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- city, west-central Fujian sheng (province), southeastern China. It is situated on the Sha River, a southern tributary of the Min River.
- Yongding River
- (from the article "Hai River system") The principal tributaries are the Chao River, rising in the mountains north and northeast of Beijing; the Yongding River, flowing southeastward from the Guanting Reservoir through Beijing to Tianjin; the ...
- Yonge Reef
- (from the article "ocean") A characteristic form in a barrier reef system is the wall, or ribbon, reef, emergent at low tide, such as Yonge Reef, Queens., Australia. A ribbon reef flat is commonly ...
- Yonge Street
- (from the article "Toronto") ...Iroquois. Streets are laid out in a grid, although the pattern is modified to some extent by diagonal roads roughly following the shoreline. The central business areas are located around ...
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Yonge, Nicholas
- (from the article "madrigal") Although the madrigal was popular outside Italy, the only country to develop a strong native tradition was England. In 1588 Nicholas Yonge published Musica Transalpina, a large collection of Italian ...
- Yonge, Sir Maurice
- (from the article "feeding behaviour") Even with these restrictions, the diversity of feeding patterns is bewildering. A useful classification has been put forward by British zoologists Sir Maurice Yonge and J.A.C. Nicol, based on the ...
- Yongji Canal
- (from the article "Cangzhou") ...southeast of the present city. The area became important in the late part of the Sui dynasty (581-618) and in the early part of the Tang dynasty (618-907), after the ...
- Yongle
- reign name (nianhao) of the third emperor (1402-24) of China's Ming dynasty (1368-1644), which he raised to its greatest power. He moved the capital from Nanjing to ... [11 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [6 Related Articles]
- 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 ...
- Yongzheng
- reign name (nianhao) of the third emperor (reigned 1722-35) of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911/12), during whose rule the administration was consolidated and power became concentrated in the ... [4 Related Articles]
- yongzhong
- (from the article "zhong") The suspended bells fall into two main categories: those with a straight handle plus a lug at the top, which are suspended slantwise on a wooden frame, are called
- yoni
- in Hinduism, aniconic representation of the female sexual organ and the symbol of the goddess Shakti, the feminine generative power and, as a goddess, the consort of Shiva. The yoni ... [2 Related Articles]
- 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 ...
- Yonli, Ernest Paramanga
- (from the article "Burkina Faso") Area: 267,950 sq km (103,456 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 14,326,000 | Capital: Ouagadougou | Chief of state: President Blaise Compaore | Head of government: Prime Ministers Paramanga Ernest ...
- Yonne
- (from the article "Burgundy") ...region of France encompassing the central departements of Cote-d'Or, Saone-et-Loire, Nievre, and Yonne. Burgundy is bounded by the regions of Ile-de-France and Champagne-Ardenne to ...
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Yono
- (from the article "Saitama") ...highway between Osaka and Edo (Tokyo) during the Tokugawa period (1603-1867), and both grew rapidly in the 20th century, especially after World War II. Between them was the much smaller ...
- Yoon Young Kwan
- (from the article "Korea, Republic of") ...newly elected Pres. Roh Moo Hyun was at the centre of controversy as 2004 began, but by the second half of the year, he was in a stronger position than ...
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Yordan, Philip
- (from the article "1954: Other Winners") Screenplay: George Seaton for The Country GirlMotion Picture Story: Philip Yordan for Broken LanceStory and Screenplay: Budd Schulberg for On the WaterfrontCinematography, Black-and-White: Boris Kaufman for On the WaterfrontCinematography, Color: ...
- yorde merkava
- (from the article "Judaism") ...advent of God's kingdom) and documents of certain sects (Dead Sea Scrolls) and the writings, preserved in Hebrew, of the "explorers of the supernatural world" (yorde merkava). ...
- Yorick Club
- (from the article "Clarke, Marcus") ...convicted of a crime, who falls into the degradation of the convict world. It was written melodramatically in a style of almost garish realism. Clarke enjoyed good company and helped ...
- 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
- (from the article "Clark, William") ...modifying the keelboat they were to use, engaging the participation of several Kentuckians, and drilling the men during their winter camp. The Corps of Discovery (which included Clark's slave York) ...
- York
- city and unitary authority, geographic county of North Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, northern England. It lies at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss, about midway between London ... [1 Related Articles]
- 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
- 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
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- 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
- 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
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- York and Albany, Frederick Augustus, duke of
- second son of King George III of Great Britain, younger brother of George IV, and British field commander in two unsuccessful campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars.
- York Factory
- historical settlement in 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) ...
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- York Realist
- (from the article "York plays") ...of the York plays, about 14 plays (mainly those concerning Christ's Passion) were redacted into alliterative verse. These are powerful and the work of a dramatic genius, often referred to ...
- York Retreat
- (from the article "mental disorder") ...and dungeons were replaced by sunny rooms; patients were also permitted to exercise on the hospital grounds. Among other reformers were the British Quaker layman William Tuke, who established the ...
- York round
- (from the article "archery") ...Toxophilite Society in 1787 and set the prince's lengths of 100 yards (91 metres), 80 yards (73 metres), and 60 yards (55 metres); these distances are still used in the ...
- York, Alvin Cullum
- celebrated American hero of World War I, immortalized by the film version of his life story, Sergeant York (1941). [1 Related Articles]
- 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. [2 Related Articles]
- 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 of England. In the 15th century, having usurped the throne from the house of Lancaster, it provided three kings of England-Edward IV, Edward ... [4 Related Articles]
- York, Richard Plantagenet, duke of
- (from the article "Henry VI, Part 1") ...1 covers the early part of King Henry's reign and ends with events immediately preceding the opening of Part 2. It contains the entirely nonhistorical scene in ...
- 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 ... [6 Related Articles]
- York, Richard, Duke of
- (from the article "Bourchier, Thomas") ...the Roses and arranged a temporary reconciliation between the two sides in 1458. Nevertheless, after the defeat of the Lancastrians in 1461, Bourchier became a loyal supporter of the newly ...
- York, Statute of
- (from the article "United Kingdom") ...with many rumours of miracles at his tomb. Edward had many of Lancaster's followers executed in a horrific bloodbath. In the same year the Ordinances were repealed in Parliament at ...
- York-Antwerp rules of General Average
- (from the article "maritime law") ...an international code of navigation. In other fields much has been accomplished to ensure international uniformity through private agreements voluntarily adhered to by affected interests; the York-Antwerp Rules of General ...
- 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 ...
- Yorke, Thom
- (from the article "Radiohead") ...of the most majestic-if most angst-saturated-music of the postmodern era. Formed in the mid-1980s at Abingdon School in Oxfordshire, Radiohead comprised singer-guitarist Thom Yorke (b. Oct. 7, 1968Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, Eng.), ...
- yorker
- (from the article "cricket") ...forward to play his stroke or to move back. A half volley is a ball pitched so far up to the batsman that he can drive it fractionally after it ...
- Yorkino
- (from the article "Escoces and Yorkino") members of two rival Masonic lodges that exercised considerable political influence in early 19th-century Mexico; the names mean Scotsman and Yorkist, respectively, after the two orders of Freemasonry, the Scottish ...
- 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 ... [6 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- (from the article "Principal national parks of the world") ...dales of the Rivers Greta, Ribble, Aire, and Wharfe and open southward to the Ribble-Aire gap, where Skipton, the administrative centre, is situated. The bleak limestone uplands are part of ...
- 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 pudding
- (from the article "pudding") ...and kidney being the best known), game, poultry, and vegetables enclosed in suet pastry. Black and white puddings are sausages with cereal added, the black being coloured with pig's blood. ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ... [4 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [7 Related Articles]
- 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 ...
- Yorta Yorta
- (from the article "Victoria") ...hunter-gatherer society as it was at the time of European settlement emerged about 5,000 years ago. On contact there were three main Aboriginal groups in Victoria: the Kurnai of Gippsland, ...
- Yorty, Samuel William
- American politician who gained national fame as mayor of Los Angeles from 1961 to 1973, a time of economic growth and civic improvement but also one of inner-city unrest that ...
- 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 ... [27 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- Yoruboid languages
- (from the article "Benue-Congo languages") The Defoid languages comprise two groups: the Akokoid cluster of four languages and the very much larger Yoruboid cluster whose principal members are Yoruba (20,000,000 speakers), Igala (1,000,000), and Itsekiri ...
- Yosano Akiko
- Japanese poet whose new style caused a sensation in Japanese literary circles. [1 Related Articles]
- Yose ben Yose
- (from the article "Hebrew literature") ...poems, presupposing a highly educated audience, abound in recondite allusions and contain exhaustive lists of rites and laws. It is known that the most outstanding poets-Phineas the Priest, Yose ben ...
- yosegi
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...this image is composed of numerous wood pieces that have been carved and hollowed, then joined together and surfaced with lacquered cloth and gold leaf. This joined-block construction technique (yosegi-zukuri) ...
- 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [11 Related Articles]
- 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 Kanetomo
- (from the article "Japan") ...to the Shinto shrines at Ise, and to the summit of Mount Fuji also became popular. Accompanying this trend was the development of a worldly Shinto belief. In the 15th ...
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Yoshida Shinto
- (from the article "Shinto") Yoshida Shinto, a school in Kyoto that emerged during the 15th century, inherited various aspects handed down from Watarai Shinto and also showed some Taoist influence. The school's doctrines were ...
- Yoshida Shoin
- (from the article "Sakuma Zozan") ...ethics, Western techniques") became the basis of the Japanese modernization effort in the late 19th century. Sakuma's ideas, especially as they became known through his colourful disciple Yoshida Shoin, provided ...
- 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.
- Yoshikawa Koretaru
- (from the article "Shinto") ...and Confucian teachings. Schools emerged based on the teachings of the Chinese philosophers Chu Hsi and Wang Yang-ming, and Neo-Confucianism became an official subject of study for warriors. Yoshikawa Koretaru ...
- Yoshimi
- (from the article "Onin War") ...and Yamana Mochitoyo, whose family were powerful landowners in the western Honshu region. Yoshimasa's wife gave birth to a son in 1465, the year after the shogun had designated his ...
- Yoshimoto Takaaki
- (from the article "Literature") Japan's major literary critics Takaaki Yoshimoto (Banana's father) and Kojin Karatani left important works in 2004. In "Senso to heiwa" ("War and Peace"), Yoshimoto wrote about the dispatch of Japan's ...
- Yoshimoto, Banana
- "Banana mania" was not an enthusiasm triggered by potassium deprivation but rather the way journalists around the world referred in 2001 to the wild popularity of Japanese writer Banana Yoshimoto. ... [2 Related Articles]
- Yoshimura, Akira
- (from the article "Literature") ...works were being published on Web sites. Nobuo Kojima, who won both the Akutagawa Prize (1955) and the Tanizaki Prize (1965), died in October. (See Obituaries.) Genre ...
- 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. [1 Related Articles]
- Yoshiyuki, Junnosuke
- Japanese novelist and short-story writer (b. April 1, 1923, Okayama, Japan--d. July 26, 1994, Tokyo, Japan), explored human sexuality and prostitution as a means of understanding human relationships. His prize-winning ...
- Yoshizawa, Akira
- Japanese artist (b. March 14, 1911, Kaminokawa, Tochigi prefecture, Japan-March 14, 2005, Ogikubo, Japan), revived the ancient Japanese craft of origami, or paper folding, and inspired an international interest in ... [1 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Yost, Ed
- American engineer was dubbed the father of modern hot-air ballooning after his historic 25-minute, 4.8-km (3-mi) flight on Oct. 22, 1960, in Bruning, Neb., in which he took to the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Yost, Fielding
- American collegiate football coach at the University of Michigan (1901-23, 1925-27) and athletic director (1921-41), who became famous for his "point-a-minute" teams (average 49.8 points per game to opponents .07) ... [1 Related Articles]
- 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 ...
- Yothu Yindi
- (from the article "Northern Territory") ...of the writers Jeannie Gunn, Xavier Herbert, Douglas Lockwood, William Edward Harney, and Frank Flynn, while Ted Egan is a prominent folk musician and songwriter who depicts life in the ...
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- 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 ...
- Youlou, Fulbert
- (from the article "Congo") ...also had different political philosophies. The MSA favoured a powerful state and a partially publicly owned economy; the UDDIA advocated private ownership and close ties with France. UDDIA leader Fulbert ...
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