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Us-kab-wan-ka River
Us-kab-wan-ka River is a small tributary of the Cloquet River, in northeastern Minnesota in the United States. It is approximately 21 mi (34 km) long, along with its tributaries, the Us-kab-wan-ka River drains an area of 40.43 mi² (104.7 km²). Via the Cloquet River and the St. Louis River, it is..

Usk
This is about the town in Monmouthshire. For the hamlet in British Columbia, see Usk, British Columbia. Usk (Welsh: Brynbuga) is a small picturesque town in Monmouthshire, Wales, situated 10 miles northeast of Newport. The River Usk flows through the town and is spanned by an ancient, arched stone ..

Usk, British Columbia
Usk is a hamlet in British Columbia, Canada just off of British Columbia provincial highway 16 north-east of Terrace on the north bank of the Skeena River. Once famous for berry-growing, a flood in the 1930s destroyed most of the community. A few people still live there now. Access is by reaction ..

Uska
Uska is a small village in the Uttar Pradesh province of northern India, near the border with Nepal. ..

Uskaarj
Uskaarj is a total conversion mod for Unreal Tournament 2004 by the uskaarj RTS Dev team. In Uskaarj , the player assumes the role of a commander controlling forces in a RTS environment in the UT2k4 engine. The mod sports a RTS interface like can be found in most RTS games like StarCraft or [[C..

Uskhal Khan
Uskhal Khan, born Tögüs Temür (r. 1378-1388), was the Mongol Khan of the Yuan Dynasty in Mongolia. He used the era name Tianyuan (天元). Although Ming sources say that he was a son of Biligtü Khan, Tögüs Temür was his younger brother[[Citing sources citation needed]]..

Uskmouth
Uskmouth is an area in south-east Newport, South Wales. It includes a wildlife reserve with reedbeds and grasslands that attract breeding birds such as lapwings, redshanks, oystercatchers, little ringed plovers and ringed plovers, as well as visitors such as wigeons, shovelers, teals, shelducks and ..

Uskoks
The uskoks (sing. uskok) were fugitive Catholic Croats that inhabited the areas of Dalmatia during the Ottoman wars in Europe. Etymologically, the word uskok itself means "jump in" in Croatian. Bands of uskoks fought a fairly successful guerrilla war against the Ottomans, as they formed small units ..

Uskoreniye
Uskoreniye (Russian: ) was a slogan and a politics announced by Mikhail Gorbachev on April 20, 1985 at a Party Plenum, aimed at the acceleration of social and economical development of the Soviet Union. It was the first slogan of his set of reforms that also included perestroika, glasnost, "new thi..

Usko Meriläinen
Usko Meriläinen (January 2, 1930 - November 12, 2004) was a Finnish composer. His works include: Symphony No. 1 (composed 1953–1955)Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 (1955)Arius (ballet) (composed 1958–1960)Epyllion (1963)Symphony No. 2 (1964)Musique du Printemps (1969)Symphony No. 3 (197..

Usku language
Usku is a nearly extinct and poorly documented Papuan language spoken by about 20 people in Usku village, Papua, Indonesia. External links [Ethnologue report for language code:ulf] ..

Usk (HM Prison)
Her Majesty's Prison USK and Prescoed The prison is located in the picture postcard town of Usk in Monmouthshire, South Wales. Usk prison is unusual in that the establishment only holds vulnerable prisoners and sex offenders. Usk prison can hold 150 male inmates. The prison has full disabled and ..

Usk (hundred)
The hundred of Usk is a division of the traditional county of Monmouthshire. It is situated in the centre of the county and is bounded to the north by the hundreds of Abergavenny and Raglan; to the east and south by the hundred of Caldicot; and to the west by the hundred of Wentloog. It contains th..

Usk Island
Usk Island (sometimes The Island, Usk) is a park in the village of Usk, Monmouthshire in Wales. It is named after the small, incidental island in the middle of the nearby River Usk. The park is fairly large and is mostly laid to grassland, but has some surrounding woodland. It also has a substantial..

Usk Reservoir
The Usk Reservoir is located in the upper Usk Valley, at 1050m above sea level, in Carmarthenshire, south Wales. The reservoir is situated in part of the Brecon Beacons National Park. Completed in 1955, it now covers some 280 acres of land. It can be located just off the minor road between Trecas..

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