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33,105 | # Wargame
## Professional vs recreational {#professional_vs_recreational}
right\|thumb\|upright=1\|A professional wargame at the US Marine Corps War College (April 2019) right\|thumb\|upright=1\|A recreational wargame (*Here I Stand*) in play at CSW Expo 2009 *Main article: Professional wargaming, Recreational wargam... | 504 | Wargame | 1 |
33,105 | # Wargame
## Overview
The exact definition of \"wargame\" varies from one writer to the next and one organization to the next. To prevent confusion, this section will establish the general definition employed by this article.
- A wargame simulates an armed conflict, be it a battle, a campaign, or an entire war. *B... | 827 | Wargame | 2 |
33,105 | # Wargame
## Design issues {#design_issues}
### Realism
A wargame must simulate warfare to a reasonable degree of realism, though what counts as sufficient realism depends on the players. Military wargames need to be highly realistic because their purpose is to prepare officers for real warfare. Recreational wargame... | 1,055 | Wargame | 3 |
33,105 | # Wargame
## Types
### Miniature
*Main article: Miniature wargaming*Miniature wargaming is a form of wargaming where units on the battlefield are represented by miniature models, as opposed to abstract pieces such as wooden blocks or plastic counters. Likewise, the battlefield itself is represented by model terrain,... | 971 | Wargame | 4 |
33,105 | # Wargame
## Types
### Computer-assisted {#computer_assisted}
*Main article: Computer-assisted gaming* In the recent years, programs have been developed for computer-assisted gaming as regards to wargaming. Two different categories can be distinguished: local computer assisted wargames and remote computer assisted wa... | 696 | Wargame | 5 |
33,105 | # Wargame
## History
### Early Prussian wargames (1780--1806) {#early_prussian_wargames_17801806}
The first wargame was invented in Prussia in 1780 by Johann Christian Ludwig Hellwig. Hellwig\'s wargame was the first true wargame because it attempted to be realistic enough to teach useful lessons in military strateg... | 631 | Wargame | 6 |
33,105 | # Wargame
## History
### *Kriegsspiel* (1824) {#kriegsspiel_1824}
In 1824, a Prussian army officer named Georg Heinrich Rudolf Johann von Reisswitz presented to the Prussian General Staff a highly realistic wargame that he and his father had developed over the years. Instead of a chess-like grid, this game was played... | 842 | Wargame | 7 |
33,105 | # Wargame
## History
### Miniature wargaming {#miniature_wargaming}
The English writer H. G. Wells developed codified rules for playing with toy soldiers, which he published in a book titled *Little Wars* (1913). This is widely remembered as the first rulebook for miniature wargaming (for terrestrial armies, at least... | 604 | Wargame | 8 |
33,105 | # Wargame
## History
### Board wargaming (1954--present) {#board_wargaming_1954present}
*Main article: Board wargame* The first successful commercial board wargame was *Tactics* (1954) by an American named Charles S. Roberts. What distinguished this wargame from previous ones is that it was mass-produced and all the ... | 206 | Wargame | 9 |
33,105 | # Wargame
## Notable people {#notable_people}
### Wargaming as a hobby {#wargaming_as_a_hobby}
- Georg von Reisswitz, who with his father invented *Kriegsspiel*.
- H.G. Wells -- Pioneer in miniature wargaming, author of *Little Wars*. His usual companion in wargames was Jerome K. Jerome (of *Three Men in a Boat*... | 381 | Wargame | 10 |
33,105 | # Wargame
## Notable examples {#notable_examples}
### Board {#board_1}
While a comprehensive list will show the variety of titles, the following games are notable for the reasons indicated:
- ***Diplomacy*** -- (1954) a classic multi-player game from the \"golden age\" of wargames in which strategy is exercised o... | 649 | Wargame | 11 |
33,105 | # Wargame
## Notable examples {#notable_examples}
### Miniature {#miniature_1}
- ***Rules for the Jane Naval War Game*** (S. Low, Marston, 1898) -- The first published miniature wargame. A 26-page rule set limited to naval miniature battles. It came in a crate measuring 4 ft. X 4 ft. X 2 ft. Written by Fred Jane. A... | 619 | Wargame | 12 |
33,105 | # Wargame
## Notable examples {#notable_examples}
### Computer {#computer_1}
- ***Wars*** -- (Nintendo and Intelligent Systems, with Kuju Entertainment) -- a series of turn-based wargames released for the Nintendo Entertainment System, SNES, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, GameCube, Wii, DS and Switch, respectively, fe... | 849 | Wargame | 13 |
33,108 | # Canellales
**Canellales** is the botanical name for an order of flowering plants, one of the four orders of the magnoliids. It is recognized by the most recent classification of flowering plants, the APG IV system. It is defined to contain two families: Canellaceae and Winteraceae, which comprise 136 species of frag... | 238 | Canellales | 0 |
33,117 | # William Barnes
**William Barnes** (22 February 1801 -- 7 October 1886) was an English polymath, writer, poet, philologist, priest, mathematician, engraving artist and inventor. He wrote over 800 poems, some in Dorset dialect, and much other work, including a comprehensive English grammar quoting from more than 70 di... | 858 | William Barnes | 0 |
33,117 | # William Barnes
## Life and work {#life_and_work}
### Style
Uniquely fond of the Dorset dialect, which he felt to be particularly near to English\'s Anglo-Saxon roots, Barnes wrote many of his poems in the local parlance of Dorset. Additionally, as well as avoiding the use of foreign words in his poetry, Barnes freq... | 85 | William Barnes | 1 |
33,123 | # Wireless Valley
***Wireless Valley*** is a term that was coined by Professor Ted Rappaport in 1990 when he was a faculty member at Virginia Tech, and was used to describe the Roanoke/Blacksburg, Virginia region and the potential of research to create spin-out companies. In 1990 he and his students founded TSR Techno... | 252 | Wireless Valley | 0 |
33,125 | # Wavelength
In physics and mathematics, **wavelength** or **spatial period** of a wave or periodic function is the distance over which the wave\'s shape repeats. In other words, it is the distance between consecutive corresponding points of the same *phase* on the wave, such as two adjacent crests, troughs, or zero c... | 277 | Wavelength | 0 |
33,125 | # Wavelength
## Sinusoidal waves {#sinusoidal_waves}
In linear media, any wave pattern can be described in terms of the independent propagation of sinusoidal components. The wavelength *λ* of a sinusoidal waveform traveling at constant speed *$v$* is given by $\lambda = \frac{v}{f}\,\,,$ where $v$ is called the phase... | 711 | Wavelength | 1 |
33,125 | # Wavelength
## Sinusoidal waves {#sinusoidal_waves}
### General media {#general_media}
The speed of a wave depends upon the medium in which it propagates. In particular, the speed of light in a medium is less than in vacuum, which means that the same frequency will correspond to a shorter wavelength in the medium th... | 738 | Wavelength | 2 |
33,125 | # Wavelength
## More general waveforms {#more_general_waveforms}
The concept of wavelength is most often applied to sinusoidal, or nearly sinusoidal, waves, because in a linear system the sinusoid is the unique shape that propagates with no shape change -- just a phase change and potentially an amplitude change. The ... | 474 | Wavelength | 3 |
33,125 | # Wavelength
## Interference and diffraction {#interference_and_diffraction}
### Double-slit interference {#double_slit_interference}
When sinusoidal waveforms add, they may reinforce each other (constructive interference) or cancel each other (destructive interference) depending upon their relative phase. This phen... | 566 | Wavelength | 4 |
33,125 | # Wavelength
## Interference and diffraction {#interference_and_diffraction}
### Diffraction-limited resolution {#diffraction_limited_resolution}
Diffraction is the fundamental limitation on the resolving power of optical instruments, such as telescopes (including radiotelescopes) and microscopes. For a circular aper... | 359 | Wavelength | 5 |
33,125 | # Wavelength
## Angular wavelength {#angular_wavelength}
A quantity related to the wavelength is the **angular wavelength** (also known as **reduced wavelength**), usually symbolized by *ƛ* (\"lambda-bar\" or barred lambda). It is equal to the ordinary wavelength reduced by a factor of 2π (`{{nowrap|1=''ƛ'' = ''λ''/2... | 91 | Wavelength | 6 |
33,134 | # World music
\"**World music**\" is an English phrase for styles of music from non-English speaking countries, including quasi-traditional, intercultural, and traditional music. World music\'s broad nature and elasticity as a musical category pose obstacles to a universal definition, but its ethic of interest in the ... | 445 | World music | 0 |
33,134 | # World music
## Hybrid examples {#hybrid_examples}
Since the music industry established this term, the fuller scope of what an average music consumer defines as \"world\" music in today\'s market has grown to include various blends of ethnic music tradition, style and interpretation, and derivative world music genre... | 427 | World music | 1 |
33,134 | # World music
## Precursors
Millie Small released \"My Boy Lollipop\" in 1964. Small\'s version was a hit, reaching number 2 both in the UK Singles Chart and in the US *Billboard* Hot 100. In the 1960s, Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela had popular hits in the USA. In 1969 Indian musician Ravi Shankar played sitar at t... | 311 | World music | 2 |
33,134 | # World music
## Popular genres {#popular_genres}
Although it primarily describes traditional music, the world music category also includes popular music from non-Western urban communities (e.g. South African \"township\" music) and non-European music forms that have been influenced by other so-called third-world mus... | 606 | World music | 3 |
33,134 | # World music
## Relationship to immigration and multiculturalism {#relationship_to_immigration_and_multiculturalism}
In most wealthy industrialized countries, large amounts of immigration from other regions has been ongoing for many decades. This has introduced non-Western music to Western audiences not only as \"ex... | 589 | World music | 4 |
33,134 | # World music
## Radio programs {#radio_programs}
World music radio programs today often play African hip hop or reggae artists, crossover Bhangra and Latin American jazz groups, etc. Common media for world music include public radio, webcasting, the BBC, NPR, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. By default, ... | 389 | World music | 5 |
33,134 | # World music
## Festivals
Many festivals are identified as being \"world music\"; here\'s a small representative selection:
- The WOMAD Foundation organizes festivals in countries around the world.
**Australia**
- The Globe to Globe World Music Festival takes place in the City of Kingston, Melbourne, for 2 da... | 1,331 | World music | 6 |
33,143 | # Wireless LAN
A **wireless LAN** (**WLAN**) is a wireless computer network that links two or more devices using wireless communication to form a local area network (LAN) within a limited area such as a home, school, computer laboratory, campus, or office building. This gives users the ability to move around within th... | 458 | Wireless LAN | 0 |
33,143 | # Wireless LAN
## Architecture
### Stations
All components that can connect into a wireless medium in a network are referred to as stations. All stations are equipped with wireless network interface controllers. Wireless stations fall into two categories: wireless access points (WAPs) and clients. WAPs are base stat... | 295 | Wireless LAN | 1 |
33,143 | # Wireless LAN
## Types of wireless LANs {#types_of_wireless_lans}
The IEEE 802.11 has two basic modes of operation: *infrastructure* and *ad hoc* mode. In ad hoc mode, mobile units communicate directly peer-to-peer. In infrastructure mode, mobile units communicate through a wireless access point (WAP) that also serv... | 574 | Wireless LAN | 2 |
33,143 | # Wireless LAN
## Types of wireless LANs {#types_of_wireless_lans}
### Wireless distribution system {#wireless_distribution_system}
A wireless distribution system (WDS) enables the wireless interconnection of access points in an IEEE 802.11 network. It allows a wireless network to be expanded using multiple access po... | 483 | Wireless LAN | 3 |
33,143 | # Wireless LAN
## Common issues {#common_issues}
WLAN signals often extends beyond the boundaries of a building and can create coverage where it is unwanted, offering a channel through which non-residents or other unauthorized people could compromise a system and retrieve personal data. To prevent this it is usually ... | 66 | Wireless LAN | 4 |
33,161 | # Ward Cunningham
**Howard G. Cunningham** (born May 26, 1949) is an American computer programmer who developed the first wiki and was a co-author of the *Manifesto for Agile Software Development*. Called a pioneer, and innovator, he also helped create both software design patterns and extreme programming. He began co... | 362 | Ward Cunningham | 0 |
33,161 | # Ward Cunningham
## Ideas and inventions {#ideas_and_inventions}
Cunningham is well known for a few widely disseminated ideas which he originated and developed. The most famous among these are the wiki and many ideas in the field of software design patterns, made popular by the Gang of Four (GoF). He owns the compan... | 449 | Ward Cunningham | 1 |
33,176 | # Demon dialing
In the computer hacking scene of the 1980s, **demon dialing** was a technique by which a computer was used to repeatedly dial a number (usually to a crowded modem pool) in an attempt to gain access immediately after another user had hung up. The expansion of accessible internet service provider connect... | 374 | Demon dialing | 0 |
33,202 | # Demographics of Wallis and Futuna
Demographic features of the population of Wallis and Futuna include population density, ethnicity, religious affiliations and other aspects. Statistics are from INSEE and the United Nations Demographic Yearbooks.
## Population
Between July 24 and August 19, 2023, 11,151 people wer... | 642 | Demographics of Wallis and Futuna | 0 |
33,202 | # Demographics of Wallis and Futuna
## Languages
- Wallisian (indigenous Polynesian language): 58.9%
- Futunian: 30.1%
- French (officials): 10.8%.
- Other: 0 | 24 | Demographics of Wallis and Futuna | 1 |
33,204 | # Economy of Wallis and Futuna
This page is an overview of the **economy of Wallis and Futuna**.
## Finance
The GDP of Wallis and Futuna in 2005 was 188 million US dollars at market exchange rates. The GDP per capita was 12,640 US dollars in 2005 (at market exchange rates, not at PPP), which is lower than in New Cal... | 303 | Economy of Wallis and Futuna | 0 |
33,221 | # History of Western Sahara
The **history of Western Sahara** can be traced back to the times of Carthaginian explorer Hanno the Navigator in the 5th century BC. Though few historical records are left from that period, Western Sahara\'s modern history has its roots linked to some nomadic groups (living under Berber tr... | 877 | History of Western Sahara | 0 |
33,221 | # History of Western Sahara
## Zawiyas
An important role was played by the zawiyas. These zawiya tribes became the tribes of the teachers, specialists of religion, law and education.
## Arabization of the mujahideen (13th and 14th century) {#arabization_of_the_mujahideen_13th_and_14th_century}
In the 13th and 14th ... | 857 | History of Western Sahara | 1 |
33,221 | # History of Western Sahara
## Armed conflict (1975--1991) {#armed_conflict_19751991}
In late 1975, Spain held meetings with Polisario leader El-Ouali, to negotiate the terms for a handover of power. But at the same time, Morocco and Mauritania began to put pressure on the Franco government: both countries argued tha... | 960 | History of Western Sahara | 2 |
33,221 | # History of Western Sahara
## Armed conflict (1975--1991) {#armed_conflict_19751991}
### Cease-fire {#cease_fire}
In 1991, Morocco and the Polisario Front agreed on a UN-backed cease-fire in the Settlement Plan. This plan, its further detail fleshed out in the 1997 Houston Agreement, hinged upon Morocco\'s agreement... | 758 | History of Western Sahara | 3 |
33,222 | # Geography of Western Sahara
Western Sahara is a territory in Northern Africa, bordered by the North Atlantic Ocean, Morocco proper, Algeria (Tindouf region), and Mauritania. Geographic coordinates: 24 30 N 13 00 W type:country
## Size of Western Sahara {#size_of_western_sahara}
The size of Western Sahara, a region... | 805 | Geography of Western Sahara | 0 |
33,222 | # Geography of Western Sahara
## Extreme points {#extreme_points}
This is a list of the extreme points of Western Sahara, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location | 34 | Geography of Western Sahara | 1 |
33,224 | # Politics of Western Sahara
The **politics of Western Sahara** take place in a framework of an area claimed by both the partially recognized Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and the Kingdom of Morocco.
Occupied by Spain from 1884 to 1975, as Spanish Sahara, the territory has been listed with the United Nations as a ... | 612 | Politics of Western Sahara | 0 |
33,227 | # Transport in Western Sahara
**Transport in Western Sahara** is very limited by sea, road and air with camels being the primary means of transportation in the desert area. Road transport by buses remain the major mode of transportation. The longest conveyor belt in the world is 100 km long, from the phosphate mines o... | 612 | Transport in Western Sahara | 0 |
33,227 | # Transport in Western Sahara
## Ports
The major port in Western Sahara is Ad Dakhla - small docking facility (Port Marchand Lassarga/Port-Îlot) located in a shelter bay south of the airport, Cabo Bojador - small port with fishing boats store inland and Laayoune (El Aaiun) - major deep water port facility; used by ve... | 192 | Transport in Western Sahara | 1 |
33,236 | # Word processor (electronic device)
A **word processor** is an electronic device (later a computer software application) for text, composing, editing, formatting, and printing.
The word processor was a stand-alone office machine developed in the 1960s, combining the keyboard text-entry and printing functions of an e... | 445 | Word processor (electronic device) | 0 |
33,236 | # Word processor (electronic device)
## Characteristics
Word processors evolved dramatically once they became software programs rather than dedicated machines. They can usefully be distinguished from text editors, the category of software they evolved from.
A text editor is a program that is used for typing, copying... | 442 | Word processor (electronic device) | 1 |
33,236 | # Word processor (electronic device)
## History
Word processors are descended from the Friden Flexowriter, which had two punched tape stations and permitted switching from one to the other (thus enabling what was called the \"chain\" or \"form letter\", one tape containing names and addresses, and the other the body ... | 1,100 | Word processor (electronic device) | 2 |
33,236 | # Word processor (electronic device)
## History
### Dedicated models {#dedicated_models}
In 1972, Stephen Bernard Dorsey, Founder and President of Canadian company Automatic Electronic Systems (AES), introduced the world\'s first programmable word processor with a video screen. The real breakthrough by Dorsey\'s AES ... | 626 | Word processor (electronic device) | 3 |
33,236 | # Word processor (electronic device)
## History
### WYSIWYG models {#wysiwyg_models}
Electric Pencil, released in December 1976, was the first word processor software for microcomputers. Software-based word processors running on general-purpose personal computers gradually displaced dedicated word processors, and the... | 505 | Word processor (electronic device) | 4 |
33,254 | # WorldForge
The **WorldForge** project is producing an open source framework for massively multiplayer online role-playing games. The intent lies in creating a widely used development framework and set of libraries by motivating interested developers to improve on the original source code.
## History
The WorldForge... | 582 | WorldForge | 0 |
33,263 | # Widescreen
**Widescreen** images are displayed within a set of aspect ratios (relationship of image width to height) used in film, television and computer screens. In film, a widescreen film is any film image with a width-to-height aspect ratio greater than 4:3 (1.33:1).
For TV, the original screen ratio for broadc... | 687 | Widescreen | 0 |
33,263 | # Widescreen
## Film
### Types
***Masked**\'\' (or***flat**\'\') widescreen was introduced in April 1953. The negative is shot exposing the Academy ratio using spherical lenses, but the top and bottom of the picture are hidden or masked off by a metal aperture plate, cut to specifications of the theater\'s screen, in... | 1,062 | Widescreen | 1 |
33,263 | # Widescreen
## Television
The original screen ratio for TV broadcasts was 4:3 (1.33:1). This was the same aspect ratio as most cinema screens and films at the time TV was first sold commercially. 1930s and 1940s films in 4:3, such as *Gone with the Wind*, have always been displayed on television in 4:3, filling the ... | 573 | Widescreen | 2 |
33,266 | # Władysław Reymont
**Władysław Stanisław Reymont** (`{{IPA|pl|vwaˈdɨswaf ˈrɛjmɔnt|lang}}`{=mediawiki}; born **Rejment**; 7 May 1867 -- 5 December 1925) was a Polish novelist and the laureate of the 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel *Chłopi* (*The Peasants*).
B... | 321 | Władysław Reymont | 0 |
33,266 | # Władysław Reymont
## Life
Reymont was born in the village of Kobiele Wielkie, near Radomsko, as one of the nine children of Józef Rejment, an organist. His mother, Antonina Kupczyńska, had a talent for story-telling. She descended from the impoverished Polish nobility from the Kraków region. Reymont spent his child... | 278 | Władysław Reymont | 1 |
33,266 | # Władysław Reymont
## Work
When his *Korespondencje* (*Correspondence*) from Rogów, Koluszki and Skierniewice was accepted for publication by *Głos* (*The Voice*) in Warsaw in 1892, he returned to Warsaw, with several unpublished short stories and just a few rubles. Reymont visited the editorial offices of newspaper... | 362 | Władysław Reymont | 2 |
33,266 | # Władysław Reymont
## Nobel Prize {#nobel_prize}
In November 1924 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature over rivals Thomas Mann, George Bernard Shaw and Thomas Hardy, after he had been nominated by Anders Österling, member of the Swedish Academy. Public opinion in Poland supported this recognition for Stefan... | 338 | Władysław Reymont | 3 |
33,266 | # Władysław Reymont
## Major books {#major_books}
Critics admit a number of similarities between Reymont and the Naturalists. They stress that this was not a \"borrowed\" Naturalism but rather a record of life as experienced by the writer. Moreover, Reymont never formulated an aesthetic of his writing. In that, he re... | 732 | Władysław Reymont | 4 |
33,266 | # Władysław Reymont
## Works
- *Pielgrzymka do Jasnej Góry* (*A Pilgrimage to Jasna Góra*, 1895)
- *Komediantka (book)* (*The Deceiver*, 1896)
- *Fermenty* (*Ferments*, 1897)
- *Ziemia obiecana* (*The Promised Land*, 1898)
- *Lili : żałosna idylla (Lily: A Pathetic Idyll 1899)*
- *Sprawiedliwie (Justly, 1... | 207 | Władysław Reymont | 5 |
33,273 | # William Crossing
**William Crossing** (1847--1928) was a writer and chronicler of Dartmoor and the lives of its inhabitants. He lived successively in South Brent, Brentor and Mary Tavy but died in Plymouth, Devon.
## Early life {#early_life}
Crossing was born in Plymouth on 14 November 1847. Early in his youth he ... | 543 | William Crossing | 0 |
33,273 | # William Crossing
## Books
- *Leaves from Sherwood, etc.; original poems*. Plymouth, 1868
- *The Ancient Crosses of Dartmoor; with a Description of their Surroundings*; Exeter, 1884. An expansion of a series of articles which originally appeared in the *Western Antiquary*.
- *Amid Devonia\'s Alps; or, Wanderin... | 295 | William Crossing | 1 |
33,279 | # County Wicklow
**County Wicklow** (`{{IPAc-en|'|w|ɪ|k|l|o:}}`{=mediawiki} `{{respell|WIK|loh}}`{=mediawiki}; *Contae Chill Mhantáin* `{{IPA|ga|ˈkɔn̪ˠt̪ˠeː ˌçiːl̠ʲ ˈwan̪ˠt̪ˠaːnʲ|}}`{=mediawiki}) is a county in Ireland. The last of the traditional 32 counties, having been formed as late as 1606, it is part of the East... | 736 | County Wicklow | 0 |
33,279 | # County Wicklow
## Geography
### Location
Wicklow is part of the Eastern and Midland Region of Ireland, within the province of Leinster. It is bounded by four counties, Dublin to the north; Kildare and Carlow to the west; Wexford to the south; and the Irish Sea to the east. Wicklow is the 17th largest of Ireland\'s... | 888 | County Wicklow | 1 |
33,279 | # County Wicklow
## Geography
### Urban development {#urban_development}
In terms of urban development, Wicklow County Council imposes the most stringent planning restrictions in Ireland. In order to build a house outside of the main towns, a person must be \"born and bred in the area, or have lived there for a perio... | 819 | County Wicklow | 2 |
33,279 | # County Wicklow
## Demographics
### Population
thumb\|upright=1.12\|Wicklow\'s population is primarily concentrated along the east coast\|right `{{Historical populations
|state=collapsed
|1659|6066
|1821|110767
|1831|121557
|1841|126143
|1851|98979
|1861|86479
|1871|78697
|1881|70386
|1891|62136
|1901|60824
|1911|6... | 902 | County Wicklow | 3 |
33,279 | # County Wicklow
## Demographics
### Migration
As of 2016, around 85% of Wicklow\'s population was born within the Republic of Ireland, and a further 0.9% was born in Northern Ireland. Just over 38% of Wicklow\'s usually resident population was born within the county, making it the second least indigenous county in I... | 703 | County Wicklow | 4 |
33,279 | # County Wicklow
## Governance and politics {#governance_and_politics}
### Local government {#local_government}
The local government authority is Wicklow County Council which returns 32 councillors from six local electoral areas: Arklow, Baltinglass, Bray East, Bray West, Greystones, and Wicklow. Wicklow County Coun... | 823 | County Wicklow | 5 |
33,279 | # County Wicklow
## Media {#media_1}
- Local newspapers include *The Bray People*, *Wicklow Times* and *Wicklow People*.
- WicklowNews.net is a popular news website in the county. See Wicklow News.
- The local radio station in Wicklow is East Coast FM. In 2010, Radio Nova became the second local radio service t... | 329 | County Wicklow | 6 |
33,282 | # Coregonus
***Coregonus*** is a diverse genus of fish in the salmon family (Salmonidae). The *Coregonus* species are known as **whitefishes**. The genus contains at least 68 described extant taxa, but the true number of species is a matter of debate. The type species of the genus is *Coregonus lavaretus*.
Most *Core... | 681 | Coregonus | 0 |
33,282 | # Coregonus
## Taxonomy
### Species
In 2017, FishBase listed 78 species, including the more than 50 proposed for Europe in 2007. Some of these are recently extinct (marked with a dagger, \"†\") and *C. reighardi* is likely extinct.
- *Coregonus acrinasus* Oliver M. Selz, Carmela J. Dönz, Pascal Vonlanthen, Ole See... | 598 | Coregonus | 1 |
33,287 | # Words of Mormon
**The Words of Mormon** is one of the books that make up the Book of Mormon, a text that is held sacred in the Latter Day Saint movement. It consists of a single chapter of eighteen verses and is the only book in the text which is not titled as a \"book.\" According to the text, it is a comment inser... | 569 | Words of Mormon | 0 |
33,290 | # Wisława Szymborska
**Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska** (`{{IPA|pl|viˈswava ʂɨmˈbɔrska|lang}}`{=mediawiki}; 2 July 1923 -- 1 February 2012) was a Polish poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Prowent (now part of Kórnik in west-central Poland), she resided in Kraków unt... | 920 | Wisława Szymborska | 0 |
33,290 | # Wisława Szymborska
## Themes
Szymborska frequently employed literary devices such as ironic precision, paradox, contradiction, and understatement to illuminate philosophical themes and obsessions. Many of her poems feature war and terrorism. She wrote from unusual points of view, such as a cat in the newly empty ap... | 670 | Wisława Szymborska | 1 |
33,304 | # White Dwarf (magazine)
***White Dwarf*** is a magazine published by British games manufacturer Games Workshop, which has long served as a promotions and advertising platform for Games Workshop and Citadel Miniatures products.
During the first ten years of its publication, it covered a wide variety of fantasy and sc... | 1,008 | White Dwarf (magazine) | 0 |
33,305 | # Bhavacakra
`{{Buddhist term
| fontsize=100%
| title=bhāvachakra
| en= wheel of life,<br /> wheel of cyclic existence,<br />etc.
| pi= bhavacakka<br />([[Brahmi script|Brah]]: 𑀪𑀯𑀘𑀓𑁆𑀓)
| sa= bhavachakra<br />([[Devanagari|Dev]]: भवचक्र)
| zh= 有輪
| zh-Latn= yǒulún
| bo= སྲིད་པའི་འཁོར་ལོ་
| bo-Latn=[[Wylie transli... | 315 | Bhavacakra | 0 |
33,305 | # Bhavacakra
## Explanation of the diagram {#explanation_of_the_diagram}
The *bhavachakra* is painted on the outside walls of nearly every Tibetan Buddhist temple in Tibet and India, to instruct non-monastic audience about the Buddhist teachings.
### Elements of the *bhavachakra* {#elements_of_the_bhavachakra}
The ... | 701 | Bhavacakra | 1 |
33,305 | # Bhavacakra
## Explanation of the diagram {#explanation_of_the_diagram}
### Third layer: the six realms of samsara {#third_layer_the_six_realms_of_samsara}
The third layer of the wheel is divided into six sections that represent the six realms of samsara, or cyclic existence, the process of cycling through one rebir... | 605 | Bhavacakra | 2 |
33,305 | # Bhavacakra
## Explanation of the diagram {#explanation_of_the_diagram}
### Outer rim: the twelve links {#outer_rim_the_twelve_links}
thumb\|Outer rim of the Bhavachakra wheel annotated with numbers for each of the twelve links The outer rim of the wheel is divided into twelve sections that represent the Twelve Nidā... | 865 | Bhavacakra | 3 |
33,305 | # Bhavacakra
## Gallery
Image:The wheel of life, Trongsa dzong.jpg\|A painting of the *bhavachakra* from Bhutan. Image:Bhavacakra.jpg\|A painting of the *bhavachakra* that depicts an emanation of the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara in each realm. Image:Bhavacakra Thikse.jpg\|A painting of the *bhavachakra* in Thikse Mona... | 68 | Bhavacakra | 4 |
33,432 | # Writers and Illustrators of the Future
**Writers and Illustrators of the Future** is a science fiction and fantasy story and art contest that was established by L. Ron Hubbard in 1983 as **Writers of the Future**. A sister contest, **Illustrators of the Future,** was launched in 1988 and presents awards for science ... | 985 | Writers and Illustrators of the Future | 0 |
33,432 | # Writers and Illustrators of the Future
## Winners
The following is a list of Grand Prize winners in each contest year. Stories by the grand prize winner, the quarterly top-three, and selected others (\"published finalists\"), are collected into an anthology each year. Winners and published finalists in the contest ... | 854 | Writers and Illustrators of the Future | 1 |
33,432 | # Writers and Illustrators of the Future
## Connections to Scientology {#connections_to_scientology}
The original sponsor of the contest was Bridge Publications, Inc., the publishing arm of the Church of Scientology. Prior to the 2004 contest, the sponsorship moved to Author Services Inc. under the trade name Galaxy ... | 336 | Writers and Illustrators of the Future | 2 |
33,447 | # Wrestling weight classes
In most styles of wrestling, opponents are matched based on weight class.
## Olympic and international weight classes {#olympic_and_international_weight_classes}
In international competition, men\'s freestyle wrestling, men\'s Greco-Roman wrestling, and female wrestling utilize the followi... | 814 | Wrestling weight classes | 0 |
33,447 | # Wrestling weight classes
## Scholastic weight classes in the United States {#scholastic_weight_classes_in_the_united_states}
### Elementary school {#elementary_school}
Elementary school students competing in wrestling have multiple ways weight classes are determined.
1. \"Madison system\" - This is a popular tou... | 974 | Wrestling weight classes | 1 |
33,447 | # Wrestling weight classes
## Collegiate weight classes in the United States {#collegiate_weight_classes_in_the_united_states}
College and university students in the United States competing in collegiate wrestling do so in the following 10 weight classes set by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA):
- ... | 209 | Wrestling weight classes | 2 |
33,456 | # Well-order
In mathematics, a **well-order** (or **well-ordering** or **well-order relation**) on a set `{{mvar|S}}`{=mediawiki} is a total ordering on `{{mvar|S}}`{=mediawiki} with the property that every non-empty subset of `{{mvar|S}}`{=mediawiki} has a least element in this ordering. The set `{{mvar|S}}`{=mediawi... | 561 | Well-order | 0 |
33,456 | # Well-order
## Examples and counterexamples {#examples_and_counterexamples}
### Natural numbers {#natural_numbers}
The standard ordering ≤ of the natural numbers is a well ordering and has the additional property that every non-zero natural number has a unique predecessor.
Another well ordering of the natural numb... | 821 | Well-order | 1 |
33,456 | # Well-order
## Equivalent formulations {#equivalent_formulations}
If a set is totally ordered, then the following are equivalent to each other:
1. The set is well ordered. That is, every nonempty subset has a least element.
2. Transfinite induction works for the entire ordered set.
3. Every strictly decreasing s... | 354 | Well-order | 2 |
33,458 | # Well-ordering theorem
In mathematics, the **well-ordering theorem**, also known as **Zermelo\'s theorem**, states that every set can be well-ordered. A set *X* is *well-ordered* by a strict total order if every non-empty subset of *X* has a least element under the ordering. The well-ordering theorem together with Zo... | 663 | Well-ordering theorem | 0 |
33,559 | # Wipe (transition)
thumb\| Examples of various wipe transitions
In filmmaking, a **wipe** is a type of film transition where one shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to another or with a special shape. If the wipe proceeds from two opposite edges of the screen toward the center or vice vers... | 795 | Wipe (transition) | 0 |
33,571 | # Williams tube
`{{Memory types}}`{=mediawiki} The **Williams tube**, or the **Williams--Kilburn tube** named after inventors Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn, is an early form of computer memory. It was the first random-access digital storage device, and was used successfully in several early computers.
The Williams... | 868 | Williams tube | 0 |
33,571 | # Williams tube
## Working principle {#working_principle}
### Erasing
Since the refresh process caused the same pattern to continually reappear on the display, there was a need to be able to erase previously written values. This was normally accomplished by writing to the display just beside the original location. Th... | 479 | Williams tube | 1 |
33,580 | # William Saroyan
**William Saroyan** (`{{IPAc-en|s|ə|ˈ|r|ɔɪ|ə|n}}`{=mediawiki}; August 31, 1908 -- May 18, 1981) was an Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film *The Human Comedy*.... | 463 | William Saroyan | 0 |
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