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Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome: (from the article "nervous system disease") Vitamin A deficiency primarily affects the retinas and skin, but components of the vitamin B group are essential for normal development and functioning of the nervous system. Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome (common ...
Wernigerode: city, Saxony-Anhalt Land (state), central Germany. It lies at the confluence of the Holtemme and Zillierbach rivers, north of the Harz Mountains and southwest of Magdeburg. First ...
weroance: (from the article "Powhatan") ...was mamanatowick, and his territory was known as Tsenacommacah. Each tribe within the Powhatan empire had its own chief, or weroance, and Powhatan ruled ...
Werowocomoco: (from the article "Powhatan") ...empire at the time of the colonists' arrival essentially covered present-day eastern Virginia, extending from the Potomac River to the Great Dismal Swamp, and its capital was at the village ...
Werra River: (from the article "Weser River") ...river of western Germany that serves as an important transport artery from Bremerhaven and Bremen. Formed near the city of Munden by the union of its two headstreams-the Fulda and ...
Werribee: town and shire in southern Victoria, Australia, situated on the Werribee River about 19 mi (29 km) southwest by rail from Melbourne and nearly 5 mi from the coast of ...
Wert, Giaches de: (from the article "choral music") At the court of Mantua (now Mantova, Italy), two important composers were active toward the very end of the 16th century-Giaches de Wert and Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi. Each of them, ...
Wertheimer, Max: Czech-born psychologist, one of the founders, with Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Kohler, of Gestalt psychology (q.v.), which attempts to examine psychological phenomena as structural wholes, rather than breaking them down ... [7 Related Articles]
Wertheimer, Samson: (from the article "Austria") ...perpetual war as well as great economic investments, both entailing excessive strain on state finances. At first the government resorted to rich bankers such as Samuel Oppenheimer and his successor ...
Wertmuller, Lina: Italian motion-picture director and screenwriter noted for her comedies focusing on the eternal battle of the sexes and on contemporary political and social issues.
Werve, Claus de: (from the article "Western sculpture") ...tomb of his patron, Philip the Bold; and a large Calvary group for the Charterhouse cloisters. When he died in 1406, the continuance of his work was assured by the ...
Werwolf: (from the article "Himmler, Heinrich") ...network, military armaments (after the abortive attempt on Hitler's life of July 20, 1944), the Volkssturm ("People's Storm Troop"), a mass levy of mostly older men, and later the Werwolf, ...
Wesak: most important of the Theravada Buddhist festivals, commemorating the birth, enlightenment, and death of the Buddha. The event is observed on the full-moon day of the lunar month Vesakha, which ... [1 Related Articles]
Wescott, Seth: (from the article "Skiing") Canadian Jasey Jay Anderson failed to medal in Turin, where American Seth Wescott triumphed in the first Olympic snowboardcross (SBX) competition, but Anderson edged teammate Drew Neilson for the men's ...
Wesel: town, North Rhine-Westphalia Land (state), northwestern Germany. It lies along the Rhine and Lippe rivers and the Lippe-Seiten Canal, northwest of the Ruhr. Chartered in 1241, it joined the Hanseatic ...
Wesel-Datteln-Hamm Canal: (from the article "Rhine River") ...through the Dortmund-Ems Canal with the German North Sea coast and through the Mittelland Canal with the waterways of central and eastern Germany and eastern Europe; and by the less ...
Wesendonk, Mathilde: (from the article "Wagner, Richard") ...by his discovery of the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer. The outcome was Tristan und Isolde (1857-59), of which the crystallizing agent was his hopeless love for Mathilde ...
Wesensschau: (from the article "Phenomenology") ...and unchangeable structures-can be grasped. In the eidetic reduction one must forego everything that is factual and merely occurs in this way or that. A means of grasping the essence ...
Weser River: major river of western Germany that serves as an important transport artery from Bremerhaven and Bremen. Formed near the city of Munden by the union of its two headstreams-the Fulda ... [4 Related Articles]
Wesermunde: (from the article "Bremerhaven") ...founded by Hanover in competition in 1845; and Lehe, a borough dating from medieval times that attained town status in 1920. The union of Lehe and Geestemunde in 1924 formed ...
Wesker, Arnold: (from the article "English literature") ...in Anger initiated a move toward what critics called "kitchen-sink" drama. Shelagh Delaney (with her one influential play, A Taste of Honey [1958]) and Arnold Wesker (especially ...
Wesley, Charles: English clergyman, poet, and hymn writer, who, with his elder brother John, started the Methodist movement in the Church of England. [5 Related Articles]
Wesley, John: Anglican clergyman, evangelist, and founder, with his brother Charles, of the Methodist movement in the Church of England. [14 Related Articles]
Wesley, Samuel: composer and organist who helped introduce the music of J.S. Bach into England. The son of Charles Wesley, the hymn writer, and the nephew of John Wesley, the founder of ... [1 Related Articles]
Wesley, Samuel Sebastian: composer and organist, one of the most distinguished English church musicians of his time. The natural son of Samuel Wesley, he was a chorister of the Chapel Royal and held ...
Wesleyan Church: U.S. Protestant church, organized in 1968 by the merger of the Wesleyan Methodist Church of America and the Pilgrim Holiness Church. The Wesleyan Methodist Church originated in 1843 after members ...
Wesleyan Methodist Church of America: (from the article "Holiness movement") ...perfectionism were largely ignored by American Methodists during the early decades of the 19th century. In 1843 about two dozen ministers withdrew from the Methodist Episcopal Church to found the ...
Wesleyan University: private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Middletown, Connecticut, U.S. It comprises the College of Letters and the College of Social Studies and departments in the sciences, mathematics, humanities, arts, ...
Wessel Islands: chain of small islands extending 75 miles (120 km) northeast from the Napier Peninsula in northeastern Northern Territory, Australia, into the Arafura Sea. Named for a Dutch ship that explored ... [1 Related Articles]
Wessel, Gerhard: (from the article "BND") ...Gehlen had headed the Foreign Armies East section of the Abwehr, the intelligence service of the German general staff. He directed the BND until 1968, when he was succeeded by ...
Wessel, Horst: martyr of the German Nazi movement, celebrated in the song "Horst Wessel Lied," adopted as an anthem by Nazi Germany.
Wessel, Johan Herman: Norwegian-born Danish writer and wit, known for his epigrams and light verse and for a famous parody of neoclassical tragedy.
Wesselenyi Conspiracy: (c. 1664-71), group of Hungarians, organized by Ferenc Wesselenyi, that unsuccessfully plotted to overthrow the Habsburg dynasty in Hungary; its efforts resulted in the establishment of an absolutist, repressive regime ... [1 Related Articles]
Wesselenyi, Ferenc: (from the article "Wesselenyi Conspiracy") ...land to the Ottoman Turks (1664; Treaty of Vasvar), he provoked the opposition of many previously pro-Habsburg Hungarian Roman Catholic magnates, including the palatine administrator Ferenc Wesselenyi; the ban (governor) ...
Wesselman, Tom: (from the article "Pop art") ...prints of soup-can labels, soap cartons, and rows of soft-drink bottles; Claes Oldenburg's soft plastic sculptures of objects such as bathroom fixtures, typewriters, and gigantic hamburgers; Tom Wesselman's "Great American ...
Wessely, Naphtali Herz: (from the article "Judaism") ...Jew" who had embraced Western culture, Mendelssohn's message to his own community was to become Westerners, to seek out the culture of the Enlightenment. To that end he joined with ...
Wessely, Paula: Austrian actress (b. Jan. 20, 1907, Vienna, Austria-d. May 11, 2000, Vienna), reigned as Austria's most distinguished and beloved stage and screen actress almost from her debut at the Vienna ...
Wessex: one of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, whose ruling dynasty eventually became kings of the whole country. In its permanent nucleus, its land approximated that of the modern counties of ... [6 Related Articles]
Wessex: (from the article "Hardy, Thomas") ...career that was soon validated by an invitation to contribute a serial to the far more prestigious Cornhill Magazine. The resulting novel, Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), introduced Wessex ...
Wessex, House of: (from the article "Wessex") one of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, whose ruling dynasty eventually became kings of the whole country. In its permanent nucleus, its land approximated that of the modern counties of ...
Wessobrunn: (from the article "Western sculpture") ...Johann Michael Feichtmayr created the superb series of larger than life-size saints and angels that are the glory of these Rococo interiors. Feichtmayr was a member of the group of ...
West African Craton: (from the article "Africa") The late Proterozoic (900 to 570 million years ago) is again characterized by platform deposits in stable areas, such as the West African craton (Taoudeni and Tindouf basins), the Congo ...
West African Economic and Monetary Union: (from the article "Burkina Faso") Burkina Faso Pres. Blaise Compaore expanded his role in international affairs with his election in 2007 as head of both the Economic Community of West African States and the West ...
West African Frontier Force: (from the article "Lugard, F.D.") ...regiment that he was to employ in a second attempt to fend off the French, who then were competing with the British right across Africa from the Niger to the ...
West African green mamba: (from the article "mamba") ...metres) and are usually found in trees. The East African green mamba (D. angusticeps) of East and South Africa, Jameson's mamba (D. jamesoni) of Central Africa, and the West African ...
West African manatee: (from the article "manatee") ...River and associated drainage areas, including seasonally inundated forests. This species lives only in fresh water and can be found far inland through Brazil to Ecuador, Peru, and Colombia. The ...
West African Monetary Union: (from the article "Burkina Faso") Burkina Faso, along with six other French-speaking states in western Africa, is a member of the West African Monetary Union. These states share a common central bank, with headquarters in ...
West African monsoon: (from the article "climate") The main characteristics of the West African seasons have been known to the scientific community for more than two centuries. The southwest winter monsoon flows as a shallow (less than ...
West African Shield: (from the article "Western Africa") The crystalline rocks, collectively referred to as the West African shield or craton, comprise three main types of rock assemblage. The basement complexes are highly deformed and contorted gneisses, migmatites ...
West African trypanosomiasis: (from the article "sleeping sickness") ...also characteristic symptoms at this stage. In the more severe Rhodesian, or East African, form of sleeping sickness, the toxemia becomes so profound that the patient soon dies. In the ...
West Alligator River: (from the article "Alligator Rivers") ...a now-abandoned mining base for uranium, and follows a northerly course for about 100 miles (160 km). The East Alligator rises in Arnhem Land and flows northwesterly for nearly 100 ...
West Allis: city, western suburb of Milwaukee, Milwaukee county, southeastern Wisconsin, U.S. It is situated just south of Wauwatosa. Potawatomi and Menominee Indians were among the early inhabitants of the region. In ...
West Antarctic Ice Sheet: (from the article "glacier") The part of the main continent lying south of the Americas, between longitudes 45° W and 165° E, is characterized by irregular bedrock and ice-surface topography and numerous nunataks and ...
West Antarctica: (from the article "Antarctica") Data from U.S. satellites and a Chilean P-3 airplane showed that glaciers in West Antarctica were shrinking substantially faster than in the 1990s. The glaciers were putting 60% more ice ...
West Aramaic: (from the article "Aramaic language") In the early centuries AD, Aramaic divided into East and West varieties. West Aramaic dialects include Nabataean (formerly spoken in parts of Arabia), Palmyrene (spoken in Palmyra, which was northeast ...
West Asia: (from the article "Asia") West Asia includes the highlands of Anatolia, the Caucasus, and the Armenian and Iranian highlands.vegetationAsiaWest AsiaIn West Asia naturally wild ...
West Australian Current: relatively cold surface current of the southeast Indian Ocean, part of the general counterclockwise movement in the southern section of that ocean. As the South Indian Current (part of the ... [2 Related Articles]
West Bank: area of the former British-mandated (1920-47) territory of Palestine west of the Jordan River, claimed from 1949 to 1988 as part of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan but occupied from ... [13 Related Articles]
West Barney Peak: (from the article "McPherson Range") ...the Queensland-New South Wales border from Point Danger to Wallangara (140 miles [225 km]). Occupying a well-dissected and rainforest-covered region, the range rises to its highest point at West Barney ...
West Bend: city, seat (1853) of Washington county, southeastern Wisconsin, U.S. It lies on a bend in the Milwaukee River, about 35 miles (55 km) northwest of Milwaukee. Potawatomi and Menominee Indians ...
West Bengal: state of India. It is located in the northeastern part of the country. It is bounded on the north by Bhutan and the state of Sikkim, on the east by ...
West Bengal Duars: physical region in extreme northeastern West Bengal state, northeastern India. It is bounded by Sikkim state and Bhutan on the north, Assam state on the east, Nepal on the west, ...
West Bengal Panchayat Act: (from the article "West Bengal") With the object of developing rural self-government, mawzas have been grouped together and a pancayat-an elected local authority established under the West Bengal Panchayat Act of 1956-entrusted with sanitary and ...
West Berkshire: unitary authority, geographic and historic county of Berkshire, England. The unitary authority extends westward from the district of Reading along both sides of the River Kennet and edges into the ...
West Berlin: (from the article "West Berlin") the western half of the German city of Berlin (q.v.), which until the reunification of the German state in 1990 was treated as a city and Land (state) of the ...
West Bridgewater: town (township), Plymouth county, eastern Massachusetts, approximately 25 miles (40 km) south of Boston. The area was deeded by Massasoit, a Wampanoag Indian chief and sachem (intertribal leader) of all ...
West Bridgford: town, Rushcliffe district, administrative and historic county of Nottinghamshire, England. The town now functions largely as a residential suburb of Nottingham, which lies just to the northwest. West Bridgford's parish ...
West Bromwich: locality in the metropolitan borough of Sandwell, metropolitan county of West Midlands, historic county of Staffordshire, west-central England. It lies about 5 miles (8 km) northwest of the city of ...
West Chester: borough (town), seat (1786) of Chester county, southeastern Pennsylvania, U.S. It lies 27 miles (43 km) west of Philadelphia. Settlement began in the early 1700s, and Turk's Head Inn was ...
West Chester University of Pennsylvania: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in West Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S. It is part of Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education. The university comprises the College of Arts and Sciences ...
West Coast: regional council in west-central South Island, New Zealand. It is bounded by the Tasman Sea (west), the unitary authority of Tasman (north), and the regional councils of Canterbury and Otago ...
West Coast Desert zone: (from the article "climate") An interesting variant of tropical and subtropical deserts are the so-called West Coast Desert areas found on the western coastal margins of the regions discussed above (e.g., in the Sonoran ...
West Coast Eagles: (from the article "Football") For the second successive year, the Sydney Swans played the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL) Grand Final, but in 2006 there was a different result. On ...
West Coast jazz: (from the article "Brubeck, Dave") popular American jazz pianist who brought elements of classical music into jazz and whose style epitomized that of the "West Coast movement."cool jazz
West Coast offense: (from the article "Walsh, Bill") Walsh believed in "scripting"-selecting ahead of time-the first 25 plays of a game. His "West Coast offense" was a ball-control offense that featured short passes and quick slanting pass routes ...
West Covina: city, Los Angeles county, southern California, U.S. It lies at the eastern end of the San Gabriel Valley and is about 20 miles (30 km) east of the city centre ...
West Cuvette: (from the article "Cuvette") ...of northern Congo (Brazzaville), west-central Africa. Since 1997 it has been divided into two regions: East Cuvette (Cuvette Est), bordered by Congo (Kinshasa) to the southeast; and West Cuvette (Cuvette ...
West Des Moines: city and suburb of Des Moines (which lies immediately to the east), Polk county, central Iowa, U.S. The area was settled in the 1840s and became an important rail junction ...
West Devon: borough (district), administrative and historic county of Devon, southwestern England. The borough lies directly north of the city of Plymouth. West Devon encompasses most of Dartmoor in the county's southeast ...
West Dorset: district, administrative county of Dorset, southern England. The district lies almost entirely within the historic county of Dorset, except for small areas along the northern border that belong to the ...
West Dunbartonshire: council area, west-central Scotland, along the north bank of the lower River Clyde, northwest of Glasgow. It extends north to the shore of Loch Lomond, Scotland's largest lake, and encompasses ...
West End: in London, loosely defined area in the boroughs of Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea. Because many of its neighbourhoods and retail districts are among the more affluent of the metropolis, ...
West Falkland: one of the two major islands of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is 80 miles (130 km) long and 45 miles (70 km) wide and rises ...
West Flanders: (from the article "Belgium") ...Brabant, and Luxembourg), and Flemings, a Flemish- (Netherlandic-) speaking people (more than one-half of the total population), who are concentrated in the five northern and northeastern provinces (West Flanders, East ...
West Florida Controversy: in U.S. history, dispute over the status of the territory lying on the Gulf of Mexico between the Apalachicola and Mississippi rivers. Though Spain claimed the area as part of ... [2 Related Articles]
West Florida Republic: (from the article "Mississippi, flag of") Part of what is today the state of Mississippi was included in the West Florida Republic, which was proclaimed in 1810 by American settlers in opposition to Spanish rule. Their ...
West Francia: (from the article "Europe, history of") Charlemagne's kingdoms, but not the imperial title, were divided after the death of his son Louis I (the Pious) in 840 into the regions of West Francia, the Middle Kingdom, ...
West Frisian Islands: part of the chain of Frisian Islands (q.v.), which lie in the North Sea just off the coast of northwestern Europe. They belong to The Netherlands. [2 Related Articles]
West Frisian language: (from the article "West Germanic languages") The following remarks refer to the more or less standard West Frisian that is developing in the province of Friesland.
West Germanic languages: group of Germanic languages that developed in the region of the North Sea, Rhine-Weser, and Elbe. Out of the many local West Germanic dialects the following six modern standard languages ... [2 Related Articles]
West Greenland Current: (from the article "West Greenland Current") cool flow of water proceeding northward along the west coast of Greenland. See Greenland Current.Davis StraitDavis Strait...through the Canadian Arctic ...
West Hartford: urban town (township), Hartford county, central Connecticut, U.S. Founded in 1679 as an agricultural community, it was known as West Division Parish or West Society. It became a wealthy residential ...
West Haven: city, coextensive with the town (township) of West Haven, New Haven county, southwestern Connecticut, U.S. It lies on New Haven Harbor and across the West River from New Haven. Early ...
West Highland white terrier: breed of terrier that probably originated at Poltalloch, in the former county of Argyll, Scotland. It was bred there for many years by the Malcolm family, whose dogs appear to ...
West Indian boxwood: (from the article "boxwood") ...also refers to many other woods with a similar density and grain, such as Venezuelan boxwood, or zapatero (Gossypiospermum praecox), a South American tree of the family Flacourtiaceae; West Indian ...
West Indies: crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles (3,200 km) long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to ... [56 Related Articles]
West Indies: (from the article "Lara, Brian") ...a natural athlete, and a member of the national under-(age)14 football (soccer) team, Lara was expected from an early age to be the next great West Indian cricketer. He was ...
West Indies Act: (from the article "Antigua and Barbuda") ...and in 1958 Antigua joined the West Indies Federation. When the federation was dissolved in 1962, Antigua persevered with discussions of alternative forms of federation. Provision was made in the ...
West Indies Associated States: former political organization of islands in the Caribbean Sea that were British colonies whose status changed to free association with the United Kingdom in 1967. This status provided for internal ...
West Indies Federation: (from the article "Dominica") ...a separate colony. It was rejoined administratively to the Leewards in 1883 and remained thus until 1940, when it was transferred to the Windwards as a separate colony. In 1958 ...
West Indies Royal Commission: (from the article "Anguilla") A series of labour disturbances throughout the British West Indies in the 1930s spurred the creation of a royal commission (popularly known as the Moyne Commission) to examine social and ...