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Vunivalu of Bau The Vunivalu of Bau is the Paramount Chief of the Kubuna Confederacy, and is generally considered to be the highest chiefly title in Fiji. The title, which means Warlord of Bau, is not strictly hereditary, but belongs to the Tui Kaba clan, based on Bau Island.
Vuntut National Park Vuntut National Park is a national park located in the northern Yukon Territory, Canada. Established in 1995 as part of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation land claims negotiations, this national park is still very undeveloped.
Vuoksi River The Vuoksi (Finnish) or Reka Vuoksa (Russian standard transcription) or Vuoksen (Swedish) runs in the northernmost part of the Karelian Isthmus, from Lake Saimaa in southeastern Finland flowing into Lake Ladoga in northwestern Russia. The river enters Lake Ladoga in two branches, an older northern branch at Priozersk (Käkisalmi /Kexholm) and since 1857 a new southern branch entering 50 kilometers further southeast at Taipale.
Vuosaari metro station The Vuosaari metro station (Finnish Vuosaaren metroasema / Swedish Metrostationen Nordsjö) is a ground-level station on the eastern branch (Itäkeskus - Vuosaari) of the Helsinki Metro. It serves the district of Vuosaari in East Helsinki, and is the terminus of the eastern line.
Vural Ă–ger Vural Ă–ger (born on 1 February 1942 in Ankara) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Social Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Vurjeevandas Madhowdas Vurjeevandas Madhowdas (1817-1896), Hindu merchant of Bombay, of the Kapole Bania caste, was born on the 28th of January 1817 at Gogla, in Kathiawar, whence his father came to Bombay with Sheth Manoredas for trading purposes.
Vurpar Vurpar is a village of 2500 people (2006) in central Romania, near the Transylvanian city of Sibiu. Vurpar is a farming community with an elementary school, a kindergarten and two churches, one Romanian Orthodox and the other Saxon (German) Evangelical.
Vuvuzela A vuvuzela is an air horn, approximately one metre in length, made from plastic and commonly seen at soccer matches in South Africa. The name is said to originate from the Zulu for "making noise" although this is disputed.
Vuyani Bungu Vuyani Bungu (born February 26, 1967 in Mdantsane, South Africa) was a professional boxer. Known as "Carousel Kid" or "The Beast", Bungu was a force in the super bantamweight division throughout the 1990s.
VUMA VUMA, Virtual Education Site, is a project by Foundation of Tertiary Institutions of the Northern Metropolis. Its purpose it to increase the quality of a student's university experience by convenient online access to a variety of excellent materials that relates to a student's studies.
Vvi VVI® is a company started in 1991 by Ed VanVliet, with the view of making computer software specialized to visualization for many technical-oriented industries, including medical device and financial service companies.
Vvornth and Kothaar Vvornth and Kothaar were allegedly names for a demon (as was "Quorthon") discovered by Quorthon (of the pioneering Swedish proto-black metal and viking metal band Bathory) in his reading, and as such were the perpetual respective pseudonyms of whoever played the drums (when not done using a machine) and bass for Bathory at a given moment. The official lineup only emerged in the late 1980s after a great deal of initial mystery, lasting at least for the first three albums, over who the members of the band actually were.
VVA-14 The VVA-14 was an experimental ground effect aircraft developed in the Soviet Union during the 1970s. It was the brainchild of Italian-Soviet aircraft designer Robert Bartini and was designed mainly to be an antisubmarine aircraft that could take off from water using the ground effect.
VVER The VVER (Vodaa Vodiannee Energititscherski Reactor or WWER ) is a series of pressurised water reactors that were developed and used by the former Soviet Union and its satellites, as well as the present-day Russian Federation. The VVER was a more expensive reactor design which caused the former Soviet Union to opt for the graphite-moderated RBMK series nuclear reactors on the grounds of cost as well as the ease of re-fuelling the RBMK while the reactor was still operational compared to the VVER which needed to be shut down to be re-fuelled.
VVL Nissan Ecology Oriented Variable Valve Lift and Timing (commonly known as VVL) is an automobile variable valve timing technology developed by Nissan. VVL varies the timing, duration, and lift of valves by using hydraulic pressure switch between two different sets of camshaft lobes.
VVT-i VVT-i, or Variable Valve Timing with intelligence, is an automobile variable valve timing technology developed by Toyota. The Toyota VVT-i system replaces the Toyota VVT offered starting in 1991 on the 4A-GE 20-Valve engine.
VVVV VVVV is a graphical programming language similar to Pure Data or Max but less focused on audio. Its main feature is hardware accelerated 3d graphics, and connecting physical devices like sensors and controllers.
VWAP VWAP is a trading acronym for Volume-Weighted Average Price, the ratio of the value traded to total volume traded over a particular time horizon (usually one day). It is a measure of the average price a stock traded at over the trading horizon.
VWvortex Began in 1997 by a group of Volkswagen enthusiasts,VWvortex is a web site maintained by and for people interested in Volkswagen Group and its products. The site offers forums, news, encyclopedic information categorized under "Features", and image collections.
VX (software company) The company was founded in 1985 and located Palm Bay Florida, USA under the name Control Automation Inc. It entered into various partnerships with manufacturers in the Far East, and released its first CAD/CAM system in 1991.
VX (videocassette format) VX was a short-lived and unsuccessful videocassette format developed by Quasar in 1974. It was marketed under the name "The Great Time Machine" by Quasar to exhibit its time-shifting capabilities, since VX machines had a built-in timer to record tv programs at a later time.
VX32 The VX32 virtual extension environment is an application-level virtual machine implemented as an ordinary user-mode library and designed to run native x86 code. Applications can link with and use VX32 in order to create safe, OS-independent execution environments, in which to run untrusted plug-ins or other extensions written in any language that compiles to x86 code.
VXI The VXI bus architecture is an open standard platform for automated test based upon VMEbus. VXI stands for VME eXtensions for Instrumentation, defining additional bus lines for timing and triggering as well as mechanical requirements and standard protocols for configuration, message-based communication, multi-chassis extension, and other features.
Vya, Nevada Vya, Nevada is a small ghost town located in Washoe County, in northwestern Nevada, 10 plus miles east of the California state line. Not much remains of the town, which may have died in the 1920s, but two wooden buildings can still be seen--the Vya Post Office and Library.
Vyacheslav Chornovil Vyacheslav Chornovil () (December 24, 1937, Yerky, Katerynopilsky Raion, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukrainian SSR - March 25, 1999, near Boryspil, Kiev Oblast, Ukraine) was a Ukrainian politician. A prominent Ukrainian dissident to the Soviet policies he was arrested multiple times in 1960s and 1970s for his political views.
Vyacheslav Ivanenko Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanenko (Russian:Вячеслав Иванович Иваненко) (born March 3, 1961 in Kemerovo) is a retired race walker who represented the USSR. He won the gold medal over 50 kilometres at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul with a personal best time of 3:38:29.
Vyacheslav Ivankov Vyacheslav Kirillovich Ivankov (born 2 January, 1940 in Georgian SSR, Formerly part of the USSR), (Russian: Вячеслав Кириллович Иваньков) nicknamed Yaponchik ("Little Japanese"), was a very well known member of the Russian Mafia.
Vyacheslav Ivanov (poet) Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (Russian: Вячеслав Иванович Иванов) (February 16 (28), 1866–July 16, 1949) was a Russian poet and playwright associated with the movement of Russian Symbolism. He was also a philosopher, translator, and literary critic.
Vyacheslav Menzhinsky Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky () (1874 - May 10, 1934) was a Russian revolutionary, a Soviet statesman and Party official who served as chairman of the OGPU from 1926 to 1934. Fluent in sixteen languages (the last one, farsi, he learned specially for reading works by Omar Khayyám), Menzhinsky was the second and the last representative of the Russian nobility among Lubyanka's leaders.
Vyacheslav Molotov Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (, Vjačeslav Mihajlovič Molotov; – November 8, 1986), Soviet politician and diplomat, was a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s, when he rose to power as a protégé of Joseph Stalin, to the 1950s, when he was dismissed from office by Nikita Khrushchev. He was the principal Soviet signatory of the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939 (also known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact).
Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Ivanov Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Ivanov () (born July 30 1938, Moscow) is known to most of the non-Russian speaking world as Vyacheslav Ivanov (German: Wjatscheslaw Iwanow), was one of the most accomplished rowers of his generation. He rowed for the Soviet Union, and he won the Olympic Gold medals in the single scull at 1956 Melbourne Games, 1960 Rome Games and 1964 Tokyo Games.
Vyacheslav Rybakov Vyacheslav Rybakov(; born January 1954 in Leningrad) is a known Russian science fiction author, who was first published in 1979 and an orientalist, interested in medieval bureaucracy of China. He deserved a 1987 Governmental Award of the RSFSR for the scenario of the film Dead Man's Letters.
Vyacheslav Tikhonov Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Tikhonov () (born February 8, 1928) is a famous Soviet actor, a recipient of numerous state awards, including the titles of People's Artist of the USSR (1974) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1982). He was born in Pavlovsky Posad near Moscow and worked at a factory.
Vyacheslav Tsugba Vyacheslav Tsugba (born 1944) was the fifth Prime Minister of the Republic of Abkhazia (a de facto independent republic of Georgia) from December 1999 to June 2001. Before his appointment as Prime Minister, Tsugba had headed the Central Election Committee, which had overseen the internationally unrecognized 1999 referendum on independence.
Vyacheslav von Plehve Vyacheslav Konstantinovich von Plehve (Вячесла́в Константи́нович фон Пле́ве), also Pléhve, or Pleve ( in Meshchovsk, Kaluga Guberniya – in St Petersburg) was the director of the tsarist Russian Police and later Minister of the Interior.
Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov is a prominent Soviet/Russian philologist and Indo-Europeanist probably best known for his glottalic theory of Indo-European consonantism and for placing the Indo-European urheimat in the area of the Lake Urmia.
Vyacheslav Yanovskiy Vyacheslav Evgen'evich Yanovskiy () or Viatcheslav Ianovski (born August 24, 1957 in Vitebsk) is a Belarusian boxer who won a Light Welterweight Gold Medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics for the USSR. He began boxing at age 13.
Vyachko Vyachko (; Latvian: Vetseke) was a Rus'ian prince who fought against the expansionism of the Germanic Livonian Knights at the turn of the 13th century. His name is the Old Novgorod dialect form of Vyacheslav and his father is supposed to have been a Rurikid Prince of Drutsk.
Vyapam Vyapam (Vyavasayik Pariksha Mandal) is the Professional Examination Board of Madhya Pradesh, India that conducts various tests for admission to professional courses and streams. It is the largest examination conducting body of Madhya Pradesh and comes directly under the Directorate of Technical Education (Government of Madhya Pradesh).
Vyasa Vyāsa (Devanāgarī: व्यास) is a central and much revered figure in the majority of Hindu traditions. He is also sometimes called Krishna Dwaipayan, (the island-born) or Veda Vyasa '(वेद व्यास, veda vyāsa), meaning - 'the one who compiled the Vedas'.
Vyasakuta Vyasakuta was one of two divisions (the other being the Dasakuta) of Haridasas, a group within the Bhakti movement, one of the monotheistic Hindu religious movements focusing on the spiritual practice of loving devotion to a God, called bhakti. This generally means the worship of Shiva or Vishnu or Shakti.
Vyasatirtha Vyasatirtha (1460-1539), also spelled Vyasaraja or Vyasaraayaru, was a haridasa born in Bannur in the Mysore District in what is now the modern Karnataka state. He was one of the foremost dialecticians in the history of Indian philosophy.
Vyatskoye Vyatskoye () (also found romanized as Viatsk or Viatskoe) is a small fishing village on the east side of the Amur river in the Russian Far East, 70 km northeast of Khabarovsk, in Khabarovsk Krai. It is not to be confused with either the village of the same name in Kirov Oblast in European Russia, nor with the village of that name in Udmurtia.
Vyazma Vyazma () is a town in Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Vyazma River, about halfway between Smolensk and Mozhaysk. Throughout its turbulent history, the city defended western approaches to the city of Moscow.
Vyborg Vyborg (; ; ; ) is a town in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, situated on the Karelian Isthmus near the head of the Bay of Vyborg, 130 km to the northwest of St. Petersburg, 38 km south from Russia's border with Finland, where the Saimaa Canal enters the Gulf of Finland.
Vyborg Library The Municipal Library in Vyborg, Russia (built during Finnish rule when the city's name was Viipuri in Finnish) is an internationally acclaimed design by the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. The library, built in 1933–35 and "considered the first manifestation of regional modernism"Christian Norberg-Schulz.
Vydrany Vydrany (Hungarian: Nemeshódos) is a municipality (village) in southwestern Slovakia, about 50 kilometers from the capital Bratislava, in the Dunajská Streda District. The region is often compared to the theological realm of Limbo.
Vydubychi Vydubychi () is a historical neighborhood in Ukrainian capital Kiev. Geographically constituing a hill and a valley on the Right (western) Bank of the Dnieper River, it is now a part of the Pechersk district of the city.
Vyezdnoye Vyezdnoye () is an urban-type settlement in Arzamassky District of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia. It is located on the left (south-western) bank of Tyosha River, opposite the town of Arzamas, 115 km south of Nizhny Novgorod.
Vykhino Vykhino () is a station on Moscow Metro's Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line. Opened on 31 December, 1966 as the final part of the Zhdanovskiy Radius, the station has remained the southwestern terminus of the line since.
Vyšehrad Vyšehrad is a castle located in the Czech Republic, built in the 10th century, on a hill over the Vltava River. Situated within the castle is the Cathedral of Saint Paul and Peter, as well as the Vyšehrad cemetery, containing the remains of many famous people from Czech history.
Vyšehrad cemetery Established in 1869 on the grounds of Vyšehrad Castle in Prague, Czech Republic, the Vyšehrad cemetery (Vyšehradský hřbitov in Czech) is the final resting place of many composers, artists, sculptors, writers, and those from the world of science and politics. The centrepiece of the cemetery is the Slavín Monument designed by Antonín Wiehl and the cemetery is sometimes referred to as the Slavín cemetery.
Vyšný Klátov Vyšný Klátov (; ) (1332/5 Superior Turastukes, 1397 Fel Teukes, 1400 Superior Bokkenzeifin, 1580 Ober-Beckseyffen) is a village and municipality in Košice-okolie District in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia.
Vympel K-13 The K-13 (NATO reporting name AA-2 'Atoll'), was one of the world's most proliferated air-to-air missiles. Developed by the Soviet Union as a reverse-engineered copy of the AIM-9 Sidewinder, it saw widespread service in many nations.
Vympel R-33 The Vympel R-33 (Russian: Вымпел Р-33, NATO reporting name: AA-9 Amos) was the most advanced long-range air-to-air missile developed by the Soviet Union. The missile is for use as "main caliber" of MiG-31 interceptors.
Vympel R-73 The Vympel R-73 (NATO reporting name AA-11 Archer) developed by Vympel machine Building Design Bureau, is the most modern Russian short-range air-to-air missile. It is generally considered one of the most formidable modern dogfight weapons.
Vympel R-77 The Russian R-77 (RVV-AE) Missile (NATO reporting name: AA-12 Adder) is a medium range, air-to-air, radar-guided missile system. The R-77 is claimed by some to be equal or superior to the United States AIM-120 AMRAAM system.
Vyner Vyner is a family of Warwickshire gentry. In the 1850s Delicia Vyner married the future Field Marshal Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal, and was thus one of a clique of English wives (including Princess Victoria) who influenced the Prussian military to adopt liberal political views.
Vyricherla Kishore Chandra Suryanarayana Deo Vyricherla Kishore Chandra Suryanarayana Deo (born 15 February, 1947) is a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Parvathipuram (ST) constituency of Andhra Pradesh and is a member of the Indian National Congress.
Vyronas Vyronas (Greek, Modern: Βύρωνας, Ancient/Katharevousa: Βύρων), older forms: Viron and Vyron is a suburb in the northeastern part of Athens, Greece. The city is named after George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, the famous English poet and writer, who was a national hero of Greece.
Vyroneia Vyroneia, Vyronia, Vironeia or 'Vironia (Greek: Βυρώνεια, Macedonian Slavic: Hadzhi-bejlik), is a town located in the municipality of Petritsi in the Serres prefecture south of the Bulgarian border. The older name of the town was Chatzibelika or Hatzibelika.
Vysaga The Vysaga (ヴァイサーガ) is a fictional robot in the Super Robot Wars series. It has appeared as a playable unit in Super Robot Wars Advance and Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation 2 as a secret unit.
Vysílač Krašov Vysílač Krašov (Krašov transmitter, Zapadni-Cechy transmitter) is a facility for TV-broadcasting in near Bezvěrov in Carlsbad Region, in Czech Republic with 347,5 metre tall guyed mast (former mast was 305 m tall).
Vyshata Vyshata was a Novgorodian general, whose father is supposed to have been posadnik Ostromir and whose son was another statesman, Yan Vyshatich. The authors of the Primary Chronicle made use of Yan's tales, tending to emphasise Vyshata's leadership in the Russo-Byzantine war of 1043 at the expense of Ivan Tvorimich, who was most likely the commander-in-chief.
Vyshhorod Vyshhorod () is a city in the Kiev Oblast (province), in central Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Vyshhorodsky Raion (district), and is located along the Dnieper River upstream from the national capital, Kiev.
VysochanskiĂŻ-Petunin inequality In probability theory, the Vysochanskij-Petunin inequality gives a lower bound for the probability that a random variable with finite variance lies within a certain number of standard deviations of the variable's mean. The sole restriction on the random variable is that the distribution be unimodal.
Vysoká (Vsetínské vrchy) Vysoká is the highest mountain of the Vsetínské vrchy, a small mountain range in the Moravian-Silesian Region and Zlín Region of the Czech Republic which is a part of the Western Carpathians. It's high and located at .
Vysoké Tatry (town) Vysoké Tatry (literally High Tatras), informally Mesto Vysoké Tatry (literally The Town of High Tatras ), is a town in the High Tatras in Slovakia including all the major resorts of that region. It was created in 1990 and its official name from 1990 to 1999 was Starý Smokovec (the name of one of the major component settlements) .
Vysokopetrovsky Monastery Vysokopetrovsky Monastery (Russian: Высокопетровский монастырь, English: High Monastery of St Peter) is a Russian Orthodox monastery in the Bely Gorod of Moscow commanding a hill whence Petrovka Street descends towards the Kremlin.
Vysotsk Vysotsk ( and Тронгзунд (prior to 1917), , ) is a coastal town and sea port in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located 12 km south-west of Vyborg and 159 km north-west of St. Petersburg, close to the border with Finland.
Vytas Vytas Nagisetty, frequently known just as Vytas, is an Indian-born musician from Toledo, Ohio. Vytas has recorded a number of film scores for American and French motion pictures, and has written songs appearing on soundtrack albums and numerous independent recordings.
Vytautas Andrius Graičiūnas Vytautas Andrius Graičiūnas (August 17, 1898 in Chicago – January 09, 1952 in Olzheras, Siberia) was a Lithuanian management theorist, management consultant, and engineer. Born to Lithuanian immigrants, he studied at the University of Chicago.
Vytautas Barkauskas Vytautas Barkauskas (b. 1931) is a Lithuanian composer and is a Professor of Composition of the Lithuanian Academy of MusicMost of the initial parts of this article from from the Lithuanian Music and Information Publishing Centre listed as the first of the sources below, where he has taught since 1961Sikorski source listed below also provides supplimentary information.
Vytautas Beliajus Vytautas Finadar Beliajus (often called "Vyts", born February 26, 1908 in Pakumprys, Lithuania, died September 1994) is considered the father of international folk dancing in the United States. He specialized in Lithuanian dance, but performed and taught many other types of dance as well.
Vytautas Landsbergis Professor Vytautas Landsbergis (, born October 18, 1932) is a Lithuanian conservative politician and member of the European Parliament. He was the first head of state of Lithuania after its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union and served as the Head of the Lithuanian Parliament.
Vytautas Magnus University Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) (Lithuanian Vytauto DidĹľiojo Universitetas (VDU)) is one of the biggest universities in Kaunas, Lithuania. In different historical periods it was called Universtity of Lithuania and Kaunas University.
Vytautas Petrulis Vytautas Petrulis (February 3 1890, Katelišės, near Vabalninkas - 1942, executed near Uchta, RSFSR) was a Lithuanian politician, one of the main figures in the Lithuanian Christian Democrats party, and an accountant. He is often nicknamed the father of the Litas, because it was during his term as Minister of Finance that the Lithuanian litas was introduced.
Vytautas StraiĹľys Vytautas StraiĹľys (born August 20 1936) is a Lithuanian astronomer. In 1963-1965 he and his collaborators created and developed Vilnius photometric system - seven color intermediate band system, optimized for photometric stellar classification.
Vytautas the Great Vytautas the Great (Lithuanian: , Belarusian: VitaĹ­t, Polish: Witold, Ruthenian: Vitovt, German: Witavdt, Latin Alexander Vitoldus) was born circa 1350 in the castle in present Old Trakai (), and died on October 27 1430, and was buried in the Cathedral of Vilnius.
Vz 52 (pistol) The Vz-52 (also known as CZ52) is a semi-automatic pistol designed by two brothers, Jan and Jaroslav Kratchovil, in the early 1950s to serve the military forces of Czechoslovakia. Around 200,000 Vz-52s ("Vzor 52" means "model of 1952") were made by Česká Zbrojovka in Strakonice from 1952 to 1954.

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