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Unaccompanied Minors Unaccompanied Minors (also called: Grounded:Unaccompanied Minors) is a 2006 film directed by Paul Feig and starring Lewis Black, Wilmer Valderrama, Tyler James Williams, Dyllan Christopher, Brett Kelly, Gina Mantegna, and Quinn Shephard. Unaccompanied Minors has been rated PG by the MPAA for mild rude humor and language.
Unaccompanied Sonata and Other Stories Unaccompanied Sonata and Other Stories (1980) is a book of short stories by Orson Scott Card. Although not purely science fiction and definitely not hard science fiction, the book contains stories that have a futuristic angle or are purely works of fantasy set in current times.
Unaccusative verb In linguistics, an unaccusative verb is an intransitive verb whose (syntactic) subject is not a (semantic) agent; that is, it does not actively initiate, or is not actively responsible for, the action of the verb. Unaccusative verbs thus contrast with unergative verbs.
Unaccustomed As We Are Unaccustomed As We Are, was a 1929 comedy short film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, also featuring Mae Busch, in the first of several appearances as Mrs Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, and Thelma Todd. It is notable for being Laurel and Hardy's first sound film.
Unadilla River The Unadilla River in New York State flows from south of Utica to the Village of Sidney where it flows into the Susquehanna River, which eventually empties into the Chesapeake Bay, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean.
Unaffiliated voter Unaffiliated voter is a term in United States electoral politics used to describe those citizens who register to vote, but wish to remain without a party affiliation. Other terms used to describe these citizens include Independent and Undeclared.
Unageing Unageing in popular culture, especially in properties which continue over a long period of time, is a strange phenomenon observable whereby the characters are always the same age (or age much more slowly than real time); it is always the "present day", even though the series may have run for decades. This is analogous to the "status quo" or "episodic" approach to television series, for example, where at the end of every episode the characters are back more or less where they started.
Unagisaki hocho A Unagisaki hocho (鰻サキ包丁) is a knife specialized for filleting eel. The sharp and pointy tip is pushed into the eel near the head, and then slid along the body of the eel to open up the entire length of the fish.
Unaired Buffy pilot Known to fans as "the unaired Buffy pilot," this thirty-minute production by Joss Whedon was never intended to air. 20th Century Fox used it to sell the television show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, to a network in 1996.
Unakite First discovered in the United States in the Unakas mountains of North Carolina, unakite is an altered granite composed of pink orthoclase feldspar, green epidote, and generally clear quartz. It exists in various shades of green and pink and is usually mottled in appearance.
Unalachtigo Lenape The Unalachtigo, properly pronounced W'nalātchtko, comprise the southernmost of the three main divisions of the Delaware Indian tribe (originally called Lenape or Lenni-Lenape). They occupied the west bank of the Delaware River in the state of Delaware, and also the east bank of the river in New Jersey.
Uname In computer software, uname is a program in Unix operating systems that prints the name, version and other details about the running operating system. It is useful for building software from source, when certain parameters depend on the host operating system.
Unanderra-Moss Vale railway line, New South Wales The Unanderra - Moss Vale railway line is a cross country railway line in New South Wales, Australia. The line branches from the Illawarra (South Coast) railway line at the town of Unanderra and winds west over the Illawarra escarpment to the Southern Highlands town of Moss Vale.
Unanimism Unanimism (French: Unanimisme) is a movement in French literature begun by Jules Romains in the early 1900s. It is based on ideas of collective consciousness and collective emotion, and on crowd behavior, where a members of a group do or think something simultaneously.
Unanimous consent Unanimous consent, in parliamentary procedure, refers to situations in which a motion can pass if no one present objects. The chair may state, for instance: "If there is no objection, the motion will be adopted.
Unanswered Prayers "Unanswered Prayers" is a song released by American Country Music artist Garth Brooks which hit #1 on the country billboard charts in 1990. It debuted on his second album No Fences and also appears on The Hits, The Limited Series, and Double Live.
Unarius Academy of Science Unarius is a non-profit organization founded in 1954 in Los Angeles, California and which is now headquartered in El Cajon, California. The organization purports to advance a new interdimensional science of life.
Unary numeral system The unary numeral system (base-1, a non-standard positional numeral system) is the simplest numeral system to represent natural numbers: in order to represent a number N, an arbitrarily chosen symbol is repeated N times. For example, using the symbol | (a tally mark), the number 6 is represented as ||||||.
Unas language The Unas Language from the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1 is a simplistic constructed language that lends itself to quick, sharp sentences. It is spoken by the Unas, a primitive and strong clan-based race of humanoid aliens.
Unassigned Lands Unassigned Lands, or Oklahoma, were in the center of the lands ceded to the United States by the Creek (Muskogee) and Seminole Indians following the Civil War and on which no other tribes had been settled. By 1883 it was bounded by the Cherokee Outlet on the north, several relocated Indian reservations on the east, the Chickasaw lands on the south, and the Cheyenne-Arapaho reserve on the west.
Unassisted childbirth Unassisted childbirth, also known as free-birth, is childbirth without the aid of a medical attendant, either midwife, obstetrician or medical doctor. There may be others present at the birth, but they are not engaged to perform in a professional capacity.
Unassisted triple play In baseball, an unassisted triple play occurs when a defensive player makes three putouts by himself in one continuous play. It is one of the rarest individual feats in baseball, even more so than a perfect game.
Unavailability Availability can be defined as the probability that an item will operate correctly at a given time and under specified conditions. Numerical values associated with the calculation of availability are often awkward, consisting of a series of 9's before reaching any significant numerical information (e.
Unbestowed awards of Nazi Germany Unbestowed awards of Nazi Germany were a series of political, civil, and military decorations which were either under design, projected for design, or had been approved for issuance but never bestowed, when the Second World War ended in 1945 resulting in the fall of Nazi Germany.
Unborn Victims of Violence Act The Unborn Victims of Violence Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-212) is a United States law which defines a violent attack on a pregnant women as two distinct crimes: one against the woman herself, and the other against her fetus. The law is codified in two sections of the United States Code: Title 18, Chapter 1 (Crimes), §1841 (18 USC 1841) and Title 10, Chapter 22 (Uniform Code of Military Justice) §919a (Article 119a).
Unbound Allstars Unbound Allstars were a one-off collaboration of various hip-hop artists who recorded the track "Mumia 911" supporting the release of death row inmate, Mumia Abu-Jamal. The artists involved included Public Enemy's Chuck D.
Unbounded nondeterminism In computer science, unbounded nondeterminism (sometimes called unbounded indeterminacy) is a property of concurrency by which the amount of delay in servicing a request can become unbounded as a result of arbitration of contention for shared resources while still guaranteeing that the request will eventually be serviced. Unbounded nondeterminism became an important issue in the development of the denotational semantics of concurrency.
Unbreakable (Dead or Alive album) Unbreakable is an album released by British band Dead or Alive in 2001 which served as a companion piece to their 2000 album Fragile. Unbreakable contains ten tracks which are remixes of Fragile songs (some of which were already remakes of past Dead or Alive songs that have been released on their past albums).
Unbreakable (song) "Unbreakable" is a song written by R&B/soul musician Alicia Keys, Kanye West, Harold Lilly and Garry Glenn, and recorded for Keys' live third album Unplugged (2005). Produced by West and Keys, it features a clavinet riff.
Unbundled Network Element Unbundled Network Elements (UNE) are a requirement mandated by the United States Telecommunications Act of 1996. They are the parts of the telecommunications network that the incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) are required to offer on an unbundled basis.
Uncanny X-Men (band) The Uncanny X-Men were a Melbourne band popular in the 1980's, featuring the charismatic Brian Mannix as lead singer. They had moderate success with their debut live ep Salive One and singles Time Goes So Fast and
Uncaria tomentosa Uncaria tomentosa (also known as Cat's Claw or Uña de Gato) is a woody vine found in the tropical jungles of South and Central America, which derrives its name from its claw-shaped thorns. It is used as an alternative medicine in the treatment of a variety of ailments.
Uncaught third strike In baseball, an uncaught third strike (also incorrectly known as a dropped third strike) occurs when the catcher fails to cleanly catch a pitch which is the third strike. A pitch is considered uncaught when the ball touches the dirt before being caught, or if the ball is dropped after being grasped (see also catch).
Unceded territory Unceded territory refers to land in North America that was never ceded to a government entity by the Native peoples (the First peoples of Canada and Native American tribes or nations) who held the original title to the land, and that has never been set apart, legislated, founded, created or established as a reserve. Some of these land claims were recognized by treaty with the United States federal government although control was not actually handed over to the Native American peoples.
Uncensored (Album) Uncensored is a comedy album by The Bob and Tom Show, which was first released in November 2002. It is a single disc which represents original uncensored material recorded during their syndicated, daily radio show and other studio numbers which had not been previously presented on air without being "bleeped".
Uncensored from Texas Death Row Uncensored from Texas Death Row is a series of articles originally started by Paul Colella and continued by Richard Cartwright that give readers an impression of life on Texas' death row through the eyes of the inmates.
Uncertain Liaisons Uncertain Liaisons; Sex, Strife and Togetherness in Urban India (ISBN 0-670-85322-4) is a book edited by Shobha De and Khushwant Singh that focuses on sex in modern India and the Indian sexual revolution. It focuses on the rapidly changing attitudes and practices in sexual behavior in modern India as well as the chasm between practise and attitude in popular culture.
Uncertainty Uncertainty is a term used in subtly different ways in a number of fields, including philosophy, statistics, economics, finance, insurance, psychology, engineering and science. It applies to predictions of future events, to physical measurements already made, or to the unknown.
Uncertainty principle In quantum physics, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle is a mathematical limit on the accuracy with which it is possible to measure everything there is to know about a physical system. In its simplest form, it applies to the position and momentum of a single particle, and implies that if we continue increasing the accuracy with which one of these is measured, there will come a point at which the other must be measured with less accuracy.
Uncertainty reduction theory Uncertainty Reduction Theory was introduced in 1975 in a paper entitled Some Exploration in Initial Interaction and Beyond: Toward a Developmental Theory of Interpersonal Communication. This theory, a collaborative effort of Charles R.
Uncial Uncial is a majuscule script commonly used from the 3rd to 8th centuries AD by Latin and Greek scribes. From the 8th century to the 13th century the script was more often used as a display script in headings and titles.
Uncinate process of ethmoid bone In the ethmoid bone, a curved lamina, the uncinate process, projects downward and backward from this part of the labyrinth; it forms a small part of the medial wall of the maxillary sinus, and articulates with the ethmoidal process of the inferior nasal concha.
Uncivil Warriors Uncivil Warriors is a 1935 Three Stooges short, their 8th for Columbia Studios. Known as Operators 12, 14 and 15 during production, the film has the Stooges as Northern spies behind Southern lines during the American Civil War.
Uncivilization Uncivilization is an album from Brooklyn hardcore punk band Biohazard. It has guest appearances from Slipknot, Pantera's Phil Anselmo, Type O Negative's Peter Steele, Cypress Hill's Sen Dog, Andreas Kisser, Derrick Green, Roger Miret and Igor Cavalera.
Unclassified Adamawa languages The Oblo language of Cameroon is agreed to belong to the Adamawa group, but its position within Adamawa is as yet unclear. It has been speculated that the unclassified Laal language of Chad may be Adamawa; the Jalaa language of Nigeria is probably not Adamawa, but shows heavy Adamawa influence.
Unclassified language Unclassified languages are languages whose genetic affiliation has not been established, mostly due to lack of reliable data. The question of the genetic affiliation of languages belongs to the domain of historical linguistics.
Unclassified miscellaneous vessel The IX (unclassified–miscellaneous) hull classification symbol is used for ships of the United States Navy that do not fit into one of the standard categories. While most of the vessels in this category were unnamed barges and floating shipyard equipment, it also includes retired battleships, training equipment and simulators, war prizes, and experimental vessels.
Uncle (band) Uncle was a spazzcore band formed in Vänersborg, Sweden in early 1996. They played their own style of Dischord influenced post-punk influenced by bands such as Frodus, Metroshifter, Maximillian Colby and avant jazz music from the 1960s.
Uncle Bobby Uncle Bobby was a Canadian children's television show that aired from 1964 to 1979 on Toronto's CFTO and, for two years, beginning in 1968, as a weekly show on the CTV television network (although it continued to be aired on local CTV stations across Canada thereafter). In its later run the show was known as Uncle Bobby and Friends and, in 1979, the show was renamed Kid's Corner and lasted for a few more years as a syndicated Saturday morning offering (and into the early 1990s in repeats on YTV).
Uncle Buck Uncle Buck is a 1989 comedy-drama starring John Candy, Amy Madigan, Jean Louisa Kelly, Gaby Hoffmann, and Macaulay Culkin. Jay Underwood and Laurie Metcalf co-star, and William Windom, Mike Starr, and Anna Chlumsky have cameo roles.
Uncle Earl Uncle Earl is an American old-time music group that formed in 1999. Its members include Kristin Andreassen, Rayna Gellert (fiddle and voice), KC Groves (mandolin, acoustic guitar, voice), and Abigail Washburn (banjo and voice).
Uncle Fester Uncle Fester is a member of the fictional Addams Family. He was played by Jackie Coogan (famous as Charlie Chaplin's sidekick in The Kid, 1921), in the television program, and by Christopher Lloyd in the movies.
Uncle Green Formed in Basking Ridge, New Jersey in 1980, the band Uncle Green consisted of Matt Brown (guitar and vocals), Jeff Jensen (guitar and vocals), Bill Decker (bass), and Pete McDade (drums). Brown and Jensen were the principal songwriters and vocalists for the group.
Uncle Henry (commentator) Uncle Henry is a radio and television commentator in Mobile, Alabama. He hosts the local radio talk show "The Uncle Henry Show" on news/talk station WPMI 710 AM and does a commentary segment every other morning on country music station WKSJ 94.
Uncle Charlie Osborne Charles Nelson Osborne, (December 26, 1890 – May 27, 1992), affectionately known as "Uncle Charlie," was a musician in the Appalachian Mountains of southwest Virginia. He was born in what is now known as Cowan Osborne Hollow, named for his father, in Copper Creek, Virginia.
Uncle John's Band "Uncle John's Band" is a song by the Grateful Dead, which first appeared on their 1970 album Workingman's Dead and is one of their most well-known. Written by guitarist Jerry Garcia and lyricist Robert Hunter, "Uncle John's Band" presents the Dead in an acoustic and musically concise mode, with close harmony singing.
Uncle Nino Uncle Nino is a 2003 movie which deals with that unknown cinematic commodity: a family, who have lost their way, but are trying to do good in spite of difficulty. The movie has the Dove Foundation Seal indicating the Dove Foundation considers it fit for all ages.
Uncle O'Grimacey Uncle O'Grimacey is a character of the fictional McDonaldland, created for an advertising narrative of the McDonald's fast-food restaurant chain both in celebration of St. Patrick's Day and to mark the annual appearance of the Shamrock Shake.
Uncle Remus Uncle David A. Remus was a fictional character, the title character and fictional narrator of a collection of African American folktales adapted and compiled by Joel Chandler Harris, published in book form from 1881.
Uncle Ruckus Uncle Ruckus is a fictional self-hating African American racist from the comic strip and animated televisions series, The Boondocks. An overweight, homely man, he enjoys dissociating himself from other African Americans as much as possible, and is outspoken in his support of what Huey calls the "white supremacist power structure.
Uncle Sam (singer) Uncle Sam (born Sam Turner) is an African American R&B singer, best known for being signed to Boyz II Men's Stonecreek Records imprint (distributed by Columbia Records) in the late 1990s. His only Top 40 hit was "I Don't Ever Want to See You Again", which reached the Top 10 of the US pop charts, and #2 on the R&B
Uncle Seth Uncle Seth is a Canadian indie rock band formed in 1999 in Scarborough. In 2006, their involvement with the Canadian and international podcast community saw them named by "the official band of Canadian podcasting" by prominent podcasters Tod Maffin, Mark Blevis and Bob Goyetche, among others.
Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book (ISBN 067121148X) is an alphabet book by Shel Silverstein. The cover reads "A primer for adults only" and much of the humor derives from a cynical drive to give terrible advice to the readers.
Uncle Slam Uncle Slam was an American crossover thrash band formed in 1987. The band originally included vocalist/guitarist Todd Moyer and drummer Amery Smith, both previous members of a short-lived band called The Brood.
Uncle Stonehill's Hat Uncle Stonehill's Hat is a children's album recorded in 2001 and produced by Terry Scott Taylor. The album is a blend of songs and stories narrated by Randy Stonehill, featuring voice acting from Noel Taylor (Terry's daughter) & Pj Clarke.
Uncle Tom Uncle Tom is a pejorative for an African American who is perceived by others as behaving in a subservient manner to White American authority figures, or as seeking ingratiation with them by way of unnecessary accommodation. The term Uncle Tom comes from the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, although there is debate over whether the character himself is deserving of the pejorative attributed to him.
Uncle Tom Cobley The phrase Uncle Tom Cobley and all is used in British English as a humorous or whimsical way of saying et al, often to express exasperation at the large number of people in a list. The phrase comes from a Devon folk song "Widecombe Fair", collected by Sabine Baring-Gould.
Uncle Tom's Cabin Uncle Tom's Cabinor, Life Among the Lowly is a novel] by [[United States|American author Harriet Beecher Stowe which treats African Americans as a central theme. The novel is believed to have had a profound effect on the North's view of African-Americans.
Uncle Tom's Children Uncle Tom's Children is a collection of short stories by African American author Richard Wright, also the author of Black Boy, Native Son, and The Outsider. Uncle Tom's Children includes four short stories and was successful when it was first published in 1938.
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood is a memoir by Oliver Sacks about his childhood published in 2002. The book is named for Sacks' Uncle Dave, who owned a business named Tungstalite, which made incandescent lightbulbs with a tungsten filament.
Uncle Zebulon's Will Uncle Zebulon's Will is a 1995 work of interactive fiction by Magnus Olsson, in which the player-character plays the nephew of a crackpot scientist, exploring his home and solving magic-based puzzles. It won the TADS category at the inaugural 1995 Interactive Fiction Competition.
Unclean animals Followers of many religions lay a taboo on the consumption or handling of certain animals; such animals are called unclean animals. Persons who handle such animals may need to purify themselves to get rid of their uncleanness.
Unclean hands Unclean hands, sometimes clean hands doctrine, is an equitable defense in which the defendant argues that the plaintiff is not entitled to obtain an equitable remedy on account of the fact that the plaintiff is acting unethically or has acted in bad faith with respect to the subject of the complaint—that is with 'unclean hands'. The defendant has the burden of proof to show the plaintiff is not acting in good faith.
Uncleftish Beholding Uncleftish Beholding is a short text written by Poul Anderson. It is written using almost exclusively words of Germanic origin, and was intended to illustrate what the English language might look like if it have not received its considerable number of loanwords from other languages, particularly Latin and Greek.
Uncles of Victoria Park Uncles of Victoria Park (, with "維園" being the short form of "維多利亞公園") is a colloquial term referring to a special group of people in Hong Kong. These people are usually retired pro-Beijing aged men, or infamously known as indigenous communists.
Uncomfortable science Uncomfortable science is the term coined by statistician John Tukey for cases in which there is a need to draw an inference from a limited sample of data, where further samples influenced by the same cause system will not be available. More specifically, it involves the analysis of a natural] [[phenomenon for which it is difficult to overcome the problem of using a common sample of data for both exploratory data analysis and confirmatory data analysis.
Uncommon Dissent Uncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing is a 2004 anthology edited by William Dembski in which fifteen intellectuals, among them leading intelligent design proponents and of whom eleven are fellows or advisors of either the International Society for Complexity, Information and Design or the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture (CSC),Fellows, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute. considered the hub of the intelligent design movement,Defending science education against intelligent design: a call to action Journal of Clinical Investigation 116:1134-1138 (2006).
Uncommon Knowledge Uncommon Knowledge was a weekly 30-minute current affairs show hosted by Peter Robinson and co-produced and presented by San Jose, California, PBS member station KTEH from 1997 to 2005. It was distributed first by American Public Television and later by PBS to public television stations throughout the United States and internationally by NPR Worldwide.
Uncompahgre Gorge The Uncompahgre Gorge is a deep mountain canyon formed by the Uncompahgre River and Red Mountain Creek just south of Ouray, Colorado. At the north end of the Gorge the Uncompahgre River flows into a deep box canyon which is home to Ouray Ice Park Access to the gorge is via U.
Uncompahgre Plateau The Uncompahgre Plateau in western Colorado is a distinctive large uplift part of the Colorado Plateau rising to elevations around 10,000 feet. The plateau extents some 70 miles between the Gunnison and Uncompahgre Rivers to the east and the San Miguel and Dolores Rivers to the west.
Uncompahgre River The Uncompahgre River is a tributary of the Gunnison River, approximately 75 mi (121 km) long, in southwestern Colorado in the United States. Lake Como at 12,215 ft (3723m) in northern San Juan County, in the Uncompahgre National Forest in the northwestern San Juan Mountains is the headwaters of the river.
Unconditional election Unconditional election is a doctrine which teaches that God, in eternity, chose out of all mankind those whom He would save by means of Christ's death and the work of the Holy Spirit, for no other reason than His own wise, just, and gracious purpose. It is one of the five points of Calvinism and is properly looked upon as a particular application of the general doctrine of Predestination or Foreordination as it relates to the salvation of sinners.
Unconditional love Unconditional love is a concept that means showing love towards someone regardless of his or her actions or beliefs. It is a concept comparable to true love, a term which is more frequently used to describe love between lovers.
Unconditional positive regard Unconditional positive regard (UPR) is a concept in client-centered therapy. Carl Rogers, who created client-centered therapy, designated unconditional positive regard as one of the three conditions were necessary for positive change, along with empathy and genuineness (congruence).
Unconditional surrender Unconditional surrender is a surrender without conditions, except for those provided by international law. Normally a belligerent will only agree to surrender unconditionally if completely incapable of continuing hostilities.
Unconditionally Guaranteed Unconditionally Guaranteed is the eighth LP by Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band, originally released in 1974. Upon release it was criticised for being too commercial, however it failed to give Beefheart any real chart success and peaked at #192 on the Billboard Top 200.
Unconference An unconference is a conference where the content of the sessions is driven and created by the participants, generally day-by-day during the course of the event, rather than by a single organizer, or small group of organizers, in advance. To date, the term is primarily in use in the geek community.
Unconformity An unconformity is a buried erosion surface separating two rock masses or strata of different ages, indicating that sediment deposition was not continuous. In general, the older layer was exposed to erosion for an interval of time before deposition of the younger, but the term is used to describe any break in the sedimentary geologic record.
Unconquerable Nation Unconquerable Nation: Knowing Our Enemy, Strengthening Ourselves (ISBN 0-8330-3893-1) is a book written by Brian Michael Jenkins, one of the world’s foremost authorities on terrorism. In it the author asserts that some of America's recent approaches to counterterrorism have been counterproductive.
Unconquered Sun (Exalted) Exalted is a role-playing game published by White Wolf Publishing. The game is classified as high fantasy, but may be more accurately described as "mythic fantasy," as the original developer specifically avoided drawing on J.
Unconscionability Unconscionability (also known as Unconscientious Dealings) is a term used in contract law to describe a defense against the enforcement of a contract based on the presence of terms unfair to one party. Typically, such a contract is held to be unenforceable because the consideration offered is lacking or is so obviously inadequate that to enforce the contract would be unfair to the party seeking to escape the contract.
Unconsciousness Unconsciousness, more appropriately referred to as loss of consciousness or lack of consciousness, is a dramatic alteration of mental state that involves complete or near-complete lack of responsiveness to people and other environmental stimuli. Being in a comatose state or coma is an illustration of unconsciousness.
Unconsolidated Loose, unattached, unstratified particles of earth material such as gravel, sand, sediment or dust, without combined rigidity or cohesiveness due to a lack of binding or natural mineral cement (such as gypsum or limestone) to hold it together; as opposed to consolidated .
Uncontrolled airspace Uncontrolled airspace is an aviation term to describe airspace where an Air Traffic Control (ATC) service is not deemed necessary or cannot be provided for practical reasons. According to the airspace classes set by ICAO both class F and class G airspace are uncontrolled.
Uncontrolled Substance Uncontrolled Substance is the 1999 (see 1999 in music) debut of Wu-Tang Clan member Inspectah Deck, an American hip hop musician. This album explores Inspectah Deck's lyrical skills, with sparse guest appearances.
Unconventional warfare Unconventional warfare (UW) is the opposite of conventional warfare. Where conventional warfare seeks to reduce an opponent's military capability, unconventional warfare is an attempt to achieve military victory through acquiescence, capitulation, or clandestine support for one side of an existing conflict.
Uncorrelated asymmetry In game theory an uncorrelated asymmetry is an arbitrary asymmetry in a game which is otherwise symmetrical. The name 'uncorrelated asymmetry' is due to John Maynard Smith who called payoff relevant asymmetries in games with similar roles for each player 'correlated asymmetries' (note that any game with correlated asymmetries must also have uncorrelated asymmetries).
Uncountable set In mathematics, an uncountable set is an infinite set which is too big to be countable. The uncountability of a set is closely related to its cardinal number; a set is uncountable if its cardinal number is larger than that of the natural numbers.
Uncovered interest arbitrage Uncovered interest arbitrage is a form of arbitrage where funds are transferred abroad to take advantage of higher interest in foreign monetary centers. It involves the conversion of the domestic currency to the foreign currency to make investment; and subsequent re-conversion of the fund from the foreign currency to the domestic currency at the time of maturity.
Unctuous Crier The Unctuous Crier was a satirical publication that skewered the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. Often called The Crier for short, it began as a small printed publication in 1986, and was published intermittently up through 2005, first as a standalone dot-com web site and later as a blog through Blogger.

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