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The Young and the Hopeless | Commercial performance & Singles | the UK, number 20 in Austria, number 24 in Japan, number 37 in Germany, number 46 in Switzerland, number 52 in France, and number 57 in the Netherlands. It was certified gold in France and Sweden; platinum in Australia and the UK; and double platinum in Canada. Singles "Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous" charted in the U... |
Wind wave model | Input | or climatology to create the best estimate of the ongoing conditions. In practice, many forecasting system rely only on the previous forecast, without any assimilation of observations.
A more critical input is the "forcing" by wind fields: a time-varying map of wind speed and directions. The most common sources of erro... |
Willie Brigitte | Arrest and deportation | was interviewed by ASIO officers. Brigitte was largely uncooperative though he was represented by his lawyer Harry Durimel. Abu Hamza was put under surveillance. Brigitte was subsequently deported and sent back to France that month, where he was arrested on arrival. When his arrest became public the Australian author... |
Wheelchair | Manual self-propelled wheelchairs | causes friction and heat build-up, particularly on long downslopes, many wheelchair users will choose to wear padded wheelchair gloves. Manual wheelchairs often have two push handles at the upper rear of the frame to allow for manual propulsion by a second person, however many active wheelchair users will remove these ... |
Wim Delvoye | Commissioned Cloaca for MONA & Art Farm | claimed that he would never sell a Cloaca machine to a museum as he could never trust that the curator would maintain the installation properly. However, after two years of discussion with David Walsh, Delvoye agreed to construct a custom Cloaca built specifically for the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, Tasmania. ... |
Wheeling Park High School | Campus | building houses physical education, special education, technical education, and regular education. The building is 860 feet long and 550 feet wide for a total of 473,000 square feet. There are three floors of masonry block insulation with brick veneer. Additional education wings added in 1984 on both ends of the buildi... |
What Dreams May Come (1983 novel) | Background | What Dreams May Come (1983 novel) Background The character of John Thunstone had previously appeared in a series of short stories by Wellman. Originally published in popular pulp magazines of the day, several of them were collected and reprinted in an anthology, Lonely Vigils. Wellman decided to follow the anthology wi... |
William Richards (Hawaii) | Family life & Missionary | William Richards (Hawaii) Family life William Richards was born in Plainfield, Massachusetts on August 22, 1793. His father was James Richards and mother was Lydia Shaw. He was schooled under Moses Hallock in Plainfield, attended Williams College 1815 through graduation in 1819 and Andover Seminary. His brother James h... |
Ulrichstein | Economy and infrastructure | this technology. Owing to the town's location in the High Vogelsberg with its ridges exposed to the wind, there are, of course, ideal conditions for windfarms.
In the main town – also called Ulrichstein – is a very large holiday village. Moreover, there are many weekend homes, whose owners come mostly from the Frankfur... |
William J. Martínez | Early life and education & Professional career | William J. Martínez Early life and education Born José Guillermo Martínez Escalante in Mexico City, Martínez moved to the United States with his family as a young boy and changed his name to William Joseph Martínez in 1974. He grew up in the South Shore community of Chicago and graduated from Lyons Township High School... |
West Plymouth, Massachusetts | null | West Plymouth, Massachusetts West Plymouth is a village in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. It is located beyond the Colony Place retail development and the Plymouth Industrial Park off U.S. Route 44 and north of Myles Standish State Forest. It stretches west to the Carver town line and north to... |
Trévou-Tréguignec | The Trévou church fire | 7, 1914, the Saint-Samson church built in 1848 was destroyed by lightning.
Benjamin Jolly had written about this church in 1856:
The church is a fine Gothic building, constructed in our time financed by the spontaneous contributions of the poor residents of this little parish. The time had come to replace the former ... |
Volcano: The Blast Coaster | History | Volcano: The Blast Coaster History Volcano was designed around a dormant attraction originally known as The Lost World and later as Smurf Mountain. Declining popularity towards the end of the 1980s led to the removal of the mountain's last two rides in 1995 and cast doubt on the area's future. On July 22, 1997, Paramou... |
Winding number | Alternative definitions & Alexander numbering | Winding number Alternative definitions Winding number is often defined in different ways in various parts of mathematics. All of the definitions below are equivalent to the one given above: Alexander numbering A simple combinatorial rule for defining the winding number was proposed by August Ferdinand Möbius in 1865
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William Stanier | Biography | Class 4-6-2 No.6220 Coronation set a new British record of 114 mph, beating the previous record set by a Gresley A4.
During WWII he worked as a consultant for the Ministry of Supply and retired in 1944. He was knighted on 9 February 1943 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on his retirement, only the third locomo... |
The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature | Box office & Critical response | was another animated film, The Emoji Movie, which had an opening of $24.5 million from 4,075 theaters). Critical response On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 15%, based on 62 reviews, and an average rating of 3.97/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Natur... |
Willie Smith (alto saxophonist) | Early life & Later life and career | Willie Smith (alto saxophonist) Early life Smith was born in Charleston, South Carolina, but raised in Cleveland, Ohio. His first instrument was clarinet and his education was in chemistry. He received his chemistry degree from Fisk University. Later life and career In 1929 Smith became an alto saxophonist for Jimmie L... |
WAVY-TV | Out-of-market cable carriage | cable carriage In the 1970s and 1980s, WAVY was once received as far west as Lawrenceville, Brunswick County and Halifax and Enfield in North Carolina. To the north in Crisfield, Maryland, it was also once carried there as well. |
William Mensah | Lierse & Wadi Degla & International career | was due to a serious shoulder injury. Wadi Degla On 17 May 2010, Lierse announced that Mensah will join the Egyptian sister club, Wadi Degla, from the beginning of next season. Mensah is returning to Egypt once more, but to help a newly promoted team to the Egyptian Premier League this time. International career Mensah... |
Virtual community | Howard Rheingold's study | & Stamps (1997) and Mowshowitz (1997) point out how virtual communities can work across space, time and organizational boundaries; Lipnack & Stamps (1997) mention a common purpose; and Lee, Eom, Jung and Kim (2004) introduce "desocialization" which means that there is less frequent interaction with humans in traditiona... |
The Young and the Hopeless | Background and recording | The Young and the Hopeless Background and recording After leaving their home state of Maryland, Good Charlotte were signed to Epic imprint Daylight Records and released their debut album, Good Charlotte (2000). It did not sell as well as the label hoped and the group were nearly dropped from the label. The minor succes... |
United States House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families | Committee activities of 1991 & Original committee | for American families; (2) generating innovative strategies for healthy infants and children; (3) community-based mental health services for children; (4) police stress and family well-being; (5) creation of a family-friendly workplace for fathers; (6) ways to help teenagers stay safe; (7) effects of noise on hearing l... |
Walkathon | History | Walkathon History The first known walkathon was held in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1953, by the Puerto Rican actor/comedian, Ramón Rivero, better known as Diplo. He walked 80 miles (from the capital city of San Juan to Ponce, on the other side of the island, to raise money for the Liga Puertorriqueña Contra el Cáncer (th... |
Winged Assassin | Plot | Winged Assassin Plot In a transmission to Earth, the Mysterons (voiced by Donald Gray) warn Spectrum that they intend to assassinate Xian Yoh, the Director General of the United Asian Republic, who is currently in London on a state visit. An attempt to kill the target in his hotel room is foiled by Captain Grey (voiced... |
Valentine Ackland | Life | capture the political dynamics she saw at work, but she had a difficult time as a poet mastering the craft of combining political polemics with her natural tendency toward lyrical expression. In a similar vein, her distress over the loss of democracy in Europe became a broader identification with Existentialism and the... |
William J. Martínez | Professional career & Judicial service & Law clerks | Roseman, Martínez & Kazmierski), where he specialized in employment and civil rights law. Judicial service On February 24, 2010, President Barack Obama nominated Martínez to be a judge on the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, to fill the seat that Judge Edward Nottingham vacated in 2008 when he... |
William Richards (Hawaii) | Missionary | to control his crew.
In January 1826 the American schooner USS Dolphin arrived in Honolulu and demanded the release of four women who were accused of prostitution, since there were no written laws. The crew attacked the house of the Prime Minister and the missionaries. Later in 1826 another mob damaged the town of Laha... |
Wheelchair | Manual self-propelled wheelchairs | part-time users who may need to store the wheelchair more often than use it. Rigid wheelchairs, which are increasingly preferred by full-time and active users, have permanently welded joints and many fewer moving parts. This reduces the energy required to push the chair by eliminating many points where the chair would ... |
Viktor Fainberg | Biography | Viktor Fainberg Biography Viktor Fainberg was born to the married couple of Isaac Fainberg and Sarah Dashevskaya. In his life as a child, while attending school during an antisemitic campaign of 1948-1952, he was subjected to harassment that, in his own words, he did not reconcile himself to, but entered the fray with ... |
William Colborne | Political career | governments in Queensland, it found much of its legislation being blocked by a hostile Council, where members had been appointed for life by successive conservative governments. After a failed referendum in May 1917, Premier Ryan tried a new tactic, and later that year advised the Governor, Sir Hamilton John Goold-Adam... |
William Woodville | Biography | elected physician to the smallpox and inoculation hospitals at St. Pancras, in succession to Edward Archer, and published the first volume of a projected two-part history of inoculation (variolation) in 1796. However, he became particularly interested in Edward Jenner's introduction of what was soon to be known as smal... |
Williams Air Force Base | World War II | with Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers in December. Its students would be experienced pilots who were transitioning to the large four-engine bomber. The B-17 pilot training ended in April 1945, graduating 608 officers for the Flying Fortress program.
The training mission of the base also conducted flexible gunnery tr... |
Ultramarine (novel) | Plot | accept him as one of theirs because Dana is from a different socio-economic class: they all saw how his father, driving a luxury car, dropped him off at the ship, and they know that Dana doesn't need to work for a living as they do. Moreover, Dana is a mess-boy who is not particularly good at his work. The novel's acti... |
Whale watching | History | people went whale watching, up from 9 million ten years earlier. Commercial whale watching operations were found in 119 countries. Direct revenue of whale watching trips was estimated at US$872.7 million and indirect revenue of $2,113.1 million was spent by whale watchers in tourism-related businesses.
Whale watching i... |
Winged Assassin | Reception | as a truly formidable opponent" while arguing that the episode as a whole "treads a fine line between adult themes and suitability for the young audience".
Andrew Thomas of Dreamwatch magazine comments that the shots of Flight DT19 "sat menacingly" on the runway at London Airport, "with the controls moving on their own... |
Up (2009 film) | Development | felt their experiences and the way they affect their view of the world was a rich source of humor. Docter was not concerned with an elderly protagonist, stating children would relate to Carl the way they relate to their grandparents.
Early concepts differed from the final film. The initial version featured a floating c... |
VK 4501 (P) | Development | Third Reich to obtain additional amounts of quality copper to build whole new fleets of vehicles with electric drives in addition to the increasing demands of the U-boat fleet (which used very similar diesel-electric transmissions, which worked perfectly well); while it was easy enough to obtain quality copper to build... |
Wind wave model | Other models & Validation | Technology) to forecast waves in the Gulf of Mexico.
Another model, CCHE2D-COAST is a processes-based integrated model which is capable of simulating coastal processes in different coasts with complex shorelines such as irregular wave deformation from offshore to onshore, nearshore currents induced by radiation stresse... |
William Kemmler | Execution | and the flesh under and around the electrode at the base of the spine was singeing. The stench was unbearable." Witnesses reported the smell of burning flesh and several nauseated spectators unsuccessfully tried to leave the room.
In all, the entire execution took approximately eight minutes. The competitive newspaper ... |
Urkunden des ægyptischen Altertums | Urkunden der 18. Dynastie & Availability | to that of Horemheb. Helck also translated all of the Egyptian texts into German, which was published separately. An English translation of the German translations of fascicles 17–19 is published as Egyptian Historical Records of the Later Eighteenth Dynasty by Barbara Cumming. Availability All of the Urkunden series h... |
Willing Expedition | Background & British raids | eventually defeated by a force of Loyalists and was later captured by the British. British raids Willing assembled a small militia and began raiding British outposts. He received tacit cooperation from Bernardo de Gálvez, the Governor of Spanish Luisiana and Commander of the troops of his Catholic Majesty. Galvez coop... |
Waregem | From the 18th century until today | the territory of Waregem, where horses could be hired. The French Revolution brought severe religious restrictions in its wake; it also gave the region a modern administrative system and more political autonomy. During the 19th century, the old textile economy went into decline. The proximity of the Leie River, however... |
Wild Winds Are Blowing | Critical reception | of Slade's contemporary football crowd panache, but judging by the number of phone calls and letters we get from fans, there is a lot of interest in the lads' old stuff." Gramophone said: "The historians are sure to be thrilled when hearing their initial recordings for the Fontana label, such as "Wild Winds Are Blowing... |
William Day (horseman) | Riding career & Training career | Gully. Old England was fancied for the 1845 Epsom Derby, but Day wagered heavily against the colt and was involved in a plot to "nobble" (deliberately injure) it at the Danebury stable. Gully discovered the scheme and reported the matter to the Jockey Club. William Day was formally "warned off", meaning that he was ind... |
William Óge Martyn | Mayor of Galway & Later life | Mayor of Galway from September 1586 to September 1587. He participated in a notorious session in December 1586, as recorded in the Annals of the Four Masters:
A session was held at Galway in the month of December of this year, and many women and men were put to death at it; and Edmond Oge, the son of Edmond, son of Man... |
Whale watching | Northwest Atlantic | observed. For generations, areas like the Gulf of Maine and Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary (part of the inner waters formed by Cape Cod's hooked shape) have been important feeding grounds for these species: to this day a very large portion of the waters off the Eastern Seaboard are rich in sand lance and oth... |
Villa Gazzotti Grimani | Architectural details | of Villa Godi, is crowned by a triangular gable and is the dominant shape of the facade. It is less the embodiment of an original body of thought of Palladio's - comparable examples can be found both in Villa Agostini in Cusignana and in the architecture of Giovanni Maria Falconetto - than of his endeavour to give exis... |
Willing Expedition | Background | included an elected assembly, and were far more concerned about the Spanish presence in nearby New Orleans from which they required British protection.
Willing reported back to Congress that West Florida was a threat to American independence and was authorized to take a force of troops down the Mississippi River and c... |
Torbjörn Evrell | Life and career & Contributions in knife design, construction and production | Eskilstuna, his was the only one to survive by constant innovation and adaptions to new conditions.
Evrell was the president of EKA until 1985, when he was succeeded by his daughter Karin Ingelson. Torbjörn Evrell continued as an advisor to EKA, especially in product development, for ten more years. Contributions in kn... |
Viking 2 | Lander | of -4.23 km relative to a reference ellipsoid with an equatorial radius of 3397.2 km and a flattening of 0.0105 (47.967°N 225.737°W planetographic) at 22:58:20 UT (9:49:05 a.m. local Mars time).
Approximately 22 kg (49 lb) of propellants were left at landing. Due to radar misidentification of a rock or highly reflectiv... |
Wolfgang Scheffler (historian) | null | persons killed at the Treblinka extermination camp to be around 900,000 victims. |
Wild Adriatic | Never Enough (2015) & 2016 and beyond | commercial for Dolby Laboratories. All ramping up to the release of Never Enough, Wild Adriatic's third EP/CD release, on March 17, 2015. The 5 song disc features the new single "Strange Persuasions" and saw its release on March 17, 2015 at the SXSW Festival. From there the band picked back up on with their hard-tourin... |
Thomas Selfridge | Biography | earthquake of April 18, 1906. His unit participated in search and rescue as well as cleanup operations. In 1907, he was assigned to the Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps at Fort Myer, Virginia, where he was later instructed in flying a dirigible. He was also the United States government representative to the Aer... |
Veterans Health Administration | PTSD & Women | VA health system. We can have a better understanding of the mental health needs of veterans returning to civilian life. Moreover, it would be beneficial to explore and examine how utilization of mental health services is affected by the stigma that persists among veterans. Additional awareness of medical resources a... |
Trévou-Tréguignec | Cinema Charlot & Coat-Mez dolmen | a small tavern near Trestel beach. The following year, he added a dance floor. Soon after, a team of projectionists employed by a large German firm arrived for a showing of Children of Paradise. Charlot decided to purchase a projector (utilizing Pathé Nathan 17.5 mm film, the then-popular format). Thus began 30 years... |
Whale watching | History | to the large cities there.
Whale watching tourism has grown substantially since the mid-1980s. The first worldwide survey of whale watching was conducted by Hoyt for the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) in 1992. It was updated in 1995 and submitted by the UK government to the International Whaling Commissi... |
Welland House Hotel | History | Welland House Hotel History In 1853 natural salt springs were found in the downtown area of St. Catharines, Ontario. A trio of men bought three lots at this corner and construction began on the Welland House Hotel. The hotel was constructed using mostly Black workers and was the second spa hotel to be built in the area... |
Verbena bonariensis | Description & Etymology | Verbena bonariensis Description Verbena bonariensis is a tall and slender-stemmed perennial. It can grow to 6 ft (183 cm) tall and can spread to 3 ft (90 cm) wide. At maturity, it will develop a woody base. Fragrant lavender to rose-purple flowers are in tight clusters located on terminal and axillary stems, blooming f... |
USS Albatross (MSC-289) | Cryptographic and propulsion problems & Search and rescue operations | overhaul at Sasebo. On 27 August, she was underway for Subic Bay and gunfire support training. She left the Philippines on 8 September for a "Market Time" patrol in the area of Nha Yang, Vietnam, and steamed on station through 12 October, when she was relieved and headed for Subic Bay. The ship entered the floating dry... |
The One with the Girl Who Hits Joey | Plot | but Rachel saves him the trouble of transforming into a punchbag when, after Katie playfully punches her a few times and accidentally hurts her also, she retaliates by angrily kicking Katie's ankle, hurting Katie, who is furious and demands that Joey stick up for her. He refuses, however, hoping that she will consequen... |
The Romance of a Shop | Literary background & Genre and style | than significant literary achievement, a purpose which she reserved for her more serious work Reuben Sachs. In an 1888 correspondence to Violet Paget, Levy wrote demeaningly of her aspirations in writing The Romance of a Shop in comparison to Reuben Sachs, stating "I have purposely held in my hand." Genre and style In ... |
The Wall (2012 film) | Release and reception | constant voiceover turns the film into "a well-illustrated audiobook" in which "images and voiceover never quite fuse into a single whole". Neil Young of The Hollywood Reporter called the cinematography "stunningly beautiful" but said that the characterization of the woman was lacking in back story, and the climax's "... |
To Sir, with Love II | Plot | by little he learns their personal stories: Wilsie (Christian Payton) is a gang leader who protects his younger brother. Another is a black female who battles against double prejudice. Evie (Dana Eskelson) is growing up without parents and hides this to avoid being fostered. A fellow teacher, Louisa Rodriguez (Saundra ... |
Wheelchair | Smart wheelchairs & Technological developments | and execute them. Such wheelchairs typically employ techniques from artificial intelligence, such as path-planning. Technological developments Recent technological advances are slowly improving wheelchair and powerchair technology.
A variation on the manually-propelled wheelchair is the Leveraged Freedom Chair (LFC), d... |
Whale watching | South Africa | humpback whales from June to August and November to January, and Bryde's whales all year round, up-close. Visitors can also see humpback whales from the lighthouse at Cape Recife (the Westerly point of Algoa Bay), and southern right whales from viewing points along the coast. Boat-based whale watching (and dolphin watc... |
Wilsford, Lincolnshire | Heritage | it included a Benedictine priory, founded in the early 13th century but poorly funded. It was secured to the Abbey of Bourne in 1401.
In the late 17th to early 18th centuries, Wilsford (also referred to as Willesworth) had 60 families, which fell to about 50. The enclosure act covering the village was passed in 1774. B... |
Victor Pinchuk | Early life and career & Philanthropy | 2015, Pinchuk brought a $2 billion civil action against fellow Ukrainian oligarchs Ihor Kolomoyskyi and Gennadiy Bogolyubov in the High Court of Justice in London over the 2004 purchase of a Ukrainian mining company. Allegations made include murder and bribery. In January 2016, an undisclosed out of court settlement wa... |
When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? | Summary | Teddy know the car is fixed. When Teddy suggests Red have sex with Angel, the others protest. Instead, Teddy insists they all dance along to the jukebox, forcing them to occasionally change partners. Teddy himself starts to dance which turns into a frenzy as he rips open Clarisse's shirt and roughly shoves her in fron... |
Wendi Richter | Life after wrestling and WWE Hall of Fame (2005–present) & Personal life | 2012 episode of Raw, Richter appeared in a in-ring segment along with Cyndi Lauper, Roddy Piper and then-Diva's Champion Layla as part of the "1000th episode" buildup. Piper expressed his gratitude to Richter and Lauper for their "Rock 'N Wrestling" angle and presented Lauper with a gold record, with which she eventual... |
Viking 2 | Landing site soil analysis | may be present as sulfates of sodium, magnesium, calcium, or iron. A sulfide of iron is also possible. The Spirit rover and the Opportunity rover both found sulfates on Mars.
Minerals typical weathering products of mafic igneous rocks were found. All samples heated in the gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer (GCMS) gav... |
West Cheshire Railway | Route and stations | Northwich in a southwesterly direction and crossed the River Dane and the River Weaver by means of a half-mile long viaduct with forty-eight stone arches and two wrought-iron girder bridges. The first station out of Northwich was Hartford and Greenbank, renamed Greenbank on 7 May 1973. Further stations were located at... |
Wendi Richter | Training (1979–1983) | Wendi Richter Training (1979–1983) Wendi Richter was trained at The Fabulous Moolah's Lillian Ellison School of Professional Wrestling by Leilani Kai, Judy Martin and Joyce Grable and made her professional debut in 1979. In early 1982, Richter tag teamed with Moolah against Velvet McIntyre and Princess Victoria for thr... |
University of Roehampton | Roehampton Students' Union (RSU) | led by student officers elected by the student body, and aims to promote the interests and welfare of all those studying at Roehampton. It is also a focal point for social activities, and is responsible for organising events like the Summer Ball, Summer Ball being the biggest event of the academic year. Attracting over... |
WBZO | History | WBZO History 103.1 FM first signed on the air in February 1993 as WBSI, broadcasting from studios located on Sunrise Highway in Bay Shore and playing oldies from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. The WBSI calls were dropped only a few months after the station signed on because WBLI complained the WBSI calls were too similar... |
Torbjörn Evrell | Contributions in knife design, construction and production & Marketing | or stainless steel. The Swede 45 had wooden scales. These first models have been followed by several models with incremental developments.
Another of Evrells inventions is a small folding knife where the whole knife including the folding mechanism is welded together.
With increasing demand EKA-knivar continually made i... |
William Richards (Hawaii) | Legal reform | board, already accused of political meddling, did not think it appropriate to support the effort. Since he could not find any willing to take such a long journey, Richards himself took on the task.
He helped draft a Hawaiian Declaration of Rights with assistance from Boaz Mahune, Jonah Kapena and other students at Laha... |
Women's music | Women's music festivals | States before ceasing operations after the fortieth festival in August 2015. Newer festivals include Lilith Fair which toured from 1997–1999 and the Ohio Lesbian Festival, near Columbus Ohio, was created in 1988 and continues to be an ongoing celebration of womyn's music and culture. Many other festivals have been crea... |
Valley View, Ohio | History & Geography | Valley View, Ohio History Valley View was incorporated as a village in 1919 after it broke away from Independence, Ohio, after an argument over the location of the schools.
Former Mayor Randall Westfall resigned from office on March 8, 2013. Council President Jerry Piasecki took over as Mayor. An election was held in N... |
United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2013 | Developments during suspension & Debt ceiling reached again | its own 2014 budget on a 50–49 vote. The House refused to hold a vote on the Senate budget. On April 10, the President released his own 2014 budget, which was not voted on in either house of Congress. Throughout March and April, there were several developments that reduced the sequester's impact. The bill that extended... |
White River (Texas) | Silver Falls | White River (Texas) Silver Falls Where U.S. Route 82 crosses the White River, a roadside rest area with facilities and hiking trails is maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation. The central focal point of this park is Silver Falls, where a spring-fed White River used to cascade over sandstone ledges. Spri... |
Winding number | Winding number and Heisenberg ferromagnet equations | its integrable extensions: the Ishimori equation etc. Solutions of the last equations are classified by the winding number or topological charge (topological invariant and/or topological quantum number). |
William Farnhurst | null | William Farnhurst William Farnhurst (fl. 1415–1422) of Chichester, Sussex, was an English politician.
He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Chichester in 1415, March 1416, May 1421 and 1422. |
WAZA (FM) | Programming & History | WAZA (FM) Programming WAZA was launched as an urban outlet branded as "The Spot 107.7" in 1998. In mid-2010, the station flipped to sports talk as a Fox Sports Radio affiliate branded as "Sportstalk 107.7FM". Since April 2011, the station has broadcast an urban contemporary music format branded as "The Touch 107.7" to ... |
William Dole | null | William Dole William Dole (died 1403) was a Canon of Windsor from 1377 to 1403 |
Wingman Project | null | Wingman Project The Wingman Project (formerly 'Wingman For Life') is a layperson, peer-to-peer suicide intervention program that shows U.S. military members and their families how to intervene to save a life. By promoting a Wingman Ethos, whereby military families and members take personal accountability for the well ... |
Whale watching | Southwest Pacific – New Zealand and Australia | Albany on the south coast of Western Australia the town where the last land based whaling station in the southern hemisphere was located is now home to a thriving whale watching industry. In Victoria a popular site is Logan's Beach at Warrnambool, as well as in the waters off Port Fairy and Portland. In Tasmania whales... |
Window Rock, Arizona | Features & Navajo Nation Museum | on the New Mexico side of the border with Arizona. Navajo Nation Museum In the year of 1961 the Navajo Tribe established the first Navajo Tribal Museum in a small building on the Window Rock Tribal Fairgrounds. It was moved in 1982 to the back room of the Navajo Arts and Crafts Store. In 1997, a $7 million permanent ho... |
Walton War | The Orphan Strip and cession | Walton War The Orphan Strip and cession The Orphan Strip is the name given to a small, twelve-mile-wide strip of land bordering North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia in what is currently Transylvania County, North Carolina. This piece of land was given the name because none of its bordering states accepted to gov... |
Wolfgang Albers (politician) | Biography & Politics | of Berlin (Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin). In 1990 he became a full surgical doctor and worked as a senior physician of General and Vascular Surgery at Humboldt Hospital. Albers was elected for the first time to the worker's council of the Humboldt Hospital in 2000. After the merger of all nine previously public hospita... |
Who Are You (The Who song) | Background | Who Are You (The Who song) Background The lyrics of "Who Are You" were inspired by an incident Townshend experienced. After going out drinking with Steve Jones and Paul Cook of the Sex Pistols, Townshend was found in a "Soho doorway" by a policeman, who let him go if he could safely walk away.
"Who Are You" was written... |
Women's music | Record labels, distributors, and publications & HOT WIRE: The Journal of Women's Music and Culture | start failing in the 1980s and 1990s. In order to solve these different issues, the MIC (Music Industry Conference) came together to figure out what could be done. For an entire week around 80 women in the music business discussed the prevalent questions/concerns that were affecting women's music at that time. The main... |
Winged Assassin | Production | episode take place on 10 July, the same day as the events of "Treble Cross" and the closing scene of "Flight to Atlantica". Barwick was fond of inserting references to 10 July as that was his birthday.
The scale model of the entrance to London International Airport was designed by special effects assistant Mike Trim. T... |
Wendi Richter | Personal life | Circle of Champions: The History of Women's Pro Wrestling directed by Christopher Annino. |
W. Robert Kohorst | Career | working for Maxus Realty, Inc. and stayed with the company until 2015. From 2015 until 2017, Kohorst served as Director of Posey Company. Today Kohorst is the President, CEO, Chairman and Director of multiple businesses within the Everest Group.
Kohorst donated over $1.1 million to Republican national and state committ... |
Thrissur Elsy | Biography & Family | Thrissur Elsy Biography Thrissur Elsy is an Indian film actress best known for her work in Malayalam cinema. She acts mainly in supporting roles and mother characters. She was a famous theater artist until Ramu kariat finds her and introduced through his films. Her mother role as Mukesh's character in movie In Harihar ... |
Wheelchair | History | of wheeled chairs made specifically to carry people begin to occur in Chinese art.
Although Europeans eventually developed a similar design, this method of transportation did not exist until 1595 when an unknown inventor from Spain built one for King Phillip II. Although it was an elaborate chair having both armrests a... |
Woman on the Night Train | Synopsis | Woman on the Night Train Synopsis Saeko is abnormally attached to her older sister, Yumi. When Yumi becomes engaged to Arikawa, Saeko schemes to separate the two. She seduces Arikawa who then becomes confused over his attraction to both sisters. He approaches their father about his dilemma. The father explains that the... |
The Romance of a Shop | Imperial England & Literary background | war developments. His departure, possible death, and return is essential in the plot surrounding Lucy's courtship. Literary background Levy inserts many autobiographical details in The Romance of a Shop; for example, Gerty's poem which is published in The Woodcut is actually Levy's own poem "A Game of Lawn-Tennis" whic... |
Winifred Mary Ward | Career & Personal life | and poems specifically for use in teaching aspects of speech. Her 1941 work on stammering was the first major text on the subject in the British literature and was one of the earliest works on any topic in the field. She was one of the first authorities to recognise that there are different types and causes of stammeri... |
Walter Howchin | Early life | ministry. He was ordained towards the end of 1864. His first circuit was Shotley Bridge, Durham, and during the next 16 years he moved between a number of parishes in the Tyne valley. He began to take an interest in geology at an early age, and found much to develop this interest in the abundant local outcrops of coal-... |
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