Ysselmonde
or IJSSELMONDE (i'sl-mon-duh), an island of the Netherlands, opposite the mouth of the Yssel.
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Single-source entries: Y (9)
These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Ysselmonde, Ystad, Yttrium.
Ystad
a seaport of Sweden, on the extreme S. coast, 55 miles E. S. E. of Copenhagen, and 85 N. N. E. of Stralsund. It has two churches, and manufactures of tobacco, chicory, sugar, soap, cloth, and leather. Ystad has a good harbor, is in regular steamboat communication with the chief Baltic ports, and is connected with the Southern Swedish railway by a branch line opened in 1866. There is considerable trade, chiefly in corn.
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Yttrium
in chemistry, dyad a earth-metal, symbol Y, at. wt. 89, existing, together with er erbium, as a silicate in gadolinite. It is obtained in the metallic state by digesting the mineral with hydrochloric acid, precipitating with oxalic acid, dissolving the oxalates formed in nitric acid, and separating by a series of fractional crystallizations; the erbium salt, being the less soluble of the two, crystallizing out first. On converting the nitrate into a chloride, YUAN-SHIH-KAI and igniting with potassium, the metal is obtained as a blackish-gray powder, consisting of small, metallic, lustrous scales. It unites directly, at high temperatures, with chlorine, oxygen, and sulphur, and probably with other metalloids.
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Yuga
or YOOGA, in Hindu chronology, one of the periods into which the past history of the globe may be divided. 4:88 There are four yugas: The Satya Yuga, containing 1,728,000 years; the Treta Yuga, 1,296,000; the Dwapara Yuga, 864,000 years; and the Kali Yuga, now in progress, began about 3094 B. c., and which will extend to 432,000 years. Horace Hayman Wilson points out that these numbers originate in the descending arithmetical progressions of 4, 3, 2, 1, according to the notions of diminish ing virtue in several ages applied to a cycle of 12,000 divine years, each equal to 360 years of mortals; and 12,000 X 360 is 4,320,000, the periods of the four yugas added together.
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Yukon
a territory of the Dominion of Canada . The district was formed from the Northwest territories in 1898. It was named for the river. The land area is about 196,327 square miles; water area, 649 square miles; population in 1905, 27,000. The territory is governed by a commissioner and a council of ten members, five of whom are elected by the citizens. Dawson, on the Yukon River, is the capital. Gold mining is profitable in the Klondike district. Furs are taken by trappers and Indians. Freight is transported chiefly by means of the Yukon River. The Grand Trunk Railway is expected to build to Dawson.
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Yukon
a North American river. Its head waters gather in northwestern Canada. The Yukon flows northwesterly through Alaska to a point north of the Arctic Circle . It then turns southwesterly and pursues its course into Bering Sea. From the source of the Lewes in British Columbia to the mouth of the Yukon is a distance of 2,044 miles. The upper portion of the river threads bold mountain scenery; the middle portion is described as flowing through meadows--willow forelands; the lower part of its course winds across a vast and for the most part marshy plain. The mouth is a delta some eighty miles wide. There are many channels. Only the most northerly is deep enough to permit the entrance of ships. The Yukon is navigable for steamboats for a distance of 1,866 miles. It is closed to navigation by ice during eight or nine months in the year. In the summer season regular service is maintained to Dawson in the Klondike district. In length the Yukon is the fourth river of North America . It is the fifth river in the world, branches counted, in the length of navigable waters.
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Yukon (Territory in N W British)
a territory in N. W. British America; formerly a district of the Northwest Territories; created a separate territory in 1898. It the W. portion, and just N. of British Columbia. It was brought into prominence by the discovery in 1897 of immense quantities of gold on the Klondike river and its tributaries. The gold-producing region extends about 80 miles N. and S., and is perhaps 50 miles in width. See KLONDIKE.
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Yule
the old English name for Christmas, still used provincially, as well as in Yule log, Yule cake, Yule tide. For the nature of the old heathen festival, and the way in which the observances were overlaid or transformed by the Christian institution, see CHRISTMAS. British
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Yule
SIR HENRY, a Orientalist; born near Edinburgh, Scotland, in May, 1820. Having entered the Indian army he served in the Sutlej campaign (1845-1846), in the Punjab (1848-1849), in Burma, and in the Indian mutiny, and became secretary to the Public Works Department, in which capacity he took part in several important surveys and missions. In 1875 he was appointed a member of the Home Council of India. Of the many works which he wrote and edited, the most noted is his admirable translation, with notes and maps, aps, of Marco Polo (1871; augmented edition, 1875). He edited several volumes for the Hakluyt Society; and was a gold medalist of the Royal Geographical Society. He died in London, England, Dec. 30, 1889.
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Yung Wing
a Chinese diplomatist. born in Nanping, China, Nov. 17, 1828; came to the United States in 1847; was graduated at Yale College in 1854; and in 1864 was commissioned by the Chinese Government to buy machinery in the United States for the arsenal of Kiang-Nau. In 1870 he proposed to the Chinese Government the settlement of claims for the massacre of Christians at Tientsin by establishing a line of steamers to carry a tribute of rice, the outgrowth of which was the celebrated China Merchant Steam Navigation Company. He was also influential in persuading the Chinese Government to provide for the education of Chinese youth in foreign countries, that intercourse with foreigners might be made easier. In 1875 he married Miss Mary Kellog of Hartford, Conn., an act which met with disfavor, with the Chinese authorities and led to his recall. In 1878, however, he was appointed assistant minister of China to the United States, where he remained till the outbreak of the Chino-Japanese War, when he was ordered to China. At the close of the war he was appointed one of the peace commissioners, but on the refusal of the Japanese to recognize him because of his rank he was replaced by Chang-Ten- Hoon. Subsequently he was raised in rank and in 1897 represented the Chinese Government at Queen Victoria's jubilee. He died in 1912.
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