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Yegor Kuz'mich Ligachev (born 1920) was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union beginning in 1966. During the 1980s he became a leading advocate of a more conservative approach to perestroika but was ou...
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Known as Ka-Tzetnik 135633, because he renamed himself for the concentration-camp number tattooed on his skin, novelist and poet Yehiel Dinur was one of the first to write from his own experience of the Holocaust. He chronicled the horrors...
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It is Amichai's unique poetic voice that has proved so appealing through the years, a voice consistently in consonance with the spirit of his people and his times. Not merely contemporary in a topical or linguistic sense, Amichai has displa...
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Yehuda Ashlag ( 1886 — 1954 ) was a Kabbalist who lived in Jerusalem from 1922 until his death in 1954, who received the name Baal HaSulam (The Master of the Ladder) for his Sulam commentary on The Zohar . He advanced while writing the c...
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The Spanish Hebrew poet and religious thinker Judah Halevi (ca. 1085-ca. 1150) taught that God had revealed Himself primarily through the people of Israel. Few definite facts are known about Judah Halevi. He was born in Toledo, Castile, to...
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Rabbi Yehuda ben Samuel he-Hasid of Regensburg (died 1217) was a Jewish mystic and poet. His hymn Shir Hakovod (the Hymn of Glory, also called Anim Zemirot from its opening words) is recited daily in some Ashkenazi synagogues and on Sabbat...
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Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999) was one of the most celebrated violinists of the twentieth century. From his debut at the age of 8 until his death at 82, he was renowned for his talent as a violinist and conductor. Menuhin was born April 22, 19...
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Writer, autobiographer, journalist, and public figure, Princess Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova was one of the first women in Europe to hold governmental office. In 1783 she was appointed director of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences a...
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The Ethiopian king Yekuno Amlak (reigned ca. 1268-1283) restored the Solomonic dynasty to the throne of Ethiopia after it had been held by the Zagwe dynasty for about 300 years. Almost everything that has been written about Yekuno Amlak pe...
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1098-1135 Khitan (northern Asian) king whose defeat of a Seljuk Turk leader in Persia probably served as the basis for the Prester John legend. A "barbarian" nation to the north of China, the Khitan had established a dynasty ...
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Yelena (or Elena) Georgevna Bonner (Елена Георгиевна Боннэр), (born 1923-02-15 ) is a human rights activist in the former Soviet Union and widow of the late Andrei Sakharov . Unsourced Just as there are no little peopl...
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Yellow fever is a severe infectious disease, caused by a virus called a "flavivirus." This flavivirus has caused outbreaks of epidemic proportions throughout Africa and tropical America. The first written evidence of such an epidemic occur...
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The Yellow Kid by Richard Felton Outcault (1863-1928) is generally held to be the character that gave birth to American comic strips. The Kid, later named Mickey Dugan by Outcault, was a smallish figure dressed in a nightshirt who roamed t...
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Yellow Raft Blue Water Essay Throughout the book Rayona has become more confident with being alone. At the beginning of A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, being alone meant being lonely. Rayona had trouble being alone because of the effects ...
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Called "China's sorrow," or Huang Ho in Chinese, the Huang (Yellow) River is the second-largest river in China, flowing 5,954 kilometers from its origins in the Bayan Harshan Mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in w...
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The Yellow Sea (Huang Hai), the shallow gulf between China and Korea, is 870 kilometers long from the south to the north and 556 kilometers wide from the east to the west and covers an area of 378,600 square kilometers. The northern part c...
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Yellow Submarine ( 1968 ) is an animated film designed to present The Beatles music set to various images. It was directed by George Dunning and written by Al Brodax and Jack Mendelsohn. Contents 1 Young Fred 2 John Lennon 3 Paul McCartney...
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Through a woman's perspective of assumed insanity, Charlotte Perkins Gilman comments on the role of the female in the late nineteenth century society in relation to her male counterpart in her short story "The Yellow Wallpaper." Gilman us...
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The yellow-green algae are photosynthetic species of organisms belonging to the Xanthophyta Phylum, which is one of the phyla pertaining to the Chromista Group in the Protista Kingdom. Xanthophyta encompasses 650 living species so far iden...
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Comprising 2.2 million acres of northwest Wyoming, with slight incursions into Montana and Idaho, Yellowstone is the oldest national park in the United States. The park's unique sights originally inspired a nation that had not even ...
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The Brazilians know Yemanja as "Queen of the Sea." She represents power and majesty. Sweet melodies surround this woman and it seems as if the songs are coming from within her own body. In her left hand, Yemanja carries a comb made of sea ...
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The Russian Cossack soldier Emelyan Ivanovich Pugachev (1742-1775) led the peasant rebellion in Russia in 1773-1775. Emelyan Pugachev, a Don Cossack, was born in the village of Zimoveiskaya. The main course of his life was influenced initi...
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Yemen (in Arabic, al-Yaman or al-Jumhuriyah al-Yamaniyah) is situated in the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the north, Oman to the east, the Gulf of Aden to the south, and the Red Sea to th...
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Tsou Yen (active late 4th century BC) was a Chinese philosopher important for developing the so-called Five Element theory, fundamental to Chinese philosophy and science. Tsou Yen was born in Ch'i, a state in modern Shantung Province, wher...
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"Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy" by Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer, the son of Pinchas Mendel Singer and Bathsheba Zylberman, was born in 1904 in the Polish village of Leoncin. His father, an impoverished Hasidic Rabbi, proudly claimed...
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(2002 pop. 1.3 million). Yerevan is the capital and the largest city of Armenia, as well as its largest cultural, scientific, and industrial center (producing electronics, chemicals, textiles, and food products). The site was fortified as ...
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?-1584 Russian adventurer who brought Siberia under Russian control. Yermak (or Ermak) was the leader of a band of outlaw Cossacks who pirated boats on the Volga River. In 1579 they were hired by a wealthy Russian family to defend their pr...
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Yerofey Pavlovich Khabarov Born c. 1610, Ustyug, Russia Died c. 1670 During the 1630s, inhabitants of Russia’s eastern frontier heard rumors of a great river that was located in southeastern Siberia. It was said that the people who li...
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Yes's combination of technical proficiency, enigmatic lyrics, and large egos captured the essence of the progressive rock movement. Formed in 1968, the British art-rock band achieved international success with The Yes Album in 1971....
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Yes, Minister and its sequel Yes, Prime Minister are British television shows that were broadcast between 1980 and 1988. Contents 1 On the Military and Military intelligence 2 On Equality 3 On government policy and the Government 4 On the ...
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YE SHES MTSHO RGYAL (YESHE TSOGYAL) (777–873) is a leading female figure and role model for Tibetan Buddhists. She is especially important for the Rnyingma (Nyingma) school of Tibetan Buddhism as a key figure in myth, dreams, iconog...
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YESHIVAH. In contemporary usage, the Hebrew term yeshivah refers to an academy for the advanced study of Jewish religious texts, primarily the Talmud. Since the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, the yeshivah has been one of the mo...
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Chaim Grade is a major author in what has tragically become a minor language, Yiddish…. "Masters and Disciples" is the second part of Grade's two-volume epic novel, "The Yeshiva."… "The Yeshiva" is a saga about Talmudic students and the...
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Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow | a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day....
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"We are showing three divergent views of Italy today, cutting across the entire social scale," explains De Sica of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. "Although different in time and place, the three episodes are bound together by universal qual...
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Countess Evdokiia Rostopchina, who sometimes used the pseudonyms Iasnovidiashchaia (Clairvoyant) and Russkaia zhenshchina (A Russian Woman), was one of the most popular female poets of nineteenth-century Russia. Undoubtedly talented, she u...
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Evgeniia Semenovna Ginzburg's memoirs of her eighteen years in the gulag gained international renown both as the first female eyewitness account of the camps and as a literary masterpiece. Ginzburg was born on 20 December 1904 into a famil...
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Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko (born 1933), the most popular of contemporary Russian poets, was the leading literary spokesman for the generation of Russians who grew to maturity after Stalin's death in 1953. Yevgeny Yevtushenko was bor...
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Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin lived in the first two, but participated in all three, periods of twentieth-century Russian literature and was out of step in each. In the pre-Soviet period, known as the Silver Age, he worked as an engineer, wro...
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Careless, unsocial plant! that loves to dwell 'Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms: Where light-heel'd ghosts and visionary shades, Beneath the wan, cold Moon Embodied, thick, perform their mystic rounds No other merriment, dull t...
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The Yi people live in southwest China, in the mountainous regions of Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Guangxi provinces. With 6.6 million people (1990 census), the Yi are the fourth largest minority nationality in China in terms of population...
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Yi Hwang (1501-1570), Yi-dynasty philosopher, poet, scholar, and educator, was one of the greatest Korean Confucian philosophers, famous for his comprehensive studies of the great Sung Neo-Confucian philosopher Chu Hsi. Yi Hwang, whose lit...
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YI YULGOK, pen name of Yi I (1536–1584), Korean Neo-Confucian thinker whose stature in the tradition is equalled only by that of Yi T'oegye. Yulgok is credited with having established the Kiho ("material force")...
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(b. 1948), Korean novelist. Since he made his debut in 1977 with a short story in a Daegu newspaper, Yi Mun-yol (Lee Mun-yol) has published prolifically, producing novels dealing with a wide range of subjects, from experience of military s...
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