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- (from the article "Mao Zedong") ...of Nationalist-communist rivalry for the leadership of the united front are related to the continuing struggle for supremacy within the Chinese Communist Party, for Mao's two chief rivals-Wang Ming, who ...
- Wang Pei
- (from the article "China") ...given to eunuchs considered loyal to the throne. The death of Dezong in 805 was followed by the brief reign of Shunzong, an invalid monarch whose court was dominated by ...
- Wang River
- (from the article "Thailand") ...is drained largely by two river systems: the Chao Phraya in the west and the Mekong in the east. Three major rivers in the northern mountains-from west to east, the ...
- Wang Roxu
- (from the article "Confucianism") ...and historiographic traditions of the North and developed a richly textured cultural form of their own. Zhao Bingwen's (1159-1232) combination of literary talent and moral concerns and Wang Roxu's (1174-1243) ...
- Wang San-ak
- (from the article "komungo") The komungo was invented in the 7th century AD by Korean musician Wang San-ak. Since the Koryo dynasty it has been an essential instrument in court ensemble ...
- Wang Shichong
- (from the article "China") ...the empire was entirely pacified. After the suppression of Xue Ju and the pacification of the northwest, the Tang had to contend with three principal rival forces: the Sui remnants ...
- Wang Shifu
- leading dramatist of the Yuan dynasty (1206-1368), which saw the flowering of Chinese drama. [1 Related Articles]
- Wang Shimin
- (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 Shizhen
- (from the article "China") ...different Tang and Song exemplars. No Ming practitioner of traditional poetry has won special esteem, though Ming literati churned out poetry in prodigious quantities. The historians Song Lian and Wang ...
- Wang Shouye
- (from the article "China") ...and commerce. In addition to having dismissed 44,738 corrupt members from the party in 2005, the central government hit hard on corruption in the military. For example, the deputy chief ...
- Wang Shuwen
- (from the article "China") ...Command was given to eunuchs considered loyal to the throne. The death of Dezong in 805 was followed by the brief reign of Shunzong, an invalid monarch whose court was ...
- Wang Tao
- one of the pioneers of modern journalism in China and early leader of the movement to reform traditional Chinese institutions along Western lines.
- Wang Wei
- one of the most famous men of arts and letters during the Tang dynasty, one of the golden ages of Chinese cultural history. Wang is popularly known as a model ... [4 Related Articles]
- Wang Xianzhi
- (from the article "calligraphy") The greatest exponents of Chinese calligraphy were Wang Xizhi and his son Wang Zianzhi in the 4th century. Few of their original works have survived, but a number of their ...
- Wang Xiaotong
- Chinese mathematician who made important advances in the solution of problems involving cubic equations.
- Wang Xizhi
- the most celebrated of Chinese calligraphers. [6 Related Articles]
- Wang Yangming
- Chinese scholar-official whose idealistic interpretation of neo-Confucianism influenced philosophical thinking in East Asia for centuries. Though his career in government was rather unstable, his suppression of rebellions brought a century ... [7 Related Articles]
- Wang Yinglin
- (from the article "encyclopaedia") ...was in 118 volumes. One of the richest and most important of all Chinese encyclopaedias, the Yuhai ("Sea of Jade"), was compiled about 1267 by the renowned Song scholar Wang ...
- Wang Yuanqi
- (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 Yung-ching
- Taiwanese industrialist was founder and chairman of the Formosa Plastics Group, Taiwan's largest manufacturing conglomerate. Wang established the group's flagship business, the Formosa Plastics Corp., in 1954 and built the ...
- Wang Zhen
- Chinese eunuch who monopolized power during the first reign of the Ming emperor Yingzong (reigned as Zhengtong; 1435-49). [3 Related Articles]
- Wang Zhen
- Chinese politician and military leader (b. 1908, Liuyang [Liu-yang] county, Hunan province, China--d. March 12, 1993, Guangzhou [Canton], Guangdong [Kwangtung], China), was an uncompromising hard-liner who used his position as ...
- Wang Zhengjun
- (from the article "Wang Mang") Wang Mang was born into a distinguished Chinese family. Three years earlier, his father's half sister Wang Zhengjun had become the empress with the accession of the Yuandi emperor. Upon ...
- Wang Zhi
- (from the article "China") ...the empire enjoyed stability, tranquillity, and prosperity. But state administration began to suffer when weak emperors were exploitatively dominated by favoured eunuchs: Wang Zhen in the 1440s, Wang Zhi in ...
- Wang, An
- Chinese-born American executive and electronics engineer who founded Wang Laboratories.
- Wang, Nina
- Chinese businesswoman became Asia's richest woman after she inherited the estate of her husband, Teddy Wang, the founder of Chinachem Group, a private property firm, and built it into ...
- Wang, Vera
- (from the article "Fashions") ...store became a retail destination where high-profile personalities-notably actresses Sarah Jessica Parker, Kirsten Dunst, and Nicole Kidman; film director Sofia Coppola; and fashion designer Vera Wang-could be spotted shopping. In ...
- wang-tsin
- (from the article "cereal processing") Alcoholic drinks, such as sake in Japan and wang-tsin in China, are made from rice with the aid of fungi. The hull or husk of paddy, of little value as ...
- Wanganui
- city ("district") and port, southwestern North Island, New Zealand, near the mouth of the Wanganui River. The site lies within a tract bought by the New Zealand Company in 1840. ...
- Wanganui River
- river in central North Island, New Zealand. It rises on the western slopes of Mount Ngauruhoe and flows northwest to Taumarunui and then south to empty into the Tasman Sea ... [1 Related Articles]
- Wangaratta
- city, northern Victoria, Australia. It lies at the confluence of the Ovens and King rivers, northeast of Melbourne. The site was first settled in 1837 by a sheepherder, George Faithfull, ...
- Wangchenggang
- (from the article "China") ...Shiji, a comprehensive history written during the 1st century BC, and much ingenuity has been devoted to identifying certain Late Neolithic fortified sites-such as Wangchenggang ("Mound of ...
- Wangchuk, Jigme Dorji
- (from the article "Bhutan") ...days by mule could be made in just a few hours by car along a winding mountain road from the border town of Phuntsholing. The governmental structure also changed radically. ...
- Wangchuk, Jigme Khesar Namgyal
- (from the article "Bhutan") Area: 38,394 sq km (14,824 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 658,000 (excluding more than 100,000 refugees in Nepal) | Capital: Thimphu | Head of state: Druk Gyalpo (King) ...
- Wangchuk, Jigme Singye
- (from the article "Bhutan") Area: 38,394 sq km (14,824 sq mi) | Population (2006 est.): 790,000 (excluding more than 100,000 refugees in Nepal) | Capital: Thimphu | Head of state: Druk Gyalpo (King) ...
- Wangchuk, Khandu
- (from the article "Bhutan") ...Head of state: Druk Gyalpo (King) Jigme Singye Wangchuk and, from December 14, Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuk | Head of government: Prime Ministers Lyonpo Sangay Ngedup and, from September 7, ...
- Wangchuk, Lyonpo Khandu
- (from the article "Bhutan") ...(2007 est.): 658,000 (excluding more than 100,000 refugees in Nepal) | Capital: Thimphu | Head of state: Druk Gyalpo (King) Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuk | Head of government: Prime Ministers ...
- Wangchuk, Ugyen
- (from the article "Bhutan") ...raja had died and the deb raja had withdrawn into a life of contemplation, the then-strongest penlop, Ugyen Wangchuk of Tongsa, was "elected" by ...
- wangdao
- (from the article "Confucianism") ...of the state as scholars not by becoming bureaucratic functionaries but by assuming the responsibility of teaching the ruling minority humane government (renzheng) and the kingly way (wangdao). In dealing ...
- Wanger, Walter
- (from the article "1948: Other Winners") ...and Johnny Green for Easter ParadeSong: "Buttons and Bows" from The Paleface; music and lyrics by Ray Evans and Jay LivingstonHonorary Awards: Sid Grauman and Adolph Zukor; Walter Wanger for ...
- Wangfujing Dajie
- (from the article "Beijing") ...major shopping centres. Since 1990, however, Western-style shopping malls and department stores have been established in various parts of the city. One of the most vibrant retail areas is along ...
- Wanghia, Treaty of
- (from the article "Unequal Treaty") Over the next few years China concluded a series of similar treaties with other powers; the most important treaties were the Treaty of Wanghia with the United States and the ...
- Wani
- (from the article "calligraphy") ...in China. There is no definite record of when the Japanese began to use Chinese words-called kanji in Japanese. It is known that a Korean scribe named ...
- waniugo
- (from the article "art, African") ...around, is said to remind initiates of human imperfection. Animal-head masks usually combine characteristics of several creatures-hyena, warthog, and antelope. A type of animal mask called waniugo has a cup ...
- Wanjiru, Samuel
- (from the article "Track and Field Sports (Athletics)") ...serious marathon, Gebrselassie earned his 24th world record by slashing 29 seconds from the standard set by Kenyan Paul Tergat on the same course in 2003. Twice, in February and ...
- Wanka
- (from the article "Andean peoples") ...Inca overlords, frequently more is known about the pre-Inca occupants than about Cuzco rule. Inca power was broken and decapitated within 40 years of 1532. The ethnic groups, many of ...
- Wankel engine
- (from the article "Wankel engine") type of internal-combustion rotary engine distinguished by an orbiting triangular rotor that functions as a piston. See gasoline engine.ILLUSTRATIONbasic formFour types of gasoline engines.<
- Wankel, Felix
- German engineer and inventor of the Wankel rotary engine. The Wankel engine is distinguished by the presence of an orbiting rotor in the shape of a curved equilateral triangle that ...
- Wanli
- reign name (nianhao) of the emperor of China from 1572 to 1620, during the latter portion of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). [2 Related Articles]
- Wannier exciton
- (from the article "crystal") ...and hole separate in space, and each wanders away. The Swiss-American scientist Gregory Hugh Wannier first suggested that the electron and hole could bind together weakly. This bound state, called ...
- Wanns, Sadall a h
- Syrian playwright, producer, and critic (b. 1941, Hosain al-Bahr [near Tartus], Syria--d. May 15, 1997, Damascus, Syria), was widely regarded as one of the leading innovators in Arab drama. He ... [1 Related Articles]
- Wannsee Conference
- meeting of Nazi officials on January 20, 1942, in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to plan the "final solution" (Endlosung) to the so-called "Jewish question" ( [2 Related Articles]
- Wansbeck
- district, administrative and historic county of Northumberland, northern England, along the North Sea in the southeastern part of the county. Wansbeck spans a narrow coastal plain edging the Northumberland uplands ...
- Wantage
- town (parish), Vale of White Horse district, administrative county of Oxfordshire, historic county of Berkshire, England. It is an old market town and the birthplace of the Anglo-Saxon king Alfred ...
- Wantzel, Pierre Laurent
- (from the article "mathematics") ...planar means certain solid constructions (like the cube duplication and angle trisection). These results were established only by algebraists in the 19th century (notably by the French mathematician Pierre Laurent ...
- Wanzhou
- former city, northeastern Chongqing shi (municipality), central China. It has been a district of Chongqing since the municipality was established in 1997. The district is an important ...
- wapentake
- an administrative division of the English counties of York, Lincoln, Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, and Rutland, first clearly referred to in 962/963 and corresponding to the "hundred" in other parts of ... [1 Related Articles]
- Wapielnia
- (from the article "Roztocze") ...extends southeastward across the border into Ukraine. Low and rolling, the range is approximately 100 miles (160 km) in length, and its highest peaks are Rogaty Goraj (1,280 feet [390 ...
- wapiti
- (species Cervus canadensis), North American deer, family Cervidae (order Artiodactyla), considered by some authorities to be of the same species as the red deer (C. elaphus) of Eurasia. Once common ...
- Wappapello Dam
- (from the article "Saint Francis River") ...Mississippi River just above Helena, Ark., after a course of 425 mi (684 km). For 40 mi the river forms part of the Missouri-Arkansas boundary. In Wayne County, Mo., the ...
- Wappinger
- confederacy of Algonquian-speaking Indians in eastern North America. Early in the 17th century the Wappinger lived along the east bank of the Hudson River from Manhattan Island to what is ... [2 Related Articles]
- Wappo
- (from the article "Napa") city, seat (1850) of Napa county, west-central California, U.S. The area was originally inhabited by Wappo Indians, who called the southern part of the valley Napa ("Land of Plenty"). In ...
- Waqa
- (from the article "eastern Africa") ...tradition, traces of which occur even among people as long and deeply Islamized as the Somali, seems best preserved today (in at least one of its original or early forms) ...
- waqf
- (from the article "Islam") ...privately in earlier periods, were almost entirely owned by governments and were managed by departments of awqaf (plural of waqf, a religious endowment). The ...
- Waqf and Muslim Affairs, Council of
- (from the article "Jerusalem") ...Israel over east Jerusalem. The council also assumed responsibility for the Shari'ah courts and other Muslim religious institutions that had previously been under the jurisdiction of the Council of Waqf ...
- Waqidi, al-
- Arab historian, author of the Kitab al-maghazi, a well-known work on the military campaigns (al-maghazi) of the Prophet Muhammad. [1 Related Articles]
- war
- in the popular sense, a conflict among political groups involving hostilities of considerable duration and magnitude. In the usage of social science certain qualifications are added. Sociologists usually apply the ... [50 Related Articles]
- War Academy
- (from the article "military, naval, and air academies") ...eventually 8 cadet schools, more or less for the upper class or elite, and 10 war schools for the less select-both training men for commissions. At the apex of the ...
- War Admiral
- (from the article "The Belmont Stakes") ...In 1937 he ran 118 miles in a record time of 1:4845, and his races were soon setting attendance records. In 1938 he defeated War Admiral, winner of the 1937 ...
- War College
- (from the article "Foch, Ferdinand") In 1885 he entered the War College for the first of three periods there over the next 25 years. He returned as a major in 1895 to teach general tactics, ...
- War Communism
- in the history of the Soviet Union, economic policy applied by the Bolsheviks during the period of the Russian Civil War (1918-20). More exactly, the policy of War Communism lasted ... [6 Related Articles]
- war crime
- in international law, serious violation of the laws or customs of war as defined by international customary law and international treaties. [35 Related Articles]
- War Crimes Act
- (from the article "Lords, House of") ...in the first session and its third reading in the second session. On rare occasions the 1949 act has been used to pass controversial legislation lacking the Lords' support-including the ...
- war dance
- (from the article "dance") It is possible to view modern military marches and drilling procedures as descendants of the tribal war and hunting dances that have also been integral to many cultures. War dances, ...
- War Democrat
- in the history of the United States, any of the Northern Democrats who supported the continued prosecution of the American Civil War.
- War Eagle
- (from the article "Sioux City") ...of Illinois and initially known as Thompsonville, it was subsequently settled by Theophile Bruguier, a French-Canadian trader, who arrived in 1849 with his Sioux wives and their father, Chief War ...
- war finance
- the fiscal and monetary methods that are used in meeting the costs of war, including taxation, compulsory loans, voluntary domestic loans, foreign loans, and the creation of money. War finance ... [5 Related Articles]
- War Hawk
- in U.S. history, any of the expansionists primarily composed of young Southerners and Westerners elected to the U.S. Congress in 1810, whose territorial ambitions in the Northwest and Florida inspired ...
- War Industry Committee
- (from the article "Russia") ...number of a voluntary organizations came into existence to lend support to the war effort. Zemstvo and Municipal unions were set up to coordinate medical relief, supplies, and transport. Unofficial ...
- War Information, Office of
- (from the article "Davis, Elmer") ...reporter and editorial writer for The New York Times when he joined the Columbia Broadcasting System in 1939 as a radio newscaster. He soon gained a national following. Appointed to ...
- war mask
- (from the article "mask") Masks have long been used in military connections. A war mask will have a malevolent expression or hideously fantastic features to instill fear in the enemy. The ancient Greeks and ...
- War Measures Act
- (from the article "Canada") ...British trade commissioner, James Cross, and Quebec's labour minister, Pierre Laporte, who was subsequently murdered. Quebec's government asked for federal intervention, prompting enactment of the War Measures Act, which suspended ...
- War Mobilization, Office of
- (from the article "United States") ...authority to bring order out of the chaos generated as industry converted to war production. He therefore created the War Production Board in January 1942 to coordinate mobilization, and in ...
- War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness, The
- a Dead Sea Scroll, and one of the most important documents of the Essene sect of Jews that established a community at Qumran in the Judaean desert during the first ... [3 Related Articles]
- war on terror
- (from the article "guerrilla warfare") ...passenger aircraft out of the sky. The sea change in public opinion may have come with the September 11 aerial suicide attacks against American targets and with the United States' ...
- War Powers Act
- (from the article "international relations") ...the moment arrived for a legislative counterattack on the executive. This interpretation is borne out by the subsequent congressional acts designed to limit executive freedom in foreign policy. The War ...
- War Production Board
- (from the article "United States") ...establishing mobilization agencies in 1939, but none had sufficient power or authority to bring order out of the chaos generated as industry converted to war production. He therefore created the ...
- 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 Relocation Authority
- (from the article "Nisei") ...following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (Dec. 7, 1941). The U.S. government claimed it was forced by public hysteria, agitation by the press and radio, and military pressure to ...
- War, Department of
- (from the article "United States Army, The") ...during times of crisis and decreased during times of peace. The Constitution (1787) placed the military forces under the control of the president as commander in chief, and in 1789 ...
- 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- war-profits principle
- (from the article "excess-profits tax") a tax levied on profits in excess of a stipulated standard of "normal" income. There are two principles governing the determination of excess profits. One, known as the war-profits principle, ...
- wara'
- (from the article "maqam") ...(repentance), which does not mean remembrance of sins and atonement for them but rather forgetting them along with everything that distracts from the love of God; (2) the maqam of ...
- 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. ...
- Warad-Sin
- (from the article "Larsa") ...already on the road to dominance. The 12th king of the dynasty, Silli-Adad (c. 1835), reigned for only a year and was then deposed by a powerful Elamite, Kutur-Mabuk, who ...
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Warao
- 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 ... [6 Related Articles]
- Waraqah ibn Nawfal
- (from the article "Muhammad") ...Islam to this day. Muhammad returned home, and, when the effect of the great awe in his soul abated, he told Khadijah what had happened. She believed his account and ...
- Waray language
- (from the article "Austronesian languages") Major Austronesian languages include Cebuano, Tagalog, Ilokano, Hiligaynon, Bikol, Waray, Kapampangan, and Pangasinan of the Philippines; Malay, Javanese, Sundanese, Madurese, Minangkabau, the Batak languages, Acehnese, Balinese, and Buginese of western ...
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- warble fly
- any member of a family of insects in the fly order, Diptera, sometimes classified in the family Hypodermatidae. The warble, or bot, flies Hypoderma lineatum and H. bovis are large, ...
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