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- American world-record-holding discus thrower (1976-78). He was the first man ever to break the 70-metre barrier. [1 Related Articles]
- Wilkins, Maurice
- New Zealand-born British biophysicist whose X-ray diffraction studies of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) proved crucial to the determination of DNA's molecular structure by James D. Watson and Francis Crick. For this ... [4 Related Articles]
- Wilkins, Roy
- black American civil-rights leader who served as the executive director (1955-77) of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He was often referred to as the senior ...
- Wilkins, Sir George Hubert
- Australian-born British explorer who advanced the use of the airplane and pioneered the use of the submarine for polar research. [2 Related Articles]
- Wilkins, William
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...1800 the interest in revival of Greek forms intensified and the stream of buildings based either wholly or in part on Greek models continued well into the 19th century. One ...
- Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
- (from the article "Physical Sciences") ...event, popularly called the big bang. Subsequent observations by other space missions and a number of ground-based telescopes provided further details about the nature of the big bang. NASA's Wilkinson ...
- Wilkinson's catalyst
- (from the article "Wilkinson, Sir Geoffrey") ...or metallocenes, and his researches into this previously unknown type of chemical structure earned him the Nobel Prize. His research on metal-to-hydrogen bonding, particularly his discovery of Wilkinson's catalyst, a ...
- Wilkinson, Charles
- ("BUD"), U.S. football coach (b. April 23, 1916, Minneapolis, Minn.--d. Feb. 9, 1994, St. Louis, Mo.), led the University of Oklahoma Sooners to three national football championships (1950, 1955, and ... [1 Related Articles]
- Wilkinson, James
- American soldier and adventurer, a double agent whose role in the Aaron Burr conspiracy still divides historians. [4 Related Articles]
- Wilkinson, Jemima
- American religious leader who founded an unorthodox Christian sect, the Universal Friends, many of whose adherents declared her a messiah.
- Wilkinson, John
- British industrialist known as "the great Staffordshire ironmaster" who found new applications for iron and who devised a boring machine essential to the success of James Watt's steam engine. [1 Related Articles]
- Wilkinson, Laura
- (from the article "Swimming") ...Canada its first gold medal of the championships with a dominating performance on the women's 1-m springboard. Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia finished first and second, respectively, in the 3-m ...
- Wilkinson, Norman
- (from the article "theatre") ...area, and a raised inner stage with curtains. This permitted a continuous flow of action and eliminated the rearrangement of scripts that had previously been necessary for nonillusionistic staging. Norman ...
- Wilkinson, Sir Geoffrey
- British chemist, joint recipient with Ernst Fischer of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1973 for their independent work in organometallic chemistry. [3 Related Articles]
- Wilkinson, Sir John Gardner
- (from the article "Egyptology") ...expedition to Egypt in 1828 and published their research in Monuments de l'Egypte et Nubie. Karl Richard Lepsius followed with a Prussian expedition (1842-45), and the Englishman Sir John Gardner ...
- will
- legal means by which an owner of property disposes of his assets in the event of his death. The term is also used for the written instrument in which the ... [7 Related Articles]
- will
- (from the article "Europe, history of") ...wrote his histories of Florence and of Italy to show what people were like and to explain how they had reached their present circumstances. Human dignity, then, consisted not in ...
- will to power
- (from the article "Nietzsche, Friedrich") Nietzsche often identified life itself with "will to power," that is, with an instinct for growth and durability. This concept provides yet another way of interpreting the ascetic ideal, since ...
- Willa Cather Thematic District
- (from the article "Red Cloud") ...home and other sites related to her works, such as the Pavelka Farmstead (home of Annie Pavelka, on whom the title character of My Antonia was based), have been restored ...
- Willading, Johann Friedrich
- Swiss statesman who played a significant role in securing the transfer of the principality of Neuchatel to the Prussian house of Hohenzollern (1707).
- Willaert, Adriaan
- Flemish composer who contributed significantly to the development of the Italian madrigal, and who established Venice as one of the most influential musical centres of the 16th century. [5 Related Articles]
- Willamette River
- watercourse of western Oregon, U.S. It is formed by the confluence of the Coast and Middle forks southeast of Eugene. It flows northward for 183 miles (295 km) past Corvallis, ...
- Willamette River valley
- (from the article "Willamette River") ...River near Portland. It is navigable downstream to Eugene. The drainage basin extends between the Cascade Range on the east and other Coast Ranges on the west, forming the 30-mile- ...
- Willans, P. W.
- (from the article "technology, history of") ...a steam engine working on a completely different principle. In the first category, one solution was to enclose the working parts of the engine and force a lubricant around them ...
- Willapa Hills
- (from the article "Washington") The Willapa Hills parallel the coast from Grays Harbor to the Columbia River in the southwest. Gentle, forested slopes descend to an indented Pacific coastline and to the Chehalis and ...
- Willard, Emma
- American educator whose work in women's education, particularly as founder of Troy Female Seminary, spurred the establishment of high schools for girls and of women's colleges and coeducational universities. [2 Related Articles]
- Willard, Frances
- American educator, reformer, and founder of the World Woman's Christian Temperance Union (1883). An excellent speaker, a successful lobbyist, and an expert in pressure politics, she was a leader of ... [2 Related Articles]
- Willard, Jess
- American prizefighter, world heavyweight boxing champion from April 5, 1915, when he knocked out American Jack Johnson in 26 rounds in Havana, to July 4, 1919, when he was knocked ... [2 Related Articles]
- Willard, Simon
- famous American clock maker. Willard was the creator of the timepiece that came to be known as the banjo clock, and he was the most celebrated of a family of ... [1 Related Articles]
- Willcocks, Sir William
- British civil engineer who proposed and designed the first Aswan (Assuan) Dam and executed major irrigation projects in South Africa and Turkey.
- Willdenow, Carl Ludwig
- (from the article "Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum") ...in Germany. Founded in the 17th century as a royal garden for flowers, medicinal plants, vegetables, and hops (for the royal brewery), it eventually became badly neglected. In 1801 the ...
- Wille, Ulrich
- Swiss military leader and commander in chief of the Swiss Army during World War I who made major federal military reforms.
- Willebroek Canal
- (from the article "canals and inland waterways") ...and northern France. Among the new canals and extensions built were the Mons-Conde and the Pommeroeul-Antoing canals, which connected the Haine and the Schelde; the Sambre was canalized; the Willebroek ...
- Willem Pretorius Game Reserve
- game sanctuary in Free State province, South Africa, adjoining Allemanskraal Dam northeast of Bloemfontein. Established in 1956, it occupies 46 sq mi (120 sq km) in the Highveld plateau typical ...
- Willem Van Ruysbroeck
- French Franciscan friar whose eyewitness account of the Mongol realm is generally acknowledged to be the best written by any medieval Christian traveller. A contemporary of the English scientist and ...
- Willem-Alexander, Crown Prince, and Princess Maxima
- On Feb. 2, 2002, Crown Prince Willem-Alexander of The Netherlands and Argentine-born Maxima Zorreguieta married in Amsterdam. Their many guests included foreign royals, other friends and family members, and some ...
- Willem-Alexander, Crown Prince, and Princess Maxima
- On Feb. 2, 2002, Crown Prince Willem-Alexander of The Netherlands and Argentine-born Maxima Zorreguieta married in Amsterdam. Their many guests included foreign royals, other friends and family members, and some ... [2 Related Articles]
- Willem-Alexander, Crown Prince, and Princess Maxima
- On Feb. 2, 2002, Crown Prince Willem-Alexander of The Netherlands and Argentine-born Maxima Zorreguieta married in Amsterdam. Their many guests included foreign royals, other friends and family members, and some ...
- Willemer, Marianne von
- (from the article "Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von") ...made a literary discovery: a translation of the medieval Persian poetry of Hafez. He started to write verse of his own in the style of the translation. In Frankfurt he ...
- willemite
- white or greenish-yellow silicate mineral, zinc silicate, Zn2SiO4, that is found as crystals, grains, or fibres with other zinc ores in many deposits. Included are various localities in Sussex County, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Willems, Jan Frans
- Flemish poet, playwright, essayist, "Father of the Flemish Movement," and the most important philologist of the Dutch language of his time. [1 Related Articles]
- Willems, Paul
- Belgian novelist and playwright whose playful strategies and fascination with language, doubles, analogies, and mirror images mask a modern tragic sensibility. He expressed the identity crisis of postwar Belgium in ...
- Willemstad
- chief town of Curacao and capital of the Netherlands Antilles, located on the southern coast of the island of Curacao in the Caribbean Sea. It is divided into two parts ... [3 Related Articles]
- Willesden
- (from the article "Brent") ...Wembley, Cricklewood, Willesden Green, Stonebridge, Willesden, Alperton, Brondesbury, Kilburn, Harlesden (in part), and Kensal Green. Brent was formed in 1965 by the amalgamation of Wembley and Willesden (both in the ...
- willet
- (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus), large, long-billed shorebird of America, belonging to the family Scolopacidae (order Charadriiformes), which also includes the snipes, turnstones, and curlews. The willet is named for its loud call. ...
- Willett, William
- (from the article "Daylight Saving Time") The practice was first suggested in a whimsical essay by Benjamin Franklin in 1784. In 1907 an Englishman, William Willett, campaigned for setting the clock ahead by 80 minutes in ...
- Willey, Gordon Randolph
- American archaeologist and writer (b. March 7, 1913, Chariton, Iowa-d. April 28, 2002, Cambridge, Mass.), expanded the study of ancient societies to include not only excavations of the tombs of ...
- William
- (from the article "Charles VI") ...and needed German allies to offset English intervention there. Philip also induced Charles to support Jeanne of Brabant, the aunt of Philip's wife, and to lead an expedition in August ...
- William
- German king from Oct. 3, 1247, elected by the papal party in Germany as antiking in opposition to Conrad IV and subsequently gaining general recognition. As William II he was ... [2 Related Articles]
- William and Mary style
- style of decorative arts so named during the reign (1689-1702) of William III and Mary II of England. When William came to the English throne from the house of Orange, ... [1 Related Articles]
- William and Mary, College of
- state coeducational university of liberal arts at Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S. The second oldest institution of higher education in the United States (after Harvard College), it was chartered in 1693 by ... [7 Related Articles]
- William Blackwood and Sons, Ltd.
- (from the article "Blackwood, William") Scottish bookseller and publisher, founder of the publishing firm of William Blackwood and Sons, Ltd.
- William Clito
- count of Flanders and titular duke of Normandy (as William IV, or as William III if England's William Rufus' earlier claim to the duchy is not acknowledged). [3 Related Articles]
- William de Hauteville
- Norman adventurer, the eldest of 12 Hauteville brothers, a soldier of fortune who led the first contingent of his family from Normandy to southern Italy. He undertook its conquest and ... [3 Related Articles]
- William De La Mare
- English philosopher and theologian, advocate of the traditional Neoplatonic-Augustinian school of Christian philosophy, and leading critic of the Aristotelian thought introduced by Thomas Aquinas.
- William I
- son of Rollo and second duke of Normandy (927-942). He sought continually to expand his territories either by conquest or by exacting new lands from the French king for the ... [2 Related Articles]
- William I
- (from the article "Hesse-Kassel") In 1803 Hesse-Kassel was raised to the status of an electorate, and it was to remain the only territory so styled after the end of the Holy Roman Empire (1806). ...
- William I
- duke of Normandy (as William II) from 1035 and king of England from 1066, one of the greatest soldiers and rulers of the Middle Ages. He made himself the mightiest ... [39 Related Articles]
- William I
- king of Scotland from 1165 to 1214; although he submitted to English overlordship for 15 years (1174-89) of his reign, he ultimately obtained independence for his kingdom. [4 Related Articles]
- William I
- first of the hereditary stadtholders (1572-84) of the United Provinces of the Netherlands and leader of the revolt of the Netherlands against Spanish rule and the Catholic religion. [17 Related Articles]
- William I
- Norman king of Sicily, an able ruler who successfully repressed the conspiracies of the barons of his realm. His epithet was bestowed on him by his hapless enemies. He patronized ... [3 Related Articles]
- William I
- king of The Netherlands and grand duke of Luxembourg (1815-40) who sparked a commercial and industrial revival following the period of French rule (1795-1813), but provoked the Belgian revolt of ... [6 Related Articles]
- William I
- German emperor from 1871, as well as king of Prussia from 1861, a sovereign whose conscientiousness and self-restraint fitted him for collaboration with stronger statesmen in raising his monarchy and ... [11 Related Articles]
- William I the Pious
- (from the article "Aquitaine") The title of duke of Aquitaine, which had already been used by various little-known persons in the 7th century, was assumed at the end of the 9th century by William ...
- William II
- (from the article "Hague, The") ...the hunting lodge of the counts of Holland, which was located in a woodland area called Haghe, or "hedge" (whence 's-Gravenhage, "the counts' private enclosure"). Count William II built a ...
- William II
- German emperor (kaiser) and king of Prussia from 1888 to the end of World War I in 1918, known for his frequently militaristic manner as well as for his vacillating ... [25 Related Articles]
- William II
- king of The Netherlands and grand duke of Luxembourg (1840-49) whose reign saw the reestablishment of fiscal stability and the transformation of The Netherlands to a more liberal monarchy through ... [4 Related Articles]
- William II
- prince of Orange, count of Nassau, stadtholder and captain general of six provinces of the Netherlands from 1647, and the central figure of a critical struggle for power in the ... [4 Related Articles]
- William II
- the last Norman king of Sicily; under a regency from 1166, he ruled in person from 1171. He became known as William the Good because of his policy of clemency ... [3 Related Articles]
- William II
- son of William I the Conqueror and king of England from 1087 to 1100; he was also de facto duke of Normandy (as William III) from 1096 to 1100. He ... [9 Related Articles]
- William II
- (from the article "Hesse-Kassel") ...Hesse-Kassel after the Battle of Jena (1806) and in 1807 united it with the Kingdom of Westphalia. In 1815 Hesse-Kassel regained its independence, but the elector William I and his ...
- William II Villehardouin
- (from the article "Greece, history of") In the Peloponnese, the political rivalry between the Byzantines and the Frankish principality of Achaia dominated. The principality was at its most successful under its prince William II Villehardouin (1246-78), ...
- William III
- stadholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands as William III (1672-1702) and king of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1689-1702), reigning jointly with Queen Mary II (until her death in ... [42 Related Articles]
- William III
- conservative king of The Netherlands and grand duke of Luxembourg (1849-90) who was influential in forming Dutch ministries until 1868 but was unable to prevent liberal control of the government. [3 Related Articles]
- William IV
- (from the article "Holland") ...rule of the house of Avesnes, economic prosperity was promoted by extensive land reclamation, and the towns profited by growing trade and fishery enterprises. A disputed succession on the death ...
- William IV
- prince of Orange and Nassau, general hereditary stadtholder of the United Netherlands. [3 Related Articles]
- William IV
- landgrave (or count) of Hesse-Kassel from 1567 who was called "the Wise" because of his accomplishments in political economy and the natural sciences. The son of the landgrave Philip the ... [1 Related Articles]
- William IV
- grand duke of Luxembourg (1905-12), eldest son of grand duke Adolf of Nassau. Falling severely ill soon after his accession, he eventually on March 19, 1908, had his consort Maria ...
- William IV
- king of Great Britain and Ireland and king of Hanover from June 26, 1830. Personally opposed to parliamentary reform, he grudgingly accepted the epochal Reform Act of 1832, which, by ... [6 Related Articles]
- William IX
- medieval troubadour, count of Poitiers and duke of Aquitaine and of Gascony (1086-1127), son of William VIII and grandfather of the famous Eleanor of Aquitaine. [4 Related Articles]
- William Louis
- count of Nassau, stadtholder of Friesland, Groningen, and Drenthe, who with his cousin, Maurice of Nassau, prince of Orange, formulated the military strategy of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, ... [1 Related Articles]
- William M. Jennings Trophy
- (from the article "ice hockey") NHL individual awards are the Vezina Trophy, for the goalie voted best at his position by NHL managers; the William M. Jennings Trophy, for the goalie or goalies with the ...
- William Of Auvergne
- also called William Of Paris, or William Of Alvernia, French Guillaume D'auvergne, or De Paris the most prominent French philosopher-theologian of the early 13th century and one of the first ... [1 Related Articles]
- William of Auxerre
- French philosopher-theologian who contributed to the adaptation of classical Greek philosophy to Christian doctrine. He is considered the first medieval writer to develop a systematic treatise on free will and ...
- William of Champeaux
- French bishop, logician, theologian, and philosopher who was prominent in the Scholastic controversy on the nature of universals (i.e., words that can be applied to more than one particular thing). [3 Related Articles]
- William Of Conches
- French Scholastic philosopher and a leading member of the School of Chartres.
- William Of Hirsau
- German cleric, Benedictine abbot, and monastic reformer, the principal German advocate of Pope Gregory VII's clerical reforms, which sought to eliminate clerical corruption and free ecclesiastical offices from secular control.
- William of Moerbeke
- Flemish cleric, archbishop, and classical scholar whose Latin translations of the works of Aristotle and other early Greek philosophers and commentators were important in the transmission of Greek thought to ... [1 Related Articles]
- William Of Newburgh
- English chronicler who is remembered as the author of one of the most valuable historical works on 11th- and 12th-century England. He entered the Augustinian priory of Newburgh as a ... [1 Related Articles]
- William Of Saint Carilef
- Norman-French bishop of Durham (1081-96), adviser to William I the Conqueror, and chief minister to William II Rufus (1088). [1 Related Articles]
- William Of Saint-amour
- French philosopher and theologian who led the opposition at the University of Paris to the 13th-century rise of the newly formed mendicant religious orders. [1 Related Articles]
- William Of Saint-thierry
- French monk, theologian, and mystic, leading adversary of early medieval rationalistic philosophy. [1 Related Articles]
- William Of Sens
- French master-mason who built the first structure in the Early Gothic style in England.
- William of Sherwood
- (from the article "logic, history of") ...of Logic") probably in the early 1230s; it was used as a textbook in some late medieval universities; (2) Lambert of Auxerre, who wrote a Logica sometime between 1253 and ...
- William of Tripoli
- (from the article "Crusades") ...were established in Iran, the Asian interior, and even China. But, since Islamic law rigidly prohibited propaganda and punished apostasy with death, conversions from Islam were few. The Dominican William ...
- William of Tyre
- Franco-Syrian politician, churchman, and historian whose experiences in the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem inspired him to write a history of medieval Palestine. [1 Related Articles]
- William of Wales and Henry of Wales, Princes
- and [1 Related Articles]
- William of Wales, Prince
- elder son of Charles, prince of Wales, and Diana, princess of Wales, and second in line (after Charles) to the British throne. [3 Related Articles]
- William Preston Lane, Jr., Memorial Bridge
- (from the article "Chesapeake Bay") The William Preston Lane, Jr., Memorial Bridge spans the upper bay near Annapolis, Md. It was opened to traffic in 1952 and is 4 miles (6.4 km) long. The Chesapeake ...
- William the Aetheling
- Anglo-Norman prince, only son of Henry I of England and recognized duke of Normandy (as William IV, or as William III if the earlier claim of his uncle, William Rufus, ... [1 Related Articles]
- William Trent House
- (from the article "Trenton") ...(1865) in nearby Lawrenceville and Mercer County Community College (1966). The revolutionary battle is commemorated by a 150-foot (45-metre) monument topped by a statue of Washington. The restored William Trent ...
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