whose specifications and design origin remain undisclosed.
Zarb-e-Kaleem
Zarb-e-Kaleem (ضربِ کلیم, "The Strike of Moses's Staff") is the third Urdu poetry collection of Allama Muhammad Iqbal, published in 1936, the last in his lifetime.
Zard Kuh
Zard Kuh (زردکوه بختیاری, "Yellow Mountain") is a 4,221 m sub-range in the central Zagros, Iran, in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province; source of the Karun and Zayanderud rivers, with small glaciers and Bakhtiari nomad crossings.
Zardoz
Zardoz (1974) is a science fiction film written, produced and directed by John Boorman, starring Sean Connery as Zed and Charlotte Rampling; its title contracts The Wizard of Oz, and it depicts immortals ruling post-apocalyptic Brutals in 2293.
Zardozi
Zardozi (زردوزی) is an Indian metal-embroidery craft that stitches gold or silver threads, beads, and stones onto fabric for raised ornamentation, flourishing under Mughal patronage.
Zareef Ahmad Zareef
Zareef Ahmad Zareef, born 1943 in Srinagar's old city, is a Kashmiri poet and satirist known for direct satirical verse in Kashmiri and public advocacy for the language.
Zareen Khan
Zareen Khan (Zarine Khan, जरीन खान) is an Indian actress born 1987 in Mumbai, debut Veer (2010) opposite Salman Khan, known for Housefull 2, Hate Story 3, Aksar 2; distinct from producer Zarine Khan.
Zarema Kasayeva
Zarema Kasayeva (Зарема Абукаровна Касаева), Russian weightlifter born 1987 in Chermen; Olympic bronze at 69 kg, Athens 2004, and 2005 world champion in Doha with a 157 kg clean & jerk world record.
Zarembo Island
Zarembo Island (Ostrov Zarembo, Duke of York Island) is an uninhabited 180-square-mile island in the Alexander Archipelago, Southeast Alaska, in the Tongass National Forest near Wrangell, bounded by Sumner and Stikine straits, with Tertiary lava flows and a timber-harvest history.
Zarguzasht
Zarguzasht (زرگزشت) is a humorous Urdu autobiography by Pakistani banker and humorist Mushtaq Ahmad Yousufi, first published in the 1970s and counted among the major autobiographies of Urdu literature.
Zaria
Zaria is a major city and traditional emirate in Kaduna State, northern Nigeria. It historically served as the seat of the Zazzau Kingdom and is home to Ahmadu Bello University.
Zaria (wrestler)
Zaria (wrestler): Australian pro wrestler, formerly DELTA of Riot City Wrestling in Adelaide; signed WWE after a 2024 Perth tryout, debuted on NXT October 22, 2024, and won the NXT Women's North American Championship.
Zarina Hashmi
Zarina Hashmi, known professionally as Zarina, was an Indian-born American artist and printmaker who lived in New York City and made minimalist works on paper exploring home, borders, and migration.
Zarina Wahab (ज़रीना वहाब)
Zarina Wahab (ज़रीना वहाब), Indian actress born in Visakhapatnam, FTII-trained, star of Chitchor (1976) and Gharonda (1977, Filmfare nomination); wife of Aditya Pancholi, active in Hindi, Malayalam, and Telugu cinema.
Zariqum
Zariqum, also written Zarriqum, was governor of Assur around 2045 BC under the Third Dynasty of Ur, known from a stone inscription dedicating a temple to Bēlat-ekallim.
Zariski topology
The Zariski topology is the topology used in algebraic geometry, where the closed sets are solution sets of systems of polynomial equations, introduced by Oscar Zariski in 1944.
Zarit Burden Interview
The Zarit Burden Interview (ZBI) is a 22-item questionnaire measuring the subjective burden of informal caregivers of people with dementia, introduced by Zarit, Reever, and Bach-Peterson in 1980.
Zarixia Zavala-Ruiz
Zarixia Zavala-Ruiz is a biochemist and molecular immunologist known for structural studies of how peptides load onto class II MHC proteins, now a Senior Director at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus.
Zarlagab
Zarlagab, also read Sarlagab or Šarlagab, is a Gutian king of ancient Mesopotamia, placed third in his dynasty on the Sumerian King List and credited with a six-year reign.
Zarok TV
Zarok TV (Kurdish for 'child TV') is Turkey's first Kurdish-language children's channel, launched in Diyarbakır on Newroz, March 21, 2015. It broadcasts cartoons in Kurmanji, Zazaki, and Sorani, was closed under a 2016 emergency decree and relaunched that December.
Zarqa
Zarqa (الزرقاء), Jordanian industrial city and governorate 20 km northeast of Amman, founded by Chechen refugees in 1902; holds 52% of Jordan's industries, third largest governorate by population, on the polluted Zarqa River.
Zarqa Governorate
Zarqa Governorate (محافظة الزرقاء) is a Jordanian governorate 20 km northeast of Amman, Jordan's industrial hub with 52% of national industries, area 4,761.3 km2, population over 1.3 million, and a JD800 million development program.
Zarqa River
The Zarqa River (Arabic: Nahr az-Zarqa), the biblical Jabbok, is the second-largest tributary of the Jordan River, rising at springs in Amman and flowing through a deep wadi into the Jordan Valley.
Zarr (data format)
Zarr is an open specification for storing chunked, compressed, N-dimensional typed arrays in any key/value store, with JSON metadata, used widely in climate science, bio-imaging, and geospatial data.
Zartmann
Zartmann is a German singer-songwriter from Berlin whose single "Tau mich auf" topped the German chart in 2025 and became the country's most-streamed song of the year.
Zaruma
Zaruma is a historic gold-mining town in the Andes of El Oro province, southern Ecuador, founded by the Spanish in the 16th century and on UNESCO's Tentative List since 2016.
Zarya (Заря) (ISS module)
Zarya (Заря), also known as the Functional Cargo Block or FGB, is the first module of the International Space Station, launched in 1998 to provide initial propulsion and power.
Zaryanitsa Dorsa
Zaryanitsa Dorsa, a 1,100-km Venus deformation belt at 0N 170E in Rusalka Planitia, formed by linked corona annuli (Hannahannas, Bil, Heqet coronae); IAU named 1997 for a Slavic lightning goddess.
Zarzaitine Oil Field
Zarzaitine is an onshore oil field in the Illizi Basin of southeastern Algeria, near In Amenas and the Libyan border, discovered in 1957 and operated jointly by Sonatrach and Sinopec since 2003.