Upa (Упа́) is a river in Russia, right tributary of Oka River. Length 345 km. Other related archivesOka River, Russia, tributary

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Župa, Župa - Western Slavs, Župa - Southern Slavs, Župa - Compare, Župa - Sources and References

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The župas were prominent in the Balkans among the South Slavs throughout the Middle Ages. De Administrando Imperio (10th c. Byzantine text) talks of horion as the territorial units of the Slavs, referring to the župe. The župan title was also used in Wallachia (in modern Romania). When Slovenia was partitioned between Italy, Hungary, and Germany on 17 April 1941, in the Italian portion, named province of Lubiana, the new administration was lead by an Italian High Commissioner, but there also were Presidents of the Cou ...

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The Upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria), an evergreen plant in the mulberry family, grows prediminantly in Southeast Asia, mainly India and Sri Lanka. It is known to produce a poisonous latex, known in Java as "Upas", from the Javanese word for "poison". The name of the upas tree has become famous from the mendacious account (professedly by one Foersch, who was a surgeon at Samarang in 1773) published in the London Magazine, December 1783, and popularized by Erasmus Darwin in Loves of the Plants (Botanic Gard ...

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The Upa-Puranas : The eighteen Upa-Puranas are: Sanatkumara, Narasimha, Brihannaradiya, Sivarahasya, Durvasa, Kapila, Vamana, Bhargava, Varuna, Kalika, Samba, Nandi, Surya, Parasara, Vasishtha, Devi-Bhagavata, Ganesa and Hamsa.

Excerpt from All About Hinduism by Sri Swami Sivananda

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The Upa-Vedas: There are four Upa-Vedas or subsidiary Vedas, viz., the Ayurveda, the Dhanurveda, the Gandharva Veda and the Arthasastra, forming auxiliaries to the four Vedas, which mean, respectively, the science of health, the science of war, the science of music and the science of polity.

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The Eighteen Puranas: There are eighteen main Puranas and an equal number of subsidiary Puranas or Upa-Puranas. The main Puranas are: Vishnu Purana, Naradiya Purana, Srimad Bhagavata Purana, Garuda (Suparna) Purana, Padma Purana, Varaha Purana, Brahma Purana, Brahmanda Purana, Brahma Vaivarta Purana, Markandeya Purana, Bhavishya Purana, Vamana Purana, Matsya Purana, Kurma Purana, Linga Purana, Siva Purana, Skanda Purana and Agni Purana.

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The puranas are among the most widely read religious scriptures in India. The word purana literally means "narrative of ancient times". The puranas are said to be contemporaneous with the Vedas . The Chandogya Upanishad calls them the fifth veda . Eighteen major ( maha ) and eighteen subsidiary ( upa ) puranas are recognised.

The authorship of all the puranas is attributed to rishi Vedvyasa, who also compiled the four Vedas, the Mahabharata and the Vedanta Sutras . The puranas deal with a variety of Gods, mainly Vishnu, Shiva and Shakti, catering to the diverse human temperaments and their varied approaches to spirituality.|

(See also: Puranas, Faith and Belief, Spiritual Guidance, God and Religion, Peace on Earth, Peace of Mind, Love and Happiness, Life and Beyond, Body Mind and Soul)

upa: (Sanskrit) A common prefix conveying the meanings: "towards, near to (as opposed to apa, away), by the side of, with, below."

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Ultimate (commonly called Ultimate Frisbee) is a competitive non-contact team sport played with a disc that has a mass of 175 g. The object of the game is to score points by passing the disc into the opposing endzone, similar to American football. Players may not run while holding the disc. The game was invented in 1968 as an evening pastime. Ultimate is distinguished by its Spirit of the Game - the princ ...

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• Ultimate sport - History
• Ultimate sport - The Early Days late 1960's
• Ultimate sport - Ultimate Goes to College - 1972
• Ultimate sport - Ultimate Spreads to Clubs - 1976
• Ultimate sport - Ultimate gets Organized - the UPA - 1979-80
• Ultimate sport - Rules of play
• Ultimate sport - Object
• Ultimate sport - Teams
• Ultimate sport - Field
• Ultimate sport - Indoor
• Ultimate sport - Beach Ultimate
• Ultimate sport - Gameplay
• Ultimate sport - Change of possession
• Ultimate sport - Stoppages of play
• Ultimate sport - Substitutions
• Ultimate sport - Refereeing
• Ultimate sport - Observers
• Ultimate sport - Strategy
• Ultimate sport - Spirit of the Game
• Ultimate sport - Cheers
• Ultimate sport - Pick-up games
• Ultimate sport - Hat tournaments
• Ultimate sport - Current leagues
• Ultimate sport - Terms
• Ultimate sport - Major Tournaments

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Bratislava county is a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is presently in western Slovakia. Its name was changing with the name of Bratislava. The names around 1900 were Pozsony vármegye in Hungarian, Prešpurská župa in Slovak and Preßburger Gespanschaft in German. Other related archivesGespanschaft, Kingdom of Hungary, Slovakia, comitatus, župa

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Upanayanam (from upa: auxiliary and nayanam: eye) literally means bringing (the ultimate truth) nearer in sight. This ceremony is called Munja in the state of Maharashtra. Its origin lies in worship of Munja, a deity on the Pipal tree. This deity is a bachelor and is worshipped throughout Maharashtra. As per Indian traditions, the Pipal tree represents knowledge. This is the origin of the ceremony. The sacred thread was added later on. Upanayan has got one more meaning that Upa na(over/above) yan am(it is) ...

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Ǯ (minuscule: ǯ) is a modified letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from ezh (ʒ) with the addition of a caron. In the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet, it represents a voiced lenis laminal affricate (IPA equivalent: d͡ʒ). Following its UPA usage, it was adopted in the Skolt Sami alphabet for the same value. It typically appears doubled, where it represents a geminate

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The Threshold of hearing is the Sound pressure level SPL of 20 µPa (micropascals) = 2 × 10-5 pascal (Pa). This low threshold of amplitude (strength or sound pressure level) is frequency dependent. See the frequency curve in Fig. 2. The absolute threshold of hearing (ATH) is the minimum amplitude (level or strength) of a pure tone that the average ear with normal hearing can hear in a noiseless environment. The threshold of pain is the SPL beyond which sound becomes unbearable for a human listen ...

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Upaya is a term in Mahayana Buddhism which is often translated as "means", though literally "expedient" would be more accurate, as "upaya" (from upa√i) refers to something which goes or brings you up to something (i.e., a goal). The term is often used with kaushalya ("cleverness"); upaya-kaushalya means roughly "skill in means". Upaya-kaushalya is a concept which emphasizes that practitioners may use their own specific methods or techniques in order to cease suffering and introduce others to the dharma. The impl ...

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United Progressive Alliance (UPA) is the present ruling coalition of political parties in India. Its constituents include: Indian National Congress (INC) Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) Lok Jan Shakti Party (LJNSP) Indian Union Muslim League (I ...

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A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) is the first of many prime-time animated TV specials based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. It was produced by former Warner Bros. and UPA animator Bill Melendez. A Charlie Brown Christmas - Synopsis. A Charlie Brown Christmas features Charlie Brown's search for meaning in the Christmas holiday. He starts the special seeking to understand why he always ends up depressed around the holidays. On the advice of Lucy, he gets involv ...

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• A Charlie Brown Christmas - Themes
• A Charlie Brown Christmas - History
• A Charlie Brown Christmas - Versions
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• A Charlie Brown Christmas - Sequels

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Seuss's story had originally appeared on a children's record in the late 1940s, read by radio personality The Great Gildersleeve. This film was the first successful theatrical cartoon produced by United Productions of America (UPA), after their initial experiments with a short series of cartoons staring Columbia Pictures stalwarts The Fox and the Crow. It was meant to be an artistic attempt to break away from the ultra-realism in animation that had been developed and perfected by Walt Disney. While Disney's animation methods produced ...

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Gerald McBoing-Boing, Gerald McBoing-Boing - UPA film and sequels, Gerald McBoing-Boing - Print Adaptations, Gerald McBoing-Boing - TV series, Gerald McBoing-Boing - The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show 1956-1957, Gerald McBoing-Boing - Gerald McBoing-Boing 2005-present

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The following table describes the consonants of the UPA. Note that the UPA does not distinguish voiced fricatives from approximates, and does not contain many characters of the IPA such as [ɹ]. When there are two or more consonants in a column, the rightmost one is voiced; when there are three, the centre one is partially devoiced. ...

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Uralic Phonetic Alphabet, Uralic Phonetic Alphabet - General, Uralic Phonetic Alphabet - Vowels, Uralic Phonetic Alphabet - Consonants, Uralic Phonetic Alphabet - Modifiers, Uralic Phonetic Alphabet - Sample use of UPA

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A vowel to the left of a dot is illabial (unrounded); to the right is labial (rounded). Other vowels are denoted using diacritics; see the section below. The UPA also uses three characters to denote a vowel of uncertain quality: ɜ denotes a vowel of uncer ...

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Uralic Phonetic Alphabet, Uralic Phonetic Alphabet - General, Uralic Phonetic Alphabet - Vowels, Uralic Phonetic Alphabet - Consonants, Uralic Phonetic Alphabet - Modifiers, Uralic Phonetic Alphabet - Sample use of UPA

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