American professional boxer, a colourful sports figure of the 1920s and early 1930s, who held the world welterweight and middleweight championships and was a leading contender for the light-heavyweight and ...
U.S. Senator from Mississippi (1835-45), secretary of the treasury (1845-49) during the Mexican War, and governor of Kansas Territory (April-December 1857) during the violent struggle over slavery there.
African-American musician and songwriter, a major figure in modern blues. He was the first important electric guitar soloist in the blues and one of the most influential players in the ...
activity that ranges from a competitive sport, usually known as race walking, to a primary and popular form of outdoor recreation and mild aerobic exercise.
fern that is a member either of the species Camptosorus rhizophyllus, of eastern North America, or of C. sibiricus, of eastern Asia, the only two species of the genus, in ...
(Aug. 25, 1737), land swindle perpetrated by Pennsylvania authorities on the Delaware Indians, who had been the tribe most friendly to William Penn when he founded the colony in the ...
any of about 2,000 species of slow-moving green- or brown-coloured insect belonging to the family Phasmatidae (order Phasmatodea). Its resemblance to twigs is a protective device; some species may also ...
structural element used to divide or enclose, and, in building construction, to form the periphery of a room or a building. In traditional masonry construction, walls supported the weight of ...
(Tichodroma muraria), bird of the mountains of southern Europe to central Asia, largest member of the family Sittidae (order Passeriformes). About 17 cm (6 12 inches) long and mostly gray ...
newspaper produced for display on walls or in other prominent places in cities, towns, and villages, usually in developing countries. The practice is not new; in ancient Rome the Acta ...
street in the southern section of the borough of Manhattan, in New York City, which has been the location of some of the chief financial institutions of the United States. ...
daily business and financial newspaper edited in New York City and sold throughout the United States. Other daily editions include The Asian Wall Street Journal, edited in ...
city, seat (1859) of Walla Walla county, southeastern Washington, U.S. It lies along the Walla Walla River, near the Oregon state line. The American pioneer Marcus Whitman established a medical ...
any of several middle-sized marsupial mammals belonging to the kangaroo family, Macropodidae (see kangaroo). They are found chiefly in Australia. The 11 species of brush wallabies (genus Macropus, subgenus Protemnodon) ...
in London, England, a collection of fine and decorative artworks bequeathed to the British government in 1897. It is housed in Hertford House at Manchester Square, in Westminster.
hypothetical boundary between the Oriental and Australasian faunal regions, proposed by the 19th-century British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace. The line extends from the Indian Ocean through the Lombok Strait (between ...
British humanist, naturalist, geographer, and social critic. He became a public figure in England during the second half of the 19th century, known for his courageous views on scientific, social, ...
U.S. Democratic Party politician and four-time governor of Alabama who led the South's fight against federally ordered racial integration in the 1960s.
33rd vice president of the United States (1941-45) in the Democratic administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who epitomized the "common man" philosophy of the New Deal Democratic Party. He shaped ...
British art collector and philanthropist whose name is perpetuated by the famous art collection, the Wallace Collection (q.v.), at Hertford House, London.
one of Scotland's greatest national heroes, leader of the Scottish resistance forces during the first years of the long, and ultimately successful, struggle to free Scotland from English rule.
town, Kent county, southern Ontario, Canada. It lies at the confluence of the north and east branches of the Sydenham River, 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Detroit, Mich. The ...
leading British-American actor and manager of New York theatres, from whose acting company (continued by his son, Lester Wallack) developed many of the important American stage performers of the 19th ...
outstanding British-American actor of tragedy and melodrama, best known for his performances in such Shakespearean roles as Iago in Othello and the title roles in Macbeth and Richard III.
actor, playwright, and manager of the Wallack Theatre Company, the training ground of virtually every important American stage performer of the 19th century.
British educator, public official, and political scientist known for his contributions to the development of an empirical approach to the study of human behaviour.
any of various large, rigid sheets of finishing material used in drywall construction to face the interior walls of dwellings and other buildings. Drywall construction is the application of walls ...
Swedish businessman and diplomat who became legendary through his efforts to rescue Hungarian Jews during World War II and through his disappearance while a prisoner in the Soviet Union.
Bohemian soldier and statesman, commanding general of the armies of the Holy Roman emperor Ferdinand II during the Thirty Years' War. His alienation from the Emperor and his political-military conspiracies ...
English poet whose adoption of smooth, regular versification prepared the way for the heroic couplet's emergence by the end of the century as the dominant form of poetic expression. His ...
American pianist and composer who was one of the few outstanding jazz musicians to win wide commercial fame, though this was achieved at a cost of obscuring his purely musical ...
any of several plants belonging to the genera Cheiranthus and Erysimum of the mustard family (Brassicaceae), so named for their habit of growing from chinks in walls. Some golden- or ...
urban town (township), New Haven county, south-central Connecticut, U.S. It lies along the Quinnipiac River northeast of New Haven. The land was purchased from Montowese, son of an Indian chief, ...
self-governing overseas territory of France consisting of two island groups in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The territory is a part of western Polynesia. It includes Wallis (Uvea) Island and the ...
group of 23 islands and islets forming the northeastern part of the French overseas territory of Wallis and Futuna, in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. Composed of the island of Uvea ...
English mathematician who contributed substantially to the origins of the calculus and was the most influential English mathematician before Isaac Newton.
region that comprises the southern half of Belgium. Wallonia was created in 1995 in the reorganization of Belgium's provincial administration along ethno-linguistic lines. It consists of the French-speaking provinces of ...
province, south-central Belgium. It is bordered by the provinces of Flemish Brabant to the north, Liege to the southeast, Namur to the south, and Hainaut to the southwest. Walloon Brabant ...
ornamental and utilitarian covering for walls made from long sheets of paper that have been stenciled, painted, or printed with abstract or narrative designs. Wallpaper developed soon after the introduction ...
art collection now housed in a modern building in Cologne, Ger. The strength of the collection, which dates from 1824, lies chiefly in German painting, though it includes fine works ...
town, North Tyneside metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, historic county of Northumberland, England. The Romans built Segedunum there to defend the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall, a ...
any of about 20 species of deciduous trees constituting the genus Juglans of the family Juglandaceae, native to North and South America, southern Europe, Asia, and the West Indies. The ...
archaeological site and natural area in north-central Arizona, U.S., on Walnut Creek, 10 miles (16 km) east-southeast of Flagstaff. Established in 1915, it has an area of 6 square miles ...
city, Contra Costa county, northwestern California, U.S. It lies in the San Ramon Valley, east of both San Francisco and Oakland. Spanish explorers arrived in the region in the 1770s, ...
pueblo (village), Navajo county, northeastern Arizona, U.S., on the edge of a high mesa in the Hopi Indian Reservation. It comprises a group of angular stone houses of two to ...
original name Horatio Walpole English writer, connoisseur, and collector who was famous in his day for his medieval horror tale The Castle of Otranto, which initiated the vogue for Gothic ...
British statesman (in power 1721-42), generally regarded as the first British prime minister. He deliberately cultivated a frank, hearty manner, but his political subtlety has scarcely been equaled.
French-born economist whose work Elements d'economie politique pure (1874-77; Elements of Pure Economics) was one of the first comprehensive mathematical analyses of general economic equilibrium. Because Walras wrote in French, ...
huge, seal-like mammal found in Arctic seas. There are two subspecies: the Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) and the Pacific walrus (O. rosmarus divergens). ...
metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of West Midlands, historic county of Staffordshire, England. It is situated on a ridge between the industrial districts of Wolverhampton and Birmingham and is centred on ...
city, seat (1874) of Huerfano county, southern Colorado, U.S., on the Cucharas River, east of the Sangre de Cristo Range and south of Pueblo, at an elevation of 6,187 feet ...
influential American gridiron football coach whose "West Coast offense" changed pro football during the 1980s. Among his most celebrated players were quarterback Joe Montana and receiver Jerry Rice, holder of ...
