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Zug
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. [Zug] ([Media helphelp]·[info]), capital of the Swiss canton of that name, is a picturesque little town at the northeastern corner of the lake of Zug, and at the foot of the Zugerberg (3255 ft.), which rises gradually, its low..
ZUG
ZUG may refer to: Zug.com, a comedy website run by John Hargrave.the acronym for the Z User Group.A computer language ZOPL utility generator later renamed RTM Zug may refer to: Zug, the capital of the Swiss canton of that name.Stack No. 4 - Zug, the name of a character from children's series TUGS.''..
Zug.com
Zug (or ZUG) is a comedy website that was founded in 1995 by John Hargrave and Genevieve Martineau. The website, which bills itself as "the world's only comedy site," began as a webzine, but Zug expanded from that format in 1998 with the addition of a threaded message board, later named GAB, which ..
Zugarramurdi
Zugarramurdi is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain. External link [ZUGARRAMURDI in the Bernardo Estornés Lasa - Auñamendi Encyclopedia (Euskomedia Fundazioa)] () ..
Zugdidi
Zugdidi (Georgian ზუგდიდი) is a city in the Western Georgian historical province of Mingrelia (Samegrelo). It is situated in the north-west of that province. The city serves as centre of the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region. Napoleon’s death mask is on display in the Zugdidi historica..
Zugereister
In countries where German is spoken (basically Germany, Switzerland and Austria), a Zugereister (literal translation from German: "someone who has travelled here [and stayed]") is someone who, for whatever reason (job, marriage, free will), has moved to a different region and settled there ..
Zuggtmoy
In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Zuggtmoy (or Tsuggtmoy) is the Demoness Lady of Fungi, "dread and fell ruler of the 222nd ghastly plane of the Abyss." The demoness Zuggtmoy has always been mentioned in first edition Dungeons and Dragons Greyhawk supplements as an ally and perhaps cons..
Zugló
Zuglo is a mainly an ethnically Hungarian neighborhood, with Communist era style highrise apartments sprinkled between decently kept one house residential streets. As with most Budapest districts (and the country as a whole) there is a significant presence of Roma (Gypsies). Most of the Roma live in..
Zugot
Eras of the Halakha ZugotTannaimAmoraimSavoraimGeonimRishonimAcharonim Zugot (Hebrew: ) ((təqūphāth) hazZūghôth) refers to the hundred year period during the time of the Second Temple (515 BCE - 70 CE), in which the spiritual leadership of the Jewish people was in the hands of five success..
Zugspitze
The Zugspitze (Zug = "draught", Spitze = "peak") is the highest mountain in Germany. It is located at the Austrian border in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria. There is a cog railway (Zugspitzbahn) leading from the tourist resort of Garmisch-Partenkirchen to the peak. There are also ..
Zugunruhe
In ethology, zugunruhe is anxious behavior in migratory animals that are prevented from migrating, especially in birds. When these animals are enclosed, they exhibit this behaviour during the seasons which they normally be migrating. Behaviourists have been able to study the endocrine controls and n..
Zugzwang
Zugzwang (German for "compulsion to move", IPA: [?tsuːk.tsvɑŋ]) is a term used in combinatorial game theory and in other types of games (particularly in chess). Zugzwang means that one player is put at a disadvantage because he or she has to make a move — the player would like to ..
Zugzwang (musical work)
Zugzwang is a musical work by Juan Maria Solare. It is subtitled "Ffifteen authentic miniatures about the strategy of chess" for quartet: violin (or flute), Saxophone contralto (or clarinet), double bass (or cello) and piano (or synthesiser). Cologne, 29 January - 6 February 1999. [3'15" in l..
Zug (disambiguation)
Zug may mean: Zug, city in SwitzerlandCanton of Zug, SwitzerlandEV Zug, hockey team of Zug (Switzerland)Zug, Western Sahara, a cityzugot or zughoth, the ancient Mishnah rabbisZug, the name of a character from the children's series TUGS, see Stack No. 4 - Zug.Zug.com, a comedy site. See also ZUG. T..
Zug Island
Zug Island is an island in the city of River Rouge at the southern boundary with Detroit in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is at the mouth of the River Rouge where it spills into the Detroit River and is not a natural island, but was cut off by the digging of the Short Cut Canal along its southern e..
Zug Izland
From left to right: Dan Miller, Lil Pig, Mike P, Syn, and Guido. Zug Izland is a rock group, formerly associated with Psychopathic Records. Their first album was entitled Cracked Tiles, released in 2003. The lyrics were written by Violent J of the Insane Clown Posse. The group was then moved ..
Zu (god)
The Zu is also a recurring enemy monster in the Final Fantasy series; see Final Fantasy bestiary (N-Z). Fertile Crescentmyth series Mesopotamian Levantine Arabian Mesopotamia Primordial beings 7 gods who decree The great gods Demigods & heroes Tales from Babylon Spirits & ..
Zu Geng
Zu Geng (祖暅) was a Chinese mathematician who lived from c. 450 to c. 520. He was the son of another famous Chinese mathematician, Zu Chongzhi (祖沖之). He discovered the "Zu Geng's Principle", stating that "The volumes of two solids of the same height are equal if the areas of the plane secti..
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