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- (from the article "Germany") ...and Styria in 1282 had more than doubled the Habsburg patrimony and established its centre of gravity in southeastern Germany. The Habsburg's rivals and neighbours to the north, the counts ...
- Wurtz, Charles-Adolphe
- French chemist and educator noted for his research on organic nitrogen compounds, hydrocarbons, and glycols. [1 Related Articles]
- wurtzite
- a zinc sulfide mineral that occurs typically in Potosi, Bolivia; Butte, Mont.; and Goldfield, Nev. It is a rare and unstable (at temperatures below 1,020° C, [1,870° F]) hexagonally symmetrical ... [1 Related Articles]
- Wurzburg
- city, northwestern Bavaria Land (state), south-central Germany. It lies along and is an inland port of the canalized Main River, about 60 miles (100 km) southeast of ... [1 Related Articles]
- Wurzburg school
- (from the article "thought") The Wurzburg school, under the leadership of the German psychologist and philosopher Oswald Kulpe, saw the prototype of directed thinking in the "constrained-association" experiment, in which the subject has to ...
- Wurzburg, Diet of
- (from the article "Frederick I") ...between Louis VII and Henry II of England and because the latter was embroiled in an argument with Thomas Becket, Barbarossa decided to form an alliance with Henry II. At ...
- Wurzburg, University of
- autonomous, state-supported university in Wurzburg, Ger., founded in 1582. Early a famous centre for the study of Roman Catholic theology, it was secularized in 1814 and became best known for ... [1 Related Articles]
- wurzilite
- (from the article "asphalt") ...even today. The Pitch Lake on the island of Trinidad was the first large commercial source, but natural sources have since declined in importance as petroleum became the major source. ...
- Wust, Georg
- German oceanographer who, by collecting and analyzing many systematic observations, developed the first essentially complete understanding of the physical structure and deep circulation of the Atlantic Ocean.
- Wutai, Mount
- mountain in northeastern Shanxi province, northern China. It is actually a cluster of flat-topped peaks, from which it takes its name, wutai meaning "five terraces"; the highest ... [2 Related Articles]
- Wuthrich, Kurt
- Swiss scientist who, with John B. Fenn and Tanaka Koichi, won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2002 for developing techniques to identify and analyze proteins and other large biological ...
- Wutongqiao
- former town, south-central Sichuan sheng (province), southwestern China. It is now a southern district of the city of Leshan.
- wutu
- (from the article "fer-de-lance") ...is found chiefly in Brazil, where it is abundant in grassy regions. Its bite causes many deaths. It usually grows to about 1.2 m (4 ft) and is olive- or ...
- Wuwang
- reign name (nianhao) of the founder and first ruler (1046-43 BC) of the Zhou dynasty (1046-256 BC). He was regarded by later Confucians as a wise king. [2 Related Articles]
- Wuwei
- city, east-central Gansu sheng (province), northwestern China. It is situated at the eastern end of the Hexi (Gansu) Corridor (through which the Silk Road ran southeast to ...
- Wuxi
- city, southern Jiangsu sheng (province), eastern China. It is situated along the Grand Canal at that waterway's junction with local rivers near the northeastern corner of Lake ... [1 Related Articles]
- wuxian
- (from the article "pipa") ...bipa), to Japan (the biwa), and to Vietnam (the tyba). The wuxian ("five-string") also arrived by means of the Silk Road, ...
- wuxing
- originally a moral theory associated with Zisi, the grandson of Confucius, and Mencius. In the 3rd century BCE, the sage-alchemist Zou Yan introduced a systematic cosmological theory under the same ... [3 Related Articles]
- Wuyi Mountains
- mountain range on the border between Fujian and Jiangxi provinces, southeastern China. Originally used in reference to a cluster of peaks in northwestern Fujian, the name is now applied generally ... [2 Related Articles]
- Wuzhou
- city, eastern Zhuang Autonomous Region of Guangxi, southern China. It is situated at the confluence of the Xi River with its northern tributary, the Gui River, just west of the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Wuzong
- (from the article "China") ...Sweet Dew (Ganlu) coup of 835, which misfired and led to the deaths of several ministers and a number of other officials. But the apogee of the eunuchs' power was ...
- WWF
- international organization committed to conservation of the environment. In North America it is called the World Wildlife Fund. [6 Related Articles]
- Wyandotte
- (from the article "Kansas City") Present-day Kansas City was formed by the consolidation of eight separate towns. The earliest, Wyandotte, was bought from an Indian tribe, laid out in 1857 by a town company, and ...
- Wyandotte
- city, Wayne county, southeastern Michigan, U.S., on the Detroit River, just southwest of Detroit. Settled about 1820, it was laid out in 1854 on the site of the Huron village ...
- Wyandotte
- (from the article "Selected breeds of poultry") ...has good size and meat quality and is a good layer. The White Plymouth Rock, a variety of the Barred Plymouth Rock, has white plumage and is raised for its ...
- Wyandotte Cave
- cave in Crawford county, southern Indiana, U.S., near the village of Wyandotte, about 30 miles (48 km) west of New Albany. With 25 miles (40 km) of passages on five ...
- Wyandotte Constitution
- in the period immediately preceding the American Civil War, document under which Kansas was admitted to the Union as a free state (Jan. 29, 1861), concluding the struggle known as ...
- Wyatt, James
- English architect chiefly remembered for his Romantic country houses, especially the extraordinary Gothic Revival Fonthill Abbey. [2 Related Articles]
- Wyatt, Jane Waddington
- American actress (b. Aug. 12, 1910?, Campgaw, N.J.-d. Oct. 20, 2006, Bel Air, Calif.), won three Emmy Awards (1958-60) for her role as Margaret Anderson, the archetypical housewife and mother ...
- Wyatt, John
- English mechanic who contributed to the development of power spinning. [1 Related Articles]
- Wyatt, Robert Elliott Storey
- ("BOB"), British cricketer (b. May 2, 1901, Milford, Surrey, England--d. April 20, 1995, Treliske, Cornwall, England), in a first-class career (always as an amateur) that lasted from 1923 to 1957, ...
- Wyatt, Sir Thomas
- poet who introduced the Italian sonnet and terza rima verse form and the French rondeau into English literature. [2 Related Articles]
- Wyatt, Sir Thomas, the Younger
- English soldier and conspirator who led an unsuccessful rebellion against Queen Mary I, probably the most formidable uprising ever faced by a Tudor monarch. [3 Related Articles]
- Wyatville, Sir Jeffry
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...Castle (1806-11), Westmorland, and Eastnor Castle (c. 1810-15), Herefordshire-were in this style. The most spectacular was Windsor Castle, by James Wyatt's nephew, Sir Jeffry Wyatville, who began the remodeling in ...
- Wybicki, Jozef
- (from the article "Polish literature") ...between Russia, Austria, and Prussia in 1795-96, the tradition of patriotic poetry was continued by emigre soldier-poets in the Polish legions of Napoleon's army. Among them was Jozef Wybicki, whose ...
- Wych elm
- (from the article "elm") ...as ornamentals include Chinese elm (U. parvifolia), a small-leaved species with interesting mottled bark; English elm (U. procera), with a compact crown and deeply fissured bark; Wych elm (U. glabra), ...
- Wychavon
- district, administrative county of Worcestershire, west-central England, in the southeastern part of the county. Most of the district is in the historic county of Worcestershire, but the area around Hinton ...
- Wycherley, William
- English dramatist who attempted to reconcile in his plays a personal conflict between deep-seated puritanism and an ardent physical nature. He perhaps succeeded best in The Country-Wife (1675), in which ... [3 Related Articles]
- Wyckoff, Ralph Walter Graystone
- American research scientist, a pioneer in the application of X-ray methods to determine crystal structures and one of the first to use these methods for studying biological substances.
- Wycliffe Bible Translators
- (from the article "Christianity") Bible societies, including the United Bible Societies (1946), have coordinated and aided the translation work of missionaries in this task for almost 200 years. Wycliffe Bible Translators (1936) concentrated its ...
- Wycliffe, John
- English theologian, philosopher, church reformer, and promoter of the first complete translation of the Bible into English. He was one of the forerunners of the Protestant Reformation. The politico-ecclesiastical theories ... [11 Related Articles]
- Wycliffite Bible
- (from the article "biblical literature") By the middle of the 13th century the English component in the Anglo-Norman amalgam had begun to assert itself and the close of the century witnessed a Northumbrian version of ...
- Wycombe
- district, administrative and historic county of Buckinghamshire, England, in the southern part of the wooded Chiltern Hills. The River Thames forms its southern boundary. The predominantly rural district overlaps the ...
- Wye Memorandum
- (from the article "Israel") The breakdown of direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiation at high levels led the United States to intervene again in early 1998 to end the stalemate. Both sides met in rural Maryland in ...
- Wye Oak State Park
- (from the article "Easton") ...House (1682-84) was the nucleus of an early Quaker settlement and is one of the oldest frame structures for worship in the United States. Nearby are Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum ...
- Wye River Memorandum
- (from the article "Israel") ...Israelis and the newly formed Palestinian Authority (PA) arranged further exchanges of territory as part of the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and Gaza Strip, signed in September 1995, ...
- Wye, River
- river in England and Wales, about 130 mi (210 km) long. It flows from the moorlands of central Wales, generally southeastward through England to its Irish Sea mouth in the ...
- Wyeth, Andrew
- American watercolourist and worker in tempera noted primarily for his realistic depictions of the buildings, fields, hills, and people of his private world. [1 Related Articles]
- Wyeth, N. C.
- (from the article "Hurd, Peter") ...Academy at West Point, N.Y., resigning after two years to pursue a career in painting. During a term at Haverford College in Pennsylvania he made the acquaintance of the renowned ...
- Wykeham, William of
- English prelate and statesman, the founder of Winchester College and of New College, Oxford. [1 Related Articles]
- Wyld, James Hart
- (from the article "aerospace engineering") ...1926. Goddard proved that flight was possible at speeds greater than the speed of sound and that rockets can work in a vacuum. The major impetus in rocket development came ...
- Wyler, William
- American director of motion pictures that combine a high technical polish with a clear narrative style and sensitive handling of human relationships. Most of his films were based on novels ... [7 Related Articles]
- Wylie, Elinor
- American poet and novelist whose work, written from an aristocratic and traditionalist point of view, reflected changing American attitudes in the aftermath of World War I.
- Wylie, Lake
- (from the article "York") ...northern South Carolina, U.S. North Carolina forms the northern border, the Catawba River part of the eastern border, and the Broad River part of the western border. On the northern ...
- Wyman, Bill
- (from the article "Rolling Stones, the") Formed in London as an alliance between Jagger, Richards, and multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones along with Watts and bassist Wyman, the Stones began as a grubby conclave of students and bohemians ...
- Wyman, Jane
- American actress had a long, distinguished career in film and television, but she was perhaps equally well known as the first wife (1940-48) of former president Ronald Reagan. Wyman was ... [1 Related Articles]
- Wynants, Jan
- (from the article "Gainsborough, Thomas") ...was landscape and began to learn the language of this art from the Dutch 17th-century landscapists, who by 1740 were becoming popular with English collectors; his first landscapes were influenced ...
- Wynder, Ernst
- German-born American physician and cancer researcher who in 1950 co-wrote the first major scientific study to link lung cancer with smoking; he went on to found the American Health Foundation, ...
- Wyndham
- most northerly seaport of Western Australia. It lies at the mouth of the King River, on the West Arm of Cambridge Gulf (an inlet of Joseph Bonaparte Gulf of the ...
- Wyndham Land Purchase Act
- (from the article "Ireland") ...the Conservatives initiated a policy designed to "kill Home Rule by kindness" by introducing constructive reforms in Ireland. Their most important achievement in this field was the Land Purchase Act ...
- Wyndham, George
- British Conservative politician and man of letters who, as chief secretary for Ireland, was responsible for the Irish Land Purchase Act of 1903, also known as the Wyndham Land Purchase ...
- Wyndham, John
- English science-fiction writer who examined the human struggle for survival when catastrophic natural phenomena suddenly invade a comfortable English setting.
- Wyndham, Sir Charles
- (from the article "Albery family") ...at the Lyceum (1866), and Two Roses, produced at the Vaudeville (1870). Albery's wife was actress Mary Moore (b. 1861-d. 1931), who after his death became Lady Wyndham when she ...
- Wyndham, Sir William, 3rd Baronet
- English Tory politician, a close associate of Henry Saint John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke.
- Wynette, Tammy
- American singer, who was revered as the "first lady of country music" from the 1950s to the '80s, perhaps best known for her 1968 hit Stand by ... [2 Related Articles]
- Wynn, Early
- American baseball player (b. Jan. 6, 1920, Hartford, Ala.-d. April 4, 1999, Venice, Fla.), was a phenomenal right-handed knuckleballer and fastballer who became only the 14th baseball pitcher to win ...
- Wynn, Ed
- American comedian and actor in vaudeville, theatre, and motion pictures and on radio and television. He was also a producer, author, and songwriter.
- Wynn, Keenan
- (from the article "Wynn, Ed") ...of Anne Frank (1959), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. His later motion pictures included The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) and Mary Poppins (1964). His son, ...
- Wynn, Steve
- (from the article "Las Vegas") ...years, beginning with a nationwide economic recession in the late 1970s; in addition, tourism declined after a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel killed more than 80 people in November ...
- Wynn, Tracy Keenan
- (from the article "Wynn, Ed") ...Award. His later motion pictures included The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) and Mary Poppins (1964). His son, Keenan Wynn (1916-86), became a well-known actor and his grandson, Tracy Keenan ...
- Wynne, Ellis
- clergyman and author whose Gweledigaetheu y Bardd Cwsc (1703; "Visions of the Sleeping Bard") is generally considered the greatest Welsh prose classic. An adaptation of Sir Roger L'Estrange's translation of ... [1 Related Articles]
- Wynne, Greville Maynard
- (from the article "Lonsdale, Gordon Arnold") ...Portland, Dorset. Arrested on Jan. 7, 1961, he was tried for espionage with four other persons and imprisoned until April 22, 1964, when he was exchanged for the British intelligence ...
- Wynne-Edwards, Vero
- British zoologist who espoused a theory of evolution known as group selection, the view that animals behave altruistically to control population growth. His theory supported the claim that natural selection ...
- Wyntoun, Andrew of
- Scottish chronicler whose Orygynale Cronykil is a prime historical source for the later 14th and early 15th centuries and is one of the few long examples of Middle Scots writing.
- Wynyard
- town, northern Tasmania, Australia, at the mouth of the River Inglis on Bass Strait. Settled in 1841, it was gazetted a town in 1861, its name honouring Major General Edward ...
- Wyoming
- county, western New York state, U.S., consisting of a plateau region bounded by the Genesee River to the southeast. Cliffs as high as 600 feet (183 metres) line the Genesee ...
- Wyoming
- constituent state of the United States of America. It is the ninth largest state, with an area of 97,809 square miles (253,326 square kilometres). It shares boundaries with six other ... [9 Related Articles]
- Wyoming
- county, northeastern Pennsylvania, U.S., consisting of a mountainous region on the Allegheny Plateau that is bisected northwest-southeast by the Susquehanna River. Other principal waterways are Mehoopany, Tunkhannock, Bowman, and Meshoppen ...
- Wyoming Basin
- (from the article "United States") ...plains-largely floored with enormous volumes of sedimentary waste eroded from the mountains themselves. Whole ranges have been buried, producing the greatest gap in the Cordilleran system, the Wyoming Basin-resembling in ...
- Wyoming Massacre
- (July 3, 1778), during the American Revolution, the killing of 360 American settlers in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania, part of the stepped-up British campaign of frontier attacks in the ... [3 Related Articles]
- Wyoming Valley
- (from the article "Luzerne") The Wyoming Valley was the scene of the Pennamite-Yankee Wars (1769-84), a protracted struggle for land between colonists from Pennsylvania and Connecticut. During the American Revolution British and Indian forces ...
- Wyoming, flag of
- U.S. state flag consisting of a dark blue field (background) bordered by white and red; in the centre is the white silhouette of a bison (commonly called a buffalo) bearing ...
- Wyoming, University of
- public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Laramie, Wyoming, U.S. It is a land-grant university, comprising colleges of Agriculture, Arts and Sciences, Business, Education, Engineering, Health Sciences, and Law as ... [2 Related Articles]
- Wyong
- shire, eastern New South Wales, Australia, on the Wyong River, immediately west of the Tuggerah Lakes (coastal lagoons). The district was settled in 1823 for the purpose of exploiting its ...
- Wyre
- borough (district), administrative and historic county of Lancashire, northwestern England, bordering on the Irish Sea north and east of the resort of Blackpool. The borough, named for the River Wyre, ...
- Wyre Forest
- district, administrative county of Worcestershire, west-central England, in the northern part of the county. Nearly all of the district lies in the historic county of Worcestershire, except for an area ...
- Wyschogrod, Michael
- (from the article "Judaism") The most important scholarship on the concept of "chosenness" was Michael Wyschogrod's The Body of Faith (1983) and David Novak's The Election of Israel ...
- WYSIWYG
- (from the article "graphical user interface") ...the use of graphics but allowed the computer screen to display exactly what would be output from a printer-a feature that became known as "what you see is what you ...
- Wysoka Kopa
- (from the article "Jizera Mountains") ...ranges in northern Bohemia, Czech Republic, extending into Poland. It comprises a small group of peaks, though it has the highest point in the Czech Republic, at Jizera (3,681 feet ...
- Wyspianski, Stanislaw
- Polish dramatist and painter, a leading artist of the early 20th-century period who was noted literarily for his aspiration to a uniquely Polish national theatre. He was a prominent member ... [3 Related Articles]
- Wyss, Johann David
- (from the article "Wyss, Johann Rudolf") One of Wyss's most important contributions was the completion and editing of Der schweizerische Robinson (1812-27)-a manuscript originally written by his father, Johann David Wyss, a pastor attached to the ...
- Wyss, Johann Rudolf
- folklorist, editor, and writer, remembered for his collections of Swiss folklore and for his completion and editing of his father's novel Swiss Family Robinson.
- Wyszynski, Stefan
- Polish archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw and primate of Poland. [2 Related Articles]
- Wythe, George
- jurist, one of the first U.S. judges to state the principle that a court can invalidate a law considered to be unconstitutional. He also was probably the first great American ... [3 Related Articles]
- Wyvill, Christopher
- (from the article "United Kingdom") ...marquess of Rockingham and his parliamentary supporters (including his secretary, Edmund Burke) wanted to reduce official corruption and George III's influence in government. Another group, led by Christopher Wyvill, a ...
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