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- American attorney and prosecutor (b. Nov. 11, 1914, Rockwall, Texas-d. March 1, 2001, Dallas, Texas), served as district attorney of Dallas county from 1951 to 1987; he attracted national attention for his prosecution of Jack Ruby and for his role ...
- Wade, Marion E.
- (from the article "ServiceMaster Company, The") The company was founded by former minor league baseball player Marion E. Wade, who opened a mothproofing business in 1929. After recovering from temporary blindness caused by a chemical accident in 1945, Wade was inspired to create a company that ...
- Wade, Sir Thomas Francis
- British diplomatist and Sinologist who developed the famous Wade-Giles system of romanizing the Chinese language. [3 Related Articles]
- Wade, Virginia
- (from the article "All-England (Wimbledon) Tennis Championships-singles") The first open tournament was the British Hard Courts at Bournemouth in April 1968, where the champions were Ken Rosewall and Virginia Wade. The first open Wimbledon was a joyous occasion, as many past champions who had been stripped of ...
- Wade-Davis Bill
- (1864), unsuccessful attempt by Radical Republicans and others in the U.S. Congress to set Reconstruction policy before the end of the Civil War. The bill, sponsored by senators Benjamin F. Wade and Henry W. Davis, provided for the appointment of ... [5 Related Articles]
- Wade-Giles romanization
- system of romanizing the modern Chinese written language, originally devised to simplify Chinese-language characters for the Western world. Initiated by Sir Thomas Francis Wade, the system was modified by the University of Cambridge professor Herbert ... [3 Related Articles]
- Wadgaon, battle of
- (from the article "Maratha Wars") The first war (1775-82) began with British support for Raghunath Rao's bid for the office of peshwa (chief minister) of the confederacy. The British were defeated at Wadgaon (see Wadgaon, Convention of ) in January 1779, but they continued to ...
- Wadgaon, Convention of
- (Jan. 13, 1779), compact concluded after the First Maratha War in India (1775-82), marking the end of British efforts to intervene in Maratha affairs by making Raghunath Rao peshwa (the nominal leader of the Maratha Confederacy) or at least regent ...
- Wadi al-Jadid, Al-
- desert muhafazah (governorate), southwestern Egypt. It includes the entire southwestern quadrant of the country, from the Nile River valley (east) to the frontiers with The Sudan (south) and Libya (west). Its total area covers approximately two-fifths of ...
- Wadi Al-Murabba'at
- (from the article "Dead Sea Scrolls") The documents were recovered in the Judaean wilderness from five principal sites: Khirbat Qumran, Wadi Al-Murabba'at, Nahal Hever (Wadi Khabrah) and Nahal Ze'elim (Wadi Seiyal), Wadi Daliyeh, and Masada. The first manuscripts, accidentally discovered in 1947 by a shepherd boy ...
- Wadi Halfa
- town, extreme northern Sudan. It lies on the east bank of the Nile River 6 miles (10 km) below the Second Cataract, just south of the Egyptian border. Located within ancient Nubia, the town and its environs are rich in ...
- wadiyar
- (from the article "Karnataka") ...In the latter part of the 16th century the Vijayanagar empire faded, giving place to Mughal power north of the Tungabhadra River and to the rajas of Mysore in the south. In the 17th century the wadiyars ("rulers") of Mysore ...
- Wadjet
- cobra goddess of ancient Egypt. Depicted as a cobra twined around a papyrus stem, she was the tutelary goddess of Lower Egypt. Wadjet and Nekhbet, the vulture-goddess of Upper Egypt, were the protective goddesses of the king and were sometimes ...
- Wadsworth Atheneum
- (from the article "Hartford") ...interest, including the tombstone of the American Revolutionary War hero Israel Putnam. A gem of colonial architecture is the old three-story brick statehouse (1796) designed by Charles Bulfinch. Wadsworth Atheneum, the oldest free public art museum in the United States, ...
- Wadsworth, Charles
- (from the article "Dickinson, Emily") ...her sister and father, who was then ending his term as U.S. representative. On the return trip the sisters made an extended stay in Philadelphia, where it is thought the poet heard the preaching of Charles Wadsworth, a fascinating Presbyterian ...
- Wadsworth, Edward
- (from the article "London Group") ...whose work was strongly influenced by Cubist and Futurist geometry and colour, also joined the London Group. These included the abstract sculptor Jacob Epstein, the Vorticists Wyndham Lewis and Edward Wadsworth, and the Cubist painter David Bomberg.
- Wadud, Amina
- (from the article "Religion") In another intra-Muslim disagreement, Amina Wadud, a professor of Islamic studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, drew the ire of Mideast Muslims when she led a mixed-gender prayer service at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, ...
- Waelhens, Alphonse de
- (from the article "Phenomenology") ...Thus, mainly through Van Breda's efforts, Louvain has become the most important centre for Phenomenology. Van Breda also organized international colloquia on Phenomenology. The influence of Alphonse de Waelhens, a Belgian philosopher of fresh experience and author of
- Waena, Sir Nathaniel
- (from the article "Solomon Islands") Area: 28,370 sq km (10,954 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 495,000 | Capital: Honiara | Chief of state: Queen Elizabeth II, represented by Governor-General Sir Nathaniel Waena | Head of government: Prime Ministers Manasseh Sogavare and, from December 20, ...
- Wafangdian
- city, southern Liaoning sheng (province), northeastern China. It is situated in the south-central part of the Liaodong Peninsula and is an important market centre for an agricultural and fruit-growing area that specializes in apples, pears, and grapes. ...
- Wafd
- (Arabic: "Egyptian Delegation"), nationalist political party that was instrumental in gaining Egyptian independence from Britain. Organized by Sa'd Zaghlul on Nov. 13, 1918, as a permanent delegation of the Egyptian people, it demanded a voice in London and at the ... [8 Related Articles]
- Wafdist Youth, League of
- (from the article "Wafd") About 1937 the Wafd organized the League of Wafdist Youth (Rabitat ash-Shubban al-Wafdiyyin) in order to train future members. The league became a source for the Wafd's paramilitary organization, the Blueshirts, which had its fascist counterpart in the Greenshirts. Until ...
- wafer
- (from the article "baking") Rye wafers made of whipped batters are modern versions of an ancient Scandinavian food. High-moisture dough or batter, containing a substantial amount of rye flour and some wheat flour, is whipped, extruded onto an oven belt, scored and docked, then ...
- wafer-box
- (from the article "inkstand") ...Later inkstands contain a wide variety of accessories, such as a taper stick (a candlestick to hold small tapers), pounce box (for sprinkling pounce, a powdered gum that fixed ink to paper), wafer-box (to hold wafers used to seal letters), ...
- Waffen-SS
- (from the article "Literature") ...but rather Gunter Grass's memoir Beim Hauten der Zwiebel, in which the 1999 Nobel Prize winner publicly acknowledged for the first time his membership, at the age of 17, in the Waffen-SS, the military combat organization of the dreaded Nazi ...
- waffle
- crisp raised cake baked in a waffle iron, a hinged metal griddle with a honeycombed or fancifully engraved surface that allows a thin layer of batter to cook evenly and crisply. Baking powder is the typical leavening in American waffles, ...
- waffle slab
- (from the article "building construction") ...systems are employed. One is the pan joist system, a standardized beam and girder system of constant depth formed with prefabricated sheet-metal forms. A two-way version of pan joists, called the waffle slab, uses prefabricated hollow sheet-metal domes to create ...
- waga
- (from the article "Konso") The Konso are notable for the erection of wagas, memorial statues to a dead man who has killed an enemy or an animal such as a lion or a leopard. These stylized wooden carvings are arranged in groups, representing the ...
- Wagadugu kingdom
- (from the article "western Africa, history of") ...south of Hausaland and of Bornu. However, it has already been suggested that Dagomba (and a number of similar kingdoms in the Volta basin, including Mamprusi) and the Mossi kingdoms-such as Wagadugu (Ouagadougou) and Yatenga (or Wahiguya), north of Dagomba ...
- Wagagai
- (from the article "Elgon, Mount") extinct volcano on the Kenya-Uganda boundary. Its crater, about 5 miles (8 km) in diameter, contains several peaks, of which Wagagai (14,178 feet [4,321 m]) is the highest. Its extrusions cover about 1,250 square miles (3,200 square km) and consist ...
- wage and salary
- income derived from human labour. Technically, wages and salaries cover all compensation made to employees for either physical or mental work, but they do not represent the income of the self-employed. Labour costs are not identical to wage and salary ... [22 Related Articles]
- wage theory
- portion of economic theory that attempts to explain the determination of the payment of labour. [1 Related Articles]
- wage-earner investment fund
- (from the article "Sweden") Unemployment became a central issue of the 1982 parliamentary elections, along with the deficit and a proposal by the Social Democrats to establish a wage-earner investment fund. The Social Democrats won a resounding victory in the elections, and a new ...
- wage-price control
- setting of government guidelines for limiting increases in wages and prices. It is a principal tool in incomes policy (q.v.). [4 Related Articles]
- Wagenseil, Georg Christoph
- (from the article "sonata") In the development of sonata form in orchestral music, particular value attaches to the work of the Austrians Georg Matthias Monn (1717-50) and Georg Christoph Wagenseil (1715-77) and of the Italian Giovanni Battista Sammartini (1701-75). All three played vital roles ...
- Wagenseil, Johann Christoph
- (from the article "encyclopaedia") Before the 19th century, only Johann Wagenseil had produced an encyclopaedia for children-the Pera Librorum Juvenilium (1695; "Collection of Juvenile Books"). Larousse issued Petite Encyclopedie du jeune age ("Small Children's Encyclopaedia") in 1853, but the next, Encyclopedie Larousse des enfants...
- wages-fund theory
- (from the article "wage and salary") Smith said that the demand for labour could not increase except in proportion to the increase of the funds destined for the payment of wages. Ricardo maintained that an increase in capital would result in an increase in the demand ...
- Wagga Wagga
- city, southeastern New South Wales, Australia, situated on the Murrumbidgee River. A service centre for the fertile Riverina district (chiefly wheat and sheep), it is also the site of an agricultural college and research institute, a college of advanced education, ...
- waggle dance
- (from the article "Life Sciences") ...honeybees navigate from their hive to a food source. Honeybees had been the focus of behavioral studies for decades, and many researchers were especially fascinated by the implications of the "waggle dance" performed by honeybees on the vertical surface of ...
- Wagnalls, Adam Willis
- (from the article "Funk, Isaac Kauffman") In 1877, with a former classmate, Adam Willis Wagnalls, he founded I.K. Funk & Company, afterward (from 1891) Funk & Wagnalls Company, in New York City. The firm became best known for A Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1st ...
- Wagner Act
- the single most important piece of labour legislation enacted in the United States in the 20th century. It was enacted to eliminate employers' interference with the autonomous organization of workers into unions. [6 Related Articles]
- Wagner tuba
- (from the article "tuba") Wagner tubas are four-valved, small-bored tubas designed in the 19th century for the German composer Richard Wagner for special effects in his four-part music-drama cycle The Ring of the Nibelung. Basically derived from the French horn, they are played by ...
- Wagner's mustached bat
- (from the article "bat") ...duration varies with the species and the situation. During cruising flight the pulses of the greater false vampire bat (Megaderma lyra) are 1.5 milliseconds (0.0015 second), those of Wagner's mustached bat (Pteronotus personatus) 4 milliseconds, and those of the greater ...
- Wagner's salvia
- (from the article "Salvia") Montane tropical America has many Salvia species, perhaps the most spectacular of which is Wagner's salvia (S. wagneri), or chupamiel, a treelike shrub, native near the mountain lakes of Guatemala. It attains more than 4 metres (13 feet) in height ...
- Wagner, Carl
- German physical chemist and metallurgist who helped advance the understanding of the chemistry of solid-state materials, especially the effects of imperfections at the atomic level on the properties of compounds such as oxides and sulfides, and of metals and alloys.
- Wagner, Cosima
- wife of the composer Richard Wagner and director of the Bayreuth Festivals from his death in 1883 to 1908. [1 Related Articles]
- Wagner, Elin
- (from the article "Swedish literature") The development of the novel was associated with Gustaf Hellstrom, Sigfrid Siwertz, Ludvig Nordstrom, and Elin Wagner. Hellstrom's work as a journalist in Europe, the United States, and England greatly influenced him. Irony and careful detail emerged in his best-known ...
- Wagner, Herbert
- (from the article "military aircraft") ...which linked a compressor, combustion chamber, and turbine in the same duct. In ignorance of Whittle's work, three German engineers independently arrived at the same concept: Hans von Ohain in 1933; Herbert Wagner, chief structural engineer for Junkers, in 1934; ...
- Wagner, Honus
- American professional baseball player, one of the first five men elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame (1936). He was generally considered the greatest shortstop in baseball history and by some was regarded as the finest all-around player in the ...
- Wagner, Katharina
- (from the article "Performing Arts") Controversy erupted during the summer and, to no one's surprise, emanated from the perennial hotbed of scandal, Germany's Bayreuth Festival. Katharina Wagner, a great-granddaughter of composer Richard Wagner, made her directing debut at the annual Wagner festival with a seven-hour ...
- Wagner, Martin von
- (from the article "Western sculpture") ...Subsequent Neoclassicists included Johann Gottfried Schadow, who was also a painter but is better known as a sculptor; his pupil, the sculptor Christian Friedrich Tieck; the painter and sculptor Martin von Wagner; and the sculptor Christian Daniel Rauch.
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