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Yokuts: California Indians speaking a language of Penutian stock who historically inhabited the San Joaquin Valley and the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada south of the Fresno River. The Yokuts ...
Yola: town, capital of Adamawa state, and seat of the traditional Adamawa emirate, eastern Nigeria. The town is served by the port of Jimeta (5.5 miles [9 km] north-northwest) on the ...
yolk: the nutritive material of an egg, used as food by a developing, embryonic animal. Eggs with relatively little, uniformly distributed yolk are termed isolecithal. This condition occurs in invertebrates and ...
Yom Kippur: most solemn of Jewish religious holidays, observed on the 10th day of the lunar month of Tishri (in the course of September and October), when Jews seek to expiate their ...
yomihon: a subgenre of gesaku, a type of popular Japanese literature of the Tokugawa, or Edo, period (1603-1867). Yomihon were distinguished from books, enjoyed mainly for their illustrations, and were noted ...
Yomiuri shimbun: Japanese national daily newspaper, the largest in circulation and the most sensational in editorial style of Japan's "big three" dailies.
Yomou: town, southeastern Guinea. It is the chief trading centre (rice, cassava, coffee, and palm oil and kernels) for a densely forested region of the Guinea Highlands mainly inhabited by the ...
Yomut carpet: floor covering handwoven by the Yomut Turkmen of Turkmenistan, usually of good to excellent quality. In contrast to Tekke carpets, there is considerable variety of design among the larger Yomut ...
Yonago: city, western Tottori ken (prefecture), western Honshu, Japan. It is located on the delta of the Hino River, which forms the Yonago Plain. The city occupies the ...
Yonezawa: city, southern Yamagata ken (prefecture), north-central Honshu, Japan. From the Muromachi period (1338-1573) to the Meiji Restoration (1868) it was a castle town of the Uesugi daimyo ...
Yonge, Charlotte M.: English novelist who dedicated her talents as a writer to the service of the church. Her books helped to spread the influence of the Oxford Movement, which sought to bring ...
Yongle dadian: Chinese compilation that was the world's largest known encyclopaedia. Compiled during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) by thousands of Chinese scholars under the direction of the Yongle emperor (reigned 1402-24), it ...
Yongsan River: river, southwestern South Korea. Rising in extreme northern Cholla-namdo (North Cholla Province), the Yongsan River flows southwest into the Yellow Sea near Mokp'o. The drainage basin is South Korea's most ...
yoni: (Sanskrit: "holder"), in Hinduism, representation of the female sexual organ and thereby the symbol of the goddess Sakti, consort of Siva. The yoni is often associated with the linga (q.v.), ...
Yonkers: city, Westchester county, southeastern New York, U.S., on the east shore of the Hudson River, in a hilly region north of the Bronx, New York City. The site, once a ...
Yonne River: river, north central France, a left-bank tributary of the Seine River. From its source in the Nievre departement at the foot of Mont Preneley, located in the Morvan heights west ...
Yopal: town and capital of Casanare departamento, eastern Colombia. The original settlement (caserio) of Yopal was founded in 1935 by Pedro Pablo Gonzalez, and it has been the seat of Casanare ...
Yorba Linda: city, Orange county, southern California, U.S. The area was explored by a Spanish expedition in 1769, and in 1801 Juan Pablo Grijalva received a Spanish land grant known as Rancho ...
Yorck von Wartenburg, Johann, Graf: Prussian field marshal, reformer, and successful commander during the Wars of Liberation (1813-15) against France. His initiative in signing a separate neutrality agreement with Russia during the Napoleonic invasion of ...
Yorimitsu: one of the most popular of the legendary Japanese warrior heroes and a member of the martial Minamoto clan. In his exploits he is always accompanied by four trusty lieutenants. ...
York: county, extreme southwestern Maine, U.S. It is located in a coastal region bordered by New Hampshire to the west and southwest (that border largely defined by the Salmon Falls and ...
York: county, southern Pennsylvania, U.S., bordered to the northeast and east by the Susquehanna River, to the south by Maryland, and to the northwest by Yellow Breeches Creek. It consists of ...
York: city and unitary authority, geographic county of North Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, England. It lies at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss, about midway between London and ...
York: town, York county, southwestern Maine, U.S., situated at the mouth of the York River on the Atlantic Ocean, 43 miles (69 km) southwest of Portland. York includes the communities of ...
York: county, northern South Carolina, U.S. North Carolina forms the northern border, the Catawba River part of the eastern border, and the Broad River part of the western border. On the ...
York: former city (1983-98), southeastern Ontario, Canada. In 1998 it amalgamated with the cities of Toronto, Etobicoke, Scarborough, and North York and the borough of East York to form the City ...
York: city, seat (1749) of York county, southeastern Pennsylvania, U.S., on Codorus Creek, 28 miles (45 km) southeast of Harrisburg. It is the focus of a metropolitan district that includes the ...
York Factory: historic settlement, northeastern Manitoba, Canada. It lies at the mouth of the Hayes River, on Hudson Bay. It was the site of a Hudson's Bay Company post (Fort Nelson) built ...
York plays: a cycle of 48 plays, dating from the 14th century, of unknown authorship, which were performed during the Middle Ages by craft guilds in the city of York, in the ...
York, Alvin Cullum: celebrated American hero of World War I, immortalized by the film version of his life story, Sergeant York (1941).
York, Cape: northernmost point of the Australian continent, comprising the northern tip of Cape York Peninsula, in the state of Queensland. The cape juts north-northeast from the peninsula into Torres Strait, which ...
York, Edmund of Langley, 1st duke of: fourth surviving legitimate son of King Edward III of England and founder of the House of York as a branch of the Plantagenet dynasty.
York, Edward of Norwich, 2nd duke of: Yorkist who led a checkered career in the reigns of Richard II of England and the usurper Henry IV.
York, Henry Stuart, cardinal duke of: last legitimate descendant of the deposed (1688) Stuart monarch James II of Great Britain. To the Jacobites-supporters of Stuart claims to the British throne-he was known as King Henry IX ...
York, House of: younger branch of the house of Plantagenet (q.v.) of England. In the 15th century, having usurped the throne from the house of Lancaster (q.v.), it provided three kings of England-Edward ...
York, Richard, 3rd duke of: claimant to the English throne whose attempts to gain power helped precipitate the Wars of the Roses (1455-85) between the houses of Lancaster and York; he controlled the government for ...
Yorke Peninsula: promontory of the south coast of South Australia, between Spencer Gulf to the west and Gulf St. Vincent and Investigator Strait to the east and south. Extending southward for 160 ...
Yorkshire: breed of swine produced in the 18th century by crossing the large indigenous white pig of North England with the smaller, fatter, white Chinese pig. The well-fleshed Yorkshire is solid ...
Yorkshire: historic county of England, in the north-central part of the country between the Pennines and the North Sea. Yorkshire is England's largest historical county. It comprises four broad belts each ...
Yorkshire Post: daily newspaper that is the chief Conservative paper published in England outside London. It is one of the most prestigious provincial papers in Britain.
Yorkshire terrier: breed of toy dog developed about the mid-1800s in the English counties of Yorkshire and Lancashire. The lineage of the breed is unknown but appears to include several terriers, such ...
Yorkton: city, southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada. It lies 117 miles (189 km) northeast of Regina. The original townsite, on nearby Yorkton Creek, was settled in 1882 by the York (Ontario) Farmers' Colonization ...
Yorktown: historic town, seat (1634) of York county, southeastern Virginia, U.S. It is situated on the south bank of the York River across from Gloucester Point, just east-southeast of Williamsburg. The ...
Yorktown, Siege of: (September 28-October 19, 1781), joint Franco-American land and sea campaign that entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced its surrender. The siege virtually ended ...
Yoro: city, northwestern Honduras. Situated in the highlands at an elevation of 1,837 feet (559 m), it is located near the headwaters of the Aguan River. Although its founding date is ...
Yoruba: one of the three largest ethnic groups of Nigeria, concentrated in the southwestern part of that country. Much smaller, scattered groups live in Benin and northern Togo. The Yoruba numbered ...
Yoruba language: one of a small group of languages that comprise the Yoruboid cluster of the Defoid subbranch of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family. The other Yoruboid languages include ...
Yoruba states: confederation formerly dominant in what is now western Nigeria. The Yoruba probably migrated to the forests and savannas west of the lower reaches of the Niger River, founding the towns ...
Yosano Akiko: Japanese poet whose new style caused a sensation in Japanese literary circles.
Yosemite Falls: magnificent series of snow-fed waterfalls in Yosemite National Park, east-central California, U.S., near Yosemite Village. They were formed by creeks tumbling into the Yosemite Valley over the edges of hanging ...
Yosemite National Park: scenic mountain region in east-central California, U.S. It is situated about 140 miles (225 km) east of the city of San Francisco; Devils Postpile National Monument lies about 15 miles ...
Yoshida Isoya: Japanese architect who was a pioneer in the modern sukiya style of building, in which an affinity for natural materials and traditional construction techniques finds expression in contemporary structures.
Yoshida Kenko: Japanese poet and essayist, the outstanding literary figure of his time. His collection of essays, Tsurezuregusa (c. 1330; Essays in Idleness, 1967), became, especially after the 17th century, a basic ...
Yoshida Shigeru: Japanese political leader who served several terms as prime minister of Japan during most of the critical transition period after World War II, when Allied troops occupied the country and ...
Yoshida Tetsuro: Japanese architect who spread knowledge of Japan's architecture to the West and at the same time introduced Western motifs in his own works.
Yoshikawa Eiji: Japanese novelist who achieved the first rank among 20th-century writers both for his popularized versions of classical Japanese literature and for his own original novels.
Yoshino Sakuzo: Japanese Christian politician and educator who was a leader in the movement to further democracy in Japan in the early part of the 20th century.
Yoshkar-Ola: city and capital of Mari El republic, western Russia, on the Malaya (little) Kokshaga River. Yoshkar-Ola was founded in 1578, and in 1584 the fortress of Tsaryovokokshaysk was built there ...
Yosu: city, Cholla-nam do (province), on Yosu Peninsula, extreme southern South Korea. Such large islands as Namhae, Dolsan, and Kumo protect its natural port. The Korean navy headquarters was located there ...
you: type of Chinese bronze container for wine that resembled a bucket with a swing handle and a knobbed lid. It was produced during the Shang (18th-12th century BC) and early ...
Youghal: urban district, market town, and fishing port on the west side of the Blackwater Estuary in County Cork, Ireland. It is possible that Danes originally occupied Youghal, but the first ...
Youghiogheny River: river rising in Preston county, W.Va., U.S., at Backbone Mountain, near the western edge of Maryland. It flows past Connellsville, Pa., to enter the Monongahela River at McKeesport, Pa., after ...
Youmans, Vincent: 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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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, ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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, ...