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Zell Equity
Zell Equity is the shorthand name for Zell Equity International Fund VI, a Chicago-based private equity fund family launched in 2015 and tied to Sam Zell.
Zell Miller
Zell Bryan Miller (1932–2018) was Georgia's 79th governor (1991–1999) and a U.S. senator (2000–2005), creator of the lottery-funded HOPE Scholarship and keynote speaker at both parties' 1992 and 2004 conventions.
Zeller's congruence
Zeller's congruence, also known as Zeller's Algorithm, is an algorithm by Christian Zeller that computes the day of the week for any Gregorian or Julian calendar date.
Zellers
Zellers is a Canadian discount department store chain founded by Walter P. Zeller in 1928, owned by Hudson's Bay Company, which bought it in 1978.
Zellig S. Harris
Zellig Sabbetai Harris was an American linguist who spent his career at the University of Pennsylvania, developed distributional methods and transformational analysis, and was Noam Chomsky's mentor.
Zellige
Zellige (زليج), also spelled zellij or zillij, is the hand-cut glazed ceramic tile mosaic of Morocco and al-Andalus, cut with a hammer into precise geometric star patterns.
Zellnor Myrie
Zellnor Myrie is an American politician and Democratic member of the New York State Senate from Brooklyn's 20th district, where he chairs the Codes Committee.
Zello
Zello is a push-to-talk app that turns a smartphone, tablet, or computer into a walkie-talkie over Wi-Fi or cellular data, claiming 150 million users in 2021.
Zellweger syndrome
Zellweger syndrome, the severe form of Zellweger spectrum disorder (ZSD, cerebrohepatorenal syndrome), is an autosomal recessive peroxisome biogenesis disorder caused by PEX gene defects, mainly PEX1, causing hypotonia, seizures, and early death.
Zeloi Oil and Gas Field
The Zeloi Oil and Gas Field is an operating onshore oil field in Khuzestan Province, southwestern Iran, about 70 km north of Ahvaz, discovered in 1976.
Zelos Intelligent (九识智能)
Zelos Intelligent (九识智能) is a Chinese L4 autonomous urban-delivery startup founded in 2021 in Suzhou, operating driverless delivery vans and absorbing Cainiao's unmanned-vehicle business in 2026.
Zelostech
Zelostech, also known as Zelos Technology, is a Singapore-based developer of Level 4 autonomous delivery vehicles founded in 2021 by former Baidu and JD.com engineers.
Zelten Oil Field
The Zelten Oil Field (زلطن), also known as the Nasser field, is a giant onshore oil field in Libya's Sirte Basin, discovered by Esso in 1959 and producing since 1961.
Zelu Army
Zelu Army (澤潞軍) was a Tang dynasty military garrison headquartered at Luzhou, guarding the approaches to Hebei until Liu Zhen's rebellion was crushed in 844.
Zelu Jiedushi
Zelu Jiedushi (泽潞节度使) was a military commissionership of the Tang dynasty, seated at Luzhou in modern Shanxi and known from the 780s as the Zhaoyi Army.
Zema
Zema (ዜማ) is the liturgical chant of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, sung in Ge'ez, attributed to Saint Yared, and organized into three modes: Ge'ez, Ezel, and Araray.
Zemene Kassie (ዘመነ ካሴ)
Zemene Kassie (ዘመነ ካሴ), born in Merawi, North Gojjam, leads Amhara Fano in Gojjam and chairs the Amhara Fano National Movement (2026); former Ginbot 7 member and Amhara Popular Force founder, now head of the anti-Abiy alliance declared on Tigrai TV.
Zemene Mesafint
The Zemene Mesafint (ዘመነ መሳፍንት), the Era of the Princes, was a period in Ethiopian history, from 1769 to 1855, when regional warlords held power.
Zemer Gitai
Zemer Gitai is a bacterial cell biologist, the Edwin Grant Conklin Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University since 2005, known for work on the bacterial cytoskeleton and antibiotic discovery.
Zemfira Meftaxetdinova
Zemfira Meftaxetdinova (Zemfira Əli qızı Meftaxətdinova), Azerbaijani skeet shooter born 1963 in Baku; Olympic gold Sydney 2000, first gold for independent Azerbaijan, plus Athens 2004 bronze and two world titles.
Žemina Corona
Žemina Corona (Zemina Corona) is a 530-km-diameter corona on Venus at 11.7°S, 186°E, IAU-named in 1994 for a Lithuanian fertility goddess, part of a corona chain near eastern Aphrodite Terra.
Zemire Corona
Zemire Corona is a 200-km-wide corona on Venus at 31.5°N, 312.5°E, named for a Kumyk fertility goddess (IAU 1997). It has a double ring of concentric graben, a ~1-km-deep interior depression, and extensive digitate lava flows with small shields and paterae.
Zemirot
Zemirot (זמירות) are religious Hebrew poems and songs sung around the table at the Shabbat meals, praising the Sabbath; most were composed between the 14th and 17th centuries by poets such as Yehuda Halevi.
Zemirot Yisrael
Zemirot Yisrael (זמירות ישראל, "Songs of Israel") is a major collection of Hebrew liturgical poems by Rabbi Yisrael Najara, first printed at Safed in 1587 and expanded in Venice in 1599-1600.
Zemlika Corona
Zemlika Corona is a 150 km-wide corona on Venus at 33.5°S, 50°E, IAU-approved in 1997 and named after a Latvian earth goddess, catalogued as USGS feature ID 6716.
Zemlya Georga
Zemlya Georga (Земля Георга), or Prince George Land, is the largest island of Franz Josef Land, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russian Arctic, covering about 2,821 km² with a highest point of 416 m.
Zemlya Vil’cheka
Zemlya Vil'cheka (Земля Вильчека, Wilczek Land) is the second-largest island of Franz Josef Land, Russia, in the Barents Sea: 2,203 km², up to 606 m, nearly all glaciated, uninhabited, discovered 1873 and named for Count Wilczek.
ZEMO
ZEMO (零迈移动服务) is a Taipei company founded in 2021 by Lu Hsueh-ju that runs an all-electric vehicle fleet for corporate transport and EV dispatch, serving companies like ASUS and Acer.
Zemshchina
Zemshchina (Земщина) was the part of the Muscovite state, centered in Moscow, that Ivan IV left outside the oprichnina in 1565, keeping its own Boyar Duma and regiments until 1584.
Zemsky Sobor
The Zemsky Sobor (Земский собор, "assembly of the land") was a Muscovite estate assembly, first convened by Ivan IV in 1549, that elected Boris Godunov and Mikhail Romanov tsar.