Seven Years' War
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~ a war of England and Prussia against France and Austria (1756-1763); Britain and Prussia got the better of it
Sir Yehudi Menuhin
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~ British violinist (born in the United States) who began his career as a child prodigy in the 1920s (1916-1999)
southern yellow pine
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~ large three-needled pine of southeastern United States having very long needles and gnarled twisted limbs; bark is red-brown deeply ridged; an important timber tree
shortleaf yellow pine
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~ large pine of southern United States having short needles in bunches of 2-3 and red-brown bark when mature
South-African yellowwood
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~ erect or shrubby tree of Africa having ridged dark grey bark and rigid glossy medium to long leaves
stinking yew
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~ rare small evergreen of northern Florida; its glossy green leaves have an unpleasant fetid smell when crushed
Sun Yixian
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~ Chinese statesman who organized the Kuomintang and led the revolution that overthrew the Manchu dynasty in 1911 and 1912 (1866-1925)
South Yorkshire
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~ a metropolitan county in northern England
siege of Yorktown
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~ in 1781 the British under Cornwallis surrendered after a siege of three weeks by American and French troops; the surrender ended the American Revolution
Sir James Young Simpson
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~ Scottish obstetrician and surgeon who pioneered in the use of ether and discovered the anesthetic effects of chloroform (1811-1870)
Strauss the Younger
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~ Austrian composer and son of Strauss the Elder; composed many famous waltzes and became known as the `waltz king' (1825-1899)
second battle of Ypres
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~ battle in World War I (1915); Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient
spoonleaf yucca
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~ yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages
Salah-ad-Din Yusuf ibn-Ayyub
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~ sultan of Syria and Egypt; reconquered Jerusalem from the Christians in 1187 but was defeated by Richard Coeur de Lion in 1191 (1137-1193)
Simon the Zealot
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~ one of the twelve Apostles (first century)
Simon Zelotes
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~ one of the twelve Apostles (first century)
Sansevieria zeylanica
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~ plant having thick fibrous leaves transversely banded in light and dark green
sign of the zodiac
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~ (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
Seriola zonata
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~ fish having the habit of following ships; found in North American and South American coastal waters
safety zone
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~ a curbed area in a roadway from which traffic is excluded; provides safe area for pedestrians