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Uprhythm, Downbeat Uprhythm, Downbeat is the final album from punk rock band The Members. Although it was released in 1982 in the United States, the record was unavailable in the bands' native Britain until 1983, when it was released as Going West by Albion Records.
Upright bicycle An upright bicycle is a bicycle on which the rider sits astride the saddle and stands on the pedals; this is the type most commonly seen. The most popular form of the upright bicycle frame, consisting of two triangles, is know as a diamond frame.
Upright Citizens Brigade The Upright Citizens Brigade is an improvisational comedy and sketch comedy group that emerged from Chicago's ImprovOlympic in 1990. The most recent incarnation consisted of Matt Besser, Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh.
Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre is an improvisational theatre in Chelsea, New York, and Hollywood, California. Their unique form of improvisational comedy makes the theater one of the more important comedy venues in the country.
Upright row The upright row (also called the high pull) is a weight training exercise performed by holding a barbell with the overhand grip and lifting it straight up to the collarbone. This is a compound exercise that involves the trapezius, the deltoids and the biceps.
Uprising (Universal Poplab album) Uprising is the second album by the Swedish synthpop band Universal Poplab, released November 29, 2006 through Wonderland Records. The album was preceded by two singles, "I Could Say I'm Sorry" and "Heart Apart".
Uprising in Plzeň (1953) During May 31 - June 2 1953 workers in the city of Plzeň, Czechoslovakia revolted in violent protest against currency reform and politics of Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Estimated number of casualties is around 70 - 80.
Uprising of Konstantin and Fruzhin The Uprising of Konstantin and Fruzhin (, Vastanie na Konstantin and Fruzhin) was the earliest Bulgarian uprising against the Ottoman rule. It was organized in the early 15th century by two nobles and was supported by a Christian coalition, but failed to liberate Bulgaria.
Uproar Uproar is a fictional mutant character created by Marvel Comics for their Marvel 2099 run X-Men 2099 but later migrated into the pages of X-Nation 2099. This short-lived series only lasted six issues before being terminated.
Uproar in the Studio Uproar in the Studio (Chinese: 大闹画室) is a black and white Chinese animation made in 1926 by Wan Laiming and Wan Guchan. The mini-film helped the Wan brothers become recognized as the official pioneer of the animation industry in China.
Ups (debugger) Ups is an open source source-level debugger developed in the late 1980s for Unix and Unix-like systems, originally developed at the University of Kent by Mark Russell. It supports C and C++, and Fortran on some platforms.
Upsala Simsällskap Upsala Simsällskap, the "Uppsala Swimming Society" (but using the old spelling of the city name with one p), was founded in Uppsala in 1796. It is the oldest existing sports club in Sweden and claims to be the oldest swimming club in the world.
Upscaling DVD Upscaling DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) Players, are a reasonably cheap way of upscaling standard DVD discs to match the pixel count of the signal to the physical pixel count on a high-definition television or computer display, resulting in better detail and color consistency. Standalone DVD players which feature upscaling use either a standard component video or VGA analog cable, or a DVI-D or HDMI digital cable to connect to the high-definition television.
Upsert The SQL-like UPSERT statement inserts a record to a table in a database if the record does not exist; if the record already exists, an update operation is performed. This is not a standard SQL statement, but it is frequently used to abbreviate the equivalent pseudo-code.
Upset Upset is a term used when referring to a competition, frequently in electoral politics or sports. When an upset occurs, the party popularly expected to win (the favorite) is defeated by an underdog the majority expects to lose, defying the conventional wisdom.
Upset welding Upset welding is a special way of welding, in which two pieces of material are forged together at elevated temperatures. There are different ways to reach this temperature, but a current through the interface, friction or sometimes an external source are used.
Upsherin Upsherin or Upsherinish (Yiddish: אפשערן, lit. "shear off" German etymology, auf ["off"], scheren ["to shear"]) refers to a Jewish haircutting ceremony, Hasidic in origin, that takes place when a Jewish boy reaches the age of three years.
Upshot-Knothole Grable Upshot-Knothole Grable was a nuclear weapons test conducted by the United States as part of Operation Upshot-Knothole. Detonation of the associated nuclear weapon occurred shortly after its deployment at 8:30am PDT (1530 UTC) on May 25, 1953, in Area 5 of the Nevada Test Site.
Upside Down "Upside Down" was a successful single by Motown legend Diana Ross. It hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on September 6, 1980, introducing her music to a new generation of fans who may not have heard it before.
Upside Down Christmas Trees In 2005 upside down Christmas trees (also called "inverted trees") quickly became a new sensation. By the time a USA Today articleand an NPR broadcast were done, there were hardly any upside down trees available for the rest of the year.
Upside Outcomes Outcomes are the results of an experiment. When an output is the combination of many inputs, of which all can take one of a range of values, it is possible to forecast the range within which an outcome will lie in the future when an actual occurrence takes place.
Upside potential ratio The upside potential ratio is a measure of a return of an investment asset relative to the minimal acceptable return. The measurement allows to choose strategies with growth that is as stable as possible for a given minimum return.
Upside Records Upside Records is an independent pop-dance record label run by the Upside Management company for their acts. At the moment the label is releasing records by the girl band act Clea such as the album Trinity and single "We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off"
Upside-down cake An upside-down cake is a cake usually made in a pan with a curved bottom then, once cooked, turned over and allowed to set, and is eaten upside-down. Usually, chopped fruits such as pineapples and cherries are placed at the bottom of the pan before the batter is poured in, so that they form a decorative topping once the cake is inverted.
Upsilon Andromedae Upsilon Andromedae (Ď… Andromedae / Ups And) is a binary star, approximately 44 light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. The system contains a yellow-white dwarf star (Upsilon Andromedae A) similar to the Sun and a dim red dwarf (Upsilon Andromedae B).
Upsilon Ceti Upsilon Ceti (Ď… Cet / Ď… Cet) is a Class K5, fourth-magnitude star in the constellation Cetus. It is sometimes called by the Latin name Aquae Abyssi, meaning "Waters of the Deep", or Abyssus Aquae, meaning "The Watery Deep", giving reference to the abode of Cetus the whale (sea monster).
Upsilon Librae Upsilon Librae (υ Lib / υ Librae) is a Class K3, fourth-magnitude star in the constellation Libra. It is, on rare occasions, called Derakrab Borealis, meaning "Northern One of the Scorpion's Arm"; the base name Derakrab being a contraction of the Arabic title Al-Dhira al-Akrab (الذراع العقرب), meaning "Arm of the Scorpion" + Latin borealis for "northern".
Upsilon Sagittarii Upsilon Sagittarii (Ď… Sgr / Ď… Sagittarii) is a spectroscopic binary star system in the constellation Sagittarius. Upsilon Sagittarii is the prototypical hydrogen-deficient binary (HdB), and one of only four such systems known.
Upsilon Scorpii Upsilon Scorpii (Ď… Sco / Ď… Scorpii) is a star in the constellation Scorpius. It also has the traditional name Lesath (alternative spellings Leschath, Lesuth), which comes from an Arabic phrase meaning "pass (or bite) of a poisonous animal".
Upskirt Upskirt is a :slang term usually referring to up skirt photography, images of the view up a woman's skirt (as seen from underneath), including shots of a woman's underwear, or of a woman exposing either her vulva or buttocks. Alternately, an "upskirt" may be a : video, or an illustration.
Upsnap Upsnap is synonymous with mobile search. Realizing the inherent difficulties in producing a usable search experience from the constraints of a mobile phone, Upsnap developed a patented method of accepting queries and producing results via text message, aka SMS.
Upstart In Unix computing, Upstart is an event-based replacement for the init daemon written by Scott James Remnant, an employee of Canonical Ltd. Upstart operates asynchronously — as well as handling the starting of tasks and services during boot and stopping them during shutdown, it supervises them while the system is running.
Upstate Citizens for Equality The Upstate Citizens for Equality (UCE) is a group based out of Verona, NY that opposes the Indian Land Claim and what they see as flawed Federal Indian Policy, seeking equality under the law and the rule of law. UCE currently has 3 chapters with a combined membership of around 10,000.
Upstate Eight Conference The Upstate Eight Conference (UEC or U8C) is an organization of eleven high schools in northeastern Illinois, representing eight communities in Chicago's suburbs. These high schools are all members of the Illinois High School Association.
Upstate New York Synod Upstate New York Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is led by bishop Marie C. Jerge, and is a Companion Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe, a partner synod with the Central/Southern Illinois Synod, and a Reconciling in Christ Synod.
Upstate New York's Statehood Movement In the face of lagging job growth in Upstate New York in the first decade of the 21st century, a few living in the region have broached the idea of seceding from New York, in the belief that the state's emphasis on New York City issues has contributed to Upstate's problems. See, e.
Upstream (bioprocess) The upstream part of a bioprocess refers to the first step in which biomolecules are grown, usually by bacterial or mammalian cell lines (see Cell culture), in bioreactors. When they reach the desired density (for batch and fed batch cultures) they are harvested and moved to the downstream section of the bioprocess.
Upstream (computer science) Upstream in computing is the speed at which data can be transferred from the client to the server (uploading). This differs greatly from downstream not only in theory and usage, but also in that upstream speeds are usually at a premium.
Upsurging People's Force The Upsurging People's Force (Tamil: பொங்கி எழும் மக்கள் படை) is a militant group in Sri Lanka. The group was unknown until February 2006, when it claimed responsibility for a series of attacks on Sri Lankan army and navy cadre in the north and east of Sri Lanka in December 2005 and January 2006.
Uptempo Uptempo (sometimes UpTempo, up-tempo or up tempo) is an umbrella term for a quick-paced electronic music style. Other than for example Downtempo, Uptempo is usually intended more for dancing than relaxing and socializing, as most releases are produced for the dance floor.
Uptight (Everything's Alright) "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" is a 1965 hit single recorded by Stevie Wonder for the Tamla (Motown) label. One of his most popular early singles, "Uptight" was the first Stevie Wonder single to be co-written by the artist.
Uptime as a service In computing or telecommunications, "uptime as a service" expresses the idea that the uninterrupted operation of a system should be considered on a par with other intrinsic functions of the system. For instance, systems responsible for routing emergency telephone numbers to operators are held to very high uptime requirements, often in excess of 99.
Upton (UK Parliament constituency) Upton was a parliamentary constituency in East London which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until it was abolished for the 1950 general election.
Upton Grey Upton Grey is a village in Hampshire, England. The Grey part of the name comes from the years when the village was owned by the de Grey family and was used to differentiate the village from the many other Uptons.
Upton Hall School FCJ Upton Hall School FCJ, is a Roman Catholic voluntary aided grammar school located in Merseyside, England. It is one of four Catholic schools in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, and was founded as a girls' convent school by the Faithful Companions of Jesus in 1849, at the invitation of the Bishop of Shrewsbury.
Upton Sinclair Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) , was a prolific American author who wrote over 90 books in many genres and was widely considered one of the best investigative journalists of his era.
Upton Sinclair House The Upton Sinclair House was, from 1942 until 1966, the principal residence of American novelist Upton Sinclair, and the place in which he wrote his later works. It is a 1923 Spanish Colonial Revival style building in a district of similar houses, located in the suburban Los Angeles community of Monrovia, in the San Gabriel Valley.
Upton-upon-Severn Upton-upon-Severn is a small town in Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire, England, on the River Severn, often incorrectly called Upton-on-Severn. The bridge is the only one across the river Severn between Worcester and Tewkesbury.
Upton, Buckinghamshire Upton is a hamlet in the parish of Dinton, in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located to the north of the main village, on the junction between the new road from Aylesbury to Thame, and the old road before it was rerouted.
Upton, New York Upton, New York is a hamlet on Long Island in the town of Brookhaven. It is the home of Brookhaven National Laboratory and of the National Weather Service station that provides forecasts for New York City, Long Island, the Lower Hudson Valley, southern Connecticut and northeastern New Jersey.
Upton, Newark and Sherwood Upton is a small village, 2 miles east of Southwell, 5 miles west of Newark and 3 miles south of Hockerton; it lies on the A612 Nottingham-Newark road, in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire, UK. The village sits on a bend in the main road, "on the summit of a hill which commands a fine view of the Trent Valley...
Uptown (Harrisburg) Uptown is a neighborhood located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Its soutern boundary is the Midtown neighborhood; northern boundary is the city line with Susquehanna Township; western boundary is the Susquehanna River; eastern boundary is the old Main Line (Pennsylvania Railroad), which is currently utilized by Norfolk Southern and Amtrak.
Uptown (newspaper) Uptown is an alternative weekly arts and entertainment newspaper in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Like most alternative weekly newspapers in Canada, Uptown includes articles regarding the arts and entertainment, CD reviews, concert reviews, book reviews and extensive current events listings.
Uptown 3000 Uptown 3000 was a Korean American hip hop duo on the record label (The Machine Group CEO Alvin & Calvin Waters) which consisted of Carlos Galvan aka "Cali-Mexci" and Steve Kim aka "Kwon". The duo was a spinoff of Uptown, a Korean hip-hop group which was active in the late 1990's.
Uptown Art Fair The Uptown Art Fair is the largest art fair of its kind in Minnesota and is one of the top 10 fine arts festivals in the country . For 40 years it has been held on the streets of the Uptown area of south Minneapolis.
Uptown Dallas Uptown is a TIF district and neighborhood in the Oak Lawn area of Dallas, Texas, (USA). Uptown is the neighborhood north of downtown and bordered by US 75 (Central Expressway) on the East, Blackburn Street on the North, Turtle Creek Boulevard on the West and Woodall Rodgers Freeway on the South.
Uptown Girl (comic) Uptown Girl is a self-published comic book by Twin Cities native Bob Lipski. The comic focuses on the adventures of Uptown Girl, a journalist for a local indie paper, and her two best friends (also named after famous songs) Ruby Tuesday, an illustrator, and Rocketman, who works in a cube farm.
Uptown Girls Uptown Girls is a 2003 comedy/drama directed by Boaz Yakin and adapted from the story by Allison Jacobs into screenplay by Julia Dahl, Mo Ogrodnik and Lisa Davidowitz. It stars Brittany Murphy as a 21-year-old living a charmed life as the daughter of a famous rock and roll musician.
Uptown Houston Uptown Houston, or the Uptown District, is mainly centered around Post Oak Boulevard and the Galleria—the largest indoor shopping mall in Houston. In its role as a high-end fashion and hotel district, it is approximately the Houston equivalent of San Francisco's Union Square and Los Angeles's Beverly Hills.
Uptown New Orleans Uptown is a large area of New Orleans, Louisiana. Uptown encompasses a number of neighborhoods on the East Bank of the Mississippi River between the French Quarter and the Jefferson Parish line which were developed in the 19th century.
Uptown Plaza Uptown Plaza is a shopping center which is a very popular area of shopping for residents of Uptown, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Home to over 10 stores which sells anything from food, clothes, and other convenient stores.
Uptown Records Uptown Records was an American record label, founded by Andre Harrell in the late-1980s. It went on to become one of the most popular hip hop and R&B labels of the early 1990s, and featured Guy, Heavy D, Christopher Williams, Jodeci, Mary J.
Uptown, Manhattan Uptown in Manhattan, New York City, refers to the northern part of Manhattan; generally speaking, north of 59th Street. In Manhattan, particularly when one is in roughly the southern half of the borough, it can also mean "north" or "northbound," as in "I'm going uptown.
Uptown, Memphis Uptown Memphis is a neighborhood located near downtown Memphis, Tennessee. At one time, Elvis Presley lived in a small government housing project in this area which has since been renovated into a nicer apartment complex.
Uptown: Portrait of a Palace Uptown: Portrait of a Palace is an award-winning documentary about the Uptown Theatre, a movie palace located in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago. The Uptown was built by Balaban & Katz and designed by the famous architectural firm Rapp and Rapp.
Upward Bound Upward Bound is a program of the United States Department of Education, the goal of which is to give high school students who are in categories that make them less likely to attend college (such as low income, parents who didn't attend college, and living in rural areas) the tools they need to get into, pay for, and succeed in college.
Upward Bound High School Upward Bound High School in Hartwick, New York was the first alternative education program in Otsego County, New York. Created by English teacher Mike Newell and principal Mark Rathbun, the school was first located in the basement of a Unitarian church in Oneonta, New York.
Upward continuation Upward continuation is a method used in oil exploration and geophysics to estimate the values of a gravitational or magnetic field by using measurements at a lower elevation and extrapolating upward, assuming continuity. This technique is commonly used to merge different measurements to a common level so as to reduce scatter and allow for easier analysis.
Upward feedback In leadership development and management development, upward feedback (also known as manager feedback and subordinate appraisal) is a structured process of delivering feedback from subordinates to managers, intended to identify ways to increase management effectiveness and enhance organizational performance.
Upward looking sonar An upward looking sonar (ULS) is a sonar device pointed upwards looking towards the surface of the sea, and used to measure sea ice depth. Often it is moored to the bottom of the ocean and floats at a constant depth of perhaps 100 m.
Upwelling Upwelling is an oceanographic phenomenon that involves wind-driven motion of dense, cooler, and usually nutrient-rich water towards the ocean surface, replacing the warmer, usually nutrient-deplete surface water. There are at least five types of upwelling: coastal upwelling, large-scale wind-driven upwelling in the ocean interior, upwelling associated with eddies, topographically-associated upwelling, and broad-diffusive upwelling in the ocean interior.
Upwey Junction Upwey Junction was a railway junction in Dorset, England that opened in 1885 which provided access to the single track Abbotsbury branch. The branch was absorbed into the GWR and survived for sixty-six years before inevitable closure under British Railways in 1952.
Upwey railway station Upwey railway station is a railway station serving the village of Upwey in Dorset, now a northern suburb of Weymouth. The station is situated on both the London Waterloo-Weymouth and the Bristol-Weymouth routes.
Upwey, Dorset Upwey is a village in south Dorset, England. The village is situated on the A354 road in the Wey valley and has been absorbed into the Weymouth built-up area and is four miles north of the town centre in the outer suburbs.
Upwords Upwords is a board game invented by Elliot Rudell and published by Hasbro Games (a subsidiary of Hasbro). Upwords is similar to Scrabble, except that players can stack letters on top of other words to create new words.
Upytė Upytė (in the Lithuanian language the name is a diminutive form of the word upė meaning river, ) is a small village in Panevėžys district municipality in northern Lithuania. It is situated some 12 km southwest of Panevėžys on the banks of Vešeta Creek.
UP (complexity) In complexity theory, UP ("Unambiguous Non-deterministic Polynomial-time") is the complexity class of decision problems solvable in polynomial time on a non-deterministic Turing machine with at most one accepting path for each input. UP contains P and is contained in NP.
UP College Admission Test The University of the Philippines College Admission Test admits graduates of Philippine and foreign high schools into the University of the Philippines System. The UPCAT (pronounced "oop-cat") is considered to be one of the most competitive college entrance exams in the country.
UP College of Engineering The College of Engineering of the University of the Philippines is the largest degree-granting unit in the UP Diliman campus in terms of student population. The college is also known formally as UP COE, COE, and informally as Eng'g (pronounced "eng").
UP Diksyonaryong Filipino The UP Diksiyonaryong Filipino (English: UP Filipino Dictionary) is the first attempt at a monolingual Filipino dictionary. Still in its first edtion and despite glaring spelling inconsistencies among words and quite a few pronunciation key errors, it is considered an important first step towards dictionary-making in the Filipino language.
UP Fighting Maroons at UAAP Season 69 The University of the Philippines (UP) Fighting Maroons participated in all 14 sports in the University Athletics Association of the Philippines (UAAP)'s Season 69, along with the demonstration sport of beach volleyball.
UP Tomo-Kai The UP Philippines-Japan Friendship Club, most popularly known as UP Tomo-Kai, is an organization that aims to promote the Japanese language and culture as well as foster mutual relations between Filipinos and Japanese. What started from 7 students brought together by their interest in Japan has become a full-fledged organization — illustrious and pushing its goal for 16 years and counting.
UPC and NPC The main purpose of UPC (Usage Parameter Control) and NPC (Network Parameter Control) is to protect the ATM (see Asynchronous Transfer Mode) network resources from malicious connections and to enforce the compliance of every connection to its negotiated traffic contract [1]. UPC and NPC are also known as traffic policing in general.
UPC-Arena The UPC-Arena (formerly Arnold Schwarzenegger-Stadium) in Graz, Styria, Austria, is the home of the football clubs of Graz playing in the T-Mobile Bundesliga (highest football league in Austria) SK Sturm Graz and Grazer AK.
UPGMA UPGMA (Unweighted Pair Group Method with Arithmetic mean) is a simple bottom-up data clustering method used in bioinformatics for the creation of phylogenetic trees. The input data is a collection of objects with their pairwise distances and the output is a rooted tree (dendrogram).
UPIXO In Action: Mission in Snowdriftland UPIXO in Action was a Flash-based platforming game created by Extra Toxic, with help from Nintendo. Doubling as a game and an advent calendar advertising different Nintendo products, every day from December 1st to December 24th (2006), an extra level was added to the game.
UPM Bintulu Sarawak Campus UPM Bintulu Sarawak Campus is a branch campus of Universiti Putra Malaysia. This campus was reopened in November 2001 based on the third objective of UPM's 2001-2010 planning strategy, which is to upgrade UPM's ability as an internationally acclaimed Centre of Study, Agricultural and Biosource Services.
UPMC SportsWorks UPMC SportsWorks is one of the major, consistent exhibits of the Carnegie Science Center located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is the largest science and sports exhibition in the world, with over 40 exhibits and 60+ interactive experiences in which visitors can participate.
UPOD An abbreviation or piece of lingo used on Wall Street for the term 'Under Promise Over Deliver'. It refers to how corporate executives will lowball their earnings estimates to stock analysts in order to surprise on the upside.
UPOM The United Patties of Malta (UPOM) is the largest representative union of Burger King employees in the Maltese Islands. The union represents the employees of all three Burger King restaurants in Malta: Burger King St Julian's, Burger King Sliema and Burger King Valletta.
UPRCM School of Medicine The University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus, School of Medicine is a medical school of the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus located in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It has full accreditation by the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME).
UPTV UPTV, or Urbana Public Television, is a public television channel in located in Urbana, IL, in the United States. The station provides educational programing from NASA, the First Amendment Center, the National Association for Music Education, Minnesota Chamber Music, and the Annenberg Channel.
UPWPL The UPWPL, or Uzbekistan Professional Wheelchair Polo League (Russian: Лига Поло Инвалидного кресла Профессионала Узбекистана), is a pro league for disabled athletes in the central Asian republic of Uzbekistan.
Uqair A Saudi coastal village and its associated ancient fort of probable Islamic origin, located in the Eastern province of Saudi Arabia. It is alternatively spelled Al-'Uqair, Uqayr, and Ogair, all Latin transliterations of the same Arabic word.
Uqair Protocol of 1922 The Uqair Protocol was issued on December 2, 1922, in response to the Wahhabi Bedouin raiders, operating from Nejd, under Abdul Aziz ibn Abdul Rahman ibn Saud. The British High Commissioner to Baghdad, Sir Percy Zachariah Cox, met with ibn Saud and the British Political Agent to Kuwait, Major John More, at Uqair where he imposed the Uqair Protocol which defined the boundaries between Iraq and Nejd; and between Kuwait and Nejd.
Uqaylid Dynasty The 'Uqailid or 'Uqaylid Dynasty was a Muslim Arab dynasty with several lines that ruled in various parts of Al-Jazira, northern Syria and Iraq in the late 10th and 11th centuries. The main line, centered in Mosul, ruled from 990 to 1096.
Uqba ibn Nafi Uqba ibn Nafi ( ) (also referred to as Uqba bin Nafe, Uqba Ibn al Nafia, or Akbah) (622–683) was an Arab general under the Umayyad dynasty, who began the Islamic conquest of the Maghreb, including present-day western Algeria and Morocco in North Africa. He was also the nephew of Amr ibn Al-As.
Uqbar Uqbar is best-known as a fictional place in Jorge Luis Borges's famous 1940 short story "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius". Uqbar in the story is doubly fictional: even within the world of the story it turns out to be a fictional place.
Uqturpan County Uqturpan County is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Aksu Prefecture. According to the 2002 census, it has an area of 9,012 sq km with a population of 180,000.
UQ Lakes Bus Station, Brisbane The UQ Lakes Bus Station, at UQ's St Lucia Campus, is serviced by TransLink bus routes. It is located west of College Road and is the new way of accessing UQ by public transport, via the new Eleanor Schonell Bridge.

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