All articles starting with Z

Zebu

Zebu (Bos indicus), humped indicine cattle, domesticated independently in the Indus Valley after Near Eastern taurine domestication; heat-adapted, spread to Africa and Asia 4000-1300 YBP, widely crossbred with Bos taurus in tropical dairying.

Zebulon Pike

Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1779–1813), American army officer and explorer of the Louisiana Territory's Mississippi and Southwest routes, namesake of Pikes Peak, captured by Spain in 1807, killed at the Battle of York in 1813.

Oct 21, 2026

Zecchinetta

Zecchinetta (Ziginette, Lanzichenecco) is a 16th-century Italian banking card game from Lansquenet, played in Sicily with a 40-card deck; players bet their card ranks are not matched before the banker's.

Zecharia Sitchin

Zecharia Sitchin (1920–2010), Azerbaijani-born American author of The 12th Planet and the Earth Chronicles, proposed the Anunnaki as extraterrestrials from the planet Nibiru; his Sumerian translations are rejected by Assyriologists.

Zechariah (king of Israel)

Zechariah, son of Jeroboam II, was the fourteenth king of Israel and last ruler of Jehu's dynasty, assassinated by Shallum after a six-month reign in 753 BC.

Zechariah (prophet)

Zechariah, son of Berechiah, was a Judean prophet active in Persian-period Yehud under Darius I, whose dated oracles of 520 to 518 BC pressed for rebuilding the Jerusalem Temple alongside the prophet Haggai.

Zechstein

The Zechstein is the Upper Permian succession of marine carbonates and evaporites across the Permian basins of northern Europe, deposited roughly 260 to 251 million years ago.

Zeckendorf's theorem

Zeckendorf's theorem states that every positive integer can be written uniquely as a sum of distinct Fibonacci numbers with no two consecutive, as in 71 = 55 + 13 + 3.

Zecora

Zecora is the zebra herbalist of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, living in the Everfree Forest, speaking in rhymes, voiced by Brenda Crichlow, debuting in "Bridle Gossip".

Zed (text editor)

Zed is an open-source, multiplayer code editor written in Rust by the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter, released in January 2024 for macOS, Linux, and Windows.

ZED FC

ZED FC (نادي زد), formerly FC Masr, is a Giza-based Egyptian Premier League club owned by Naguib and Onsi Sawiris via Zed Sports, promoted in 2023, 7th in 2023-24 and 2024 Egypt Cup runners-up.

Zed Industries, Inc.

Zed Industries, Inc. is the software company behind Zed, a high-performance, open-source code editor written in Rust by the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter, founded in 2021.

Oct 21, 2026

Zed Islands

The Zed Islands are a small group of islands lying north of Williams Point on the northeast coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

Oct 20, 2026

Zed Park

Zed Park (زد بارك) is a 65-feddan amusement and community park in Sheikh Zayed City, Giza, Egypt, at the center of Ora Developers' 165-feddan ZED project; opened 2020, with a 45-meter Ferris wheel, Winter Wonderland ice rink, sports facilities, and concerts.

ZED stereo camera

The ZED stereo camera is a passive stereo depth camera made by Stereolabs, a San Francisco and France company, estimating depth from two lenses like human binocular vision.

Zedbazi

Zedbazi (زدبازی) is an Iranian hip-hop group formed in Tehran in 2002, credited as the pioneer of gangsta rap in Iran with its 2007 hit "Tabestoon Kootahe".

Zedd

Zedd (Anton Zaslavski, born 1989) is a Russian-born, German-raised electronic producer and DJ; debut album Clarity (2012) won the 2014 Grammy for Best Dance Recording, followed by hits Stay and The Middle and the 2024 album Telos.

Zededa, Inc.

Zededa, Inc., founded in 2016 by Said Ouissal, is a private American software company in San Jose that orchestrates edge computing fleets through its open-source EVE-OS.

Zedekiah

Zedekiah (צִדְקִיָּהוּ), originally Mattaniah, was the last king of Judah, installed by Nebuchadnezzar II in 597 BCE as vassal in place of exiled Jehoiachin; he rebelled in 589 BCE, and Babylon destroyed Jerusalem in 587/586 BCE, slaying his sons and blinding him.

Zedekiah's Cave

Zedekiah's Cave, also called Solomon's Quarries, is a large ancient underground limestone quarry beneath Jerusalem's Old City, probably opened in the Second Temple period, possibly for Herod's temple.

Zedekiah's revolt against Babylon

Zedekiah's revolt against Babylon, also called the Revolt of Zedekiah against Babylon, was Judah's rebellion under King Zedekiah against Nebuchadnezzar II, ending with Jerusalem's destruction in 587 or 586 BC.

Oct 3, 2026

Zeder

Zeder (1983) is an Italian horror film by Pupi Avati, also called Revenge of the Dead, in which writer Stefano investigates K-zones where the buried dead revive, predating Pet Sematary.

Zeds Dead

Zeds Dead is a Canadian electronic music duo from Toronto, formed in 2009 by producers Dylan Mamid and Zachary Rapp-Rovan, known for dubstep and running the Deadbeats label.

Zee Cohen-Sanchez

Zee Cohen-Sanchez (born 1991), American progressive political strategist; founder of Sole Strategies (2020, Boulder City, Nevada) and executive director of National Ground Game and the Unfuck America Tour; veteran of Bernie Sanders 2016 and AOC 2018 field campaigns.

Oct 22, 2026

Zee Edgell

Zee Edgell, born Zelma Inez Tucker in 1940, is a Belizean novelist whose debut Beka Lamb (1982) was the first novel of newly independent Belize to reach an international audience.

Zee Entertainment Enterprises

Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL, 'Z'), Indian media company formerly Zee Telefilms; launched Zee TV, the first Hindi satellite channel, in 1992; operates 50 domestic channels, ZEE5, Zee Studios, and Zee Music Company; FY26 revenue ₹80,989 million.

Zee Marathi (झी मराठी)

Zee Marathi (झी मराठी), also known as Alpha TV Marathi until 2005, is Zee Entertainment's Marathi-language general entertainment channel launched 15 August 1999, the first Marathi GEC, long the market leader before Star Pravah overtook it around 2020.

Zee News

Zee News is an Indian Hindi-language 24-hour news channel launched 27 August 1999, flagship of Essel Group's listed Zee Media Corporation; known as India's first 24-hour Hindi news channel, with WION, regional channels, IDPL digital arm, and repeated NBDSA penalties.

Zee Nxumalo

Zee Nxumalo, born Zandile Nxumalo in 2003 in ESwatini, is a Swazi-South African amapiano and afro-pop singer-songwriter raised in Alexandra, Johannesburg; known for the multi-platinum 2023 hit Funk 55, the KwaNxumalo EP, and as 2025's most streamed female artist in South Africa.