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Ziroom (自如)
Ziroom (自如) is a Beijing-based institutionalized long-term rental housing platform founded in October 2011 that manages about one million rooms across 81 cities in China.
Zirui Song
Zirui Song is a health economist and physician at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, known for New England Journal of Medicine studies of global payment reform.
Ziryab
Ziryab (زرياب), born Ali ibn Nafi, was a singer, composer, and oud player from Baghdad who became the most celebrated musician of al-Andalus at the Cordoba court from 822.
Zisa Corona
Zisa Corona is an 850-km-wide corona on Venus at 12°N, 221°E, IAU-named in 1994 for a German harvest goddess, located in rift valleys converging on Atla Regio and classified in group 2 of Magellan radar emissivity studies of Venusian coronae.
Zishui Qinggan Yin
滋水清肝饮 (Zishui Qinggan Yin), a Qing-dynasty TCM decoction from Yizong Jiren Bian by Gao Gufeng, combining Liuwei Dihuang Wan and Danzhi Xiaoyao San herbs for yin-deficiency liver-constraint patterns; used for menopause syndrome, distinct from same-named formula in Shoushi Xinbian.
Zissimos P. Mourelatos
Zissimos P. Mourelatos is a Greek-trained physician-scientist and neuropathologist, Professor of Pathology at the University of Pennsylvania, known for work on small regulatory RNPs and microRNAs.
Zisurrû
Zisurrû (Sumerian ZÌ.SUR.RA) is an Akkadian term for a magic circle or line of flour drawn around a bed, house, or gate in exorcistic ritual.
Zita (Hittite prince)
Zita was a Hittite prince who served as chief of the royal bodyguards (GAL MEŠEDI) at the court of King Šuppiluliuma I in the 14th century BC.
Zita Funkenhauser
Zita-Eva Funkenhauser, born 1966 in Satu Mare, Romania, is a German foil fencer, wife of Matthias Behr, with Olympic team gold 1984 and 1988, individual bronze 1988, team silver 1992, and three world team titles; later a dentist in Tauberbischofsheim.
Zita of Bourbon-Parma
Zita of Bourbon-Parma (Zita di Borbone-Parma, 1892–1989), last Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary as wife of Charles I; 67-year widowhood, exile in Spain, Belgium, Canada, 1982 return, 1989 Viennese Court funeral.
Zitacuaro-Valle de Bravo
Zitacuaro-Valle de Bravo is a monogenetic volcanic field in central Mexico's Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, covering shield volcanoes, lava domes, and cinder cones near Zitacuaro and Valle de Bravo.
Zither
Zither: a class of neckless stringed instruments whose strings run parallel to the soundbox, including the Alpine concert zither, Chinese qin and zheng, koto, kayageum, autoharp, and hammered dulcimer, played by plucking, bowing, or hammering.
Ziti
Ziti (from Italian zita, bride/bridegroom) is a smooth, straight-cut tubular pasta from southern Italy, tied to Neapolitan wedding traditions and the Italian-American baked ziti casserole; thinner-walled and square-cut versus penne's angled, thick-walled tubes.
Zitkala-Sa
Zitkala-Sa, also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a Yankton Dakota Sioux writer and activist who wrote the earliest published autobiographical accounts of American Indian boarding school life.
Zitong
Zitong (梓潼县) is a county in Mianyang, Sichuan, seat Wenchang town, 276,996 residents (2020). Known for Qiqushan's Wenchang ancestral temple and the Two Bombs City, the 1969–1992 nuclear weapons academy headquarters.
Zitti e buoni
"Zitti e buoni" is a 2021 rock song by Italian band Måneskin that won the 71st Sanremo Festival and the Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam.
Ziusudra
Ziusudra is the legendary last antediluvian king of Shuruppak in Sumerian tradition, the hero of the Sumerian flood story who preserved mankind and animals and was granted eternal life.
Ziv Aviram
Ziv Aviram (זיו אבירם) is an Israeli technology entrepreneur who co-founded Mobileye in 1999 and led it as CEO until Intel bought the company in 2017 for $15.3 billion.
Ziv Bar-Joseph
Ziv Bar-Joseph (זיו בר-יוסף) is a computational biologist and computer scientist, the FORE Systems Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, known for machine-learning methods for single-cell and spatial genomics and the 2012 Overton Prize.
Ziv Shulman
Ziv Shulman (זיו שולמן) is an Israeli immunologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, known for intravital imaging of germinal centers, where B cells refine antibodies.
Ziv Williams
Ziv Williams is a neurosurgeon and neuroscientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who studies single neurons in humans to build neural prosthetics.
Ziva David (זיוה דוד)
Ziva David (זיוה דוד) is a fictional Mossad officer turned NCIS Special Agent in the CBS series NCIS, portrayed by Cote de Pablo from 2005 to 2013 and returning in 2019; known for the 'Tiva' romance with Tony DiNozzo and her 'Ziva-isms'.
Zivame
Zivame is a Bengaluru-based online lingerie retailer founded in 2011 by Richa Kar and Kapil Karekar, owned by Reliance Retail since 2020 and now run as an omnichannel private-label brand.
Zivert
Zivert, also known as Yulia Zivert (Зиверт), is a Russian pop singer born in Moscow in 1990 whose 2018 single "Life" topped the Russian Shazam and iTunes charts.
Zivistan
Zivistan, also known as Zivistan Kale, is a small Urartian fortress of the 9th century BC on a limestone hill near Van, Turkey, built by King Išpuini.
Zivko Gocic
Živko Gocić (Живко Гоцић), born 1982 in Belgrade, Serbian water polo captain and coach: Olympic gold 2016 and bronze 2008/2012, world titles 2009 and 2015, five European golds, later Szolnok and Partizan coach.
Živojin Mišić
Živojin Mišić (Живојин Мишић), 1855 to 1921, was a Serbian and Yugoslav vojvoda, the highest army rank, who fought in every war Serbia waged from 1876 to 1918.
Ziwe Fumudoh
Ziwe Fumudoh, known as Ziwe, is an American comedian and satirical interviewer born 1992 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, known for confrontational, blunt questions about race.
Ziwei Liu
Ziwei Liu (刘子纬) is a computer vision and machine learning researcher who leads MMLab@NTU at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and is known for the CoOp and CoCoOp prompt-learning methods.
Ziwiye
Ziwiye, also written Ziwiyeh or Ziviyeh, is an archaeological citadel mound in Kurdistan province, northwestern Iran, occupied in the early first millennium BC and known for the Ziwiye Treasure.