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Yonkers, New York Yonkers is the fourth largest city in the State of New York (it falls behind New York City, Buffalo, and Rochester), and the largest city in Westchester County, with a population of 196,086 (according to the 2000 census). More recent estimates put the population at 197,234 in 2002, 197,126 in 2004 and 196,425 in 2005.
Yonok University Yonok University is a university located in Lampang, Thailand. Founded in 1988 as Yonok College and upgraded to a university status in 2006, the university offers nine undergraduate programs and masters degrees in business administration and education.
Yonten Gyatso, 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589 – 1616) was the 4th Dalai Lama. Yonten Gyatso was a Mongolian, making him the only non-Tibetan to be recognized as Dalai Lama other than the 6th Dalai Lama, who was a Monpa—Monpas can be seen either as a Tibetan subgroup or a closely related people.
Yoo Doo Right "Yoo Doo Right" is a song on Can's 1969 debut album, Monster Movie, which had been edited down from a six-hour improvisation to a mere twenty minutes. The song features a pounding, tribal-influenced rhythm section throughout, along with singer Malcolm Mooney repeatedly reading excepts from a love letter in an almost mantra-like manner.
Yoo Young-Chul Yoo Young-Chul (Korean: ěś ěě˛ , born 1970) is a self-confessed South Korean serial killer and cannibal. Although he admitted to murdering 21 people, mostly prostitutes and rich old men, the Seoul Central District Court convicted him of 20 murders (one case was dismissed on a technicality).
Yoon Bong-Gil Yoon Bong-Gil (21 June 1908, Yesan, Korea - 19 December 1932 Kanazawa, Japan) was a member of the Korean resistance movement fighting the Japanese occupation of Korea. He was involved in an attempt to assassinate the Japanese Emperor.
Yoon Son-ha Yoon Son-ha (born 15 October 1976, Jeonju, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea) is a Korean actress, singer and television personality (gaijin tarento). Since making her debut in the MBC dramas, she has acted in Korea and Japan, probably due to her fluency in Japanese as well as in her native Korean, where she has gained popularity from starring in the Fuji TV drama, Fighting Girl with co-star Kyoko Fukada.
Yoon Yang Kim Shin & Yu Yoon Yang Kim Shin & Yu is one of the five largest law firms in Korea with nearly 170 attorneys. It is a full-service law firm providing both domestic and foreign clients with legal services in international transactions, mergers and acquisitions, securities, finance, tax, antitrust and fair trade, intellectual property, telecommunications, foreign investment, insolvency, real estate, labour and employment, other corporate and business matters, and litigation, arbitration and other dispute resolution, including white-collar crimes.
Yoon Young Kwan Yoon Young Kwan (born 1951) is a South Korean academic. He is currently a professor at Seoul National University's Department of International Relations and teaches courses on International Political Economy and the North Korean issue.
Yooper dialect Yooper is a form of North Central American English mostly spoken in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, which gives the dialect its name (from UP for Upper Peninsula). The dialect is also found in most northern areas of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan and northern portions of Wisconsin.
Yoot Saito is a Japanese game designer famous for designing innovative video games, often featuring the use of voice recognition technology, such as Seaman for the Sega Dreamcast. In 1996, he founded his own video game development company, Vivarium.
Yootha Joyce Yootha Joyce (August 20 1927 - August 24 1980) was an English actress born in South London as Yootha Joyce Needham to musical parents. In 1956 she married the actor, Glynn Edwards - best known for playing Dave, landlord of the Winchester Club in Minder - but the marriage ended in divorce in 1968.
Yora language The Yora language also called Yura or Yuranahua is an indigenous language of Peru in the region of Manu Park on the Panagua River. It belongs to the Panoan linguistic family which also counts Cashibo language, Shipibo language the languages most closely related to Yora are the Yaminahua and Sharanahua languages.
Yoram Globus Yoram Globus (born 1941 in Tiberias, Palestine (now Israel)) is a film producer and financier who, along with his cousin, Menahem Golan (born Menahem Globus) bought the Cannon Group production company in 1979 and ran it throughout the 1980s. Because of their fast, low-budget style of filmmaking, they earned the nickname "the Go-Go Boys".
Yoram Gross Yoram Gross is internationally recognised as Australia’s leading producer and director of quality children’s and family entertainment. Celebrating 35 years of production this year, the company’s many successes include Blinky Bill and Dot and the Kangaroo.
Yorba Linda Water District The Yorba Linda Water District is a public agency responsible for water supply and quality for residents of Yorba Linda , California and portions of Placentia, Brea, Anaheim, and neighboring unincorporated Orange County.
Yorba Linda, California Yorba Linda is an affluent city in Orange County, California, approximately 13 miles northeast of Downtown Santa Ana, and 40 miles southeast of Downtown Los Angeles. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 58,918.
Yordan Radichkov Yordan Radichkov () (October 24, 1929 - January 21, 2004) was a famous Bulgarian writer and playwright, arguably the most significant figure in Bulgarian literature in the last third of the 20th century. He was full of subversive insight and is often referred to as the Bulgarian Kafka or Gogol.
Yordanis Arencibia Yordanis Arencibia Verdecia (born January 24, 1980) is a Cuban judoka. At the 2004 Summer Olympics he won the bronze medal in the men's Half Lightweight (66 kg) category, together with Georgi Georgiev of Bulgaria.
Yordanka Donkova Yordanka Donkova () (born September 28, 1961) is a former hurdling athlete notable for winning an Olympic gold medal and bronze medal as well as 9 medals at European indoor and outdoor championships. She still holds the CR (championship record) for the European Championships with 12.
Yoreh De'ah Yoreh De'ah is a section of Rabbi Jacob ben Asher's compilation of halakha (Jewish law), Arba'ah Turim. This section treats all aspects of Jewish law not pertinent to the Jewish calendar, finance, torts, marriage, divorce, or sexual conduct.
Yorick (Hamlet) Yorick was the deceased court jester whose skull is exhumed by the gravedigger in Act 5, Scene 1, of Shakespeare's Hamlet. The sight of Yorick's skull evokes a monologue from Prince Hamlet on the vile effects of death:
Yorick (programming language) Yorick is an interpreted programming language designed for numerics, graph plotting and steering large scientific simulation codes. It is quite fast due to array syntax, and extensible via C or Fortran routines.
Yoritsune Matsudaira Yoritsune Matsudaira (Japanese: ćťľĺąłé Ľĺ‰‡; surname Matsudaira; born May 5, 1907 in Tokyo, Japan; died October 25Obituary in The Japan Foundation Newsletter (page 8, last column) gives date as October 25, 2001. Grove Music Online (subscription access) article on Matsudaira gives October 30, 2001.
Yoriyuki Arima Yoriyuki Arima (Japanese: 有馬 é Ľĺľ¸ Arima Yoriyuki; December 31, 1714 – December 16, 1783) was a Japanese mathematician of the Edo era. He was the lord of Kurume domain and approximated the value of pi and the square of pi.
York York is a city in North Yorkshire, England, at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss. The York urban area has a population of 137,505 whilst the entire unitary authority (see below) has a population of 184,900.
York & Selby Lines The York & Selby Lines is the name given to a group of services in the West Yorkshire Metro area, connecting Leeds with places to its north and east: as well as the Northern Rail local services to York and Selby, the services extend to:
York (group) York are German dance music, record producer, and DJ brothers Torsten and Jorg Stenzel. Both brothers were involved heavily in music in their youths and Torsten had some chart success in his home country and the low countries.
York and North East Yorkshire Police The York and North East Yorkshire Police was a police force in England from 1968 to 1974, covering the North Riding of Yorkshire, the East Riding of Yorkshire and the county borough of York. It was a merger of the two riding forces with the York City Police.
York and Sawyer The architectural firm of York and Sawyer produced many outstanding structures, exemplary of Beaux-Arts architecture as it was practiced in the United States. The partners Edward York (1863–1928) and Philip Sawyer (1868–1949) had both trained in the office of McKim, Mead, and White.
York boat The York boat was an inland boat used by the Hudson's Bay Company to carry furs and trade goods along inland waterways in Canada. It was named after York Factory, the headquarters of the HBC, and modeled after Orkney Islands fishing boats (themselves a descendant of the Viking long boat).
York city walls The city of York in Yorkshire, England has, since Roman times, been defended with walls of one form or another. To this day, substantial portions of the walls remain, and York has more miles of intact wall than any other city in England.
York class cruiser The York class was a class of heavy cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the late 1920s under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. The class consisted of two ships (HMS York and Exeter), although three more were at one stage planned before the 8-inch cruiser fell out of favour with the Royal Navy.
York Castle York Castle is part of the city of York. The Castle itself was later dismantled, but the site contains Clifford's Tower, a quatrefoil keep built on top of a Norman motte (), the courts, Castle Museum and former prisons.
York Central (UK Parliament constituency) The city of York is represented by the historic City of York seat, and the existence of a central seat for the city continues with this new York Central seat. The constituency will be a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
York Centre York Centre is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1904 to 1917 and since 1953, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999.
York College (York) York College is a further and higher education college in York, United Kingdom. It was formed by a merger of York Sixth Form College and York College of Further and Higher Education (formerly York College of Art and Technology), in 1999.
York County Technical College York County Technical College is community college in Wells, Maine. Programs that are available include Business Administration and Management, Business Information and Data Processing, Child Growth Care and Development Studi, Culinary Arts/Chef Training, Drafting General, Hospitality Administration/Management, Liberal Arts & Sciences/General Studies, and Management Information Systems & Business Data.
York Football League The York Football League (currently known under the terms of a sponsorship agreement as the York Leeper Hare Football League) is a football competition based in Yorkshire, England, founded in 1897. Today it has a total of four divisions including the York and District League Premier Division which sits at level 14 of the English football league system.
York Gate Collections York Gate Collections at the Royal Academy of Music is a museum of musical instruments and artefacts in London, England, open to the public free of charge seven days a week. The Collections are housed in the York Gate building, which was designed by John Nash in 1822 as part of the main entrance to Regent's Park.
York Guardian The York Guardian is a weekly tabloid format newspaper that publishes each Friday. The newspaper is published by Toronto Community News, a division of Metroland Media Group, which also publishes The North York Mirror, The East York Mirror, The Beaches-Riverdale Mirror, Markham Economist and Sun, The Scarborough Mirror, The Etobicoke Guardian and The Bloor-West Villager.
York Herald York Herald of Arms in Ordinary is an officer of arms at the College of Arms. The first York Herald is believed to have been an officer to Edmund of Langley, Duke of York around the year 1385, but the first completely reliable reference to such a herald is in February of 1484, when John Water alias Yorke, herald was granted certain fees by Richard III.
York House York House was traditionally the name given, often temporarily, to houses in London, England occupied by holders of the title of Duke of York, which is traditionally bestowed on the second sons of English and British monarchs. Royal residences which have been known as York House, listed by their current or last names, include:
York House, St. James's Palace York House is a historic wing of St James's Palace, London. It was built for Frederick, Prince of Wales, on the occasion of his marriage in 1736, on the site of a suttling-house belonging to the Guards, and faces Ambassadors' Court and Cleveland Row.
York House, Strand York House in the Strand in London was one of a string of mansions which once stood along the route from the City of London to the royal court at Westminster. It was built as the London home of the Bishops of Norwich not later than 1237, and around 300 years later it was acquired by King Henry VIII.
York House, Twickenham York House is an historic stately home in Twickenham, England, and today serves as the Town Hall of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It is situated in Richmond Road, near the centre of Twickenham, close to St Mary’s Church.
York Mills Collegiate Institute York Mills Collegiate Institute is a Toronto high school, offering grades 10-12, located in North York along York Mills Road between Leslie Street and Bayview Avenue. The school has high academic standards compared to its nearest neighbours, and emphasizes university preparation and leadership training through extracurricular activities.
York Mills Road York Mills Road is an east-west route in Toronto, Ontario, Canada named for the community of York Mills or Hoggs Hollow. The name York refers to the former County of York, containing the county town (pre-1834), the forerunner to modern day Toronto and Mills refers to the grist and saw mills that dotted the west Don River valley from 1804 until 1926.
York Minster York Minster is an imposing Gothic cathedral in York, Northern England. It is the seat of the Archbishop of York, and cathedral for the Diocese of York, and is run by a Dean and Chapter under the Dean of York.
York Minster astronomical clock The York Minster astronomical clock was installed in the North Transept of York Minster in 1955. It was first conceived in 1944 and designed by R d'E Atkinson, chief assistant at the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
York Museum Gardens The York Museum Gardens are part of the Yorkshire Museum and lie on the banks of the River Ouse in York, England. The gardens cover an area of ten acres within the centre of the city, and are surrounded by the city walls.
York Mystery Plays The York Mystery Plays refers to a cycle of forty-eight Mystery Plays based on stories taken from the Bible, performed around Corpus Christi day in the city of York, England from the Middle Ages until 1569. It is one of only four surviving English mystery play cycles.
York Nomad Society The York Nomad Society or YNS are the hooligan group associated with York City Football Club who play in the Conference National. The YNS was formed in 1981 as an alternative travel to away matches for City supporters.
York North York North was an electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from Confederation in 1867 until 2004. It is also an electoral district that will be represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario until 2007.
York North (New Brunswick provincial electoral district) York North is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It was first created in the 1973 out of the old two member district of York by taking those parts of York County outside of the city of Fredericton and north of the St.
York Notes York Notes are a series of educational study guides sold in the United Kingdom. They are sold as revision material for GCSE and A-level exams which are the principal school exams for students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
York Preparatory School York Preparatory School is a fully accredited co-educational college preparatory day school located at 40 West 68th Street in the Lincoln Center area of New York City, United States. York Prep, a 6-12 school with a total enrollment of approximately 310 students, is committed to maintaining a diverse community.
York Racecourse York Racecourse is a horse racing track in the southwest of the City of York with a spectator capacity of 60,000. The most famous race to be held at York on an annual basis is the Ebor Handicap, which is run during the Ebor Festival meeting in August.
York Redoubt York Redoubt is a National Historic Site on a bluff overlooking the entrance to Halifax Harbour at Ferguson's Cove, Nova Scotia, built in 1793. It was a key element in the defence of Halifax Harbour in the 19th and 20th centuries.
York Regional Road 24 York Regional Road 24, or formerly Highway 50, more commonly referred to as Highway 50 or Peel Regional Road 50, is a shared regional road between Peel Region and York Region. York Regional Road 24 begins at Steeles Avenue and runs to Peel Regional Road 14, where the road steered towards Peel Region.
York Regional Road 25 Major Mackenzie Drive, officially referred to as York Regional Road 25 is a major east-west arterial road in southern York Region, Ontario, Canada. The road was formerly named 17th Avenue, and was a rural road, but with growth in York Region expanding beyond Highway 7, the road is now heavily travelled and is becoming more of an urban thoroughfare.
York Regional Road 68 York Regional Road 68 is a north-south route in Markham, Ontario. The section from York Regional Road 73 to Lake Ontario shorelines was downloaded from the province of Ontario and renamed from King's Highway 48 or Highway 48 to the old name of Markham Road.
York Regional Road 69 York Regional Road 69 or locally known as Ninth Line is a 2-lanes (within Markham, Ontario) or 2-lanes (Within Stouffville, Ontario) north-south arterial road in York Region, Ontario. It lies completely within York Region and is also known as Regional Road 69.
York Regional Road 73 York Regional Road 73 is an east-west formerly concession road, now a major urban throughfare, in York Region and runs in the Towns of Markham, Richmond Hill, and City of Vaughan. York Regional Road 73 is one of the rare regional roads that stretch from the western limit to the eastern limit of York Region.
York Revolution The York Revolution is an Atlantic League team based in York, Pennsylvania. Beginning in the 2007 season, they will play in the South Division of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball.
York Rite The York Rite (also called the "American Rite") is one of the two main appendant bodies of United States Freemasonry, which a Master Mason may join to further his knowledge of Freemasonry. Its name derives from the city of York, where, according to a Masonic legend, the first meetings of Masons in England took place.
York River (Ontario) The York River is a river in Ontario, Canada, which originates in a group of lakes in the southern extension of Algonquin Park. The river flows through the town of Bancroft, Ontario, continues on through the Conroy Marsh, a 24 km² provincially significant wetland and empties into the Madawaska River.
York Road tube station York Road tube station is a disused station on the London Underground. It opened on the 15th December 1906 and was one of the original stations on the Great Northern, Piccadilly & Brompton Railway, now the Piccadilly Line.
York Road, Lambeth York Road is a road in Lambeth, London SE1 running between Westminster Bridge Road (south) and Waterloo Road (north). To the west is the old County Hall, Shell Centre, Jubilee Gardens and, beyond, the London Eye and the River Thames.
York Rural Sanitary District York was a rural sanitary district in Yorkshire, England until 1894. It was based on the York poor law union (minus the City of York itself, which was an urban sanitary district), and included parishes in the West Riding, the North Riding and the East Riding, forming a ring around the city.
York School (California) York School (formerly known as The York School), founded in 1959, is an independent, coeducational college preparatory Episcopal day school enrolling 226 students in grades 8 through 12. Located in the foothills near Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca and the town of Del Rey Oaks, the campus occupies scenic hillside terrain on the outskirts of Monterey, California.
York South—Weston York South—Weston is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1979, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999.
York Stakes The York Stakes is a Group 2 flat horse race in the United Kingdom for three-year-old and above thoroughbreds run over a distance of 1 mile 2 furlongs and 88 yards (2,092 metres) at York Racecourse in late July.
York Steak House York Steak House was a national chain of restaurants in the United States, popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The restaurants were generally located in shopping malls, and were cafeteria-style, with cold items on one side, hot items on the other with the cashier at the end.
York Street (IND Sixth Avenue Line) York Street is a station on the IND Sixth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Served by the train at all times, it is located at York Street and Jay Street in Brooklyn Heights and is the northernmost Sixth Avenue Line station in Brooklyn.
York Street Public School York Street Public School is an elementary school in the Lower Town neighbourhood of Ottawa, Canada. The school was built in 1922 replacing four smaller schools in the area: Robinson Primary, George Street, Rideau Street, and Bolton.
York Suburban Senior High School York Suburban High School is a Middle-States accredited, comprehensive four-year high school with an enrollment of 834 students. The school is located in a residential neighborhood at 1800 Hollywood Drive on the corner of Southern Road and Hollywood Drive in Spring Garden Township, PA.
York Suburban School District York Suburban School District is a public school district located in York County, Pennsylvania. The district is comprised of five schools: Valley View Center, East York Elementary School, Indian Rock Elementary School, York Suburban Middle School, and York Suburban Senior High School.
York University (GO Station) York University GO Station is a GO Transit railway station on the Bradford commuter railway line; it is the second station stop northbound and the eighth station stop southbound. The station serves York University in Toronto, but is located about a mile away from the university's actual campus in the heart of Toronto's industrial sector.
York University (TTC) York University is a proposed station of the Yonge-University-Spadina line of the subway in Toronto, Canada, to be built on its western branch, the Spadina line. If built, it would be located on the grounds of York University’s main Keele campus, near Ian Macdonald and York Boulevards, and may open in approximately 2013 or 2014.
York University (YRT) York University is a York Region Transit (YRT) terminal on Ian Macdonald Boulevard near York Boulevard in York Commons at York University in Toronto, Canada. It was built near the intersection of Keele Street and Steeles Avenue in the North York.
York Way York Way (part of the A5200) is a major road in north London running north for one mile from the junction of Pentonville Road and Euston Road, adjacent to King's Cross railway station towards Kentish Town and Holloway. At its northern end the road becomes Brecknock Road.
York West York West is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1904 and since 1917, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999.
York—Simcoe York—Simcoe is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1968 to 1979, from 1988 to 1997 and since 2004. It will elect a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the next provincial election.
Yorke Peninsula Football League The Yorke Peninsula Football League (YPFL) is an Australian rules football competition based in the Yorke Peninsula region of South Australia, Australia. It is a affiliated member of the South Australian National Football League.
Yorker In cricket, a Yorker is a delivery where the cricket ball bounces on the cricket pitch on or near the batsman's popping crease. Since a batsman in a normal stance has his feet on the popping crease, this means the ball is bouncing very near his feet, which makes the ball difficult to hit with the bat.
Yorkie (musician) David Palmer (April 7, 1965), best known as Yorkie, is a British musician, best known as a member of the Liverpool band Space from 1997 to its' later years. Before joining Space, he has been in and involved with numerous other bands, including Egypt for now and The Balcony (he also had a minor role in the video for "Reward" by The Teardrop Explodes), but is mostly well known for his solo projects.
Yorkis PĂ©rez Yorkis Miguel Vargas PĂ©rez (born September 30, 1967 in Bajos De Haina, Dominican Republic) is a former left-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago Cubs, Florida Marlins, New York Mets, Philadelphia Phillies, Houston Astros and Baltimore Orioles.
Yorks Wood Yorks Wood is an eleven hectare ancient wood of predominantly oak trees in Kingshurst, Birmingham, England. Records which mention a wood there date back hundreds of years; it is likely that it was formerly much more extensive than it is at present.
Yorkship Village Yorkship Village was a Federally funded World War I planned community of approximately 1000 homes located near New York Shipbuilding of Camden, New Jersey, and intended to provide housing for the shipyard's workers and their families. New York Shipbuilding had more than tripled in size due to war contracts, and the influx of shipyard workers was overwhelming the Camden housing market.
Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency) Yorkshire was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England from 1290, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Members of Parliament until 1826, when the county benefited from the disfranchisement of Grampound by taking an additional two members.
Yorkshire and the Humber Yorkshire and the Humber is one of the regions of England. It covers most of the historic county of Yorkshire, along with the part of northern Lincolnshire that was previously in the administrative area of Humberside (which existed 1974-1996).
Yorkshire Ambulance Service The Yorkshire Ambulance Service is the NHS ambulance service covering most of Yorkshire in England. It covers the whole of the East Riding of Yorkshire (including Kingston upon Hull), South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire along with the majority of the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire including City of York but not Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and the southern part of Stockton-on-Tees) which are covered by the North East Ambulance Service.
Yorkshire colloquialisms North of England colloquialisms, Northshireisms, dialect, or slang are mostly spoken, but not often written, in Northern England. Generally these colloquialisms start to occur as one travels north of Birmingham and words that can be found in older versions of the English Bible, such as Thee, thou, thy & thine, etc can be heard frequently.
Yorkshire Coast Radio Yorkshire Coast Radio is the name of an Independent Local Radio station in the East Riding and North of Yorkshire. It is officially two licenses, one broadcasting to Scarborough and one to Bridlington, and has offices in both towns, but the operations are essentially unified.
Yorkshire Coastliner Yorkshire Coastliner is a bus company based in Malton in North Yorkshire, England. It is owned by the Blazefield Group (itself part of Transdev) who also own, amongst others, Harrogate & District and Keighley & District in Yorkshire.
Yorkshire County Cricket Club Yorkshire County Cricket Club, who represent the historic county of Yorkshire, are one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English domestic cricket structure. Their limited overs team is called the Yorkshire Phoenix.
Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 2005 Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 2005 are in the second divisions of both the County Championship and the totesport League. At 6-1 odds to win the Second Division of the County Championship, they are likely to struggle again - as they have done since they won the First Division championship in 2001.
Yorkshire County, Province of New York Yorkshire County was an original county of the English Province of New York, established in 1664, soon after English control of the area was established. Like the original Yorkshire in England for which it was named, the county in New York was divided into three ridings: East, West and North.
Yorkshire dialect and accent The Yorkshire dialect and accent refers to the varieties of English used in the northern English county of Yorkshire. These varieties of English refer to themselves as Tyke and are referred to as Yorkshire by other varieties of English.
Yonok University Yonok University is a university located in Lampang, Thailand. Founded in 1988 as Yonok College and upgraded to a university status in 2006, the university offers nine undergraduate programs and masters degrees in business administration and education.
Yonten Gyatso, 4th Dalai Lama Yonten Gyatso (1589 – 1616) was the 4th Dalai Lama. Yonten Gyatso was a Mongolian, making him the only non-Tibetan to be recognized as Dalai Lama other than the 6th Dalai Lama, who was a Monpa—Monpas can be seen either as a Tibetan subgroup or a closely related people.
Yoo Doo Right "Yoo Doo Right" is a song on Can's 1969 debut album, Monster Movie, which had been edited down from a six-hour improvisation to a mere twenty minutes. The song features a pounding, tribal-influenced rhythm section throughout, along with singer Malcolm Mooney repeatedly reading excepts from a love letter in an almost mantra-like manner.
Yoo Young-Chul Yoo Young-Chul (Korean: ěś ěě˛ , born 1970) is a self-confessed South Korean serial killer and cannibal. Although he admitted to murdering 21 people, mostly prostitutes and rich old men, the Seoul Central District Court convicted him of 20 murders (one case was dismissed on a technicality).
Yoon Bong-Gil Yoon Bong-Gil (21 June 1908, Yesan, Korea - 19 December 1932 Kanazawa, Japan) was a member of the Korean resistance movement fighting the Japanese occupation of Korea. He was involved in an attempt to assassinate the Japanese Emperor.
Yoon Son-ha Yoon Son-ha (born 15 October 1976, Jeonju, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea) is a Korean actress, singer and television personality (gaijin tarento). Since making her debut in the MBC dramas, she has acted in Korea and Japan, probably due to her fluency in Japanese as well as in her native Korean, where she has gained popularity from starring in the Fuji TV drama, Fighting Girl with co-star Kyoko Fukada.
Yoon Yang Kim Shin & Yu Yoon Yang Kim Shin & Yu is one of the five largest law firms in Korea with nearly 170 attorneys. It is a full-service law firm providing both domestic and foreign clients with legal services in international transactions, mergers and acquisitions, securities, finance, tax, antitrust and fair trade, intellectual property, telecommunications, foreign investment, insolvency, real estate, labour and employment, other corporate and business matters, and litigation, arbitration and other dispute resolution, including white-collar crimes.
Yoon Young Kwan Yoon Young Kwan (born 1951) is a South Korean academic. He is currently a professor at Seoul National University's Department of International Relations and teaches courses on International Political Economy and the North Korean issue.
Yooper dialect Yooper is a form of North Central American English mostly spoken in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, which gives the dialect its name (from UP for Upper Peninsula). The dialect is also found in most northern areas of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan and northern portions of Wisconsin.
Yoot Saito is a Japanese game designer famous for designing innovative video games, often featuring the use of voice recognition technology, such as Seaman for the Sega Dreamcast. In 1996, he founded his own video game development company, Vivarium.
Yootha Joyce Yootha Joyce (August 20 1927 - August 24 1980) was an English actress born in South London as Yootha Joyce Needham to musical parents. In 1956 she married the actor, Glynn Edwards - best known for playing Dave, landlord of the Winchester Club in Minder - but the marriage ended in divorce in 1968.
Yora language The Yora language also called Yura or Yuranahua is an indigenous language of Peru in the region of Manu Park on the Panagua River. It belongs to the Panoan linguistic family which also counts Cashibo language, Shipibo language the languages most closely related to Yora are the Yaminahua and Sharanahua languages.
Yoram Globus Yoram Globus (born 1941 in Tiberias, Palestine (now Israel)) is a film producer and financier who, along with his cousin, Menahem Golan (born Menahem Globus) bought the Cannon Group production company in 1979 and ran it throughout the 1980s. Because of their fast, low-budget style of filmmaking, they earned the nickname "the Go-Go Boys".
Yoram Gross Yoram Gross is internationally recognised as Australia’s leading producer and director of quality children’s and family entertainment. Celebrating 35 years of production this year, the company’s many successes include Blinky Bill and Dot and the Kangaroo.
Yorba Linda Water District The Yorba Linda Water District is a public agency responsible for water supply and quality for residents of Yorba Linda , California and portions of Placentia, Brea, Anaheim, and neighboring unincorporated Orange County.
Yorba Linda, California Yorba Linda is an affluent city in Orange County, California, approximately 13 miles northeast of Downtown Santa Ana, and 40 miles southeast of Downtown Los Angeles. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 58,918.
Yordan Radichkov Yordan Radichkov () (October 24, 1929 - January 21, 2004) was a famous Bulgarian writer and playwright, arguably the most significant figure in Bulgarian literature in the last third of the 20th century. He was full of subversive insight and is often referred to as the Bulgarian Kafka or Gogol.
Yordanis Arencibia Yordanis Arencibia Verdecia (born January 24, 1980) is a Cuban judoka. At the 2004 Summer Olympics he won the bronze medal in the men's Half Lightweight (66 kg) category, together with Georgi Georgiev of Bulgaria.
Yordanka Donkova Yordanka Donkova () (born September 28, 1961) is a former hurdling athlete notable for winning an Olympic gold medal and bronze medal as well as 9 medals at European indoor and outdoor championships. She still holds the CR (championship record) for the European Championships with 12.
Yoreh De'ah Yoreh De'ah is a section of Rabbi Jacob ben Asher's compilation of halakha (Jewish law), Arba'ah Turim. This section treats all aspects of Jewish law not pertinent to the Jewish calendar, finance, torts, marriage, divorce, or sexual conduct.
Yorick (Hamlet) Yorick was the deceased court jester whose skull is exhumed by the gravedigger in Act 5, Scene 1, of Shakespeare's Hamlet. The sight of Yorick's skull evokes a monologue from Prince Hamlet on the vile effects of death:
Yorick (programming language) Yorick is an interpreted programming language designed for numerics, graph plotting and steering large scientific simulation codes. It is quite fast due to array syntax, and extensible via C or Fortran routines.
Yoritsune Matsudaira Yoritsune Matsudaira (Japanese: ćťľĺąłé Ľĺ‰‡; surname Matsudaira; born May 5, 1907 in Tokyo, Japan; died October 25Obituary in The Japan Foundation Newsletter (page 8, last column) gives date as October 25, 2001. Grove Music Online (subscription access) article on Matsudaira gives October 30, 2001.
Yoriyuki Arima Yoriyuki Arima (Japanese: 有馬 é Ľĺľ¸ Arima Yoriyuki; December 31, 1714 – December 16, 1783) was a Japanese mathematician of the Edo era. He was the lord of Kurume domain and approximated the value of pi and the square of pi.
York York is a city in North Yorkshire, England, at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss. The York urban area has a population of 137,505 whilst the entire unitary authority (see below) has a population of 184,900.
York & Selby Lines The York & Selby Lines is the name given to a group of services in the West Yorkshire Metro area, connecting Leeds with places to its north and east: as well as the Northern Rail local services to York and Selby, the services extend to:
York (group) York are German dance music, record producer, and DJ brothers Torsten and Jorg Stenzel. Both brothers were involved heavily in music in their youths and Torsten had some chart success in his home country and the low countries.
York and North East Yorkshire Police The York and North East Yorkshire Police was a police force in England from 1968 to 1974, covering the North Riding of Yorkshire, the East Riding of Yorkshire and the county borough of York. It was a merger of the two riding forces with the York City Police.
York and Sawyer The architectural firm of York and Sawyer produced many outstanding structures, exemplary of Beaux-Arts architecture as it was practiced in the United States. The partners Edward York (1863–1928) and Philip Sawyer (1868–1949) had both trained in the office of McKim, Mead, and White.
York boat The York boat was an inland boat used by the Hudson's Bay Company to carry furs and trade goods along inland waterways in Canada. It was named after York Factory, the headquarters of the HBC, and modeled after Orkney Islands fishing boats (themselves a descendant of the Viking long boat).
York city walls The city of York in Yorkshire, England has, since Roman times, been defended with walls of one form or another. To this day, substantial portions of the walls remain, and York has more miles of intact wall than any other city in England.
York class cruiser The York class was a class of heavy cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the late 1920s under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. The class consisted of two ships (HMS York and Exeter), although three more were at one stage planned before the 8-inch cruiser fell out of favour with the Royal Navy.
York Castle York Castle is part of the city of York. The Castle itself was later dismantled, but the site contains Clifford's Tower, a quatrefoil keep built on top of a Norman motte (), the courts, Castle Museum and former prisons.
York Central (UK Parliament constituency) The city of York is represented by the historic City of York seat, and the existence of a central seat for the city continues with this new York Central seat. The constituency will be a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
York Centre York Centre is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1904 to 1917 and since 1953, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999.
York College (York) York College is a further and higher education college in York, United Kingdom. It was formed by a merger of York Sixth Form College and York College of Further and Higher Education (formerly York College of Art and Technology), in 1999.
York County Technical College York County Technical College is community college in Wells, Maine. Programs that are available include Business Administration and Management, Business Information and Data Processing, Child Growth Care and Development Studi, Culinary Arts/Chef Training, Drafting General, Hospitality Administration/Management, Liberal Arts & Sciences/General Studies, and Management Information Systems & Business Data.
York Football League The York Football League (currently known under the terms of a sponsorship agreement as the York Leeper Hare Football League) is a football competition based in Yorkshire, England, founded in 1897. Today it has a total of four divisions including the York and District League Premier Division which sits at level 14 of the English football league system.
York Gate Collections York Gate Collections at the Royal Academy of Music is a museum of musical instruments and artefacts in London, England, open to the public free of charge seven days a week. The Collections are housed in the York Gate building, which was designed by John Nash in 1822 as part of the main entrance to Regent's Park.
York Guardian The York Guardian is a weekly tabloid format newspaper that publishes each Friday. The newspaper is published by Toronto Community News, a division of Metroland Media Group, which also publishes The North York Mirror, The East York Mirror, The Beaches-Riverdale Mirror, Markham Economist and Sun, The Scarborough Mirror, The Etobicoke Guardian and The Bloor-West Villager.
York Herald York Herald of Arms in Ordinary is an officer of arms at the College of Arms. The first York Herald is believed to have been an officer to Edmund of Langley, Duke of York around the year 1385, but the first completely reliable reference to such a herald is in February of 1484, when John Water alias Yorke, herald was granted certain fees by Richard III.
York House York House was traditionally the name given, often temporarily, to houses in London, England occupied by holders of the title of Duke of York, which is traditionally bestowed on the second sons of English and British monarchs. Royal residences which have been known as York House, listed by their current or last names, include:
York House, St. James's Palace York House is a historic wing of St James's Palace, London. It was built for Frederick, Prince of Wales, on the occasion of his marriage in 1736, on the site of a suttling-house belonging to the Guards, and faces Ambassadors' Court and Cleveland Row.
York House, Strand York House in the Strand in London was one of a string of mansions which once stood along the route from the City of London to the royal court at Westminster. It was built as the London home of the Bishops of Norwich not later than 1237, and around 300 years later it was acquired by King Henry VIII.
York House, Twickenham York House is an historic stately home in Twickenham, England, and today serves as the Town Hall of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It is situated in Richmond Road, near the centre of Twickenham, close to St Mary’s Church.
York Mills Collegiate Institute York Mills Collegiate Institute is a Toronto high school, offering grades 10-12, located in North York along York Mills Road between Leslie Street and Bayview Avenue. The school has high academic standards compared to its nearest neighbours, and emphasizes university preparation and leadership training through extracurricular activities.
York Mills Road York Mills Road is an east-west route in Toronto, Ontario, Canada named for the community of York Mills or Hoggs Hollow. The name York refers to the former County of York, containing the county town (pre-1834), the forerunner to modern day Toronto and Mills refers to the grist and saw mills that dotted the west Don River valley from 1804 until 1926.
York Minster York Minster is an imposing Gothic cathedral in York, Northern England. It is the seat of the Archbishop of York, and cathedral for the Diocese of York, and is run by a Dean and Chapter under the Dean of York.
York Minster astronomical clock The York Minster astronomical clock was installed in the North Transept of York Minster in 1955. It was first conceived in 1944 and designed by R d'E Atkinson, chief assistant at the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
York Museum Gardens The York Museum Gardens are part of the Yorkshire Museum and lie on the banks of the River Ouse in York, England. The gardens cover an area of ten acres within the centre of the city, and are surrounded by the city walls.
York Mystery Plays The York Mystery Plays refers to a cycle of forty-eight Mystery Plays based on stories taken from the Bible, performed around Corpus Christi day in the city of York, England from the Middle Ages until 1569. It is one of only four surviving English mystery play cycles.
York Nomad Society The York Nomad Society or YNS are the hooligan group associated with York City Football Club who play in the Conference National. The YNS was formed in 1981 as an alternative travel to away matches for City supporters.
York North York North was an electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from Confederation in 1867 until 2004. It is also an electoral district that will be represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario until 2007.
York North (New Brunswick provincial electoral district) York North is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It was first created in the 1973 out of the old two member district of York by taking those parts of York County outside of the city of Fredericton and north of the St.
York Notes York Notes are a series of educational study guides sold in the United Kingdom. They are sold as revision material for GCSE and A-level exams which are the principal school exams for students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
York Preparatory School York Preparatory School is a fully accredited co-educational college preparatory day school located at 40 West 68th Street in the Lincoln Center area of New York City, United States. York Prep, a 6-12 school with a total enrollment of approximately 310 students, is committed to maintaining a diverse community.
York Racecourse York Racecourse is a horse racing track in the southwest of the City of York with a spectator capacity of 60,000. The most famous race to be held at York on an annual basis is the Ebor Handicap, which is run during the Ebor Festival meeting in August.
York Redoubt York Redoubt is a National Historic Site on a bluff overlooking the entrance to Halifax Harbour at Ferguson's Cove, Nova Scotia, built in 1793. It was a key element in the defence of Halifax Harbour in the 19th and 20th centuries.
York Regional Road 24 York Regional Road 24, or formerly Highway 50, more commonly referred to as Highway 50 or Peel Regional Road 50, is a shared regional road between Peel Region and York Region. York Regional Road 24 begins at Steeles Avenue and runs to Peel Regional Road 14, where the road steered towards Peel Region.
York Regional Road 25 Major Mackenzie Drive, officially referred to as York Regional Road 25 is a major east-west arterial road in southern York Region, Ontario, Canada. The road was formerly named 17th Avenue, and was a rural road, but with growth in York Region expanding beyond Highway 7, the road is now heavily travelled and is becoming more of an urban thoroughfare.
York Regional Road 68 York Regional Road 68 is a north-south route in Markham, Ontario. The section from York Regional Road 73 to Lake Ontario shorelines was downloaded from the province of Ontario and renamed from King's Highway 48 or Highway 48 to the old name of Markham Road.
York Regional Road 69 York Regional Road 69 or locally known as Ninth Line is a 2-lanes (within Markham, Ontario) or 2-lanes (Within Stouffville, Ontario) north-south arterial road in York Region, Ontario. It lies completely within York Region and is also known as Regional Road 69.
York Regional Road 73 York Regional Road 73 is an east-west formerly concession road, now a major urban throughfare, in York Region and runs in the Towns of Markham, Richmond Hill, and City of Vaughan. York Regional Road 73 is one of the rare regional roads that stretch from the western limit to the eastern limit of York Region.
York Revolution The York Revolution is an Atlantic League team based in York, Pennsylvania. Beginning in the 2007 season, they will play in the South Division of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball.
York Rite The York Rite (also called the "American Rite") is one of the two main appendant bodies of United States Freemasonry, which a Master Mason may join to further his knowledge of Freemasonry. Its name derives from the city of York, where, according to a Masonic legend, the first meetings of Masons in England took place.
York River (Ontario) The York River is a river in Ontario, Canada, which originates in a group of lakes in the southern extension of Algonquin Park. The river flows through the town of Bancroft, Ontario, continues on through the Conroy Marsh, a 24 km² provincially significant wetland and empties into the Madawaska River.
York Road tube station York Road tube station is a disused station on the London Underground. It opened on the 15th December 1906 and was one of the original stations on the Great Northern, Piccadilly & Brompton Railway, now the Piccadilly Line.
York Road, Lambeth York Road is a road in Lambeth, London SE1 running between Westminster Bridge Road (south) and Waterloo Road (north). To the west is the old County Hall, Shell Centre, Jubilee Gardens and, beyond, the London Eye and the River Thames.
York Rural Sanitary District York was a rural sanitary district in Yorkshire, England until 1894. It was based on the York poor law union (minus the City of York itself, which was an urban sanitary district), and included parishes in the West Riding, the North Riding and the East Riding, forming a ring around the city.
York School (California) York School (formerly known as The York School), founded in 1959, is an independent, coeducational college preparatory Episcopal day school enrolling 226 students in grades 8 through 12. Located in the foothills near Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca and the town of Del Rey Oaks, the campus occupies scenic hillside terrain on the outskirts of Monterey, California.
York South—Weston York South—Weston is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1979, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999.
York Stakes The York Stakes is a Group 2 flat horse race in the United Kingdom for three-year-old and above thoroughbreds run over a distance of 1 mile 2 furlongs and 88 yards (2,092 metres) at York Racecourse in late July.
York Steak House York Steak House was a national chain of restaurants in the United States, popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The restaurants were generally located in shopping malls, and were cafeteria-style, with cold items on one side, hot items on the other with the cashier at the end.
York Street (IND Sixth Avenue Line) York Street is a station on the IND Sixth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Served by the train at all times, it is located at York Street and Jay Street in Brooklyn Heights and is the northernmost Sixth Avenue Line station in Brooklyn.
York Street Public School York Street Public School is an elementary school in the Lower Town neighbourhood of Ottawa, Canada. The school was built in 1922 replacing four smaller schools in the area: Robinson Primary, George Street, Rideau Street, and Bolton.
York Suburban Senior High School York Suburban High School is a Middle-States accredited, comprehensive four-year high school with an enrollment of 834 students. The school is located in a residential neighborhood at 1800 Hollywood Drive on the corner of Southern Road and Hollywood Drive in Spring Garden Township, PA.
York Suburban School District York Suburban School District is a public school district located in York County, Pennsylvania. The district is comprised of five schools: Valley View Center, East York Elementary School, Indian Rock Elementary School, York Suburban Middle School, and York Suburban Senior High School.
York University (GO Station) York University GO Station is a GO Transit railway station on the Bradford commuter railway line; it is the second station stop northbound and the eighth station stop southbound. The station serves York University in Toronto, but is located about a mile away from the university's actual campus in the heart of Toronto's industrial sector.
York University (TTC) York University is a proposed station of the Yonge-University-Spadina line of the subway in Toronto, Canada, to be built on its western branch, the Spadina line. If built, it would be located on the grounds of York University’s main Keele campus, near Ian Macdonald and York Boulevards, and may open in approximately 2013 or 2014.
York University (YRT) York University is a York Region Transit (YRT) terminal on Ian Macdonald Boulevard near York Boulevard in York Commons at York University in Toronto, Canada. It was built near the intersection of Keele Street and Steeles Avenue in the North York.
York Way York Way (part of the A5200) is a major road in north London running north for one mile from the junction of Pentonville Road and Euston Road, adjacent to King's Cross railway station towards Kentish Town and Holloway. At its northern end the road becomes Brecknock Road.
York West York West is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1904 and since 1917, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999.
York—Simcoe York—Simcoe is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1968 to 1979, from 1988 to 1997 and since 2004. It will elect a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the next provincial election.
Yorke Peninsula Football League The Yorke Peninsula Football League (YPFL) is an Australian rules football competition based in the Yorke Peninsula region of South Australia, Australia. It is a affiliated member of the South Australian National Football League.
Yorker In cricket, a Yorker is a delivery where the cricket ball bounces on the cricket pitch on or near the batsman's popping crease. Since a batsman in a normal stance has his feet on the popping crease, this means the ball is bouncing very near his feet, which makes the ball difficult to hit with the bat.
Yorkie (musician) David Palmer (April 7, 1965), best known as Yorkie, is a British musician, best known as a member of the Liverpool band Space from 1997 to its' later years. Before joining Space, he has been in and involved with numerous other bands, including Egypt for now and The Balcony (he also had a minor role in the video for "Reward" by The Teardrop Explodes), but is mostly well known for his solo projects.
Yorkis PĂ©rez Yorkis Miguel Vargas PĂ©rez (born September 30, 1967 in Bajos De Haina, Dominican Republic) is a former left-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago Cubs, Florida Marlins, New York Mets, Philadelphia Phillies, Houston Astros and Baltimore Orioles.
Yorks Wood Yorks Wood is an eleven hectare ancient wood of predominantly oak trees in Kingshurst, Birmingham, England. Records which mention a wood there date back hundreds of years; it is likely that it was formerly much more extensive than it is at present.
Yorkship Village Yorkship Village was a Federally funded World War I planned community of approximately 1000 homes located near New York Shipbuilding of Camden, New Jersey, and intended to provide housing for the shipyard's workers and their families. New York Shipbuilding had more than tripled in size due to war contracts, and the influx of shipyard workers was overwhelming the Camden housing market.
Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency) Yorkshire was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England from 1290, then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Members of Parliament until 1826, when the county benefited from the disfranchisement of Grampound by taking an additional two members.
Yorkshire and the Humber Yorkshire and the Humber is one of the regions of England. It covers most of the historic county of Yorkshire, along with the part of northern Lincolnshire that was previously in the administrative area of Humberside (which existed 1974-1996).
Yorkshire Ambulance Service The Yorkshire Ambulance Service is the NHS ambulance service covering most of Yorkshire in England. It covers the whole of the East Riding of Yorkshire (including Kingston upon Hull), South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire along with the majority of the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire including City of York but not Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and the southern part of Stockton-on-Tees) which are covered by the North East Ambulance Service.
Yorkshire colloquialisms North of England colloquialisms, Northshireisms, dialect, or slang are mostly spoken, but not often written, in Northern England. Generally these colloquialisms start to occur as one travels north of Birmingham and words that can be found in older versions of the English Bible, such as Thee, thou, thy & thine, etc can be heard frequently.
Yorkshire Coast Radio Yorkshire Coast Radio is the name of an Independent Local Radio station in the East Riding and North of Yorkshire. It is officially two licenses, one broadcasting to Scarborough and one to Bridlington, and has offices in both towns, but the operations are essentially unified.
Yorkshire Coastliner Yorkshire Coastliner is a bus company based in Malton in North Yorkshire, England. It is owned by the Blazefield Group (itself part of Transdev) who also own, amongst others, Harrogate & District and Keighley & District in Yorkshire.
Yorkshire County Cricket Club Yorkshire County Cricket Club, who represent the historic county of Yorkshire, are one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English domestic cricket structure. Their limited overs team is called the Yorkshire Phoenix.
Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 2005 Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 2005 are in the second divisions of both the County Championship and the totesport League. At 6-1 odds to win the Second Division of the County Championship, they are likely to struggle again - as they have done since they won the First Division championship in 2001.
Yorkshire County, Province of New York Yorkshire County was an original county of the English Province of New York, established in 1664, soon after English control of the area was established. Like the original Yorkshire in England for which it was named, the county in New York was divided into three ridings: East, West and North.
Yorkshire dialect and accent The Yorkshire dialect and accent refers to the varieties of English used in the northern English county of Yorkshire. These varieties of English refer to themselves as Tyke and are referred to as Yorkshire by other varieties of English.
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