technique used for joining metallic parts usually through the application of heat. This technique was discovered during efforts to manipulate iron into useful shapes. Welded blades were developed in the ...
Northern Rhodesian trade unionist and statesman who helped found the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and served as its deputy minister (1953-56) and prime minister (1956-63).
dynasty of German nobles and rulers who were the chief rivals of the Hohenstaufens in Italy and central Europe in the Middle Ages and who later included the Hanoverian Welfs, ...
branch of economics that seeks to evaluate economic policies in terms of their effects on the well-being of the community. It became established as a well-defined branch of economic theory ...
concept of government in which the state plays a key role in the protection and promotion of the economic and social well-being of its citizens. It is based on the ...
Norwegian poet and critic who attacked the crudity and extreme nationalism of many of his contemporaries, particularly the nationalist poet Henrik Wergeland, who advocated complete cultural independence for Norway; their ...
American bandleader and accordion player, whose effervescent brand of "champagne music" was featured for more than 30 years on his successful show, one of the longest-running programs on television (1955-71).
city, Free State province, South Africa, southwest of Johannesburg. It was founded in 1947 amid goldfields, the development of which brought rapid growth, quickly making it the province's second largest ...
the communal land organization supposedly in effect throughout China early in the Chou dynasty (c. 1111-255 BC). The well-field system was first mentioned in the literature of the late Chou ...
a type of play, constructed according to certain strict technical principles, that dominated the stages of Europe and the United States for most of the 19th century. The technical formula ...
city, regional municipality of Niagara, southeastern Ontario, Canada. It lies along the Welland River and Welland Ship Canal. During the War of 1812 the area was the scene of several ...
waterway in southern Ontario, Can., that provides navigation for large vessels between Lake Erie to the south and Lake Ontario to the north and forms an important link in the ...
river in the eastern Midlands, England. The Welland River rises in the county of Leicestershire and flows eastward past Market Harborough and Stamford for about 70 miles (110 km) into ...
American physician and virologist who was the corecipient (with John Enders and Frederick Robbins) of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1954 for the successful cultivation of poliomyelitis ...
American motion-picture actor, director, producer, and writer. His innovative narrative techniques and use of photography, dramatic lighting, and music to further the dramatic line and to create mood combined to ...
town (township), Norfolk county, eastern Massachusetts, U.S., just west of Boston. Originally part of Dedham, it became the Western Precinct of Needham when that town was set off in 1711. ...
private women's college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, U.S., one of the Seven Sisters schools. A liberal arts college, Wellesley grants bachelor's degrees in humanities, including Chinese, Japanese, and Russian languages; in ...
group of islands lying off the northwestern coast of Queensland, Australia, in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Sighted in 1644 by the Dutch navigator Abel Tasman, they were charted (1802-03) by ...
also called (from 1781) 2nd Earl Of Mornington, Viscount Wellesley Of Dangan Castle, or (from 1797) Baron Wellesley Of Wellesley, original surname Wesley British statesman who, as governor of Madras ...
town (township), Barnstable county, Massachusetts, U.S. It lies on the northeastern arm of Cape Cod, 12 miles (19 km) south-southeast of Provincetown. First settled about 1724, it was incorporated in ...
town and borough (district), administrative and historic county of Northamptonshire, England, situated east of Northampton along the River Nene. Wellingborough grew as a market town in the Middle Ages. After ...
capital city, port, and major commercial centre of New Zealand, located in the extreme south of North Island. It lies on the shores and hills surrounding Port Nicholson, an almost ...
town, east-central New South Wales, Australia. It lies at the confluence of the Macquarie and Bell rivers. The site, used by John Oxley as a base for exploration (1817-18), was ...
local government region, extreme southern North Island, New Zealand. It includes the cities of Wellington (the national capital) and Lower Hutt, Upper Hutt, Porirua, and Masterton. The broad Hutt River ...
town ("parish"), Taunton Deane district, administrative and historic county of Somerset, England, just west-southwest of Taunton. The first duke of Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, who took his title from the town), ...
British army commander during the Napoleonic Wars and later prime minister of Great Britain (1828-30). He first rose to military prominence in India, won successes in the Peninsular War in ...
city, Mendip district, administrative and historic county of Somerset, England, at the foot of the Mendip Hills. The name derives from the many springs rising near the cathedral, which was ...
American financial services company with banks in many states, especially in the West. The founders of the original company were Henry Wells (1805-78) and William George Fargo (1818-81), who had ...
English writer, author of Joseph and His Brethren (1823), a long dramatic poem in the style of the Elizabethan dramatists, which enjoyed an immense vogue among the Pre-Raphaelites and their ...
popular American writer on science and economics who, as chairman of the National Revenue Commission, helped to create the U.S. Bureau of Statistics and to establish an empirical basis for ...
American religious leader and feminist who made use of her editorship of the Mormon publication Woman's Exponent to campaign energetically for woman suffrage.
English novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian, best known for such science fiction as The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds and such comic novels as Tono-Bungay and The ...
city, seat (1797) of Brooke county, in the northern panhandle of West Virginia, U.S. It lies along the Ohio River, about 15 miles (24 km) north of Wheeling, West Virginia, ...
city, Bundesland ("federal state") Oberosterreich, north-central Austria. It lies along the Traun River at the foothills of the Eastern Alps, southwest of Linz. The site has been occupied since prehistoric ...
large, voracious catfish of the family Siluridae, native to large rivers and lakes from central Europe to western Asia. One of the largest catfishes, as well as one of the ...
family of German merchants, most prominent from the 15th to the 17th century. It first became important in the 15th century, when the brothers Bartholomew and Lucas Welser carried on ...
either of two breeds of working dogs developed to handle cattle. They are similar in appearance but are of different origins. Their resemblance results from crosses between the two breeds.
member of the Brythonic group of the Celtic languages, spoken in Wales. Modern Welsh, like English, makes very little use of inflectional endings; British, the Brythonic language from which Welsh ...
the native law of Wales. Although increasingly superseded by English law after the 13th century, Welsh law has been preserved in lawbooks that represent important documents of medieval Welsh prose.
literary activity centring in Wales and England in the mid-18th century that attempted to stimulate interest in the Welsh language and in the classical bardic verse forms of Wales. The ...
breed of small horse popular as a child's or an adult's mount. A hardy breed that developed in the Welsh mountains, the Welsh pony was originally used in coal mines. ...
breed of terrier native to Wales, where it has been used as a hunter of foxes, otters, and badgers. The Welsh terrier is a small, Airedale-like dog with a characteristically ...
town, Powys county, historic county of Montgomeryshire, Wales, in the valley of the River Severn. Its charter, granting market rights, dates from 1263. Lying near the English border, the town ...
(German: "The World"), daily newspaper, one of the most influential in Germany and the only one of national scope and stature published in Bonn during that city's time as West ...
(German: "world grief"), the prevailing mood of melancholy and pessimism associated with the poets of the Romantic era that arose from their refusal or inability to adjust to those realities ...
American short-story writer and novelist whose work is mainly focused with great precision on the regional manners of people inhabiting a small Mississippi town that resembles her own birthplace and ...
a family of southwestern African desert plants in the order Gnetales, named for its single genus, Welwitschia. Tumboa plants (W. mirabilis or W. bainesii), constituting the only species, have deep ...
new town in Welwyn Hatfield district, administrative and historic county of Hertfordshire, England, on the northern periphery of London. It was founded in 1920 by Sir Ebenezer Howard as a ...
district, administrative and historic county of Hertfordshire, southeastern England, directly north of the metropolitan county of Greater London. Welwyn Hatfield district is an area of rolling, open countryside within the ...
the Chinese god of literature, whose chief heavenly task, assigned by the Jade Emperor (Yu Huang), is to keep a log of men of letters so that he can mete ...
Chinese lyric poet of the late Tang dynasty who helped to establish a new style of versification associated with the ci form, which flourished in the subsequent ...
Chinese painter, calligrapher, and scholarly figure who was a student of Shen Zhou; these two artists are considered the leading figures of the Wu school of scholar-artists in China.
city and port in southeastern Chekiang sheng (province), China. Wen-chou is situated on the south bank of the Ou River, some 19 miles (30 km) from its mouth. The estuary ...
official and statesman in the last years of the Ch'ing dynasty (1644-1911/12), who took a lead in promoting Western studies, reforming the Chinese government, and introducing Western technology into China.
fourth emperor (reigned 180/179-157/156 BC) of the Han dynasty of China. His reign was marked by good government and the peaceful consolidation of imperial power.
emperor (reigned 581-604) who reunified and reorganized China after 300 years of instability, founding the Sui dynasty. He conquered the several dynasties into which southern China had been divided, and ...
14th emperor (reigned 826/827-840) of the T'ang dynasty (618-907) of China who attempted unsuccessfully to free the court from the influence of the palace eunuchs, who had usurped much of ...
city, seat (1899) of Chelan county, central Washington, U.S., in the foothills of the Cascade Range, just below the confluence of the Wenatchee and Columbia rivers, opposite East Wenatchee; the ...
German king and, as Wenceslas IV, king of Bohemia, whose weak and tempestuous, though eventful, reign was continually plagued by wars and princely rivalries that he was unable to control, ...
