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Zanesville Infants The Zanesville Infants (1908-1909) was a short-lived baseball franchise located in Zanesville, Ohio, and affiliated with the regional Central League. The organization's name was intended to highlight that they were a new minor league club.
Zang Ba Zang Ba (172 - 225) was a warrior during the end of the Han Dynasty and then during the Three Kingdoms period of China, first in the service of Tao Qian, then Lu Bu, and finally to Cao Cao and the Kingdom of Wei. The years of his birth and death are unknown, but he served Wei until the reign of Cao Rui.
Zang Fu theory Zang-Fu theory is a concept within traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) that describes the functions of the organs of the body and the interactions that occur between them. Zang 臟 refers to the yin organs - heart, liver, spleen, lung, kidney, pericardium - whilst Fu 腑 refers to the yang organs - small intestine, large intestine, gall bladder, urinary bladder, stomach and san jiao.
Zang Tumb Tumb Zang Tumb Tumb is a sound poem written in 1914 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, an Italian Futurist. It is an account of the Battle of Adrianople (1913) that uses creative typography ("words-in-freedom") and other poetic impressions of the events of the battle, including the sounds of gunfire and explosions.
Zangezur (1938 film) Zangezur is a 1938 Soviet Armenian film about Dashnak opposition to the incursion of Red Army and the local Bolshevik partisans in the Armenian province of Zangezur (present-day Syunik) at the time of Sovietization. The film featured Hrachia Nersisyan, Avet Avetisyan, and Hasmik Agopyan.
Zangezur Mountains The Zangezur Mountains comprise a mountain range that defines the border between Armenia's southern province of Syunik and Azerbaijan's Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic. The second large tracts of forests are located in Zangezur where they cover more than 20 per cent of the territory and reach an elevation of 2,200-2,400 m.
Zaniskari pony The Zaniskari pony is a breed found around Leh and Laddakh in the area of Jammu and Kashmir (Northern India). This breed is endangered by interbreeding with nondescript ponies, though the Animal Husbandry Department of Jammu and Kashmir has started a program for conservation at a farm in Leh.
Zanj Zanj (Arabic and Persian زنج "Land of the Blacks") was a name used by medieval Arab geographers to refer to a portion of the East African coast. The geographers divided the coast into several regions and Zanj (also transliterated as Zenj or Zinj) covered the coast from roughly Mogadishu in the north to Pemba Island in the south.
Zanja Madre The Zanja Madre (Spanish: Mother Ditch) is the original aqueduct that brought water to the Pueblo de Los Angeles from the Porciuncula River. It is referred to as an open, earthen ditch which was completed by community laborers within a month of founding the pueblo.
Zanjeer Zanjeer (Hindi: ज़ंजीर, Urdu: زنجیر, translation: Shackles), is a film from India starring Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan (his real-life wife), Pran and Ajit. The movie changed the trend from romantic films to action films and pioneered Amitabh's new image of a brooding but explosive person who fights back when cornered.
Zankou Chicken Zankou Chicken is a small, family-owned chain of Middle-Eastern fast casual restaurants within the Los Angeles area. Their specialty is rotisserie chicken served with a unique and very popular garlic paste and pita bread.
Zanni Zanni (from the Italian, dialectal nickname for Giovanni) was the archetype of the comic servant characters of the Commedia dell'arte. The character of Zanni was an older, impoverished man and hired servant of one of the other characters, typically Pantalone.
Zanniati Zanniati (full name Zanniati Oribatta) is a character from CrossGen Entertainment's Sigilverse. She appears in the Sigil comic series as a major character because she is Samandahl Rey's love, and Sam is the Sigil-Bearer in that part of the galaxy.
Zanobi Acciaiuoli Zanobi Acciaiuoli (25 May 1461—27 July 1519), a Florentine of the same family as Donato Acciaiuoli, and a Dominican monk, was Librarian of the Vatican under Leo X. He joined the Dominican convent on December 8, 1495.
Zanoni, Missouri Zanoni is an unincorporated community located in Ozark County, Missouri on Route 181 about ten miles northeast of Gainesville. A mill (doubling as a bed and breakfast) and a post office are all that remain of the community.
Zantedeschia Zantedeschia is a genus of twenty-eight species of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to southern Africa from South Africa north to Malawi. The name of the genus was given as a tribute to Italian botanist Giovanni Zantedeschi (1773-1846) by the German botanist Kurt Sprengel (1766 - 1833).
Zanthoxylum Zanthoxylum (from the Greek ξανθὸν ξύλον, "yellow wood") is a genus of about 250 species of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs in the family Rutaceae, native to warm temperate and subtropical areas worldwide. Common names include prickly-ash and hercules' club.
Zanthoxylum simulans Zanthoxylum simulans (Chinese Prickly-ash or Flatspine Prickly-ash), is a flowering plant in the family Rutaceae, native to eastern China and Taiwan. It is one of several species of Zanthoxylum from which Sichuan Pepper is produced (see that page for uses).
Zantman's Rock Zantman's Rock is located 34 miles to the west of the Land's End, Cornwall, near the Isles of Scilly (six miles away) and is barely visible on the surface of the waters. It is 2 miles north of Bishop's Rock Lighthouse.
Zantop Air Transport Zantop Air Transport was formed from Zantop Flying Service in 1962. The Civil Aeronautics Board approved transfer of the operating certificate of Coastal Airlines to Zantop Air Transport, which had incorporated and become a supplemental air carrier.
Zantop Cargo Flight of 11-Nov-1961 A Zantop Air Transport DC-4 was on final approach to Greater Cincinnati Airport runway 18, when it clipped some trees, lost altitude and crashed into a wooded area near the airport.The Middletown Journal, Tuesday November 14, 1961
Zantrex Zantrex is a herbal supplement marketed by "Zoller Laboratories", a subsidiary of Basic Research of Salt Lake City, Utah. It is marketed towards people under 30 in fast paced television advertisements depicting athletic-looking people.
Zany Afternoons Zany Afternoons is a book containing a collection of some of illustrator Bruce McCall's best comic paintings to 1982. It was published by Knopf in that year and featured works that originally appeared mainly in National Lampoon.
Zany Brainy Zany Brainy was a United States retail store chain that sold educational toys and multi-media products aimed at children ages 4-12. Its merchandise included games and puzzles; infant development toys; books, audiocassettes, and videos; arts and crafts; building toys and trains; computer software; electronic learning aids and musical instruments; science toys; plush toys and dolls; and sports-themed toys.
Zany Golf Zany Golf, also known as Will Harvey's Zany Golf, is an off-the-wall, whimsical fantasy take on a miniature golf computer game, developed by Sandcastle Productions and published by Electronic Arts. The game originated on the Apple IIGS computer platform in 1988 and was so successful, it became the first Apple IIGS game title to attract the mainstream gaming market and be ported to other platforms.
Zanzibar and Pemba People's Party The Zanzibar and Pemba People's Party (ZPPP) was a nationalist, African-dominated political party in Zanzibar. The ZPPP, in a coalition with the Arab-dominated Zanzibar Nationalist Party (ZNP), governed the island from 1961 to 1964.
Zanzibar Football Association The Zanzibar Football Association (ZFA) is the governing football (soccer) association on the island of Zanzibar, Tanzania. It is an associate member of the African governing body, the Confederation of African Football, but is not affiliated to FIFA.
Zanzibar Leopard The Zanzibar Leopard (Panthera pardus adersi) is an elusive and possibly extinct subspecies of leopard endemic to Unguja Island in the Zanzibar archipelago, off the coast of Tanzania. Increasing conflict between people and leopards in the 20th century led to their demonization and determined attempts to exterminate them.
Zanzibar Nationalist Party The Zanzibar Nationalist Party (ZNP) was a nationalist, Arab-dominated political party in Zanzibar. The ZNP, in a coalition with the African-dominated Zanzibar and Pemba People's Party (ZPPP), governed the island from 1961 to 1964.
Zanzibar Revolution The Zanzibar revolution of January 12, 1964 was the rebellion that overthrew Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah, and led to the proclamation of Zanzibar as a republic, and three months later, to Zanzibar's uniting with Tanganyika to form Tanzania.
Zanzibar Servaline Genet The Zanzibar Servaline Genet (Genetta servalina archeri) is a recently discovered subspecies of Servaline Genet endemic to Unguja Island in the Zanzibar archipelago, off the coast of Tanzania. Its conservation status is uncertain.
Zanzibar West Zanzibar West is one of the 2 districts of the Zanzibar Urban/West Region of Tanzania. It is bordered to the North by the Zanzibar North Region, to the East by the Zanzibar Central/South Region and to the West by the Zanzibar Urban District.
ZanZarah: The Hidden Portal ZanZarah: The Hidden Portal is an action-adventure computer game by German Funatics Development, released in 2002 by publisher THQ. An add-on, ZanZarah: The Lost Village (an unofficial title used by fans), has been in development in 2002 but was later cancelled.
Zao (US band) Zao is a metalcore band from Greensburg, Pennsylvania, which is widely considered to have pioneered the boundaries of Christian metal music. Founded in 1993 in Parkersburg, West Virginia, Zao has hosted several musicians and endured numerous roster changes to the point where no original members remain.
Zaolzie Zaolzie (, , literally: Trans-Olza River Silesia) was an area disputed between Poland and Czechoslovakia, west of Cieszyn. The term "Zaolzie" is used predominantly in Poland (literally meaning "lands beyond the Olza River") and also commonly by the Polish minority living on this territory.
Zaouia Zaouia (Arabic زاŮŮŠŘ© "corner"), also spelled zawiya or zawiyah, is a Maghrebi and West African term for an Islamic religious school cum monastery, roughly corresponding to the Eastern term "madrassa". In precolonial times, these were the primary sources for education in the area, and taught basic literacy to a large proportion of children even in quite remote mountainous areas - leading to a 40% literacy rate in Algeria in 1830, for instance, which was actually higher than after the French left.
Zaozhuang Zaozhuang () is a prefecture-level city in southern Shandong province, People's Republic of China. The second smallest prefecture-level city in the province, it borders Jining to the west and north, Linyi to the east, and the province of Jiangsu to the south.
Zaozyorny Zaozyorny () is a town in the Krasnoyarsk Krai, the administrative center of the Rybinskiy District. Located upon the river Barga, the affluent of Kan, in 166 km eastward of Krasnoyarsk on the 4263 km of the Trans-Siberian Railway (Zaozyornaya railway station).
Zap Zodiac Zap Zodiac was a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic The Beano. Drawn by Steve Horrocks, it first appeared in issue 3259, dated 1 January 2005, as part of Comic Idol- a selection of three comic strips to be voted in by Beano readers (the other two being Hugh Dunnit and Christmas Carole).
Zapadnaya Litsa Zapadnaya Litsa is the largest and most important Russian naval base built for the Northern Fleet. The base is located far in the north of Russia, on the Litsa Fjord at the westernmost point of the Kola Peninsula.
Zapata Espinoza Zapata 'Zap' Espinoza is a journalist and an editor for Motocross Action Magazine, a Hi-Torque Publication. He was formerly editor of two American mountain biking magazines, and was inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in 1995.
Zapata Westerns Zapata Westerns, nickname given to a subgenre of the so-called Italian "Spaghetti Westerns" which dealt with overtly political themes in the mid-to-late 1960s. They were named after Emiliano Zapata, the famous Mexican revolutionary from the Mexican Revolution of 1913, during which most of these films took place.
Zapatista Army of National Liberation The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN) is an armed revolutionary group based in Chiapas, one of the poorest states of Mexico. Their social base is mostly indigenous but they have supporters in urban areas as well as an international web of support.
Zapatourist A Zapatourist is a person who visits Chiapas or other EZLN-controlled area of Mexico, ostensibly for the purpose of learning and/or teaching but is more interested in sightseeing than becoming involved. This phenomenon is a byproduct of increased interest in autonomous groups in developing countries among leftists in the developed countries.
Zapf Dingbats Zapf Dingbats is one of the more common dingbat typefaces, which first gained wide distribution as one of 35 PostScript fonts built into Apple's LaserWriter Plus. It was designed by the typographer Hermann Zapf and licensed by International Typeface Corporation.
Zaporizhia (region) Zaporizhia (Ukrainian: Запоріжжя, Zaporizhia; Polish: ZaporoĹĽe or Dzikie Pola (Wild Fields or Savage Steppe), Russian: ЗапороĚжье, Zaporozhye) is a historical region of Ukraine. It is situated about the Dnieper River, below the Dnieper rapids (porohy, poroĹĽa), hence the name, translated as "territory beyond the rapids".
Zaporizhian Sich Zaporizhian Sich or Zaporozhian Sech (,Zaporiz'ka Sich) original Slavonic name "Zaporizhska Sich'" was the center of the Cossacks of Zaporizhzhia. The term has also been metonymically used as an informal reference to the whole Zaporizhzhia or to the Zaporozhian Host.
Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is the largest nuclear power plant not only in Ukraine but also in Europe. The plant is located in Central Ukraine near the city of Zaporizhia, on the banks of the Kakhovka Reservoir on the Dnieper river.
Zaporozhets The Zaporozhets (, Zaporozhets; , Zaporozhets) was a brand name of subcompact cars designed and built from 1958 at the ZAZ factory in Soviet Ukraine ("Zaporozhsky Avtomobilny Zavod", or Zaporozhsky Automobile Factory). Different types of Zaporozhets were produced until 1994.
Zaporozhets za Dunayem Zaporozhets za Dunayem (, translated as A Zaporozhian (Kozak) Beyond the Danube, also referred to as Cossacks in Exile) is a Ukrainian comic opera in three acts with music and libretto by the composer Semen Hulak-Artemovsky (1813-1873). The orchestration has subsequently been rewritten by composers such as Reinhold Glière and Hryhoriy Maiboroda.
Zaporozhian Host The Zaporozhian Host () or Zaporozhian Voisko (, Zaporizke Viysko, sometimes translated as Zaporozhian Cossack Army), also called Zaporizhian Sich after its fortified capital, was a political, social, and military organization of Ukrainian (Ruthenian) Cossacks, from the 16th to the 18th centuries. It was established in the central Ukrainian territory called Zaporizhzhia, below the rapids of the Dnieper river.
Zapote Bobal Zapote Bobal is A large size Maya site that shows occupation from the Late Preclassic to the Late Classic, with more than 65 main structures in the central area and residential groups, there are 16 carved monuments in the central area and several more in its surroundings, (16 Stelas and 21 Altars, mainly in front of Structure 55 named El cementerio, or graveyard for this feature). The central area was constructed in a natural elevation some 1 Km long and 700 mt.
Zapotec civilization The Zapotec civilization was an indigenous pre-Columbian civilization of southern Mesoamerica. Archaeological evidence shows their culture goes back at least 2500 years. They left archaeological evidence at the ancient city of Monte Albán in the form of buildings, ball courts, magnificent tombs and grave goods including finely worked gold jewelry. Monte Albán was the first major city in the western hemisphere and the center of a Zapotec state that dominated much of what we know of as the current state of Oaxaca.
Zapotec language Zapotec language(s) describes a group of closely-related indigenous Mesoamerican languages spoken by the Zapotec people from Mexico's southwestern-central highlands region. Present-day numbers of native speakers are estimated at over half a million, with the majority inhabiting the state of Oaxaca.
Zapotec people The Zapotecs are an indigenous people of Mexico, concentrated in the state of Oaxaca but also with communities spread into some of the neighbouring states. Present-day population may be estimated at approximately 300,000 to 400,000 persons, many of whom are monolingual in one of their native Zapotec languages and dialects (The Zapotec languages together with the near-relative Chatino language form a wider language group, called also Zapotecan.
Zapp (band) Zapp (also known as the Zapp Band) was a soul, funk and electro funk band formed in 1978 by brothers Roger Troutman , Larry Troutman, Lester Troutman, and Terry Troutman, and also included Bobby Glover, Eddie Barber, Jannetta Boyce, Jerome Derrickson, Sherman Fleetwood, Gregory Jackson, Michael Warren, Robert "BIGG ROBB" Smith, Dale Degroat, Riccardo Bray, Bart "sure2b" Thomas & Nicole Cottom.
Zapp Brannigan General Major Webelo Zapp Brannigan is a fictional character in the television series Futurama. He is also referred to (mainly by himself) as "The Zapper," "The Velour Fog," "Big Z," and "Zapp Brannigan, the man with no name.
Zappa Plays Zappa Zappa Plays Zappa is the name of a 2006 concert tour where a band led by Dweezil Zappa, the oldest son of the late composer and musician Frank Zappa, played shows in Europe and the United States during May and June (the tour was also known as Zappa Plays Zappa - Tour de Frank). The shows presented a collection of Frank Zappa's rock-oriented compositions from 1960s to 1980s.
Zappa-Szep product In mathematics, especially group theory, the Zappa-Szep product (also known as the knit product) describes a way in which a group can be constructed from two subgroups. It is a generalization of the direct and semidirect products.
Zapple Monitor The Zapple Monitor was a firmware-based product developed by Roger Amidon (Bio (pdf)) at Technical Design Laboratories (also known as TDL). TDL was based in Princeton, New Jersey, USA in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Zaptie Zaptié was the designation given to locally raised gendarmerie units in the Italian colonies of Tripolitania, Cyrenaica, Eritrea and Somalia between 1889 and 1942. The word "Zaptié" was derived from Turkish and the same title was given to mounted police recruited from the Turkish community in Cyprus during the period of British rule.
Zaqiel Zaqiel (Aramaic: סתר×× ×ś, Greek: â€ÎˇĎκειήλ) is was the 15th Watcher of the 20 leaders of the 200 fallen angels that are mentioned in an ancient work called the Book of Enoch. The name is believed to mean "purity of God" (zaqaq-el).
Zar Points Zar Points is an advanced, statistically-derived method for evaluating Contract Bridge hands developed by Zar Petkov for use by players of intermediate or better skill. The statistical research Petkov conducted in the areas of hand evaluation and bidding is useful to any advanced bridge player, regardless of their bidding or hand evaluation system, but the research showed that the Milton Work point count method, even when adjusted for distribution, does not accurately describe hands.
Zar'it-Shtula incident The Zar'it-Shtula incident was a cross-border attack committed by Lebanon-based Hezbollah special forces on an Israeli military patrol on 12 July 2006 on Israeli territory. The operation was originally named "Freedom for Samir Al-Quntar and his brothers" by Hezbollah, but it was shortened to "Operation Truthful Promise".
Zara (clothing) Zara is the flagship chain store for the Spanish Inditex Group, which also owns brands such as Massimo Dutti, Pull and Bear, Stradivarius and Bershka. The group is headquartered in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, where the first Zara store opened in 1975.
Zara class cruiser The Zara class was an Italian heavy cruiser design of the Regia Marina from the early 1930s, considered by many to be one of the best cruiser designs of World War II. Four ships of the class were completed, Zara, Fiume, Pola and Gorizia, all of which saw extensive service during the war.
Zara Glover Zara Glover (born 24 January 1982 in Preston in Lancashire), is one of England's and the worlds leading Ten-pin bowlers. She is a world champion bowler and a bowling tutor for Brunswick Bowling Academies across Europe.
Zara Phillips Zara Anne Elizabeth Phillips MBE (born 15 May 1981) is the only daughter of Princess Anne and her first husband, Captain Mark Phillips. She is the eldest granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II and is currently 11th in the British Order of Succession.
Zara Sheikh Zara Sheikh (Urdu: زارا شیخ) (born May 7, 1978 in Karachi, Pakistan) is a famous Pakistani model and actress. Zara Sheikh is a successful model who was well known in the world of fashion well before she made her debut in feature films.
Zara Yaqob Zar'a Ya`qob (Ge'ez á‹áአ:ያዕቆብ zarĘżÄ yÄĘżiqĹŤb "Seed of Jacob," Amh. zer'a yÄ'iqĹŤb) (1399–1468) was (19 or 20 JuneGetachew Haile, "A Preliminary Investigation of the "Tomara Tesse't" of Emperor Zar'a Ya'eqob of Ethiopia" in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol.
Zaragoza (province) Zaragoza (also called Saragossa in English) is a province of northern Spain, in the central part of the autonomous community of Aragon. It is bordered by the provinces of Lerida, Tarragona, Teruel, Guadalajara, Soria, La Rioja, Navarre, and Huesca.
Zarahemla According to the Book of Mormon, the Land of Zarahemla (popularly attributed to Biblical Hebrew "seed of compassion") was the Nephite capital for many years, and it was discovered by Mosiah sometime between 323 and 130 B.C.
Zaramo The Zaramo are a Bantu people who are based in eastern Tanzania, particularly in the area between Dar es Salaam and Bagamoyo. In 2000 the Zaramo population was estimated to number 656,730 Information page with particular reference Zaramo art
Zarankiewicz problem In the mathematical field of extremal graph theory, the Zarankiewicz problem asks how many edges can be added to a bipartite graph while avoiding a specific bipartite subgraph. Initially, the Polish mathematician K.
Zarapicos Zarapicos (meaning Fox bites in English) is a municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 20 kilometres from the city of Salamanca and as of 2003 has a population only 79 people.
Zaratan The Zaratan is an enormous, passive turtle from the fictional Dungeons & Dragons fantasy Role Playing Game. Zaratans can grow to have shells over 300 feet in diameter which can be mistaken for small tropical islands due to the fact that they spend the majority of their lives asleep.
Zarathandra The Zarathandra series is comprised of two books written by Donald Aamodt in which human Sandy McGregor is called to an alternate world by a sorcerer in search of a demon to help him. There he learns the rules of the game, gains companions and himself becomes a sorcerer to reckon with.
Zarathustra's Roundelay Zarathustra's Roundelay is a philosophical poem that features as a central motif in the book Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche. The roundelay first appears in Chapter 59: The Second Dance-Song, as a mysterious revelation that precedes Chapter 60: The Seven Seals, a conclusion and affirmation of Zarathustra's middle-aged philosophical escapades.
Zarautz Zarautz (the official and Basque spelling) is a coastal village located in Gipuzkoa Province in the Basque Country. The town is a popular tourist destination with the population swelling from its usual 22,056 to around 60,000 in summer.
Zardip's Search for Healthy Wellness Zardip's Search for Healthy Wellness was an educational Canadian television show from the 1980s intended to teach public health messages to schoolchildren. Zardip Pacific, played by Keram Malicki-Sánchez, is an alien who takes the form of a boy and ventures to Earth to report the habits of humans to his home planet.
Zardoz Zardoz is a 1974 science fiction film directed by John Boorman and starring Sean Connery in one of his first post-James Bond roles. Filmed on a small budget of US$1 million, Zardozs mixture of cerebral, philosophical sci-fi was in complete contrast to Boorman's previous film, the brutal thriller Deliverance.
Zardozi Zardozi (Hindi: ज़र्डोज़ि, Urdu: زرÚŮزŮ) work is a type of embroidery in India. It prospered during the Mugal Emperor, Akbar but later due to loss of royal patronage and industrialization, led to its decline.
Zaretan Zaretan (also known as Zarethan or Zeredathah) is a city mentioned in the Bible, as the location where the Hebrews crossed the Jordan. In the books of Judges and 2 Kings, it is called Zarethan, but in II Chronicles it is called Zeredathah.
Zarf (All My Children) Zoe (born Fredrick "Freddie" Luper) is a fictional character on ABC's daytime drama All My Children. She has been played by Jeffrey Carlson beginning in August 2006 and then returning from November 29th, 2006 onward.
Zarhon Zarhon (also spelled Zarhun) is a mountain in Morocco, 91 mi N. of Meknes, on whose hillside is the town "Moulay Idris Zarhona", called after Moulay Idris I, the founder of the Moorish empire, who was buried there in 791 CE.
Zarch Zarch is a computer game written by David Braben (better known as the co-author of Elite) in three months in 1987, for the release of the Acorn Archimedes computer. It was groundbreaking for the time, featuring a three-dimensional mouse-controlled craft (the "lander") flying over a tile-rendered landscape that dazzled reviewers in a primarily 2D-dominated game industry - ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment) magazine led with the headline "SOLID 3D - the future of games?
Zariski geometry In mathematics, a Zariski geometry consists of an abstract structure introduced by Ehud Hrushovski and Boris Zilber, in order to give a characterisation of the Zariski topology on an algebraic curve, and all its powers. The Zariski topology on a product of algebraic varieties is very rarely the product topology, but richer in closed sets defined by equations that mix two sets of variables.
Zariski surface In algebraic geometry, a branch of mathematics, a Zariski surface is a surface over a field of characteristic p > 0 such there is a dominant inseparable map of degree p from the projective plane to the surface. In particular, all Zariski surfaces are unirational.
Zariski tangent space In algebraic geometry, the Zariski tangent space is a construction that defines a tangent space, at a point P on an algebraic variety V (and more generally). It does not use differential calculus, being based directly on abstract algebra, and in the most concrete cases just the theory of a system of linear equations.
Zariski topology In mathematics, namely algebraic geometry, the Zariski topology is a particular topology chosen for algebraic varieties that reflects the algebraic nature of their definition but is only weakly related to their geometric properties; it is due to Oscar Zariski and took a place of particular importance in the field around 1950. Joe Harris likes to say in his introductory lectures that it is "not a real topology" and points out that in the Zariski topology, every two algebraic curves are homeomorphic simply because their underlying sets have equal cardinalities and their topologies are both cofinite.
Zarkesh Zarkesh is one of the many family names created by Haj Ali in Khoramabad, Iran, along with names such as Zarinbakhsh. This last name comes from the Persian word for "jeweller" There are many people named Zarkesh around the world today.
Zarlor Mercenary Zarlor Mercenary was an action game for the Atari Lynx handheld console, released by Epyx. It was a vertically-scrolling shoot 'em up in which the player controlled a spacecraft destroying enemy spaceships and buildings in order to earn money which could be used to buy upgrades between levels.
Zarphatic language Zarphatic or Judæo-French (Zarphatic: Tsarfatit) is an extinct Jewish language, formerly spoken among the Jewish communities of northern France and in parts of what is now west-central Germany, in such cities as Mainz, Frankfurt am Main, and Aachen.
Zarqa Governorate Zarqa (Arabic الزرقاء az-ZarqÄ, local dialects ez-ZergÄ or ez-Zer'a, "The Blue One") is one of the governorates of Jordan, located east of Amman, the capital of Jordan. Its capital is Zarqa, which is the largest city in the governorate.
Zarqa Nawaz Zarqa Nawaz, a Muslim Canadian woman of Pakistani origin born in Liverpool and raised in the Toronto area, is a freelance writer, broadcaster, and filmmaker living in Regina, Saskatchewan. Initially planning to go to medical school, after completing a Bachelor of Science degree Nawaz decided to study journalism, completing a second degree at Ryerson University in 1992.
Zarra, Valencia Zarra, in the autonomous community of Valencia, is the smallest of the seven villages that make up the Valle de cofrentes.The others are: Ayora; Jalance; Teresa de Cofrentes; Jarafuel; Cofrentes and Cortes de Pallás.
Zarubintsy culture The Zarubintsy culture was one of the major archaeological cultures which flourished in the area north of the Black Sea along the upper Dnieper and Pripyat Rivers, stretching west towards the Vistula Basin from the 3rd or 2nd centuries BC until the 2nd century AD. It was identified ca 1899 and is now attested by about 500 sites.
Zarzal Zarzal is a municipality located in the north of the department of Valle del Cauca, in Colombia. Its economy is based primarily on the extensive cultivation of sugar cane, on small and medium enterprises in the metallurgic sector and on utilities.
ZarzÄ…d Transportu Miejskiego ZarzÄ…d Transportu Miejskiego (lit. Urban Transport Division, translated as Warsaw Transport Authority; ZTM) is the self-government-controlled body governing all means of public transport in the area of Warsaw.
Zarzov brothers The Zarzov Brothers, or Zarzovs, were two Melbourne-based radio hosts. Their program, The Dog's Breakfast, is broadcast on WYN-FM on Thursday evenings between 8-10pm and enjoys widespread support across Melbourne's western suburbs, attracting thousands of listeners.
Zang Ba Zang Ba (172 - 225) was a warrior during the end of the Han Dynasty and then during the Three Kingdoms period of China, first in the service of Tao Qian, then Lu Bu, and finally to Cao Cao and the Kingdom of Wei. The years of his birth and death are unknown, but he served Wei until the reign of Cao Rui.
Zang Fu theory Zang-Fu theory is a concept within traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) that describes the functions of the organs of the body and the interactions that occur between them. Zang 臟 refers to the yin organs - heart, liver, spleen, lung, kidney, pericardium - whilst Fu 腑 refers to the yang organs - small intestine, large intestine, gall bladder, urinary bladder, stomach and san jiao.
Zang Tumb Tumb Zang Tumb Tumb is a sound poem written in 1914 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, an Italian Futurist. It is an account of the Battle of Adrianople (1913) that uses creative typography ("words-in-freedom") and other poetic impressions of the events of the battle, including the sounds of gunfire and explosions.
Zangezur (1938 film) Zangezur is a 1938 Soviet Armenian film about Dashnak opposition to the incursion of Red Army and the local Bolshevik partisans in the Armenian province of Zangezur (present-day Syunik) at the time of Sovietization. The film featured Hrachia Nersisyan, Avet Avetisyan, and Hasmik Agopyan.
Zangezur Mountains The Zangezur Mountains comprise a mountain range that defines the border between Armenia's southern province of Syunik and Azerbaijan's Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic. The second large tracts of forests are located in Zangezur where they cover more than 20 per cent of the territory and reach an elevation of 2,200-2,400 m.
Zaniskari pony The Zaniskari pony is a breed found around Leh and Laddakh in the area of Jammu and Kashmir (Northern India). This breed is endangered by interbreeding with nondescript ponies, though the Animal Husbandry Department of Jammu and Kashmir has started a program for conservation at a farm in Leh.
Zanj Zanj (Arabic and Persian زنج "Land of the Blacks") was a name used by medieval Arab geographers to refer to a portion of the East African coast. The geographers divided the coast into several regions and Zanj (also transliterated as Zenj or Zinj) covered the coast from roughly Mogadishu in the north to Pemba Island in the south.
Zanja Madre The Zanja Madre (Spanish: Mother Ditch) is the original aqueduct that brought water to the Pueblo de Los Angeles from the Porciuncula River. It is referred to as an open, earthen ditch which was completed by community laborers within a month of founding the pueblo.
Zanjeer Zanjeer (Hindi: ज़ंजीर, Urdu: زنجیر, translation: Shackles), is a film from India starring Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan (his real-life wife), Pran and Ajit. The movie changed the trend from romantic films to action films and pioneered Amitabh's new image of a brooding but explosive person who fights back when cornered.
Zankou Chicken Zankou Chicken is a small, family-owned chain of Middle-Eastern fast casual restaurants within the Los Angeles area. Their specialty is rotisserie chicken served with a unique and very popular garlic paste and pita bread.
Zanni Zanni (from the Italian, dialectal nickname for Giovanni) was the archetype of the comic servant characters of the Commedia dell'arte. The character of Zanni was an older, impoverished man and hired servant of one of the other characters, typically Pantalone.
Zanniati Zanniati (full name Zanniati Oribatta) is a character from CrossGen Entertainment's Sigilverse. She appears in the Sigil comic series as a major character because she is Samandahl Rey's love, and Sam is the Sigil-Bearer in that part of the galaxy.
Zanobi Acciaiuoli Zanobi Acciaiuoli (25 May 1461—27 July 1519), a Florentine of the same family as Donato Acciaiuoli, and a Dominican monk, was Librarian of the Vatican under Leo X. He joined the Dominican convent on December 8, 1495.
Zanoni, Missouri Zanoni is an unincorporated community located in Ozark County, Missouri on Route 181 about ten miles northeast of Gainesville. A mill (doubling as a bed and breakfast) and a post office are all that remain of the community.
Zantedeschia Zantedeschia is a genus of twenty-eight species of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to southern Africa from South Africa north to Malawi. The name of the genus was given as a tribute to Italian botanist Giovanni Zantedeschi (1773-1846) by the German botanist Kurt Sprengel (1766 - 1833).
Zanthoxylum Zanthoxylum (from the Greek ξανθὸν ξύλον, "yellow wood") is a genus of about 250 species of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs in the family Rutaceae, native to warm temperate and subtropical areas worldwide. Common names include prickly-ash and hercules' club.
Zanthoxylum simulans Zanthoxylum simulans (Chinese Prickly-ash or Flatspine Prickly-ash), is a flowering plant in the family Rutaceae, native to eastern China and Taiwan. It is one of several species of Zanthoxylum from which Sichuan Pepper is produced (see that page for uses).
Zantman's Rock Zantman's Rock is located 34 miles to the west of the Land's End, Cornwall, near the Isles of Scilly (six miles away) and is barely visible on the surface of the waters. It is 2 miles north of Bishop's Rock Lighthouse.
Zantop Air Transport Zantop Air Transport was formed from Zantop Flying Service in 1962. The Civil Aeronautics Board approved transfer of the operating certificate of Coastal Airlines to Zantop Air Transport, which had incorporated and become a supplemental air carrier.
Zantop Cargo Flight of 11-Nov-1961 A Zantop Air Transport DC-4 was on final approach to Greater Cincinnati Airport runway 18, when it clipped some trees, lost altitude and crashed into a wooded area near the airport.The Middletown Journal, Tuesday November 14, 1961
Zantrex Zantrex is a herbal supplement marketed by "Zoller Laboratories", a subsidiary of Basic Research of Salt Lake City, Utah. It is marketed towards people under 30 in fast paced television advertisements depicting athletic-looking people.
Zany Afternoons Zany Afternoons is a book containing a collection of some of illustrator Bruce McCall's best comic paintings to 1982. It was published by Knopf in that year and featured works that originally appeared mainly in National Lampoon.
Zany Brainy Zany Brainy was a United States retail store chain that sold educational toys and multi-media products aimed at children ages 4-12. Its merchandise included games and puzzles; infant development toys; books, audiocassettes, and videos; arts and crafts; building toys and trains; computer software; electronic learning aids and musical instruments; science toys; plush toys and dolls; and sports-themed toys.
Zany Golf Zany Golf, also known as Will Harvey's Zany Golf, is an off-the-wall, whimsical fantasy take on a miniature golf computer game, developed by Sandcastle Productions and published by Electronic Arts. The game originated on the Apple IIGS computer platform in 1988 and was so successful, it became the first Apple IIGS game title to attract the mainstream gaming market and be ported to other platforms.
Zanzibar and Pemba People's Party The Zanzibar and Pemba People's Party (ZPPP) was a nationalist, African-dominated political party in Zanzibar. The ZPPP, in a coalition with the Arab-dominated Zanzibar Nationalist Party (ZNP), governed the island from 1961 to 1964.
Zanzibar Football Association The Zanzibar Football Association (ZFA) is the governing football (soccer) association on the island of Zanzibar, Tanzania. It is an associate member of the African governing body, the Confederation of African Football, but is not affiliated to FIFA.
Zanzibar Leopard The Zanzibar Leopard (Panthera pardus adersi) is an elusive and possibly extinct subspecies of leopard endemic to Unguja Island in the Zanzibar archipelago, off the coast of Tanzania. Increasing conflict between people and leopards in the 20th century led to their demonization and determined attempts to exterminate them.
Zanzibar Nationalist Party The Zanzibar Nationalist Party (ZNP) was a nationalist, Arab-dominated political party in Zanzibar. The ZNP, in a coalition with the African-dominated Zanzibar and Pemba People's Party (ZPPP), governed the island from 1961 to 1964.
Zanzibar Revolution The Zanzibar revolution of January 12, 1964 was the rebellion that overthrew Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah, and led to the proclamation of Zanzibar as a republic, and three months later, to Zanzibar's uniting with Tanganyika to form Tanzania.
Zanzibar Servaline Genet The Zanzibar Servaline Genet (Genetta servalina archeri) is a recently discovered subspecies of Servaline Genet endemic to Unguja Island in the Zanzibar archipelago, off the coast of Tanzania. Its conservation status is uncertain.
Zanzibar West Zanzibar West is one of the 2 districts of the Zanzibar Urban/West Region of Tanzania. It is bordered to the North by the Zanzibar North Region, to the East by the Zanzibar Central/South Region and to the West by the Zanzibar Urban District.
ZanZarah: The Hidden Portal ZanZarah: The Hidden Portal is an action-adventure computer game by German Funatics Development, released in 2002 by publisher THQ. An add-on, ZanZarah: The Lost Village (an unofficial title used by fans), has been in development in 2002 but was later cancelled.
Zao (US band) Zao is a metalcore band from Greensburg, Pennsylvania, which is widely considered to have pioneered the boundaries of Christian metal music. Founded in 1993 in Parkersburg, West Virginia, Zao has hosted several musicians and endured numerous roster changes to the point where no original members remain.
Zaolzie Zaolzie (, , literally: Trans-Olza River Silesia) was an area disputed between Poland and Czechoslovakia, west of Cieszyn. The term "Zaolzie" is used predominantly in Poland (literally meaning "lands beyond the Olza River") and also commonly by the Polish minority living on this territory.
Zaouia Zaouia (Arabic زاŮŮŠŘ© "corner"), also spelled zawiya or zawiyah, is a Maghrebi and West African term for an Islamic religious school cum monastery, roughly corresponding to the Eastern term "madrassa". In precolonial times, these were the primary sources for education in the area, and taught basic literacy to a large proportion of children even in quite remote mountainous areas - leading to a 40% literacy rate in Algeria in 1830, for instance, which was actually higher than after the French left.
Zaozhuang Zaozhuang () is a prefecture-level city in southern Shandong province, People's Republic of China. The second smallest prefecture-level city in the province, it borders Jining to the west and north, Linyi to the east, and the province of Jiangsu to the south.
Zaozyorny Zaozyorny () is a town in the Krasnoyarsk Krai, the administrative center of the Rybinskiy District. Located upon the river Barga, the affluent of Kan, in 166 km eastward of Krasnoyarsk on the 4263 km of the Trans-Siberian Railway (Zaozyornaya railway station).
Zap Zodiac Zap Zodiac was a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic The Beano. Drawn by Steve Horrocks, it first appeared in issue 3259, dated 1 January 2005, as part of Comic Idol- a selection of three comic strips to be voted in by Beano readers (the other two being Hugh Dunnit and Christmas Carole).
Zapadnaya Litsa Zapadnaya Litsa is the largest and most important Russian naval base built for the Northern Fleet. The base is located far in the north of Russia, on the Litsa Fjord at the westernmost point of the Kola Peninsula.
Zapata Espinoza Zapata 'Zap' Espinoza is a journalist and an editor for Motocross Action Magazine, a Hi-Torque Publication. He was formerly editor of two American mountain biking magazines, and was inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in 1995.
Zapata Westerns Zapata Westerns, nickname given to a subgenre of the so-called Italian "Spaghetti Westerns" which dealt with overtly political themes in the mid-to-late 1960s. They were named after Emiliano Zapata, the famous Mexican revolutionary from the Mexican Revolution of 1913, during which most of these films took place.
Zapatista Army of National Liberation The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN) is an armed revolutionary group based in Chiapas, one of the poorest states of Mexico. Their social base is mostly indigenous but they have supporters in urban areas as well as an international web of support.
Zapatourist A Zapatourist is a person who visits Chiapas or other EZLN-controlled area of Mexico, ostensibly for the purpose of learning and/or teaching but is more interested in sightseeing than becoming involved. This phenomenon is a byproduct of increased interest in autonomous groups in developing countries among leftists in the developed countries.
Zapf Dingbats Zapf Dingbats is one of the more common dingbat typefaces, which first gained wide distribution as one of 35 PostScript fonts built into Apple's LaserWriter Plus. It was designed by the typographer Hermann Zapf and licensed by International Typeface Corporation.
Zaporizhia (region) Zaporizhia (Ukrainian: Запоріжжя, Zaporizhia; Polish: ZaporoĹĽe or Dzikie Pola (Wild Fields or Savage Steppe), Russian: ЗапороĚжье, Zaporozhye) is a historical region of Ukraine. It is situated about the Dnieper River, below the Dnieper rapids (porohy, poroĹĽa), hence the name, translated as "territory beyond the rapids".
Zaporizhian Sich Zaporizhian Sich or Zaporozhian Sech (,Zaporiz'ka Sich) original Slavonic name "Zaporizhska Sich'" was the center of the Cossacks of Zaporizhzhia. The term has also been metonymically used as an informal reference to the whole Zaporizhzhia or to the Zaporozhian Host.
Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is the largest nuclear power plant not only in Ukraine but also in Europe. The plant is located in Central Ukraine near the city of Zaporizhia, on the banks of the Kakhovka Reservoir on the Dnieper river.
Zaporozhets The Zaporozhets (, Zaporozhets; , Zaporozhets) was a brand name of subcompact cars designed and built from 1958 at the ZAZ factory in Soviet Ukraine ("Zaporozhsky Avtomobilny Zavod", or Zaporozhsky Automobile Factory). Different types of Zaporozhets were produced until 1994.
Zaporozhets za Dunayem Zaporozhets za Dunayem (, translated as A Zaporozhian (Kozak) Beyond the Danube, also referred to as Cossacks in Exile) is a Ukrainian comic opera in three acts with music and libretto by the composer Semen Hulak-Artemovsky (1813-1873). The orchestration has subsequently been rewritten by composers such as Reinhold Glière and Hryhoriy Maiboroda.
Zaporozhian Host The Zaporozhian Host () or Zaporozhian Voisko (, Zaporizke Viysko, sometimes translated as Zaporozhian Cossack Army), also called Zaporizhian Sich after its fortified capital, was a political, social, and military organization of Ukrainian (Ruthenian) Cossacks, from the 16th to the 18th centuries. It was established in the central Ukrainian territory called Zaporizhzhia, below the rapids of the Dnieper river.
Zapote Bobal Zapote Bobal is A large size Maya site that shows occupation from the Late Preclassic to the Late Classic, with more than 65 main structures in the central area and residential groups, there are 16 carved monuments in the central area and several more in its surroundings, (16 Stelas and 21 Altars, mainly in front of Structure 55 named El cementerio, or graveyard for this feature). The central area was constructed in a natural elevation some 1 Km long and 700 mt.
Zapotec civilization The Zapotec civilization was an indigenous pre-Columbian civilization of southern Mesoamerica. Archaeological evidence shows their culture goes back at least 2500 years. They left archaeological evidence at the ancient city of Monte Albán in the form of buildings, ball courts, magnificent tombs and grave goods including finely worked gold jewelry. Monte Albán was the first major city in the western hemisphere and the center of a Zapotec state that dominated much of what we know of as the current state of Oaxaca.
Zapotec language Zapotec language(s) describes a group of closely-related indigenous Mesoamerican languages spoken by the Zapotec people from Mexico's southwestern-central highlands region. Present-day numbers of native speakers are estimated at over half a million, with the majority inhabiting the state of Oaxaca.
Zapotec people The Zapotecs are an indigenous people of Mexico, concentrated in the state of Oaxaca but also with communities spread into some of the neighbouring states. Present-day population may be estimated at approximately 300,000 to 400,000 persons, many of whom are monolingual in one of their native Zapotec languages and dialects (The Zapotec languages together with the near-relative Chatino language form a wider language group, called also Zapotecan.
Zapp (band) Zapp (also known as the Zapp Band) was a soul, funk and electro funk band formed in 1978 by brothers Roger Troutman , Larry Troutman, Lester Troutman, and Terry Troutman, and also included Bobby Glover, Eddie Barber, Jannetta Boyce, Jerome Derrickson, Sherman Fleetwood, Gregory Jackson, Michael Warren, Robert "BIGG ROBB" Smith, Dale Degroat, Riccardo Bray, Bart "sure2b" Thomas & Nicole Cottom.
Zapp Brannigan General Major Webelo Zapp Brannigan is a fictional character in the television series Futurama. He is also referred to (mainly by himself) as "The Zapper," "The Velour Fog," "Big Z," and "Zapp Brannigan, the man with no name.
Zappa Plays Zappa Zappa Plays Zappa is the name of a 2006 concert tour where a band led by Dweezil Zappa, the oldest son of the late composer and musician Frank Zappa, played shows in Europe and the United States during May and June (the tour was also known as Zappa Plays Zappa - Tour de Frank). The shows presented a collection of Frank Zappa's rock-oriented compositions from 1960s to 1980s.
Zappa-Szep product In mathematics, especially group theory, the Zappa-Szep product (also known as the knit product) describes a way in which a group can be constructed from two subgroups. It is a generalization of the direct and semidirect products.
Zapple Monitor The Zapple Monitor was a firmware-based product developed by Roger Amidon (Bio (pdf)) at Technical Design Laboratories (also known as TDL). TDL was based in Princeton, New Jersey, USA in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Zaptie Zaptié was the designation given to locally raised gendarmerie units in the Italian colonies of Tripolitania, Cyrenaica, Eritrea and Somalia between 1889 and 1942. The word "Zaptié" was derived from Turkish and the same title was given to mounted police recruited from the Turkish community in Cyprus during the period of British rule.
Zaqiel Zaqiel (Aramaic: סתר×× ×ś, Greek: â€ÎˇĎκειήλ) is was the 15th Watcher of the 20 leaders of the 200 fallen angels that are mentioned in an ancient work called the Book of Enoch. The name is believed to mean "purity of God" (zaqaq-el).
Zar Points Zar Points is an advanced, statistically-derived method for evaluating Contract Bridge hands developed by Zar Petkov for use by players of intermediate or better skill. The statistical research Petkov conducted in the areas of hand evaluation and bidding is useful to any advanced bridge player, regardless of their bidding or hand evaluation system, but the research showed that the Milton Work point count method, even when adjusted for distribution, does not accurately describe hands.
Zar'it-Shtula incident The Zar'it-Shtula incident was a cross-border attack committed by Lebanon-based Hezbollah special forces on an Israeli military patrol on 12 July 2006 on Israeli territory. The operation was originally named "Freedom for Samir Al-Quntar and his brothers" by Hezbollah, but it was shortened to "Operation Truthful Promise".
Zara (clothing) Zara is the flagship chain store for the Spanish Inditex Group, which also owns brands such as Massimo Dutti, Pull and Bear, Stradivarius and Bershka. The group is headquartered in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, where the first Zara store opened in 1975.
Zara class cruiser The Zara class was an Italian heavy cruiser design of the Regia Marina from the early 1930s, considered by many to be one of the best cruiser designs of World War II. Four ships of the class were completed, Zara, Fiume, Pola and Gorizia, all of which saw extensive service during the war.
Zara Glover Zara Glover (born 24 January 1982 in Preston in Lancashire), is one of England's and the worlds leading Ten-pin bowlers. She is a world champion bowler and a bowling tutor for Brunswick Bowling Academies across Europe.
Zara Phillips Zara Anne Elizabeth Phillips MBE (born 15 May 1981) is the only daughter of Princess Anne and her first husband, Captain Mark Phillips. She is the eldest granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II and is currently 11th in the British Order of Succession.
Zara Sheikh Zara Sheikh (Urdu: زارا شیخ) (born May 7, 1978 in Karachi, Pakistan) is a famous Pakistani model and actress. Zara Sheikh is a successful model who was well known in the world of fashion well before she made her debut in feature films.
Zara Yaqob Zar'a Ya`qob (Ge'ez á‹áአ:ያዕቆብ zarĘżÄ yÄĘżiqĹŤb "Seed of Jacob," Amh. zer'a yÄ'iqĹŤb) (1399–1468) was (19 or 20 JuneGetachew Haile, "A Preliminary Investigation of the "Tomara Tesse't" of Emperor Zar'a Ya'eqob of Ethiopia" in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol.
Zaragoza (province) Zaragoza (also called Saragossa in English) is a province of northern Spain, in the central part of the autonomous community of Aragon. It is bordered by the provinces of Lerida, Tarragona, Teruel, Guadalajara, Soria, La Rioja, Navarre, and Huesca.
Zarahemla According to the Book of Mormon, the Land of Zarahemla (popularly attributed to Biblical Hebrew "seed of compassion") was the Nephite capital for many years, and it was discovered by Mosiah sometime between 323 and 130 B.C.
Zaramo The Zaramo are a Bantu people who are based in eastern Tanzania, particularly in the area between Dar es Salaam and Bagamoyo. In 2000 the Zaramo population was estimated to number 656,730 Information page with particular reference Zaramo art
Zarankiewicz problem In the mathematical field of extremal graph theory, the Zarankiewicz problem asks how many edges can be added to a bipartite graph while avoiding a specific bipartite subgraph. Initially, the Polish mathematician K.
Zarapicos Zarapicos (meaning Fox bites in English) is a municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 20 kilometres from the city of Salamanca and as of 2003 has a population only 79 people.
Zaratan The Zaratan is an enormous, passive turtle from the fictional Dungeons & Dragons fantasy Role Playing Game. Zaratans can grow to have shells over 300 feet in diameter which can be mistaken for small tropical islands due to the fact that they spend the majority of their lives asleep.
Zarathandra The Zarathandra series is comprised of two books written by Donald Aamodt in which human Sandy McGregor is called to an alternate world by a sorcerer in search of a demon to help him. There he learns the rules of the game, gains companions and himself becomes a sorcerer to reckon with.
Zarathustra's Roundelay Zarathustra's Roundelay is a philosophical poem that features as a central motif in the book Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche. The roundelay first appears in Chapter 59: The Second Dance-Song, as a mysterious revelation that precedes Chapter 60: The Seven Seals, a conclusion and affirmation of Zarathustra's middle-aged philosophical escapades.
Zarautz Zarautz (the official and Basque spelling) is a coastal village located in Gipuzkoa Province in the Basque Country. The town is a popular tourist destination with the population swelling from its usual 22,056 to around 60,000 in summer.
Zardip's Search for Healthy Wellness Zardip's Search for Healthy Wellness was an educational Canadian television show from the 1980s intended to teach public health messages to schoolchildren. Zardip Pacific, played by Keram Malicki-Sánchez, is an alien who takes the form of a boy and ventures to Earth to report the habits of humans to his home planet.
Zardoz Zardoz is a 1974 science fiction film directed by John Boorman and starring Sean Connery in one of his first post-James Bond roles. Filmed on a small budget of US$1 million, Zardozs mixture of cerebral, philosophical sci-fi was in complete contrast to Boorman's previous film, the brutal thriller Deliverance.
Zardozi Zardozi (Hindi: ज़र्डोज़ि, Urdu: زرÚŮزŮ) work is a type of embroidery in India. It prospered during the Mugal Emperor, Akbar but later due to loss of royal patronage and industrialization, led to its decline.
Zaretan Zaretan (also known as Zarethan or Zeredathah) is a city mentioned in the Bible, as the location where the Hebrews crossed the Jordan. In the books of Judges and 2 Kings, it is called Zarethan, but in II Chronicles it is called Zeredathah.
Zarf (All My Children) Zoe (born Fredrick "Freddie" Luper) is a fictional character on ABC's daytime drama All My Children. She has been played by Jeffrey Carlson beginning in August 2006 and then returning from November 29th, 2006 onward.
Zarhon Zarhon (also spelled Zarhun) is a mountain in Morocco, 91 mi N. of Meknes, on whose hillside is the town "Moulay Idris Zarhona", called after Moulay Idris I, the founder of the Moorish empire, who was buried there in 791 CE.
Zarch Zarch is a computer game written by David Braben (better known as the co-author of Elite) in three months in 1987, for the release of the Acorn Archimedes computer. It was groundbreaking for the time, featuring a three-dimensional mouse-controlled craft (the "lander") flying over a tile-rendered landscape that dazzled reviewers in a primarily 2D-dominated game industry - ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment) magazine led with the headline "SOLID 3D - the future of games?
Zariski geometry In mathematics, a Zariski geometry consists of an abstract structure introduced by Ehud Hrushovski and Boris Zilber, in order to give a characterisation of the Zariski topology on an algebraic curve, and all its powers. The Zariski topology on a product of algebraic varieties is very rarely the product topology, but richer in closed sets defined by equations that mix two sets of variables.
Zariski surface In algebraic geometry, a branch of mathematics, a Zariski surface is a surface over a field of characteristic p > 0 such there is a dominant inseparable map of degree p from the projective plane to the surface. In particular, all Zariski surfaces are unirational.
Zariski tangent space In algebraic geometry, the Zariski tangent space is a construction that defines a tangent space, at a point P on an algebraic variety V (and more generally). It does not use differential calculus, being based directly on abstract algebra, and in the most concrete cases just the theory of a system of linear equations.
Zariski topology In mathematics, namely algebraic geometry, the Zariski topology is a particular topology chosen for algebraic varieties that reflects the algebraic nature of their definition but is only weakly related to their geometric properties; it is due to Oscar Zariski and took a place of particular importance in the field around 1950. Joe Harris likes to say in his introductory lectures that it is "not a real topology" and points out that in the Zariski topology, every two algebraic curves are homeomorphic simply because their underlying sets have equal cardinalities and their topologies are both cofinite.
Zarkesh Zarkesh is one of the many family names created by Haj Ali in Khoramabad, Iran, along with names such as Zarinbakhsh. This last name comes from the Persian word for "jeweller" There are many people named Zarkesh around the world today.
Zarlor Mercenary Zarlor Mercenary was an action game for the Atari Lynx handheld console, released by Epyx. It was a vertically-scrolling shoot 'em up in which the player controlled a spacecraft destroying enemy spaceships and buildings in order to earn money which could be used to buy upgrades between levels.
Zarphatic language Zarphatic or Judæo-French (Zarphatic: Tsarfatit) is an extinct Jewish language, formerly spoken among the Jewish communities of northern France and in parts of what is now west-central Germany, in such cities as Mainz, Frankfurt am Main, and Aachen.
Zarqa Governorate Zarqa (Arabic الزرقاء az-ZarqÄ, local dialects ez-ZergÄ or ez-Zer'a, "The Blue One") is one of the governorates of Jordan, located east of Amman, the capital of Jordan. Its capital is Zarqa, which is the largest city in the governorate.
Zarqa Nawaz Zarqa Nawaz, a Muslim Canadian woman of Pakistani origin born in Liverpool and raised in the Toronto area, is a freelance writer, broadcaster, and filmmaker living in Regina, Saskatchewan. Initially planning to go to medical school, after completing a Bachelor of Science degree Nawaz decided to study journalism, completing a second degree at Ryerson University in 1992.
Zarra, Valencia Zarra, in the autonomous community of Valencia, is the smallest of the seven villages that make up the Valle de cofrentes.The others are: Ayora; Jalance; Teresa de Cofrentes; Jarafuel; Cofrentes and Cortes de Pallás.
Zarubintsy culture The Zarubintsy culture was one of the major archaeological cultures which flourished in the area north of the Black Sea along the upper Dnieper and Pripyat Rivers, stretching west towards the Vistula Basin from the 3rd or 2nd centuries BC until the 2nd century AD. It was identified ca 1899 and is now attested by about 500 sites.
Zarzal Zarzal is a municipality located in the north of the department of Valle del Cauca, in Colombia. Its economy is based primarily on the extensive cultivation of sugar cane, on small and medium enterprises in the metallurgic sector and on utilities.
ZarzÄ…d Transportu Miejskiego ZarzÄ…d Transportu Miejskiego (lit. Urban Transport Division, translated as Warsaw Transport Authority; ZTM) is the self-government-controlled body governing all means of public transport in the area of Warsaw.
Zarzov brothers The Zarzov Brothers, or Zarzovs, were two Melbourne-based radio hosts. Their program, The Dog's Breakfast, is broadcast on WYN-FM on Thursday evenings between 8-10pm and enjoys widespread support across Melbourne's western suburbs, attracting thousands of listeners.
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