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War Refugee Board: United States agency established January 22, 1944, to attempt to rescue victims of the Nazis-mainly Jews-from death in German-occupied Europe. The board began its work after the Nazis had already ...
war, law of: that part of international law dealing with the inception, conduct, and termination of warfare. Its aim is to limit the suffering caused to combatants and, more particularly, to those who ...
Warabi: city, Saitama ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan. It lies on the alluvial plain of the Ara River. An early post town, it has long been a centre of cotton fabric manufacture. ...
Warangal: city, northern Andhra Pradesh state, southern India. It lies along the Madras-Kazipet-Delhi railway. Warangal was the ancient capital of the Kakatiyas, an Andhra dynasty that flourished in the 12th century ...
Warbeck, Perkin: impostor and pretender to the throne of the first Tudor king of England, Henry VII. Vain, foolish, and incompetent, he was used by Henry's Yorkist enemies in England and on ...
warble fly: any of several species of insects included either in the bot fly family Oestridae or the family Hypodermatidae (order Diptera). The warble flies Hypoderma lineatum and H. bovis (see )-large, ...
warbler: any of various species of small songbirds belonging to either the family Sylviidae (sometimes considered a subfamily, Sylviinae, of the family Muscicapidae; q.v.) or the family Parulidae, with both belonging ...
Warburg Family: a family whose members were eminent in banking, philanthropy, and scholarship.
Warburg, Otto: German biochemist awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1931 for his research on cellular respiration.
Warburton, William: Anglican bishop of Gloucester, literary critic and controversialist.
Ward, Artemus: one of the most popular 19th-century American humorists, whose lecture techniques exercised much influence on such humorists as Mark Twain.
Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: popular 19th-century American author and feminist.
Ward, Frederick Townsend: adventurer who commanded the "Ever Victorious Army," a body of Western-trained troops that aided the Ch'ing dynasty (1644-1911/12) in suppressing the Taiping Rebellion, the giant religiouspolitical uprising that occupied South ...
Ward, Hortense Sparks Malsch: American lawyer and reformer who campaigned energetically and successfully in Texas for women's rights, particularly in the areas of property, labour, and voting laws.
Ward, James: philosopher and psychologist who exerted a major influence on the development of psychology in Great Britain.
Ward, John: composer of instrumental and choral music known for his madrigals. He published his First Set of English Madrigals in 1613; it was republished in volume 19 (1922) of The English ...
Ward, Lester Frank: American sociologist who was instrumental in establishing sociology as an academic discipline in the United States. An optimist who believed that the social sciences had already given mankind the information ...
Ward, Montgomery: U.S. merchant who introduced the mail-order method of selling general merchandise and who founded the great mail-order house of Montgomery Ward & Company, Inc.
Ward, Mrs. Humphry: nee Mary Augusta Arnold English novelist whose best known work, Robert Elsmere, created a sensation in its day by advocating a Christianity based on social concern rather than theology.
Ward, Nancy: Native American leader who was an important intermediary in relations between early American settlers and her own Cherokee people.
Ward, Nathaniel: Puritan minister and writer.
Ward, Samuel Ringgold: black American abolitionist known for his oratorical power.
Ward, Sir Joseph: New Zealand statesman, prime minister (1906-12, 1928-30), and a key member of the Liberal Party ministries from 1891 to 1906, noted for his financial, social welfare, and postal measures.
Ward, Sir Leslie: English caricaturist noted for his portraits of the prominent people of his day in the pages of Vanity Fair.
Ward, William George: English author and theologian, one of the leaders of the Oxford movement, which sought to revive in Anglicanism the High Church ideals of the later 17th-century church. He eventually became ...
Wardha: town, eastern Maharashtra state, western India, near the Wardha River, southwest of Nagpur. Situated on major routes between Nagpur and Bombay, it is closely linked with the history of Nagpur. ...
Wardrobe: in medieval English history, a department of the king's household that became an office of state, enjoying in the 13th and early 14th centuries a period of political importance unparalleled ...
wardrobe: in furniture, a large cupboard, usually equipped with drawers, a mirror, and other devices, used for storing clothes.
wardship and marriage: in feudal law, rights belonging to the lord of a fief with respect to the personal lives of his vassals. The right of wardship allowed the lord to take control ...
Ware: town ("parish"), East Hertfordshire district, administrative and historic county of Hertfordshire, England. The parish is situated on the northern periphery of the metropolitan area of Greater London. In ancient times ...
Warens, Louise-Eleanore de la Tour du Pil, baronne de: (baroness of) benevolent aristocrat who engaged the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau in an idyllic liaison from 1728 to 1742, furthering his education and social position as his lover and maternal protectress.
Wareru: also called Mogado, or Chao Fa Rua famous king of Hanthawaddy (Hansavadi, or Pegu), who ruled (1287-96) over the Mon people of Lower Burma.
Warfield, David: one of the few American pre-motion-picture actors who became a millionaire. He made his fortune and enjoyed a stellar career as a result of playing four major roles over a ...
Wargla: city, east-central Algeria. It is situated on the western edge of a sabkha (large, enclosed basin) in the Sahara. One of the oldest settlements in the Sahara ...
Warham, William: last of the pre-Reformation archbishops of Canterbury, a quiet, retiring intellectual who nonetheless closed his career with a resolute stand against the anticlerical policies of King Henry VIII of England. ...
Warhol, Andy: American artist and filmmaker, an initiator and leading exponent of the Pop art movement of the 1960s whose mass-produced art apotheosized the supposed banality of the commercial culture of the ...
Waring, Laura Wheeler: American painter and educator who often depicted African American subjects.
Warkworth: village ("parish") in Alnwick district, administrative and historic county of Northumberland, England. It lies along the River Coquet, 1.5 miles (2.5 km) from that stream's North Sea mouth. The town ...
warlock: a male witch. See witchcraft.
Warlock, Peter: English composer, critic, and editor known for his songs and for his exemplary editions of Elizabethan music. He used his real name chiefly for his literary and editorial work, reserving ...
warlord: independent military commander in China in the early and mid-20th century. Warlords ruled various parts of the country following the death of Yuan Shih-k'ai (1859-1916), who had served as the ...
Warm Springs: health resort, Meriwether county, western Georgia, U.S. It lies about 20 miles (30 km) southeast of LaGrange, near Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park. The springs discharge about 800 gallons (3,000 ...
warm-bloodedness: in animals, the ability to maintain a relatively constant internal temperature (about 37° C [99° F] for mammals, about 40° C [104° F] for birds), regardless of the environmental temperature. ...
Warmerdam, Cornelius: American pole-vaulter, the first to attain 15 feet (4.57 metres) and the last to set major records with a bamboo pole.
Warming, Johannes Eugenius Bulow: Danish botanist whose work on the relations between living plants and their surroundings made him a founder of plant ecology.
Warminsko-Mazurskie: wojewodztwo (province), northern Poland. It is bordered by Russia to the north, by the provinces of Podlaskie to the east, Mazowieckie to the south, Kujawsko-Pomorskie to the ...
Warner Brothers: American motion-picture studio that introduced the first genuine talking picture (1927). The company was founded by four brothers, Harry, Albert, Samuel, and Jack Warner, who were the sons of Benjamin ...
Warner Robins: city, Houston county, central Georgia, U.S., 10 miles (16 km) south of Macon. It originated as the small railside village of Wellston, which rapidly developed after the establishment in 1941 ...
Warner, Pop: American college gridiron football coach who devised the dominant offensive systems used over the first half of the 20th century. Over a 44-year career as coach (1895-1938), Warner won 319 ...
Warner, Rex: British novelist, Greek scholar, poet, translator, and critic who in his fictional work warned-in nightmarish allegory-against the evils of a capitalist society.
Warner, Susan Bogert; and Warner, Anna Bartlett: American writers who, together and individually, wrote a number of highly popular novels, hymns, and nonfiction works.
Warner, Sylvia Townsend: English writer who began her self-proclaimed "accidental career" as a poet after she was given paper with a "particularly tempting surface" and who wrote her first novel, Lolly Willowes; or, ...
Warner, W Lloyd: influential American sociologist and anthropologist who was noted for his studies on class structure.
Warner-Lambert Company: former diversified American corporation that manufactured products ranging from pharmaceuticals to candy. It became part of U.S. pharmaceutical conglomerate Pfizer Inc. in 2000.
warning system: in military science, any method used to detect the situation or intention of an enemy so that warning can be given.
Warragul: town, south-central Victoria, Australia. It is situated in Gippsland, 64 miles (103 km) east-southeast of Melbourne. European settlement was established first about 1865 at Brandy Creek, about a mile from ...
warrant: in law, authorization in writing empowering a person to perform an act or to execute an office. The term is applied to a great variety of documents, most commonly judicial ...
Warrau: nomadic South American Indians speaking a language of the Macro-Chibchan group and, in modern times, inhabiting the swampy Orinoco River delta in Venezuela and areas eastward to the Pomeroon River ...
Warren: county, northwestern Pennsylvania, U.S., bounded to the north by New York state. It consists of a hilly region on the Allegheny Plateau drained by the Allegheny River and Brokenstraw, Caldwell, ...
Warren: county, northeastern New York state, U.S., consisting of a mountainous region bounded by Lake George to the east and the Hudson River to the south. The Hudson, which bisects the ...
Warren: city, Trumbull county, northeastern Ohio, U.S. It lies along the Mahoning River and is part of the Youngstown metropolitan complex. Settled (1799) by Ephraim Quinby, a stockholder in the Connecticut ...
Warren: county, northwestern New Jersey, U.S., bordered by Pennsylvania to the west and northwest (the Delaware River constituting the boundary) and the Musconetcong River to the east and southeast. The rugged ...
Warren: city, northern suburb of Detroit, Macomb county, southeastern Michigan, U.S. Organized in 1837 as Hickory township, it was called Aba (or Alba, 1838) until renamed (1839) for General Joseph Warren, ...
Warren: city, seat (1800) of Warren county, northwestern Pennsylvania, U.S., on the Allegheny River near the mouth of the Conewango Creek, 21 miles (34 km) south of Jamestown, New York. Laid ...
Warren Commission: commission appointed by U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson on Nov. 29, 1963, to investigate the circumstances surrounding the assassination of his predecessor, John F. Kennedy, in Dallas, Texas, on Nov. ...
Warren, Bertram Eugene: American crystallographer whose X-ray studies contributed to an understanding of both crystalline and noncrystalline materials and of the transition from the amorphous to the crystalline state.
Warren, Earl: American jurist, the 14th chief justice of the United States (1953-69), who presided over the Supreme Court during a period of sweeping changes in U.S. constitutional law, especially in the ...
Warren, Harry: American songwriter who, by his own estimate, produced 300 to 400 songs from 1922 through 1960, many for Hollywood films and Broadway musical productions.
Warren, J. Robin: Australian pathologist who was corecipient, with Barry J. Marshall, of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discovery that stomach ulcers are an infectious disease caused by ...
Warren, Joseph: soldier and leader in the American Revolution, who on April 18, 1775, sent Paul Revere and William Dawes to Lexington and Concord on their famous ride to warn local patriots ...
Warren, Leonard: American operatic baritone known for his work in operas of Ruggero Leoncavallo and Giacomo Puccini.
Warren, Mercy Otis: American poet, dramatist, and historian whose proximity to political leaders and events of her day gives particular value to her writing on the American Revolutionary period.
Warren, Robert Penn: American novelist, poet, critic, and teacher, best-known for his treatment of moral dilemmas in a South beset by the erosion of its traditional, rural values. He became the first poet ...
Warrensburg: city, seat (1836) of Johnson county, west-central Missouri, U.S. It lies 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Kansas City. Named for Martin Warren, an American Revolutionary War soldier and blacksmith ...
Warri: town and port, Delta state, southern Nigeria. It lies along the Warri River in the western Niger River delta, 30 miles (48 km) upstream from the port of Forcados on ...
Warring States: six or seven small feuding Chinese kingdoms whose careers constitute an era in Chinese history. The Warring States period was one of the most fertile and influential in Chinese history. ...