| | - Yule, Doug
- (from the article "Velvet Underground, the") ...(1968), featuring contributions by Reed, Cale, and Morrison, and The Marble Index (1969), produced by Cale. Also in 1967, Reed dismissed Warhol as the group's manager. Cale was replaced by Doug Yule in 1968, after the release of White Light/White ...
- Yulin
- city, southeastern Zhuang Autonomous Region of Guangxi, southern China. It is situated on the upper course of the Nanliu River, which drains southwestward into the Gulf of Tonkin to the west of Beihai.
- Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc
- (from the article "Ukraine") The election was notable for the sweeping gains made by the Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc (BYT), the opposition party led by former prime minister Yuliya Tymoshenko, though the PR maintained its standing as the largest and most popular bloc. Overall the ...
- Yuma
- city, seat (1871) of Yuma county, southwestern Arizona, U.S. It is situated on the Colorado River at the mouth of the Gila River, just north of the Mexican frontier. Founded in 1854 as Colorado City, it was renamed Arizona City ...
- Yuma Desert
- arid part of the Sonoran Desert. It lies south of the Gila River and east of the Colorado River in the extreme southwestern corner of Arizona, U.S., and in the northwestern corner of Sonora, Mexico. The desert south of the ...
- Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park
- (from the article "Yuma") ...the economy, which is augmented by the nearby Yuma Proving Ground (1942), the Marine Corps Air Station (1928), federal and local government centres, and the two-year Arizona Western College (1962). Yuma Territorial Prison (1876), now a state historical park, displays ...
- Yuman
- any of various Native American groups who traditionally lived in the lower Colorado River valley and adjacent areas in what are now western Arizona and southern California, U.S., and northern Baja California and northwestern Sonora, Mex. They spoke related languages ... [3 Related Articles]
- Yuman language
- (from the article "Mesoamerican Indian languages") ...(called phyla or superstocks), Hokan and Penutian. The formulation was accepted and extended by others. Hokan included Shasta, Achumawi, Atsugewi, Chimariko, Karok, Yanan, Pomoan, Washoe, Esselen, Yuman, Salinan, and Chumashan. By 1891/92 it had been suggested that Yuman, Seri (3), ...
- Yumedono
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...of the Triad suggests that the ensemble was dedicated to the recently deceased Shotoku and his consort. A stylistically related work is the wooden statue of the bodhisattva Kuze Kannon in the Yumedono ("Hall of Dreams") of the Horyu Temple. ...
- Yumen
- city, western Gansu sheng (province), northwestern China. It is situated on the ancient Silk Road from China into Central Asia.
- Yun Po Sun
- Korean politician who served (1960-62) as a liberal president of South Korea during the Second Republic. [1 Related Articles]
- Yun Shouping
- artist who, together with the Four Wangs and Wu Li, is grouped among the major artists of the early Qing (1644-1911/12) period. He and these other artists continued the orthodox tradition of painting, following the great codifications of the painter ... [1 Related Articles]
- Yun Sondo
- (from the article "Korean literature") During the later Yi dynasty there was also a great flowering of poetry by scholar-officials and commoners. The most gifted poet of the period was Yun Sondo. His 77 sijo poems, including Obu sasi sa (1651; The Angler's Calendar), a ...
- Yun T'ung
- (from the article "Lei Kung") ...he has assistants capable of producing other types of heavenly phenomena. Tien Mu ("Mother of Lightning"), for example, uses flashing mirrors to send bolts of lightning across the sky. Yun T'ung ("Cloud Youth") whips up clouds, and Yu-tzu ("Rain Master") ...
- Yun, Isang
- Korean-born German composer who sought to express a distinctly Asian sensibility by means of contemporary Western techniques. [1 Related Articles]
- Yun-lin
- hsien (county), west-central Taiwan. It is bordered by the hsien of Chang-hua (north), Nan-t'ou (east), and Chia-i (south) and by the Taiwan Strait (west).
- Yun-ling Mountains
- (from the article "Yunnan") ...Tibetan border, branch out southeastward across the province in fanlike fashion. Running roughly northwest to southeast, these high ranges are, from west to east, the Kao-li-kung, the Nu, and the Yun-ling. Branching farther out from the Yun-ling are some secondary ...
- Yun-t'ai, Mount
- (from the article "Kiangsu") ...is less than 150 feet (45 metres) above sea level. Hills of moderate elevation are found only in the southwestern corner of the province and in the extreme north along the Shantung border. Mount Yun-t'ai, in northern Su-pei near the ...
- Yuna River
- river in central and northeastern Dominican Republic. It is one of the country's three most important river systems, the others being the Yaque del Norte and Yaque del Sur rivers. [1 Related Articles]
- Yunca language
- (from the article "Table 63: South American Indian Language Groups") ...textiles and in gold, silver, and copper. Pottery types tended to be standardized, with quantity production, made in molds, and generally of a plain black ware. The Chimu language, known as Yunca (Yunga), Mochica, or Moche, now extinct, was very ...
- Yundum
- town, western Gambia. Located 18 miles (30 km) southwest of Banjul, it is the site of a teacher-training college. The Gambia's international airport, originally a World War II Allied airfield, adjoins Yundum to the east. The Abuko Nature Reserve, 4 ...
- Yunfa
- (from the article "Usman dan Fodio") ...Bawa, the sultan of Gobir, from whom he won important concessions for the local Muslim community (including his own freedom to propagate Islam); he also appears to have taught the future sultan Yunfa.
- Yung Vilne
- (from the article "Grade, Chaim") ...for her son. Grade studied at several yeshivas and was part of the pietistic movement known as Musar. At age 22, however, he gave up his religious studies to become a writer. A leading member of Yung Vilne ("Young Vilna"), ...
- Yung-ho
- shih (municipality), T'ai-pei hsien (county), northern Taiwan, 1 mi (1.6 km) south of Taipei city, in the northern part of the island's western coastal plain. Situated on the east bank of Shuang Hsi (river), the city flourished in the early ...
- Yung-lo Temple
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") One school that flourished under Yuan official patronage was that of Buddhist and Taoist painting; important wall paintings were executed at the Yung-lo Temple in Shansi (now restored and moved to Jui-ch'eng). A number of royal patrons, including Kublai, the ...
- Yungang caves
- series of magnificent Chinese Buddhist cave temples, created in the 5th century CE during the Six Dynasties period (220-598 CE). They are located about 10 miles (16 km) west of the city of Datong, near the northern border of Shanxi ... [1 Related Articles]
- Yungas
- humid, subtropical region in western Bolivia. (Yungas is an Aymara word meaning "Warm Lands.") It occupies the eastern slopes of the Andean Cordillera Real and extends northeast and north of the cities of La Paz and Cochabamba. This rainy forested ... [1 Related Articles]
- Yungay, Battle of
- (from the article "Peruvian-Bolivian Confederation") The Chileans, joined by Peruvians opposed to Santa Cruz, persisted in their fight until, under the command of Gen. Manuel Bulnes, they finally defeated the forces of the confederation at the Battle of Yungay (department of Ancash, Peru) on Jan. ...
- Yunge, Di
- (from the article "Yiddish literature") American Yiddish poets in New York formed two innovative groups called Di Yunge ("The Young") and Di Inzikhistn ("The Introspectivists"). Both groups began with the publication of journals-the former with Di yugend (1907-08; "The Youth") and the ...
- yunluo
- Chinese gong chime usually consisting of 10 gongs that are suspended in individual compartments on a wooden frame and beaten with sticks that have hard or soft tips. It may be carried by a handle or set on a table. ... [1 Related Articles]
- Yunnan
- sheng (province) of China. The fourth largest province of China, it is a mountain and plateau region on the country's southwestern frontier. It is bounded by the Tibet Autonomous Region on the northwest, Szechwan on the north, ... [3 Related Articles]
- Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau
- highland region comprising the northern part of Yunnan province and the western part of Guizhou province, south-central China. Yunnan is more distinctly a plateau with areas of rolling uplands, precipitous folded and fault-block mountain ranges, and deep, river-cut gorges. About ... [4 Related Articles]
- Yunus
- (from the article "Hamid Dynasty") ...by Felekuddin Dundar, whose father, Ilyas, was a frontier ruler under the Seljuqs and who named it after his grandfather; Dundar governed the Hamid principality jointly with his brother Yunus, with two capitals, one at Egridir and one at Antalya ...
- Yunus al-Katib
- (from the article "Islamic arts") ...of Islam. This is the 10th-century Kitab al-Aghani, or "Book of Songs," by Abu al-Faraj al-Isbahani. In the 8th century Yunus al-Katib, author of the first Arabic book of musical theory, compiled the first collection of songs. ...
- Yunus Emre
- poet and mystic who exercised a powerful influence on Turkish literature. [3 Related Articles]
- Yunus, Muhammad
- Bangladeshi economist and founder of the Grameen Bank, an institution that provides microcredit (small loans to poor people possessing no collateral) to help its clients establish creditworthiness and financial self-sufficiency. In 2006 Yunus and Grameen received the Nobel Prize for ... [4 Related Articles]
- Yupik
- indigenous Arctic people traditionally residing in Siberia, Saint Lawrence Island and the Diomede Islands in the Bering Sea and Bering Strait, and Alaska. They are culturally related to the Chukchi and the Inuit, or Eastern Eskimo, of Canada and Greenland. [4 Related Articles]
- Yupik language
- (from the article "Yupik language") the western division of the Eskimo languages, spoken in southwestern Alaska and in Siberia.TABLEEskimo-Aleut languagesTable
- Yurev, Roman
- (from the article "Romanov Dynasty") ...of Andrey Ivanovich Kobyla (Kambila), a Muscovite boyar who lived during the reign of the grand prince of Moscow Ivan I Kalita (reigned 1328-41), the Romanovs acquired their name from Roman Yurev (d. 1543), whose daughter Anastasiya Romanovna Zakharina-Yureva was ...
- Yuro, Timi
- American pop singer (b. Aug. 4, 1940, Chicago, Ill.-d. March 30, 2004, Las Vegas, Nev.), bridged musical genres with her husky, soulful voice. Her signature vocal style was influenced by early exposure to African American blues and gospel singers such ...
- Yurok
- North American Indians who lived in what is now California along the lower Klamath River and the Pacific coast. They spoke a Macro-Algonquian language and were culturally and linguistically related to the Wiyot. As their traditional territory lay on the ... [4 Related Articles]
- Yurok language
- (from the article "North American Indian languages") ..."pot," ŋaduŋdu-mal "pot-small." Vowel harmony, a process whereby vowels change to resemble adjacent ones, is further attested in North America. Yurok in northwestern California, for example, has an unusual r vowel, comparable to the sound in English "bird"; when this ...
- yurt
- tentlike Central Asian nomad's dwelling, erected on wooden poles and covered with skin, felt, or handwoven textiles in bright colours. The interior is simply furnished with brightly coloured rugs (red often predominating) decorated with geometric or stylized animal patterns. The ... [11 Related Articles]
- Yurugu
- (from the article "dualism") ...elements), or even a dualistic opposition (as two opposed elements that function as principles in respect to the actual creation), is found in the Dogon (western Sudanese) notions about Nommo and Yurugu, already mentioned. A series of "words" refers to ...
- Yuruk rug
- floor covering handwoven by nomadic people in various parts of Anatolia. The Balikesir Yuruk rugs of western Anatolia have diagonal patterns and a maze of latch-hook motifs carried out in brick red and dark blue with touches of ivory. They ... [1 Related Articles]
- Yurungkax River
- (from the article "Hotan") The oasis of Hotan, the largest of these, includes Karakax (Moyu), to the northwest, and Luopu (Lop), to the east. The oasis is watered by the Karakax (Kalakashi) and Yurungkax (Yulongkashi) rivers, which flow from the high Kunlun Mountains to ...
- Yurupary
- (from the article "South American forest Indian") ...rites take a central position among other important ceremonies such as funerals and fertility rites. In the Guianas and the northwest Amazon region, the initiation of the boys is very complex. The Yurupary celebration inducts the boys into the secret ...
- Yury
- (from the article "Russia") The struggle began at the death of Vasily I, a son of Dmitry Donskoy, in 1425. The succession of his 10-year-old son Vasily II was challenged by his uncle Yury, prince of the important upper Volga commercial town of Galich. ...
- Yury of Moscow
- (from the article "Tver") ...Moscow for supremacy in northeastern Russia during the 14th and 15th centuries. In 1305 Yaroslav's son Michael I was made grand prince of Vladimir (i.e., chief among the Russian princes). Yury of Moscow, however, gained the support of Oz Beg ...
- Yuryev, Oleg
- (from the article "Literature") Perhaps the most important publication of the year in poetry was Oleg Yuryev's Izbrannye stikhi i khori ("Selected Poems and Choruses"). Yuryev, a major poet who first became prominent in the 1980s, was the founder and leader of the poetic ...
- Yuscaran
- town, southeastern Honduras. It lies at the eastern foot of the Montana (ridge) de Monserrat near the Choluteca River, at an elevation of 3,379 feet (1,030 m). Founded between 1730 and 1740, when gold and silver were discovered in the ...
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