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Union suit
A union suit is a type of one-piece long underwear long favored by men in North America until recent times. Traditionally made of red flannel with long arms and long legs, it also traditionally buttoned up the front and had a button-up rear "access hatch" for sanitary needs. It was not uncommon up until the mid-1900s for rural men to wear the same union suit continuously all week, or even all winter.


UNISON
UNISON is the largest trade union in the United Kingdom, with around 1.4 million members. It was formed in 1993 when three previous public sector trade unions, the National Association of Local Government Officers, the National Union of Public Employees and the Confederation of Health Service Employees merged.


UNiSON
UNiSON: Rebels of Rhythm & Dance is a music game video game released for the PlayStation 2 in 2001 which featured unique controls and, at the time, beautiful graphics for its genre of game. It is heavily inspired by J-pop, anime and the formation of musical girl groups.


Unitard
A unitard is a skin-tight one-piece garment with long legs and sometimes long sleeves. It differs from a leotard in that a leotard does not have long legs. Unitards are worn by acrobaticss, gymnasts, dancers, superheroes and circus performers, as well as others.


Unitarianism
Historic Unitarianism believed in the oneness of God and not the Christianity doctrine of the Trinity proclaimed at the Council of Nicaea in 325 CE. Historic Unitarians believed in the moral authority, but not the deity, of Jesus. Unitarians are characterized by some as being identified through history as Free thinkings and dissenters, evolving their beliefs in the direction of rationalism and humanism.


United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates is a Middle Eastern country situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia on the Persian Gulf, comprising seven emirates: Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Quwain.


United Arab Republic
The United Arab Republic was the state formed by the union between the republics of Egypt and Syria in 1958. It existed until Syria's secession in 1961, although Egypt continued to be known as the UAR until 1971.


United Church of Christ
The United Church of Christ is a Mainline Protestantism Christian religious denomination principally in the United States, generally considered within the Reformed churches tradition, and formed in 1957 by the merger of two denominations, the Evangelical and Reformed Church and the Congregational Christian Churches.


United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country and state that lies off the northwest coast of mainland Europe Europe. Its territory and population are primarily situated on the island of Great Britain and in Northern Ireland on the island of Ireland, with additional settlements on numerous smaller islands in the surrounding seas.


United Methodist Church
The United Methodist Church is the largest Methodism, the largest mainline Christian denomination and, after the Southern Baptist Convention, the second-largest Protestantism Christian denomination in the United States. In as of 2004 worldwide membership was about 11 million members: 8.6 million in the United States, 2.4 million in Africa, Asia and Europe.


United Mine Workers
The United Mine Workers of America is a United States trade union that represents workers in mining. One of the groups in the forefront of the fight for collective bargaining in the early 20th century, the UMW was founded in Columbus, Ohio, on January 22, 1890, by the merger of two earlier groups, the Knights of Labor Trade Assembly No.


United Nations
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United Nations Children's Fund
The United Nations Children's Fund or UNICEF was established by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 1946. In 1953, its name was shortened from United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, but is still known by the popular acronym based on this old name.


United Nations Day
United Nations Day is celebrated internationally on 24 October for the purpose of informing the people of the world as to the aims, purposes, and achievements of the UN. It commemorates the coming into being of the United Nations on that day in 1945 when the UN Charter was ratified by all permanent members of the security council and more than half of the signatories.


United Nations Secretariat
The United Nations Secretariat is one of the principal organs of the United Nations and it is headed by the United Nations Secretary General, assisted by a staff of international civil servants worldwide. It provides studies, information, and facilities needed by United Nations bodies for their meetings.


United States
The United States of America, also known as the United States, the U.S., the U.S.A., and America, is a country in North America. A federal republic, the United States shares land borders with Canada and Mexico, and extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.The United States is also in extremely close proximity to Russia via the state of Alaska; separated only by the Bering Strait.


United States Air Force
The United States Air Force is the aerospace branch of the United States armed forces and one of the seven Uniformed services of the United States. Formerly part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947.


United States Air Force Academy
The United States Air Force Academy, located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Colorado,, is an institution for the undergraduate education of officers for the United States Air Force. Graduates of the four-year program receive a Bachelor of Science degree and most are commissioned as second lieutenants in the United States Air Force.


United States Army
The United States Army is the largest branch of the Military of the United States and has primary responsibility for army military operations. It is generally considered the most technologically advanced and one of the best-trained armies in the world, and the one most able to project its power.


United States Army Rangers
The 75th Ranger Regiment —also known as the United States Army Rangers— is a United States Special Operations Forces of the United States Army Special Operations Command; with headquarters in Fort Benning, Georgia. The Regiment is a flexible, highly-trained and rapidly deployable Light infantry Infantry force with specialized skills that enables it to be employed against a variety of conventional and special operations targets.


United States Army Special Forces
The United States Army Special Forces —also known by the nickname Green Berets or simply Special Forces— is a U.S. Special Operations Forces of the U.S. Army trained for unconventional warfare and special operations. The force was founded in 1952 by Colonel Aaron Bank and their official headgear is the green beret, thanks to the efforts of an early officer, Edson Raff.


United States Attorney General
The United States Attorney General is the head of the United States Department of Justice concerned with legal affairs and is the chief law enforcement officer of the government of the United States. They are considered the chief lawyer of the US government.


United States Border Patrol
The United States Border Patrol, a Federal police force, is the mobile uniformed law enforcement arm of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a bureau of the Department of Homeland Security. Mounted watchmen of the U.S. Immigration Service patrolled the border in an effort to prevent illegal crossings as early as 1904, but their efforts were irregular and undertaken only when resources permitted.


United States Cabinet
The Cabinet is a part of the Executive of the Federal Government of the United States consisting of the heads of United States Federal Executive Departmentss. Despite having evolved as one of the most powerful organs of the contemporary U.S.


United States Coast Guard
The United States Coast Guard is a branch of the United States Military of the United States involved in maritime law, mariner assistance, and search and rescue, among other duties of coast guards elsewhere. As one of the seven uniformed services of the United States, and the smallest United States armed forces, its stated mission is to protect the public, the environment, and the United States economic and security interests in any maritime region in which those intere


United States Congress
The United States Congress is the legislature of the United States federal government. It is bicameralism, comprising the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. The House of Representatives has 435 members, each representing a congressional district and serving a two-year term.


United States Constitution
The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States. It was adopted in its original form on September 17, 1787 by the United States Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania and later ratification by state-selected delegates representing the people of the U.S. states., When delegates in nine states of the then thirteen states ratified the document, it marked the creation


United States Department of Defense
The United States Department of Defense is the federal department charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government relating directly to national security and the military. Note that the United States Coast Guard is not part of the DOD; although it is a military force, it is normally under the authority of the Department of Homeland Security.


United States Department of State
The United States Department of State, often referred to as the State Department, is the United States Cabinet-level foreign affairs agency of the United States Government of the United States, equivalent to foreign ministries in other countries. It is administered by the United States Secretary of State.


United States dollar
For details of current banknote and coins, see Federal Reserve Note and United States coinage. The dollar is the unit of currency of the United States. It is normally abbreviated to the dollar sign $, or alternatively US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies.


United States Fish and Wildlife Service
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service is a unit of the United States Department of the Interior that is dedicated to managing and preserving wildlife. Units in the Fish and Wildlife Service include: * National Wildlife Refuge System * Bird Habitat Conservation * Federal Duck Stamp


United States Government Printing Office
The Government Printing Office is an agency of the legislative branch of the United States federal government. The office prints and provides access to documents produced by and for all three branches of the federal government, including the United States Supreme Court, the United States Congress, and all executive branch agencies.


United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is one of the bicameralism of the United States Congress, the other being the United States Senate. Each U.S. state is represented in the House proportionality to its List of U.S. states by population, and is entitled to at least one Representative.


United States Intelligence Community
The United States Intelligence Community is a cooperative federation of sixteen Federal government of the United States agencies and organizations that work separately and together to conduct intelligence activities considered necessary for the conduct of foreign relations and the protection of the national security of the United States.


United States Marine Corps
The United States Marine Corps is a branch of the United States armed forces, responsible for providing power projection from the sea, utilizing the mobility of the U.S. Navy to rapidly deliver combined-arms task forces to global crises. Along with the U.S. Navy, it falls under the United States Department of the Navy.


United States Marshals Service
The United States Marshals Service, a bureau within the United States Department of Justice, is a federal police organization with special spheres of authority and at the same time the oldest federal law enforcement agency in the United States . There is some controversy regarding this fact.


United States Military Academy
The United States Military Academy, also known as West Point, or simply USMA , is a United States Army fort and United States military academies. Established in 1802, it is the oldest military academy in the United States. Students are referred to as cadets.


United States Mint
The United States Mint primarily produces circulating currency for the United States to conduct its trade and commerce. The main Mint facility is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and branch mint are located in Denver, Colorado, San Francisco, California, and West Point, New York.


United States Naval Academy
The United States Naval Academy is an institution for the undergraduate education of officers of the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps and is located in Annapolis, Maryland. The Academy is often referred to simply as "Annapolis" although naval officers normally refer to it in conversation as "the Academy," "the Yard," or "the Boat School." Sports media refers to the Academy as Navy, and this usage is officially endorsed.


United States Navy
The United States Navy is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for conducting navy operations. Its stated mission is "to maintain, train and equip combat-ready Naval forces capable of winning wars, deterring aggression and maintaining freedom of the seas." The U.S.


United States Postal Inspection Service
The United States Postal Inspection Service is the law enforcement arm of the United States Postal Service. Its jurisdiction is defined as "crimes that may adversely affect or mail fraud use the U.S. Mail, the postal system or postal employees." The USPIS is a major federal law enforcement agency.


United States Postal Service
The United States Postal Service is an "independent establishment of the executive branch" of the United States Government responsible for providing postal service in the United States. Within the United States, it is generally referred to as "the post office."


United States Public Health Service
The United States Public Health Service was founded first by President John Adams in 1798 as a loose network of hospitals to support the health of American seamen. It is the uniformed service of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and one of the seven United States Uniformed Services.


United States Secret Service
he United States Secret Service is a United States Federal government of the United States government of the United States law enforcement agency that is part of the United States Department of Homeland Security .


United States Senate
he United States Senate is one of the two chambers of the Congress of the United States, the other being the United States House of Representatives. In the Senate, each U.S. state is equally represented by two members; as a result, the total membership of the body is currently 100.


United States Virgin Islands
The United States Virgin Islands are a group of islands in the Caribbean that are an insular area of the United States. These islands are geographically part of the Virgin Islands. The U.S. Virgin Islands consist of the four main islands of Saint Thomas, United States Virgin Islands, Saint John, United States Virgin Islands, Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands, Water Island, U.S. Virgin Islands, and many Minor islands of the U.S. Virgin Islands


Universal joint
A universal joint, U joint, Gerolamo Cardano joint or Hardy-Clarence W. Spicer joint is a joint in a rigid rod that allows the rod to 'bend' in any direction. It consists of a pair of ordinary hinges located close together, but oriented at 90 relative to each other.


Universal Product Code
The Universal Product Code is one of a wide variety of bar code languages called symbologies. The U.P.C. was the original barcode widely used in the United States and Canada for items in stores.


Universe
The term universe has a variety of meanings, based on the context in which it is used. In strictly materialism terms, the total universe is the summation of all matter that exists and the space in which all events occur or could occur. The part of the universe that can be seen or otherwise observed to have occurred is usually called the known universe, observable universe, or visible universe.


University
A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees at all levels in a variety of subjects. A university provides both tertiary education and quaternary education. The word university is derived from the Latin universitas magistrorum et scholarium, roughly meaning "community of masters and scholars".


University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1890 by John D. Rockefeller, the University of Chicago held its first classes on October 1, 1892. Chicago was one of the first universities in the country to be conceived as a combination of the American interdisciplinary liberal arts college and the German research university.


University of Michigan
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor is a coeducation public university research university in the U.S. state of Michigan. Founded in 1817 some 20 years before the territory of Michigan officially became a state, the university moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1837.


University of North Carolina
The University of North Carolina is a sixteen university system which comprises all public four-year universities in North Carolina, United States. While the system's Board of Governors oversee general system policy, each campus executes a large degree of autonomy from the system and are classified as separate institutions.


University of Paris
The historic University of Paris first appeared in the second half of the 12th century, but was in 1970 reorganized as 13 autonomous university. The university is often referred to as the Sorbonne or La Sorbonne after the collegiate institution founded about 1257 by Robert de Sorbon, but the university as such is older and was never completely centered on the Sorbonne.


University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private university, nonsectarian research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. According to the university, it is the fourth oldest institution of higher education in the U.S. and America's first university.


University of Pittsburgh
The University of Pittsburgh is a state-related, doctoral/research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ranked among the top public universities in the country, it is frequently referred to simply as Pitt. Many of Pitt's academic programs are ranked among the best in the nation.


University of Sussex
The University of Sussex is an England campus university located near the East Sussex village of Falmer, near Brighton and Hove. It is the only university in England to be entirely located in an Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty in England, that of the South Downs, and to run entirely on electricity from renewable energy sources.


University of Vermont
The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, or simply "The University of Vermont," is a public university located in Burlington, Vermont. The university was chartered at the impetus of Ira Allen in 1791, under the name "University of the Green Mountains," or in Latin Universitas Viridis Montis, and is the sixth oldest college in New England, after Harvard College, Yale University, Castleton State College, Dartmouth College, and Brown University.


University of Washington
"The University of Washington" redirects here. See Washington University in St. Louis for Washington University. The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, Washington. Also known as Washington and locally as The U or UW , it is the largest university in the Pacific Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast of the United States.


University of Wisconsin
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public university located in Madison, Wisconsin. Founded in 1848, it is the largest university in the state with a total enrollment of over 41,000 students, of whom approximately 29,000 are undergraduates. This makes the university the List of largest US universities by enrollment in the United States in terms of student population.


Unix
Unix or UNIX is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T Bell Labs employees including Ken Thompson , Dennis Ritchie, and Douglas McIlroy. Today's Unix systems are split into various branches, developed over time by AT&T, several other commercial vendors, as well as several non-profit organizations.


Unknot
The unknot arises in the knot theory. Intuitively, the unknot is a closed loop of rope without a knot in it. A knot theorist would describe the unknot as an image of any embedding that can be deformed, i.e. ambient-isotoped, to the standard unknot, i.e.


Unpredictable
Unpredictable is Jamie Foxx's second studio release. It sold over 598,000 copies in its first week of release, the last week of December 2005, however was kept out of the #1 position by Mary J. Blige, whose album The Breakthrough sold 730,000 copies. After debuting in its first week at No.


Unreal
Unreal is a first-person shooter computer game developed by Epic Games and published by GT Interactive on May 22, 1998. It was powered by an original gameplay and computer engine that Unreal engine, one that had been in development for over three years before the game was released.


Unsolved
Track listing # "Small Fires" # "The Lived-But-Yet-Named" # "Sever" # "The Roots And The Ruins" # "Number Six" # "One Less Blues" # "The Halo Of The Strange" # "The Angels Just Have To Show" # "This Day Next Year"


Unspoken
Unspoken is Contemporary Christian music artist Jaci Velasquez's fifth English album. It was released on March 25,2003, debuting at #55 in the Billboard Top 200. seven weeks later, it was off the charts. Nevertheless, it did extremely well in the Top Gospel Albums chart.


Unsupportive
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Unwind
Unwind is the second album from post-grunge band Oleander. It is their second album released on Universal Records. The song "Halo" was included in the soundtrack of the film American Pie 2. The song "Champion" became a hit and a symbol of the sacrifice of firefighters during the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York.


Unwrapped
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Unwritten Law
Unwritten Law is a United States punk rock band that started in 1990. They broke out in 1999 for their best known singles "Cailin'", "Up All Night" and "Seein' Red" in 2002 and have recently released a new single "Save Me" in December 2004 which appears on their latest album Here's to the Mourning.


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