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Waha (people)
a Bantu-speaking people belonging to the Interlacustrine Bantu ethnolinguistic family who live in western Tanzania bordering on Lake Tanganyika. Their country, which they call Buha, comprises grasslands and open woodlands. Agriculture is their primary economic activity. Sorghum, millet, corn (maize), cassava, yams, peanuts (groundnuts), and other crops were cultivated by hoe techniques until effor...
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Wahābī (Islamic movement)
any member of the Muslim puritan movement founded by Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb in the 18th century in Najd, central Arabia, and adopted in 1744 by the Saʿūdī family....
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Wahankh Intef (king of Egypt)
third king of the 11th dynasty (2081–1938 bce) in ancient Egypt, who during his long reign successfully warred against the allies of the Heracleopolitans—rulers of Middle and Lower Egypt composing the 9th and 10th dynasties (see ancient Egypt: The First Intermediate period)....
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Wāḥāt al-Khārijah, Al- (oasis, Egypt)
oasis in the Libyan (Western) Desert, part of Al-Wādī al-Jadīd (“New Valley”) muḥāfaẓah (governorate), in south-central Egypt. It is situated about 110 miles (180 km) west-southwest of Najʿ Ḥammādī, to which it is linked by railroad. The name Wāḥāt al-Khārijah m...
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Wāḥat Sīwah (oasis, Egypt)
oasis in Maṭrūḥ muḥāfaẓah (governorate), western Egypt. It lies near the Libyan frontier, 350 miles (560 km) west-southwest of Cairo. The oasis is 6 miles (10 km) long by 4–5 miles (6–8 km) wide and has about 200 springs. Two rock outcrops provide the sites of the old walled settlements of Siwa and Aghūrm...
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Wahaya (people)
East African people who speak a Bantu language (also called Hays) and inhabit the northwestern corner of Tanzania between the Kagera River and Lake Victoria....
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Wahballat (king of Palmyra)
...of Palmyra thus extended from Cilicia to Arabia. He was murdered in 267 without ever having severed his ties with Gallienus. His widow Zenobia had her husband’s titles granted to their son Vaballathus. Then in 270, taking advantage of the deaths of Gallienus and Claudius II, she invaded Egypt and a part of Anatolia. This invasion was followed by a rupture with Rome, and in 271......
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Wahbī, Yūsuf (Egyptian theatrical producer)
...number of intellectuals and presenting dramas and tragedies in polished, literary Arabic. Its chief exponent was Jūrj Abyaḍ, who had spent time studying acting in Paris. In contrast, Yūsuf Wahbī’s National Troupe performed realistic plays, usually dramas or melodramas, using either colloquial or literary Arabic and sometimes a combination of both....
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waḥdat al-wujūd (Ṣūfī doctrine)
...has become one of the most popular mystical orders in the country. Great emphasis was originally placed by the Chishtīyah on the Ṣūfī doctrine of the unity of being (waḥdat al-wujūd), oneness with God; thus, all material goods were rejected as distracting from the contemplation of God; absolutely no connection with the secular state......
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waḥdat ash-shuhūd (Ṣūfī doctrine)
...monistic position of waḥdat al-wujūd (the concept of divine existential unity of God and the world, and hence man), he instead advanced the notion of waḥdat ash-shuhūd (the concept of unity of vision). According to this doctrine, any experience of unity between God and the world he has created is purely subjective and occurs only......
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Wahgunyah (New South Wales, Australia)
town on the Murray River, New South Wales, Australia. Immediately on the opposite side of the Murray River, in Victoria, is the twin town of Wahgunyah. Corowa was established in 1858. The Corowa Conference in 1893 marked an important point in the movement for federation of the Australian colonies. Situated in a section of the Riverina that produces wool, wheat...
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Wahhāb, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al- (Muslim theologian)
theologian and founder of the Wahhābī movement, which attempted a return to the “true” principles of Islam....
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Wahhābī (Islamic movement)
any member of the Muslim puritan movement founded by Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb in the 18th century in Najd, central Arabia, and adopted in 1744 by the Saʿūdī family....
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Wahhābism (Islamic movement)
any member of the Muslim puritan movement founded by Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb in the 18th century in Najd, central Arabia, and adopted in 1744 by the Saʿūdī family....
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Wahhābīyah (Islamic movement)
any member of the Muslim puritan movement founded by Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb in the 18th century in Najd, central Arabia, and adopted in 1744 by the Saʿūdī family....
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Wahiawā (Hawaii, United States)
city, Honolulu county, central Oahu island, Hawaii, U.S. Lying 22 miles (35 km) northwest of Honolulu, it is situated on the 1,000-foot- (300-metre-) high Leilehua Plateau between the two forks of the Kaukonahua Stream. The area was once used as a training ground for Oahu warriors, and from at least the 14th century it was considered a sacre...
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Wahiawa (Hawaii, United States)
city, Honolulu county, central Oahu island, Hawaii, U.S. Lying 22 miles (35 km) northwest of Honolulu, it is situated on the 1,000-foot- (300-metre-) high Leilehua Plateau between the two forks of the Kaukonahua Stream. The area was once used as a training ground for Oahu warriors, and from at least the 14th century it was considered a sacre...
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Wahībah Dunes, Āl (desert, Oman)
sandy desert, east-central Oman. It fronts the Arabian Sea on the southeast and stretches along the coast for more than 100 miles (160 km). The desert consists of honey-coloured dunes that are dark red at their base and rise to heights of 230 feet (70 m). The sands are crisscrossed with tracks and routes for vehicles. There is very little surface water, but underground water traditionally is tappe...
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Wahid, Abdurrahman (religious leader and president of Indonesia)
One could say that Abdurrahman Wahid was born to lead the world’s largest Muslim organization, the 25 million-member Nahdatul Ulama (NU), founded by his grandfathers and a third Muslim teacher in Jombang, Java, in 1926. As NU chief since 1984, Wahid was one of the most respected figures in Indonesian Islam and the most politically active. The stout, soccer-loving Wahid also headed Forum Dem...
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Wahidin Sudirohusodo, Mas (Javanese physician)
Budi Utomo originated through the efforts of Mas Wahidin Sudirohusodo (1852–1917), a retired Javanese physician who, attempting to elevate the Javanese people through the study of Western knowledge as well as their own cultural heritage, sought to obtain support for a scholarship fund for Indonesian students. His efforts were supported by Dutch-educated Javanese students in Batavia (now......
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Wahl, Arthur C. (American scientist)
...released in alpha decay, is a silvery metal that takes on a yellow tarnish in air. The element was first detected (1941) as the isotope plutonium-238 by Glenn T. Seaborg, Joseph W. Kennedy, and Arthur C. Wahl, who produced it by deuteron bombardment of uranium-238 in the 60-inch cyclotron at Berkeley, California. Traces of plutonium have subsequently been found in uranium ores, where it is......
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Wahlenbergia (plant)
any of about 260 species of annual and perennial herbs of the genus Wahlenbergia, of the bellflower family (Campanulaceae), mostly native to south temperate regions of the Old World. Ten species of the genus Edraianthus often are included in Wahlenbergia....
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Wahlenbergia hederacea
The ivy-leaved bellflower (W. hederacea), a European annual, has delicate, hairless, creeping stems and small, pale-blue, veined, bell-shaped flowers. W. marginata, a hairy, erect perennial from East Asia, now is naturalized in southern North America; it is about 45 cm (18 inches) tall, with blue or white, upward facing flowers....
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Wahlenbergia marginata (plant)
The ivy-leaved bellflower (W. hederacea), a European annual, has delicate, hairless, creeping stems and small, pale-blue, veined, bell-shaped flowers. W. marginata, a hairy, erect perennial from East Asia, now is naturalized in southern North America; it is about 45 cm (18 inches) tall, with blue or white, upward facing flowers....
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Wahlöö, Per (Swedish journalist and author)
As a team Per Wahlöö and his wife Maj Sjöwall (married in 1962) wrote a series of detective stories in which Martin Beck and his colleagues at the Central Bureau of Investigation in Stockholm were the main characters. From Roseanna (1965) to Terroristerna (1975; “The Terrorists”), the series consists of 10 novels, all of which are translated into En...
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“Wahlverwandtschaften, Die” (work by Goethe)
...their nationalist politics, their inclination toward Catholicism, or their idealization of the Middle Ages. Goethe’s novel Die Wahlverwandtschaften (1809; Elective Affinities), with its emphasis on the supranatural and spiritual as well as on the sainthood of the female protagonist, is an example of this new style. Another example is ......
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wahoo (plant)
...brilliant flower display, or emission of a volatile flammable vapour (see gas plant). The popular burning bush planted for fall colour is Euonymus atropurpureus, also called wahoo. This shrub, or small tree, up to 8 m (26 feet) in height, is native to the eastern and north-central United States. It bears small purplish flowers and small scarlet fruits. The western......
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wahoo (fish)
(Acanthocybium solanderi), swift-moving, powerful, predacious food and game fish of the family Scombridae (order Perciformes) found worldwide, especially in the tropics. The wahoo is a slim, streamlined fish with sharp-toothed, beaklike jaws and a tapered body ending in a slender tail base and a crescent-shaped tail. Gray-blue above and paler below, it is marked with a series of vertical b...
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Wahpeton (North Dakota, United States)
city, seat (1873) of Richland county, southeastern North Dakota, U.S. It lies on the Minnesota border across from Breckenridge, Minnesota, at the point where the Bois de Sioux and Otter Tail rivers merge to become the Red River of the North. Settled in 1864 by Morgan T. Rich and initially named Richland, it was the second permanent settlemen...
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Wahran (Algeria)
city, northwestern Algeria. It lies along an open bay on the Mediterranean Sea coast, about midway between Tangier (Morocco) and Algiers, at the point where Algeria is closest to Spain. With the adjacent city of Mers el-Kebir, a fishing centre at the western end of the bay, Oran is the nation’s second largest port after Algiers....
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Wahrān (Algeria)
city, northwestern Algeria. It lies along an open bay on the Mediterranean Sea coast, about midway between Tangier (Morocco) and Algiers, at the point where Algeria is closest to Spain. With the adjacent city of Mers el-Kebir, a fishing centre at the western end of the bay, Oran is the nation’s second largest port after Algiers....
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“Wahrheit und Methode” (work by Gadamer)
Gadamer’s most important work, Wahrheit und Methode (1960; Truth and Method), is considered by some to be the major 20th-century philosophical statement on hermeneutical theory. His other works include Kleine Schriften, 4 vol. (1967–77; Philosophical Hermeneutics, selected essays from ...
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Wahunsenacah (American Indian chief)
North American Indian leader, father of Pocahontas. He presided over the Powhatan empire at the time the English established the Jamestown Colony (1607)....
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Wahunsenacawh (American Indian chief)
North American Indian leader, father of Pocahontas. He presided over the Powhatan empire at the time the English established the Jamestown Colony (1607)....
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Wahutu (people)
Bantu-speaking people of Rwanda and Burundi. Numbering about 9,500,000 in the late 20th century, the Hutu comprise the vast majority in both countries but were traditionally subject to the Tutsi, warrior-pastoralists of Nilotic stock....
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Wai Momi (naval base, Hawaii, United States)
naval base and headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Honolulu county, southern Oahu Island, Hawaii, U.S. In U.S. history the name recalls the Japanese surprise air attack on Dec. 7, 1941, that temporarily crippled the U.S. Fleet and resulted in the United States’ entry into World War II. (See Pearl Harbor Attack.) Pearl Harbor centres on a clo...
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Waialeale, Mount (mountain, Hawaii, United States)
peak, central Kauai island, Hawaii, U.S. Waialeale (Hawaiian: “Rippling Water”), with an elevation of 5,148 feet (1,569 metres), is a dissected (eroded) dome. It is part of a central mountain mass that includes Kawaikini (5,243 feet [1,598 metres]), the island’s highest peak, immediately south. Waialeale is located at the southeastern edge...
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Wai‘ale‘ale, Mount (mountain, Hawaii, United States)
peak, central Kauai island, Hawaii, U.S. Waialeale (Hawaiian: “Rippling Water”), with an elevation of 5,148 feet (1,569 metres), is a dissected (eroded) dome. It is part of a central mountain mass that includes Kawaikini (5,243 feet [1,598 metres]), the island’s highest peak, immediately south. Waialeale is located at the southeastern edge...
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Waianae Range (mountains, Hawaii, United States)
mountain range forming the western coast of Oahu island, Hawaii, U.S. The range is the oldest area of volcanic activity on the island. It is 22 miles (35 km) long and 9 miles (14 km) wide and is composed of three lava groups. The original caldera, 3 miles (5 km) wide and 5 miles (8 km) long, was at the head of Lualualei Valley (near Kolekole Pass) but was buri...
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Wai‘anae Range (mountains, Hawaii, United States)
mountain range forming the western coast of Oahu island, Hawaii, U.S. The range is the oldest area of volcanic activity on the island. It is 22 miles (35 km) long and 9 miles (14 km) wide and is composed of three lava groups. The original caldera, 3 miles (5 km) wide and 5 miles (8 km) long, was at the head of Lualualei Valley (near Kolekole Pass) but was buri...
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Waiãpi (people)
...sound when the player vibrates his lips against the mouth hole. Most Native American horns are end-blown, have a cylindrical bore, and are made from bamboo, wood, bark, bone, clay, or calabash. The Waiãpi people of the Tropical Forest area have an end-blown horn called the nhimia poku that can be played as a solo instrument or in ensembles,......
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Waiapuka Pool (pool, Lā‘ie, Oahu, Hawaii, United States)
...Laie’s main tourist attraction (particularly its famous authentic luau). Laie is also the seat of Brigham Young University–Hawaii campus (formerly the Church College of Hawaii [1955]). Nearby Waiapuka Pool is known in Hawaiian literature as the refuge of the beautiful Princess Laieikawai (“Leaf in the Water”), dedicated to the sun god and protected from her father, w...
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waiata aroha (song)
...distinguished three kinds of waiata (songs): waiata tangi (laments—for the dead, but also for other kinds of loss or misfortune), waiata aroha (songs about the nature of love—not only sexual love but also love of place or kin), and waiata whaiaaipo (songs of courtship or praise of the......
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waiata tangi (song)
...and the scholars Mervyn McLean and Margaret Orbell were the first to publish text and music together. McLean and Orbell distinguished three kinds of waiata (songs): waiata tangi (laments—for the dead, but also for other kinds of loss or misfortune), waiata aroha (songs about the nature of love—not only sexual lov...
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waiata whaiaaipo (song)
...dead, but also for other kinds of loss or misfortune), waiata aroha (songs about the nature of love—not only sexual love but also love of place or kin), and waiata whaiaaipo (songs of courtship or praise of the beloved). In addition, there are pao (gossip songs), poi (songs accompanying a dance......
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waiata-a-ringa (song)
...which in pre-European times survived through memorization, were inseparable from gestures and sometimes music. The most widely used modern development of these traditional forms is the waiata-a-ringa (action song), which fits graceful movements to popular European melodies....
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Waiau, Lake (lake, Hawaii, United States)
...its own western and southern slopes are covered with lava from Mauna Loa, its still-active neighbour. During the Ice Age a glacier about 250 feet (75 metres) thick covered the peak and formed Lake Waiau (the only alpine lake in the Hawaiian Islands) at 13,020 feet (3,970 metres). Several caves at heights of more than 12,000 feet (3,500 metres) have been discovered. There ancient Hawaiians......
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Waiau River (river, southwestern South Island, New Zealand)
river in southwestern South Island, New Zealand. It rises in Lake Manapouri and flows south through the Southland district for 135 miles (217 km) to enter Te Waewae Bay of the Tasman Sea. Its drainage basin includes the Mararoa River, extending 20 miles (32 km) farther inland to the Livingstone Mountains, and Lakes Te Anau and Monowai. The town of Tuatapere is the market and lumbering centre for ...
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Waiau River (river, eastern South Island, New Zealand)
river in eastern South Island, New Zealand. It rises in the Spenser Mountains and flows south and east for 105 miles (169 km) to enter the Pacific Ocean, 6 miles (10 km) northeast of Cheviot. Its generally hilly drainage basin, 1,270 square miles (3,290 square km) in area, borders the Canterbury Plains to the south. Towns in the river’s valley, including Waiau and Parnassus, are market cent...
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Waiau-ua (river, eastern South Island, New Zealand)
river in eastern South Island, New Zealand. It rises in the Spenser Mountains and flows south and east for 105 miles (169 km) to enter the Pacific Ocean, 6 miles (10 km) northeast of Cheviot. Its generally hilly drainage basin, 1,270 square miles (3,290 square km) in area, borders the Canterbury Plains to the south. Towns in the river’s valley, including Waiau and Parnassus, are market cent...
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Waica (people)
Except for the Guajiros of Lake Maracaibo, most of the Venezuelan aboriginal population lives within the Orinoco River basin. The most important indigenous groups include the Guaica (Waica), also known as the Guaharibo, and the Maquiritare (Makiritare) of the southern uplands, the Warao (Warrau) of the delta region, the Guahibo and the Yaruro of the western Llanos, and the Yanomami. These......
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Waigeo Island (island, Indonesia)
largest island of the Raja Ampat group in the Dampier Strait, Irian Jaya provinsi (“province”), Indonesia. Waigeo Island lies about 40 miles (64 km) northwest of the Doberai (Vogelkop) Peninsula and across the strait from Irian Jaya. It is 70 miles (110 km) long (east-west) and 30 miles (48 km) wide (north-south). The island, which is almost bisected by a narrow inlet of the D...
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Waiheke Island (island, New Zealand)
island, a volcanic formation in southern Hauraki Gulf, off the east coast of North Island, New Zealand. The fifth largest island of New Zealand, Waiheke has rolling hills rising to a maximum elevation of 759 feet (231 m)....
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Waihi (New Zealand)
town, northern North Island, New Zealand, on the Ohinemuri River (tributary of the Waihou). Situated at the base of the Coromandel Peninsula on the northern end of the Waihi Plains, Waihi, whose name is Maori for “rising waters,” was founded three years after gold and silver were discovered just north of the site in 1875. Gold mining continued until the 1950s, and ...
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Waihopai River (river, New Zealand)
city, Southland regional council, South Island, New Zealand. The city lies along the Waihopai River near its confluence with the New River estuary and is the southernmost city of South Island. The surrounding area was bought from the Maori by the New Zealand Company in 1853. Two years later the first settlers arrived at the site, then known as Kelly’s Point. Its name was changed in 1857 to....
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Waihora (lagoon, New Zealand)
coastal lagoon, eastern South Island, New Zealand, just west of Banks Peninsula. It measures 14 by 8 miles (23 by 13 km) and is 70 square miles (180 square km) in area. Receiving runoff from a 745-square-mile (1,930-square-kilometre) basin through several streams, principal of which is the Selwyn (entering through a delta from the north), Lake Ellesmere is brackish and is no deeper than 7 feet (2 ...
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Waikaremoana, Lake (lake, New Zealand)
lake in eastern North Island, New Zealand. Created by a landslide damming the Waikare Taheke River, the 21-square-mile (54-square-kilometre) lake, measuring 12 miles (19 km) by 6 miles (10 km), drains a 165-square-mile (427-square-kilometre) basin and empties via the same river, which is a tributary of the Wairoa. From its surface elevation of 2,015 feet (614 m), the lake extends to a depth of 840...
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Waikato (region, New Zealand)
regional council, northern North Island, New Zealand. It includes the mountainous Coromandel Peninsula and adjacent Hauraki Plains in the northeast; the fertile Waikato River valley in the northwest; the hills, limestone crags, and canyons of King Country in the southwest; and much of the island’s rugged central vol...
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Waikato River (river, New Zealand)
river, the longest in New Zealand, in central North Island. Rising on the slopes of Mount Ruapehu in Tongariro National Park as the Tongariro River, it flows north through Lake Taupo and, issuing from the lake’s northeastern corner, tumbles over Huka Falls and flows northwest to enter the Tasman Sea south of Auckland. The river is 264 miles (425 km) long. It has a gentle gradient and carri...
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Waikato, University of (university, Hamilton, New Zealand)
...Parliament and subsequently became New Zealand’s ambassador to the United States, a post he held until 2002. In addition to serving on the boards of several companies, he became chancellor of the University of Waikato in 2007. Bolger was made a member of the Order of New Zealand in 1997....
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Waikato War (New Zealand history)
Kingi led his people in the Waikato War (1863–64) with colonial troops and did not submit to colonial authority until 1872. The legitimacy of Kingi’s Waitara land claims was recognized in 1863, and in 1926 the New Zealand government awarded the Taranaki tribes an annual grant of £5,000 in compensation for their confiscated lands....
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Waikīkī (resort area, Hawaii, United States)
resort district, southeastern Honolulu (city), Hawaii, U.S. On the southern coast of Oahu island, Waikiki (Hawaiian: “Spurting Water”) is situated on Mamala Bay between the Ala Wai Canal (north and west) and Diamond Head crater (southeast). In the 19th century Waikiki was a favourite resort of Hawaii’s...
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Waikiki (resort area, Hawaii, United States)
resort district, southeastern Honolulu (city), Hawaii, U.S. On the southern coast of Oahu island, Waikiki (Hawaiian: “Spurting Water”) is situated on Mamala Bay between the Ala Wai Canal (north and west) and Diamond Head crater (southeast). In the 19th century Waikiki was a favourite resort of Hawaii’s...
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Waikiki Wedding (film by Tuttle [1937])
...Stephen Goosson for Lost HorizonScoring: Universal Studio Music Department, Charles Previn, head of department, for 100 Men and a GirlSong: “Sweet Leilani” from Waikiki Wedding; music and lyrics by Harry OwensHonorary Award: Edgar Bergen, the Museum of Modern Art Film Library, Mack SennettHonorary Award:......
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waila (musical repertory)
...1980s. By the 1860s, O’odham fiddlers were playing music for the mazurka, schottische, and polka at public dances in Tucson, Ariz.; they developed a repertory known as waila that has become an important traditional music. A similar history unfolded among Indian marching bands, which began performing in the mid-1800s for parades, fairs, and exhibiti...
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Wailer, Bunny (Jamaican musician)
...vocal group in Trench Town with friends who would later be known as Peter Tosh (original name Winston Hubert MacIntosh) and Bunny Wailer (original name Neville O’Reilly Livingston; b. April 10, 1947Kingston). The tri...
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Wailers, the (Jamaican music group)
...who pioneered the new reggae sound, with its faster beat driven by the bass, were Toots and the Maytals, who had their first major hit with “54-46 (That’s My Number)” (1968), and the Wailers—Bunny Wailer, Peter Tosh, and reggae’s biggest star, Bob Marley—who recorded hits at Dodd’s Studio One and later worked with producer Lee (“Scratch...
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Wailing Wall (pilgrimage site, Jerusalem)
in the Old City of Jerusalem, a place of prayer and pilgrimage sacred to the Jewish people. It is the only remains of the Second Temple of Jerusalem, held to be uniquely holy by the ancient Jews and destroyed by the Romans in ad 70. The authenticity of the Western Wall has been confirmed by tradition, history, and archaeological research; the wall dates from about the 2nd century ...
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Wailly, Charles de (French architect)
...of the pre-Revolutionary period were Marie-Joseph Peyre, whose Livre d’architecture of 1765 was influential in publicizing the type of work being produced by French students in Rome; Charles de Wailly, who was an important teacher and, with Peyre, was the architect of the Paris Odéon; Jacques Gondoin, architect of the School of Medicine (1769–76), which, with i...
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Wailua Falls (waterfall, Hawaii, United States)
...scenery. Particular points of interest south of the village include Kaeleku Caverns, an ancient lava tube, and Waianapanapa State Park, which contains a black-sand beach. South of Hana are Wailua Falls, which drops hundreds of feet into a kukui (“candlenut”) grove in Wailua Gulch, and the conservation area of Kipahulu Valley, with......
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Wailua River (river, Hawaii, United States)
river, Kauai island, Hawaii, U.S. It flows from the slopes of Mount Waialeale about 10 miles (16 km) inland to the east-central coast. At the southern end of the river is Wailua Falls, which drops 200 feet (60 metres). The nearly 1,100-acre (450-hectare) Wailua River State Park, situated along the river, is rich in Hawaiia...
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Wailua River Reserve (park, Hawaii, United States)
...of Mount Waialeale about 10 miles (16 km) inland to the east-central coast. At the southern end of the river is Wailua Falls, which drops 200 feet (60 metres). The nearly 1,100-acre (450-hectare) Wailua River State Park, situated along the river, is rich in Hawaiian tradition. The first migratory Tahitians, including the great chief Puna-nui, arrived in the 12th century and settled near the......
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Wailuku (Hawaii, United States)
city, seat of Maui county, northern Maui island, Hawaii, U.S. It is situated on an isthmus at the mouth of the Iao Valley and the base of Maui’s western mountains. With Kahului (east) it forms a contiguous area that is the most densely populated and busiest on the island. Iao Stream flows through the western part of...
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Waimakariri River (river, New Zealand)
river in east-central South Island, New Zealand. It rises in the Southern Alps and flows 100 miles (160 km) southeast to Pegasus Bay of the Pacific Ocean, 8 miles (13 km) north of Christchurch. Fed by its principal tributaries—the Bealey, Poulter, and Esk—the river drains a basin of about 1,000 square miles (2,600 square km). The delta formed at its mouth constitutes a major portion...
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Waimate (New Zealand)
river in east-central South Island, New Zealand. It rises in the Southern Alps and flows 100 miles (160 km) southeast to Pegasus Bay of the Pacific Ocean, 8 miles (13 km) north of Christchurch. Fed by its principal tributaries—the Bealey, Poulter, and Esk—the river drains a basin of about 1,000 square miles (2,600 square km). The delta formed at its mouth constitutes a major portion...
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Waimea (Hawaii, United States)
town, Kauai county, southwestern Kauai island, Hawaii, U.S. Waimea, whose name means “Reddish Water,” is situated on Waimea Bay at the mouth of the Waimea River. The valleys of the Waimea River and its tributary, the Makaweli River, were once heavily populated, and the town was an early centre of native Hawaiian government. It was at Waimea on Ja...
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Waimea (village, Hawaii, United States)
village, Hawaii county, north-central Hawaii island, Hawaii, U.S. It is situated on the Mauna Kea–Kohala Saddle (2,669 feet [814 metres]), northeast of Kailua-Kona. In the 1790s the English navigator George Vancouver presented a gift of five cattle to King Kamehameha I. The king...
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Waimea Canyon (canyon, Hawaii, United States)
...nearly all the sugar plantations have stopped operating. There is diversified manufacturing, especially of tourist-oriented goods. Coffee also contributes to the economy. Notable attractions include Waimea Canyon (known as the “Grand Canyon of the Pacific”), Huleia and Kilauea Point national wildlife refuges, Russian Fort Elizabeth State Park (built 1816), and Kilauea Lighthouse,....
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Wain, John Barrington (British critic and writer)
English novelist and poet whose early works caused him, by their radical tone, to be spoken of as one of the “Angry Young Men” of the 1950s. He was also a critic and playwright....
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Wainfleet, William of (British lord chancellor)
English lord chancellor and bishop of Winchester who founded Magdalen College of the University of Oxford....
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Wainganga River (river, India)
river, tributary of the Godāvari River, western India. It rises in the Mahādeo Hills in south-central Madhya Pradesh state and flows 360 miles (580 km) south to join the Wardha River (a headwater of the Godāvari) northeast of Kāgaznagar in Mahārāshtra state. Along the final 142 miles (229 km) of its course, the river forms the boundary between Mahā...
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Wainganga Valley (valley, India)
...state. Along the final 142 miles (229 km) of its course, the river forms the boundary between Mahārāshtra and Andhra Pradesh states and is known as the Prānhita. The Wainganga River valley is forested and relatively sparsely populated, except in the northern industrial area around Nāgpur city in Mahārāshtra state. Most of the population is......
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wainscot (architecture)
interior paneling in general and, more specifically, paneling that covers only the lower portion of an interior wall or partition. It has a decorative or protective function and is usually of wood, although tile and marble have at times been popular. The molding along the upper edge is called a wainscot cap and may serve as a chair rail....
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wainscot cap (architecture)
...of an interior wall or partition. It has a decorative or protective function and is usually of wood, although tile and marble have at times been popular. The molding along the upper edge is called a wainscot cap and may serve as a chair rail....
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wainscot chair (furniture)
chair, usually made of oak, and named for the fine grade of oak usually used for wainscot paneling. Like many terms used in reference to furniture, it has a general and a particular meaning. The general sense is any heavy wooden chair of fairly simple construction. The more specific reference is to a wooden chair with turned (shaped on a lathe) front legs, square-sectioned back legs, arm supports,...
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Wainwright Building (building, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States)
The 10-story Wainwright Building in St. Louis is the most important skyscraper designed by Sullivan. Unlike the Auditorium Building, the exterior walls of which are solid masonry and load bearing, it is of steel frame throughout, an idea advanced by William Le Baron Jenney in 1883–85 in Chicago. Jenney and others were unable to give visual expression to the height of a tall building and......
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Wainwright, Helen (American athlete)
...be obstacles to her desire to compete. During the early 20th century there were no training facilities for female divers, and she had to practice in a tide pool on Long Island (New York). Riggin and Helen Wainwright, both age 14, qualified for the 1920 U.S. Olympic team, but they were not guaranteed spots on the team because many worried that extreme physical exertion might impair the fertility...
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Wainwright, Jonathan M. (United States general)
U.S. Army general who won distinction as the hero of Bataan and Corregidor in the defense of the Philippines against Japanese attack during World War II....
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Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew (United States general)
U.S. Army general who won distinction as the hero of Bataan and Corregidor in the defense of the Philippines against Japanese attack during World War II....
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Waioli Mission House (building, Hanalei, Hawaii, United States)
...(“Crescent”) Bay, the village is in the scenic and fertile Hanalei Valley, which reaches depths of more than 3,400 feet (1,050 metres). Missionaries arrived at the site in 1834. The Waioli Mission House (1837), now used as a community centre, was built of coral limestone blocks and combines the starkness of a New England clapboard house with Hawaiian features such as lanais......
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Waipio Valley (valley, Hawaii, United States)
valley in the Kohala Mountains, northern Hawaii island, Hawaii, U.S. Enveloped on three sides by 2,500-foot- (750-metre-) high cliffs ribboned with spectacular waterfalls (including Hiilawe Falls, which drops more than 1,000 feet [300 metres]), the picturesque valley faces a heavy Pacific surf along the Hamakua coast, where it is fringed by ...
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Waipi‘o Valley (valley, Hawaii, United States)
valley in the Kohala Mountains, northern Hawaii island, Hawaii, U.S. Enveloped on three sides by 2,500-foot- (750-metre-) high cliffs ribboned with spectacular waterfalls (including Hiilawe Falls, which drops more than 1,000 feet [300 metres]), the picturesque valley faces a heavy Pacific surf along the Hamakua coast, where it is fringed by ...
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wairakite (mineral)
hydrated calcium aluminosilicate mineral present in hot-spring deposits, notably those at Wairakei, New Zealand, and Onikobe, Japan. Like analcite, wairakite has been assigned to two mineral families: it is regarded as a feldspathoid because of its chemical properties, molecular structure, and mode of formation but as a zeolite because of its ion-exchange and reversible dehydration behaviour. Wai...
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Wairarapa (region, New Zealand)
East of the city of Wellington is the Rimutaka Range and east of that, the Wairarapa Plain. One of the earliest European-settled sections of North Island, Wairarapa (Maori: “Glistening Waters”) was pioneered in the 1840s. Fruit and vegetable, dairy, sheep, and beef cattle farming predominate. The business and administrative centre of the plain is Masterton, in the north. The western....
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Wairau Affray (New Zealand history)
The first whaling stations were established in the 1830s along Port Underwood (a bay) and Queen Charlotte Sound. The New Zealand Company’s efforts to acquire the Wairau Plains in 1843 led to the Wairau Affray, a battle between white settlers and local Maori chiefs....
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Wairau River (river, New Zealand)
river in northern South Island, New Zealand. It rises in the Spenser Mountains and flows for 105 miles (169 km) between the St. Arnaud and Raglan ranges to enter Cloudy Bay of Cook Strait. Wairau Bar (Te Pokohiwi), a long spit of boulders at the river’s mouth, encloses more than 15 lagoons, which had been interconnected by artificial channels before the arrival of Europeans....
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WAIS (psychology)
...1942 Wechsler issued his first revision. The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children was published in 1949 and updated in 1974. In 1955 Wechsler developed yet another adult intelligence test, the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS), with the same structure as his earlier scale but standardized with a different population, including 10 percent nonwhites to reflect the U.S. population.......
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waistcoat (clothing)
...II of England. The reformed style consisted of a long coat with wide, turned-back sleeves and a row of buttons down the front, some of which were left unbuttoned to reveal a vest (later called a waistcoat in England), an undergarment almost identical to the coat....
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wait (town watchman)
an English town watchman or public musician who sounded the hours of the night. In the later Middle Ages the waits were night watchmen, who sounded horns or even played tunes to mark the hours. In the 15th and 16th centuries waits developed into bands of itinerant musicians who paraded the streets at night at Christmas time. From the early 16th century, London and all the chief boroughs had their...
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Waitaki River (river, New Zealand)
river in central South Island, New Zealand. Streams issuing from Lakes Ohau, Pukaki, and Tekapo in the Southern Alps form the Waitaki (Maori: “Weeping Waters”), which, draining a 4,565-square-mile (11,823-square-kilometre) basin, flows southeast for 130 miles (209 km) to enter the Pacific at Glenavy, about 70 miles (113 km) north of Dunedin. The Waitaki River Power Development, whic...
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