(from the article "Noto Peninsula") The Noto Peninsula has been settled since ancient times, and there is evidence of early contact with the island of Tsushima and with northern Korea and Manchuria. The town of ...
Japanese poetry, specifically the court poetry of the 6th to the 14th century, including such forms as the choka and sedoka, in contrast to such later forms as renga,haikai, ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Anthropology and Archaeology") Waka', an important Maya centre located about 60 km (37 mi) west of Tikal in northern Guatemala, was founded as early as 500 BC and reached its peak development between ...
(from the article "Bolivia") ...such festivities, symbolic dress shows the Indian interpretation of European attitudes: the dance of the palla-palla caricatures the 16th-century Spanish invaders, the dance of the
(from the article "Kita-Kyushu") ...of Japan's leading manufacturing centres and is the one in which heavy industry is most prominent. The industrial nucleus, Yawata, specializes in iron and steel, heavy chemicals, cement, and glass. ...
among various American Indian groups, a great spiritual power of supernatural origin belonging to some natural objects. Wakan may be conceived of as a weak or strong power; the weak ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "nature worship") ...is not a collective omnipotence. Powerful hunters, priests, and shamans have orenda to some degree. The wakanda, or wakan, of the Sioux is described similarly, but as ...
(from the article "Horiguchi Sutemi") ...station on O Island. A noted authority on residential dwellings, he designed several houses during the next decade: Kikkukawa House (1930), Okada House (1934), Nakanishi House (1936), and Wakasa House ...
(from the article "Nuu-chah-nulth") ...end of the island were the Nitinat, those on Cape Flattery the Makah. The Nuu-chah-nulth are culturally related to the Kwakiutl. Their name means "along the mountains." They speak a ...
(from the article "Japan") ...("prostitutes' ") kabuki, run by brothel owners. Ultimately, women were banned from kabuki, and actors and prostitutes separated into distinct quarters. A further development was the wakashu ("young-man style") kabuki, ...
lake in south-central South Island, New Zealand. The S-shaped lake measures 48 miles (77 km) by 3 miles (5 km) and has an area of 113 square miles (293 square ...
(from the article "Prime ministers of Japan") ...by the occupation of all Manchuria. The civilian government in Tokyo could not stop the army, and even army headquarters was not always in full control of the field commanders. ...
ken (prefecture), west-central Honshu, Japan. It occupies the Kii Peninsula, which faces the Kii Strait (west) and the Pacific Ocean (south). Most of its area is mountainous ...
city, capital of Wakayama ken (prefecture), west-central Honshu, Japan. It is situated in the northwestern part of the prefecture at the mouth of the Kino River, on ...
watch or vigil held over the body of a dead person before burial and sometimes accompanied by festivity; also, in England, a vigil kept in commemoration of the dedication of ...
private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S., affiliated with the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina. The university consists of Wake Forest College, the Wayne Calloway ... [1 Related Articles]
atoll in the central Pacific Ocean, about 2,300 miles (3,700 km) west of Honolulu. It is an unincorporated territory of the United States and comprises three low-lying coral islets (Wilkes, ...
battle for a small atoll named Wake Island in the central Pacific in December 1941, waged between U.S. Marine and civilian defenders and Japanese invaders. At that time, Wake Island ...
(from the article "Football") ...1,510 yd rushing and 19 touchdowns, slotback Geroy Simon with 1,293 yd receiving, running back Ian Smart with 2,440 yd combined, defensive back Ryan Phillips with 12 interceptions, and defensive ...
(from the article "Europe, history of") ...confessional alliances, the continuity must not be exaggerated. Both Union and League were the products of fear; but the grounds for fear seemed to be receding. The English ambassador in ...
urban area, city, and metropolitan borough (district) in the southeastern portion of the metropolitan county of West Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, England. The metropolitan borough extends eastward from the ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Wakefield") urban area, city, and metropolitan borough (district) in the southeastern portion of the metropolitan county of West Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, England. The metropolitan borough extends eastward from the ...
(from the article "Wakefield plays") ...way after the transfer. From a purely literary point of view, the Wakefield plays are considered superior to any other surviving cycle. In particular, the work of a talented reviser, ...
a cycle of 32 scriptural plays, or mystery plays, of the early 15th century, which were performed during the European Middle Ages at Wakefield, a town in the north of ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Yorkshire") ...what was then England's most important export, wool. Kingston upon Hull flourished from this time as a wool port. Two of the most important battles of the Wars of the ...
one of England's finest rugby union players, known for his quickness and skillful dribbling as a forward. He led the English national team in its glory days of the 1920s.
(from the article "sleep") How much sleep does a person need? While the physiological bases of the need for sleep remain conjectural, rendering definitive answers to this question impossible, much evidence has been gathered ...
(from the article "Iranian languages") Speakers of Wakhi number 10,000 or so in the region of the upper Pyandzh (Panj) River. Vakhan (Wakhan), the Persian name for the region in which Wakhi is spoken, is ...
(from the article "Noh theatre") Three major Noh roles exist: the principal actor, or shite; the subordinate actor, or waki; and the kyogen actors, one of ...
(from the article "Ahsa'i, al-") ...Muhammad's son-in-law) and Fatimah (the Prophet's daughter) and is divinely appointed and divinely inspired. After 874 the spiritual functions of the imam were performed by wakils, or agents, who were ...
city, northernmost Hokkaido, Japan. It is situated on the Noshappu Peninsula, facing Soya Bay and the Soya Peninsula. Most of the city occupies the Soya plateau, which is a northern ...
(from the article "Lancet, The") British medical journal established in 1823. The journal's founder and first editor was Thomas Wakley, considered at the time to be a radical reformer. Wakley stated the intent of the ...
any of the groups of marauders who raided the Korean and Chinese coasts between the 13th and 16th centuries. They were often in the pay of various Japanese feudal leaders ...
American poet known for her personal verses that examine loss, pain, and sexual desire and that frequently reproduce incidents and fantasies from her own turbulent life. Her poetry probes the ...
(from the article "Native American music") ...Cayuga of the Eastern Woodlands area play a conch-shell horn to announce Longhouse ceremonial events. Native Andeans play another kind of spiral-shaped horn called the wakrapuku, which ...
Ukrainian-born American biochemist who was one of the world's foremost authorities on soil microbiology. After the discovery of penicillin, he played a major role in initiating a calculated, systematic search ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Sasak") ...the Sasak continue to recognize caste social divisions and observe one of two forms of religion: Waktu Telu (traditional practices with Islamic modifications) in the smaller villages and Waktu Lima ...
(from the article "Sasak") ...domination of Bali from the 18th century until 1895, when the Dutch conquered the island. Today, the Sasak continue to recognize caste social divisions and observe one of two forms ...
U.S. operator of discount stores founded by Sam Walton in Rogers, Arkansas (1962). With headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, Wal-Mart focused its early growth in rural areas, thereby avoiding direct competition ... [7 Related Articles]
Frankish count, Benedictine abbot, and influential minister at the courts of the Holy Roman emperors Charlemagne and Louis I the Pious. He stood for imperial unity against the traditionalist party, ...
principality on the lower Danube River, which in 1859 joined Moldavia to form the state of Romania. Its name is derived from that of the Vlachs, who constituted the bulk ... [15 Related Articles]
Polish-American athlete who, during an unusually long career (over 20 years), won two Olympic medals and some 40 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) championships and was credited with nearly a dozen ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Netherlands Antilles") The first Europeans to sight Curacao were Alonso de Ojeda and Amerigo Vespucci in 1499, and the area was settled in 1527 by the Spanish, who used it mainly for ...
city, Dolnoslaskie wojewodztwo (province), southwestern Poland, in the central Sudeten (Sudety) mountains. The second largest town in Lower Silesia (after Wroclaw), it is an important rail junction.
abbess and missionary who, with her brothers Willibald of Eichstatt and Winebald of Heidenheim, was important in St. Boniface's organization of the Frankish church.
(from the article "Zeeland") ...comprises Zeeuwsch-Vlaanderen, a strip of the Flanders mainland between the Westerschelde (Western Scheldt) and Belgium, plus six former islands: Schouwen en Duiveland, Tholen, Noord-Beveland, Walcheren, Zuid-Beveland, and Sint Philipsland. None ...
(from the article "Skiing") ...demonstrated that the two gold medals he earned in Turin were no fluke: he won the men's overall, giant slalom (GS), and combined World Cup titles. The World Cup downhill ...
(from the article "conifer") ...stages in the transformation of the seed-bearing dwarf shoots of cordaiteans into the unified, flattened seed scales of modern conifers; foliage resembled that of araucarians; include Walchia, ...
(from the article "conifer") ...and a number of fossil families; ovules attached to the scales of a condensed compound seed cone; families defined by seed-cone structure.Paleozoic and Mesozoic; show many stages ...
(from the article "Lipalian interval") ...of the major phyla are represented. Among the many solutions offered to explain the sudden appearance of abundant life forms in the earliest Cambrian rocks was one posited by the ...
West Indian poet and playwright noted for works that explore the Caribbean cultural experience. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. [1 Related Articles]
American world heavyweight boxing champion from July 18, 1951, when he knocked out Ezzard Charles in seven rounds in Pittsburgh, Pa., until Sept. 23, 1952, when he was knocked out ... [2 Related Articles]
American artist and naturalist who is remembered for her paintings of the wildflowers of North America, particularly as published by the Smithsonian Institution.
West Indian cricketer (b. Jan. 17, 1926, New Orleans, Bridgetown, Barbados-d. Aug. 26, 2006, Bridgetown), was, along with Sir Frank Worrell and Everton Weekes, one of the renowned "Three Ws" ...
(from the article "probability theory") Generalizations of the problem of gambler's ruin play an important role in statistical sequential analysis, developed by the Hungarian-born American statistician Abraham Wald in response to the demand for more ...
American biochemist who received (with Haldan K. Hartline of the United States and Ragnar Granit of Sweden) the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1967 for his work on ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Europe, history of") ...semiprecious stones and coral. During the Iron Age this style flourished and branched out into different schools of great beauty. The style reached its mature form in the 4th century ...
a former Kreis (administrative district) and state of Germany, between Westphalia and Hesse-Nassau. For centuries a principality and from November 1918 to March 1929 a republic and constituent state of ...
(from the article "Waldeck-Rousseau, Rene") ...of the interior in the Cabinet of Leon Gambetta, one of the founders of the Third Republic, and he filled the same post, under Jules Ferry, from 1883 to 1885. ...
politician who, as premier of France, settled the Dreyfus Affair. He was also responsible for the legalization of trade unions in France (1884). [4 Related Articles]
(from the article "Rugen") ...(distinguished by burial tumuli). The Germanic Rugieri tribe was displaced about 500 BC by the Slavic Wends, whose fortress on the northern promontory of Arkona was destroyed by the Danish ...
small pond (about 64 acres [26 hectares]) in Concord town (township), Middlesex county, eastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies just south of the village of Concord in Walden Pond State Reservation ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Sturm, Der") (German: "The Assault"), a periodical and later a gallery-both established by Herwarth Walden in the early 20th century in Berlin-devoted to the newest trends in art. The first issue of ...
members of a Christian movement that originated in 12th-century France, the devotees of which sought to follow Christ in poverty and simplicity. In modern times the name has been applied ... [5 Related Articles]
(from the article "World War I") ...that Germany should stay at first on the defensive in the west and deal a crippling blow to Russia's advanced forces before turning to counterattack the French advance. His immediate ...
(from the article "glassware") ...a continuous survival, probably from late Roman times, of a local type of green glass, a product of forest glasshouses made with potash obtained by burning forest vegetation and called ...
Austrian diplomat and statesman who served two terms as the fourth secretary-general of the United Nations (UN), from 1972 to 1981. He was the elected president of Austria from 1986 ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "military engineering") ...Caesar referred to his praefectus fabrum, an official who controlled the labour gangs employed on road making and also parties of artisans. The Domesday survey of AD 1086 included one ...
Swiss leader who was for a time the burgomaster and virtual dictator of Zurich. He supplied mercenaries for half the countries of Europe, making himself one of the richest and ...
county, south-central Maine, U.S. It comprises a coastal region bounded to the east by the Penobscot River and Bay and includes several islands in the Atlantic Ocean, notably Isleboro Island. ...
(from the article "France") The merchant Valdes (Peter Waldo), who gave up his property and family in the 1170s, took it upon himself to preach in the vernacular to his fellow townsfolk of Lyon. ...
(from the article "motion picture, history of the") ...up to a year in prison for refusing to testify. That evening the members of the Association of Motion Picture Producers, which included the leading studio heads, published what became ...
(from the article "salad") ...as desserts. Fruits may be added to green salads; avocado, orange, and grapefruit are suitable accompaniments to fatty meats such as duck or pork. Named for the Waldorf Hotel in ...
(from the article "Steiner, Rudolf") ...Dornach, near Basel, Switz., Steiner built his first Goetheanum, which he characterized as a "school of spiritual science." After a fire in 1922, it was replaced by another building. The ...
American jazz musician (b. Aug. 16, 1925, New York, N.Y.-d. Dec. 2, 2002, Brussels, Belg.), played piano in a rhythmically intense style that focused tightly on subtle thematic development, using ...
(from the article "Herculaneum") After the efforts of the English archaeologist Charles Waldstein to internationalize the excavations at Herculaneum (1904) by collecting contributions for this purpose from various nations in Europe and America, the ...
(from the article "Beethoven, Ludwig van") ...congenial than his own. Through Mme von Breuning, Beethoven acquired a number of wealthy pupils. His most useful social contact came in 1788 with the arrival in Bonn of Ferdinand, ...
(from the article "Niederosterreich") The Waldviertel ("Forest District") in the northwest, with deeply incised rivers, is part of the granite plateau called the Muhlviertel ("Muhl District") and extends southward to cross the Danube. The ...
(from the article "knitting") ...basic types of knits are the weft, or filling knits-including plain, rib, purl, pattern, and double knits-and the warp knits-including tricot, raschel, and milanese. In knitting, a wale is a ...
constituent unit of the United Kingdom that forms a westward extension of the island of Great Britain. The capital and main commercial and financial centre is Cardiff. [20 Related Articles]
independent Anglican church in Wales that changed from the Roman Catholic faith during the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century. At the time of the Reformation, the Welsh church was ...
flag of a constituent unit of the United Kingdom, flown subordinate to the Union Jack, that has horizontal stripes of white and green bearing a large red dragon.
(from the article "Wales") Wales before the Norman ConquestAgricolaAgricola, Gnaeus JuliusAgricola was in Britain from 77/78 to 84. After conquering portions of Wales, including ...
American entrepreneur, who cofounded Wikipedia, a free Internet-based encyclopaedia operating under an open-source management style. [1 Related Articles]
title reserved exclusively for the heir apparent to the British throne. It dates from 1301, when King Edward I, after his conquest of Wales and execution (1283) of David III, ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Edward I") ...the conquered districts as shires and hundreds. When English rule provoked rebellion, he methodically reconquered the principality, killing both Llywelyn (1282) and his brother David (1283). By the Statute of ...
(from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") ...and one-fifth of those in secondary school receive all their instruction in Welsh. The demand for Welsh-language schooling has grown rapidly, particularly in Anglicized parts of South Wales. The University ...
labour activist who helped form and led (1980-90) communist Poland's first independent trade union, Solidarity. The charismatic leader of millions of Polish workers, he went on to become the president ... [6 Related Articles]
French statesman and minister of foreign affairs under Louis-Napoleon (Napoleon III). He was the illegitimate son of Napoleon I and Maria, Countess Walewska.
English sinologist whose outstanding translations of Chinese and Japanese literary classics into English had a profound effect on such modern poets as W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound. (The family name ...
(from the article "Walgreen, Charles R.") ...his return to the United States, he again worked in Chicago as a pharmacist. He bought his first store in 1902 and established C.R. Walgreen & Company in 1909. In ...
(from the article "Sufism") A mystic may also be known as wali. By derivation the word wali ("saint") means "one in close relation; friend." The awliya' (plural of wali) are "friends of God who ...
Indian theologian and founder of modern Islamic thought who first attempted to reassess Islamic theology in the light of modern changes. [1 Related Articles]
