Seeds of Yesterday is a novel written by V. C. Andrews and published in 1984. It is the fourth book in the Dollanganger Series. It is written in the point of view of Cathy as an older woman of 52 until her death a few years later....

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...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

Language of Ashkenazic Jews and their descendants (&see; Ashkenazi), written in the Hebrew alphabet. Yiddish developed from southeastern dialects of Middle High German carried into central and eastern Europe beginning in the 12th century; ...

Charm is more than beauty. A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water. The heart is half a prophet. If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good ...

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities. Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy. The conquest of fear yields the...

"There were three overwhelming passions which governed the life of Bertrand Russell," said E. Y. "Yip" Harburg in 1970, in a talk in the "Lyrics and Lyricists" series at the 92nd Street Y in New York: The longing for love, the search for k...

SALANTER, YISRAʾEL (1810–1883), born Yisraʾel Lipkin, Lithuanian rabbinic scholar and leader, founder of the Musar movement. Yisraʾel Lipkin, the son of a rabbi and an exceptionally educated woman, showed schola...

Yitzak Shamir (born 1914) was prime minister of Israel (1983-84, 1987-88), leader of the Likud Party and vice premier and minister of foreign affairs in the National Unity government (1984-86). Yitzak Shamir (Yizernitsky) was born in 1914 ...

Nonsectarian, nonpolitical Christian lay movement that aims to develop high standards of Christian character among its members. It originated in London in 1844 when 12 young men formed a club to improve the spiritual condition of young tra...

Yngwie Johann Malmsteen (born Lars Yngve Johann Lannerbäck on 1963-06-30 ) is a virtuoso guitarist from Sweden . "You've unleashed the fucking fury." [1] Unsourced Anyone can learn to play fast, like anyone can learn to type quickly. But ...

The Jewish teacher Johanan ben Zakkai (active ca. AD 70) was the leading expounder of Jewish law of his time. He founded an important academy at Yavneh. Johanan ben Zakkai was the youngest among the numerous disciples of the great Hillel a...

Idealistic school of Mahayana Buddhism. It rejects the complete realism of Theravada Buddhism and the practical realism of the Madhyamika school, preferring a more complicated position in which the reality perceived by humans does not exis...

YOGA. Etymologically, the Sanskrit word yoga derives from the root yuj, meaning "to bind together," "hold fast," or "yoke," which also governs the Latin iungere and iugum, the French joug, and so o...

(born May 12, 1925, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.) American professional baseball player, manager, and coach who established records (all since broken) for catchers of his era; he held the records for most home runs hit while playing in the po...

In eastern Yogyakarta city lies the well-preserved Pakualaman Palace, home of the Pakualaman principality. The four palaces—namely Yogyakarta, Pakualaman, Surakarta, and Mangkunegaran—in the Yogyakarta and Surakarta regions e...

Japanese mathematician who in 1988 developed the outline of a proof of Fermat's last theorem, a problem that had bedeviled mathematicians for over 300 years. This theorem, inspired by the Pythagorean theorem for determining the leng...

Born February 18, 1933 Tokyo, Japan Artist, writer, and performer Yoko Ono. © . "When I first came out there was a lot of xenophobia [fear of foreigners] and suspici...

most solemn of Jewish religious holidays, observed on the 10th day of the lunar month of Tishri (in the course of September and October), when Jews seek to expiate their sins and achieve a reconciliation with God. Yom Kippur concludes the ...

SOURCE: A review of 'The American Diary of a Japanese Girl ', in The Bookman, January, 1913, p. 240. In the following essay, a review of The American Diary of a Japanese Girl, a critic observes that the book's supposedly naive narrator poss...

In Hinduism, a representation of the female sexual organ and feminine generative power, the symbol of the goddess Shakti (&see; shakti). The yoni is often associated with the phallic linga, the symbol of the god Shiva. The linga is depicte...