American journalist and peace activist (b. June 18, 1943, Scarsdale, N.Y.-d. July 9, 2002, New York, N.Y.), worked for Hearst Newspapers from 1968 to 1995-the last 26 of those years ...
German chemist awarded the 1910 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for analyzing fragrant essential oils and identifying the compounds known as terpenes. [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Wallack, Lester") actor, playwright, and manager of the Wallack Theatre Company, the training ground of virtually every important American stage performer of the 19th century.
leading British-American actor and manager of New York theatres, from whose acting company (continued by his son, Lester Wallack) developed many of the important American stage performers of the 19th ... [2 Related Articles]
outstanding British-American actor of tragedy and melodrama, best known for his performances in such Shakespearean roles as Iago in Othello and the title roles in Macbeth and Richard III.
actor, playwright, and manager of the Wallack Theatre Company, the training ground of virtually every important American stage performer of the 19th century. [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Selected waterfalls of the world") ...Dalrymple, the river was named after Sir Robert George Herbert, the state's first premier. Dense forests along its middle course furnish lumber, while sugarcane is grown on flats near the ...
either of two species of kangaroo-like mammals native to Australia and belonging to the genus Macropus. They are closely related to wallabies and kangaroos. [1 Related Articles]
British educator, public official, and political scientist known for his contributions to the development of an empirical approach to the study of human behaviour. [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "musical instrument") ...evidence were advanced. The British writer John Frederick Rowbotham argued that there was originally a drum stage, followed by a pipe stage, and finally a lyre stage. The Austrian writer ...
(from the article "Plateau Indian") Speakers of Sahaptin languages may be subdivided into three main groups: the Nez Perce, the Cayuse and Molala, and the Central Sahaptin, comprising the Yakima, Wallawalla, Tenino, Umatilla, and others ...
any of various large, rigid sheets of finishing material used in drywall construction to face the interior walls of dwellings and other buildings. Drywall construction is the application of walls ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "fungus") ...molds that are pathogenic in humans; osmophilic (capable of living on surfaces with highly concentrated solutes, such as salt or sugar); contains one order.Pathogenic in humans, contains known allergens; ...
(from the article "fungus") Includes basidiomycota not placed in a subphylum; contains two classes.Includes molds that are pathogenic in humans; osmophilic (capable of living on surfaces with highly concentrated ...
Swedish businessman and diplomat who became legendary through his efforts to rescue Hungarian Jews during World War II and through his disappearance while a prisoner in the Soviet Union. [1 Related Articles]
(ELIZABETH PINTYE WALLENDA; b. March 20, 1968--d. May 3, 1996, Sayre, Pa.), Gunther (b. 1927--d. March 16, 1996, Sarasota, Fla.), and Helen Kreis (b. Dec. 11, 1910, Germany--d. ...
(ELIZABETH PINTYE WALLENDA; b. March 20, 1968--d. May 3, 1996, Sayre, Pa.), Gunther (b. 1927--d. March 16, 1996, Sarasota, Fla.), and Helen Kreis (b. Dec. 11, 1910, Germany--d. ...
(ELIZABETH PINTYE WALLENDA; b. March 20, 1968--d. May 3, 1996, Sayre, Pa.), Gunther (b. 1927--d. March 16, 1996, Sarasota, Fla.), and Helen Kreis (b. Dec. 11, 1910, Germany--d. ...
(from the article "Lapua Movement") ...intimidate the press. The tactics of the movement included mass demonstrations and kidnapping, raids on newspaper offices, and other forms of terror. Military units of the Lapua under General K.M. ...
Bohemian soldier and statesman, commanding general of the armies of the Holy Roman emperor Ferdinand II during the Thirty Years' War. His alienation from the Emperor and his political-military conspiracies ... [16 Related Articles]
(from the article "Waller, Edmund") ...Waller was at first a champion of religious toleration and an opponent of the bishops. He then drifted to the King's cause, and in 1643 he was deeply involved in ...
lieutenant general (ret.), U.S. Army, who was one of the highest-ranking African-Americans in the army and during the Persian Gulf War served under Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf as deputy commander of ...
American bluegrass vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter (b. Jan. 19, 1935, Joinerville, Texas-d. Aug. 18, 2004, Gordonsville, Va.), was a founding member (1957) of the Country Gentlemen, a group that began ...
English poet whose adoption of smooth, regular versification prepared the way for the heroic couplet's emergence by the end of the century as the dominant form of poetic expression. His ...
American pianist and composer who was one of the few outstanding jazz musicians to win wide commercial fame, though this was achieved at a cost of obscuring his purely musical ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "waterskiing") ...France, and Switzerland, the areas in which waterskiing first became popular. Ralph Samuelson, considered the "father" of the sport, was first to water-ski in 1922 at Lake Pepin, Minn. Fred ...
(from the article "Milky Way Galaxy") ...having a coude focus arrangement. A curve of growth analysis demonstrated beyond a doubt that the two population types exhibited very different chemistries. In 1959 H. Lawrence Helfer, George Wallerstein, ...
(from the article "sociology") ...that paralleled those of the more economically advanced nations, which ultimately would lead to a global convergence of societies. Challenging the theory as a conservative defense of the West, Immanuel ...
(from the article "smart bomb") ...vulnerable to anti-aircraft fire than they would be in low-altitude or dive-bombing runs, which would otherwise be necessary for sufficient accuracy. Typical U.S. smart bombs have included the three Walleye ...
(from the article "walleyed pike") fish that is a type of pikeperch (q.v.).walleyed pikeWalleyed pike (Sander vitreus).Eric Engbretson/ U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
any of several plants belonging to the genera Cheiranthus and Erysimum of the mustard family (Brassicaceae), so named for their habit of growing from chinks in walls. Some golden- or ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Spain") ...win recognition for his people as foederati, or allies, of the empire, he was forced into Tarraconensis, where he was assassinated in 415. Under his successor, Wallia ...
(from the article "Springfield Race Riot") ...disenfranchisement as a means of keeping blacks "in their place." In a moving account of the riot, called "Race War in the North" (Sept. 3, 1908), Southern white journalist William ...
(from the article "Art and Art Exhibitions") ...MacArthur Foundation grants for $500,000 each. For the first time since its inception, the Turner Prize was held outside London at the Tate Liverpool. Zarina Bhimji, Nathan Coley, Mike Nelson, ...
urban town (township), New Haven county, south-central Connecticut, U.S. It lies along the Quinnipiac River northeast of New Haven. The land was purchased from Montowese, son of an Indian chief, ...
(from the article "Normandy, House of") ...I through his daughter Adela, claimed the throne. Stephen's reign (constituting that of the English royal House of Blois) was occupied by his wars with the supporters of Matilda. Finally, ...
self-governing overseas collectivity of France consisting of two island groups in the west-central Pacific Ocean. The collectivity is geographically part of western Polynesia. It includes the Wallis Islands (Uvea and ... [5 Related Articles]
group of a main island and some 20 islets forming the northeastern part of the French overseas collectivity of Wallis and Futuna, in the west-central Pacific Ocean. The group is ...
(from the article "mathematics") ...number of terms be infinite, he obtained 1/3 as the limiting value of the expression. With more complicated curves he achieved very impressive results, including the infinite expression now known ...
English mathematician who contributed substantially to the origins of the calculus and was the most influential English mathematician before Isaac Newton. [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Pacific Islands") ...(grandfather of poet Lord George Gordon Byron), who was sent by the British Admiralty in search of the supposed southern continent, visited more of the Tuamotus and the southern Gilberts. ...
region that constitutes the southern half of Belgium. The self-governing Walloon Region was created during the federalization of Belgium, largely along ethnolinguistic lines, in the 1980s and '90s. (The two ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Fleming and Walloon") members of the two predominant cultural and linguistic groups of modern Belgium. The Flemings, who constitute more than half of the Belgian population, speak Netherlandic (Flemish) and live mainly in ...
(from the article "French language") ...Occitan's major dialect, Provencal, was a widely used medieval literary language. Regional dialects of French survive for the most part only in uneducated rural speech, although the Picard-Walloon dialect of ...
(from the article "Belgium") ...between a French-speaking people, collectively called Walloons (approximately one-third of the total population), who are concentrated in the five southern provinces (Hainaut, Namur, Liege, Walloon Brabant, and Luxembourg), and Flemings, ...
(from the article "Western architecture") ...built in Berlin between 1815 and 1835. His many successors in Berlin included Friedrich Stuler and Johann Strack, who designed the National Gallery (1865-69), but architects such as Paul Wallot ...
(from the article "Oregon") ...and ranges extending westward from the agriculturally important La Grande and Baker valleys. Basins and valleys, headquarters for large cattle ranches, are scattered through the Blue Mountains. The Wallowa Mountains, ...
(from the article "perissodactyl") Behaviour for the care of the body is widespread among the perissodactyls. Equids frequently roll in dry, loose soil forming rolling hollows-a common feature of zebra country.
ornamental and utilitarian covering for walls made from long sheets of paper that have been stenciled, painted, or printed with abstract or narrative designs. Wallpaper developed soon after the introduction ... [3 Related Articles]
art collection now housed in a modern building in Cologne, Ger. The strength of the collection, which dates from 1824, lies chiefly in German painting, though it includes fine works ... [1 Related Articles]
town, North Tyneside metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, historic county of Northumberland, England. The Romans built Segedunum there to defend the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall, a ...
any of about 20 species of deciduous trees constituting the genus Juglans of the family Juglandaceae, native to North and South America, southern Europe, Asia, and the West Indies. The ... [5 Related Articles]
archaeological site and natural area in north-central Arizona, U.S., on Walnut Creek, 10 miles (16 km) east-southeast of Flagstaff. Established in 1915, it has an area of 6 square miles ...
city, Contra Costa county, northwestern California, U.S. It lies in the San Ramon Valley, east of both San Francisco and Oakland. Spanish explorers arrived in the region in the 1770s, ...
(from the article "bridge") The first major bridge made of prestressed concrete in the United States, the Walnut Lane Bridge (1950) in Philadelphia, was designed by Gustave Magnel and features three simply supported girder ...
(from the article "Philadelphia") Philadelphia was the nation's theatrical centre until well after the Revolution, its stages having hosted the greatest players of Europe and America. The Walnut Street Theatre, opened in 1809, is ...
pueblo (village), Navajo county, northeastern Arizona, U.S., on the edge of a high mesa in the Hopi Indian Reservation. It comprises a group of angular stone houses of two to ...
small, uninhabited coralline limestone island in the French overseas country of New Caledonia, southwestern Pacific Ocean, at the southern tip of the Loyalty Islands. It has an area of 310 ...
English writer, connoisseur, and collector who was famous in his day for his medieval horror tale The Castle of Otranto, which initiated the vogue for Gothic romances. He is remembered ... [10 Related Articles]
British statesman (in power 1721-42), generally regarded as the first British prime minister. He deliberately cultivated a frank, hearty manner, but his political subtlety has scarcely been equaled. [16 Related Articles]
a traditional holiday celebrated on April 30 in northern Europe and Scandinavia. In Sweden, typical holiday activities include the singing of traditional spring folk songs and the lighting of bonfires. ...
(from the article "Nassau") By the 12th century the local counts of Laurenburg had established themselves near the town of Nassau, and Walram (d. 1198) was the first of them to assume the title ...
French-born economist whose work Elements d'economie politique pure (1874-77; Elements of Pure Economics) was one of the first comprehensive mathematical analyses of general economic equilibrium. Because Walras wrote in French, ... [4 Related Articles]
huge, seal-like mammal found in Arctic seas. There are two subspecies: the Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) and the Pacific walrus (O. rosmarus divergens). ... [3 Related Articles]
metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of West Midlands, historic county of Staffordshire, west-central England. It is situated on a ridge between the industrial districts of Wolverhampton and Birmingham and is centred ...
(from the article "Walsall") ...of West Midlands, historic county of Staffordshire, west-central England. It is situated on a ridge between the industrial districts of Wolverhampton and Birmingham and is centred on the historic town ...
city, seat (1874) of Huerfano county, southern Colorado, U.S., on the Cucharas River, east of the Sangre de Cristo Range and south of Pueblo, at an elevation of 6,187 feet ...
(from the article "Liechtenstein") ...came into the region after AD 500. Although the official language is German, most of the population still speaks an Alemanni dialect containing local variations in pronunciation and vocabulary. Walsers, ...
(from the article "Literature") Novelist Martin Walser published Der Augenblick der Liebe, which dealt on one level with the fictional German hobbyist historian Gottlieb Zurn-who had appeared in Walser's novels Das Schwanenhaus (1980) and ...
influential American gridiron football coach, whose "West Coast offense" changed pro football during the 1980s. Among his most celebrated players were quarterback Joe Montana and receiver Jerry Rice, holder of ... [1 Related Articles]
Canadian stock promoter whose company, Bre-X Minerals Ltd., sold shares on the basis of claims that the Busang gold deposit in Indonesia was the richest strike ever; although investors lost ...
(from the article "2003: Other Winners") Original Screenplay: Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation Adapted Screenplay: Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson for The Lord of the Rings: The ...
American actor whose roles in the David Mamet plays American Buffalo and Glengarry Glen Ross led to a successful motion picture career during which, in some 60 films, he specialized ...
(from the article "Eagles, the") ...included Don Felder (b. September 21, 1947Topanga, California),Joe Walsh (b. November 20, 1947Wichita, Kansas), and Timothy B. Schmit...
(from the article "biophysics") ...filaments of the nerves, from the outward organs of sense to the brain, and from the brain into the muscles." Man's fascination with animal electricity is illustrated in a letter ...
(from the article "Volleyball") The 2005 FIVB beach volleyball world championships were held in Berlin in June. Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh of the U.S., the 2004 Olympic gold medalists, won their second successive ...
American choreographer and dancer debuted on Broadway as a dancer (in Seesaw [1973]) but was better known for his collaborations with choreographer and performer Tommy Tune; the two won Tony ...
(from the article "North Norfolk") ...and woodlands. The north-central and western-coastal resorts of Cromer, Sheringham, and the yachting centres of Blakeney and Wells-next-the-Sea are generally dependent on the summer tourist trade. Walsingham Abbey, which is ...
English statesman and the principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I from 1573 to 1590. He was a skilled diplomat whose knowledge of languages and capacity to organize espionage activities made ... [6 Related Articles]
American actor (b. Nov. 22, 1914?, New Orleans, La.-d. Jan. 1, 2001, Beverly Hills, Calif.), had a long career filled with quirky, endearingly cranky characters on the stage, in movies, ...
(from the article "Gehry, Frank O.") Gehry became known for his work on music venues. The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles was designed before the Bilbao museum but completed in 2003 to great acclaim. ...
resort complex near Orlando, Fla., envisioned by Walt Disney and featuring attractions based on stories and characters created by the Disney Company. [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Thurber, James") ...well-known and highly acclaimed writings and drawings picture the urban man as one who escapes into fantasy because he is befuddled and beset by a world that he neither created ...
(from the article "Italy") ...banking. From that time, grave shocks struck its economy, and these, combined with failure in war, led to another brief experiment in signorial rule; in 1342 a protege of King ...
(from the article "Latin literature") ...are much older, and contains work by many of the finest poets of the age. The contents are divided by subject into moral and satirical verse, love poetry, drinking songs, ...
