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Unlimited Fix Skateboarding Company Unlimited Fix started as a clothing company selling to small retail shops around the Southern California area in 2000. By 2003-2004, Unlimited Fix grew to incorporate skateboards and accessories spreading their market from San Francisco to San Diego.
Unlockable games The term unlockable games refers to full videogames that can be unlocked within another videogame. Often these unlockable games are prequels of the game they are hidden in, such as NES Ninja Gaiden series in the Xbox version of the game Ninja Gaiden, which become available after beating the game with certain requirements.
Unmaad Unmaad, IIM Bangalore's annual cultural festival is one of the largest, most popular and most widely covered inter-college events in India. From its relatively humble beginnings with events more or less confined to Bangalore colleges, Unmaad has evolved today to a multi-million rupee, gigantic, national event.
Unmade Godzilla Films There are currently 28 Godzilla films in the Godzilla canon, (29 if the 1998 American film is taken into account.) However, for all the movies about Godzilla that have been made, there are many more that have been rejected for some reason or another.
Unman, Wittering and Zigo Unman, Wittering and Zigo is a 1958 radio play by the British writer Giles Cooper. Written to put across Cooper's dislike of the public schools system in place at the time, the play is based around a school where a master has just been killed.
Unmanned ground vehicle Unmanned ground vehicles or UGV are robotic platforms that are used as an extension of human capability. This type of robot is generally capable of operating outdoors and over a wide variety of terrain, functioning in place of humans.
Unmanned reef lights of the Florida Keys The unmanned reef lights of the Florida Keys were erected between 1921 and 1935. As they were marking local hazards, they did not need to be visible for as far as the reef lights that were erected during the 19th century.
Unmarked: Landscapes Along Highway 16 Unmarked: Landscapes Along Highway 16 is a 2004 book by Sarah de Leeuw about a number of small communities on Highway 16 in British Columbia, Canada. The book is a series of short essays, each linked to a specific place, evoking the local geography and community, and often linked to memories from de Leeuw's childhood.
Unmeasured prelude Unmeasured or non-measured prelude is a prelude in which the duration of each note is left to the performer. Typically the term is used for 17th century harpsichord compositions that are written without rhythm or metre indications, although various composers of the Classical music era were composing small preludes for woodwind instruments using non-measured notation well into the 19th century.
Unmoved mover The 'unmoved mover' is the first cause—that which set the universe into motion—as described by Aristotle in his Metaphysics, Book λ. As is implicit in the name, the "unmoved mover" is not moved by this action (thus acting as a sort of exception to the Newtonian law of physics that "every action has an equal and opposite reaction").
Unmuzzled OX Unmuzzled OX, started by poet Michael Andre, edited in New York City and Kingston, Ontario, was a late-twentieth-century quarterly of poetry, art and politics. Aided by artist Erika Rothenberg, the best-known issue was The Poets' Encyclopedia, the world's basic knowledge transformed by 225 poets, artists, musicians and novelists.
Unna (district) The Unna district is a Kreis (district) in central North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring authorities are the district of Coesfeld, the city of Hamm, the districts of Soest and Märkischer Kreis, the cities of Hagen and Dortmund, and the district of Recklinghausen.
Unna's boot Unna's boot is a special gauze (usually 4 inches wide and 10 yards long) bandage, which can be used for the treatment of venous stasis ulcers and other venous insufficiencies of the leg. It can also be used as a supportive bandage for sprains and strains of the foot, ankle and lower leg.
Unnale Unnale Unnale Unnale (English: Because of You) is an upcoming Tamil language feature film to be produced by Oscar Ravichandran and directed by Jeeva. The movie, described by Jeeva to be a candy floss entertainer , stars Bangalore based model turned newcomer Vinay, Sadha and Tanisha Mukherjee in pivotal roles.
Unnamed Hariri Pontarini Architects project Referred to as the "Twisted Sisters" by opponents of the project, the Hariri Pontarini Architects project are proposed buildings in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Construction has not yet started as they have just been approved.
Unnatural act Unnatural act is the term, once common in legal parlance, for certain sex acts, including anal sex, oral sex, other non-procreative sexual practices, incest, or procreative sexual acts in the wrong position or without procreative intent.
Unnatural Acts Unnatural Acts was a BBC radio comedy series written by, and starring, Jeremy Hardy and Kit Hollerbach (who, at the time, were married) as "The Hardys" with Paul B Davies and Caroline Leddy as "Paul and Caroline". Two series were made in 1987 and 1988, with the third renamed At Home With The Hardys and broadcast in 1990.
Unnatural History (Doctor Who) Unnatural History is an original novel written by Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Eighth Doctor, Sam, Fitz and Faction Paradox.
Unnatural History II Unnatural History II (subtitled Smiling in the Face Of Perversity) was the second in a series of three compilation albums by Coil. Unlike Stolen & Contaminated Songs and Gold Is The Metal With The Broadest Shoulders, Unnatural History II collects songs from more than a single era of Coil's work.
Unnatural History III Unnatural History III was the third in a series of three compilation albums by Coil. Unlike Stolen & Contaminated Songs and Gold Is The Metal With The Broadest Shoulders, Unnatural History III collects songs from more than a single era of Coil's work.
Unnatural Selection (TNG episode) Unnatural Selection is the seventh episode of the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation first broadcast on January 30, 1989. It is episode #33, production #133, and was written by John Mason and Mike Gray, and directed by Paul Lynch.
Unnayi Warrier Unnayi Warrier is a renowned writer who lived in Kerala about three hundred years ago. He was born in Irinjalakuda in Trichur district in Kerala and gave immense contribution to the art of Kathakali the classical dance form of Kerala.
Unnecessary Fuss Unnecessary Fuss is a film produced by Ingrid Newkirk and Alex Pacheco of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), showing footage shot inside the University of Pennsylvania's Head Injury Clinic in Philadelphia.
Unni Wikan Unni Wikan (born 18 November 1944) in Harstad, Norway is a professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo and is the second wife of the well-known Norwegian social anthropologist Fredrik Barth. She has also served as visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University (1977, assistant professor), Beersheba University, Israel (1989) École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (1996), London School of Economics (1997) Wolfgang Goethe Universitat, Frankfurt (2000), and guest lecturer at Harvard University in 1995, visiting scholar in 1987 and visiting professor in 1999-2000.
Unnithan Unnithan is the name of one of the Nair subcastes of Travancore region in Kerala state of India. Unnithans were part of the nobility in Travancore and this class originated through the marriages between high caste Nair ladies and Rajahs of the non ruling Kshatriya Houses of Kerala.
Unnur Steinsson Unnur Steinsson was Miss Iceland 1983 and came in the Top 5 position at the Miss World finals. She is the mother of Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir who won the Miss Iceland pageant in 2005 and became Miss World 2005 just recently.
Uno (bus company) Uno (formerly UniversityBus) is a bus service operated by the University of Hertfordshire, England, serving members of the general public, and also its own students (at a discounted rate). It provides student transport to the expanding university from local areas as well as improving east-west travel across the county and opening up new links from North London.
Uno (game) Uno (Spanish, Italian "one") is a card game played with a specially printed deck (see Mau Mau for an almost identical game played with normal playing cards). The game was originally developed in 1971 by Merle Robbins.
Uno Chicago Grill Uno Chicago Grill, formerly known as Pizzeria Uno or more informally as Uno's, is a loosely-franchised pizzeria restaurant chain creditedAmerican Pie, an April/May 2006 article from American Heritage with creating Chicago-style pizza. The first Uno's was established in 1943 by former University of Texas football star Ike Sewell in the River North neighborhood of Chicago, IllinoisOfficial website's history and timeline.
Uno Laht Uno Laht (born 1924) was the first Estonian writer and poet who dared to point out the pathologies of Soviet everyday life in poetry. Laht is an ex-KGB officer who had taken part in arrests and deportations in 1940s.
Uno Laur Uno Laur (born 1962 Kohtla-Järve, Estonia), also known as Kohtla-Järve Uno (a nickname derived from his home-town), is an Estonian-Jewish anarchist and the iconoclastic ex lead singer of the Must Mamba and Röövel Ööbik, "the oldest punk in Estonia".
Uno y el Universo Uno y el universo (Spanish for One and the universe) was first published in 1945 and is an alphabetical compendium of the young Ernesto Sábato's ideas and opinions (he was 34 at the time and had just renounced a life of physics); these range from art to politics to religion to the vagaries of the human spirit. It has not been translated into English but has been republished often in its original language.
Unoaked wine Unoaked wine is fermented in a barrel made of stainless steel or other material having no influence in the final taste of the wine. Depending on the desired taste, it could be fermented mainly in stainless steel to be briefly put in oak, or have the complete fermentation done in stainless steel.
Unobservables Unobservables are entities whose existence, nature, properties, qualities or relations are not observable. In the philosophy of science typical examples of "unobservables" are atomic particles, the force of gravity, causation and beliefs or desires.
Unobtainium Unobtainium is a colloquial term, collectively describing rare, costly, or physically impossible materials that are needed for a given application. The name is a portmanteau derived from unobtainable + ium (the suffix for many metals).
Unobtrusive JavaScript "Unobtrusive JavaScript" is an emerging paradigm in the JavaScript programming language, as used on the World Wide Web. Though the term is not formally defined, its basic principles are generally understood to include:
Unofficial badges of the United States military Unofficial badges of the United States military are those badges or emblems which do not appear in United States military regulations but are worn or displayed by many individuals serving in the United States military. Unofficial badges may also be bestowed for a one time action or be authorized under the authority of a local commander.
Unofficial decorations of the United States military Unofficial decorations of the United States military are those awards and decorations which were authorized under military regulations but never appeared on official precedence charts. Unofficial awards may also be bestowed for a one time action or be authorized under the authority of a local commander.
Unofficial Football World Championships The Unofficial Football World Championships (UFWC; also known as "World Perpetual Football Championship") is a novel way of calculating the world's best football team, using a knock-out title system similar to that used in boxing and wrestling. The title is currently held by Georgia.
Unofficial Member Unofficial Member (非官守議員) is the members of Executive Council and Legislative Council of Hong Kong but not from Hong Kong Government. Before Legislative Council direct election starting from 1991, the Government collects views and opinions by appointing elits from the society of Hong Kong to the two councils.
Unofficial organizations for Democrats Unofficial organizations for Democrats are those bodies, not officially affiliated with the United States Democratic Party, but primarily intended for the participation of people who are at least self-described Democrats.
Unofficial Twenty20 World Championship The Unofficial Twenty20 World Championship is a theoretical title that determines the World Champions of Twenty20 Cricket. As the game is relatively new, and there is yet to be a World Championship Tournament or regular set of fixtures in which to easily determine a World Champion, a boxing style title fight system can be used as a way of ascertaining the strongest team in the world.
Unorganisation Unorganisation is an approach to organisational structure and design that consciously removes or avoids layers of management and bureaucracy, eschews job titles, and instead attempts to operate with the minimum of formal structure so as to become as flexible and effective as possible.
Unorganized Hawaii State Militia Unorganized Hawaii State Militia, founded by Bravo anointed title "4 Star General" John Rogers, is a private organization divided into three organizations. The purpose of this organization is mainly as a private club for people interested in military affairs.
Unpaired word An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym, with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.
Unparliamentary language In a Westminster system, unparliamentary language is words or phrases that are deemed to be inappropriate for use in the House whilst it is in session. This includes, but is not limited to the suggestion of dishonesty and foul language or profanity.
Unpledged elector The President of the United States is chosen by a group of electors, apportioned among the several states according to their respective populations. Electors today are elected in every state by popular vote, and in practice have since the 19th century almost always agreed in advance to vote for a particular candidate -- that is, they are said to have been pledged to that candidate.
Unplugged (internet) Unplugged refers to a person's permanent or temporary removal from an internet scene, usually for personal reasons. This usually refers to hackers and phone phreaks, as well as internet radio hosts that drop out of the scene for whatever reason.
Unplugged at the Walls (album) Unplugged At The Walls was not even an intended release in the first place, but it turns out to be by far Marillion's most interesting live release in the latter years. It was recorded in a small restaurant in Oswestry 25 and 26th of June 1998 as a strictly acoustic set.
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election is a 2002 documentary made by Richard Ray Perez and Joan Sekler about the contested 2000 presidential election in Florida. While a short film at 47 minutes, it was generally well received by critics.
Unproven cancer therapy Unproven cancer therapy is a broad term describing conventional, alternative, and complementary treatments for cancer which have not been approved by a governing body (for instance, the United States Food and Drug Administration) as being effective.
Unpuncliegut The Unpuncliegut, also known as the Hunzpunzliegut, were a band of American Indians that lived along the southern part of the Texas coast; their settlements are known to have been along the mainland shore of the Laguna Madre in the region of today's Cameron and Willacy counties. They are beilieved to have spoken Coahuiltecan.
Unravelled Broken Orchestra Unravelled Broken Orchestra is an avant garde ensemble based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. With a core of regular players (Christopher Friesen, Terence Fuller, Jaret McNabb, Fletcher Pratt, Robert Turnbull) and an open door policy to others, they create unique soundscapes that are equally inspired by Miles Davis and Sonic Youth.
Unreachable memory In computer science, unreachable memory is a block of memory allocated dynamically where the program that allocated the memory no longer has any reachable pointer that refers to it. Similarly, an unreachable object is a dynamically allocated object that has no reachable reference to it.
Unreal Unreal is a first-person shooter computer game developed by Epic Games and published by GT Interactive on May 22, 1998. It was powered by an original gameplay and computer engine that now bears the game's name, one that had been in development for over three years before the game was released.
Unreal (series) The Unreal series is a computer game franchise that began with the original Unreal, a single-player first-person shooter computer game which was published on May 30 1998 by Epic Megagames, now known as Epic Games. It was powered by the Unreal Engine which had been in development for over three years before the game was released.
Unreal Anthology Unreal Anthology is a compilation pack containing Unreal Gold (which includes Unreal and its expansion pack), Unreal Tournament, Unreal II: The Awakening, and Unreal Tournament 2004. The package includes pre-patched and up-to-date versions for most of the included games.
Unreal Engine The Unreal Engine is a widely-used game engine developed by Epic Games. First illustrated in the 1998 first-person shooter game Unreal, it has been the basis of many games since, including Unreal Tournament , Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield, Red Steel , and Gears of War.
Unreal Gold Unreal Gold is a compilation pack containing Unreal and its expansion pack, Unreal Mission Pack I: Return to Na Pali. Unlike most compilation packs, Unreal Gold is a different version than that of Unreal or its expansion, making both effectively one game, using a menu system similar to that of Unreal Tournament.
Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict is a first-/third-person shooter video game part of the Unreal series of games. It was developed by Epic Games and published by Midway Games for an April 18 2005 release on the Xbox game console.
Unreal mode For efficiency reasons, the 80286 and later x86 processors use the base address stored in their internal "descriptor" cache whenever accessing memory, regardless if they are operating in real or protected mode. The "selector", i.
Unreal Tournament Unreal Tournament, UT, (sometimes referred to as UT99 or UT Classic or UT1 and also UT:GOTY to differentiate from Unreal Tournament 2003, Unreal Tournament 2004 and Unreal Tournament 3) is a popular first-person shooter video game. It is Epic Games's 1999 follow-up title to Unreal and focuses mainly on multiplayer action.
Unreal Tournament 2004 Unreal Tournament 2004, also known as UT2004 or UT2K4, is a futuristic first-person shooter computer game designed mainly for multiplayer gaming, although the game has a built in single-player mode that mimics multiplayer gaming by featuring AI-bots. Unreal Tournament 2004 is part of the Unreal series of games and is the sequel to 2002's Unreal Tournament 2003.
Unreal Tournament 3 Unreal Tournament 3, or UT3, codenamed Envy, and formerly known as Unreal Tournament 2007, is part of the Unreal series of games and is the sequel to 2004's Unreal Tournament 2004. Using Unreal Engine 3, it is a first-person shooter video game designed mainly for multiplayer gaming, although the game has a built-in single-player mode that mimics multiplayer gaming by featuring bots with artificial intelligence.
UnrealEd UnrealEd (UEd for short) is the level editor used to create levels for Unreal. It can also be used for other games in the Unreal series, and games based on the Unreal engine, such as Deus Ex, although it has changed along with the engine for later games.
Unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics The unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics is a catchphrase, alluding to the well-known article by physicist Eugene Wigner unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences and implying the claim that mathematical analysis has not proved as valuable in other fields as in physics.
Unreconstructed Whitlamite The term Unreconstructed Whitlamite was a pejorative term used by members of the Hawke-Keating cabinet to describe other members of cabinet and the Australian Labor Party who professed views that were not in line with the economic rationalist orthodoxy held by the leading government figures of the day.
Unregistered Baptist Fellowship Unregistered Baptist Fellowship (UBF) is an unincorporated fellowship of Baptist pastors, evangelists, missionaries and laymen, dedicated to personal and ecclesiastical separation; a part of the Independent Fundamental Baptist movement. This Fellowship stresses its adherence to the fundamentals of the faith and historic Baptist doctrines.
Unreleased Bitterness Unreleased Bitterness is a 7" EP release by death/doom metal band My Dying Bride. The track is an early rehearsal recording of the song "The Bitterness and the Bereavement", which appeared on the "As The Flower Withers" album.
Unreleased Dannii Minogue songs The following is a list of songs recorded by Dannii Minogue, but that were chosen not to be used on her studio albums and singles, and remain unreleased. Some have been sent to other recording artists for them to record for use on their albums instead.
Unreleased Prince projects Prince is well-known in the entertainment industry for having a vast body of works that have never seen the light of day. It has been said that his vault contains over 50 fully produced music videos that have never been released, along with albums and other media.
Unreleased stop An unreleased stop or plosive is a plosive consonant without an audible release burst. That is, the oral tract is blocked to pronounce the consonant, and there is no audible indication of when that occlusion ends.
Unreleased Zoids Over the course of twenty-three years and sixteen releases, a number of Zoids models were planned and developed but were not released for some reason or another. While some were simply variations of existing Zoids, there are a number of completely new designs that never saw the light of day.
Unreported World Unreported World is a foreign affairs programme broadcast by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. Over the course of its 12 series reporters have travelled to dangerous locations all over the world in an attempt to uncover stories usually ignored by the world media.
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) is a democratic, international organization. Its members are indigenous peoples, occupied nations, minorities and independent states or territories which lack representation internationally.
Unrequited "Unrequited" is the sixteenth episode of the fourth season of The X-Files. The mysterious assassination of a high-ranking military official has Mulder and Scully racing against the clock to stop a seemingly unstoppable - and invisible - assassin.
Unrequited love Unrequited love is love that is not reciprocated, even though reciprocation is usually deeply desired. This can lead to feelings such as depression, anxiety, and mood swings such as swift changes between depression and euphoria.
Unreserved Ticketing System Unreserved Ticketing System (UTS) is a project to computerize the sale and accounting of tickets other than the reserved tickets sold through the Passenger Reservation System of Indian Railways. Thus, UTS aims to
Unrestricted grammar In formal language theory, an unrestricted grammar is a formal grammar on which no restrictions are made on the left and right sides of the grammar's productions. This is the most general class of grammars in the Chomsky–Schützenberger hierarchy, and can recognize arbitrary recursively enumerable languages.
Unrestricted Hartree-Fock Unrestricted Hartree-Fock (UHF) theory is the most common molecular orbital method for open shell molecules where the number of electrons of each spin are not equal. While restricted Hartree-Fock theory uses a single molecular orbital twice, once multiplied by the α spin function and once multiplied by the β spin function in the Slater determinant, unrestricted Hartree-Fock theory uses different molecular orbitals for the α and β electrons.
Unrestricted Warfare (book) Unrestricted Warfare is the English title of a book on military strategy written in 1999 by two Colonels in the People's Liberation Army, Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui. Its primary concern is how a nation such as China can defeat a technologically superior opponent (such as the United States) through a variety of means.
Unretractable Unretractable claws are claws that cannot be retracted. The claws are only helpless as they stick out of the paw, and retracting is pulling the claw back into the paw, hiding it beneath the fur of the animal's paw.
Unrolled linked list In computer programming, an unrolled linked list is a variation on the linked list which stores multiple elements in each node. It can drastically increase cache performance, while decreasing the memory overhead associated with storing list metadata such as references.
Unrooted Childhoods: Memoirs of Growing up Global Unrooted Childhoods: Memoirs of Growing up Global is a book of memoirs edited by Faith Eidse and Nina Sichel. It documents the life of growing up in multiple nations, cultures, and language regions by weaving the individual memoirs of Eidse, Sichel, Isabel Allende, Marie Arana, Pat Conroy, Pico Iyer, and many others into one book.
Unrotated Projectile The Unrotated Projectile was a short range rocket firing anti-aircraft weapon developed by the Royal Navy to supplement the 2 pounder Pom-Pom (gun) due to a critical lack of close-range anti-aircraft weapons. It was used extensively by British ships during the early days of Second World War.
Unruh effect The Unruh effect, discovered in 1976 by Bill Unruh of the University of British Columbia, is the prediction that an accelerating observer will observe black-body radiation where an inertial observer would observe none. In other words, the accelerating observer will find themselves in a warm background.
Unsacred Hearts The Unsacred Hearts are a New York City/Brooklyn based rock band that blend classic and indie rock sounds. They have released a self-titled EP, as well as a split 7" EP with fellow New York band and label-mates Man in Gray.
Unsafe at Any Speed Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile by Ralph Nader, published in 1965, is a book detailing his claims of resistance by car manufacturers to the introduction of safety features, like seat belts, and their general reluctance to spend money on improving safety. It was a pioneering work of consumer advocacy, openly polemical but containing substantial references and material from industry insiders.
Unsaturated fat An unsaturated fat is a fat or fatty acid in which there is one or more double bond in the fatty acid chain. A fat molecule is monounsaturated if it contains one double bond, and polyunsaturated if it contains more than one double bond.
Unsaturated hydrocarbon Unsaturated hydrocarbon is the name of a type of organic molecule in organic chemistry, that contains a chain of carbons. "Unsaturated" refers to the fact that each of the carbons bonds aren't with 4 separate molecules, but can, instead have double or triple bonds.
Unsaturated monomer Unsaturated monomers are those having carbon-carbon double bonds. In general, the term "unsaturated" refers to the presence of one or more double (or triple) bonds and the ability to "saturate" the molecule by addition of H2.
Unscripted Unscripted is the name of an HBO television series that was broadcast in early 2005, its title referring to the fact that the series was largely improvised by its performers. It follows the misadventures of three struggling actors, who are all in the same acting class in Los Angeles, California, as they make the rounds from auditions to rejection, to personal struggle and to satisfaction.
Unsealed source radiotherapy Unsealed source radiotherapy relates to the use of soluble forms of radioactive substances which are administered to the body by injection or ingestion. Such substances are typically used for their biological properties, which are similar to their non-radioactive parent substance.
Unsecured loan Unsecured loans are loans that are not guaranteed with any asset, so that the risk of repossession does not exist. Though the lender can still take legal action in order to recover the money, such a legal process would be significantly longer and more expensive than with secured loans.
Unseen character In fiction, an unseen character is a character who is described or mentioned, but does not actually appear to the audience. Television shows and stage plays sometimes include continuing characters — characters who are currently in frequent interaction with the other characters and who influence current story events — who are never seen or heard by the audience and only described by other characters.
Unsent "Unsent" is a song by Alanis Morissette that was featured on her 1998 album Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie. It was released as the album's third single on July 13, 1999 and had moderate chart success.
Unserdeutsch language Unserdeutsch ("Our German"), or Rabaul Creole German, is a German-based creole language spoken primarily in Papua New Guinea and the northeast of Australia. It was formed among the New Guinean children residing in a German-run orphanage.
Unshakable Race Unshakable Race was an original reggae-rock band based in Eugene and Bend, Oregon from around 1992 to 1998. Founded and fronted by husband-wife duo Rob and Danyel London, the group earned a small but loyal following throughout the Northwest and parts of California and Colorado with its positive, socially conscious messages and dynamic stageshow.
Unsharp masking Unsharp masking is an image manipulation technique now familiar to many users of digital image processing software, but it seems to have been first used in Germany in the 1930s as a way of increasing the accutance, or apparent sharpness, of photographic images. The "unsharp" of the name derives from the fact that the technique uses a blurred, or "unsharp", positive to create a "mask" of the original image.
Unshelved Unshelved is a daily comic strip most notable for being set in a library. Published by Overdue Media, the web comic was created by writer Gene Ambaum (not his real name) and co-writer/artist Bill Barnes, and has been appearing at the rate of a strip per day since February 16 2002, with a virtual circulation in excess of 30,000 readers and growing via RSS feed, website and email subscription.

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