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- British organ builder, a meticulous craftsman and designer whose splendid instruments, though limited and perhaps decadent in comparison with the 18th-century German classical organ, were perfectly suited to the music ... [1 Related Articles]
- Willis, John
- (from the article "shorthand") The 17th century produced four important inventors of shorthand systems: John Willis, who is considered to be the father of modern shorthand; Thomas Shelton, whose system was used by Samuel ...
- Willis, Thomas
- British physicians, leader of the English iatrochemists, who attempted to explain the workings of the body from current knowledge of chemical interactions; he is known for his careful studies of ... [1 Related Articles]
- Williston
- city, seat (1891) of Williams county, northwestern North Dakota, U.S. It lies on the Missouri River, 20 miles (30 km) east of the Montana state line and 65 miles (105 ...
- Willkie, Wendell L.
- U.S. Republican presidential candidate in 1940, who tried unsuccessfully to unseat President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He subsequently became identified with his famous "One World" concept of international cooperation. [4 Related Articles]
- Willmann, Michael
- (from the article "painting, Western") The Rubensian Baroque became dominant after mid-century, and here the lead was taken by Silesia and Bohemia. Michael Willmann, originally from Konigsberg (modern Kaliningrad) on the southeastern Baltic coast, developed ...
- Willmar
- city, seat (1871) of Kandiyohi county, southwest-central Minnesota, U.S. It is situated on Foot and Willmar lakes, in a lake region about 60 miles (95 km) southwest of St. Cloud. ...
- Willmes press
- (from the article "wine") ...basket press is gradually being supplanted by a horizontal basket press, applying pressure from both ends. Continuous screw-type presses are also employed, especially for drained pulp. The Willmes press, widely ...
- Willmott, Peter
- British sociologist (b. Sept. 18, 1923, Oxford, Eng.-d. April 8, 2000, London, Eng.), examined patterns of kinship and the changing networks of familial relationships found in contemporary urban Great Britain ...
- Willochra Plain
- (from the article "Australia") ...the early Paleozoic, though recurrently since. The Flinders Ranges are a much-eroded fold mountain belt characterized by ridge and valley forms in which sandstone ridges and bluffs are dominant. The ...
- Willoughby, Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron
- governor of Barbados who in 1651 brought about the settlement of Suriname (then nominally Spanish territory) by immigrants from Caribbean and other South American colonies. Originally a supporter of Parliament ...
- Willoughby, Hugh
- (from the article "Chancellor, Richard") In 1553 Chancellor was appointed pilot general of Sir Hugh Willoughby's expedition in search of a northeast passage from England to China. The three-vessel fleet was to rendezvous at Vardo, ...
- willow
- shrubs and trees of the genus Salix, family Salicaceae, mostly native to north temperate areas, valued for ornament, shade, erosion control, and timber. Salicin, source of salicylic acid used in ... [1 Related Articles]
- willow oak
- any of several species of North American ornamental and timber trees belonging to the red oak group of the genus Quercus, in the beech family (Fagaceae), which have willowlike leaves.
- Willow Palisade
- ditch and embankment built across parts of southern Northeast China (historically called Manchuria) and planted with willows during the early Qing dynasty (1644-1911/12).
- Willow pattern
- landscape design developed by Thomas Turner at Caughley, Shropshire, Eng., in 1779 in imitation of the Chinese. Its classic components are a weeping willow, pagoda-like structures, three men on a ... [2 Related Articles]
- willow ptarmigan
- (from the article "ptarmigan") The common ptarmigan (L. mutus) ranges in the British Isles, Europe, and North America, where it is called rock ptarmigan. Also distributed circumpolarly is the willow ptarmigan, or willow grouse ...
- willow tit
- (from the article "Paridae") ...to crows in trainability. They feed chiefly on insects but eat fruit also. A popular American species is the black-capped chickadee (Parus atricapillus); in Europe there is the similar willow ...
- willowleaf podocarpus
- (from the article "yellowwood") ...latifolius), South African yellowwood (P. elongatus), and common, or bastard, yellowwood (P. falcatus) of southern Africa; plum-fir, or plum-fruited, yew (P. andinus) and willowleaf podocarpus, or manio (P. salignus), of ...
- willowmore cedar
- (from the article "cypress pine") ...or brownish wood of local importance, such as Clanwilliam cedar, or Cape cedar (W. juniperoides), a tree 6 to 18 metres tall, with wide-spreading branches, found in the Cedarburg Mountains. ...
- Wills, Bob
- American bandleader, fiddler, singer, and songwriter whose Texas Playboys popularized western swing music in the 1930s and '40s. [1 Related Articles]
- Wills, Helen
- outstanding American tennis player who was the top female competitor in the world for eight years (1927-33 and 1935). [6 Related Articles]
- Wills, Maury
- U.S. professional baseball player and manager, who set base-stealing records in his playing career. [2 Related Articles]
- Wills, Statute of
- (from the article "inheritance") ...and of certain feudal duties, which could be evaded by the alienation to uses. Public indignation was so strong, however, that five years later the King found it advisable, by ...
- Wills, Thomas Wentworth
- (from the article "Australian rules football") ...football first appeared in 1858. As with other areas of British settlement during the 19th century, cricket emerged as the primary summer sport. Concerned about off-season fitness, cricketer Thomas Wentworth ...
- Wills, William John
- (from the article "Burke, Robert O'Hara") ...to prepare for those with bulkier supplies. But about midway, at the Barcoo River (Coopers Creek), the impatient Burke decided to make the rest of the trip accompanied only by ...
- Willstatter, Richard
- German chemist whose study of the structure of chlorophyll and other plant pigments won him the 1915 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. [1 Related Articles]
- Willughby, Francis
- (from the article "Ray, John") ...around Cambridge. After he had exhausted the Cambridge area as a subject for his studies, Ray began to explore the rest of Britain. An expedition in 1662 to Wales and ...
- Wilm, Alfred
- (from the article "metallurgy") ...of physical metallurgy is a discovery that revolutionized the use of aluminum in the 20th century. Originally, most aluminum was used in cast alloys, but the discovery of age hardening ...
- Wilmette
- village, Cook county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. Lying on Lake Michigan, it is a primarily residential suburb of Chicago, about 15 miles (24 km) north of downtown. Illinois and later Potawatomi ... [1 Related Articles]
- Wilmette, Adolphe
- (from the article "comic strip") The only German follower of Busch worthy of the association was Adolf Oberlander, a sharp observer of human behaviour. In France the heirs to Busch were Adolphe Willette and Theophile-Alexandre ...
- Wilmington
- largest city in Delaware, U.S., and seat of New Castle county at the influx of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek into the Delaware River. It is the state's industrial, ... [3 Related Articles]
- Wilmington
- city, seat of New Hanover county, southeastern North Carolina, U.S. It is the state's chief seaport and lies on the Cape Fear River, about 30 miles (48 km) above its ...
- Wilmington, Spencer Compton, earl of, Viscount Pevensey
- also called (1728-30) Baron Wilmington British politician, favourite of King George II and nominal prime minister of Great Britain from February 1742 to July 1743. [1 Related Articles]
- Wilmot Proviso
- in U.S. history, important congressional proposal in the 1840s to prohibit the extension of slavery into the territories, a basic plank upon which the Republican Party was subsequently built. Soon ... [4 Related Articles]
- Wilmut, Ian
- (from the article "clone") The first success in cloning an adult mammal was achieved by a team of British researchers led by Ian Wilmut at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1996. After ...
- Wilpena Group
- (from the article "Australia") The late Adelaidean Umberatana and Wilpena groups unconformably succeed older rocks. The Umberatana group contains a rich record of two glaciations: the older Sturtian glaciation is indicated by glaciomarine diamictites ...
- Wilseder Hill
- (from the article "Germany") ...patches that have escaped afforestation, agricultural improvements, or damage caused by military training have a wistful beauty, especially when the heather is in bloom. At 554 feet (169 metres), Wilseder ...
- Wilson
- city, seat (1855) of Wilson county, east-central North Carolina, U.S. It lies roughly midway between Rocky Mount (north) and Goldsboro (south) and is about 45 miles (70 km) east of ...
- Wilson cloud chamber
- (from the article "cloud chamber") ...medium a supersaturated vapour that condenses to tiny liquid droplets around ions produced by the passage of energetic charged particles, such as alpha particles, beta particles, or protons. In a ...
- Wilson cycle
- (from the article "plate tectonics") The first step toward this conclusion was once again provided by J. Tuzo Wilson in 1966, when he proposed that the Appalachian-Caledonide mountain belt of western Europe and eastern North ...
- Wilson disease
- a rare hereditary disorder characterized by abnormal copper transport that results in the accumulation of copper in tissues, such as the brain and liver. The disorder is characterized by the ... [4 Related Articles]
- Wilson v. New
- (from the article "White, Edward Douglass") During World War I, White wrote two important decisions in favour of federal emergency powers. Wilson v. New (1917) sustained the Adamson Act of 1916, fixing minimum wages and maximum ...
- Wilson's Creek, Battle of
- (Aug. 10, 1861), in the American Civil War, successful Southern engagement fought between 5,400 Union troops under General Nathaniel Lyon and a combined force of more than 10,000 Confederate troops ...
- Wilson's petrel
- (from the article "storm petrel") ...oceans are shorter winged, square tailed, long legged, and short toed. With wings spread, they patter over the water, "walking," and pick up minute marine organisms. An example is Wilson's ...
- Wilson's phalarope
- (from the article "phalarope") ...called gray phalarope in Britain, and the northern phalarope (P. lobatus), called red-necked phalarope in Britain. Both species winter on tropical oceans, where they are known as sea snipe. Wilson's ...
- Wilson's Promontory
- southernmost point of the Australian mainland, in Victoria, 110 miles (177 km) southeast of Melbourne. A granite peninsula, 22 miles long with a maximum width of 14 miles, it projects ...
- Wilson's theorem
- (from the article "mathematics") ...The great scientist Ibn al-Haytham (965-1040) solved problems involving congruences by what is now called Wilson's theorem, which states that, if p is a prime, then p divides...work of Waring
- Wilson, A.N.
- English essayist, journalist, and author of satiric novels of British society and of scholarly biographies of literary figures. His characters are typically eccentric, sexually ambiguous, and aimless.
- Wilson, Alexander
- Scottish-born ornithologist and poet whose pioneering work on North American birds, American Ornithology, 9 vol., (1808-14), established him as a founder of American ornithology and one of the foremost naturalists ... [2 Related Articles]
- Wilson, August
- American playwright, author of a cycle of plays, each set in a different decade of the 20th century, about black American life. He won Pulitzer Prizes for [7 Related Articles]
- Wilson, Augusta Jane Evans
- American author whose sentimental, moralistic novels met with great popular success.
- Wilson, Bertha
- Canadian jurist reached the pinnacle of her profession in 1982, when she was appointed the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court of Canada, a post she held ...
- Wilson, Brian
- (from the article "Beach Boys, the") American rock group whose dulcet melodies and distinctive vocal mesh defined the 1960s youthful idyll of sun-drenched southern California. The original members were Brian Wilson (b. June 20, 1942Inglewood, Calif., ...
- Wilson, C.T.R.
- Scottish physicist who, with Arthur H. Compton, received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1927 for his invention of the Wilson cloud chamber, which became widely used in the study ... [1 Related Articles]
- Wilson, Carl Dean
- American guitarist, singer, and songwriter (b. Dec. 21, 1946, Hawthorne, Calif.--d. Feb. 6, 1998, Los Angeles, Calif.), was one of the founders of the Beach Boys rock band, which epitomized ... [1 Related Articles]
- Wilson, Cassandra
- For those music lovers wondering whether American vocalist Cassandra Wilson should be considered a jazz, folk, blues, or pop singer, the answer was yes. Like singers of the Dinah Washington-Frank ...
- Wilson, Colin (Henry)
- English novelist and writer on philosophy, sociology, music, literature, and the occult.
- Wilson, Dennis
- (from the article "Beach Boys, the") ...members were Brian Wilson (b. June 20, 1942Inglewood, Calif., U.S.), Dennis Wilson (b. Dec. 4, 1944Inglewood-d. Dec. 28, 1983Marina del Rey,...
- Wilson, Diana
- (from the article "Performing Arts") ...his filmmaker wife on a 1,500-km (930-mi) round-trip journey by foot from the Yukon Territory to the calving grounds of the caribou on the northern coast of Alaska. Directed by ...
- Wilson, Don
- (from the article "Ventures, the") ...group that gained fame with its instrumental interpretations of pop hits and that served as a prototype for guitar-based rock groups. The principal members were rhythm guitarist Don Wilson (b. ...
- Wilson, Dover
- British Shakespearean scholar and educator.
- Wilson, E. A.
- (from the article "Antarctica") ...and by Shackleton on the British Antarctic Nimrod Expedition (1907-09) from base camps on Ross Island. New southing records were set by Scott, in company with Shackleton and E.A. Wilson, ...
- Wilson, Edith
- American first lady (1915-21), the second wife of Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States. When he was disabled by illness during his second term, she fulfilled many of ... [2 Related Articles]
- Wilson, Edmund
- American critic and essayist recognized as one of the leading literary journalists of his time. [5 Related Articles]
- Wilson, Edmund Beecher
- American biologist known for his researches in embryology and cytology. [3 Related Articles]
- Wilson, Edward O.
- American biologist recognized as the world's leading authority on ants. He was also the foremost proponent of sociobiology, the study of the genetic basis of the social behaviour of all ... [5 Related Articles]
- Wilson, Ellen
- American first lady (1913-14), the first wife of Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States. Although far less famous than her husband's second wife, Edith Galt Wilson, Ellen played ... [1 Related Articles]
- Wilson, Flip
- American comedian whose comedy variety show, The Flip Wilson Show, was one of the first television shows hosted by an African American to be a ratings success. ... [1 Related Articles]
- Wilson, Garland
- (from the article "Hammond, John") ...took a job as a correspondent for Melody Maker magazine. In his first successful venture as a record producer, in 1931 he personally funded the recordings of ...
- Wilson, George Washington
- (from the article "photography, history of") ...in the 1850s and '60s. Important British photographers included Roger Fenton, who worked in England and Wales; Charles Clifford, who worked in Spain; Robert Macpherson, who photographed Rome; and George ...
- Wilson, Godfrey
- British anthropologist and analyst of social change in Africa.
- Wilson, Gretchen
- (from the article "Performing Arts") ...You Were Dying" single topped Billboard's country chart for seven weeks. Other major country-music stories included the revival of country sales, with a double-digit increase over 2003; Gretchen Wilson's Here ...
- Wilson, Harold, Baron Wilson Of Rievaulx
- Labour Party politician who was prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1976. [5 Related Articles]
- Wilson, Harriet E.
- one of the first African Americans to publish a novel in English in the United States. Her work, entitled Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Wilson, Henry
- 18th vice president of the United States (1873-75) in the Republican administration of President Ulysses S. Grant and a national leader in the antislavery movement.
- Wilson, Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron
- British field marshal, commander in chief in the Middle East (February-December 1943), and supreme Allied commander in the Mediterranean (December 1943-November 1944), popularly known as "Jumbo" because of his great ...
- Wilson, J. Tuzo
- Canadian geologist and geophysicist who established global patterns of faulting and the structure of the continents. His studies in plate tectonics had an important bearing on the theories of continental ... [4 Related Articles]
- Wilson, Jackie
- American singer who was a pioneering exponent of the fusion of 1950s doo-wop, rock, and blues styles into the soul music of the 1960s.
- Wilson, James
- (from the article "Bagehot, Walter") As a banker, Bagehot had written various economic articles that had attracted the attention of James Wilson, financial secretary to the treasury in Lord Palmerston's government and an influential member ...
- Wilson, James
- colonial American lawyer and political theorist, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and member of the Constitutional Convention of 1787. [2 Related Articles]
- Wilson, James H.
- (from the article "Columbus") ...the American Civil War it was a major supply city of the Confederacy and was the site of the last battle (April 16, 1865) east of the Mississippi River, leading ...
- Wilson, James Q.
- (from the article "police") ...which police departments must respond. In Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety, a groundbreaking article published in 1982, the American political commentator James Q. Wilson and ...
- Wilson, Jim
- (from the article "1990: Best Picture") Other Nominees
- Wilson, Joseph C.
- (from the article "Bush, George W.") ...convicted on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in connection with an investigation into the leak of the identity of a covert CIA agent in 2003. The agent, Valerie ...
- Wilson, Josephine
- (from the article "Miles, Bernard") British actor, founder (with his wife, actress Josephine Wilson) of the Mermaid Theatre, the first new theatre to open in the City of London since the 17th century.
- Wilson, Justin
- American Cajun humorist and chef (b. 1914?, Amite, La.-d. Sept. 5, 2001, Baton Rouge, La.), appeared on public television for some 30 years, showcasing his cooking talents as well as ...
- Wilson, Kemmons
- American businessman (b. Jan. 5, 1913, Osceola, Ark.-d. Feb. 12, 2003, Memphis, Tenn.), transformed the motel industry when in the early 1950s he founded the Holiday Inn chain, which once ...
- Wilson, Kenneth Geddes
- American physicist who was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize for Physics for his development of a general procedure for constructing improved theories concerning the transformations of matter called continuous, or ... [1 Related Articles]
- Wilson, Lanford
- American playwright, a pioneer of the Off-Off-Broadway and regional theatre movements. His plays are known for experimental staging, simultaneous dialogue, and deferred character exposition. He won a 1980 Pulitzer Prize ... [1 Related Articles]
- Wilson, Margaret
- (from the article "New Zealand") ...from the Greens to abstain on financial issues and votes of confidence. The opposition comprised the National Party (48 seats), ACT New Zealand (2), and the Maori party (4). Former ...
- Wilson, Mary
- (from the article "Supremes, the") ...June 30, 1943Detroit -d. Feb. 22, 1976Detroit), Mary Wilson (b. March 6, 1944Greenville, Miss.), and Cindy...
- Wilson, Michael
- (from the article "1957: Other Winners") Original Screenplay: George Wells for Designing WomanAdapted Screenplay: Pierre Boulle, Michael Wilson, Carl Foreman for The Bridge on the River KwaiCinematography: Jack Hildyard for The Bridge on the River KwaiArt ...
- Wilson, Mount
- peak (5,710 feet [1,740 metres]) in the San Gabriel Mountains of the Angeles National Forest, southern California, U.S. It lies just northeast of Pasadena. A highway leads to the summit, ...
- Wilson, Orlando W.
- (from the article "police") Ironically, Wilson, Vollmer's protege, became the architect of the new crime-fighting model. As chief of police in Fullerton, Calif., and Wichita, Kan. (1928-39), professor and dean of the School of ...
- Wilson, Richard
- one of the earliest major British landscape painters, whose works combine a mood of classical serenity with picturesque effects. [3 Related Articles]
- Wilson, Robert
- In one sense the opening in June 1996 of Robert Wilson's Time Rocker in the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg, Ger., marked the culmination of the controversial theatre director's enormously successful ... [1 Related Articles]
- Wilson, Robert Rathbun
- American physicist (b. March 4, 1914, Frontier, Wyo.-d. Jan. 16, 2000, Ithaca, N.Y.), was one of the leading scientists on the Manhattan Project, working closely with Enrico Fermi on experiments ... [1 Related Articles]
- Wilson, Robert Woodrow
- American radio astronomer who shared, with Arno Penzias, the 1978 Nobel Prize for Physics for a discovery that supported the big-bang model of creation. (Soviet physicist Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa also ... [6 Related Articles]
- Wilson, Sallie
- American ballerina as a leading dancer with American Ballet Theatre, had an intense stage presence that, coupled with her fine musicality and technique, gained her renown during the 1960s and ...
- Wilson, Samuel
- (from the article "Troy") Troy is said to be the source of the U.S. national symbol Uncle Sam. During the War of 1812, large contracts for U.S. Army beef were filled by businessman Samuel ...
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