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Zinnia Zinnia is a genus of 20 species of annual and perennial plants of family Asteraceae, originally from scrub and dry grassland in an area stretching from the American Southwest to South America, but primarily Mexico, and notable for their solitary long-stemmed flowers that come in a variety of bright colors.
Zino Davidoff Zino Davidoff (1906-1994) was the son of a small Jewish tobacco merchant and grew up in Kiev. He stood in his father’s tobacco shop rolling cigarettes and cigars for the entire family, while the male patrons at the shop talked politics.
Zino's Petrel Zino's Petrel (Pterodroma madeira) is a small seabird in the gadfly petrel genus. It has also been called "Madeira Petrel", but this name invites confusion with Madeira Storm Petrel and is best avoided.
Zinovy Peshkov Zinovy Alekseyevich Peshkov (Russian: Зиновий ĐлекŃеевич ПеŃков, French: Zinovi Pechkoff or Pechkov, October 16, 1884 — November 27, 1966) was a Russian-born French general and diplomat.
Zinovy Rozhestvensky Zinovy Petrovich Rozhestvensky1 ( - January 14, 1909) was an admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy, who was in command of the Second Pacific Squadron in the Battle of Tsushima, during the Russo-Japanese War. Admiral Rozhesvensky had selected the Prince Suvorov as his flagship, one of four brand new battleships of the Borodino class (French designed) warships, for the voyage to the pacific.
Zion Zion (Hebrew: צִיּוֹן, tziyyon; Tiberian vocalization: tsiyyôn; transliterated Zion or Sion) is a term that most often designates the land of Israel and its capital Jerusalem. The word is found in texts dating back almost three millennia.
Zion (The Matrix) In the Matrix films, Zion is the last human city on the planet Earth and existed deep underground for both concealment from its enemies as well as warmth. In this future Earth, the surface was too cold and dangerous for humans to live after a cataclysmic nuclear war between sentient Machines and Man hundreds of years before left the artificial beings with control over the surface.
Zion Christian Church The Zion Christian Church (or ZCC) is the largest African Initiated Church in southern Africa, with four million members . The church's headquarters are at Zion City Moria in Limpopo Province, South Africa, and the two congregations that compose the church are led by Barnabas Lekganyane and Engenas Lekganyane, the grandsons of its founder.
Zion National Park Zion National Park is a United States National Park located in the Southwestern United States, near Springdale, Utah. A prominent feature in the 229-square-mile (593 km²) park is Zion Canyon, 15 miles (24 km) long and up to half a mile (800 m) deep, cut through the reddish and tan-colored Navajo Sandstone by the North Fork of the Virgin River.
Zion Nuclear Power Station Zion Station was the third dual-reactor nuclear power plant in the Commonwealth Edison network and served Chicago and the northern one-fourth of Illinois. This power generating station is located in the extreme eastern portion of the city of Zion, Lake County, Illinois.
Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution or ZCMI was founded in 1868 and was one of the first department stores in the United States. Based in Salt Lake City, Utah, it quickly became a household name in the community.
Zion-coder Zion is a Lua coder with many succesfull homebrew games for the Playstation Portable handheld console and also for PC. He has been working on the PSP Scene for under one year and already has had great success with his lua games for PSP, most notably "Legend of Hyrule - Linken's Quest" , which he released in the summer of 2006.
Zionism Zionism is an international political movement that supports a homeland for the Jewish people in the Land of IsraelZionism On The Web, "Definitions of Zionism", a compiled collection, Accessed January 10, 2007.. Formally organized in the late 19th century, the movement was successful in establishing the State of Israel in 1948, as the world's first and only modern Jewish State.
Zionism and racism allegations The term Zionism was first connected to the movement founded by the Viennese Jewish journalist Theodor Herzl, who argued in his 1896 book Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State) that the best way of avoiding anti-Semitism in Europe was to create an independent Jewish state or national homeland in the Palestine region of the Middle East. Zionism was named after Mount Zion in Jerusalem which has served as a symbol of the Jewish homeland since the Babylonian captivity in the 6th century BC.
Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland The Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland, also known as the British Zionist Federation or simply the Zionist Federation (ZF), was established in 1899 to campaign for a permanent homeland for the Jewish people. The Zionist Federation is an umbrella organisation for the Zionist movement in the United Kingdom, representing more than 120 organisations, and over 50,000 affiliated members.
Zionist Freedom Alliance ZFA (Zionist Freedom Alliance) is a grassroots movement advocating the Jewish people’s right to the entire land of Israel. It was established by Magshimey Herut (; "achievers of liberty") activists in response to what they perceived to be growing anti-Israel sentiment among young people throughout the world.
Zionist Churches Zionist Churches are a group of Christian denominations that sprang from the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion, Illinois. Missionaries from the church came to South Africa in 1904 and among their first recruits were PL le Roux of Wakkerstroom and Daniel Nkonyane of Charlestown, KwaZulu-Natal, who continued to evangelise after the Zionist missionaries left in 1908.
Zionist Occupation Government Zionist Occupation (or Occupied) Government, or ZOG, is an accusation made by antisemitic conspiracy theorists that various governments are surreptitiously controlled by Jews acting against the interests of that country. It has been leveled by several extremist and antisemitic groups including neo-Nazis in the United States, Pamyat in Russia, right-wing groups in Poland (see Żydokomuna), and neo-Nazis in Sweden.
Zionist Organization of America The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), founded in 1897, was one of the first official Zionist organizations in the United States, and, especially early in the 20th century, the primary representative of the Jews of the United States to the World Zionist Organization, espousing primarily Political Zionism. Along with its sister organization is Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, and the Labor Zionist Po'ale Zion parties, and the Religious Zionist Mizrachi, the ZOA served as one of the key voices in early American Zionism, especially as American Jews were not initially strong supporters of the Zionist movement.
Zionist political violence In the 1930s and 1940s, groups within the Zionist underground in the British Mandate of Palestine committed a number of acts of political violence. These included actions by the Irgun, and Lehi, also known as the Stern Gang, primarily against British policemen and soldiers, but also against UN personnel, Jews suspected of collaborating with the British, and other non Jewish civilians in response to attacks made against Jewish communities.
Zionist youth movement A Zionist youth movement is an organization formed for Jewish children and adolescents for educational, social and ideological development, including a belief in Jewish nationalism as represented in the State of Israel. Youth leaders in modern movements use informal education approaches to educate toward the movement's ideological goals.
Zionites (Germany) The Zionites were a sect of visionary fanatics which flourished in the eighteenth century at Ronsdorf in the Duchy of Berg. The sect sprang from a Philadelphian society founded at Elberfeld in 1726 by Elias Eller and the pastor Daniel Schleiermacher.
Zionology Zionology (Russian language: Ńионология sionologiya) was a doctrine promulgated in the Soviet Union during the course of the Cold War, and intensified after the 1967 Six Day War. It was officially sponsored by the Department of propaganda of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and by the KGB.
Zions Securities Zions Securities Corporation is a subsidiary of the Deseret Management Corporation that manages property owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints mostly in Salt Lake City, Utah. They manage major Corporate, Residential, and Retail spaces.
Zionyde Zionyde (Shane Mason,born September 4, 1985 in Dublin, Ireland is a Progressive Electronica artist currently residing in Navan(not to be confused with a town of the same name in Ontario, Canada), Meath,Ireland. He is currently studying Graphic Design in Dublin Institute of Technology(according to his now deleted Myspace account).
Zip (airline) Zip was a Canadian discount airline based in Calgary, Alberta launched by Air Canada as a no-frills subsidiary in September 2002. It operated a fleet of 12 Boeing 737 aircraft, each painted in a different bright, neon colour with a single class of service.
Zip bomb A zip bomb is a type of malicious computer file that is designed to disrupt the action of antivirus software. These files usually take the form of innocent looking archive files that, when unpacked in order to be scanned, require enormous amounts of time, disk space, or memory.
Zip cube Zip® firelighters (or "zip cubes") are packaged small blocks of solid fuel containing kerosene, sold as a firelighter in Ireland, Canada and the United States. In Ireland, they are the leading brand.
Zip gun Zip gun is a term used for a crude, improvised firearm, usually a handgun. Zip guns are almost always single-shot, as the improvised construction sometimes makes them weak enough to be destroyed by the act of firing.
Zip Zap Boing Zip Zap Boing (also known as Zip Zap Zop amongst other variants) is a drama game, in which players test their powers of concentration. Players reach into the centre of a circle, and pull out an imaginary ball of energy.
Zip-cord In optical communications, zip-cord is a two-fiber cable consisting essentially of two single-fiber cables having their jackets conjoined by a strip of jacket material. The name is borrowed from electrical terminology referring to lamp cord.
Zip-line A zip-line, zip wire, aerial runway, death slide or tyrolean crossing consists of a pulley suspended on a cable mounted on an incline. They are designed to enable a user to traverse from the top to the bottom of the inclined rope or cable, by holding onto the freely moving pulley.
Zipaquirá Zipaquirá is a municipality of Colombia, in the department of Cundinamarca. It limits with the municipalities of Tausa and Cogua the North; Nemocón, Gachancipa and Sopó to the East; Cajicá and Tabio to the South; Subachoque and Pacho to the West, and its municipal head is to 49 kilometers of Santa Fe de Bogota D.
Zipcar Zipcar is a for-profit, membership-based carsharing company providing automobile rental to its members, billable by the hour or day. Zipcar was founded in 1999 by Boston residents Robin Chase and Antje Danielson.
Zipeg Zipeg is an unzip (decompression) utility for Macintosh created by Leo Kuznetsov for Mac OS X that handles ZIP, RAR, ARJ, 7-zip, TAR, GZ, GZ, BZ2, CPIO, LZH, ISO and other archive files. It decompresses and lists the contents of zip archives.
Zipi y Zape Zipi y Zape are the names of two iconic Spanish comic book characters created by José Escobar Saliente in 1947, and of their eponymous strip. With Mortadelo y Filemón, they're the most popular and most translated Spanish comic books.
ZipKey ZipKey is a computer program created by Eric Isaacson that allows one to look up the state, telephone area code, and time zone based on the entry of a ZIP Code. However, there are now websites that offer similar functions for free.
Zipless fuck A zipless fuck is defined as a sexual encounter for its own sake, without emotional involvement or commitment, between two previously unacquainted persons. The phrase was coined by author Erica Jong in her popular 1973 novel Fear of Flying.
Zipolite Zipolite is a small beach community which lies on the Pacific coast of the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, about three kilometers west of the village of Puerto Angel. The name Zipolite, sometimes spelled Sipolite or Cipolite, may have come from the Nahuatl word sipolitlan or zipotli, bumpy place or place of continuous bumps or hills.
Zipp Founded in 1988, Zipp is best known as a designer, maker and marketer of carbon-composite bicycle wheels, although recently the company has expanded its product range to include handlebars, cranks and stems. Many professional road cyclists and triathletes use Zipp wheels, popular for their good aerodynamics, in the Tour de France and Ironman races.
Zipper Catches Skin Zipper Catches Skin is an album by Alice Cooper, released in 1982 (see 1982 in music). It saw the return of Dick Wagner to Alice's band, but is generally not considered to be of the same standard as his previous work with Alice.
Zipper Labrador A Zipper Labrador is a colloquial term referring to a type of Labrador Retriever with an uplifted patch of fur on the nose resembling a zipper. The Zipper is a trait usually found only in purebred labrador retrievers.
Zippie Zippie is a term used to describe a 1990s technoperson, in contradiction to yuppie. The Zippies were an attempt by Fraser Clark and others, to create a unique subculture that combined the 1990s techno hemisphere with the 1960s earth person.
Zippin Pippin The Zippin Pippin, formerly called the Pippin, is one of the oldest existing wooden roller coasters in the United States. It was initially constructed in the former East End Park in Memphis, Tennessee in 1912 by John A.
Zipporah Zipporah or Tzipora (צִפּוֹרָה "Bird", Standard Hebrew áş’ippora, Tiberian Hebrew ṢippĂ´rÄh), Sephora Greek, mentioned in the Book of Exodus or Safura in Arabic (Safrawa in some versions), was the wife of Moses, and the daughter of Jethro, a priest of Midian.
Zips Zips (also Siggies or Geeps) is a slang term often used as a derogatory slur by Italian American mobsters in reference to immigrant Sicilian and Italian mafiosi. The name is said to have originated from mobsters' inability to understand the faster-speaking Sicilian dialects, which appeared to "zip" by.
Ziraat Bank Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Ziraat Bankası (English: Agricultural Bank of Republic of Turkey), also called as Ziraat Bankası, is the biggest Turkish bank. According to a research on "Top 1000 World Banks in 2004" made by The Bankers magazine, TC Ziraat Bankasi A.
Zircaloy Zircaloy, also incorrectly called zircalloy, is a group of high-zirconium alloys. One of the main uses of zircaloys is in nuclear technology, as zirconium has very low absorption cross-section of thermal neutrons and therefore it is frequently used as cladding of fuel rods in nuclear reactors.
Zirconium Zirconium (IPA: ) is a chemical element in the modern periodic table that is assigned the symbol Zr and has the atomic number 40. A lustrous gray-white, strong transition metal that resembles titanium, zirconium is obtained chiefly from zircon and is very corrosion resistant.
Zirconium propionate Zirconium propionate is a white powder with molecular formula Zr(CH3CH2COO)4. Its structure is complex, but is believed to be based on hydroxy-bridged zirconium polymers, with the propionate carboxyl group bonded to the zirconium.
Zirconium tungstate Zr(WO4)2, or zirconium tungstate is a metal oxide with unusual properties. The phase formed at ambient pressure by reaction of ZrO2 and WO3 is a metastable cubic phase, which has negative thermal expansion characteristics, namely it shrinks over a wide range of temperatures when heated.
Zire Zamin Zire Zamin is a television series is that ran during September and October of 2006), specifically for the month of Ramadan. It was shown on Channel 3 of Iran and Jame Jam 1 for Iranians living outside of Iran.
Zirid The Zirids () were a Berber dynasty, originating in Petite Kabylie among the Kutama tribe, that ruled Ifriqiya (roughly, modern Tunisia), initially on behalf of the Fatimids, for about two centuries, until weakened by the Banu Hilal and finally destroyed by the Almohads. Their capital was Kairouan.
Zirnevis Zirnevis (زیرنŮŰŚŘł), is the Farsi translation for "sub-title". It is a combination of zir meaning bottom, and nevis meaning writer (thus a literal translation back to English would be "bottom-writer").
Ziryab Abu l-Hasan â€Ali Ibn Nafi†(Persian and Arabic: أب٠الŘسن علي ابن ناŮŘą ) (c. 789—857), nicknamed Ziryab (زرياب, Arabic for [Blackbird]), was a poet, a musician and singer and one of the most famous gourmands at the Umayyad court in CĂłrdoba in Spain.
Zishe Breitbart Zishe (Siegmund) Breitbart (1883 - 1925) was a Polish-born circus performer, vaudeville strongman and Jewish folk hero. He was known as the "Strongest Man in the World" during the 1920s and was born into an Orthodox Jewish family of blacksmiths in Lodz.
Zisis Vryzas Zisis Vryzas (born November 9, 1973 in Kavala) is a striker the Greek national team and Greek club Skoda Xanthi. Vryzas got his start at Greek sides Skoda Xanthi and PAOK before moving onto AC Perugia in Italy.
Zita of Bourbon-Parma Zita of Bourbon-Parma (Zita Maria delle Grazie Adelgonda Micaela Raffaela Gabriella Giuseppina Antonia Luisa Agnese; German: Zita von Bourbon-Parma; May 9, 1892 - March 14, 1989) was the last Empress-consort of Austria and Queen-consort of Hungary.
Zitadelle Mainz The Mainzer Zitadelle (Citadel of Mainz) is situated at the fringe of the Old Town in direct proximity to the railway station "Mainz Römisches Theater". The fortress was constructed in 1660 and was an important part of the Fortress Mainz.
Ziteng Zi Teng () is a non-governmental organization that cares about the basic rights of women who live in Hong Kong and those who came from mainland China, especially sex workers. Ziteng is formed by social workers, women studies researchers, church workers and labor activists, etc.
Zither The zither is a musical string instrument, mainly used in folk music, most commonly in German-speaking Alpine Europe. Like many other stringed instruments, acoustic and electric forms exist; in the acoustic version, the strings are stretched across the length of the soundbox, and neither version has a neck.
Zitkala-Sa Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (February 22, 1876 - January 26,1938), better known by her pen name, Zitkala-Sa (Lakota: pronounced zitkala-ŠA (sha), and translates to Red Bird), was a Native American writer, editor, musician, teacher and political activist. She was born and raised on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota by her mother, Ellen Simmons, whose Yankton-Nakota name was Taté Iyòhiwin (Every Wind or Reaches for the Wind).
Zittau Zittau (Sorbian/Lusatian Žitawa, Czech Žitava) is a city in the south east of the Free State of Saxony, Germany and capital of the Löbau-Zittau district close to the border triangle between Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic. As of 2005, there are 26,224 people in the city.
Zittau-Oybin-Jonsdorf line The Zittau-Oybin-Jonsdorf line (German: Zittauer Schmalspurbahn) is a narrow gauge railway system employing steam locomotives and serving the mountain spa resorts of Oybin and Jonsdorf in the Zittau Mountains in southeast Saxony (Germany). The track gauge is .
Zitterbewegung Zitterbewegung (English: "jitter") is a theoretical helical or circular motion of elementary particles, in particular electrons, which is responsible for producing their spin and magnetic moment. The existence of such motion was first proposed by Erwin Schrödinger in 1930 as a result of his analysis of the wave packet solutions of the Dirac equation for relativistic electrons in free space, in which an interference between positive and negative energy states produces what appears to be a fluctuation (at the speed of light) of the position of an electron around the median, with a circular frequency of 2 m c^2 / hbar ,!
Zitting Cisticola The Zitting Cisticola, Cisticola juncidis, is an Old World warbler in the genus Cisticola. This genus is sometimes split off with various other southern warbler genera and given family status as the Cisticolidae.
Ziusudra Sumerian Ziusudra ("life of long days", Hellenized Xisuthros), Akkadian Atrahasis ("extremely wise") and Utnapishtim ("he found life") are heroes of Ancient Near Eastern flood myths.
ZiU-5 The ZiU-5 (in Russian ЗиУ-5) is the Soviet trolleybus. The ZiU acronym stands for Zavod imeni Uritskogo (Russian Завод имени Урицкого, ЗиУ, which corresponds to Plant named after Uritskiy (Moisei Uritsky, a Russian revolutionary).
ZiU-9 ZiU-9 (in Russian ЗиУ-9) is the Soviet (and now Russian) trolleybus vehicle. Another names and indexes for the same vehicle include ZiU-682, HTI-682 and XTU-682 (respectively ЗиУ-682, ХТĐ-682 and XTU-682 in Russian designations).
Ziv Koren Ziv Koren is an Israeli photojournalist, popular for his work showing the cruelties of the Arab-Israeli conflict. He has received many prices, including the Simon Rokower Award, 1st Place for Excellence in Photography (Magazine Division) for "Last Look: A new Leash on Life" 2004.
Zivania Zivania (also Zivana) (Greek: Ζιβανία) is a traditional Greek-Cypriot distillate produced in the island of Cyprus from pomace (or marcs), the residue of grapes that were pressed during the winemaking process (including the stems and seeds) mixed with high-quality dry wines produced from the local grape varieties of Cyprus. The pomace/wine mixture is then distilled in special traditional distillation apparatus, producing zivania.
Zivia Lubetkin Zivia Lubetkin (in Polish: Cywia Lubetkin), (1914–1976), also known by her nom de guerre "Celina", was one of the leaders of the Jewish underground in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and the only woman on the High Command of the Jewish Fighting Organization (Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa; ZOB).
Zivildienst Zivildienst (German, translates roughly into "Civilian Service") is the name for the civilian branch of the national service systems in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It is a mean for conscripted persons who are conscientious objectors to fulfill their national service typically in the field of social works (e.
Zivko Edge 540 The Zivko Edge 540 manufactured by Zivko Aeronautics is a world-class, highly aerobatic aircraft. Capable of a 420 degree per second roll rate and a 3,700 foot per minute climb rate, it has been flown to victory on the international Unlimited aerobatics circuit several times since the mid-1990s.
Ziwa Ziwa, or Ziwa ruins (formerly Van Niekerk ruins) is the name used to describe the remains of a vast late Iron Age agricultural settlement that has been dated to the 17th century. The site is located at in Nyanga, Zimbabwe.
Ziway Dugda Ziway Dugda is one of the 180 woredas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Arsi Zone located in the Great Rift Valley, Ziway Dugda is bordered on the south by Munesa, on the west and north by the Misraq Shewa Zone, on the east by Hitosa, and on the southeast by Tiyo.
Ziwiye hoard The Ziwiye hoard is a treasure hoard containing gold, silver, and ivory objects, included a few Luristan pieces, that was serendipitously uncovered on the south shore of Lake Urmia in Kordestan in 1947. These objects provide a definite link between the Iranian plateau and the Scythian artforms known as the "animal style".
Ziwiyeh The castle Ziwiyeh which has been ruined through digging for archaeological purposes, was one of the most wonderful ancient and strong architectures situated on the top of a mount above the wide and beautiful Ziwiyeh Cave. It is located in an altitute of 1835 m above sea level in Kurdistan province of Iran on the south of Orumieh Lake.
Zix, Travoltron, and Tee Zix, Travoltron, and Tee, also know as (The) Space Bandits are fictional lizard/alien hybrid villans in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. Their first appearance was in A Beautiful Mine, then re-appeared in Men at Work (in the end), made a cameo in Win, Lose, and Kaboom, starred once again in The Incredible Shrinking Town, and made a last appearance in The League of Villans.
Zixx Zixx (full title is Zixx: Level One for season one and Zixx: Level Two for season two) is a Canadian television series that airs on YTV. The first season premiered on Cartoon Network on January 21st, 2006 as part of the network's new Saturday morning lineup (although it wasn't long before CN pulled the show).
Ziya Şengül Ziya Şengül is a retired Turkish football player. He is remembered for his commanding role during his career at Turkish giants Fenerbahçe SK and also for his great effort at the famous drawn of Turkish national football team against Italy.
Ziya Saylan Dr. Ziya Saylan is a Turkish medical doctor and former president of the European Academy of Cosmetic Surgery, based in Dusseldorf, Germany In June 2004, he announced a procedure utilizing titanium]/[[polypropylene mesh inserts to perform breast reconstruction, anchoring the "internal bra" to the ribs and muscle tissue.
Ziyad bin Salih bin Muhammad Al Bahooth Ziyad bin Salih bin Muhammad Al Bahooth (also transliterated as Ziyad Salih Muhammad Al Bahuth) is a citizen of Saudi Arabia held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantánamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.list of prisoners (.
Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan (Arabic: زياد بن أبي ŘłŮيان) was a Muslim general and administrator and a member of the clan of the Umayyads. His parentage is obscure and controversial, which in the inimical Abbasid historiography has earned him the Patronymic "Ibn Abihi (son of his own [unknown] father)".
Ziyarid The Ziyarids, also spelled Zeyarids (آل زیار), were an Iranian dynasty that ruled in the Caspian sea provinces of Gorgan and Mazandaran from 928-1043 (also known as Tabarestan). The founder of the dynasty was Mardavij (from 927 to 935), who took advantage of a rebellion in the Samanid army of Iran to seize power in northern Iran.
Ziyuan The Ziyuan (; or "Essays on Chinese Characters") was a Chinese dictionary attributed to the Eastern Jin Dynasty scholar Ge Hong. The original text was lost, and the small modern Ziyuan recension has 34 headwords, mostly Chinese Buddhist loanword terminology.
Zizhi Tongjian The Zīzhì Tōngjià n (; literally "Comprehensive Mirror for/to Aid in Government") was a pioneering reference work in Chinese historiography. Emperor Yingzong of Song ordered Sima Guang and other scholars to begin compiling this universal history of China in 1065 CE and they presented it to his successor Emperor Shenzong of Song in 1084 CE.
Zizi Jeanmaire Renée Marcelle Jeanmaire, known as Zizi Jeanmaire, (born April 29 1924) is a ballet dancer and wife of renowned dancer and choreographer Roland Petit. She became famous in the 1950s because of her titular role in the ballet Carmen, produced in London in 1949.
Ziziphus Ziziphus is a genus of about 40 species of spiny shrubs and small trees in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae, distributed in the warm-temperate and subtropical regions throughout the world. The leaves are alternate, entire, with three prominent basal veins, and 2-7 cm long; some species are deciduous, others evergreen.
Ziziphus celata Ziziphus celata, commonly known as the Florida ziziphus or the Florida jujube is a terrestrial flowering plant endemic to Florida, where it is currently restricted to just five sites. It is listed as an endangered species in the United States, and the IUCN list it as vulnerable.
Ziziphus mauritiana Ziziphus mauritiana (Ber, Indian Jujube, or Cottony Jujube) is a tropical fruit tree species, belonging to the family Rhamnaceae. It is native to southern Asia (mainly India) though it is also cultivated and naturalised elsewhere in the dry tropics, notably in Africa.
Ziziphus nummularia Ziziphus nummularia, also called Jharber (Hindi: झड बेर), a plant of Thar desert, is a shrub up to 2 m high, branching to form a thicket the leaves are rounded like those of Ziziphus jujuba but differ from these in having a pubescence on the adaxial surface as well. The plant is commonly found in agricultural fields.
ZIIP IBM System z9 Integrated Information Processor (IBM zIIP) is the latest special purpose mainframe processor following the zAAP and IFL. The main purpose of the zIIP is to offload DB2 processing from the general central processors (CPs) to the less expensive zIIP, much like how the zAAP and IFL offload Java and Linux processing, respectively.
ZIL-112 Sports ZIL-112 Sports was a sports car made by Zavod Imeni Likhacheva between 1960 and 1962. The 112S initiated a number of firsts for cars produced in Soviet Union such as controlled slip differential, disc brakes, radial-ply tires et.
ZIL-135 The ZIL-135 is a large, 8 wheeled military transport and self-propelled artillery truck produced in the Cold War by the Soviet Union starting in 1966. Its purpose was to carry and launch a strategic missile, specifically a FROG-7, from surface-to-surface.
ZINC database The ZINC database is a curated collection of commercially available chemical compounds prepared especially for virtual screening. ZINC is used by investigators (generally people with training as biologists or chemists) in pharmaceutical companies,
ZIP code The ZIP code is the system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS). The name ZIP, an acronym for Zone Improvement Planthat is properly written in capital letters, was chosen to suggest that the mail] travels more efficiently, and therefore more quickly, when senders use it.
ZIP Code prefixes This table lists 3-digit ZIP Code prefixes, each of which represents a United States Postal Service (USPS) sectional center facility (SCF). Each SCF serves local addresses whose 5-digit ZIP Codes start with the same prefix.
ZIP Code Tabulation Area ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs™) are a new statistical entity developed by the United States Census Bureau for tabulating summary statistics from Census 2000. This new entity was developed to overcome the difficulties in precisely defining the land area covered by each ZIP Code.
ZIPI ZIPI or Zeta Instrument Processor Interface was a research project initiated by Zeta Instruments and UC Berkeley's CNMAT (Center for New Music and Audio Technologies). Introduced in 1994 in a series of publications in Computer Music Journal from MIT Press, ZIPI was intended as the next-generation transport protocol for digital musical instruments, designed with compliance to OSI model.
Zino Davidoff Zino Davidoff (1906-1994) was the son of a small Jewish tobacco merchant and grew up in Kiev. He stood in his father’s tobacco shop rolling cigarettes and cigars for the entire family, while the male patrons at the shop talked politics.
Zino's Petrel Zino's Petrel (Pterodroma madeira) is a small seabird in the gadfly petrel genus. It has also been called "Madeira Petrel", but this name invites confusion with Madeira Storm Petrel and is best avoided.
Zinovy Peshkov Zinovy Alekseyevich Peshkov (Russian: Зиновий ĐлекŃеевич ПеŃков, French: Zinovi Pechkoff or Pechkov, October 16, 1884 — November 27, 1966) was a Russian-born French general and diplomat.
Zinovy Rozhestvensky Zinovy Petrovich Rozhestvensky1 ( - January 14, 1909) was an admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy, who was in command of the Second Pacific Squadron in the Battle of Tsushima, during the Russo-Japanese War. Admiral Rozhesvensky had selected the Prince Suvorov as his flagship, one of four brand new battleships of the Borodino class (French designed) warships, for the voyage to the pacific.
Zion Zion (Hebrew: צִיּוֹן, tziyyon; Tiberian vocalization: tsiyyôn; transliterated Zion or Sion) is a term that most often designates the land of Israel and its capital Jerusalem. The word is found in texts dating back almost three millennia.
Zion (The Matrix) In the Matrix films, Zion is the last human city on the planet Earth and existed deep underground for both concealment from its enemies as well as warmth. In this future Earth, the surface was too cold and dangerous for humans to live after a cataclysmic nuclear war between sentient Machines and Man hundreds of years before left the artificial beings with control over the surface.
Zion Christian Church The Zion Christian Church (or ZCC) is the largest African Initiated Church in southern Africa, with four million members . The church's headquarters are at Zion City Moria in Limpopo Province, South Africa, and the two congregations that compose the church are led by Barnabas Lekganyane and Engenas Lekganyane, the grandsons of its founder.
Zion National Park Zion National Park is a United States National Park located in the Southwestern United States, near Springdale, Utah. A prominent feature in the 229-square-mile (593 km²) park is Zion Canyon, 15 miles (24 km) long and up to half a mile (800 m) deep, cut through the reddish and tan-colored Navajo Sandstone by the North Fork of the Virgin River.
Zion Nuclear Power Station Zion Station was the third dual-reactor nuclear power plant in the Commonwealth Edison network and served Chicago and the northern one-fourth of Illinois. This power generating station is located in the extreme eastern portion of the city of Zion, Lake County, Illinois.
Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution or ZCMI was founded in 1868 and was one of the first department stores in the United States. Based in Salt Lake City, Utah, it quickly became a household name in the community.
Zion-coder Zion is a Lua coder with many succesfull homebrew games for the Playstation Portable handheld console and also for PC. He has been working on the PSP Scene for under one year and already has had great success with his lua games for PSP, most notably "Legend of Hyrule - Linken's Quest" , which he released in the summer of 2006.
Zionism Zionism is an international political movement that supports a homeland for the Jewish people in the Land of IsraelZionism On The Web, "Definitions of Zionism", a compiled collection, Accessed January 10, 2007.. Formally organized in the late 19th century, the movement was successful in establishing the State of Israel in 1948, as the world's first and only modern Jewish State.
Zionism and racism allegations The term Zionism was first connected to the movement founded by the Viennese Jewish journalist Theodor Herzl, who argued in his 1896 book Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State) that the best way of avoiding anti-Semitism in Europe was to create an independent Jewish state or national homeland in the Palestine region of the Middle East. Zionism was named after Mount Zion in Jerusalem which has served as a symbol of the Jewish homeland since the Babylonian captivity in the 6th century BC.
Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland The Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland, also known as the British Zionist Federation or simply the Zionist Federation (ZF), was established in 1899 to campaign for a permanent homeland for the Jewish people. The Zionist Federation is an umbrella organisation for the Zionist movement in the United Kingdom, representing more than 120 organisations, and over 50,000 affiliated members.
Zionist Freedom Alliance ZFA (Zionist Freedom Alliance) is a grassroots movement advocating the Jewish people’s right to the entire land of Israel. It was established by Magshimey Herut (; "achievers of liberty") activists in response to what they perceived to be growing anti-Israel sentiment among young people throughout the world.
Zionist Churches Zionist Churches are a group of Christian denominations that sprang from the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion, Illinois. Missionaries from the church came to South Africa in 1904 and among their first recruits were PL le Roux of Wakkerstroom and Daniel Nkonyane of Charlestown, KwaZulu-Natal, who continued to evangelise after the Zionist missionaries left in 1908.
Zionist Occupation Government Zionist Occupation (or Occupied) Government, or ZOG, is an accusation made by antisemitic conspiracy theorists that various governments are surreptitiously controlled by Jews acting against the interests of that country. It has been leveled by several extremist and antisemitic groups including neo-Nazis in the United States, Pamyat in Russia, right-wing groups in Poland (see Żydokomuna), and neo-Nazis in Sweden.
Zionist Organization of America The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), founded in 1897, was one of the first official Zionist organizations in the United States, and, especially early in the 20th century, the primary representative of the Jews of the United States to the World Zionist Organization, espousing primarily Political Zionism. Along with its sister organization is Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, and the Labor Zionist Po'ale Zion parties, and the Religious Zionist Mizrachi, the ZOA served as one of the key voices in early American Zionism, especially as American Jews were not initially strong supporters of the Zionist movement.
Zionist political violence In the 1930s and 1940s, groups within the Zionist underground in the British Mandate of Palestine committed a number of acts of political violence. These included actions by the Irgun, and Lehi, also known as the Stern Gang, primarily against British policemen and soldiers, but also against UN personnel, Jews suspected of collaborating with the British, and other non Jewish civilians in response to attacks made against Jewish communities.
Zionist youth movement A Zionist youth movement is an organization formed for Jewish children and adolescents for educational, social and ideological development, including a belief in Jewish nationalism as represented in the State of Israel. Youth leaders in modern movements use informal education approaches to educate toward the movement's ideological goals.
Zionites (Germany) The Zionites were a sect of visionary fanatics which flourished in the eighteenth century at Ronsdorf in the Duchy of Berg. The sect sprang from a Philadelphian society founded at Elberfeld in 1726 by Elias Eller and the pastor Daniel Schleiermacher.
Zionology Zionology (Russian language: Ńионология sionologiya) was a doctrine promulgated in the Soviet Union during the course of the Cold War, and intensified after the 1967 Six Day War. It was officially sponsored by the Department of propaganda of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and by the KGB.
Zions Securities Zions Securities Corporation is a subsidiary of the Deseret Management Corporation that manages property owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints mostly in Salt Lake City, Utah. They manage major Corporate, Residential, and Retail spaces.
Zionyde Zionyde (Shane Mason,born September 4, 1985 in Dublin, Ireland is a Progressive Electronica artist currently residing in Navan(not to be confused with a town of the same name in Ontario, Canada), Meath,Ireland. He is currently studying Graphic Design in Dublin Institute of Technology(according to his now deleted Myspace account).
Zip (airline) Zip was a Canadian discount airline based in Calgary, Alberta launched by Air Canada as a no-frills subsidiary in September 2002. It operated a fleet of 12 Boeing 737 aircraft, each painted in a different bright, neon colour with a single class of service.
Zip bomb A zip bomb is a type of malicious computer file that is designed to disrupt the action of antivirus software. These files usually take the form of innocent looking archive files that, when unpacked in order to be scanned, require enormous amounts of time, disk space, or memory.
Zip cube Zip® firelighters (or "zip cubes") are packaged small blocks of solid fuel containing kerosene, sold as a firelighter in Ireland, Canada and the United States. In Ireland, they are the leading brand.
Zip gun Zip gun is a term used for a crude, improvised firearm, usually a handgun. Zip guns are almost always single-shot, as the improvised construction sometimes makes them weak enough to be destroyed by the act of firing.
Zip Zap Boing Zip Zap Boing (also known as Zip Zap Zop amongst other variants) is a drama game, in which players test their powers of concentration. Players reach into the centre of a circle, and pull out an imaginary ball of energy.
Zip-cord In optical communications, zip-cord is a two-fiber cable consisting essentially of two single-fiber cables having their jackets conjoined by a strip of jacket material. The name is borrowed from electrical terminology referring to lamp cord.
Zip-line A zip-line, zip wire, aerial runway, death slide or tyrolean crossing consists of a pulley suspended on a cable mounted on an incline. They are designed to enable a user to traverse from the top to the bottom of the inclined rope or cable, by holding onto the freely moving pulley.
Zipaquirá Zipaquirá is a municipality of Colombia, in the department of Cundinamarca. It limits with the municipalities of Tausa and Cogua the North; Nemocón, Gachancipa and Sopó to the East; Cajicá and Tabio to the South; Subachoque and Pacho to the West, and its municipal head is to 49 kilometers of Santa Fe de Bogota D.
Zipcar Zipcar is a for-profit, membership-based carsharing company providing automobile rental to its members, billable by the hour or day. Zipcar was founded in 1999 by Boston residents Robin Chase and Antje Danielson.
Zipeg Zipeg is an unzip (decompression) utility for Macintosh created by Leo Kuznetsov for Mac OS X that handles ZIP, RAR, ARJ, 7-zip, TAR, GZ, GZ, BZ2, CPIO, LZH, ISO and other archive files. It decompresses and lists the contents of zip archives.
Zipi y Zape Zipi y Zape are the names of two iconic Spanish comic book characters created by José Escobar Saliente in 1947, and of their eponymous strip. With Mortadelo y Filemón, they're the most popular and most translated Spanish comic books.
ZipKey ZipKey is a computer program created by Eric Isaacson that allows one to look up the state, telephone area code, and time zone based on the entry of a ZIP Code. However, there are now websites that offer similar functions for free.
Zipless fuck A zipless fuck is defined as a sexual encounter for its own sake, without emotional involvement or commitment, between two previously unacquainted persons. The phrase was coined by author Erica Jong in her popular 1973 novel Fear of Flying.
Zipolite Zipolite is a small beach community which lies on the Pacific coast of the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, about three kilometers west of the village of Puerto Angel. The name Zipolite, sometimes spelled Sipolite or Cipolite, may have come from the Nahuatl word sipolitlan or zipotli, bumpy place or place of continuous bumps or hills.
Zipp Founded in 1988, Zipp is best known as a designer, maker and marketer of carbon-composite bicycle wheels, although recently the company has expanded its product range to include handlebars, cranks and stems. Many professional road cyclists and triathletes use Zipp wheels, popular for their good aerodynamics, in the Tour de France and Ironman races.
Zipper Catches Skin Zipper Catches Skin is an album by Alice Cooper, released in 1982 (see 1982 in music). It saw the return of Dick Wagner to Alice's band, but is generally not considered to be of the same standard as his previous work with Alice.
Zipper Labrador A Zipper Labrador is a colloquial term referring to a type of Labrador Retriever with an uplifted patch of fur on the nose resembling a zipper. The Zipper is a trait usually found only in purebred labrador retrievers.
Zippie Zippie is a term used to describe a 1990s technoperson, in contradiction to yuppie. The Zippies were an attempt by Fraser Clark and others, to create a unique subculture that combined the 1990s techno hemisphere with the 1960s earth person.
Zippin Pippin The Zippin Pippin, formerly called the Pippin, is one of the oldest existing wooden roller coasters in the United States. It was initially constructed in the former East End Park in Memphis, Tennessee in 1912 by John A.
Zipporah Zipporah or Tzipora (צִפּוֹרָה "Bird", Standard Hebrew áş’ippora, Tiberian Hebrew ṢippĂ´rÄh), Sephora Greek, mentioned in the Book of Exodus or Safura in Arabic (Safrawa in some versions), was the wife of Moses, and the daughter of Jethro, a priest of Midian.
Zips Zips (also Siggies or Geeps) is a slang term often used as a derogatory slur by Italian American mobsters in reference to immigrant Sicilian and Italian mafiosi. The name is said to have originated from mobsters' inability to understand the faster-speaking Sicilian dialects, which appeared to "zip" by.
Ziraat Bank Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Ziraat Bankası (English: Agricultural Bank of Republic of Turkey), also called as Ziraat Bankası, is the biggest Turkish bank. According to a research on "Top 1000 World Banks in 2004" made by The Bankers magazine, TC Ziraat Bankasi A.
Zircaloy Zircaloy, also incorrectly called zircalloy, is a group of high-zirconium alloys. One of the main uses of zircaloys is in nuclear technology, as zirconium has very low absorption cross-section of thermal neutrons and therefore it is frequently used as cladding of fuel rods in nuclear reactors.
Zirconium Zirconium (IPA: ) is a chemical element in the modern periodic table that is assigned the symbol Zr and has the atomic number 40. A lustrous gray-white, strong transition metal that resembles titanium, zirconium is obtained chiefly from zircon and is very corrosion resistant.
Zirconium propionate Zirconium propionate is a white powder with molecular formula Zr(CH3CH2COO)4. Its structure is complex, but is believed to be based on hydroxy-bridged zirconium polymers, with the propionate carboxyl group bonded to the zirconium.
Zirconium tungstate Zr(WO4)2, or zirconium tungstate is a metal oxide with unusual properties. The phase formed at ambient pressure by reaction of ZrO2 and WO3 is a metastable cubic phase, which has negative thermal expansion characteristics, namely it shrinks over a wide range of temperatures when heated.
Zire Zamin Zire Zamin is a television series is that ran during September and October of 2006), specifically for the month of Ramadan. It was shown on Channel 3 of Iran and Jame Jam 1 for Iranians living outside of Iran.
Zirid The Zirids () were a Berber dynasty, originating in Petite Kabylie among the Kutama tribe, that ruled Ifriqiya (roughly, modern Tunisia), initially on behalf of the Fatimids, for about two centuries, until weakened by the Banu Hilal and finally destroyed by the Almohads. Their capital was Kairouan.
Zirnevis Zirnevis (زیرنŮŰŚŘł), is the Farsi translation for "sub-title". It is a combination of zir meaning bottom, and nevis meaning writer (thus a literal translation back to English would be "bottom-writer").
Ziryab Abu l-Hasan â€Ali Ibn Nafi†(Persian and Arabic: أب٠الŘسن علي ابن ناŮŘą ) (c. 789—857), nicknamed Ziryab (زرياب, Arabic for [Blackbird]), was a poet, a musician and singer and one of the most famous gourmands at the Umayyad court in CĂłrdoba in Spain.
Zishe Breitbart Zishe (Siegmund) Breitbart (1883 - 1925) was a Polish-born circus performer, vaudeville strongman and Jewish folk hero. He was known as the "Strongest Man in the World" during the 1920s and was born into an Orthodox Jewish family of blacksmiths in Lodz.
Zisis Vryzas Zisis Vryzas (born November 9, 1973 in Kavala) is a striker the Greek national team and Greek club Skoda Xanthi. Vryzas got his start at Greek sides Skoda Xanthi and PAOK before moving onto AC Perugia in Italy.
Zita of Bourbon-Parma Zita of Bourbon-Parma (Zita Maria delle Grazie Adelgonda Micaela Raffaela Gabriella Giuseppina Antonia Luisa Agnese; German: Zita von Bourbon-Parma; May 9, 1892 - March 14, 1989) was the last Empress-consort of Austria and Queen-consort of Hungary.
Zitadelle Mainz The Mainzer Zitadelle (Citadel of Mainz) is situated at the fringe of the Old Town in direct proximity to the railway station "Mainz Römisches Theater". The fortress was constructed in 1660 and was an important part of the Fortress Mainz.
Ziteng Zi Teng () is a non-governmental organization that cares about the basic rights of women who live in Hong Kong and those who came from mainland China, especially sex workers. Ziteng is formed by social workers, women studies researchers, church workers and labor activists, etc.
Zither The zither is a musical string instrument, mainly used in folk music, most commonly in German-speaking Alpine Europe. Like many other stringed instruments, acoustic and electric forms exist; in the acoustic version, the strings are stretched across the length of the soundbox, and neither version has a neck.
Zitkala-Sa Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (February 22, 1876 - January 26,1938), better known by her pen name, Zitkala-Sa (Lakota: pronounced zitkala-ŠA (sha), and translates to Red Bird), was a Native American writer, editor, musician, teacher and political activist. She was born and raised on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota by her mother, Ellen Simmons, whose Yankton-Nakota name was Taté Iyòhiwin (Every Wind or Reaches for the Wind).
Zittau Zittau (Sorbian/Lusatian Žitawa, Czech Žitava) is a city in the south east of the Free State of Saxony, Germany and capital of the Löbau-Zittau district close to the border triangle between Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic. As of 2005, there are 26,224 people in the city.
Zittau-Oybin-Jonsdorf line The Zittau-Oybin-Jonsdorf line (German: Zittauer Schmalspurbahn) is a narrow gauge railway system employing steam locomotives and serving the mountain spa resorts of Oybin and Jonsdorf in the Zittau Mountains in southeast Saxony (Germany). The track gauge is .
Zitterbewegung Zitterbewegung (English: "jitter") is a theoretical helical or circular motion of elementary particles, in particular electrons, which is responsible for producing their spin and magnetic moment. The existence of such motion was first proposed by Erwin Schrödinger in 1930 as a result of his analysis of the wave packet solutions of the Dirac equation for relativistic electrons in free space, in which an interference between positive and negative energy states produces what appears to be a fluctuation (at the speed of light) of the position of an electron around the median, with a circular frequency of 2 m c^2 / hbar ,!
Zitting Cisticola The Zitting Cisticola, Cisticola juncidis, is an Old World warbler in the genus Cisticola. This genus is sometimes split off with various other southern warbler genera and given family status as the Cisticolidae.
Ziusudra Sumerian Ziusudra ("life of long days", Hellenized Xisuthros), Akkadian Atrahasis ("extremely wise") and Utnapishtim ("he found life") are heroes of Ancient Near Eastern flood myths.
ZiU-5 The ZiU-5 (in Russian ЗиУ-5) is the Soviet trolleybus. The ZiU acronym stands for Zavod imeni Uritskogo (Russian Завод имени Урицкого, ЗиУ, which corresponds to Plant named after Uritskiy (Moisei Uritsky, a Russian revolutionary).
ZiU-9 ZiU-9 (in Russian ЗиУ-9) is the Soviet (and now Russian) trolleybus vehicle. Another names and indexes for the same vehicle include ZiU-682, HTI-682 and XTU-682 (respectively ЗиУ-682, ХТĐ-682 and XTU-682 in Russian designations).
Ziv Koren Ziv Koren is an Israeli photojournalist, popular for his work showing the cruelties of the Arab-Israeli conflict. He has received many prices, including the Simon Rokower Award, 1st Place for Excellence in Photography (Magazine Division) for "Last Look: A new Leash on Life" 2004.
Zivania Zivania (also Zivana) (Greek: Ζιβανία) is a traditional Greek-Cypriot distillate produced in the island of Cyprus from pomace (or marcs), the residue of grapes that were pressed during the winemaking process (including the stems and seeds) mixed with high-quality dry wines produced from the local grape varieties of Cyprus. The pomace/wine mixture is then distilled in special traditional distillation apparatus, producing zivania.
Zivia Lubetkin Zivia Lubetkin (in Polish: Cywia Lubetkin), (1914–1976), also known by her nom de guerre "Celina", was one of the leaders of the Jewish underground in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and the only woman on the High Command of the Jewish Fighting Organization (Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa; ZOB).
Zivildienst Zivildienst (German, translates roughly into "Civilian Service") is the name for the civilian branch of the national service systems in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It is a mean for conscripted persons who are conscientious objectors to fulfill their national service typically in the field of social works (e.
Zivko Edge 540 The Zivko Edge 540 manufactured by Zivko Aeronautics is a world-class, highly aerobatic aircraft. Capable of a 420 degree per second roll rate and a 3,700 foot per minute climb rate, it has been flown to victory on the international Unlimited aerobatics circuit several times since the mid-1990s.
Ziwa Ziwa, or Ziwa ruins (formerly Van Niekerk ruins) is the name used to describe the remains of a vast late Iron Age agricultural settlement that has been dated to the 17th century. The site is located at in Nyanga, Zimbabwe.
Ziway Dugda Ziway Dugda is one of the 180 woredas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Arsi Zone located in the Great Rift Valley, Ziway Dugda is bordered on the south by Munesa, on the west and north by the Misraq Shewa Zone, on the east by Hitosa, and on the southeast by Tiyo.
Ziwiye hoard The Ziwiye hoard is a treasure hoard containing gold, silver, and ivory objects, included a few Luristan pieces, that was serendipitously uncovered on the south shore of Lake Urmia in Kordestan in 1947. These objects provide a definite link between the Iranian plateau and the Scythian artforms known as the "animal style".
Ziwiyeh The castle Ziwiyeh which has been ruined through digging for archaeological purposes, was one of the most wonderful ancient and strong architectures situated on the top of a mount above the wide and beautiful Ziwiyeh Cave. It is located in an altitute of 1835 m above sea level in Kurdistan province of Iran on the south of Orumieh Lake.
Zix, Travoltron, and Tee Zix, Travoltron, and Tee, also know as (The) Space Bandits are fictional lizard/alien hybrid villans in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. Their first appearance was in A Beautiful Mine, then re-appeared in Men at Work (in the end), made a cameo in Win, Lose, and Kaboom, starred once again in The Incredible Shrinking Town, and made a last appearance in The League of Villans.
Zixx Zixx (full title is Zixx: Level One for season one and Zixx: Level Two for season two) is a Canadian television series that airs on YTV. The first season premiered on Cartoon Network on January 21st, 2006 as part of the network's new Saturday morning lineup (although it wasn't long before CN pulled the show).
Ziya Şengül Ziya Şengül is a retired Turkish football player. He is remembered for his commanding role during his career at Turkish giants Fenerbahçe SK and also for his great effort at the famous drawn of Turkish national football team against Italy.
Ziya Saylan Dr. Ziya Saylan is a Turkish medical doctor and former president of the European Academy of Cosmetic Surgery, based in Dusseldorf, Germany In June 2004, he announced a procedure utilizing titanium]/[[polypropylene mesh inserts to perform breast reconstruction, anchoring the "internal bra" to the ribs and muscle tissue.
Ziyad bin Salih bin Muhammad Al Bahooth Ziyad bin Salih bin Muhammad Al Bahooth (also transliterated as Ziyad Salih Muhammad Al Bahuth) is a citizen of Saudi Arabia held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantánamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.list of prisoners (.
Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan (Arabic: زياد بن أبي ŘłŮيان) was a Muslim general and administrator and a member of the clan of the Umayyads. His parentage is obscure and controversial, which in the inimical Abbasid historiography has earned him the Patronymic "Ibn Abihi (son of his own [unknown] father)".
Ziyarid The Ziyarids, also spelled Zeyarids (آل زیار), were an Iranian dynasty that ruled in the Caspian sea provinces of Gorgan and Mazandaran from 928-1043 (also known as Tabarestan). The founder of the dynasty was Mardavij (from 927 to 935), who took advantage of a rebellion in the Samanid army of Iran to seize power in northern Iran.
Ziyuan The Ziyuan (; or "Essays on Chinese Characters") was a Chinese dictionary attributed to the Eastern Jin Dynasty scholar Ge Hong. The original text was lost, and the small modern Ziyuan recension has 34 headwords, mostly Chinese Buddhist loanword terminology.
Zizhi Tongjian The Zīzhì Tōngjià n (; literally "Comprehensive Mirror for/to Aid in Government") was a pioneering reference work in Chinese historiography. Emperor Yingzong of Song ordered Sima Guang and other scholars to begin compiling this universal history of China in 1065 CE and they presented it to his successor Emperor Shenzong of Song in 1084 CE.
Zizi Jeanmaire Renée Marcelle Jeanmaire, known as Zizi Jeanmaire, (born April 29 1924) is a ballet dancer and wife of renowned dancer and choreographer Roland Petit. She became famous in the 1950s because of her titular role in the ballet Carmen, produced in London in 1949.
Ziziphus Ziziphus is a genus of about 40 species of spiny shrubs and small trees in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae, distributed in the warm-temperate and subtropical regions throughout the world. The leaves are alternate, entire, with three prominent basal veins, and 2-7 cm long; some species are deciduous, others evergreen.
Ziziphus celata Ziziphus celata, commonly known as the Florida ziziphus or the Florida jujube is a terrestrial flowering plant endemic to Florida, where it is currently restricted to just five sites. It is listed as an endangered species in the United States, and the IUCN list it as vulnerable.
Ziziphus mauritiana Ziziphus mauritiana (Ber, Indian Jujube, or Cottony Jujube) is a tropical fruit tree species, belonging to the family Rhamnaceae. It is native to southern Asia (mainly India) though it is also cultivated and naturalised elsewhere in the dry tropics, notably in Africa.
Ziziphus nummularia Ziziphus nummularia, also called Jharber (Hindi: झड बेर), a plant of Thar desert, is a shrub up to 2 m high, branching to form a thicket the leaves are rounded like those of Ziziphus jujuba but differ from these in having a pubescence on the adaxial surface as well. The plant is commonly found in agricultural fields.
ZIIP IBM System z9 Integrated Information Processor (IBM zIIP) is the latest special purpose mainframe processor following the zAAP and IFL. The main purpose of the zIIP is to offload DB2 processing from the general central processors (CPs) to the less expensive zIIP, much like how the zAAP and IFL offload Java and Linux processing, respectively.
ZIL-112 Sports ZIL-112 Sports was a sports car made by Zavod Imeni Likhacheva between 1960 and 1962. The 112S initiated a number of firsts for cars produced in Soviet Union such as controlled slip differential, disc brakes, radial-ply tires et.
ZIL-135 The ZIL-135 is a large, 8 wheeled military transport and self-propelled artillery truck produced in the Cold War by the Soviet Union starting in 1966. Its purpose was to carry and launch a strategic missile, specifically a FROG-7, from surface-to-surface.
ZINC database The ZINC database is a curated collection of commercially available chemical compounds prepared especially for virtual screening. ZINC is used by investigators (generally people with training as biologists or chemists) in pharmaceutical companies,
ZIP code The ZIP code is the system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS). The name ZIP, an acronym for Zone Improvement Planthat is properly written in capital letters, was chosen to suggest that the mail] travels more efficiently, and therefore more quickly, when senders use it.
ZIP Code prefixes This table lists 3-digit ZIP Code prefixes, each of which represents a United States Postal Service (USPS) sectional center facility (SCF). Each SCF serves local addresses whose 5-digit ZIP Codes start with the same prefix.
ZIP Code Tabulation Area ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs™) are a new statistical entity developed by the United States Census Bureau for tabulating summary statistics from Census 2000. This new entity was developed to overcome the difficulties in precisely defining the land area covered by each ZIP Code.
ZIPI ZIPI or Zeta Instrument Processor Interface was a research project initiated by Zeta Instruments and UC Berkeley's CNMAT (Center for New Music and Audio Technologies). Introduced in 1994 in a series of publications in Computer Music Journal from MIT Press, ZIPI was intended as the next-generation transport protocol for digital musical instruments, designed with compliance to OSI model.
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