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Yamethin: town, central-northern Myanmar (Burma), occupying a high point on the central plain. For centuries it was an important junction on the caravan trade route between the Shan region to the ...
yamim nora'im: in Judaism, the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashana (on Tishri 1 and 2) and Yom Kippur (on Tishri 10), in September or October. Though the Bible does not link ...
Yamm: ancient West Semitic deity who ruled the oceans, rivers, lakes, and underground springs. He also played an important role in the Baal myths recorded on tablets uncovered at Ugarit, which ...
Yamoussoukro: town and capital (de jure; administrative), south-central Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), located about 170 miles (274 km) northwest of the national capital, Abidjan. For more than three decades after Cote ...
Yamoussoukro Basilica: Roman Catholic basilica in Yamoussoukro, Cote d'Ivoire, that is the largest Christian church in the world. The basilica's rapid construction in 1986-89 was ostensibly paid for by Cote d'Ivoire's president, ...
Yampa River: river, in the western United States, rising in the White River National Forest of northwestern Colorado, in the Rocky Mountains. Draining an area of approximately 9,500 square miles (24,600 square ...
Yampi Sound: portion of the Indian Ocean off the north coast of Western Australia, between King Sound and Collier Bay. It contains the four island clusters of the Buccaneer Archipelago, named for ...
Yamuna River: river in Uttar Pradesh state, northern India, rising in the Himalayas near Jamnotri. It flows in a southerly direction through the Himalayan foothills and onto the northern Indian plain, along ...
yan: type of ancient Chinese bronze steamer, or cooking vessel, used particularly for grain. It consisted of a deep upper bowl with a pierced bottom, which was placed upon or attached ...
Yan Liben: one of the most famous Chinese figure painters in the early years of the Tang dynasty (618-907).
Yan Ruoqu: great Chinese scholar from the early period of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911/12) who proved that 25 chapters of the Shujing, or Shangshu, one of the Five Classics of Confucianism, upon ...
Yana: Hokan-speaking California Indians formerly living along the eastern tributaries of the upper Sacramento River, from the Pit River to southwest of Lassen Peak. Yana territory comprised a myriad of foothills ...
Yanam: town, Pondicherry union territory, an enclave within northeastern Andhra Pradesh state, southern India, on the main mouth of the Godavari River.
Yanbu': town, western Saudi Arabia, on the Red Sea north of Jidda. It serves as the country's second Red Sea port, after Jidda, and is the main port for Medina, 100 ...
Yancey, Jimmy: American blues pianist who established the boogie-woogie style with slow, steady, simple left-hand bass patterns. These became more rapid in the work of his students Albert Ammons and Meade "Lux" ...
Yancey, William Lowndes: American southern political leader and "fire-eater" who, in his later years, consistently urged the South to secede in response to Northern antislavery agitation.
Yanez, Agustin: Mexican novelist, short-story writer, and active political figure whose novels, explorations of their protagonists' social realities, established a major current in 20th-century Mexican fiction.
Yang Chu: one of the early Taoist philosophers. Yang has been infamous in Chinese history for what was thought to be his extreme hedonism. This characterization of Yang was fostered by the ...
Yang Guifei: notorious beauty and concubine of the great Tang emperor Xuanzong (reigned 712-756). Because of her the emperor is said to have neglected his duties, and the Tang dynasty (618-907) was ...
Yang Hsiu-ch'ing: organizer and commander in chief of the Taiping Rebellion, the political-religious uprising that occupied most of South China between 1850 and 1864.
Yang Hui: mathematician active in the great flowering of Chinese mathematics during the Southern Song dynasty.
Yang Ti: the second and penultimate emperor of the Sui dynasty (581-618). Under Yang Ti canals were built and great palaces erected.
Yang Xiong: Chinese poet and philosopher best known for his poetry written in the form known as fu.
Yang Yen: minister to the T'ang emperor Te Tsung (reigned 779/780-805).
Yang, Chen Ning: Chinese-born American theoretical physicist whose research with Tsung-Dao Lee showed that parity-the symmetry between physical phenomena occurring in right-handed and left-handed coordinate systems-is violated when certain elementary particles decay. Until ...
yang-ch'in: Chinese dulcimer in which tone is produced by striking the strings with bamboo beaters covered with rubber or leather. The vibration of the strings is transmitted to a trapezoidal wooden ...
Yang-ch'uan: city, eastern Shansi province (sheng), China. It is a prefecture-level municipality (shih) entirely surrounded by Chin-chung prefecture (ti-ch'u). Yang-ch'uan is located in the mountains of Shansi, west of the main ...
Yang-chou: city in Kiangsu province (sheng), China. It lies to the north of the Yangtze River at the southern terminus of the section of the Grand Canal joining the Huai River ...
yang-pan-hsi: form of Chinese drama that flourished during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). The plays were a mixture of ching-hsi ("Peking opera") and modern, Western drama and dealt with contemporary topics.
yangban: (Korean: "two groups"), the highest social class of the Yi dynasty (1392-1910) of Korea. It consisted of both munban, or civilian officials, and muban, or military officials. The term yangban ...
Yangiyul: ', city, Tashkent oblast (province), Uzbekistan. The city lies in the middle of the Tashkent oasis. Formerly a village on the site of the ancient settlement of Kaunchi-Tepe, it developed ...
Yangon: city, capital of Myanmar (Burma). It is located in the southern part of the country on the east (left) bank of the Yangon, or Hlaing, River (eastern mouth of the ...
Yangon River: marine estuary in southern Myanmar (Burma), formed at the city of Yangon (Rangoon) by the confluence of the Pegu and Myitmaka rivers. It empties into the Gulf of Martaban of ...
Yangtze Plain: series of alluvial plains of uneven width along the Yangtze River and its major tributaries, beginning east of I-ch'ang (Hupeh province), China. The Middle Yangtze Plain comprises parts of northeastern ...
Yangtze River: longest river in both China and Asia and the third longest river in the world, with a length of 3,915 miles (6,300 kilometres). Its basin, extending for some 2,000 miles ...
Yankari National Park: park in Bauchi state, east-central Nigeria, southeast of Bauchi town. It was established as a game reserve in 1956 and became a national park in 1991. It covers 870 square ...
Yankee: a native or citizen of the United States or, more narrowly, of the New England states of the United States (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut). The ...
Yankton: city, seat (1862) of Yankton county, southeastern South Dakota, U.S. The city lies along the Missouri River near its confluence with the James River, on the Nebraska border, about 60 ...
Yankton: a major division of the Sioux (q.v.), or Dakota, confederation of American Indians.
Yanofsky, Charles: American geneticist who demonstrated the colinearity of gene and protein structures.
Yanomami: South American Indians, speakers of a Xiriana language, who live in the remote forest of the Orinoco River basin in southern Venezuela and the northernmost reaches of the Amazon River ...
yantra: in Tantric Hinduism and Vajrayana, or Tantric Buddhism, a linear diagram used as a support for ritual. In its more elaborate and pictorial form it is called a mandala.
Yao: in Chinese mythology, a legendary emperor (c. 24th century BC) of the golden age of antiquity, exalted by Confucius as an inspiration and perennial model of virtue, righteousness, and unselfish ...
Yao: city, Osaka fu (urban prefecture), Honshu, Japan, on the Nagase River. The city is situated on mountain slopes and a plain in Kongo-Ikoma Quasi-national Park. The central part of the ...
Yao: various Bantu-speaking peoples inhabiting southernmost Tanzania, the region between the Rovuma and Lugenda rivers in Mozambique, and the southern part of Malawi.
Yaounde: city and capital of the Republic of Cameroon. It is situated on a hilly, forested plateau between the Nyong and Sanaga rivers in the south-central part of the country. Founded ...
Yap: island and archipelago of the western Caroline Islands, part of the Federated States of Micronesia. The archipelago, with a total land area of 45.9 square miles (118.9 square km), comprises ...
Yap Ah Loy: leader of the Chinese community of Kuala Lumpur, who was largely responsible for the development of that city as a commercial and mining centre.
Yap Trench: deep submarine trench in the western Pacific Ocean located east of the Yap Ridge and the Yap island group. The Yap Trench is about 400 miles (650 km) long from ...
Yapen Island: island, in Sarera Bay off the northern coast of Irian Jaya provinci (province), Indonesia. Its area of 936 square miles (2,424 square km) has an elevated central ...
yapok: marsupial mammal, a species of opossum (q.v.).
Yaque del Norte River: river in central and northwestern Dominican Republic. The largest river in the nation, its headstreams rise on the northern slopes of the Cordillera Central, uniting to descend northward into the ...
Yaque del Sur River: river in southwestern Dominican Republic, one of the nation's three most important river systems. Its headstreams arise on the southern slopes of the Cordillera Central, uniting near Duarte Peak. The ...
Yaqui: Indian people centred in southern Sonora state, on the west coast of Mexico. They speak the Yaqui dialect of the language called Cahita, which belongs to the Uto-Aztecan language family. ...
Yaqui River: river in Sonora state, northwestern Mexico. Formed in the Sierra Madre Occidental by the junction of the Bavispe and Papigochie rivers, the Yaqui flows generally southward and westward through Sonora ...
Yaracuy: state, northwestern Venezuela. It is bounded by the states of Falcon (north), Carabobo (east), Cojedes (south), and Lara (west). It lies within a tropical zone and has an area of ...
Yarborough, Cale: U.S. stock-car racing driver who was the first to win the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) championship three consecutive years.
yard-of-ale glass: tall, extremely narrow drinking glass that was known in England from the 17th century. It is approximately 1 yard (90 cm) long and holds about 1 pint (0.5 litre). The ...
yardang: large area of soft, poorly consolidated rock and bedrock surfaces that have been extensively grooved, fluted, and pitted by wind erosion. The rock is eroded into alternating ridges and furrows ...
Yardbirds, the: 1960s British musical group best known for their inventive conversion of rhythm and blues into rock. The original members were Keith Relf (b. March 22, 1943, Richmond, Surrey, Eng., -d. ...
Yardley, Herbert Osborne: American cryptographer who organized and directed the U.S. government's first formal code-breaking efforts during and after World War I.
Yare, River: stream in the county of Norfolk, Eng., which enters the North Sea 25 miles (40 km) east of Norwich. It flows sluggishly across Norfolk to Norwich, where it is joined ...
Yarikh: ancient West Semitic moon god whose marriage to the moon goddess Nikkal (Sumerian: Ningal, "Queen") was the subject of a poem from ancient Ugarit. The first part of the poem ...
Yarim: town, southwestern Yemen. It lies in the heart of the Yemen Highlands, on an upland plateau dominated by the massif of nearby Mount Sumarah, which rises to about 10,000 feet ...
Yarkand: oasis city in the Uighur Autonomous Region of Sinkiang, northwestern China. The city comprises several separate walled units, one of which is named Sha-ch'e and another Yarkand; both names have ...
Yarkand River: a headstream of the Tarim River in the Uighur Autonomous Region of Sinkiang, in extreme western China. The Yarkand, which is 600 miles (970 km) long, rises in the Karakoram ...
Yarmouth: town, seat of Yarmouth county, southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada. It lies at the Atlantic entrance to the Bay of Fundy, 210 miles (339 km) by road west of Halifax. The ...
Yarmouth Interglacial Stage: major division of Pleistocene deposits and time (1,600,000 to 10,000 years ago) in North America. The Yarmouth Interglacial was named for deposits that were studied in the region of Yarmouth, ...
Yarmuk River: river, a tributary of the Jordan River, in southwest Asia. For most of its course, the Yarmuk forms the boundary between Syria to the north and Jordan to the south, ...
yarn: continuous strand of fibres grouped or twisted together and used to construct textile fabrics.
Yaroslav I: grand prince of Kiev from 1019 to 1054.
Yaroslavl: city and administrative centre of Yaroslavl oblast (province), western Russia. It lies on the right bank of the Volga River, 175 miles (282 km) northeast of Moscow. Yaroslavl is believed ...
Yaroslavl: oblast (province), western Russia. It has an area of 14,100 square miles (36,400 square km) and lies in the upper Volga River basin. Most of the oblast is a low ...
Yarqon River: river in west-central Israel, the principal perennial stream flowing almost entirely within the country. The name is derived from the Hebrew word yaroq ("green"); it was formerly called by the ...
Yarra River: river, south-central Victoria, Australia. It rises near Mount Matlock in the Eastern Highlands and flows westward for 153 miles (246 km) through the Upper Yarra Dam, past the towns of ...
Yarrawonga: town on the Murray River, Victoria, Australia. Mulwala, its twin town in New South Wales, lies on the opposite side of the river. Located on the Murray Valley Highway and ...