is a comic book series by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra , about the only man to survive the mysterious simultaneous death of every male mammal on Earth. The series was published in sixty issues - released between September 2002 and Janua...

YAʿAQOV BEN ASHER (c. 1270–1343), Hispano-Jewish codifier. Yaʿaqov was a son of the great German halakhist Asher ben Yeḥiʾel, who settled with his family in Toledo in 1303. Yaʿaqov ben Asher never ...

Yacht rock is a fictionalized online show following the lives and careers of certain soft rockers in the late 1970s and early 1980s . Quotes John Oates: "Fuck you, Loggins! Hall and I will not stand idly by while you California vagina sail...

c. 754-775 Islamic scholar and translator who was known for his translations of ancient Greek and Roman writings into Arabic. Although many of his translations were in regard to medicine under the caliphate of al-Munsur, he also translated...

Massive ox (Bos grunniens mutus) of high Tibetan plateaus. Bulls grow to 6 ft (1.8 m) at the shoulder hump. The wild yak's hair is black and short, except for a long, shaggy fringe on the flanks and tail. The horns spread outward and upwar...

As a second-unit director for action sequences, Yakima Canutt (1896-1986) made scores of films during the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, but his best-known work is the chariot race in Ben-Hur (1959), starring Charlton Heston and Stephen B...

(1994 est. pop. 14,000). Yakushima Island is sixty kilometers south of Osumi Peninsula in Kagoshima Prefecture in southern Kyushu. The island is 500 square kilometers in size. Yakushima is characterized by a hot and humid climate and has t...

River, eastern Asia, between northeastern China and North Korea. Some 491 mi (790 km) long, it rises on the northern border of North Korea, then flows to Korea Bay. It is an important source of hydroelectric power and is navigable by small...

In Indian mythology, the lord of death. The Vedas describe him as the first man who died. The son of the sun god Surya, he presides over the resting place of the dead. In the Vedas, he was a cheerful king of the departed ancestors, but in ...

YAMAGA SOKŌ (1622–1685), Japanese Confucian of the school of Ancient Learning (Kogaku). Sokō was born in Aizu, the son of a masterless warrior named Yamaga Sadamochi (1585–1664) and Sadamochi's mistress, ...

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 the Dewa Sangan (Three Mountains of Dewa [Gassan, Yud...

Yamamoto Tsunetomo ( 12 June 1659 - 1719 ) was a samurai of the Saga domain in the Hizen Province of Japan, famous for his sayings in Hagakure , In the Shadow of Leaves , a controversial exposition of his views on Bushido (the "Way of the ...

Yamato damashii refers to the essential and inexplicable nature of being Japanese that is at the core of beliefs in Japan's uniqueness. The term appears in several contexts, most of them of nationalistic origin, and had its greatest...

(born Jan. 24, 1619, Kyōto, Japan—died Oct. 16, 1682, Kyōto) Japanese exponent of the philosophy of the Chinese Neo-Confucianist Zhu Xi. Early in life he was a Buddhist monk, but he gradually rejected Buddhism in favour o...

River, north-central India. Rising in the Himalayas, it flows south and southeast 855 mi (1,376 km) into the Ganges (Ganga) River near Allahabad; their confluence is a sacred place to Hindus. The Yamuna's upper course forms a long section ...

The Chinese warlord Yen Hsi-shan (1883-1960) ruled Shansi Province in northwest China from 1911 to 1949. Because of his program of reforms, Shansi was dubbed the "model province." Yen Hsi-shan was born in the village of Ho-pien not far fro...

(flourished &circa; 1261–75, Qiantang, Zhejiang province, China) Mathematician active in the great flowering of Chinese mathematics during the Southern Song dynasty. His books are among the few contemporary Chinese mathematics works ...

Yang Xiong(53 Bce A.D. 18). Translated and annotated by David R. Knechtges. Tempe: Arizona State University Press, 1982....

city, capital of independent Myanmar (Burma) from 1948 to 2006, when the government officially proclaimed the new city of Naypyidaw the capital of the country. It is located in the southern part of the country on the east (left) bank of th...

River, China. Rising in the Tanggula Mountains in west-central China, it flows southeast before turning northeast and then generally east across south-central and east-central China to the East China Sea near Shanghai. It is known as the J...

Yankee Doodle Dandy is one of Hollywood's greatest musicals. The film is based on the story of the legendary performer, George M. Cohan. The timing of the film was perfect since America went in to World War II, just before the film was rel...

Throughout the ages of mankind, music has taken many forms. It was first discovered by a caveman beating on a rock and has since evolved into one of the major arts that is key to developing cultural literacy. However, music, for the large ...