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Yale Entrepreneurial Society The Yale Entrepreneurial Society (YES) is a student-run nonprofit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to encouraging entrepreneurship and business development in the New Haven, Connecticut area. YES was founded in 1999 by Yale undergraduates Sean Glass and Miles Lasater.
Yale Field Yale Field is a stadium in West Haven, Connecticut, just across the city line with New Haven, Connecticut. It is primarily used for baseball, and is the home field of the New Haven County Cutters Canadian-American Association of Professional Baseball minor league baseball team and Yale University baseball team.
Yale golf course The Yale golf course, owned and operated in New Haven near the West Haven border by Yale University, is a fine example of early American golf course design, with large, deeply bunkered greens and narrow rolling fairways challenging the golfer; it is considered one of the best collegiate golf courses in the United States.
Yale Glee Club The Yale Glee Club is a mixed chorus of men and women, consisting of students of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1861, it is the fourth oldest collegiate chorus in the United States (after the Harvard Glee Club, the University of Michigan Men's Glee Club, and the Wabash College Glee Club).
Yale Gracey Yale Gracey (1910 - 1983) was a Disney Imagineer, writer, and layout artist for many Disney animated shorts, including classics such as The Three Caballeros and Fantasia. He desingned many of the special effects for the Disney ride The Haunted Mansion and the fire effect used in the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction.
Yale Institute of Sacred Music The Yale Institute of Sacred Music traces its roots to the School of Sacred Music founded at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. The seminary's department of church music was brought to Yale in 1972, entering into partnership with the Yale School of Music and the Yale Divinity School.
Yale Journal of Law and Technology The Yale Journal of Law & Technology (YJoLT) is the first law review in the world to offer its readership a fully interactive environment in which to acquire and disseminate knowledge about the interface between law and technology. Formerly the Yale Symposium on Law & Technology, the Journal not only publishes lectures and written pieces by the diverse and distinguished guests of Yale Law School as well as other scholars, practitioners, and students, it also provides a forum for a robust community discussion of the issues raised in its published pieces.
Yale Kamisar Yale Kamisar is the Clarence Darrow Distinguished University Professor of Law Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Michigan Law School as well as a tenured professor at the University of San Diego School of Law. Professor Kamisar, a graduate of Columbia Law School, joined the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School in 1965, and has taught at San Diego since 2002.
Yale Orthopaedics The Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation at Yale University School of Medicine is a training program dedicated to the development of excellent Orthopaedic surgeons. The department's first Chairman was Wayne Southwick whose legacy continues today.
Yale Political Union The Yale Political Union (YPU), a debate society that is the largest student organization at Yale University, was founded in 1934 by Professor Alfred Whitney Griswold (1906–1963), a member of the Conservative Party of the old Yale Union, who would later become University President, to combat the apathy that characterized Yale's political culture in the 1930s. It was modelled on the Cambridge University and Oxford University Unions, and members of the YPU have reciprocal rights at its sister societies in England.
Yale Precision Marching Band The Yale Precision Marching Band is the official marching band of Yale University. It is a scatter band (what some peers might call a "scramble band"), not to be confused with other types of university marching bands that emphasize precise movements and geometric field formations.
Yale Repertory Theatre Yale Repertory Theatre at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut was founded by Robert Brustein, dean of the Yale School of Drama in 1966, with the goal of facilitating a meaningful collaboration between theatre professionals and talented students. In the process it has become one of the first distinguished regional theatres.
Yale Report of 1828 The Yale Report of 1828 is a document written by the faculty of Yale College in staunch defense of the classical curriculum. The report maintained that because of Yale's primary object of graduating well-educated and well-rounded men, it should continue to require all of its students to follow a single thorough curriculum, with Latin and Greek literature at its core.
Yale Russian Chorus The Yale Russian Chorus is a tenor-bass choral ensemble at Yale University, established in 1953 by Denis Mickiewicz, who was a Yale student at the time. The group sings a variety of secular and sacred Slavic choral pieces, from the 12th century onward, including folk songs of Russia and Eastern Europe.
Yale shooting problem The Yale shooting problem is a scenario on which early logical solutions to the frame problem fail. The name of this problem is due to the fact that its inventors Hanks and McDermott were working at Yale University when they proposed it.
Yale school (deconstruction) The "Yale school" is a colloquial name for an influential group of literary critics, theorists, and philosophers, all influenced by Jacques Derrida's philosophy of deconstruction, who were together at Yale University in the 1970s.
Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition The Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition is an annual event of Yale University Press aiming to publish the first collection of a promising American poet. The contest was founded in 1919, and is the oldest annual literary award in the United States.
Yale School of Art The Yale School of Art is one of twelve constituent schools of Yale University. It is a professional school, granting Masters of Fine Arts degrees to those with an interest in graphic design, painting/printmaking, photography, and sculpture.
Yale School of Drama Yale School of Drama traces its roots to the Yale Dramatic Association, the second oldest college theatre association in the country, founded in 1900. The "Dramat," which produced the American premieres of Albert Camus's Caligula and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, and also produced original works by Cole Porter, Stephen Sondheim, Stephen Vincent Benet, and Thornton Wilder written when they were students.
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies The Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies was founded as the Yale School of Forestry in 1900 by Gifford Pinchot, head of the United States Division of Forestry, and Henry Solon Graves, both Yale graduates who had attended forestry school in Europe, there being no professional forestry schools in the United States at the time. Graves became the first dean of the school.
Yale Swimming and Diving The Yale Swimming & Diving program has produced countless champion athletes since 1898. Yale swimmers have broken world records, earned hundreds of All-American honors, and have shaped the sport of swimming into what it is today.
Yale Symphony Orchestra Founded in 1965 to provide opportunities for undergraduate orchestral music, the Yale Symphony Orchestra has grown to become one of Yale's best known musical groups. The YSO generally performs in Yale's Woolsey Hall and also tours both internationally and domestically.
Yale University Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is a member of the Ivy League.
Yale University Art Gallery The Yale University Art Gallery houses a significant and encyclopedic collection of art in several buildings on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Although it embraces all cultures and periods, the Gallery possesses especially renowned collections of early Italian painting, African sculpture, and modern art.
Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments The Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments is a museum at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The collection of musical instruments was established in 1900 by the gift of historic keyboard instruments by Morris Steinert and later enriched in 1960 and 1962 by gifts from the Skinner and Emil Herrmann collections.
Yale University Observatory Yale's first observatory, the Atheneum, was situated in a tower, which from 1830 housed Yale's first and America's largest refractor, a 5-inch Dollond donated by Sheldon Clark. With this telescope Olmsted and Elias Loomis made the first American sighting of the return of Halley's Comet in 1835.
Yale-East Yale-East was a provincial electoral district in the British Columbia legislature that appeared only in the 1894, 1898 and 1900 elections. It and its sister ridings Yale-West and Yale-North were created from the older three-member Yale (provincial electoral district), which was one of the province's first twelve ridings as of 1871.
Yale-Lillooet Yale—Lillooet is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It first appeared in the 1966 General Election, when it superseded the older Lillooet riding, which was one of the province's original twelve ridings, as well as the equally-old Yale riding, parts of which are also in Yale—Lillooet.
Yale-Myers Forest The Yale-Myers Forest is a 7,800-acre (32 km²) forest owned by Yale University and administered by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Located in the towns of Union, Ashford, Eastford, and Woodstock in the northeast corner of Connecticut (see also Quiet_Corner_(Connecticut)), the forest is reputed to be the largest private landholding in the state.
Yale-North Yale-North was a provincial electoral district in the British Columbia legislature that appeared only in the 1894, 1898 and 1900 elections. It and its sister ridings Yale-West and Yale-East were created from the older three-member Yale (provincial electoral district), which was one of the province's first twelve ridings as of 1871.
Yale-West Yale-West was a provincial electoral district in the British Columbia legislature that appeared only in the 1894, 1898 and 1900 elections. It and its sister ridings Yale-West and Yale-East were created from the older three-member Yale (provincial electoral district), which was one of the province's first twelve ridings as of 1871.
Yale, British Columbia Yale, British Columbia is a village in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It was founded in 1848 by the Hudson's Bay Company as Fort Yale by Ovid Allard, the appointed manager of the new post, who named it after his superior, James Murray Yale, then Chief Factor of the Columbia District.
YaleGlobal Online YaleGlobal Online is a publication of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.Homepage The magazine deals with global interconnectedness drawing on the resources of the Yale University community, scholars and experts from around the world.
Yalesville Underpass The Yalesville Underpass is a 30 degree skew arch at the intersections of Routes 150 and 71 in Wallingford, Connecticut. Built in 1838 for the railroad by William MacKenzie, it is reported to be the first skew arch underpass in America.
Yaletown Yaletown is an area of downtown Vancouver approximately bordered by False Creek, Smithe, Davie and Homer Streets. Formerly a heavy industrial area dominated by warehouses and rail yards, since the 1986 World's Fair, it has been transformed into one of the most densely populated neighbourhoods in the city.
Yaletown-Roundhouse Station Yaletown-Roundhouse Station, formerly Yaletown Station, is a station currently under construction on the rapid transit Canada Line in Vancouver, Canada. The station is due to open when the Canada Line opens, in 2009.
Yalgoo, Western Australia The townsite of Yalgoo is located in the Murchison region, 499 km north north east of Perth and 118 km east north east of Mullewa. Gold was discovered in the area in the early 1890's, and by 1895 there were 120 men working the diggings and buildings being erected.
Yali, Antioquia Yali it is a municipality located in the Antiochian northeast, denominated “the CITY OF HILLS” municipality in 1956 was established, and its name comes from last name of one of its founders LORENZO YALI, in its principles was a town dedicated to the mining, now the economic activity goes but towards the cañicultura with aims of production of panela, in the CELEBRATIONS OF THE TETONA AND THE RETURN are celebrated in the second weekend of August, if it wishes to know but on this municipality it visits the web page www.yali.
Yalkut Shimoni The Yalkut Shimoni (Hebrew: ×™×ś×§×•× ×©×ž×˘×•× ×™) or simply Yalkut is a haggadic compilation on the books of the Old Testament. From such older haggadot as were accessible to him, the author collected various interpretations and explanations of Biblical passages, and arranged these according to the sequence of those portions of the Bible to which they referred.
Yalkut Yosef Yalkut Yosef (×™×ś×§×•× ×™×•×ˇ×Ł; Hebrew: "Collation of [the works of Ovadia] Yosef") is an authoritative, contemporary work of Halakha, providing a detailed explanation of the Shulchan Aruch as based on the halakhic rulings of the former Rishon LeTzion Rav Ovadia Yosef. It was written by Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef, his son.
Yallakool, New South Wales Town is a village community in the central south part of the Riverina.Geographical Names Board of NSW Yallakool It is situated by road, about 10 kilometres north west from Caldwell and 50 kilometres west from Deniliquin, but is a part of the Murray Shire Council.
Yallourn North, Victoria Yallourn North is a tiny country town in the Latrobe City, Victoria, Australia. Approximately a 10 minute drive north-east of Moe, the town holds many churches, including the only Serbian Orthodox Church in the region.
Yallourn, Victoria Yallourn, Victoria was built between the 1920s and 1950s to house employees of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, who operated the nearby Yallourn Power Station complex. Often mistakenly thought to have been designed by Walter Burley Griffin, who also planned Canberra, Australia's capital city, the town was planned by A.
Yallunda Flat, South Australia Yallunda Flat is a small rural centre located approximately 21 km west of Tumby Bay on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula. The local sports ground is host to an annual country show, and was used as a set in the 1981 movie Gallipoli, probably because it is largely unchanged from a bygone era.
Yalo (woreda) Yalo is one of the 31 woredas in the Afar Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Administrative Zone 4, Yalo is located at the base of the eastern escarpment of the Ethiopian highlands, and bordered on the south by Gulina, on the west by the Amhara Region, on the north by the Administrative Zone 2, and on the east by Teru.
Yalobusha River The Yalobusha River is a river, 165 mi (266 km) long, in north-central Mississippi in the United States. It is a principal tributary of the Yazoo River, via which it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.
Yalta Conference The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, was the wartime meeting from February 4, 1945 to February 11, 1945 between the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union — Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin, respectively.
Yalta municipality Yalta city municipality (, , ), officially "the territory governed by the Yalta city council", also known as Greater Yalta is one of the 25 regions of Crimea. It is a resort region, located at the southern shore of Crimea - one of the most famous recreational territories of the former Soviet Union.
Yalumba Yalumba is a winery located near Angaston, South Australia in the Barossa Valley. It was founded by a British brewer, Samuel Smith, who emigrated to Australia with his family from Wareham, Dorset in August 1847 aboard the ship 'China'.
YaĹźar Aliyev YaĹźar Teymur oÄźlu Aliyev (YaĹźar Teymur oÄźlu ĆŹliyev in Azeri) (born August 1955) is the Permanent Representative (or Ambassador) to the United Nations for Azerbaijan. He presented his credentials to the Secretary-General of the United Nations on 12 March 2002.
Yaşar Büyükanıt General Mehmet Yaşar Büyükanıt His second name, Yaşar, a popular Turkish name which literally means "he who lives on, he who lives through", is the one that is more commonly used, as is often the case in Turkey. His surname, a combination of the words "Büyük" (great, big) and "Anıt" (monument as in Anıtkabir or -idiomatically- deed) can be taken to mean "great deed".
Yam (god) Yam, according to some also called Ya'a or Yaw, is the name of the Ugaritic god of Rivers and Sea, and in some myths he is one of the 'ilhm (Elohim) or sons of El, the name given to the Levantine pantheon. Others dispute the existence of the alternative names, claiming it is a mistranslation of a damaged tablet.
Yam (route) Yam (in Mongolian: Ortooloh, "Ortoo" meaning checkpoint) is a supply point route messenger system employed and extensively used and expanded by Genghis Khan and used by subsequent Great Khans and Khans. Yams were used to give food, shelter and spare horses for Mongol armies messengers.
Yam cake Yam Cake (Wu Tow Ko) is very popular in Malaysia and Singapore especially in morning market for breakfast. The ingredients include dried prawns soaked and chopped coarsely, shallots sliced, stalks spring onions, sprigs Chinese parsley, red chillies and sweet & spicy sauces.
Yama (Buddhism and Chinese mythology) Yama is the name of the Buddhist god and judge of the dead, who presides over the Buddhist Narakas (PÄli: Nirayas), "Hells" or "Purgatories". Although ultimately based on the god Yama of the Hindu Vedas, the Buddhist Yama has developed different myths and different functions from the Hindu deity.
Yama Alou Yama Alou () is Nawal Al Zoghbi's album, which includes two released hit singles "Rouhi Ya Rouhi" and "Shou Akhbarak". The album was released on July 26, 2006 and includes a cover song of "Habibaty Man Takoun", originally sung by the famous Egyptian singer Abdel Halim Hafez.
Yama-bito Yama-bito (ă‚„ăľăłă¨, "mountain people") are mountain-dwelling human-like beings in Japanese folklore. They appear to be men and women who have reverted or been transformed into an animal- or monster-like state via withdrawal from human society.
Yamabe no Akahito Yamabe no Akahito (ĺ±±é¨čµ¤äşş or 山邊赤人) (700 - 736) was a poet of the Yamato period in Japan. The Man'yĹŤshĹ«, an ancient anthology, contains 13 choka ('long poems') and 37 tanka ('short poems') of his.
Yamabushi (Literally: "Those who hide in the mountains") were Japanese mountain ascetics and warriors, mostly of the Shingon sect of Buddhism. For the most part solitary, they did form loose confederations, and associations with certain temples, and also participated in battles and skirmishes alongside samurai and sĹŤhei on occasion.
Yamada Nagamasa Yamada Nagamasa (Japanese: 山田長政 Yamada Nagamasa; 1590—1630) was a Japanese adventurer who gained considerable influence in Thailand at the beginning of the 17th century and became the ruler of the Nakhon Si Thammarat province in southern Thailand.
Yamada Shinryukan Yamada Shinryukan a semi-famous swordsman following the Edo period of the 17th century of Japan. Shinryukan was a noted teacher of the kusarigama (basically a chained sickle) who killed many rivaling swordsman with his superb skills.
Yamaga SokĹŤ Yamaga SokĹŤ (ĺ±±éążç´ čˇŚ, September 21, 1622 - October 23, 1685) was a Japanese philosopher and strategist during the Tokugawa shogunate. He was a Confucian, and applied Confucius's idea of the "superior man" to the samurai class of Japan.
Yamagata Aritomo Prince (14 June 1838–1 February 1922) was a field marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army and twice Prime Minister of Japan. He is considered one of the architects of the military and political foundations of Meiji era Japan.
Yamagata Bank () is a Japanese bank that is based out of Yamagata city, Yamagata prefecture. Most of the bank’s branches are in Yamagata prefecture, or other major cities in the Tohoku region, with a branch in Tokyo as well.
Yamagata Domain Yamagata Domain (山形藩, -han) was a Japanese fief (han), located in Dewa province, in the Tōhoku region (north-eastern Honshū). Modern-day Yamagata Prefecture is roughly contiguous with the domain, and its capital city, also called Yamagata, grew up out of the daimyo's (feudal lord's) castle town.
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival The Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival is a bi-annual film festival held in October in Yamagata City, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. It was first held in October 1989, and showcases new documentary films from around the world.
Yamagata Shinkansen The Yamagata Shinkansen (山形新幹線) is a Mini-Shinkansen in Honshū, Japan, and is a part of the JR East railway company. It provides service between Tokyo Station and Shinjō Station (in the city of Shinjō in Yamagata Prefecture) over the tracks of the Tōhoku Shinkansen and the Ōu Main Line.
Yamagata-ben Yamagata-ben (山形ĺĽ) is the local dialect in spoken Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. It is a form of TĹŤhoku-ben, and can itself be broken down into sub-regional branches that vary from area to area within Yamagata.
Yamagawa, Kagoshima Yamagawa (山川町; -chou) was a town located in Ibusuki District, Kagoshima, Japan. On January 1, 2006 the town merged with another town into the expanded city of Ibusuki and no longer exists as an independent municipality.
Yamaguchia toyensis Yamaguchia toyensis is one of many aquatic oligochaetes belonging to the family Lumbriculidae discovered on HokkaidĹŤ, which seems to be one of three "hotspots" of lumbriculid diversity (the others being the Rocky Mountains and Lake Baikal. The genus named after the great oligochaete taxonomist Professor Hideji Yamaguchi.
Yamagumo class destroyer The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force classify the Yamagumo class as destroyer, but due to their relatively light displacement, other sources also classify the class as frigate. This class is the successor of Akizuki class destroyer and the predecessor of Minegumo class destroyer.
Yamaha AN1x Yamaha AN1x, produced by Yamaha Corporation in 1997, is an analog physical modeling synthesizer, digitally modeling analog sound. It is part of the wave of analog-digital synths using DSP modeling of analog waveforms to recreate the sounds of an analog synthesizer with modern digital specifications.
Yamaha CS-80 The Yamaha CS-80 was a polyphonic analog synthesizer released in 1977. It sported true 8-voice polyphony (with two independent synthesizer layers per voice) as well as a primitive (sound) settings memory based on a bank of micropotentiometers (rather than the digital programmable presets the Prophet-5 would sport soon after), and exceptionally complete performer expression features, such as a splittable keyboard that was both velocity-sensitive (like a piano's) and pressure-sensitive ("after-touch") but unlike most modern keyboards the aftertouch could be applied to individual voices rather than in common, and a ribbon controller allowing for polyphonic pitch-bends and glissandos.
Yamaha CS30/CS30L synthesizer The Yamaha CS30/CS30L is an analog keyboard synthesizer that was released in 1977. It features two voltage controlled oscillators (VCOs), two voltage controlled filters (VCFs - both featuring low-pass, band-pass and high-pass options), two voltage controlled amplifiers (VCAs) and three envelope generators.
Yamaha Diversion The Yamaha Diversion series of motorcycles are all-round touring motorcycles, and descend from Yamaha's earlier XJ series. All Diversion models are fitted with a four-stroke air-cooled 8-valve inline-four engine.
Yamaha DragStar 1100 The DragStar 1100 is a motorcycle, manufactured by Yamaha Motor Corporation. It comes in two versions, the XVS1100 and the XVS1100A, the former a more modern style, and the latter a more classic style, with rounder edges.
Yamaha DSP-1 The Yamaha DSP-1 was a revolutionary piece of early home theater surround sound equipment, produced in 1985 by the Yamaha Corporation. The DSP-1 (referred to by Yamaha as a Digital Sound field Processor) allowed owners to synthesize up to 6-channels of surround sound from 2 channel stereo sound via a complex digital signal processor (DSP).
Yamaha DT200 The Yamaha DT200 is a dual-purpose motorcycle manufactured during the 1980's and early 1990's by the Yamaha Motor Company. The DT200 used a liquid cooled, oil injected( autolube) single cylinder, 2-cycle engine.
Yamaha DX7 The Yamaha DX7 was a synthesizer manufactured by the Yamaha Corporation from 1983 to 1986, based on FM synthesis. It was the first commercially successful digital synthesizer, with its sound included in many recordings from the 1980s.
Yamaha FZX750 The Yamaha FZX750 was a motorcycle made in Japan from the early 1980s until the mid 1990s, although was only imported as a non grey import into the UK in the 1980s. The US version was the FZX-700 Fazer, and was imported only in 1986 and 1987.
Yamaha G-245S The G-245S was a Yamaha classical guitar made in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It had a solid spruce top, rosewood back and sides, 12-fret neck, black-bound 19-fret ebony fretboard with side dot markers at 5th, 7th and 9th frets and composite bridge.
Yamaha GX1 The Yamaha GX-1, along with its predecessor, the Electone GX-707, was an analog polyphonic synthesizer developed by Yamaha as a test bed for later consumer synths. The GX-1 had two full-sized velocity-sensitive manuals (5-octave 61-note keyboards), a shorter but full-width monophonic pressure-sensitive manual (3-octave 37-note keyboard), a 25-note pedalboard, a "relative" ribbon controller (zero modulation was wherever you placed your finger first.
Yamaha Jubilo Yamaha Jubilo rugby union team came second behind Toshiba Brave Lupus in the second season of Japanese rugby's Top League (2004-5). They are coached by former All Black Grant Batty and Fijian player-coach Tabai Matson.
Yamaha Motor Company Yamaha Motor Company Limited (ă¤ăžăŹç™şĺ‹•ć©źć ŞĺĽŹäĽšç¤ľ) , a Japanese motorized vehicle-producing company (whose HQ is at 2500 Shingai, Iwata, Shizuoka), is part of the Yamaha Corporation. After expanding Yamaha Corporation into the world's biggest piano maker, then Yamaha CEO Genichi Kawakami took Yamaha into the field of motorized vehicles on July 1, 1955.
Yamaha Music Festival The Yamaha Music Festival, officially known as World Popular Song Festival and unofficially as the "Oriental Eurovision", used to be the world's biggest song contest, until it ended in 1989; that honour has now passed to the Eurovision Song Contest, in terms of viewership and participation. It was organised by the Yamaha Music Foundation in Tokyo, Japan from 1970 until 1989.
Yamaha Music Foundation Yamaha Music Foundation is an organization established by the authority of Japanese Ministry of Education for the purpose of promoting music education and music popularization. Its unique, systematic teaching method and teacher training programs are highly evaluated not only in Japan but also in other countries.
Yamaha MU-series The Yamaha MU5 was an early sound module, commonly used back in the days of computers having the Intel 80386 processor, in which a computer could send MIDI commands to the MU5, acting as an external sound generation device.
Yamaha Phazer Phazer is the name of a model of snowmobile produced by the Yamaha Motor Corporation. Introduced in 1984, it became an immensley popular model for Yamaha and spawned several follow-up models (such as the Phazer II, Phazer Deluxe, Phazer Mountian Lite, Phazer FX, and Phazer GT); its design features were also incorporated into other models (such as later-model Exciters as well as the Venture Lite).
Yamaha PSR-60 Yamaha PSR-60 Released in 1985, It had the typical PSR sound for that time, but no effects like reverb or chorus, only sustain and symphonic ensemble. It was very limited in choice - only 16 polyphone and 16 monophone sounds with 16 rhythms with accompaniment.
Yamaha QY10 The Yamaha QY10 is a hand-held Music workstation produced by the Yamaha Corporation in the early 1990s. Possessing a MIDI sequencer, a tone generator and a tiny single-octave keyboard, the portable and battery-powered QY10 enables a musician to compose music while travelling.
Yamaha RD350 The RD350 was a motorcycle produced by Yamaha. It was the premier sport lightweight of the early 70's and was evolved from the piston port (pre-reed valve intake tract),front drum-braked, 5 speed Yamaha 350cc "R5".
Yamaha Rhino The Yamaha Rhino is one of a class of off-road vehicles commonly known as "RUV", or Recreational Utility Vehicles made by the Yamaha Motor Company. They are unique from other off-road vehicles such as ATV's and Jeeps in that their size puts them in a category in between the two.
Yamaha sniper Yamaha Sniper 135 is the Yamaha T135 Philippine Version,, also known as Yamaha Spark 135 in Thailand, Yamaha Exciter in Vietnam and Yamaha Jupiter MX in Indonesia and Singapore, is a small underbone bodied motorcycle manufactured by Yamaha Motor Company which is also a kapchai model with the largest displacement ever. Powered by a water-cooled 135cc 4-stroke engine, the Sniper135 is specially designed by the parent company in Japan for Southeast Asian market.
Yamaha SRX The Yamaha SRX is a standard-style motorcycle that was manufactured in two engine sizes: 400(398)cc and 600cc. Single cylinder, twin overhead camshaft engine with an advanced two stage carburetor and balance shaft; lightweight steel frame; dual front disc brakes/single rear disc; dual shocks; alloy wheels.
Yamaha SY85 The Yamaha SY85 was a digital music workstation introduced in 1992. The SY85 differed from other Yamaha synthesizers at the time in that it did not use FM_synthesis as did the other contemporary synthesizers from Yamaha like the SY77 and the SY99 or popular predecessors like the DX7.
Yamaha TDM The Yamaha TDM is an 849 cc two-cylinder motorcycle, manufactured by the Yamaha Motor Company of Japan, that first came out in 1991. With a lot of torque, and 78 horsepower, it is considered to be a very good all-rounder.
Yamaha TX81Z The Yamaha TX81Z is a rack-mounted (keyboard-less) frequency modulation music synthesizer, which was released in 1986. Unlike previous FM synthesizers of the era, the TX81Z was the first to employ oscillator waveforms other than sine, in order to achieve its unique, grating timbre.
Yamaha TZ250 The TZ 250 is a two-stroke racing motorcycle manufactured by Yamaha, first put into production in 1971 . It later incorporated the patented Yamaha Power Valve System, which allowed for a wider range in steady power.
Yamaha V-Max The Yamaha V-Max is a 1200cc motorcycle known for its powerful V4 engine, shaft drive, and distinctive styling. While famed for its quick acceleration, it is often criticized for its poor cornering ability and soft suspension.
Yamaha Virago The Yamaha Virago was the first V-Twin-powered cruiser-style motorcycle produced by a Japanese manufacturer, as well as one of the earliest mass-produced motorcycles with a single shock rear suspension. Originally sold with a 750 cc engine in 1981, Yamaha soon added 500 cc and 920 cc versions.
Yale Field Yale Field is a stadium in West Haven, Connecticut, just across the city line with New Haven, Connecticut. It is primarily used for baseball, and is the home field of the New Haven County Cutters Canadian-American Association of Professional Baseball minor league baseball team and Yale University baseball team.
Yale golf course The Yale golf course, owned and operated in New Haven near the West Haven border by Yale University, is a fine example of early American golf course design, with large, deeply bunkered greens and narrow rolling fairways challenging the golfer; it is considered one of the best collegiate golf courses in the United States.
Yale Glee Club The Yale Glee Club is a mixed chorus of men and women, consisting of students of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1861, it is the fourth oldest collegiate chorus in the United States (after the Harvard Glee Club, the University of Michigan Men's Glee Club, and the Wabash College Glee Club).
Yale Gracey Yale Gracey (1910 - 1983) was a Disney Imagineer, writer, and layout artist for many Disney animated shorts, including classics such as The Three Caballeros and Fantasia. He desingned many of the special effects for the Disney ride The Haunted Mansion and the fire effect used in the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction.
Yale Institute of Sacred Music The Yale Institute of Sacred Music traces its roots to the School of Sacred Music founded at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. The seminary's department of church music was brought to Yale in 1972, entering into partnership with the Yale School of Music and the Yale Divinity School.
Yale Journal of Law and Technology The Yale Journal of Law & Technology (YJoLT) is the first law review in the world to offer its readership a fully interactive environment in which to acquire and disseminate knowledge about the interface between law and technology. Formerly the Yale Symposium on Law & Technology, the Journal not only publishes lectures and written pieces by the diverse and distinguished guests of Yale Law School as well as other scholars, practitioners, and students, it also provides a forum for a robust community discussion of the issues raised in its published pieces.
Yale Kamisar Yale Kamisar is the Clarence Darrow Distinguished University Professor of Law Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Michigan Law School as well as a tenured professor at the University of San Diego School of Law. Professor Kamisar, a graduate of Columbia Law School, joined the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School in 1965, and has taught at San Diego since 2002.
Yale Orthopaedics The Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation at Yale University School of Medicine is a training program dedicated to the development of excellent Orthopaedic surgeons. The department's first Chairman was Wayne Southwick whose legacy continues today.
Yale Political Union The Yale Political Union (YPU), a debate society that is the largest student organization at Yale University, was founded in 1934 by Professor Alfred Whitney Griswold (1906–1963), a member of the Conservative Party of the old Yale Union, who would later become University President, to combat the apathy that characterized Yale's political culture in the 1930s. It was modelled on the Cambridge University and Oxford University Unions, and members of the YPU have reciprocal rights at its sister societies in England.
Yale Precision Marching Band The Yale Precision Marching Band is the official marching band of Yale University. It is a scatter band (what some peers might call a "scramble band"), not to be confused with other types of university marching bands that emphasize precise movements and geometric field formations.
Yale Repertory Theatre Yale Repertory Theatre at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut was founded by Robert Brustein, dean of the Yale School of Drama in 1966, with the goal of facilitating a meaningful collaboration between theatre professionals and talented students. In the process it has become one of the first distinguished regional theatres.
Yale Report of 1828 The Yale Report of 1828 is a document written by the faculty of Yale College in staunch defense of the classical curriculum. The report maintained that because of Yale's primary object of graduating well-educated and well-rounded men, it should continue to require all of its students to follow a single thorough curriculum, with Latin and Greek literature at its core.
Yale Russian Chorus The Yale Russian Chorus is a tenor-bass choral ensemble at Yale University, established in 1953 by Denis Mickiewicz, who was a Yale student at the time. The group sings a variety of secular and sacred Slavic choral pieces, from the 12th century onward, including folk songs of Russia and Eastern Europe.
Yale shooting problem The Yale shooting problem is a scenario on which early logical solutions to the frame problem fail. The name of this problem is due to the fact that its inventors Hanks and McDermott were working at Yale University when they proposed it.
Yale school (deconstruction) The "Yale school" is a colloquial name for an influential group of literary critics, theorists, and philosophers, all influenced by Jacques Derrida's philosophy of deconstruction, who were together at Yale University in the 1970s.
Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition The Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition is an annual event of Yale University Press aiming to publish the first collection of a promising American poet. The contest was founded in 1919, and is the oldest annual literary award in the United States.
Yale School of Art The Yale School of Art is one of twelve constituent schools of Yale University. It is a professional school, granting Masters of Fine Arts degrees to those with an interest in graphic design, painting/printmaking, photography, and sculpture.
Yale School of Drama Yale School of Drama traces its roots to the Yale Dramatic Association, the second oldest college theatre association in the country, founded in 1900. The "Dramat," which produced the American premieres of Albert Camus's Caligula and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, and also produced original works by Cole Porter, Stephen Sondheim, Stephen Vincent Benet, and Thornton Wilder written when they were students.
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies The Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies was founded as the Yale School of Forestry in 1900 by Gifford Pinchot, head of the United States Division of Forestry, and Henry Solon Graves, both Yale graduates who had attended forestry school in Europe, there being no professional forestry schools in the United States at the time. Graves became the first dean of the school.
Yale Swimming and Diving The Yale Swimming & Diving program has produced countless champion athletes since 1898. Yale swimmers have broken world records, earned hundreds of All-American honors, and have shaped the sport of swimming into what it is today.
Yale Symphony Orchestra Founded in 1965 to provide opportunities for undergraduate orchestral music, the Yale Symphony Orchestra has grown to become one of Yale's best known musical groups. The YSO generally performs in Yale's Woolsey Hall and also tours both internationally and domestically.
Yale University Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Founded in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is a member of the Ivy League.
Yale University Art Gallery The Yale University Art Gallery houses a significant and encyclopedic collection of art in several buildings on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Although it embraces all cultures and periods, the Gallery possesses especially renowned collections of early Italian painting, African sculpture, and modern art.
Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments The Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments is a museum at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The collection of musical instruments was established in 1900 by the gift of historic keyboard instruments by Morris Steinert and later enriched in 1960 and 1962 by gifts from the Skinner and Emil Herrmann collections.
Yale University Observatory Yale's first observatory, the Atheneum, was situated in a tower, which from 1830 housed Yale's first and America's largest refractor, a 5-inch Dollond donated by Sheldon Clark. With this telescope Olmsted and Elias Loomis made the first American sighting of the return of Halley's Comet in 1835.
Yale-East Yale-East was a provincial electoral district in the British Columbia legislature that appeared only in the 1894, 1898 and 1900 elections. It and its sister ridings Yale-West and Yale-North were created from the older three-member Yale (provincial electoral district), which was one of the province's first twelve ridings as of 1871.
Yale-Lillooet Yale—Lillooet is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It first appeared in the 1966 General Election, when it superseded the older Lillooet riding, which was one of the province's original twelve ridings, as well as the equally-old Yale riding, parts of which are also in Yale—Lillooet.
Yale-Myers Forest The Yale-Myers Forest is a 7,800-acre (32 km²) forest owned by Yale University and administered by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Located in the towns of Union, Ashford, Eastford, and Woodstock in the northeast corner of Connecticut (see also Quiet_Corner_(Connecticut)), the forest is reputed to be the largest private landholding in the state.
Yale-North Yale-North was a provincial electoral district in the British Columbia legislature that appeared only in the 1894, 1898 and 1900 elections. It and its sister ridings Yale-West and Yale-East were created from the older three-member Yale (provincial electoral district), which was one of the province's first twelve ridings as of 1871.
Yale-West Yale-West was a provincial electoral district in the British Columbia legislature that appeared only in the 1894, 1898 and 1900 elections. It and its sister ridings Yale-West and Yale-East were created from the older three-member Yale (provincial electoral district), which was one of the province's first twelve ridings as of 1871.
Yale, British Columbia Yale, British Columbia is a village in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It was founded in 1848 by the Hudson's Bay Company as Fort Yale by Ovid Allard, the appointed manager of the new post, who named it after his superior, James Murray Yale, then Chief Factor of the Columbia District.
YaleGlobal Online YaleGlobal Online is a publication of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.Homepage The magazine deals with global interconnectedness drawing on the resources of the Yale University community, scholars and experts from around the world.
Yalesville Underpass The Yalesville Underpass is a 30 degree skew arch at the intersections of Routes 150 and 71 in Wallingford, Connecticut. Built in 1838 for the railroad by William MacKenzie, it is reported to be the first skew arch underpass in America.
Yaletown Yaletown is an area of downtown Vancouver approximately bordered by False Creek, Smithe, Davie and Homer Streets. Formerly a heavy industrial area dominated by warehouses and rail yards, since the 1986 World's Fair, it has been transformed into one of the most densely populated neighbourhoods in the city.
Yaletown-Roundhouse Station Yaletown-Roundhouse Station, formerly Yaletown Station, is a station currently under construction on the rapid transit Canada Line in Vancouver, Canada. The station is due to open when the Canada Line opens, in 2009.
Yalgoo, Western Australia The townsite of Yalgoo is located in the Murchison region, 499 km north north east of Perth and 118 km east north east of Mullewa. Gold was discovered in the area in the early 1890's, and by 1895 there were 120 men working the diggings and buildings being erected.
Yali, Antioquia Yali it is a municipality located in the Antiochian northeast, denominated “the CITY OF HILLS” municipality in 1956 was established, and its name comes from last name of one of its founders LORENZO YALI, in its principles was a town dedicated to the mining, now the economic activity goes but towards the cañicultura with aims of production of panela, in the CELEBRATIONS OF THE TETONA AND THE RETURN are celebrated in the second weekend of August, if it wishes to know but on this municipality it visits the web page www.yali.
Yalkut Shimoni The Yalkut Shimoni (Hebrew: ×™×ś×§×•× ×©×ž×˘×•× ×™) or simply Yalkut is a haggadic compilation on the books of the Old Testament. From such older haggadot as were accessible to him, the author collected various interpretations and explanations of Biblical passages, and arranged these according to the sequence of those portions of the Bible to which they referred.
Yalkut Yosef Yalkut Yosef (×™×ś×§×•× ×™×•×ˇ×Ł; Hebrew: "Collation of [the works of Ovadia] Yosef") is an authoritative, contemporary work of Halakha, providing a detailed explanation of the Shulchan Aruch as based on the halakhic rulings of the former Rishon LeTzion Rav Ovadia Yosef. It was written by Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef, his son.
Yallakool, New South Wales Town is a village community in the central south part of the Riverina.Geographical Names Board of NSW Yallakool It is situated by road, about 10 kilometres north west from Caldwell and 50 kilometres west from Deniliquin, but is a part of the Murray Shire Council.
Yallourn North, Victoria Yallourn North is a tiny country town in the Latrobe City, Victoria, Australia. Approximately a 10 minute drive north-east of Moe, the town holds many churches, including the only Serbian Orthodox Church in the region.
Yallourn, Victoria Yallourn, Victoria was built between the 1920s and 1950s to house employees of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, who operated the nearby Yallourn Power Station complex. Often mistakenly thought to have been designed by Walter Burley Griffin, who also planned Canberra, Australia's capital city, the town was planned by A.
Yallunda Flat, South Australia Yallunda Flat is a small rural centre located approximately 21 km west of Tumby Bay on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula. The local sports ground is host to an annual country show, and was used as a set in the 1981 movie Gallipoli, probably because it is largely unchanged from a bygone era.
Yalo (woreda) Yalo is one of the 31 woredas in the Afar Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Administrative Zone 4, Yalo is located at the base of the eastern escarpment of the Ethiopian highlands, and bordered on the south by Gulina, on the west by the Amhara Region, on the north by the Administrative Zone 2, and on the east by Teru.
Yalobusha River The Yalobusha River is a river, 165 mi (266 km) long, in north-central Mississippi in the United States. It is a principal tributary of the Yazoo River, via which it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.
Yalta Conference The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, was the wartime meeting from February 4, 1945 to February 11, 1945 between the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union — Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin, respectively.
Yalta municipality Yalta city municipality (, , ), officially "the territory governed by the Yalta city council", also known as Greater Yalta is one of the 25 regions of Crimea. It is a resort region, located at the southern shore of Crimea - one of the most famous recreational territories of the former Soviet Union.
Yalumba Yalumba is a winery located near Angaston, South Australia in the Barossa Valley. It was founded by a British brewer, Samuel Smith, who emigrated to Australia with his family from Wareham, Dorset in August 1847 aboard the ship 'China'.
YaĹźar Aliyev YaĹźar Teymur oÄźlu Aliyev (YaĹźar Teymur oÄźlu ĆŹliyev in Azeri) (born August 1955) is the Permanent Representative (or Ambassador) to the United Nations for Azerbaijan. He presented his credentials to the Secretary-General of the United Nations on 12 March 2002.
Yaşar Büyükanıt General Mehmet Yaşar Büyükanıt His second name, Yaşar, a popular Turkish name which literally means "he who lives on, he who lives through", is the one that is more commonly used, as is often the case in Turkey. His surname, a combination of the words "Büyük" (great, big) and "Anıt" (monument as in Anıtkabir or -idiomatically- deed) can be taken to mean "great deed".
Yam (god) Yam, according to some also called Ya'a or Yaw, is the name of the Ugaritic god of Rivers and Sea, and in some myths he is one of the 'ilhm (Elohim) or sons of El, the name given to the Levantine pantheon. Others dispute the existence of the alternative names, claiming it is a mistranslation of a damaged tablet.
Yam (route) Yam (in Mongolian: Ortooloh, "Ortoo" meaning checkpoint) is a supply point route messenger system employed and extensively used and expanded by Genghis Khan and used by subsequent Great Khans and Khans. Yams were used to give food, shelter and spare horses for Mongol armies messengers.
Yam cake Yam Cake (Wu Tow Ko) is very popular in Malaysia and Singapore especially in morning market for breakfast. The ingredients include dried prawns soaked and chopped coarsely, shallots sliced, stalks spring onions, sprigs Chinese parsley, red chillies and sweet & spicy sauces.
Yama (Buddhism and Chinese mythology) Yama is the name of the Buddhist god and judge of the dead, who presides over the Buddhist Narakas (PÄli: Nirayas), "Hells" or "Purgatories". Although ultimately based on the god Yama of the Hindu Vedas, the Buddhist Yama has developed different myths and different functions from the Hindu deity.
Yama Alou Yama Alou () is Nawal Al Zoghbi's album, which includes two released hit singles "Rouhi Ya Rouhi" and "Shou Akhbarak". The album was released on July 26, 2006 and includes a cover song of "Habibaty Man Takoun", originally sung by the famous Egyptian singer Abdel Halim Hafez.
Yama-bito Yama-bito (ă‚„ăľăłă¨, "mountain people") are mountain-dwelling human-like beings in Japanese folklore. They appear to be men and women who have reverted or been transformed into an animal- or monster-like state via withdrawal from human society.
Yamabe no Akahito Yamabe no Akahito (ĺ±±é¨čµ¤äşş or 山邊赤人) (700 - 736) was a poet of the Yamato period in Japan. The Man'yĹŤshĹ«, an ancient anthology, contains 13 choka ('long poems') and 37 tanka ('short poems') of his.
Yamabushi (Literally: "Those who hide in the mountains") were Japanese mountain ascetics and warriors, mostly of the Shingon sect of Buddhism. For the most part solitary, they did form loose confederations, and associations with certain temples, and also participated in battles and skirmishes alongside samurai and sĹŤhei on occasion.
Yamada Nagamasa Yamada Nagamasa (Japanese: 山田長政 Yamada Nagamasa; 1590—1630) was a Japanese adventurer who gained considerable influence in Thailand at the beginning of the 17th century and became the ruler of the Nakhon Si Thammarat province in southern Thailand.
Yamada Shinryukan Yamada Shinryukan a semi-famous swordsman following the Edo period of the 17th century of Japan. Shinryukan was a noted teacher of the kusarigama (basically a chained sickle) who killed many rivaling swordsman with his superb skills.
Yamaga SokĹŤ Yamaga SokĹŤ (ĺ±±éążç´ čˇŚ, September 21, 1622 - October 23, 1685) was a Japanese philosopher and strategist during the Tokugawa shogunate. He was a Confucian, and applied Confucius's idea of the "superior man" to the samurai class of Japan.
Yamagata Aritomo Prince (14 June 1838–1 February 1922) was a field marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army and twice Prime Minister of Japan. He is considered one of the architects of the military and political foundations of Meiji era Japan.
Yamagata Bank () is a Japanese bank that is based out of Yamagata city, Yamagata prefecture. Most of the bank’s branches are in Yamagata prefecture, or other major cities in the Tohoku region, with a branch in Tokyo as well.
Yamagata Domain Yamagata Domain (山形藩, -han) was a Japanese fief (han), located in Dewa province, in the Tōhoku region (north-eastern Honshū). Modern-day Yamagata Prefecture is roughly contiguous with the domain, and its capital city, also called Yamagata, grew up out of the daimyo's (feudal lord's) castle town.
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival The Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival is a bi-annual film festival held in October in Yamagata City, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. It was first held in October 1989, and showcases new documentary films from around the world.
Yamagata Shinkansen The Yamagata Shinkansen (山形新幹線) is a Mini-Shinkansen in Honshū, Japan, and is a part of the JR East railway company. It provides service between Tokyo Station and Shinjō Station (in the city of Shinjō in Yamagata Prefecture) over the tracks of the Tōhoku Shinkansen and the Ōu Main Line.
Yamagata-ben Yamagata-ben (山形ĺĽ) is the local dialect in spoken Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. It is a form of TĹŤhoku-ben, and can itself be broken down into sub-regional branches that vary from area to area within Yamagata.
Yamagawa, Kagoshima Yamagawa (山川町; -chou) was a town located in Ibusuki District, Kagoshima, Japan. On January 1, 2006 the town merged with another town into the expanded city of Ibusuki and no longer exists as an independent municipality.
Yamaguchia toyensis Yamaguchia toyensis is one of many aquatic oligochaetes belonging to the family Lumbriculidae discovered on HokkaidĹŤ, which seems to be one of three "hotspots" of lumbriculid diversity (the others being the Rocky Mountains and Lake Baikal. The genus named after the great oligochaete taxonomist Professor Hideji Yamaguchi.
Yamagumo class destroyer The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force classify the Yamagumo class as destroyer, but due to their relatively light displacement, other sources also classify the class as frigate. This class is the successor of Akizuki class destroyer and the predecessor of Minegumo class destroyer.
Yamaha AN1x Yamaha AN1x, produced by Yamaha Corporation in 1997, is an analog physical modeling synthesizer, digitally modeling analog sound. It is part of the wave of analog-digital synths using DSP modeling of analog waveforms to recreate the sounds of an analog synthesizer with modern digital specifications.
Yamaha CS-80 The Yamaha CS-80 was a polyphonic analog synthesizer released in 1977. It sported true 8-voice polyphony (with two independent synthesizer layers per voice) as well as a primitive (sound) settings memory based on a bank of micropotentiometers (rather than the digital programmable presets the Prophet-5 would sport soon after), and exceptionally complete performer expression features, such as a splittable keyboard that was both velocity-sensitive (like a piano's) and pressure-sensitive ("after-touch") but unlike most modern keyboards the aftertouch could be applied to individual voices rather than in common, and a ribbon controller allowing for polyphonic pitch-bends and glissandos.
Yamaha CS30/CS30L synthesizer The Yamaha CS30/CS30L is an analog keyboard synthesizer that was released in 1977. It features two voltage controlled oscillators (VCOs), two voltage controlled filters (VCFs - both featuring low-pass, band-pass and high-pass options), two voltage controlled amplifiers (VCAs) and three envelope generators.
Yamaha Diversion The Yamaha Diversion series of motorcycles are all-round touring motorcycles, and descend from Yamaha's earlier XJ series. All Diversion models are fitted with a four-stroke air-cooled 8-valve inline-four engine.
Yamaha DragStar 1100 The DragStar 1100 is a motorcycle, manufactured by Yamaha Motor Corporation. It comes in two versions, the XVS1100 and the XVS1100A, the former a more modern style, and the latter a more classic style, with rounder edges.
Yamaha DSP-1 The Yamaha DSP-1 was a revolutionary piece of early home theater surround sound equipment, produced in 1985 by the Yamaha Corporation. The DSP-1 (referred to by Yamaha as a Digital Sound field Processor) allowed owners to synthesize up to 6-channels of surround sound from 2 channel stereo sound via a complex digital signal processor (DSP).
Yamaha DT200 The Yamaha DT200 is a dual-purpose motorcycle manufactured during the 1980's and early 1990's by the Yamaha Motor Company. The DT200 used a liquid cooled, oil injected( autolube) single cylinder, 2-cycle engine.
Yamaha DX7 The Yamaha DX7 was a synthesizer manufactured by the Yamaha Corporation from 1983 to 1986, based on FM synthesis. It was the first commercially successful digital synthesizer, with its sound included in many recordings from the 1980s.
Yamaha FZX750 The Yamaha FZX750 was a motorcycle made in Japan from the early 1980s until the mid 1990s, although was only imported as a non grey import into the UK in the 1980s. The US version was the FZX-700 Fazer, and was imported only in 1986 and 1987.
Yamaha G-245S The G-245S was a Yamaha classical guitar made in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It had a solid spruce top, rosewood back and sides, 12-fret neck, black-bound 19-fret ebony fretboard with side dot markers at 5th, 7th and 9th frets and composite bridge.
Yamaha GX1 The Yamaha GX-1, along with its predecessor, the Electone GX-707, was an analog polyphonic synthesizer developed by Yamaha as a test bed for later consumer synths. The GX-1 had two full-sized velocity-sensitive manuals (5-octave 61-note keyboards), a shorter but full-width monophonic pressure-sensitive manual (3-octave 37-note keyboard), a 25-note pedalboard, a "relative" ribbon controller (zero modulation was wherever you placed your finger first.
Yamaha Jubilo Yamaha Jubilo rugby union team came second behind Toshiba Brave Lupus in the second season of Japanese rugby's Top League (2004-5). They are coached by former All Black Grant Batty and Fijian player-coach Tabai Matson.
Yamaha Motor Company Yamaha Motor Company Limited (ă¤ăžăŹç™şĺ‹•ć©źć ŞĺĽŹäĽšç¤ľ) , a Japanese motorized vehicle-producing company (whose HQ is at 2500 Shingai, Iwata, Shizuoka), is part of the Yamaha Corporation. After expanding Yamaha Corporation into the world's biggest piano maker, then Yamaha CEO Genichi Kawakami took Yamaha into the field of motorized vehicles on July 1, 1955.
Yamaha Music Festival The Yamaha Music Festival, officially known as World Popular Song Festival and unofficially as the "Oriental Eurovision", used to be the world's biggest song contest, until it ended in 1989; that honour has now passed to the Eurovision Song Contest, in terms of viewership and participation. It was organised by the Yamaha Music Foundation in Tokyo, Japan from 1970 until 1989.
Yamaha Music Foundation Yamaha Music Foundation is an organization established by the authority of Japanese Ministry of Education for the purpose of promoting music education and music popularization. Its unique, systematic teaching method and teacher training programs are highly evaluated not only in Japan but also in other countries.
Yamaha MU-series The Yamaha MU5 was an early sound module, commonly used back in the days of computers having the Intel 80386 processor, in which a computer could send MIDI commands to the MU5, acting as an external sound generation device.
Yamaha Phazer Phazer is the name of a model of snowmobile produced by the Yamaha Motor Corporation. Introduced in 1984, it became an immensley popular model for Yamaha and spawned several follow-up models (such as the Phazer II, Phazer Deluxe, Phazer Mountian Lite, Phazer FX, and Phazer GT); its design features were also incorporated into other models (such as later-model Exciters as well as the Venture Lite).
Yamaha PSR-60 Yamaha PSR-60 Released in 1985, It had the typical PSR sound for that time, but no effects like reverb or chorus, only sustain and symphonic ensemble. It was very limited in choice - only 16 polyphone and 16 monophone sounds with 16 rhythms with accompaniment.
Yamaha QY10 The Yamaha QY10 is a hand-held Music workstation produced by the Yamaha Corporation in the early 1990s. Possessing a MIDI sequencer, a tone generator and a tiny single-octave keyboard, the portable and battery-powered QY10 enables a musician to compose music while travelling.
Yamaha RD350 The RD350 was a motorcycle produced by Yamaha. It was the premier sport lightweight of the early 70's and was evolved from the piston port (pre-reed valve intake tract),front drum-braked, 5 speed Yamaha 350cc "R5".
Yamaha Rhino The Yamaha Rhino is one of a class of off-road vehicles commonly known as "RUV", or Recreational Utility Vehicles made by the Yamaha Motor Company. They are unique from other off-road vehicles such as ATV's and Jeeps in that their size puts them in a category in between the two.
Yamaha sniper Yamaha Sniper 135 is the Yamaha T135 Philippine Version,, also known as Yamaha Spark 135 in Thailand, Yamaha Exciter in Vietnam and Yamaha Jupiter MX in Indonesia and Singapore, is a small underbone bodied motorcycle manufactured by Yamaha Motor Company which is also a kapchai model with the largest displacement ever. Powered by a water-cooled 135cc 4-stroke engine, the Sniper135 is specially designed by the parent company in Japan for Southeast Asian market.
Yamaha SRX The Yamaha SRX is a standard-style motorcycle that was manufactured in two engine sizes: 400(398)cc and 600cc. Single cylinder, twin overhead camshaft engine with an advanced two stage carburetor and balance shaft; lightweight steel frame; dual front disc brakes/single rear disc; dual shocks; alloy wheels.
Yamaha SY85 The Yamaha SY85 was a digital music workstation introduced in 1992. The SY85 differed from other Yamaha synthesizers at the time in that it did not use FM_synthesis as did the other contemporary synthesizers from Yamaha like the SY77 and the SY99 or popular predecessors like the DX7.
Yamaha TDM The Yamaha TDM is an 849 cc two-cylinder motorcycle, manufactured by the Yamaha Motor Company of Japan, that first came out in 1991. With a lot of torque, and 78 horsepower, it is considered to be a very good all-rounder.
Yamaha TX81Z The Yamaha TX81Z is a rack-mounted (keyboard-less) frequency modulation music synthesizer, which was released in 1986. Unlike previous FM synthesizers of the era, the TX81Z was the first to employ oscillator waveforms other than sine, in order to achieve its unique, grating timbre.
Yamaha TZ250 The TZ 250 is a two-stroke racing motorcycle manufactured by Yamaha, first put into production in 1971 . It later incorporated the patented Yamaha Power Valve System, which allowed for a wider range in steady power.
Yamaha V-Max The Yamaha V-Max is a 1200cc motorcycle known for its powerful V4 engine, shaft drive, and distinctive styling. While famed for its quick acceleration, it is often criticized for its poor cornering ability and soft suspension.
Yamaha Virago The Yamaha Virago was the first V-Twin-powered cruiser-style motorcycle produced by a Japanese manufacturer, as well as one of the earliest mass-produced motorcycles with a single shock rear suspension. Originally sold with a 750 cc engine in 1981, Yamaha soon added 500 cc and 920 cc versions.
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