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Cambridge Encyclopedia
Cambridge Encyclopedia Vol. 78
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
Vitus (Jonassen) Bering
Viv Richards
Vivekananda - Biography, Principles and philosophy, Interaction with notable contemporaries, Miscellaneous, Trivia
Vivian Fine
Vivien Leigh - Early life and acting career, Meeting Laurence Olivier, Achieving international success, Marriage and joint projects
vivisection - Animal testing, Human vivisection
Vladimir - History, Sightseeings, Sister cities
Vladimir (Ivanovich) Nemirovich-Danchenko
Vladimir (Kosma) Zworykin - Biography, Legacy, Quote, Further reading
Vladimir (Vladimirovich) Mayakovsky - Early Life, Literary Life
Vladimir (Vladimirovich) Nabokov - Biography, Work, Nabokov's Synesthesia, Lepidoptery, List of works, Works about Nabokov
Vladimir (Vladimirovich) Putin - Life and career, Prime Minister and first term as President, Second term as President, Chechnya
Vladimir Ashkenazy - Early years, Ashkenazy as pianist, Ashkenazy as conductor
Vladimir Horowitz - Life and early career, Repertoire and technique, Awards and Recognitions
Vladimir Nazor
Vladimir Nikolayevich Ipatieff
Vladimir Prelog - Early years, Work in Zagreb, Work in Zurich, Nobel Prize winner, Private life
Vladimir Tatlin
Vladivostok - History, Geography, Climate, Demographics, Economy, Transportation, Education, Media, Pollution, Sport, Miscellaneous
Vlor
Vo Nguyen Giap - Biography
vocational education - VET internationally
vodka - Etymology, Production, Vodka and the EU, Health, Worldwide vodka brands
Voice of America (VOA) - Languages, Overview, History, Laws governing VOA-IBB's activities, International Broadcasting Bureau services, Programming
Volans
volcano - Locations, Shape, Erupted material, Volcanic activity, Notable volcanoes, Effects of volcanoes, Etymology, Past beliefs
vole - Range, Diet
Volgograd - Economy, Education, Sister cities
Volkseigener Betrieb (VEB) - Examples
Volkskammer - Chairmen of the People's Chamber
volleyball - Rules, Skills, Strategy
Volsci
volt - Definition, Hydraulic analogy, Common voltages, History of the volt
Voltaire - Biography, Works, Legacy, The pen name "Voltaire"
voltmeter - Potentiometer, Vacuum Tube Voltmeter (VTVM), Oscilloscope
Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) - Media reports
voodoo - African origins, Survival in the Southern US, Myths and misconceptions, Demographics
Voronezh - History, Further reading
vortex - Dynamics, Two types of vortex, Observations
Vorticism - Origins, Participants, BLAST, Demise and legacy
Vortigern - The stories of Vortigern, Vortigern: history or apocrypha?, Portrayals of Vortigern on television
Vosges Mountains
Vossius
Vostok (scientific station)
Vostok (spacecraft)
vow - Reference
vowel - Prosody and intonation, Pronunciation in English, Monophthongs, diphthongs, triphthongs, Vowels in languages, Written vowels
voyeurism - Characteristics, Criminalization, Voyeurism in fiction, DSM IV Classification, Sexual criminals
VTOL - Media
Vulcan - About Vulcan, Vulcan in mythology, Vulcan of the alchemists
vulcanization - Reason for vulcanizing, Description, Overview and history, Goodyear's contribution, Later developments, Devulcanization
Vulgate - Relation with the Old Latin Bible, Jerome's Translation, Psalters, Manuscripts and Early Editions
Vulpecula
vulture
W(alter) W(illiam) Skeat
W(ilhelm) F(riedemann) Bach - Selected works, Trivia
W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats - Early life and work, The young poet
W(illiam) E(wart) Gladstone - Early life, Minister under Peel, Chancellor of the Exchequer, First ministry, 1868–1874
W(illiam) H(enry) Hudson
W(illiam) L(yon) Mackenzie King - Biography, Personal life, Supreme Court appointments, Woodside National Historic Site
W(illiam) P(aton) Ker - Works
W(illiam) T(homas) Grant
wadi - List of Wadis
Waffen-SS - Basic Background, Concept and training, Trial by fire, Mixed quality and imagined quality
wagtail
Wahoo
Waitangi Day - Controversy and Protest, Celebrations
Wakefield (UK) - Music, Famous people born in or near Wakefield, Famous songs regarding Wakefield, Sport, Prisons, Location Grid
Wakefield (USA) - Music, Famous people born in or near Wakefield, Famous songs regarding Wakefield, Sport, Prisons, Location Grid
Wales - Etymology, History, Economy, Demographics, Culture, National symbols, Photos of Wales, Notable Welsh people
Walker Evans
Walker Percy - Biography, Further reading
walking - Biomechanics, Walking as a leisure activity, Walking as transportation, Walking in robotics
Wall Street - History, Wall Street today, Buildings, Cultural influence, Similar institutions
Wallace (Earle) Stegner - Bibliography, Further reading about Stegner, Awards
Wallace (Hume) Carothers - Biography
Wallace (John) Eckert - Application: solution of differential equations for astronomy, Application: the Manhattan Project
Wallace (Walter) Atwood
Wallace Beery
Wallace Clement (Ware) Sabine - Career
Wallace Nutting
Wallace Stevens - Life and career, Poetry, Bibliography
wallaroo
wallcreeper
walleye
wallflower
Wallingford - Geography, Character and local government, History, Famous residents and associated persons
Wallingford Riegger - Works
Wallonia - Demographics and language, Economy, Politics, Etymology, Cinema, Holidays
walnut - Uses, Health benefits of walnuts
walrus
Walt (Whitman) Rostow - Bibliography
Walter (Adolph) Gropius - Life, Important buildings, Trivia
Walter (Charles) Hagen - Results in major championships
Walter (Chauncey) Camp
Walter (Conrad) Arensberg
Walter (Dorwin) Teague - External Links
Walter (Ernest) Allen - Works
Walter (Ernst Karl) Ulbricht - Political career
Walter (Francis) O'Malley - Birth, Education, George McLaughlin, Brooklyn Dodgers, Death, Timeline
Walter (Francis) White - Investigating the Elaine Race Riot
Walter (Hamor) Piston - Life, Books
Walter (Horatio) Pater
Walter (Hubert) Annenberg - Early life, Business life, Personal life, Philanthropy
Walter (Johannes) Damrosch - Work on Broadway, Educator/Popularizer
Walter (John) de la Mare - The imagination, Works, Short story collections, See Also
Walter (John) Travis
Walter (Perry) Johnson - Statistics
Walter (Philip) Reuther
Walter (Richard) Sickert - Life and work, Jack the Ripper theories
Walter (Robert) Dornberger
Walter (Sydney) Adams - Honors
Walter (Wilhelm) Gieseking - Bibliography
Walter B(radford) Cannon - Biography, Family, Research, Books, External links and references
Walter Bagehot
Walter Bedell Smith
Walter Benjamin - Early life, Work, Criticism, Death, Legacy
Walter Brennan - Early Life and Career, Successful Career as a Character Actor, Status in Film History
Walter Brown McGhee
Walter Burley Griffin - Early life, Chicago career, Mason City, Iowa homes, Canberra, Legacy, Major works
Walter Crane - Early life and influences, Paintings and illustrations, Socialism, Mature work, External links and Resources
Walter de Merton
Walter Donaldson
Walter Duranty - Views on the Soviet Union, The Famine, Later Career, Books
Walter Evans Edge
Walter Fenner Leonard - People
Walter Flex
Walter Gilbert
Walter Greenwood
Walter H(ouser) Brattain
Walter Hallstein - Honours
Walter Hampden
Walter Hasenclever
Walter Hines Page
Walter Hoving - Involvement with John F. Kennedy, An Exception to the Rule, Selling 'Esthetic Excitement'
Walter Jackson Bate - Major works
Walter James Vincent Maranville - Differences from hares, Humans' relationship with rabbits, Domestic rabbits, Environmental problems with rabbits, Classification
Walter Jens
Walter Kempowski - Bibliography
Walter Lantz - Start in Animation, The Oswald Era, The Woody Woodpecker Era, Retirement, Characters, Walter Lantz "Cartunes"
Walter Legge - Further reading
Walter Lindrum - Early life, Billiards champion
Walter Lippmann - Early life, Journalism and Democracy, Bibliography
Walter Lowrie
Walter Matthau - Biography, Original name rumour, Trivia, Filmography, TV work, Stage appearances
Walter Payton - Early life, College career, Professional career, Personal life, Playing style
Walter Rauschenbusch - Books
Walter Reed - Biography, Heritage, memorials
Walter Rudolf Hess
Walter Savage Landor - Early life, South Wales, First Publication and Gebir, Napoleonic Wars, Marriage and separation, Poetry, Bibliography
Walter Scheel
Walter Shirlaw
Walter Trampler
Walter Wanger
Walter Wellman
Walter Winchell - Professional career, Style, Personal life, Legacy, Winchellism and Winchellese, Portrayals in the media
Waltham - Places, Other
Walther (Wilhelm Georg) Bothe - Biography, Personal life, External links and further reading
Walther Bauersfeld
Walther Flemming
Walther Funk - Early life, Political life, Third Reich career, Nuremberg
Walther Rathenau - Family, Political career, Assassination, Works
Walther von der Vogelweide - Life history, Assessment, Works, Sources
Walton (Harris) Walker - World War II, Post-World War II, Korean War, Death
waltz - Origin, Various styles of waltz
Walvis Bay
wampum - Description, Post-colonization wampum, Wampum as transcription, Modern References
Wanda (Louise) Landowska
wandering Jew - Origin of the legend
Wandering Jew - Origin of the legend
Wang Anshi - Further reading
Wang Jingwei - Rise to prominence, Rivalry with Chiang Kai-shek, Japanese collaboration
Wang Mang
Wang Wei - Poetry sample
Wang Yangming - Philosophy, Influence and Trivia
Wangari Maathai - Education, Activism and political life, Nobel Peace Prize, Personal life, Bibliography, External links and sources
Wankel engine - Naming, How it works, Advantages, Disadvantages, History, Drones, UAV with Wankel rotary engine, Other uses
Wantage - Geography and character, Local government, Transport, History, Historic buildings, Famous people
war - Morality of war, Limitations on war, Causes of war, Types of war and warfare
War of (1812) - Overview, Origins, Course of the war
War of the Pacific - Origins, The War, Characteristics of the War, Aftermath, Prominent military commanders
warble fly
Ward Hunt
warez - Etymology, History of warez, Types of warez, Distribution of warez, Motivations and arguments, Legality, Terminology
warfarin - Mechanism of action, Uses, Side-effects, Pharmacology, Other coumarins
warlords
Warlpiri - History, Location, Tradition, Kinship, Language
Warren - Geographical names, Businesses, Educational, Fiction, Parks, Transportation, Persons
Warren (Edward) Spahn
Warren (Gamaliel) Bennis - Military Service, Career, Werner Erhard, Bibliography
Warren Beatty - Biography, Politics
Warren Buffett - Overview, Philanthropy, Management style, Investment approach, Public stances, Historical timeline, Personal life, Further reading
Warren Chappell
Warren de la Rue - Honors
Warren Hastings
Warren Mitchell
Warren Weaver
Warrington - History, Geography, Arts and entertainment, Culture, Shopping, Buildings, Educational institutions, Sports, Famous people, Civil Parishes, Districts
Warsaw - Geography, History, Population, Municipal government, Politics, Transport, Education, Tourist attractions, Trivia
Warsaw Ghetto - Formation of the Ghetto, Destruction of the Ghetto
Warsaw Pact - Members, History, Post-Warsaw Pact
Warsaw uprising - Legacy
wart
warthog
Warwick - Overview, History, Transport, Administration, Suburbs, Landmarks, Town twinning
Warwickshire - Geography, Main settlements, History, Economy, Local government, Transport
The Wash
Washakie
Washington (DC) - History, Important cities and towns, Education, Professional sports teams, Miscellaneous topics
Washington (Pennsylvania) - History, Important cities and towns, Education, Professional sports teams, Miscellaneous topics
Washington (state) - History, Important cities and towns, Education, Professional sports teams, Miscellaneous topics
Washington Allston
Washington Irving - Biography, Pen Names and Associated Writings, Bibliography, In other works
Washington Monument - History, Construction details
wasp
Wassily Kandinsky - Artistic periods, Kandinsky's conception of art, Quotations on Kandinsky
Wassily Leontief - Biography, Major contributions, Publications, Awards, In Honor, Memberships, Quote
Wat Tyler
watch - Overview, Watch cases, Watch movements, Power sources, Displaying the time, Watch functions, Fashionable watches, Advanced watches
water - Chemical and physical properties, Position of the Earth relating to water, Effects on life, Politics
water beetle
water birth - Research, Advantages, Disadvantages, Acceptance
water boatman
water buffalo - Asia, Europe and Middle East, Uses
water deer
water flea
water gas
water hyacinth
water polo - Basic skills, Overview, Positions, Offense strategy, Defense strategy, Ball handling skills, Game variations, History
water rat
water skiing - Brief history, Competitive
water table - Form
water vole - Description, Species name, Range, Habitat, Diet, Conservation
watercress - Watercress cultivation, Food value
waterfall - Formation, Examples of large waterfalls
Waterford (city) - History, Climate, Sister cities
Waterford (county) - History, Climate, Sister cities
Waterloo - Battle, Places, Other
Watford - Transport, North of Watford, People, Sport, Nearby places, Twinning, Other Watfords, Watford Colosseum, Future Plans
watt - SI multiples, Derived and qualified units for power distribution
wattle
wattle and daub - Wattle and daub in Ireland, Acacias
wattmeter
Watts Towers - Design and construction, After Rodia, References in Popular Culture
wave (oceanography) - Characteristics, Mathematical description
Wave Rock
wavefunction - Definition, Interpretation
wavelength - In non-vacuum mediums, Quantum wavelength of particles
Waverley (Lewis) Root
wax - Wax types
waxwing
Wayland
Waylon Jennings - Albums, Awards
Wayne (Douglas) Gretzky
Wayne (Lyman) Morse
Wayne Rooney - Career, Personal life, Career stats
Wayne Shorter - Early life and career, With Miles Davis, Weather Report period, 1970 to 1986, Recent career
Wayne Sleep
weak interaction - Properties, Electroweak Theory
The Weald - The Weald, Other English Wealds, Wold
weapons of mass destruction (WMD) - Historic use of the term WMD, WMD use and control, WMD Use, Possession and Access
weasel - Species of weasel
weather - Basic mechanism, Terrestrial weather, Extra-terrestrial weather, Extra-planetary weather
Weather Report
weather satellite - History, Types
weaving - Process, History, Weaving in Colonial America, Weaving in America, 1800-1900, Weaving in Amazonia
Webb - Places, People, Things
weber - Other, People, Places, Companies
Weddell Sea
weever
weevil
weigela
weight - Weight and mass, Units of weight (force) and mass, Sensation of weight, Measuring weight
weightlifting - The lifts, Top lifters, Records
Weimar - Famous residents of Weimar, Districts, Sister Cities, Transportation, Sporting clubs, Education
Weimar Republic - Controlled revolution: the establishment of the Republic (1918–1919)
welfare economics - Two approaches, Efficiency, Income distribution, A simplified seven equation model, Efficiency between production and consumption
welfare state - Etymology, The development of welfare states, Arguments for and against the welfare state
Wellesley - People, Places, Other
Wellington - Settlement, Earthquakes, New Zealand's capital, Location and geography, Energy, Demographics, Arts and culture, Sport
wels - Geography
Welsh
Welsh Assembly
Welsh literature - The Middle Ages, The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, The Eighteenth Century, The Nineteenth Century
Welsh poppy
welwitschia
Welwyn Garden City - Popular culture, Local Schools
Wembley Stadium - Football, Other sports, Music, Redevelopment
Wendell (Meredith) Stanley
Wendell Castle - Permanent collections, Publications
Wendell Phillips - Education, Abolitionism, Postbellum activism
Wendell Willkie - Political life, Presidential campaign, After 1940, Willkie's Legacy
Wends
Wendy (Mary) Cope - Bibliography
Wendy Wasserstein - Background, Career, Life and illness, Works, Obituaries
werewolf - Origins and variations of the word, History of the werewolf, Becoming a werewolf, Theories of origin
Werner (Karl) Heisenberg - Biography and controversy
Werner (Wilhelm) Jaeger - Works
Werner Arber
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