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YANTRA. Geometrical diagrams known as yantras form a very special class of religious symbols in Hinduism. Their forms and functions within the tradition vary according to their uses. The most important ones are those that serve as supports...
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The Yao are a minority people living in southern and southwestern China, mostly in the mountainous regions of Guangxi, Hunan, Yunnan, Guangdong, Guizhou, and Jiangxi Provinces. The Yao total 2.1 million people (1990 census) and rank as the...
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YAO AND SHUN were legendary sage-rulers of antiquity in China. According to traditional Chinese historiography, Tang Yao (Yao of the Tang clan or state; personal name, Fang Xun) or Tang Dao ruled from 2356 to 2256 BCE. A ruler of great vir...
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(1837–1885), Chinese leader in Malaysia. Yap Ah Loy was born in Guangdong Province, China, on 14 March 1837, the son of a peasant. He arrived in Melaka, Malaysia, about 1854 and became Malaysia's most famous Kapitan Cina (a M...
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Abu Yusuf Yakub al-Mansur (reigned 1184-1199) was the third caliph of the Almohad dynasty and the victor against the Spanish Christians at the battle of Alarcos. Abu Yusuf served as vizier of the Almohad empire during the reign of his fath...
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d. 897 Arab historian and geographer whose Kitab al-buldan was the first scientific treatment of historical geography produced by the Arab culture of the Middle Ages. At various times al-Ya'qubi lived in Armenia and Khorasan (modern...
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1179-1229 Syrian Geographer, Historian, and Ethnographer Yaqut is known primarily for two works, Kitab mu'jam al-budan and Mu'jam al-udaba'. The former is a summation of historical, geographical, and ethnographic infor...
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As the field of solid waste management becomes more developed and specialized, the categories into which solid waste is sorted and managed become more numerous. Yard waste—often called vegetative waste—includes leaves, gras...
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Mary Alexander Yard (born ca. 1912) was a feminist, a political organizer, and a social activist. She served as president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), 1987-1991. Mary Alexander Yard, who preferred to be called Molly, was b...
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The backbone of the rock band The Yardbirds consisted of vocalist Keith Relf, rhythm guitarist Chris Dreja, bassist Paul Samwell-Smith, and drummer Jim McCarty. However, they were most famous for their succession of luminary lead guitarist...
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Yasser Arafat (born 1929) was elected chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1969. Though originally an advocate of all-out guerrilla war, from 1974 on he and the PLO sometimes seemed to be seeking a negotiated resolu...
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Nakasone Yasuhiro (born 1918) was a Japanese politician who helped rebuild pride in the nation and in Japan's world role. He was active in the Liberal Democratic Party for over 30 years before becoming prime minister in 1982. He served an ...
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Minoru Yasui (1917-1987) was a lawyer who fought for the civil rights of Japanese Americans during World War II, most notably he argued about the unconstitutionality of the internment camps. During the early 1900s, many Japanese people mov...
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Often called the most "Japanese" of Japanese directors, Yasujiro Ozu (1903-1963) created films about middle-class Japanese life and familial relationships with simplicity and austerity. Known for keeping the camera three feet off the groun...
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Yasukuni Shrine is a major Shinto shrine in Japan honoring the dead of the Imperial Japanese Army from the Sino-Japanese War (1899) to World War II. Established in 1869 in Kudanshita in Tokyo, the shrine encompasses gardens, a shrine, and ...
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Japanese mathematician who pioneered new computer methods for calculating the value of π to unprecedented levels of precision. Prior to Kanada's work,π had been calculated to 2,037 places using computers while, calcula...
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Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) was a distinguished Japanese novelist who won the Nobel Prize in literature for exemplifying in his writings the Japanese mind. Yasunari Kawabata was born in Osaka on June 11, 1899, into a cultured family, his...
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Yasuoka Shotaro was born 30 May 1920 in Kochi City on the island of Shikoku. Family tradition held, however, that he had been born a month or so earlier, and although Kochi continues to be identified as his hometown, Yasuoka has never spen...
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As a cosmopolitan man of letters, Inoue Yasushi established a reputation as a poet, journalist, and fiction writer, although he is best known as a novelist. He was a major introducer and interpreter of the Silk Road phenomenon in Japan, an...
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The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there....
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J. Michael Yates is one of Canada's most prolific and most determinedly experimental writers. He has written in many forms and has been active in publishing, broadcasting, editing, photography, reviewing, and translation. He has traveled w...
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The fiction of Chinese American poet and art critic John Yau is best understood as the transformation of a personal dilemma into a formal imperative; that is, his experience of feeling outside both his own ancestry and the American culture...
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Peyo Yavorov is generally considered one of the finest poetic talents of the turn of the century in Bulgaria. Although a prominent member of the Misul group, an intellectual circle of writers and thinkers gathered about Krustyo Krustev's j...
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The yawn reflex (pandiculation) is not a classical neural reflex arc, but rather a coordinated neural and muscular arousal reflex mediated by the brain stem. A yawn is a sequence of events that begins with a deep inspiration of air and end...
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You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unbalances other people's ear pressures, so they must yawn to even it out....
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There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience. You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unbalances other people's ea...
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Yaws is a chronic illness that first affects the skin, and later the bones. Yaws tends to strike children, particularly between the ages of two and five. It is common in areas where poverty and overcrowding interfere with good hygiene. It ...
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The Yayoi period (c. 300 BCE to 300 CE) saw the introduction of a full-scale agricultural economy into the islands of Japan. This economy was initially associated with immigration from the Korean Peninsula. Population growth among early Ya...
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YAZATAS. The term yazata occurs in the Avesta, the collection of sacred books of Zoroastrianism, as an attribute or designation of divine beings. From this term is derived the Middle Persian yazd ("god"; pl., yazdān). ...
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Astronomers define a planet's sidereal year as the time the planet requires to make a complete orbit around the Sun. A definition more relevant to humans is the time required for the seasons to complete one cycle, that is, the time ...
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The millennium bug refers to the existence in many computer software packages of a six-digit date rather than an eight-digit date. Computers speak the language of mathematics. Every question posed to a computer program is answered either &...
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A Year Down Yonder is a novel by Richard Peck that won the Newbery Medal in 2001. It is a sequel to A Long Way from Chicago, which itself received a Newbery Honor. In the book, Mary Alice takes the train from Chicago to spend a year with he...
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The narrative structure of the book parallels the mental re-living of a tragic event that is common to many experiences of grief. The outline of the story remains constant: Didion and her husband were returning home after a visit to their d...
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Year of the Griffin is a 2000 novel by British children's author Diana Wynne Jones. It is the sequel to The Dark Lord of Derkholm and is more centered around Wizard Derk's daughter, the griffin Elda, and her time at the University of Magic....
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Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague is a 2001 international bestselling historical fiction novel by Geraldine Brooks. It was chosen as both a New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book....
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Jody, in The Yearling, learns that maturity means accepting difficult choices and facing reality through losing his best friend, his pet fawn, and running away from home. The first challenge Jody Baxter faced was the death of his best fri...
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But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man. There is a need to find and sing our own song...
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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...
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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 ...
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Of all the plebeian female poets of the eighteenth century, Ann Yearsley, the "milkwoman of Bristol," most repays detailed historical study. Her sizable oeuvre, competence across genres, and varied contemporary critical reception give her ...
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Yeast are single-celled eukaryotic organisms related to fungi. The baker's yeast Saccahromyces cerevisiae and the distantly related Schizosaccharomyces pombe are favored model organisms for genetic research. The interest in yeast re...
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Yeast artificial chromosomes (YAC) are cloning vectors. Regular cloning vectors have size limits for their DNA inserts. Plasmids can take up to 10 kilobases of DNA. Bacteriophages take 15 kilobases of DNA. Cosmids can take up to 50 kilobas...
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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...
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