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Ukaz of 5 October 1906 on the abolition of legal restrictions on peasants

The ukaz of 5 October 1906 was an imperial decree by Nicholas II, associated with Stolypin, granting peasants equal rights in state service, residence, and passports.

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Ukaz of 9 November 1906

The Ukaz of 9 November 1906 was an Imperial Russian decree letting peasant household heads claim their communal allotment land as personal property, founding the Stolypin agrarian reform.

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Ukaz on Strengthening the Principles of Religious Tolerance

The Ukaz on Strengthening the Principles of Religious Tolerance (Указ об укреплении начал веротерпимости) was a 1905 decree of Nicholas II easing restrictions on Old Believers.

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Ukemochi Corona

Ukemochi Corona is a 300-km-wide corona on Venus at 39.0°S, 296.1°E in Themis Regio, named for a Japanese fertility goddess in 1994 and classified as geologically active.

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UKESM

UKESM (UK Earth System Modelling) is a UK climate modeling project run by the Met Office Hadley Centre and NERC, whose first model, UKESM1, was released in 2019.

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Uketsu (雨穴)

Uketsu (雨穴), aka the Strange series author: masked Japanese horror-mystery writer and YouTuber, debut Hen na ie (2021), books in 36 languages, nearly 8 million copies, CWA Dagger-shortlisted Strange Pictures.

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UKG

UKG, also known as Ultimate Kronos Group, is an American privately held company offering HR, payroll, and workforce management software, formed in 2020 from the merger of Kronos and Ultimate Software.

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Ukhaa Khudag Coal Mine

Ukhaa Khudag, also known as UHG, is an open-pit coking coal mine in Umnugobi, Mongolia, part of the Tavan Tolgoi deposit, operated by Energy Resources LLC since 2009.

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Ukhan

Ukhan (उखाण, plural ukhane) is a short rhyming Marathi folk couplet, traditionally recited by married women at weddings and festivals, that weaves the husband's name into verse.

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Ukhhotep (son of Senbi)

Ukhhotep, also known as Ukhhotep I or Wekhhotep, was a provincial governor of Egypt's 14th Upper Egyptian nome during the early Twelfth Dynasty, buried at Meir.

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Ukhhotep III

Ukhhotep III, also written Wekhhotep III, was a Twelfth Dynasty governor of Egypt's 14th Upper Egyptian nome, seated at El-Qusiya, buried in rock-cut tomb C1 at Meir.

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Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh (Ухнаагийн Хүрэлсүх)

Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh (Ухнаагийн Хүрэлсүх), born 1968, Mongolian People's Party politician: Prime Minister 2017–2021, elected Mongolia's president on 9 June 2021 with 67.69% of the vote under the single six-year term rules.

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Ukhta-Torzhok (Yamal) Gas Pipeline

The Ukhta-Torzhok (Yamal) Gas Pipeline (Ухта — Торжок) is a Russian trunk pipeline system carrying Yamal gas from Ukhta toward Torzhok, feeding northwestern Russia and exports like Nord Stream.

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Ukhta-Yaroslavl Oil Pipeline

The Ukhta-Yaroslavl Oil Pipeline (Магистральный нефтепровод «Ухта – Ярославль») is a Transneft trunk pipeline, opened in 1974, that carries Timan-Pechora crude 1,135 km to Yaroslavl.

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Ukhtanes

Ukhtanes (Ուխտանես), also Ukhtanes Sebastatsi, ca. 935–1000, was an Armenian historian and bishop of Sebastia who wrote a three-part History of Armenia around 980–982.

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Uki-e

Uki-e (浮絵, "floating pictures"), also called kubomi-e, are Edo-period Japanese woodblock prints that used Western one-point linear perspective to give scenes exaggerated depth, pioneered by Okumura Masanobu.

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Ukiah, California

Ukiah, California: county seat of Mendocino County, about 100 miles north of San Francisco, population 16,607 (2020). Pomo homeland, incorporated 1876, wine country hub with a municipally owned electric utility.

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Ukit Kan Le'k Tok'

Ukit Kan Le'k Tok' was a Maya king who founded the dynasty of Ek' Balam in Yucatán, Mexico, reigning from 770 to about 800 CE.

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Ukita Hideie

Ukita Hideie (宇喜多秀家, 1572–1655) was a Japanese daimyo and one of the Five Elders appointed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, exiled to Hachijo Island after losing the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600.

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Ukita Naoie

Ukita Naoie (宇喜多直家, 1529–1581) was a Japanese sengoku warlord who rose from a ruined local family to become daimyo of Bizen Province and founded the castle town of Okayama.

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Ukiyo-e (浮世絵)

Ukiyo-e (浮世絵), "pictures of the floating world," is Edo-period Japanese art of commoner life, both paintings and woodblock prints made by publisher, designer, carver, and printer, from Moronobu through Hokusai, Utamaro, and Hiroshige to Meiji artists, with major influence on European Japonisme.

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Ukiyo-e publishing

Ukiyo-e publishing was the Edo-period Japanese commercial system in which a publisher (hanmoto) financed multicolor woodblock prints by artist, carver, and printer, working under shogunal censorship marked by approval seals.

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Ukiyoburo

Ukiyoburo (浮世風呂) is a Japanese comic novel (kokkeibon) by the Edo-period writer Shikitei Sanba, published in four parts between 1809 and 1813, which portrays everyday Edo life through the conversations of bathers at a public bathhouse.

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Ukiyodoko

Ukiyodoko (浮世床) is a Japanese comic fiction work (kokkeibon) by Shikitei Sanba, published in Edo from 1813 to 1823, depicting the conversations of Edo commoners at a barber's shop.

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Ukiyozōshi

Ukiyozōshi (浮世草子) is a genre of Edo-period Japanese popular fiction depicting townspeople's lives and romances, begun by Ihara Saikaku in 1682 and centered in Osaka and Kyoto.

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Ukko Happonen

Ukko Antti Einari Happonen, Finnish goalkeeper born 2007 in Tuusula; Bologna academy signing from PK Keski-Uusimaa in 2023, Finland U21 international, still awaiting a senior Serie A appearance.

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Ukku-Tanhish

Ukku-Tanhish, also spelled Ukku-Takhesh, was an early king of Awan, the dynastic seat of Elamite rulers in southwestern Iran during the third millennium BC, known only from the reconstructed Awan king list.

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Ukpam Oil Field

The Ukpam Oil Field is an operating conventional oil field in Nigeria, discovered in 1989 and fully owned and operated by NNPC Ltd in concession OML 123.

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Ukraine (Україна)

Ukraine (Україна) is an eastern European country, the continent's second largest after Russia, with capital Kyiv. Independent since 1991, it faces Russian invasion, mass displacement, $588 billion reconstruction needs, and EU accession talks.

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Ukraine and the United Nations

Ukraine and the United Nations: founding UN member as the Ukrainian SSR (1945), independent member since 1991, three Security Council terms, and General Assembly-led responses to Russia's veto since 2022.