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- British writer whose fiction-sometimes serious, sometimes richly satirical-portrays conflicts in contemporary English social and intellectual life. [2 Related Articles]
- Wilson, Sir Henry Hughes, Baronet
- British field marshal, chief of the British imperial general staff, and main military adviser to Prime Minister David Lloyd George in the last year of World War I. While in ... [1 Related Articles]
- Wilson, Sir Robert
- British astrophysicist (b. April 16, 1927, South Shields, Durham, Eng.-d. Sept. 2, 2002, Chelmsford, Essex, Eng.), was the guiding force behind the International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) satellite, an Earth-orbiting astronomical ...
- Wilson, Sir Thomas
- (from the article "diplomatics") ...of the rolls (document registers) during the 16th century gave rise to yet another new office, the State Paper Office, headed since 1578 by the clerk of the papers. The ...
- Wilson, Sloan
- American novelist (b. May 8, 1920, Norwalk, Conn.-d. May 25, 2003, Colonial Beach, Va.), launched a catchphrase with the title of his best-selling novel The Man in the Gray Flannel ...
- Wilson, Teddy
- American jazz musician who was one of the leading pianists during the big band era of the 1930s and '40s; he was also considered a major influence on subsequent generations ... [4 Related Articles]
- Wilson, Thomas
- (from the article "Celtic literature") The Holy Scriptures were not the only religious books to be translated. Bishop Thomas Wilson's Principles and Duties of Christianity appeared in English and Manx in 1699, and 22 of ...
- Wilson, Tom
- (from the article "Columbia Records") Veteran artists-and-repertoire man John Hammond had signed Dylan as a folksinger in 1961, but it was in-house producer Tom Wilson who produced the turning-point electric single "Like a Rollin' Stone" ...
- Wilson, Tony
- British music industry entrepreneur as cofounder of Factory Records and founder of the Hacienda nightclub in Manchester, was ringleader of the so-called "Madchester" postpunk music and club scene of the ...
- Wilson, William Griffith
- (from the article "Alcoholics Anonymous") AA began in May 1935 in the meeting of two alcoholics attempting to overcome their drinking problems: a New York stockbroker, "Bill W." (William Griffith Wilson [1895-1971]), and a surgeon ...
- Wilson, William Julius
- American sociologist whose views on race and urban poverty helped shape U.S. public policy and academic discourse. [2 Related Articles]
- Wilson, Woodrow
- 28th president of the United States (1913-21), an American scholar and statesman best remembered for his legislative accomplishments and his high-minded idealism. Wilson led his country into World War I ... [56 Related Articles]
- Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act
- (from the article "Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Company") (1895), U.S. Supreme Court case in which the court voided portions of the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act of 1894 that imposed a direct tax on the incomes of American citizens and ...
- Wilsonianism
- (from the article "international relations") Wilsonianism, as it came to be called, derived from the liberal internationalism that had captured large segments of the Anglo-American intellectual elite before and during the war. It interpreted war ...
- wilt
- common symptom of plant disease resulting from a water loss in leaves and stems. Affected parts lose their turgidity and droop. Specific wilt diseases-caused by a variety of fungi, bacteria, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Wilt Chamberlain argument
- (from the article "Nozick, Robert") To show that theories of justice based on patterns or historical circumstances are false, Nozick devised a simple but ingenious objection, which came to be known as the "Wilt Chamberlain" ...
- Wilton
- town ("parish"), Salisbury district, administrative and historic county of Wiltshire, England. The town is internationally known for its carpets. The Royal Carpet Factory was built there in 1655, and the ...
- Wilton carpet
- (from the article "floor covering") Machine-made carpets include such woven types as Axminster and Wilton, and also tufted, knitted, and flocked types. Axminsters resemble hand-knotted carpets, but their pile yarn is mechanically inserted and bound ...
- Wilton House
- (from the article "interior design") ...repertoire of Italian Renaissance classicism. He introduced the new style in the Banqueting House at Whitehall, the Queen's House at Greenwich; and with his associate and kinsman, John Webb, built ...
- Wilton industry
- (from the article "Copperbelt") Discoveries at Gwisho brought to light remains of the Wilton culture (Late Stone Age culture in South Africa) dating from 3,000 BC. Early, Middle, and Late Stone Age, and Early ...
- Wilton, John
- (from the article "Western sculpture") Prominent early British Neoclassicist sculptors included John Wilton, Joseph Nollekens, John Bacon the Elder, John Deare, and Christopher Hewetson, the last two working mostly in Rome. The leading artist of ...
- Wilton, Marie Effie
- (from the article "Bancroft, Sir Squire") ...was educated privately in England and France. He first appeared on the stage in Birmingham in 1861 and played in the provinces before his London appearance in 1865. He married ...
- Wiltshire
- administrative, geographic, and historic county of southern England, on a low plateau draining into the basins of the Bristol Channel, the English Channel, and the eastward-flowing River Thames. Trowbridge is ... [1 Related Articles]
- Wiman
- Chinese general, or possibly a Korean in Chinese service, who took advantage of the confusion that existed around the time of the founding of the Han dynasty in China to ... [1 Related Articles]
- Wiman
- (from the article "Nangnang") ...(Nangnang, Chinbon, Imdun, and Hyonto) established in 108 BCE by the emperor Wudi of the Han dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE) of China when he conquered the ancient Korean state of ...
- WiMax
- (from the article "Computers and Information Systems") ...took the threat seriously. It planned to spend as much as $5 billion over three years to build a high-speed voice-and-data network that used a next-generation wireless Internet technology called ...
- Wimbledon
- neighbourhood in Merton, an outer borough of London. Located about 8 miles (13 km) southwest of the City of London, it is the site of the annual All-England Championships, better ... [1 Related Articles]
- Wimbledon Championships
- internationally known tennis championships played annually in London at Wimbledon. [10 Related Articles]
- Wimborne Minster
- town ("parish"), East Dorset district, administrative and historic county of Dorset, England, on the River Allen. Cuthburga and Cwenburh, sisters of King Ine of Wessex, founded a convent there in ...
- Wimmera
- region, west-central Victoria, Australia. Thomas Mitchell first surveyed the area in 1836 and named it for an Aboriginal term meaning boomerang, throwing stick, or spear thrower. The area was settled ... [1 Related Articles]
- Wimperis, Arthur
- (from the article "1942: Other Winners") Screenplay: George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West, Arthur Wimperis for Mrs. MiniverOriginal Story: Emeric Pressburger for The InvadersOriginal Screenplay: Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner, Jr., for Woman of the YearCinematography, ...
- wimple
- headdress worn by women over the head and around the neck, cheeks, and chin. From the late 12th until the beginning of the 14th century, it was worn extensively throughout ...
- wimple piranha
- (from the article "piranha") ...are rare. (See also rainforest ecosystem sidebar, "Vegetarian Piranhas.") Although piranhas are attracted to the smell of blood, most scavenge more than they kill. Some 12 species called wimple piranhas ...
- Wimsatt, William Kurtz, Jr.
- (from the article "intentional fallacy") Introduced by W.K. Wimsatt, Jr., and Monroe C. Beardsley in The Verbal Icon (1954), the approach was a reaction to the popular belief that to know what the author intended-what ...
- Winam Gulf
- gulf of the northeastern corner of Lake Victoria, southwestern Kenya, East Africa. It is a shallow inlet, 35 mi (56 km) long and 15 mi wide, and is connected to ... [2 Related Articles]
- Winbergh, Gosta
- Swedish opera singer (b. Dec. 30, 1943, Stockholm, Swed.-d. March 18, 2002, Vienna, Austria), abandoned a career in structural engineering for one in music and for almost 30 years was ...
- Wincanton
- (from the article "pottery") The main centres of production of tin-glazed ware were in London (Southwark and Lambeth), Bristol, and Liverpool, although there were smaller potteries elsewhere. One of them-Wincanton in Somerset-made frequent use ...
- Winchcombe
- village ("parish"), Tewkesbury borough, administrative and historic county of Gloucestershire, England, on the River Isbourne, near the Cotswolds. The site was first settled when Cenwulf, king of Mercia (reigned 796-821), ...
- Winchell, Alexander
- (from the article "geochronology") ...strata, identified by the American geologist David Dale Owen in 1839, was subsequently termed Mississippian in 1870 as a result of work conducted by another American geologist, Alexander Winchell, in ...
- Winchell, Paul
- American ventriloquist and voice-over artist (b. Dec. 21, 1922, New York, N.Y.-d. June 24, 2005, Moorpark, Calif.), was a familiar presence on television in the 1950s and '60s, appearing first ...
- Winchell, Walter
- U.S. journalist and broadcaster whose newspaper columns and radio broadcasts containing news and gossip gave him a massive audience and much influence in the United States in the 1930s, '40s, ...
- Winchelsea
- place in Rother district, administrative county of East Sussex, historic county of Sussex, England, with historical importance as a former English Channel port and as an example of medieval town ...
- Winchelsey, Robert
- archbishop of Canterbury who was a champion of clerical privilege and a leading opponent of kings Edward I and Edward II of England. [1 Related Articles]
- Winchester
- (from the article "Winchester") town and city (district), in the central part of the administrative and historic county of Hampshire, England, best known for its cathedral. The town lies in the valley of the ...
- Winchester
- city, seat (1738) of Frederick county (though administratively independent of it), northern Virginia, U.S. It lies at the northern end of the Shenandoah Valley, 70 miles (113 km) northwest of ...
- Winchester
- town and city (district), in the central part of the administrative and historic county of Hampshire, England, best known for its cathedral. The town lies in the valley of the ...
- Winchester Bible
- (from the article "painting, Western") In England a new soft style is apparent in the later hands responsible for illuminating the great Winchester Bible in the 1170s. There, all traces of the elaborately patterned damp-fold ...
- Winchester bushel
- (from the article "measurement system") ...corresponded with the British, as did the troy pound at 5,760 grains; however, the U.S. bushel, at 2,150.42 cubic inches, again deviated from the British. The U.S. bushel was derived ...
- Winchester Cathedral
- (from the article "art conservation and restoration") ...building protects the ground underneath but not around; and, with every downpour, a wall on saturated clay may vary the lean of the building. Many ancient buildings had piled foundations-at ...
- Winchester College
- one of the oldest of the great public schools of England, in Winchester, Hampshire. Its formal name, St. Mary College of Winchester near Winchester, dates from 1382, when it was ...
- Winchester disk
- (from the article "computer") Early disks had large removable platters. In the 1970s IBM introduced sealed disks with fixed platters known as Winchester disks-perhaps because the first ones had two 30-megabyte platters, suggesting the ...
- Winchester fives
- (from the article "fives") Winchester fives is a game confined to a few schools, there being no association or championships and few courts. The court is similar to the Rugby one, but a change ...
- Winchester Mystery House
- (from the article "San Jose") ...opera companies. Notable museums include the San Jose Museum of Art and the Tech Museum of Innovation. Rosicrucian Park has a museum of Egyptian antiquities and a planetarium and science ...
- Winchester Repeating Arms Company
- (from the article "Winchester, Oliver Fisher") U.S. manufacturer of guns and ammunition who developed the Winchester rifle and made the Winchester Repeating Arms Company a success by the shrewd purchase and improvement of the inventions of ...
- Winchester rifle
- (from the article "Winchester, Oliver Fisher") U.S. manufacturer of guns and ammunition who developed the Winchester rifle and made the Winchester Repeating Arms Company a success by the shrewd purchase and improvement of the inventions of ...
- Winchester school
- painting style of English illuminated manuscripts produced primarily at Winchester but also at Canterbury and in various southern monasteries in the 10th and early 11th centuries. The Winchester style is ... [1 Related Articles]
- Winchester System
- (from the article "British Imperial System") ...used, but the values so designated varied with time, place, trade, product specifications, and dozens of other requirements. Early royal standards established to enforce uniformity took the name Winchester, after ...
- Winchester, Elhanan
- (from the article "Unitarianism and Universalism") Urged by George de Benneville to read The Everlasting Gospel and other Universalist works, Elhanan Winchester (1751-97), a Baptist minister, became converted to restorationist Universalism. He traveled to England, where ...
- Winchester, Oliver Fisher
- U.S. manufacturer of guns and ammunition who developed the Winchester rifle and made the Winchester Repeating Arms Company a success by the shrewd purchase and improvement of the inventions of ...
- Winchevsky, Morris
- (from the article "Yiddish literature") ...The earliest important group has been called the Sweatshop Poets, because they responded to the plight of working people. Their poetry represented a range of socialist and revolutionary ideas. Morris ...
- Winckelmann, Johann
- German archaeologist and art historian whose writings directed popular taste toward classical art, particularly that of ancient Greece, and influenced not only Western painting and sculpture but also literature and ... [10 Related Articles]
- Winckler, Hugo
- German archaeologist and historian whose excavations at Bogazkoy, in Turkey, disclosed the capital of the Hittite empire, Hattusa, and yielded thousands of cuneiform tablets from which much of Hittite history ... [2 Related Articles]
- Winckler-Goetsch house
- (from the article "Wright, Frank Lloyd") ...usually of one floor placed on a heated concrete foundation mat; among them were some of Wright's best works-e.g., the Jacobs house (1937) in Westmorland, Wisconsin, near Madison, and the ...
- wind
- in climatology, the movement of air relative to the surface of the Earth. Winds play a significant role in determining and controlling climate and weather. A brief treatment of winds ... [43 Related Articles]
- wind action
- (from the article "Kalahari") ...fixed in place since then. In some areas they appear to have been of fluvial origin, the result of sheet flooding in times of much greater precipitation, but by far ...
- Wind Cave National Park
- scenic area in southwestern South Dakota, U.S., about 35 miles (56 km) south-southwest of Rapid City. It was established in 1903 to preserve a series of limestone caverns and a ...
- wind chill
- a measure of the rate of heat loss from skin that is exposed to the air. It is based on the fact that, as wind speeds increase, the heat loss ... [2 Related Articles]
- wind direction
- (from the article "Venus") Most information about wind directions at the planet's surface comes from observations of wind-blown materials. Despite low surface-wind velocities, the great density of Venus's atmosphere enables these winds to move ...
- wind farm
- (from the article "Portugal") ...the world's largest photovoltaic generating site, with a capacity of some 11 MW, opened near Serpa in the sunny Alentejo region. Plans were afoot to build more solar facilities, expand ...
- wind flower
- (from the article "pollination") ...number of seeds in each fruit. In hazel, walnut, beech, and oak, for example, there are only two ovules per flower, and, in stinging nettle, elm, birch, sweet gale, and ...
- wind frost
- (from the article "agricultural technology") Two types of frost are recognized: (1) radiation frost, which occurs on clear nights with little or no wind when the outgoing radiation is excessive and the air temperature is ...
- wind gap
- (from the article "valley") ...streams flowing on the weaker rocks of a fold belt erode into the valleys of transverse streams that must cross the resistant strata. Sections of valley abandoned after such captures ...
- wind instrument
- any musical instrument that uses air as the primary vibrating medium for the production of sound. [12 Related Articles]
- wind machine
- (from the article "agricultural technology") The wind machine is popular for frost protection; although it affords less reliable results, its operating cost is much lower than that for heaters. These machines, which are like fans ...
- wind power
- form of energy conversion in which turbines convert the kinetic energy of wind into mechanical or electrical energy that can be used for power. Since wind power does not require ... [5 Related Articles]
- wind pump
- (from the article "energy conversion") The primary exception to the steady abandonment of windmills was resurgence in their use in rural areas for pumping water from wells. The first wind pump was introduced in the ...
- Wind River
- river in west-central Wyoming, U.S. It rises in several branches at the northern edge of the Wind River Range in the Shoshone National Forest and flows generally southeast past Dubois ... [1 Related Articles]
- Wind River Range
- mountain range in the central Rocky Mountains, west-central Wyoming, U.S. The range extends for 100 miles (160 km) northwest-southeast to the Sweetwater River and is part of the Continental Divide. ... [2 Related Articles]
- wind rose
- map diagram that summarizes information about the wind at a particular location over a specified time period. A wind rose was also, before the use of magnetic compasses, a guide ... [1 Related Articles]
- wind shear
- rapid change in wind velocity or direction. A very narrow zone of abrupt velocity change is known as a shear line. Wind shear is observed both near the ground and ... [4 Related Articles]
- wind stress
- (from the article "ocean") ...geophysicist and oceanographer Walter H. Munk and others expanded Sverdrup's work, explaining many of the major features of the wind-driven general circulation by using the mean climatological wind stress distribution ...
- wind tunnel
- device for producing a controlled stream of air in order to study the effects of movement through air or resistance to moving air on models of aircraft and other machines ... [5 Related Articles]
- wind turbine
- (from the article "turbine") Modern wind turbines extract energy from the wind, mostly for electricity generation, by rotation of a propeller-like set of blades that drive a generator through appropriate shafts and gears. The ...
- wind velocity
- (from the article "The Beaufort scale of wind") The sudden increase in the speed of a large wind stream, especially in the tropics, can also cause surges. The progress of this type of surge can be followed on ...
- wind-bell
- a bell or a cluster of resonating pieces that are moved and sounded by the wind. The wind-bell has three basic forms: (1) a cluster of small pieces of metal, ...
- wind-blown moss
- any plant of the genus Dicranum (subclass Bryidae), numbering 94 species distributed primarily throughout the Northern Hemisphere. They form dense cushions on soil, logs, or rocks. More than 20 species ...
- wind-driven circulation
- (from the article "ocean") Ocean circulation derives its energy at the sea surface from two sources that define two circulation types: (1) wind-driven circulation forced by wind stress on the sea surface, inducing a ...
- Windaus, Adolf
- German organic chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1928 for research on substances, notably vitamin D, that play important biological roles.
- windchest
- (from the article "organ") The pipes are arranged over a wind chest that is connected to the keys via a set of pallets, or valves, and fed with a supply of air by electrically ...
- Windelband, Wilhelm
- (from the article "Kantianism") Inasmuch as the two principal representatives of the axiological interpretation both taught at Heidelberg, this branch is also known as the Southwest German or Baden school. Its initiator was Wilhelm ...
- Windermere
- lake, largest in England, in the southeastern part of the Lake District, in the administrative county of Cumbria, along the border between the historic counties of Lancashire and Westmorland. The ... [1 Related Articles]
- Windesheim Congregation
- (from the article "Low Countries, history of") ...and many lay people found in themselves a desire to live in communities devoted to the service of God; these were the Brethren and Sisters of the Common Life, who ...
- windfall profit
- (from the article "profit") ...at a cost below the market price and thus earn entrepreneurial profits. Secondly, changes in consumer tastes may cause revenues of some firms to increase, giving rise to what are ...
- Windham
- county, northeastern Connecticut, U.S. It is bordered to the north by Massachusetts and to the east by Rhode Island and consists of a hilly region forested by hardwoods and pines. ...
- Windham
- county, southeastern Vermont, U.S., bounded to the west by the Green Mountains, to the south by Massachusetts, and to the east by New Hampshire (the Connecticut River constitutes the border). ...
- Windham
- town (township), Windham county, east-central Connecticut, U.S. It is situated in an area drained by the Willimantic and Natchaug rivers, which merge southeast of Willimantic to form the Shetucket. The ...
- Windhoek
- town, capital of Namibia, located roughly in the centre of the country. It lies at an elevation of 5,428 feet (1,654 metres) and is about 400 miles (650 km) north ... [5 Related Articles]
- Winding, Kai
- (from the article "Johnson, J.J.") ...among jazz musicians and performed with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Miles Davis, among others. After a temporary retirement (1952-54), he returned to tour with fellow trombonist Kai Winding; their ...
- Windischgratz, Alfred, Furst zu
- Austrian field marshal who was the leader of the reactionary faction of the Habsburg empire during the 1848 revolutions. [2 Related Articles]
- Windischgratz, Alfred, Furst zu
- (from the article "Austria") The franchise question continued to dominate Austrian domestic affairs and became closely welded to the nationality conflicts. The next Austrian prime minister, Alfred, Furst (prince) zu Windischgratz (grandson of the ...
- windmill
- device for tapping the energy of the wind by means of sails mounted on a rotating shaft. The sails are mounted at an angle or are given a slight twist ... [5 Related Articles]
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