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ZIPRA ZIPRA or the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army was the armed wing of the communist party ZAPU (the Zimbabwe African People's Union) and participated in the Second Chimurenga against white minority rule in the former Rhodesia.
ZIS-6 The ZIS-6 6Ă—4 is a Soviet general purpose army cargo truck, a three-axle version of the ZiS-5 two-axle truck. It was built from 1933 until October 1941 at the Moscow Zavod imeni Stalina factory and reached a total production of 21,239.
Zjarr E Ftohtë Zjarr E Ftohtë ("Fire and Cold") was the Albanian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2006, performed in Albanian by Luiz Ejlli. As Albania's previous two entries were performed in English, this was the first time that Albanian was heard on the Eurovision stage.
Zki & Dobri DJs Zki & Dobri have been responsible for a number of huge dance hits under a plethora of different group names, since the early 1990s. The DJs - Gaston Steenkist (DJ Zki) and Rene ter Horst (Dobri) - hail from the Netherlands, with their rhythms and instrumental dance tunes providing a foundation bed for a number of acts such as Nigel & Marvin and Simply Red.
Zlatar Bistrica Zlatar Bistrica is situated in the very heart of the Krapina-Zagorje county (Krapinsko-zagorska Ĺľupanija) on the crossroads of two important roads for the microregion. One connecting northern parts of the county with Zagreb and the other connecting VaraĹľdin and western part of the county.
Zlatarski International School Zlatarski International School of Sofia, Bulgaria, is the first school in the country to offer the International Baccalaureate (IB). The English-using school was founded in 1995, and became an authorized IB school in 2003.
Zlaté Piesky The Zlaté Piesky (literally Golden Sands) is a lake and a summer resort in north-eastern part of Bratislava, Slovakia, near the D1 motorway. It should not be confused with the Golden Sands resort in Varna, Bulgaria.
Zlatibor District Zlatibor District (Serbian: Zlatiborski okrug or ЗлатиборŃки окрŃĐł) is a district in the western, mountainous part of the Republic of Serbia. The district was named after the mountain region of Zlatibor.
Zlatitsa Zlatitsa (Златица, population: 5,330) is a town in southern Bulgaria located in the Zlatitsa-Pirdop valley, between Stara Planina to the north and Sredna Gora to the south at 680 meters above the sea level. It is situated immediately south in the lap of the Zlatitsa -Teteven Mountain.
Zlatko LagumdĹľija Dr. Zlatko LagumdĹľija born (December 26,1955 in Sarajevo) is a Bosnian politician and academic, known for his leadership of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) of Bosnia and Herzegovina and for having moderate and anti-nationalist political views.
Zlatograd Rock Zlatograd Rock (Zlatogradski Kamak zla-to-'grad-ski 'ka-m&k) is a rocky 250m peak forming the eastern extremity of Bowles Ridge, Livingston Island, Antarctica. The peak verlooks Struma Glacier to the northwest and Huron Glacier to the south and east.
Zlatomir Zagorcic Zlatomir Zagorcic (Serbian: Zlatomir Zagorčić, Златомир Загорчић, Bulgarian: Златомир Загорчич) (born June 15, 1971) is a naturalized Bulgarian football player of Serbian ethnicity who, as of 2004, was playing for Litex Lovech.
Zlatorog Zlatorog is a legendary white chamois buck (steinbock, ibex, capricorn) who had his realm in the heights of Mount Triglav. The legend is well-known throughout Slovenia (specifically Slovenian Carinthia), as well as in Austrian Carinthia, and Italian Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
Zlatoust Zlatoust () is a city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, situated on the Ay River (the Kama basin) 160Â km west of Chelyabinsk, at . The city's name is derived from the Russian translation of Chrysostom, because it was founded near a church dedicated to that saint.
Zlatoust Machine-Building Plant The Zlatoust Machine-Building Plant is a former arms manufacturing plant in Zlatoust, Russia. It produced many of the Soviet Union's offensive nuclear weapons, including the R-39 Submarine-launched ballistic missile.
ZlĂn ZlĂn (named Gottwaldov during 1949–90) is a city in ZlĂnskĂ˝ kraj (region), in southeastern Moravia, Czech Republic, on the DĹ™evnice River. The development of the modern city is closely connected to the Bata shoes company.
Zletovo Zletovo (Macedonian: Злетово) - The well-known mining place of Zletovo is reached by a road that branches off the Štip-Kočani road, near the village of Krupište. From Zletovo, walking or riding, one can reach, within two hours, the village of Lesnovo and the monastery of St.
Zlib zlib is a free software/open-source, cross-platform data compression library by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler and is an abstraction of the DEFLATE compression algorithm used in their gzip file compression program. The first public version, 0.
Zlicans The ZliÄŤans were a Czech tribe that settled in the eastern fold of Bohemia. They were the second most powerful tribe in the region but eventually were overpowered by the PĹ™emyslid dynasty on 28 september 995 when the ruling SlavnĂk dynasty was massacred by the PĹ™emyslid.
ZĹ‚ocieniec ZĹ‚ocieniec (German: Falkenburg), is a town in Middle Pomerania, in north-western Poland with some 12,000 inhabitants. Located in Drawsko County in West Pomeranian Voivodship since 1999, previously a town in Koszalin Voivodship (1950-1998).
ZĹ‚ota kaczka ZĹ‚ota kaczka (Polish for Golden duck) is a legendary creature popular in Warsaw's urban legends and folk-lore. According to a popular story, noted by Artur Oppman, the duck is dwelling in the cellars beneath the Ostrogski Castle.
Złotoryja County Złotoryja County (in Polish powiat złotoryjski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government in the Lower Silesian Voivodship in Poland, created on 1 January 1999 as a result of the Local Government Reorganization Act of 1998.
Zmacs Zmacs was one of the many variants of the Emacs text editor that runs on the Symbolics Lisp machine. It was based on the Zwei programming substrate, which stood for "Zwei Was Eine Initially"; Zwei was a collection of routines which could be used to easily implement other programs, like the Symbolics mail program, Zmail- Eine stood for "Eine is not Emacs".
Zmaj Children Games Zmaj Children Games (Serbian: Đ—ĐĽĐ°Ńеве дечиŃе игре / Zmajeve deÄŤije igre) is one of the biggest festivals for children in Serbia and the Novi Sad region. Named after Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, one of the most famous Serbian poets and writers of children's literature, the festival is held annually in June and December in Novi Sad, the capital of the Serbian province of Vojvodina.
Zmeu The Zmeu (plural: zmei, feminine: zmeoaicÄ/zmeoaice) is a fantastic creature of Romanian folklore and Romanian mythology. Sometimes compared to other fantastic creatures, such as the balaur or the "vârcolac", the zmeu is nevertheless distinct, because it usually has clear anthropomorphic traits: it is humanoid and has legs, arms, the ability to create and use artefacts such as weapons, or the desire to marry young girls.
Zmudowski State Beach Zmudowski State Beach is a beach near Moss Landing, California, USA operated by the California Department of Parks and Recreation. It is a popular fishing area, featuring perch, kingfish, sole, flounder, halibut, bocaccio (tomcod), jacksmelt, lingcod, cabezon, salmon, steelhead, and occasional rockfish.
ZM-87 The ZM-87 Portable Laser Disturber is a Chinese electro-optic countermeasure laser device. It was banned by the 1995 United Nations Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons and is thought to no longer be in production.
ZMap The ZMap is a data structure used in Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) programs to generate cutter locations (CL) data, to facilitate the creation of a toolpath. In a ZMap, a 3D geometry is converted to a height map where each point records only the highest z value of the 3D geometry.
ZMA (supplement) ZMA (Zinc monomethionine aspartate and Magnesium Aspartate) is a supplement used by bodybuilders and athletes. It was developed by Victor Conte (founder of BALCO Laboratories in Burlingame, California) and is a combination of zinc, magnesium and vitamin B6.
Zn'rx The Zn'rx are a fictional extraterrestrial race who have appeared in many Marvel Comics. Unpronounceable by human tongues, the Zn'rx are known better as "Snarks" among Earth's superheroes because they were nicknamed that way by a Kymellian called Whitey, who named them after the monster in Lewis Carroll's poem "The Hunting of the Snark".
Znamenny Chant Znamenny Chant () is a term that refer to either 'any monodial, unison liturgical singing that is performed using Kryuki, "крюки" (or Znamena ('znamyona'), знамёна) notation, rather than linear notation', or 'a particular system of unison liturgical singing'. Both meanings refer to Russian Orthodox Church tradition of singing.
Znamya Znamya (Russian: "Знамя", which stands for banner) is a Russian monthly magazine, which was established in Moscow in 1931. In 1931-1932, the magazine was published under the name of Lokaf ("Локаф", which was an abbreviation of "ЛитератŃрное объединение пиŃателей КраŃной Đрмии и флота", or Literary Association of Writers of the Red Army and Fleet).
Znamya (newspaper) Znamya or Znamia (, literally Banner) was a Saint Petersburg daily newspaper established by an ultra-nationalist journalist Pavel Krushevan in 1902. The newspaper was an organ of the infamous Union of the Russian People.
Znamya (Space Mirror) The Znamya project was a series of experimental orbital mirrors, designed to beam solar power to Earth by reflecting sunlight. It consisted of two experiments - the Znamya 2 experiment, and the failed Znamya 2.
Znaps Vodka Znaps Vodka is a Swedish brand of vodka, owned by Johan Jeansson, and produced at their facilities near Stockholm, eastern Sweden. Znaps is available in Brazil, Sweden, Singapore, Greece, Malta, Ecuador Luxembourg, Iceland and Germany.
Znám's problem In number theory, Znám's problem asks which sets of integers have the property that each integer in the set is a proper divisor of the product of the other integers in the set, plus 1. That is, given k, what sets of integers
ZNS-TV ZNS-TV is The Bahamas' public television network, owned and operated by the Broadcasting Corporation of The Bahamas. It is licensed to Nassau, but has a rebroadcast transmitter of the same signal strength (50 kW, also on channel 13) in Freeport.
Zo (people) The Zote are an indigenous tribe, living mostly in the present-day Tonzaang and Tedim townships of Northern Chin State and the Kabaw valley of Western Sagaing division in the Union of Burma. With an estimated population of over 60,000 the Zote are scattered in various parts of Burma and the world.
Zo Artzeinu Zo Artzeinu (זו ××¨×¦× ×• "This [is] our Land" in Hebrew) was a political protest movement created and led by Moshe Feiglin and Shmuel Sackett in Israel to block Israeli land concessions to the Arabs in the early 1990s, especially the Oslo Accords. The movement was known to block roads and use other forms of civil disobedience adapted from the civil rights movement in the United States to make known their protests and goals.
Zoantharia Zoantharia (also known as Hexacorallia, as they have 6-fold symmetry) is a subclass of the class Anthozoa within the phylum Cnidaria. It includes the sea anemones and most existing corals (except for the soft corals in order Alcyonacea of the sister subclass Alcyonaria, the Octocorallia).
Zoar, Warren County, Ohio Zoar is an unincorporated place of Hamilton Township, Warren County, Ohio, located on the 3C Highway about one mile east of Hopkinsville and three miles west of Morrow in Virginia Military District Military Survey 1546. It was one of the earliest settlements of Hamilton Township, occurring before 1847.
Zoë (robot) Zoë is a solar-powered autonomous robot with sensors able to detect microorganisms and map the distribution of life in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, duplicating tasks that could be used in future exploration of Mars.
Zoë Skoulding Zoë Skoulding, born on November 18, 1967 in Bradford, United Kingdom, is a poet, writer, musician, performer and lecturer in creative writing. Since 1994 she has edited the creative writing magazine Skald, more recently alongside co-editor Ian Davidson with whom she also writes collaboratively.
Zoë Tamerlis Lund Zoë Tamerlis Lund (February 9, 1962 – April 16, 1999), also known as Zoë Tamerlis (maiden name) and Zoë Tamerlaine, was a former American musician turned model, actress and writer. She was best known for her association with Abel Ferrara, whose breakout movie Ms.
Zoé (Little Big Adventure) Zoé is a female video game character in the computer/video games Little Big Adventure and Little Big Adventure 2 (also known as Relentless: Twinsen's Adventure and Twinsen's Odyssey, respectively). She is the girlfriend (and then wife) of protagonist Twinsen.
Zoé Laurier Zoé Lafontaine Laurier (born June 26, 1841 in Montreal; died November 1, 1921) was the wife of Wilfrid Laurier, the seventh Prime Minister of Canada. They married at Marie-Reine-du Monde, Montréal, Quebec, Canada on August 13, 1868.
Zobel de Ayala family The Zobel de Ayalas are an influential Filipino family originating from northern Spain’s mountainous region of Ălava descending from the lineage of Juan Larrazabal Ayala (circa 1475), an influential landowner. Patriarch Antonio de Ayala sailed for Manila in the 1800s and established an industrial partnership with Domingo Roxas, a descendant of Mexican immigrant Antonio Fernández de Roxas of Acapulco, who settled in the Philippines in 1695, and Dr.
Zobo Funn Band The Zobo Funn Band, a band based in Ithaca, New York during the mid to late 1970s, performed original compositions that ranged from straight ahead rock 'n roll, to progressive jazz, and combinations of the two which gave them a unique and original sound.
Zobrist hashing Zobrist hashing is a technique for creating hash codes, usually from something like a Go position. A table of random values is created, with each position on the board having a value associated with it for every possible state it can be in (eg, Black, White or Empty).
Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II is a video game released in 1994 by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System as the sequel to the 1990 game, StarTropics. It is the second to the last game released on the NES, Wario's Woods being the last.
Zodal In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, Zodal is the Flan god of Mercy, Hope, and Benevolence. His holy symbol is a man's hand partially wrapped in gray cloth.
Zodariid ground spider The Zodaraiid ground spiders or ant spiders, are a family (Zodaraiidae) of small to medium-sized eight-eyed spiders. They are found world-wide in tropical to warm temperate regions, though there are relatively few species in North America.
Zodiac The term zodiac (Latin zodiacus, from the Greek , meaning "circle of little animals", derived from , the diminutive of "animal") denotes several places where a circle of twelve animals occurs. However, another suggested etymology is that the Greek term was borrowed from the Sanscrit sodi, denoting "a path", i.
Zodiac (book) Zodiac is a non fiction book written by Robert Graysmith about the unsolved serial murders committed by the "Zodiac Killer" in San Francisco in the late 1960s . Graysmith was a cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle and later wrote Zodiac and Zodiac Unmasked.
Zodiac (comics) Zodiac is the name of several fictional villainous organizations that have appeared in Marvel Comics stories. There have been a variety of Zodiac teams, each differing in their motivations and stucture, however there is always at least one supervillain in them who has adopted his or her individual star sign as their personal codename and motif.
Zodiac (musical group) Zodiac (Zodiak, Russian: ЗодиаĚĐş, Latvian: Zodiaks) was an electronic/disco/rock group that existed in 1980s in Latvia, then the part of USSR. The band was extremely popular in USSR and has been credited by critics as the Russian answer to the French band Space who were the big stars of that time.
Zodiac (novel) Zodiac: An Eco-Thriller (1988) is Neal Stephenson's second novel, which tells the story of an environmentalist, Sangamon Taylor, uncovering a conspiracy involving industrialist polluters and Satanists in the Boston Harbor. The "Zodiac" of the title refers to the brand of inflatable motor boats the hero uses to get around the city efficiently.
Zodiac (solitaire) Zodiac is a solitaire card game which is played with two decks of playing cards shuffled together. It is an old game which first appeared in Lady Adelaide Cadogan's book Illustrated Games of Patience is so-named probably because of its "globe"-shaped layout.
Zodiac and Swastika Zodiac and Swastika: Astrologer to Himmler's Court (German and English title) or Zodiac and Swastika: How Astrology Guided Hitler's Germany (English title) is a book by Wilhelm Wulff with a forward by Walter Laqueur. The author was the personal astrologer to Nazi official Heinrich Himmler.
Zodiac Group The Zodiac Group is a diversified corporation with a worldwide presence and a blue-chip stock specialising in the production of aerosafety systems, aircraft systems, airline equipment, airbags, remote transmissions, boats and swimming pools, however they are best known for their widely used small inflatable boats.
Zodiac Killer The Zodiac Killer was a serial killer who operated in Northern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The killer coined his name in a series of taunting letters he sent to the press and law enforcement.
Zodiacal light The zodiacal light is a faint, roughly triangular, whitish glow seen in the night sky which appears to extend up from the vicinity of the sun along the ecliptic or zodiac. In mid-northern latitudes, the zodiacal light is best observed in the western sky in the spring after the evening twilight has completely disappeared, or in the eastern sky in the autumn just before the morning twilight appears.
Zodiak Free Arts Lab The Zodiak Free Arts Lab was a music club, found in West-Berlin in the late 60s by Conrad Schnitzler, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Boris Schaak. The group was based in a large backroom of the SchaubĂĽhne, a bar and theatre.
Zoe Birkett Zoe Birkett (born on 16 June, 1985, in Consett, County Durham) was one of the youngest contestants on the ITV show, "Pop Idol", being only 16 at the time. Zoe had had hopes of being a musician for quite some time, as she even auditioned to be in S Club 7, and ended up in the final 12.
Zoe Caldwell Zoe Caldwell, OBE (September 14, 1933) is an Australian actress, born in Melbourne during the Great Depression . She has won four Tony Awards for her performances on Broadway in Slapstick Tragedy, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Medea and Master Class, in which she portrayed opera singer Maria Callas.
Zoe Goss Zoe Jean Goss (born 6 December 1968, Perth, Western Australia) was a right-hand batter and right-arm fast-medium bowler who played 12 Tests and 65 One-day Internationals for the Australian women's cricket team between 1987 and 2000.
Zoe Heriot Zoe Heriot (sometimes spelled Zoe Herriot), or simply Zoe, is a fictional character played by Wendy Padbury in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A young astrophysicist who lived on a space wheel in the 21st century, she was a companion of the Second Doctor and a regular in the programme from 1968 to 1969.
Zoe Koplowitz Zoe Koplowitz (b. September 12, 1948 in New York, New York) is a marathon runner who is afflicted with multiple schlerosis, inspirational speaker, and author of The Winning Spirit—Life Lessons Learned In Last Place.
Zoe Leader Zoe Ann Leader (born 1949) is a voice actress who provided the voice of Sarafina in the 1994 Disney animated film The Lion King and its 1998 direct-to-video sequel The Lion King II: Simba's Pride. She only had one line in each film.
Zoe Lofgren Zoe Lofgren (born Sue Lofgren on December 21 1947), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1995, representing the 16th District of California (map), based in San Jose.
Zoe McLellan Zoe McLellan (born November 6, 1974 in La Jolla, California) is an American actress, known best for her roles in Dungeons & Dragons (2000) and JAG, and as Logan St. Claire, a popular one-time villain on the TV series Sliders.
Zoe Newman Canadian actress Zoe Newman is best known for her role as Ida Lucas on the original Degrassi series, The Kids of Degrassi Street, which ran from 1981 to 1986. The series was inspired by a 1979 short film titled Ida Makes a Movie, starring Newman as Ida Lucas, Dawn Harrision as Ida's best friend Catherine "Cookie" Peters, and Allan Melusi as Fred Lucas, the older brother of Ida.
Zoe Reynolds Zoe Reynolds was a fictional Case Officer in the Counter-Terrorism department of MI5, featured in the British television series, Spooks, also known as MI5 in the United States. The character was played by Keeley Hawes until Zoe is forced to emigrate to Chile to avoid being jailed in Series 3.
Zoe Telford Zoe Telford (born 1973) is a British actress who has appeared in several television programmes including Absolute Power, Teachers, Agatha Christie's Poirot - Death on the Nile and The Golden Hour, as well as the films Match Point and Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.
Zoelae The Zoelae were an ancient Celtiberian tribe of Gallaecia, akin to the Lusitanians and Calaicians or Gallaeci, living in the north of modern Portugal, in the province of Trás-os-Montes, between the mountains of Serra da Nogueira and the mountains of Mogadouro.
Zoetrope (film) Zoetrope is an experimental short film by music-video director Charlie Deaux. Inspired by Franz Kafka's story In the Penal Colony, this eighteen-minute work features a soundscape by musician and sound designer Lustmord (Brian Williams).
Zoetrope All-Story Workshop The Zoetrope Virtual Studio is a submission destination and collaboration tool for filmmakers and writers founded by Francis Ford Coppola. It is a community where writers and artists in different disciplines and genres can submit and workshop original work.
Zoey & Me (book series) "Zoey & Me" is a children's book series written by Mallory Lewis, daughter of the late puppeteer Shari Lewis. It follows the experiences and escapades of 11-year-old Molly Miles and her new "baby sister" Zoey, an orangutan from the Los Angeles Zoo.
Zoey Dean Zoey Dean divides her time between Beverly Hills, California, and her favorite small islands in the Caribbean. She has written: The A-list, Girls On Film, Blonde Ambition, Tall Cool One, Back in Black, Some Like it Hot, American Beauty and Heart of Glass- all from the A-list series.
Zoffy Zoffy (ă‚ľă•ă‚ŁăĽ - ZofĂ®) is a fictional alien superhero featured in the Ultra Series. He first appeared in the final episode of Ultraman (Episode 39, "Farewell, Ultraman"), thus becoming the very second Ultra-Being from the Land of Light in the Nebula M78 to appear on Earth after Ultraman himself.
Zofia Albinowska-Minkiewiczowa Zofia Albinowska-Minkiewiczowa (born 1886, Klagenfurt, Austria, died 1971 Lviv, Ukraine) was a Polish artist, painter and engraver tied to the Lviv circle of artists, and for many years the president of Polish Artists Union (Zwiazek ArtystĂłw Polskich). Born as Zofia Albinowska, she signed her paintings this way.
Zofia Czeska Zofia Czeska (1584 - April 1 1650) was a nun in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. She organised a school for girls in Cracow and the women religious order (Virgins of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Presentation Virgins, ), which continues its existence today in Poland and Ukraine.
Zofia Grabczan Zofia Grabczan (born May 28, 1962 in Radzyń Podlaski) is a Polish politician. She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 5971 votes in 7 Chełm district, candidating from Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej list.
Zofia Kossak-Szczucka Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (1890 - 1968), Polish author and resistance fighter, is best known for her wartime efforts to help the Polish Jews. She was a founder of the wartime Polish organization Żegota, set up to assist Polish Jews in escaping the Holocaust.
Zog BogBean - From the Marcy Playground Zog BogBean - From the Marcy Playground is a limited-release album comes from lead singer John Wozniak of Marcy Playground. In 1990, before there was Marcy Playground, John Wozniak recorded his first album with now former Emily Rose bandmate, Sherry Frasier (yes, the very same from the 4th track on Marcy Playground's self-titled debut album).
Zog of Albania Zog I, Skanderbeg III of Albania (born Ahmet Zogolli, later changed to Ahmet Zogu) (October 8, 1895 – April 9, 1961) was King of Albania from 1928 to 1939. He was previously Prime Minister of Albania between 1922 and 1924 and President of Albania between 1925 and 1928.
Zogam Zogam is the name for a territory, approximately 60,000 square miles in size (155,000 km²), in Burma, India and Bangladesh. It is the traditional home of the Zomi, who lived in this area before the colonial period under British rulership.
Zograf Monastery The Saint George the Zograf or Zograf Monastery (, Zografski manastir; ) is a Bulgarian Orthodox monastery on Mount Athos in Greece. It was legendarily founded in the late 9th or early 10th century by three Bulgarians from Ohrid and is regarded as the historical Bulgarian monastery on Mount Athos, as it is traditionally inhabited by Bulgarian monks.
Zografou Zografou (Greek: ΖωγĎάφου) is a suburb in the eastern part of Athens, Greece. Zografou is located about 5 km from downtown Athens, about 2 km SW of Katechaki Avenue 4 km from the Hymettus Ring (number 65) which is part of the Attiki Odos private superhighway network and 3 km E of Kifissias Avenue.
Zogu The Zogu dynasty was founded by Zogu Pasha who migrated to Mati, Albania in the late 15th century and was then appointed Governor of Mati by the Ottoman Sultan with the position of Governor then becoming Hereditary among the Zogu clan. The most famous member of the dynasty is Ahmet Zogu who in 1928 was proclaimed King of the Albanians and ruled until he was deposed by Benito Mussolini in 1939.
Zohar The Zohar (Hebrew זהר "Splendor, radiance") is widely considered the most important work of Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism. It is a mystical commentary on the Torah (the five books of Moses), written in medieval Aramaic and medieval Hebrew.
Zohar Manna Zohar Manna is a professor of computer science at Stanford University. He is the author of The Mathematical Theory of Computation (McGraw Hill, 1974; reprinted Dover, 2003), one of the first texts to provide extensive coverage of the mathematical concepts behind computer programming.
Zohar Zisapel Zohar Zisapel (born February 15, 1949; Hebrew: זהר זיס×פל), is a successful Israeli entrepreneur in Israel’s advanced hi-tech industry. The RAD Group of companies he co-founded with his brother, Yehuda Zisapel, has been called "the world's most successful incubator" of telecom-related start-ups by Business 2.
Zohnerism A Zohnerism is the use of scientific fact to bring about a false conclusion. It is named after Nathan Zohner, a 9th grader who made a petition against the use of the chemical DHMO (dihydrogen monoxide - better known as water) as part of his science project, by showing only its negative aspects, such as its involvement in acid rain and deaths caused by ingestion of it.
Zohra Drif Zohra Drif (Arabic: ) is a retired lawyer and longtime senior member of the Algerian senate. She is notable for her activities on behalf of the National Liberation Front during the Algerian War of Independence.
Zohra Lampert Zohra Lampert (born May 13 1937) is an American character actress, perhaps best remembered for her role in the 1971 cult horror film Let's Scare Jessica to Death. Born in New York, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants, Lampert attended New York's High School of Music and Art, and then the University of Chicago.
Zohreh Zohreh is an Iranian-made communications satellite with the capability of telephone communication and fax link, transmission of data and broadcast of radio and television programs throughout Iran, and will have 12 transponders.
Zoids Zoids is a franchise based around a series of plastic toy models designed and produced by Japanese toy company Tomy (now Takara-Tomy). The models resemble a range of creatures (including mammals, dinosaurs, and insects), and depending on the particular continuity are either metal-based lifeforms or are constructed with metal-based lifeforms as the base design.
Zoids Grade-Ups In 1989, TOMY introduced a sub-line of Zoids, called Grade Ups. These Zoids featured special motorised connection ports on their backs that allowed them to connect to extra weapons systems with motorised features.
Zoids Remodelling Sets During the Original Japanese Release, TOMY released a number of kits containing extra parts and weapons systems for various Zoids models. While there was no name for the sub-line as a whole, the kits are often collectively referred to as Remodelling Kits.
ZIS-6 The ZIS-6 6Ă—4 is a Soviet general purpose army cargo truck, a three-axle version of the ZiS-5 two-axle truck. It was built from 1933 until October 1941 at the Moscow Zavod imeni Stalina factory and reached a total production of 21,239.
Zjarr E Ftohtë Zjarr E Ftohtë ("Fire and Cold") was the Albanian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2006, performed in Albanian by Luiz Ejlli. As Albania's previous two entries were performed in English, this was the first time that Albanian was heard on the Eurovision stage.
Zki & Dobri DJs Zki & Dobri have been responsible for a number of huge dance hits under a plethora of different group names, since the early 1990s. The DJs - Gaston Steenkist (DJ Zki) and Rene ter Horst (Dobri) - hail from the Netherlands, with their rhythms and instrumental dance tunes providing a foundation bed for a number of acts such as Nigel & Marvin and Simply Red.
Zlatar Bistrica Zlatar Bistrica is situated in the very heart of the Krapina-Zagorje county (Krapinsko-zagorska Ĺľupanija) on the crossroads of two important roads for the microregion. One connecting northern parts of the county with Zagreb and the other connecting VaraĹľdin and western part of the county.
Zlatarski International School Zlatarski International School of Sofia, Bulgaria, is the first school in the country to offer the International Baccalaureate (IB). The English-using school was founded in 1995, and became an authorized IB school in 2003.
Zlaté Piesky The Zlaté Piesky (literally Golden Sands) is a lake and a summer resort in north-eastern part of Bratislava, Slovakia, near the D1 motorway. It should not be confused with the Golden Sands resort in Varna, Bulgaria.
Zlatibor District Zlatibor District (Serbian: Zlatiborski okrug or ЗлатиборŃки окрŃĐł) is a district in the western, mountainous part of the Republic of Serbia. The district was named after the mountain region of Zlatibor.
Zlatitsa Zlatitsa (Златица, population: 5,330) is a town in southern Bulgaria located in the Zlatitsa-Pirdop valley, between Stara Planina to the north and Sredna Gora to the south at 680 meters above the sea level. It is situated immediately south in the lap of the Zlatitsa -Teteven Mountain.
Zlatko LagumdĹľija Dr. Zlatko LagumdĹľija born (December 26,1955 in Sarajevo) is a Bosnian politician and academic, known for his leadership of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) of Bosnia and Herzegovina and for having moderate and anti-nationalist political views.
Zlatograd Rock Zlatograd Rock (Zlatogradski Kamak zla-to-'grad-ski 'ka-m&k) is a rocky 250m peak forming the eastern extremity of Bowles Ridge, Livingston Island, Antarctica. The peak verlooks Struma Glacier to the northwest and Huron Glacier to the south and east.
Zlatomir Zagorcic Zlatomir Zagorcic (Serbian: Zlatomir Zagorčić, Златомир Загорчић, Bulgarian: Златомир Загорчич) (born June 15, 1971) is a naturalized Bulgarian football player of Serbian ethnicity who, as of 2004, was playing for Litex Lovech.
Zlatorog Zlatorog is a legendary white chamois buck (steinbock, ibex, capricorn) who had his realm in the heights of Mount Triglav. The legend is well-known throughout Slovenia (specifically Slovenian Carinthia), as well as in Austrian Carinthia, and Italian Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
Zlatoust Zlatoust () is a city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, situated on the Ay River (the Kama basin) 160Â km west of Chelyabinsk, at . The city's name is derived from the Russian translation of Chrysostom, because it was founded near a church dedicated to that saint.
Zlatoust Machine-Building Plant The Zlatoust Machine-Building Plant is a former arms manufacturing plant in Zlatoust, Russia. It produced many of the Soviet Union's offensive nuclear weapons, including the R-39 Submarine-launched ballistic missile.
ZlĂn ZlĂn (named Gottwaldov during 1949–90) is a city in ZlĂnskĂ˝ kraj (region), in southeastern Moravia, Czech Republic, on the DĹ™evnice River. The development of the modern city is closely connected to the Bata shoes company.
Zletovo Zletovo (Macedonian: Злетово) - The well-known mining place of Zletovo is reached by a road that branches off the Štip-Kočani road, near the village of Krupište. From Zletovo, walking or riding, one can reach, within two hours, the village of Lesnovo and the monastery of St.
Zlib zlib is a free software/open-source, cross-platform data compression library by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler and is an abstraction of the DEFLATE compression algorithm used in their gzip file compression program. The first public version, 0.
Zlicans The ZliÄŤans were a Czech tribe that settled in the eastern fold of Bohemia. They were the second most powerful tribe in the region but eventually were overpowered by the PĹ™emyslid dynasty on 28 september 995 when the ruling SlavnĂk dynasty was massacred by the PĹ™emyslid.
ZĹ‚ocieniec ZĹ‚ocieniec (German: Falkenburg), is a town in Middle Pomerania, in north-western Poland with some 12,000 inhabitants. Located in Drawsko County in West Pomeranian Voivodship since 1999, previously a town in Koszalin Voivodship (1950-1998).
ZĹ‚ota kaczka ZĹ‚ota kaczka (Polish for Golden duck) is a legendary creature popular in Warsaw's urban legends and folk-lore. According to a popular story, noted by Artur Oppman, the duck is dwelling in the cellars beneath the Ostrogski Castle.
Złotoryja County Złotoryja County (in Polish powiat złotoryjski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government in the Lower Silesian Voivodship in Poland, created on 1 January 1999 as a result of the Local Government Reorganization Act of 1998.
Zmacs Zmacs was one of the many variants of the Emacs text editor that runs on the Symbolics Lisp machine. It was based on the Zwei programming substrate, which stood for "Zwei Was Eine Initially"; Zwei was a collection of routines which could be used to easily implement other programs, like the Symbolics mail program, Zmail- Eine stood for "Eine is not Emacs".
Zmaj Children Games Zmaj Children Games (Serbian: Đ—ĐĽĐ°Ńеве дечиŃе игре / Zmajeve deÄŤije igre) is one of the biggest festivals for children in Serbia and the Novi Sad region. Named after Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, one of the most famous Serbian poets and writers of children's literature, the festival is held annually in June and December in Novi Sad, the capital of the Serbian province of Vojvodina.
Zmeu The Zmeu (plural: zmei, feminine: zmeoaicÄ/zmeoaice) is a fantastic creature of Romanian folklore and Romanian mythology. Sometimes compared to other fantastic creatures, such as the balaur or the "vârcolac", the zmeu is nevertheless distinct, because it usually has clear anthropomorphic traits: it is humanoid and has legs, arms, the ability to create and use artefacts such as weapons, or the desire to marry young girls.
Zmudowski State Beach Zmudowski State Beach is a beach near Moss Landing, California, USA operated by the California Department of Parks and Recreation. It is a popular fishing area, featuring perch, kingfish, sole, flounder, halibut, bocaccio (tomcod), jacksmelt, lingcod, cabezon, salmon, steelhead, and occasional rockfish.
ZM-87 The ZM-87 Portable Laser Disturber is a Chinese electro-optic countermeasure laser device. It was banned by the 1995 United Nations Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons and is thought to no longer be in production.
ZMap The ZMap is a data structure used in Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) programs to generate cutter locations (CL) data, to facilitate the creation of a toolpath. In a ZMap, a 3D geometry is converted to a height map where each point records only the highest z value of the 3D geometry.
ZMA (supplement) ZMA (Zinc monomethionine aspartate and Magnesium Aspartate) is a supplement used by bodybuilders and athletes. It was developed by Victor Conte (founder of BALCO Laboratories in Burlingame, California) and is a combination of zinc, magnesium and vitamin B6.
Zn'rx The Zn'rx are a fictional extraterrestrial race who have appeared in many Marvel Comics. Unpronounceable by human tongues, the Zn'rx are known better as "Snarks" among Earth's superheroes because they were nicknamed that way by a Kymellian called Whitey, who named them after the monster in Lewis Carroll's poem "The Hunting of the Snark".
Znamenny Chant Znamenny Chant () is a term that refer to either 'any monodial, unison liturgical singing that is performed using Kryuki, "крюки" (or Znamena ('znamyona'), знамёна) notation, rather than linear notation', or 'a particular system of unison liturgical singing'. Both meanings refer to Russian Orthodox Church tradition of singing.
Znamya Znamya (Russian: "Знамя", which stands for banner) is a Russian monthly magazine, which was established in Moscow in 1931. In 1931-1932, the magazine was published under the name of Lokaf ("Локаф", which was an abbreviation of "ЛитератŃрное объединение пиŃателей КраŃной Đрмии и флота", or Literary Association of Writers of the Red Army and Fleet).
Znamya (newspaper) Znamya or Znamia (, literally Banner) was a Saint Petersburg daily newspaper established by an ultra-nationalist journalist Pavel Krushevan in 1902. The newspaper was an organ of the infamous Union of the Russian People.
Znamya (Space Mirror) The Znamya project was a series of experimental orbital mirrors, designed to beam solar power to Earth by reflecting sunlight. It consisted of two experiments - the Znamya 2 experiment, and the failed Znamya 2.
Znaps Vodka Znaps Vodka is a Swedish brand of vodka, owned by Johan Jeansson, and produced at their facilities near Stockholm, eastern Sweden. Znaps is available in Brazil, Sweden, Singapore, Greece, Malta, Ecuador Luxembourg, Iceland and Germany.
Znám's problem In number theory, Znám's problem asks which sets of integers have the property that each integer in the set is a proper divisor of the product of the other integers in the set, plus 1. That is, given k, what sets of integers
ZNS-TV ZNS-TV is The Bahamas' public television network, owned and operated by the Broadcasting Corporation of The Bahamas. It is licensed to Nassau, but has a rebroadcast transmitter of the same signal strength (50 kW, also on channel 13) in Freeport.
Zo (people) The Zote are an indigenous tribe, living mostly in the present-day Tonzaang and Tedim townships of Northern Chin State and the Kabaw valley of Western Sagaing division in the Union of Burma. With an estimated population of over 60,000 the Zote are scattered in various parts of Burma and the world.
Zo Artzeinu Zo Artzeinu (זו ××¨×¦× ×• "This [is] our Land" in Hebrew) was a political protest movement created and led by Moshe Feiglin and Shmuel Sackett in Israel to block Israeli land concessions to the Arabs in the early 1990s, especially the Oslo Accords. The movement was known to block roads and use other forms of civil disobedience adapted from the civil rights movement in the United States to make known their protests and goals.
Zoantharia Zoantharia (also known as Hexacorallia, as they have 6-fold symmetry) is a subclass of the class Anthozoa within the phylum Cnidaria. It includes the sea anemones and most existing corals (except for the soft corals in order Alcyonacea of the sister subclass Alcyonaria, the Octocorallia).
Zoar, Warren County, Ohio Zoar is an unincorporated place of Hamilton Township, Warren County, Ohio, located on the 3C Highway about one mile east of Hopkinsville and three miles west of Morrow in Virginia Military District Military Survey 1546. It was one of the earliest settlements of Hamilton Township, occurring before 1847.
Zoë (robot) Zoë is a solar-powered autonomous robot with sensors able to detect microorganisms and map the distribution of life in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, duplicating tasks that could be used in future exploration of Mars.
Zoë Skoulding Zoë Skoulding, born on November 18, 1967 in Bradford, United Kingdom, is a poet, writer, musician, performer and lecturer in creative writing. Since 1994 she has edited the creative writing magazine Skald, more recently alongside co-editor Ian Davidson with whom she also writes collaboratively.
Zoë Tamerlis Lund Zoë Tamerlis Lund (February 9, 1962 – April 16, 1999), also known as Zoë Tamerlis (maiden name) and Zoë Tamerlaine, was a former American musician turned model, actress and writer. She was best known for her association with Abel Ferrara, whose breakout movie Ms.
Zoé (Little Big Adventure) Zoé is a female video game character in the computer/video games Little Big Adventure and Little Big Adventure 2 (also known as Relentless: Twinsen's Adventure and Twinsen's Odyssey, respectively). She is the girlfriend (and then wife) of protagonist Twinsen.
Zoé Laurier Zoé Lafontaine Laurier (born June 26, 1841 in Montreal; died November 1, 1921) was the wife of Wilfrid Laurier, the seventh Prime Minister of Canada. They married at Marie-Reine-du Monde, Montréal, Quebec, Canada on August 13, 1868.
Zobel de Ayala family The Zobel de Ayalas are an influential Filipino family originating from northern Spain’s mountainous region of Ălava descending from the lineage of Juan Larrazabal Ayala (circa 1475), an influential landowner. Patriarch Antonio de Ayala sailed for Manila in the 1800s and established an industrial partnership with Domingo Roxas, a descendant of Mexican immigrant Antonio Fernández de Roxas of Acapulco, who settled in the Philippines in 1695, and Dr.
Zobo Funn Band The Zobo Funn Band, a band based in Ithaca, New York during the mid to late 1970s, performed original compositions that ranged from straight ahead rock 'n roll, to progressive jazz, and combinations of the two which gave them a unique and original sound.
Zobrist hashing Zobrist hashing is a technique for creating hash codes, usually from something like a Go position. A table of random values is created, with each position on the board having a value associated with it for every possible state it can be in (eg, Black, White or Empty).
Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II is a video game released in 1994 by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System as the sequel to the 1990 game, StarTropics. It is the second to the last game released on the NES, Wario's Woods being the last.
Zodal In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, Zodal is the Flan god of Mercy, Hope, and Benevolence. His holy symbol is a man's hand partially wrapped in gray cloth.
Zodariid ground spider The Zodaraiid ground spiders or ant spiders, are a family (Zodaraiidae) of small to medium-sized eight-eyed spiders. They are found world-wide in tropical to warm temperate regions, though there are relatively few species in North America.
Zodiac The term zodiac (Latin zodiacus, from the Greek , meaning "circle of little animals", derived from , the diminutive of "animal") denotes several places where a circle of twelve animals occurs. However, another suggested etymology is that the Greek term was borrowed from the Sanscrit sodi, denoting "a path", i.
Zodiac (book) Zodiac is a non fiction book written by Robert Graysmith about the unsolved serial murders committed by the "Zodiac Killer" in San Francisco in the late 1960s . Graysmith was a cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle and later wrote Zodiac and Zodiac Unmasked.
Zodiac (comics) Zodiac is the name of several fictional villainous organizations that have appeared in Marvel Comics stories. There have been a variety of Zodiac teams, each differing in their motivations and stucture, however there is always at least one supervillain in them who has adopted his or her individual star sign as their personal codename and motif.
Zodiac (musical group) Zodiac (Zodiak, Russian: ЗодиаĚĐş, Latvian: Zodiaks) was an electronic/disco/rock group that existed in 1980s in Latvia, then the part of USSR. The band was extremely popular in USSR and has been credited by critics as the Russian answer to the French band Space who were the big stars of that time.
Zodiac (novel) Zodiac: An Eco-Thriller (1988) is Neal Stephenson's second novel, which tells the story of an environmentalist, Sangamon Taylor, uncovering a conspiracy involving industrialist polluters and Satanists in the Boston Harbor. The "Zodiac" of the title refers to the brand of inflatable motor boats the hero uses to get around the city efficiently.
Zodiac (solitaire) Zodiac is a solitaire card game which is played with two decks of playing cards shuffled together. It is an old game which first appeared in Lady Adelaide Cadogan's book Illustrated Games of Patience is so-named probably because of its "globe"-shaped layout.
Zodiac and Swastika Zodiac and Swastika: Astrologer to Himmler's Court (German and English title) or Zodiac and Swastika: How Astrology Guided Hitler's Germany (English title) is a book by Wilhelm Wulff with a forward by Walter Laqueur. The author was the personal astrologer to Nazi official Heinrich Himmler.
Zodiac Group The Zodiac Group is a diversified corporation with a worldwide presence and a blue-chip stock specialising in the production of aerosafety systems, aircraft systems, airline equipment, airbags, remote transmissions, boats and swimming pools, however they are best known for their widely used small inflatable boats.
Zodiac Killer The Zodiac Killer was a serial killer who operated in Northern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The killer coined his name in a series of taunting letters he sent to the press and law enforcement.
Zodiacal light The zodiacal light is a faint, roughly triangular, whitish glow seen in the night sky which appears to extend up from the vicinity of the sun along the ecliptic or zodiac. In mid-northern latitudes, the zodiacal light is best observed in the western sky in the spring after the evening twilight has completely disappeared, or in the eastern sky in the autumn just before the morning twilight appears.
Zodiak Free Arts Lab The Zodiak Free Arts Lab was a music club, found in West-Berlin in the late 60s by Conrad Schnitzler, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Boris Schaak. The group was based in a large backroom of the SchaubĂĽhne, a bar and theatre.
Zoe Birkett Zoe Birkett (born on 16 June, 1985, in Consett, County Durham) was one of the youngest contestants on the ITV show, "Pop Idol", being only 16 at the time. Zoe had had hopes of being a musician for quite some time, as she even auditioned to be in S Club 7, and ended up in the final 12.
Zoe Caldwell Zoe Caldwell, OBE (September 14, 1933) is an Australian actress, born in Melbourne during the Great Depression . She has won four Tony Awards for her performances on Broadway in Slapstick Tragedy, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Medea and Master Class, in which she portrayed opera singer Maria Callas.
Zoe Goss Zoe Jean Goss (born 6 December 1968, Perth, Western Australia) was a right-hand batter and right-arm fast-medium bowler who played 12 Tests and 65 One-day Internationals for the Australian women's cricket team between 1987 and 2000.
Zoe Heriot Zoe Heriot (sometimes spelled Zoe Herriot), or simply Zoe, is a fictional character played by Wendy Padbury in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A young astrophysicist who lived on a space wheel in the 21st century, she was a companion of the Second Doctor and a regular in the programme from 1968 to 1969.
Zoe Koplowitz Zoe Koplowitz (b. September 12, 1948 in New York, New York) is a marathon runner who is afflicted with multiple schlerosis, inspirational speaker, and author of The Winning Spirit—Life Lessons Learned In Last Place.
Zoe Leader Zoe Ann Leader (born 1949) is a voice actress who provided the voice of Sarafina in the 1994 Disney animated film The Lion King and its 1998 direct-to-video sequel The Lion King II: Simba's Pride. She only had one line in each film.
Zoe Lofgren Zoe Lofgren (born Sue Lofgren on December 21 1947), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1995, representing the 16th District of California (map), based in San Jose.
Zoe McLellan Zoe McLellan (born November 6, 1974 in La Jolla, California) is an American actress, known best for her roles in Dungeons & Dragons (2000) and JAG, and as Logan St. Claire, a popular one-time villain on the TV series Sliders.
Zoe Newman Canadian actress Zoe Newman is best known for her role as Ida Lucas on the original Degrassi series, The Kids of Degrassi Street, which ran from 1981 to 1986. The series was inspired by a 1979 short film titled Ida Makes a Movie, starring Newman as Ida Lucas, Dawn Harrision as Ida's best friend Catherine "Cookie" Peters, and Allan Melusi as Fred Lucas, the older brother of Ida.
Zoe Reynolds Zoe Reynolds was a fictional Case Officer in the Counter-Terrorism department of MI5, featured in the British television series, Spooks, also known as MI5 in the United States. The character was played by Keeley Hawes until Zoe is forced to emigrate to Chile to avoid being jailed in Series 3.
Zoe Telford Zoe Telford (born 1973) is a British actress who has appeared in several television programmes including Absolute Power, Teachers, Agatha Christie's Poirot - Death on the Nile and The Golden Hour, as well as the films Match Point and Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.
Zoelae The Zoelae were an ancient Celtiberian tribe of Gallaecia, akin to the Lusitanians and Calaicians or Gallaeci, living in the north of modern Portugal, in the province of Trás-os-Montes, between the mountains of Serra da Nogueira and the mountains of Mogadouro.
Zoetrope (film) Zoetrope is an experimental short film by music-video director Charlie Deaux. Inspired by Franz Kafka's story In the Penal Colony, this eighteen-minute work features a soundscape by musician and sound designer Lustmord (Brian Williams).
Zoetrope All-Story Workshop The Zoetrope Virtual Studio is a submission destination and collaboration tool for filmmakers and writers founded by Francis Ford Coppola. It is a community where writers and artists in different disciplines and genres can submit and workshop original work.
Zoey & Me (book series) "Zoey & Me" is a children's book series written by Mallory Lewis, daughter of the late puppeteer Shari Lewis. It follows the experiences and escapades of 11-year-old Molly Miles and her new "baby sister" Zoey, an orangutan from the Los Angeles Zoo.
Zoey Dean Zoey Dean divides her time between Beverly Hills, California, and her favorite small islands in the Caribbean. She has written: The A-list, Girls On Film, Blonde Ambition, Tall Cool One, Back in Black, Some Like it Hot, American Beauty and Heart of Glass- all from the A-list series.
Zoffy Zoffy (ă‚ľă•ă‚ŁăĽ - ZofĂ®) is a fictional alien superhero featured in the Ultra Series. He first appeared in the final episode of Ultraman (Episode 39, "Farewell, Ultraman"), thus becoming the very second Ultra-Being from the Land of Light in the Nebula M78 to appear on Earth after Ultraman himself.
Zofia Albinowska-Minkiewiczowa Zofia Albinowska-Minkiewiczowa (born 1886, Klagenfurt, Austria, died 1971 Lviv, Ukraine) was a Polish artist, painter and engraver tied to the Lviv circle of artists, and for many years the president of Polish Artists Union (Zwiazek ArtystĂłw Polskich). Born as Zofia Albinowska, she signed her paintings this way.
Zofia Czeska Zofia Czeska (1584 - April 1 1650) was a nun in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. She organised a school for girls in Cracow and the women religious order (Virgins of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Presentation Virgins, ), which continues its existence today in Poland and Ukraine.
Zofia Grabczan Zofia Grabczan (born May 28, 1962 in Radzyń Podlaski) is a Polish politician. She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 5971 votes in 7 Chełm district, candidating from Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej list.
Zofia Kossak-Szczucka Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (1890 - 1968), Polish author and resistance fighter, is best known for her wartime efforts to help the Polish Jews. She was a founder of the wartime Polish organization Żegota, set up to assist Polish Jews in escaping the Holocaust.
Zog BogBean - From the Marcy Playground Zog BogBean - From the Marcy Playground is a limited-release album comes from lead singer John Wozniak of Marcy Playground. In 1990, before there was Marcy Playground, John Wozniak recorded his first album with now former Emily Rose bandmate, Sherry Frasier (yes, the very same from the 4th track on Marcy Playground's self-titled debut album).
Zog of Albania Zog I, Skanderbeg III of Albania (born Ahmet Zogolli, later changed to Ahmet Zogu) (October 8, 1895 – April 9, 1961) was King of Albania from 1928 to 1939. He was previously Prime Minister of Albania between 1922 and 1924 and President of Albania between 1925 and 1928.
Zogam Zogam is the name for a territory, approximately 60,000 square miles in size (155,000 km²), in Burma, India and Bangladesh. It is the traditional home of the Zomi, who lived in this area before the colonial period under British rulership.
Zograf Monastery The Saint George the Zograf or Zograf Monastery (, Zografski manastir; ) is a Bulgarian Orthodox monastery on Mount Athos in Greece. It was legendarily founded in the late 9th or early 10th century by three Bulgarians from Ohrid and is regarded as the historical Bulgarian monastery on Mount Athos, as it is traditionally inhabited by Bulgarian monks.
Zografou Zografou (Greek: ΖωγĎάφου) is a suburb in the eastern part of Athens, Greece. Zografou is located about 5 km from downtown Athens, about 2 km SW of Katechaki Avenue 4 km from the Hymettus Ring (number 65) which is part of the Attiki Odos private superhighway network and 3 km E of Kifissias Avenue.
Zogu The Zogu dynasty was founded by Zogu Pasha who migrated to Mati, Albania in the late 15th century and was then appointed Governor of Mati by the Ottoman Sultan with the position of Governor then becoming Hereditary among the Zogu clan. The most famous member of the dynasty is Ahmet Zogu who in 1928 was proclaimed King of the Albanians and ruled until he was deposed by Benito Mussolini in 1939.
Zohar The Zohar (Hebrew זהר "Splendor, radiance") is widely considered the most important work of Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism. It is a mystical commentary on the Torah (the five books of Moses), written in medieval Aramaic and medieval Hebrew.
Zohar Manna Zohar Manna is a professor of computer science at Stanford University. He is the author of The Mathematical Theory of Computation (McGraw Hill, 1974; reprinted Dover, 2003), one of the first texts to provide extensive coverage of the mathematical concepts behind computer programming.
Zohar Zisapel Zohar Zisapel (born February 15, 1949; Hebrew: זהר זיס×פל), is a successful Israeli entrepreneur in Israel’s advanced hi-tech industry. The RAD Group of companies he co-founded with his brother, Yehuda Zisapel, has been called "the world's most successful incubator" of telecom-related start-ups by Business 2.
Zohnerism A Zohnerism is the use of scientific fact to bring about a false conclusion. It is named after Nathan Zohner, a 9th grader who made a petition against the use of the chemical DHMO (dihydrogen monoxide - better known as water) as part of his science project, by showing only its negative aspects, such as its involvement in acid rain and deaths caused by ingestion of it.
Zohra Drif Zohra Drif (Arabic: ) is a retired lawyer and longtime senior member of the Algerian senate. She is notable for her activities on behalf of the National Liberation Front during the Algerian War of Independence.
Zohra Lampert Zohra Lampert (born May 13 1937) is an American character actress, perhaps best remembered for her role in the 1971 cult horror film Let's Scare Jessica to Death. Born in New York, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants, Lampert attended New York's High School of Music and Art, and then the University of Chicago.
Zohreh Zohreh is an Iranian-made communications satellite with the capability of telephone communication and fax link, transmission of data and broadcast of radio and television programs throughout Iran, and will have 12 transponders.
Zoids Zoids is a franchise based around a series of plastic toy models designed and produced by Japanese toy company Tomy (now Takara-Tomy). The models resemble a range of creatures (including mammals, dinosaurs, and insects), and depending on the particular continuity are either metal-based lifeforms or are constructed with metal-based lifeforms as the base design.
Zoids Grade-Ups In 1989, TOMY introduced a sub-line of Zoids, called Grade Ups. These Zoids featured special motorised connection ports on their backs that allowed them to connect to extra weapons systems with motorised features.
Zoids Remodelling Sets During the Original Japanese Release, TOMY released a number of kits containing extra parts and weapons systems for various Zoids models. While there was no name for the sub-line as a whole, the kits are often collectively referred to as Remodelling Kits.
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