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- (from the article "Milky Way Galaxy") ...motion. They may be divided into a set of components related to directions in the Galaxy: U, directed away from the galactic centre; V, in the direction of galactic rotation; ...
- W National Park
- (from the article "Principal national parks of the world") ...In its place, many oil palms and ronier palms have been planted and food crops are cultivated. North of Abomey the vegetation is an intermixture of forest and savanna (grassy ...
- W particle
- one of two massive electrically charged subatomic particles that are thought to transmit the weak force-that is, the force that governs radioactive decay in certain kinds of atomic nuclei. According ... [10 Related Articles]
- W Ursae Majoris star
- (from the article "star") Novas appear to be binary stars that have evolved from contact binaries of the W Ursae Majoris type, which are pairs of stars apparently similar to the Sun in size ...
- W. G. Low House
- (from the article "McKim, Charles Follen") ...and influential American architectural firm of its time. Until 1887 the firm excelled at informal summer houses built of shingles, and McKim designed one of the most significant of these, ...
- W.C. Austin Reclamation Project
- (from the article "Altus") ...products, especially cotton, stimulated the city's growth during World War I, but during the Great Depression and drought in the 1930s Altus became part of Oklahoma's Dust Bowl. The nearby ...
- W.H., Mr.
- person known only by his initials, to whom the first edition of William Shakespeare's sonnets (1609) was dedicated:To the onlie begetter ofThese insuing sonnetsMr. W.H. all happinesseAnd that eternitiePromisedbyOur ever-living ... [1 Related Articles]
- W.J. van Blommestein Lake
- (from the article "Suriname") The Brokopondo Dam and a hydroelectric power plant on the Suriname River produce electricity for the bauxite-refining operations in Paranam. The dam impounds the 600-square-mile W.J. van Blommestein Lake. The ...
- W.R. Grace & Co.
- American industrial company, with international interests in specialty chemicals, construction materials, coatings, and sealants. It is headquartered in Columbia, Maryland. [1 Related Articles]
- Wa
- peoples of the upland areas of eastern Myanmar (Burma) and southwestern Yunnan province of China. They speak a variety of Austroasiatic languages related to those spoken by upland-dwelling groups in ... [5 Related Articles]
- Wa language
- (from the article "Austroasiatic languages") ...The vowels may have, for example, a "breathy" register, a "creaky" register, or a clear one. This feature, which is fairly rare the world over, is found, for example, in ...
- Waage, Peter
- (from the article "mass action, law of") ...with each mass raised to a power equal to the coefficient that occurs in the chemical equation. This law was formulated over the period 1864-79 by the Norwegian scientists Cato ...
- Waal Interglacial Stage
- division of Pleistocene time and deposits in The Netherlands and northern Europe (the Pleistocene Epoch dates from 1,600,000 to 10,000 years ago). The Waal Interglacial follows the Eburon Glacial Stage ...
- Waal River
- (from the article "Gelderland") The southern division of the province is watered by the Rhine, Waal, and Maas (Meuse) rivers. In the east are some isolated hills and a sandy, wooded stretch south of ...
- Waals, Johannes Diederik van der
- Dutch physicist, winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize for Physics for his research on the gaseous and liquid states of matter. His work made the study of temperatures near absolute ... [4 Related Articles]
- Wabag
- town on the island of New Guinea, north-central Papua New Guinea, southwestern Pacific Ocean. Situated on the Lai River at an elevation of 6,000 feet (1,830 m), it was first ...
- Wabana
- town, southeastern Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, just northwest of St. John's, on Bell Island in Conception Bay. Located in the centre of one of the world's richest deposits of ...
- Wabar Craters
- group of meteorite craters discovered in 1932 in the Rub' al-Khali desert of Saudi Arabia. The largest crater is 330 feet (100 m) in diameter, 40 feet (12 m) deep, ...
- Wabash
- city, seat (1835) of Wabash county, northeastern Indiana, U.S., on the Wabash River, 45 miles (72 km) west-southwest of Fort Wayne. It was platted in 1834 on land ceded to ...
- Wabash and Erie Canal
- (from the article "Evansville") The Wabash and Erie Canal was completed in 1853 to Evansville, its southern terminus, and, until its abandonment in the 1860s, connected Lake Erie with the Ohio River. Evansville has ...
- Wabash College
- (from the article "Mills, Caleb") In 1833 Mills moved to Indiana and settled in Crawfordsville, where he established a school that later became Wabash College. At first he was the sole instructor as well as ...
- Wabash River
- largest southward-flowing tributary of the Ohio River, rising in Grand Lake, western Ohio. It flows generally westward across Indiana past the cities of Huntington, Wabash, Logansport, and Lafayette, then southward ... [1 Related Articles]
- WABC
- (from the article "WABC") WABC in New York City was relatively late getting into the game of Top 40 radio. By the time of its entrance in 1960, Alan Freed had come and gone, ...
- wabi
- (from the article "Sen Rikyu") ...He returned to the utter simplicity practiced by Shuko, a 15th-century monk who founded the Japanese tea ceremony. He firmly established the concepts of wabi (deliberate simplicity ...
- wabi-cha
- (from the article "Japan") ...Kamakura period, spread among warriors and even common people from the mid-14th century. In the time of the shogun Yoshimasa, Murata Shuko, a man of merchant background from Nara, began ...
- Wabigoon Belt
- (from the article "Precambrian time") ...occurrences are the Barberton belt in South Africa; the Sebakwian, Belingwean, and Bulawayan-Shamvaian belts of Zimbabwe; the Yellowknife belts in the Slave province of Canada; the Abitibi, Wawa, Wabigoon, and ...
- Waccho
- king of the Lombards in the period preceding the invasion of Italy, when they occupied territory roughly coinciding with Austria north of the Danube River.
- Wace
- Anglo-Norman author of two verse chronicles, the Roman de Brut (1155) and the Roman de Rou (1160-74), named respectively after the reputed founders of the Britons and Normans. [1 Related Articles]
- Wach, Joachim
- Protestant theologian and one of the foremost scholars in the modern study of religion. [1 Related Articles]
- Wachau
- (from the article "Niederosterreich") There were prehistoric settlements in the Danube Gorge (Wachau), in the southeast, and in the Vienna Basin. Later, the area was part of the Roman province of Noricum and of ...
- Wachmann, Abraham
- (from the article "dance notation") The system developed by the Israeli dance theorist Noa Eshkol and the architect Abraham Wachmann was first published in English as Movement Notation in 1958. It took ...
- Wachmann, Arthur Arno
- (from the article "Schwassmann-Wachmann 1, Comet") short-period comet discovered photographically by the German astronomers Friedrich Carl Arnold Schwassmann and Arthur Arno Wachmann in 1927. It has the most nearly circular orbit of any comet known (eccentricity ...
- Wachock
- (from the article "Skarzysko-Kamienna") ...Przemyslowe, or the Old Poland Industrial Basin, which extends from the city to the Swietokrzyskie ("Holy Cross") Mountains. Just east of the city at Wachock, the area's mining industry began ...
- Wachsmann, Konrad
- German-born American architect notable for his contributions to the mass production of building components.
- wacke
- sedimentary rock composed of sand-sized grains (0.063-2 mm [0.0025-0.078 inch]) with a fine-grained clay matrix. The sand-sized grains are frequently composed of rock fragments of wide-ranging mineralogies (e.g., those consisting ... [4 Related Articles]
- Wackenroder, Wilhelm Heinrich
- writer and critic who was the originator, with his friend Ludwig Tieck, of some of the most important ideas of German Romanticism. [2 Related Articles]
- Wacker process
- (from the article "acetaldehyde") ...chemical compounds. It has been manufactured by the hydration of acetylene and by the oxidation of ethanol (ethyl alcohol). Today the dominant process for the manufacture of acetaldehyde is the ...
- Wackernagel, Jacob
- Swiss historical and comparative linguist known primarily for his monumental work on Sanskrit.
- Waco
- city, seat (1850) of McLennan county, north-central Texas, U.S. Waco lies along the Brazos River, some 100 miles (160 km) south of Dallas. It was founded in 1849 on the ... [2 Related Articles]
- wad
- black and earthy substance that consists mainly of hydrated manganese oxides; it is an important ore of manganese. It varies considerably in chemical composition and contains different impurities, often in ...
- Wad Madani
- city, east-central Sudan. Wad Madani lies on the west bank of the Blue Nile, 85 miles (136 km) southeast of Khartoum, at an elevation of 1,348 feet (411 metres). It ...
- Wadai
- historical African kingdom east of Lake Chad and west of Darfur, in what is now the Ouaddai (q.v.) region of eastern Chad. It was founded in the 16th century, and ... [2 Related Articles]
- wadden
- (from the article "Frisian Islands") ...Periodic subsidence, storms, and flooding have since produced this long chain of islands separated from the mainland by the narrow belt of shallow waters and tidal mud flats generally called ...
- Waddenzee
- shallow inlet of the North Sea between the West Frisian Islands and the northern Netherlands mainland. The inlet extends from Noord-Holland to the northeast, where the islands gradually curve toward ... [1 Related Articles]
- Waddington, C.H.
- British embryologist, geneticist, and philosopher of science. [1 Related Articles]
- Waddington, Mount
- (from the article "Coast Mountains") ...Yukon Territory, Can., along the border of the panhandle of Alaska, U.S., to the Fraser River. Many peaks exceed 11,000 feet (3,400 m), including Monarch Mountain and Mounts Munday, Tiedemann, ...
- Waddington, William Henry
- French scholar, diplomat, and politician. His appointment as French premier by the moderate Republicans, largely because of his cautious and colourless personality, marked the beginning of a trend in the ...
- Wade's rules
- (from the article "chemical bonding") ...and some resembling spiderwebs (the arachno-boranes). Which type of structure is obtained correlates with the number of valence electrons in the molecule, and the correlation is expressed by Wade's rules. ...
- Wade, Abdoulaye
- Following four unsuccessful attempts to gain high office, on April 1, 2000, Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) leader Abdoulaye Wade was sworn in as Senegal's third president; his election signaled a ... [6 Related Articles]
- Wade, Benjamin F.
- U.S. senator during the Civil War whose radical views brought him into conflict with presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson.
- Wade, Dwyane
- (from the article "Basketball") ...Biographies) waited through 13 seasons of his career and endured a kidney transplant before winning for the first time. For all parties the wait was more than ...
- Wade, Henry Menasco
- American attorney and prosecutor (b. Nov. 11, 1914, Rockwall, Texas-d. March 1, 2001, Dallas, Texas), served as district attorney of Dallas county from 1951 to 1987; he attracted national attention ...
- Wade, Marion E.
- (from the article "ServiceMaster Company, The") The company was founded by former minor league baseball player Marion E. Wade, who opened a mothproofing business in 1929. After recovering from temporary blindness caused by a chemical accident ...
- Wade, Sir Thomas Francis
- British diplomatist and Sinologist who developed the famous Wade-Giles system of romanizing the Chinese language. [3 Related Articles]
- Wade, Virginia
- (from the article "All-England (Wimbledon) Tennis Championships-singles") The first open tournament was the British Hard Courts at Bournemouth in April 1968, where the champions were Ken Rosewall and Virginia Wade. The first open Wimbledon was a joyous ...
- Wade-Davis Bill
- (1864), unsuccessful attempt by Radical Republicans and others in the U.S. Congress to set Reconstruction policy before the end of the Civil War. The bill, sponsored by senators Benjamin F. ... [5 Related Articles]
- Wade-Giles romanization
- system of romanizing the modern Chinese written language, originally devised to simplify Chinese-language characters for the Western world. Initiated by Sir Thomas Francis Wade, the ... [3 Related Articles]
- Wadgaon, battle of
- (from the article "Maratha Wars") The first war (1775-82) began with British support for Raghunath Rao's bid for the office of peshwa (chief minister) of the confederacy. The British were defeated at Wadgaon (see Wadgaon, ...
- Wadgaon, Convention of
- (Jan. 13, 1779), compact concluded after the First Maratha War in India (1775-82), marking the end of British efforts to intervene in Maratha affairs by making Raghunath Rao peshwa (the ...
- Wadi al-Jadid, Al-
- desert muhafazah (governorate), southwestern Egypt. It includes the entire southwestern quadrant of the country, from the Nile River valley (east) to the frontiers with The Sudan (south) ...
- Wadi Al-Murabba'at
- (from the article "Dead Sea Scrolls") The documents were recovered in the Judaean wilderness from five principal sites: Khirbat Qumran, Wadi Al-Murabba'at, Nahal Hever (Wadi Khabrah) and Nahal Ze'elim (Wadi Seiyal), Wadi Daliyeh, and Masada. The ...
- Wadi Halfa
- town, extreme northern Sudan. It lies on the east bank of the Nile River 6 miles (10 km) below the Second Cataract, just south of the Egyptian border. Located within ...
- wadiyar
- (from the article "Karnataka") ...In the latter part of the 16th century the Vijayanagar empire faded, giving place to Mughal power north of the Tungabhadra River and to the rajas of Mysore in the ...
- Wadjet
- cobra goddess of ancient Egypt. Depicted as a cobra twined around a papyrus stem, she was the tutelary goddess of Lower Egypt. Wadjet and Nekhbet, the vulture-goddess of Upper Egypt, ...
- Wadsworth Atheneum
- (from the article "Hartford") ...interest, including the tombstone of the American Revolutionary War hero Israel Putnam. A gem of colonial architecture is the old three-story brick statehouse (1796) designed by Charles Bulfinch. Wadsworth Atheneum, ...
- Wadsworth, Charles
- (from the article "Dickinson, Emily") ...her sister and father, who was then ending his term as U.S. representative. On the return trip the sisters made an extended stay in Philadelphia, where it is thought the ...
- Wadsworth, Edward
- (from the article "London Group") ...whose work was strongly influenced by Cubist and Futurist geometry and colour, also joined the London Group. These included the abstract sculptor Jacob Epstein, the Vorticists Wyndham Lewis and Edward ...
- Wadud, Amina
- (from the article "Religion") In another intra-Muslim disagreement, Amina Wadud, a professor of Islamic studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, drew the ire of Mideast Muslims when she led a mixed-gender prayer service at the ...
- Waelhens, Alphonse de
- (from the article "Phenomenology") ...Thus, mainly through Van Breda's efforts, Louvain has become the most important centre for Phenomenology. Van Breda also organized international colloquia on Phenomenology. The influence of Alphonse de Waelhens, a ...
- Waena, Sir Nathaniel
- (from the article "Solomon Islands") Area: 28,370 sq km (10,954 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 495,000 | Capital: Honiara | Chief of state: Queen Elizabeth II, represented by Governor-General Sir Nathaniel Waena | Head ...
- Wafangdian
- city, southern Liaoning sheng (province), northeastern China. It is situated in the south-central part of the Liaodong Peninsula and is an important market centre for an agricultural ...
- Wafd
- (Arabic: "Egyptian Delegation"), nationalist political party that was instrumental in gaining Egyptian independence from Britain. Organized by Sa'd Zaghlul on Nov. 13, 1918, as a permanent delegation of the Egyptian ... [8 Related Articles]
- Wafdist Youth, League of
- (from the article "Wafd") About 1937 the Wafd organized the League of Wafdist Youth (Rabitat ash-Shubban al-Wafdiyyin) in order to train future members. The league became a source for the Wafd's paramilitary organization, the ...
- wafer
- (from the article "baking") Rye wafers made of whipped batters are modern versions of an ancient Scandinavian food. High-moisture dough or batter, containing a substantial amount of rye flour and some wheat flour, is ...
- wafer-box
- (from the article "inkstand") ...Later inkstands contain a wide variety of accessories, such as a taper stick (a candlestick to hold small tapers), pounce box (for sprinkling pounce, a powdered gum that fixed ink ...
- Waffen-SS
- (from the article "Literature") ...but rather Gunter Grass's memoir Beim Hauten der Zwiebel, in which the 1999 Nobel Prize winner publicly acknowledged for the first time his membership, at the age of 17, in ...
- waffle
- crisp raised cake baked in a waffle iron, a hinged metal griddle with a honeycombed or fancifully engraved surface that allows a thin layer of batter to cook evenly and ...
- waffle slab
- (from the article "building construction") ...systems are employed. One is the pan joist system, a standardized beam and girder system of constant depth formed with prefabricated sheet-metal forms. A two-way version of pan joists, called ...
- waga
- (from the article "Konso") The Konso are notable for the erection of wagas, memorial statues to a dead man who has killed an enemy or an animal such as a lion or a leopard. ...
- Wagadugu kingdom
- (from the article "western Africa, history of") ...south of Hausaland and of Bornu. However, it has already been suggested that Dagomba (and a number of similar kingdoms in the Volta basin, including Mamprusi) and the Mossi kingdoms-such ...
- Wagagai
- (from the article "Elgon, Mount") extinct volcano on the Kenya-Uganda boundary. Its crater, about 5 miles (8 km) in diameter, contains several peaks, of which Wagagai (14,178 feet [4,321 m]) is the highest. Its extrusions ...
- wage and salary
- income derived from human labour. Technically, wages and salaries cover all compensation made to employees for either physical or mental work, but they do not represent the income of the ... [22 Related Articles]
- wage theory
- portion of economic theory that attempts to explain the determination of the payment of labour. [1 Related Articles]
- wage-earner investment fund
- (from the article "Sweden") Unemployment became a central issue of the 1982 parliamentary elections, along with the deficit and a proposal by the Social Democrats to establish a wage-earner investment fund. The Social Democrats ...
- wage-price control
- setting of government guidelines for limiting increases in wages and prices. It is a principal tool in incomes policy (q.v.). [4 Related Articles]
- Wagenseil, Georg Christoph
- (from the article "sonata") In the development of sonata form in orchestral music, particular value attaches to the work of the Austrians Georg Matthias Monn (1717-50) and Georg Christoph Wagenseil (1715-77) and of the ...
- Wagenseil, Johann Christoph
- (from the article "encyclopaedia") Before the 19th century, only Johann Wagenseil had produced an encyclopaedia for children-the Pera Librorum Juvenilium (1695; "Collection of Juvenile Books"). Larousse issued Petite Encyclopedie du jeune age ("Small Children's ...
- wages-fund theory
- (from the article "wage and salary") Smith said that the demand for labour could not increase except in proportion to the increase of the funds destined for the payment of wages. Ricardo maintained that an increase ...
- Wagga Wagga
- city, southeastern New South Wales, Australia, situated on the Murrumbidgee River. A service centre for the fertile Riverina district (chiefly wheat and sheep), it is also the site of an ...
- waggle dance
- (from the article "Life Sciences") ...honeybees navigate from their hive to a food source. Honeybees had been the focus of behavioral studies for decades, and many researchers were especially fascinated by the implications of the ...
- Wagnalls, Adam Willis
- (from the article "Funk, Isaac Kauffman") In 1877, with a former classmate, Adam Willis Wagnalls, he founded I.K. Funk & Company, afterward (from 1891) Funk & Wagnalls Company, in New York City. The firm became best ...
- Wagner Act
- the single most important piece of labour legislation enacted in the United States in the 20th century. It was enacted to eliminate employers' interference with the autonomous organization of workers ... [6 Related Articles]
- Wagner tuba
- (from the article "tuba") Wagner tubas are four-valved, small-bored tubas designed in the 19th century for the German composer Richard Wagner for special effects in his four-part music-drama cycle The Ring of the Nibelung. ...
- Wagner's mustached bat
- (from the article "bat") ...duration varies with the species and the situation. During cruising flight the pulses of the greater false vampire bat (Megaderma lyra) are 1.5 milliseconds (0.0015 second), those of Wagner's mustached ...
- Wagner's salvia
- (from the article "Salvia") Montane tropical America has many Salvia species, perhaps the most spectacular of which is Wagner's salvia (S. wagneri), or chupamiel, a treelike shrub, native near the mountain lakes of Guatemala. ...
- Wagner, Carl
- German physical chemist and metallurgist who helped advance the understanding of the chemistry of solid-state materials, especially the effects of imperfections at the atomic level on the properties of compounds ...
- Wagner, Cosima
- wife of the composer Richard Wagner and director of the Bayreuth Festivals from his death in 1883 to 1908. [1 Related Articles]
- Wagner, Elin
- (from the article "Swedish literature") The development of the novel was associated with Gustaf Hellstrom, Sigfrid Siwertz, Ludvig Nordstrom, and Elin Wagner. Hellstrom's work as a journalist in Europe, the United States, and England greatly ...
- Wagner, Herbert
- (from the article "military aircraft") ...which linked a compressor, combustion chamber, and turbine in the same duct. In ignorance of Whittle's work, three German engineers independently arrived at the same concept: Hans von Ohain in ...
- Wagner, Honus
- American professional baseball player, one of the first five men elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame (1936). He was generally considered the greatest shortstop in baseball history and by ...
- Wagner, Katharina
- (from the article "Performing Arts") Controversy erupted during the summer and, to no one's surprise, emanated from the perennial hotbed of scandal, Germany's Bayreuth Festival. Katharina Wagner, a great-granddaughter of composer Richard Wagner, made her ...
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