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- Israeli-American violinist, violist, and conductor.
- Zukofsky, Louis
- American poet, the founder of Objectivist poetry and author of the massive poem "A."
- Zukor, Adolph
- American entrepreneur who built the powerful Famous Players-Paramount motion-picture studio. [2 Related Articles]
- Zulawy Wislane
- (from the article "Vistula River") ...the river finally turns northward to approach the Baltic. After receiving three further tributaries-the Osa from the right and the Wda and the Wierzyca from the left-the Vistula enters Zulawy Wislane, its delta area, renowned for its splendidly fertile soils. ...
- Zuleta, Emiliano
- Colombian folk musician (b. Jan. 11, 1912, La Jagua del Pilar, Colom.-d. Oct. 30, 2005, Valledupar, Colom.), was the acknowledged king of the vallenato, a song form that originated in Zuleta's native Caribbean coast region of Colombia and became wildly ...
- Zulfiqar Khan
- (from the article "India") ...was his second son, 'Azim al-Shan, who had accumulated a vast treasure as governor of Bengal and Bihar and had been his father's chief adviser. His principal opponent was Zulfiqar Khan (Dhu al-Fiqar Khan), a powerful Iranian noble, who was ...
- Zulia
- estado (state), northwestern Venezuela. Zulia is bounded north by the Gulf of Venezuela and west by Colombia. Except for two narrow corridors on the southeastern shore, the largest one lying between the states of Merida and Trujillo, it surrounds Lake ...
- zullah
- (from the article "Islamic arts") ...buildings erected at Kufah and Basra in Iraq and at al-Fustat in Egypt. At Kufah a larger square was marked out by a ditch, and a covered colonnade known as a zullah (a shady place) was put up on the ...
- Zuloaga y Zabaleta, Ignacio
- Spanish genre and portrait painter noted for his theatrical paintings of figures from Spanish culture and folklore.
- Zultepec
- (from the article "Anthropology and Archaeology") ...skeletons found at an archaeological site called Tecuaque, near Mexico City, provided grisly confirmation of Aztec practices of human sacrifice. The site was a flourishing Aztec community of 5,000 Zultepec Indians at the time of the Spanish conquest, and conquistador ...
- Zulu
- a nation of Nguni-speaking people in KwaZulu/Natal province, South Africa. They are a branch of the southern Bantu and have close ethnic, linguistic, and cultural ties with the Swazi and Xhosa. The Zulu are the single largest ethnic group in ... [20 Related Articles]
- Zulu language
- a Bantu language spoken by more than nine million people mainly in South Africa, especially in the Zululand area of KwaZulu/Natal province. The Zulu language is a member of the Southeastern, or Nguni, subgroup of the Bantu group of the ... [5 Related Articles]
- Zulu War
- (1879), decisive six-month war in eastern South Africa, resulting in British victory over the Zulus. Before the war the Tugela River formed the boundary between Zululand and the British colony of Natal. Cetshwayo (q.v.) became king of the Zulus in ... [5 Related Articles]
- Zululand
- historical region in the northeast section of present KwaZulu/Natal (formerly Natal) province, South Africa, and the home of the Zulu (q.v.) people. [1 Related Articles]
- Zulumart Range
- (from the article "Pamirs") ...and 6,100 metres), reaching its highest point at Lenin Peak, 23,405 feet. South from the Trans-Alay extend three north-south ranges. Of these the western, the Akademiya Nauk Range, and the central, Zulumart, are relatively short; and the eastern, the Sarykol ...
- Zuma, Jacob
- politician who served as deputy president of South Africa (1999-2005) and became president of the country's ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), in December 2007. [7 Related Articles]
- Zumalacarregui y de Imaz, Tomas de
- Spanish military tactician and the most brilliant soldier to fight for Don Carlos, a Bourbon traditionalist contender for the Spanish throne, in the First Carlist War (1833-39). [2 Related Articles]
- Zumaya, Manuel de
- (from the article "Latin American music") ...masses) of his time; the Puebla chapelmaster Juan Gutierrez de Padilla showed a special talent for composing polychoral pieces, including villancicos. Manuel de Zumaya, an early 18th-century Mexico City chapelmaster, produced the expected Latin music and
- Zumbo, Gaetano Giulio
- (from the article "wax sculpture") During the 17th century the polychromatic wax relief came into favour, especially in Spain and Italy. The most ambitious and successful sculptor to make reliefs of this type was Gaetano Giulio Zumbo, a Sicilian. In addition to artistic and religious ...
- zummarah
- (from the article "wind instrument") ...and copied in organ pipes late in the 15th century in Germany.) Sachs noted a double clarinet on a relief dated 2700 BC in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The same instrument is known today as zummarah (
- Zumpe, Johann Christoph
- German pianoforte maker and builder of the earliest known British piano (1766). [3 Related Articles]
- Zumsteeg, Johann
- German composer and conductor known as a pioneer in the development of the ballad.
- Zumthor, Peter
- Swiss architect known for his pure, austere structures.
- Zumwalt, Elmo Russell, Jr.
- admiral (ret.), U.S. Navy (b. Nov. 29, 1920, San Francisco, Calif.-d. Jan. 2, 2000, Durham, N.C.), was responsible for implementing a variety of reforms while serving as the U.S. Navy's chief of naval operations from 1970 to 1974; he was ...
- zun
- any of a wide range of ancient Chinese wine vessels. These forms are characterized by an ample interior volume for containing wine and a wide opening for drinking.
- Zunbil
- (from the article "Iran") ...counterbalanced by an urban population whose economy could be bolstered by plunder gained through military forays into still non-Muslim areas under the rule of the southern Hephthalites-the Zunbils of the Hindu Kush's southwestern flanks-whose command of trade routes with India ...
- Zune
- (from the article "Computers and Information Systems") Apple faced competition from Microsoft, whose new Zune digital music player was to vie for customers' attention and help launch Microsoft's online music store, the Zune Marketplace. The Zune included wireless capability that would enable users to share favourite songs, ...
- Zunftrevolution
- (from the article "merchant guild") ...constitution rather than through the merchant guild as such. It followed that such guilds were unlikely to survive the urban social upheavals of the late 13th and 14th centuries, the so-called Zunftrevolution ("guild revolution"), which transferred all or part of ...
- Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale
- (from the article "diagnosis") ...test and the sentence-completion test.The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), a 21-item self-administered test, measures subjective experiences and psychological symptoms associated with depression.The Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale, which can be self-administered or given by a trained interviewer, employs 20 items to ...
- Zungur, Sa'adu
- (from the article "African literature") ...but poets tended to be drawn from a wider range of occupations, and poetry became far less the preserve of Muslim functionaries. A number of well-known poems were composed by the political leader Sa'adu Zungur; among the best known is ...
- Zuni
- North American Indian tribe of what is now west-central New Mexico, on the Arizona border. The Zuni are a Pueblo Indian group and speak a Penutian language. They are believed to be descendants of the prehistoric Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi). Zuni ... [13 Related Articles]
- Zuni language
- (from the article "Penutian languages") ...Klamath-Modoc, Cayuse (extinct), Molale (extinct), Coos, Takelma (extinct), Kalapuya, Chinook (not to be confused with Chinook jargon, a trade language or lingua franca), Tsimshian, and Zuni, each a family consisting of a single language. All but four of the surviving ...
- Zuniga, Francisco
- (from the article "Latin American art") Perhaps the best sculptor in this political moderne style was Francisco Zuniga, a transplanted Costa Rican who was naturalized and active in Mexico at midcentury. In his nearly life-size stone and bronze sculpture and drawings, he portrayed large-proportioned indigenous women ...
- Zunyi
- city, northern Guizhou sheng (province), southern China. It is situated on the main route from the provincial capital of Guiyang in the south to Chongqing in the north. [1 Related Articles]
- Zunyi Conference
- (from the article "Mao Zedong") ...as a figurehead with little control over policy, especially in military matters. In any case, he achieved de facto leadership over the party (though not the formal title of chairman) only at the Zunyi Conference of January 1935 during the ...
- Zunz, Leopold
- German historian of Jewish literature who is often considered the greatest Jewish scholar of the 19th century. He began (1819) the movement called Wissenschaft des Judentums ("Science of Judaism"), which stressed the analysis of Jewish literature and culture with the ... [2 Related Articles]
- Zunzunegui, Juan Antonio de
- Spanish novelist and short-story writer whose straightforward narrative technique was rooted in the 19th century. His subject was chiefly social criticism of modern life in Bilbao and Madrid. A member of the Spanish Academy from 1957, Zunzunegui received the National ...
- Zuo Zongtang
- Chinese administrator and military leader, one of the scholar-officials who worked to suppress the great rebellions that threatened the imperial government during the second half of the 19th century. Zuo's efforts helped revive the declining Qing (Manchu) dynasty (1644-1911/12) and ... [4 Related Articles]
- Zuoz Bridge
- (from the article "bridge") ...designer to break completely with the masonry tradition and put concrete into forms technically appropriate to its properties yet visually surprising. For his 1901 bridge over the Inn River at Zuoz, he designed a curved arch and a flat roadway ...
- Zuozhuan
- ancient commentary on the Chunqiu ("Spring and Autumn [Annals]") and the first sustained narrative work in Chinese literature. [1 Related Articles]
- zupan
- (from the article "Montenegro") The Slav peoples were organized along tribal lines, each headed by a zupan (chieftain). In this part of the Adriatic littoral, from the time of the arrival of the Slavs up to the 10th century, these local ...
- Zupancic, Oton
- (from the article "Slovene literature") ...Bailiff Yerney and His Rights), the most widely translated Slovene author, whose prose and dramas depict brilliantly both urban and rural despair and modern anomie. Cankar's contemporary, Oton Zupancic, wrote poetry in a somewhat lighter vein, but his vision of ...
- zupanija
- (from the article "Croatia") ...of Representatives for amendment within 15 days of its passage. It is composed of three representatives elected by majority vote from 20 administrative districts called zupanije and from the capital city of Zagreb. In addition, five representatives ...
- Zuppke, Bob
- American college football coach, credited with introducing (in the early 1920s) the offensive huddle, enabling the team with the ball to plan each play immediately before executing it. He inspired his former player, George Halas, to help form the National ...
- Zur
- (from the article "Jordan River") ...into the plain of between about 1,300 and 10,000 feet (400 and 3,000 metres) wide and about 50-200 feet (15-60 metres) deep. Along this stretch, the Jordan's floodplain is known as the Zur; it describes so many meanders that, although ...
- zur Hausen, Harald
- German virologist who was a corecipient, with Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier, of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Zur Hausen was given half the award in recognition of his discovery of the human papilloma virus (HPV) and ...
- Zurara, Gomes Eanes de
- (from the article "Henry the Navigator") The starting point of Henry's career was the capture of the Moroccan city of Ceuta in 1415. According to Henry's enthusiastic biographer, Gomes Eanes de Zurara, the three princes persuaded their still-vigorous father to undertake a campaign that would enable ...
- Zuray'ids
- (from the article "Sulayhid dynasty") ...1067-84), 'Ali's son, saw the Sulayhid possessions begin to diminish: the Najahids reappeared in the north, while in the south Aden was given to the Zuray'ids, a related dynasty also of Isma'ili persuasion. Late in his reign Ahmad transferred effective ...
- Zurbaran, Francisco de
- major painter of the Spanish Baroque, especially noted for religious subjects. His work is characterized by Caravaggesque naturalism and tenebrism, the latter a style in which most forms are depicted in shadow but a few are dramatically lighted. [2 Related Articles]
- Zurich
- canton, northeastern Switzerland, with an area of 668 sq mi (1,729 sq km), of which about 80 percent is reckoned as productive, including about 195 sq mi of forests. Of the rest, 28 sq mi are occupied by lakes, chiefly ... [1 Related Articles]
- Zurich
- largest city of Switzerland and capital of the canton of Zurich. Located in an Alpine setting at the northwestern end of Lake Zurich, this financial, cultural, and industrial centre stretches out between two forested chains of hills, about 40 miles ... [12 Related Articles]
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