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- (from the article "Performing Arts") ...from pop songwriter Elvis Costello's opera-in-progress, The Secret Arias, based on the unrequited love of Danish author Hans Christian Andersen for Swedish soprano Jenny Lind. In September Roger Waters, formerly ...
- Waters, Sarah
- (from the article "Literature") ...consequence of his lack of opportunity and grim surroundings-were described as "painful" and "utterly believable" but left one reviewer "gasping for air." Sarah Waters (short-listed for the Man Booker and ...
- waterskiing
- planing over the surface of the water on broad skilike runners while being towed by a motorboat moving at least 24 km/hr (15 mph). The skier holds onto a handle ...
- waterspout
- a small-diameter column of rapidly swirling air in contact with a water surface. Waterspouts are almost always produced by a swiftly growing cumulus cloud. They may assume many shapes and ...
- Waterston, John James
- (from the article "atom") Waterston's efforts met with a similar fate. Waterston was a Scottish civil engineer and amateur physicist who could not even get his work published by the scientific community, which had ...
- Waterton Lakes National Park
- park in southwestern Alberta, Canada, on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, immediately north of the U.S. border and Glacier National Park in Montana. It has an area of ... [1 Related Articles]
- Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park
- (from the article "The Environment") In February 2006 conservation groups filed a petition with the UN that argued that rising temperatures were damaging the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, a protected area with World Heritage status. ...
- Watertown
- town (township), Litchfield county, west-central Connecticut, U.S., on the Naugatuck River immediately northwest of the city of Waterbury. The site was settled in 1701, and in 1738 the community was ...
- Watertown
- city, seat (1878) of Codington county, eastern South Dakota, U.S. It lies on the Big Sioux River, between Lakes Kampeska and Pelican, about 95 miles (155 km) north of Sioux ...
- Watertown
- city, seat (1805) of Jefferson county, northern New York, U.S. It lies at the falls (112 feet [34 metres]) of the Black River, 10 miles (16 km) east of Lake ...
- Watertown
- city, Middlesex county, eastern Massachusetts, U.S., on the Charles River, just west of Boston. One of the four earliest Massachusetts Bay settlements, it was founded by a group led by ...
- watertube boiler
- (from the article "boiler") In the watertube boiler, the water is inside tubes with the hot furnace gases circulating outside the tubes. When the steam turbogenerator was developed early in the 20th century, modern ...
- Waterville
- city, Kennebec county, south-central Maine, U.S., on the Kennebec River 54 miles (87 km) southwest of Bangor and 21 miles (34 km) northeast of Augusta, the state capital. Settled around ... [1 Related Articles]
- Watervliet
- city, Albany county, eastern New York, U.S., on the west bank of the Hudson River (bridged), opposite Troy. Originally part of a land tract bought by Kiliaen van Rensselaer, a ...
- waterway
- (from the article "canals and inland waterways") Waterways are subject to definite geographic and physical restrictions that influence the engineering problems of construction, maintenance, and operation.lake systemslakeEconomy ...
- waterwheel
- mechanical device for tapping the energy of running or falling water by means of a set of paddles mounted around a wheel. The force of the moving water is exerted ... [9 Related Articles]
- waterwithe treebine
- (from the article "Cissus") ...and south-central United States. It grows up to 9 m (30 feet) long and has compound leaves with three leaflets. The black fruit is about 2 cm (0.78 inch) in ...
- waterwort
- (from the article "Elatinaceae") ...Members of the family have more or less toothed, stipulate, opposite or whorled leaves and small flowers with two to five overlapping petals. In their seed anatomy they are close ...
- Watford
- (from the article "Watford") town and borough (district), administrative and historic county of Hertfordshire, England, situated on the northwest periphery of London and on the Rivers Colne and Gade and on the Grand Union ...
- Watford
- town and borough (district), administrative and historic county of Hertfordshire, England, situated on the northwest periphery of London and on the Rivers Colne and Gade and on the Grand Union ...
- Wathiq, al-
- (from the article "mihnah") ...beliefs under duress) to avoid imprisonment. When al-Ma'mun died, the new caliph, al-Mu'tasim (reigned 833-842), continued the policies of his brother. The caliph al-Wathiq (reigned 842-847) also vigorously enforced the ...
- Watie, Stand
- Cherokee chief who signed the treaty forcing tribal removal of the Cherokees from Georgia and who later served as brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the U.S. Civil War. ...
- Watin, Jean-Felix
- (from the article "lacquerwork") ...the Memoire sur le vernis de la Chine, which the French missionary Pierre d'Incarville wrote in 1760 and which appeared as an appendix to L'Art du peintre, doreur, vernisseur of ...
- Watkin, David
- (from the article "1985: Other Winners") Original Screenplay: Earl W. Wallace, William Kelley, Pamela Wallace for WitnessAdapted Screenplay: Kurt Luedtke for Out of AfricaCinematography: David Watkin for Out of AfricaArt Direction: Stephen Grimes for Out of ...
- Watkins Glen
- village, seat (1854) of Schuyler county, central New York, U.S. It lies at the south end of Seneca Lake, in the heart of the Finger Lakes region, 20 miles (32 ...
- Watkins v. United States
- (from the article "Warren, Earl") ...that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal," and the court subsequently called for the desegregation of public schools with "all deliberate speed." In WatkinsUnited States (1957), Warren led the court ...
- Watkins, Carleton E.
- American photographer best known for his artistic documentation of the landscape of the American West. He also produced images of industrial sites in that region. (For further information regarding his ... [3 Related Articles]
- Watkins, Mel
- (from the article "Literature") ...by Leo Damrosch, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, Stepin Fetchit: The Life and Times of Lincoln Perry by ...
- Watkins, Sharon
- (from the article "Religion") ...Banks said that the election was "an incredible development," because the church "traditionally has not dealt with women's leadership issues in an adequate way." The Rev. Sharon Watkins, a pastor ...
- Watkins, Vernon Phillips
- English-language Welsh poet who drew from Welsh material and legend.
- Watling Street
- Roman road in England that ran from Dover west-northwest to London and thence northwest via St. Albans (Verulamium) to Wroxeter (Ouirokonion, or Viroconium). It was one of Britain's greatest arterial ... [1 Related Articles]
- Watson Lake
- community, southern Yukon Territory, Canada. It lies along a small lake on the border with British Columbia. It originated as a 19th-century trading post and was named after Frank Watson, ...
- Watson, Albert
- (from the article "Art and Art Exhibitions") Albert Watson, the subject in 2007 of an eponymous book, was one of the world's most widely published photographers; he took hundreds of magazine cover photographs for such publications as ...
- Watson, Charles
- (from the article "Calcutta") ...Siraj-ud-Dawlah, captured the fort and sacked the town. Calcutta was recaptured in January 1757 by Robert Clive, one of the founders of British power in India, and by the British ...
- Watson, Homer
- (from the article "Canada") ...Quebec. His paintings brought new dimensions to the Canadian scene and a colourful romanticism-influenced by contemporary German trends-unsurpassed by other Canadian artists of the time. Homer Watson continued the exploration ...
- Watson, James Dewey
- American geneticist and biophysicist who played a crucial role in the discovery of the molecular structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the substance that is the basis of heredity. For this ... [8 Related Articles]
- Watson, John B.
- American psychologist who codified and publicized behaviourism, an approach to psychology that, in his view, was restricted to the objective, experimental study of the relations between environmental events and human ... [11 Related Articles]
- Watson, John Christian
- politician and the first Labour prime minister of Australia (1904).
- Watson, John H., Dr.
- (from the article "Holmes, Sherlock") ...you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." His detecting abilities become clear, though no less amazing, when explained by his companion, Dr. John H. ...
- Watson, Johnny
- ("GUITAR"), U.S. rhythm and blues singer and guitarist who during a 40-year career influenced such musicians as Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Frank Zappa (b. Feb. 3, 1935--d. May 17, ...
- Watson, Mary
- (from the article "Literature") ...The Sun by Night. South Africa was well represented by Zoe Wicomb's latest work, Playing in the Light, a novel set in Cape Town during the 1990s, and "Jungfrau" by ...
- Watson, Maureen
- (from the article "Australian literature") ...(1987) and, more sensitive still as a transcription, in Paddy Roe's Gularabulu: Stories from the West Kimberley (1983). In the last decades of the 20th century, the poet and storyteller ...
- Watson, Peter
- (from the article "art criticism") ...a force that sought to gain acceptance for avant-garde art-radically changed. Indeed, in From Manet to Manhattan: The Rise of the Modern Art Market (1992), journalist Peter Watson points out ...
- Watson, Russell
- (from the article "Performing Arts") ...music in recent years, was diagnosed with breast cancer in August and canceled several performances, including Golijov's Ayre with the Kronos Quartet in Vienna in November. British tenor Russell Watson ...
- Watson, Sir William
- English author of lyrical and political verse, best-known for his occasional poems.
- Watson, Thomas Augustus
- American telephone pioneer and shipbuilder, one of the original organizers of the Bell Telephone Company, who later turned to shipbuilding and constructed a number of vessels for the United States ...
- Watson, Thomas E.
- (from the article "Rural Free Delivery") Thomas E. Watson, a congressman from Georgia, pushed through legislation for an RFD system in 1893. Local shopkeepers, fearing competition from mail-order merchandisers, sought to delay establishment of the service, ...
- Watson, Thomas J., Jr.
- U.S. business executive (b. Jan. 8, 1914, Dayton, Ohio--d. Dec. 31, 1993, Greenwich, Conn.), inherited the leadership of International Business Machines Corp. from his father and propelled the company into ...
- Watson, Thomas J., Sr.
- American industrialist who built the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) into the largest manufacturer of electric typewriters and data-processing equipment in the world. [2 Related Articles]
- Watson, William
- (from the article "electromagnetism") Within a year after the appearance of Musschenbroek's device, William Watson, an English physician and scientist, constructed a more sophisticated version of the Leyden jar; he coated the inside and ...
- Watson, William
- English Roman Catholic priest who was executed for his part in the "Bye Plot" against King James I.
- Watson-Watt, Sir Robert Alexander
- Scottish physicist credited with the development of radar in England. [2 Related Articles]
- Watsuji Tetsuro
- Japanese moral philosopher and historian of ideas, outstanding among modern Japanese thinkers who have tried to combine the Eastern moral spirit with Western ethical ideas.
- watt
- unit of power in the International System of Units (SI) equal to one joule of work performed per second, or to 1746 horsepower. An equivalent is the power dissipated in ... [2 Related Articles]
- Watt, Charles
- (from the article "Burgess, Hugh") British-born American inventor who, with Charles Watt, developed the soda process used to turn wood pulp into paper.
- Watt, James
- Scottish instrument maker and inventor whose steam engine contributed substantially to the Industrial Revolution. He was elected fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1785. [15 Related Articles]
- Watt-Cloutier, Sheila
- (from the article "Arctic Regions") ...greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change." (See Nobel Prizes.) Also nominated was Sheila Watt-Cloutier, past ...
- watt-hour meter
- device that measures and records over time the electric power flowing through a circuit. Although there are several different types of watt-hour meters, each consists essentially of a small electric ...
- Wattasids
- (from the article "Marinid dynasty") ...in Tunisia. The campaigns, however, depleted the resources of the dynasty, and by the 15th century the Marinid realm was in a state of anarchy. A collateral branch of the ...
- Watteau, Antoine
- French painter who typified the lyrically charming and graceful style of the Rococo. Much of his work reflects the influence of the commedia dell'arte and the opera ballet (e.g., "The ... [8 Related Articles]
- Wattenscheid
- (from the article "Bochum") ...and has an institute for satellite and space research, a planetarium (1964), and a college of administration, industry, and foreign trade. It also supports a municipal orchestra and a zoo. ...
- Watterson, Henry
- (from the article "Courier-Journal, The") It was founded in 1868 by a merger of the Louisville Courier and the Louisville Journal brought about by Henry Watterson,
- Wattieza
- (from the article "Life Sciences") ...tree specimens from the area, however, showed that the stumps pertained to fernlike trees that grew leafy twiglike branches out of a vertical trunk. The specimens, classified in the genus ...
- wattle and daub
- in building construction, method of constructing walls in which vertical wooden stakes, or wattles, are woven with horizontal twigs and branches, and then daubed with clay or mud. This method ... [2 Related Articles]
- wattle construction
- (from the article "basketry") A single layer of rigid, passive, parallel standards is held together by flexible threads in one of three ways, each representing a different subtype. (1) The bound, or wrapped, type, ...
- wattle-eye
- any of a number of small, stubby African songbirds of the subfamily Platysteirinae, family Muscicapidae (q.v.); some authorities retain them in the flycatcher subfamily, Muscicapinae. Most species have bright, fleshy ...
- wattlebird
- (from the article "wattlebird") any of several New Zealand birds of the family Callaeidae (q.v.); also, a particular name for any honeyeater (q.v.) of the genus Anthochaera.red wattlebirdRed wattlebird (Anthochaera carunculata).Brett ...
- wattled false sunbird
- (from the article "false sunbird") ...bill. Originally thought to belong with true sunbirds in the family Nectariniidae, they were shown in 1951 to be anatomically like the asities, from which they differ in external appearance. ...
- Wattrelos
- town, Nord departement, Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, northern France, on the Belgian-French border. A northeastern suburb of Roubaix, it has textile, chemical, and metallurgical industries. The community was known as Waterloz in ...
- Watts
- southwestern district of Los Angeles, California, U.S. The district, originally called Mud Town, was renamed in 1900 for C.H. Watts, a Pasadena realtor who owned a ranch there. It was ... [2 Related Articles]
- Watts Towers
- (from the article "Watts") ...looting, and arson consumed much of Watts and neighbouring Compton following the acquittal of four white police officers in the beating of African American Rodney King. A notable local attraction ...
- Watts, Alan
- (from the article "California") Scientology has thrived in southern California and has boasted many celebrity adherents. Zen Buddhism enjoyed popularity in San Francisco during the 1950s, with English-born Alan Watts serving as its interpreter ...
- Watts, Charlie
- (from the article "Rolling Stones, the") ...Dylan, Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, and Van Morrison-have maintained individual positions in rock's front line, the Rolling Stones' nucleus of singer Jagger, guitarist Richards, and drummer Watts remains rock's most ...
- Watts, George Frederick
- English painter and sculptor of grandiose allegorical themes. Watts believed that art should preach a universal message, but his subject matter, conceived in terms of vague abstract ideals, is full ... [3 Related Articles]
- Watts, Isaac
- English Nonconformist minister, regarded as the father of English hymnody. [3 Related Articles]
- Watts, John
- (from the article "Doulton ware") English pottery established in 1815 by John Doulton at Lambeth, London, in association with John Watts and known as Doulton and Watts. The company became Doulton and Co. (Ltd.) about ...
- Watts-Dunton, Theodore
- English critic and man of letters, who was the friend and, after 1879, protector, agent, and nurse of the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne.
- Watubela Islands
- (from the article "Ceram") ...seismic activity is common. Its many rivers are partly navigable by small craft only during the rainy season. Within the Ceram group are included Ceram Laut, the Gorong (or Goram) ...
- watusi
- (from the article "twist") ...grinding out an imaginary cigarette with one foot." Partners synchronized body positions and gyrations but never touched. Dances that evolved from the twist-for example, the frug and the watusi-were invariably ...
- Wau
- town on the island of New Guinea, eastern Papua New Guinea, southwestern Pacific Ocean. The town is situated at the junction of Edie Creek and the Bulolo River, in a ...
- Wauchope
- town, north coastal New South Wales, Australia, 12 miles (19 km) above the mouth of the Hastings River, just west of Port Macquarie. Named after a Captain Wauch, an early ...
- Waucoban Series
- lowermost Cambrian rocks (the Cambrian Period lasted from 542 million to 488 million years ago); the name is derived from exposures found at Waucoba Springs, Calif. The period of time ...
- Waugh, Alec
- English popular novelist and travel writer, older brother of the writer Evelyn Waugh.
- Waugh, Auberon Alexander
- British writer and satirist (b. Nov. 17, 1939, Dulverton, Somerset, Eng.-d. Jan. 16, 2001, Combe Florey, near Taunton, Somerset), simultaneously delighted and outraged readers with acerbic wit and conservative snobbery ...
- Waugh, Evelyn
- English writer regarded by many as the most brilliant satirical novelist of his day. [5 Related Articles]
- Waugh, Mark Edward and Stephen Rodger
- In the second of the three cricket Tests in South Africa in March 1997, S.R. and M.E. Waugh, the twins from the western suburbs of Sydney, Australia, became the most ...
- Waugh, Mark Edward and Stephen Rodger
- In the second of the three cricket Tests in South Africa in March 1997, S.R. and M.E. Waugh, the twins from the western suburbs of Sydney, Australia, became the most ... [1 Related Articles]
- Waugh, Sidney
- (from the article "glassware") ...glasses designed by Frederick Carder, until in 1933 the company was given a change of direction by Arthur Amory Houghton, Jr., who, with the help of John Monteith Gates and ...
- Waukegan
- city, seat (1841) of Lake county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. It lies on a high bluff above Lake Michigan, about 40 miles (65 km) north of Chicago. One of the oldest ...
- Waukesha
- city, seat (1846) of Waukesha county, southeastern Wisconsin, U.S. It is situated on the Fox River, about 15 miles (25 km) west of Milwaukee. The site was settled by Morris ...
- Waun Fach
- (from the article "Brecon Beacons National Park") ...valley. The easternmost highlands in the park are the Black Mountains (old red sandstone) of Powys county, lying east of the River Usk between Abergavenny and Hay-on-Wye, with their highest ...
- Waura
- (from the article "South American forest Indian") The Waura women of the upper Xingu are famous for their pots and animal-shaped bowls. Of the historic tribes, the Tapajo of the Amazon had the richest style in ceramics, ...
- Wausau
- city, seat (1850) of Marathon county, north-central Wisconsin, U.S. It lies on the Wisconsin River, about 90 miles (150 km) northwest of Green Bay. Settled in 1839 as a sawmill ...
- Wauwatosa
- city, western suburb of Milwaukee, Milwaukee county, southeastern Wisconsin, U.S. It lies on the Menomonee River, just north of West Allis. Potawatomi and Menominee Indians were among the early inhabitants ...
- wave
- on a body of water, a ridge or swell on the surface, normally having a forward motion distinct from the oscillatory motion of the particles that successively compose it. The ... [11 Related Articles]
- wave
- (from the article "telecommunication") Analog-to-digital conversion begins with sampling, or measuring the amplitude of the analog waveform at equally spaced discrete instants of time. The fact that samples of a continually varying wave may ...
- wave cloud
- (from the article "lee wave") ...wavelength extending downstream. Numerous equally spaced lee waves are often seen where they are not interfered with by other mountains, such as over the sea. They may produce clouds, called ...
- wave equation
- (from the article "analysis") ...in terms of formulas, this meant that the shapes of the curves were defined by different formulas in different intervals. In 1749 he went on to explain that if several ...
- wave front
- imaginary surface representing corresponding points of a wave that vibrate in unison. When identical waves having a common origin travel through a homogeneous medium, the corresponding crests and troughs at ... [5 Related Articles]
- wave function
- in quantum mechanics, variable quantity that mathematically describes the wave characteristics of a particle. The value of the wave function of a particle at a given point of space and ... [6 Related Articles]
- wave mechanics
- (from the article "wave mechanics") quantum mechanics, especially that version originally developed (1926) by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrodinger. See Schrodinger equation.major referencequantum mechanicsBasic concepts ...
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