Yadageri
the science of inducing rain and snow by means of enchantment. (See Siberia .)
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These 11 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Yadageri, Yakima, Yakima.
Yakima
a city of Washington, the county-seat of Yakima co., formerly known as North Yakima, on the South- Pacific, the Oregon-Washington ern Railroad and Navigation Company, and other railroads. It is the center of an important live stock and lumbering region and has a hospital, a public library, Federal buildings, and excellent school buildings. Pop. (1910) 14,082; (1920) 18,539.
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Yakima
a river of Washington, rising in the Cascade Mountains, and flowing S. E. into the Columbia, which it joins about 10 miles above the mouth of the Snake river. Its valley is irrigated, and is one of the most fertile in the State. The Yakima traverses a region with important coal mines. Length, about 175 miles.
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Yakutsk
ya-kootsk', the capital of the Siberian province of that name. It is situated near the central point in the course of the Lena at about sixty-two degrees of north latitude. The name is derived from the native inhabitants, Mongolian people known as Yakuts. During the short summer season Yakutsk is a trading town. The exports are chiefly gold, furs, and the ivory of the mammoth. The population is about 5,000. See Siberia ; Mammoth
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Yakutsk (City and capital)
a city and capital of the province of Yakutsk, Siberia; on a branch of the Lena river, 4 miles from the main stream. The city was founded in 1632 as a Cossack station and is the seat of the governor and provincial authorities. It has regularly laid out streets, wooden houses, a cloister cathedral, a pro-gymnasium for boys and girls, and several primary schools. It is the trading center of northern and eastern Siberia, and carries on an extensive commerce in hides, furs, tallow, fish, mammoth bones, and reindeer. Before the World War a great fair was held here annually from June 22 to Aug. 13, frequented by the natives from all over the province. Pop. about 10,000.
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Yakutsk (Province in east Siberia)
a province in east Siberia, Russia, embracing the valley of the Lena river; bounded by the Yeniseisk, Irkutsk, Transbaikal, and Amur provinces, by the Arctic Arctic Ocean, and by a narrow strip of the district of Ochotsk. The population consists mainly of Yakuts, Yukagirs, and Tunguses, occupied in hunting, fishing, and as nomads overseeing large herds of cattle and horses. The country is rugged, consisting mainly of an elevated plateau, covered with forests and marshes. These marshes are frozen to a depth of several hundred feet. The forests abound in fur-bearing wild animals; the rivers with fish. Gold mining is carried on extensively in the S. W. Yakutsk is the largest Siberian province, embracing nearly one-third of Siberia, and is nearly as large as European Russia; area, ea, 1,533,397 square miles; pop. about 400,000.
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Yale (LINUS an American inventor)
LINUS, an American inventor; born in Salisbury, N. Y., April 4, 1821; applied himself for a while to portrait painting, but in 1850 began to study mechanical problems. In 1851 he patented a safety lock, and thereafter till his death was a recognized authority on all matters pertaining to to locks and safes. In the course of his work he became convinced of the necessity of abandoning the use of a key-hole as affording an easy means of introduction to the lock mechanism. This led to the adoption of a permanent dial and shaft as used in the combination locks, and subsequently to the perfection of what is known as the "clock" lock. His most notable invention was the double lock, which comprised two locks within a single case, and operated by the same or different combinations. He was the recipient of gold, silver, and bronze medals as first awards at various expositions. He died in New York City, Dec. 24, 1868.
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Yalu
the estuary of the most important of Korean rivers, variously called Yalu, Am-nok, or Oryoku. This navigable river flows 300 miles S. W. to the bay of Korea, and its mouth was on Sept. 17, 1894, the scene of a great naval battle, in which a Chinese fleet was defeated by a Japanese force. The first important battle of the Russo-Japanese War resulted from the cro crossing of the Yalu by the Japanese on May 1, 1904.
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Yamagata
ARITOMO, PRINCE, a Japanese military officer; born in the province of Choshu in 1838. He took an active part in the revolution of 1868, and under the new government won promotion in both military and official life. In 1869 he was sent to Europe to study French and Russian military institutions. He took a prominent part in the Satsuma rebellion in 1877; was put in command of the imperial guard; became head of the general staff; and was prime minister from 1889 to 1891 when he became minister of justice. He commanded the 1st Army Corps in the war with China in 1894, and for his success in expelling the Chinese from Korea was made a marquis. In 1896 he was a guest of the Russian court at the coronation of the czar, and visited the United States on his return. He was a man of progressive ideas and was energetic in the reorganization of the Japanese army according to European models. In 1907 he was made a prince.
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Yamaska
a river in the province of Quebec, Canada, rising in Brome Lake, Brome county, flowing in a W. direction to West Farnham, Missisquoi co., thence N. emptying into Lake St. Peter, an expansion of the St. Lawrence river. The river flows 100 miles through a very fertile region and passes the towns of Granley, Cavansville, Waterloo, St. Hyacinthe, and Farnham. YANÁON (Yanám), a small tract in India, belonging to France, and under the governor of Pondicherry, forming a district surrounded by British territory (province of Madras) with about 9 square miles of area. It lies near the mouth of the Godavari, between the main stream and its branching mouth, the Coringa. Pop. about 6,000.
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Yankee
a native of New England . The Yankees are descended for the most part from British ancestry. The name is said to be a corruption of a name given to the early colonists by the Massachusetts Indians. During the Civil War the Confederates called the Northern soldiers Yankees, regardless of the regiments to which they belonged. Europeans extend the word to include inhabitants of the United States .
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