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Yavne Yavne (, Yibnah, ; traditional English spelling Jabneh or Jamnia) is a city in the Center District of Israel in Israel. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), at the end of 2004 the city had a total population of 31,800.
Yavneh at Columbia University Yavneh, the orthodox group of the Columbia/Barnard Hillel at Columbia University, offers one of the strongest independent communities of observant Jewish students on any college campus. Located in the heart of New York City, it utilizes resources coming not only from within its own constituents, but from the greater Hillel, based in the Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life, and from outside the college as well.
Yavneh Minyan Yavneh Minyan is a Modern Orthodox Jewish congregation based in Flatbush, in Brooklyn, New York. Its membership is comprised of both Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews, with membership open to all in agreement with its founding principles of adherence to halakhah.
Yavoriv Yavoriv (; ; , Yavorov) is a city located in the Lviv Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Yavorivsky Raion (district), and rests approximately 50 km west of the oblast capital, Lviv.
Yavorov Peak Yavorov Peak (Yavorov Vrah 'ya-vo-rov 'vr&h) is a peak of 640m in the Delchev Ridge of the Tangra Mountains on eastern Livingston Island, Antarctica. The peak surmounts Sopot Ice Piedmont and Strandzha Glacier.
Yavuz Tatış Yavuz Tatış (born 1947) is a businessman from İzmir, Turkey, who has accumulated, over the years, one of the richest private collections in Turkey of historical artefacts dating from the Ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine periods.
Yaw angle Yaw angle is the angle between a vehicle's heading and its actual direction of travel or course. More specifically, in flight dynamics the yaw angle of an airplane relates the displacement of the airplane's centerline from some reference azimuth (normally true or magnetic North) and is assigned the shorthand notation psi (psi).
Yaw drive The yaw drive is an important component in wind turbines. To ensure the wind turbine is producing the maximal amount of electrical energy at all times, the yaw drive is used to keep the rotor facing into the wind as the wind direction changes.
Yaw Preko Yaw Preko (born September 8, 1974 in Accra) is a football striker from Ghana. He has played 68 international matches for the Ghana national team, and was a member of the team that won the bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
Yaw string The yaw string, also known as a slip string, is a simple device for indicating a slip or skid in an aircraft in flight. It performs the same function as the slip-skid indicator ball, but is more sensitive, and does not require the pilot to look down at the instrument panel.
Yawa languages The Yawa languages are a small family of two closely related Papuan languages, Yawa (or Yava) and Saweru, which are often considered to be divergent dialects of a single language (and thus a language isolate). They are spoken on central Yapen Island and nearby islets, in Cenderawasih Bay, Indonesian Papua.
Yawgmoth In the fictional multiverse of Magic: The Gathering, Yawgmoth, called the Ineffable by his servants, is the god of the plane of Phyrexia. He was born on Dominaria during the reign of the Thran about 5000 years before the birth of Urza.
Yawi Yawi is the transcription of the Thai word ยาวี, which Thai people understand to be the Patani Malay language (or Bahasa Melayu Patani in Malay). The name of the language might more accurately be transcribed to Jawi as that is how it is rendered using the Arabic alphabet.
Yawl A yawl (from Dutch Jol) is a two-masted sailing craft similar to a sloop or cutter but with an additional mizzen mast well aft of the main mast, often right on the transom. A small mizzen sail is hoisted on the mizzen mast.
Yawm Said Yawm Sa'id (, Happy Day) was a 1940 Egyptian drama film directed by Mohammed Karim starring Egyptian actress Raqiya Ibrahim and musician Mohamed Abdel Wahab. This was also the first movie that Faten Hamama, who was was only eight years old then, had acted in.
Yawning (fish) The yawning, Poromitra oscitans, is a fish of the genus Poromitra, found in tropical and subtropical waters of the indo-Pacific region, at depths of from 800 to 5000 metres. Their length is from 7 to 10 centimetres.
Yawyan Yaw-Yan known as Sayaw ng Kamatayan (Dance of Death) is a Filipino martial art developed by Napoleon Fernandez. It is a style of kick boxing that resembles Muay Thai, but differs in the hip motion as well as downward-cutting of its kicks.
Yaxham railway station Yaxham railway station is a railway station in the village of Yaxham in the English county of Norfolk. The station is served by heritage services operated by the Mid-Norfolk Railway and is the site of the Yaxham Light Railway.
Yaya Coulibaly Yaya Coulibaly comes from an ancient family of puppeteers with roots in the Bamana kingdom of Segou in Mali. He began his initiation into the magical world of puppet and masquerade figures at the age of ten as an apprentice to his father.
Yaya Dillo Djérou Yaya Dillo Djérou is the 30-year old leader and founder, along with his brother, of Platform for Change, Unity and Democracy, a Chadian rebel group and subgroup within the United Front for Democratic Change rebel alliance. Both Djérou and his brother are nephews of current Chadian President Idriss Déby, who the cousins want to remove from office.
Yayu (woreda) Yayu is one of the 180 woredas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Illubabor Zone, Yayu is bordered on the south by the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region, on the west by Metu, on the north by Supena Sodo, on the east by Chora, and on the southeast by the Jimma Zone.
Yayue Yayue () is a form of Chinese] [[Chinese classical music|classical music that was performed at imperial courts until at least the 12th century. The basic conventions of yayue were established in the Western Zhou.
Yayuk Basuki Yayuk Basuki (born November 30 1970, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia) is a former professional tennis player from Indonesia. She is the highest-ever ranked tennis player from Indonesia at #19 in the Women's Tennis Association.
Yazd Yazd or Yezd (In Persian: یزد), is the capital of Yazd province, one of the most ancient and historic cities in Iran and a centre of Zoroastrian culture. The city is located some 175 miles southeast of Isfahan, at 31.
Yazdgerd III Yazdgerd III (Persian: یزدگرد ŘłŮŮ…, "made by God"), last king of Sassanid dynasty, a grandson of Khosrau II (590–628), who had been murdered by his son Kavadh II of Persia in 628, ascended the throne on June 16, 632 after a series of internal conflicts.
Yazheng The yazheng (simplified: [traditional: 軋][[[pinyin]: yà zhēng; also spelled ya zheng or ya cheng) is a Chinese [[string instrument. It is a long zither similar to the guzheng but bowed by scraping with a sorghum stem dusted with resin, a bamboo stick, or a piece of forsythia wood.
Yazhou Zhoukan Yazhou Zhoukan (亞洲週ĺŠ), literally as "Asia Weekly", is the only international Chinese newsweekly which has been published for over 15 years. It has a broad content which includes both economic and international news.
Yazid Mansouri Yazid Mansouri () (born February 25, 1978 in Revin, France) is an Algerian football player who currently plays for French Ligue 1 side FC Lorient. During the 2003/04 season he spent a spell on loan to English club Coventry City F.
Yazidis in Armenia The Yazidis in Armenia are the largest ethnic and religious minority in the country. The Yazidis are mostly ethnic Kurds who live in the west of Armenia and follow an ancient religion, influenced by Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, that is often misunderstood as devil worshipYazidis (CAIS).
Yazoo (drink) Yazoo is a bottled flavoured milk, or milkshake, produced by Campina and is sold in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Bottles, advertisements and promotions feature the Dino character (equivalent of Nesquik's Quicky the rabbit).
Yazoo land scandal The Yazoo Land Scandal, Yazoo Fraud or Yazoo Land Fraud was a massive fraud perpetrated by several Georgia governors and the state legislature from 1795 to 1803 by selling large tracts of land to insiders at ridiculously low prices.
YA Librarian YA Librarian, or teen librarian, is a librarian who works primarily with young adults, generally defined as between the ages of 12 and 18. A YA librarian's duties may include reviewing and ordering teen books, magazines, and media; planning library programs for teens; providing reference services to teens and other library patrons; visiting middle and high schools; conducting tours for school and community groups; teaching teens how to use the library's catalog and databases; doing outreach to teens in the community; and much more.
YA-10 Shrike The Curtiss YA-10 Shrike was the first YA-8 fitted with a Pratt & Whitney R-1690-9 (R-1690D) Hornet radial engine. The conversion was done in September 1932, and it was found that the aircraft's performance was not degraded by the change of engine.
YAAD YAAD is an abbreviation for the phrase "Yet Another Annoying Death", popularized by players of the computer game NetHack. A similar phrase with the same meaning is YASD ("Yet Another Stupid Death").
YAAF YAAF stands for Yet Another Application Framework, a C++ framework or library which is designed to facilitate creating cross-platform applications which can be compiled and ran under Microsoft Windows, Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X under Carbon, and X Windows on Linux.
YAFFS YAFFS (Yet Another Flash File System) was designed and written by Charles Manning, of Whitecliffs, New Zealand, for the company Aleph One. YAFFS is the first file system that was designed specifically for NAND flash.
YAFLA The YAFLA (yet another five-letter acronym or yet another five-letter abbreviation) is a play on the humorous abbreviation YATLA (yet another three-letter acronym). YATLA is often used in the context of poking fun at the prevalence of three letter abbreviations, primarily in the technology industry, itself introducing a five-letter abbreviation, thus providing an obvious impetus for the YAFLA abbreviation.
YAGO Yet Another Gigabit Organization, an early LAN startup acquired by Cabletron Systems in the mid 1990's, fueling it's growth into Gigabit Ethernet switching and ultimately being re-spun off into the entity Riverstone Networks. Yago was founded by three Indo-American engineers: Piyush Patel, Romulus Pereira and Nilesh Shah.
YALE YALE ("Yet Another Learning Environment") is an environment for machine learning experiments and data mining. Experiments can be made up of a large number of arbitrarily nestable operators and their setup is described by XML files which can easily be created with a graphical user interface.
YAM (Yet Another Mailer) YAM (short for Yet Another Mailer) is a MIME-compliant e-mail client written for AmigaOS based computers. It supports multi-POP3, APOP, SMTP, TLSv1/SSLv3, multiple users, PGP, unlimited hierarchical folders, filters, a configurable GUI (based on MUI) and an ARexx interface and many other features which are common for Mail User Agents (MUA) today.
YAML YAML is a human-readable data serialization format that takes concepts from languages such as XML, C, Python, Perl, as well as the format for electronic mail as specified by RFC 2822. YAML was first proposed by Clark Evans in 2001, who designed it together with Ingy döt Net and Oren Ben-Kiki.
YARV YARV (Yet Another Ruby VM) is the new bytecode interpreter that is being developed for the Ruby programming language by Koichi Sasada. The goal of the project is to greatly reduce the execution time of Ruby programs.
YASU Technologies YASU Technologies is a privately-held company based in Hyderabad, India with a sales office in Santa Clara, California, USA. Founded in 1999 with no venture capital funding, the first version of QuickRules BRMS, YASU’s flagship product, was launched in early 2000.
YATAMA Yapti Tasba Masraka Nanih Aslatakanka (YATAMA) -or Sons of Mother Earth- is an indigenous party from Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast. YATAMA has its roots in the MISURASATA (Miskito, Sumo and Rama Sandinista Alliance) and the MISURA/KISAN (Nicaraguan Coast Indian Unity) organisations.
YAVIS- Young Attractive Verbal Intelligent Successful YAVIS is an acronym for Young Attractive Verbal Intelligent Successful. The term is commonly used in psychotherapy as it is assumed that these individuals are most likely to have successful experiences in therapy.
YĂĽ Cheng-hsieh YĂĽ Cheng-hsieh (1775-1804) was a Chinese feminist and noted critic of foot binding, widow chastity, and the double standard. A skilled philologist, YĂĽ researched the history of language, which influenced his views on women.
YĂĽksek Sadakat YĂĽksek Sadakat is a Turkish rock band that was set up in 1997 but became popular up in early 2005 with their album with the same name. The bass player is the editor of Turkey's most popular music magazine called Blue Jean.
YĂĽksekova YĂĽksekova (Kurdish: Gawar; Assyrian: Gawar) is a district of Hakkari Province of Turkey, situated close to the border with Iran. YĂĽksekova was the scene of clashes between protesting Kurds and Turkish riot police in 2006.
YĂĽrĂĽk rug A YĂĽrĂĽk rug is a traditional tribal rug woven in Anatolia. Some believe that this term has been used too generally in describing rugs from this part of the world, for example, in the cases of some Kurdish rugs.
Yüreğir Yüreğir is a district of Adana Province of Turkey, one of the metropolitan districts of the city of Adana. Yüreğir lies across the Seyhan River from the centre of Adana, to the south of the Çukurova University campus, in the foothills of the Toros mountains.
YĂĽrf Rendenmein "YĂĽrf Rendenmein" was a song recorded by the band AFI, formerly an East Bay California hardcore band, who have since undergone a line-up and genre change (East Bay Hardcore gone large). The song appears on both their first and second full-length albums, Answer That and Stay Fashionable and Very Proud of Ya respectively.
YĂłrgos Theotokás YĂłrgos Theotokás, also spelt GeĂłrgios Theotokás, (27 April 1906 - 30 October 1966) was a Greek novelist born in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, which is now Istanbul, Turkey. After studying in Athens, Paris, and London, his first essay was Free Spirit (1929) then three novels prior to World War II; Argo (1936), The Demon (1938), and LeonĂs (1940).
Yì JÄ«n JÄ«ng The Yì JÄ«n JÄ«ng (Chinese: ć“ç‹ç¶“; Wade-Giles: I Chin Ching; literally "Muscle/Tendon Change Classic") is a qìgĹŤng manual most notable as the source of the attribution of Shaolin Kung Fu to Bodhidharma, though this has been doubted by several martial arts historians.
Yûko Ichihara is a fictional character from the manga, ×××HOLiC, created by the manga team CLAMP. Yūko, an enigmatic, powerful and fashionable sorceress, is one of the principal characters in ×××HOLiC and a very important person in the storyline of Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE.
YĂ©lĂ® Dnye language The YĂ©lĂ® Dnye language, also known as Yele, is the language of Rossel island, the easternmost island in the Louisiade Archipelago off the eastern tip of Papua New Guinea. For now it is best considered a language isolate, but it may turn out to be related to the AnĂŞm and Ata language isolates of New Britain in a tentative Yele-West New Britain family.
Yñigo Ortiz de Retez Yñigo Ortiz de Retez (fl. 1545) was a 16th century Spanish maritime explorer, who navigated the northern coastline of the Pacific - Melanesian island of New Guinea, and is credited with bestowing the island's name ("Nueva Guinea").
Yörük The Yörük are a Turkic-speaking people primarily inhabiting the mountains of the southeast European Balkan peninsula and Anatolia. Their name is generally admitted to derive from the Turkish verb yürü- (yürümek in infinitive), which means "to walk", with the word Yörük designating "those who walk, walkers".
Yıldız Attempt Yıldız Attempt (Armenian: ; Turkish: Yıldız suikast teşebbüsü) was an assassination attempted on Sultan Abdul Hamid II by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation at Yıldız Mosque in July 21, 1905 in the Ottoman capital Istanbul (modern-day Turkey).
Yıldız Clock Tower Yıldız Clock Tower (Turkish: Yıldız Saat Kulesi), is a clock tower situated in the garden of the Yıldız Hamidiye Mosque, in Yıldız neighborhood of Beşiktaş district in İstanbul, Turkey at the European side of Bosphorus. It was ordered by the Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II (1842-1918) in 1889, and the construction completed in 1890.
Yılmaz Güney Yılmaz Güney, (April 1, 1937 — September 9, 1984) was a Turkish-Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist and actor. Many of his works are devoted to the plight of the Kurdish people] and he described himself as an assimilated Kurd in [[1937] to a [[Kurdish people|Kurdish family in a village near the southern city of Adana, Turkey, Güney studied law and economics at the universities in Ankara and Istanbul, but by the age of 21 he found himself actively involved in filmmaking.
Ybrahim Ybrahim is a major character in the Philippine fantasy-themed television series entitled Encantadia. He was initially referred to by the name Ybarro early in the series, his name was given to him by his adoptive father Apitong to keep him safe from the Hathors who was bent on killing him as an infant after the Sapirians' great war against the Hathors.
YB-40 Flying Fortress The Boeing YB-40 Flying Fortress was a modification of the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber aircraft, converted to act as a heavily-armed escort for other bombers during World War II. At the time of its development, long-range fighter aircraft such as the P-51 Mustang were not yet available to accompany bombers all the way from England to Germany and back.
YBK Publishers YBK Publishers, incorporated in 1999, is a book publisher based in New York. Using only print-on-demand technology to manufacture the books it publishes, it operates as a traditional publisher in all other respects, selecting only those manuscripts it is presented those works it deems meritorious of publication.
YCSIG YCSIG (Yale College Student Investment Group) is one of the largest investment clubs in the United States by portfolio holdings, with over $250,000 in assets. The group is founded and run by Yale undergraduate students.
YÇ”n YÇ”n (ç‹) or XĹ«n (獯) (Armenian: Hunni) is the name of a Sino-Caucasian polity of Turan that organised themselves into Northern "Black", Southern "Red" (in Hindu Kush), Eastern "Blue" (in Tianshan), and Western "White" (around Khiva) hordes. They were the HĂşnyĂ (混夷) "Mixed-Barbarians" that Chinese records mention roaming in the west.
Yde Girl Yde Girl is a bog body found in a peat bog near the little village of Yde in Bourtangermoor in the the Netherlands. She was found on 12 May 1897 and was reputedly uncannily well-preserved when discovered (especially her hair), but by the time the body was turned over to the authorities a fortnight later it had been severely damaged and deteriorated.
YDbDr YDbDr is the colour space used in the SÉCAM colour television broadcasting standard, which is used in France and some countries of the former Eastern Bloc. It is very close to YUV and its related color spaces such as YIQ, YPbPr and YCbCr.
Ye Antientist Burial Ground, New London Ye Antientist Burial GroundKnown by several names over the years, including: Ancient Burial Ground, Ancientest Burial Ground, Antient Burying Ground, First Burial Ground, Ye Antientist Burial Ground, Ye Towne's Antientest Buriall Place, etc. in New London, Connecticut is one of the earliest graveyards in New England, and the oldest colonial cemetery in New London County.
Ye Duzheng Ye Duzheng (born February 21 1916 in Anqing, Anhui, China) is a meteorologist and academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is considered the founder of Chinese atmospheric physics, and was awarded the State Preeminent Science and Technology Award in 2005 by President Hu Jintao, which is the nation's highest scientific prize.
Ye Htoon Ye Htoon, also known as Roland Chan Htun, (born 1937) is a prominent Burmese lawyer, sometime-jailed political dissident, and a successful entrepreneur, and one of the notables of the now-extinct Scouting movement in Burma.
Ye Chunji Ye Chunji (葉ćĄĺŹŠ) was a county official during the Ming Dynasty who issued an order to limit wedding expenses in the 1570's, stating "The frugal man with only one bar of silver currency can have something left over, whereas the extravagant man with a thousand can still not have enough".
Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla Founded in 1904, Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla, or YMKG, is Tampa, Florida's oldest and most prestigious krewe, or social organization. Each January, YMKG sponsors a festival called Gasparilla in Tampa re-enacting a pirate invasion of the city.
Ye Olde Fighting Cocks Ye Olde Fighting Cocks is a public house in St Albans, Hertfordshire, which is one of several that lay claim to being the oldest in England. It currently holds the official Guinness Book of Records title, but The Man and Scythe in Lancashire has claimed it is older by some 234 years.
Ye Olde Space Band: Plays Classic Rock Hits Ye Olde Space Band: Plays Classic Rock Hits is the second album by Moog Cookbook, released in 1997 (see 1997 in music). It is a selection of covers of American classic rock tracks remade using Moog synthesizers and other analog synthesizers.
Ye Olde Trip To Jerusalem Ye Olde Trip To Jerusalem is one of 20 public houses in Great Britain (and one of three in Nottingham) which claim to be the oldest drinking establishment in the country. Sited at the foot of Castle Rock in Nottingham's city centre the pub's painted sign states that it was established in 1189 AD.
Ye Qun Ye Qun (Chinese: 叶群; Pinyin: Yè Qún) (1917-1971) was the wife of Lin Biao (林彪), the Vice-Chairman of China who controlled China's military power. She was mostly known for taking care of politics for her husband.
Ye Shengtao Ye Shengtao (28 October 1894 — 16 February 1988) was a prominent author, educator and publisher. He was one of the founders of the Association for Literary Studies (ć–‡ĺ¸ç ”究ćś), the first literature association during the May Fourth Movement in China.
Yeadon (SEPTA station) Yeadon is a trolley stop on the SEPTA Subway Surface 13 trolley in Yeadon, Pennsylvania. Trolleys arrive at this station from Center City Philadelphia and most of them end their routes there at the Yeadon Loop.
Yeah I'm On It. Yeah I'm On It is a song by Big Kuntry that is slated to be on his upcoming album My Turn To Eat. There is already a remix of it by the name of Yeah (Remix) on Grand Hustle's Grand Hustle Presents: In Da Streetz Volume 4.
Yeah Jazz Z16XEP 00:32, 10 December 2006 (UTC)—Yeah Jazz, one of the most talented rock band founded in Uttoxeter in Staffordshire, was not well known by rock 'n roll fans in the world. In some Yeah Jazz fans' heart, Yeah Jazz could have been the greatest rock 'n roll band in the 1990s if they got the chance to have their works presented to wider public.
Yealering, Western Australia Yealering (; post code: 6372) is a town in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, approximately 220km south-east of Perth between the towns of Wickepin and Corrigin. It is located beside a lake of the same name.
Year A year is the time between two recurrences of an event related to the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. By extension, this can be applied to any planet: for example, a "Martian year" is the time in which Mars completes its own orbit.
Year 10,000 problem The year 10,000 problem or Y10K is the collective name for all potential software bugs that may emerge as the need to express years with five digits arises. In the months leading up to the beginning of the year 2000 (see the Year 2000 problem), the year 10,000 problem was given somewhat humorous exposure by people in the media.
Year 2000 baby boom The year 2000 saw a mini baby boom, with several contributing factors believed to be extant, compared to the iconic term more generally called by that name.Reproduction rates for 1990-2002, National Vital Statistics Reports, 18 March 2004 (accessed 20 January,2007)
Year 2000 problem The Year 2000 problem (also known as the Y2K problem, the millennium bug, and the Y2K Bug) was the result of a practice in early computer program design that caused some date-related processing to operate incorrectly for dates and times on and after January 1, 2000. It engendered widespread concern that critical industries (such as electricity or financial) and government functions would cease operating at exactly midnight, January 1, 2000, and on other critical dates which were billed as "event horizons".
Year 2038 problem The year 2038 problem may cause some computer software to fail before or in the year 2038. The problem affects programs that use the POSIX time representation, which represents system time as the number of seconds (ignoring leap seconds) since January 1, 1970.
Year and a day rule The year and a day rule was a principle of English law holding that a death was conclusively presumed not to be murder (or any other homicide) if it occurred more than a year and one day since the act (or omission) that was alleged to have been its cause. The rule also applied to the offence of assisting with a suicide.
Year and a Day Year and a Day is the fourth section of Track #15 on the album Paul's Boutique by American hip hop group the Beastie Boys, released on July 25, 1989.It was produced and written by the Beastie Boys and the Dust Brothers.
Year of a Million Dreams The Year of a Million Dreams is a celebration taking place at the theme parks of the Disneyland Resort in California and the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida from October 1, 2006 through December 31, 2007. The festivities are part of a global branding campaign created by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts called Where Dreams Come True.
Year of Africa 1960 is known as the Year of Africa. Thirteen nations in West and Equatorial Africa gained their independence from France during this year; Cameroon, Togo, Senegal, Mali, CĂ´te D'Ivoire, Chad, Burkina Faso, Gabon, Madagascar, Mauritania, Niger, Benin, Central African Republic, and the Republic of the Congo.
Year of the Bible In the United States, 1983 was designated as the national Year of the Bible by President Ronald Reagan by Proclamation 5018, made on February 3, 1983 at the annual National Prayer Breakfast. President Reagan was authorized and requested to so designate 1983 by Public Law 97-280 (Senate Joint Resolution 165], 96 Stat.
Year of the Eucharist The Year of the Eucharist is the name of the liturgical year from October 2004 to October 2005, as celebrated by Catholics worldwide. On June 10, 2004, Pope John Paul II announced the dedication of an entire year to the Blessed Sacrament and invited the entire Church to reflect upon the Eucharist.
Year of the Griffin Year of the Griffin is a 2000 novel by British children's author Diana Wynne Jones. It is the sequel to The Dark Lord of Derkholm and is more centered around Wizard Derk's daughter, the griffin Elda, and her time at the University of Magic.
Year of the Gun The "Year of the Gun" is a reference often made by Canadian media outlets to the anomalous and extreme amount of firearms-related violence experienced in Toronto during the year 2005. Out of 78 total murders in the Greater Toronto Area area during 2005, 52 were related to guns (compared to only 27 gun deaths during the previous year of 2004)of Toronto]
Year of the Lash Year of the Lash (in Spanish, Año del Cuero) is a term used in Cuba in reference to 1844. In that year the Spanish colony was wracked by accusations of a planned slave revolt known as the Conspiración de La Escalera.
Year of the Monkey (album) Year of the Monkey is the fourth studio album by the American band Pushmonkey, released one week after the end of the year of the monkey, running from January 22, 2004 through February 8, 2005 (see 2005 in music).
Year of the Rabbit Year of the Rabbit is an alternative rock band comprised of Ken Andrews (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Tim Dow (drums, background vocals), Jeff Garber (lead guitar, background vocals) and Solomon Synder (bass guitar, background vocals). Their first significant release, Year of the Rabbit, was by the Elektra Records label.
Year of the Teledu Year of the Teledu is a one-off science fiction convention to be held in Leicester, UK over the weekend of July 20th - 22nd 2007. It could be loosely described as a FunCon, focusing more on everyone having an enjoyable weekend than a specific type of Science Fiction.
Year of Three Popes The Year of Three Popes or the Summer of Three Popes is a common reference to 1978 when the Roman Catholic Church was forced to elect in papal conclaves new popes in rapid succession due to death. This resulted in a year, more specifically the summer, in which the Roman Catholic Church was led by three different men.
Year One The term "Year One" can just mean the beginning of something, but in political history it usually refers to the institution of radical, revolutionary change. This usage dates from the time of the French Revolution: after the abolition of the French monarchy (September 20, 1792), the National Convention instituted the new French Revolutionary Calendar, declaring that date as the beginning of the Year I of the French Republic.
Yavneh at Columbia University Yavneh, the orthodox group of the Columbia/Barnard Hillel at Columbia University, offers one of the strongest independent communities of observant Jewish students on any college campus. Located in the heart of New York City, it utilizes resources coming not only from within its own constituents, but from the greater Hillel, based in the Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life, and from outside the college as well.
Yavneh Minyan Yavneh Minyan is a Modern Orthodox Jewish congregation based in Flatbush, in Brooklyn, New York. Its membership is comprised of both Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews, with membership open to all in agreement with its founding principles of adherence to halakhah.
Yavoriv Yavoriv (; ; , Yavorov) is a city located in the Lviv Oblast (province) of western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Yavorivsky Raion (district), and rests approximately 50 km west of the oblast capital, Lviv.
Yavorov Peak Yavorov Peak (Yavorov Vrah 'ya-vo-rov 'vr&h) is a peak of 640m in the Delchev Ridge of the Tangra Mountains on eastern Livingston Island, Antarctica. The peak surmounts Sopot Ice Piedmont and Strandzha Glacier.
Yavuz Tatış Yavuz Tatış (born 1947) is a businessman from İzmir, Turkey, who has accumulated, over the years, one of the richest private collections in Turkey of historical artefacts dating from the Ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine periods.
Yaw angle Yaw angle is the angle between a vehicle's heading and its actual direction of travel or course. More specifically, in flight dynamics the yaw angle of an airplane relates the displacement of the airplane's centerline from some reference azimuth (normally true or magnetic North) and is assigned the shorthand notation psi (psi).
Yaw drive The yaw drive is an important component in wind turbines. To ensure the wind turbine is producing the maximal amount of electrical energy at all times, the yaw drive is used to keep the rotor facing into the wind as the wind direction changes.
Yaw Preko Yaw Preko (born September 8, 1974 in Accra) is a football striker from Ghana. He has played 68 international matches for the Ghana national team, and was a member of the team that won the bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
Yaw string The yaw string, also known as a slip string, is a simple device for indicating a slip or skid in an aircraft in flight. It performs the same function as the slip-skid indicator ball, but is more sensitive, and does not require the pilot to look down at the instrument panel.
Yawa languages The Yawa languages are a small family of two closely related Papuan languages, Yawa (or Yava) and Saweru, which are often considered to be divergent dialects of a single language (and thus a language isolate). They are spoken on central Yapen Island and nearby islets, in Cenderawasih Bay, Indonesian Papua.
Yawgmoth In the fictional multiverse of Magic: The Gathering, Yawgmoth, called the Ineffable by his servants, is the god of the plane of Phyrexia. He was born on Dominaria during the reign of the Thran about 5000 years before the birth of Urza.
Yawi Yawi is the transcription of the Thai word ยาวี, which Thai people understand to be the Patani Malay language (or Bahasa Melayu Patani in Malay). The name of the language might more accurately be transcribed to Jawi as that is how it is rendered using the Arabic alphabet.
Yawl A yawl (from Dutch Jol) is a two-masted sailing craft similar to a sloop or cutter but with an additional mizzen mast well aft of the main mast, often right on the transom. A small mizzen sail is hoisted on the mizzen mast.
Yawm Said Yawm Sa'id (, Happy Day) was a 1940 Egyptian drama film directed by Mohammed Karim starring Egyptian actress Raqiya Ibrahim and musician Mohamed Abdel Wahab. This was also the first movie that Faten Hamama, who was was only eight years old then, had acted in.
Yawning (fish) The yawning, Poromitra oscitans, is a fish of the genus Poromitra, found in tropical and subtropical waters of the indo-Pacific region, at depths of from 800 to 5000 metres. Their length is from 7 to 10 centimetres.
Yawyan Yaw-Yan known as Sayaw ng Kamatayan (Dance of Death) is a Filipino martial art developed by Napoleon Fernandez. It is a style of kick boxing that resembles Muay Thai, but differs in the hip motion as well as downward-cutting of its kicks.
Yaxham railway station Yaxham railway station is a railway station in the village of Yaxham in the English county of Norfolk. The station is served by heritage services operated by the Mid-Norfolk Railway and is the site of the Yaxham Light Railway.
Yaya Coulibaly Yaya Coulibaly comes from an ancient family of puppeteers with roots in the Bamana kingdom of Segou in Mali. He began his initiation into the magical world of puppet and masquerade figures at the age of ten as an apprentice to his father.
Yaya Dillo Djérou Yaya Dillo Djérou is the 30-year old leader and founder, along with his brother, of Platform for Change, Unity and Democracy, a Chadian rebel group and subgroup within the United Front for Democratic Change rebel alliance. Both Djérou and his brother are nephews of current Chadian President Idriss Déby, who the cousins want to remove from office.
Yayu (woreda) Yayu is one of the 180 woredas in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Illubabor Zone, Yayu is bordered on the south by the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region, on the west by Metu, on the north by Supena Sodo, on the east by Chora, and on the southeast by the Jimma Zone.
Yayue Yayue () is a form of Chinese] [[Chinese classical music|classical music that was performed at imperial courts until at least the 12th century. The basic conventions of yayue were established in the Western Zhou.
Yayuk Basuki Yayuk Basuki (born November 30 1970, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia) is a former professional tennis player from Indonesia. She is the highest-ever ranked tennis player from Indonesia at #19 in the Women's Tennis Association.
Yazd Yazd or Yezd (In Persian: یزد), is the capital of Yazd province, one of the most ancient and historic cities in Iran and a centre of Zoroastrian culture. The city is located some 175 miles southeast of Isfahan, at 31.
Yazdgerd III Yazdgerd III (Persian: یزدگرد ŘłŮŮ…, "made by God"), last king of Sassanid dynasty, a grandson of Khosrau II (590–628), who had been murdered by his son Kavadh II of Persia in 628, ascended the throne on June 16, 632 after a series of internal conflicts.
Yazheng The yazheng (simplified: [traditional: 軋][[[pinyin]: yà zhēng; also spelled ya zheng or ya cheng) is a Chinese [[string instrument. It is a long zither similar to the guzheng but bowed by scraping with a sorghum stem dusted with resin, a bamboo stick, or a piece of forsythia wood.
Yazhou Zhoukan Yazhou Zhoukan (亞洲週ĺŠ), literally as "Asia Weekly", is the only international Chinese newsweekly which has been published for over 15 years. It has a broad content which includes both economic and international news.
Yazid Mansouri Yazid Mansouri () (born February 25, 1978 in Revin, France) is an Algerian football player who currently plays for French Ligue 1 side FC Lorient. During the 2003/04 season he spent a spell on loan to English club Coventry City F.
Yazidis in Armenia The Yazidis in Armenia are the largest ethnic and religious minority in the country. The Yazidis are mostly ethnic Kurds who live in the west of Armenia and follow an ancient religion, influenced by Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, that is often misunderstood as devil worshipYazidis (CAIS).
Yazoo (drink) Yazoo is a bottled flavoured milk, or milkshake, produced by Campina and is sold in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Bottles, advertisements and promotions feature the Dino character (equivalent of Nesquik's Quicky the rabbit).
Yazoo land scandal The Yazoo Land Scandal, Yazoo Fraud or Yazoo Land Fraud was a massive fraud perpetrated by several Georgia governors and the state legislature from 1795 to 1803 by selling large tracts of land to insiders at ridiculously low prices.
YA Librarian YA Librarian, or teen librarian, is a librarian who works primarily with young adults, generally defined as between the ages of 12 and 18. A YA librarian's duties may include reviewing and ordering teen books, magazines, and media; planning library programs for teens; providing reference services to teens and other library patrons; visiting middle and high schools; conducting tours for school and community groups; teaching teens how to use the library's catalog and databases; doing outreach to teens in the community; and much more.
YA-10 Shrike The Curtiss YA-10 Shrike was the first YA-8 fitted with a Pratt & Whitney R-1690-9 (R-1690D) Hornet radial engine. The conversion was done in September 1932, and it was found that the aircraft's performance was not degraded by the change of engine.
YAAD YAAD is an abbreviation for the phrase "Yet Another Annoying Death", popularized by players of the computer game NetHack. A similar phrase with the same meaning is YASD ("Yet Another Stupid Death").
YAAF YAAF stands for Yet Another Application Framework, a C++ framework or library which is designed to facilitate creating cross-platform applications which can be compiled and ran under Microsoft Windows, Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X under Carbon, and X Windows on Linux.
YAFFS YAFFS (Yet Another Flash File System) was designed and written by Charles Manning, of Whitecliffs, New Zealand, for the company Aleph One. YAFFS is the first file system that was designed specifically for NAND flash.
YAFLA The YAFLA (yet another five-letter acronym or yet another five-letter abbreviation) is a play on the humorous abbreviation YATLA (yet another three-letter acronym). YATLA is often used in the context of poking fun at the prevalence of three letter abbreviations, primarily in the technology industry, itself introducing a five-letter abbreviation, thus providing an obvious impetus for the YAFLA abbreviation.
YAGO Yet Another Gigabit Organization, an early LAN startup acquired by Cabletron Systems in the mid 1990's, fueling it's growth into Gigabit Ethernet switching and ultimately being re-spun off into the entity Riverstone Networks. Yago was founded by three Indo-American engineers: Piyush Patel, Romulus Pereira and Nilesh Shah.
YALE YALE ("Yet Another Learning Environment") is an environment for machine learning experiments and data mining. Experiments can be made up of a large number of arbitrarily nestable operators and their setup is described by XML files which can easily be created with a graphical user interface.
YAM (Yet Another Mailer) YAM (short for Yet Another Mailer) is a MIME-compliant e-mail client written for AmigaOS based computers. It supports multi-POP3, APOP, SMTP, TLSv1/SSLv3, multiple users, PGP, unlimited hierarchical folders, filters, a configurable GUI (based on MUI) and an ARexx interface and many other features which are common for Mail User Agents (MUA) today.
YAML YAML is a human-readable data serialization format that takes concepts from languages such as XML, C, Python, Perl, as well as the format for electronic mail as specified by RFC 2822. YAML was first proposed by Clark Evans in 2001, who designed it together with Ingy döt Net and Oren Ben-Kiki.
YARV YARV (Yet Another Ruby VM) is the new bytecode interpreter that is being developed for the Ruby programming language by Koichi Sasada. The goal of the project is to greatly reduce the execution time of Ruby programs.
YASU Technologies YASU Technologies is a privately-held company based in Hyderabad, India with a sales office in Santa Clara, California, USA. Founded in 1999 with no venture capital funding, the first version of QuickRules BRMS, YASU’s flagship product, was launched in early 2000.
YATAMA Yapti Tasba Masraka Nanih Aslatakanka (YATAMA) -or Sons of Mother Earth- is an indigenous party from Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast. YATAMA has its roots in the MISURASATA (Miskito, Sumo and Rama Sandinista Alliance) and the MISURA/KISAN (Nicaraguan Coast Indian Unity) organisations.
YAVIS- Young Attractive Verbal Intelligent Successful YAVIS is an acronym for Young Attractive Verbal Intelligent Successful. The term is commonly used in psychotherapy as it is assumed that these individuals are most likely to have successful experiences in therapy.
YĂĽ Cheng-hsieh YĂĽ Cheng-hsieh (1775-1804) was a Chinese feminist and noted critic of foot binding, widow chastity, and the double standard. A skilled philologist, YĂĽ researched the history of language, which influenced his views on women.
YĂĽksek Sadakat YĂĽksek Sadakat is a Turkish rock band that was set up in 1997 but became popular up in early 2005 with their album with the same name. The bass player is the editor of Turkey's most popular music magazine called Blue Jean.
YĂĽksekova YĂĽksekova (Kurdish: Gawar; Assyrian: Gawar) is a district of Hakkari Province of Turkey, situated close to the border with Iran. YĂĽksekova was the scene of clashes between protesting Kurds and Turkish riot police in 2006.
YĂĽrĂĽk rug A YĂĽrĂĽk rug is a traditional tribal rug woven in Anatolia. Some believe that this term has been used too generally in describing rugs from this part of the world, for example, in the cases of some Kurdish rugs.
Yüreğir Yüreğir is a district of Adana Province of Turkey, one of the metropolitan districts of the city of Adana. Yüreğir lies across the Seyhan River from the centre of Adana, to the south of the Çukurova University campus, in the foothills of the Toros mountains.
YĂĽrf Rendenmein "YĂĽrf Rendenmein" was a song recorded by the band AFI, formerly an East Bay California hardcore band, who have since undergone a line-up and genre change (East Bay Hardcore gone large). The song appears on both their first and second full-length albums, Answer That and Stay Fashionable and Very Proud of Ya respectively.
YĂłrgos Theotokás YĂłrgos Theotokás, also spelt GeĂłrgios Theotokás, (27 April 1906 - 30 October 1966) was a Greek novelist born in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, which is now Istanbul, Turkey. After studying in Athens, Paris, and London, his first essay was Free Spirit (1929) then three novels prior to World War II; Argo (1936), The Demon (1938), and LeonĂs (1940).
Yì JÄ«n JÄ«ng The Yì JÄ«n JÄ«ng (Chinese: ć“ç‹ç¶“; Wade-Giles: I Chin Ching; literally "Muscle/Tendon Change Classic") is a qìgĹŤng manual most notable as the source of the attribution of Shaolin Kung Fu to Bodhidharma, though this has been doubted by several martial arts historians.
Yûko Ichihara is a fictional character from the manga, ×××HOLiC, created by the manga team CLAMP. Yūko, an enigmatic, powerful and fashionable sorceress, is one of the principal characters in ×××HOLiC and a very important person in the storyline of Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE.
YĂ©lĂ® Dnye language The YĂ©lĂ® Dnye language, also known as Yele, is the language of Rossel island, the easternmost island in the Louisiade Archipelago off the eastern tip of Papua New Guinea. For now it is best considered a language isolate, but it may turn out to be related to the AnĂŞm and Ata language isolates of New Britain in a tentative Yele-West New Britain family.
Yñigo Ortiz de Retez Yñigo Ortiz de Retez (fl. 1545) was a 16th century Spanish maritime explorer, who navigated the northern coastline of the Pacific - Melanesian island of New Guinea, and is credited with bestowing the island's name ("Nueva Guinea").
Yörük The Yörük are a Turkic-speaking people primarily inhabiting the mountains of the southeast European Balkan peninsula and Anatolia. Their name is generally admitted to derive from the Turkish verb yürü- (yürümek in infinitive), which means "to walk", with the word Yörük designating "those who walk, walkers".
Yıldız Attempt Yıldız Attempt (Armenian: ; Turkish: Yıldız suikast teşebbüsü) was an assassination attempted on Sultan Abdul Hamid II by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation at Yıldız Mosque in July 21, 1905 in the Ottoman capital Istanbul (modern-day Turkey).
Yıldız Clock Tower Yıldız Clock Tower (Turkish: Yıldız Saat Kulesi), is a clock tower situated in the garden of the Yıldız Hamidiye Mosque, in Yıldız neighborhood of Beşiktaş district in İstanbul, Turkey at the European side of Bosphorus. It was ordered by the Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II (1842-1918) in 1889, and the construction completed in 1890.
Yılmaz Güney Yılmaz Güney, (April 1, 1937 — September 9, 1984) was a Turkish-Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist and actor. Many of his works are devoted to the plight of the Kurdish people] and he described himself as an assimilated Kurd in [[1937] to a [[Kurdish people|Kurdish family in a village near the southern city of Adana, Turkey, Güney studied law and economics at the universities in Ankara and Istanbul, but by the age of 21 he found himself actively involved in filmmaking.
Ybrahim Ybrahim is a major character in the Philippine fantasy-themed television series entitled Encantadia. He was initially referred to by the name Ybarro early in the series, his name was given to him by his adoptive father Apitong to keep him safe from the Hathors who was bent on killing him as an infant after the Sapirians' great war against the Hathors.
YB-40 Flying Fortress The Boeing YB-40 Flying Fortress was a modification of the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber aircraft, converted to act as a heavily-armed escort for other bombers during World War II. At the time of its development, long-range fighter aircraft such as the P-51 Mustang were not yet available to accompany bombers all the way from England to Germany and back.
YBK Publishers YBK Publishers, incorporated in 1999, is a book publisher based in New York. Using only print-on-demand technology to manufacture the books it publishes, it operates as a traditional publisher in all other respects, selecting only those manuscripts it is presented those works it deems meritorious of publication.
YCSIG YCSIG (Yale College Student Investment Group) is one of the largest investment clubs in the United States by portfolio holdings, with over $250,000 in assets. The group is founded and run by Yale undergraduate students.
YÇ”n YÇ”n (ç‹) or XĹ«n (獯) (Armenian: Hunni) is the name of a Sino-Caucasian polity of Turan that organised themselves into Northern "Black", Southern "Red" (in Hindu Kush), Eastern "Blue" (in Tianshan), and Western "White" (around Khiva) hordes. They were the HĂşnyĂ (混夷) "Mixed-Barbarians" that Chinese records mention roaming in the west.
Yde Girl Yde Girl is a bog body found in a peat bog near the little village of Yde in Bourtangermoor in the the Netherlands. She was found on 12 May 1897 and was reputedly uncannily well-preserved when discovered (especially her hair), but by the time the body was turned over to the authorities a fortnight later it had been severely damaged and deteriorated.
YDbDr YDbDr is the colour space used in the SÉCAM colour television broadcasting standard, which is used in France and some countries of the former Eastern Bloc. It is very close to YUV and its related color spaces such as YIQ, YPbPr and YCbCr.
Ye Antientist Burial Ground, New London Ye Antientist Burial GroundKnown by several names over the years, including: Ancient Burial Ground, Ancientest Burial Ground, Antient Burying Ground, First Burial Ground, Ye Antientist Burial Ground, Ye Towne's Antientest Buriall Place, etc. in New London, Connecticut is one of the earliest graveyards in New England, and the oldest colonial cemetery in New London County.
Ye Duzheng Ye Duzheng (born February 21 1916 in Anqing, Anhui, China) is a meteorologist and academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is considered the founder of Chinese atmospheric physics, and was awarded the State Preeminent Science and Technology Award in 2005 by President Hu Jintao, which is the nation's highest scientific prize.
Ye Htoon Ye Htoon, also known as Roland Chan Htun, (born 1937) is a prominent Burmese lawyer, sometime-jailed political dissident, and a successful entrepreneur, and one of the notables of the now-extinct Scouting movement in Burma.
Ye Chunji Ye Chunji (葉ćĄĺŹŠ) was a county official during the Ming Dynasty who issued an order to limit wedding expenses in the 1570's, stating "The frugal man with only one bar of silver currency can have something left over, whereas the extravagant man with a thousand can still not have enough".
Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla Founded in 1904, Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla, or YMKG, is Tampa, Florida's oldest and most prestigious krewe, or social organization. Each January, YMKG sponsors a festival called Gasparilla in Tampa re-enacting a pirate invasion of the city.
Ye Olde Fighting Cocks Ye Olde Fighting Cocks is a public house in St Albans, Hertfordshire, which is one of several that lay claim to being the oldest in England. It currently holds the official Guinness Book of Records title, but The Man and Scythe in Lancashire has claimed it is older by some 234 years.
Ye Olde Space Band: Plays Classic Rock Hits Ye Olde Space Band: Plays Classic Rock Hits is the second album by Moog Cookbook, released in 1997 (see 1997 in music). It is a selection of covers of American classic rock tracks remade using Moog synthesizers and other analog synthesizers.
Ye Olde Trip To Jerusalem Ye Olde Trip To Jerusalem is one of 20 public houses in Great Britain (and one of three in Nottingham) which claim to be the oldest drinking establishment in the country. Sited at the foot of Castle Rock in Nottingham's city centre the pub's painted sign states that it was established in 1189 AD.
Ye Qun Ye Qun (Chinese: 叶群; Pinyin: Yè Qún) (1917-1971) was the wife of Lin Biao (林彪), the Vice-Chairman of China who controlled China's military power. She was mostly known for taking care of politics for her husband.
Ye Shengtao Ye Shengtao (28 October 1894 — 16 February 1988) was a prominent author, educator and publisher. He was one of the founders of the Association for Literary Studies (ć–‡ĺ¸ç ”究ćś), the first literature association during the May Fourth Movement in China.
Yeadon (SEPTA station) Yeadon is a trolley stop on the SEPTA Subway Surface 13 trolley in Yeadon, Pennsylvania. Trolleys arrive at this station from Center City Philadelphia and most of them end their routes there at the Yeadon Loop.
Yeah I'm On It. Yeah I'm On It is a song by Big Kuntry that is slated to be on his upcoming album My Turn To Eat. There is already a remix of it by the name of Yeah (Remix) on Grand Hustle's Grand Hustle Presents: In Da Streetz Volume 4.
Yeah Jazz Z16XEP 00:32, 10 December 2006 (UTC)—Yeah Jazz, one of the most talented rock band founded in Uttoxeter in Staffordshire, was not well known by rock 'n roll fans in the world. In some Yeah Jazz fans' heart, Yeah Jazz could have been the greatest rock 'n roll band in the 1990s if they got the chance to have their works presented to wider public.
Yealering, Western Australia Yealering (; post code: 6372) is a town in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, approximately 220km south-east of Perth between the towns of Wickepin and Corrigin. It is located beside a lake of the same name.
Year A year is the time between two recurrences of an event related to the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. By extension, this can be applied to any planet: for example, a "Martian year" is the time in which Mars completes its own orbit.
Year 10,000 problem The year 10,000 problem or Y10K is the collective name for all potential software bugs that may emerge as the need to express years with five digits arises. In the months leading up to the beginning of the year 2000 (see the Year 2000 problem), the year 10,000 problem was given somewhat humorous exposure by people in the media.
Year 2000 baby boom The year 2000 saw a mini baby boom, with several contributing factors believed to be extant, compared to the iconic term more generally called by that name.Reproduction rates for 1990-2002, National Vital Statistics Reports, 18 March 2004 (accessed 20 January,2007)
Year 2000 problem The Year 2000 problem (also known as the Y2K problem, the millennium bug, and the Y2K Bug) was the result of a practice in early computer program design that caused some date-related processing to operate incorrectly for dates and times on and after January 1, 2000. It engendered widespread concern that critical industries (such as electricity or financial) and government functions would cease operating at exactly midnight, January 1, 2000, and on other critical dates which were billed as "event horizons".
Year 2038 problem The year 2038 problem may cause some computer software to fail before or in the year 2038. The problem affects programs that use the POSIX time representation, which represents system time as the number of seconds (ignoring leap seconds) since January 1, 1970.
Year and a day rule The year and a day rule was a principle of English law holding that a death was conclusively presumed not to be murder (or any other homicide) if it occurred more than a year and one day since the act (or omission) that was alleged to have been its cause. The rule also applied to the offence of assisting with a suicide.
Year and a Day Year and a Day is the fourth section of Track #15 on the album Paul's Boutique by American hip hop group the Beastie Boys, released on July 25, 1989.It was produced and written by the Beastie Boys and the Dust Brothers.
Year of a Million Dreams The Year of a Million Dreams is a celebration taking place at the theme parks of the Disneyland Resort in California and the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida from October 1, 2006 through December 31, 2007. The festivities are part of a global branding campaign created by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts called Where Dreams Come True.
Year of Africa 1960 is known as the Year of Africa. Thirteen nations in West and Equatorial Africa gained their independence from France during this year; Cameroon, Togo, Senegal, Mali, CĂ´te D'Ivoire, Chad, Burkina Faso, Gabon, Madagascar, Mauritania, Niger, Benin, Central African Republic, and the Republic of the Congo.
Year of the Bible In the United States, 1983 was designated as the national Year of the Bible by President Ronald Reagan by Proclamation 5018, made on February 3, 1983 at the annual National Prayer Breakfast. President Reagan was authorized and requested to so designate 1983 by Public Law 97-280 (Senate Joint Resolution 165], 96 Stat.
Year of the Eucharist The Year of the Eucharist is the name of the liturgical year from October 2004 to October 2005, as celebrated by Catholics worldwide. On June 10, 2004, Pope John Paul II announced the dedication of an entire year to the Blessed Sacrament and invited the entire Church to reflect upon the Eucharist.
Year of the Griffin Year of the Griffin is a 2000 novel by British children's author Diana Wynne Jones. It is the sequel to The Dark Lord of Derkholm and is more centered around Wizard Derk's daughter, the griffin Elda, and her time at the University of Magic.
Year of the Gun The "Year of the Gun" is a reference often made by Canadian media outlets to the anomalous and extreme amount of firearms-related violence experienced in Toronto during the year 2005. Out of 78 total murders in the Greater Toronto Area area during 2005, 52 were related to guns (compared to only 27 gun deaths during the previous year of 2004)of Toronto]
Year of the Lash Year of the Lash (in Spanish, Año del Cuero) is a term used in Cuba in reference to 1844. In that year the Spanish colony was wracked by accusations of a planned slave revolt known as the Conspiración de La Escalera.
Year of the Monkey (album) Year of the Monkey is the fourth studio album by the American band Pushmonkey, released one week after the end of the year of the monkey, running from January 22, 2004 through February 8, 2005 (see 2005 in music).
Year of the Rabbit Year of the Rabbit is an alternative rock band comprised of Ken Andrews (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Tim Dow (drums, background vocals), Jeff Garber (lead guitar, background vocals) and Solomon Synder (bass guitar, background vocals). Their first significant release, Year of the Rabbit, was by the Elektra Records label.
Year of the Teledu Year of the Teledu is a one-off science fiction convention to be held in Leicester, UK over the weekend of July 20th - 22nd 2007. It could be loosely described as a FunCon, focusing more on everyone having an enjoyable weekend than a specific type of Science Fiction.
Year of Three Popes The Year of Three Popes or the Summer of Three Popes is a common reference to 1978 when the Roman Catholic Church was forced to elect in papal conclaves new popes in rapid succession due to death. This resulted in a year, more specifically the summer, in which the Roman Catholic Church was led by three different men.
Year One The term "Year One" can just mean the beginning of something, but in political history it usually refers to the institution of radical, revolutionary change. This usage dates from the time of the French Revolution: after the abolition of the French monarchy (September 20, 1792), the National Convention instituted the new French Revolutionary Calendar, declaring that date as the beginning of the Year I of the French Republic.
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