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Yadageri

the science of inducing rain and snow by means of enchantment. (See Siberia .)

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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.

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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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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Yankee Doodle

a popular air now considered one of the national tunes of the United States . It is said to have been borrowed by the Americans from England: that during the time of Cromwell the Oxford students sang derisively: Nankee Doodle came to town Upon a Kentish pony: He stuck a feather in his hat And called him Macaroni. When the British troops were evacuating Boston, so one account runs, they sang this song in mockery, substituting "Yankee" for "Nankee." The Americans took up the air and have sung Yankee Doodle ever since.

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Yankton

a city and county-seat of Yankton co., S. D.; on the Missouri river, and on the Great Northern, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, and the Chicago and Northwestern railroads; 61 miles N. W. of Sioux City, Ia. Here are Yankton College (Cong.), a high school, the State Hospital for the Insane, waterworks, electric lights, National, State, and savings banks, and daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. It has an extensive general trade, and is the supply depot for the Indian agencies and military stations along the Upper Missouri. There are planing mills, large Portland cement works, flour woolen mill, pork packing mius, foundry, mills, foundry, establishments, etc. Pop. Pop. (1910) 3,787; 3,78 (1920) 5,024.

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Yankton College

a coeducational institution in Yankton, S. D.; founded in 1881 under the auspices of the Congregational Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 25; students, 433; president, Rev. Henry K. Warren, LL. D.

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Yantic

a river in eastern Connecticut. It unites with the Shetucket and Quinnebaug rivers about 3 miles S. of Norwich to form the Thames river. It has a swift current and affords excellent water power, which is extensively used by the mills and factories along its banks.

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Yap

an island belonging to the Caroline group in the North Pacific Ocean, situated about 500 miles S. W. of Guam and belonging formerly to Germany. There is on Yap a cable station of the Commercial Pacific Cable Company. A cable connects Shanghai and Yap, where it joins the main line running between Celebes and San Francisco. In February, 1899, Germany purchased from Spain for $3,300,000 the group of islands to which Yap belongs, with the exception of Guam, which was ceded to the United States in the treaty of peace that ended the Spanish-American War. Japan was given a mandate over the island in March, 1921, but the United States refused to relinquish any rights prior to the World War. held

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Yarkund

or YARKAND, the chief town of the province of the same name in eastern Turkestan; 140 miles S. E. of Kashgar. It It i is a great emporium of trade between China and the W., but it has been repeatedly devastated by the internecine wars which are chronic in central Asia. The bulk of the inhabitants are Mohammedans of the Turki race; and in 1866 it was captured from the Chinese by Yakub Beg, who in 1874, entered into a commercial treaty with the British in India, and caravans of traders annually pass to and fro through the valley of Kashmir. The exports are chiefly shawl wool, raw silk, gold, and borax; the imports are piece goods, metal wares, tea, and indigo. In 1876 an English company sent its goods direct to Yarkund under European conduct, and Yarkund merchants annually annu go down to the Punjab. The soil of the province, which is watered by the Yarkund river, a tributary of the Tarim Kul, which flows E. into the lake called Lob Nor, is fertile; the crops are wheat, rice, barley, millets, fruits, and mulberry; and there are large herds of sheep, goats, cattle, and horses. Pop. about 70,000.

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