town, central Paraguay. It is situated in the westward extension of the Brazilian Highlands. Its name means "water of God" in the ancient Guarani language. Founded in 1887, it serves ...
(from the article "Paraguay") ...Lake Ypoa, about 40 miles (65 km) south of Asuncion, merges into Lake Vera; it is drained by channels of the Tebicuary and feeds the marshes of the Neembucu plain. ...
(from the article "Paraguay") Paraguay has only two lakes of consequence. The largest, Lake Ypoa, about 40 miles (65 km) south of Asuncion, merges into Lake Vera; it is drained by channels of the ...
(from the article "lepidopteran") ...as external parasites on plant hoppers; related family: Cyclotornidae (Australian; larvae live similarly when young, then move to ants' nests).More than 1,500 species worldwide; a limited and not very ...
municipality, West Flanders province (province), western Belgium. It lies along the Yperlee (Ieperlee) River, south of Ostend. Ypres became a major cloth-weaving city in the Middle Ages, ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "Rye") ...Ports (a confederation of English Channel ports) in about 1350. Edward III walled the town, but of the three original 14th-century entrance gates, only Land Gate remains, together with the ...
(from the article "World War I") ...one of his armies, transferred from Lorraine, was to check the expected offensive, while another was to sweep down the coast and crush the attackers' left flank. The British attack ...
oldest division of Eocene rocks, representing all rocks deposited worldwide during the Ypresian Age (55.8 million to 48.6 million years ago) of the Paleogene Period (65.5 million to 23 million ...
city, Washtenaw county, southeastern Michigan, U.S. It lies along the Huron River just east of Ann Arbor. Originally called Woodruff's Grove, it grew up around a French trading post (1809-19) ...
(from the article "Vladimirescu, Tudor") ...society-the Philiki Etaireia ("Friendly Brotherhood")-that sought to overturn Turkish rule throughout the Balkans. With the Etairist rising in Moldavia under Gen. Alexander Ypsilantis (March 1821), however, he disavowed the Greek ...
(from the article "Caudata") ...similar to those of generalized vertebrates. The pectoral, or chest, girdle, supporting the forelimbs, is relatively reduced, and the fused elements remain largely in a cartilaginous condition. An ypsiloid cartilage, ...
(from the article "Snowdon") ...the historic county of Caernarvonshire. Snowdon consists of about five main peaks that are connected by sharp ridges and between which lie cirques (scooped-out basins). The highest of these peaks ...
historian and politician, author of the first history of Finland in Finnish. Later he guided the Old Finn Party in its policy of compliance with Russia's unconstitutional Russification program in ...
(from the article "children's literature") ...It does include the fables of Ivan Krylov; a great treasury of Russian folktales (skazki) assembled by A.N. Afanasyev; the epic tales (byliny) sung or told to children; the classic ...
(from the article "Douarnenez") Douarnenez is associated in Breton folklore with the legendary city of Ys, which was believed to lie beneath the waters of the bay, and also with the medieval story of ...
Belgian violinist, conductor, and composer, the foremost interpreter of the string works of French and Belgian composers of his time. [1 Related Articles]
a small stream (48 mi [77 km] long), rising on the north flanks of the sandstone hills of Monts Cassell and de Recollets in northern France and flowing in an ...
(from the article "Yser River") ...coast was stopped (October 1914) along the river during World War I. After the evacuation of Antwerp and Ghent, the Belgian army retreated to the Yser. After 15 days of ...
former town, now a southeastern section of El Paso, El Paso county, extreme western Texas, U.S. Ysleta lies near the Rio Grande. The town was annexed by El Paso in ...
a drainless lake in northeastern Kyrgyzstan. Situated in the northern Tien Shan ("Celestial Mountains"), it is one of the largest high-mountain lakes in the world and is famous for its ... [5 Related Articles]
oblasty (province), northeastern Kyrgyzstan. In the northeast is Lake Ysyk (Issyk-Kul) at an elevation of 5,276 feet (1,608 metres) and surrounded by ranges rising to some 17,100 feet (5,200 metres), ...
(Yb), chemical element, rare-earth metal of the lanthanoid series of the periodic table, a low-melting-point, divalent rare earth with little commercial use. [3 Related Articles]
(Y), chemical element, rare-earth metal of transition Group IIIb of the periodic table, used for red phosphors in colour television. Yttrium metal is silvery in colour, ductile, and relatively reactive; ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "rare-earth element") Yttrium-iron garnets are synthetic high-melting silicates that can be fabricated into special shapes for use as microwave filters in the communications industry. Yttrium-aluminum garnets also are being produced at an ...
(from the article "ceramic composition and properties") ...an ionic arrangement that is not identical in all directions. In severely anisotropic materials there can be great variation of properties. These cases are illustrated by yttrium barium copper oxide ...
(from the article "yttrium") ...and in electronic and optical devices including phosphors and lasers. Red phosphors containing yttrium and europium have greatly improved colour television. One phosphor is a europium-activated yttrium orthovanadate; another is ...
(from the article "xenotime") widely distributed phosphate mineral, yttrium phosphate (YPO4), though large proportions of erbium commonly replace yttrium), that occurs as brown, glassy crystals, crystal aggregates, or rosettes in igneous rocks and associated ...
popular short-story writer of the 1920s in China, one of the founding members of the Creation Society, which was devoted to the promotion of modern literature.
(from the article "Baseball") ...to the Japan Series with a three-games-to-two victory over the second-place Chiba Lotte Marines, who had beaten the third-place Softbank Hawks two games to one earlier in the play-offs. Nippon ...
(from the article "Canton") ...and a flourishing community was maintained by Arab and Hindu traders. Peace and prosperity were further augmented under the T'ang (618-907). An auxiliary wall and settlement were built on Yu ...
(from the article "Literature") Yu Hua, a leading novelist, was perhaps the most talked-about Chinese literary figure in 2006, if only because of his two-volume novel Xiong di ("Brothers"). The first volume was published ...
A writer of Korean ancestry living in Japan, Yu Miri won the Akutagawa Prize in 1997 for her novel Kazoku shinema (1996; "Family Cinema"), about a broken family modeled after ...
(from the article "Kiangsi") Other mountains are found in the centre and north of the province. East of the Middle Kan Valley are the Yu Mountains. Made up of short and moderate hills separated ...
defense minister who saved China when the Yingzong emperor (reigning as Zhengtong, 1453-49) of the Ming dynasty was captured in 1449 while leading Chinese troops against the Mongol leader Esen ... [1 Related Articles]
river in South China. A southern tributary of the Hsi Chiang, it rises in two branches in southeastern Yunnan Province and flows about 400 mi (750 km) generally east in ...
(from the article "Taiwan") Area: 36,188 sq km (13,972 sq mi) | Population (2005 est.): 22,726,000 | Capital: Taipei | Chief of state: President Chen Shui-bian | Head of government: Presidents of the Executive ...
the most revered and popular of Chinese Taoist deities. In the official Taoist pantheon, he is an impassive sage-deity, but he is popularly viewed as a celestial sovereign who guides ...
(from the article "Chung-yang Range") ...The Chung-yang Range traverses the length of the island, extending about 170 miles (270 km) in length and up to 50 miles (80 km) in width, with some 27 peaks ...
(from the article "Nanking") Forming an integral part of the life of the city are its immediate outskirts. To the south is the Yu-hua T'ai ("Terrace of the Rain of Flowers"), noted for its ...
monetary unit of China. The yuan is divided into 100 fen and 10 jiao. The People's Bank of China has exclusive authority to issue currency. Banknotes are issued in denominations ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "Taiwan") The central government also includes five constitutionally mandated councils (yuans): Legislative, Executive, Judicial, Examination, and Control. The Legislative Yuan, the membership structure of which parallels that of ...
(1206-1368), dynasty established in China by Mongol nomads. Yuan rule stretched throughout most of Asia and eastern Europe, though the Yuan emperors were rarely able to exercise much control over ... [61 Related Articles]
(from the article "Confucianism") ...cultural form of their own. Zhao Bingwen's (1159-1232) combination of literary talent and moral concerns and Wang Roxu's (1174-1243) scholarship in Classics and history, as depicted in Yuan Haowen's (1190-1257) ...
(from the article "Chinese literature") ...against antiquarianism was not heard until the end of the 16th century; it came from the Kung-an school, named for the birthplace of three brothers, of whom the middle one ...
river of eastern Guizhou and western Hunan provinces, southeastern China. The Yuan River is about 635 miles (1,020 km) long and rises in the Miao Mountains near Duyun in Guizhou. ... [1 Related Articles]
Chinese army leader and reformist minister in the twilight of the Qing dynasty (until 1911) and then first president of the Republic of China (1912-16). [15 Related Articles]
(from the article "China") Under Daizong (reigned 762-779) the court was dominated by the emperor's favourite, Yuan Zai, and by the eunuchs who now began to play an increasing role in Tang politics. A ...
a key literary figure of the middle Tang dynasty of China, influential in the guwen ("ancient-style prose") revival, which employed the styles of the early classical Chinese ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "China") ...charm, evoking character and mood with artless-seeming delicacy. The iconoclasm of the final Ming decades was mirrored in a literary movement of total individual freedom, championed notably by Yuan Zhongdao, ...
(from the article "Qianlong") ...devices, though he regarded the latter as no more than a source of intellectual satisfaction and a means of creating amusing objects. Qianlong devoted great attention to the beautification of ...
posthumous name (shi) of the ninth emperor (reigned 49/48-33 BC) of the Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), who ardently promoted and helped firmly establish Confucianism as the ... [1 Related Articles]
city, seat (1856) of Sutter county, north-central California, U.S. It lies in the Sacramento Valley, at the junction of the Feather and Yuba rivers, 40 miles (65 km) north of ...
city, central Hokkaido, northern Japan. It lies along the upper Yubari River, in the Yubari Range. It developed as a mining town when coal was discovered in the area in ...
estado (state), southeastern Mexico. Occupying part of the northern Yucatan Peninsula, it is bounded to the north by the Gulf of Mexico, to the east and southeast ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Caribbean Sea") ...in shape, which are separated from one another by submerged ridges and rises. These are the Yucatan, Cayman, Colombian, Venezuelan, and Grenada basins. The northernmost of these, the Yucatan Basin, ...
strait connecting the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, extending for 135 miles (217 km) between Cape Catoche, Mexico, and Cape San Antonio, Cuba. The north and south equatorial ... [2 Related Articles]
oceanic surface current, the western limb of a clockwise gyre in the eastern Gulf of Mexico flowing from northern Honduras, through the Yucatan Channel, to the central eastern portion of ...
(from the article "Baseball") The Yucatan Lions (Leones) defeated the Monterrey Sultanes four games to one to win the Mexican League championship series. It was the third league title for the Lions but their ...
a northeastern projection of Central America, lying between the Gulf of Mexico to the west and north and the Caribbean Sea to the east. Encompassing some 76,300 square miles (197,600 ... [9 Related Articles]
(from the article "henequen") ...been a source of textile fibre since pre-Columbian times. It was introduced to Cuba in the 19th century, becoming the country's chief fibre crop by the 1920s. The fibre is ...
American Indian language of the Mayan family, spoken in the Yucatan Peninsula, including not only part of Mexico but also Belize and northern Guatemala. In its classical (i.e., 16th-century) form ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Maya languages") ...Maya language is Tzeltal, spoken in Chiapas, Mexico, but other Western Maya languages include Chontal, Chol, Chorti, Tzotzil, Tojolabal, Chuj, Kanjobal, Acatec, Jacaltec, and Motozintlec. The Yucatec languages, including Yucatec, ...
Middle American Indians of the Yucatan Peninsula in eastern Mexico. The Yucatec were participants in the Maya civilization, whose calendar, architecture, and hieroglyphic writing marked them as a highly civilized ... [1 Related Articles]
(genus Yucca), any of about 40 species of succulent plants of the family Agavaceae, native to southern North America. Most species of yucca are stemless, with a rosette of stiff, ... [5 Related Articles]
the ruins of prehistoric Native American pueblos, located 15 miles (24 km) south of the town of Cortez in the southwestern corner of Colorado, U.S., near Mesa Verde National Park. ...
(genus Tegeticula), any of four species of insects of the Prodoxidae family of moths (order Lepidoptera). The adults are small, diurnal, and have tiny spines covering their wings. [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "pottery") One of the difficulties in the study of Korean pottery is that practically everything has been recovered from tombs; few actual kiln sites have been discovered. Nevertheless, one such excavation ...
(from the article "Native American dance") Although the Cherokee of the Smoky Mountains in North Carolina and Tennessee speak an Iroquoian language and have animal dances, they emphasize corn dance ceremonies. The Creek, Yuchi, Seminole, and ...
(from the article "Delhi") ...in the epic Mahabharata (a narrative about the descendants of the prince Bharata), which mentions a city called Indraprastha, built about 1400 BC under the direction of ...
Indonesian Pres. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, commonly known as SBY, had a strong mandate for pushing through reforms in 2005. He had won a landslide election victory over incumbent Pres. Megawati ... [4 Related Articles]
aboriginal people of South China who in the 5th-4th century BCE formed a powerful kingdom in present-day Zhejiang and Fujian provinces. The name Vietnam means "south of the Yue," and ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Chekiang") ...western Chekiang was a part of the ancient state of Wu, while eastern Chekiang was the land of Yueh tribes. In about the 6th century BC the two subregions became ...
(from the article "celadon") Yue ware, first made in the Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) in China, was the earliest celadon; the glaze used was olive or brownish green. Beginning in the late Han ...
form of Chinese poetry derived from the folk-ballad tradition. The yuefu takes its name from the Yuefu ("Music Bureau") created in 120 BC by Wudi of Han ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Chinese literature") A more important contribution to literature by the Han government was the reactivation in 125 BC of the Yueh Fu, or Music Bureau, which had been established at least a ...
(from the article "Chekiang") ...on in provincial pride and national stereotypes that often depict the Chekiang people as both cultured and affected. Various national and regional operatic traditions flourish, including the famous Yueh opera ...
(from the article "pottery") ...ch'ing ("blown blue"), and is distinct from the sponged blue grounds of the Ming dynasty. It was subsequently used at several of the porcelain factories in Europe. Clair du lune ...
Chinese lute, one of a family of flat, round-bodied lutes found in Central and East Asia. The yueqin, which evolved from the ruan, has ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "qin") ...The qin's high bridge near the wide end of the soundboard is called the "great mountain" (yueshan), the low bridge at the narrow end ...
city, northern Hunan sheng (province), southeast-central China. It is situated on the east bank of the outlet from the Dongting Lake into the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang), ... [1 Related Articles]
ancient people who ruled in Bactria and India from about 128 BC to about AD 450. The Yuezhi are first mentioned in Chinese sources at the beginning of the 2nd ... [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "Ket language") one of two surviving members of the Yeniseian family of languages spoken by about 500 people living in central Siberia. (The other, a moribund close relative called Yug [Yugh], or ...
(from the article "Paleo-Siberian languages") The Yeniseian group is spoken in the Turukhansk region along the Yenisey River. Its only living members are Ket (formerly called Yenisey-Ostyak), which is spoken by about 500 persons, and ...
in Hindu cosmology, an age of mankind. Each yuga is progressively shorter than the preceding one, corresponding to a decline in the moral and physical state of humanity. Four such ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Russia") Meanwhile, the state was taking over the "commanding heights" of the economy. The most dramatic illustration of this was the state's reacquisition of Yuganskneftegaz. The presidential administration strengthened its hold ...
(from the article "Japan") ...special ones called nashiro and koshiro set up for the support of certain royal relatives. Others were controlled by powerful clans directly in the service of the court, such as ...
(from the article "Zeami") ...including the singing and dancing appropriate to each. The two main elements in no acting were monomane, "an imitation of things," or the representational aspect, and yugen, the symbolic aspect ...
(from the article "Native American art") ...significance. Experts now consider the palma a ritual object or trophy representing an actual protective device-worn together with the yugo, or yoke, and the
(from the article "Serbia") ...1990s, an extensive network of air routes had been developed. Almost half of the airline passengers embarked or debarked at Belgrade, which was also the major centre of air freight ...
(from the article "Serbia") ...of its state. During the early part of the war, a number of prominent political figures from the South Slav lands under the Dual Monarchy had fled to London where ...
(from the article "Bosnia and Herzegovina") The Yugoslav People's Army was designed to repel invasion, and, as part of its strategy, it used the geographically central republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a storehouse for armaments ...
(from the article "Croatia") ...an independent Great Croatia. The necessity of relying on the other South Slavs in opposition to the Habsburgs and Hungarians also kept alive the Illyrian idea, revived in the 1860s ...
Japanese rebel whose attempted coup d'etat against the Tokugawa shogunate led to increased efforts by the government to redirect the military ethos of the samurai (warrior) class toward administrative matters.
remnant of an ancient human population of the tundra and taiga zones of Arctic Siberia east of the Lena River in Russia, an area with one of the most severe ... [8 Related Articles]
language spoken by not more than a few hundred persons in the Kolyma River region of Sakha (Yakutiya) republic of Russia. Yukaghir was traditionally grouped in the catchall category of ... [4 Related Articles]
