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weight: gravitational force of attraction on an object, caused by the presence of a massive second object, such as the Earth or Moon. Weight is a consequence of the universal law ... [10 Related Articles]
weight class: (from the article "Boxing's "Alphabet Soup" of Champions") There was a time when virtually every sports fan could name all of the world boxing champions. That was during the first half of the 20th century, however, when there ...
weight lifting: sport in which barbells are lifted competitively or as an exercise. [18 Related Articles]
weight throw: sport of throwing a weight for distance or height. Men have long matched strength and skill at hurling objects. The roth cleas, or wheel feat, reputedly was a major test ...
weight training: system of physical conditioning using free weights (barbells and dumbbells) and weight machines (e.g., Nautilus-type equipment). It is a training system rather than a competitive sport such as Olympic weightlifting ...
weight-based method: (from the article "baking") ...are cut off from the main dough mass and then ejected onto a conveyor leading to the rounder. When density is kept constant, weight and volume of the dough pieces ...
weighted arithmetic mean: (from the article "mean") ...the arithmetic mean is commonly used as the single value typical of a set of data. For a system of particles having unequal masses, the centre of gravity is determined ...
weighting: (from the article "filling") ...constructions, such as velvet or velveteen, extra sets of warps are used to form the pile. A single filling yarn is known as a pick, or shot. In textile finishing, ...
weightlessness: condition experienced while in free-fall (q.v.), in which the effect of gravity is canceled by the inertial (e.g., centrifugal) force resulting from orbital flight. The term zero gravity is often ... [3 Related Articles]
weights and measures: (from the article "weights and measures") the standard or agreed upon units for expressing the amount of some quantity, such as capacity, volume, length, area, number, and weight. See measurement system.for content related to these topics
Weights and Measures Act: (from the article "measurement system") The Weights and Measures Act of 1824 sought to clear away some of the medieval tangle. A single gallon was decreed, defined as the volume occupied by10 imperial pounds weight ...
Weights and Measures, General Conference of: (from the article "measurement system") ...been known that the original 18th-century standards were not accurate to the degree demanded by 20th-century scientific operations; new definitions were required. After lengthy discussion the 11th General Conference on ...
Weihai: port city, eastern Shandong sheng (province), eastern China. It lies on the north coast of the Shandong Peninsula. [2 Related Articles]
Weihenmayer, Erik: (from the article "Everest, Mount") ...oxygen. Goran Kropp took this a step further in 1996 by bicycling all the way from his native Sweden before ascending Everest; he then cycled home. In 2001 the first ...
Weil, Andre: French mathematician who was one of the most influential figures in mathematics during the 20th century, particularly in number theory and algebraic geometry. [2 Related Articles]
Weil, Andrew Thomas: Once described as a practitioner of integrative medicine, an ethnobotanist, an educator, and a writer, Andrew Weil by 1997 had become more commonly viewed as a guru of alternative medicine. ...
Weil, Cynthia: (from the article "The Brill Building") ...located across the street at 1650 Broadway) was Aldon Music, founded by Al Nevins and Don Kirshner. Brill Building-era songwriting teams such as Gerry Goffin and Carole King, Barry Mann ...
Weil, Mark: Uzbek theatre producer and director founded (1976) and ran the Ilkhom Theatre, the first independent theatre in the Soviet Union. Weil studied drama in Moscow and at the Tashkent Institute ...
Weil, Simone: French mystic, social philosopher, and activist in the French Resistance during World War II, whose posthumously published works had particular influence on French and English social thought. [1 Related Articles]
Weill, Kurt: German-born American composer who created a revolutionary kind of opera of sharp social satire in collaboration with the writer Bertolt Brecht. [5 Related Articles]
Weill, Sandy: When the proposed merger of the Travelers Group financial giant and banking's Citicorp was announced in April 1998, the news stunned the financial industry; involving some $76 billion in stock, ...
Weimar: city, Thuringia Land (state), eastern Germany. Weimar lies along the Ilm River, just east of Erfurt. First mentioned in documents in 975 as Wimare, it was declared ... [3 Related Articles]
Weimar Classicism: (from the article "German literature") It took Goethe more than 10 years to adapt himself to life at the court. After a two-year sojourn in Italy from 1786 to 1788, he published his first Neoclassical ...
Weimar coalition: (from the article "Ebert, Friedrich") ...a German parliamentary democracy. Even in the midst of the war, the Catholic Centre Party, the Democratic Party (previously the Progressive Party), and the Social Democrats had formed the so-called ...
Weimar Renaissance: (from the article "Germany") Amid the political and economic turmoil of the early 1920s, Germany's cultural and intellectual life was flowering. The so-called Weimar Renaissance brought the fulfillment of the Modernist revolution, which in ...
Weimar Republic: the government of Germany (q.v.) from 1919 to 1933, so called because the assembly that adopted its constitution met at Weimar from Feb. 6 to Aug. 11, 1919. [23 Related Articles]
Weimaraner: sporting dog breed developed in the early 19th century by German nobles of the court of Weimar. First used to hunt big game, the dog was later trained as a ...
Weimorts, Albert Lee, Jr.: American civilian engineer (b. March 6, 1938, DeFuniak Springs, Fla.-d. Dec. 21, 2005, Fort Walton Beach, Fla.), earned the nickname "father of the mother of all bombs" for his work ...
Wein, George: (from the article "Performing Arts") ...by the Jazztet, Regina Carter, T.S. Monk, Wynton Marsalis with Dave Brubeck, the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, and Nancy Wilson, among others. In a historic move, longtime jazz promoter George Wein ...
Weinberg, Alvin: (from the article "Big Science") ...first appeared in a 1961 article in Science magazine, titled "Impact of Large-Scale Science on the United States," by physicist and Oak Ridge National Laboratory director Alvin Weinberg. The article ...
Weinberg, Steven: American nuclear physicist who in 1979 shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with Sheldon Lee Glashow and Abdus Salam (qq.v.) for work in formulating the electroweak theory, which explains the ... [5 Related Articles]
Weinberg, Wilhelm: (from the article "Hardy, Godfrey Harold") ...did not disguise his distaste for applied mathematics. However, early in his career he made what turned out to be a significant contribution. In 1908 he gave, concurrently with the ...
Weinberger, Caspar Willard: American government official (b. Aug. 18, 1917, San Francisco, Calif.- d. March 28, 2006, Bangor, Maine), was secretary of defense (1981-87) under Pres. Ronald Reagan and presided over the biggest ...
Weinberger, Jaromir: Czech composer known mainly for his opera Svanda Dudak (Shvanda the Bagpiper).
Weinbrenner, Friedrich: (from the article "Karlsruhe") ...when Karl Wilhelm, margrave of Baden-Durlach, built a castle near his hunting lodge, Karlsruhe ("Karl's retreat"). The castle tower became the focal point of a fan-shaped town layout. Friedrich Weinbrenner ...
Weiner, A. S.: (from the article "Rh blood group system") ...from the use of the blood of rhesus monkeys in the basic test for determining the presence of the Rh antigen in human blood. The Rh blood group system was ...
Weiner, Leo: composer in the tradition of Brahms and Mendelssohn. He was a coach at the Budapest Comic Opera and won the Franz Josef Jubilee Prize, a travelling fellowship that took him ...
Weingartner, Felix, Edler Von Munzberg: Austrian symphonic and operatic conductor and composer, best-known for his interpretations of the works of Ludwig van Beethoven and Richard Wagner.
Weinheber, Josef: Austrian poet noted for his technical mastery.
Weininger, Otto: Austrian philosopher whose single work, Geschlecht und Charakter (1903; Sex and Character), served as a sourcebook for anti-Semitic propagandists. [1 Related Articles]
Weinstein Company: (from the article "Weinstein, Harvey") In 2005 Harvey and Bob left Miramax Films to form the Weinstein Company. The company's early notable releases included Grindhouse (2007), which consisted of two feature-length films ...
Weinstein, Bob: (from the article "Weinstein, Harvey") American film producer who-with his brother, Bob-was cofounder and cochairman of Miramax Films (1979-2005) and later the Weinstein Company (2005- ).
Weinstein, Harvey: American film producer who-with his brother, Bob-was cofounder and cochairman of Miramax Films (1979-2005) and later the Weinstein Company (2005- ). [2 Related Articles]
Weinstein, Louis: American physician (b. Feb. 26, 1908, Bridgeport, Conn.-d. March 16, 2000, Newton, Mass.), pioneered treatments for infectious diseases and was a prominent medical educator. He earned his medical degree in ...
Weinstock of Bowden, Arnold Weinstock, Baron: British industrialist (b. July 29, 1924, London, Eng.-d. July 23, 2002, Bowden Hill, Wiltshire, Eng.), led the U.K.'s General Electric Co. (GEC) as managing director for more than three decades ...
Weintraub, Al: (from the article "Bell Sound") Al Weintraub opened Bell Sound in the early 1950s on West 87th Street, and when he moved closer to the midtown action (to 46th Street and 8th Avenue) in 1954, ...
Weinzweig, John Jacob: Canadian composer (b. March 11, 1913, Toronto, Ont.-d. Aug. 24, 2006, Toronto), introduced modernist elements to Canadian music and through his teaching influenced younger composers. A tireless promoter of his ...
Weipa: Aboriginal community and mining town, northern Queensland, Australia, on the northwestern coast of Cape York Peninsula. It lies on Albatross Bay at the estuaries of the Hey, Embley, and Mission ... [2 Related Articles]
weir: any control or barrier placed in an open channel to permit measurement of water discharge. The latter may be computed from a formula expressing the discharge in terms of crest ...
weir: (from the article "commercial fishing") ...a branch line to a main line. Hauling is accomplished with small hand-operated or motor-driven winches. More important for catching fish in commercial sea fisheries are the big wooden corrals, ...
Weir, Ernest T.: (from the article "National Intergroup, Inc.") The steel company was formed in 1929 by Ernest T. Weir (1875-1957) through an amalgamation of Weirton Steel Company, Great Lakes Steel Corporation, and Hanna Iron Ore Company; the company ...
Weir, J. Alden: (from the article "Ten, The") ...Artists and the National Academy of Design, they chose to exhibit independently, hoping to draw public attention to their paintings. The members of The Ten were Childe Hassam, John Henry ...
Weir, Johnny: (from the article "Ice Skating") The U.S. men's competition went to Johnny Weir for the third year in a row, despite his third-place finish in the long program. He finished first in a short program ...
Weir, Peter: (from the article "International Film Awards 2004") ...the federal states had its own funding agency), the first films began to appear in the early 1970s, and within the next few years several talented directors began to receive ...
Weir, Robert Stanley: (from the article "O Canada") ...were written by Sir Adolphe Basile Routhier (1839-1920), later chief justice of Quebec. The English lyrics (which are not a translation or rendering of the French) were written in 1908 ...
Weir, Tony: (from the article "tort") ...used and are entitled (in one of the rare instances of English law) to award punitive damages. No summary can do justice to this peculiar but important tort, but, according ...
Weird Sisters: the creatures who prophesy the destinies of the main characters in Shakespeare's Macbeth. The term Weird Sisters was first used by Scots writers as a sobriquet for ... [1 Related Articles]
Weirton: city, Brooke and Hancock counties, in the northern panhandle of West Virginia, U.S., on the Ohio River (bridged just south to Steubenville, Ohio). The area, originally settled during the American ...
Weise, Jeff: (from the article "Law, Crime, and Law Enforcement") On March 21 teenager Jeff Weise shot dead nine people, seven of them in a rampage through a high school, before taking his own life on a Native American reservation ...
Weiser, Artur: (from the article "biblical literature") ...40 psalms to a hypothetical autumnal New Year festival at which the enthronement of Yahweh as the universal king was commemorated; the festival was associated with a similar Babylonian celebration. ...
Weiser, Johann Conrad: North American colonial Indian agent, musician, evangelist, and public official.
Weiser, Mark David: American computer scientist and visionary who developed the pioneering idea for what he referred to as "ubiquitous computing," the use of tiny computers in "smart" devices-everyday items such as coffeepots ... [1 Related Articles]
Weisgall, Hugo David: Czech-born American composer and educator (b. Oct. 13, 1912, Eibenschutz, Moravia [now Ivancice, Czech Republic]--d. March 11, 1997, Manhasset, N.Y.), was considered one of the most influential opera composers in ...
Weismann, August (Friedrich Leopold): German biologist and one of the founders of the science of genetics, who is best known for his opposition to the doctrine of the inheritance of acquired traits and for ... [7 Related Articles]
weiss beer: (from the article "beer") ...Marzbier ("March beer") is a lighter brew produced in the spring. While all German lagers are made with malted barley, a special brew called weiss beer (
Weiss domain: (from the article "Weiss, Pierre-Ernest") ...a ferromagnetic substance at the Curie point and suggested that spontaneous magnetization could occur in such materials; the latter phenomenon was later found to occur in very small regions known ...
Weiss, Alta: (from the article "baseball") In its early stages, women's involvement in professional baseball was largely an attempt to profit from the novelty of female players. An Ohio woman, Alta Weiss, pitched for the otherwise ...
Weiss, Bernhard: (from the article "biblical literature") ...the priority of Mark and its use as the patterning form of Matthew and Luke. This insight led to a so-called two-source hypothesis (by two German biblical scholars, Heinrich Holtzmann ...
Weiss, Harvey: (from the article "Shubat Enlil") ancient city in northeastern Syria. Excavations of the mound at the site were begun by Harvey Weiss of Yale University in 1979. His work uncovered archaeological remains dating from about ...
Weiss, Janet: (from the article "Pavement") ...Face the Truth (2005), and Real Emotional Trash (2008), all with his new assemblage, the Jicks, who by 2008 included former Sleater-Kinney drummer Janet Weiss. Weiss, like ...
Weiss, Johannes: German theologian known for his work in New Testament criticism. He wrote the first eschatological interpretations of the Gospel (1892) and also set forth the principles of "form-criticism" (1912)-the analysis ... [1 Related Articles]
Weiss, John: (from the article "fascism") ...was quite fraudulent in this respect. Although some workers were duped by it before the fascists came to power, most remained loyal to the traditional antifascist parties of the left. ...
Weiss, Paul Alfred: Austrian-born American biologist who did pioneering research on the mechanics of nerve regeneration, nerve repair, and cellular organization. During World War II Weiss and his colleagues developed and tested the ...
Weiss, Peter: German dramatist and novelist whose plays achieved widespread success in both Europe and the United States in the 1960s. [2 Related Articles]
Weiss, Pierre-Ernest: French physicist who investigated magnetism and determined the Weiss magneton unit of magnetic moment. [3 Related Articles]
Weiss, Theodore Russell: American poet and editor (b. Dec. 16, 1916, Reading, Pa.-d. April 15, 2003, Princeton, N.J.), was the founding editor in 1943 (with Warren Carrier) of the Quarterly Review of Literature, ...
Weisshorn: (from the article "Alps") ...Great St. Bernard Pass east of Mont Blanc on the Swiss-Italian border to the region of the Splugen Pass north of Lake Como. Within this territory are such distinctive peaks ...
Weisskircher Heights: (from the article "Saarland") ...the south by the scarps of the French region of Lorraine. The small Blies and Prims rivers flow into the Saar River. The state's highest point is ...
Weisskopf formula: (from the article "radioactivity") Transition rates are usually compared to the single-proton theoretical rate, or Weisskopf formula, named after the American physicist Victor Frederick Weisskopf, who developed it. The Table gives the theoretical reference ...
Weisskopf, Victor Frederick: Austrian-born American physicist (b. Sept. 19, 1908, Vienna, Austria-d. April 21, 2002, Newton, Mass.), worked on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb during World War II; he later ...
Weissmuller, Johnny: American freestyle swimmer of the 1920s who won five Olympic gold medals and set 67 world records. He became even more famous as a motion-picture actor, most notably in the ... [3 Related Articles]
weisuo: (Chinese: "guard post"), any of the military garrison units utilized by China's Ming dynasty (1368-1644) to maintain peace throughout its empire. Originally developed by the preceding Yuan (or Mongol) dynasty ...
Weisweiler, Adam: one of the foremost cabinetmakers of the Louis XVI period, whose works were commissioned by many European courts.
Weisweiler, Jean: (from the article "Weisweiler, Adam") ...Bonaparte family. His other royal commissions included those for the Prince of Wales and Duke of Northumberland. He retired after his wife's death in 1809, and his business was continued ...
Weisz, Rachel: (from the article "International Film Awards 2006") Other Nominees
Weitz, John: German-born American fashion designer, novelist, and historian (b. May 25, 1923, Berlin, Ger.-d. Oct. 3, 2002, Bridgehampton, N.Y.), enhanced his renown as a menswear designer-and greatly increased his income-when he ...
Weitzmann, K.: (from the article "Western sculpture") ...be dated exactly. But in most cases, dates can only be suggested on the basis of style. The ivories have been classified under a number of headings in a monumental ...
Weitzmann, Marc: (from the article "Literature") Another trend prevalent among 2006 best sellers was the well-established condemnation of contemporary French society. Marc Weitzmann's Fraternite offered a scathing critique of French suburban life from the point of ...
Weizenbaum, Joseph: German-born American computer scientist was a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology when he set the stage for the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) as the developer (1964-65) ...
Weizman, Ezer: Israeli soldier and politician who was the seventh president of Israel (1993-2000). [1 Related Articles]
Weizmann, Chaim: first president of the new nation of Israel (1949-52), who was for decades the guiding spirit behind the World Zionist Organization. [7 Related Articles]
Weizsacker, Carl Friedrich Freiherr (Baron) von: German theoretical physicist and philosopher was a member of the team that sought to develop an atomic bomb for Nazi Germany; he later was one of the "Gottingen 18," ...
weka: (from the article "New Zealand") ...the most interesting of which are flightless. The moa was a large bird, eventually exterminated by the Maori. The kiwi, another flightless species, is extant, though only in secluded bush ...
Welch: city, seat of McDowell county, southern West Virginia, U.S., at the confluence of Elkhorn Creek and Tug Fork. Settled in 1885, it was named for I.A. Welch, an early settler. ...
Welch, Adam Cleghorn: one of the greatest Scottish biblical scholars.
Welch, Denton: English painter and novelist chiefly remembered for two imaginative novels of adolescence, Maiden Voyage (1943) and In Youth Is Pleasure (1944).
Welch, Elisabeth Margaret: American-born British musical theatre and cabaret singer (b. Feb. 27, 1904, New York, N.Y.-d. July 15, 2003, Northolt, Middlesex, Eng.), was known for her show-stopping performances in plays by Cole ...
Welch, James: (from the article "American literature") Novels such as N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969, James Welch's Winter in the Blood (1974) and Fools Crow (1986), Leslie Marmon ...
Welch, Robert H. W., Jr.: (from the article "John Birch Society") private organization founded in the United States on Dec. 9, 1958, by Robert H.W. Welch, Jr. (1899-1985), a retired Boston candy manufacturer, for the purpose of combating communism and promoting ...
Welch, Stanton: (from the article "Performing Arts") ...only new works by Lucinda Childs and Peter Martins but also traditional works, such as The Sleeping Beauty and La Sylphide. Houston Ballet proceeded under the fairly new direction of ...
Welch, William Henry: American pathologist who played a major role in the introduction of modern medical practice and education to the United States while directing the rise of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, to ... [1 Related Articles]