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- 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, Albert
- (from the article "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, Anna Bartlett
- (from the article "Warner, Susan Bogert; and Warner, Anna Bartlett") ...sold in several translations and was reputedly the first book by an American author to sell one million copies. Susan followed with Queechy (under her own name) in 1852, and ...
- Warner, Daniel Sidney
- (from the article "God (Anderson, Indiana), Church of") The fellowship developed from the work of Daniel Sidney Warner, a minister of the General Eldership of the Churches of God in North America. In 1881 Warner and five others ...
- Warner, Harry M.
- (from the article "1938: Other Winners") ...BandSong: "Thanks for the Memory" from The Big Broadcast of 1938; music by Ralph Rainger, lyrics by Leo RobinHonorary Award: J. Arthur Ball, Deanna Durbin, Mickey Rooney, Harry M. WarnerHonorary ...
- Warner, Jack
- American motion-picture producer, best known of the four brothers-Harry (1881-1958), Albert (1884-1967), Samuel (1888-1927), and Jack-who founded Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. (q.v.), which became one of Hollywood's Big Five studios. [2 Related Articles]
- Warner, Kurt
- With 1 minute 54 seconds left to play and the score tied 16-16 in Super Bowl XXXIV on Jan. 30, 2000, St. Louis Rams quarterback Kurt Warner lofted a 73-yd ...
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- 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. [2 Related Articles]
- Warner, Samuel
- (from the article "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, Sir Thomas
- (from the article "Montserrat") ...to the Americas. Columbus named the island for the abbey of Montserrat in Spain. It was colonized in 1632 by Irish Catholics from nearby Saint Kitts (Saint Christopher), who were ...
- Warner, Susan Bogert
- (from the article "Warner, Susan Bogert; and Warner, Anna Bartlett") In 1851 Susan published a novel entitled The Wide, Wide World under the pseudonym Elizabeth Wetherell. Sentimental and moralistic, the book proved highly popular; it was widely sold in several ...
- 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. [1 Related Articles]
- 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. [1 Related Articles]
- Warner-Reprise Records
- (from the article "Los Angeles 1960s overview") ...a record subsidiary that achieved its early success mainly through out-of-town artists including the Everly Brothers (from Nashville, Tennessee) and Peter, Paul and Mary (from the East Coast). Warner-Reprise resulted ...
- warning period
- (from the article "collective behaviour") Although individuals read widely different meanings into disaster warnings, the striking feature of this initial stage is the slowness to believe and the reluctance to act upon warnings. People often ...
- warning sign
- (from the article "roads and highways") ...hazards and navigation. They are classified as regulatory signs, which provide notice of traffic laws and regulations (e.g., signs for speed limits and for stop, yield or give-way, and no ...
- warning system
- in military science, any method used to detect the situation or intention of an enemy so that warning can be given.
- Warning, Mount
- (from the article "McPherson Range") ...region, the range rises to its highest point at West Barney Peak, 4,459 feet (1,359 m). In 1770 the British navigator Captain James Cook sighted the range from the coast; ...
- Warnke, Paul Culliton
- American lawyer and government figure (b. Jan. 31, 1920, Webster, Mass.-d. Oct. 31, 2001, Washington, D.C.), while serving as assistant defense secretary for international security affairs-the Pentagon's third highest position-under ...
- Warnlof, Anna Lisa
- (from the article "children's literature") ...developed by Maria Gripe, whose Hugo and Josephine trilogy may become classic; Gunnel Linde's Tacka vet jag Skorstensgrand (1959; Eng. trans., Chimney-Top Lane, 1965); and Anna Lisa Warnlof, writing under ...
- Warnock, John
- (from the article "Adobe Systems Incorporated") The company was founded in 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke. While employed at Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto (California) Research Center (PARC), the two computer scientists had developed a ...
- warp
- (from the article "rug and carpet") ...a woven textile with those of animal fleece. Knotted pile is constructed on the loom on a foundation of woven yarns, of which the horizontal yarns are called weft yarns ...
- warp knit
- (from the article "knitting") ...can generally be stretched to a greater degree than woven types. The two basic types of knits are the weft, or filling knits-including plain, rib, purl, pattern, and double knits-and ...
- warp-pile fabric
- (from the article "textile") In warp-pile fabrics the pile is formed by an extra set of warp yarns. To create such a fabric, first one set (sheet) of ground warps is raised, and the ...
- warp-weighted loom
- (from the article "textile") In addition to the horizontal two-bar loom, there are two other primitive varieties, the warp-weighted and the vertical two-bar loom. The warp-weighted loom consists of a crossbar supported by two ...
- warping
- (from the article "wood") Dimensional changes in wood caused by shrinkage and swelling can result in opening or tightening of joints, change of cross-sectional shape, warping, checking (formation of cracks), case-hardening (release of stresses ...
- Warragamba Dam
- (from the article "Burragorang, Lake") ...With a surface area of about 34 square miles (88 square km) and an average depth of 76 feet (23 m), the lake holds 1,696,000 acre-feet (2,092,000,000 cubic m) of ...
- 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- Warrant Design
- (from the article "Wren, Sir Christopher") ...satisfy the canons of St. Paul's and clerical opinion generally, however, and Wren was compelled to withdraw from the ideal and compromise with the traditional. In 1675 he proposed the ...
- warrant of commitment
- (from the article "warrant") ...Statutes ordinarily define the types of property subject to seizure; many of them restrict these categories to such objects as stolen property, weapons, and gambling equipment. Other judicial warrants include ...
- warranty
- (from the article "insurance") In the field of ocean marine insurance there are two general types of warranties that must be considered: express and implied. Express warranties are promises written into the contract. There ...
- Warrawoona belt
- (from the article "Precambrian time") ...belts of Zimbabwe; the Yellowknife belts in the Slave province of Canada; the Abitibi, Wawa, Wabigoon, and Quetico belts of the Superior province of Canada; the Dharwar belts in India; ...
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 Gen. Joseph Warren, ...
- 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. ... [4 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [4 Related Articles]
- 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, Harry
- (from the article "1935: Other Winners") ...Dark AngelScoring: RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Max Steiner, head of department, for The InformerSong: "Lullaby Of Broadway" from Gold Diggers of 1935; music by Harry Warren, lyrics by Al ...
- 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- 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, Lavinia
- (from the article "Stratton, Charles") ...him for his museum, but Barnum publicized him as General Tom Thumb, an 11-year-old dwarf from England; he quickly became a celebrated figure in the United States and abroad. In ...
- Warren, Leonard
- American operatic baritone known for his work in operas of Ruggero Leoncavallo and Giacomo Puccini.
- Warren, Marjory
- (from the article "gerontology and geriatrics") Marjory Warren in Britain in the 1930s demonstrated that specific care plans for chronically ill older patients, previously considered to have "irremediable" conditions, could prevent many of the worst consequences ...
- Warren, Martin
- (from the article "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 ...
- 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, Mount
- (from the article "Wind River Range") ...The range extends for 100 miles (160 km) northwest-southeast to the Sweetwater River and is part of the Continental Divide. Many peaks in the range are above 12,000 feet (3,658 ...
- Warren, Rick
- The phenomenal influence of a book titled The Purpose-Driven Life won its author, Rick Warren, a reputation in 2004 as perhaps the most influential pastor in the U.S. Within two ... [1 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- 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 ...
- Warrick, Ruth
- American actress (b. June 29, 1916, St. Joseph, Mo.-d. Jan. 15, 2005, New York, N.Y.), had her best screen role in the first of her more than 30 films when ...
- Warring States
- (475-221 BC), designation forseven or more small feuding Chinese kingdoms whose careers collectively constitute an era in Chinese history. The Warring States period was one of the most fertile and ... [11 Related Articles]
- Warrington
- urban area and unitary authority, geographic county of Cheshire, England. It lies along the River Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal between Liverpool and Manchester. The historic core of Warrington ... [1 Related Articles]
- warrior
- (from the article "Europe, history of") The new lords of the land identified themselves primarily as warriors. Because new technologies of warfare, including heavy cavalry, were expensive, fighting men required substantial material resources as well as ...
- Warrior
- (from the article "tank") ...Vehicle, introduced in the 1980s. This 10-man vehicle weighed 22.6 tons and had a two-man turret with a 25-millimetre cannon and a TOW antitank missile launcher. Its British equivalent was ...
- warrior caste
- (from the article "South American nomad") ...the clearest form of social stratification, which, although pre-Spanish, crystallized with the coming of the horse and the intensification of warfare. Caduveo society became stratified into nobles, warriors, serfs, and ...
- Warriston, Archibald Johnston, Lord
- Scottish Presbyterian who was a leading anti-Royalist during the English Civil Wars between the Royalists and the Parliamentarians. Later he became an official in Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth regime. He was ...
- Warrnambool
- city, southwestern Victoria, Australia, on Lady Bay, near the mouth of Hopkins River. The bay, too shallow for modern ships, was first visited in 1802 by Nicolas Baudin, a French ...
- Warrumbungle Range
- mountain chain in northern New South Wales, Australia. Extending northwest for 80 mi (130 km) and volcanic in origin, the massif rises abruptly from a plain to an average elevation ...
- Wars of Yahweh, Book of the
- lost document referred to and quoted in the Old Testament (Num. 21:14ff.). The book is probably a collection of early Israelite war songs including hymns of victory, curses, mocking songs, ...
- Warsak Dam
- (from the article "Indus River") ...the Swat Canals, which flow from the Swat River, a tributary of the Kabul River. These canals help in the irrigation of the two chief crops of the area, sugarcane ...
- Warsaw
- city, capital of Poland. Located in the east-central part of the country, Warsaw is also the capital of Mazowieckie wojewodztwo (province). [13 Related Articles]
- Warsaw Convention
- (from the article "carriage of goods") The Warsaw Convention of 1929, as amended by the Hague Protocol of 1955, exemplifies still another legislative approach to problems raised by the carriage of goods. It constitutes a major ...
- Warsaw Ghetto
- (from the article "Warsaw Ghetto Uprising") As part of Adolf Hitler's "final solution" for ridding Europe of Jews, the Nazis established ghettos in areas under German control to confine Jews until they could be executed. The ...
- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
- resistance by Polish Jews under Nazi occupation in 1943 to the deportations from Warsaw to the Treblinka extermination camp. The revolt began on April 19, 1943, and was crushed four ... [4 Related Articles]
- Warsaw grouper
- (from the article "jewfish") The Warsaw grouper (E. nigritus), living in the Atlantic between South Carolina and Brazil, and the giant sea bass (Stereolepis gigas) from the Pacific, off California and Baja California, are ...
- Warsaw Pact
- treaty establishing a mutual-defense organization (Warsaw Treaty Organization) composed originally of the Soviet Union and Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. (Albania withdrew in 1968, and East ... [12 Related Articles]
- Warsaw Positivism
- (from the article "Poland") ...agenda after 1870. Blaming romantic idealism for the catastrophic uprising, people rejected political activities and extolled the value of "organic work," progress, and modernization. Warsaw Positivism, deriving its name and ...
- Warsaw school
- (from the article "Lesniewski, Stanislaw") Polish logician and mathematician who was a co-founder and leading representative of the Warsaw school of logic.
- Warsaw Securities Exchange
- (from the article "Poland") ...below three million, or to 19%. In October the treasury floated 30% of Poland's largest bank, the state-owned PKO BP; this was the largest offering in the history of the ...
- Warsaw Treaty Organization
- (from the article "Warsaw Pact") treaty establishing a mutual-defense organization (Warsaw Treaty Organization) composed originally of the Soviet Union and Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. (Albania withdrew in 1968, and East ...
- Warsaw Uprising
- (August-October 1944), insurrection in Warsaw during World War II by which Poles unsuccessfully tried to oust the German army and seize control of the city before it was occupied by ... [3 Related Articles]
- Warsaw, Battle of
- (from the article "Frederick William") ...Charles Gustav rapidly overran Poland and advanced against East Prussia, Frederick William had to exchange Polish for Swedish suzerainty and provide armed support to Charles Gustav. In the three-day Battle ...
- Warsaw, Battle of
- (from the article "Poland") ...Ukrainian leader Symon Petlyura, whose troops accompanied the Poles as they captured Kiev in May, Poland fought in isolation. An offensive by the Red Army drove the Poles back to ...
- Warsaw, Compact of
- (Jan. 28, 1573), charter that guaranteed absolute religious liberty to all non-Roman Catholics in Poland. After the death of Sigismund II Augustus (July 1572) had brought an end to the ... [2 Related Articles]
- Warsaw, Duchy of
- independent Polish state created by Napoleon. It became a focal point of efforts to restore the Polish nation, which had been destroyed by the partitions of Poland made by Russia, ... [8 Related Articles]
- Warsaw, Treaty of
- (from the article "Ukraine") Petlyura's negotiations with the Polish government of Jozef Pilsudski culminated in the Treaty of Warsaw, signed in April 1920; by the terms of the agreement, in return for Polish military ...
- warship
- (from the article "ship") The basic functions of the warship and cargo ship determined their design. Because fighting ships required speed, adequate space for substantial numbers of fighting men, and the ability to maneuver ...
- wart
- a well-defined growth of varying shape and size on the skin surface, caused by a virus. Essentially an infectious, benign skin tumour, a wart is composed of an abnormal proliferation ... [4 Related Articles]
- wart barnacle
- (from the article "cirripede") The third suborder of sessile barnacles, the Verrucomorpha, or wart barnacles, differs from the first two suborders in having the plates of the wall and operculum asymmetrically arranged. With the ...
- wart snake
- (genus Acrochordus), any of three species of fish-eating aquatic snakes occurring from southern Asia to northern Australia, constituting the family Acrochordidae, which is sometimes considered a subfamily of the Colubridae. ... [1 Related Articles]
- Warta River
- river in west-central Poland, flowing 502 miles (808 km) north and west from its source near Zawiercie in the Silesian-Krakow uplands to its confluence with the Oder River at Kostrzyn ...
- Wartburg
- castle, renowned in German history and legend, standing on a steep hill overlooking the town of Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany. The hill was fortified as early as 1080. The landgrave Hermann ... [2 Related Articles]
- Wartburg Festival
- (from the article "Austria") ...may have desired good government, but his reputation as an oppressor gained considerable credence after 1815. Protests against conservative policies by a gathering of German students (at the Wartburg Festival) ...
- Warthe substage
- (from the article "Saale Glacial Stage") It is probable that the Saale episode of glaciation was complex: at least three phases are recognized. These are the Drente, Treene, and Warthe substages. The Drente and Warthe represent ...
- warthog
- (Phacochoerus aethiopicus), member of the pig family, Suidae (order Artiodactyla), found in open and lightly forested areas of Africa. The warthog is a sparsely haired, large-headed, blackish or brown animal ... [2 Related Articles]
- Warton, Joseph
- English critic and classical scholar who anticipated some of the critical tenets of Romanticism. His brother Thomas was poet laureate from 1785 to 1790.
- Warton, Thomas, the Younger
- poet laureate from 1785 and author of the first history of English poetry, brother of the poet and critic Joseph Warton, and son of Thomas Warton the Elder (1688?-1745), professor ... [1 Related Articles]
- Warwick
- city, southeastern Queensland, Australia, on the Condamine River, in the southern Darling Downs. It became associated with sheep breeding in 1840 when Patrick Leslie, the area's first settler, who later ...
- Warwick
- city, Kent county, east-central Rhode Island, U.S., on the western shore of Narragansett Bay; it is basically a southern residential suburb of Providence comprising a group of about 20 scattered ... [1 Related Articles]
- Warwick
- district in the central part of the administrative and historic county of Warwickshire, central England. It lies on the southern fringe of the Midlands industrial region, just south of the ...
- Warwick
- town ("parish"), Warwick district, administrative and historic county of Warwickshire, central England, best known for its historic castle. Warwick originated at a crossing place on the River Avon and was ...
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