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USS Valencia (AKA-81) USS Valencia (AKA-81) was a Tolland class attack cargo ship named after Valencia County, New Mexico. She was designed to carry military cargo and landing craft, and to use the latter to land weapons, supplies, and Marines on enemy shores during amphibious operations.
USS Valeria (AKA-48) USS Valeria (AKA-48) was an Artemis class attack cargo ship named after the minor planet 611 Valeria, discovered in 1906 by Joel Hastings Metcalf, an amateur astronomer who made the initial identification of 41 minor planets. The meaning of the name is unknown.
USS Van Buren (PF-42) USS Van Buren (PF-42), a Tacoma-class frigate, was the 2nd ship of the United States Navy to hold this name. The first Van Buren, a revenue cutter, was named for President Martin Van Buren; the second Van Buren (PF-42), honors the city of Van Buren, Arkansas.
USS Van Valkenburgh (DD-656) USS Van Valkenburgh (DD-656) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Captain Franklin van Valkenburgh (1888–1941), captain of the battleship Arizona when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
USS Van Voorhis (DE-1028) USS Van Voorhis (DE-1028) was a Dealey-class destroyer escort, was a ship of the United States Navy named for Lieutenant Commander Bruce Van Voorhis (1908–1942), a naval aviator who was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for action in the Eastern Caroline Islands.
USS Vandalia (IX-191) USS Vandalia (IX-191), a twin-screw, steel-hulled tanker, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for Vandalia, the name of three cities in the United States that is also used poetically for various regions.
USS Venango (AKA-82) USS Venango (AKA-82) was a Tolland class attack cargo ship named after Venango County, Pennsylvania. She was designed to carry military cargo and landing craft, and to use the latter to land weapons, supplies, and Marines on enemy shores during amphibious operations.
USS Vendace (SS-430) USS Vendace (SS-430), a Tench-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the vendace, a species of whitefish native to Lochmaben in Scotland. Her construction by the Cramp Shipbuilding Company at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was authorized but the contract for her construction was cancelled on 29 July 1944.
USS Venus (AK-135) The USS Venus (AK-135) was a Crater-class cargo ship in the service of the United States Navy in World War II. Originally liberty ship SS William Williams (named after William Williams a signer of the Declaration of Independence), it was taken over by the Navy after damaged by a torpedo attack and renamed after the planet Venus.
USS Vermillion USS Vermillion could be referring to a number of different ships in the US Navy. All of these vessels are named for a bay located in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana, southeast of Vermilion Parish and southwest of Iberia Parish.
USS Vermont (1848) The first USS Vermont of the United States Navy was originally intended to be a ship of the line when laid down in 1818, but was not commissioned until 1862, when she was too outdated to be used as anything but a stores and receiving ship.
USS Vesuvius Four ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Vesuvius, commemorating the Italian volcano located on the eastern side of the Bay of Naples, whose most famous eruption, on 24 August 79, destroyed the city of Pompeii and the town of Herculaneum.
USS Vesuvius (1846) USS Vesuvius, the second ship of the United States Navy named for the Italian volcano, was a coastal cargoman built in 1845 at Brooklyn, New York, as Saint Mary. She was acquired by the Navy at New York City in 1846 for use with the blockading squadrons in the Gulf of Mexico.
USS Vesuvius (1888) USS Vesuvius, the third ship of the United States Navy named for the Italian volcano, was a unique vessel in the Navy inventory which marked a departure from more conventional forms of main battery armament. She is considered a dynamite gun cruiser.
USS Vicksburg (1863) USS Vicksburg (1863) was a wooden steamship built in 1863 at Mystic, Conn.; purchased by the United States Navy at New York City on 20 October 1863; converted into a gunboat; and commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 2 December, Lieutenant Commander L.
USS Vincennes (CL-64) The third USS Vincennes (CL-64) was a Cleveland class light cruiser of the United States Navy that saw action in the Pacific during the later half of World War II. She was originally laid down as Flint (CL-64) on 7 March 1942 at Quincy, Massachusetts, by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company's Fore River plant.
USS Vinton (AKA-83) USS Vinton was a Tolland class attack cargo ship named after Vinton County, Ohio. She was designed to carry military cargo and landing craft, and to use the latter to land weapons, supplies, and Marines on enemy shores during amphibious operations.
USS Vixen (PG-53) USS Vixen PG-53 was originally built in Kiel, Germany in 1929 as the Orion for millionaire Julius Forstmann, as the worlds largest private yacht. She was bought by the United States Navy and converted at the Sullivan Dry Dock in Brooklyn into the gunboat USS Vixen.
USS Voge (DE-1047) The USS Voge (DE-1047), a Garcia class frigate of the US Navy named after Richard George Voge, was laid down on 21 November 1963 at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City, Michigan. She was launched on 4 February 1965, sponsored by Mrs.
USS Volador (SS-490) USS Volador (SS-490), a Tench-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the volador, one of several varieties of flying or sailing fishes named for a Spanish language term meaning "flying."
USS Von Steuben (SSBN-632) USS Von Steuben (SSBN-632), a James Madison-class ballistic missile submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1730–1794), the German army officer who served in the American Revolutionary War.
USS Wahoo (SS-516) USS Wahoo (SS-516), a Tench-class submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the wahoo, a dark blue food fish of Florida and the West Indies. Her construction by the Mare Island Navy Yard was authorized and her keel was laid down on 15 May 1944, but the contract for her construction was canceled on 7 January 1946.
USS Wahoo (SS-518) USS Wahoo (SS-518), a Tench-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the wahoo, a dark blue food fish of Florida and the West Indies. Her construction was authorized but the contract for her construction was cancelled on 29 August 1944.
USS Wahoo (SS-565) USS Wahoo (SS-565), a Tang-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the wahoo, a dark blue food fish of Florida and the West Indies. The contract to build her was awarded to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, and her keel was laid down on 24 October 1949.
USS Wainwright (DD-62) The first USS Wainwright (DD-62), named for Jonathan Wainwright, his son, Master Jonathan Wainwright, Jr., and his cousin, Commander Richard Wainwright, was a Tucker-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I.
USS Walrus (SS-431) USS Walrus (SS-431), a Tench-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the walrus. Her construction by the Cramp Shipbuilding Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was authorized but the contract for her construction was cancelled on 29 July 1944.
USS Walrus (SS-437) USS Walrus (SS-437), a Tench-class submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the walrus, a gregarious, aquatic mammal found in Arctic waters, related to the seal and a prime source of leather, oil, ivory, and food. Her keel was laid down on 21 June 1945 by the Electric Boat Company at Groton, Connecticut.
USS Walter S. Brown (DE-258) USS Walter Scott Brown (DE-258) was a United States Navy Evarts class destroyer escort in the Second World War. It was named after a US Navy sailor commended for bravery after dying during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
USS War Hawk (AP 168) USS War Hawk (AP-168) was a LaSalle Class transport ship built at the Moore Dry Dock Company in Oakland, California in 1942. LaSalle Class transport had a displacement of almost 14,000 tons and were designed to ferry troops and supplies to and from the war zone during World War II.
USS Warrington (DD-383) USS Warrington (DD-383), a Somers-class destroyer, was the 2nd ship of the United States Navy to be named for Lewis Warrington, who was an officer in the Navy during the Barbary Wars and the War of 1812. He also temporarily served as the Secretary of the Navy.
USS Wasatch (AGC-9) USS Wasatch (AGC-9) was a Mount McKinley class amphibious force command ship named after a mountain chain in central Utah. She was designed as an amphibious force flagship, a floating command post with advanced communications equipment and extensive combat information spaces to be used by the amphibious forces commander and landing force commander during large-scale operations.
USS Washburn (AKA-108) USS Washburn (AKA-108) was a Tolland class attack cargo ship named after Washburn County, Wisconsin. She was designed to carry military cargo and landing craft, and to use the latter to land weapons, supplies, and Marines on enemy shores during amphibious operations.
USS Washington (BB-47) USS Washington (BB-47), a Colorado-class battleship, was the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the 42nd state. Her keel was laid down on 30 June 1919 at Camden, New Jersey, by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation.
USS Wasp (1775) Scorpion, a merchant schooner built at Baltimore, was purchased by the Continental Navy late in 1775 and renamed USS Wasp —the first of that name. She was outfitted at Baltimore during the winter of 1775–1776; and commissioned in December 1775 or January 1776, Capt.
USS Wasp (1807) The second USS Wasp of the United States Navy was a sailing sloop of war captured by the British in the early months of the War of 1812. She was constructed in 1806 at the Washington Navy Yard, was commissioned sometime in 1807, Master Commandant John Smith in command.
USS Waukesha (AKA-84) USS Waukesha (AKA-84) was a Tolland class attack cargo ship named after Waukesha County, Wisconsin. She was designed to carry military cargo and landing craft, and to use the latter to land weapons, supplies, and Marines on enemy shores during amphibious operations.
USS Weiss (APD-135) USS Weiss (APD/LPR-135) was a Crosley-class high-speed transport, the second ship of the United States Navy to be assigned the name Weiss, after Marine Sergeant Carl W. Weiss (1915–1942), who was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for his actions during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
USS Weiss (DE-378) Weiss (DE-378), was named after Marine Sergeant Carl Walter Weiss, who was killed in action during a battle on 1 November with Japanese forces near Matanikau River, Guadalcanal, when he charged an enemy machine gun position and destroyed it with a hand grenade. For "his great personal valor, aggressiveness and fine spirit of self sacrifice," Sgt.
USS Welles (DD-628) USS Welles (DD-628), a Gleaves-class destroyer, was the 2nd ship of the United States Navy to be named for Gideon Welles, who was the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869, including the entire duration of the American Civil War: his dedication to naval blockades was one of the key reasons for the North's victory over the South..
USS Whale (SS-239) USS Whale (SS-239), a Gato-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the whale, an extremely large, aquatic mammal that is fishlike in form. Her keel was laid down on 28 June 1941 by the Mare Island Naval Shipyard of Vallejo, California.
USS Wheatland (AKA-85) USS Wheatland (AKA-85) was a Tolland class attack cargo ship named after Wheatland County, Montana. She was designed to carry military cargo and landing craft, and to use the latter to land weapons, supplies, and Marines on enemy shores during amphibious operations.
USS Wheeling USS Wheeling (PG-14) USS Wheeling, a 990-ton gunboat built at San Francisco, California, was commissioned in August 1897. Her first years of service were spent in the eastern Pacific, on the Asiatic Sation and at Samoa.
USS Whippet (IX-129) USS Whippet (IX-129), an Armadillo-class tanker designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the whippet. Her keel was laid down on 31 October 1943 at New Orleans, Louisiana, by the Delta Shipbuilding Company under a Maritime Commission contract (MCE hull 1933).
USS Whitefish (SS-432) USS Whitefish (SS-432), a Tench-class submarine, was the only submarine of the United States Navy to be named for the whitefish, a freshwater food fish closely related to the trout and salmon found in waters of the Northern Hemisphere. Her keel was to be laid down by the Cramp Shipbuilding Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but the contract for her construction was cancelled on 29 July 1944.
USS Whitehurst (DE-634) USS Whitehurst (DE-634), a Buckley class destroyer escort of the United States Navy, was named in honor of Henry Purefoy Whitehurst, Jr.. Ensign Whitehurst was a crew member of the USS Astoria (CA-34) when he was killed while he and other members of his ship participated in the landings on Guadalcanal on 7 August 1942.
USS Whiting (SS-433) USS Whiting (SS-433), a Tench-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the whiting, a small European food fish. Her construction by the Cramp Shipbuilding Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was authorized but the contract for her construction was cancelled on 29 July 1944.
USS Whitney (AD-4) The USS Whitney (AD-4) was a United States Navy destroyer tender named for United States Secretary of the Navy William Collins Whitney. She was launched 12 October 1923, and was commisioned on 2 September 1924.
USS Wildcat (AW-2) USS Wildcat (IX-130, AW-2), an Armadillo-class tanker designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the wildcat, though three other ships have been named Wild Cat. She was originally projected as the "Victory" tanker Leon Godchaux; however, before her construction began, the ship was allocated to the Navy.
USS Wiley (DD-597) USS Wiley (DD-597), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was a ship of the United States Navy named for William Wiley, a sailor of the Navy in the 1800s who served in the First Barbary War. Wiley took part in the daring raid led by Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, Jr.
USS Will Rogers (SSBN-659) USS Will Rogers (SSBN-659) was a Benjamin Franklin-class ballistic missile submarine—the last of the "41 for Freedom" Polaris submarines. She was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for humorist Will Rogers (1879–1935).
USS Willamette (AO-180) The USS Willamette (AO-180) was the United States Navy's fourth ship in the Cimarron-class fleet replenishment oiler and the first ship in the Navy to bear the name. Originally, there was another ship named Willamette but the contract for the construction of that Willamette, a projected screw sloop-of-war of the Contoocook class, was canceled in 1866 before its keel was laid.
USS Willard Keith (DD-775) USS Willard Keith (DD-775), an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer, is currently the only completed ship of the United States Navy ever named for Willard Keith, a USMC captain who died in combat during the campaign for Guadalcanal.
USS Willmarth (DE-638) USS Willmarth (DE-638), a Buckley class destroyer escort of the United States Navy, was named in honor of Ensign Kenneth Willmarth (1914-1942), who was killed in action when the cruiser USS Vincennes was sunk during the Battle of Savo Island on 9 August 1942.
USS Windham Bay (CVE-92) USS Windham Bay (CVE-92) was an Casablanca class escort carrier of the United States Navy. She was laid down under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1129) on 5 January 1944 at Vancouver, Washington, by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Co.
USS Windlass (ARS(D)-4) USS Windlass (ARS(D)-4) was originally conceived as LSM-552 and laid down on 27 August 1945 at Houston, TX, by Brown Shipbuilding Corporation; launched on 7 December 1945; and commissioned on 9 April 1946 in Houston at the Tennessee Coal and Iron Docks, Lieutenant Commander Rodney F. Snipes, USNR, in command.
USS Winooski (AO-38) The USS Winooski (A0-38) was originally the SS Calusa, a T2 tanker that was built by Bethlehem-Sparrows Point Shipyard in Maryland. It was later returned to civilian service as the Calusa (1946), the Samuel L.
USS Witek (DD-848) USS Witek (DD/EDD-848) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Marine Private First Class Frank P. Witek (1921–1944), who was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for his heroism during the Battle of Guam.
USS Witter (DE-636) USS Witter (DE-636), a Buckley class destroyer escort of the United States Navy, was named in honor of Ensign Jean C. Witter (1921-1942), who was killed in action aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on the night of 12 November to 13 November 1942.
USS Wolffish (SS-434) The USS Wolffish (SS-434) was a Tench-class submarine. Her construction by the Cramp Shipbuilding Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was authorized but the contract for her construction was cancelled on 29 July 1944.
USS Wolverine (IX-64) USS Wolverine (IX-64) was a freshwater aircraft carrier of the United States Navy during World War II. She had been converted from a paddlewheeler coal-burning steamer to be used for advanced training for naval aviators in carrier takeoffs and landings.
USS Woodford (AKA-86) USS Woodford (AKA-86) was a Tolland class attack cargo ship named after counties in Illinois and Kentucky. She was designed to carry military cargo and landing craft, and to use the latter to land weapons, supplies, and Marines on enemy shores during amphibious operations.
USS Woolsey (DD-437) USS Woolsey (DD-437), a Gleaves-class destroyer, was the 2nd ship to be named Woolsey in the United States Navy. It is the first to be named for both Commodore Melancthon Brooks Woolsey and his father Commodore Melancthon Taylor Woolsey.
USS Worcester (CL-144) The second USS Worcester (CL-144) was laid down on 29 January 1945 at Camden, New Jersey, by the New York Shipbuilding and Drydock Corp.; launched on 4 February 1947; sponsored by Miss Gloria Ann Sullivan, the daughter of Mayor and Mrs.
USS Wren (DD-568) USS Wren (DD-568) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Sergeant Solomon Wren, USMC, who took part in Lieutenant Stephen Decatur's raid into Tripoli harbor during the First Barbary War.
USS Wyoming (1859) The first USS Wyoming of the United States Navy was a wooden-hulled screw sloop that fought on the Union side during the American Civil War. Sent to the Pacific Ocean to search for the CSS Alabama, Wyoming eventually came upon the shores of Japan and engaged Japanese land and sea forces.
USS Yankee (1892) USS Yankee was originally El Norte, a steamer built in 1892 at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co.. The ship was acquired by the Navy from the Southern Pacific Company on 6 April 1898.
USS Yazoo (1865) USS Yazoo—a single-turreted, twin-screw monitor—was laid down in March 1863, before final government approval had been given, by Merrick & Sons, Philadelphia, PA.; launched on 8 May 1865; and completed on 15 December 1865.
USS YP-422 The USS YP-422 was a Navy yard patrol (YP) boat that was created by converting the existing fishing trawler "Mist." The conversion was completed in July, 1942 at the Navy Yard located in Boston, Massachusetts.
USS Zeppelin (1914) SS Zeppelin—a steamer constructed in 1914 by Bremer Vulkan at Vegesack, Germany, for the North German Lloyd Line—was seized by US government officials at New York City soon after the country's entry into World War I and turned over to the Emergency Fleet Corp. The Navy did not acquire her until the spring of 1919, well after the end of the war.
USS Zuni (ATF-95) USS Zuni (AT/ATF-95), a Navajo-class Fleet Tug, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the Zuni, the popular name given to a tribe of Pueblo Indians indigenous to the area around the Zuni River in central New Mexico near the Arizona state line.
USSR Border Troops Soviet Border Troops, (Russian: Пограничные войска СССР, Pogranichnyie Voiska SSSR) were the militarized border guard of the Soviet Union, subordinated to its subsequently reorganized state security agency: first to Cheka, then to NKVD and, finally, to KGB. Accordingly, they were known as NKVD Border Troops and KGB Border Troops (with Russian abbreviations - НКВД СССР/- КГБ СССР added on the end of official names).
USSR Federation Cup The USSR Federation Cup was a short-lived premier Soviet football (soccer) competition similar to the USSR Cup that exclusively featured Soviet Top League competitors (the USSR Federation Cup is comparable to the English League Cup which allows only clubs from the FA Premier League and The Football League). The competition was disbanded upon the break-up of the Soviet Union.
USSR Olympic Team Flag Bearers USSR Olympic Team Flag Bearers were Soviet sportsmen, who bore the State Flag of the USSR at the Opening and Closing ceremonies of the Summer and Winter Olympics. Most of them were World and/or Olympic Champions.
USSR State Defense Committee State Defense Committee (, GKO) was the extraordinary superior organ in the USSR during the Great Patriotic War which held the total power in the state. GKO is not to be confused with "NKO", which stood for "Narodny Komissariat Oborony" and was People's Commissariat (Ministry) of Defence.
USSR Super Cup The USSR Super Cup, or Season's Cup, featured the winners of the previous season's Soviet Top League and USSR Cup in a one or two legged playoff for the trophy. The competition never took off, as the Super Cup winner was only determined 7 times in the last 15 years of Soviet football.
USSR Union of Artists Union of Artists of the USSR (Russian: Союз художников СССР) was a creative union of the Soviet artists and arts critics embracing the union republics. The integral Union was instituted in 1957.
USTA National Tennis Center The USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center is located in Flushing, in the New York City borough of Queens and has been the home of the US Open Grand Slam tennis tournament played every year in August and September. According to the United States Tennis Association, the center is the largest public tennis facility in the worldUSTA National Tennis Center Information, accessed August 1, 2006 with 22 courts inside the facility and 11 more in the adjoining park.
USTA Waikola Challenger The USTA Waikoloa Challenger is one of the series of Challenger Events on the United States Tennis Association circuit. A week of intense play all located in the beautiful Kohala Tennis Garden in Hawaii, USA, which is listed as one of the "50 Greatest U.
USU Charter Credit Union The USU Charter Credit Union is a credit union located in Logan, Utah. It has a field of membership including people with a connection (employee, student or volunteer) with Utah State University, and the community of businesses and people in Cache County, Utah or Franklin County, Idaho.
USVA emblems for headstones and markers The United States Department of Veterans Affairs maintains many cemeteries specifically devoted to veterans such as Arlington Cemetery. Most have various rules regarding what must take place in order to be interred there.
USVH United Students for Veterans' Health is an intercollegiate organization started in 1994 at Stanford University. Its mission is to improve the lives of the veteran population by volunteering at long term care VA centers, usually in psychiatric and geriatric wards.
USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship The USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling championship formed in 1988 when Jerry Lawler defeated Curt Hennig on May 9, 1988 for the American Wrestling Association World Heavyweight title and defeated Kerry Von Erich on December 13, 1988 for the World Class Championship Wrestling World Heavyweight Title and unified the titles together.
Ut (band) UT was formed in NYC at the tail end of 1978, after Nina Canal left Robin Crutchfield's band, Dark Day. Together with Jacqui Ham and Sally Young, Canal produced several albums of bittersweet noise akin to other No Wave bands but featuring unique vocal harmonies and barely decipherable lyrics, which at times veer into glossolalia, mouth music, and scat singing.
Ut pictura poesis Ut pictura poesis is Latin, literally "As is painting so is poetry." The statement (often repeated) occurs most famously in Horace's Ars Poetica, near the end, immediately after the "other" most famous quotation from Horace's treatise on poetics, "bonus dormitat Homerus", or "even Homer nods" (an indication that even the most skilled poet can compose inferior verse):
Ut Unum Sint Ut Unum Sint (Latin: 'may they be one') is an encyclical by Pope John Paul II of May 25 1995. Following the prayer of Jesus in the Gospel according to John (17:21-22), it dealt with the relations with the Orthodox Church and other Christian churches.
Uta Erickson Uta Erickson (who often used the stage names "Artemidia Grillet" and "Carla Erikson") was Norwegian actresses who was in many sexploitation films of the late 1960s. She starred in several provocatively titled films directed by Michael and Roberta Findlay, including The Kiss Of Her Flesh, A Thousand Pleasures, , The Curse Of Her Flesh, and The Ultimate Degenerate.
Uta Frith Uta Frith is a leading developmental psychologist working at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College, London. She has published many papers on autism and dyslexia, as well as several books.
Uta Pippig Uta Pippig (born September 7, 1965 in Leipzig) is a former German female long-distance runner, who won the marathon championships of the GDR in 1986 and 1987. She also won the Berlin Marathon in 1990, 1992 and 1995, the Boston Marathon (1994, 1995 and 1996) and the New York City Marathon (1993).
Utagaki Utagaki (歌垣), also read kagai, was an ancient Japanese ritual peasant gathering. Villagers would sing and dance on the way up to a mountaintop, where singing, dancing, eating, and the reciting of poetry would occur, in celebration of the beginning of spring or autumn.
Utagawa Kunimasa Utagawa Kunimasa(歌川国雅)(1773-1810) was a Japanese ukiyo-e printmaker and student of Utagawa Toyokuni. Originally from Aizu in Iwashiro province, he first worked in a dye shop upon arriving in Edo (now Tokyo).
Utagawa Kunisada III Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国定)(1848-1920) was an ukiyo-e printmaker of the Utagawa school, specializing in yakusha-e (pictures of kabuki actors). He began studying under Utagawa Kunisada I at the age of 10, and continued under Kunisada II after their master's death.
Utagawa school The Utagawa school was a group of Japanese woodblock print artists, founded by Toyoharu. His pupil, Toyokuni I, took over after Toyoharu's death and raised the group to become the most famous and powerful woodblock print school for the remainder of the 19th century.
Utagawa Yoan Utagawa Yoan (宇田川榕菴, 1798-1846) was a 19th century Japanese scholar of Western Studies, or "Rangaku". In 1840, he published his "Science of Chemistry" (舎密開宗, Seimikaisō), a compilation of various scientific books in Dutch, which describes a wide range of scientific knowledge from the West.
Utagawa Yoshiiku Utagawa Yoshiiku (落合芳幾; 1833-1904) was a Japanese printmaker, a pupil of Kuniyoshi. His works include the print Kokkei Wanisshi-ki (滑稽倭日史記 "Comical Record of Japanese History"), which employs the traditional theme of Hyakki Yakō on contemporary Japanese military actions in China.
Utah and Northern Railway The Utah and Northern Railway is a defunct railroad that was operated in the Utah Territory in the western United States during the late 1860s and early 1870s. It was a narrow gauge line built by the Mormons as a spur of the Union Pacific portion of the transcontinental railroad.
Utah Beach Utah Beach was the codename for one of the Allied landing beaches during the D-Day invasion of Normandy, as part of Operation Overlord on 6 June 1944. Utah was added to the invasion plan towards the end of the planning stages, when more landing craft became available.
Utah congressional elections, 2006 The Utah congressional elections of 2006 were held on 7 November 2006, as part of the United States general elections of 2006 with all three House seats up for election. The winners will serve from 3 January 2007 to 3 January 2009.
Utah Career College Utah Career College is a private, for profit, nationally accredited college providing specialized career training for their students. Training is provided by instructors with practical business, computer and medical knowledge and professional on the job experience.
Utah Catzz The Utah Catzz was a team in the United States Professional Indoor Football League (PIFL) in 1998. The Catzz franchise was owned by Michael & Carla Curran, who also started a farm club for the Catzz, the Salt Lake Lions (semi-pro football team).
Utah Constitutional Amendment 3 Utah Constitutional Amendment 3 was a controversial amendment to the Utah state constitution designed to define marriage in the state of Utah. It passed in the November 2 2004 election, as did similar amendments in ten other states.

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