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Walter Of Coventry: English monk or friar, compiler of historical materials, best known for his collection Memoriale Fratris Walteri de Coventria. He probably belonged to a religious house in York diocese.
Walter Page's Blue Devils: (from the article "Page, Walter") Page played in several bands in the 1920s before forming Walter Page's Blue Devils (1925-31) in Oklahoma City, Okla. A historically important early "territory band" (i.e., those in the South, ...
Walter Reed Army Medical Center: (from the article "Advances in Battlefield Medicine") ...By 2007 the number of wounded U.S. veterans who had returned from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq was straining the military health care system. Notably, the best-known U.S. military ...
Walter Rothchild Zoological Museum: (from the article "Natural History Museum") ...Geological Museum, to which there is now direct access from the Natural History Museum. There is also a branch museum at Tring, Hertfordshire, 30 miles (50 km) northwest of London. ...
Walter Sansavoir: (from the article "Crusades") ...commonly known as the "People's Crusade," set out across Europe. The most famous of these, brought together by a remarkable popular preacher, Peter the Hermit, and his associate Walter Sansavoir, ...
Walter Sisulu University: (from the article "Umtata") ...industries that produce textiles, wood products, foodstuffs, and processed tobacco. The town has buildings dating back to colonial times, including the Town Hall and a hospital. Umtata is home to ...
Walter turbine: (from the article "submarine") A final German war design of particular interest was the Walter turbine propulsion plant. The need for oxygen for combustion had previously prevented the use of steam turbines or diesels ...
Walter, Anton: (from the article "keyboard instrument") ...because it was used by all the important 18th- and early 19th-century piano makers in Vienna, including Stein's daughter and son-in-law, Nannette and Johann Andreas Streicher; Anton Walter, Mozart's favourite ...
Walter, Bruno: German conductor known primarily for his interpretations of the Viennese school. Though out of step with 20th-century trends, he was such a fine musician that he became a major figure-filling ... [1 Related Articles]
Walter, Fritz: German association football (soccer) player (b. Oct. 31, 1920, Kaiserslautern, Ger.-d. June 17, 2002, Enkenbach-Alsenborn, Ger.), was the captain and chief playmaker of West Germany's victorious World Cup side in ...
Walter, George: (from the article "Antigua and Barbuda") By the 1970s Antigua had developed an independence movement, particularly under its prime minister George Walter, who wanted complete independence for the islands and opposed the British plan of independence ...
Walter, Hellmuth: (from the article "military aircraft") ...Desperate to combat Allied bombers, the Germans also turned to rocket propulsion, fielding the tailless Me 163 Komet in the final months of the war. Powered by a hydrogen peroxide ...
Walter, John, I: English founder of The Times, London, and of a family that owned the newspaper for almost 125 years. Considered neither an outstanding nor an honest journalist, Walter ... [1 Related Articles]
Walter, John, II: English journalist, second son of John Walter I, founder of The Times, London, who developed (along with Thomas Barnes, editor in chief from 1817 to 1841) a ...
Walter, John, III: English proprietor of The Times, London, from the death of his father, John Walter II, in 1847.
Walter, Lucy: mistress of the British king Charles II and mother of James Scott, duke of Monmouth.
Walter, Thomas Ustick: architect important in American architecture for the quality and influence of his designs based upon ancient Greek models. [3 Related Articles]
Walters, Barbara: American journalist known particularly for her highly effective technique in television interviews of world-renowned figures.
Walters, Vernon Anthony: American diplomat and military officer (b. Jan. 3, 1917, New York, N.Y.-d. Feb. 10, 2002, West Palm Beach, Fla.), served as U.S. ambassador to the UN from 1985 to 1988 ...
Waltham: city, Middlesex county, eastern Massachusetts, U.S., on the Charles River, just west of Boston. Settled in the 1630s, it was part of Watertown until separately incorporated in 1738. Abundant waterpower ...
Waltham Forest: outer borough of London. It lies on the northeastern perimeter of the metropolis, adjoining the Green Belt, and is bounded on the north by Essex, on the east by Redbridge, ...
Waltham Watch Company: (from the article "work, history of the organization of") ...positions them for the next machine tool. It cuts labour costs and improves quality by ensuring uniformity and precision. The first known transfer machine was built by an American firm, ...
Waltharius: a Latin heroic poem of the 9th or 10th century dealing with Germanic hero legend. Its author was once thought to be the Swiss monk Ekkehard I the Elder (d. ... [3 Related Articles]
Waltheof: earl of Northumbria and ancestor of the Scottish kings through the marriage of his daughter Matilda to King David I.
Walther Von Der Vogelweide: greatest German lyric poet of the Middle Ages, whose poetry emphasizes the virtues of a balanced life, in the social as in the personal sphere, and reflects his disapproval of ... [3 Related Articles]
Walther, Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm: Lutheran theologian whose conservative views played an important role in the early development of the Missouri Synod of American Lutheranism. [2 Related Articles]
Walther, Johann Gottfried: German organist and composer who was one of the first musical lexicographers. [3 Related Articles]
Walther, Johannes: (from the article "sedimentary facies") Johannes Walther, a German geologist, noted in 1894 that the vertical facies sequence in a sedimentary basin undergoing expansion and deepening so that the sea transgresses the land surface (or ...
Walton, Brian: (from the article "polyglot Bible") One of the most comprehensive and generally considered the finest is the London Polyglot, also called the Londoninesis or Waltonian (1657), compiled by Brian Walton, with the aid of many ...
Walton, Ernest Thomas Sinton: Irish physicist, corecipient, with Sir John Douglas Cockcroft of England, of the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics for the development of the first nuclear particle accelerator, known as the Cockcroft-Walton ... [4 Related Articles]
Walton, Frederick: (from the article "floor covering") In 1860 Frederick Walton of Great Britain patented a process for making linoleum, the first widely used smooth-surfaced floor covering. Plain linoleum, without design, was popular until the mid-1930s, when ...
Walton, Izaak: English biographer and author of The Compleat Angler (1653), a pastoral discourse on the joys and stratagems of fishing that has been one of the most frequently reprinted books in ... [5 Related Articles]
Walton, John: (from the article "Berkeley, George") ...wrote Berkeley, "need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity." A long and fruitful controversy followed. James Jurin, a Cambridge physician and scientist, John Walton of Dublin, and ...
Walton, Sam: American retail magnate who founded Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., and developed it, by 1990, into the largest retail sales chain in the United States.
Walton, Sir William: English composer especially known for his orchestral music. His early work made him one of England's most important composers between the time of Vaughan Williams and that of Benjamin Britten. [1 Related Articles]
Walton, Tony: (from the article "1979: Other Winners") ...Steve Tesich for Breaking AwayAdapted Screenplay: Robert Benton for Kramer Vs. KramerCinematography: Vittorio Storaro for Apocalypse NowArt Direction: Philip Rosenberg and Tony Walton for All That JazzOriginal Score: Georges Delerue ...
Walton-le-Dale: town, industrial suburb of the town of Preston, South Ribble district, administrative and historic county of Lancashire, England. It overlooks the Rivers Darwen and Ribble. Waletune was of Anglo-Saxon origin, ...
Waltonia: (from the article "lamp shells") The articulate-brachiopod shell is typified by Waltonia, which is small (about two centimetres [3/4 inch]) and red in colour, with a smooth or slightly ridged shell. This type of shell ...
Waltrudis, Saint: (from the article "Mons") ...as a vehicle route to France. Peopled since prehistoric times, Mons originated as a Roman camp (Castrilocus) in the 3rd century; it grew around an abbey founded (c. 650) by ...
waltz: (from German walzen, "to revolve"), highly popular ballroom dance evolved from the Landler in the 18th century. Characterized by a step, slide, and step ... [6 Related Articles]
Waltz, Kenneth: (from the article "political science") In Man, the State, and War (1959), the American international relations theorist Kenneth Waltz applied systems theory to the study of international conflict to develop a view known as structural ...
Walvis Bay: town and anchorage in west-central Namibia (formerly South West Africa), lying along the Atlantic Ocean. It constituted an exclave of South Africa until 1992. [3 Related Articles]
Walvis Ridge: (from the article "ocean") The Walvis Ridge and Rio Grande Rise originated from hot spot volcanism now occurring at the islands of Tristan da Cunha 300 kilometres east of the crest of the Mid-Atlantic ...
Wamba: (from the article "Spain") Toward the end of the 7th century, a critical time in Visigothic history began. The deposition, through deception, of King Wamba (672-680), a capable ruler who tried to reform the ...
Wambaugh, Sarah: American political scientist who was recognized as one of the world's leading experts on the subject of plebiscites.
Wami, Gete: (from the article "Track and Field Sports (Athletics)") ...Majors (WMM), in which athletes earned points in the Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago, and New York City marathons plus the world championships and Olympics. Cheruiyot split the $1 million prize ...
Wampanoag: Algonquian-speaking North American Indians who formerly occupied parts of what are now the states of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, including Martha's Vineyard and adjacent islands. They were traditionally semisedentary, moving ... [2 Related Articles]
wampum: tubular shell beads that have been assembled into strings or woven into belts or embroidered ornaments, formerly used as a medium of exchange by some North American Indians. The terms ... [1 Related Articles]
Wan-fo Ssu: (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...Nanking the new Indianized style spread to northern China, where it may be seen in the sculpture of the Northern Ch'i dynasty (550-577), and up the Yangtze River to Szechwan, ...
Wan-li five-colour ware: (from the article "pottery") ...emperors. A palette containing underglaze blue in conjunction with green, yellow, aubergine purple, and iron red (the precursor of the later Ch'ing famille verte palette) was known as "Wan-li five-colour" ...
Wanadi: (from the article "Christianity") ...religion. In the 20th century, for instance, biblical and Christian themes occupied a large part of the mythology of the Makiritare Indians in the upper Orinoco River region of Venezuela. ...
Wanaka: (from the article "Wanaka Lake") ...hydroelectric project. The first European to see the lake was Nathaniel Chalmers in 1853. The lake's name is from the Maori word oanaka, "place of Anaka," an early Maori chief. ...
Wanaka Lake: lake in west-central South Island, New Zealand. The lake occupies 75 square miles (193 square km) of a valley that is dammed by a moraine (glacial debris) and that lies ...
Wanamaker, John: merchant and founder of one of the first American department stores. [1 Related Articles]
Wanamaker, Sam: (from the article "Bankside") ...the tombs of many well-known individuals, including the poet John Gower and the playwright John Fletcher, and memorials to the engraver Wenzel Hollar, William Shakespeare, and the American actor Sam ...
wanax: (from the article "Aegean civilizations") The Greek mainland in the 14th and 13th centuries was densely populated with towns and villages, and cemeteries confirm the numbers. The state was organized under a king, wanax, with ...
Wand, Gunter: German conductor (b. Jan. 7, 1912, Elberfeld, Ger.-d. Feb. 14, 2002, Ulmiz, Switz.), was notable for his rigorous rehearsals and his strong interpretations of the Austro-German Romantic repertory, notably the ...
Wanda Mountains: (from the article "China") To the southeast of the Northeast Plain is a series of ranges comprising the Changbai, Zhangguangcai, and Wanda mountains, which in Chinese are collectively known as the Changbai Shan, or ...
wanderer: (from the article "harvester") Harvesters are distinguished by their predatory habits during the larval stage. The squat, hairy larvae of Feniseca tarquinius, known in some areas as wanderers, attack aphids and are generally found ...
wandering albatross: (from the article "albatross") The wandering albatross (D. exulans) has a wingspread to more than 340 cm (11 feet), the largest spread among living birds. The adult is essentially like the royal albatross. It ...
wandering ecstasy: (from the article "shamanism") ...his obligations either by communicating with the spirits at will or through trance. The latter has two forms: trances of possession, in which the body of the shaman is possessed ...
wandering Jew: in Christian legend, character doomed to live until the end of the world because he taunted Jesus on the way to the Crucifixion. A reference in John 18:20-22 to an ... [1 Related Articles]
Wandering Souls, Feast of: (from the article "death rite") ...where food was prepared for them. At sundown they were solemnly dismissed to the underworld with the formula: "out, keres, the Anthesteria is ended." Buddhist China kept a Feast of ...
wandering spider: any member of the family Ctenidae (order Araneida), a small group of large spiders of mainly tropical and subtropical regions, commonly found on foliage and on the ground. The first ... [1 Related Articles]
wandering tattler: (from the article "tattler") ...danger. Broadly, tattlers are birds of the subfamily Tringinae of the family Scolopacidae. Examples are the redshank, greenshank, willet, and yellowlegs. More narrowly, the name is given to the wandering ...
Wandiwash, Battle of: (Jan. 22, 1760), in the history of India, a confrontation between the French, under the Count de Lally, and the British, under Sir Eyre Coote. It was the decisive battle ... [1 Related Articles]
wandjina style: type of depiction in Australian cave paintings of figures that represent mythological beings associated with the creation of the world. Called wandjina figures, the images are believed by modern Aborigines ... [2 Related Articles]
Wandsbek: (from the article "Hamburg") Having absorbed Altona, Harburg, and Wandsbek in 1937, Hamburg has become Germany's major industrial city. All processing and manufacturing industries are represented there. Hamburg treats most of the country's copper ...
Wandsworth: inner borough of London, lying west of Lambeth and stretching for 5 miles (8 km) along the south bank of the River Thames. Wandsworth was established in 1965 by merging ...
Wandsworth Prison: (from the article "Wandsworth") ...that took place annually from 1747 to 1796 in the Garratt Lane district of Wandsworth inspired the 18th-century satirical playwright Samuel Foote to write The Mayor of Garratt. Wandsworth Prison ...
Waner, Lloyd: (from the article "Waner, Paul and Lloyd") ...who played much of their career together. Their nicknames did not refer to their size but to their batting: Big Poison, who batted and threw left-handed, hit more long balls ...
Waner, Paul: (from the article "Waner, Paul and Lloyd") American professional baseball outfielders, brothers who played much of their career together. Their nicknames did not refer to their size but to their batting: Big Poison, who batted and threw ...
Waner, Paul and Lloyd: American professional baseball outfielders, brothers who played much of their career together. Their nicknames did not refer to their size but to their batting: Big Poison, who batted and threw ...
Wang: (from the article "China") ...in Chinese history. Wuhou had been a low-ranking concubine of Taizong. She was taken into Gaozong's palace and, after a series of complex intrigues, managed in 655 to have the ...
wang: (from the article "Genghis Khan") ...with Toghril, Temujin seized the opportunity of continuing the clan feud and took the Tatars in the rear. The Jin emperor rewarded Toghril with the Chinese title of
Wang Anshi: Chinese poet and prose writer, best known as a governmental reformer who implemented his unconventional idealism through the "New Laws," or "New Policies," of 1069-76. The academic controversy sparked by ... [8 Related Articles]
Wang Anyi: (from the article "Literature") Wang Anyi, one of China's leading contemporary writers, attracted notice in 2007 with her novel Qimeng shidai ("The Age of Enlightenment"). Like other of her recent novels, Qimeng shidai was ...
Wang Bi: one of the most brilliant and precocious Chinese philosophers of his day. [2 Related Articles]
Wang Burapha: (from the article "Bangkok") ...and Europeans. Despite their small size, the foreign communities tend to live in certain areas. The Chinese concentrate in the commercial area of Sam Peng, Indians gather around mosques in ...
Wang Ch'ing-jen: (from the article "medicine, history of") The teachings of the religious sects forbade the mutilation of the dead human body; hence traditional anatomy rests on no sure scientific foundation. One of the most important writers on ...
Wang Chao-chun: (from the article "Chinese literature") ...another contemporary, wrote 14 plays, of which the most celebrated is Han-kung ch'iu ("Sorrow of the Han Court"). It deals with the tragedy of a Han dynasty court lady, Wang ...
Wang Chieh: (from the article "printmaking") ...by the Egyptians in the 6th or 7th century; but the earliest printed image with an authenticated date is a scroll of the Diamond Sutra (one of the discourses of ...
Wang Ching-wei: associate of the revolutionary Nationalist leader Sun Yat-sen, rival of Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi) for control of the Nationalist government in the late 1920s and early '30s, and finally head ... [1 Related Articles]
Wang Chong: one of the most original and independent Chinese thinkers of the Han period (206 BCE-220 CE). [1 Related Articles]
Wang Daohan: Chinese politician (b. March 27, 1915, Jiashan, Anhui province, China-d. Dec. 24, 2005, Shanghai, China), served as vice-mayor (1980-81) and mayor (1981-85) of Shanghai. He continued to be an adviser ...
Wang Fu: (from the article "arts, East Asian") Among the few important amateur painters to hold a scholarly position at the early Ming court was Wang Fu, who survived a long period of banishment to the frontier under ...
Wang Fu-chih: Chinese nationalistic historian and poet in the early years of the Ch'ing dynasty (1644-1911), whose works were revived by Chinese nationalists in the middle of the 19th century. [2 Related Articles]
Wang Guangmei: Chinese first lady (b. Sept. 26, 1921, China-d. Oct. 13, 2006, Beijing, China), was renowned for her beauty and her bourgeois lifestyle as the fifth wife of Liu Shaoqi, who ...
Wang Guowei: Chinese scholar, historian, literary critic, and poet known for his Western approach to Chinese history.
Wang Hongwen: (from the article "Gang of Four") ...for implementing the harsh policies directed by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) chairman Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). The group included Mao's third wife, Jiang Qing, and Wang Hongwen, ...
Wang Hui: probably the paramount member of the group of Chinese painters known as the Four Wangs (including Wang Shimin, 1592-1680, Wang Jian, 1598-1677, and Wang Yuanqi, 1642-1715), who represented the so-called ... [2 Related Articles]
Wang Ji: (from the article "Confucianism") ...as Wing-tsit Chan, the late dean of Chinese philosophy in North America, characterized it, set the Confucian agenda for several generations in China. His followers, such as the communitarian Wang ...
Wang Jian: (from the article "Wang Hui") probably the paramount member of the group of Chinese painters known as the Four Wangs (including Wang Shimin, 1592-1680, Wang Jian, 1598-1677, and Wang Yuanqi, 1642-1715), who represented the so-called ...
Wang Junxia: Chinese middle- and long-distance runner, who in 1993 set world records for women in the 3,000-metre and 10,000-metre events.
Wang Kon: (from the article "Koryo Dynasty") The dynasty that ruled Koryo was formed by General Wang Kon, who in 918 overthrew the state of Later Koguryo, established in north-central Korea by the monk Kungye. Changing the ...
Wang Laboratories: (from the article "Wang, An") Chinese-born American executive and electronics engineer who founded Wang Laboratories.
Wang Li: Chinese revolutionary and ardent supporter of Chairman Mao Zedong and his Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s who nonetheless was imprisoned, 1967-82, on Mao's orders after he incited the Red ...
Wang Mang: founder of the short-lived Xin dynasty (AD 9-25). He is known in Chinese history as Shehuangdi (the "Usurper Emperor"), because his reign (AD 9-23) and that of his successor interrupted ... [4 Related Articles]
Wang Meng: Chinese painter who is placed among the group later known as the Four Masters of the Yuan dynasty (1206-1368), although, being in the second generation of that group, he had ... [2 Related Articles]
Wang Meng: (from the article "Chinese literature") ...literature," a sort of national catharsis that immediately followed the 10-year "holocaust," gave way to more professional and more daring writing, as exemplified in the stories of Wang Meng, with ...
Wang Mien: (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...a systematic treatise on painting them; he remains unsurpassed as a skilled bamboo painter. Kao K'o-kung followed Mi Fu and Mi Yu-jen in painting cloudy landscapes that symbolized good government. ...