All articles starting with Y

Yorktown, Virginia

Yorktown, Virginia: unincorporated York County community on the York River, founded 1691 as a colonial tobacco port; site of the October 19, 1781 siege where Cornwallis surrendered to Washington, preserved in Colonial National Historical Park.

Yorkville, Manhattan

Yorkville, Manhattan: Upper East Side neighborhood east of Third Avenue between 79th and 96th Streets, once New York's main German enclave, now a residential area served by the Second Avenue subway.

Yorkville, Toronto

Yorkville, Toronto, is a neighborhood in central Toronto north of Bloor Street, once an independent village annexed in 1883 and now known for luxury retail.

Yōrō Code

The Yōrō Code (養老律令) is the basic legal code of Japan's ritsuryō state, a revision of the Taihō Code compiled under Fujiwara no Fuhito and enacted in 757.

Yoroi-Shinden Samurai Troopers (鎧伝サムライトルーパー)

Yoroi-Shinden Samurai Troopers (鎧真伝サムライトルーパー) is the 2026 Sunrise Studios TV anime sequel to Yoroiden Samurai Troopers (鎧伝サムライトルーパー, 1988–89), set 35 years after the demon invasion, directed by Fujita Yoichi.

Yoronjima (与論島)

Yoronjima (与論島), or Yoron Island, is the southernmost island of the Amami Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, in Amami Gunto National Park. A 55 km2 coral-fringed island with 9.4 km2 of reef, 1998 bleaching killed 70-90% of south-coast corals.

Oct 15, 2026

YORP effect

The YORP effect (Yarkovsky–O'Keefe–Radzievskii–Paddack effect) is a torque from reflected and re-radiated sunlight that changes how fast irregularly shaped asteroids spin and how their spin axes point.

Yoru ni Kakeru (夜に駆ける)

Yoru ni Kakeru (夜に駆ける, "Racing into the Night"), also known as Into the Night, is the 2019 debut single by Japanese duo YOASOBI, adapted from Mayo Hoshino's Thanatos no Yuwaku; it topped Billboard Japan's 2020 year-end chart and became Japan's first billion-stream song.

Sep 19, 2026

Yoru no Honki Dance

Yoru no Honki Dance (夜の本気ダンス) is a Japanese rock band formed in 2008 in Uji, Kyoto, known for its dance-rock style and theme songs for anime, drama, and film.

Yoruba aláròyé newspaper verse

Yoruba aláròyé newspaper verse is the proverb-rich oral written style of Aláròyé, a Yoruba-language Nigerian newspaper founded in 1985 by Alao Adedayo, blending oral tradition into print.

Yoruba beadwork

Yoruba beadwork is the bead-embroidered royal art of the Yoruba peoples of Nigeria and Benin, best known for the veiled beaded crowns worn by sacred kings.

Yoruba civil wars

The Yoruba civil wars were interconnected conflicts among Yoruba states in what is now southwestern Nigeria, from about 1750 to 1893, that destroyed the Old Oyo empire.

Yoruba language

Yoruba (Èdè Yorùbá) is a tonal Niger-Congo language of the Yoruboid branch, spoken in southwestern Nigeria, Benin, and Togo by an estimated 45 to 55 million people.

Yoruba lost-wax casting

Yoruba lost-wax casting is the metalcasting tradition of the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria, best known for the naturalistic brass heads of the kingdom of Ife.

Yoruba novel

The Yoruba novel is a tradition of full-length prose fiction in the Yoruba language, begun by D. O. Fágúnwà's 1938 Ògbójú Ọdẹ Nínú Igbó Irúnmọlẹ̀.

Yoruba palace carving

Yoruba palace carving is the sculpted wooden doors, veranda posts, and columns made for the palaces of Yoruba rulers, known as ọba, in southwestern Nigeria.

Yoruba people

The Yoruba (Yorùbá) are a large West African people of southwestern Nigeria, Benin, and Togo, speaking Yorùbá (30+ million speakers), tracing sacred origins to Ile-Ifẹ and Oduduwa, and historically organized into kingdoms, the largest being the Ọyọ empire, with a triple religious heritage of Islam, Christianity, and Orisa worship.

Yoruba proverbs

Yoruba proverbs, called òwe in Yoruba, are the short metaphorical sayings of the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria, Benin, and Togo, regarded as a repository of wisdom.

Yoruba religion

Yoruba religion, also known as Ìṣẹ̀ṣe or Yorùbá mythology, is the indigenous religion of the Yoruba people of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo, centered on the creator Olódùmarè, the òrìṣà divinities, Ifá divination, and ancestor veneration.

Yoruba riddles

Yoruba riddles (Àlọ́ Àpamọ̀) are a genre of Yoruba oral literature in which a veiled description of an object is posed for listeners to name.

Yoruba shrine sculpture

Yoruba shrine sculpture is the art made for the shrines and altars of the Yoruba peoples of southwestern Nigeria and Benin, emphasizing enlarged heads as the seat of spiritual power.

Yoruba travelling theatre

The Yoruba travelling theatre was a professional itinerant theater tradition in southwestern Nigeria, whose touring companies performed Yoruba musical folk operas from the 1940s until the early 1990s.

Yorubaland

Yorubaland: homeland of the Yoruba in southwestern Nigeria, southern Benin, and southern Togo, roughly the size of England. City-state civilization from Ile-Ifẹ and the Ọyọ Empire to the 1893 British protectorate.

Oct 20, 2026

Yos Sudarso Island

Kolepom, also called Pulau Yos Sudarso or Dolak, is a large Indonesian island off the south coast of New Guinea, separated from the mainland by the Muli Strait.

Yosa Buson

Yosa Buson (与謝蕪村, 1716–1783/84) was a Japanese haikai poet and Nanga painter, ranked with Matsuo Bashō among the greatest haikai figures and with Ike no Taiga in painting.

Yosano Akiko

Yosano Akiko (与謝野晶子), born Hō Shiyō, was a Japanese tanka poet and social critic whose 1901 collection Midaregami scandalized readers and whose 1904 anti-war poem provoked national controversy.

Yosano Tekkan

Yosano Tekkan (与謝野鉄幹), real name Yosano Hiroshi, was a Japanese tanka poet and editor who led Meiji-era romantic poetry through the New Poetry Society and its journal Myōjō.

Sep 21, 2026

Yosef Aloni

Yosef Aloni was a molecular biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for work on SV40 tumor virus expression, RNA splicing, and transcription control.

Yosef Greenwald (יוסף גרינוואלד)

Yosef Greenwald (יוסף גרינוואלד), known as the Vayechi Yosef, was the last rabbi of Pápa, Hungary, and the rebbe who rebuilt the Pupa Hasidic dynasty in Williamsburg after the Holocaust.