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- American songwriter best known for writing the scores for the musicals No, No, Nanette (1925), Hit the Deck (1927), and the first Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers vehicle, Flying Down to Rio ...
- Young
- town, south-central New South Wales, Australia, on Burrangong Creek and the Western Slopes of the Great Dividing Range. The first settlement in 1830 was a sheep station. Known as Lambing ...
- Young America Movement
- philosophical, economic, spiritual, and political concept in vogue in the United States during the mid-1840s and early 1850s. Taking as its inspiration the European youth movements of the 1830s, Young ...
- Young American Bowling Alliance
- (from the article "bowling") ...and the joint issuance of credentials to the mixed leagues that made up more than 70 percent of their late 1980s combined membership of approximately 7,000,000. A third membership organization, ...
- Young Belgium
- (from the article "Belgian literature") Impetus for the long-awaited literary renaissance came from Max Waller, founder in 1881 of an influential review, La Jeune Belgique ("Young Belgium"), which suggested a national literary ...
- Young Bosnia
- (from the article "Bosnia and Herzegovina") ...annexation caused among Serb and South Slav nationalists led to the growth of revolutionary groups and secret societies dedicated to the overthrow of Habsburg rule. One of these, Mlada Bosna ...
- Young Centre for the Performing Arts
- (from the article "Performing Arts") Back in Toronto, the good news included the completion of a major new facility, the Young Centre for the Performing Arts, a 4,100-sq-m (44,000-sq-ft) high-tech home, carved out of a ...
- Young Christian Workers
- Roman Catholic movement begun in Belgium in 1912 by Father (later Cardinal) Joseph Cardijn; it attempts to train workers to evangelize and to help them adjust to the work atmosphere ... [1 Related Articles]
- Young Czechs
- (from the article "Austria") ...of the Taaffe cabinet did not satisfy the Czechs, for example, but rather encouraged a mood of belligerence; because the moderate Old Czechs failed to live up to radical demands, ...
- Young England
- (from the article "Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl Of Beaconsfield, Viscount Hughenden Of Hughenden") ...was not given office in the Cabinet. He was mortified at the rebuff, and his attitude toward Peel and his brand of Conservatism became increasingly critical. A group of young ...
- Young Frisian Movement
- (from the article "Frisian literature") In 1915 Douwe Kalma launched the Young Frisian Movement, which challenged younger writers to break radically with the provincialism and didacticism of past Frisian literature. This break had been anticipated ...
- young fustic
- (from the article "fustic") The dye termed young fustic (zante fustic, or Venetian sumac) is derived from the wood of the smoke tree (Cotinus coggygria, or Rhus cotinus), a southern European and Asian shrub ...
- Young Germany
- a social reform and literary movement in 19th-century Germany (about 1830-50), influenced by French revolutionary ideas, which was opposed to the extreme forms of Romanticism and nationalism then current. The ... [4 Related Articles]
- Young Hegelians
- (from the article "Engels, Friedrich") ...Karl Gutzkow, and Heinrich Heine. But he soon rejected them as undisciplined and inconclusive in favour of the more systematic and all embracing philosophy of Hegel as expounded by the ...
- Young Ireland
- Irish nationalist movement of the 1840s. Begun by a group of Irish intellectuals who founded and wrote for the Nation, the movement advocated the study of Irish history and the ... [3 Related Articles]
- Young Italy
- movement founded by Giuseppe Mazzini in 1831 to work for a united, republican Italian nation. Attracting many Italians to the cause of independence, it played an important role in the ... [4 Related Articles]
- Young Jean Lee
- (from the article "Performing Arts") ...of Drama-caught fire in a staging at New York City's Public Theater, won a $50,000 Whiting Award, and was produced in London and Washington, D.C. Another newcomer, Korean American playwright ...
- Young Kemalists
- (from the article "Turkey") ...Intervention proposed by senior officers in October 1961 was rejected by others. Two projected coups were foiled in February 1962 and May 1963. Members of a secret society within the ...
- Young Maori Party
- association of educated, westernized Maori of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, dedicated to bringing about a degree of cultural assimilation of the Maori nation to the dominant pakeha ...
- Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association
- Jewish community organization in various countries that provides a wide range of cultural, educational, recreational, and social activities for all age groups in Jewish communities. The goals of the YM-YWHA ...
- Young Men's Buddhist Association
- (from the article "Myanmar") The new leaders first turned their attention to the national religion, culture, and education. In 1906 they founded the Young Men's Buddhist Association (YMBA) and through it began establishing a ...
- Young Men's Christian Association
- nonsectarian, nonpolitical Christian lay movement that aims to develop high standards of Christian character through group activities and citizenship training. It originated in London in 1844, when 12 young men, ... [5 Related Articles]
- Young New Zealand Party
- parliamentary group that became most palpable as a vigorous faction within the parliamentary opposition to the Conservative government of Harry Albert Atkinson (1887-90) and that provided the Liberal Party with ...
- Young of Dartington, Michael Dunlop Young, Baron
- British lawyer, sociologist, and social reformer (b. Aug. 9, 1915, Manchester, Eng.-d. Jan. 14, 2002, London, Eng.), was best known for having written the Labour Party's 1945 social-welfare manifesto and ...
- Young of Farnworth, Janet Mary Baker Young, Baroness
- British politician (b. Oct. 23, 1926, Widnes, Lancashire, Eng.-d. Sept. 6, 2002, Oxford, Eng.), was the first woman to serve as leader of the House of Lords; a committed conservative, ...
- Young Ottomans
- secret Turkish nationalist organization formed in Istanbul in June 1865. A forerunner of other Turkish nationalist groups (see Young Turks), the Young Ottomans favoured converting the Turkish-dominated multinational Ottoman Empire ... [3 Related Articles]
- Young Plan
- (1929), second renegotiation of Germany's World War I reparation payments. A new committee, chaired by the American Owen D. Young, met in Paris on Feb. 11, 1929, to revise the ... [6 Related Articles]
- Young Poland movement
- diverse group of early 20th-century Neoromantic writers brought together in reaction against Naturalism and Positivism. Inspired by Polish Romantic writers and also by contemporary western European trends such as Symbolism, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Young Polish Composer's Publishing Co.
- (from the article "Szymanowski, Karol") ...early age. In 1901 he went to Warsaw and studied harmony, counterpoint, and composition privately until 1904. Finding the musical life in Warsaw limiting, he went to Berlin, where he ...
- Young Tunisians
- political party formed in 1907 by young French-educated Tunisian intellectuals in opposition to the French protectorate established in 1883. [2 Related Articles]
- Young Turk Revolution of 1908
- (from the article "Ottoman Empire") Several conspiracies took place against Abdulhamid. In 1889 a conspiracy in the military medical college spread to other Istanbul colleges. These conspirators came to call themselves the Committee of Union ...
- Young Turks
- coalition of various reform groups that led a revolutionary movement against the authoritarian regime of Ottoman sultan Abdulhamid II, which culminated in the establishment of a constitutional government. After their ... [13 Related Articles]
- Young Turks
- (from the article "Philadelphia") In about 1900 Philadelphia had been described as "corrupt but content," a status quo that Philadelphians were indeed content with until 1939, when a group known as the Young Turks ...
- young urban professional
- (from the article "hippie") ...mid-1970s the movement had waned, and by the 1980s hippies had given way to a new generation of young people who were intent on making careers for themselves in business ...
- Young Vic
- (from the article "Performing Arts") ...and a striking, if not wholly successful, stage version of Pedro Almodovar's film All About My Mother by Samuel Adamson, starring Diana Rigg and Lesley Manville. Across the road the ...
- Young Women's Christian Association
- nonsectarian Christian organization that aims "to advance the physical, social, intellectual, moral, and spiritual interests of young women." The recreational, educational, and spiritual aspects of its program are symbolized in ... [7 Related Articles]
- Young Zulu Kid
- (from the article "Wilde, Jimmy") ...title, on Jan. 25, 1915, when his corner threw in the towel during the 17th round against Tancy Lee of Scotland. After regaining the European title, Wilde fought the American ...
- Young's experiment
- classical investigation into the nature of light, an investigation that provided the basic element in the development of the wave theory and was first performed by the English physicist and ... [2 Related Articles]
- Young's modulus
- numerical constant, named for the 18th-century English physician and physicist Thomas Young, that describes the elastic properties of a solid undergoing tension or compression in only one direction, as in ... [7 Related Articles]
- Young, Aaron
- (from the article "Art and Art Exhibitions") ...in 2007, culminating in a much-discussed New York magazine article by critic Jerry Saltz that posed the question on everyone's mind: "Has Money Ruined Art?" In New York City, Aaron ...
- Young, Andrew
- American politician, civil-rights leader, and clergyman. [1 Related Articles]
- Young, Art
- satiric American cartoonist and crusader whose cartoons expressed his human warmth as well as his indignation at injustice. [1 Related Articles]
- Young, Arthur
- prolific English writer on agriculture, politics, and economics. Besides his books on agricultural subjects, he was the author of the famous Travels in France (or Travels During the Years 1787, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Young, Brigham
- American religious leader, second president of the Mormon church, and colonizer who significantly influenced the development of the American West. [11 Related Articles]
- Young, Charles Augustus
- American astronomer who made the first observations of the flash spectrum of the Sun, during the solar eclipses of 1869 and 1870. [1 Related Articles]
- Young, Chic
- U.S. cartoonist who created the comic strip "Blondie," which, by the 1960s, was syndicated in more than 1,500 newspapers throughout the world. [1 Related Articles]
- Young, Coleman
- American politician, who was the first African American mayor of Detroit, Michigan (1974-93). [1 Related Articles]
- Young, Cy
- professional U.S. baseball player, winner of more major league games than any other pitcher. His victory total is variously given as 509 or 511, the sum of his defeats 313, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Young, Edward
- English poet, dramatist, and literary critic, author of The Complaint: or, Night Thoughts (1742-45), a long, didactic poem on death. The poem was inspired by the successive deaths of his ... [1 Related Articles]
- Young, Ella Flagg
- American educator who, as Chicago's superintendent of schools, became the first woman to achieve that administrative status in a major American school system.
- Young, Francis Brett
- English novelist and poet who, although at times sentimental and long-winded, achieved wide popularity for his considerable skill as a storyteller. Among his best known novels, many of which are ...
- Young, Frederick Archibald
- British cinematographer whose visual flair and artistry added immeasurably to British films for more than 70 years, beginning with his work as an assistant cameraman on the 1922 silent Rob ... [4 Related Articles]
- Young, Gig
- (from the article "1969: Best Supporting Actor") Other Nominees
- Young, Hugo John Smelter
- British political journalist (b. Oct. 13, 1938, Sheffield, Eng.-d. Sept. 22, 2003, London, Eng.), for 30 years wrote with elegance and scholarship from a liberal perspective; his column was considered ...
- Young, John W.
- U.S. astronaut who participated in the Gemini, Apollo, and space shuttle projects. He served as Virgil I. Grissom's co-pilot on Gemini 3 (1965), the first U.S. two-man space flight. [2 Related Articles]
- Young, Joseph
- American singer and guitarist whose performances of his blend of blues and soul were enhanced by his professionalism, enthusiasm, and desire to please his audience; when his virtuoso playing career ...
- Young, La Monte
- (from the article "minimalism") ...against the complex, intellectually sophisticated style of modern music, several composers began to compose in a simple, literal style, thereby creating an extremely simple and accessible music. La Monte Young, ...
- Young, Lester
- American tenor saxophonist who emerged in the mid-1930s Kansas City, Mo., jazz world with the Count Basie band and introduced an approach to improvisation that provided much of the basis ... [7 Related Articles]
- Young, Loretta
- American motion picture actress noted for her ethereal beauty and refined, controlled portrayals of virtuous and wholesome women. [2 Related Articles]
- Young, Marguerite
- American writer best known for Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (1965), a mammoth, many-layered novel of illusion and reality. [1 Related Articles]
- Young, Michael
- (from the article "Baseball") The AL triumphed 3-2 in the annual All-Star Game, held in Pittsburgh on July 11. With two out in the top of the ninth inning, Michael Young of the Texas ...
- Young, Nedrick
- (from the article "1958: Other Winners") Original Screenplay: Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith for The Defiant OnesAdapted Screenplay: Alan Jay Lerner for GigiCinematography, Black-and-White: Sam Leavitt for The Defiant OnesCinematography, Color: Joseph Ruttenberg for GigiArt ...
- Young, Neil
- Canadian guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known for his eclectic sweep, from solo folkie to grungy guitar-rocker. [3 Related Articles]
- Young, Owen D.
- U.S. lawyer and businessman best known for his efforts to solve reparations issues after World War I. [2 Related Articles]
- Young, Paul Thomas
- (from the article "illusion") Another auditory illusion was described in 1928 by Paul Thomas Young, an American psychologist, who tested the process of sound localization (the direction from which sound seems to come). He ...
- Young, Robert
- American actor (b. Feb. 22, 1907, Chicago, Ill.--d. July 21, 1998, Westlake Village, Calif.), was best remembered for his portrayal of benevolent authority figures, starring in the title roles of ...
- Young, Sir Colville
- (from the article "Belize") Area: 22,965 sq km (8,867 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 306,000 | Capital: Belmopan | Chief of state: Queen Elizabeth II, represented by Governor-General Sir Colville Young | Head ...
- Young, Steve
- In 1993 Steve Young passed Joe Montana as the National Football League's best all-time passer, but he could not flee Montana's shadow. Young won his third consecutive passing championship, something ...
- Young, Thomas
- English physician and physicist who established the principle of interference of light and thus resurrected the century-old wave theory of light. He was also an Egyptologist who helped decipher the ... [12 Related Articles]
- Young, Victor
- (from the article "1956: Other Winners") ...Malcolm F. Brown and Cedric Gibbons for Somebody up There Likes MeArt Direction, Color: John DeCuir and Lyle R. Wheeler for The King and IMusic Score of a Dramatic or ...
- Young, Vince
- (from the article "Football") The University of Texas won the 2005-06 college football championship on quarterback Vince Young's dramatic "fourth-and-five" touchdown run from the 8-yd line with 19 seconds to play, defeating the University ...
- Young, Whitney M, Jr.
- articulate U.S. civil rights leader who spearheaded the drive for equal opportunity for blacks in U.S. industry and government service during his 10 years as head of the National Urban ... [1 Related Articles]
- Young-Helmholtz three-colour theory
- (from the article "eye, human") It was the phenomena of colour mixing that led Thomas Young in 1802 to postulate that there are three receptors, each one especially sensitive to one part of the spectrum; ...
- Younger Brothers
- four Midwestern American outlaws of the post-Civil War era-Thomas Coleman ("Cole"; 1844-1916), John (1846-74); James ("Jim"; 1850-1902), and Robert ("Bob"; 1853-89)-who were often allied with Jesse James.
- Younger Dryas climate interval
- (from the article "climate change") The warming trend was punctuated by transient cooling events, most notably the Younger Dryas climate interval of 12,800-11,600 years ago. The climatic regimes that developed during the deglaciation period in ...
- Younger Reuss
- (from the article "Reuss") ...the Russian (so designated after a trip to Russia and marriage to a Galician princess). It became Lutheran and split itself in 1564 into three lines, Elder Reuss, Middle Reuss ...
- Younger, James
- (from the article "Younger Brothers") four Midwestern American outlaws of the post-Civil War era-Thomas Coleman ("Cole"; 1844-1916), John (1846-74); James ("Jim"; 1850-1902), and Robert ("Bob"; 1853-89)-who were often allied with Jesse James.
- Younger, John
- (from the article "Younger Brothers") four Midwestern American outlaws of the post-Civil War era-Thomas Coleman ("Cole"; 1844-1916), John (1846-74); James ("Jim"; 1850-1902), and Robert ("Bob"; 1853-89)-who were often allied with Jesse James.
- Younger, Robert
- (from the article "Younger Brothers") four Midwestern American outlaws of the post-Civil War era-Thomas Coleman ("Cole"; 1844-1916), John (1846-74); James ("Jim"; 1850-1902), and Robert ("Bob"; 1853-89)-who were often allied with Jesse James.
- Younger, Thomas Coleman
- (from the article "James, Jesse; and James, Frank") ...Jesse and Frank shared their family's sympathy with the Southern cause when the American Civil War broke out (1861). Frank joined William C. Quantrill's Confederate guerrillas, becoming friends with Cole ...
- Younghusband, Sir Francis Edward
- British army officer and explorer whose travels, mainly in northern India and Tibet, yielded major contributions to geographical research; he also forced the conclusion of the Anglo-Tibetan Treaty (September 6, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Youngman, Henry
- American comedian (b. 1902/1906?, England--d. Feb. 24, 1998, New York, N.Y.), was heralded as the king of the one-liner. With his trademark violin and the catchphrase "Take my wife--please," Youngman ...
- Youngstown
- city, Mahoning and Trumbull counties, seat (1876) of Mahoning county, northeastern Ohio, U.S. It lies along the Mahoning River, near the Pennsylvania border, and is equidistant (65 miles [105 km]) ...
- Youngstown State University
- public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Youngstown, Ohio, U.S. It comprises Williamson College of Business Administration, Rayen College of Engineering and Technology, and colleges of arts and sciences, education, ...
- Younousmi, Adoum
- (from the article "Chad") ...10,239,000, excluding nearly 250,000 refugees from The Sudan | Capital: N'Djamena | Chief of state: President Lieut. Gen. Idriss Deby | Head of government: Prime Ministers Pascal Yoadimnadji, Adoum Younousmi ...
- Yount, Robin
- (from the article "Milwaukee Brewers") ...local minor league team, the Brewers. The Brewers struggled initially, posting a losing record in each of their first eight seasons in Milwaukee. The arrival of future Hall of Fame ...
- Yourcenar, Marguerite
- novelist, essayist, and short-story writer who became the first woman to be elected to the Academie Francaise (French Academy), an exclusive literary institution with a membership limited to 40. [1 Related Articles]
- Youssoufi, Abderrahmane
- (from the article "Morocco") ...1990s culminated in the election of the first opposition government in Morocco in more than 30 years. In 1997 opposition parties won the largest bloc of seats in the lower ...
- Yousuf, Mohammed
- (from the article "Cricket") Mohammed Yousuf of Pakistan also enjoyed a prolific year, scoring 1,788 runs in 2006 to break the record for the number of runs scored in a calendar year set in ...
- youth
- (from the article "rock") ...(quick sex and puppy love). It was therefore dismissed by many in the music industry as a passing novelty, "bubblegum," akin to the yo-yo or the hula hoop. But by ...
- Youth Aliyah
- (from the article "Szold, Henrietta") ...to her death. In 1931-33 she served in the Vaad Leumi, the executive committee of the Knesset Israel (Palestinian Jewish National Assembly). From its creation in 1933 she was director ...
- youth hostel
- supervised shelter providing inexpensive overnight lodging, particularly for young people. Hostels range from simple accommodations in a farm house to hotels able to house several hundred guests for days at ...
- Youth International Party
- (from the article "Hoffman, Abbie") American political activist and founder of the Youth International Party (Yippies), who was known for his successful media events.
- Youth Pledge
- (from the article "Indonesia") The nationalist sentiment resonated beyond political parties, however. On Oct. 28, 1928, a number of representatives of youth organizations issued the historic Youth Pledge (Sumpah Pemuda), whereby they vowed to ...
- YouTube
- (from the article "Performing Arts") ...reach out to a broader public via new media and technological formats. In May the Boston Pops announced that contestants in its annual POPSearch competition for amateur singers could audition ...
- Youwang
- (from the article "China") ...Liwang, a tyrant, and replaced him with a collective leadership headed by the two most influential nobles until the crown prince was enthroned. In 771 BC the Zhou royal line ...
- Youzhou
- (from the article "Beijing") ...including the site where Beijing now stands, was largely under the control of invading nomads. It was not recovered by the Han people until the Tang dynasty (618-907), when it ...
- Yovkov, Yordan
- Bulgarian short-story writer, novelist, and dramatist whose stories of Balkan peasant life and military experiences show a fine mastery of prose. [1 Related Articles]
- yowagin
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...(kotoba or serifu) of a play and melodic parts (fushi). The melodies of no can be categorized into two basic styles, the strong (tsuyogin) and the lyric (yowagin). Their differences ...
- Yozei
- (from the article "Japan") ...family members such as the empress Jingu and the princes Nakano Oe and Shotoku. Yoshifusa's son Mototsune became sessho during the minority of the succeeding emperor Yozei, and then in ...
- Yozgat
- city, central Turkey. The city lies on the site of a Bronze Age settlement 100 miles (160 km) east of Ankara in a valley of the Ak Mountains, at an ...
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