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Y Combinator Y Combinator is a seed-stage startup funding firm, started by Paul Graham, Robert Morris, Trevor Blackwell, and Jessica Livingston. Y Combinator provides seed money, advice, and connections at two 3-month programs a year in Cambridge and Mountain View.
Y Ddraig Goch Y Ddraig Goch () (Welsh for the red dragon) appears on the national Flag of Wales (the flag itself is also called the "Draig Goch"), and is the most famous dragon in Britain. There are many legends about y Ddraig Goch.
Y Gododdin Y Gododdin (pronounced /ə gɔ'dɔðɪn/) is a poem consisting of a series of elegies to the men of the Brythonic kingdom of Gododdin and its allies who, according to the conventional interpretation, died fighting the Angles of Deira and Bernicia at a place named Catraeth. There is general agreement among scholars that the battle commemorated would have happened around the year 600, but there is debate about the date of the poetry.
Y Kant Tori Read (album) Y Kant Tori Read is the name of the 1980s synthpop band (and their self-titled debut album), formed by now-famous singer and songwriter Tori Amos. The band consisted of Tori, singer-pianist Kim Bullard, and future Guns N' Roses drummer Matt Sorum, as well as long-time Amos collaborator guitarist Steve Caton and various studio musicians.
Y Mab Darogan Y Mab Darogan (English: The Destined or Prophesised Son) is a messianic figure of Welsh and Cornish legend, destined to force the Anglo-Saxons (English) out of Britain and reclaim it for its Celtic inhabitants. A number of figures have been called Y Mab Darogan throughout history.
Y tu mamá también Y tu mamá también (literally "And your mother, too", but released in English-speaking markets under the original Spanish title) is a 2001 Mexican film directed by Alfonso Cuarón. A coming-of-age story about the road trip of two teenage boys with a woman in her twenties, the film is set against the backdrop of the political and economic realities of present-day Mexico, specifically at the end of the uninterrupted seventy-year line of revolutionary Mexican presidents from the PRI, and the rise of the opposition headed by Vicente Fox.
Y Window System The Y Window System (also known as Y-Windows) is a windowing system, consisting of a window server and a client library for writing applications. It was written by Mark Thomas as the subject of his Master's thesis at Imperial College, London.
Y'all Y'all, sometimes spelled "Ya'll" or (incorrectly) "Yawl" and archaically spelled 'You-all', is a fused grammaticalization of the phrase "you all". It is used as a plural second-person pronoun.
Y'all is fantasy island Y'all is Fantasy Island is the musical project founded by singer/songwriter Adam Stafford in his home town of Falkirk, Central Scotland in 2001. After a couple of low-key releases, including 2002's cassette only "Wisconsin Death Trip" mini album and 2005's "Skeletal Demos" EP, Stafford recruited guitarist/sound engineer Tommy Blair and drummer/clarinetist Jon McCall.
Y'qaa Y'qaa or Y'quaa is one of the underground realms under Mount Voormithadreth from the writings of Clark Aston Smith's Hyperborean cycle. Several of the Old Ones from the Cthulhu Mythos live there, most notably Ubbo-Sathla.
Y-body The GM Y-Body is the chassis platform shared by the Chevrolet Corvette and the Cadillac XLR. It has a rear-wheel drive, front-engined V8 layout, accommodating either a small block Chevrolet V8 (such as an LT4 or LS1) in the Corvette, or the 32-valve DOHC Northstar V8 in the XLR.
Y-cable A Y-cable or Y cable is a self describing name of a type of cable containing three ends of which one is a common end that in turn leads to a split into the remaining two ends. When looked upon, a Y-cable can resemble the Latin letter "Y".
Y-chromosomal Aaron Y-chromosomal Aaron is the name given to the hypothesised ancestor of the patrilineal Jewish priestly caste known as Kohanim (singular "Kohen", "Cohen", or Kohane). In the Hebrew Bible this ancestor is identified as Aaron, the brother of Moses.
Y-chromosomal Adam In human genetics, Y-chromosomal Adam (Y-mrca) is the patrilineal human most recent common ancestor (mrca) from whom all Y chromosomes in living men are descended. Y-chromosomal Adam is thus the male counterpart of Mitochondrial Eve (the mt-mrca), the matrilinear human most recent common ancestor, from whom all mitochondrial DNA in living humans is descended.
Y-Δ transform The Y-Δ transform, also written Y-delta, Wye-delta, Kennelly’s delta-star transformation, star-mesh transformation, T-Π or T-pi transform, is a mathematical technique to simplify the analysis of an electrical network. The name derives from the shapes of the circuit diagrams, which look respectively like the letter Y and the Greek capital letter Δ.
Y-ME The Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization™ (Y-ME) is a Chicago-based national nonprofit organization with the mission to ensure, through information, empowerment and peer support, that no one faces breast cancer alone. Y-ME® does not raise money for research.
Y-wing The Y-wing is one of the Rebel Alliance starfighters in the fictional Star Wars universe. In the movies, it is seen in Episode IV: A New Hope, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, and Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.
Y. Bhekhirst Y. Bhekhirst is an outsider musician about whom next to nothing is known, but whose one album, Hot in the Airport, released in New York on HDG Records in 1986, is prized by some outsider music collectors for its bizarre, shambling songs.
Ya Basta Association The Ya Basta Association was a loose network of Italian anti-capitalist and pro-immigrants rights organizations and groups, fueled by the Italian social center movement, active between 1994 and 2001, and known for the "authorship" of the Tute Bianche, and later disobbedienti phenomena.
Ya Boy El Camino High School Graduate,William Crawford, better known by his stage name Ya Boy, is an American rapper from the Fillmore District of San Francisco, California. He started rapping in the year 2002, with his song "16's With Me" being the first to hit it big locally.
Ya Kun Kaya Toast Ya Kun Kaya Toast (Chinese: 亚坤) is a chain of air-conditioned kopitiams in Singapore and certain parts of Asia. As the name suggests, it sells kaya toast, bottled kaya, Singapore style coffee and tea, half boiled eggs and other beverages.
Ya Muhammad Ya Muhammad (Arabic: یا محمد), Ya Ali (Arabic: یا علی), Ya Hussain (Arabic: یا حسین), Ya Fatimah (Arabic: یا فاطمہ) and such are expressions used by Muslims, mainly by Shi'a and Sunnis (Sunnis mostly use Ya Muhammad). Salafi Sunnis deem it shirk (idolatrous) to do so.
Ya pear The Chinese White Pear ("bai li") (Pyrus x bretschneideri) is a naturally-occurring interspecific hybrid species of pear native to northern China, where it is widely grown for its edible fruit. These very juicy, white to lightly yellow pears, unlike the round Nashi pears, also grown in eastern Asia, are shaped more like a European Pear with a narrower, elongated base.
Ya Salam Ya Salam (Arabic:يا سلام) (Translated: How Fantastic) is a 2003 album by Arabic Pop singer Nancy Ajram. It's considered to be her breakthrough album, of which contained the smash hit "Akhasmak Ah".
Ya Se Acabo "Ya se acabĂł" is a song by Pitbull, a Cuban-American rapper from Miami, Florida. Pitbull wrote the song on the night of July 31, 2006 after finding out that Cuban President Fidel Castro had transferred his duties to his brother RaĂşl Castro.
Yaaḵoosgé Daakahídi Alternative High School Yaakoosgé Daakahídi Alternative High School is a high school of the Juneau School District in the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska, United States. The school is an opportunity for students over the age of 16 to have a less mainstream high school experience than that offered by Juneau-Douglas High School.
Yaakov (Jacob) Birnbaum Yaakov (Jacob) Birnbaum (10 December 1926 – ) is the founder of Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ) and many other human rights organizations. Many consider him to be the father of the movement to liberate the Soviet Jewry.
Yaakov Aryeh Alter Yaakov Aryeh Alter (born in Lodz, Poland, 1939) is a Hasidic rabbi, and since 1996 has been the seventh rebbe of the Gerrer chasidim in Israel, with disciples and branches in Europe and the United States. Ger originated in Poland in the town of GĂłra Kalwaria ("Ger" in Yiddish) and its leader escaped Poland to the Palestine during the Holocaust.
Yaakov Edri Yaakov Edri (Hebrew:יעקב אדרי) (born: November 25, 1950) is an Israeli politician, formerly the Minister of Health and the Minister for the Development of the Negev and the Galil, and as of May 4, 2006 is the Minister without Portfolio which serves as Knesset Liaison.
Yaakov Chaim Sofer Yaakov Chaim Sofer (1870-1939) (Hebrew: יעקב חיים סופר) was an Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist and posek ("decisor of Torah law"). Sofer is author of the work of halakha ("Jewish law") titled Kaf Hachaim, by which title he is also known.
Yaakov Lorberbaum Yaakov ben Yaakov Moshe Lorberbaum of Lissa (1760-1832) (known in English as Jacob ben Jacob Moses of Lissa or Jacob Lorberbaum or Jacob Lisser, Hebrew: יעקב בן יעקב משה מליסא) was an Orthodox Rabbi, and Posek. He is known as the "Ba'al HaNesivos" for his most well-known work, or as the "Lissa Rav" for the city in which he was Chief Rabbi.
Yaakov Nimrodi Yaakov Nimrodi (1948-1999) was an Israeli intelligence officer in Iran for two decades preceding the fall of the shah. Nimrodi and Al Schwimmer supervised sales of Israeli arms to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Yaakov Yehoshua ben Tzvi Hirsch Yaakov Yehoshua ben Tzvi Hirsch (Hebrew: יעקב יהושע פאלק, also known as Yaakov Yehoshua Falk - see Note on the name "Joshua Falk") (1680 - 1756) was a Polish and German rabbi and talmudist.
Yaaku The Yaaku (often Mukogodo-Maasai) are a people living in the Mukogodo forest west of Mount Kenya, a division of the Laikipia District of Rift Valley Province, Kenya. Former hunter-gatherers and bee-keepers, the Yaaku have assimilated to the pastoralist culture of the Maasai in the first half of the twentieth century, although there is still some occasional bee-keeping going on.
Yaasiin Cismaan Keenadiid Yaasiin (Xaaji/Hagi) Cismaan/Cusmaan Keenadiid (Yasin Osman Keenadiid) is a member of the Keenadiid family. He is related to Ali Yusuf Keenadiid, the former sultan of Hobyo (see Northern Somali sultanates) and to the brother of Ali Yusuf, the creator of the Osmanya alphabet Ciismaan Yuusuf Keenadiid (Osman Yusuf Keenadiid).
Yaña imlâ Yaña imlâ (; Tatar for new orthography) was a modified variant of Arabic script that was in use for Tatar language in 1920-1927. The orthographical reform modified İske imlâ, abolishing excess Arabic letters, adding letters for short vowels e, ı, ö, o.
Yağlıdere stream Yağlıdere is a long and highly voluminous stream that flows to Black Sea (Karadeniz in Turkish) in the west end of the Espiye which is the capital town of the Espiye district with same name in Giresun Province in Türkiye.
Yab-Yum Yab-yum (Tibetan for "father-mother") is a symbol in the Buddhist art of India, Bhutan, Nepal, and Tibet representing the male deity in sexual union (yab-yum) with his female consort. It is generally understood to represent the primordial (or mystical) union of wisdom and compassion.
Yaba (drug) Yaba (ยาบ้า; also Ya Ba or Ya Baa; "crazy medicine" in Thai) are tablets containing a mixture of methamphetamine and caffeine. Quality varies according to source, most are manufactured for oral administration or 'chasing' on foil, there is a brand preferred for injecting from Laos.
Yabancı Damat Yabancı Damat (literally: The foreign groom, Greek: "Τα σύνορα της αγάπης" Ta sinora tis agapis, English translation of the Greek title: The borders of love), is a very popular Turkish TV series produced by Erler Film with more than 50 episodes now. It deals with the relationship between a young Greek man Niko and a Turkish girl Nazlı, and the problems (and especially the prejudices) encountered in an intercultural marriage.
Yabause Yabause is an open source emulator for the Sega Saturn. It runs on mainly on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X systems using OpenGL and SDL, although an unofficial FreeBSD port is available and a primitive Dreamcast port exists.
Yabba Stephen "Yabba" Harold Gascoigne (born March 19, 1878 in Redfern, Sydney; died January 8, 1942 in Lidcombe, Sydney) was an Australian sports fan, well known as a heckler at Sydney Cricket Ground cricket and rugby league games in the early part of the 20th century. Yabba was known for his knowledgeable witticisms shouted loudly from "The Hill", a grassy general admissions area of the SCG.
Yabba-Doo Yabba-Doo is a fictional cartoon dog created by Hanna-Barbera Productions as a character for their Scooby-Doo spin-off Scrappy and Yabba-Doo. Yabba, Scooby-Doo's brother, is a white Great Dane, shown to be more courageous than his cowardly sibling.
Yabbying Yabbying is a popular pastime in Australia, involving fishing for yabbies. Although yabbies are always crayfish, the exact variety of crayfish varies regionally (including the same word being used for different species of freshwater crayfish).
Yabe, Kumamoto Yabe (矢部町; -machi) was a town located in Kamimashiki District, Kumamoto, Japan. On February 11, 2005 the town merged with the village of Seiwa and town of Soyo (from Aso District) forming the new town of Yamato and no longer exists as an independent municipality.
Yabloko Yabloko (official title: the Russian Democratic Party Yabloko, in Russian: Российская демократическая партия "Яблоко", ( — Apple)) is a Russian social-liberal party, led by Grigory Yavlinsky. The party stands for the protection of political and media freedoms in Russia, for Russia's integration with the West, including future membership of the European Union, and strongly opposes the war in Chechnya.
Yablonitsky Pass Yablonitsky Pass is a pass through the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine, located in the south-eastern part of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. It is one of several passes connecting Transcarpathia with the rest of the country.
Yablonovsky Yablonovsky (), informally called Yablonovka () is an urban-type settlement in Takhtamukaysky District of the Republic of Adygea, Russia, located on the left bank of the Kuban River across Krasnodar, Krasnodar Krai, 252 km north-west of Maykop. Population: 25,063 (2002 Census); 24,939 (1989 Census).
Yaboot Yaboot is a boot loader for PowerPC-based hardware running Linux, particularly New World ROM Macintosh systems. It is built to run within the Open Firmware layer common to most such systems instead of working as a Mac OS 9 program like its predecessor BootX.
Yabshi Pan Rinzinwangmo Yabshi Pan Rinzinwangmo (尧西·班·仁吉旺姆, born 1983) is the only child of the 10th Panchen Lama of Tibet and Li Jie, a Han Chinese who was a doctor in the People's Liberation Army. She goes by the name "Renji".
Yabucoa, Puerto Rico Yabucoa is a small town in the south eastern tip of Puerto Rico located in the southeastern region, north of Maunabo; south of San Lorenzo, Las Piedras and Humacao; and east of Patillas and about one hour from San Juan. Yabucoa is spread over 9 wards and Aguadilla Pueblo (The downtown area and the administrative center of the city).
YaBB SE YaBB SE was originaly a third-party re-creation of the Perl-based YaBB to the PHP language. Due to the bad reputation the original YaBB had at the time, the name was changed from YaBB SE to Simple Machines Forum.
Yacare Caiman The Yacare Caiman (Caiman yacare, Jacaré in Portuguese) is a caiman found in central South America, including northern Argentina, southern Bolivia, south-west Brazil (especially in the Pantanal marshland), and the rivers of Paraguay.
YacĂłn The YacĂłn is a perennial plant grown in the Andes for its crisp, sweet-tasting tuberous root. The texture and flavour have been described as a cross between a fresh apple and watermelon which is why it is sometimes referred to as the apple of the earth.
Yacin Yabeh Galeb Yacin Yabeh Galeb was the chief of staff of Force Nationale de Police of Djibouti from 1977 to December 7 2000 when he was demoted to adviser to interior minister. Shortly afterwards police loyal to him attempted a coup d'Ă©tat.
Yacine Benalia Yacine Benalia was identified by Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) as one of Algerian - born Arab Beslan attackers killed when the siege has ended. Russian investigators said that he came from London to Chechnya in 2001 .
Yacumama In the mythology of the indigenous people of South America, the yacu-mama is a sea monster, fifty paces long, believed to inhabit the mouth of the Amazon River and the nearby lagoons. According to the legend, the yacu-mama would suck up any living thing that passed within 100 paces of it.
Yacyretá Dam Yacyretá-Apipé (or just Yacyretá, often Yaciretá) is an hydroelectric dam located on the Paraná River between Argentina and Paraguay, 83 kilometers downstream of Posadas City, next to Paraguayan city of Ayolas, and Argentine city of Ituzaingó, Corrientes Province. It was named after the Yacyretá Island (Guaraní: jasy "moon", reta "country"), now 80% covered by the waters of the reservoir, and the Apipé islands, now completely covered.
YaCy YaCy (read "ya see") is an open-source distributed search engine, built on principles of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, and released under the GPL. Its core is a computer program written in Java distributed on currently (September 2006) several hundreds of computers so called YaCy-peers.
Yad A yad (Hebrew: יד), literally, "hand," is a Jewish ritual pointer, used to point to the text during the Torah reading from the parchment Torah scrolls. It is intended to prevent anyone from touching the parchment, which is considered sacred.
Yad Mordechai Yad Mordechai (Hebrew: יד מרדכי - Memorial of Mordechai) is a kibbutz located 10 km south of Ashkelon, Israel. The kibbutz was named for Mordechai Anielewicz (who died fighting the Nazis while being the commander of the Jewish Fighting Organization in the Warsaw Ghetto), by Hasomer Hatzair survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Yadavilli Yadavilli is the surname of a family with roots in South India, in the state of Andhra Pradesh. One set of Yadavilli is the Telaganya Brahmins who have settled in other cities including Berhampur, Srikakulam, Visakhapatnam, and Hyderabad.
Yadavindra College of Engineering Yadavindra College of Engineering is an outcome of a bold and a noble step taken by the Punjabi University, Patiala for providing technical education specially in the field of Engineering & Technology to the real and deserving people living in the rural areas. The University took a serious view about the facilities, services and opportunities available to the people of the rural areas compared to those of the urban areas.
Yadier Pedroso Yadier Pedroso González (born April 9, 1986 in Guanajay, La Habana Province, Cuba) is a righthanded pitcher for the Cuban national baseball team and La Habana of the Cuban National Series. Pedroso was part of the Cuban team at the 2006 World Baseball Classic.
Yading Yading is a national level reserve in the southwest of Sichuan Province, China. Unknown to the outside world until the late 1990s, it is a mountain sanctuary and major pilgrimage site comprising three 6000m+ peaks sanctified by the 5th Dalai Lama and seen as emanations of the three boddhisatvas Chenrezig, Jampayang and Chenadorje.
Yadis Yadis is an open initiative to build an interoperable lightweight discovery protocol for decentralized, user-centric digital identity and related purposes. Yadis aims to allow the capabilities of identities to be composed from an open-ended set of services, defined and/or implemented by many different parties.
Yadollah Kaboli Khansari Yadollah Kaboli Khansari (born 1949) is a calligrapher from Khansar, Iran. He is a member of the board of The Trustees of the Society of Iranian Calligraphists and also a holds a First Degree art's Certificate.
Yadong County Yadong (Tibetan: གྲོ་མོ་, Wylie: Gro mo; ) is a frontier county and trade-market of Tibet, situated in the mouth of the Chumbi valley near the Indian frontier. It lies in the middle part of Himalayas and the south of Tibet Autonomous Region, covering 4,306 square kilometers with a general population of 10,000.
Yaesu is a neighborhood in Chūō-ku, Tokyo, Japan, located north of Ginza, west of Nihonbashi and Kyobashi, and adjacent to the east side of Tokyo Station. The Yaesu exit, which faces Nihonbashi, is recent and primarily provides access to the Shinkansen platforms.
Yaesu FT-1000MP The FT-1000MP is an amateur radio transceiver built by Yaesu. It was named for Sako Hasegawa, the late founder of the company whose callsign was JA1MP, and was their flagship radio at the time of its introduction.
Yaesu FT-847 The Yaesu FT-847, known as the Earth Station is a revolutionary (now discontinued) multimode transceiver providing coverage of all nine HF Amateur bands (less 60 meters), plus VHF & UHF coverage of the 50 MHz (6 Meters), 144 MHz (2 Meters) & 440 MHz (70 centimeters)
Yaesu Route The Yaesu Route (signed as Route Y) is one of the routes of the Shuto Expressway system in the Tokyo area. It connects the Inner Circular Route at Kandabashi Junction in Chiyoda Ward to the Tokyo Expressway at Nishi-ginza Junction in Chūō Ward.
Yaesu VX-6R The Yaesu VX-6R is a dual band 144 MHz (2 Meters) & 440 MHz (70 centimeters) handheld amateur radio transceiver with extensive receive coverage, and leading-edge features. The American version also transmits on the 222 MHz (1.
Yaeyama class minesweeper The Yaeyama class is the largest class of Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force minesweepers, designed for open sea mine clearance operations. Three ships were built in the class, a further three ships were planned but were cancelled.
Yaeyama Islands The Yaeyama Islands (八重山諸島 Yaeyama-shotō Yaeyama: Yaima Okinawan: Ēma) are an archipelago in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. The remotest and most southwestern inhabited islands of Japan, the Yaeyamas are closer to Taiwan than to Okinawa Island, much less the Japanese mainland.
Yafc Yafc is a command-line FTP program, its name a recursive acronym for 'Yet Another FTP Client'. It is developed in and available for Linux under the GPL license, but there should be little or no problem compiling it on any nearly POSIX-compliant Unix with an ANSI C compiler.
YafRay YafRay (Yet Another Free Raytracer) is a free, open source ray tracing program that uses an XML scene description language. It has recently been integrated into the 3D modelling software Blender, and so can now be used to render scenes made within it.
Yagan Yagan (; rhymes with pagan) (c. 1795–11 July 1833) was a Noongar warrior who played a key part in early indigenous Australian resistance to European settlement and rule in the area of Perth, Western Australia.
Yaghan language Yagán (variously spelled as Yahgan, Yaghan, Jagan, Iakan), also known as Yámana and Háusi Kúta, is one of the indigenous languages of Tierra del Fuego, spoken by the Yagán people. It is regarded as a language isolate, although some linguists have attempted to relate it to Kawésqar and Chon.
Yaghmai Yaghmai is the surname of a large family from Iran. Yaghmai, pronounced Yag-maa-ee, denotes that the family links to the famous Iranian poet Yaghma (in other words, the name means "associated with Yaghma").
Yaghnobi people Yaghnobi people (or Yagnobian people, Tajik яғнобиҳо /yaġnobiho/, یغنابيها) is the name of a people who live in mountainous Tajikistan. Sometimes they are viewed as a sub-ethnic group of the Tajiks.
Yagi (Usagi Yojimbo) Yagi, the Lone Goat Assassin is a character in the comic book Usagi Yojimbo; he is an anthropomorphic Goat, and is a highly skilled assassin. His most recognizable trait, is that he carries his son, Gorogoro with him in a baby carriage.
Yagi antenna A Yagi-Uda Antenna, commonly known simply as a Yagi antenna or Yagi, is a directional antenna consisting of an array of a dipole and additional parasitic elements. The dipole in the array is driven, and another element, slightly longer, operates as a reflector.
Yagibushi The Yagibushi (八木節) is a popular folk song and dance performed at matsuri in Gunma and Tochigi, Japan. It consists of dancers with broad hats called kasa going in a counter clockwise circle around a mikoshi.
Yagō Yagō (屋号), literally meaning "house name," is a term applied in traditional Japanese culture to names passed down within a guild, studio, or other circumstance other than blood relations. The term is synonymous with iena (家名) and kadona (角名).
Yagnopaveetham The Yagnopaveetham is the triple stranded sacrificial strand of thread that is worn by those initiated into the Gayatri recital. The three strands represent the three sandhya rites that are to be performed when the sun rises and sets and when the sun is at the zenith.
Yagua language The Yagua language is spoken by the Yagua people, primarily in northeastern Peru. As of 2005, it appears that a few speakers may have migrated northward across the Peruvian-Colombian border near the town of Leticia.
Yaguine Koita and Fode Tounkara Yaguine Koita (aged 14) and Fodé Tounkara (aged 15) were stowaways who froze to death on a Sabena Airlines Airbus A330 (Flight 520) flying from Conakry, Guinea, to Brussels, Belgium, on 28 July 1999. Their bodies were discovered on 2 August in the airplane's rear right-hand wheel bay at Brussels International Airport, after having made at least three return trips between Conakry and Brussels.
Yagya Datt Sharma Yagya Datt Sharma was a governor of Orissa and a member of fourth and sixth Lok Sabha representing Amritsar and Gurdaspur parliamentary constituencies of Punjab during 1967-70 and 1977-79. He wasa leader of Bharatiya Janata Party .
Yagyū clan The were a minor family of daimyō (feudal lords) with lands just outside Nara, who became the heads of one of Japan's greatest schools of swordsmanship, Yagyū Shinkage-ryū. The Yagyū were also swordsmanship teachers to the Tokugawa shoguns.
Yagyū Munenori (1571 - May 11, 1646) was a Japanese swordsman who inherited leadership of the school of swordsmanship called Yagyū Shinkage-ryū from his father Yagyū "Sekishusai" Muneyoshi. This was one of two official sword styles patronized by the Tokugawa Shogunate (the other one being Ittō-ryū).
Yagyū Muneyoshi (1527- May 25 1606) was one of the most famous swordsmen in Japanese history. He founded the Yagyū Shinkage-ryū, and raised the Yagyū family up from being a minor noble family to the official instructors of swordsmanship of the Tokugawa shoguns.
Yagyū Shinkage-ryū Yagyū Shinkage Ryū (柳生新陰流) is one of the oldest Japanese school of swordsmanship or kenjutsu. Its name roughly means "Yagyū New Shadow School," Yagyū being the name of the family which came to head the school at the end of the 16th century.
Yahiko, Niigata Yahiko (弥彦村; -mura) is the only village left in Nishikanbara District, Niigata, Japan after the two towns from the same district merged with the city of Tsubame to form the new city on March 20, 2006. Yahiko village lies on the south side of Mt.
Yahiya Emerick Yahiya Emerick is a vice principal at an Islamic school, President of the Islamic Foundation of North America and a Muslim author and has written many articles that have been published in local as well as national magazines, both in North America and abroad. He was born into an American Protestant Christian family and converted to Islam in 1989.
Yahoo (literature) In Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, a Yahoo is a vile and savage creature, filthy and with unpleasant habits, resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of Lemuel Gulliver, who finds the calm and rational society of the Houyhnhnms far preferable. The Yahoos are primitive creatures obsessed with "pretty stones" they find by digging in mud, thus representing the distasteful materialism and ignorant elitism Swift encountered in Britain.
Yahoo Falls Yahoo Falls is located in McCreary County, Kentucky. Just a short drive down Highway 700, a right turn at the “Yahoo Falls” sign, a pleasant drive down a gravel road, and you have reached the parking area.
Yahoo Radish The Yahoo Radish is a web based music playlist archive that works in conjunction with Yahoo Music Unlimited streaming music service. The site is published in a blog format with archived playlists that are organized by subject, situation, hits, cover songs and other categories.
Yahshua Yahshua is an attempted transliteration of the original Hebrew or Aramaic name of Jesus commonly used by individuals in the Sacred Name religious movement out of Christianity. Those who follow Sacred Name teachings (such as the Assemblies of Yahweh) believe that it is essential to salvation to use the correct pronunciation of the name of the one most Christians call "Jesus".
Yahshuah Yahshuah is a form of the Hebrew name of Jesus produced by mystical speculation at various periods of history, but which is rejected by mainstream linguistics and textual scholarship in the field of ancient languages. The essential idea is of an alphabetic consonantal framework Y-H-Sh-W-H, which can be supplied with vowels in various ways.

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