Edgepedia

519,064 articles

General

Uhl anomaly

Uhl anomaly (parchment heart), an extremely rare congenital heart defect first described by Henry Uhl in 1952, in which right ventricular myocardium is absent, causing right heart failure and arrhythmias; fewer than 100 cases reported.

General

Uhlan

Uhlan (Polish ułan, German Ulan): originally a Polish lance-armed light cavalryman, later lancer regiments in Prussian, Austrian, Russian, and British armies; distinguished by the czapka cap and Polish-style dress.

General

Uhlmann Group

The Uhlmann Group is a family-owned German corporate group headquartered in Laupheim that builds pharmaceutical packaging machinery; founded in 1948, it comprises six companies and employs about 2,500 people.

General

Uhm Ji-won (엄지원)

Uhm Ji-won (엄지원), born 1977, is a South Korean actress who debuted in The Record (2000), won film critics' Best Actress for Hope (2013), and the 2025 KBS Drama Awards Grand Prize for For Eagle Brothers.

General

Uhm Jung-hwa (엄정화)

Uhm Jung-hwa (엄정화), the "Korean Madonna", is a South Korean singer and actress who debuted via MBC in 1989, led 1990s dance-pop hits like "Rose of Betrayal", starred in Haeundae (2009) and Doctor Cha, and returns in Okay! Madam: Bon Voyage (2026).

General

Uhm Tae-woong (엄태웅)

Uhm Tae-woong (엄태웅, born 1974) is a South Korean actor, brother of Uhm Jung-hwa, known for Resurrection, The Devil, Queen Seondeok, Cyrano Agency, and Architecture 101; his career paused after a 2016 case and resumed in 2025.

General

Uḫna

Uḫna (Uhna) was a king of Zalpuwa in north-central Anatolia who flourished in the 19th to 18th centuries BC and abducted the statue of the god Šiu-šummi from Neša.

General

Uhola Catenae

Uhola Catenae: chains of troughs and elongated pits on dwarf planet Ceres, north of the Yalode basin; IAU-named 2016 after a Nigerian harvest festival; 400 km across, partly radial to Yalode.

General

UHRF1

UHRF1 (ICBP90, Np95) is a multi-domain E3 ubiquitin ligase at 19p13.3 that maintains DNA methylation by binding hemi-methylated DNA and recruiting DNMT1; overexpressed in cancers, it is a biomarker and epigenetic drug target.

General

Uhtred of Bamburgh

Uhtred of Bamburgh, called Uhtred the Bold (died 1016), ealdorman of all Northumbria under Æthelred II; defeated the Scots at Durham in 1006, married Ælfgifu the king's daughter, and was murdered on Cnut's orders at Wiheal; inspiration for Cornwell's Uhtred of Bebbanburg.

General

Uhub

Uhub was an Early Dynastic ruler of the Mesopotamian city of Kish, known only from inscriptions, including a vase fragment in the British Museum; his title, king or governor, is unresolved.

General

Uhuru (satellite)

Uhuru, also designated Explorer 42 or SAS-1, was an American X-ray astronomy satellite launched in 1970, the first satellite entirely devoted to studying cosmic X-ray sources.

General

Uhuru Kenyatta

Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, son of Jomo Kenyatta, fourth President of Kenya 2013–2022: Jubilee Alliance and Party leader, ICC accused until 2014 charge withdrawal, Big Four Agenda, BBI Handshake with Odinga, and 2022 handover to William Ruto.

General

Uhuru Park

Uhuru Park is a public park in central Nairobi, Kenya, opened in 1969 and known as the site of landmark protests led by Wangari Maathai.

General

UHZ1

UHZ1, also cataloged as UNCOVER-26185, is a galaxy at redshift z = 10.073, lensed by the cluster Abell 2744 and seen about 470 million years after the Big Bang.

General

UI (film)

UI is a 2024 Kannada sci-fi dystopian action film written and directed by Upendra, who stars as Satya and Kalki. Released 20 December 2024 by Lahari Films and Venus Entertainers, it is a surreal film-within-a-film political satire set in 2040 AD.

General

UI-TARS

UI-TARS is a family of vision-language models from ByteDance's Seed team that acts as a GUI agent, taking screenshots and outputting keyboard and mouse actions.

General

UIC classification of goods wagons

The UIC classification of goods wagons is the European system identifying freight wagons by a twelve-digit number and letter marking, defined by the International Union of Railways.

General

UIC classification of locomotive axle arrangements

The UIC classification of locomotive axle arrangements, also called the German classification, describes the wheel arrangement of locomotives, multiple units, and trams by counting axles and marking which are driven.

General

UIC wagon numbers

UIC wagon numbers, known as European Vehicle Numbers (EVNs), are 12-digit numbers assigned to railway rolling stock in Europe under a scheme published in 1964.

General

UICC

The Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC) is the smart card platform in mobile devices that securely stores subscriber identity data; the SIM is an application running on it.

General

Uicheon

Uicheon (의천, 1055–1101), a prince of Korea's Goryeo dynasty, became a monk and founded the Cheontae order in 1097, compiling Korea's first catalog of Buddhist commentaries.

General

Uíge

Uíge (Uíje), formerly Carmona (1954–1975), is the capital of Uíge Province in northern Angola. Founded in 1917 as a Portuguese fort, it became the center of Angola's Robusta coffee industry; 2024 census: 773,099 in the municipality.

General

Uíge Province

Uíge Province, northern Angola, capital Uíge city (formerly Carmona); 58,698 km², 23 municipalities, 2,017,922 people (2024 census); former Kingdom of Kongo territory and colonial robusta coffee heartland.

General

Uigeumbu

The Uigeumbu (의금부, 義禁府) was the special judicial organ of Joseon Korea, chiefly interrogating treason cases, operating from 1414 until the Gabo Reforms of 1894 renamed it Uigeumsa.

General

Uija of Baekje

Uija of Baekje, personal name Buyeo Uija, was the 31st and last king of Baekje, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, reigning from 641 to 660.

General

Uijeok

Uijeok (의적) was a Korean Buddhist monk of Unified Silla, active from the late 7th to the early 8th century, who studied Yogacara under Xuanzang and wrote surviving commentaries.

General

Uijeongbu

Uijeongbu (의정부, 議政府) was the highest deliberative and administrative organ of Korea's Joseon dynasty, established in 1400, directing the Six Boards until real power passed to the Bibyeonsa after 1592.

General

Uijeongbu-si

Uijeongbu-si (의정부시), a city in northern Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, north of Seoul. Known for budaejjigae sausage stew, former USFK bases including Camp Red Cloud, GTX-C rail plans, and about 462,000 residents.

General

Uijong of Goryeo

Uijong of Goryeo (의종) was the 18th king of Korea's Goryeo dynasty, reigning from 1146 to 1170, deposed by a military coup in 1170, and assassinated in exile in 1173.