Year-Round School Refers to a reorganization of the traditional 180-day school calendar so that children attend school in every season of the year. In year-round schools, children attend all year with more frequent, shorter breaks taking t...

A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years. Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. Even a thief takes ten years to learn his trade. At twenty years of age, the will ...

Any of certain economically important and usually single-celled fungi (&see; fungus), most of which are classified as ascomycetes. Found worldwide in soils and on plant surfaces, yeasts are especially abundant in sugary mediums such as flo...

Born in Spalding, Saskatchewan, in 1956, Paul Yee is a third generation Chinese-Canadian. Perhaps best known for his award-winning children's work Tales from Gold Mountain: Stories of the Chinese in the New World, Yee has also written well...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

acute infectious disease, one of the great epidemic diseases of the tropical world, though it sometimes has occurred in temperate zones as well. The disease, caused by a flavivirus, infects humans, all species of monkeys, and certain other...

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...

River, northern, central, and eastern China. The second longest river in China and one of the world's longest, it flows 3,395 mi (5,464 km) from the Plateau of Tibet generally east to the Yellow Sea (Huang Hai). In its lower reaches it has...

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...

the oldest, one of the largest, and probably the best-known national park in the United States. It is situated in northwestern Wyoming and partly in southern Montana and eastern Idaho and includes the greatest concentration of geothermal f...

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...

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...

(died Aug. 6, 1584/85, Siberia) Cossack leader. In 1579 he was enlisted by the merchant Stroganov family to defend its possessions against attacks by Siberian tribesmen. He set out with an expeditionary force of 840 Cossacks and reached th...

British progressive rock band known for its extended compositions and virtuoso musicianship. Its principal members were Jon Anderson (b. Oct. 25, 1944, Accrington, Lancashire, Eng.), Chris Squire (b. March 4, 1948, London, Eng.), Steve How...

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 ...

any of numerous Jewish academies of Talmudic learning, whose biblical and legal exegesis and application of Scripture have defined and regulated Jewish religious life for centuries. The early history of the yeshiva as an institution is kno...

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....