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UniPers UniPers, also called Pârsiye Jahâni (literally: global Persian) by its creators, is a proposed Latin-based alphabet for the Persian language. The system combines the basic Latin alphabet plus a few modified letters (Â/â, Š/š, Ž/ž, and an apostrophe).
Unique Art Unique Art Manufacturing Company was an American toy company, founded in 1916, based in Newark, New Jersey that made inexpensive toys, including wind-up mechanical toys, out of lithographed tin. One of its early products was a wind-up toy featuring two tin boxers.
Unique bid auction Unique bid auctions are a mix between an auction and a lottery. The participants bid for a particular item by submitting blind or sealed (ie secret) bids: the winner is the bidder who places the highest or, in some variants the lowest, unique bid.
Unique Development Studios Unique Development Studios (or UDS) was a computer and video game developer based in Norrköping and Gothenburg, Sweden. Founded in 1993, they wanted to find skilled and motivated programmers and artists to develop some great games for Microsoft Windows and video game consoles.
Unique factorization domain In mathematics, a unique factorization domain (UFD) is, roughly speaking, a commutative ring in which every element can be uniquely written as a product of prime elements, analogous to the fundamental theorem of arithmetic for the integers. UFDs are sometimes called factorial rings, following the terminology of Bourbaki.
Unique identifier With reference to a given (possibly implicit) set of objects, a unique identifier is any identifier which is guaranteed to be unique among all identifiers used for those objects and for a specific purpose. There are three main types of unique identifiers, each corresponding to a different generation strategy:
Unique Master Citizen Number Unique Master Citizen Number (Serbo-Croatian: Jedinstveni Matični Broj Građana / Јединствени Матични Број Грађана, acronym JMBG / ЈМБГ, Macedonian: Единствен матичен број на граѓанинот, acronym ЕМБГ, Slovene: Enotna matična številka občana, acronym EMŠO) was a unique identification number that was assigned at birth to every citizen of former Yugoslavia.
Unique Material Identifier The SMPTE 330M Unique Material Identifier (UMID) is a standard for providing a stand-alone method for generating a unique label designed to be used to attach to media files and streams. The length of the UMID may be 32 octets (Basic UMID) or 64 octets (Extended UMID) that may be parsed to extract specific information produced at the time it was generated or simply used as a unique label.
Unique prime In mathematics, a unique prime is a certain kind of prime number. A prime p ≠ 2, 5 is called unique if there is no other prime q such that the period length of the decimal expansion of its reciprocal, 1 / p, is equivalent to the period length of the reciprocal of q, 1 / q.
Unique selling proposition The Unique Selling Proposition is a marketing concept that was first proposed as a theory to explain a pattern among successful advertising campaigns of the early 1940s. It states that such campaigns made unique propositions to the customer and that this convinced them to switch brand.
Unique visitor A unique visitor is a statistic describing a unit of traffic to a Web site, counting each visitor only once in the time frame of the report. This statistic is relevant to site publishers and advertisers as a measure of a site's true audience size, equivalent to the term "Reach" used in other media.
Uniqueness Database File In Microsoft Windows system administration, a Uniqueness Database File (UDF) is a text file that enables the administrator to supply the information that must be unique to each computer or each user. Used in conjunction with a single answer file, when Windows XP Professional is deployed to several client computers that require different setup configurations.
Uniqueness quantification In predicate logic and technical fields that depend on it, uniqueness quantification, or unique existential quantification, is an attempt to formalise the notion of something being true for exactly one thing, or exactly one thing of a certain type.
Uniramia The Uniramia are a major group of Arthropoda, consisting of organisms with an exoskeleton, jointed appendages, and with legs that do not branch, namely the Hexapoda (insects and allies) and Myriapoda (centipedes, millipedes, and related forms). In Manton's original proposal, the Uniramia also included the Onychophora (velvet worms), but the discovery of fossil lobopods that are intermediate between onychophorans and arthropods is strong evidence for the two groups being separate.
Unirea Shopping Center Unirea Shopping Center is a shopping mall located in Unirii Square, Bucharest, Romania. Opened in the 1990s, it was the first modern shopping centre in Bucharest, with part of it being built in a former CeauĹźescu-era hunger circus.
Uniroyal International Championship The Uniroyal International Championship, named for rubber corporation Uniroyal, was a European Tour golf tournament that was played just twice. In 1976 Englishman Tommy Horton won the Uniroyal International, and the following year, once the word "Championship" had been added to the name, Severiano Ballesteros of Spain was the victor.
Unisexual Unisexual species are those in which each individual generally shows the characteristics of only one sex, such as animal species which are divisible into male or female or plant species which are divisible into pistillate or staminate. Good examples of this type of pollination are hollies, and kiwifruit.
Unish-Kuri Unish Kuri, which literally means "nineteen twenty", is the youngest fortnightly magazine published from ABP Ltd, publishers of Anandabazar Patrika of Kolkata, India, that took off as a new division, or wing of Anandamela, the 30 year old legendary childrens' magazine published in Bengali. First published on 19 June, 2004, the magazine has already gained huge popularity among teenagers and the age group of 16 to 26, proving wrong all the critics who had predicted doom for the magazine.
Unisol Unisol is a logical puzzle invented by Lawrence Gould that has been printed in the Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, Australia) and Tele Sept Jeux (Paris, France) since the mid 1980s. It appears in the Sydney Morning Herald on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Unison Industries Unison Industries is a world leader in the design and manufacture of electrical and mechanical components, sensors, and systems for aircraft, industrial, marine, military, and space uses. Major product lines include turbine and piston engine ignition systems, electrical power generation and control systems, electrical wiring harnesses and panel assemblies, sensors, switches, and bellows assemblies, tubing, ducting, brackets, flex joints and air valves.
Unissued stock Unissued stock is stock that has been authorised in a companies charter, but has never been sold. It differs from Treasury stock (in the UK, Treasury shares, as treasury stock means something else), in that treasury stock has been issued, and bought back by the company, where as unissued stock has never been issued.
Unistat The Unistat computer program is a statistical data analysis tool featuring two modes of operation: The stand-alone user interface is a complete workbench for data input, analysis and visualization while the Microsoft Excel add-in mode extends the features of the mainstream spreadsheet application with powerful analytical capabilities.
Unistraw The Unistraw™ Delivery System (UDS) is a patented straw-delivery system created by Unistraw International Limited in 1997, and released commercially in 2005. The UDS can add flavour, energy, vitamins, nutrition, and even pharmaceuticals - to liquid sipped through it.
Unisys ICON The ICON was a computer built specifically for use in schools, to fill a standard created by the Ontario Ministry of Education. They were widely used, mostly in high schools in the mid- to late 1980s, but disappeared after that time with the widespread introduction of PCs and Apple Macintoshes.
Unit 101 Unit 101 was an Israeli special operations unit founded and led by Ariel Sharon on orders from Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion in August 1953. It was created to retaliate against a spate of Arab fedayeen violence against Israelis.
Unit 200 Unit 200 was a secret military medical unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that researched biological warfare and other topics through human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and World War II era. This unit was associated directly with Unit 731, and worked mainly in plague research.
Unit 669 Unit 669 is the name of the Israeli Air Force heliborne medevac extraction unit. Unit 669 was founded in 1974, based on lessons learned from the 1973 Yom Kippur War, when an ad-hoc medevac unit made some 5000 extractions.
Unit 731 Unit 731 was a covert medical experiment unit of the Imperial Japanese Army which researched biological warfare through human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and World War II. It was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes carried out by Japanese personnel.
Unit 777 Unit 777 (in Arabic: الوحدة 777 قتال), also known as Task Force 777, is the military Egyptian counter-terrorism unit created in 1978 due to the failure of the Egyptian army commandos action in Larnaca airport (19 February 1978) as they engaged in a severe battle with Cypriot army and police troops who attacked the commandos as they were heading to capture the terrorists who assassinated the Egyptian novelist and head of the Afro-Asian authors’ summit in Hilton Nicosia. Unit 777 was developed with support from the United Kingdom's SAS and United States Special Forces.
Unit 8200 Unit 8200 (read as eight-two hundred) is an IDF Intelligence Corps unit, responsible for collecting signal intelligence. It is also known in military publications as the Central Collection Unit of the Intelligence Corps, and was formerly known as Unit 515, and later, Unit 848.
Unit 8604 Unit 8604 or Nami Unit was a secret military medical unit of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) that researched biological warfare and other topics through human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and World War II era.
Unit body construction Unit Body or unibody construction is a way of manufacturing an automobile chassis by integrating the chassis with the body instead of having a separate chassis. Pop the hood of a car and if there are strut towers, then it is unibody.
Unit construction Unit construction is a term used to describe motorcycle or motor car engine design where both the engine and gearbox are an integrated unit within the same casing. Engine and transmission may or may not share a common oil supply.
Unit disk graph In geometric graph theory, a unit disk graph is the intersection graph of a family of unit circles in the Euclidean plane. That is, we form a vertex for each circle, and connect two vertices by an edge whenever the corresponding circles cross each other.
Unit distance graph In mathematics, and particularly geometric graph theory, a unit distance graph is a graph formed from a collection of points in the Euclidean plane by connecting two points by an edge whenever the distance between the two points is exactly one. Unlike planar graphs, edges of unit distance graphs are allowed to cross each other.
Unit dummy force method The Unit dummy force method provides a convenient means for computing displacements in structural systems. It is applicable for both linear and non-linear material behaviours as well as for systems subject to environmental effects, and hence more general than Castigliano's second theorem.
Unit generator Unit Generators (or ugens) are the basic formal unit in many MUSIC-N-style computer music programming languages. They are sometimes called opcodes (particularly in Csound), though this expression is not accurate in that these are not machine-level instructions.
Unit identification aircraft markings Unit identification aircraft markings were numbers, letters, geometric symbols, and colors painted onto the tails (vertical stabilizer fins) of the combat aircraft (primarily bombers) of the United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War. The purpose of these markings was to provide a means of rapid identification of the unit to which an aircraft was assigned.
Unit interval In mathematics, the unit interval is the interval [0,1], that is the set of all real numbers x such that zero is less than or equal to x and x is less than or equal to one. The unit interval plays a fundamental role in homotopy theory, a major branch of topology.
Unit Load Device Unit Load Devices, or ULDs, are pallets and containers used to load luggage, freight, and mail on wide-body aircraft and specific narrow-body aircraft. They allow large quantities of cargo to be bundled into large units.
Unit Moebius Unit Moebius was an electronic group based in The Hague, the Netherlands in the 1990s. Taking Underground Resistance and underground free tekno as inspirations, the group became the godfathers of the Hague's industrial techno/planet rock scene.
Unit of account A unit of account is a standard numerical unit of measurement of the market value of goods, services, and other transactions. It is one of three elements that must be met before something can be considered money.
Unit of action Units of Action, or Units (sometimes also called beats) were first suggested by Konstantin Stanislavski as a means of helping actors determine the through line or super objective of a role. A unit is a discrete piece of action in a play-text, marked by a significant change in action.
Unit of the Minorities The Unit of the Minorities is an Arabic-speaking unit of the Israel Defense Forces founded during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The Minorities Unit is currently believed to be of brigade strength and is considered an elite, professional organization.
Unit operation In chemical engineering and related fields, a unit operation is a basic step in a process. For example in milk processing, homogenization, pasteurization, chilling, and packaging are each unit operations which are connected to create the overall process.
Unit Oketz Unit Oketz is an independent special forces (sayeret) unit within the Israel Defense Forces, specialising in dog handling for military applications. Unit Oketz operators are often assigned to other units in the case of a particular need for their specialist skills, such as in the extraction of terrorists from fortified buildings.
Unit One Unit One is a west coast graffiti writer born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He was one of a handful of writers who helped push the early freight graffiti movement in the late 80's and early 90's in Los Angeles.
Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering was first published in 1956 and is one of the oldest chemical engineering textbooks still in widespread use. The current Seventh Edition, published in 2004, continues its successful tradition of being used as a textbook in university undergraduate chemical engineering courses.
Unit record equipment Before the advent of electronic computers, data processing was performed using electromechanical devices called unit record equipment, electric accounting machines (EAM) or tabulating machines. A data processing shop would have at least one of the most of the machine types.
Unit root In autoregressive models in econometrics a unit root is present if the coefficient |b|=1 in y_{t}=ax+by_{t-1}+varepsilon_{t}, where -y_{t} is the variable of interest at time t, b is the slope coefficient, and varepsilon_{t} is the error component.
Unit train A unit train, also called a block train is train in which all the cars making it up are shipped from the same origin to the same destination. This saves the hassle of assembling and disassembling trains at rail yards near the origin and destination, however, unit trains are only economical for high-volume customers.
Unit Trust of India UTI Mutual Fund is managed by UTI Asset Management Company Private Limited (Estb: Jan 14, 2003) who has been appointed by the UTI Trustee Company Private Limited for managing the schemes of UTI Mutual Fund and the schemes transferred / migrated from UTI Mutual Fund.
Unit vector In mathematics, a unit vector in a normed vector space is a vector (often a spatial vector) whose length, (or magnitude) is 1. A unit vector is often written with a superscribed caret or “hat”, like this {hat{imath}} (pronounced "i-hat").
Unitarian Democratic Coalition The Unitarian Democratic Coalition (Portuguese: Coligação Democrática Unitária or CDU) is an electoral and political coalition between the Portuguese Communist Party (Portuguese: Partido Comunista Português or PCP) and the Ecologist Party "The Greens" (Portuguese: Partido Ecologista "Os Verdes" or PEV). The coalition also integrates the political movement named Democratic Intervention (Portuguese: Intervenção Democrática or ID)
Unitarian Earth Spirit Network The Unitarian Earth Spirit Network (UESN) was founded in 1990 by Rev Peter Roberts, assisted by Jo Rogers as Sec/Treasurer. Roberts felt that the British Unitarian movement had two main streams of belief (Liberal Christian and Humanist) adequately represented, but that another mode of thought that was not formally represented, a Nature / Earth / Creation centred religious voice.
Unitarian Christian Association Formed in 1991 as a response to revisionism within the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, the Unitarian Christian Association continues to uphold the original Unitarian Christian tradition of Francis David within the British Unitarian movement. Although a group of Unitarian Christians formed the UCA, its creation was largely due to the efforts of the late Lancelot Austin Garrard - a distinguished Unitarian scholar and theologian.
Unitarian Christianity Unitarian Christianity (not to be confused with the Unity Church) is a form of Unitarianism that promotes the teachings and example of Jesus Christ, as found in the New Testament. Unitarian Christians believe that the exemplar model of how men and women should live was lived by Jesus of Nazareth, who was a man and a prophet of God.
Unitarian monotheism Unitarian Monotheism is a form of monotheism that teaches that the single god/God is not and cannot be divided into more than one part. Examples of religions that have this teaching are Judaism, Samaritanism, and Islam.
Unitarian Party Unitarists (Spanish Unitarios) was the name under which the liberal concept of a centralised government in Buenos Aires was known, during the years of civil war, short after the Declaration of Independence of Argentina in 1816, and opposed to the Federalism.
Unitarian trick In mathematics, the unitarian trick (occasionally unitarian trick) is a device in the representation theory of Lie groups, introduced by Hermann Weyl. It applies to show that the representation theory of some group G is in a qualitative way controlled by that of some other compact group K.
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Stanislaus County The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Stanislaus County is a congregation of Unitarian Universalists in Stanislaus County, California, just outside of Modesto, in California's Central Valley Theirs is the only UU congregation in the county, and it is member congregation of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. The current Minister is the Reverend Grace Simons.
Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship The Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship (UUCF) is an Independent Affiliate of the Unitarian Universalist Association. The UUCF has the mission of serving and encouraging all persons within Unitarian Universalist congregations who seek to engage the Christian tradition and to explore Christian spirituality.
Unitarian Universalist Independent Affiliate organizations Unitarian Universalist Independent Affiliate Organizations are organizations whose purposes are consistent with those of the Unitarian Universalist Association and are designated such by the UUA Board of Trustees. Such organizations are independently constituted and operated but are required to support the UUA through an annual donation.
Unitarian Universalist Religious Society of Spain The Unitarian Universalist Religious Society of Spain (Sociedad religiosa Unitaria Universalista de España, aka known by the acronym SUUE) is the organizing body for Unitarian Universalism in Spain. The SUUE is a member of the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists (ICUU) since June 2001, and has fellowships in Barcelona and Madrid.
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) is a non-profit international human rights organization that was started in 1939 (as the Unitarian Service Committee) out of an effort to help rescue victims of Nazi persecution during World War II. Today, it works to promote social justice and human rights in the areas of environmental and economic justice, and civil liberties, and defends the rights of those in humanitarian crises.
Unitarian Universalist views of homosexuality Unitarian Universalism and the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) have a long-standing tradition of welcoming all people, whether straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, or questioning. The first ordained minister of any religion in the U.
Unitarian Universalist Young Adult Network The Unitarian Universalist Young Adult Network, commonly referred to by its acronym UUYAN, is an organization for young adult programming within the United States of America and Canada through the Unitarian Universalist Association, an organization of Unitarian Universalists mostly in the United States of America. The continental (C*UUYAN) age-range is 18-35, and most districts- and congregational-level age ranges match up, including those in the (CUC)Canadian Unitarian Council's regions.
Unitarian Universalist Youth Conferences Unitarian Universalist Youth Conferences, commonly called "Cons", or "Rallies" in the targeted Unitarian Universalist Association's Southwest district, are a happening that brings together Unitarian Universalist youth and there adult [They are usually held in various Unitarian Universalist] churches and one generally last for about a weekend, with all hours of the day filled with spiritual and other kinds of sharing, including moments of learning, and fun.
Unitarianism Historic Unitarianism believed in the oneness of God and not the Christian doctrine of the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in one God) proclaimed at the Council of Nicaea in 325. Historic Unitarians believed in the moral authority, but not the deity, of Jesus.
Unitarisation In politics, unitarisation is a process of uniting a political entity which consists of smaller regions, either by cancelling the regions completely or by transferring their power to the central government. Politics which favors this process is called unitarism.
Unitarisk Kirkesamfund Unitarisk Kirkesamfund (English: Unitarian Church Society) is the Danish Unitarian Church, founded May 18, 1900 as "Det fri Kirkesamfund" (literally, The Free Congregation) by a group of liberal Christians.
Unitarity gauge In theoretical physics, the unitarity gauge or unitary gauge is a particular choice of a gauge fixing in a gauge theory with a spontaneous symmetry breaking. In this gauge, the scalar fields responsible for the Higgs mechanism are transformed into a basis in which their Goldstone boson components are set to zero.
Unitary and federal systems of government In the majority of nations, the public government contains multiple governments within itself, each of which have their own jurisdiction and laws. There are several systems of government, the unitary system, the federal system, and the confederate system.
Unitary authority A unitary authority is a type of local authority that has a single tier and is responsible for all local government functions within its area. This is opposed to a two-tier system where local government functions are divided between different authorities.
Unitary divisor A number a is a unitary divisor of a number b if a and frac{b}{a} have only one common factor (1). Thus, 5 is a unitary divisor of 60, because 5 and frac{60}{5}=12 have only one as a common factor, while 6 is a divisor but not a unitary divisor of 60, as 6 and frac{60}{6}=10 have common factors other than 1 (such as 2).
Unitary Development Plan In United Kingdom Planning Law a Unitary Development Plan is an old-style development plan prepared by a Metropolitan district and some Unitary Local Authorities, which contains policies equivalent to those in both a structure plan and local plan. These plans will continue to operate for a time after the commencement of the new development plan system, by virtue of specific transitional provisions.
Unitary executive theory In American political and legal discourse, the unitary executive theory is a controversial theory of Constitutional interpretation that addresses aspects of the separation of powers. The theory argues for strict limits to the power of Congress to divest the President of control of the executive branch.
Unitary group In mathematics, the unitary group of degree n, denoted U(n), is the group of nĂ—n unitary matrices, with the group operation that of matrix multiplication. The unitary group is a subgroup of the general linear group GL(n, C).
Unitary perfect number A unitary perfect number is an integer which is the sum of its positive proper unitary divisors, not including the number itself. (A divisor d of a number n is a unitary divisor if d and n/d share no common factors.
Unitary representation In mathematics, a unitary representation of a group G is a linear representation π of G on a complex Hilbert space V such that π(g) is a unitary operator for every g ∈ G. The general theory is well-developed in case G is a locally compact (Hausdorff) topological group and the representations are strongly continuous.
Unitary state A unitary state is a state or country that is governed constitutionally as one single unit, with one constitutionally created legislature. The political power of government in such states may well be transferred to lower levels, to regionally or locally elected assemblies, governors and mayors ("devolved government"), but the central government retains the principal right to recall such delegated power.
Unitax Unitax (unified national indirect taxation) is a system of national revenue (complemented by ulitax - unified local indirect taxation) based on non-monetary, energy value, units of assessment. Thus a revenue of ÂŁx or $y per gigajoule of primary energy entering any given economy can phase out all other taxes and raise revenue which is continuously, automatically and with hardly any paperwork, geared to standard of living, income and property.
Unité d'Habitation The Unité d'Habitation (French, literally, "Housing Union" or "Housing Unit" since Unité has a double meaning in French) is the name of a modernist residential housing design principle developed by Le Corbusier, which formed the basis of numerous housing developments designed by him throughout Europe with this name. The first and most famous of these buildings, also known as Cité radieuse and, informally, as La Maison du Fada (French - Provençal, "The Lunatic's House"), is located in Marseille, France, built 1947-1952.
Unité Radicale Unité Radicale was a French radical far-right political group. It was founded in June 1998 from the merger of Groupe Union Défense and Nouvelle Résistance/Jeune Résistance/Union des Cercles Résistance, and dissolved on August 6, 2002.
Unité urbaine In France an unité urbaine (literally: "urban unit") is a statistical area defined by INSEE, the French national statistics office, for the measurement of contiguously built-up areas. According to the INSEE definition , an "unité urbaine" is a commune alone or a grouping of communes which must: a) form a single unbroken spread of urban development, with no distance between habitations greater than 200 metres, and b) have altogether a population greater than 2,000 inhabitants.
Unite (English coin) The Unite was the second English gold coin with a value of twenty shillings or one pound produced during the reign of King James I. It was named after the legends on the coin indicating the kings' intention of uniting his two kingdoms of England and Scotland.
Unite Against Fascism Unite Against Fascism is a left-wing political pressure group in the United Kingdom that campaigns against far right-wing and fascist parties and groups in Britain, primarily the British National Party (BNP), which it identifies as the principal threat.
Unite for Children, Unite Against AIDS Unite for Children, Unite Against AIDS is a global campaign launched on October 25 2005 by the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef), UNAIDS and other partners to promote world awareness of the AIDS pandemic and to spur action for the millions of children affected by HIV/AIDS. Fewer than 5% of HIV-positive children are receiving treatment.
Unite For Sight Unite For Sight® is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that empowers communities worldwide to improve eye health and eliminate preventable blindness. Volunteer Teams work with partner eye clinics in developing countries to provide eye care and eye health education programs.
Unite the Right Unite the Right, also called the United Alternative, was a Canadian political movement from 1997 to 2003. Its goal was to merge the country's two right wing political parties: the Reform Party of Canada (later the Canadian Alliance [CA]) and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
United (Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell album) United was the first of three albums by Motown soul music duo Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell. Released in 1967, the album yielded four Top 40 hits, including the two Top 10 singles "Your Precious Love" and "If I Could Build My Whole World Around You".
United 93 (film) United 93 (formerly named Flight 93) is a 2006 critically acclaimed Academy Award-nominated docudrama written and directed by Paul Greengrass that chronicles events aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which was skyjacked during the September 11, 2001 attacks. The film attempts to recount with as much veracity as possible (there is a disclaimer that some imagination had to be used), in real time, what has come to be known in the United States as an iconic moment of heroism.
United Advertising Publications United Advertising Publications (UAP) is a trading division of UBM but, by the end of 2005, its products (publications and websites) will be merged with those of CMPi - another division of UBM specialising in business-to-business media and exhibitions. Two of UAP's best known titles in the UK, Exchange & Mart and Auto Exchange, will be sold.
United African Company of Nigeria PLC For over a century, United African Company of Nigeria PLC (sometimes referred to as UACN PLC) has distinguished itself as a major contributor to the Nigerian economy. Its areas of operation include manufacturing, services, logistics and warehousing, agricultural and real estate.
United African National Council The United African National Council was a party led by Abel Muzorewa, which during the short-lived period of the Internal Settlement of 1979 (when Rhodesia changed into Zimbabwe Rhodesia), held formal power. However, political power remained in the hands of the white minority who controlled the armed forces, the civil service, and the judiciary.
United Aircraft Building Corporation United Aircraft Building Corporation (UABC), in Russian : Объединённая авиастроительная корпорация), is a Russian state-owned corporation that consolidates aircraft construction companies and state assets engaged in the manufacture, design and sale of military, non-military, transport, and unmanned aircraft.
United Airlines United Airlines, the primary subsidiary of the UAL Corporation, is a major airline of the United States headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Its operations center is in Elk Grove, near O'Hare International Airport, the airline's largest traffic hub, with 650 daily departures.
United Airlines Flight 173 United Airlines Flight 173, registration N8082U, was a Douglas DC-8-61 en route from Denver to Portland, Oregon on December 28, 1978. When the landing gear was lowered, only two of the landing gear indicator lights lit up.
United Airlines Flight 610 United Airlines Flight 610, registration number N37543 was operating as "Mainliner Overland Trail" and was on a transcontinental service San Francisco-Oakland-Salt Lake City-Denver-Chicago when it crashed on June 30, 1951. The plane was a DC-6 and it was transporting 50 persons (45 passengers and 5 crew members), all of whom perished in the accident.
United Airlines Flight 624 United Airlines Flight 624, a DC-6 (NC37506), originated in San Diego, California with stops in Los Angeles and Chicago enroute to LaGuardia Airport in New York City. The four-engine propeller-driven passenger airliner crashed at 1:41 P.

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