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- American gangster and national president, during its heyday (1918-28), of the Unione Siciliane, a Sicilian fraternal organization that by World War I had become a crime cartel operating in several ...
- Yale, Linus
- American inventor and designer of the compact cylinder pin-tumbler lock that bears his name. [1 Related Articles]
- Yalom, Irvin D.
- (from the article "mental disorder") There are many varieties of dynamic group therapy, and they differ in their theoretical background and technique. The influential model of the American psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom provides a good ...
- Yalong River
- long secondary tributary of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) in central and southern China. The Yalong rises in the Bayan Har Mountains in southern Qinghai province at an elevation of ...
- Yalow, Rosalyn S.
- American medical physicist and joint recipient (with Andrew V. Schally and Roger Guillemin) of the 1977 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, awarded for her development of the radioimmunoassay (RIA), ... [1 Related Articles]
- Yalta
- city, Crimea, southern Ukraine. It faces the Black Sea on the southern shore of the Crimean Peninsula. Settlement on the site dates from prehistoric times, but modern Yalta developed only ...
- Yalta Conference
- (Feb. 4-11, 1945), major World War II conference of the three chief Allied leaders, President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain, and ... [14 Related Articles]
- Yalu River
- river that forms the northwestern boundary between North Korea and the Northeast Region (Manchuria) of China. The Chinese provinces of Kirin and Liaoning are bordered by the river. Its length ... [2 Related Articles]
- Yalu, Battle of the
- (from the article "naval warfare") ...turning point came from the observation of a few battles in East Asia around the turn of the century and from an often overlooked bit of military technology. The battles ...
- Yalunka
- (from the article "Sierra Leone") ...and farming methods. The Mende, found in the east and south, and the Temne, found in the centre and northwest, form the two largest groups. Other major groups include the ...
- yam
- any of several plant species of the genus Dioscorea (family Dioscoreaceae), native to warmer regions of both hemispheres. A number of species are cultivated for food in the tropics; in ... [7 Related Articles]
- Yam Zapolsky, Peace of
- (from the article "Livonian War") Bathory launched a series of campaigns against Russia, recapturing Polotsk (1579) and laying siege to Pskov. In 1582 Russia and Lithuania agreed upon a peace settlement (Peace of Yam Zapolsky), ...
- Yama
- in the mythology of India, the lord of death. The Vedas describe him as the first man who died, blazing the path of mortality down which all men have since ... [3 Related Articles]
- Yama
- (from the article "Yama") in Tibetan Buddhism, one of the eight fierce protective deities. See dharmapala.association with death mythologyYama...He carries a mace, which may ...
- yama
- (Sanskrit: "restraint"), in the Yoga system of Indian philosophy, first of the eight stages intended to lead the aspirant to samadhi, or state of perfect concentration. An ethical preparation, meant ... [1 Related Articles]
- Yama-no-kami
- in Japanese popular religion, any of numerous gods of the mountains. These kami are of two kinds: (1) gods who rule over mountains and are venerated by hunters, woodcutters, and ... [1 Related Articles]
- Yamabe Akahito
- (from the article "Japanese literature") ...hanka ("envoys") that resume central points of the preceding poem. The hanka written by the 8th-century poet Yamabe Akahito are so perfectly conceived as to make the ...
- yamabushi
- (from the article "Shugen-do") ...Japanese religious tradition combining folk beliefs with indigenous Shinto and Buddhism, to which have been added elements of Chinese religious Taoism. The Shugen-do practitioner, the yamabushi (literally, "one who bows ...
- Yamada Kengyo
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...under the guild system and so is frequently found in professional names, but the name Ikuta remained as one of the primary sources of koto music until the creation of ...
- Yamada Kosaku
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...a conflict between the Western minor and the Japanese in scales. In its piano-accompanied version it recalls the style of Franz Schubert, but as sung in the streets it sounds ...
- Yamada school
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...names, but the name Ikuta remained as one of the primary sources of koto music until the creation of still another school by Yamada Kengyo (1757-1817). In present-day Japan the ...
- Yamaga Soko
- military strategist and Confucian philosopher who set forth the first systematic exposition of the missions and obligations of the samurai (warrior) class and who made major contributions to Japanese military ...
- Yamagata
- prefecture (ken), northern Honshu, Japan, on the Sea of Japan. Much of its 3,601 sq mi (9,327 sq km) is mountainous. Bandai-Asahi National Park, stretching from north to south, includes ...
- Yamagata Aritomo
- Japanese soldier and statesman who exerted a strong influence in Japan's emergence as a formidable military power at the beginning of the 20th century. He was the first prime minister ... [2 Related Articles]
- Yamagata Banto
- (from the article "Japan") Two other noteworthy scholars of the late 18th and early 19th century were Shiba Kokan and Yamagata Banto. An artist who began within the Kano school tradition and then studied ...
- Yamaguchi
- prefecture (ken), extreme western Honshu, Japan, bordered by the Sea of Japan (north), the Shimonoseki-kaikyo (Shimonoseki Strait; southwest), and the Inland Sea (south). Most of its 2,355-sq-mi (6,100-sq-km) area is ... [1 Related Articles]
- Yamaguchi, Goro
- Japanese musician whose mastery of the wooden flute known as the shakuhachi was such that he was named a "living national treasure" in Japan; part of one ...
- Yamaguchi-gumi
- (from the article "Taoka Kazuo") Japan's major crime boss (oyabun), who, after World War II, rose to head a giant crime organization, the Yamaguchi-gumi. Though centred in Kobe, it had interests and affiliates nationwide and ...
- Yamaha Corporation
- (from the article "player piano") By the 1990s the Yamaha Corporation, a Japanese piano manufacturer, had introduced the "Disklavier," an acoustic player piano equipped with a computer that, by reading data on a floppy disc ...
- Yamaha DX-7
- (from the article "electronic instrument") ...many performance-oriented keyboard instruments that used digital computer technology in combination with built-in sound-synthesis algorithms. One of the earliest and best-known of these was the Yamaha DX-7, which was based ...
- Yamal Peninsula
- lowland region in northwestern Siberia, west-central Russia, bounded on the west by the Kara Sea and Baydarata Bay, on the east and southeast by the Gulf of Ob, and on ...
- Yamalo-Nenets
- autonomous okrug (district), in western Siberia, north-central Russia. It was established in 1930 as an autonomous okrug for the Nenets, or Samoyed, people, although by the late 20th century they ...
- Yamamoto Gonnohyoe, Count
- Japanese naval officer who served two terms as prime minister of his country (1913-14; 1923-24).
- Yamamoto Isoroku
- Japanese naval officer who conceived of the surprise attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. [6 Related Articles]
- Yamamoto Kajiro
- (from the article "Kurosawa Akira") ...was awarded important art prizes, he gave up his ambition to become a painter and in 1936 became an assistant director in the PCL cinema studio. Until 1943 he worked ...
- Yamamoto Kanae
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...performed all aspects of production. This was a philosophy of total engagement with the work. The leader of this movement was Onchi Koshiro (1891-1955). Also prominent was Yamamoto Kanae (1882-1946). ...
- Yamamoto Soken
- (from the article "Ogata Korin") ...and had to turn to art for a living. Earlier in his life, he had studied painting for many years, at first probably under the tutelage of his father, who ...
- Yamana
- South American Indian people, very few in number, who were the traditional occupants of the south coast of Tierra del Fuego and the neighbouring islands south to Cape Horn. In ... [5 Related Articles]
- Yamana Gold
- (from the article "Business Overview") ...whose price was at 28-year highs (gold hit $787 per troy ounce in September), experienced a wave of mergers, including Newmont Mining's takeover of Miramar Mining for $1.53 billion in ...
- Yamana Mochitoyo
- head of the most powerful warrior clan in western Japan in the 15th century. [3 Related Articles]
- Yamanaka, Lake
- (from the article "Fuji, Mount") ...effects of lava flows. The lowest, Lake Kawaguchi, at 2,726 feet (831 metres), is noted for the inverted reflection of Mount Fuji on its still waters. Tourism in the area ...
- Yamanaka, Shinya
- In 2008 Japanese physician and stem-cell researcher Shinya Yamanaka advanced the front lines of stem-cell research yet again when he reported a new breakthrough in his research-the generation of induced ...
- Yamanashi
- landlocked ken (prefecture), central Honshu, Japan. Much of its area is mountainous, including the peaks of Mount Shirane (10,472 feet [3,192 m]) in the northwest and Mount Fuji (12,388 feet) ...
- Yamanouchi family
- family of Japanese feudal lords who from 1600 to 1868 dominated the important fief of Tosa on the island of Shikoku.
- Yamanouchi Kazutoyo
- (from the article "Yamanouchi family") The rise in the Yamanouchi family's fortunes began with Yamanouchi Kazutoyo (1546-1605). For his successes on the battlefield in the service of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, then the most powerful general in ...
- Yamanouchi Sugao
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...Incipient Jomon and Subearliest Jomon. Some scholars even call it Pre-Jomon and argue that life during this stage showed only a slight advance from that of the Paleolithic. In 1937 ...
- Yamanouchi Toyoshige
- (from the article "Yamanouchi family") ...the Yamanouchi, unlike many of the other great lords, remained loyal to the Tokugawa. When agitation against the Tokugawa family began in the mid-19th century, the head of the Yamanouchi ...
- Yamanoue Okura
- one of the most individualistic, even eccentric, of Japan's classical poets, who lived and wrote in an age of bold experimentation when native Japanese poetry was developing rapidly under the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Yamantaka
- in northern Buddhism, one of the eight fierce protective deities. See dharmapala. [1 Related Articles]
- Yamantau, Mount
- (from the article "Ural Mountains") ...residual outcrops. The last portion, the Southern Urals, extends some 340 miles to the westward bend of the Ural River and consists of several parallel ridges rising to 3,900 feet ...
- Yamasaki, Minoru
- American architect whose buildings, notable for their appeal to the senses, departed from the austerity often associated with post-World War II modern architecture. [1 Related Articles]
- Yamasee
- (from the article "Yamasee War") (1715-16), in British-American colonial history, conflict between Indians, mainly Yamasee, and British colonists in the southeastern area of South Carolina, resulting in the collapse of Indian power in that area. ...
- Yamasee War
- (1715-16), in British-American colonial history, conflict between Indians, mainly Yamasee, and British colonists in the southeastern area of South Carolina, resulting in the collapse of Indian power in that area. ... [1 Related Articles]
- Yamashina, Naoharu
- Japanese entrepreneur who founded the Bandai Co., a trendsetting toy manufacturer that produced the highly popular action figures Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and the virtual pet Tamagotchi (b. 1918?--d. Oct. ...
- Yamashiro
- (from the article "Japan") ...and often mounted uprisings that extended over an entire province and challenged the great shugo. In the autumn of 1485, for example, 36 representatives of the local warriors of southern ...
- Yamashita Park
- (from the article "Tokyo-Yokohama Metropolitan Area") The parks of Yokohama are newer than those of Tokyo, but there are fine ones. The most popular, Yamashita, is on land reclaimed from the bay with debris from the ...
- Yamashita Tomoyuki
- Japanese general known for his successful attacks on Malaya and Singapore during World War II. [1 Related Articles]
- Yamatai
- (from the article "Himiko") ...than contemporary Japanese accounts, confirm the existence of an unmarried queen named Himiko but place her in the early 3rd century AD. According to some sources, she ruled an area ...
- Yamato
- city, Kanagawa ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, in the eastern part of the Sagamihara Plateau. During the Tokugawa period (1603-1867) it was a local trade centre for the surrounding sericultural region. ...
- Yamato Cycle
- (from the article "Japanese mythology") The purpose of the cosmologies of the Kojiki and Nihon shoki is to trace the imperial genealogy back to the foundation of the world. The myths of the Yamato Cycle ...
- Yamato family
- (from the article "kabane") The imperial Japanese Yamato line arose as the most powerful members of this kabane system, although during the 6th century AD, a number of leaders, especially those possessing the high ...
- Yamato Ridge
- (from the article "Japan, Sea of") Yamato Ridge consists of granite, rhyolite, andesite, and basalt, with boulders of volcanic rock scattered on the seabed. Geophysical investigation has revealed that, while the ridge is of continental origin, ...
- Yamato Takeru
- Japanese folk hero, noted for his courage and ingenuity, who may have lived in the 2nd century AD. His tomb at Ise is known as the Mausoleum of the White ... [1 Related Articles]
- Yamato-e
- (Japanese: "Japanese painting"), style of painting important in Japan during the 12th and early 13th centuries. It is a Late Heian style, secular and decorative with a tradition of strong ... [10 Related Articles]
- Yamato-Koriyama
- (Koriyama-Goldfish), city, Nara ken (prefecture), western Honshu, Japan. It is located 3 miles (5 km) southwest of Nara city. A prehistoric settlement, it became a castle town during the last ...
- Yamazaki Ansai
- propagator in Japan of the philosophy of the Chinese neo-Confucian philosopher Chu Hsi (1130-1200). Ansai reduced neo-Confucianism to a simple moral code, which he then blended with the native Shinto ... [3 Related Articles]
- Yamazaki Sokan
- Japanese renga ("linked-verse") poet of the late Muromachi period (1338-1573) who is best known as the compiler of Inu tsukuba shu (c. 1615; "Mongrel Renga Collection"), the first published anthology ...
- Yambol
- town, east-central Bulgaria, on the Tundzha (Tundja) River. North of the present town are the ruins of Kabyle (or Cabyle), which originated as a Bronze Age settlement in the 2nd ...
- Yamburg
- (from the article "natural gas") Yamburg, Russia's second largest gas field, was discovered north of the Arctic Circle and north of Urengoy. Its original reserves were estimated at 4,700,000,000,000 cubic metres of gas, mostly from ...
- Yamdena Island
- (from the article "Tanimbar Islands") The largest of the group is Yamdena Island, the principal town of which is Saumlaki, a port on the southern coast. This island has thickly wooded hills along its eastern ...
- yamen
- (from the article "China") ...imperial rule (though there were some petty officials on levels below the district). Because the members of the formal civil service level of the government were so few, actual administration ...
- Yameogo, Maurice
- (from the article "Burkina Faso") ...the military has on several occasions intervened during times of crisis. In 1966 the military, led by Lieutenant-Colonel (later General) Sangoule Lamizana, ousted the elected government of Maurice Yameogo. General ...
- 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 ...
- Yami
- (from the article "calendar") ...approximation to the tropical year may also be obtained by intercalation, using a simple lunar calendar and observations of animal behaviour. Such an unusual situation has grown up among the ...
- Yami language
- (from the article "Austronesian languages") ...is a collective term for a highly diverse collection of languages, most of which share broad typological similarities with languages in the Philippines and some other areas (such as Madagascar). ...
- 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 ... [4 Related Articles]
- Yamina, Banu
- (from the article "Abraham") There have been many surprising items in the thousands of tablets found in the palace at Mari. Not only are the Hapiru ("Hebrews") mentioned but so also remarkably are the ...
- Yamkhad
- (from the article "Anatolia") ...unsuccessfully) on his return journey, is known to have been located on the Euphrates above Carchemish. Rather curious in this account is the absence of any reference to the important ...
- 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- Yamoussoukro
- town and capital (de jure), south-central Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), located about 170 miles (274 km) northwest of the country's de facto capital, Abidjan. Although Yamoussoukro was officially named the ... [2 Related Articles]
- 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, ... [1 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- yampee
- (from the article "Dioscoreaceae") ...species of yams (vines of the genus Dioscorea) are grown for their edible tuberous roots, such as Chinese yam, or cinnamon vine (D. batatas); air potato (D. bulbifera); and yampee, ...
- 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 ...
- Yampolsky, Mariana
- American-born Mexican photographer (b. Sept. 6, 1925, Chicago, Ill.-d. May 3, 2002, Mexico City, Mex.), moved to Mexico as a young woman and spent half a century capturing idyllic, elegiac ...
- Yamuna
- (from the article "Varuna") ...Hinduism, Varuna plays a lesser role. He is guardian of the west and is particularly associated with oceans and waters. Thus he is often attended by the river goddesses Ganga ...
- 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 ... [6 Related Articles]
- Yamunacarya
- (from the article "Indian philosophy") ...the Vijayanagara kingdom (which, along with Mithila in the north, remained strongholds of Hinduism until the middle of the 16th century), Vaisnavism flourished. The philosopher Yamunacarya (flourished AD 1050) taught ...
- Yan
- (from the article "Beijing") ...near the site where the city now stands. During the Zhanguo (Warring States) period (475-256 BC) of the Zhou dynasty (1046-256 BC), one of the powerful feudal states, the kingdom ...
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Yan Fu
- Chinese scholar who translated into Chinese works by T.H. Huxley, John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, Adam Smith, and others in an attempt to show that the secret to Western wealth ... [2 Related Articles]
- Yan Lianke
- (from the article "Literature") ...of two exceptional novels, both published by Spring Breeze, a small publishing house in Shenyang, a northern provincial capital. The first, Shou huo ("Enjoyment"), was written by Yan Lianke, one ...
- Yan Liben
- one of the most famous Chinese figure painters in the early years of the Tang dynasty (618-907). [1 Related Articles]
- Yan Lide
- (from the article "Yan Liben") ...are original; the first six were copies of earlier works). Yan Liben has imbued them with subtly defined characters through a tightly controlled line and limited use of colour. His ...
- Yan Mountains
- (from the article "Beijing") ...the North China Plain and the northern ranges, plains, and plateaus, and routes running across the great plain naturally converge on the city. In addition, since the dawn of Chinese ...
- 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 ...
- Yan Song
- (from the article "China") ...Ming rulers. The former was an adventure-loving carouser, the latter a lavish patron of Daoist alchemists. For one period of 20 years, during the regime of an unpopular grand secretary ...
- Yan Xishan
- (from the article "Hopeh") ...by Yuan Shih-k'ai, who became president of the Chinese republic in 1912. A period of domination by a succession of autonomous warlords in Hopeh followed Yuan's death in 1916. The ...
- Yan Yuan
- Chinese founder of a pragmatic empirical school of Confucianism opposed to the speculative neo-Confucian philosophy that had dominated China since the 11th century.
- Yan'an
- city, northern Shaanxi sheng (province), north-central China. It became famous as the wartime stronghold of the Chinese communists from the mid-1930s to 1949. Yan'an is on the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Yan'an period
- (from the article "Mao Zedong") ...odyssey, which was to be characterized by a renewed united front with the Nationalists against Japan and by the rise of Mao to unchallenged supremacy in the party. This phase ...
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