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- U.S. businessman and promoter, responsible for opening the first steamship line between South America and Europe and for building some of the first railroad and telegraph lines in Argentina, Chile, ...
- wheeze
- (from the article "diagnosis") ...between the fingers next to the ear. They are caused by fluid in the small passageways that adheres to the walls during respiration. Crackles are heard in congestive heart failure ...
- Wheldon, Dan
- (from the article "Sports and Games") ...3 hr 10 min 58.759 sec, with an average speed of 157.085 mph. This was an unprecedented 14th victory in the race for team owner Roger Penske. Hornish subsequently won ...
- Wheldon, Sir Huw Pyrs
- British broadcasting producer and executive who oversaw the British Broadcasting Corporation's (BBC's) television programming from 1965 to 1975.
- whelk
- any marine snail of the family Buccinidae (subclass Prosobranchia of the class Gastropoda), or a snail having a similar shell. Some are incorrectly called conchs. The sturdy shell of most ... [2 Related Articles]
- whelping
- (from the article "dog") The normal gestation period is 63 days from the time of conception. This may vary if the bitch has been bred two or three times or if the eggs are ...
- Whetstone, George
- (from the article "Measure for Measure") ...and justice. Shakespeare adapted the story from Epitia, a tragedy by Italian dramatist Giambattista Giraldi (also called Cinthio), and especially from a two-part play by George Whetstone ...
- Whewell, William
- English philosopher and historian remembered both for his writings on ethics and for his work on the theory of induction, a philosophical analysis of particulars to arrive at a scientific ... [3 Related Articles]
- whey
- watery fraction that forms along with curd when milk coagulates. It contains the water-soluble constituents of milk and is essentially a 5 percent solution of lactose in water, with some ... [2 Related Articles]
- Whichcote, Benjamin
- (from the article "Cambridge Platonists") ...17th-century English philosophic and religious thinkers who hoped to reconcile Christian ethics with Renaissance humanism, religion with the new science, and faith with rationality. Their leader was Benjamin Whichcote, who ...
- Whidbey Island
- island, part of Island county, northwestern Washington, U.S., in Puget Sound. Approximately 40 miles (65 km) long, it is one of the largest offshore islands in the continental United States. ...
- Whidbey, Joseph
- (from the article "Whidbey Island") ...long, it is one of the largest offshore islands in the continental United States. Its chief towns are Oak Harbor, Coupeville (a preserved historic [1875] town), and Langley. The island ...
- Whiddy Island
- island in Bantry Bay, County Cork, Ireland. It lies 2 miles (3 km) west of Bantry, at the head of Bantry Bay. It is about 3.5 miles (5.5 km) from ...
- Whieldon, Thomas
- (from the article "Wedgwood, Josiah") ...After Thomas refused his proposal for partnership c. 1749, Josiah, after a brief partnership (1752-53) with John Harrison at Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, joined, in 1754, with Thomas Whieldon of Fenton Low, ...
- whiff
- (from the article "cigar") ...it had a finished top that had to be cut off before smoking. A cheroot is a thin cigar, open at both ends, usually thicker and stubbier than a panatela, ...
- Whig and Tory
- members of two opposing political parties or factions in England, particularly during the 18th century. Originally "Whig" and "Tory" were terms of abuse introduced in 1679 during the heated struggle ... [22 Related Articles]
- Whig Party
- in U.S. history, major political party active in the period 1834-54 that espoused a program of national development but foundered on the rising tide of sectional antagonism. The Whig Party ... [15 Related Articles]
- whimbrel
- (from the article "curlew") The whimbrel (N. phaeopus), or lesser curlew, is the most widely distributed curlew, occurring both in the Old World and in the New World (as two distinct races). Eurasian whimbrels ...
- whimsey glass
- glass with no utilitarian purpose, executed to satisfy the whim of the glassmaker. Such offhand exercises in skill are almost as old as glassmaking itself. Some of the earliest pieces ...
- Whin Sill
- (from the article "Northumberland") ...are deeply dissected by the Rivers Rede and North Tyne. Carboniferous rocks dip east and south from the Cheviot Hills to the coast and the Tyne valley. Along the coast ...
- whinchat
- (Saxicola rubetra), Eurasian thrush named for its habitat: swampy meadows, called, in England, whins. This species, 13 centimetres (5 inches) long, one of the chat-thrush group (family Turdidae, order Passeriformes), ...
- whip
- (from the article "Commons, House of") ...both the government and opposition parties are under the control of party management within the Commons, whose discipline-particularly over voting-is exercised by members called "whips."House of Representatives
- whip
- (from the article "horsemanship") The whip is used chiefly to reinforce the leg aid for control, to command attention, and to demand obedience, but it can be used as a punishment in cases of ...
- whip scorpion
- any of approximately 105 species of the arthropod class Arachnida that are similar in appearance to true scorpions except that the larger species have a whiplike telson, or tail, that ... [2 Related Articles]
- whip-tailed ray
- (from the article "whip-tailed ray") any of certain stingrays of the family Dasyatidae. See stingray.
blue-spotted stingrayBlue-spotted stingray (Dasyatis kuhlii).Leonard Low
- whipbird
- either of the two species of the Australian genus Psophodes, belonging to the songbird family Muscicapidae. They are named for the voice of the eastern whipbird (P. olivaceus): the male ...
- whiplash
- injury to the cervical spine and its soft tissues caused by forceful flexion or extension of the neck, especially that occurring during an automobile accident. It may involve sprain, fracture, ... [1 Related Articles]
- whippet
- hound breed developed in mid-19th-century England to chase rabbits for sport in an arena. The breed was developed from terriers and small English greyhounds; Italian greyhounds were later bred in ...
- whipping
- (from the article "dairy product") Because butter is so firm when first removed from the refrigerator, it is sometimes whipped to improve spreadability. Generally, volume is increased by 50 percent by whipping in air-or, better ...
- whipping
- (from the article "ship") ...this impact are of small consequence, but the slamming that can occur in rough weather, when the bow breaks free of the water only to reenter quickly, can excite "whipping" ...
- Whipple procedure
- (from the article "pancreatic cancer") Exocrine cancers are often treated with the Whipple procedure, a complicated surgical approach that removes all or part of the pancreas and nearby lymph nodes, the gallbladder, and portions of ...
- Whipple Shield
- (from the article "interplanetary dust particle") ...protection against micrometeoroid impacts has become a necessary element of space hardware design. Components of the Earth-orbiting International Space Station use a "dust bumper," or Whipple shield (named for its ...
- Whipple, Fred Lawrence
- American astronomer (b. Nov. 5, 1906, Red Oak, Iowa-d. Aug. 30, 2004, Cambridge, Mass.), was an expert on meteors, meteorites, and comets. In 1950 he hypothesized that a comet has ... [4 Related Articles]
- Whipple, George H.
- American pathologist whose discovery that raw liver fed to chronically bled dogs will reverse the effects of anemia led directly to successful liver treatment of pernicious anemia by the American ... [3 Related Articles]
- Whipple, Henry B.
- (from the article "Faribault") ...house (1853) still stands. Wheat growing, flour milling, and sawmilling dominated the economy until the end of the 19th century. Faribault was also the centre for the Sioux and Ojibwa ...
- Whipple, Squire
- U.S. civil engineer, inventor, and theoretician who provided the first scientifically based rules for bridge construction. [1 Related Articles]
- whippoorwill
- (Caprimulgus vociferus), nocturnal bird of North America belonging to the family Caprimulgidae (see caprimulgiform) and closely resembling the related common nightjar of Europe. It is named for its vigorous deliberate ...
- whipsaw
- (from the article "hand tool") ...pulling the saw up; the pitman and gravity did the work of cutting on the downstroke, for which the teeth were raked. A pit saw occasionally was nothing more than ...
- Whipsnade Wild Animal Park
- (from the article "Dunstable") ...priory he had built. It once was known for its straw hat industry, but rapid modern growth has been centred on light engineering and motor vehicle industries. Nearby is an ...
- whipstock
- (from the article "petroleum production") ...a number of small deviations must be made. The borehole, in effect, ends up making a large arc to reach its objective. The traditional tool for "kicking off" such a ...
- whiptail
- (from the article "wallaby") ...wallaby (M. rufogriseus), with reddish nape and shoulders, which inhabits brushlands of southeastern Australia and Tasmania; this species is often seen in zoos. The pretty-faced wallaby, or whiptail (M. elegans, ...
- whipworm
- any of certain worms of the genus Trichuris, phylum Nematoda, especially T. trichiura, that are parasitic in the large intestine of man and other mammals. They are so named because ...
- Whirlaway
- (foaled 1938), American racehorse (Thoroughbred) who in 1941 captured the U.S. Triple Crown-the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes. A chestnut colt distinguished by an unusually long ... [3 Related Articles]
- whirligig beetle
- any of about 700 species of beetles (insect order Coleoptera) that are widespread throughout the world and are usually seen in groups, spinning and whirling around on the surfaces of ... [1 Related Articles]
- whirlpool
- rotary oceanic current, a large-scale eddy that is produced by the interaction of rising and falling tides. Similar currents that exhibit a central downdraft are termed vortexes and occur where ... [1 Related Articles]
- whirlwind
- a small-diameter columnar vortex of rapidly swirling air. A broad spectrum of vortices occurs in the atmosphere, ranging in scale from small eddies that form in the lee of buildings ...
- Whirlwind
- the first real-time computer-that is, a computer that can respond seemingly instantly to basic instructions, thus allowing an operator to interact with a "running" computer. It was built at the ... [5 Related Articles]
- Whisenant, Edward
- (from the article "eschatology") Starting in the late 1980s with Edgar Whisenant's 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Happen in 1988 (significantly, 40 years after the creation of the State of ...
- whisk fern
- either of the two species of the primitive fern genus Psilotum in the family Psilotaceae of the order Psilotales and the class Psilotopsida of the division Pteridophyta (the lower vascular ... [4 Related Articles]
- whisker
- (from the article "statistics") ...rectangle located at the first and third quartiles. The rectangle represents the middle 50 percent of the data. A vertical line is drawn in the rectangle to locate the median. ...
- whiskered owl
- (from the article "owl") ...woodland owls secure prey by dropping from perches at the edges of forest openings. The Southeast Asian hawk owl (Ninox scutulata) sallies from a perch to take flying insects. The ...
- whiskey
- any of several distilled liquors made from a fermented mash of cereal grains and including Scotch, Irish, and Canadian whiskeys and the various whiskeys of the United States. Whiskey is ... [4 Related Articles]
- Whiskey Rebellion
- (1794), in American history, uprising that afforded the new U.S. government its first opportunity to establish federal authority by military means within state boundaries, as officials moved into western Pennsylvania ... [3 Related Articles]
- Whiskey Ring
- in U.S. history, group of whiskey distillers (dissolved in 1875) who conspired to defraud the federal government of taxes. Operating mainly in St. Louis, Mo., Milwaukee, Wis., and Chicago, Ill., ... [2 Related Articles]
- whisper
- speech in which the vocal cords are held rigid, preventing the vibration that produces normal sounds. In whispering, voiceless sounds are produced as usual; but voiced sounds (e.g., vowels) are ... [3 Related Articles]
- whispering chamber
- (from the article "conic section") ...French engineer Girard Desargues initiated the study of those properties of conics that are invariant under projections (see projective geometry). Eighteenth-century architects created a fad for whispering galleries-such as in ...
- whist
- trick-taking card game developed in England. The English national card game has passed through many phases of development, being first recorded as trump (1529), then ruff, ruff and honours, whisk ... [3 Related Articles]
- Whist Club
- (from the article "bridge") As descendants of whist, the several bridge games have always had more detailed laws than those of any other nonathletic game except chess. The Portland Club of London and the ...
- whistle
- short flute having a stopped lower end and a flue that directs the player's breath from the mouth hole at the upper end against the edge of a hole cut ... [2 Related Articles]
- whistler
- electromagnetic wave propagating through the atmosphere that occasionally is detected by a sensitive audio amplifier as a gliding high-to-low-frequency sound. Initially, whistlers last about half a second, and they may ... [1 Related Articles]
- Whistler, George
- (from the article "railroad") ...of military defense as it was of the tsar having chosen an American engineer to plan his railroads in an era when gauges were not truly standardized in the United ...
- Whistler, James McNeill
- American-born artist noted for his paintings of nocturnal London, for his striking and stylistically advanced full-length portraits, and for his brilliant etchings and lithographs. An articulate theorist about art, he ... [9 Related Articles]
- whistling duck
- (Dendrocygna), any of eight species of long-legged and long-necked ducks that utter sibilant cries and may make whirring wing sounds in flight; these distinctive ducks are separated from other members ... [2 Related Articles]
- Whiston, William
- Anglican priest and mathematician who sought to harmonize religion and science, and who is remembered for reviving in England the heretical views of Arianism.
- Whitaker, Alexander
- (from the article "Protestantism") Puritan clergy saw an excellent opportunity for their cause in Virginia. The Reverend Alexander Whitaker, the "apostle of Virginia," wrote to his London Puritan cousin in 1614: "But I much ...
- Whitaker, Forest
- (from the article "International Film Awards 2007") Other Nominees
- Whitaker, Mark
- (from the article "Media and Publishing") ...in Afghanistan and Pakistan that left at least 15 dead. Newsweek retracted the story a week later, after the U.S. Department of Defense challenged its veracity. In a note to ...
- Whitaker, Pernell
- American professional boxer, world lightweight (135 pounds), junior welterweight (140 pounds), welterweight (147 pounds), and junior middleweight (154 pounds) champion in the 1980s and '90s.
- Whitaker, Sir Frederick
- solicitor, politician, and businessman who served twice as prime minister of New Zealand (1863-64; 1882-83). He was an advocate of British annexation in the Pacific and of the confiscation of ...
- Whitby
- town, borough of Scarborough, administrative county of North Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, England. The old North Sea port town is clustered on the east side of the harbour at ...
- Whitby, Daniel
- (from the article "eschatology") ...became dominant in many Protestant churches in the 18th century. In his Paraphrase and Commentary on the New Testament (1703), the Anglican polemicist and commentator Daniel Whitby ...
- Whitby, Synod of
- a meeting held by the Christian Church of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria in 663/664 to decide whether to follow Celtic or Roman usages. It marked a vital turning point ... [8 Related Articles]
- Whitcher, Frances Miriam Berry
- American writer whose popular satirical sketches lampooned small-town pomposities and intolerance.
- white
- (from the article "church year") ...Church was first outlined in Pope Innocent III's treatise De sacro altaris mysterio (Book I, chapter 65, written before his election as pope in 1198), though some variations are admitted. ...
- White
- (from the article "Poland") ...of reformist landowners headed by the popular Hrabia (count) Andrzej Zamoyski, debated changes in the agrarian sector but found it hard to avoid politics. A patriotic movement later known as ...
- white adipose cell
- (from the article "adipose cell") connective-tissue cell specialized to synthesize and contain large globules of fat. There are two types of adipose cells: white adipose cells contain large fat droplets, only a small amount of ...
- white admiral
- (from the article "admiral") ...Europe, Scandinavia, North America, and North Africa and feeds on stinging nettles. The western, or Weidemeyer's, admiral (Limenitis weidemeyerii), is found in the western United States. The white admiral (Limenitis ...
- white alder
- (from the article "alder") Familiar North American alders are the red alder (A. rubra, or A. oregona), a tall tree whose leaves have rusty hairs on their lower surfaces; the white, or Sierra, alder ...
- White Army
- (from the article "Russian Civil War") ...two main groups of Russian opponents of Vladimir I. Lenin: (1) the non-Bolshevik left, who had been finally alienated from Lenin by his dissolution of the Constituent Assembly and (2) ...
- white arsenic
- (from the article "arsenic") ...has a range of oxidation states from -3 to +5, it can form a variety of different kinds of compounds. Among the most important commercial compounds are the oxides, the ...
- white ash
- (from the article "ash") Eighteen species of ash are found in the United States, with five furnishing most of the ash lumber cut. The most important are the white ash (F. americana) and the ...
- White Australia Policy
- the anti-Asian immigration policy initiated by the new Commonwealth of Australia in 1901. It reflected a long-standing and unifying sentiment of the various Australian colonies and remained a fundamental government ... [3 Related Articles]
- white baneberry
- (from the article "baneberry") The white baneberry (A. pachypoda; sometimes A. alba), which is native to North America, is 30 to 45 cm (12 to 18 inches) tall and bears white berries. The cohosh, ...
- white bass
- (from the article "sea bass") ...from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, often in river mouths; the striped bass, or striper, a renowned American food and sport fish striped with black and growing to about 14 kg ...
- white basswood
- (from the article "linden") Carolina linden (T. caroliniana) and white basswood (T. heterophylla), from the eastern United States, are native on moist soils; they are bee trees that yield a fragrant honey.
- white bellbird
- (from the article "bellbird") Four bellbird species live in Central and South America and constitute the genus Procnias, although only one, the white bellbird (P. alba), has a call that can actually be described ...
- white birch
- any of several species of ornamental and timber trees of the genus Betula, in the family Betulaceae. The trees are native to cool regions of the Northern Hemisphere and have ...
- White Bone Yi
- (from the article "Yi") ...A caste system formerly divided the Yi into three groups. The Black Bone Yi, the ruling group, were apparently descended from a people that originated in northwest China. The far ...
- white brass
- (from the article "brass") The malleability of brass depends on the zinc content; brasses that contain more than 45 percent zinc are not workable, either hot or cold. Such brasses, known as white brasses, ...
- white bread
- (from the article "nutrition, human") Controversy exists as to the relative merits of white bread and bread made from whole wheat flour. White flour consists of about 72 percent of the grain but contains little ...
- white bryony
- (from the article "bryony") (genus Bryonia), any of about 12 species of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae). These plants are mostly herbs or long-tendriled climbing vines that are native to Eurasia. White bryony (B. cretica ...
- white butterfly
- any of a group of butterflies in the family Pieridae (order Lepidoptera) that are named for their white wings with black marginal markings. The family Pieridae also includes the orange-tip ...
- white cake
- (from the article "baking") Common cake varieties include white cake, similar in formula to yellow cake, except that the white cake uses egg whites instead of whole eggs; devil's food cake, differing from chocolate ...
- white cedar
- (from the article "white cedar") in the lumber trade, any American arborvitae (q.v.), some species of false cypress (q.v.), and McNab cypress, incense cedar (q.v.), and California juniper. Nonconiferous trees that are called white cedar ...
- White City
- (from the article "Tel Aviv-Yafo") ...from the 1930s and '40s, designed in the International Style, which was influenced by the Bauhaus school; Tel Aviv is considered to have the greatest concentration of such buildings worldwide. ...
- White City
- (from the article "World's Columbian Exposition") ...Classical facades with a uniform cornice height of 60 feet (18.25 metres). The plaster palace fronts bore little functional relationship to exhibition halls inside; but the grandeur of the "White ...
- white cloud
- small aquarium fish of the carp family, Cyprinidae, native to the White Cloud Mountains (Pai-yun Shan) of Kwangtung province, China. The white cloud is a slender, hardy fish, about 4 ...
- white clover
- (from the article "clover") The most important agricultural species are red clover (T. pratense), white clover (T. repens), and alsike clover (T. hybridum). Red clover, a biennial, or short-lived perennial, bears an oval, purplish ...
- white crappie
- (from the article "crappie") The white crappie (P. annularis) generally inhabits rather warm, silty lakes and rivers. Silvery, with irregular dark markings, it is usually lighter in colour than the similar black crappie, or ...
- white cypress
- (from the article "false cypress") The white cypress (C. thyoides) of North America, 21 to 27 metres (70 to 90 feet) tall, an economically important timber tree, also has many cultivated varieties. Its reddish-brown, fragrant ...
- White Deer Grotto Academy
- (from the article "Confucianism") ...education. Reading, sitting quietly, ritual practice, physical exercise, calligraphy, arithmetic, and empirical observation all had a place in his pedagogical program. Zhu Xi reestablished the White Deer Grotto in present ...
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