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- (from the article "Western sculpture") ...Subsequent Neoclassicists included Johann Gottfried Schadow, who was also a painter but is better known as a sculptor; his pupil, the sculptor Christian Friedrich Tieck; the painter and sculptor Martin ...
- Wagner, Otto
- Austrian architect and teacher, generally held to be a founder and leader of the modern movement in European architecture. [1 Related Articles]
- Wagner, Richard
- German dramatic composer and theorist whose operas and music had a revolutionary influence on the course of Western music, either by extension of his discoveries or reaction against them. Among ... [54 Related Articles]
- Wagner, Robert F.
- American Democratic Party politician and mayor of New York City (1954-65). [1 Related Articles]
- Wagner, Robert F.
- U.S. senator and leading architect of the modern welfare state.
- Wagner, Wieland
- (from the article "stage design") ...of new projection equipment provided a powerful instrument to produce effects not previously possible. After World War II, at the music festivals at Bayreuth, Ger., Richard Wagner's grandson Wieland reduced ...
- Wagner-Jauregg, Julius
- Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist whose treatment of syphilitic meningoencephalitis, or general paresis, by the artificial induction of malaria brought a previously incurable fatal disease under partial medical control. His discovery ...
- wagon
- musical instrument, Japanese six-stringed board zither with movable bridges. The wooden body of the wagon is about 190 cm (75 inches) in length. The musician plays the wagon while seated ... [2 Related Articles]
- wagon
- (from the article "stage design") ...props from offstage to onstage. Although the articulation of horizontal motion on the stage is unlimited, there are several established configurations that are easily identifiable. These include the wagon, in ...
- wagon
- four-wheeled vehicle designed to be drawn by draft animals and known to have been used as early as the 1st century BC, incorporating such earlier innovations as the spoked wheel ... [1 Related Articles]
- wagon train
- caravan of wagons organized by settlers in the United States for emigration to the West during the late 18th and most of the 19th centuries. Composed of up to 100 ...
- Wagoner, Porter Wayne
- American singer was noted for his flashy rhinestone suits and showy white hairdo as a star of the Grand Ole Opry and was credited with helping to launch the career ...
- Wagoner, Rick
- (from the article "Economic Affairs") ...stock fell to its lowest level in more than a decade, and analysts said that GM's three consecutive quarterly losses (a $1.6 billion loss in the third quarter alone) represented ...
- wagonette
- horse-drawn carriage designed to carry a large number of passengers who sat on long bench-style seats facing each other. The driver's seat was separate and mounted from the front, while ...
- wagoto
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...warrior class. By Genroku times, new kabuki dramatic styles had emerged. The actor Sakata TojuIo (1647-1709) developed a relatively realistic, gentle style of acting (wagoto) for erotic love stories in ...
- Wagram, Battle of
- (July 5-6, 1809), victory for Napoleon, which forced Austria to sign an armistice and led eventually to the Treaty of Schonbrunn in October, ending Austria's 1809 war against the French ... [4 Related Articles]
- Wagstaff, Harold
- English rugby player who was a member of the noted Huddersfield team of 1914-15.
- wagtail
- any of the 7 to 10 species of the bird genus Motacilla, of the family Motacillidae, together with the forest wagtail (Dendronanthus indicus) of Asia. Wagtails are strongly patterned birds ... [1 Related Articles]
- Wah
- town, Punjab province, northern Pakistan. It is connected by road with Peshawar and Rawalpindi and is a growing industrial centre. Wah's industries include one of the largest cement factories in ...
- Wah, Fred
- (from the article "Canadian literature") ...Won't Let Go, 1999). Also from Saskatchewan, Karen Solie (Short Haul Engine, 2001; Modern and Normal, 2005) is intrigued by physics, fractals, and the landscape. Fred Wah, one of the ...
- Wahat al-Kharijah, Al-
- oasis in the Libyan (Western) Desert, part of Al-Wadi al-Jadid ("New Valley") muhafazah (governorate), in south-central Egypt. It is situated about 110 miles (180 km) west-southwest of Naj' Hammadi, to ... [1 Related Articles]
- Wahballat
- (from the article "ancient Rome") ...of Palmyra thus extended from Cilicia to Arabia. He was murdered in 267 without ever having severed his ties with Gallienus. His widow Zenobia had her husband's titles granted to ...
- Wahbi, Yusuf
- (from the article "Islamic arts") ...number of intellectuals and presenting dramas and tragedies in polished, literary Arabic. Its chief exponent was Jurj Abyad, who had spent time studying acting in Paris. In contrast, Yusuf Wahbi's ...
- wahdat al-wujud
- (from the article "Chishtiyah") ...has become one of the most popular mystical orders in the country. Great emphasis was originally placed by the Chishtiyah on the Sufi doctrine of the unity of being (wahdat ...
- wahdat ash-shuhud
- (from the article "Ahmad Sirhindi, Shaykh") ...monistic position of wahdat al-wujud (the concept of divine existential unity of God and the world, and hence man), he instead advanced the notion of
- Wahhab, Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-
- theologian and founder of the Wahhabi movement, which attempted a return to the "true" principles of Islam. [5 Related Articles]
- Wahhabi
- any member of the Muslim puritan movement founded by Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab in the 18th century in Najd, central Arabia, and adopted in 1744 by the Sa'udi family. [25 Related Articles]
- Wahiawa
- city, Honolulu county, central Oahu island, Hawaii, U.S. Lying 22 miles (35 km) northwest of Honolulu, it is situated on the 1,000-foot- (300-metre-) high Leilehua Plateau between the two forks ...
- Wahid, Abdurrahman
- One could say that Abdurrahman Wahid was born to lead the world's largest Muslim organization, the 25 million-member Nahdatul Ulama (NU), founded by his grandfathers and a third Muslim teacher ... [3 Related Articles]
- Wahidin Sudirohusodo, Mas
- (from the article "Budi Utomo") Budi Utomo originated through the efforts of Mas Wahidin Sudirohusodo (1852-1917), a retired Javanese physician who, attempting to elevate the Javanese people through the study of Western knowledge as well ...
- Wahl, Arthur C.
- (from the article "plutonium") ...released in alpha decay, is a silvery metal that takes on a yellow tarnish in air. The element was first detected (1941) as the isotope plutonium-238 by Glenn T. Seaborg, ...
- Wahlenbergia marginata
- (from the article "tuftybell") The ivy-leaved bellflower (W. hederacea), a European annual, has delicate, hairless, creeping stems and small, pale-blue, veined, bell-shaped flowers. W. marginata, a hairy, erect perennial from East Asia, now is ...
- Wahloo, Per
- (from the article "Sjowall, Maj; and Wahloo, Per") As a team Per Wahloo and his wife Maj Sjowall (married in 1962) wrote a series of detective stories in which Martin Beck and his colleagues at the Central Bureau ...
- wahoo
- (Acanthocybium solanderi), swift-moving, powerful, predacious food and game fish of the family Scombridae (order Perciformes) found worldwide, especially in the tropics. The wahoo is a slim, streamlined fish with sharp-toothed, ...
- wahoo
- (from the article "burning bush") ...brilliant flower display, or emission of a volatile flammable vapour (see gas plant). The popular burning bush planted for fall colour is Euonymus atropurpureus, also called wahoo. This shrub, or ...
- Wahpeton
- city, seat (1873) of Richland county, southeastern North Dakota, U.S. It lies on the Minnesota border across from Breckenridge, Minnesota, at the point where the Bois de Sioux and Otter ...
- Waialeale, Mount
- peak, central Kauai island, Hawaii, U.S. Waialeale (Hawaiian: "Rippling Water"), with an elevation of 5,148 feet (1,569 metres), is a dissected (eroded) dome. It is part of a central mountain ... [4 Related Articles]
- Waianae Range
- mountain range forming the western coast of Oahu island, Hawaii, U.S. The range is the oldest area of volcanic activity on the island. It is 22 miles (35 km) long ...
- Waiapi
- (from the article "Native American music") ...sound when the player vibrates his lips against the mouth hole. Most Native American horns are end-blown, have a cylindrical bore, and are made from bamboo, wood, bark, bone, clay, ...
- Waiapuka Pool
- (from the article "Laie") ...Laie's main tourist attraction (particularly its famous authentic luau). Laie is also the seat of Brigham Young University-Hawaii campus (formerly the Church College of Hawaii [1955]). Nearby Waiapuka Pool is ...
- waiata aroha
- (from the article "New Zealand literature") ...distinguished three kinds of waiata (songs): waiata tangi (laments-for the dead, but also for other kinds of loss or misfortune), waiata aroha (songs about the nature of love-not only sexual ...
- waiata tangi
- (from the article "New Zealand literature") ...and the scholars Mervyn McLean and Margaret Orbell were the first to publish text and music together. McLean and Orbell distinguished three kinds of waiata (songs): waiata tangi (laments-for the ...
- waiata whaiaaipo
- (from the article "New Zealand literature") ...dead, but also for other kinds of loss or misfortune), waiata aroha (songs about the nature of love-not only sexual love but also love of place or kin), and waiata ...
- waiata-a-ringa
- (from the article "New Zealand literature") ...which in pre-European times survived through memorization, were inseparable from gestures and sometimes music. The most widely used modern development of these traditional forms is the waiata-a-ringa (action song), which ...
- Waiau River
- river in southwestern South Island, New Zealand. It rises in Lake Manapouri and flows south through the Southland district for 135 miles (217 km) to enter Te Waewae Bay of ...
- Waiau River
- river in eastern South Island, New Zealand. It rises in the Spenser Mountains and flows south and east for 105 miles (169 km) to enter the Pacific Ocean, 6 miles ...
- Waiau, Lake
- (from the article "Mauna Kea") ...its own western and southern slopes are covered with lava from Mauna Loa, its still-active neighbour. During the Ice Age a glacier about 250 feet (75 metres) thick covered the ...
- Waica
- (from the article "Orinoco River") Except for the Guajiros of Lake Maracaibo, most of the Venezuelan aboriginal population lives within the Orinoco River basin. The most important indigenous groups include the Guaica (Waica), also known ...
- Waigeo Island
- largest island of the Raja Ampat group in the Dampier Strait, Irian Jaya provinsi ("province"), Indonesia. Waigeo Island lies about 40 miles (64 km) northwest of the Doberai (Vogelkop) Peninsula ...
- Waiheke Island
- island, a volcanic formation in southern Hauraki Gulf, off the east coast of North Island, New Zealand. The fifth largest island of New Zealand, Waiheke has rolling hills rising to ...
- Waihi
- town, northern North Island, New Zealand, on the Ohinemuri River (tributary of the Waihou). Situated at the base of the Coromandel Peninsula on the northern end of the Waihi Plains, ...
- Waihopai River
- (from the article "Invercargill") city, Southland regional council, South Island, New Zealand. The city lies along the Waihopai River near its confluence with the New River estuary and is the southernmost city of South ...
- Waikaremoana, Lake
- lake in eastern North Island, New Zealand. Created by a landslide damming the Waikare Taheke River, the 21-square-mile (54-square-kilometre) lake, measuring 12 miles (19 km) by 6 miles (10 km), ...
- Waikato
- regional council, northern North Island, New Zealand. It includes the mountainous Coromandel Peninsula and adjacent Hauraki Plains in the northeast; the fertile Waikato River valley in the northwest; the hills, ...
- Waikato River
- river, the longest in New Zealand, in central North Island. Rising on the slopes of Mount Ruapehu in Tongariro National Park as the Tongariro River, it flows north through Lake ... [1 Related Articles]
- Waikato War
- (from the article "Kingi, Wiremu") Kingi led his people in the Waikato War (1863-64) with colonial troops and did not submit to colonial authority until 1872. The legitimacy of Kingi's Waitara land claims was recognized ...
- Waikato, University of
- (from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") ...Parliament and subsequently became New Zealand's ambassador to the United States, a post he held until 2002. In addition to serving on the boards of several companies, he became chancellor ...
- Waikiki
- resort district, southeastern Honolulu (city), Hawaii, U.S. On the southern coast of Oahu island, Waikiki (Hawaiian: "Spurting Water") is situated on Mamala Bay between the Ala Wai Canal (north and ...
- waila
- (from the article "Native American music") ...1980s. By the 1860s, O'odham fiddlers were playing music for the mazurka, schottische, and polka at public dances in Tucson, Ariz.; they developed a repertory known as
- Wailer, Bunny
- (from the article "Marley, Bob") ...vocal group in Trench Town with friends who would later be known as Peter Tosh (original name Winston Hubert MacIntosh) and Bunny Wailer (original name Neville O'Reilly Livingston; b. ...
- Wailers, the
- (from the article "reggae") ...who pioneered the new reggae sound, with its faster beat driven by the bass, were Toots and the Maytals, who had their first major hit with "54-46 (That's My Number)" ...
- Wailly, Charles de
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...of the pre-Revolutionary period were Marie-Joseph Peyre, whose Livre d'architecture of 1765 was influential in publicizing the type of work being produced by French students in Rome; Charles de Wailly, ...
- Wailua Falls
- (from the article "Hana") ...scenery. Particular points of interest south of the village include Kaeleku Caverns, an ancient lava tube, and Waianapanapa State Park, which contains a black-sand beach. South of Hana are Wailua ...
- Wailua River
- river, Kauai island, Hawaii, U.S. It flows from the slopes of Mount Waialeale about 10 miles (16 km) inland to the east-central coast. At the southern end of the river ...
- Wailua River Reserve
- (from the article "Wailua River") ...of Mount Waialeale about 10 miles (16 km) inland to the east-central coast. At the southern end of the river is Wailua Falls, which drops 200 feet (60 metres). The ...
- Wailuku
- city, seat of Maui county, northern Maui island, Hawaii, U.S. It is situated on an isthmus at the mouth of the Iao Valley and the base of Maui's western mountains. ...
- Waimakariri River
- river in east-central South Island, New Zealand. It rises in the Southern Alps and flows 100 miles (160 km) southeast to Pegasus Bay of the Pacific Ocean, 8 miles (13 ...
- Waimea
- town, Kauai county, southwestern Kauai island, Hawaii, U.S. Waimea, whose name means "Reddish Water," is situated on Waimea Bay at the mouth of the Waimea River. The valleys of the ...
- Waimea
- village, Hawaii county, north-central Hawaii island, Hawaii, U.S. It is situated on the Mauna Kea-Kohala Saddle (2,669 feet [814 metres]), northeast of Kailua-Kona. In the 1790s the English navigator George ...
- Waimea Canyon
- (from the article "Kauai") ...nearly all the sugar plantations have stopped operating. There is diversified manufacturing, especially of tourist-oriented goods. Coffee also contributes to the economy. Notable attractions include Waimea Canyon (known as the ...
- Wain, John
- English novelist and poet whose early works caused him, by their radical tone, to be spoken of as one of the "Angry Young Men" of the 1950s. He was also ... [3 Related Articles]
- Wainganga River
- river, tributary of the Godavari River, western India. It rises in the Mahadeo Hills in south-central Madhya Pradesh state and flows 360 miles (580 km) south to join the Wardha ...
- Wainganga Valley
- (from the article "Wainganga River") ...state. Along the final 142 miles (229 km) of its course, the river forms the boundary between Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh states and is known as the Pranhita. The Wainganga ...
- wainscot
- interior paneling in general and, more specifically, paneling that covers only the lower portion of an interior wall or partition. It has a decorative or protective function and is usually ...
- wainscot cap
- (from the article "wainscot") ...of an interior wall or partition. It has a decorative or protective function and is usually of wood, although tile and marble have at times been popular. The molding along ...
- wainscot chair
- chair, usually made of oak, and named for the fine grade of oak usually used for wainscot paneling. Like many terms used in reference to furniture, it has a general ...
- Wainwright Building
- (from the article "Sullivan, Louis") The 10-story Wainwright Building in St. Louis is the most important skyscraper designed by Sullivan. Unlike the Auditorium Building, the exterior walls of which are solid masonry and load bearing, ...
- Wainwright, Helen
- (from the article "Riggin, Aileen") ...be obstacles to her desire to compete. During the early 20th century there were no training facilities for female divers, and she had to practice in a tide pool on ...
- Wainwright, Jonathan M.
- U.S. Army general who won distinction as the hero of Bataan and Corregidor in the defense of the Philippines against Japanese attack during World War II. [1 Related Articles]
- Waioli Mission House
- (from the article "Hanalei") ...("Crescent") Bay, the village is in the scenic and fertile Hanalei Valley, which reaches depths of more than 3,400 feet (1,050 metres). Missionaries arrived at the site in 1834. The ...
- Waipio Valley
- valley in the Kohala Mountains, northern Hawaii island, Hawaii, U.S. Enveloped on three sides by 2,500-foot- (750-metre-) high cliffs ribboned with spectacular waterfalls (including Hiilawe Falls, which drops more than ...
- wairakite
- hydrated calcium aluminosilicate mineral present in hot-spring deposits, notably those at Wairakei, New Zealand, and Onikobe, Japan. Like analcite, wairakite has been assigned to two mineral families: it is regarded ...
- Wairarapa
- (from the article "Wellington") East of the city of Wellington is the Rimutaka Range and east of that, the Wairarapa Plain. One of the earliest European-settled sections of North Island, Wairarapa (Maori: "Glistening Waters") ...
- Wairau Affray
- (from the article "Marlborough") The first whaling stations were established in the 1830s along Port Underwood (a bay) and Queen Charlotte Sound. The New Zealand Company's efforts to acquire the Wairau Plains in 1843 ...
- Wairau River
- river in northern South Island, New Zealand. It rises in the Spenser Mountains and flows for 105 miles (169 km) between the St. Arnaud and Raglan ranges to enter Cloudy ... [1 Related Articles]
- waistcoat
- (from the article "suit") ...II of England. The reformed style consisted of a long coat with wide, turned-back sleeves and a row of buttons down the front, some of which were left unbuttoned to ...
- wait
- an English town watchman or public musician who sounded the hours of the night. In the later Middle Ages the waits were night watchmen, who sounded horns or even played ...
- Waitaki River
- river in central South Island, New Zealand. Streams issuing from Lakes Ohau, Pukaki, and Tekapo in the Southern Alps form the Waitaki (Maori: "Weeping Waters"), which, draining a 4,565-square-mile (11,823-square-kilometre) ...
- Waitangi Act, Treaty of
- (from the article "New Zealand") ...moves to ease Auckland's traffic gridlock and accelerate highway projects in Auckland and Christchurch. Cullen also earmarked $NZ 5.2 million to facilitate settlement of Maori grievances under the Treaty of ...
- Waitangi, Treaty of
- (Feb. 6, 1840), historic pact between Great Britain and a number of New Zealand Maori tribes of North Island. It purported to protect Maori rights and was the immediate basis ... [2 Related Articles]
- Waite, Morrison Remick
- seventh chief justice of the United States (1874-88), who frequently spoke for the Supreme Court in interpreting the post-Civil War constitutional amendments and in redefining governmental jurisdiction over commerce in ... [1 Related Articles]
- Waitemata Harbour
- harbour in northern North Island, New Zealand. The focal point of the Auckland region, it opens into Hauraki Gulf (east) through Stanley Bay. Its shore has many lesser embayments, containing ... [1 Related Articles]
- Waitomo
- limestone caves, north-central North Island, New Zealand. They lie about 50 miles (80 km) south of Hamilton. Located on a tributary of the Waipa River, the caves are easily accessible ...
- Waits, Tom
- American singer-songwriter whose gritty, sometimes romantic depictions of the lives of the urban underclass won him a loyal if limited following and the admiration of critics and prominent performers who ...
- Waitz, Georg
- German historian who was the founder of a renowned school of medievalists at the University of Gottingen. As the leading disciple of Leopold von Ranke's critical methods, he is regarded ...
- Waitz, Theodore
- (from the article "social science") ...the science of cultural anthropology was evolutionary in thrust in the 19th century. Edward B. Tylor and Sir John Lubbock in England, Lewis Henry Morgan in the United States, Adolf ...
- Waiuku
- town, northern North Island, New Zealand. It lies along the Waiuku estuary, which is the southern arm of Manukau Harbour. The settlement was founded in 1843 as a port on ...
- waiver-of-premium rider
- (from the article "insurance") The insured may, at a nominal charge, attach to the contract a waiver-of-premium rider under which premium payments will be waived in the event of total and permanent disability before ...
- wajd
- (from the article "hal") ...is a state that enables the Sufi to become unconscious of his own acts and to see God's acts and bounties toward him. (3) The hal of wajd ("ecstasy") is ...
- Wajda, Andrzej
- leading director in the "Polish film school," a group of highly talented individuals whose films brought international recognition to the Polish cinema during the 1950s. [3 Related Articles]
- Wajid Ali Shah
- (from the article "South Asian arts") ...of Indrasabha ("The Heavenly Court of Indra"), an operatic drama written by the poet Agha Hasan Amanat and produced in 1855 in the palace courtyard of the last Nawab of ...
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