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Zoran Stanković Zoran Stanković (Cyrillic: Зоран Станковић) (born 1954) is the current temporary Minister of Defence in the Government of Serbia. He was the Minister of Defence in Council of Ministers of Serbia and Montenegro until the dissolution of Serbia and Montenegro.
Zoran Vuković Zoran Vuković (born c.1955 in Brusna, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a Bosnian Serb who was charged with crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for his actions in the city of Foča during the Bosnian War.
Zorana Todorović Zorana Todorović (Serbian: Зорана Тодоровић; born December 30,1989 in Vršac) is a 6 foot 10 inch tall Serbian basketball player (as of the summer of 2006). Still currently growing, Todorović in one interview made clear her fondness of her height and expressed her wish to rise above Poland's Margo Dydek in becoming the world's tallest female basketball player.
Zoraptera The insect order Zoraptera contains one family (Zorotypidae) which in turn contains one extant genus, Zorotypus, though an extinct animal of the Cretaceous era is classified as Xenozorotypus burmiticus within the same family.
Zorba Paster Zorba Paster is a physician who hosts a weekly radio call-in show on personal health issues called Zorba Paster on Your Health. The show is produced by Wisconsin Public Radio, sponsored by Public Radio International, and is broadcast on public radio stations around the United States.
Zorba the Greek Zorba the Greek (originally titled Alexis Zorbas) is a 1964 film based on the novel Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis. The film was directed by Michael Cacoyannis and the title character was played by Anthony Quinn–who was not Greek but in fact Mexican American.
Zorba the Greek (novel) Zorba the Greek is a novel written by Nikos Kazantzakis in 1946 It is considered to be Kazantzakis' most enduring and successful novel, having the ability to be thought-provoking and insightful, regardless of the era. In it a young Greek intellectual (replaced by an Englishman in the famous film), the narrator, is writing on a manuscript about the Buddha].
Zorbas Zorbas ("Zorba's dance") is a song by Mikis Theodorakis, the leading Greek composer. The song appeared in the film Zorba the Greek, for which Theodorakis wrote the soundtrack, and became internationally famous and popular.
Zord In the universe of the television series Power Rangers, Zords are colossal mechanical or bio-mechanical robotic vehicles. When monsters grow to incredible sizes, the only way the Power Rangers can fight them is by summoning and piloting these robots.
Zords in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers The Zords used in the television series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers are themed after prehistoric, mythical, and ninja animals. They were created by Ninjor, a wise warrior who also created the Power Coins and the Battle Borgs.
Zords in Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue The Zords used in Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue were colossal machines (initially emergency vehicles) constructed by Operation Lightspeed and maintained by Angela Fairweather, then piloted by the Lightspeed Rescue Power Rangers.
Zords in Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy The Zords used during Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy were in fact sentient creatures called Galactabeasts. The "sentient creature" idea had been used frequently in Super Sentai, but this was its first proper use in a Power Rangers series.
Zords in Power Rangers: Mystic Force The Zords used in Power Rangers: Mystic Force are different from the Zords in the previous series of Power Rangers. Instead of the Zords being machines or living creatures turned into machines, the Zords are actually the Rangers who magically turned themselves into massive magical creatures.
Zords in Power Rangers: Ninja Storm The Zords of Power Rangers: Ninja Storm, like the similarly-titled Ninjazords of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, were giant mechanical animals, piloted by the Power Rangers. They were maintained, at least originally, by Cameron Watanabe, and then by his virtual duplicate Cyber-Cam.
Zords in Power Rangers: Time Force The Zords in Power Rangers: Time Force are highly advanced machines sent from the future that the Time Force Power Rangers can pilot. This is notably the first series of Power Rangers where none of the zords were in fact destroyed(at any given point), except in the case of Power Rangers: Zeo, where none of the zords were destroyed, and in the end, were simply "retired".
Zords in Power Rangers: Wild Force The Zords featured in the television series Power Rangers: Wild Force, the Wild Zords, were fully-sentient creatures that had been in existence for thousands of years (similar to the Galactabeasts of Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy).
Zorglub Zorglub is a fictional character in the Belgian comic strip Spirou et Fantasio. He was created by Greg and André Franquin, and first appeared in the albums "Z comme Zorglub" (1959) and "L´ombre du Z" (1960).
Zorch Formed in 1973, Zorch was England's first totally electronic band, pioneering integrated performances of synthesizers and lightshow. Originally a four-piece, by 1975 Zorch were performing as a duo: Basil Brooks and Gwyo Zepix played just three monophonic EMS analogue synthesizers, but were augmented by Silver (dance) and a full-on psychedelic lightshow.
Zori Zori (ja: 草履 zōri) are thonged Japanese sandals made of rice straw or other plant fibers, lacquered wood, or —increasingly— synthetic materials. Zori are quite similar to flip-flops, which first appeared in the United States sometime around World War II as rubber imitations of the wooden thong sandals long worn in Japan.
Zoriah Zoriah (born January 27, 1976) is an award winning photojournalist whose work has been seen in some of the world’s most prestigious publications, museums and galleries. Initially trained in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Aid to Developing Countries, he worked for international aid organizations such as the Red Cross before returning to photography after a long absence.
Zorica Pantic Zorica Pantic, born circa 1951 in the former Yugoslavia, is a college administrator and professor of electrical engineering. In 2005 she was appointed the fourth president of Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.
Zorita de la Frontera Zorita de la Frontera is a municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 54 kilometres from the city of Salamanca and as of 2003 has a population of 269 people.
Zork Zork was one of the first interactive fiction computer games and an early descendant of Colossal Cave Adventure. The first version of Zork was written in 1977–1979 on a DEC PDP-10 computer by Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling, and implemented in the MDL programming language.
Zork calendar In the Zork series of interactive fiction computer games, created by Infocom and Activision, the Zork calendar is the system for assigning calendar dates to days in the fictional Zork timeline of the Great Underground Empire, formerly known as the Kingdom of Quendor.
Zork Grand Inquisitor Zork Grand Inquisitor is a graphical adventure game, developed by Activision and released in 1997 for the IBM compatible PC and Apple Macintosh (by MacPlay). It builds upon the Zork and Enchanter series of interactive fiction computer games originally released by Infocom.
Zork I Zork I: The Great Underground Empire is an interactive fiction computer game written by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling, Bruce Daniels and Tim Anderson and published by Infocom in 1980. It was the first game in the popular Zork trilogy and was released for a wide range of computer systems, followed by Zork II and Zork III.
Zork III Zork III: The Dungeon Master is an interactive fiction computer game written by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling, Bruce Daniels and Tim Anderson and published by Infocom in 1982. It was the third game in the popular Zork trilogy and was released for a wide range of computer systems.
Zork magic In the Zork series of interactive fiction computer games, created by Infocom and Activision, spells, potions, and other magical concoctions are used throughout the Great Underground Empire, formerly known as the Kingdom of Quendor.
Zork timeline In the Zork series of interactive fiction computer games, created by Infocom and Activision, events in the Zork Calendar take place in the fictional Great Underground Empire, originally known as the Kingdom of Quendor.
Zork Zero Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz is an interactive fiction computer game, written by Steve Meretzky and published by Infocom in 1988. Although it is the ninth and last Zork game released by Infocom before the company's closing, Zork Zero takes place before the previous four games (Zork I, Zork II, Zork III, and Beyond Zork).
Zork: The Undiscovered Underground Zork: The Undiscovered Underground (or ZUU for short) is an interactive fiction computer game written by former Infocom implementers Marc Blank and Michael Berlyn and implemented using the Inform language. The game was released by Activision on August 28, 1997 for free to coincide with the release of Zork Grand Inquisitor.
Zorka JanĹŻ Zorka JanĹŻ (1921–1946), a Czech film actress, was the younger sister of the legendary cinema star LĂda Baarová. When she was 12 years old, she appeared in the movie Madla z cihelny (Brickmaker's daughter, 1933) alongside her sister who played the principal role.
Zorkmid The zorkmid (abbreviated zm) is the fictional unit of currency in the Zork series of interactive fiction computer games. Infocom minted zorkmid coins for inclusion in The Zork Trilogy package released in 1987.
Zoro Garden Nudist Colony Zoro (or Zorro) Garden Nudist Colony was a reputed nudist colony, composed in its first season only of comely young women, at Balboa Park's Pacific International Exposition in San Diego, California. Although the San Diego Historical Society has posted a timeline based on contemporary newspaper accounts indicating the "colony" was composed of actual nudists, [local historian Matthew Alice has stated that the women were wearing "wearing flesh-colored bras, G-strings, or body stockings so everything was zipped up tight.
Zoroaster Zoroaster (Greek ΖωĎοάĎĎ„Ďης, ZĹŤroastrÄ“s) or Zarathustra (Avestan: Zaraθuštra), also referred to as Zartosht (), was an ancient Iranian prophet and the founder of Zoroastrianism, a religion that was the national religion of the Sassanid Empire of Persia; it is predominantly practiced today by the Parsi community of India.
Zoroastrian angelology Zoroastrian angelology is branch of Zoroastrian doctrine that deals with the hierarchical system of divinities introduced by the reforms of Zarathustra (Zoroaster). Those reforms reorganized the multitude of divinities (and divine concepts) of proto-Indo-Iranian religions in a complex order under the supremacy of Ahura Mazda, the Creator of everything.
Zoroastrian calendar The Zoroastrian calendar is a religious calendar used by members of the Zoroastrian faith, and it is an approximation of the (tropical) solar calendar. To this day, Zoroastrians, irrespective of geographic location, adhere to (variations of) this calendar for religious purposes.
Zoroastrianism Zoroastrianism is the religion and philosophy based on the teachings ascribed to the prophet Zoroaster (Zarathustra, Zartosht). Mazdaism is the religion that acknowledges the divine authority of Ahura Mazda, proclaimed by Zoroaster to be the one uncreated Creator of all (God).
Zoroastrianism in Azerbaijan Zoroastrianism in Azerbaijan goes back to the first millennium BC, and for at least a thousand years remained the predominant religion in Azerbaijan. The name Azerbaijan means Land of The Eternal Fire, a name that is said to have a direct link with Zoroastrianism the religion, culture and traditions of Zoroastrianism remains highly respected in Azerbaijan, and Novruz] continues to be the main holiday in the country.
Zoroastrians in Iran Zoroastrians in Iran have had a long history, being the oldest religious community of that nation to survive to the present-day. Prior to the Muslim Arab invasion and conquest of Persia, Zoroastrianism had been the primary religion of the Persian people.
Zorp Zorp is a proxy firewall suite. Its core framework allows the administrator to fine-tune proxy decisions (with its built-in script language), and fully analyze complex protocols (such as SSL with an embedded POP3 or HTTP protocol).
Zorro Zorro (sometimes with the definite article: El Zorro), Spanish for Fox, is the secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega (originally Don Diego Vega), a fictional nobleman and master swordsman living in Spanish-era California. He defends the people, Robin Hood-style, from the corrupt tyranny of the Spanish governor, proving himself much too cunning and foxlike for the bumbling authorities to catch.
Zorro (novel) Zorro is a 2005 fictional biography and the first origin story of the pulp hero Zorro, written by Chilean author Isabel Allende. A prequel to the events of the original Zorro story, Johnston McCulley's 1919 novella The Curse of Capistrano, it contains numerous references to earlier Zorro-related works, especially the 1998 film The Mask of Zorro directed by Martin Campbell (who also directed The Legend of Zorro in 2005).
Zorro III Released as the expansion bus of the Commodore International Amiga 3000 in 1990, the Zorro III computer bus was used to attach peripheral devices to an Amiga motherboard. Designed by Commodore International lead engineer Dave Haynie, the 32-bit Zorro III replaced the 16-bit Zorro II bus used in the Amiga 2000.
Zorro's Black Whip Zorro's Black Whip was a 1944 film serial starring Linda Stirling. The film was made after the popular 1940 Universal remake of The Mark of Zorro and Republic was unable to use the character himself, but still wanted to capitalize on it.
Zorro, The Gay Blade Zorro, The Gay Blade is a 1981 feature motion picture. This comedy starred George Hamilton as both Don Diego de la Vega (Zorro) and his gay twin brother Ramon, who joined the British navy under the pseudonym Bunny Wigglesworth.
Zorsines Zorsines (Serbian Cyrillic: ЗорŃинеŃ) was a King/Tyrant/Pharao/Chief of Siraci and was mentioned in Tacitus' annalitions of the Roman Empire around 50 AD. It is thought that "Siraci" was a twisted version of the name of the Serboi, one of the Sarmatian tribes near the Caucasus, who are thought by some to be predecessors of modern-day Slavic Serbs and Sorbs.
Zorzi The Zorzi or Giorgi family was of Venetian origin. They throve in the Late Middle Ages, especially in the remnants of the Latin Empire in Greece, where they controlled the Margraviate of Bodonitsa and through marriage the Duchy of Athens until the Ottoman conquest.
Zos Kia Zos Kia was a British musical group initially formed by John Gosling along with John Balance and Min. This trio, along with Peter Christopherson on sound, and sometimes other guests, recorded and performed several concerts in 1982 and 1983 under the names Zos Kia and Coil, and some of this material is available on the Coil/Zos Kia release Transparent.
Zossen Zossen is a German city in the district of Teltow-Fläming in Brandenburg, south of Berlin, and next to the B96 highway. Zossen consists of several smaller municipalities, which were grouped together in 2003 to form the city.
Zoster-immune globulin Zoster-immune globulin (ZIG) is a globulin fraction (separable constituent) of pooled (mixed) plasma extracted from human donors who have recovered from infection by herpes zoster. ZIG is used in the prevention and treatment of chickenpox.
Zotero Zotero is a free, open source scholars' extension for the Firefox browser produced by the Center for History and New Media that is currently available in public beta. Zotero is in part a piece of reference management software, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles.
Zoth Ommog Records Zoth Ommog Records is the name of the short living German Industrial music record label which was owned by the parent label Music Research. The company was established by German music producer Andreas Tomalla (aka Talla 2XLC) and later handed over to producer Torben Schmidt and released albums for such bands as Leæther Strip, X Marks the Pedwalk, Bigod 20, Lights of Euphoria and Klinik between 1989 and 1999.
Zotino Tall Tower Observation Facility The Zotino Tall Tower Observation Facility (ZOTTO) is a climatic research station in the Siberian taiga in the proximity of Zotino. Established and operated from the Max-Planck Society and the Institute of Forest, Krasnojarsk, it serves as a long-term observing platform to be operated at least over the next 30 years.
Zottegem Zottegem is a municipality located in Belgium and more particularly in Flanders, in the province of East Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Zottegem proper and the towns of Elene, Erwetegem, Godveerdegem, Grotenberge, Leeuwergem, Oombergen, Sint-Goriks-Oudenhove, Sint-Maria-Oudenhove, Strijpen and Velzeke-Ruddershove.
Zou (state) Zou (é„’) was a small Chinese state that existed during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period of Chinese Antiquity. Its original name was Zhu (é‚ľ), but the name was later changed into Zou.
Zou Jing Zou Jing (é„’éť–) was an advisor to Liu Yan in the midst of the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history. When faced with a huge rebel army, Zou Jing counseled Liu Yan to use volunteer forces to help defend the people.
Zou Shiming Zou Shimming (born May 18, 1981) is an amateur boxer from China who competed in the 2006 Asian Games in the Light flyweight (-48 kg) division winning the gold medal in the final match against Thailand's Suban Pannon 21-1. Light flyweight final results
Zou Yan Zou Yan (; 305 BC - 240 BC) was the representative thinker of the School of Yin-Yang (or School of Naturalists) during the Hundred Schools of Thought era in Chinese philosophy. Joseph Needham, a British sinologist, describes Zou as (1978:142) "The real founder of all Chinese scientific thought.
ZouĂ©rat ZouĂ©rat (Arabic: الزŮيرات) is the largest town in northern Mauritania and is the capital of Tiris Zemmour. It lies at the eastern end of the Mauritania Railway to Nouadhibou and is a centre for iron ore mining, including the mines of FderĂ®ck.
Zoubeir Baya Zoubeir Baya (زبير بية) (born May 15, 1971 in Msaken) is a football player, with a distinguished career as one of Tunisia's most accomplished soccer exports. Baya, an attacking midfielder, displayed considerable skill and enterprise on the international scene, and he provided the North African nation with vast international experience.
Zoubin Ghahramani Zoubin Ghahramani is a researcher in the area of bayesian statistics and machine learning. He has made significant contributions in the areas of Bayesian machine learning (particularly variational methods for approximate Bayesian inference), as well as graphical models and computational neuroscience.
Zoudenbalch The Zoudenbalch family (also known as Soudenbalch) was one of the most prominent families of Utrecht throughout the Middle Ages to the age of the Dutch Revolt. They occupied all posts of importance in the city government, possessed various lordships in the vicinity and played a leading role in the history of the Sticht (Prince-Bishopric of Utrecht).
Zouch Zouch (pronounced "Zotch") is a village in the parish of Sutton Bonington, Nottinghamshire, England between Hathern and Normanton on Soar. It is situated next to the River Soar which marks the county boundary with Leicestershire.
Zoumana Bakayoko Zoumana Bakayoko (born August 11th, 1986 in France) is a professional football defender currently playing for Millwall in England's League 1. After transfering from PSG, Zoumana made his first appearance on August 22nd, 2006 against Gillingham in the Carling Cup.
Zounds Zounds were an English anarchist band formed in 1977 from loose jamming sessions around the Reading area. Originally they were part of the cassette culture movement, releasing material on the Fuck Off Records tape label, and were also involved in the squatting and free festival scene.
Zourkhaneh Zurkhaneh or Zourkhaneh (Persian: زŮرخانه ; literally house of strength) is the Iranian traditional gymnasium, in which the national Iranian sport so called Varzesh-e Pahlavani (Sport of the Heroes) or Varzesh-e Bastani (Sport of the Ancients) is practiced.
Zoutkamp Zoutkamp is a town in De Marne, Groningen in the Netherlands. It is the site of a ground station of the Dutch Nationale SIGINT Organisatie (national signals intelligence service), which intercepts satellite communications much like the U.
Zouzou Zouzou (born Danièle Ciarlet November 29, 1943 in Blida, Algeria) is a model, actress, singer and icon of the 60s and early 70s mostly known for her beauty and for her lead role in Éric Rohmer's Love in the afternoon. Her career however was constantly hampered by her addiction to heroin and other drugs.
Zoviet France Zoviet France (also known as Soviet France, and also written as :zoviet*france:) is a prolific ambient industrial music group from Newcastle upon Tyne in Northern England. While often dissonant and made of industrial textures, their music is also of a distinctly ambient music bent.
Zoya (novel) "Zoya" Is a novel written by Danielle Steele. Zoya Ossipov is a Russian cousin to Czar Nicholas II after the Russian Revolution and WWI she falls in love with an American Clayton Andrews and they marry soon the move to America and Zoya faces many hardships and joy in her life through the Great Depression and WWII.
Zoya Smirnow Zoya Smirnow was a survivor of a corp of twelve Russian girls (some as young as fourteen) who disguised themselves as boys to join the army. Smirnow and the other girls fought in Galacia and the Carpathians in World War I.
Zoysia Zoysia is a genus of eight species of creeping grasses native to southeastern and eastern Asia (north to China and Japan) and Australasia. These species, commonly called zoysia or zoysiagrass, are found in coastal areas or grasslands.
Zozu Zozu is an alcoholic beverage similar to a beer and locally made by the Zomi (literally, the Zo people), Chin State, Myanmar. This fermented alcohol is usually made with maize, rice or other grains that are available.
ZOE: Dolores, i Zone of the Enders: Dolores,i is an anime television series set in the Zone of the Enders universe. The television series was produced by Sunrise, aired from April 7–September 29, 2001, ran for 26 episodes, and 6 volumes of videos were released on VHS and DVD.
ZOPL ZOPL is a programming language created by Geac Computer Corporation in the early 1970's for use on their mainframe computer systems used in libraries and banking institutions. It had similarities to C and Pascal.
ZOSS Zimabwe Open Software Society (ZOSS) is a youthful volunteer group that consist of young Zimbabweans resident in the country and abroad. The main objective of the society is to help Zimbabwe take full advantage of ICT through creating a strong awareness of all the software options that are at users' disposal.
ZOX ZOX is a band from Providence, Rhode Island. The band consists of four members: namesake John Zox (drums), Eli Miller (guitar, vocals), Spencer Swain (violin, vocals), Dan Edinberg (bass, vocals); the four came together at Brown University in 1999.
ZPanel ZPanel is a hosting control panel used by web hosts to give their users a friendly interface to manage any aspects of their hosting or account information. ZPanel is an open source project and runs on Windows and Linux.
ZPC ZPC (Zero Population Count) is a first-person shooter computer game developed by Zombie Entertainment in 1996 which uses the Marathon 2 engine. It was noted for its stylized look adapted from artwork by Aidan Hughes.
ZPL In complexity theory, ZPL (Zero-error Probabilistic Logarithmic space) is the set of problems solvable by a probabilistic Turing machine which always yields the correct answer and uses logarithmic space on average. Probabilistic algorithms that always give the correct answer are called Las Vegas algorithms.
ZPL (programming language) ZPL (short for Z-level Programming Language) is an array programming language designed to replace C and C++ programming languages in engineering and scientific applications. Because its design goal was to obtain machine-independent high performance, ZPL programs run fast on both sequential and parallel computers.
ZQuake ZQuake is a mature QuakeWorld engine based on the GPL'd QuakeWorld source code released by id Software in 1999. It is the work of Anton "Tonik" Gavrilov with occasional input from a few other coders over the years since the source release.
Zrinski-Frankopan conspiracy The Zrinski-Frankopan conspiracy (; 1664-1670) was a movement in which the Croatian noblemen of the Zrinski and Frankopan families rebelled against their ruler, King Leopold I of the Habsburg family. They felt he disregarded the treaty that he was bound to upon being crowned as the king of the Lands of the Crown of St.
Zrmanja Zrmanja is a river in northern Dalmatia, Croatia. It rises in the southern part of the Velebit mountain, flows southward and encircles the southern end of Velebit, and then turns westwards, reaches Obrovac, and after a few kilometers flows into the Adriatic sea in the cove named Novigradsko more.
ZRTP ZRTP is an extension to Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) which describes a method of Diffie-Hellman key agreement for Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP). It was submitted to the IETF by Phil Zimmermann, Jon Callas and Alan Johnston on 5 March 2006.
Zsa Zsa Speck Zsa Zsa Speck (real name Perry Pandrea) was the keyboardist for Marilyn Manson in 1990. His stage name came from the combination "Zsa Zsa Gabor" and "Richard Speck," following the band's naming style of combining the names of a fashion icon and mass murderer.
Zsazsa Zaturnnah Zsazsa Zaturnnah is a fictional comic book superheroine created by Filipino illustrator and graphic designer Carlo Vergara in December of 2002. Zsazsa Zaturnnah or Zaturnnah, attracted considerable attention from Philippine media in the years following her first appearance and currently enjoys a cult fanbase.
Zschornewitz Zschornewitz is a community on the southwestern edge of the Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It lies about 4 km west of the former district seat of Gräfenhainichen, right on the border with Saxony.
Zsigmond Kisfaludi StrĂłbl Zsigmond Kisfaludi StrĂłbl(1884 AlsĂłrajk - 1975 Budapest) was a Hungarian sculptor and artist. His sculptural style integrated elements of realism and academism style mainly engaged in creating portrait busts.
Zsigmondy (crater) Zsigmondy is a lunar crater located beyond the northwest limb on the far side of the Moon. Attached to the southeast rim of the crater is the Omar Khayyam crater, which lies within the much larger Poczobutt crater.
Zsigmondy's theorem In number theory, the Zsigmondy's theorem states that if a>b>0 are coprime integers, then for any natural number n>1 there is a prime number p (called primitive prime divisor) that divides an-bn and does not divide ak-bk for all k<n, with the following exceptions:
Zsolt Muzsnay Zsolt Muzsnay (born 20 June, 1965 in Cluj) is a Romanian footballer who played as a midfielder. His clubs included U Cluj, FC Bihor Oradea, Steaua Bucureşti, Videoton FC Fehérvár, Royal Antwerp and Parmalat Sz'fehérvár.
Zsolt Varga Zsolt Varga (born March 9, 1972 in Budapest) is a Hungarian water polo player, who played on the golden medals squad at the 2000 and the 2004 Summer Olympics. He also participated in the 1996 Summer Olympics, where the Hungarian team placed 4th.
Zsuzsa Körmöczy Zsuzsa Körmöczy (August 25, 1924 - September 16, 2006) was a female tennis player from Hungary. She is best remembered for her singles title at the 1958 French Championships, reaching the semifinals of Wimbledon in 1958, and being ranked second in the world at the end of 1958.
Zsuzsanna Jánosi Zsuzsanna Jánosi (born 19 November, 1963) is a Hungarian fencer, who won a bronze medal in the team foil competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics, in Seoul together with Zsuzsanna Szõcs, Katalin Tuschák, Edit Kovács and Gertrúd Stefanek.
ZSU-23-4 The ZSU-23-4 "Shilka" is a lightly armoured, self-propelled, radar guided anti-aircraft weapon system (SPAAG). ZSU stands for Zenitnaya Samokhodnaya Ustanovka, "anti-aircraft self-propelled system".
ZSU-23-4 "Biała" The ZSU-23-4 "Biała" ("Biała" is Polish for "White") is a Polish modification of the ZSU-23-4 "Shilka" self-propelled anti-aircraft gun. The ZSU-23-4 "Biała" includes a new optical targeting system & a Grom surface-to-air missile launcher.
ZTE ZTE Corporation (Chinese： ä¸ĺ…´é€šč®ŻďĽ‰(Zhong Xing Telecommunication Equipment Company Limited) , a state-owned corporation launched in 1985, is one of the largest telecommunications (GSM, 3G, WCDMA, CDMA, SDH, ADSL, IPTV, PSTN) manufacturers and wireless solutions providers in the People's Republic of China. The company's 2005 revenues were 21.
ZTT Records ZTT Records is a record label founded in 1983 by NME journalist Paul Morley, record producer Trevor Horn, producer/engineer Gary Langan and businesswoman Jill Sinclair. The majority of the creative team at ZTT had first assembled when Horn produced the acclaimed album "The Lexicon of Love" for New Romantic band ABC.
Zoran Vuković Zoran Vuković (born c.1955 in Brusna, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a Bosnian Serb who was charged with crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for his actions in the city of Foča during the Bosnian War.
Zorana Todorović Zorana Todorović (Serbian: Зорана Тодоровић; born December 30,1989 in Vršac) is a 6 foot 10 inch tall Serbian basketball player (as of the summer of 2006). Still currently growing, Todorović in one interview made clear her fondness of her height and expressed her wish to rise above Poland's Margo Dydek in becoming the world's tallest female basketball player.
Zoraptera The insect order Zoraptera contains one family (Zorotypidae) which in turn contains one extant genus, Zorotypus, though an extinct animal of the Cretaceous era is classified as Xenozorotypus burmiticus within the same family.
Zorba Paster Zorba Paster is a physician who hosts a weekly radio call-in show on personal health issues called Zorba Paster on Your Health. The show is produced by Wisconsin Public Radio, sponsored by Public Radio International, and is broadcast on public radio stations around the United States.
Zorba the Greek Zorba the Greek (originally titled Alexis Zorbas) is a 1964 film based on the novel Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis. The film was directed by Michael Cacoyannis and the title character was played by Anthony Quinn–who was not Greek but in fact Mexican American.
Zorba the Greek (novel) Zorba the Greek is a novel written by Nikos Kazantzakis in 1946 It is considered to be Kazantzakis' most enduring and successful novel, having the ability to be thought-provoking and insightful, regardless of the era. In it a young Greek intellectual (replaced by an Englishman in the famous film), the narrator, is writing on a manuscript about the Buddha].
Zorbas Zorbas ("Zorba's dance") is a song by Mikis Theodorakis, the leading Greek composer. The song appeared in the film Zorba the Greek, for which Theodorakis wrote the soundtrack, and became internationally famous and popular.
Zord In the universe of the television series Power Rangers, Zords are colossal mechanical or bio-mechanical robotic vehicles. When monsters grow to incredible sizes, the only way the Power Rangers can fight them is by summoning and piloting these robots.
Zords in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers The Zords used in the television series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers are themed after prehistoric, mythical, and ninja animals. They were created by Ninjor, a wise warrior who also created the Power Coins and the Battle Borgs.
Zords in Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue The Zords used in Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue were colossal machines (initially emergency vehicles) constructed by Operation Lightspeed and maintained by Angela Fairweather, then piloted by the Lightspeed Rescue Power Rangers.
Zords in Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy The Zords used during Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy were in fact sentient creatures called Galactabeasts. The "sentient creature" idea had been used frequently in Super Sentai, but this was its first proper use in a Power Rangers series.
Zords in Power Rangers: Mystic Force The Zords used in Power Rangers: Mystic Force are different from the Zords in the previous series of Power Rangers. Instead of the Zords being machines or living creatures turned into machines, the Zords are actually the Rangers who magically turned themselves into massive magical creatures.
Zords in Power Rangers: Ninja Storm The Zords of Power Rangers: Ninja Storm, like the similarly-titled Ninjazords of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, were giant mechanical animals, piloted by the Power Rangers. They were maintained, at least originally, by Cameron Watanabe, and then by his virtual duplicate Cyber-Cam.
Zords in Power Rangers: Time Force The Zords in Power Rangers: Time Force are highly advanced machines sent from the future that the Time Force Power Rangers can pilot. This is notably the first series of Power Rangers where none of the zords were in fact destroyed(at any given point), except in the case of Power Rangers: Zeo, where none of the zords were destroyed, and in the end, were simply "retired".
Zords in Power Rangers: Wild Force The Zords featured in the television series Power Rangers: Wild Force, the Wild Zords, were fully-sentient creatures that had been in existence for thousands of years (similar to the Galactabeasts of Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy).
Zorglub Zorglub is a fictional character in the Belgian comic strip Spirou et Fantasio. He was created by Greg and André Franquin, and first appeared in the albums "Z comme Zorglub" (1959) and "L´ombre du Z" (1960).
Zorch Formed in 1973, Zorch was England's first totally electronic band, pioneering integrated performances of synthesizers and lightshow. Originally a four-piece, by 1975 Zorch were performing as a duo: Basil Brooks and Gwyo Zepix played just three monophonic EMS analogue synthesizers, but were augmented by Silver (dance) and a full-on psychedelic lightshow.
Zori Zori (ja: 草履 zōri) are thonged Japanese sandals made of rice straw or other plant fibers, lacquered wood, or —increasingly— synthetic materials. Zori are quite similar to flip-flops, which first appeared in the United States sometime around World War II as rubber imitations of the wooden thong sandals long worn in Japan.
Zoriah Zoriah (born January 27, 1976) is an award winning photojournalist whose work has been seen in some of the world’s most prestigious publications, museums and galleries. Initially trained in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Aid to Developing Countries, he worked for international aid organizations such as the Red Cross before returning to photography after a long absence.
Zorica Pantic Zorica Pantic, born circa 1951 in the former Yugoslavia, is a college administrator and professor of electrical engineering. In 2005 she was appointed the fourth president of Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.
Zorita de la Frontera Zorita de la Frontera is a municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 54 kilometres from the city of Salamanca and as of 2003 has a population of 269 people.
Zork Zork was one of the first interactive fiction computer games and an early descendant of Colossal Cave Adventure. The first version of Zork was written in 1977–1979 on a DEC PDP-10 computer by Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling, and implemented in the MDL programming language.
Zork calendar In the Zork series of interactive fiction computer games, created by Infocom and Activision, the Zork calendar is the system for assigning calendar dates to days in the fictional Zork timeline of the Great Underground Empire, formerly known as the Kingdom of Quendor.
Zork Grand Inquisitor Zork Grand Inquisitor is a graphical adventure game, developed by Activision and released in 1997 for the IBM compatible PC and Apple Macintosh (by MacPlay). It builds upon the Zork and Enchanter series of interactive fiction computer games originally released by Infocom.
Zork I Zork I: The Great Underground Empire is an interactive fiction computer game written by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling, Bruce Daniels and Tim Anderson and published by Infocom in 1980. It was the first game in the popular Zork trilogy and was released for a wide range of computer systems, followed by Zork II and Zork III.
Zork III Zork III: The Dungeon Master is an interactive fiction computer game written by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling, Bruce Daniels and Tim Anderson and published by Infocom in 1982. It was the third game in the popular Zork trilogy and was released for a wide range of computer systems.
Zork magic In the Zork series of interactive fiction computer games, created by Infocom and Activision, spells, potions, and other magical concoctions are used throughout the Great Underground Empire, formerly known as the Kingdom of Quendor.
Zork timeline In the Zork series of interactive fiction computer games, created by Infocom and Activision, events in the Zork Calendar take place in the fictional Great Underground Empire, originally known as the Kingdom of Quendor.
Zork Zero Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz is an interactive fiction computer game, written by Steve Meretzky and published by Infocom in 1988. Although it is the ninth and last Zork game released by Infocom before the company's closing, Zork Zero takes place before the previous four games (Zork I, Zork II, Zork III, and Beyond Zork).
Zork: The Undiscovered Underground Zork: The Undiscovered Underground (or ZUU for short) is an interactive fiction computer game written by former Infocom implementers Marc Blank and Michael Berlyn and implemented using the Inform language. The game was released by Activision on August 28, 1997 for free to coincide with the release of Zork Grand Inquisitor.
Zorka JanĹŻ Zorka JanĹŻ (1921–1946), a Czech film actress, was the younger sister of the legendary cinema star LĂda Baarová. When she was 12 years old, she appeared in the movie Madla z cihelny (Brickmaker's daughter, 1933) alongside her sister who played the principal role.
Zorkmid The zorkmid (abbreviated zm) is the fictional unit of currency in the Zork series of interactive fiction computer games. Infocom minted zorkmid coins for inclusion in The Zork Trilogy package released in 1987.
Zoro Garden Nudist Colony Zoro (or Zorro) Garden Nudist Colony was a reputed nudist colony, composed in its first season only of comely young women, at Balboa Park's Pacific International Exposition in San Diego, California. Although the San Diego Historical Society has posted a timeline based on contemporary newspaper accounts indicating the "colony" was composed of actual nudists, [local historian Matthew Alice has stated that the women were wearing "wearing flesh-colored bras, G-strings, or body stockings so everything was zipped up tight.
Zoroaster Zoroaster (Greek ΖωĎοάĎĎ„Ďης, ZĹŤroastrÄ“s) or Zarathustra (Avestan: Zaraθuštra), also referred to as Zartosht (), was an ancient Iranian prophet and the founder of Zoroastrianism, a religion that was the national religion of the Sassanid Empire of Persia; it is predominantly practiced today by the Parsi community of India.
Zoroastrian angelology Zoroastrian angelology is branch of Zoroastrian doctrine that deals with the hierarchical system of divinities introduced by the reforms of Zarathustra (Zoroaster). Those reforms reorganized the multitude of divinities (and divine concepts) of proto-Indo-Iranian religions in a complex order under the supremacy of Ahura Mazda, the Creator of everything.
Zoroastrian calendar The Zoroastrian calendar is a religious calendar used by members of the Zoroastrian faith, and it is an approximation of the (tropical) solar calendar. To this day, Zoroastrians, irrespective of geographic location, adhere to (variations of) this calendar for religious purposes.
Zoroastrianism Zoroastrianism is the religion and philosophy based on the teachings ascribed to the prophet Zoroaster (Zarathustra, Zartosht). Mazdaism is the religion that acknowledges the divine authority of Ahura Mazda, proclaimed by Zoroaster to be the one uncreated Creator of all (God).
Zoroastrianism in Azerbaijan Zoroastrianism in Azerbaijan goes back to the first millennium BC, and for at least a thousand years remained the predominant religion in Azerbaijan. The name Azerbaijan means Land of The Eternal Fire, a name that is said to have a direct link with Zoroastrianism the religion, culture and traditions of Zoroastrianism remains highly respected in Azerbaijan, and Novruz] continues to be the main holiday in the country.
Zoroastrians in Iran Zoroastrians in Iran have had a long history, being the oldest religious community of that nation to survive to the present-day. Prior to the Muslim Arab invasion and conquest of Persia, Zoroastrianism had been the primary religion of the Persian people.
Zorp Zorp is a proxy firewall suite. Its core framework allows the administrator to fine-tune proxy decisions (with its built-in script language), and fully analyze complex protocols (such as SSL with an embedded POP3 or HTTP protocol).
Zorro Zorro (sometimes with the definite article: El Zorro), Spanish for Fox, is the secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega (originally Don Diego Vega), a fictional nobleman and master swordsman living in Spanish-era California. He defends the people, Robin Hood-style, from the corrupt tyranny of the Spanish governor, proving himself much too cunning and foxlike for the bumbling authorities to catch.
Zorro (novel) Zorro is a 2005 fictional biography and the first origin story of the pulp hero Zorro, written by Chilean author Isabel Allende. A prequel to the events of the original Zorro story, Johnston McCulley's 1919 novella The Curse of Capistrano, it contains numerous references to earlier Zorro-related works, especially the 1998 film The Mask of Zorro directed by Martin Campbell (who also directed The Legend of Zorro in 2005).
Zorro III Released as the expansion bus of the Commodore International Amiga 3000 in 1990, the Zorro III computer bus was used to attach peripheral devices to an Amiga motherboard. Designed by Commodore International lead engineer Dave Haynie, the 32-bit Zorro III replaced the 16-bit Zorro II bus used in the Amiga 2000.
Zorro's Black Whip Zorro's Black Whip was a 1944 film serial starring Linda Stirling. The film was made after the popular 1940 Universal remake of The Mark of Zorro and Republic was unable to use the character himself, but still wanted to capitalize on it.
Zorro, The Gay Blade Zorro, The Gay Blade is a 1981 feature motion picture. This comedy starred George Hamilton as both Don Diego de la Vega (Zorro) and his gay twin brother Ramon, who joined the British navy under the pseudonym Bunny Wigglesworth.
Zorsines Zorsines (Serbian Cyrillic: ЗорŃинеŃ) was a King/Tyrant/Pharao/Chief of Siraci and was mentioned in Tacitus' annalitions of the Roman Empire around 50 AD. It is thought that "Siraci" was a twisted version of the name of the Serboi, one of the Sarmatian tribes near the Caucasus, who are thought by some to be predecessors of modern-day Slavic Serbs and Sorbs.
Zorzi The Zorzi or Giorgi family was of Venetian origin. They throve in the Late Middle Ages, especially in the remnants of the Latin Empire in Greece, where they controlled the Margraviate of Bodonitsa and through marriage the Duchy of Athens until the Ottoman conquest.
Zos Kia Zos Kia was a British musical group initially formed by John Gosling along with John Balance and Min. This trio, along with Peter Christopherson on sound, and sometimes other guests, recorded and performed several concerts in 1982 and 1983 under the names Zos Kia and Coil, and some of this material is available on the Coil/Zos Kia release Transparent.
Zossen Zossen is a German city in the district of Teltow-Fläming in Brandenburg, south of Berlin, and next to the B96 highway. Zossen consists of several smaller municipalities, which were grouped together in 2003 to form the city.
Zoster-immune globulin Zoster-immune globulin (ZIG) is a globulin fraction (separable constituent) of pooled (mixed) plasma extracted from human donors who have recovered from infection by herpes zoster. ZIG is used in the prevention and treatment of chickenpox.
Zotero Zotero is a free, open source scholars' extension for the Firefox browser produced by the Center for History and New Media that is currently available in public beta. Zotero is in part a piece of reference management software, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles.
Zoth Ommog Records Zoth Ommog Records is the name of the short living German Industrial music record label which was owned by the parent label Music Research. The company was established by German music producer Andreas Tomalla (aka Talla 2XLC) and later handed over to producer Torben Schmidt and released albums for such bands as Leæther Strip, X Marks the Pedwalk, Bigod 20, Lights of Euphoria and Klinik between 1989 and 1999.
Zotino Tall Tower Observation Facility The Zotino Tall Tower Observation Facility (ZOTTO) is a climatic research station in the Siberian taiga in the proximity of Zotino. Established and operated from the Max-Planck Society and the Institute of Forest, Krasnojarsk, it serves as a long-term observing platform to be operated at least over the next 30 years.
Zottegem Zottegem is a municipality located in Belgium and more particularly in Flanders, in the province of East Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Zottegem proper and the towns of Elene, Erwetegem, Godveerdegem, Grotenberge, Leeuwergem, Oombergen, Sint-Goriks-Oudenhove, Sint-Maria-Oudenhove, Strijpen and Velzeke-Ruddershove.
Zou (state) Zou (é„’) was a small Chinese state that existed during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period of Chinese Antiquity. Its original name was Zhu (é‚ľ), but the name was later changed into Zou.
Zou Jing Zou Jing (é„’éť–) was an advisor to Liu Yan in the midst of the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history. When faced with a huge rebel army, Zou Jing counseled Liu Yan to use volunteer forces to help defend the people.
Zou Shiming Zou Shimming (born May 18, 1981) is an amateur boxer from China who competed in the 2006 Asian Games in the Light flyweight (-48 kg) division winning the gold medal in the final match against Thailand's Suban Pannon 21-1. Light flyweight final results
Zou Yan Zou Yan (; 305 BC - 240 BC) was the representative thinker of the School of Yin-Yang (or School of Naturalists) during the Hundred Schools of Thought era in Chinese philosophy. Joseph Needham, a British sinologist, describes Zou as (1978:142) "The real founder of all Chinese scientific thought.
ZouĂ©rat ZouĂ©rat (Arabic: الزŮيرات) is the largest town in northern Mauritania and is the capital of Tiris Zemmour. It lies at the eastern end of the Mauritania Railway to Nouadhibou and is a centre for iron ore mining, including the mines of FderĂ®ck.
Zoubeir Baya Zoubeir Baya (زبير بية) (born May 15, 1971 in Msaken) is a football player, with a distinguished career as one of Tunisia's most accomplished soccer exports. Baya, an attacking midfielder, displayed considerable skill and enterprise on the international scene, and he provided the North African nation with vast international experience.
Zoubin Ghahramani Zoubin Ghahramani is a researcher in the area of bayesian statistics and machine learning. He has made significant contributions in the areas of Bayesian machine learning (particularly variational methods for approximate Bayesian inference), as well as graphical models and computational neuroscience.
Zoudenbalch The Zoudenbalch family (also known as Soudenbalch) was one of the most prominent families of Utrecht throughout the Middle Ages to the age of the Dutch Revolt. They occupied all posts of importance in the city government, possessed various lordships in the vicinity and played a leading role in the history of the Sticht (Prince-Bishopric of Utrecht).
Zouch Zouch (pronounced "Zotch") is a village in the parish of Sutton Bonington, Nottinghamshire, England between Hathern and Normanton on Soar. It is situated next to the River Soar which marks the county boundary with Leicestershire.
Zoumana Bakayoko Zoumana Bakayoko (born August 11th, 1986 in France) is a professional football defender currently playing for Millwall in England's League 1. After transfering from PSG, Zoumana made his first appearance on August 22nd, 2006 against Gillingham in the Carling Cup.
Zounds Zounds were an English anarchist band formed in 1977 from loose jamming sessions around the Reading area. Originally they were part of the cassette culture movement, releasing material on the Fuck Off Records tape label, and were also involved in the squatting and free festival scene.
Zourkhaneh Zurkhaneh or Zourkhaneh (Persian: زŮرخانه ; literally house of strength) is the Iranian traditional gymnasium, in which the national Iranian sport so called Varzesh-e Pahlavani (Sport of the Heroes) or Varzesh-e Bastani (Sport of the Ancients) is practiced.
Zoutkamp Zoutkamp is a town in De Marne, Groningen in the Netherlands. It is the site of a ground station of the Dutch Nationale SIGINT Organisatie (national signals intelligence service), which intercepts satellite communications much like the U.
Zouzou Zouzou (born Danièle Ciarlet November 29, 1943 in Blida, Algeria) is a model, actress, singer and icon of the 60s and early 70s mostly known for her beauty and for her lead role in Éric Rohmer's Love in the afternoon. Her career however was constantly hampered by her addiction to heroin and other drugs.
Zoviet France Zoviet France (also known as Soviet France, and also written as :zoviet*france:) is a prolific ambient industrial music group from Newcastle upon Tyne in Northern England. While often dissonant and made of industrial textures, their music is also of a distinctly ambient music bent.
Zoya (novel) "Zoya" Is a novel written by Danielle Steele. Zoya Ossipov is a Russian cousin to Czar Nicholas II after the Russian Revolution and WWI she falls in love with an American Clayton Andrews and they marry soon the move to America and Zoya faces many hardships and joy in her life through the Great Depression and WWII.
Zoya Smirnow Zoya Smirnow was a survivor of a corp of twelve Russian girls (some as young as fourteen) who disguised themselves as boys to join the army. Smirnow and the other girls fought in Galacia and the Carpathians in World War I.
Zoysia Zoysia is a genus of eight species of creeping grasses native to southeastern and eastern Asia (north to China and Japan) and Australasia. These species, commonly called zoysia or zoysiagrass, are found in coastal areas or grasslands.
Zozu Zozu is an alcoholic beverage similar to a beer and locally made by the Zomi (literally, the Zo people), Chin State, Myanmar. This fermented alcohol is usually made with maize, rice or other grains that are available.
ZOE: Dolores, i Zone of the Enders: Dolores,i is an anime television series set in the Zone of the Enders universe. The television series was produced by Sunrise, aired from April 7–September 29, 2001, ran for 26 episodes, and 6 volumes of videos were released on VHS and DVD.
ZOPL ZOPL is a programming language created by Geac Computer Corporation in the early 1970's for use on their mainframe computer systems used in libraries and banking institutions. It had similarities to C and Pascal.
ZOSS Zimabwe Open Software Society (ZOSS) is a youthful volunteer group that consist of young Zimbabweans resident in the country and abroad. The main objective of the society is to help Zimbabwe take full advantage of ICT through creating a strong awareness of all the software options that are at users' disposal.
ZOX ZOX is a band from Providence, Rhode Island. The band consists of four members: namesake John Zox (drums), Eli Miller (guitar, vocals), Spencer Swain (violin, vocals), Dan Edinberg (bass, vocals); the four came together at Brown University in 1999.
ZPanel ZPanel is a hosting control panel used by web hosts to give their users a friendly interface to manage any aspects of their hosting or account information. ZPanel is an open source project and runs on Windows and Linux.
ZPC ZPC (Zero Population Count) is a first-person shooter computer game developed by Zombie Entertainment in 1996 which uses the Marathon 2 engine. It was noted for its stylized look adapted from artwork by Aidan Hughes.
ZPL In complexity theory, ZPL (Zero-error Probabilistic Logarithmic space) is the set of problems solvable by a probabilistic Turing machine which always yields the correct answer and uses logarithmic space on average. Probabilistic algorithms that always give the correct answer are called Las Vegas algorithms.
ZPL (programming language) ZPL (short for Z-level Programming Language) is an array programming language designed to replace C and C++ programming languages in engineering and scientific applications. Because its design goal was to obtain machine-independent high performance, ZPL programs run fast on both sequential and parallel computers.
ZQuake ZQuake is a mature QuakeWorld engine based on the GPL'd QuakeWorld source code released by id Software in 1999. It is the work of Anton "Tonik" Gavrilov with occasional input from a few other coders over the years since the source release.
Zrinski-Frankopan conspiracy The Zrinski-Frankopan conspiracy (; 1664-1670) was a movement in which the Croatian noblemen of the Zrinski and Frankopan families rebelled against their ruler, King Leopold I of the Habsburg family. They felt he disregarded the treaty that he was bound to upon being crowned as the king of the Lands of the Crown of St.
Zrmanja Zrmanja is a river in northern Dalmatia, Croatia. It rises in the southern part of the Velebit mountain, flows southward and encircles the southern end of Velebit, and then turns westwards, reaches Obrovac, and after a few kilometers flows into the Adriatic sea in the cove named Novigradsko more.
ZRTP ZRTP is an extension to Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) which describes a method of Diffie-Hellman key agreement for Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP). It was submitted to the IETF by Phil Zimmermann, Jon Callas and Alan Johnston on 5 March 2006.
Zsa Zsa Speck Zsa Zsa Speck (real name Perry Pandrea) was the keyboardist for Marilyn Manson in 1990. His stage name came from the combination "Zsa Zsa Gabor" and "Richard Speck," following the band's naming style of combining the names of a fashion icon and mass murderer.
Zsazsa Zaturnnah Zsazsa Zaturnnah is a fictional comic book superheroine created by Filipino illustrator and graphic designer Carlo Vergara in December of 2002. Zsazsa Zaturnnah or Zaturnnah, attracted considerable attention from Philippine media in the years following her first appearance and currently enjoys a cult fanbase.
Zschornewitz Zschornewitz is a community on the southwestern edge of the Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It lies about 4 km west of the former district seat of Gräfenhainichen, right on the border with Saxony.
Zsigmond Kisfaludi StrĂłbl Zsigmond Kisfaludi StrĂłbl(1884 AlsĂłrajk - 1975 Budapest) was a Hungarian sculptor and artist. His sculptural style integrated elements of realism and academism style mainly engaged in creating portrait busts.
Zsigmondy (crater) Zsigmondy is a lunar crater located beyond the northwest limb on the far side of the Moon. Attached to the southeast rim of the crater is the Omar Khayyam crater, which lies within the much larger Poczobutt crater.
Zsigmondy's theorem In number theory, the Zsigmondy's theorem states that if a>b>0 are coprime integers, then for any natural number n>1 there is a prime number p (called primitive prime divisor) that divides an-bn and does not divide ak-bk for all k<n, with the following exceptions:
Zsolt Muzsnay Zsolt Muzsnay (born 20 June, 1965 in Cluj) is a Romanian footballer who played as a midfielder. His clubs included U Cluj, FC Bihor Oradea, Steaua Bucureşti, Videoton FC Fehérvár, Royal Antwerp and Parmalat Sz'fehérvár.
Zsolt Varga Zsolt Varga (born March 9, 1972 in Budapest) is a Hungarian water polo player, who played on the golden medals squad at the 2000 and the 2004 Summer Olympics. He also participated in the 1996 Summer Olympics, where the Hungarian team placed 4th.
Zsuzsa Körmöczy Zsuzsa Körmöczy (August 25, 1924 - September 16, 2006) was a female tennis player from Hungary. She is best remembered for her singles title at the 1958 French Championships, reaching the semifinals of Wimbledon in 1958, and being ranked second in the world at the end of 1958.
Zsuzsanna Jánosi Zsuzsanna Jánosi (born 19 November, 1963) is a Hungarian fencer, who won a bronze medal in the team foil competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics, in Seoul together with Zsuzsanna Szõcs, Katalin Tuschák, Edit Kovács and Gertrúd Stefanek.
ZSU-23-4 The ZSU-23-4 "Shilka" is a lightly armoured, self-propelled, radar guided anti-aircraft weapon system (SPAAG). ZSU stands for Zenitnaya Samokhodnaya Ustanovka, "anti-aircraft self-propelled system".
ZSU-23-4 "Biała" The ZSU-23-4 "Biała" ("Biała" is Polish for "White") is a Polish modification of the ZSU-23-4 "Shilka" self-propelled anti-aircraft gun. The ZSU-23-4 "Biała" includes a new optical targeting system & a Grom surface-to-air missile launcher.
ZTE ZTE Corporation (Chinese： ä¸ĺ…´é€šč®ŻďĽ‰(Zhong Xing Telecommunication Equipment Company Limited) , a state-owned corporation launched in 1985, is one of the largest telecommunications (GSM, 3G, WCDMA, CDMA, SDH, ADSL, IPTV, PSTN) manufacturers and wireless solutions providers in the People's Republic of China. The company's 2005 revenues were 21.
ZTT Records ZTT Records is a record label founded in 1983 by NME journalist Paul Morley, record producer Trevor Horn, producer/engineer Gary Langan and businesswoman Jill Sinclair. The majority of the creative team at ZTT had first assembled when Horn produced the acclaimed album "The Lexicon of Love" for New Romantic band ABC.
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