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yarrow: any of about 80 species of perennial herbs constituting the genus Achillea in the family Asteraceae, and native primarily to the North Temperate Zone. They have toothed, often finely cut ...
Yaruro: South American Indian people inhabiting the tributaries of the Orinoco River in Venezuela. Their language, also called Yaruro, is a member of the Macro-Chibchan linguistic group.
Yasawa Group: chain of about 20 volcanic islands in the western division of Fiji, in the South Pacific. The islands lie northwest of Viti Levu, the principal Fijian island. They were sighted ...
Yashin, Lev Ivanovich: Russian football (soccer) player considered by many to be the greatest goalkeeper in the history of the game. In 1963 he was named European Footballer of the Year, the only ...
yashmak: long, narrow face screen or veil traditionally worn in public by Muslim women. The yashmak can consist of a piece of black horsehair attached near the temples and sloping down ...
Yasnaya Polyana: village and former estate of the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, in Tula oblast (province), west-central Russia. It lies 100 miles (160 km) south of Moscow. Yasnaya Polyana ("Sunlit Meadows") was ...
Yass: town, southeastern New South Wales, Australia. It lies along the Yass River, which is a tributary of the Murrumbidgee. The Yass Plains, on the Western Slopes of the Eastern Highlands, ...
Yasuda Yukihiko: original name Yasuda Shinzaburo painter who excelled in depicting historical personages in the tradition of Japanese painting but augmented them with a psychological dimension.
Yasuda Zenjiro: entrepreneur who founded the Yasuda zaibatsu ("financial clique"), the fourth largest of the industrial and financial combines that dominated the Japanese economy until the end of World War II.
Yasui Sotaro: Japanese painter who excelled in drawing in the Western style. He was particularly famous for his portraits.
Yates: county, west-central New York state, U.S., comprising a hilly upland region bounded by Canandaigua Lake to the northwest, Keuka Lake to the south, and Seneca Lake to the east. Other ...
Yates, Edmund Hodgson: English journalist and novelist who made respectable both the gossip column and the society paper.
Yatsushiro: city, Kumamoto ken (prefecture), Kyushu, Japan. It is situated along the delta of the Kuma River, facing Yatsushiro Bay. The city developed around a Shinto shrine that was built during ...
Yau, Shing-Tung: Chinese-born mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1983 for his work in differential geometry.
Yaunde: a Bantu-speaking people of the hilly area of south-central Cameroon who live in and around the capital city of Yaounde. The Yaunde and a closely related people, the Eton, comprise ...
Yauri: historic kingdom and traditional emirate, Kebbi state, northwestern Nigeria. The kingdom was probably founded by the Reshe (Gungawa) people. The date of its founding is unknown, but by the mid-14th ...
Yavana: in early Indian literature, either a Greek or another foreigner. The word appears in Achaemenian (Persian) inscriptions in the forms Yauna and Ia-ma-nu and referred to the Ionian Greeks of ...
Yavatmal: city, northeastern Maharashtra state, western India. Yavatmal lies on major roads to Nagpur, Mumbai (Bombay), and Hyderabad. It is the regional centre of an agricultural area (cotton and wheat) and ...
Yavorov, Peyo: Bulgarian poet and dramatist, the founder of the Symbolist movement in Bulgarian poetry.
Yaw, Ellen Beach: American operatic soprano who enjoyed critical and popular acclaim on European and American stages during the early 20th century.
Yawatahama: city, Ehime ken (prefecture), Shikoku, Japan. It lies along the Uwa Sea. A castle town and fishing port during the Tokugawa era (1603-1867), it later developed as a trade centre ...
Yawkey, Tom: American professional baseball executive, sportsman, and owner of the American League Boston Red Sox (1933-76)-the last of the patriarchal owners of early baseball.
yawl: two-masted sailboat, usually rigged with one or more jibsails, a mainsail, and a mizzen. In common with the ketch, the forward (main) mast is higher than the mizzenmast, but the ...
yaws: contagious disease occurring in moist tropical regions throughout the world. It is caused by a spirochete, Treponema pertenue, that is structurally indistinguishable from T. pallidum, which causes syphilis. Some syphilologists ...
Yayoi culture: (c. 250 BC-c. AD 250), prehistoric culture of Japan, subsequent to the Jomon culture. Named after the district in Tokyo where its artifacts were first found in 1884, the culture ...
yazata: in Zoroastrianism, member of an order of angels created by Ahura Mazda to help him maintain the flow of the world order and quell the forces of Ahriman and his ...
Yazd: city, central Iran. The city dates from the 5th century AD and was described as the "noble city of Yazd" by Marco Polo. It stands on a mostly barren, sand-ridden ...
Yazdegerd I: king of the Sasanian Empire (reigned 399-420).
Yazdegerd II: king of the Sasanian dynasty (reigned 438-457), the son and successor of Bahram V.
Yazdegerd III: the last king of the Sasanian dynasty (reigned 632-651), the son of Shahryar and a grandson of Khosrow II.
Yazid I: in full Yazid Ibn Mu'awiyah Ibn Abi Sufyan second Umayyad caliph (680-683), particularly noted for his suppression of a rebellion led by Husayn, the son of 'Ali. The death of ...
Yazid ibn al-Muhallab: provincial governor in the service of several caliphs of the Umayyad dynasty.
Yazidi: religious sect, found primarily in the districts of Mosul, Iraq; Diyarbakir, Tur.; Aleppo, Syria; Armenia and the Caucasus region; and in parts of Iran. The Yazidi religion is a syncretic ...
Yaziji, Nasif: Lebanese scholar who played a significant role in the revitalization of Arabic literary traditions.
Yazilikaya: (Turkish: "Inscribed Rock"), Hittite monument about a mile northeast of Bogazkoy; it was the site of the Hittite capital Hattusa in eastern Turkey. Two recesses in the rock, one to ...
Yazoo City: city, seat (1848) of Yazoo county, west-central Mississippi, U.S. It lies along the Yazoo River, 47 miles (76 km) northwest of Jackson. Founded as a planned community in 1826, it ...
Yazoo land fraud: in U.S. history, scheme by which Georgia legislators were bribed in 1795 to sell most of the land now making up the state of Mississippi (then a part of Georgia's ...
Yazoo River: river formed by the confluence of the Tallahatchie and Yalobusha rivers north of Greenwood, Mississippi, U.S. It meanders about 190 miles (306 km) generally south and southwest, much of the ...
Ye Jianying: Wade-Giles romanization Yeh Chien-ying Chinese Communist military officer, administrator, and statesman who held high posts in the Chinese government during the 1970s and '80s.
Ye Shengtao: Chinese writer and teacher known primarily for his vernacular fiction.
Yeager, Chuck: American test pilot and U.S. Air Force officer who was the first man to exceed the speed of sound in flight.
year: time required for the Earth to travel once around the Sun, about 365 14 days. This fractional number makes necessary the periodic intercalation of days in any calendar that is ...
yeast: any of certain economically important single-celled fungi, most of which are in the class Ascomycetes, only a few being Basidiomycetes. Yeasts are found worldwide in soils and on plant surfaces ...
Yeats, Jack Butler: most important Irish painter of the 20th century. His scenes of daily life and Celtic mythology contributed to the surge of nationalism in the Irish arts after the Irish War ...
Yeats, William Butler: Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer, one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.
Yecla: city, Murcia provincia and comunidad autonoma ("autonomous community"), southeastern Spain. It lies north of the city of Murcia, on the Arroyo del Jua (a tributary of the Segura River) at ...
Yegorov, Boris Borisovich: Soviet physician who, with cosmonauts Vladimir M. Komarov and Konstantin P. Feoktistov, was a participant in the first multimanned spaceflight, that of Voskhod ("Sunrise") 1, on Oct. 12-13, 1964, and ...
Yegorova, Lyubov: Russian cross-country skier who was one of the two most decorated performers at the 1994 Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer, Norway. She won three gold medals and a silver in ...
Yegoryevsk: city, Moscow oblast (province), western Russia. It lies along the Glushitsy River southeast of the capital. The city of Yegoryevsk was formed in 1778 from the village of Vysokoye and ...
Yeh T'ing: outstanding Chinese military leader.
Yeh-lu Ta-shih: founder of the Hsi (Western) Liao dynasty of Central Asia.
Yekaterinburg: city and administrative centre of Sverdlovsk oblast ("region"), west-central Russia. The city lies along the Iset River, which is a tributary of the Tobol River, and on the eastern slope ...
Yelets: city, Lipetsk oblast (province), western Russia, on the Sosna River. First mentioned in 1146 and the seat of a minor princedom in the 13th century, Yelets long served as a ...
yellow birch: (Betula alleghaniensis, or B. lutea), ornamental and timber tree of the family Betulaceae, native to the northeastern part of North America.
Yellow Book, The: short-lived but influential illustrated quarterly magazine devoted to aesthetics, literature, and art. It was published in London from 1894 to 1897.
yellow fever: acute infectious disease, one of the great epidemic diseases of the tropical world, though it sometimes has occurred in temperate zones as well. The disease, caused by a flavivirus, infects ...
yellow journalism: the use of lurid features and sensationalized news in newspaper publishing to attract readers and increase circulation. The phrase was coined in the 1890s to describe the tactics employed in ...
yellow scales: (Xanthoria parietina), lichen species characterized by lobed margins and a wrinkled centre. It is usually found where the air is filled with mineral salts, especially near the sea and on ...
Yellow Sea: large inlet of the western Pacific Ocean lying between the Chinese mainland on the west and north and the Korean Peninsula on the east. It is situated to the north ...
Yellow Springs: village, Greene county, southwestern Ohio, U.S. It lies 23 miles (37 km) east-northeast of Dayton. Founded in 1804, it was named for a local mineral spring, which later (1820-80) was ...
Yellow Turbans: Chinese secret society whose members' uprising, the Yellow Turban Rebellion (AD 184-c. 204), contributed to the fall of the Han dynasty (AD 220). Led by Chang Chueh, a Taoist faith ...
yellow-dog contract: agreement between an employer and an employee in which the employee agrees, as a condition of employment, not to join a union during the course of his employment. Such contracts, ...
yellow-green algae: members of the division Xanthophyta (about 6,000 species), once classified with the green algae on the basis of similarity of body organization. The Xanthophyta are distinguished by their food reserve ...
yellowhammer: (Emberiza citrinella), Eurasian bird belonging to the family Emberizidae (order Passeriformes). The name is derived from the German Ammer, "bunting." It is a 16-centimetre- (6-inch-) long streaked brown bird with ...
Yellowhead Pass: route through the Rocky Mountains, at the Alberta-British Columbia border, Canada, just west of Jasper and leading from Jasper National Park into Mount Robson Provincial Park. It lies at 3,711 ...
Yellowknife: city and capital (since 1967) of Northwest Territories, Canada. It lies on the north shore of Great Slave Lake, 5 miles (8 km) south of the mouth of the Yellowknife ...
Yellowknife: a small Athabascan-speaking Indian tribe of Canada who lived northeast of the Great Bear and Great Slave lakes in what is now the Northwest Territories. The name Yellowknife derives from ...
yellowlegs: either of two species of American shorebirds with trim, gray-brown and white streaked bodies, long bills, and long, bright yellow legs. They belong to the genus Tringa of the family ...
Yellowstone Lake: lake in Yellowstone National Park, northwestern Wyoming, U.S. It lies at an elevation of 7,731 feet (2,356 metres) above sea level and is the largest body of water in North ...
Yellowstone National Park: the oldest, one of the largest, and probably the best-known national park in the United States. It is situated in northwestern Wyoming and partly in southern Montana and eastern Idaho ...
Yellowstone River: river, noted for its scenic beauty, in the western United States. It rises on the slopes of Yount Peak in Wyoming and enters Yellowstone National Park. It feeds into Yellowstone ...
yellowwood: any of about 100 species of coniferous evergreen timber trees and shrubs constituting the genus Podocarpus (family Podocarpaceae) and widely distributed in mountain forests of the Southern Hemisphere. Most have ...
Yeltsin, Boris: Russian politician, who became president of Russia in 1990. In 1991 he became the first popularly elected leader in the country's history, guiding Russia through a stormy decade of political ...
Yelwa: town, seat of the traditional Yauri emirate, Kebbi state, northwestern Nigeria. It lies on the road between Kontagora and Birnin Kebbi. An early Niger River settlement of the Reshe (Gungawa) ...
Yemen: country situated at the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula.
Yemmiganur: city, western Andhra Pradesh state, southern India. It lies west of the city of Kurnool. Yemmiganur was included in the Hindu kingdom of Vijayanagar, which flourished during medieval times (14th-16th ...