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- (from the article "South Asian arts") ...Aurangabad became the centre of Urdu literary activities. There was much movement of the literati and the elite between Delhi and Aurangabad, and it needed only the genius of Wali ...
- Wali, Ayad Anwar
- (from the article "Italy") ...in August after the expiry of a 48-hour ultimatum by the Islamic Army in Iraq, which was also calling for an Italian pullout. Baldoni's companions were rescued in a raid ...
- Walibah ibn al-Hubab
- (from the article "Abu Nuwas") Abu Nuwas, of mixed Arab and Persian heritage, studied in Basra and al-Kufah, first under the poet Walibah ibn al-Hubab, later under Khalaf al-Ahmar. He also studied the Qur'an (Islamic ...
- Walid ibn Yazid, al-
- caliph (reigned 743-744) of the Umayyad dynasty. [1 Related Articles]
- Walid, al-
- sixth caliph (reigned 705-715) of the Umayyad Arab dynasty, who is best known for the mosques constructed during his reign. [8 Related Articles]
- walk
- in horsemanship, moderately slow four-beat gait of a horse, during which each foot strikes the ground separately and the horse is supported by two or three feet at all times. [1 Related Articles]
- Walken, Christopher
- (from the article "1978: Best Supporting Actor") Other Nominees
- Walker Art Center
- (from the article "Art and Art Exhibitions") ...of Gedi Sibony and Kranky Klaus (2003), a frightening film documentation of Christmas rituals in rural Austria by Cameron Jamie. Vergne, who also held the position of chief curator at ...
- Walker Cup
- golf trophy awarded to the winner of a competition between amateur men's teams from the United States and the British Isles, held biennially since 1922 on sites alternating between the ... [4 Related Articles]
- Walker family
- (from the article "intelligence") ...agency, provided the Soviets with a tremendous amount of information on British and Allied military and counterintelligence operations during and after World War II. In the United States, the Walker ...
- Walker Law
- (1920), first significant U.S. legislation concerning the sport of boxing, enacted in the state of New York under the sponsorship of James J. Walker, speaker of the state senate. The ...
- Walker Tariff Act
- (from the article "Polk, James K.") ...problem of right-of-way for U.S. citizens across the Isthmus of Panama; establishment of a warehouse system that provided for the temporary retention of undistributed imports; and the passage of the ...
- Walker, A'Lelia
- American businesswoman associated with the Harlem Renaissance as a patron of the arts who provided an intellectual forum for the black literati of New York City during the 1920s.
- Walker, Adam
- (from the article "keyboard instrument") In 1772 a device called a celestina was patented by Adam Walker of London; it employed a continuous horsehair ribbon (kept in motion by a treadle) to rub the strings ...
- Walker, Alexander
- British film critic (b. March 22, 1930, Portadown, County Armagh, N.Ire.-d. July 15, 2003, London, Eng.), wrote fearlessly outspoken movie reviews for London's Evening Standard for more than 43 years, ...
- Walker, Alice
- American writer whose novels, short stories, and poems are noted for their insightful treatment of African American culture. Her novels, most notably The Color Purple (1982), focus particularly on women. [3 Related Articles]
- Walker, Arthur Bertram Cuthbert, II
- American physicist and educator (b. Aug. 24, 1936, Cleveland, Ohio-d. April 29, 2001, Stanford, Calif.), helped develop solar telescopes used in 1987 to capture the first detailed images of the ...
- Walker, Billy
- American singer (b. Jan. 14, 1929, Ralls, Texas-d. May 21, 2006, near Montgomery, Ala.), was since 1960 a mainstay at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. Walker-known early in his ...
- Walker, Cindy
- American songwriter (b. July 20, 1918, Mart, Texas-d. March 23, 2006, Mexia, Texas), penned such country standards as "Cherokee Maiden" (1941), "Miss Molly" (1942), "You're from Texas" (1944), and "Bubbles ...
- Walker, David
- African American abolitionist whose pamphlet Appeal&elipsis;to the Colored Citizens of the World&elipsis; (1829), urging slaves to fight for their freedom, was one of the most radical documents ... [1 Related Articles]
- Walker, David Mathieson
- American astronaut (b. May 20, 1944, Columbus, Ga.-d. April 23, 2001, Houston, Texas), was the pilot of the space shuttle Discovery in 1984 and the commander of three later space ...
- Walker, Doak
- American football player who won the 1948 Heisman Trophy, played for the Detroit Lions for six seasons, during which the team won two National Football League championships (1952 and '53), ...
- Walker, Edward Craven
- British inventor (b. July 4, 1918, Singapore-d. Aug. 15, 2000, Ringwood, Hampshire, Eng.), developed the lava lamp, originally called the Astro lamp, using an idea he first saw in an ...
- Walker, Edwin Anderson
- general (ret.), U.S. Army (b. Nov. 10, 1909, Center Point, Texas--d. Oct. 31, 1993, Dallas, Texas), valiantly served in World War II as the leader of the "Devil's Brigade" commandos, ...
- Walker, Francis A.
- American economist and statistician who broadened and helped modernize the character and scope of economics. [1 Related Articles]
- Walker, George
- (from the article "Canadian literature") Influenced by film and questioning conventional forms and their attendant ideologies, George Walker produced an impressive body of work, including Nothing Sacred (1988), an adaptation of Turgenev's ...
- Walker, George W.
- (from the article "Williams, Bert") As a child Williams went to California with his family and worked in the mining and lumber camps of the West. In 1895 his partnership with George W. Walker began. ...
- Walker, Jack
- British industrialist (b. May 19, 1929, Blackburn, Lancashire, Eng.-d. Aug. 17, 2000, Isle of Jersey), made millions in the steel industry and in aviation, then used his fortune to elevate ...
- Walker, JamesJ
- flamboyant mayor of New York City (1925-32), a frequenter of Broadway theatre and the upper-class speakeasies, such as the Central Park Casino. His administration was marred by corruption. [1 Related Articles]
- Walker, John
- (from the article "rhetoric") ...had traditionally referred to the decorous expression of previously composed material. The most important elocutionists were actors or lexicographers, such as Thomas Sheridan and John Walker, both of whom acted ...
- Walker, John Brisben
- (from the article "publishing, history of") ...spark off a revolution in the industry was Samuel Sidney McClure, who began publishing McClure's Magazine in 1893, which he sold for 15 cents an issue instead of the usual ...
- Walker, John E.
- British chemist who was corecipient, with Paul D. Boyer, of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1997 for their explanation of the enzymatic process that creates adenosine triphosphate (ATP). (Danish ... [4 Related Articles]
- Walker, Johnny
- Indian film comedian (b. March 23, 1924?, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India-d. July 29, 2003, Mumbai [Bombay], India), was generally regarded as the most successful comedian of what fans called the ...
- Walker, Joseph A.
- (from the article "African American literature") ...theatre, as Charles Gordone won the first Pulitzer Prize for an African American play with his depiction of a black hustler-poet in No Place to Be Somebody ...
- Walker, Junior
- (AUTRY DEWALT), U.S. rhythm-and-blues tenor saxophonist and leader of Motown's Junior Walker and the All Stars, the group that scored such hits as "These Eyes" and "How Sweet It Is" ...
- Walker, Kara
- American artist who used intricately cut paper silhouettes to comment on race and gender relations. [2 Related Articles]
- Walker, Kath
- Australian Aboriginal writer and political activist, considered the first of the modern-day Aboriginal protest writers. Her first volume of poetry, We Are Going (1964), is the first book by an ... [1 Related Articles]
- Walker, Kelley
- (from the article "Art and Art Exhibitions") Guyton\Walker, the moniker ascribed by New York-based artists Wade Guyton and Kelley Walker to their collaborative side project, seemed ever-present in 2006. In addition to participating in the group show ...
- Walker, Maggie Lena Draper
- American businesswoman, who played a major role in the organizational and commercial life of Richmond's African American community in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Walker, Margaret
- American novelist and poet who was one of the leading black woman writers of the mid-20th century. [1 Related Articles]
- Walker, Mary Edwards
- American physician and reformer who is thought to have been the only woman surgeon formally engaged for field duty during the Civil War.
- Walker, Mickey
- American professional boxer, a colourful sports figure of the 1920s and early 1930s, who held the world welterweight and middleweight championships and was a leading contender for the light-heavyweight and ...
- Walker, Moses
- (from the article "baseball") ...performed in the minor leagues during the late 19th century-mostly in all-black clubs. In 1884 two African Americans played in a recognized major league, the American Association. They were Moses ...
- Walker, Patric William
- U.S.-born British astrologer whose syndicated newspaper and magazine columns were read by millions of avid followers in the U.S. and Britain (b. Sept. 25, 1931--d. Oct. 8, 1995).
- Walker, Rebecca
- (from the article "Feminism Reimagined: The Third Wave") ...in 1997 the Third Wave Foundation, dedicated to supporting "groups and individuals working towards gender, racial, economic, and social justice"; both were founded by (among others) Rebecca Walker (b. 1969), ...
- Walker, Robert
- (from the article "painting, Western") ...Johnson, two other painters of Low Countries origin active in England at this time. Van Dyck's death coincided with the outbreak of the Civil War in England; and the portraitists ...
- Walker, Robert J
- U.S. Senator from Mississippi (1835-45), secretary of the treasury (1845-49) during the Mexican War, and governor of Kansas Territory (April-December 1857) during the violent struggle over slavery there.
- Walker, Roy
- (from the article "1975: Other Winners") ...Dog Day AfternoonAdapted Screenplay: Lawrence 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 ...
- Walker, Sarah Breedlove
- businesswoman and philanthropist generally acknowledged to be the first black female millionaire in the United States. [1 Related Articles]
- Walker, Sir Emery
- engraver and printer associated with the revival of fine printing in England in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [3 Related Articles]
- Walker, Sir Gilbert
- (from the article "El Nino") Beginning with the work of Sir Gilbert Walker in the 1930s, climatologists recognized a similar interannual change in the tropical atmosphere, which Walker termed the Southern Oscillation (SO). El Nino ...
- Walker, Stephen
- (from the article "Literature") ...for Excellence in the Short Story. The newly inaugurated Dayton Literary Peace Prizes went to Studs Terkel for lifetime achievement, Francine Prose for her novel A Changed Man (2005), and ...
- Walker, T-Bone
- African-American musician and songwriter, a major figure in modern blues. He was the first important electric guitar soloist in the blues and one of the most influential players in the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Walker, Thomas
- (from the article "Barbourville") ...to Daniel Boone National Forest. It was founded in 1800 and named for James Barbour, who donated land for the town site. Union College was established there by the Methodist ...
- Walker, Thomas
- (from the article "navigation") ...were counted on a register. Logs of this kind did not become common until the mid-19th century, when the register was mounted on the aft rail, where it could be ...
- Walker, Walton H.
- (from the article "Korean War") ...weeks of August that the United Nations Command, or UNC, as MacArthur's theatre forces had been redesignated, started to slow the North Koreans. The Eighth Army, commanded by Lieutenant General ...
- Walker, Welday
- (from the article "baseball") ...African Americans played in a recognized major league, the American Association. They were Moses Fleetwood ("Fleet") Walker, a catcher for the Association's Toledo team, and his brother Welday, an outfielder ...
- Walker, William
- adventurer, filibuster, and revolutionary leader who succeeded in making himself president of Nicaragua (1856-57). [9 Related Articles]
- Walkeswar Temple
- (from the article "Mumbai") ...to Ptolemy, the ancient Egyptian astronomer and geographer of Greek descent. The city was ruled in the 6th to 8th centuries by the Chalukyas, who left their mark on Elephanta ...
- walking
- (from the article "Anthropology and Archaeology") ...from the branches of one tree to another to reach additional food resources. It also hypothesized that hand-assisted bipedality was the most likely evolutionary precursor to straight-limbed human walking. Thus, ...
- walking
- activity that ranges from a competitive sport, usually known as race walking, to a primary and popular form of outdoor recreation and mild aerobic exercise.
- walking beam
- (from the article "petroleum production") ...In these cases, some means of "artificial lift" must be installed. The most common installation uses a pump at the bottom of the production tubing that is operated by a ...
- walking catfish
- (from the article "ostariophysan") A few ostariophysians have the capability to emerge from their aquatic abode and move over land, climb walls, or even fly through the air. The walking catfish (Clarias batrachus), recently ...
- walking fern
- fern that is a member either of the species Asplenium rhizophyllum, of eastern North America, or of A. sibiricum, of eastern Asia, in the family Aspleniaceae. The common name derives ...
- Walking Purchase
- (Aug. 25, 1737), land swindle perpetrated by Pennsylvania authorities on the Delaware Indians, who had been the tribe most friendly to William Penn when he founded the colony in the ... [2 Related Articles]
- walkingstick
- any of about 2,000 species of slow-moving insects that are green or brown in colour and bear a resemblance to twigs as a protective device. Some species also have sharp ... [4 Related Articles]
- wall
- structural element used to divide or enclose, and, in building construction, to form the periphery of a room or a building. In traditional masonry construction, walls supported the weight of ... [14 Related Articles]
- Wall Arch
- (from the article "Arches National Park") ...the setting sun), and Devils Garden. Landscape Arch, measuring 306 feet (93 metres) from base to base, was the longest freestanding natural span of rock in the world; it collapsed ...
- wall cloud
- (from the article "tornado") ...of the mesocyclone is heralded at the bottom of the cloud by a lowering of a portion of the thunderstorm's base in the area of the updraft. This approximately cylindrical ...
- wall creeper
- (Tichodroma muraria), bird of the mountains of southern Europe to central Asia, largest member of the family Sittidae (order Passeriformes). About 17 cm (6 12 inches) long and mostly gray ...
- wall lizard
- (from the article "reptile") The wall lizard (L. vivipara) and the European viper (V. berus) are the most northerly distributed reptiles. A portion of each reptile's geographic range occurs just north of the Arctic ...
- wall newspaper
- newspaper produced for display on walls or in other prominent places in cities, towns, and villages, usually in developing countries. The practice is not new; in ancient Rome the Acta ...
- wall rock
- (from the article "igneous rock") Another method of creating different daughter magmas from a parent is by having the latter react with its wall rocks. Consider a magma that is crystallizing pyroxene and labradorite. If ...
- wall rock cress
- (from the article "rock cress") ...mountainous areas of Africa. Some are cultivated as ornamentals for their white, pink, or purple four-petalled flowers. Rock cresses are either erect or form mounds and bear long, narrow seedpods. ...
- Wall Street
- street in the southern section of the borough of Manhattan, in New York City, which has been the location of some of the chief financial institutions of the United States. ... [1 Related Articles]
- Wall Street Journal, The
- daily business and financial newspaper edited in New York City and sold throughout the United States. Other daily editions include The Asian Wall Street Journal, edited in ... [4 Related Articles]
- Wall, Ricardo
- (from the article "Spain") ...ally was France, as Ensenada and Carvajal had seen (hence a series of family pacts with France in 1733 and 1743). It was only in the last years of Ferdinand's ...
- Walla Walla
- city, seat (1859) of Walla Walla county, southeastern Washington, U.S. It lies along the Walla Walla River, near the Oregon state line. The American pioneer Marcus Whitman established a medical ...
- Wallabies
- (from the article "Eales, John") ...match debut against Wales in 1991, only one year after his first appearance for his state team, Queensland. He was a member of the 1991 World Cup-winning Australian national team, ...
- wallaby
- any of several middle-sized marsupial mammals belonging to the kangaroo family, Macropodidae (see kangaroo). They are found chiefly in Australia. The 11 species of brush wallabies (genus Macropus, subgenus Protemnodon) ...
- Wallace and Gromit
- (from the article "Park, Nick") British animator and director of stop-motion films that often feature his characters Wallace and Gromit.animationNontraditional formsNick Park, the creator of ...
- Wallace Collection
- in London, England, a collection of fine and decorative artworks bequeathed to the British government in 1897. It is housed in Hertford House at Manchester Square, in Westminster. [2 Related Articles]
- Wallace's Line
- boundary between the Oriental and Australian faunal regions, proposed by the 19th-century British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace. The line extends from the Indian Ocean through the Lombok Strait (between the ... [4 Related Articles]
- Wallace, Alfred Russel
- British humanist, naturalist, geographer, and social critic. He became a public figure in England during the second half of the 19th century, known for his courageous views on scientific, social, ... [11 Related Articles]
- Wallace, Anthony F.C.
- Canadian-born American psychological anthropologist and historian known for his analysis of acculturation under the influence of technological change.
- Wallace, David Foster
- American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist whose dense works provide a dark, often satirical analysis of American culture. [3 Related Articles]
- Wallace, DeWitt
- American publisher and philanthropist who, with his wife, Lila Bell Acheson, created and published Reader's Digest, one of the most widely circulated magazines in the world. [3 Related Articles]
- Wallace, Earl W.
- (from the article "1985: Other Winners") Original Screenplay: Earl W. Wallace, William Kelley, Pamela Wallace for WitnessAdapted Screenplay: Kurt Luedtke for Out of AfricaCinematography: David Watkin for Out of AfricaArt Direction: Stephen Grimes for Out of...
- Wallace, Edgar
- British novelist, playwright, and journalist who was an enormously popular writer of detective and suspense stories.
- Wallace, George C.
- U.S. Democratic Party politician and four-time governor of Alabama who led the South's fight against federally ordered racial integration in the 1960s. [3 Related Articles]
- Wallace, Henry A.
- 33rd vice president of the United States (1941-45) in the Democratic administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who epitomized the "common man" philosophy of the New Deal Democratic Party. He shaped ... [5 Related Articles]
- Wallace, John M.
- (from the article "weather forecasting") ...anomalies as a potential cause for the temperature anomalies of the atmosphere in succeeding seasons and at distant locations. At the same time, other American meteorologists, most notably John M. ...
- Wallace, Lewis
- American soldier, lawyer, diplomat, and author who is principally remembered for his historical novel Ben-Hur. [1 Related Articles]
- Wallace, Oliver
- (from the article "1941: Other Winners") ...Cedric Gibbons and Urie McCleary for Blossoms in the DustMusic Score of a Dramatic Picture: Bernard Herrmann for All That Money Can BuyScoring of a Musical Picture: Frank Churchill and ...
- Wallace, Pamela
- (from the article "1985: Other Winners") Original Screenplay: Earl W. Wallace, William Kelley, Pamela Wallace for WitnessAdapted Screenplay: Kurt Luedtke for Out of AfricaCinematography: David Watkin for Out of AfricaArt Direction: Stephen Grimes for Out of ...
- Wallace, Robert
- (from the article "population") ...of a human society free of coercive restraints was a mirage, because the capacity for the threat of population growth would always be present. In this, Malthus echoed the much ...
- Wallace, Sir Donald Mackenzie
- (from the article "Encyclopaedia Britannica") ...The Times of London. It added 11 supplementary volumes to those of the ninth, updating much of the material, especially in history. The editors of the 10th ...
- Wallace, Sir Richard, Baronet
- British art collector and philanthropist whose name is perpetuated by the famous art collection, the Wallace Collection (q.v.), at Hertford House, London. [1 Related Articles]
- Wallace, Sir William
- one of Scotland's greatest national heroes, leader of the Scottish resistance forces during the first years of the long, and ultimately successful, struggle to free Scotland from English rule. [5 Related Articles]
- Wallacea
- (from the article "biogeographic region") The famous zoogeographic transition zone called Wallacea is located in central Indonesia. This zone, usually included in the Paleotropical realm, is bounded to the west by Huxley's Line (or a ...
- Wallach, Hans
- (from the article "Gestalt psychology") ...be used to shed light on problems in ethics, political behaviour, and the nature of truth. Gestalt psychology's traditions continued in the perceptual investigations undertaken by Rudolf Arnheim and Hans ...
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