York Reference library
Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.)
... US frequency (2010): 53059 1 English: habitational name from the city of York in northern England. The surname is now widespread throughout England. Originally, the city bore the Latin name Eburacum , which is probably from a Brittonic name meaning ‘yew-tree place’. This was altered by folk etymology to Old English Eoforwīc (from the elements eofor ‘wild boar’ + wīc ‘specialized farmstead’). This name was taken over by Scandinavian settlers, who altered it back to opacity in the form Jórvík or Jórk (English York , which became finally settled...
New York Convention Reference library
A Dictionary of Oil & Gas Industry Terms (2 ed.)
...New York Convention The 1958 Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards ( http://www.newyorkconvention.org ). ...
York–Antwerp Rules Reference library
Australian Law Dictionary (3 ed.)
...York–Antwerp Rules A set of international rules of interpretation governing the rules procedures relating to general average, enacted in Australia as Marine Insurance Act 1909 (Cth) s 72. Its origins lie in the Digest of Justinian , Book XIV ( ce 530 ): ‘The Rhodian Law decrees that, if in order to lighten a ship, merchandise has been thrown overboard, that which has been given for all should be replaced by the contribution of all.’ Rule A similarly states, ‘There is a general average act when, and only when, any extraordinary sacrifice or expenditure...
New York School Reference library
T. Diggory
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (4 ed.)
...painting, further distinguishes the New York school poets from their literary contemporaries, the Beats ( see beat poetry ). Although expressionist, like the Beats, New York school poets tended to be more abstract in their emphasis on the verbal medium. Words could assume their own expressive quality independent of representational meaning. New York City, the scene that brought the poets together during the 1950s, is often depicted in vivid detail in their work, esp. that of O’Hara, but city life informs the New York school aesthetic most profoundly in...
New York Mercantile Exchange Reference library
A Dictionary of Oil & Gas Industry Terms (2 ed.)
...New York Mercantile Exchange ( NYMEX ) A New York-based trading exchange on which crude oil, natural gas, and products are traded ( http://www.cmegroup.com/company/nymex.xhtml ). ...
New York City, United States (2011) Reference library
Peter J. MARCOTULLIO
Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability
...of New York City . Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press. DiNapoli, Thomas P. (2010). Economic trends in New York State . New York: Office of the State Comptroller, New York City Public Information office. Drennan, Matthew , & Matson, Cathy . (1995). Economy. In Kenneth T. Jackson (Ed.), The encyclopedia of New York City (pp. 358–363). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Ellis, Edward Robb . (1966). The epic of New York City: A narrative history . New York: Old Town Books. Galusha, Diane . (1999). Liquid assets: A history of New York...
New York Magazine Reference library
Kara Newman
Savoring Gotham: A Food Lover’s Companion to New York City
...York Magazine New York magazine, an influential city-focused publication, has thrown a spotlight on New York City’s restaurant culture for more than four decades. In general, the publication’s focus is broader than just food. As its mission, the magazine says it “covers, analyzes, comments on, and defines the news, culture, entertainment, lifestyle, fashion, and personalities that drive New York City.” New York began life in 1963 as the Sunday magazine supplement of the New York Herald Tribune newspaper, where Clay Felker was hired as a consultant....
New York Times Reference library
Andrew F. Smith
Savoring Gotham: A Food Lover’s Companion to New York City
...York Times No news source has influenced what New Yorkers eat more than the New York Times . For more than seventy years it has hired professionals to write about food. The newspaper began publishing a “Housekeeper’s Column” in 1875 ; its unnamed editor published readers’ recipes and answered their questions, as well as offered the editor’s own recipes. In 1942 , the Times hired Jane Nickerson as the paper’s first food editor. Nickerson’s emphasis on food news, rather than just recipes and cooking tips, laid the foundation for the newspaper’s coverage of...
New York University Reference library
Amy Bentley and Shayne Leslie Figueroa
Savoring Gotham: A Food Lover’s Companion to New York City
...York University The New York University food studies program, begun in 1996 , is the largest stand-alone academic food studies program in the United States. Employing interdisciplinary approaches from the humanities and the social sciences, NYU food studies examines food as a bio-cultural system focused on the urban environment. Its curriculum prepares students to analyze the current American food systems, global connections, and local alternatives. Located within NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, the NYU Food Studies...
New-York Historical Society Reference library
Cindy R. Lobel
Savoring Gotham: A Food Lover’s Companion to New York City
...York Historical Society The New-York Historical Society (NYHS) is a history museum and library located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The Society, founded in 1804 , is the oldest museum in New York City. NYHS offers temporary and permanent exhibitions of art and material culture that relate to the cultural, social, and political history of New York and the nation at large. Among the most popular and well-known temporary exhibits that the Society has hosted since 2003 are Slavery in New York (the museum’s largest themed exhibit in two hundred years)...
New York Strip Steak Reference library
Jonathan Deutsch
Savoring Gotham: A Food Lover’s Companion to New York City
...York Strip Steak New York Strip Steak, also called New York Steak, New York Strip, New York Sirloin, Delmonico Steak, or Kansas City Steak (particularly in the Midwest), is properly a strip loin steak, usually boneless, cut from the Longissimus dorsi muscle or short loin primal, along the back mid-section of the steer, between the ribs to the front and sirloin to the rear, and above the flank. The short loin is not a particularly well exercised muscle, given its position on the steer, giving it good tenderness and marbling. While not as prestigious or...
New York Cooking School Reference library
Cathy K. Kaufman
Savoring Gotham: A Food Lover’s Companion to New York City
...York Cooking School The New York Cooking School was founded by Juliet Corson in November 1876 . Although not New York City’s first cooking school (Pierre Blot ran two very short-lived ventures in the 1860s: the Culinary Academy of Design and his confusingly named New York Cooking School), Corson’s school became famous for its various curricula, geared to different social classes, especially the economic needs of working-class families. Corson’s New York Cooking School was established in the wake of the severe economic downturn of the panic of 1873 . At that...
New York Public Library Reference library
Rebecca Federman
Savoring Gotham: A Food Lover’s Companion to New York City
...history—as well as simply helping you decide what to make for dinner. See also cookbooks and menus . Ryley, Alison . “Mrs. Whitney’s Cabinet Enlarged and Opened: Some Resources in Culinary History at the New York Public Library.” Biblion 2, no. 1 (Fall 1993): 19. Stark, Lewis . The Whitney Cookery Collection . New York: The New York Public Library, 1946. Rebecca...
York Reference library
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain
... 1881: 3871; widespread: especially Northants. English: locative name from the city of York...
York Reference library
Sarah Foot
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (4 ed.)
...Church in York (Borthwick Papers, 64; York, 1983). E. Royle , Nonconformity in Nineteenth-Century York (ibid. 68; 1985). F. Drake , Eboracum, or the History and Antiquities of the City of York (1736), esp. bk 2, ‘The History and Antiquities of the Church of York’, 399–627. A. Raine , Mediaeval York: A Topographical Survey Based on Original Sources (London, 1955). VCH , Yorks. The City of York, ed. P. M. Tillott (1961), esp. 337–419. A. Stacpoole , OSB, et al. (eds), The Noble City of York (York, 1972). City of York (Royal...
York Reference library
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
...R. B. Dobson , The Jews of Medieval York and the Massacre of March 1190 , York, 1974. A History of York Minster , G. E. Aylmer (ed.), R. Cant (ed.), Oxford, 1977. D. M. Palliser , Domesday York , York, 1990. R. A. Hall , Viking Age York , London, 1994. D. Phillips , B. Heywood , Excavations at York Minser I. From Roman Fortress to Norman Cathedral , London, 1995. The Government of Medieval York , S. R. Jones (ed.), York, 1997. Barrie...
York Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
...county cricket team that plays in the Totesport League limited-overs competition is dubbed the ‘Yorkshire Tykes’). It formerly specially denoted a clownish rustic of that county. See also tike . Duke of York’s Column, The See under duke . Grand Old Duke of York, The See under grand . Noble Duke of York, The See under noble . St William of York See under william...
York Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3 ed.)
... . York was the military headquarters of the Romans in northern Britain. A Bp. of York is recorded in 314. The Christian community was destroyed in the Saxon invasions. St Paulinus , who was consecrated Bp. of York in 625, baptized the Northumbrian King Edwin in 627 and received the pallium in 631. After another pagan invasion, in 633 Paulinus fled to Rochester , and York came under the care of the bishops of Lindisfarne . The see was restored in 664 with the consecration of St Wilfrid ; in 735, under Egbert , it was raised to archiepiscopal dignity...
York Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
... (see) A bishop of *York is first mentioned in the 4th century. The *diocese is one of two metropolitan sees in England. Its extent varied during the medieval period: at its largest it included the dioceses of Scotland, the *Isles , *Worcester , *Lindsey , and *Lincoln ; by the 16th century it lost most of these but included the dioceses of *Durham , *Carlisle , and Sodor and the Isle of *Man . From 1118 the York archbishops received the pallium directly from the pope in Rome. Innocent VI ( 1352–62 ) settled the dispute over precedence by...
York Reference library
Martin Carver and Richard A. Hall
The Oxford Companion To Archaeology (2 ed.)
...program, intended to advance the understanding of York’s remarkable history, as opportunity and funding allow. [ See also British Isles . ] Addyman, P. V. The Archaeology of York , 19 vols., 1976–2006. Dean, G. Medieval York , 2008. Hall, R. A. Viking-Age York , 1994. Hall, R. A. York , 1996. Ottaway, P. Roman York , 2009. Ove Arup and Partners and the Department of Archaeology, University of York. York Development and Archaeology Study , 1991. Phillips, A. D. Excavations at York Minster , vol. 2, The Cathedral of Archbishop Thomas...
