| | - Yucatan sisal
- (from the article "henequen") ...been a source of textile fibre since pre-Columbian times. It was introduced to Cuba in the 19th century, becoming the country's chief fibre crop by the 1920s. The fibre is sometimes referred to as Yucatan, or Cuban, sisal.
- Yucatec language
- American Indian language of the Mayan family, spoken in the Yucatan Peninsula, including not only part of Mexico but also Belize and northern Guatemala. In its classical (i.e., 16th-century) form Yucatec was the language of Yucatan, and it survives in its modern form with little dialectal variation and only minor ... [2 Related Articles]
- Yucatec languages
- (from the article "Maya languages") ...Maya language is Tzeltal, spoken in Chiapas, Mexico, but other Western Maya languages include Chontal, Chol, Chorti, Tzotzil, Tojolabal, Chuj, Kanjobal, Acatec, Jacaltec, and Motozintlec. The Yucatec languages, including Yucatec, Lacandon, Itza, and Mopan, are sometimes also classed as Western Maya languages; Yucatec, the most important, is spoken in Yucatan,...
- Yucatec Maya
- Middle American Indians of the Yucatan Peninsula in eastern Mexico. The Yucatec were participants in the Maya civilization, whose calendar, architecture, and hieroglyphic writing marked them as a highly civilized people. Modern Yucatec range from groups highly conservative of their culture to groups almost completely acculturated to modern life. About ... [1 Related Articles]
- yucca
- (genus Yucca), any of about 40 species of succulent plants of the family Agavaceae, native to southern North America. Most species of yucca are stemless, with a rosette of stiff, sword-shaped leaves at the base and clusters of waxy white flowers. [5 Related Articles]
- Yucca House National Monument
- the ruins of prehistoric Native American pueblos, located 15 miles (24 km) south of the town of Cortez in the southwestern corner of Colorado, U.S., near Mesa Verde National Park. Occupying about 10 acres (4 hectares)-34 acres (14 hectares) including a privately owned access road-the site was discovered in 1877 ...
- yucca moth
- (genus Tegeticula), any of four species of insects of the Prodoxidae family of moths (order Lepidoptera). The adults are small, diurnal, and have tiny spines covering their wings. [3 Related Articles]
- Yuch'on-ni
- (from the article "pottery") One of the difficulties in the study of Korean pottery is that practically everything has been recovered from tombs; few actual kiln sites have been discovered. Nevertheless, one such excavation at Yuch'on-ni has disclosed shards of both the celadon glaze and of white porcelain from which it seems evident that ...
- Yuchi
- (from the article "Native American dance") Although the Cherokee of the Smoky Mountains in North Carolina and Tennessee speak an Iroquoian language and have animal dances, they emphasize corn dance ceremonies. The Creek, Yuchi, Seminole, and other tribes of the southeastern United States greatly emphasize the summer green corn harvest ceremony, or Busk. Before the removal ...
- Yudenich, Nikolay
- commander of the White forces in the northwest during the Russian Civil War (1918-20). [1 Related Articles]
- Yudhisthira
- (from the article "Delhi") ...in the epic Mahabharata (a narrative about the descendants of the prince Bharata), which mentions a city called Indraprastha, built about 1400 BC under the direction of Yudhisthira, a Pandava king, on a huge mound somewhere between the sites where the historic Old Fort (Purana Qilah) and ...
- Yudhoyono, Susilo Bambang
- Indonesian Pres. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, commonly known as SBY, had a strong mandate for pushing through reforms in 2005. He had won a landslide election victory over incumbent Pres. Megawati Sukarnoputri in September 2004, garnering 61% of the vote, to become Indonesia's sixth president and the first to be popularly ... [4 Related Articles]
- Yue
- aboriginal people of South China who in the 5th-4th century BCE formed a powerful kingdom in present-day Zhejiang and Fujian provinces. The name Vietnam means "south of the Yue," and some Chinese scholars consider the Vietnamese to be descendants of the Yue. [3 Related Articles]
- Yue
- (from the article "Chekiang") ...western Chekiang was a part of the ancient state of Wu, while eastern Chekiang was the land of Yueh tribes. In about the 6th century BC the two subregions became the rival kingdoms of Wu and Yueh. The heartland of the Wu state lay in southern Kiangsu Province, whereas that ...
- Yue Fei
- one of China's greatest generals and national heroes. [2 Related Articles]
- Yue ware
- (from the article "celadon") Yue ware, first made in the Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) in China, was the earliest celadon; the glaze used was olive or brownish green. Beginning in the late Han period, the kilns in Zhejiang, Guangdong, Jiangxi, and Fujian provinces became important celadon producers. The celadons of the Song dynasty, ...
- yuefu
- form of Chinese poetry derived from the folk-ballad tradition. The yuefu takes its name from the Yuefu ("Music Bureau") created in 120 BC by Wudi of Han for the purpose of collecting songs and their musical scores for ceremonial occasions at court. The music for these songs ... [1 Related Articles]
- Yuefu
- (from the article "Chinese literature") A more important contribution to literature by the Han government was the reactivation in 125 BC of the Yueh Fu, or Music Bureau, which had been established at least a century earlier to collect songs and their musical scores. Besides temple and court compositions of ceremonial verse, this office succeeded ...
- Yueh opera
- (from the article "Chekiang") ...on in provincial pride and national stereotypes that often depict the Chekiang people as both cultured and affected. Various national and regional operatic traditions flourish, including the famous Yueh opera of Shao-hsing. There are many distinct regional subcultures, with their own musical and culinary traditions.Kwangtung
- yueh pai
- (from the article "pottery") ...ch'ing ("blown blue"), and is distinct from the sponged blue grounds of the Ming dynasty. It was subsequently used at several of the porcelain factories in Europe. Clair du lune (yueh pai, "moon white"), a cobalt glaze of the palest blue shade, was also used.
- yueqin
- Chinese lute, one of a family of flat, round-bodied lutes found in Central and East Asia. The yueqin, which evolved from the ruan, has a length of some 18 inches (about 45 cm), with a short neck and a round resonator that is some ... [2 Related Articles]
- yueshan
- (from the article "qin") ...The qin's high bridge near the wide end of the soundboard is called the "great mountain" (yueshan), the low bridge at the narrow end is called the "dragon's gums" (longyin), and the two pegs for fastening the strings are...
- Yueyang
- city, northern Hunan sheng (province), southeast-central China. It is situated on the east bank of the outlet from the Dongting Lake into the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang), some 5 miles (8 km) from the outlet's confluence with the Yangtze. Its port on the Yangtze is known as ... [1 Related Articles]
- Yuezhi
- ancient people who ruled in Bactria and India from about 128 BC to about AD 450. The Yuezhi are first mentioned in Chinese sources at the beginning of the 2nd century BC as nomads living in the western part of Gansu province, northwest China. When Lao Shang (reigned c. 174-161 ... [6 Related Articles]
- Yug
- (from the article "Ket language") one of two surviving members of the Yeniseian family of languages spoken by about 500 people living in central Siberia. (The other, a moribund close relative called Yug [Yugh], or Sym, is sometimes considered a dialect of Ket.)
- Yug language
- (from the article "Paleo-Siberian languages") The Yeniseian group is spoken in the Turukhansk region along the Yenisey River. Its only living members are Ket (formerly called Yenisey-Ostyak), which is spoken by about 500 persons, and Yug, with no more than 5 speakers. Kott (Kot; also called Assan or Asan), Arin, and Pumpokol, now extinct members ...
- yuga
- in Hindu cosmology, an age of mankind. Each yuga is progressively shorter than the preceding one, corresponding to a decline in the moral and physical state of humanity. Four such yugas (called Krta, Treta, Dvapara, and Kali after throws of an Indian game of dice) make up the mahayuga ("great ... [3 Related Articles]
- Yuganskneftegaz
- (from the article "Russia") Meanwhile, the state was taking over the "commanding heights" of the economy. The most dramatic illustration of this was the state's reacquisition of Yuganskneftegaz. The presidential administration strengthened its hold over natural-resource companies in the state sector through the appointment to board positions of close associates of the president. This ...
- yugei
- (from the article "Japan") ...special ones called nashiro and koshiro set up for the support of certain royal relatives. Others were controlled by powerful clans directly in the service of the court, such as the yugei, the quiver bearers, who were attached to the Otomo clan, a major military support group for the Yamato ...
- yugen
- (from the article "Zeami") ...including the singing and dancing appropriate to each. The two main elements in no acting were monomane, "an imitation of things," or the representational aspect, and yugen, the symbolic aspect and spiritual core of the no, which took precedence and which became the touchstone of excellence in the no. Zeami ...
- yugo
- (from the article "Native American art") ...significance. Experts now consider the palma a ritual object or trophy representing an actual protective device-worn together with the yugo, or yoke, and the hacha, or axe-used in tlachtli, the ceremonial ball game....
- Yugoslav Air Transport
- (from the article "Serbia") ...1990s, an extensive network of air routes had been developed. Almost half of the airline passengers embarked or debarked at Belgrade, which was also the major centre of air freight transportation. Yugoslav Air Transport, the country's principal airline, maintained links with the rest of Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, ...
- Yugoslav Committee
- (from the article "Serbia") ...of its state. During the early part of the war, a number of prominent political figures from the South Slav lands under the Dual Monarchy had fled to London where they had set up a "Yugoslav Committee." Aided by sympathetic British intellectuals, the committee had worked to improve the position ...
- Yugoslav People's Army
- (from the article "Bosnia and Herzegovina") The Yugoslav People's Army was designed to repel invasion, and, as part of its strategy, it used the geographically central republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a storehouse for armaments and as the site of most military production. Bosnian Serb forces, aided by the Yugoslav People's Army and fighting for ...
- Yugoslavia
- former federated country situated on the west-central Balkan Peninsula. [63 Related Articles]
- Yugoslavia, flag of
- horizontally striped blue-white-red national flag. Its width-to-length ratio is 1 to 2.
- Yugoslavism
- (from the article "Croatia") ...an independent Great Croatia. The necessity of relying on the other South Slavs in opposition to the Habsburgs and Hungarians also kept alive the Illyrian idea, revived in the 1860s under the name Yugoslavism. The Yugoslavists, under the patronage of Bishop Josip Juraj Strossmajer, advocated South Slav unity within a ...
- Yui Shosetsu
- Japanese rebel whose attempted coup d'etat against the Tokugawa shogunate led to increased efforts by the government to redirect the military ethos of the samurai (warrior) class toward administrative matters.
- Yukaghir
- remnant of an ancient human population of the tundra and taiga zones of Arctic Siberia east of the Lena River in Russia, an area with one of the most severe climates in the inhabited world. Brought close to extinction by privation, encroachment, and diseases introduced by other groups, they numbered ... [8 Related Articles]
- Yukaghir language
- language spoken by not more than a few hundred persons in the Kolyma River region of Sakha (Yakutiya) republic of Russia. Yukaghir was traditionally grouped in the catchall category of Paleo-Siberian languages with a number of languages that are not genetically related or structurally similar. More recently, however, Yukaghir has ... [4 Related Articles]
- yukata
- comfortable cotton kimono decorated with stencil-dyed patterns usually in shades of indigo, worn by Japanese men and women. The yukata was originally designed as a nightgown and for wear in the home after a bath. [1 Related Articles]
- Yukawa Hideki
- Japanese physicist and recipient of the 1949 Nobel Prize for Physics for research on the theory of elementary particles. [3 Related Articles]
- Yukawa meson
- (from the article "subatomic particle") ...theory ultimately unacceptable. Quantum field theory did not seem applicable to the nuclear binding force. Then in 1935 a Japanese theorist, Yukawa Hideki, took a bold step: he invented a new particle as the carrier of the nuclear binding force.
- Yuki
- four groups of North American Indians who lived in the Coast Ranges and along the coast of what is now northwestern California, U.S. They spoke distinctive languages that are unaffiliated with any other known language. The four Yuki groups were the Yuki-proper, who lived along the upper reaches of the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Yuki
- (from the article "Yuki") ...the Coast Ranges and along the coast of what is now northwestern California, U.S. They spoke distinctive languages that are unaffiliated with any other known language. The four Yuki groups were the Yuki-proper, who lived along the upper reaches of the Eel River and its tributaries; the Huchnom of Redwood ...
- Yukon College
- (from the article "Yukon Territory") ...services are administered by the territorial government with financial assistance from the federal government. Primary and secondary education are provided by a territorial school system, and Yukon College, with its main campus at Whitehorse and a network of community branches, provides two years of university-level courses and a number of ...
- Yukon River
- major North American river that flows through the central Yukon Territory of Canada and central Alaska. It measures 1,980 miles (3,190 kilometres) from the headwaters of the McNeil River (a tributary of the Nisutlin River). The Yukon discharges into the Bering Sea after flowing northwestward and then generally southwestward through ... [8 Related Articles]
- Yukon Territory
- territory of northwestern Canada, an area of rugged mountains and high plateaus. It is bounded by the U.S. state of Alaska to the west, the Northwest Territories to the east, and British Columbia to the south, and it extends northward above the Arctic Circle to the Beaufort Sea. It has ... [2 Related Articles]
- Yukon Territory, flag of
- Canadian territorial flag that is a vertically striped tricolour of green, white, and blue, with the Yukon coat of arms and floral emblem in the centre.
- Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve
- national preserve in east-central Alaska, U.S., on the Canadian border. Proclaimed a national monument in 1978, the area underwent boundary and name changes in 1980, becoming a national preserve in the latter year. Preserving the entire 88-mile (142-kilometre) Charley River basin and 115 miles (185 km) of the 1,980-mile (3,190-kilometre) ...
- Yukos
- (from the article "Business Overview") ...winners of the year were the Russian government-controlled energy colossi. Rosneft, a once marginal state-owned oil company, became a major producer by acquiring most of the assets of bankrupt Yukos (Italian firms Eni and Enel managed to buy some Yukos assets for $5.83 billion). Gazprom continued to show its power ...
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