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Ya-Seen
Surah Ya-Seen (Arabic: سورة يس ) is the 36th 'chapter' of the Qur'an with 83 ayat, and was revealed in the holy city of Makkah. This Surah is memorized by many Muslims and is read by some at religious ceremonies - for example it is often recited at funeral services and ceremonies in remembran..
YAS
YAS may refer to: You're A Star, a talent show on television in Ireland.The Perl Foundation, formerly "Yet Another Society". This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link ..
Yas-e-no
Yas-e-no (یاس نو in Persian) was a reformist newspaper in Iran, unofficially an outlet of the Islamic Iran Participation Front. On February 18, 2004, the Iranian judiciary banned the newspaper, perhaps temporarily, only one day before the parliamentary election, after ..
Yasa'ur
Yasa'ur (d. 1320) was a Chagatai prince who launched a revolt against the Ilkhan Abu Sa'id. He was the son of Chübei, and a great-great-grandson of Chagatai Khan. Yasa'ur had originally resided within the Chagatai ulus. In 1314 he participated in a campaign against the Ilkhanate, together with the..
Yasaka, Nagano
Yasaka (八坂村; -mura) is a village located in Kitaazumi District, Nagano, Japan. As of 2003, the village has an estimated population of 1,199 and a density of 35.33 persons per km². The total area is 33.94 km². ..
Yasaka, Shimane
Yasaka (弥栄村; -mura) is a village located in Naka District, Shimane, Japan. As of 2003, the village has an estimated population of 1,718 and a density of 16.28 persons per km². The total area is 105.50 km². ..
Yasaka Shrine
, once called Gion Shrine, is a Shinto shrine in the Gion District of Kyoto, Japan. Situated at the east end of Shijo-dori (Fourth Avenue), it was built originally in 656. The shrine includes several buildings, including gates, a main hall and a stage. In 869 the mikoshi (portable shrines) of ..
Yasato, Ibaraki
Yasato (八郷町; -machi) is a town located in Niihari District, Ibaraki, Japan. As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 30,218 and a density of 196.50 persons per km². The total area is 153.78 km². External links [Yasato official website] in Japanes..
Yasawa
Yasawa Islands Drawaqa Kuata Matacawa Levu Nacula Nanuya Nanuya Balavu Nanuya Lailai Nanuya Levu Nanuya-i-Ra Nanuya-i-Yata Narara Naukacuvu Naviti Sawa-i-Lau Tavewa Tiliva Waya Waya Laitai Waya Sewa Vawa Viwa Yaqeta Yasawa Yawini Islands of Fiji Principal islands Viti Levu Vanua Levu Signific..
Yasawa Islands
Yasawa Islands Drawaqa Kuata Matacawa Levu Nacula Nanuya Nanuya Balavu Nanuya Lailai Nanuya Levu Nanuya-i-Ra Nanuya-i-Yata Narara Naukacuvu Naviti Sawa-i-Lau Tavewa Tiliva Waya Waya Laitai Waya Sewa Vawa Viwa Yaqeta Yasawa Yawini Islands of Fiji Principal islands Viti Levu Vanua Levu Signific..
Yasawa Nawaka (Open Constituency, Fiji)
History of Fiji Timeline Discovery The rise and fall of Cakobau Colonial Fiji Fiji since 1970 Main article Constitutional crisis of 1977 Coups of 1987 Coup of 2000 Main article Timeline - Mutinies Aftermath - AllegationsMara deposed - Iloilo plotInvestigations - TrialsCourt Martial - Military..
Yaseenabad
Yaseenabad is one of the neighborhoods of Gulberg Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. There are several ethnic groups in Gulberg Town including Urdu speakers, Punjabis, Sindhis, Kashmiris, Seraikis, Pakhtuns, Balochs, Memons, Bohras, Ismailis. Over 99% of the population is Muslim. The population of..
Yasemin Dalkılıç
Yasemin Dalkılıç, born May 2 1979 in Ankara, is a Turkish free diver. She holds numerous world records in different categories of free diving. Life Yasemin Dalkilic grew up in Ankara, to which the nearest coast was over 800 km away. At age 14, she was already a member of the national Monofin swi..
Yasemin Horasan
Yasemin Horasan, (born on August 1, 1983 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a female Turkish basketball player. The 190 cm (six-foot-three-inch) tall national plays in the center position. Horasan played in the season 2002–2003 for Beşiktaş JK and was elected Most Valuable Player of Turkish Women's Ba..
Yasenevo
Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line Medvedkovo Babushkinskaya Sviblovo Botanicheskiy Sad VDNKh Alekseevskaya Rizhskaya Prospekt Mira Sukharevskaya Turgenevskaya Kitay-Gorod ..
Yaser Esam Hamdi
"Hamdi" redirects here. See also Hamdi v. Rumsfeld'' Yaser Esam Hamdi was an American citizen captured in Afghanistan in 2001. It is claimed he was fighting U.S. forces with the Taliban. He was named by the U.S. administration as an "illegal enemy combatant", and detained for almost three years wi..
Yashai Warcraft
Yashai Warcraft is a system of modern combat, developed by Blaise Loong. Its practitioners, known as the Yashai, are a modern tribal confederation whose primary purpose is to preserve the arts of war as expressed by ancient and modern warrior cultures throughout the globe. Students of Warcraft mus..
Yashashree Bhave
Yashashree Bhave (born August 5 1981 in Satara, Maharashtra, India and currently living in Nagpur) is a singer who rose to popularity around the world after placing eleventh in Indian Idol 2, the Indian version of Pop Idol. Bhave's mother is a well-known singer. It was she who initiated Bhave in..
Yashavant Kanetkar
Yashavant Kanetkar obtained his BE from VJTI, Mumbai and M.Tech. from IIT, Kanpur. Yashavant has a rich experience in Application as well as System software development. Yashavant has a passion for writing and is an author of several books in C, C++, VC++, C#, .NET, DirectX and COM programming. He i..
Yasha Rosenfeld
Yaakov (Yasha) Rosenfeld (February 16, 1948–July 27, 2002) was a condensed-matter theorist who made outstanding contributions to the statistical mechanics of liquids and dense plasmas. He was a leading figure in theories of liquids and his fundamental measure approach to classical density fu..
Yashica
Contents 1 History2 Camera Models3 Twin Lens Reflex (TLR)4 35mm Rangefinder5 35mm SLR cameras6 Compact 35mm History Yashica began in December, 1949 in Nagano, Japan, when the Yashima Seiki Company was founded with an initial investment of $566. Its eight employees o..
Yashichi
The Yashichi is an item found in many Capcom video games. It often restores the player's health or acts as a bonus point item. The symbol is a red circle defaced with a stylised white cross that resembles a pinwheel (refer to graphic.) The item appeared first in 1985, in Capcom's first title, Vu..
Yashima
Yashima can have several meanings: People Norito Yashima, Japanese actorTaro Yashima, pseudonym for WWII OSS member Places Yashima, AkitaYashima, Kagawa Other Japanese battleship YashimaBattle of Yashima This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with th..
Yashima, Akita
Yashima (矢島町; -machi) was a town located in Yuri District, Akita, Japan. On March 222005 the city of Honjo and the towns of Chōkai, Higashiyuri, Iwaki, Nishime, Ōuchi, Yashima and Yuri merged to form the new city of Yurihonjo. In 2003, the town had an estimated population of 5,880 and a de..
Yashio, Saitama
Yashio (八潮市 Yashio-shi) is a city located in Saitama, Japan. As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 75,673 and the density of 4,197.06 persons per km². The total area is 18.03 km². The city was founded on January 15, 1972. External links [Yashio official website] in..
Yashioto Yuma
Yashioto Yuma (八潮戸悠丸) is a Japanese translator. His works include: 『清貧譚』英訳版　A Tale of Honorable Poverty魔女のパンまだらの紐をめ&..
Yashiro, Hyogo
Yashiro (社町; -cho) is a town located in Katō District, Hyogo, Japan. As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 21,409 and a density of 244.95 persons per km². The total area is 87.40 km². Yashiro is the Japanese sister city of Olympia, Washington. External l..
Yashiro Nanakase
Yashiro Nanakase is a videogame character from the King of Fighters series. Contents 1 History2 Trivia2.1 Orochi Yashiro3 Related characters4 External links History The true origins of the Orochi fighter known as Yashiro are shrouded in mystery. He was a wanderer who t..
Yashi Brown
Yashi Brown is the second child of Nathaniel Brown and Rebbie Jackson - the eldest child of the musical Jackson family. Born in 1977, she was born into music. Yashi appeared on her uncles' (The Jacksons) 1989 "2300 Jackson Street". An album was produced with sister Stacee Brown in 1994 after they si..
Yashmak
The yaşmak (also spelled yashmak yashmac or yasmak) is a Turkish type of veil worn by many Muslim women to cover their faces in public. See also Hijab ..
Yashpal
Yashpal (यशपाल) (December 3, 1903–December 26, 1976) is a Hindi author renowned for झूटा सच Jhutha Sach (The False Truth, 1958–1960), which is regarded as one of the best Hindi novels ever written. He won the prestigious ..
Yashpal Sharma
Yashpal SharmaIndia (Ind) Batting style Right-handed batsman (RHB) Bowling type Right arm medium pace Tests ODIs Matches 37 42 '''Runs scored 1606 883 Batting average 33.45 28.48 100s/50s 2/9 0/4 Top score 140 89 ..
Yashwantrao Chavan
Yashwantrao Balwantrao Chavan (12 March 1913 - 25 November 1984) was the first Chief Minister of Maharashtra. He was Chief Minister of Maharashtra from May 1, 1960 to November 19, 1962. Yashwantrao Chavan was born in the village of Devrashtre in Karad Taluka of Satara District of Maharashtra State..
Yashwant Sinha
Yashwant Sinha Yashwant Sinha (born November 6, 1937) is an Indian politician belonging to the BJP and a former finance minister and foreign minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee's cabinet. Contents 1 Early life2 Bureaucratic career3 Political career3.1 Janata Dal3.2 BJ..
Yash Chopra
Yash Chopra (* 27 December 1932) is a writer, director and producer of Bollywood movies. He has directed hit movies such as Deewar, Lamhe, Yeh Dillagi , Darr, Dil To Pagal Hai and Veer-Zaara. Contents 0.1 Biography1 Awards1.1 Filmfare Awards2 Filmography2.1 Producer2.2&..
Yash Johar
Yash Johar (September 6 1929 - June 26 2004) was an Indian Bollywood film producer. He made Hindi films that were noted for their lavish sets and exotic locations, but containing Indian traditions and family values. He started out in the film industry as a photographer, gradually working his way up..
Yash Pal
Yash Pal is one of the top physicists in India.He held several academic positions and later on served as a the Chairman of University Grants Commission.After retirement,he took to propagation os science in the Indian Television.He was elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences..
Yash Pal Ghai
Yash Pal Ghai (born 1938) was the Chairman of the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission (which attempted to write a modern constitution for Kenya) from 2000 to 2004. As of 2005, he has returned to his previous position as a professor of law at the University of Hong Kong. Prior to that post, Gha..
Yash Raj Films
Yash Raj Films is a company setup by Yash Chopra, an Indian film director and producer. He initially worked under his brother's production company. He set up his own company in the year 1970. This production company have churned out some of the biggest hits in the industry. In 2004 they had thre..
Yasi
For the city in the southern region of Kazakhstan, see Hazrat-e Turkestan. Yasi is a video game which was developed in 2003 for the Vectrex video game console. It has been developed by independent enthusiasts. Also it is commonly found on rulers (ie. Yasi Wne Ju Chang) ..
Yasika
Yasika Indians (also Yasica; From Yasica, the daughter of a warrior of the Matagalpa Indians.). A Misumalpan (Matagalpan) Indian tribe that lived in the highlands of Nicaragua, río Yasica, Matagalpa Department. Yasica is the name of a region that divides Matagalpa to the Sumo territory in the so ca..
Yasim Abdi Mohamed
Yasim Abdi Mohamed is one of 17 people connected to arrests on June 2 and June 3, 2006 in the 2006 Toronto terrorism arrests. He was serving a two year sentence on weapons smuggling charges, which were recently connected to the Toronto group. He was caught bringing a gun across the U.S. border to Ca..
Yasim Muhammed Basardah
Yasim Muhammed Basardah is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba. [list of prisoners (.pdf)], US Department of Defense, April 20 2006 His detainee ID number is 252. Combatant Status Review Tribunal Initially the Bush a..
Yasin
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. The Yasin (Arabic: يس ) anti-tank rocket launcher is a weapon developed by Hamas' Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, named after the group's spiritual leader, Sheik Ahmed Yasin, who was assassinated by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on March 22, 2004. Appar..
Yasin (disambiguation)
Yasin or Yassin may refer to one of the following. Yasin, anti-tank rocket launcher developed by HamasYasin Valley, Pakistan Persons with last name \"Yasin\" Ahmed Yassin, co-founder of HamasIsmail Yasin, an Egyptian actorAbdul Rahman Yasin, a 1993 Woeld Trade Cener bobmerKhalid Yasin, Islam activis..
Yasin Abu Bakr
Yasin Abu Bakr, born Lennox Philip is the leader of the Jamaat al Muslimeen a black Muslim group in Trinidad and Tobago. The group has long-standing links with Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi. Under the leadership of Abu Bakr and Bilaal Abdullah, the group staged an attempted coup d'état in 1990..
Yasin al-Hashimi
Yasin al-Hashimi (1894 – 1937) (Arabic: ياسين الهاشمى ) was an Iraqi politician who served twice as that country's prime minister. Like many of Iraq's early leaders, Hashimi, who was born Yasin Hilmi Salman, served as an officer during Ottoman control of the country. He made his poli..
Yasin Hassan Omar
Omar at Warren Street on 21 July 2005 Yasin Hassan Omar (born c. 1980) is a suspect in the attempted 21st July attacks on London's public transport system. He is suspected of attempting to detonate a device at Warren Street tube. Police have given his age as 24. The BBC has reported that Oma..
Yasin Janjua
Yasin Janjua is a Pakistani economist. Mr. Janjua is pursuing an Econometrician and Growth Macroeconomist. ..
Yasin Merchant
Yasin Merchant, born 17 December, 1966 is India's first professional snooker player. Awards 2002 Asian Games - Snooker Doubles Gold Medal2001 Asian Champion1991 Asian Championship runner-up1989 Asian Champion External links [Yasin Merchant's biography] ..
Yasin Ozdenak
Yasin Ozdenak is a former Turkish football player and now an active coach. In 1977 the Ertegun brothers transfered Yasin when he was 28 to the Cosmos where he played alongside football legends like Pelé and Franz Beckenbauer. Pele was 35 years old and played 2 years with Yasin Ozdenak for New York..
Yasin Qasem Muhammad Ismail
Yasin Qasem Muhammad Ismail is a Yemeni in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.[documents (.pdf)], Yasin Qasem Muhammad Ismail Combatant Status Review Tribunal His Guantanamo detainee ID number is 522. [list of prisoners (.pdf)], US Dep..
Yasin Said Numan
Yasin Said Numan (Arabic: ياسين سعيد نعمان) (born 1947 in Lahj) was the Prime Minister of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen from 1986 until the Yemeni unification in 1990, under Chairman Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas, who preceded Numan as Prime Minister before becoming Chairman. ..
Yasin Valley
Yasin Valley is a high mountain valley in the Hindu Kush mountains, in the northwest region of Gilgit in northern Pakistan. Yasin is separated from the Ishkoman Valley by a high mountain pass. Yasin was originally ruled by the Khushwakhte Dynasty, a collateral line of the Katur Dynasty of Chitral. ..
Yasir Ali
Yasir AliPakistan (PAK) Batting style Right-hand bat Bowling type Right-arm fast-medium Tests First-class Matches 1 11 '''Runs scored 1 129 Batting average - 14.33 100s/50s -/- -/1 Top score 1* 63 Balls bowled 120 1611 Wickets 2 28 Bowling..
Yasir Arafat (cricketer)
Mohammad AsifPakistan (PAK) Batting style Left-hand bat Bowling type Right-arm fast-medium Tests ODIs Matches - 6 '''Runs scored - 21 Batting average - 7.00 100s/50s -/- -/- Top score - 10 ..
Yasir Hameed
Yasir HameedPakistan (PAK) Batting style Right-hand bat Bowling type Right-arm offbreak Tests ODIs Matches 17 48 '''Runs scored 1168 1805 Batting average 38.93 38.40 100s/50s 2/7 3/10 Top score 170 127* ..
Yasir ibn Amir
this is a sahaba of Muhammad Contradictory Sources: 1: Ammar's father, Yasir Ibn Amir, left his native place in Yemen seeking a brother of his. In Makkah he found an appealing place, so he settled there and was in alliance ( = mawla = slave ?) with Abu Hudhaifah ibn al-Mughirah, who married him t..
Yasir Qadhi
Yasir Qadhi (alternative spelling: Yasir Kazi) is a lecturer and Islamic cleric who has authored several books about Islam. He is a popular speaker in many Muslim circles in the United States, Canada, England and Australia. He is one of the few people who has combined a traditional seminary training..
Yaska
Yaska Acharya is a celebrated Sanskrit scholar and grammarian of ancient India. He is believed to have flourished, according to one school as early as during eighth BCE, while according to other, as late as during third century BCE. Acharya Yaska is the author of a well known ancient work on etymolo..
Yaskawa Electric Corporation
(TYO: [6506] ) is a Japanese manufacturer of servos, machine controllers, AC drives, switches and robots. Their Motoman robots are heavy duty industrial robots used for example in car manufacturing. The company was founded in 1915, and its head office is located in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Pre..
Yasmah-Adad
Yasmah-Adad was the son of the Amorite king Shamshi-Adad I, put on throne of Mari by his father after a successful military attack. After Shamshi-Adad's death he managed to rule for only a short time before being ousted from power by Zimri-Lim. His brother, Ishme-Dagan, ruled at the same time in th..
Yasmeen Ghauri
Yasmeen Ghauri (born March 23, 1971 in Montreal, Canada) is a Canadian supermodel. Her modeling career began at the age of 17, after she had made an appointment at a Montreal modeling agency. Her father is a Muslim cleric from Pakistan, and her mother is German. Yasmeen served as a longtime model f..
Yasmeen Hameed
Yasmeen Hameed is a Pakistani poet, who writes both in English and Urdu. She is a professor of English literature in Lahore. ..
Yasmeen Lari
Yasmeen Lari is a well-known Pakistani architect. She is the author of a number of books, including Traditional architecture of Thatta, The Dual City: Karachi During the Raj, and Karachi: Illustrated City Guide. She has also contributed significantly to Pakistan's cultural policy through her writin..
Yasmeen Sulieman
Yasmeen Sulieman (born 1982) is an American pop and R&B singer-songwriter, and actress. External links [biographical information] ..
Yasmien Kurdi
Yasmien Kurdi (born January 25, 1989 in San Juan, Metro Manila) is a singer and actress from the Philippines. She was one of the Final 4 in the first season of StarStruck, a reality-based talent search show of GMA Network in the Philippines, but she lost to Jennylyn Mercado and finished only as ..
Yasmin
Yasmin (alternatively spelled Yasmine or Yasmeen) is a female given name derived from the Persian and Arabic word for jasmine. People named Yasmin, Yasmeen or Yasmine include: Yasmeen Ghauri, a Canadian supermodelYasmeen Hameed, a Pakistani poetYasmeen Lari, a Pakistani architectYasmin Aga Khan, the..
Yasmina Khadra
Yasmina Khadra is the pen name of the Algerian author Mohammed Moulessehoul (born January 10, 1955). Moulessehoul, an officer in the Algerian army, adopted a woman's pseudonym to avoid military censorship. Despite the publication of many successful novels in Algeria, Moulessehoul only revealed his ..
Yasmina Reza
Yasmina Reza (born 1 May 1959), a multi-talented Iranian born in France, is a playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter. Several of her plays, beginning with Conversations After a Burial in 1987, have won the Prix Molière, the French equivalent of the Tony Award. She gained international r..
Yasmina Riza
Yasmina Reza is a French authoress, playwright and screenwriter. Reza won the Best Author Moliere Award and the New Writer Award from ASCD in 1987. Examples of Her Work Conversations apres un EntterementL'Homme du HasardJusqu'a la Nuit (screen play)Jim Mode Ne Pour Aider..
Yasmine and Sara Pourhashemi
Yasmine Pourhashemi and Sara Pourhashemi are two Belgian sisters of Iranian descent who, as a result of a child custody dispute, lived for over half a year in the Belgian embassy in Tehran, causing a long diplomatic dispute between Belgium and Iran. The girls, aged 14 and 6 at the time, lived with ..
Yasmine Bleeth
Yasmine Amanda Bleeth (born June 14, 1968 in New York City) is an American TV and film actress. Yasmine, which is pronounced yes-MEEN, is the Persian version of Jasmine, the name of a flower. As a child, Yasmine was frequently ridiculed for having this unusual name. Her nickname is Yaz or Yazmania...
Yasmine Galenorn
Yasmine Galenorn is a pagan author, mystery and paranormal romance/dark fantasy novelist. She is best known for her "Chintz'n'China" mystery series, with main characters "Emerald O'Brien" and "Anna Murray". She has also written eight books on modern paganism and has been active in the Craft since 19..
Yasmine Mahmoudieh
--> Yasmine Mahmoudieh is a World-renowned international architect and interior desinger. Born in Germany, but of Iranian descent, Yasmine studied Art History in Florence, Architecture in the École d'Interieur in Geneva and Interior Design at the College of Nôtre Dame in Belmont -- as well a..
Yasmine Pahlavi
Yasmine Pahlavi (Yasmine Etemad Amini prior to her marriage) is the wife of Reza Cyrus Pahlavi, former crown prince and current pretender to the throne of Iran. Considering the pre-revolution rules she would be Queen or Shahbanu (Empress) and should be addressed by the title Her Imperial Majesty. Sh..
Yasmin Aga Khan
Princess Yasmin Aga Khan (b. December 28, 1949 in Lausanne, Switzerland) is the daughter of actress Rita Hayworth and Prince Aly Khan. In 1973 she graduated from Bennington College in the United States, and was originally interested in operatic singing. Later influenced by her mother's death fro..
Yasmin Ahmad
Yasmin Ahmad is a film director/ writer from Malaysia. Her feature films to date include Rabun (2003), Sepet (2004) and Gubra (2006). ..
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (born Yasmin Damji on December 10 1949) is a Ugandan-born journalist, based in London; she only hyphenated her surname after her second marriage in 1990. Contents 1 Career2 Criticism3 See also4 Select bibliography5 External links Career A victim of I..
Yasmin Bannerman
Yasmin Bannerman is a British actress who has made numerous appearances on television, including Red Dwarf, Queen of Swords, In Deep, Holby City, Mersey Beat (8 episodes) and played the sentient tree Jabe in the 2005 Doctor Who episode, The End of the World. She was part of the original cast of the ..
Yasmin Green
Family Affairs character Yasmin Green Played by Ebony Thomas Duration 1998–2005 Date of Birth 1982 Marital Status Separated Occupation Beautician Family Dusty, Benji, William, Pearl, Adam Yasmin Green (previously MacKenzie and Matthews, nee McHugh) was a fictional ch..
Yasmin Levy
Yasmin Levy (Jerusalem, 1977)is a singer of Sephardic music born in Jerusalem. Her father, Yitzhak Levy, was a pioneer researcher of the music of Spanish Jewry, often called Ladino music. She has brought a new interpretation to the international Ladino song scene by removing the folksified accompani..
Yasmin Le Bon
Yasmin on the cover of Harpers & Queen. Yasmin Le Bon (née Parvaneh) (born October 29, 1964) is a British-Iranian supermodel. She was born in Oxford, England to an Iranian father, and a British mother. She has had a fashion modeling career of unusual longevity, still going strong at 41 year..
Yasmin Ratansi
Yasmin Ratansi (born January 4, 1951) is a Canadian MP (member of parliament), who represents the riding of Don Valley East in the Canadian House of Commons. She is a member of the Liberal Party. Ratansi is an Ismaili, and is the first Muslim woman elected to the Canadian House of Commons. Born in..
Yasmin Warsame
Yasmin Warsame (born 5 May 1976) is a Somali-born Canadian fashion model. In 2004, she was named "The most alluring Canadian" in a poll by Fashion Magazine. She moved from Somalia to Toronto, Canada when she was fifteen. Warsame began modelling in 2000 with a booking for the Sears catalogue in Tor..
Yasnaya Polyana
For other uses, see (disambiguation)}}}. Yasnaya Polyana (Russian: Ясная Поляна) was the estate of the Tolstoy family, located 12 kilometers southwest of Tula, Russia. The writer Leo Tolstoy was born here. After his death he was interred there as well. The estate is currently a museum. ..
Yasnaya Polyana, Kaliningrad Oblast
Yasnaya Polyana (Russian: ; German: ; Lithuanian: ; Polish: ) is a settlement in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, southeast of the Red Forest. The settlement was originally the East Prussian town of Trakehnen, named after the Old Prussian word trakis, meaning "great bog". The territory was drained in 17..
Yasnaya Polyana (disambiguation)
Yasnaya Polyana can refer to: Yasnaya Polyana, the former estate of the writer Leo TolstoyYasnaya Polyana, Kaliningrad Oblast, a settlement in Kaliningrad OblastYasnaya Polyana, name of a number of other rural settlements in Russia This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of ..
YASNS
An acronym for the phrase "Yet Another Social Networking Service," referring to the wide range of social networking services such as Myspace and Friendster. With a lull following the much-unnoticed creation and disappearance of the original SixDegrees.com, the world wide web has been hit with a bl..
Yaso
Yaso is one of the 21 woredas in the Benishangul-Gumaz Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Kamashi Zone, Yaso is bordered by Wenbera, Bulen, Dibate, and Amhara Region on the north, by Amhara Region in the southeast, by Belo Jegonfoy in the south, and by Kamashi and Agalo Mite on the west. Information i..
Yasoda
In Purana, Yasoda was wife of Nanda and foster-mother of, Krishna, who, according to the story was given to them by Vasudeva. Yasoda also played an important role in the upbrinding of Balarama (the son of Rohini) and his sister Subhadra. She is also sometimes described as having her own daughter, k..
Yasodharapura
Yasodharapura was the first capital of the Khmer empire to be built at the Angkor site. The city was built during the reign of King Yasovarman I (reigned 899-917 AD) after the palace in the previous capital at Roluos was burned during his struggle to consolidate power upon the death of the previous ..
Yasodharman
Yasodharman was the king of Malwa, in central India, during the early part of the 6th century. The Gupta empire had been weakened by the attacks of the Indo-Hephthalites, known in India as the Hunas, towards the end of the 5th century, which caused it to break up into smaller states. Yasodharman def..
Yasothon
Yasothon (Thai: ยโสธร) is a city in the Isan region of north-eastern Thailand and the capital of the province of the same name. It lies a little more than 500 km northeast of the Thai capital Bangkok. The population of Yasothon in 2005 was 21,600. Yasothon Rocket Festival Bun Bungfai (&#..
Yasothon Province
Yasothon (Thai: ) is one of the provinces (changwat) of Thailand, located in the North-East of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are (from north clockwise) Mukdahan, Amnat Charoen, Ubon Ratchathani, Sisaket and Roi Et. Contents 1 Geography2 History3 Misc4 Symbols5 Administ..
Yasovarman
Khmer ruler during the end of the ninth century AD (circa 889-915 AD). Some Khmer legends hold that this ruler died of leprosy. The Lolei, Bakheng, and the East Baray are monuments to this ruler, all located near Cambodia's national treasure: Angkor Wat. ..
Yasper
Yasper is a Petri net editor and simulator created at TU Eindhoven, with help from Deloitte. It was written for .NET using the Windows Forms user interface library, and runs on Microsoft Windows operating systems. Yasper is completely free to use, but the source code is not publically available. ..
Yass
Yass can refer to a number of things: Catherine Yass - a painterYass, New South Wales - a town in AustraliaYass Valley, New South Wales a local government area (shire) in New South Wales This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If ..
Yass, New South Wales
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Yassa
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Yasu
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Yasuda Narumi
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Yasuda Yukihiko
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Yasuda Zenjiro
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Yasue
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Yasuhiko Okudera
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Yasuhiro Ishimoto
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Yasuhiro Kano
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Yasuhiro Kojima
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Yasuhiro Nakasone
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Yasuhiro Nightow
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Yasuhiro Takato
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Yasuhiro Takemoto
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Yasuhiro Yamashita
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Yasuhito
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Yasuhito Endo
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Yasui
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Yasui Sotaro
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Yasuj
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Yasujiro Niwa
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Yasujiro Ozu
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Yasuji Mori
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Yasuji Okamura
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Yasukata Oku
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Yasukazu Ikari
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Yasuke
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Yasuko Aoike
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Yasuko Nagazumi
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Yasuko Namba
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Yasuko Sawaguchi
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Yasukuni Shrine
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Yasumasa Fukushima
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Yasumasa Kanada
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Yasumasa Morimura
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Yasumicon
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Yasumi Matsuno
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Yasumi Naomasa
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Yasunao Tone
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Yasunari Kawabata
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Yasuni National Park
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Yasunori Kato
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Yasunori Masutani
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Yasunori Matsumoto
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Yasunori Mitsuda
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Yasunori Shiono
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Yasuo Fukuda
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Yasuo Kuniyoshi
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Yasuo Takei
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Yasuo Tanaka
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Yasuo Yamada
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Yasur
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Yasushi Akashi
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Yasushi Akutagawa
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Yasushi Inoue
Yasushi Inoue (井上靖 Inoue Yasushi, May 6, 1907 – January 29, 1991) was a Japanese writer whose range of genres included poetry, essays, short fiction, and novels. Although often remembered for his serious historical fiction of ancient Japan and the Asian continent, Inoue's work also i..
Yasutaka Hamada
Yasutaka Hamada is a Japanese race car driver who competed in the 2000 Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup. ..
Yasutaka Okayama
Yasutaka Okayama is known to be the tallest basketball player drafted in National Basketball Association historyhttp://www.nba.com/draft2003/draft_oddities_030619.html. The 7' 8" center from Japan was selected by the Golden State Warriors with the 10th pick of the eighth round of the 1981 Draft , a..
Yasutaka Tsutsui
Yasutaka Tsutsui (筒井康隆 Tsutsui Yasutaka, September 24, 1934 - ) is a Japanese novelist, science fiction author, and actor born in Osaka. Along with Shinichi Hoshi and Sakyo Komatsu, he is one of the most famous science fiction writers in Japan. His Yumenokizaka bunkiten won the Tanizaki Pr..
Yasutomi, Hyogo
Yasutomi (安富町; -cho) is a town located in Shiso District, Hyogo, Japan.On March 27, 2006, this town was merged into the city of Himeji. As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 5,818 and a density of 96.48 persons per km². The total area is 60.30 km². Exte..
Yasutora Sado
is a character of the anime and manga series Bleach. He is a teenager who studies in the same class as Ichigo Kurosaki. Yasutora is better known as Chad, mainly because the first character in his name (茶) is almost always read as cha (meaning tea). He sometimes carries a nametag so most assume h..
Yasutsune Uehara
Yasutsune Uehara Career Snapshot Born October 12, 1949 Died - Total Fights 32 Won 27 Lost 5 Drew 0 Knockouts 21 Titles Won WBA World Junior lightweight Yasutsune Uehara (上原康恒, born October 12, 1949) is a former boxer who was the WBA's world Jr. Lightweight champion. He..
Yasuura, Hiroshima
Yasuura (安浦町; -chō) was a town located in Toyota District, Hiroshima, Japan. On March 20, 2005, the town merged into the expanded city of Kure and no longer exists as an independent municipality. As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 12,596 and a density of 198...
Yasuya Uchida
Yasuya Uchida, or Kōsai Uchida (内田康哉 Uchida Yasuya, November 17,1865 - March 12,1936) was a Japanese diplomat. He served as Japanese foreign minister from 1911 to 1912, and again between 1918 and 1923, finally from 1932 to 1933. He was acting prime minister of Japan..
Yasuyo Yamasaki
Colonel Yasuyo Yamasaki commanded the Japanese forces on Attu during the Battle of the Aleutian Islands. He arrived on the island in April 1943 by submarine. His orders were to hold the island without outside help. The 2650 Japanese defenders under Yamasaki did not contest the landings but rather..
Yasuyuki Honne
Yasuyuki Honne is an artist who worked for Square Co. and is now employed with Monolith Soft. He worked on Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross, as well as other games.[Yasuyuki Honne Profile] from MobyGames. Retrieved 1 July 2006. References ..
Yasuyuki Kase
is a seiyū who works for Mausu Promotion. Notable voice roles Cid Randell in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (radio drama)Junichi Tajima in Gunparade OrchestraKankuro in NarutoRyu in [[Street Fighter Alpha: Generations]]First Aid, First Gunner, and Tera Shaver in [[Transformers: Galaxy Force]]Truff..
Yasuyuki Konno
Yasuyuki Konno (今野泰幸, born January 25, 1983 in Sendai, Japan) is a Japanese football player who plays for F.C. Tokyo in Japan's professional J. League. He was part of the Japanese 2004 Olympic football team, which finished fourth in group B, below group winners Paraguay, Italy and Ghana. ..
Yasuyuki Ueda
Yasuyuki Ueda (given name in kanji: 耕行) is a Japanese man who has been heavily involved in the production of major anime series such as Serial Experiments Lain (as a producer and story writer). He was a director for the Noel video game, worked on the Lain video games, and also on the Sega Saturn..
Yasuzo Masumura
Yasuzo Masumura (増村保造, August 25, 1924 - November 23, 1986) was a Japanese film director. He was born in Kofu on Honshu. After dropping out of a law course at the University of Tokyo he worked as an assistant director at the Daiei studio, later returning to university to study philosophy; ..
Yasuzuka, Niigata
Yasuzuka (Japanese: 安塚町; -machi) is a town located in Higashikubiki District, Niigata, Japan. As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 3,521 and a density of 50.14 persons per km². The total area is 70.23 km². ..
Yasuzumi Saneyoshi
Yasuzumi Saneyoshi (March 20, 1848 - March 1, 1932) was a pioneer of the naval medical field in Meiji Era Japan. He studied the latest medical techniques for treating Japanese navy sailors. He wrote a major treatise on naval medical techniques employed during the 1894-95 First Sino-Japanese war ..
Yasu District, Shiga
Yasu (野洲郡; -gun) was a district located in Shiga, Japan. The district was dissolved when Chuzu and Yasu towns merged on Oct. 1, 2004, effectively turning Yasu District into a Yasu city. In 2003, the district had an estimated population of 49,155 and a density of 799.92 person..
Yasu River
The is located in Shiga Prefecture, Japan; it is the largest river to flow into Lake Biwa. The Tokaido, the chief road which connected east and west Japan during the Edo period, paralelled the river. Post towns along the river included Minakuchi (now Koka), Tsuchiyama (now Koka), and Ishibe (now K..
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. Since then, the company has grown..
Yasyamon
Yasyamon is a fictional character from the Digimon franchise, a Puppet Digimon. Yasyamon is the Armor Digivolved form of Veemon through the Digi-Egg of Sincerity. He is a kendo-master. He remains calm in times of crisis and has a kinder side that will protect those weaker than himself. He is known..
Yasynuvata
Yasynuvata (Ukrainian: Ясинувата, Russian: , Yasinovataya) is a city in the Donbas region of south-eastern Ukraine. It is 21 km from Donetsk, the capital of the Donetsk Oblast. As of 2004, the city's population is 37,000. Yasynuvata is a large railway crossroad. It was founded in 1872. ..
Yas Taalat
Yas Taalat (born in Sudbury, Ontario) is a Canadian rapper, who has been associated with the rap-metal band Project Wyze and the hip hop group Dead Celebrity Status. ..
Ya Salam
Ya Salam (Translated, How Fantastic) is a 2003 album by Arabic Pop singer Nancy Ajram. It's considered to be her breakthrough album, of which contained the smash hit "Akhasmak Ah". Track listing "Akhasmak Ah" – 04:57"Nasseyto Garho" – 04:39"Yay (Sehr Oyoono)" – 04:23"Inta W Bass" – 4:56..
Ya Soshla S Uma
Я Сошла С Ума the very first cd-single of the group t.A.T.u.. "Я Сошла С Ума" (Ya Soshla S Uma) is translated as "I Have Lost My Mind." Released only in Russia, with bonus multimedia tracks. Track Listing Я Сошла С Ума (Album Version)Я Сошла С Ума (DJ Ram ..
Y Así
Y Así (English translation: "Like That") was the Austrian representative for the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, performed in English and Spanish by Global Kryner. The song was performed first in the semi-final (followed by Lithuania's Laura & The Lovers with Little By Little). At the close of voting..

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