(from the article "cockfighting") ...battle royal, in which a number of birds were "set" (i.e., placed in the pit at the same time) and allowed to remain until all but one, the victor, were ...
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. ...
(from the article "springer spaniel") ...glossy coat is flat or wavy and usually black and white or liver-coloured and white. The English springer spaniel is valued both as a companion and for its use in ...
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 ...
American opera singer who was admired for the ease in which she used her lilting soprano to perform for more than 20 years, primarily at the Metropolitan Opera in New ...
(from the article "Roman Catholicism") Perhaps the most significant change brought about by Vatican II was the beginning of what the German theologian Karl Rahner (1904-1984) called the emergence of the Weltkirche ...
(from the article "international relations") ...intemperate remarks, William felt keenly his realm's lack of prestige in comparison with the British Empire. William rejected Bismarck's emphasis on security in Europe in favour of a flamboyant Weltpolitik ...
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 of the world ...
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 ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "plant") ...xylem and reproductive structures that are somewhat flowerlike; gametophytes reduced as in other gymnosperms; sperm nonmotile; extant genera Gnetum, Ephedra, and Welwitschia.
a family of southwestern African desert plants in the gymnosperm order Gnetales, named for its single genus, Welwitschia. Tumboa plants (W. mirabilis), constituting the only species, have deep taproots and ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "gnetophyte") ...trees; large flat leaves that have reticulate venation; seeds may be brightly coloured; 1 family, Gnetaceae; 1 genus, Gnetum, with about 30 species.2 immense, permanent leaves, which become split ...
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 ... [3 Related Articles]
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 ...
(from the article "Brent") ...(in part), Wembley, Cricklewood, Willesden Green, Stonebridge, Willesden, Alperton, Brondesbury, Kilburn, Harlesden (in part), and Kensal Green. Brent was formed in 1965 by the amalgamation of Wembley and Willesden (both ...
(from the article "Brent") Wembley Stadium opened in 1923 and was used for the British Empire Exhibition (1924-25) and the 1948 Summer Olympic Games, as well as for international football (soccer) matches and music ...
(from the article "arts, East Asian") ...with a refined and scholarly precision. He, too, had many styles and was a distinguished calligrapher. He was an active teacher of painting as well, and among his more gifted ...
(from the article "Chinese literature") ...were a mixture of critical realism and melodrama, while poets of the Hsin-yueh she ("Crescent Moon Society") such as the British-educated Hsu Chih-mo and the American-educated Wen I-to were creating ...
(from the article "arts, East Asian") ...precision. He, too, had many styles and was a distinguished calligrapher. He was an active teacher of painting as well, and among his more gifted pupils were his son Wen ...
(from the article "arts, East Asian") ...approach to painting was being expressed by a group of intellectuals that included the poet-statesman-artist Su Shih (or Su Tung-p'o), the landscape painter Mi Fei (Mi Fu), the bamboo painter ...
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. [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "prophecy") Prophets were a common phenomenon in Syria-Palestine. In an Egyptian text (11th century BC), Wen-Amon (a temple official at Karnak) was sent by the pharaoh to Gebal (Byblos) to procure ...
(from the article "Plateau Indian") ...The Northern Plateau Salish include the Shuswap, Lillooet, and Ntlakapamux (Thompson) tribes. The Interior Salish live mostly in the Upper Columbia area and include the Okanagan, Sinkaietk, Lake, Wenatchee, Sanpoil, ...
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 ...
Spanish-born ventriloquist who delighted audiences with his simple puppets-most often Johnny, whose head was a decorated and bewigged scrunched-up fist, and Pedro, a head in a box-especially during the 1950s ...
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, ... [9 Related Articles]
king of Bohemia from 1230 who brought Austria under his dynasty while using the influence of German colonists and craftsmen to keep Bohemia strong, prosperous, and culturally progressive. [1 Related Articles]
king of Bohemia from 1278 and of Poland from 1300 who ably ruled his Bohemian kingdom and spread his influence not only into Poland but also into Hungary. [7 Related Articles]
last king of the Premyslid dynasty of Bohemia, king of Hungary from 1301 to 1304, and claimant to the Polish throne; his brief reign in Bohemia was cut short by ... [4 Related Articles]
any member of a group of Slavic tribes that had settled in the area between the Oder River (on the east) and the Elbe and Saale rivers (on the west) ... [2 Related Articles]
among North American Indians, a confederacy of four Iroquois-speaking bands of the Huron nation-the Rock, Bear, Cord, and Deer bands-together with a few smaller communities that joined them at different ... [1 Related Articles]
German theatrical designer who pioneered new techniques in stagecraft with the Wuppertal theatre company from 1953 to 1964 and then with the German Opera on the Rhine, Dusseldorf.
German film director who, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Werner Herzog, was one of the principal members of the New German Cinema of the 1970s. [2 Related Articles]
posthumous name (shi) of the fourth emperor (reigned 180-157 BC) of the Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) of China. His reign was marked by good government and ... [2 Related Articles]
posthumous name (shi) of the emperor (reigned 581-604) who reunified and reorganized China after 300 years of instability, founding the Sui dynasty (581-618). He conquered southern China, ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "stained glass") In Germany such distinguished prewar church architects as Dominikus Bohm and Rudolf Schwarz and the stained-glass artist Anton Wendling were able to resume careers interrupted by the Nazi era and ...
(from the article "Kerrier") ...there, but dairy cattle graze and fodder crops are grown. Early-season vegetables, fruits, and flowers for the London market are intensively grown in sheltered valleys and coves on both coasts. ...
Samoan novelist and poet who wrote about present-day Samoan life. Perhaps the best-known writer in the South Pacific, Wendt sought to counteract the frequently romanticized, often racist literature about Polynesians ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Switzerland") ...Engadin and Grimentz in the Val d'Anniviers of Valais, are renowned for their picturesque beauty, and others, such as Crans-Montana on the slopes above the Rhone valley in Valais canton ...
(from the article "Switzerland") Many Swiss were relieved at the news that another national symbol-the Swiss army knife-was to remain in local hands after Victorinox purchased its smaller, struggling rival, Wenger. The two companies, ...
(from the article "China") After his death the state of Qi failed to maintain its leading status. The leadership, after a number of years, passed to Wengong of Jin (reigned 636-628 BC), the ruler ...
(from the article "linguistics") The first large-scale enterprise in linguistic geography was the preparation of the German linguistic atlas. In the 1880s, the initiator of this great undertaking, Georg Wenker, composed 40 test sentences ...
(from the article "Wenlock Series") ...of the Silurian System, representing those rocks deposited worldwide during the Wenlock Epoch (428.2-422.9 million years ago). Its name is derived from the type district at Wenlock Edge, a prominent ...
(from the article "Wenlock Series") ...species Cyrtograptus centrifugus. The base of the Wenlock Series is also marked by the fossil disappearance of the conodont Pterospathodus amorphognathoides. The Wenlock Limestone is one of the best-studied Silurian ...
the second of four main divisions (in ascending order) of the Silurian System, representing those rocks deposited worldwide during the Wenlock Epoch (428.2-422.9 million years ago). Its name is derived ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Chuuk Islands") ...sand and coral islets. The bank (often referred to as a reef) encloses a lagoon 822 square miles (2,129 square km) in area and has a diameter of some 40 ...
ideal form of the Chinese scholar-painter who was more interested in personal erudition and expression than in literal representation or an immediately attractive surface beauty. First formulated in the Northern ... [16 Related Articles]
Iroquois-speaking North American Indians whose name means "people of the place of the floating film," probably after the oil spring at what is now Cuba, N.Y., U.S., where they lived. ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Kitami-sammyaku") ...the west, where it drops abruptly to the Teshio-gawa (Teshio River) valley. Elevations are generally between 2,500 and 3,100 ft (750 and 950 m). In the south central part of ...
the upper valley (dale) of the River Ure in the Pennine highlands of Richmondshire district, administrative county of North Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, England. Famous for the cheese to ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "electromagnetism") ...the magnetic field is more effective if the coil windings are embedded in slots in the rotating iron armature. The slotted armature, still in use today, was invented in 1880 ...
any marine snail of the family Epitoniidae (subclass Prosobranchia of the class Gastropoda), in which the turreted shell-consisting of whorls that form a high, conical spiral-has deeply ribbed sculpturing. Most ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Longmyndian") ...sandstones, conglomerates, and volcanic rocks. Two major subdivisions are recognized: the Western Longmyndian and the underlying Eastern Longmyndian. The Western Longmyndian consists of the Wentnor Series, purple sandstones, conglomerates, and ...
(from the article "sedimentary rock") ...each size grade differs from its predecessor by the constant ratio of 1:2; each size class has a specific class name used to refer to the particles included within it. ...
(from the article "New Hampshire") ...a separate royal province in 1679. Bitter boundary feuds with Massachusetts and New York over the part of the New Hampshire grant that became Vermont continued almost until the American ...
(from the article "United Kingdom") ...of Roman Catholicism. The controversy went to the root of society: Was the purpose of life spiritual or political? Was the role of the church to serve God or the ...
prominent Puritan member of the English Parliament in the reign of Elizabeth I, whom he challenged on questions of religion and the succession. [1 Related Articles]
the leading Australian political figure during the first half of the 19th century, whose lifelong work for self-government culminated in the New South Wales constitution of 1855. [4 Related Articles]
father of Ji Fa (the Wuwang emperor), the founder of the Zhou dynasty (1046-256 BC) and one of the sage rulers regarded by Confucian historians as a model king. [3 Related Articles]
official and statesman in the last years of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911/12), who took a lead in promoting Western studies, reforming the Chinese government, and introducing Western technology into China.
(from the article "Chinese languages") Han Chinese developed more polysyllabic words and more specific verbal and nominal (noun) categories of words. Most traces of verb formation and verb conjugation began to disappear. An independent Southern ...
(from the article "biblical literature") The Wenzel Bible, an Old Testament made between 1389 and 1400, is said to have been ordered by King Wenceslas, and large numbers of 15th-century manuscripts have been preserved.
Liechtenstein Alpine skier who was the first athlete from her country to win an Olympic medal, earning a bronze at the 1976 Winter Games in Innsbruck, Austria. She went on ... [1 Related Articles]
city and port, southeastern Zhejiang sheng (province), southeastern China. It is situated on the south bank of the Ou River, some 19 miles (30 km) from its ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Western sculpture") ...work and produced a long series of masters, including Johann Georg Ubelherr and Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer, whose masterpieces are the Rococo figures at Birnau on Lake Constance. The sculptor Christian ...
temple name (miaohao) of the 15th emperor (reigned 827-840) of the Tang dynasty (618-907) of China. He attempted unsuccessfully to free the court from the influence of ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Burushaski language") The somewhat divergent Werchikwar, or Wershikwar, dialect of Burushaski is spoken in the valley of the Yasin River in Kashmir.
(from the article "Jack the Rapper") Jack the Rapper (Jack Gibson) helped open the first African-American-owned radio station in the United States, WERD in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1949. Gibson learned about radio while working as a ...
(from the article "pre-Columbian civilizations") The central theme of the Olmec religion was a pantheon of deities each of which usually was a hybrid between jaguar and human infant, often crying or snarling with open ...
in European folklore, a man who turns into a wolf at night and devours animals, people, or corpses but returns to human form by day. Some werewolves change shape at ... [2 Related Articles]
German-language writer who attained prominence as an Expressionist poet, playwright, and novelist and whose works espoused human brotherhood, heroism, and religious faith. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Triassic Period") ...of little value in the dispute, for there the continental Bunter Formation rests unconformably on Upper Permian strata of the Zechstein basin. The marine equivalent of the Bunter in the ...
Norway's great national poet, symbol of Norway's independence, whose humanitarian activity, revolutionary ideas, and love of freedom made him a legendary figure. The clash between his faction (the "patriots") and ... [2 Related Articles]
(Old English: "man payment"), in ancient Germanic law, the amount of compensation paid by a person committing an offense to the injured party or, in case of death, to his ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "Marie-Louise") ...children. Together they governed the duchies more liberally than did most other princes in Italy, though some authorities suggest that this resulted more from weakness of character than from policy. ...
(from the article "Kantianism") ...a Kantian himself. The physicist and logician Charles Sanders Peirce owes his Pragmatism largely to Kant's role as a counterweight against Hegelianism. The former southern California philosopher William H. Werkmeister ...
(from the article "motorcycle racing") ...was a class for motorcycles in many of the old town-to-town automobile road races, the Paris-Vienna race, for example. The de Dion tricycle dominated the sport in 1897, but two-wheelers ...
(from the article "progeria") ...evidence of senility or of aging in the central nervous system. Two major types of progeria occur: the extremely rare Hutchinson-Gilford syndrome, which has its onset in early childhood, and ...
German geologist who founded the Neptunist school, which proclaimed the aqueous origin of all rocks, in opposition to the Plutonists, or Vulcanists, who argued that granite and many other rocks ... [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "Automobile Racing") On June 19 Tom Kristensen of Denmark, sharing an Audi R8 with co-drivers J.J. Lehto and Marco Werner, captured the 24-hour Le Mans Grand Prix d'Endurance. It was a record ...
Luxembourgian politician (b. Dec. 29, 1913, near Lille, France-d. June 24, 2002, Luxembourg), was hailed as the "father of the euro"; he used his position as prime minister of Luxembourg ...
German-born Soviet espionage agent and writer (b. May 15, 1907, Berlin, Ger.-d. July 7, 2000, Berlin), was a committed communist who operated as a spy for the Soviet Union in ...
German-born French mathematician awarded a Fields Medal in 2006 "for his contributions to the development of stochastic Loewner evolution, the geometry of two-dimensional Brownian motion, and conformal theory."
(from the article "scapolite") ...meionite, a calcium aluminosilicate, are the theoretical end-members (pure compounds); they have been synthesized but occur in nature only with at least 20 percent substitution of one for the other. ...
(from the article "Meier Helmbrecht") The poem is about 1,900 lines in length and was written in the region of the Austrian-Bavarian border by Wernher der Gartenaere (Gartner), who includes his name in the poem's ...
(from the article "aphasia") ...to comprehend speech but have great difficulty expressing their thoughts. People with Broca aphasia speak in short phrases that include only nouns and verbs (telegraphic speech). Individuals with Wernicke aphasia, ...
(from the article "nervous system, human") ...characterized by deliberate, telegraphic speech with very simple grammatical structure, though the speaker may be quite clear as to what he wishes to say and may communicate successfully. The Wernicke ...
(from the article "alcoholism") Prolonged drinking that interferes with an adequate diet may lead to Wernicke disease, which results from an acute complete deficiency of thiamin (vitamin B1) and is marked by a clouding ...
German neurologist who related nerve diseases to specific areas of the brain. He is best known for his descriptions of the aphasias, disorders interfering with the ability to communicate in ... [1 Related Articles]
