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3 unusual facts about Uru


Eddy County, New Mexico

Within the Myst and Uru series of computer games, Eddy County is the fictional location of The Cleft, a fissure near a dormant volcano leading down to the large D'ni Cavern.

Luis Jerónimo de Cabrera, 4th Count of Chinchón

During his government, he suppressed an insurrection of the Uru and Araucano Indians.

Ogidi, Anambra

After the migration of five of his children, the remaining four sons (Akanano, Uru, Ezinkwo and Ikenga) formed the present Ebo Ino (four quarters) of Ogidi.


Abagana

According to Late Chief Nwankwo Okakpu, a community leader and custodian of the peoples' culture, this man gave birth to nine children whose names are:- Ogidi, Okpala, Chime, Okwui, Ene, Dejili, Akpuche, Ajilija, and Uru-Ochu.

Bauru

According to him, the region was called ubaurú because of the abundance of an herbaceous plant called ubá, used for hampers and wicker baskets, and urú, a ground bird related to the chicken.

Kishumundu Secondary School

Kishumundu Secondary School is a private middle school in Kishumundu (east uru region), a small Tanzanian village at the slopes of the Kilimanjaru.

Melchizedek

Ṣedeq and El Elyon ("God most high") may have been two epithets of the same Jebusite god, identified as an astral deity, perhaps eponymous of Salem itself: Salim or Shalem (שלם) is attested as a god, presumably identified with the evening star, in Ugaritic mythology; URUŠalim in this case would be the city of Salim, the Jebusite astral deity.

Nara-Narayana

Narayana sent this nymph to Indra with them, and from her having been produced from the thigh (uru in Sanskrit) of the sage, she was called Urvashi.

Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise

At the 2013 Tokyo Anime Fair, Gainax announced that they are finally producing the Blue Uru film with Honneamise veterans Hiroyuki Yamaga as the director and screenwriter and Yoshiyuki Sadamoto as the character designer, but without Hideaki Anno's involvement in the project.

With the failure of the project, Hideaki Anno, who had been slated from the beginning to direct Aoki Uru, was freed up.


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