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The Yakuts are a Ural-Asiatic people of the Turki stock inhabiting the Siberian province of Yakutsk.
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The Yameo are an extinct aboriginal people formerly living in Peru, along the Maranon and Amazon rivers from the mouth of the Tigre to the Nanay River. By 1925 their numbers had dropped to fifty, by the late 20th century they were extinct.
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The Yao are a people living in south China, north Vietnam, north Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar (Burma), and numbering about 4 million. The Yao language may belong to either the Sino-Tibetan or the Thai language family. The Yao incorporate elements of ancestor worship in their animist religion. The
Yao are generally hill- dwelling farmers practising shifting cultivation, growing rice, vegetables, and also opium poppies. Some are nomadic.
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Yasser Arafat (real name Mohammed Abed Ar'ouf Arafat) was a Palestinian resistance leader. He was born in 1929 at Jerusalem and died in 2004. Attending Cairo University from 1952 to 1956 he was leader of the Palestinian Students' Union before co-founding the Al Fatah resistance group in 1956, a group which was to join the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) upon its formation in 1964, and within five years control the PLO with Arafat as its leader. In 1994 he was jointly awarded the Nobel prize for peace with Israel's foreign minister Shimon Peres for a negotiated peace deal aimed at ending the conflict in Palestine - at the time of his death the conflict in Palestine had still not been resolved, and many Israelis considered him a terrorist who supported terror attacks on Israeli civilians.
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The Yi are a people living in south China; there are also Yi populations in Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam, totalling about 5.5 million. The Yi are farmers, producing both crops and livestock. Their language belongs to the Sino- Tibetan family; their religion is animist.
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Yoko Ono is a Japanese born musician, writer, artist and the widow of John Lennon. She was born in 1933 at Tokyo.
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A Yorkist was a member or supporter of the Royal House of York. The term especially applies to the Yorkshire faction of the Wars Of The Roses.
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The Yoruba are the majority ethnic group living in south west Nigeria; there is a Yoruba minority in east Benin. They number approximately 20 million in all, and their language belongs to the Kwa branch of the Niger- Congo family. The Yoruba established powerful city-states in the 15th century, known for their advanced culture which includes sculpture, art, and music. The Yoruba kingdom was broken up in 1820 by an invasion of the Fulahs who captured the city of Ilorin.
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The Yumas are a North American Indian people also called the Cuchans. They formerly occupied both banks of the Colorado above the river Gila confluence in Arizona and the San Diego district of California.
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Yuri Gagarin was a Russian cosmonaut and the first man to go into space in 1961.
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