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33,580 | # William Saroyan
## Biography
### Career
As a writer, Saroyan made his breakthrough in *Story* magazine with \"The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze\" (1934), the title taken from the nineteenth-century song of the same title. The protagonist --- a young, starving writer who tries to survive in a Depression-rid... | 1,389 | William Saroyan | 1 |
33,580 | # William Saroyan
## Commemoration
In 2008, a monument was erected in honor of Saroyan in Mashtots Avenue in Yerevan (sculptor David Yerevantsi, architects Ruben Asratyan and Levon Igityan).
In 2014, the city council of Bitlis approved the renaming of five streets in the historical part of the city in Southeast Turk... | 363 | William Saroyan | 2 |
33,598 | # Work breakdown structure
Breakdown structure}}
A **work-breakdown structure** (**WBS**) in project management and systems engineering is a breakdown of a project into smaller components. It is a key project management element that organizes the team\'s work into manageable sections. The Project Management Body of K... | 574 | Work breakdown structure | 0 |
33,598 | # Work breakdown structure
## History
The concept of work breakdown structure was developed with the Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) by the United States Department of Defense (DoD). PERT was introduced by the U.S. Navy in 1957 to support the development of its Polaris missile program. While the term \... | 343 | Work breakdown structure | 1 |
33,598 | # Work breakdown structure
## Design principles {#design_principles}
### 100% rule
An important design principle for work breakdown structures is called the 100% rule. It has been defined as follows:
: The 100% rule states that the WBS includes 100% of the work defined by the project scope and captures all delive... | 449 | Work breakdown structure | 2 |
33,598 | # Work breakdown structure
## Design principles {#design_principles}
### Level of detail {#level_of_detail}
One must decide when to stop dividing work into smaller elements. For most projects, a hierarchy of two to four levels will suffice. This will assist in determining the duration of activities necessary to produ... | 1,080 | Work breakdown structure | 3 |
33,599 | # William Marsh Rice
**William Marsh Rice** (March 14, 1816 -- September 23, 1900) was an American businessman and entrepreneur who made his fortune in Texas. He is best known for leaving his fortune to fund the establishment of Rice University in Houston, Texas.
His death in 1900 captured national attention, drawing... | 303 | William Marsh Rice | 0 |
33,599 | # William Marsh Rice
## Later life {#later_life}
Rice made his fortune by investing in land, real estate, lumber, railroads, cotton, and other prospects in Texas and Louisiana. In 1860, his total property, which included fifteen enslaved persons, was worth \$750,000. According to the 1860 census, Rice was then the ri... | 565 | William Marsh Rice | 1 |
33,599 | # William Marsh Rice
## Death and scandal {#death_and_scandal}
In 1893, Rice made a new will, naming as executors Captain James A. Baker a lawyer who often worked for him, his nephew William M. Rice Jr., and John D. Bartine. The value of Rice\'s estate at the time was estimated at about \$4.6 million (equivalent to \... | 789 | William Marsh Rice | 2 |
33,599 | # William Marsh Rice
## Legacy
Rice left the bulk of his estate to the founding of a free institute of higher education in Houston, Texas. Opening in 1912 as *William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Letters, Science, and Art*, it is known today as Rice University. In his will, Rice mandated that the unive... | 129 | William Marsh Rice | 3 |
33,607 | # Western European Union
The **Western European Union** (**WEU**; *Union de l\'Europe occidentale*, **UEO**; *Westeuropäische Union*, **WEU**) was the international organisation and military alliance that succeeded the Western Union (WU) after the 1954 amendment of the 1948 Treaty of Brussels. The WEU implemented the ... | 945 | Western European Union | 0 |
33,607 | # Western European Union
## History
### 1998--2009: Transfer of tasks to the EU {#transfer_of_tasks_to_the_eu}
In 1998 the United Kingdom, which had traditionally opposed the introduction of European autonomous defence capacities, signed the Saint-Malo declaration. This marked a turning point as the declaration endor... | 838 | Western European Union | 1 |
33,607 | # Western European Union
## Organization
The WEU was headquartered in Brussels, with a staff of 65 and an annual budget of €13.4 million. It was composed of the Council of the WEU (the Council) and the Assembly of the WEU (the Assembly).
### Council of Ministers {#council_of_ministers}
The WEU was led by a Council ... | 324 | Western European Union | 2 |
33,607 | # Western European Union
## Participation
The Western European Union had ten member countries, six associate member countries, five observer countries and seven associate partner countries. On 14 June 2001, WEU Secretary General Solana stated that there was no foreseeable reason to change the status of the non member... | 381 | Western European Union | 3 |
33,608 | # List of Worldcons
This World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) list includes prior and scheduled Worldcons. The information is maintained by the *Long List Committee*, a World Science Fiction Society sub-committee.
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33,608 | # List of Worldcons
Notes:
- Name -- a convention is normally listed by the least confusing version of its name. This is usually the name preferred by the convention, but fannish tradition is followed in retroactively numbering the first Worldcon in a series 1 (or I or One).
- Guests of honor -- custom in design... | 150 | List of Worldcons | 1 |
33,618 | # William Paley
**William Paley** (July 1743`{{snd}}`{=mediawiki}25 May 1805) was an English Anglican clergyman, Christian apologist, philosopher, and utilitarian. He is best known for his natural theology exposition of the teleological argument for the existence of God in his 1802 work *Natural Theology or Evidences ... | 699 | William Paley | 0 |
33,618 | # William Paley
## Thought
Paley\'s *Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy* was one of the most influential philosophical texts in late Enlightenment Britain. It was cited in several parliamentary debates over the corn laws in Britain and in debates in the US Congress. The book remained a set textbook at Cambr... | 569 | William Paley | 1 |
33,618 | # William Paley
## Legacy
Since Paley is often read in university courses that address the philosophy of religion, the timing of his design argument has sometimes perplexed modern philosophers. Earlier in the century David Hume had argued against notions of design with counter examples drawn from monstrosity, imperfe... | 668 | William Paley | 2 |
33,653 | # Wheel of the Year
`{{Wicca|Holidays}}`{=mediawiki}
The **Wheel of the Year** is an annual cycle of seasonal festivals, observed by a range of modern pagans, marking the year\'s chief solar events (solstices and equinoxes) and the midpoints between them. Modern pagan observances are based to varying degrees on folk ... | 595 | Wheel of the Year | 0 |
33,653 | # Wheel of the Year
## Festivals
In many traditions of modern pagan cosmology, all things are considered to be cyclical, with time as a perpetual cycle of growth and retreat tied to the Sun\'s annual death and rebirth. This cycle is also viewed as a micro- and macrocosm of other life cycles in an immeasurable series ... | 941 | Wheel of the Year | 1 |
33,653 | # Wheel of the Year
## Festivals
### Lughnasadh (Lammas) {#lughnasadh_lammas}
*Lughnasadh* or *Lúnasa* (`{{IPAc-en|ˈ|l|uː|n|æ|s|ə}}`{=mediawiki}) is the Gaelic name for a harvest festival held on or around 1 August. Its Welsh name is *Calan Awst*. In English it is *Lammas*. Some Wiccan traditions base their celebrati... | 442 | Wheel of the Year | 2 |
33,653 | # Wheel of the Year
## Practice
Celebration commonly takes place outdoors in the form of a communal gathering.
### Dates of celebration {#dates_of_celebration}
The precise dates on which festivals are celebrated often vary to some degree, as would the related agricultural milestones of the local region. Celebration... | 824 | Wheel of the Year | 3 |
33,653 | # Wheel of the Year
## Narratives
### Celtic
It is a misconception in some quarters of the modern pagan community, influenced by the writings of Robert Graves, that historical Celts had an overarching narrative for the entire cycle of the year. While the various Celtic calendars include *some* cyclical patterns, and... | 850 | Wheel of the Year | 4 |
33,657 | # Widewuto
**Widewuto** or **Videvutis** (also *Viduutus*, *Vidvutus*, *Witowudi*, *Waidewut*, *Vaidevutis*) was a legendary king of the pagan Baltic Prussians who ruled along with his elder brother, the high priest (*Kriwe-Kriwajto*) Bruteno in the 6th century AD. They are known from writings of 16th-century chronicl... | 460 | Widewuto | 0 |
33,658 | # Wessex
The **Kingdom of the West Saxons**, also known as the **Kingdom of Wessex**, was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain, from around 519 until Alfred the Great declared himself as King of the Anglo-Saxons in 886.
The Anglo-Saxons believed that Wessex was founded by Cerdic and Cynric of the Gewi... | 420 | Wessex | 0 |
33,658 | # Wessex
## History
### Prehistoric Britain {#prehistoric_britain}
From the Neolithic onwards the chalk downland of the area that would become Wessex was traversed by the Harrow Way, which can still be traced from Marazion in Cornwall to the coast of the English Channel near Dover, and was probably connected with th... | 479 | Wessex | 1 |
33,658 | # Wessex
## History
### Anglo-Saxon settlement {#anglo_saxon_settlement}
Theories about the settlement of Saxons, Jutes and Angles in Britain are divided into two categories by the historian Peter Hunter Blair (1956), namely \"Welsh\" and \"English\".
#### The Welsh tradition {#the_welsh_tradition}
The Welsh tradit... | 961 | Wessex | 2 |
33,658 | # Wessex
## History
### Christianisation of Wessex {#christianisation_of_wessex}
Cynegils\' reign saw the first event in West Saxon history that can be dated with reasonable certainty: the baptism of Cynegils by Birinus, at the end of the 630s, perhaps in 640. Birinus was then established as bishop of the West Saxons... | 862 | Wessex | 3 |
33,658 | # Wessex
## History
### Hegemony of Wessex and the Viking raids {#hegemony_of_wessex_and_the_viking_raids}
In 802 the fortunes of Wessex were transformed by the accession of Egbert who came from a cadet branch of the ruling dynasty that claimed descent from Ine\'s brother Ingild. With his accession the throne became ... | 420 | Wessex | 4 |
33,658 | # Wessex
## History
### Last English kingdom {#last_english_kingdom}
In 865, several of the Danish commanders combined their respective forces into one large army and landed in England. Over the following years, what became known as the Great Heathen Army overwhelmed the kingdoms of Northumbria and East Anglia. Then ... | 813 | Wessex | 5 |
33,658 | # Wessex
## History
### Unification of England; Earldom of Wessex {#unification_of_england_earldom_of_wessex}
After the invasions of the 890s, Wessex and English Mercia continued to be attacked by the Danish settlers in England, and by small Danish raiding forces from overseas, but these incursions were usually defea... | 499 | Wessex | 6 |
33,658 | # Wessex
## Symbols
### Wyvern or dragon {#wyvern_or_dragon}
Wessex is often symbolised by a wyvern or dragon.
Both Henry of Huntingdon and Matthew of Westminster talk of a golden dragon being raised at the Battle of Burford in 752 by the West Saxons. The Bayeux Tapestry depicts a fallen golden dragon, as well as a... | 631 | Wessex | 7 |
33,658 | # Wessex
## Cultural and political identity in modern times {#cultural_and_political_identity_in_modern_times}
Thomas Hardy used a fictionalised Wessex as a setting for many of his novels, adopting his friend William Barnes\' term *Wessex* for their home county of Dorset and its neighbouring counties in the south and... | 236 | Wessex | 8 |
33,687 | # Weimar culture
**Weimar culture** was the emergence of the arts and sciences that happened in Germany during the Weimar Republic, the latter during that part of the interwar period between Germany\'s defeat in World War I in 1918 and Hitler\'s rise to power in 1933. 1920s Berlin was at the hectic center of the Weima... | 359 | Weimar culture | 0 |
33,687 | # Weimar culture
## Social environment {#social_environment}
By 1919, an influx of labor had migrated to Berlin turning it into a fertile ground for the modern arts and sciences, leading to booms in trade, communications and construction. A trend that had begun before the Great War was given powerful impetus by fall ... | 568 | Weimar culture | 1 |
33,687 | # Weimar culture
## Science
Many foundational contributions to quantum mechanics were made in Weimar Germany or by German scientists during the Weimar period. While temporarily at the University of Copenhagen, German physicist Werner Heisenberg formulated his Uncertainty principle, and, with Max Born and Pascual Jord... | 276 | Weimar culture | 2 |
33,687 | # Weimar culture
## Education
New schools were frequently established in Weimar Germany to engage students in experimental methods of learning. Some were part of an emerging trend that combined research into physical movement and overall health, for example Eurythmy ensembles in Stuttgart that spread to other schools... | 548 | Weimar culture | 3 |
33,687 | # Weimar culture
## The arts {#the_arts}
### Visual arts {#visual_arts}
The Weimar Republic era began in the midst of several major movements in the fine arts that continued into the 1920s. German Expressionism had begun before World War I and continued to have a strong influence throughout the 1920s, although artist... | 429 | Weimar culture | 4 |
33,687 | # Weimar culture
## The arts {#the_arts}
### Design
The design field during the Weimar Republic witnessed some radical departures from styles that had come before it. Bauhaus-style designs are distinctive, and synonymous with modern design. Designers from these movements turned their energy towards a variety of objec... | 1,003 | Weimar culture | 5 |
33,687 | # Weimar culture
## The arts {#the_arts}
### Modern dance {#modern_dance}
Rudolf von Laban and Mary Wigman laid the foundations for the development of contemporary dance.
### Cinema
At the beginning of the Weimar era, cinema meant silent films. Expressionist films featured plots exploring the dark side of human nat... | 675 | Weimar culture | 6 |
33,687 | # Weimar culture
## Philosophy
Philosophy during the Weimar Republic pursued paths of enquiry into scientific fields such as mathematics and physics. Leading scientists became associated as a group that was called the Berlin Circle. Among many influential thinkers, Carl Hempel was a strong influence in the group. Bor... | 465 | Weimar culture | 7 |
33,687 | # Weimar culture
## Health and self-improvement {#health_and_self_improvement}
Germany had many innovators in health treatment, some more questionable than others, in the decades leading up to World War I. As a group, they were collectively known as part of the Lebensreform, or Life Reform, movement. During the Weima... | 270 | Weimar culture | 8 |
33,687 | # Weimar culture
## Status of homosexuality {#status_of_homosexuality}
Weimar Germany experienced an increase in the vocalization and congregation of the homosexual community, partially due to the leniency of federal censorship. The period marked an influx in lesbian and gay media as publishers took advantage of ambi... | 333 | Weimar culture | 9 |
33,687 | # Weimar culture
## Berlin\'s reputation for decadence {#berlins_reputation_for_decadence}
Prostitution rose in Berlin and elsewhere in the areas of Europe left ravaged by World War I. This means of survival for desperate women, and sometimes men, became normalized to a degree in the 1920s. During the war, venereal d... | 669 | Weimar culture | 10 |
33,693 | # Wok
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33,693 | # Wok
## Characteristics
The wok\'s most distinguishing feature is its shape. Classic woks have a rounded bottom. Hand-hammered woks are sometimes flipped inside out after being shaped, giving the wok a gentle flare to the edge that makes it easier to push food up onto the sides of the wok. Woks sold in Western count... | 1,219 | Wok | 1 |
33,693 | # Wok
## Cooking
The wok can be used in a large number of cooking methods. Before the introduction of Western cookware, it was often used for all cooking techniques including:
- Boiling: For boiling water, soups, dumplings, or rice. In the latter case, guoba often forms.
- Braising: Braised dishes are commonly m... | 668 | Wok | 2 |
33,693 | # Wok
## Wok stoves {#wok_stoves}
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33,693 | # Wok
## Wok stoves {#wok_stoves}
### Induction
Induction cookers generate heat in induction-compatible cookware via direct magnetic stimulation of the pan material. While carbon steel and cast iron (the most common wok materials) are induction-compatible metals, induction cooking also requires close contact between ... | 417 | Wok | 4 |
33,693 | # Wok
## Other wok-like pans {#other_wok_like_pans}
Wok-like pans are found in many culinary traditions around the world, often adapted to local cooking styles and ingredients while maintaining the core utility of a deep, curved vessel suited for high-heat cooking and stir frying.
In Indonesia, a wok-like pan is kno... | 380 | Wok | 5 |
33,703 | # Walter Raleigh
**Sir Walter Raleigh** (`{{IPAc-en|ˈ|r|ɔː|l|i|,_|ˈ|r|æ|l|i|,_|ˈ|r|ɑː|l|i}}`{=mediawiki}; c. 1553 -- 29 October 1618) was an English statesman, soldier, writer and explorer. One of the most notable figures of the Elizabethan era, he played a leading part in English colonisation of North America, suppre... | 369 | Walter Raleigh | 0 |
33,703 | # Walter Raleigh
## Early life {#early_life}
Little is known about Sir Walter Raleigh\'s birth but he is believed to have been born on 22 January 1552 (or possibly 1554). He grew up in the house of Hayes Barton (in the parish of East Budleigh), in East Devon. He was the youngest of the five sons of Walter Raleigh (15... | 582 | Walter Raleigh | 1 |
33,703 | # Walter Raleigh
## Ireland
From 1579 to late 1580, Raleigh took part in the suppression of the Desmond Rebellions. He was present at the siege of Smerwick, where he led the party that beheaded some 600 Spanish and Italian soldiers who had surrendered. In September 1584, Queen Elizabeth I had the land surveyed to be ... | 330 | Walter Raleigh | 2 |
33,703 | # Walter Raleigh
## New World {#new_world}
On March 25, 1584, Queen Elizabeth granted Raleigh a royal charter authorising him to explore, colonise and rule any \"remote, heathen and barbarous lands, countries and territories, not actually possessed of any Christian Prince or inhabited by Christian People\", in return... | 660 | Walter Raleigh | 3 |
33,703 | # Walter Raleigh
## 1580s
In 1580 Raleigh went to fight in Ireland against the 2nd Desmond Rebellion. In December 1581, he returned to England. He took part in court life and became a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I because of his efforts at increasing the Protestant Church in Ireland. In 1585, Raleigh was knighted an... | 302 | Walter Raleigh | 4 |
33,703 | # Walter Raleigh
## 1590--1594
In 1592, Raleigh was given many rewards by the Queen, including Durham House in the Strand and the estate of Sherborne, Dorset. He was appointed Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard. However, he had not been given any of the great offices of state.
In 1591, Raleigh secretly married Eliza... | 664 | Walter Raleigh | 5 |
33,703 | # Walter Raleigh
## Trial and imprisonment {#trial_and_imprisonment}
Royal favour with Queen Elizabeth had been restored by this time, but his good fortune did not last; the Queen died on 24 March 1603. Raleigh was arrested on 19 July 1603 at what is now the Old Exeter Inn in Ashburton, charged with treason for his i... | 305 | Walter Raleigh | 6 |
33,703 | # Walter Raleigh
## Second voyage to Guiana {#second_voyage_to_guiana}
In 1617, Raleigh was pardoned by the King and granted permission to conduct a second expedition to Venezuela in search of El Dorado. During the expedition, a detachment of Raleigh\'s men under the command of his long-time friend Lawrence Kemys att... | 508 | Walter Raleigh | 7 |
33,703 | # Walter Raleigh
## Poetry
Raleigh\'s poetry is written in the relatively straightforward, unornamented mode known as the plain style. C. S. Lewis considered Raleigh one of the era\'s \"silver poets\", a group of writers who resisted the Italian Renaissance influence of dense classical reference and elaborate poetic ... | 492 | Walter Raleigh | 8 |
33,703 | # Walter Raleigh
## Legacy
In 2002, Raleigh was featured in the BBC poll of the 100 Greatest Britons.
A galliard was composed in honour of Raleigh by either Francis Cutting or Richard Allison.
The state capital of North Carolina, its second-largest city, was named Raleigh in 1792, after Sir Walter, sponsor of the R... | 313 | Walter Raleigh | 9 |
33,703 | # Walter Raleigh
## Raleigh\'s descendants {#raleighs_descendants}
Many people claim descent from Sir Walter Raleigh, but nearly all have no basis in fact. The only authentic lines of descent are as follows:
Raleigh\'s only surviving child, Carew Raleigh, had three surviving children---Walter (d. 1660), Anne (d. 170... | 462 | Walter Raleigh | 10 |
33,717 | # Wild type
The **wild type** (**WT**) is the phenotype of the typical form of a species as it occurs in nature. Originally, the wild type was conceptualized as a product of the standard \"normal\" allele at a locus, in contrast to that produced by a non-standard, \"mutant\" allele. \"Mutant\" alleles can vary to a gr... | 582 | Wild type | 0 |
33,725 | # Weregild
thumb\|upright=1.5\|Image of a murder by a minor and the subsequent paying of wergild, in Heidelberger Sachsenspiegel Cgm 165 fol. 11r. This is one of the only images of wergild payment from the Middle Ages.
**Weregild** (also spelled **wergild**, **wergeld** (in archaic/historical usage of English), **wer... | 611 | Weregild | 0 |
33,725 | # Weregild
## Amount
The size of the weregild was largely conditional upon the social rank of the victim. There used to be something of a \"basis\" fee for a standard \"free man\" that could then be multiplied according to the social rank of the victim and the circumstances of the crime. The weregild for women relati... | 382 | Weregild | 1 |
33,725 | # Weregild
## In literature {#in_literature}
### Medieval
A classic example of a dispute over the weregild of a slave is contained in Iceland\'s *Egil\'s Saga*.
In the Völsunga saga or Saga of the Volsungs, the Æsir (Odin, Loki and Hœnir) are asked to pay weregild for killing Otr, son of Hreidmar. Otr is a \"great ... | 635 | Weregild | 2 |
33,790 | # The Wanderer (Leiber novel)
***The Wanderer*** is a science fiction novel by American writer Fritz Leiber, published as a paperback original by Ballantine Books in 1964. It won the 1965 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
Following its initial paperback edition, *The Wanderer* was reissued in hardcover by Walker & Co. in 19... | 1,091 | The Wanderer (Leiber novel) | 0 |
33,790 | # The Wanderer (Leiber novel)
## Characters
### The three friends {#the_three_friends}
Margo Gelhorn, Paul Hagbolt and Donald Merriam have been friends since High School. Don became an astronaut, and Paul followed him into NASA by using his journalism qualifications to become a publicist for the agency. Margo eventu... | 924 | The Wanderer (Leiber novel) | 1 |
33,790 | # The Wanderer (Leiber novel)
## Reception
P. Schuyler Miller described the book as a \"thoroughly uncharacteristic\" Leiber novel, saying that \"the feel of what is happening . . . counts for more than the plot\" and predicting that *The Wanderer* \"would eventually be awarded \'classic\' status\". Avram Davidson co... | 160 | The Wanderer (Leiber novel) | 2 |
33,800 | # Western Europe
**Western Europe** is the western region of Europe. The region\'s extent varies depending on context. The concept of \"the West\" appeared in Europe in juxtaposition to \"the East\" and originally applied to the Western half of the ancient Mediterranean world, the Latin West of the Roman Empire, and \... | 965 | Western Europe | 0 |
33,800 | # Western Europe
## Modern divisions {#modern_divisions}
### UN geoscheme classification {#un_geoscheme_classification}
thumb\|upright=1.15\|Subregions of Europe by United Nations geoscheme.\
`{{legend|#FF8080|[[Eastern Europe]]}}`{=mediawiki} `{{legend|#4080FF|[[Northern Europe]]}}`{=mediawiki} `{{legend|#00FF00|[[... | 393 | Western Europe | 1 |
33,800 | # Western Europe
## Population
Using the CIA classification strictly would give the following calculation of Western Europe\'s population. All figures based on the projections for 2018 by the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
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33,810 | # William Seward Burroughs I
**William Seward Burroughs I** (January 28, 1857 -- September 14, 1898) was an American inventor born in Rochester, New York.
## Life and career {#life_and_career}
### Personal life {#personal_life}
Burroughs was the son of a mechanic and worked with machines throughout his childhood. W... | 431 | William Seward Burroughs I | 0 |
33,812 | # Wernigerode
**Wernigerode** (`{{IPA|de|ˌvɛɐnɪɡəˈʁoːdə|-|De-Wernigerode.ogg}}`{=mediawiki}) is a town in the district of Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Until 2007, it was the capital of the district of Wernigerode. Its population was 32,181 in 2020.
Wernigerode is located southwest of Halberstadt, and is picturesquel... | 527 | Wernigerode | 0 |
33,812 | # Wernigerode
## History
Wernigerode was the capital of the medieval County of Wernigerode and Stolberg-Wernigerode. In 1815, after the Napoleonic Wars, it became part of the Prussian Province of Saxony. The Hasseröder brewery was founded in Wernigerode in 1872.
After World War II, Wernigerode was included in the ne... | 592 | Wernigerode | 1 |
33,812 | # Wernigerode
## Architecture
Wernigerode contains several interesting Gothic buildings, including a fine town hall with a timber facade from 1498. Some of the quaint old houses which have escaped the numerous fires through the years are elaborately adorned with wood-carving. The Gerhart-Hauptmann Gymnasium, occupyin... | 331 | Wernigerode | 2 |
33,822 | # Westwood Studios
**Westwood Studios, Inc.** was an American video game developer based in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was founded by Brett Sperry and Louis Castle in 1985 as Brelous Software, but got changed after 2 months into **Westwood Associates** and was renamed to Westwood Studios when Virgin Games (later Virgin Int... | 813 | Westwood Studios | 0 |
33,823 | # William Ames
**William Ames** (`{{IPAc-en|eɪ|m|z}}`{=mediawiki}; Latin: *Guilielmus Amesius*; 1576`{{snd}}`{=mediawiki}14 November 1633) was an English Puritan minister, philosopher, and controversialist. He spent much time in the Netherlands, and is noted for his involvement in the controversy between the Calvinist... | 781 | William Ames | 0 |
33,823 | # William Ames
## Move to Rotterdam {#move_to_rotterdam}
Having continued twelve years at Franeker (where he was rector in 1626), his health gave way, and he contemplated a move to New England. But another door was opened for him, with an invitation to Rotterdam. There he prepared his *Fresh Suit against Ceremonies*-... | 189 | William Ames | 1 |
33,835 | # World Calendar
The **World Calendar** is a proposed reform of the Gregorian calendar created by Elisabeth Achelis of Brooklyn, New York in 1930.
## Features
The World Calendar is a 12-month, perennial calendar with equal quarters.
Each quarter begins on a Sunday and ends on a Saturday. The quarters are equal: eac... | 319 | World Calendar | 0 |
33,835 | # World Calendar
## Background and history {#background_and_history}
The World Calendar has its roots in the proposed calendar of the Abbot Marco Mastrofini, a proposal to reform the Gregorian calendar year so that it would always begin on Sunday, 1 January, and would contain equal quarters of 91 days each. The 365th... | 434 | World Calendar | 1 |
33,835 | # World Calendar
## `{{anchor|Benefits and problems}}`{=mediawiki}Reception
### Benefits
As with other calendar reform proposals, supporters point out several benefits to the World Calendar over the current Gregorian calendar.
Proponents refer to its simple structure. Each day is assigned an exact, repetitive date ... | 484 | World Calendar | 2 |
33,864 | # Wombat
**Wombats** are short-legged, muscular quadrupedal marsupials of the family **Vombatidae** that are native to Australia. Living species are about 1 m in length with small, stubby tails and weigh between 20 and. They are adaptable and habitat tolerant, and are found in forested, mountainous, and heathland area... | 325 | Wombat | 0 |
33,864 | # Wombat
## Characteristics
Wombats dig extensive burrow systems with their rodent-like front teeth and powerful claws. One distinctive adaptation of wombats is their backward pouch. The advantage of a backward-facing pouch is that when digging, the wombat does not gather soil in its pouch over its young. Although ma... | 812 | Wombat | 1 |
33,864 | # Wombat
## Human relations {#human_relations}
### History
Depictions of the animals in rock art are exceptionally rare, though examples estimated to be up to 4,000 years old have been discovered in Wollemi National Park. The wombat is depicted in aboriginal Dreamtime as an animal of little worth. The mainland stori... | 395 | Wombat | 2 |
33,864 | # Wombat
## Human relations {#human_relations}
### Cultural significance {#cultural_significance}
Some farmers consider common wombats to be a nuisance due primarily to their burrowing behaviour. \"Fatso the Fat-Arsed Wombat\" was the tongue-in-cheek \"unofficial\" mascot of the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Since 2005, an u... | 540 | Wombat | 3 |
33,864 | # Wombat
## Conservation
All species of wombats are protected in every Australian state.
The northern hairy-nosed wombat is a critically endangered species under Queensland\'s *Nature Conservation Act 1992*, the Commonwealth *Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999*, and on the International Un... | 311 | Wombat | 4 |
33,865 | # Warhead
A **warhead** is the section of a device that contains the explosive agent or toxic (biological, chemical, or nuclear) material that is delivered by a missile, rocket, torpedo, or bomb.
## Classification
Types of warheads include:
- Explosive: An explosive charge is used to disintegrate the target, and ... | 467 | Warhead | 0 |
33,868 | # Casorati–Weierstrass theorem
In complex analysis, a branch of mathematics, the **Casorati--Weierstrass theorem** describes the behaviour of holomorphic functions near their essential singularities. It is named for Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass and Felice Casorati. In Russian literature it is called Sokhotski\'s t... | 280 | Casorati–Weierstrass theorem | 0 |
33,868 | # Casorati–Weierstrass theorem
## Examples
The function `{{math|1=''f''(''z'') = [[exponential function|exp]](1/''z'')}}`{=mediawiki} has an essential singularity at 0, but the function `{{math|1=''g''(''z'') = 1/''z''<sup>3</sup>}}`{=mediawiki} does not (it has a pole at 0).
Consider the function $f(z) = e^{1/z}.$
... | 610 | Casorati–Weierstrass theorem | 1 |
33,875 | # Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia
**Wenceslaus I** (*Václav* `{{IPA|cs|ˈvaːtslaf||Cs-svaty Vaclav.ogg}}`{=mediawiki}; c. 907 -- 28 September 935), **Wenceslas I** or *Václav the Good* was the Prince (*kníže*) of Bohemia from 921 until his death, probably in 935. According to the legend, he was assassinated by his young... | 783 | Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia | 0 |
33,875 | # Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia
## Veneration
Wenceslaus was considered a martyr and saint immediately after his death, when a cult of Wenceslaus grew up in Bohemia. Within a few decades, four biographies of him were in circulation. These hagiographies had a powerful influence on the High Middle Ages concept of the *... | 569 | Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia | 1 |
33,875 | # Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia
## Legacy
Wenceslaus is the subject of the popular Saint Stephen\'s Day (celebrated on December 26 in the West) carol \"Good King Wenceslas\". It was published by John Mason Neale in 1853, and may be a translation of a poem by Czech poet Václav Alois Svoboda`{{fact|date=October 2021}}`... | 386 | Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia | 2 |
33,882 | # Woodwind instrument
`{{Musical instruments sidebar}}`{=mediawiki} thumb\|upright=.7\|Tenor and soprano saxophones **Woodwind instruments** are a family of musical instruments within the greater category of wind instruments.
Common examples include flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, and saxophone. There are two main ty... | 374 | Woodwind instrument | 0 |
33,882 | # Woodwind instrument
## Reed instruments {#reed_instruments}
Reed instruments produce sound by focusing air into a mouthpiece which then causes a reed, or reeds, to vibrate. Similarly to flutes, reed pipes are also further divided into two types: single reed and double reed.
Single-reed woodwinds produce sound by f... | 465 | Woodwind instrument | 1 |
33,889 | # Washtub bass
The **washtub bass**, or **gutbucket**, is a stringed instrument used in American folk music that uses a metal washtub as a resonator. Although it is possible for a washtub bass to have four or more strings and tuning pegs, traditional washtub basses have a single string whose pitch is adjusted by pushi... | 693 | Washtub bass | 0 |
33,889 | # Washtub bass
## Other variations {#other_variations}
Other variations on the basic design are found around the world, particularly in the choice of resonator, for example:
- \"gas-tank bass\"
- \"barrel bass\"
- \"box bass\" (Trinidad)
- \"bush bass\" (Australia)
- \"babatoni\" (South Africa)
- \"dumdu... | 459 | Washtub bass | 1 |
33,900 | # William Bligh
**William Bligh** (9 September 1754 -- 7 December 1817) was a Royal Navy vice-admiral and colonial administrator who served as the governor of New South Wales from 1806 to 1808. He is best known for his role in the mutiny on HMS *Bounty*, which occurred in 1789 when the ship was under his command. The ... | 684 | William Bligh | 0 |
33,900 | # William Bligh
## Naval career {#naval_career}
William Bligh\'s naval career involved various appointments and assignments. He first rose to prominence as Master of *Resolution*, under the command of Captain James Cook. Bligh received praise from Cook during what would be the latter\'s final voyage. Bligh served on ... | 540 | William Bligh | 1 |
33,900 | # William Bligh
## Voyage of *Bounty* {#voyage_of_bounty}
The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel HMAV *Bounty* occurred in the South Pacific Ocean on 28 April 1789. Led by Master\'s Mate / Acting Lieutenant Fletcher Christian, disaffected crewmen seized control of the ship, and set the then Lieutenant Bligh, who was the... | 367 | William Bligh | 2 |
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