High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sir Yue-Kong Pao CBE, JP, often referred to as "Sir Y.K. Pao" or just "Y.K.", was the founder of Hong Kong's World-Wide Shipping Group which in the 20 years from purchasing its first second-hand ship in 1955 became by far the largest shipping company in the world with over 20 million metric tons deadweight (DWT). Astutely anticipating the seriousness of the shipping downturn starting in the late 1970s he drastically reduced his fleet and was able to pay off associated debt and raise cash to diversify his interests notably through the purchase of a controlling stake in The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company Limited (now known as Wharf (Holdings)) and later Wheelock Marden giving an...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Yugo class submarine is a class of four midget submarines used primarily for infiltration and espionage by North Korea. The class is so named because it was built to plans supplied to North Korea by Yugoslavia in 1965. This class is actually a family of midget submarines for that not all are identical. The displacement is either the standard 90 tons of the original Yugoslavian design for the early units, or 110 tons for the later units, while armament is either a pair of 400 mm torpedo tubes (early units) or a pair of 21 in short torpedo tubes (later units), however, all units have the same range: 550 nautical miles (1,020 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h) on the surface and 50 nautical miles (93...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yugoslav Navy (JRM) Yacht Galeb, also known as The Peace Ship Galeb (Brod Mira), was used by the late President of the Yugoslav Republic Marshal Tito on his numerous foreign trips and to entertain heads of state, as well as other persons of worldwide renown. The ship attained an iconic status among the peoples of Yugoslavia, as well as among the many diverse nations and members of the Non-Aligned Movement. "Galeb" is Serbo-Croatian for "seagull" (the Laridae family). Galeb started its tumultuous career in 1938 in Genoa, where it was built as a banana-boat Ramb III. After the armistice in 1943, it was taken over by the Germans and they turned it into an auxiliary cruiser under the name Kiebitz....

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yulin class gunboats were gunboats of the People's Republic of China's People's Liberation Army Navy. They first entered service in the 1960's, but had been completely taken out of active service by the late 1990's, and were transferred to law enforcement agencies. However, just like the Shantou, Huangpu and Beihai classes that were transferred for law enforcement adaptation, these obsolete and aging boats are not satisfactory in their new roles due to their low maximum speed, sometime as low as 10 knots, which was not sufficient enough to catch the smugglers' high speed motorboats. As a result, these boats were subsequently transferred again, this time to reserves, subordinated to naval...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Yue Loong/Yulon Feeling 101/102 was a five-door notchback built in Taiwan from 1986 on. First presented in October 1986, it was heavily based on the T12 Auster/Stanza, built by Yulon's affiliate Nissan. Despite Yulon having invested heavily in a new R Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yulon Motor Co., Ltd. is an automaker in Taiwan, founded as a machinery company in 1953. In response to Republic of China President Chiang Kai-Shek's appeal, Shanghai entrepreneur Jia Yanqing established Yulon in 1953 in order to manufacture machinery parts. It is best known for building Nissans under license. The original romanization of the company's name is Yue Loong. In 1992 the company renewed its logo and switched to the shorter Yulon name. Yulon began building Nissan automobiles under license in the 1960s. For many years the company's mission was to eventually develop an indigenous auto industry for Taiwan, guided with some assistance from the government — a pattern later realized by...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground is one of the largest military installations in the world. Situated in southwestern La Paz County and western Yuma County in southwestern Arizona, U.S., approximately 30 miles (48 km) north-east of the city of Yuma, the proving ground is used for testing military equipment and encompasses 1,307.8 square miles (3,387.2 km ) in the northwestern Sonoran Desert. The proving ground conducts tests on nearly every weapon system in the ground combat arsenal. Munitions and artillery systems are tested here in an area almost completely removed from urban encroachment and noise concerns. Restricted airspace controlled by the test center amounts to over 2,000 square...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yumi is the Japanese term for bows, and includes the longer daiky? and the shorter hanky? used in the practice of ky?d?, or Japanese archery. The yumi is exceptionally tall, standing over two meters, and surpassing the height of the archer. They are traditionally made by laminating bamboo, wood and leather, using techniques which have not changed for centuries, although some archers (particularly beginners) may use a synthetic yumi. The construction used may be a Japanese development of the laminated bows widely used for centuries across Northern Eurasia and in J?mon times in Japan. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Yunnan–Guangdong HVDC is a high-voltage direct current transmission system connecting Chuxiong in the Yunnan to Suidong, Zengcheng in Guangdong, China. It is the first HVDC link in the world operating at a transmission voltage of 800 kV. The transmission line is operated by China Southern Power Grid. In 2007, the order to supply the system was awarded to Siemens Energy. The first pole was put into operation in December 2009 with the second pole to follow in June 2010. The transmission system has a transmission capacity of 5,000 MW and a rated DC current of 3,125 A. It has a total length of 1,418 kilometres...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Sino-Vietnamese Railway is a 855 km railway built by France during 1904-1910, connecting Haiphong, Vietnam with Kunming, Yunnan, China. The section within China from Kunming to Hekou is known as the Kunming-Hekou Railway, and is 466 km long. The section within Vietnam is 389 km long. The railway used 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3/8 in) gauge due to the mountainous terrain along the route. Currently it is the only main line in China using metre gauge, but may be converted to standard gauge. The railway was opened in 1910. There was a 2 ft (610 mm) gauge branch line from Jijie to Gejiu which operated 0-10-0 tender locos...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Yunoki Station is a railway station on the Minobu Line of Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) located in Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Yunoki Station was opened on July 1, 1931 as the Motoichiba Signal Depot. It was elevated to full station status as the Motoichiba Station on October 1, 1938, when the Minobu Line was leased to the national government. It came under control of the Japan National Railway on May 1, 1941. In September 1961, the tracks from Fuji to Tatebori were double tracked, and the Motoichi Station building was demolished and relocated 1.5 kilometers to the east of its former site, at...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Yunoki Station is a train station of the Shizuoka-Shimizu Line in Aoi-ku, Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Yunoki Station was established as Magarikane Station on December 9, 1908. It was renamed to Gokoku Jinjamae Station in 1942, due to its proximity to the Shizuoka Prefectural Gokoku Jinja, a Shinto shrine to the war dead, and branch of Yasukuni Shrine. The station received its present name after World War II. Yunoki Station has two parallel side platforms. The station building is built onto one end of one of the platforms, and has automated ticket machines, and automated turnstiles, which accept the...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The yupana (Quechua for "counting tool") is a device used by the Incas, presumably as a type of calculator. Though some researchers have hypothesized how this implement might function like an abacus, others are less certain that it was used for this purpose. The 16th-century account of Spanish priest Jose de Acosta suggests that Incas may have possessed such a device: "To see them use another kind of calculator, with maize kernels. In order to carry out a very difficult computation for which an able computer would require pen and paper, these Indians make use of their kernels. They place one here, three...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Yuri Estrin (professor), also written "Juri Estrin" is an authority on materials science and engineering, particularly in the areas of physical metallurgy, materials modelling, and development of new materials. Yuri Estrin was born and educated in the former Soviet Union, where he completed his university studies in Physics and Materials Engineering in Moscow with a high distinction. He worked as a researcher at the Institute of Crystallography of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union and received his PhD degree from that institution in 1975. In 1977, he briefly visited Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Yuri N. Artsutanov (1929-) is a Russian engineer born in Leningrad. A graduate of Leningrad Technological Institute, he is best known for being one of the pioneers of the idea of space elevator. In 1960 he wrote an article "V Kosmos na Electrovoze (en. Into space with the help of an electric locomotive)", where he discussed the concept of the space elevator as an economic, safe and convenient way to access orbit and facilitate space exploration. Artsutanov developed the idea from works of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, who in 1895 proposed an idea of building an orbital tower. Artsutanov's concept was based on the...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Yurka class were a group of minesweepers built for the Soviet Navy and export customers between 1963 and 1970. The Soviet designation was Project 266 Rubin. A new ocean minesweeper design was requested in 1957 to follow the T43 class minesweeper into the Soviet Navy. The design was approved in 1959 and entered service in 1963. Major improvements in mine detection and anti mine explosion protection were implemented. Magnetic , acoustic and electric signatures were reduced. The hull was built of low magnetic steel. About 41 ships were built for the Soviet Navy, One ship was lost to an accidental explosion in...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Col. Yuri Ivanovich Onufriyenko (Russian: Юрий Иванович Онуфриенко, Ukrainian: Юрій Іванович Онуфрієнко) (born 6 February 1961) is a Russian cosmonaut. He is a veteran of two extended spaceflights, aboard the space station Mir in 1996 and aboard the International Space Station in 2001-2002.

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Yury Vladimirovich Lomonosov (Russian: Юрий Владимирович Ломоносов 24 April 1876 – 19 November 1952) was a Russian railway engineer and a leading figure in the development of Russian Railways in the early 20th century. He was best known for design and construction of the world's first operationally successful mainline diesel locomotive, which was completed in 1924 and went into service in 1925. In the late 1920s, Lomonosov immigrated to Europe and later became a British citizen. In May 1897, Lomonosov married Sofya Alexandrovna Antonovich, a daughter of railway constructor A. I....

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yury Valentinovich Lonchakov (Russian: Юрий Валентинович Лончаков; born 4 March 1965) is a Russian cosmonaut and a veteran of three space missions. He has spent 200 days in space and has conducted two career spacewalks.

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The proposed Yusufeli Dam and Hydro-Electric Power Project is to be located on the Coruh River at Yusufeli in the eastern Black Sea region of Turkey. The Yusufeli Dam will be the second largest dam within the larger Coruh River Development Plan which plans to build 13 dams, of which 2 are operational and another 2 are under construction. The Yusufeli Dam will have 33 km2 surface area, 60 km total length (including tributaries), and an average width of 550 m. Operating 8 hours per day over peak period it will produce 315-540 MW and is expected to cost 855 million USD. The proponents of this project are the...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Yutaka Katayama (born Yutaka Asoh on 15 September 1909), also known as Mr K, is a former Japanese automotive executive who was employed by Nissan and served as the first president of Nissan Motor Corporation U.S.A. Katayama expanded Nissan's focus from economy vehicles towards sportier vehicles, and is regarded by Datsun/Nissan Z Car enthusiasts as the father of the Z-Car, as well as the Datsun 510. In 1939, during World War II, he was ordered to report to a Nissan plant in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, but managed to obtain a transfer back to Japan in 1941. Near the end of the war in 1945, he refused...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Zhengzhou Yutong Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Yutong Group), its head office located in Zhengzhou, Henan province, is a large-scale enterprise group with bus making as the core business, engineering machinery and real estate as the strategic business and at the same time giving attention to other investment portfolios. The core enterprise of Yutong Group--- Zhengzhou Yutong Bus Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Yutong Bus”) is located in Zhengzhou Industrial Park and now has developed into the largest and most advanced bus manufacturing base in Asia. In 2007, sales amount of Yutong Group...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Yuwen Zhang is a Chinese-born American scientist and engineer. He is currently a Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the University of Missouri in Columbia, MO. He is also a Changjiang Scholar Guest Chair Professor of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China. Yuwen Zhang received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Connecticut in 1998. Before joining the faculty at at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the University of Missouri (MU) in 2003, he was a faculty member at the Department of Mechanical Engineering in New Mexico State University. He also holds a...

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