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...

Yak (female, nik; bos grunniens) is a species of bovid native to the high Tibetan Plateau. Though vanishing in the wild, where it usually does not descend below 4,300 meters, it is much domesticated and so is widely used as a beast of burd...

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...

The Amnok River (in Korean, Amnokkgang), known in Chinese as the Yalu River, is the longest river in Korea and is one of two rivers that form the border between North Korea and China. (The name Yalu is supposedly derived from the green col...

YAMA. In the earliest Ṛgvedic hymns, Yama is a benign god who looks after the well-being of the dead, whom he entertains with food and shelter. His abode and its environment are pleasant and comfortable; survivors supplicate him for...

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, ...

(2002 est. pop. 1.2 million). Yamagata Prefecture is situated in the northeast of Japan's island of Honshu. Covering 9,326 square kilometers, its primary geographical features are the Ou, Dewa, and Asahi mountain ranges, with level ...

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...

YAMAZAKI ANSAI (1618–1682), Japanese Confucian and Shintō scholar of the early Tokugawa period. The son of a samurai who lost his position in the turbulence of the early Tokugawa period, Ansai was set at a young age on a care...

YĀMUNA (fl. c. 1022–1038), known in Tamil as Ᾱḻavandār; Hindu philosopher, theologian, and devotional poet. Yāmuna lived in the Tamil-speaking area of South India and represented a learned family o...

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...

c. 1238-c. 1298 Chinese Mathematician Though he did not invent the Pascal triangle, Yang Hui did provide an early discussion concerning its use. He also wrote several texts, at least one of which proved influential in East Asian mathematic...

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

(2002 est. pop. 4 million). Yangon is the capital of the Union of Myanmar (Burma) and of Yangon Division (2002 est. pop. 5.7 million). Located on the Yangon River, some 30 kilometers (21 miles) from its mouth on the Gulf of Martaban, Yango...

Called the Changjiang (Long River) in Chinese, the Chang (Yangtze) at 3,900 miles is the third-longest river in the world and the longest one in Asia. It originates in the Tanggulashan on the border of Tibet and Qinghai Province and then r...

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 ...