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- (from the article "Blix, Hans") ...Iraq (2004), which included harsh criticism of the Bush administration and its actions leading up to the invasion of Iraq. In July 2003 Blix became the executive chairman of the ...
- weapons system
- any integrated system, usually computerized, for the control and operation of weapons of a particular kind. Intercontinental ballistic missiles, long-range bombers, and antiballistic missiles are the weaponry of the strategic ...
- Weapons System Engineering Course
- (from the article "Draper, Charles Stark") ...civilian and military engineers, who learned his methods, became disciples of self-contained navigation, made his systems work in the field, and awarded the I-Lab contracts. With the creation of the ...
- wear
- the removal of material from a solid surface as a result of mechanical action exerted by another solid. Wear chiefly occurs as a progressive loss of material resulting from the ... [2 Related Articles]
- Wear Valley
- district, administrative and historic county of Durham, northeastern England, in the northwestern part of the county. Lying mostly within a section of the Pennines, Wear Valley district is predominantly a ...
- Wear, River
- river that rises near Wearhead in the county of Durham, England, and enters the North Sea at Sunderland. With headwaters in the Pennines, it flows through Weardale and once entered ...
- wear-resistant steel
- (from the article "steel") Another group is the wear-resistant steels, made into wear plates for rock-processing machinery, crushers, and power shovels. These are austenitic steels that contain about 1.2 percent carbon and 12 percent ...
- Wearne, (Alice) Eileen
- Australian athlete was only the second woman to represent Australia in track and field at the Olympic Games. After winning the triathlon (100-m sprint, high jump, and javelin) at the ...
- Weary Willie
- (from the article "Kelly, Emmett") American circus clown, best known for his role as "Weary Willie," a mournful tramp dressed in tattered clothes and made up with a growth of beard and a bulbous nose.
- weasel
- any of various small carnivores with very elongated, slender bodies. Most live in the Northern Hemisphere and belong to the genus Mustela, which in addition to weasels ... [1 Related Articles]
- weather
- state of the atmosphere at a particular place during a short period of time. It involves such atmospheric phenomena as temperature, humidity, precipitation (type and amount), air pressure, wind, and ... [4 Related Articles]
- weather bureau
- agency established by many nations to observe and report the weather and to issue forecasts and warnings of weather and flood conditions affecting national safety, welfare, and economy. In each ... [1 Related Articles]
- weather calendar
- (from the article "Conon Of Samos") From his observations in Italy and Sicily, Conon compiled the parapegma, a calendar of meteorological forecasts and of the risings and settings of the stars. He settled in Alexandria, where ...
- Weather Coast
- (from the article "Solomon Islands") Solomon Islands continued to make progress toward normalcy in 2004 after having endured civil disturbances over the previous few years. Peacekeepers were withdrawn from the Weather Coast of Guadalcanal beginning ...
- weather forecasting
- the prediction of the weather through application of the principles of physics, supplemented by a variety of statistical and empirical techniques. In addition to predictions of atmospheric phenomena themselves, weather ... [13 Related Articles]
- weather map
- any map or chart that shows the meteorological elements at a given time over an extended area. The earliest weather charts were made well before 1835 by collecting synchronous weather ... [3 Related Articles]
- weather modification
- the deliberate or the inadvertent alternation of atmospheric conditions by human activity, sufficient to modify the weather on local or regional scales. [2 Related Articles]
- Weather Report
- (from the article "Shorter, Wayne") Throughout the 1970s and much of the '80s, Shorter and keyboard player Joe Zawinul together led Weather Report, a fusion band that explored an uncommon variety of sound colours. He ...
- Weather Research and Forecasting Model
- (from the article "Earth Sciences") ...The U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the U.S. Air Force Weather Agency announced that National Weather Service and air force weather forecasters had adopted the Weather Research ...
- weather satellite
- (from the article "weather satellite") any of a class of Earth satellites designed to monitor meteorological conditions (see Earth satellite).weather satelliteGOES-8, a U.S. weather satellite, 1994.NOAA in Space Collecti
- weather station
- (from the article "weather forecasting") Routine production of synoptic weather maps became possible after networks of stations were organized to take measurements and report them to some type of central observatory. As early as 1814, ...
- weather vane
- (from the article "folk art") ...subject to sophisticated aesthetic treatment have become specific fields of study and collection because of the ingenuity expended upon them-mangles (laundry beaters), molds, decorated eggs, weather vanes, decoys, powder horns, ...
- weather warning
- (from the article "weather forecasting") Weather warnings are a special kind of short-range forecast; the protection of human life is the forecaster's greatest challenge and source of pride. The first national weather forecasting service in ...
- weather watch
- (from the article "weather forecasting") ...observing networks and personnel. If the storms actually develop, specific warnings are issued based on direct observations. This two-step process consists of the tornado or severe thunderstorm watch, which is ...
- weather worship
- (from the article "Anatolian religion") ...had their own names for deities. The result is a bewildering number of divine names, and even when a deity is denoted not by a name but by a logogram ...
- Weatherby rifle
- (from the article "rifle") ...(7.62 mm) and a cartridge case designed to hold 30 grains (2 g) of black powder. Power and performance also depend on the weight and shape of the bullet and ...
- weatherfish
- (from the article "weatherfish") any of certain fishes of the loach (q.v.) group.for more general content related to this topicloach
- Weatherford
- city, seat of Parker county, north-central Texas, U.S. It lies some 30 miles (50 km) west of Fort Worth. It originated in 1855 as the county seat and was named ...
- weathering
- (from the article "industrial glass") ...atmosphere to produce alkali carbonates and bicarbonates. These are seen as the white deposits that form on a glassy surface in dishwashing tests or after extended humidity exposure (often called ...
- weathering
- disintegration or alteration of rock in its natural or original position at or near the Earth's surface through physical, chemical, and biological processes induced or modified by wind, water, and ... [17 Related Articles]
- weathering steel
- (from the article "building construction") ...Formed sheet aluminum is also used for opaque curtain-wall panels. Other metals used in curtain walls are stainless steel (a compound of 82 percent iron and 18 percent chromium) and ...
- weathering-limited slope
- (from the article "valley") Two major varieties of hillslopes occur in nature (see figure). On weathering-limited slopes, transport processes are so efficient that debris is removed more quickly than it can be generated by ...
- Weathermaster
- (from the article "building construction") Carrier's "Weathermaster" system was energy-intensive, appropriate to the declining energy costs of the time, and it was adopted for most of the all-glass skyscrapers that followed in the next 25 ...
- Weathermen
- (from the article "Students for a Democratic Society") ...the occupation of university and college administration buildings on campuses across the country. By 1969 the organization had split into several factions, the most notorious of which was the "Weathermen," ...
- weave draft
- (from the article "textile") As musical notation conveys a composer's ideas, so weave drafts or point paper plans communicate a textile designer's directions for constructing woven fabrics. The draft is a plan on graph ...
- weaver
- any of a number of small finchlike birds of the Old World, or any of several related birds that are noted for their nest-building techniques using grass stems and other ... [1 Related Articles]
- Weaver Navigation Canal
- (from the article "canals and inland waterways") On small canals gates may be manually operated by a lever arm extending over the lock side; on large canals hydraulic, mechanical, or electrical power is used. On the Weaver ...
- Weaver, Dennis
- American actor (b. June 4, 1924, Joplin, Mo.-d. Feb. 24, 2006, Ridgway, Colo.), first became famous for his portrayal from 1955 to 1964 of the limping deputy Chester Goode, Marshal ...
- Weaver, Drew
- (from the article "Golf") ...Colt Knost, added the U.S. amateur championship to the Public Links title, a double achieved only once before, by Ryan Moore in 2004. The winner of the British amateur crown ...
- Weaver, Earl
- American professional baseball player and manager whose career managerial record of 1,480 wins and 1,060 losses is one of the best in major league history.
- Weaver, George
- (from the article "Black Sox Scandal") ...Cicotte and Claude ("Lefty") Williams, first baseman Charles ("Chick") Gandil, shortstop Charles ("Swede") Risberg, third baseman George ("Buck") Weaver, outfielders Joe ("Shoeless Joe") Jackson and Oscar ("Happy") Felsch, and pinch ...
- Weaver, Harriet Shaw
- (from the article "Joyce, James") ...short story about a "Mr. Hunter"-his financial difficulties were great. He was helped by a large grant from Edith Rockefeller McCormick and finally by a series of grants from Harriet ...
- Weaver, James B
- American politician who leaned toward agrarian radicalism; he twice ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. presidency, as the Greenback-Labor candidate (1880) and as the Populist candidate (1892). [3 Related Articles]
- Weaver, Jeff
- (from the article "Baseball") ...came back to stun the Detroit Tigers four games to one and capture the 10th World Series title in the franchise's history. The Cardinals clinched with a 4-2 victory in ...
- Weaver, John
- dancer, ballet master, choreographer, and theorist known as the father of English pantomime. [4 Related Articles]
- Weaver, River
- river rising on the boundary between the counties of Shropshire and Cheshire, England, and then flowing 45 miles (72 km) north to reach the Irish Sea estuary of the River ...
- Weaver, Robert C.
- noted economist who was the first African American to serve in the U.S. cabinet.
- Weaver, Sylvester Laflin, Jr.
- American television executive (b. Dec. 21, 1908, Los Angeles, Calif.-d. March 15, 2002, Santa Barbara, Calif.), revolutionized television programming by shifting the production of shows from the sponsors to the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Weaver, Warren
- (from the article "communication") ...of a communications system that has been proposed as an answer to Lasswell's question emerged in the late 1940s, largely from the speculations of two American mathematicians, Claude Shannon and ...
- weaver-finch
- any of numerous songbirds belonging to the family Estrildidae (order Passeriformes), individually called grass finch, mannikin, and waxbill (qq.v.). They are finchlike Old World birds. Most of the 107 species ...
- Weavers, the
- seminal American folksinging group of the late 1940s and '50s. The original members were Lee Hays (b. 1914, Little Rock, Ark., U.S., -d. Aug. 26, 1981, Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., ), Ronnie ... [1 Related Articles]
- weaving
- production of fabric by interlacing two sets of yarns so that they cross each other, normally at right angles, usually accomplished with a hand- or power-operated loom. [23 Related Articles]
- web
- (from the article "spider") ...especially insects. Some spiders are active hunters that chase and overpower their prey. These typically have a well-developed sense of touch or sight. Other spiders instead weave silk snares, or ...
- Web 2.0
- next envisioned iteration of the World Wide Web, in which the 2.0 appellation is used in analogy with common computer software naming conventions to indicate a new, improved version. The ... [3 Related Articles]
- Web browser
- (from the article "computer science") The other major approach to client-server communications is via the World Wide Web. Web servers may be accessed over the Internet from almost any hardware platform with client applications known ...
- web frame
- (from the article "ship") ...shell plating. This scheme of framing is strongly favoured in applications where weight saving is important. However, longitudinal frames require internal transverse support from bulkheads and web frames-the latter being, ...
- Web script
- a computer programming language for adding dynamic capabilities to World Wide Web pages. Web pages marked up with HTML (hypertext markup language) or XML (extensible markup language) are largely static ...
- Web site
- (from the article "graphic design") ...new area of graphic-design activity mushroomed in the mid-1990s when Internet commerce became a growing sector of the global economy, causing organizations and businesses to scramble to establish Web sites. ...
- Web-crawling program
- (from the article "computer") Other common Internet software includes Web search engines and "Web-crawling" programs that traverse the Web to gather and classify information. Web-crawling programs are a kind of agent software, a term ...
- web-footed tenrec
- (from the article "tenrec") ...Oryzorictes) are burrowers that will inhabit rice fields. They are similar to American short-tailed shrews and have dark velvety fur, small eyes and ears, and long front claws. The amphibious ...
- Webb Alien Land Law
- (from the article "California") ...Francisco, affected domestic and international policies. The Gentlemen's Agreement between Japan and the United States in 1907 halted further Japanese immigration to the United States. In 1913 the Webb Alien ...
- Webb, Beatrice
- (from the article "Webb, Sidney and Beatrice") Beatrice Potter was born in Gloucester, into a class which, to use her own words, "habitually gave orders." She was the eighth daughter of Richard Potter, a businessman, at whose ...
- Webb, Brandon
- (from the article "Baseball") ...who also led the major leagues with 245 strikeouts and a 2.77 earned run average, secured a unanimous vote for the AL Cy Young Award. Six pitchers won 16 games ...
- Webb, Brant
- (from the article "Australia") All Australia rejoiced in May when miners Todd Russell and Brant Webb were rescued after having spent 14 nights trapped in a Tasmanian mine almost a kilometre (more than half ...
- Webb, Chick
- black American jazz drummer who led one of the dominant big bands of the swing era. Its swing, precision, and popularity made it the standard of excellence to which other ... [2 Related Articles]
- Webb, Clement Charles Julian
- English scholar and philosopher remembered for his contribution to the study of the societal aspects of religion.
- Webb, Elven
- (from the article "1963: Other Winners") ...Direction, Black-and-White: Gene Callahan for America AmericaArt Direction, Color: Herman Blumenthal, Hilyard Brown, John DeCuir, Boris Juraga, Maurice Pelling, Jack Martin Smith, Elven Webb for CleopatraMusic Score (Substantially Original): John ...
- Webb, James Edwin
- American public servant and administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) during the Apollo program (1961-68).
- Webb, John
- (from the article "Jones, Inigo") ...his estate restored. In the year of Charles I's execution, 1649, he was doing work at Wilton for the earl of Pembroke, but the great double-cube room there is probably ...
- Webb, Karrie
- While she was in no immediate danger of being mobbed by throngs of admirers, reporters, and photographers, Australian golfer Karrie Webb gained a reputation in 2000 as the women's tour's ... [1 Related Articles]
- Webb, Kate
- New Zealand-born journalist in her role as a reporter (1967-71) and Phnom Penh bureau chief (1971-77) for United Press International (UPI), was one of the few women war correspondents to ...
- Webb, Mary
- English novelist best known for her book Precious Bane (1924). Her lyrical style conveys a rich and intense impression of the Shropshire countryside and its people. Her love of nature ...
- Webb, Matthew
- (from the article "swimming") ...never achieved the status of competitive swimming as regulated by FINA except for English Channel swimming, which captured the popular imagination in the second half of the 19th century. Captain ...
- Webb, Philip Speakman
- architect and designer especially known for his unconventional country houses, who was a pioneer figure in the English domestic revival movement. [2 Related Articles]
- Webb, Phyllis
- (from the article "Canadian literature") ...(Winter Sun/The Dumbfounding, 1982), Anne Wilkinson (The Collected Poems of Anne Wilkinson, 1968), Gwendolyn MacEwen (The Poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen, 1994), Phyllis Webb (Selected Poems: The Vision Tree, 1982), D.G. ...
- Webb, Sidney
- (from the article "Webb, Sidney and Beatrice") English Socialist economists (husband and wife), early members of the Fabian Society, and co-founders of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Sidney Webb also helped reorganize the University ...
- Webb, Sidney and Beatrice
- English Socialist economists (husband and wife), early members of the Fabian Society, and co-founders of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Sidney Webb also helped reorganize the University ...
- Webb, William Henry
- American naval architect, one of the most versatile and successful shipbuilders of his day, who in 1889 established and endowed the Webb Institute of Naval Architecture at Glen Cove, N.Y. ...
- webbing clothes moth
- (from the article "tineid moth") The pale larvae of the clothes moth infest woolens, furs, and other animal products. Well-known species include the webbing clothes moth (Tineola bisselliella), the casemaking clothes moth (Tinea pellionella), and ...
- weber
- unit of magnetic flux in the International System of Units (SI), defined as the amount of flux that, linking an electrical circuit of one turn (one loop of wire), produces ... [3 Related Articles]
- Weber and Fields
- American comedy team that was popular at the turn of the 20th century. Joe Weber (in full Joseph Weber; b. Aug. 11, 1867, New York, N.Y., U.S., -d. May 10, ...
- Weber Basin
- (from the article "Banda Sea") ...The North Banda Basin is 19,000 feet (5,800 metres) deep, while the South Banda Basin is 17,700 feet (5,400 metres) deep. A volcanic ridge further divides the southern South Banda ...
- Weber State University
- public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Ogden, Utah, U.S. It is part of the Utah System of Higher Education. Its 400-acre (162-hectare) campus overlooks Ogden and the Great Salt ...
- Weber test
- (from the article "nervous system disease") ...of vibrations through the three small bones in the middle ear is likely, while if the former sound is louder, any deafness is likely due to disease of the inner ...
- Weber's law
- historically important psychological law quantifying the perception of change in a given stimulus. The law states that the change in a stimulus that will be just noticeable is a constant ... [3 Related Articles]
- Weber, Alfred
- (from the article "location theory") In 1909 the German location economist Alfred Weber formulated a theory of industrial location in his book entitled Uber den Standort der Industrien (Theory of the Location of Industries, 1929). ...
- Weber, Carl Maria von
- German composer and opera director during the transition from Classical to Romantic music, noted especially for his operas Der Freischutz (1821; "The Freeshooter"), Euryanthe ... [8 Related Articles]
- Weber, Dick
- American professional bowler, who was a charter member of the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) and a frequent finalist in bowling tournaments that were televised in the United States during the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Weber, Ernst
- Austrian-born American engineer who was a pioneer in the development of microwave communications equipment and who oversaw the growth of the Polytechnic Institute in New York City.
- Weber, Ernst Heinrich
- German anatomist and physiologist whose fundamental studies of the sense of touch introduced a concept-that of the just-noticeable difference, the smallest difference perceivable between two similar stimuli-that is important to ... [3 Related Articles]
- Weber, Eugen Joseph
- Romanian-born American historian was a noted authority on modern European-particularly French-history. Among his highly regarded works were Action Francaise: Royalism and Reaction in Twentieth-Century France (1962) and Peasants into Frenchmen: ...
- Weber, Heinrich
- (from the article "group") ...1770 in Joseph-Louis Lagrange's studies of permutations of roots of equations; however, the word group was first attached to a system of permutations by Evariste Galois in 1831. It was ...
- Weber, Joe
- (from the article "Weber and Fields") American comedy team that was popular at the turn of the 20th century. Joe Weber (in full Joseph Weber; b. Aug. 11, 1867New York, N.Y., U.S.-d. May 10, 1942Hollywood, Calif.) ...
- Weber, Joseph
- American physicist (b. May 17, 1919, Paterson, N.J.-d. Sept. 30, 2000, Pittsburgh, Pa.), pioneered research that led to the development of lasers and the detection of gravitational waves. Weber was ...
- Weber, Karl
- (from the article "Herculaneum") ...hunters, and many of the theatre area's artifacts were removed. Regular excavations were started in 1738 under the patronage of the king of Naples, and from 1750 to 1764 the ...
- Weber, Lois
- American actress, producer, and director who is best remembered for her crusading films of social concern in the early days of the motion picture industry.
- Weber, Max
- Russian-born American painter, printmaker, and sculptor who, through his early abstract works, helped to introduce such avant-garde European art movements as Fauvism and Cubism to the United States.
- Weber, Max
- German sociologist and political economist best known for his thesis of the "Protestant ethic," relating Protestantism to capitalism, and for his ideas on bureaucracy. Weber's profound influence on sociological theory ... [28 Related Articles]
- Weber, Wilhelm Eduard
- German physicist who, with his friend Carl Friedrich Gauss, investigated terrestrial magnetism and in 1833 devised an electromagnetic telegraph. The magnetic unit, termed a weber, formerly the coulomb, is named ... [5 Related Articles]
- Weberian apparatus
- distinctive chain of small bones characteristic of fish of the superorder Ostariophysi (carps, characins, minnows, suckers, loaches, catfish, and others). The Weberian apparatus consists of four pairs of bones, called ... [4 Related Articles]
- Webern, Anton
- Austrian composer of the 12-tone Viennese school. He is known especially for his passacaglia for orchestra, his chamber music, and various songs (Lieder). [5 Related Articles]
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