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West Indies, history of: (from the article "American Revolution") Despite allied supremacy in the Channel in 1779, the threat of invasion, and the loss of islands in the West Indies, the British maintained control of the North American seaboard ...
West Indies, University of the: (from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") ...and vocational education, including a polytechnic school, a community college, and a teacher's college. Education is compulsory to age 16. Most study at the university level is done at the ...
West Indies, University of the: (from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") ...World War II the island profited greatly from the Colonial Development and Welfare Act and from outside investment. Colonial Development grants financed the building of the Jamaican branch of the ...
West Indies, University of the: (from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") Education is free at the primary and secondary levels and compulsory between the ages of 6 and 12. A campus of the University of the West Indies, offering courses in ...
West Irian Jaya: (from the article "Papua") ...broke out periodically. By 2002 Indonesia had changed the name of the province to Papua and granted it more autonomy. Efforts were also made to divide Papua into three provinces, ...
West Island: (from the article "Cocos Islands") ...located about 15 miles (24 km) north of the main lagoon (South Lagoon), which is surrounded by the numerous islets of the South Keeling Islands. The principal islands of the ...
West Japan Volcanic Belt: (from the article "Japan") The Ryukyu Islands Region constitutes the main portion of the Ryukyu arc, which penetrates into Kyushu as the West Japan Volcanic Belt and terminates at Mount Aso. The influence of ...
West Jersey: (from the article "United States") ...colony to two Quakers, who in turn placed the management of the colony in the hands of three trustees, one of whom was Penn. The area was then divided into ...
West Kipchak group: (from the article "Turkic languages") ...group (NWⁿ) consists of Tatar (Tatarstan, Russia; China; Romania; Bulgaria; and so on), Bashkir (Bashkortostan, Russia), and West Siberian dialects (Tepter, Tobol, Irtysh, and so on). The West Kipchak group ...
West Lafayette: city, Tippecanoe county, west-central Indiana, U.S. It lies along the Wabash River (bridged) opposite Lafayette. A town was platted on the west bank of the Wabash in 1836, but it ... [1 Related Articles]
West Lancashire: district, administrative and historic county of Lancashire, northwestern England, north of the city of Liverpool. West Lancashire is separated from the Irish Sea by the narrow coastal strip of Sefton ...
West Liberty State College: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in West Liberty, West Virginia, U.S. It is a four-year liberal arts college that confers two-year associate as well as bachelor's degrees. The campus ...
West Lindsey: district, administrative and historic county of Lincolnshire, east-central England, north of the city of Lincoln. West Lindsey district comprises two low-lying fertile clay valleys at an elevation of less than ...
West Lothian: (from the article "West Lothian") council area and historic county, southeastern Scotland, on the southern shore of the River Forth estuary and the Firth of Forth just west of Edinburgh. The council area and historic ...
West Lothian: council area and historic county, southeastern Scotland, on the southern shore of the River Forth estuary and the Firth of Forth just west of Edinburgh. The council area and historic ...
West Memphis: city, Crittenden county, eastern Arkansas, U.S. It lies along the west bank of the Mississippi River opposite Memphis, Tennessee (with which it is linked by bridges). It was founded in ...
West Midlands: metropolitan county of England, comprising seven metropolitan boroughs: the city of Birmingham (England's second largest city), the city of Coventry, and the boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall, and Wolverhampton. ...
West Morava: (from the article "Morava River") The West Morava originates in southern Serbia and Macedonia on the west-facing slope of Golija Mountain. Three hydroelectric stations are located along its 185-mile (298-kilometre) course. The South Morava is ...
West New York: town, Hudson county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S. It lies along the Hudson River, adjacent to Weehawken. The area, originally settled by the Dutch in 1790, was alternately a part of ...
West Nile virus: virus belonging to the family Flaviviridae, related to viruses that can cause yellow fever and dengue and more closely to viruses that can cause encephalitis (inflammation of the brain). Predominantly ... [2 Related Articles]
West Nipissing: municipality, east-central Ontario, Canada. It was formed in 1999 when the town of Sturgeon Falls and other neighbouring communities were amalgamated under the name West Nipissing.
West Oguz language group: (from the article "Turkic languages") The southwestern, or Oghuz, branch comprises three groups. The West Oghuz group (SW^w) consists of Turkish (spoken in Turkey, Cyprus, the Balkans, western Europe, and so on); Azerbaijani (Azerbaijanian; Azerbaijan, ...
West Orange: township (town), Essex county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S., about 4 miles (6 km) northwest of Newark. It was part of Orange until set off in 1863 as the township of ...
West Oxfordshire: district, administrative and historic county of Oxfordshire, south-central England, encompassing a mainly rural area in the western part of the county. The Cotswold Hills extend into the northwest, and the ...
West Palm Beach: city, seat (1909) of Palm Beach county, southeastern Florida, U.S. It is situated along the western shore of Lake Worth (part of the Intracoastal Waterway), a lagoon separated from the ... [1 Related Articles]
West Papua: (from the article "Indonesia") ...a physiographic structure similar to those of the Sunda Shelf. They include the northern Moluccas and New Guinea. The western portion of New Guinea consists of the Indonesian provinces of ...
West Pearl River: (from the article "Pearl River") ...Bogalusa, and emptying into Mississippi Sound on the Gulf of Mexico. West of Picayune, Miss., the river divides into two streams: the East Pearl, which enters the sound near Grand ...
West Plains: city, seat (1858) of Howell county, south-central Missouri, U.S. It is situated in the Ozark Mountains, near the Arkansas state line, about 100 miles (160 km) east-southeast of Springfield. Laid ...
West Point: city, seat (1874) of Clay county, eastern Mississippi, U.S., 47 miles (76 km) south of Tupelo. With Columbus and Starkville it forms the Golden Triangle industrial region. It was developed ...
West Pomerania: (from the article "Pomerania") ...as far as Stralsund, including the island of Rugen (Rugia). Most of Pomerania is now part of Poland, but its westernmost section is in eastern Germany, as reflected in the ...
west quadrature: (from the article "quadrature") ...astronomy, that aspect of a heavenly body in which its direction as seen from the Earth makes a right angle with the direction of the Sun. The Moon at First ...
West Riding: (from the article "Yorkshire") ...authority of Kingston upon Hull, most of the unitary authority of East Riding of Yorkshire, and parts of the administrative county of North Yorkshire and the unitary authority of York), ...
West Rongbuk Glacier: (from the article "Everest, Mount") Glaciers cover the slopes of Everest to its base. Individual glaciers flanking the mountain are the Kangshung Glacier to the east; the East, Central, and West Rongbuk (Rongpu) glaciers to ...
West Saxon: (from the article "English language") ...the Anglian-speaking region developed two speech groups: to the north of the river, Northumbrian, and, to the south, Southumbrian, or Mercian. There were thus four dialects: Northumbrian, Mercian, West Saxon, ...
West Scotia Basin: submarine trough of the Scotia Sea, an arm of the South Atlantic Ocean, about 500 miles (800 km) southeast of Tierra del Fuego, South America. Its mean depth is about ...
West Seneca: town (township), Erie county, western New York, U.S. It lies immediately southeast of Buffalo, in the lee of Lake Erie. It was settled in 1842 by the Ebenezer Society Amana ...
West Settlement: (from the article "Greenland") ...Greenland, and in 986 he organized an expedition to the island that resulted in the development of two main settlements: the East Settlement, near present-day Qaqortoq (Julianehab), and the West ...
West Siberian Plain: one of the world's largest regions of continuous flatland, central Russia. It occupies an area of nearly 1,200,000 square miles (3,000,000 square km) between the Ural Mountains in the west ... [4 Related Articles]
West Slav: (from the article "Poland") The terms Poland and Poles appear for the first time in medieval chronicles of the late 10th century. The land that the Poles, a West Slavic people, came to inhabit ...
West Slavic languages: (from the article "Slavic languages") West SlavicEuropean distributionEuropeRomance, Germanic, and Slavic languagesThe Slavic languages are characteristic of eastern and southeastern Europe and of Russia. These ...
West Somerset: district, administrative and historic county of Somerset, southwestern England, on the southern shore of the Bristol Channel. West Somerset district is an elevated area of moors and wooded hills including ...
West Springfield: town (township), Hampden county, southwestern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies along the Westfield and Connecticut rivers opposite Springfield and Chicopee. It was settled about 1660 and incorporated in 1774. The town's ...
West Sussex: administrative county of southern England, bordering the English Channel. West Sussex lies within the historic county of Sussex, except for a small area in the north around Gatwick Airport, which ...
West Tilbury: (from the article "Thurrock") ...marshes by immigrant Dutch workers. Thurrock's chief town and administrative centre, Grays, was originally a fishing village but eventually became a river port for London's hay and grain market. At ...
West Uighur-Chagatai group: (from the article "Turkic languages") ...are still trying to resettle in the Crimea. Karaim is extinct in the Crimea but is still preserved in Lithuania and Ukraine. The languages of the Pechenegs and the Kuman ...
West Vancouver: district municipality forming a suburb of Vancouver, southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It lies on the north side of the entrance to Burrard Inlet, across from the city of Vancouver. West ...
West Virginia: constituent state of the United States of America. Admitted to the union as the 35th state in 1863, it is a relatively small state. It is bordered by Pennsylvania to ... [11 Related Articles]
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette: (from the article "Rutledge, Wiley B, Jr.") Rutledge was almost immediately called upon to cast the deciding vote in several important cases, including West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, which involved the right of Jehovah's ...
West Virginia University: public, coeducational institution of higher learning, one of the two state universities of West Virginia, U.S.; the other is Marshall University. West Virginia University, a land-grant college, is located on ... [2 Related Articles]
West Virginia, flag of: Around the coat of arms is a wreath of the big laurel (Rhododendron maximum), which was designated the state flower in 1903. The following year the big laurel was featured ...
West Wiltshire: district, administrative and historic county of Wiltshire, southern England, in the west-central part of the county, some 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Bristol. West Wiltshire consists of chalk uplands ... [1 Related Articles]
West Wyalong: town, south-central New South Wales, Australia, in the fertile Riverina district. Founded as a gold-mining settlement in 1895, it was originally known as Main Camp to distinguish it from Wyalong ...
West Yorkshire: metropolitan county of northern England, comprising five metropolitan boroughs: Calderdale, Kirklees, and the city of Bradford in the west and the cities of Leeds and Wakefield in the east. From ... [1 Related Articles]
West, Benjamin: American-born painter of historical, religious, and mythological subjects who had a profound influence on the development of historical painting in Britain. He was historical painter to George III (1772-1801) and ... [6 Related Articles]
West, Buster: (from the article "tap dance") ...cane twirling and dazzling acrobatics. Cook and Brown had one of the finest knockabout acts. King, King, and King danced in convict outfits, chained together doing close-to-the-floor fast tap work. ...
West, Claudine: (from the article "1942: Other Winners") Screenplay: George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West, Arthur Wimperis for Mrs. MiniverOriginal Story: Emeric Pressburger for The InvadersOriginal Screenplay: Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner, Jr., for Woman of the...
West, Comet: (from the article "comet") ...or even scores or hundreds of millennia), and they have not left any identifiable trace in prehistory. Bright Comet Bennett 1970 II (Figure 2) will return in 17 centuries, whereas ...
West, Cornel: American philosopher, scholar of African American studies, and political activist. His influential book Race Matters (1993) lamented what he saw as the spiritual impoverishment of the African ... [1 Related Articles]
West, Dame Rebecca: British journalist, novelist, and critic, who was perhaps best known for her reports on the Nurnberg trials of war criminals (1945-46). [2 Related Articles]
West, Dorothy: American writer who explored the aspirations and conflicts of middle-class African Americans in many of her works and was one of the last surviving members of the prominent group of ... [1 Related Articles]
West, Jerry: (from the article "Los Angeles Lakers") ...the 1960-61 season. The Lakers advanced to the NBA finals six times in the 1960s but lost to the Celtics in each appearance despite the presence of future Hall of ...
West, Jessamyn: American writer, a master of the short story and an accomplished novelist, who wrote with particular sensitivity about mother-daughter relationships. She is perhaps best remembered for The ...
West, John: (from the article "Australia") ...Servinton (1830-31), was written by a convict, Henry Savery; Henry Kingsley's Geoffrey Hamlyn (1859) is often judged the first major Australian novel. John West's
West, Kanye: American producer and rapper who parlayed his production success in the late 1990s and early 2000s into a career as a popular, critically acclaimed solo artist. [4 Related Articles]
West, Mae: American stage and film actress, a sex symbol whose frank sensuality, languid postures, and blase wisecracking became her trademarks. She usually portrayed women who accepted their lives of dubious virtue ... [1 Related Articles]
West, Morris: Australian novelist noted for such best-sellers as The Devil's Advocate (1959) and The Shoes of the Fisherman (1963). [1 Related Articles]
West, Nathanael: American writer best known for satiric novels of the 1930s. [2 Related Articles]
West, Peter: British sports commentator (b. Aug. 12, 1920, Addiscombe, Surrey, Eng.-d. Sept. 2, 2003, Bath, Eng.), long led BBC's coverage of a number of sports, most notably cricket, and hosted Come ...
West, Samuel: (from the article "Performing Arts") In other news, actor Samuel West (son of Timothy West and Prunella Scales) succeeded Michael Grandage as director of the Sheffield Crucible and began by appearing as Benedick in Shakespeare's ...
West, Sandy: American musician (b. 1959, Los Angeles, Calif.-d. Oct. 21, 2006, San Dimas, Calif.), used her powerful drumming to ignite the influential all-female rock band the Runaways, which she founded in ...
West, the: (from the article "fundamentalism") The subject of Islamic fundamentalism attracted a great deal of attention in the West after the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79-which deposed Iran's ruler, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (1919-80), and established ...
West, The: region, western U.S., mostly west of the Great Plains and including, by federal-government definition, Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. Virtually every ... [3 Related Articles]
Westar: (from the article "telegraph") ...transmission speeds limited only by the capabilities of the terminal equipment. These new transmission media were later augmented by satellite links and fibre optic transmission lines. In 1974 the Westar ...
Westbrook, Peter: American fencer. Westbrook began taking fencing lessons at the urging of his Japanese mother (her brother was a famous kendo master in Japan). He was attracted at once to the ...
Westbury: town ("parish"), West Wiltshire district, administrative and historic county of Wiltshire, southern England. It was noted as "Westberie a royal manor" in Domesday Book (1086), the record of the land ...
Westbury White Horse: (from the article "Westbury") ...Book (1086), the record of the land survey ordered by William the Conqueror. The first mention of the town as a borough occurs in 1442-43, but its borough status was ...
Westchester: county, southeastern New York state, U.S., lying just north of New York City. It consists of a hilly region bounded to the east by Connecticut, to the southeast by Long ... [1 Related Articles]
Westchester Cup: (from the article "polo") The first international competition took place in 1886 when the United States unsuccessfully challenged the English, then the undisputed world leaders in polo, for the Westchester Cup. England defended the ...
Westchester Parkway System: (from the article "roads and highways") ...of the Westchester County parkway system and the Long Island State Park Commission. More parkways were built in the New York area, including the Merritt Parkway (1934-40), which continued the ...
Westcott, Brooke Foss: Anglican bishop of Durham, Eng., and biblical scholar who collaborated with Fenton J.A. Hort on an influential critical edition of the Greek text of the New Testament. [2 Related Articles]
Westcott, Edward Noyes: American novelist and banker whose posthumously published novel David Harum: A Story of American Life (1898) was immensely popular.
Westcott, Sebastian: (from the article "Children of Paul's") ...Elizabethan England. Affiliated with St. Paul's Cathedral, the group performed in a biblical play as early as 1378. The theatrical company as such was formed under the direction (1577-82) of ...
Westdeutscher Rundfunk: (from the article "Cologne") Throughout most of the year, Cologne provides a variety of musical programs. Particularly notable are the Gurzenich concerts and those held in the concert hall of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR; ...
Westerbork: small Jewish transit camp in World War II, located near the village of Westerbork in the rural northeastern Netherlands. The Dutch government originally set up the camp in 1939 to ...
Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope: (from the article "Some important radio telescopes") In Europe the Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy operates the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope, which is an east-west array of 14 antennas, each 25 metres (82 feet) in diameter ...
Westerkerk: (from the article "Keyser, Hendrick de") ...were in Amsterdam, such as the Zuiderkerk (1606-14; "South Church"), the first Protestant church in the Netherlands; the East India House (1606); and his greatest building, the Westerkerk (1620-38; "West ...
westerlies: (from the article "Atlantic Ocean") ...tends to be low, and air flows in a counterclockwise direction. Conversely, air flows clockwise around the Azores, a high-pressure area. The meeting of these two air currents generates prevailing ...
Westerly: town (township), Washington county, southwestern Rhode Island, U.S. It lies along the Pawcatuck River across from Pawcatuck, Connecticut. The state's westernmost town-hence the name-it includes the villages of Westerly, Bradford, ...
Westermann, Diedrich: German scholar of African languages and culture who refined and extended the work of Carl Meinhof, his teacher. Westermann specialized in the languages of an enormously complex linguistic region extending ... [2 Related Articles]
Westermann, Lisel: (from the article "discus throw") ...who was first to break officially the 70-metre (230-foot) mark; German Jurgen Schult, who broke the world's record for discus throw in 1986 with a 74.08-metre (243.04-foot) throw; German Lisel ...
Westermarck, Edward: Finnish sociologist, philosopher, and anthropologist who denied the widely held view that early humans had lived in a state of promiscuity and instead theorized that the original form of human ... [1 Related Articles]
western: a genre of novels and short stories, motion pictures, and television and radio shows that are set in the American West, usually in the period from the 1850s to the ... [7 Related Articles]
Western Africa: region lying south of the Sahara and east and north of the Atlantic Ocean. It is latitudinally divided into two parallel belts of land: the western portion of the Sudan, ... [16 Related Articles]
western Africa, history of: history of the region from the 11th century to the present. [7 Related Articles]
Western Air Express: (from the article "Trans World Airlines, Inc.") TWA was formed on July 16, 1930, in the amalgamation of divisions of Western Air Express (founded 1925) and Transcontinental Air Transport (founded 1928). Western Air Express had flown both ...
Western Air Lines, Inc.: former American airline that was first incorporated in 1925 as Western Air Express, Inc., reincorporated in 1928 as Western Air Express Corp., and renamed Western Air Lines in 1941. The ... [1 Related Articles]
Western Alps: (from the article "Alps") The Western Alps trend north from the coast through southeastern France and northwestern Italy to Lake Geneva and the Rhone valley in Switzerland. Their forms include the low-lying arid limestones ...
Western and central Asian region: (from the article "biogeographic region") Centred on the desert steppes of Central Asia and Mongolia, this floristic zone consists of 200 or more endemic genera and extends from the Caucasus to the Plateau of Tibet, ...
Western architecture: history of Western architecture from prehistoric Mediterranean cultures to the present. [66 Related Articles]
Western Australia: state of western Australia occupying that part of the continent most isolated from the major cultural centres of the east. The state is bounded to the north by the Timor ... [5 Related Articles]
Western Australia, flag of: Australian flag consisting of a blue field (background) with the Union Jack in the canton and, at the fly end, a yellow disk bearing a black swan. The flag is ...