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- (from the article "Julich") ...of the Rhenish Palatinate north of the Eifel Mountains, including control of the imperial city of Aachen, as a result of their support for the Hohenstaufen emperors in the 12th ...
- William V
- prince of Orange and Nassau and general hereditary stadtholder of the Dutch Republic (1751-95). [1 Related Articles]
- William V
- (from the article "France") ...might at first have seemed the most promising of all these principalities. A kingdom in the 9th century, it was reconstituted under William the Pious (died 926) and again, more ...
- William X
- duke of Aquitaine and of Gascony (1127-37), son of William IX.
- William, Fort
- citadel of Calcutta, named after King William III of England. The English East India Company's main Bengal trading station was moved from Hooghly to Calcutta in 1690 after a war ... [1 Related Articles]
- William, Mount
- (from the article "Victoria") ...There are also some high plateaus. The varied geologic structure has been heavily chiseled by perennial streams, fed in spring by melting snow and ice. The highest peak in the ...
- Williams College
- private, coeducational institution of higher learning opened in 1791 and founded as a college in 1793 at Williamstown, Massachusetts, U.S. Like many other New England colleges, Williams was established by ... [1 Related Articles]
- Williams Lake Stampede
- (from the article "British Columbia") ...pioneer background of the province, the great distances between pockets of population, and the various economic backgrounds of areas still oriented to resource industries and to the outdoors. The Williams ...
- Williams tube
- (from the article "Williams, Sir Frederic") British electrical engineer who invented the Williams tube store, a cathode-ray-tube memory system that heralded the beginning of the computer age.work of Kilburn
- Williams' Bon Chretien
- (from the article "pear") In most pear-growing countries of the world outside Asia, by far the most widely grown pear variety is Williams' Bon Chretien, known in America as Bartlett. In the United States ...
- Williams, Alberto
- (from the article "Latin American music") The progenitor of Argentine national music in the early 20th century, Alberto Williams, exerted a fundamental influence in his country by relying on the music of the gauchos (cowboys of ...
- Williams, Anthony
- , American musician (b. Dec. 12, 1945, Chicago, Ill.--d. Feb. 23, 1997, Daly City, Calif.), exploded onto the national jazz scene shortly after his 17th birthday to become a major ... [2 Related Articles]
- Williams, Bert
- American comedian who portrayed the slow-witted, shuffling black man that was then a standard role in vaudeville.
- Williams, Betty
- Northern Irish peace activist who, with Mairead Corrigan, founded the Community for Peace People in 1976 and with her shared the 1976 Nobel Prize for Peace. [1 Related Articles]
- Williams, Billy
- (from the article "Chicago Cubs") ...Chance (1898-1912). Other notable Hall of Famers are infielder Ernie Banks ("Mr. Cub"), who spent his entire career (1953-71) with the team, hitting 512 home runs; outfielder Billy Williams (1959-74); ...
- Williams, Billy
- (from the article "1982: Other Winners") Original Screenplay: John Briley for GandhiAdapted Screenplay: Costa-Gavras and Donald Stewart for MissingCinematography: Ronnie Taylor and Billy Williams for GandhiArt Direction: Stuart Craig and Bob Laing for GandhiOriginal Score: John ...
- Williams, C. Greville
- (from the article "elastomer") ...and structure of natural rubber with the eventual goal of reproducing the material. In 1838 the German F.C. Himly obtained a volatile distillate from the substance, and in 1860 the ...
- Williams, C.K.
- American poet whose early work is characterized by short lines and an acid tone, but who later altered both the form and content of his poetry. [1 Related Articles]
- Williams, Charles, Jr.
- (from the article "telephone and telephone system") ...receiver in the same handle appeared in 1878 in instruments designed for use by telephone operators in a New York City exchange. The earliest telephone instrument to see common use ...
- Williams, Claude
- (from the article "Black Sox Scandal") ...that eight members of the Chicago White Sox had been bribed to lose the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. The accused players were pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Claude ...
- Williams, Cootie
- African-American trumpeter whose mastery of mutes and expressive effects made him one of the most distinctive jazz musicians. [1 Related Articles]
- Williams, Daniel Hale
- American physician and founder of Provident Hospital in Chicago, credited with the first successful heart surgery.
- Williams, Edward
- (from the article "Wales") ...Yet despite its shortcomings, the 18th-century cultural movement was an important expression of a preindustrial society's resourcefulness in protecting its heritage. One of its key figures was Edward Williams (Iolo ...
- Williams, Emlyn
- Welsh actor and playwright, author of some highly effective, often macabre plays.
- Williams, Ephraim
- (from the article "Williamstown") ...Berkshire county, northwestern Massachusetts, U.S., on the Hoosic River 21 miles (34 km) north of Pittsfield. Settled as West Hoosac in 1749, it was incorporated in 1765 and renamed for ...
- Williams, Eric
- first and longtime prime minister of independent Trinidad and Tobago (1962-81), who founded (1956) the People's National Movement (PNM) and led his country to independence.
- Williams, Esther
- American swimming champion who became one of the most popular and profitable Hollywood movie stars of the 1940s and '50s.
- Williams, Fannie Barrier
- American social reformer, lecturer, clubwoman, and cofounder of the National League of Colored Women.
- Williams, Garth
- U.S. book illustrator whose cherished and heartwarming drawings appeared in such children's classics as Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web (b. April 16, 1912--d. May 8, 1996).
- Williams, George C.
- (from the article "nature, philosophy of") ...such arguments. In the 1960s, the issue came to a fore, and for a while group selection was dismissed entirely. Some theorists, notably the American evolutionary biologist George C. Williams, ...
- Williams, George Washington
- American historian, clergyman, politician, lawyer, lecturer, and soldier who was the first person to write an objective and scientifically researched history of black people in the United States.
- Williams, Hank
- American singer and guitarist, one of the leading figures in country and western music who was also successful in the popular music market. [1 Related Articles]
- Williams, Harrison Arlington, Jr.
- American politician (b. Dec. 10, 1919, Plainfield, N.J.-d. Nov. 17, 2001, Denville, N.J.), was a prominent Democrat who later served time in federal prison after being convicted of bribery and ...
- Williams, Helen Maria
- English poet, novelist, and social critic best known for her support of such radical causes as abolitionism and the French Revolution.
- Williams, Henry Shaler
- (from the article "geochronology") ...valley area. Eventually the overlying strata, the coal-bearing rocks originally described from Pennsylvania, were formalized as Pennsylvanian in 1891 by the paleontologist and stratigrapher Henry Shaler Williams.
- Williams, Hosea
- American civil rights leader and politician (b. Jan. 5, 1926, Attapulgus, Ga.-d. Nov. 16, 2000, Atlanta, Ga.), was a major figure in the struggle against segregation and served with the ...
- Williams, Jody
- American activist who helped found the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). In 1997 she and the campaign were named corecipients of the Nobel Prize for Peace. [3 Related Articles]
- Williams, Joe
- American singer known for his mastery of jazz, blues, and ballads and for his association with Count Basie in the 1950s. [2 Related Articles]
- Williams, John
- (from the article "1975: Other Winners") ...Hauben and Bo Goldman for One Flew over the Cuckoo's NestCinematography: John Alcott for Barry LyndonArt Direction: Ken Adam and Roy Walker for Barry LyndonOriginal Score: John Williams for JawsScoring-Original ...
- Williams, John
- (from the article "Laud, William") ...of Rochester, with whose help he secured a succession of ecclesiastical appointments. From 1611 he was a royal chaplain and came gradually to the notice of King James I. His ...
- Williams, John
- (from the article "Rarotonga") ...or temple platforms, in the valley traversed by Tupapa Stream. The Ara Metua, an ancient pathway, circles the island inland from a paved coastal road. Rarotonga was the base from ...
- Williams, John A.
- (from the article "African American literature") ...to the Black Arts movement as were poetry and drama, the mythopoeic short stories of Henry Dumas, collected in Ark of Bones, and Other Stories (1970), and ...
- Williams, John Henry
- American economist, banker, and government adviser who achieved world renown as an expert on international trade.
- Williams, Lucinda
- With the enthusiastic reception in 2007 of the hit album West, American musician Lucinda Williams seemed to have finally earned the high level of commercial success that many believed she ...
- Williams, Marion
- U.S. gospel singer (b. Aug. 29, 1927, Miami, Fla.--d. July 2, 1994, Philadelphia, Pa.), drew on blues, jazz, folk, and calypso music as inspirations for her innovative vocals, which included ...
- Williams, Mary Lou
- jazz pianist who performed with and composed for many of the great jazz artists of the 1940s and '50s.
- Williams, Michael Leonard
- British actor (b. July 9, 1935, Manchester, Eng.-d. Jan. 11, 2001, Outwood, Surrey, Eng.), was a respected stage, television, and radio actor, as well as a noted Shakespearean, but he ...
- Williams, Milan B.
- American keyboard player (b. March 28, 1948, Okolona, Miss.-d. July 9, 2006, Houston, Texas), was a founding member in 1968 of the soul-funk band the Commodores and scored the group's ...
- Williams, Nat D.
- (from the article "WDIA") When WDIA went on the air in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1948, its white owners, Bert Ferguson and John R. Pepper, were anything but blues aficionados; however, deejay Nat D. Williams ...
- Williams, Paul
- (from the article "1976: Other Winners") ...Adaptation Score: Leonard Rosenman for Bound For GloryOriginal Song: "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)" from A Star Is Born; music by Barbra Streisand, lyrics by Paul Williams
- Williams, Percy
- Canadian sprinter, winner of two upset gold medals at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam. He is the only sprinter not from the United States to win two gold medals ... [1 Related Articles]
- Williams, Roger
- English colonist in New England, founder of the colony of Rhode Island and pioneer of religious liberty. [11 Related Articles]
- Williams, Rowan
- 104th archbishop of Canterbury (from 2002), a noted theologian, archbishop of the Church in Wales (2000-02), and the first archbishop of Canterbury in modern times chosen from outside the Church ... [3 Related Articles]
- Williams, Roy
- (from the article "Basketball") For UNC coach Roy Williams, the championship was the fulfillment of a dream he had been pursuing since he first became a collegiate head coach in 1988. Williams had left ...
- Williams, Roy Lee
- American union leader, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (1981-83) before being convicted in 1982 with four others of conspiring to bribe Howard Cannon, U.S. senator from Nevada, to ... [1 Related Articles]
- Williams, Serena
- American tennis player who-along with her sister Venus-revolutionized women's tennis with her powerful style of play, becoming one of the game's most dominant athletes in the early 21st century. [6 Related Articles]
- Williams, Shirley
- (from the article "Social Democratic Party") The SDP began in January 1981 with the Limehouse Declaration, a statement of intent by four former Labour Cabinet ministers-Roy Jenkins, David Owen, William Rodgers, and Shirley Williams-to quit the ...
- Williams, Sir Bernard
- English philosopher, noted especially for his writings on ethics and the history of Western philosophy, both ancient and modern. [1 Related Articles]
- Williams, Sir Daniel
- (from the article "Grenada") Area: 344 sq km (133 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 108,000 | Capital: Saint George's | Chief of state: Queen Elizabeth II, represented by Governor-General Sir Daniel Williams | ...
- Williams, Sir Frederic
- British electrical engineer who invented the Williams tube store, a cathode-ray-tube memory system that heralded the beginning of the computer age. [2 Related Articles]
- Williams, Smokey Joe
- American baseball player who was an early star of the Negro leagues. [1 Related Articles]
- Williams, Speed
- (from the article "Rodeo") ...($193,614), and Dustin Elliott of Tecumseh, Neb., in bull riding ($193,779). Veterans prevailed in the remaining two events, team roping and saddle bronc riding. In team roping Rick Skelton and ...
- Williams, Ted
- professional baseball player who compiled a lifetime batting average of .344 as an outfielder with the American League Boston Red Sox from 1939 to 1960. He was the last player ... [2 Related Articles]
- Williams, Tennessee
- American dramatist whose plays reveal a world of human frustration in which sex and violence underlie an atmosphere of romantic gentility. [5 Related Articles]
- Williams, Venus
- American tennis player who-along with her sister Serena-redefined the sport with her strength and superb athleticism. [6 Related Articles]
- Williams, Walter Ray, Jr.
- American professional bowler and champion horseshoe pitcher. Williams was the first person to earn more than $2 million, $3 million, and then $4 million in prize money from bowling. [1 Related Articles]
- Williams, Wendy Orlean
- American punk rock singer and musician who was the leader of the shock-rock punk band the Plasmatics during the late 1970s and early '80s (b. 1949, Rochester, N.Y.--d. April 6, ...
- Williams, Wheeler
- (from the article "Western sculpture") ...simply variations on a studio theme in praise of youth and body culture. In the United States adherents of the countermovement included William Zorach, Chaim Gross, Adolph Block, Paul Manship, ...
- Williams, William
- also called Williams Pantycelyn leader of the Methodist revival in Wales and its chief hymn writer.
- Williams, William Appleman
- (from the article "international relations") ...smarting from the excesses of McCarthyism and new leftists of the Vietnam era began publishing revisionist interpretations of the origins of the Cold War. The "hard revisionism" of William Appleman ...
- Williams, William Carlos
- U.S. poet who succeeded in making the ordinary appear extraordinary through the clarity and discreteness of his imagery. [7 Related Articles]
- Williams-BMW
- (from the article "Automobile Racing") ...up the estimated $20 million cost of reimbursing the disappointed spectators and bought a large number of tickets for the 2006 U.S. race. The biggest disappointments of the 2005 F1 ...
- Williams-Darling, Tonique
- (from the article "Track and Field Sports") Olsson and women's 400-m star Tonique Williams-Darling of The Bahamas split the jackpot from the Golden League, a series that offered shares of a $1 million prize to athletes who ...
- Williamsburg
- county, eastern South Carolina, U.S. It is bordered to the south by the Santee River, and the Great Pee Dee River touches the northeastern extremity; the county is also drained ...
- Williamsburg
- (from the article "Williamsburg") ...tribe, lived in the region in the 17th century. The first inland European settlement in the state, Kingstree, appeared in 1732; it became the county seat. Irish Calvinist settlers established ...
- Williamsburg
- historic city, seat (1654) of James City county (though administratively independent of it), southeastern Virginia, U.S., on a tidewater peninsula, between the James and York rivers, 27 miles (43 km) ... [7 Related Articles]
- Williamsburg Bridge
- (from the article "bridge") ...increased need for passage from Manhattan to Brooklyn over the East River resulted in plans for two more long-span, wire-cable, steel suspension bridges, the Williamsburg and Manhattan bridges. The Williamsburg ...
- Williamson
- city, seat (1896) of Mingo county, southwestern West Virginia, U.S. It lies on Tug Fork, opposite South Williamson, Kentucky (to which it is connected by bridge), and is at the ...
- Williamson County
- (from the article "Illinois") ...international byword for bootleg liquor, gangsterism, and organized crime-epitomized in the notoriety of Al Capone. Downstate Illinois was also notorious as a region of violence. "Bloody Williamson" county was the ...
- Williamson ether synthesis
- (from the article "ether") The most versatile method for making ethers is the Williamson ether synthesis, named for English chemist Alexander Williamson, who devised the method in the 19th century. It uses an alkoxide ...
- Williamson's sapsucker
- (from the article "sapsucker") ...migrates as far as the West Indies and Central America; red-breasted and red-naped races occur west of the Rocky Mountains. Both sexes of varius have bold head-markings. The other species, ...
- Williamson, Alexander William
- English chemist whose research on alcohols and ethers clarified organic molecular structure. [1 Related Articles]
- Williamson, David
- Australian dramatist and screenwriter known for topical satiric comedies that display his flair for naturalism and local vernacular. He explored the psychology of social interaction, focusing on the social and ... [1 Related Articles]
- Williamson, Henry
- English novelist who is known for his sensitive but unsentimental handling of nature themes.
- Williamson, Jack
- American science-fiction writer (b. April 29, 1908, Bisbee, Arizona territory [now Arizona]-d. Nov. 10, 2006, Portales, N.M.), produced more than 50 books during a career that spanned the frontiers of ...
- Williamson, James
- (from the article "motion picture, history of the") ...until 1905 Paul's Animatograph Works, Ltd., was England's largest producer, turning out an average of 50 films per year. Between 1896 and 1898, two Brighton photographers, George Albert Smith and ...
- Williamson, Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher
- Australian-born composer (b. Nov. 21, 1931, Sydney, Australia-d. March 2, 2003, Cambridge, Eng.), was an astonishingly prolific and versatile composer as well as the first non-Briton to become (1975) master ...
- Williamson, Sir Joseph
- (from the article "Muddiman, Henry") ...backing Muddiman was able to supplant Marchamont Needham, the anti-Royalist journalist who had played a similar role for Oliver Cromwell, and he went on to write many official documents. Along ...
- Williamson, Sonny Boy
- American blues vocalist and the first influential harmonica virtuoso, a self-taught player who developed several technical innovations on his instrument. [1 Related Articles]
- Williamson, William Crawford
- English naturalist, a founder of modern paleobotany. [1 Related Articles]
- Williamsoniaceae
- (from the article "Cycadeoidophyta") The Cycadeoidophyta contained two important families: Williamsoniaceae and Cycadeoidaceae (Bennettitaceae). Williamsonia, the best-known genus of its family, had a columnar trunk with frondlike leaves at branch tips; its fossil cones ...
- Williamsport
- city, seat (1796) of Lycoming county, north-central Pennsylvania, U.S. It lies on the West Branch Susquehanna River, opposite South Williamsport, and in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains, 75 miles ... [3 Related Articles]
- Williamstown
- town (township), Berkshire county, northwestern Massachusetts, U.S., on the Hoosic River 21 miles (34 km) north of Pittsfield. Settled as West Hoosac in 1749, it was incorporated in 1765 and ...
- Willibrord, Saint
- Anglo-Saxon bishop and missionary, apostle of Friesland, and patron saint of Holland. [4 Related Articles]
- Willich, August von
- (from the article "Marx, Karl") ...would shortly lead to a revival of the revolutionary movement; when this hope faded, he came into conflict once more with those whom he called "the alchemists of the revolution," ...
- Willie and Joe
- (from the article "Mauldin, Bill") ...for a cartoon showing battle-weary troops quite the opposite of the description given in the caption: "Fresh American troops flushed with victory . . . ." Many of his cartoons ...
- Willimantic
- city and principal community in the town (township) of Windham, Windham county, east-central Connecticut, U.S., at the junction of the Willimantic and Natchaug rivers. The site was settled about 1686 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Willingboro
- township, Burlington county, western New Jersey, U.S. It lies midway between Camden and Trenton (both in New Jersey) on Rancocas Creek, just upstream from the creek's mouth in the Delaware ...
- Willingham, Calder
- U.S. novelist and screenwriter (b. Dec. 22, 1922, Atlanta, Ga.--d. Feb. 19, 1995, Laconia, N.H.), was lionized at the age of 24 after the publication of the explicit End as ...
- Willis, Bill
- American football player became one of the first African American players in professional football's modern era when he joined (1946) the Cleveland Browns of the newly formed All-America Football Conference ...
- Willis, Ellen Jane
- American feminist and journalist (b. Dec. 14, 1941, New York, N.Y.-d. Nov. 9, 2006, Queens, N.Y.), agitated for women's rights, especially abortion rights, as the author of numerous articles; as ...
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