(from the article "Computers and Information Systems") Networking firm Cisco Systems paid $3.2 billion for WebEx Communications, which provided online conferences and secure instant messaging. WebEx was estimated to have 64% of the online meeting market. Cisco ...
(from the article "virtual museum") ...several "pavilions"-including archaeological, architectural, historical, and paleontological exhibits-which have been donated by several organizations. Another pioneer is the WebMuseum, an exhibition of artworks by Western painters from medieval times to ...
any of about 170 species of insects that are delicate, are yellow or brown in colour, have biting mouthparts, and feed on dead plant material. Most species are from 4 ... [2 Related Articles]
town (township), Worcester county, south-central Massachusetts, U.S., on the French River, 18 miles (29 km) south of Worcester city. Within the town limits is Lake Chaubunagungamaug (now also called Lake ...
city, seat (1856) of Hamilton county, central Iowa, U.S., on the Boone River, 17 miles (27 km) east of Fort Dodge. It was settled in 1850 by Wilson Brewer and ...
(from the article "O'Connor, Sandra Day") ...rulings, she signaled a reluctance to support any decision that would deny women the right to choose a safe and legal abortion. By "defecting" in part from the conservative majority ...
(from the article "English literature") Robert Browning's experiments with the dramatic monologue were further developed in the 1860s by Augusta Webster, who used the form in Dramatic Studies (1866),
American jazz musician, considered one of the most distinctive of his generation, noted for the beauty of his tenor saxophone tone and for his melodic inventiveness. [1 Related Articles]
American orator and politician who practiced prominently as a lawyer before the U.S. Supreme Court and served as a U.S. congressman (1813-17, 1823-27), a U.S. senator (1827-41, 1845-50), and U.S. ... [10 Related Articles]
(from the article "Webster, Daniel") Born on the New Hampshire frontier in the town of Salisbury, Daniel was the ninth of 10 children of Ebenezer Webster, a veteran of the American Revolution, farmer and tavern-keeper, ...
Scottish-born Canadian broadcaster whose combative interview style made him a huge success on radio and television open-line shows; from the late 1970s to the late '80s, his morning television show ...
English dramatist whose The White Devil (c. 1609-c. 1612) and The Duchess of Malfi (c. 1612/13, published 1623) are generally regarded as the paramount 17th-century English tragedies apart from those ... [4 Related Articles]
American football player (b. March 18, 1952, Tomahawk, Wis.-d. Sept. 24, 2002, Pittsburgh, Pa.), anchored a formidable offensive line that helped the Pittsburgh Steelers win four Super Bowl championships in ...
American lexicographer known for his American Spelling Book (1783) and his American Dictionary of the English Language, 2 vol. (1828; 2nd ed., 1840). Webster ... [7 Related Articles]
(from the article "1955: Other Winners") ...Russell Bennett, Jay Blackton, Adolph Deutsch for Oklahoma!Song: "Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing" from Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing; music by Sammy Fain, lyrics by Paul Francis WebsterOscar to "Secret ...
(from the article "Earth Sciences") ...to determine for some time. Another study, however, presented observational evidence that an increase in storm intensity might already be occurring. Using hurricane data from weather satellites, Peter Webster of ...
(1842), treaty between the U.S. and Great Britain establishing the northeastern boundary of the U.S. and providing for Anglo-U.S. cooperation in the suppression of the slave trade. The treaty established ... [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "lepidopteran") ...or wasp nests; larvae of the large subfamily Phycitinae have very diverse habits, including predation on scale insects.Approximately 11,600 species worldwide; small, often abundant moths, many larvae producing ...
(from the article "Wechsler, David") ...1942 Wechsler issued his first revision. The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children was published in 1949 and updated in 1974. In 1955 Wechsler developed yet another adult intelligence test, the ...
(from the article "Wechsler, David") ...(The earlier test had been standardized for an all-white population.) He contributed to the revision of the WAIS in 1981, shortly before his death. The last of his intelligence tests, ...
(from the article "1948: Other Winners") Screenplay: John Huston for The Treasure of the Sierra MadreMotion Picture Story: Richard Schweizer and David Wechsler for The SearchCinematography, Black-and-White: William Daniels for The Naked CityCinematography, Color: Winton Hoch, ...
American lawyer and legal scholar (b. Dec. 4, 1909, New York, N.Y.-d. April 26, 2000, New York), as director of the American Law Institute, he created a model penal code, ...
(from the article "Wechsler, David") ...He began a long association with Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital in New York City, serving as chief psychologist from 1932 to 1967. In 1939 he produced a battery of intelligence tests ...
(from the article "New Zealand literature") ...the 1970s and '80s were several whose work showed, at least as a general tendency, a shift away from British and toward American models of Modernism and postmodernism. Two of ...
(from the article "ocean") ...are less defined. Large cyclonic flowing gyres lie poleward of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and can be considered counterparts to the Northern Hemispheric subpolar gyres. The best-formed is the Weddell ...
(from the article "polynya") ...polynyas, the larger and longer-lasting of the two types, form within the ice cover and are believed to be caused by the upwelling of deep warmer water. This type is ...
deep embayment of the Antarctic coastline that forms the southernmost tip of the Atlantic Ocean. Centring at about 73° S, 45° W, the Weddell Sea is bounded on the west ... [6 Related Articles]
nonmigratory earless seal (family Phocidae) found around the South Pole, on or near the coast of Antarctica. The Weddell seal is a rotund animal that grows to about 3 metres ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "India") Hume, who is credited with organizing the Indian National Congress, attended the first session of the Congress as the only British delegate. Sir William Wedderburn (1838-1918), Gokhale's closest British adviser ...
German submarine commander whose feat of sinking three British armoured cruisers in about an hour, during the second month of World War I, made him one of the most famous ...
(from the article "dance, Western") Weddings provided another important occasion for ritual dancing. Dancing with the bride was considered an act of devotion, and the officiating rabbi always complied with pleasure. During the Diaspora of ...
German actor and dramatist who became an intense personal force in the German artistic world on the eve of World War I. A direct forebear of the modern Theatre of ... [5 Related Articles]
(Landgreve) Norwegian patriot and statesman. He was the leading advocate of Norwegian-Swedish union in the last years of the Danish-Norwegian state and the first Norwegian governor (statholder) in the Norwegian-Swedish ...
American military leader who was the principal author of the 1941 Victory Program, a comprehensive war plan devised for the U.S. entry into World War II. [1 Related Articles]
in mechanics, device that tapers to a thin edge, usually made of metal or wood, and used for splitting, lifting, or tightening, as to secure a hammer head onto its ...
(from the article "coleopteran") ...feed in rotten logs. Melandryidae (false darkling beetles) usually feed on fungi or in old wood. Pythids usually are scavengers in burrows of other beetles, including weevils. Rhipiphoridae (wedge-shaped beetles), ...
English stoneware, including creamware, black basaltes, and jasperware, made by the Staffordshire factories originally established by Josiah Wedgwood at Burslem, at Etruria, and finally at Barlaston, all in Staffordshire. In ... [3 Related Articles]
, British historian (b. July 20, 1910, Stocksfield, Northumberland, Eng.--d. March 9, 1997, London. Eng.), was one of Great Britain's most distinguished and celebrated historians. Her biographies and historical works, ... [1 Related Articles]
English pottery designer and manufacturer, outstanding in his scientific approach to pottery making and known for his exhaustive researches into materials, logical deployment of labour, and sense of business organization. [15 Related Articles]
(from the article "photography, history of") The antecedents of photogenic drawing can be traced back to 1802, when Thomas Wedgwood, son of the famous potter Josiah Wedgwood, reported his experiments in recording images on paper or ...
(from the article "pottery") ...in Victorian times both by Wedgwood in jasper and by Northwood in glass. Wedgwood's jasperwares were imitated in biscuit porcelain at Sevres, and Meissen produced a glazed version called Wedgwoodarbeiten. ...
any plant growing where it is not wanted. Ever since human beings first attempted the cultivation of plants, they have had to fight the invasion by weeds into areas chosen ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "cereal farming") Weeds present difficulties, as they compete with cereal crops for water, light, and mineral nutrients. The infestation of annual seeds planted in a field may cause many weeds in that ...
township, Hudson county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S. It lies 5 miles (8 km) north of Jersey City and opposite New York City on the Hudson River. An industrial port and ...
period of seven days, a unit of time artificially devised with no astronomical basis. The origin of the term is generally associated with the ancient Jews and the biblical account ... [5 Related Articles]
spring and tourist attraction in Hernando county, west-central Florida, U.S., 55 miles (90 km) north of St. Petersburg. The spring, with a measured depth of more than 250 feet (75 ...
(from the article "Lawrence, D.H.") ...Lawrence had another attack of pneumonia. He broke his engagement to Louie and decided to give up teaching and live by writing, preferably abroad. Most importantly, he fell in love ...
American clergyman, itinerant book agent, and fabricator of the story of George Washington's chopping down the cherry tree. This fiction was inserted into the fifth edition (1806) of Weems's book ... [1 Related Articles]
conventional painter of Italianate landscapes, fanciful seascapes, still lifes with dead game, and portraits. Jan Micker was his first master. He later studied under Abraham Bloemaert in Utrecht and Claes ...
(from the article "Western sculpture") ...to generalize about them. One can say, however, that Louis's masons popularized two important ideas. One was the tomb chest decorated with small figures in niches-figures generally known as weepers, ...
(from the article "capuchin monkey") ...that often form tufts or crests. The uncrested, or untufted, group includes the more lightly built white-throated (C. capucinus), white-fronted (C. albifrons), and weeper (C. nigrivittatus) capuchins, in which the ...
(from the article "Ficus") ...elastica), a large tree that was formerly an important source of rubber, is now cultivated as an indoor potted plant. The fiddle-leaf fig (F. lyrata), the weeping ...
(from the article "forsythia") Green-stem forsythia (F. viridissima), native to China, may grow to 3 m (10 feet); it bears greenish yellow flowers. Weeping forsythia (F. suspensa), also from China, has hollow, pendulous stems ...
(from the article "love grass") Plains love grass (E. intermedia), sand love grass (E. trichodes), and weeping love grass (E.curvula) are forage species in southern North America. Weeping love grass, native to South Africa, ...
(from the article "willow") Several species and hybrids with drooping habit are called weeping willows, especially S. babylonica and its varieties from East Asia. From northern Asia, S. matsudana has sharply toothed leaves, whitish ...
(from the article "Finno-Ugric religion") ...in cattle-breeding cultures and agricultural communities); guardians of the sanctuary (the protectors of holy groves, buildings, and other places and the controller of the rites); professional weeping women (the "vocalists," ...
American architect of the Chicago school who designed the subway system in Washington, D.C.-considered one of the most remarkable public works projects of the 20th century-and who played a prominent ... [1 Related Articles]
any of four species of small marine fishes of the family Trachinidae (order Perciformes). Weevers are long-bodied fishes that habitually bury themselves in the sand. They have large, upwardly slanted ... [1 Related Articles]
true weevil of the insect order Coleoptera (beetles and weevils). Curculionidae not only is the largest coleopteran family (about 40,000 species) but is thought to be the largest family in ... [2 Related Articles]
American sprinter who held the world record for the 200-metre dash (straightaway; 1896-1921, though tied by five other runners) and for the 220-yard dash (straightaway; 1896-1921, also tied by the ...
(from the article "Berlin ware") ...Others were opened in 1699 by Cornelius Funcke and in 1756 by Karl Friedrich Ludicke. All closed, however, by the end of the 18th century. The first porcelain factory was ...
uncommon disorder characterized by inflammation and degeneration of small blood vessels. The disease usually occurs in mid-adult life. Almost any organ may be affected, but most often the diseased vessels ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Polish literature") ...in diary form and showing the influence of Jonathan Swift and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Two other outstanding poets were Stanislaw Trembecki, whose works are models of stylistic fluency, and Kajetan Wegierski, ...
(from the article "Weimaraner") ...an alert, well-balanced stance and is valued as an aggressive hunter, good companion, and watchdog. The breed became well-known beginning in the 1970s through the whimsical photographs and videos of ...
Danish furniture designer designed sculpturally elegant yet functional chairs, each of which epitomized the beauty and superb craftsmanship of the Danish Modern style. Wegner created his first chair in ...
(Sept. 19, 1657), agreement in which John Casimir, king of Poland from 1648 to 1668, renounced the suzerainty of the Polish crown over ducal Prussia and made Frederick William, who ... [1 Related Articles]
German skier who was the only three-time winner of the Nordic combined (two ski jumps totaled, plus a 15-km race) in Olympic history. In doing so, he was the first ...
(from the article "logistics") ...which dominated operations in this theatre until late in the war, suffered from a severe shortage of motor transport and rolling stock, only partially made good by levies on conquered ...
(from the article "weisuo") ...throughout its empire. Originally developed by the preceding Yuan (or Mongol) dynasty (1206-1368), the system consisted of a guard unit of 5,600 men known as a wei. ...
one of the many warring states into which China was divided during the Dong (Eastern) Zhou period (770-256 BCE). The state was located in what is now Shanxi province, in ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "China") Zhongzong, however, also had a domineering wife, the empress Wei, who initiated a regime of utter corruption at court, openly selling offices. When the emperor died in 710, probably poisoned ...
(from the article "library") ...and practical considerations, such as the governmental needs of emperors and priests, all have formed the basis for the arrangement of subject catalogs. Early in the 7th century the scholar ...
(from the article "Japan") ...was civil war in the state of Wo; Queen Himiko had pacified the land and, relying on her religious powers, ruled over a confederation of more than 30 states that ...
(AD 386-534/535), the longest lived and most powerful of the northern Chinese dynasties that existed before the reunification of China under the Sui and Tang dynasties. [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "Liang Chenyu") Chinese playwright and author of the first play of the Kun school (kunqu) of dramatic singing. When his great actor friend Wei Liangfu developed a new, subtler, ...
river in Gansu and Shaanxi provinces, north-central China, a western tributary of the Huang He (Yellow River). It rises in the Niaoshu Mountains in Weiyuan county of central Gansu province ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Shensi") ...valley of the Wei River, a tributary of the Huang Ho, which flows from west to east across the province from its headwaters in Kansu to join the Huang Ho ...
eunuch who completely dominated the Chinese government between 1624 and 1627, ruthlessly exploiting the population and terrorizing the official class. He is usually considered by historians to have been the ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "arts, East Asian") ...his figures look as though they had been drenched in water. At the end of the 6th century, a painter from Khotan (Ho-t'ien), Wei-ch'ih Po-chih-na, was active at the Sui ...
(from the article "arts, East Asian") The main audience hall of the Western Han Wei-yang palace was said to have been about 120 metres long by 35 metres deep, possibly smaller than its largest Ch'in predecessor ...
major division of late Pleistocene deposits and time in western Europe (the Pleistocene Epoch began about 1,600,000 years ago and ended about 10,000 years ago). The Weichsel Glacial Stage followed ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Connecticut") ...woman in any state elected in her own right to the office of governor. The political climate changed in the 1990s with a move toward centrism and the election of ...
German anatomist and physical anthropologist whose reconstruction of prehistoric human remains and work on Peking man (then called Sinanthropus pekinensis) and other hominids brought him to preeminence in the study ...
Canadian bodybuilding entrepreneur cofounded (1946) the International Federation of Body Building and Fitness (IFBB) and created a worldwide following that eventually led (1998) to bodybuilding's provisional status as an Olympic ...
(from the article "physical culture") More than ever, southern California proved to be the vanguard of and magnet for the physical culture movement, especially when Joe Weider, a leading fitness promoter, moved his operations from ...
(from the article "medal") ...in a realistic idiom. A few fine medals are ascribed to Albrecht Durer, but the first professional medalist was Hans Schwarz of Augsburg, active in Germany and elsewhere between 1512 ...
major innovator of American modern dance, noted for the abstract, rhythmic pantomime he developed and employed in his comic and satiric works. [1 Related Articles]
American author (b. April 4, 1913, New York, N.Y.--d. Oct. 6, 1998, New York), created novels, short stories, and plays in which he presented a harsh and unapologetic view of ...
city, east-central Shandong sheng (province), eastern China. It is situated on the main route along the northern slopes of the Shandong Hills at the northern end of ... [2 Related Articles]
genus with about 10 species of East Asian flowering shrubs belonging to the family Diervillaceae, some widely grown as ornamentals for their spring and summer flowers. The tubular, white to ...
