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Yokogawa, Kagoshima Yokogawa (横川町; -chou) was a town located in Aira District, Kagoshima, Japan. On November 7, 2005, the town merged with the city of Kokubu and five other towns from the district forming the city of Kirishima and no longer exists as an independent municipality.
Yokohama Archives of History The Yokohama Archives of History (横浜開港資料館　Yokohama Kaikou Shiryoukan) in Naka ward, central Yokohama near Yamashita Park is a repository for many precious archive materials on Japan and the foreign connection with Japan since the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry in 1853.
Yokohama Curry Museum The , in the Isezakicho district of the port city of Yokohama, Japan, is a restaurant and historic museum of the different styles of curry in Japan. Several different types of curry are available from a selection or restaurants, ranging from a full meal to a quick taste option.
Yokohama Pidgin Japanese Yokohama Pidgin Japanese, Yokohamese or Japanese Ports Lingo was a Japanese-based pidgin spoken in the Yokohama area during the late 19th century for communication between Japanese and foreigners. Most information on Yokohama Pidgin comes from Exercises in the Yokohama Dialect, a humorous pamphlet published in 1879 by Hoffman Atkinson.
Yokohama rail crash The Yokohama rail crash （Japanese:鶴見事故　”Tsurumi　Accident”）occurred on November 9 1963 between Tsurumi Station and Shinkoyasu Station on the Tōkaidō Main Line in Yokohama city (about 30 km from Tokyo), Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, when two passenger trains collided with a derailed freight train, killing 161 people.
Yokohama Specie Bank Building, Shanghai The Yokohama Specie Bank Building, now Shanghai Textile Holding Corporation is a seven-floor building in the Chinese city of Shanghai and was completed in the 1920s. It was built by architects P & T Architects Limited (Palmer and Turner).
Yokoi Shonan ; (22 September 1809 – 15 February 1869) was a Bakumatsu period and early Meiji period scholar and political reformer in Japan, influential in the Bakumatsu period around the fall of the Tokugawa bakufu. His real name was Yokoi Tokiari.
Yokoshima, Kumamoto Yokoshima (横島町; -machi) was a town located in Tamana District, Kumamoto, Japan. On October 3, 2005 the town merged with two other towns into the expanded city of Tamana and no longer exists as an independent municipalty.
Yokosuka E14Y The Yokosuka E14Y, codenamed "Glen" by United States forces, was an Imperial Japanese Navy seaplane transported aboard and launched from Japanese submarine aircraft carriers such as the I-25 during World War II. The Japanese Navy designation was "Type 0 Small Reconnaissance Seaplane" (零式小型水上偵察機).
Yokosuka High School Kanagawa Prefectural Yokosuka High School (神奈川県立横須賀高等学校, Kanagawa Kenritsu Yokosuka kōtō gakkō) is a high school in Yokosuka, Japan, founded in 1907. The school is operated by the Kanagawa Prefectural Board of Education.
Yokosuka Naval Air Technical Arsenal The First Naval Air Technical Arsenal (第一海軍航空技術廠), located in Yokosuka, Japan, was responsible for the design of several aircraft used by the Japanese Imperial Navy during World War II. Actual manufacture of Yokosuka designs was handled by companies such as Aichi Kokuki.
Yokosuka Tenga The Yokosuka Tenga (天河, "Milky Way") was a proposal to provide the Imperial Japanese Navy with a jet-powered bomber towards the end of World War II. The concept was to replace the piston engines of the Yokosuka P1Y1 with turbojets.
Yokota Air Base , a base of the United States Air Force, is located in the city of Fussa and nearby communities in the suburbs of Tokyo, Japan. The base serves as the headquarters for United States Forces Japan, and is currently used for airlift missions throughout East Asia.
Yokota family The Yokota family, husband Shigeru and wife Sakie, founded the Japanese National Association for the Rescue of Japanese Kidnapped by North Korea in 1997. The Association supports the victims of North Korea's abductions of Japanese citizens in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Yokoyama Katsuya Yokoyama Katsuya (surname Yokoyama; kanji: 横山勝也; hiragana: よこやま かつや; b. Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, 1934) is an internationally renowned player and teacher of the shakuhachi, a traditional vertical bamboo flute of Japan.
Yokoyama Taikan Yokoyama Taikan (November 2, 1868 - February 26, 1958) was a Japanese painter. He is notable for furthering the traditional Japanese painting technique of nihonga in modern times by using certain Western techniques of shading.
Yoku Hata Yōku Hata (波田陽区, Hata Yōku, real name: Akira Hada (波田 晃, Hada Akira), born June 5 1975 in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture) is a stand up comedian in Japan. He rose to popularity in 2004 with his character "The Guitar Zamurai (Samurai)" (ギター侍) on the program The God of Entertainment (エンタの神様).
Yoku Shioya Yoku Shioya (塩屋翼 Shioya Yoku), born June 24, 1958 in Kagoshima, Japan, has been a voice actor since the age of 14 in Umi no Triton (1972). Recently he has done some voice directing in such anime as Basilisk: The Kouga Ninja Scrolls.
Yokuba Yokuba is listed in the Nuttall Encyclopaedia as the largest town in Sokoto, in the Lower Soudan, with a large trade in cotton, tobacco, and indigo plant. It states that, at the time of writing, the town had a population of 150,000.
Yokut The Yokuts or Mariposans are an ethnic group of Native Americans that live in Central California. Most Yokuts Indians reject the name Yokuts as an exonym invented by English-speaking settlers and historians, and prefer to refer to themselves by their tribal name.
Yokutsan languages Yokutsan (also Yokuts) is an endangered language family spoken in the interior of southern California in and around the San Joaquin valley by the Yokut tribe. The speakers of Yokutsan languages were severely affected by disease, missionaries, and the Gold Rush: most are now extinct.
Yol Yol (Turkish for "The Road" or "The Way") is a 1982 Turkish film. The screenplay was written by Yılmaz Güney, and it was directed by his assistant Şerif Gören, who strictly followed Güney's instructions, as Güney was in prison at the time.
Yolanda and the Thief Yolanda and the Thief (MGM) is a 1945 Hollywood musical comedy film set in a fictional Latin American country, and stars Fred Astaire, Lucille Bremer, Frank Morgan, Ludwig Stossl and Mildred Natwick, with music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Arthur Freed. The film was directed by Vincente Minnelli and produced by Arthur Freed.
Yolanda Griffith Yolanda Evette Griffith (born March 1, 1970 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American professional basketball player currently playing for the Sacramento Monarchs of the WNBA. She is sometimes called by her nicknames: "Yo" and "Yo-Yo".
Yolanda Hightower Yolanda Lynn ("Yogi") Hightower (born in Virginia Beach, Virginia) is a former field hockey player from the United States, who finished in eight position with Team USA in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
Yolanda of Vianden Yolanda (or Yolande, Iolanda) of Vianden (1231-1283), youngest daughter of Count Henry I of Vianden, joined the Luxembourg Convent of Marienthal against the wishes of her parents when she was very young. She later became its devout prioress and is now a legend in Luxembourg's history.
Yolanda Perez Yolanda Perez (born May 20, 1983) is an American singer who specializes in banda music. She is sometimes known by the stage name "La Potranquita", (Spanish: "little filly"), a name taken by her father from his home city of Zacatecas, Mexico.
Yolanda SaldĂ­var Yolanda SaldĂ­var (born September 19, 1960) was convicted in 1995 for the murder of Tejano music singer Selena Quintanilla-Perez that occurred on March 31, 1995. She is currently serving a life sentence in a Texas prison and will not be eligible for parole until 2025.
Yolanda Ventura Yolanda Ventura (born on October 21, 1968 in Barcelona, Spain) is an actress of telenovelas in Mexico and former singer and member of the Spanish pop band ParchĂ­s. She is the daughter of Spanish musician Rudi Ventura and wife of Mexican actor Alejandro AragĂłn.
Yolande (Greyhawk) In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Yolande is the grey elven queen of the elven kingdom of Celene. Her honorifics include "Her Fey Majesty," the "Faerie Queen," the "Perfect Flower of Celene," and "Lady Rhalta of All Elvenkind.
Yolande of Aragon Yolande of Aragon ( Barcelona, 1383 – 1443), the daughter of John I of Aragon and his wife Yolande of Bar, daughter of Robert I, Duke of Bar and Marie Valois. She was also known as Jolantha de Aragon and Violant d'Aragó.
Yolande Palfrey Yolande Palfrey (born 29 March 1957) is an English actress, best remembered for her BBC work including Wings, Pennies from Heaven, Measure for Measure, Blake's 7 (Pressure Point), Crime and Punishment, Nanny, and Doctor Who (Terror of the Vervoids).
Yolande Thibeault Yolande Thibeault (born in 1939, Montreal, Quebec) is a journalist and politician in Quebec, Canada. She was elected a Member of Parliament of the Canadian House of Commons for the St-Lambert Riding in the 1997 general election.
Yolandita Monge Yolandita Monge (born September 16, 1955) is an international singer and actress from Puerto Rico, who is also known as "Puerto Rico's most glamorous and talented diva". Monge is also known by the international press as Puerto Rico's Shining Star.
Yoldia Sea Yoldia Sea is a name given by geologists to a variable brackish-water stage in the Baltic Sea basin that prevailed after draining of Baltic ice lake had reduced the lake level to then sea level. Dates for the Yoldia sea are obtained mainly by radiocarbon dating material from ancient sediments and shore lines.
Yolf Yolf — short for "yard golf" — is a game for 2-4 players. Game play is similar to regular golf but the equipment consists of large mallets that resemble croquet mallets and the balls are about the size of softballs.
Yolngu The Yolngu (or Yolŋu) are an Indigenous Australian people inhabiting north-eastern Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. Yolngu literally means “person” in the language spoken by the people.
Yolo Bypass The 25,500 acre (103 km²) Yolo Bypass is a flood bypass that protects Sacramento and other California Central Valley communities from flooding. Weirs connect the bypass to the Sacramento River as well as to Cache Creek.
Yom HaShoah Yom haShoah Ve'Hagvura or Yom HaShoah (יום השואה yom ha-sho’āh, יום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה-Yom ha-zikaron la-Shoah v'la-Gvura), "Holocaust Martyrs' Remembrance Day" or, literally, "Remembrance day for The Holocaust and Heroism", takes place on the 27th day of the month Nisan, in the Hebrew calendar, which falls in the early spring. It is held every year in remembrance of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.
Yom Hazikaron Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day, Hebrew: יום הזכרון לחללי מערכות ישראל ונפגעי פעולות האיבה, lit. Israel Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism Remembrance Day) is an Israeli national holiday.
Yom Kippur Yom Kippur (; Hebrew:יוֹם כִּפּוּר, ) is the Jewish holiday of the Day of Atonement. It falls on the tenth day of the Hebrew month of Tishrei, the seventhAtonement: Day Of of the Religious Calendar.
Yom Tov Asevilli Yom Tov Asevilli or Yom Tov ben Avraham Asevilli (or Yom Tov the son of Abraham Asevilli), (1250-1330), who is commonly known to scholars of Judaism as the Ritva (an acronym of his Hebrew name), was a medieval rabbi and Halakhist famous for his commentary on the Talmud.
Yom Tov Ehrlich Yom Tov Ehrlich (1934-1990) was a Hasidic musician, composer, lyricist, recording artist, and popular entertainer known for his popular Yiddish music albums. He was born in Poland, and survived the Holocaust in Samarkand, Soviet Union.
Yom-e-Istiqlal Yom-e-Istiqlal (Urdu: یوم استقلال) is the independence day of Pakistan and a National holiday. It is observed on 14 August, the day on which Pakistan became independent from British rule within then what was known as the Indian Empire in 1947.
Yom-Tov Lipmann-Muhlhausen Yom-Tov ben Solomon Lipmann-Muhlhausen (Hebrew: יום טוב ליפמן מילהאוזן) was an Jewish-Austrian controversialist, Talmudist, and kabalist of the 14th and 15th centuries. According to Bishop Bodecker of Brandenburg, who wrote a refutation of Lipmann's Niẓẓaḥon, Lipmann lived at Cracow.
Yomiel Yomiel or Jômjâêl in later translations (Aramaic: אל ימין, Greek: ‘Ιωμειήλ) was the 19th Watcher of the 20 leaders of the 200 fallen angels that are mentioned in an ancient work called the Book of Enoch. Michael KnibbThe Ethiopic Book Of Enoch.
Yomihon is a type of Japanese book from the Edo period (1603–1867), that was influenced by Chinese vernacular novels such as Water Margin. Unlike other Japanese books of the period, they had few illustrations, and the emphasis was on the text.
Yomiko Readman , also known as "The Paper," is a fictional character and the main protagonist in the Japanese novel series Read or Die and the manga and anime spin-offs of the books. She is also a major player (but not the main protagonist) in the sequel, R.
Yomin Carr Yomin Carr is a character in the Star Wars Expanded Universe. He was a covert agent of the extra-galatic Yuuzhan Vong who, like Nom Anor, was sent to sabotage the ExGal-4 project Danni Quee had started on Belkadan.
Yomiuri Giants The are one of the popular Central League baseball teams based at the Tokyo Dome in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan. The team is often called the "Tokyo Giants" in the American press, but like the Hanshin Tigers and Orix Buffaloes, the team is officially known by the name of its corporate owner rather than the name of the city it plays in.
Yomiuri Shimbun The Yomiuri Shimbun (読売新聞 Yomiuri Shinbun) is a Japanese newspaper published in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, and other major Japanese cities. It is one of the five national newspapers in Japan; the other four are the Asahi Shimbun, the Mainichi Shimbun, Nihon Keizai Shimbun and the Sankei Shimbun.
Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation (YTV, 讀賣テレビ放送株式会社, Yomiuri Terebi Hōsō Kabushiki Gaisha, Nickname: Yomiuri TV (読売テレビ, よみうりテレビ) or Yomiuri (よみうり)) is a TV station of Nippon News Network (NNN) and Nippon Television Network System (NNS) in Osaka Business Park, Osaka, Japan founded as "New Osaka TV Co. (新大阪テレビ放送株式会社, Shin Ōsaka Terebi Hōsō Kabushiki Gaisha)" on February 13, 1958.
Yomo YoMo Community Interest Company (CIC) is a not for profit youth organisation set up to support young people to participate in communities. Based in the UK the organisation works nationally and in other countries and has supported volunteers and organisations in Ireland, Tanzania and Malawi.
Yomut carpet The Yomut carpet is a type of carpet traditionally handwoven by the Yomut, one of the major tribes of Turkmenistan. A Yomut design, along with designs of the four other major tribes, is featured on the coat of arms and the flag of Turkmenistan.
Yon Hyong-muk Yon Hyong-muk, also spelt as Yong Hyong-muk (연형묵; 延亨默; born November 3, 1931; died October 23, 2005) was a longserving politician in North Korea and at the height of his career the most powerful person in that country outside the Kim family. He was premier of North Korea from 1989 until 1992.
Yona Yahav Yona Yahav is an Israeli lawyer who served in the 14th Knesset and on the boards of several political, business and civic organizations. He was a member of the Israeli Labor Party until June 29th 2006 when he joined the new Kadima party.
Yonadam Kanna Yonadam Yousef Kanna (Syriac: ܝܘܢܐܕܐܡ ܚܢܐ, also known as Yacoub Yousip) is an Iraqi politician and a member of the Iraqi National Assembly. He was a member of the Iraqi Governing Council in 2003-2004 that was created following the Invasion of Iraq by the United States in 2003.
Yonago, Tottori Yonago (米子市; -shi) is a city located in the northwest of Tottori, Japan, facing the Sea of Japan, and adjacent to Shimane. It is the prefecture's second largest city after Tottori and therefore a commercial center of the western part of this prefecture.
Yonaguni , or ドゥナンチマ Dunan-chima in the local language, is the name of the westernmost island of Japan, as well as the language spoken there (see Yonaguni language). The native name for the island, Dunan, is cognate with the element Yona- in the Japanese name.
Yonam Institute of Digital Technology Yonam Institute of Digital Technology, also Yonam Engineering College, is a private technical college located in Jinju, South Gyeongsang province, South Korea. It offers courses in computer electronics, hardware design, industrial information design, and related fields.
Yonasan Steif Rabbi Yonasan Steif (1877-1958) was a senior dayan of Budapest, Hungary, before the Second World War, a man whom Rabbi Moshe Feinstein referred to as the gadol hador (spiritual leader of the generation). He was a world-renowned posek and halachic authority.
Yonassan Gershom Yonassan Gershom is a Rabbi and a follower of Breslov Hasidism. He was associated with the early days of the B'nai Or movement (in which he was ordained by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi in 1986), although he is not in agreement with the direction that organisation has taken in more recent years.
Yonatan Ratosh Yonatan Ratosh (יונתן רטוש), Israeli poet, was the nom de plume of Uriel Shelach (אוריאל שלח). Born as Uriel Halperin (אוריאל הלפרין) in the Russian Empire in 1908 to a Zionist family.
Yoncalla language Yoncalla (also Southern Kalapuya) is a Kalapuyan language once spoken in southwest Oregon in the United States. In the 19th century it was spoken by the Yoncalla band of the Kalapuya people in the Umpqua River valley.
Yondering Yondering is a collection of short stories by popular American author Louis L'Amour. Rather than deal with L'Amour's traditional subject matter of the Old West, Yondering contains adventure stories, primarily set in the first half of the 20th Century.
Yone Minagawa Yone Minagawa (born January 4, 1893 in Akaike, Fukuoka Prefecture), is the oldest person in Japan, at 114, and - as of January 2007 - the second-oldest person in the world. She lives in Keijuen, a special nursing home in her native Akaike.
Yone Noguchi Yone Noguchi, born (and known in Japan as) Yonejiro Noguchi (野口米次郎 Noguchi Yonejirō, 1875 - 1947), was an influential writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and literary criticism in both English and Japanese. He is also remembered as the father of the sculptor Isamu Noguchi.
Yoneda lemma In mathematics, the Yoneda lemma in category theory is an abstract result on functors of the type morphisms into a fixed object. It is a vast generalisation of Cayley's theorem from group theory (a group being a category with just one object).
Yonemura Yonemura (米村) is a Japanese surname composed of yone ("rice plant") and mura ("village") and meaning "rice village." The Yonemura surname, though found throughout country, appears most frequently in southern Japan, with a particularly high concentration in the area of the former Kumamoto (Higo) Province on Kyūshū, the country's southern-most main island.
Yonen Buzz Yonen Buzz is an original German language manga by Christina Plaka and the continuation of Plastic Chew (originally entitled Prussian Blue, but changed in order to avoid association with the white nationalist band Prussian Blue). While Prussian Blue was published in German by Carlsen Verlag, Yonen Buzz was released by TOKYOPOP Germany.
Yong Chin Pak Grandmaster Yong Chin Pak is the President of the National Collegiate Taekwondo Association, holding the position since 1986. He as an adjunct instructor in Exercise Sport Science and has been instructing students in the martial arts at Iowa State University since 1973.
Yong Kai Yong Kai (雍闓) was an officer of the Three Kingdoms Period that was the prefect of Jian Ning, later joined the Nanman King, Meng Huo through revolting against Shu. Zhuge Liang then incited enmity between Yong Kai and Gao Ding.
Yong Pung How Yong Pung How (Chinese: 杨邦孝; born 1926, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) was a Singaporean lawyer, government official, who served as the second Chief Justice of Singapore from 28 September 1990 to 10 April 2006. His legacy includes significant reform to the judicial procedure, although it has been marred by claims of his preference for efficiency over justice in executing sentences and for his deference to the ruling political party, the People's Action Party, in politically motivated cases alleging defamation.
Yong'an Yong'an (永安; pinyin: Yǒng'ān; Wade-Giles Yung-an) is a county-level city in China's Fujian province, on the Sha River, which is a tributary of the Min River. It is located approximately 120 miles southeast of Fuzhou.
Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center The Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center is North Korea's major nuclear facility, operating its first nuclear reactors. It is located in the county of Yongbyon in North Pyongan province, 100 km north of Pyongyang.
Yongdingmen Yongdingmen (Chinese: 永定門; Manchu: Enteheme toktoho duka) was the former front gate of the outer section of Beijing's old city wall. Originally built in 1553, it was torn down in the 1950s to make way for the new road system in Beijing.
Yonge and Eglinton Yonge and Eglinton is a neighbourhood in Midtown-Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which was once a part of the old Town of North Toronto. In recent years, its centralized location has spawned development, including a number of big-box retailers and tall, high density residential towers.
Yonge Street Yonge Street (pronounced "young"), located in Ontario, Canada, is a major arterial street in Toronto and its northern suburbs. It was previously listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest street in the world.
Yonge-University-Spadina (TTC) The Yonge-University-Spadina Line is the oldest subway line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and undoubtedly, the most crowded subway line in Toronto, since it serves Downtown Toronto. It is operated by the Toronto Transit Commission, has 32 stations and is 30.
Yongfu County Yongfu County () is a county in Guilin City, Guangxi, China, located 55 km to the southwest of Guilin. The county is mostly rural and hilly, marked by the same dramatic karst topography for which Guilin is famous.
Yonggary Yonggary or Yongary (), Korean for "dragon", appeared in the 1967 teukchwal (}}; Korean for tokusatsu) film, Taekoesu Yonggary (; also known as Yongary, Monster from the Deep) (1967), which is the first Korean kaiju movie.
Yonghe City Yonghe City (; POJ: Éng-hô-chhī) is a city in the southern part of Taipei County, Taiwan Province of the Republic of China. It is separated from Taipei's city proper, to the north, by the Sindian River, although the Chiang Kai-shek, Fuhe, and Yongfu Bridges connect the two cities.
Yonghe Temple The Yonghe Temple (; Manchu: Hūwaliyasun hūwaliyaka gung; Mongolian: Найралт Найрамдах Сүм (Nairalt Nairamdakh Suum); ), also known as the "Palace of Peace and Harmony Lama Temple", the "Yonghe Lamasery", or - popularly - the "Lama Temple" is a temple and monastery of the Geluk School of Tibetan Buddhism located in the northeastern part of Beijing, China. It is one of the largest and most important Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in the world.
Yongho-dong (Busan) Yongho-dong is a dong on the coast of Busan, a major port city in southeastern South Korea. Its mainland portion is bordered on three sides by water, standing on a peninsula which separates Busan Harbor from Suyeong Bay.
Yonghua Jiang Yonghua Jiang (born September 7, 1973) is a Chinese cyclist, who was the world record holder for the Women's 500 m time trial from August 2002 to August 2004 with a time of 34.000 seconds, until her record was beaten by Australia's Anna Meares, with a time of 33.
Yongchaak Parkia speciosa (petai, twisted cluster bean, yongchaak or stink bean)[is a plant of the genus Parkia] in the family [[Fabaceae. It bears long, flat edible beans with bright green seeds the size and shape of plump almonds which have a rather peculiar smell.
Yongle Encyclopedia The Yǒnglè Encyclopedia or Yǒnglè Dàdiǎn (;Chinese: “The Great Canon [or Vast Documents] of the Yongle Era”) was a Chinese compilation commissioned by the Chinese Ming Dynasty emperor Yongle in 1403. It was then the world's largest known general encyclopedia, and one of the earliest.
Yongmudo Yongmudo (용무도) - is a martial arts invented by field experts and professors of Yong-In University, a school specializing in the education of martial arts and sports since 1953. While originally developed as Hapkido, it was difficult to consider it as a Korean martial art as it is widely practiced in Japan as "Aikido.
Yongsan Electronics Market Yongsan Electronics Market is a retail area in Seoul, South Korea, comprised of over 20 buildings housing 5,000 stores that sell appliances, stereos, computers and peripherals, office equipment, telephones, lighting equipment, electronic games and software, videos and CDs. A variety of electronic components for constructing computers and other items can also be found.
Yongzheng Emperor The Yongzheng Emperor (born Yinzhen 胤禛 December 13, 1678 - October 8, 1735) was the fourth emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the third Qing emperor to rule over China, from 1722 to 1735. A tough and hard-working ruler, Yongzheng was bent on effective government at minimum expense.
Yonhap Yonhap News Agency is the sole news agency in South Korea that supplies domestic and foreign news and information to newspaper and TV broadcast and other subscribers in South Korea. Yonhap (meaning "consolidated" in Korean) was established on December 19 1980 through the merger of Hapdong News Agency and Orient Press on the model of Japan's Kyodo News Agency.
Yoni Raz Portugali Yoni Raz Portugali (Hebrew: יוני רז פורטוגלי, aka: YRP, יר"פ) is a journalist, writer, and food critic working in Tel Aviv (Israel) and currently living in Jafa. Portugali had published a poet book and his articles are monthly published in the business magazine on Firma, Globes - Israel's leading business paper.
Yoni Rechter Yonatan "Yoni" Rechter (יוני רכטר In Hebrew) is an Israeli musician, composer, pianist, arranger and a singer, specializing in many fields of music, especially rock and jazz, but he is also very active in the field of European classical music.
Yoni worship Yoni, which literally means vagina, is more than just a sexual reproductive organ in Hindu mythology. Hinduism recognizes the importance of the feminine in the spiritual world and it's always a combination of the male and female which transmutates energy.
Yonin shogi Yonin shōgi, (四人将棋, ‘four-person chess’), is a four-person variant of shogi (Japanese chess). It may be played with a dedicated yonin shogi set or with two sets of standard shogi pieces, and is played on a standard sized shogi board.
Yonkers (Metro-North station) The Yonkers Metro-North Railroad station serves the downtown area of Yonkers, New York via the Hudson Line. It is one of four express stations on that line south of Croton-Harmon, seeing most trains minus peak hour trains to/from Poughkeepsie.
Yonkers Avenue Yonkers Avenue is one of four major east-west through routes in the city of Yonkers in Westchester County, New York. The road is maintained by the New York State Department of Transportation but is not signed as a state highway.
Yonkers Bus Depot The Yonkers Bus Depot is located at 59 Babcock Place in Yonkers, New York. Originally part of Liberty Lines Express, it is currently owned and operated by MTA Bus, and only operates express bus service between Yonkers, western Bronx, and Manhattan.
Yonkers Marathon The Yonkers Marathon, held in Yonkers, New York, is the second oldest marathon in the United States, second to the Boston Marathon. Known for its many hills, it is considered by many runners to be one of the toughest marathons in the country.
Yonkers Raceway Yonkers Raceway is a -mile standardbred harness racing dirt track and New York state-approved video-lottery terminal (VLT) racino located at the intersection of Central Park Avenue and Yonkers Avenue (between exits 1 and 2 of the New York State Thruway) in Yonkers, New York near the New York City border.

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