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- mountainous region in western Germany lying northeast of Koblenz and east-southeast of Bonn. It is on the right (east) bank of the Rhine and extends eastward for about 50 miles ... [2 Related Articles]
- Westerwald stoneware
- salt-glazed stoneware produced in German towns such as Hohr, Grenzau, and Grenzhausen in the area known as the Westerwald. Their products (jugs, tankards, and the like), made from the 15th ... [1 Related Articles]
- Westerwolde
- (from the article "Groningen") ...second half of the 19th century. Agriculture in this region has specialized in rye, oats, and potatoes for the starch industry; this type of agriculture has been adopted by the ...
- Westerwolt, Adam
- (from the article "Sri Lanka") ...II. The Dutch were now firmly established in Batavia (now Jakarta) in Java and were developing their trade in southern Asia. The king sent emissaries to meet the admiral of ...
- Westfield
- city, Hampden county, southwestern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies along the Westfield River, just west of Springfield. Originally part of Springfield, it was the site of the western frontier trading post ...
- Westfield State College
- public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Westfield, Massachusetts, U.S. It is part of the Massachusetts Public Higher Education system. The college offers undergraduate degree programs in such areas as ...
- Westhoff, Clara
- (from the article "Modersohn-Becker, Paula") ...who lived at an artists' colony near Bremen. Like many of the painters there, she created sentimental landscapes and scenes of peasant life. At Worpswede she formed a friendship with ...
- Westinghouse Electric Corporation
- major American company that was a leading manufacturer of electrical equipment. [2 Related Articles]
- Westinghouse, George
- American inventor and industrialist who was chiefly responsible for the adoption of alternating current for electric power transmission in the United States. [4 Related Articles]
- Westlake, John
- English lawyer and social reformer who was influential in the field of law dealing with the resolution of problems between persons living in different legal jurisdictions (private international law, or ...
- Westland National Park
- park in west-central South Island, New Zealand. Established in 1960, it shares a common boundary with Mount Cook National Park along the main divide of the Southern Alps. With an ...
- Westmacott, Sir Richard
- (from the article "Western sculpture") ...Flaxman, professor of sculpture at the Royal Academy and one of the few British artists of the period with an international reputation. The last generation of Neoclassicists included the sculptors ...
- Westmeath
- county in the province of Leinster, central Ireland. It is bounded by Counties Cavan (north), Meath (east), Offaly (south), Roscommon (west), and Longford (northwest). The western boundary is the lower ...
- Westminster
- city, Adams and Jefferson counties, north-central Colorado, U.S., a northern suburb of Denver. Settled in 1863 by Pleasant DeSpain, a homesteader, it was named DeSpain Junction and developed as a ...
- Westminster
- city, seat (1837) of Carroll county, northern Maryland, U.S., 31 miles (50 km) northwest of Baltimore. It was founded in 1764 by William Winchester and was commonly called Winchester in ... [1 Related Articles]
- Westminster Abbey
- London church that is the site of coronations and other ceremonies of national significance. It stands just west of the Houses of Parliament in the Greater London borough of Westminster. ... [8 Related Articles]
- Westminster Assembly
- (1643-52), assembly called by the English Long Parliament to reform the Church of England, wrote the Larger and Shorter Westminster catechisms, the Westminster Confession, and the Directory of Public Worship. ... [5 Related Articles]
- Westminster Catechism
- either of two works, the Larger Westminster Catechism and the Shorter Westminster Catechism, used by English-speaking Presbyterians and by some Congregationalists and Baptists. Written by the Westminster Assembly, which met ... [2 Related Articles]
- Westminster College
- (from the article "Fulton") ...It lies 26 miles (42 km) northeast of Jefferson City. Laid out in 1825 and named Volney, it was renamed shortly thereafter for Robert Fulton, steamboat engineer and inventor. Fulton ...
- Westminster Confession
- confession of faith of English-speaking Presbyterians. It was produced by the Westminster Assembly, which was called together by the Long Parliament in 1643, during the English Civil War, and met ... [3 Related Articles]
- Westminster Psalter
- (from the article "painting, Western") ...and frenzied version of this style is found in the illustrations of a bestiary from the Midlands of the early 1200s. But the rounded, billowing drapery of the enthroned Christ ...
- Westminster School
- distinguished public (privately endowed) school near Westminster Abbey in the borough of Westminster, London. It originated as a charity school (1179) founded by Benedictine monks. In 1540 Henry VIII made ...
- Westminster Theological Seminary
- (from the article "Machen, John Gresham") ...character of the Princeton Theological Seminary. He left Princeton in 1929, after the school was reorganized and adopted a more accepting attitude toward liberal Protestantism, and he helped found Westminster ...
- Westminster, City of
- inner borough of London, lying on the north bank of the River Thames at the heart of London's West End. The City of Westminster is flanked to the west by ... [2 Related Articles]
- Westminster, Provisions of
- (from the article "United Kingdom") ...Bachelors, which seems to have claimed to represent the lesser vassals and knights, petitioned for the fulfillment of the promises of the magnates and king to remedy its grievances. As ...
- Westminster, Statute of
- (1931), statute of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that effected the equality of Britain and the then dominions of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, and Newfoundland. [5 Related Articles]
- Westminster, Statutes of
- (1275, 1285, 1290), three statutes important in medieval English history, issued in "parliaments" held by Edward I at Westminster. Each comprised a miscellaneous series of clauses designed to amend or ... [5 Related Articles]
- Westminster, Synod of
- (from the article "Anselm of Canterbury, Saint") ...the spiritual symbols of their office. Three times the King sought an exemption, and each time the Pope refused. During this controversy, Anselm was in exile, from April 1103 to ...
- Westminster, Treaties of
- (from the article "Buys, Paulus") ...council in 1573, but hopes for William to become count of Holland and Zeeland were dashed by the Prince's assassination in 1584. Buys resigned from office the following year but ...
- Westmore Family
- family of Hollywood makeup artists credited with having introduced the art of makeup to the motion-picture industry.
- Westmore, Ern
- (from the article "Westmore Family") Perc's twin brother, Ernest Henry Westmore (1904-68), known as "Ern," worked first at First National and then became head of makeup at RKO; while there (1929-31) he won the first ...
- Westmore, Frank
- (from the article "Westmore Family") ...Hamilton Adolph Westmore (1918-73), known as "Bud," worked at Paramount and 20th Century-Fox and then was makeup chief at Universal Studios for almost 24 years (1946-70). Frank Westmore (1923-85) was ...
- Westmore, George
- (from the article "Westmore Family") Born in Great Britain, on the Isle of Wight, George Westmore (1879-1931) fought in the South African (Boer) War and, after marriage to a hometown friend, Ada Savage (died 1923), ...
- Westmore, Hamilton Adolph
- (from the article "Westmore Family") ...James Westmore (1906-73), known as "Wally," headed the makeup department at Paramount Studios for 41 years (1926-67). Hamilton Adolph Westmore (1918-73), known as "Bud," worked at Paramount and 20th Century-Fox ...
- Westmore, Mont
- (from the article "Westmore Family") All his six surviving sons became heads or assistant heads of makeup departments of major studios. Montague George Westmore (1902-40), known as "Mont," first worked free-lance for such directors as ...
- Westmore, Perc
- (from the article "Westmore Family") ...such directors as Cecil B. deMille but eventually joined the studios of David O. Selznick, supervising makeup during the screen tests for as well as the filming of Gone with ...
- Westmore, Wally
- (from the article "Westmore Family") ...of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, for his work on the film Cimarron. (The next award for makeup was not given until 1982.) Ern later supervised makeup at 20th Century-Fox ...
- Westmoreland
- county, southwestern Pennsylvania, U.S., located just east of Pittsburgh and bounded to the north and northeast by the Kiskiminetas and Conemaugh rivers, to the east by Laurel Hill, to the ...
- Westmoreland, William Childs
- general (ret.), U.S. Army (b. March 26, 1914, Spartanburg county, S.C.-d. July 18, 2005, Charleston, S.C.), commanded U.S. forces in the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1968, a period during ... [1 Related Articles]
- Westmorland
- historic county of northwestern England, bounded on the north and west by Cumberland, on the southwest and southeast by Lancashire, on the east by Yorkshire, and on the northeast by ...
- Westmorland, Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of, 4th Baron Neville Of Raby
- English noble who, though created earl by King Richard II, supported the usurpation of the crown by Henry IV and did much to establish the Lancastrian dynasty.
- Weston
- city, seat of Lewis county, central West Virginia, U.S., on the West Fork River. The site was surveyed by Colonel Edward Jackson, grandfather of the American Civil War general Thomas ...
- Weston cadmium cell
- (from the article "battery") ...other cell types are in use on a small scale. For example, cells that produce a very predictable standard voltage are the Clark cell (zinc-mercurous sulfate-mercury; 1.434 volts) and the ...
- Weston, Edward
- British-born American electrical engineer and industrialist who founded the Weston Electrical Instrument Company.
- Weston, Edward
- major American photographer of the early to mid-20th century, best known for his carefully composed, sharply focused images of natural forms, landscapes, and nudes. His work influenced a generation of ... [7 Related Articles]
- Weston, Garfield Howard
- Canadian-born entrepreneur and philanthropist (b. April 28, 1927, Canada-d. Feb. 15, 2002, London, Eng.), took control of his family's multinational business, Associated British Foods PLC (ABF), upon his father's retirement ...
- Weston, Jack
- (JACK WEINSTEIN), U.S. stage, motion picture, and television actor who for four decades proved adept at portraying characters that ranged from menacing, in Wait Until Dark, to comic, in The ...
- Weston, Paul
- (from the article "Sinatra, Frank") ...to emulate Dorsey's seamless, unbroken melodic passages. It was also during this period that Sinatra proved his mastery of both ballads and up-tempo numbers, and Dorsey arrangers Axel Stordahl, Paul ...
- Weston, Randy
- American jazz pianist and composer, noted for his use of African rhythms. [1 Related Articles]
- Weston-Mott Company
- (from the article "Mott, Charles Stewart") In 1900, when Mott started managing the Weston-Mott Co., his family's bicycle-tire manufacturing firm in Utica, N.Y., he expanded the business by manufacturing wheels for automobiles as well as bicycles. ...
- Weston-super-Mare
- town, North Somerset unitary authority, historic county of Somerset, England, on the Bristol Channel. It is situated on a sandy bay between the promontory of Brean Down (now owned by ...
- Westphal balance
- (from the article "specific gravity") Among the devices used to measure specific gravity are the Jolly balance, the Westphal balance, the pycnometer, and the hydrometer.
- Westphalia
- historic region of northwestern Germany, comprising (with the former state of Lippe) the present federal Land (state) of North Rhine-Westphalia and parts of the Lander (states) of Lower Saxony and ... [4 Related Articles]
- Westphalia Hall
- (from the article "Dortmund") ...been restored, and the city retains four moated castles and the ruins of Saxon and Carolingian fortresses. Notable examples of modern architecture are the synagogue (1956) and the Westfalenhalle (Westphalia ...
- Westphalia, Peace of
- the European settlements of 1648, which brought to an end the Eighty Years' War between Spain and the Dutch and the German phase of the Thirty Years' War. The peace ... [34 Related Articles]
- Westphalian Basin
- (from the article "Germany") ...limestones, sandstones, and clays, that mark the transition to the expanse of the North German Plain. Balanced on either side of the plateau of Hessen are two basins of subdued ...
- Westphalian Wilhelm University of Munster
- (from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") ...Lambert's, the Church of Our Lady, St. Martin's, and St. Maurice's (all 13th-15th century). The work of Johann Conrad Schlaun, a Westphalian architect of the Baroque period, is evident in ...
- Westport
- port town, northwestern South Island, New Zealand. It lies at the mouth of the Buller River. Coal and gold were discovered in the area in 1859, and the town was ...
- Westport
- urban town (township), Fairfield county, southwestern Connecticut, U.S. It lies along Long Island Sound at the mouth of the Saugatuck River just east of Norwalk. The area, which the local ...
- Wests Tigers
- (from the article "Football") In Rugby League the Bradford Bulls avenged their 2004 loss to the Leeds Rhinos with a 15-6 victory over their rivals on October 15 in the English Super League Grand ...
- Westsylvania
- (from the article "West Virginia") ...became endemic. A 14th colony, to be named Vandalia, was proposed in 1769, and several years later residents of western lands claimed by Virginia and Pennsylvania moved to establish a ...
- westward movement
- the populating (by Europeans) of the land within the continental boundaries of the mainland United States, a process that began shortly after the first colonial settlements were established along the ... [2 Related Articles]
- Westwood, Vivienne
- On April 1, 2004, a retrospective devoted to the creations of Vivienne Westwood opened at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. "Vivienne Westwood: 34 Years in Fashion" was the ...
- westwork
- (from the article "Carolingian art") ...(consecrated 805), built by Charlemagne for his court at Aachen. Finally, many features are Carolingian inventions that arose in response to special needs. The most important of these were the ...
- wet beriberi
- (from the article "beriberi") ...In the form known as dry beriberi, there is a gradual degeneration of the long nerves, first of the legs and then of the arms, with associated atrophy of muscle ...
- wet collodion process
- early photographic technique invented by Frederick Scott Archer of England in 1851. To a solution of collodion (cellulose nitrate) Archer added a soluble iodide and coated a glass plate with ... [6 Related Articles]
- wet conversion
- (from the article "papermaking") There are two distinct types of paper conversion. One is referred to as wet converting, in which paper in roll form is coated, impregnated, and laminated with various applied materials ...
- wet equatorial climate
- (from the article "climate") Within about 12° latitude of the Equator lies a region of consistently high temperatures (around 30 °C [86 °F]), with plentiful precipitation (150-1,000 cm [59-394 inches]), heavy cloud cover, and ...
- wet fan
- (from the article "river") ...depositional processes, may be significantly different, however. The widespread distribution of fans has led to the characterization of these features as being one of two types-either dry or wet. Dry ...
- wet fly
- (from the article "fly-tying") ...imitate a number of insects that are found in trout streams. An entire school of anglers, particularly in England, refuses to fish with anything but the dry fly. The second ...
- wet gas
- natural mixture of hydrocarbons that may be gaseous or both liquid and gaseous in the reservoir and that contains an appreciable proportion of compounds heavier than ethane (e.g., propane or ... [1 Related Articles]
- wet milling
- (from the article "cereal processing") ...with a "short" texture and separates from molds more cleanly than do the gels produced by such starches as potato, tapioca, and arrowroot, which are "long," or elastic. In wet ...
- wet process
- (from the article "cement") ...grinding the burned product, known as "clinker," together with some 5 percent of gypsum (to control the time of set of the cement). The three processes of manufacture are known ...
- wet savanna
- (from the article "savanna") ...considerably, from two to eleven months. Mean monthly temperatures are around 10 ° to 20 °C (50 ° to 68 °F) in the dry season and 20 ° to 30 ...
- wet scrubber
- (from the article "environmental works") In the context of air-pollution control, absorption involves the transfer of a gaseous pollutant from the air into a contacting liquid, such as water. The liquid must be able either ...
- wet season
- (from the article "grassland") ...of about 15° to 35° C (59° to 95° F). The dry season may last as long as eight months. An excess of rainfall over evaporation, leading to ephemeral river ...
- wet spinning
- (from the article "fibre, man-made") One of the oldest methods for the preparation of man-made fibres is solution spinning, which was introduced industrially at the end of the 19th century. Solution spinning includes wet spinning ...
- wet tensile strength
- (from the article "papermaking") Because some paper products such as towels, sanitary tissues, and filter paper are subjected to wetting by water in their normal use, wet tensile testing has become important. This test ...
- Wet Zone
- (from the article "Sri Lanka") ...follows a circuitous route in its upper reaches before it enters the plain to the east of the highlands and then flows toward the northeast coast. Because a part of ...
- Wet, Christiaan Rudolf de
- Boer soldier and statesman, regarded by Afrikaner nationalists as one of their greatest heroes. He won renown as commander in chief of the Orange Free State forces in the South ... [1 Related Articles]
- wet-bulb depression
- (from the article "psychrometer") ...to determine the relative humidity and dew-point temperature of the air. A decrease in the humidity of the air brings an increase in the difference between dry- and wet-bulb temperatures, ...
- wet-bulb thermometer
- (from the article "hygrometer") The psychrometer (q.v.) is a hygrometer that utilizes two thermometers-one wet-bulb and one dry-bulb-to determine humidity through evaporation. A wetted cloth wraps the wet-bulb thermometer at its enlarged end. By ...
- wet-fish trawler
- (from the article "commercial fishing") This type is distinguished by the way the catch is stored on board. It can be either a side or stern trawler with an insulated hold where the fish are ...
- wet-gate printing
- (from the article "motion-picture technology") ...a coarser image. When 16-mm film is "blown up," the 16-mm negative is immersed in a solution that conceals scratches and grain as it is being rephotographed; this process is ...
- wet-hulling process
- (from the article "coffee") First the skin and pulp of the fresh fruit is removed by a pulping machine, which consists of a rotating drum or disk that presses the fruit against a sharp-edged ...
- wet-well installation
- (from the article "environmental works") ...gravity flow. Special nonclogging pumps are available to handle raw sewage. They are installed in structures called lift stations. There are two basic types of lift station: dry well and ...
- Wetar Island
- island in the Banda Sea, Maluku provinsi ("province"), Indonesia. It lies 35 miles (56 km) north of and across the Wetar Strait from the northeastern coast of Timor. Wetar Island ...
- Wethered, Joyce
- golfer who was widely regarded as the greatest British woman player of her day. [1 Related Articles]
- Wethered, Roger
- (from the article "golf") ...Hutchinson, John Ball (who won it eight times), J.E. Laidlay, and H.H. Hilton. The interwar years were marked by many outstanding players, including Cyril Tolley, Amateur champion in 1920 and ...
- Wetherill, John
- (from the article "Navajo National Monument") Byron Cummings, an archaeologist, and John Wetherill, a local rancher and trader, explored the ruins of Keet Seel, the largest of the sites, in 1907. Two years later Cummings and ...
- Wethersfield
- urban town (township), Hartford county, central Connecticut, U.S. It lies immediately south of Hartford on the Connecticut River. Settled in 1634 and called Watertown by a group led by John ...
- wetland
- terrestrial ecosystem characterized by poor drainage and the consequent presence most or all of the time of sluggishly moving or standing water saturating the soil. Wetlands are usually classified, according ... [7 Related Articles]
- Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat, Convention on
- (from the article "The Environment") ...population of lesser flamingos (Phoenicopterus minor). Lake Natron was a soda lake rich in salt and other nutrients as well as the algae upon which the flamingos feed. The lake ...
- Wetmore, Alexander
- American ornithologist noted for his research on birds of the Western Hemisphere.
- Wette, Wilhelm M. L. de
- (from the article "biblical literature") ...book of the law" (II Kings, chapter 22, verse 8), found in the 18th year of King Josiah's reign (c. 621 BCE), and made the basis of his great religious ...
- Wetterstein Alps
- (from the article "Germany") Very small portions of the outer limestone (or calcareous) Alps extend from Austria into Germany. From west to east these are the Allgauer Alps, the Wetterstein Alps-with Germany's highest mountain, ...
- Wettin Dynasty
- major European dynasty, genealogically traceable to the start of the 10th century AD. Its earliest known ancestors were active in pushing Germany's frontier eastward into formerly Slav territory; and by ... [4 Related Articles]
- wetting agent
- chemical substance that increases the spreading and penetrating properties of a liquid by lowering its surface tension-that is, the tendency of its molecules to adhere to each other. See detergent; ... [1 Related Articles]
- Wettingen
- (from the article "Grubenmann, Hans Ulrich; and Grubenmann, Johannes") Swiss carpenters and bridge builders whose bridge (1758) over the Limmat River at the town of Wettingen, near Zurich, is believed to be the first timber bridge to employ a ...
- Wetton, John
- (from the article "art rock") ...general definition of art rock. Among the musicians who contributed to numerous bands are Bill Bruford (Yes, King Crimson, and U.K.), Steve Howe (Yes and Asia), Greg Lake (King Crimson ...
- Wettstein, J. J.
- (from the article "biblical literature") ...C.R. Gregory (adopted in 1908), though not uncomplicated has made uniform practice possible. A more pragmatic method of designation and rough classification was that of the Swiss scholar J.J. Wettstein's ...
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