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INDEX SEARCH RESULTS FOR: UR
Ur - the royal cemetery
- backgammon board
- and Leonard Woolley
Ural-Altaic languages - in linguistic map
Uranienborg - and Tycho Brahe
Uranus - in Greek mythology
- and Herschel
- discovered in 1781
Urban II - and Rome
- and the first crusade
Urban VI - elected pope in 1378
Urban VIII - and the Barberini ceiling
- and the Baldacchino
- and Galileo
Urfaust - by Goethe
Uri - one of the Waldstätte
urinal - exhibited by Duchamp
URNG - in Guatemala
Urquiza, Justo José de - in Argentina
Ursula, St - and the Virgin Islands
Urubamba valley - Cuzco, Machu Picchu
URUGUAY
- tour through time
Uruk - and Gilgamesh
USA
- census from 1790
- and the League of Nations
- and German U-boats in World War I
US Constitution - ratified in 1788
- 13th Amendment
- 14th Amendment
- 15th Amendment
- 16th and 19th amendments
Usher Gallery - Lincoln
Usher Hall (Edinburgh)
Usman dan Fodio - leader of the Fulani
Ussher, James - age of the world
USSR - formed in 1923
- invasion of Afghanistan
usury - and medieval Christianity
- and the Jews
Utah - ceded by Mexico in 1848
- statehood in 1896
Utamaro, Kitagawa - and the Japanese colour print
Uther Pendragon - and King Arthur
Utilitarianism - and Bentham
utility (World War II)
Utopia - by Thomas More
- brief account
Utrecht - and Willibrord
- treaty of 1713
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