American professional boxer, a colourful sports figure of the 1920s and early 1930s, who held the world welterweight and middleweight championships and was a leading contender for the light-heavyweight and heavyweight titles.
U.S. Senator from Mississippi (1835-45), secretary of the treasury (1845-49) during the Mexican War, and governor of Kansas Territory (April-December 1857) during the violent struggle over slavery there.
African-American musician and songwriter, a major figure in modern blues. He was the first important electric guitar soloist in the blues and one of the most influential players in the idiom's history.
activity that ranges from a competitive sport, usually known as race walking, to a primary and popular form of outdoor recreation and mild aerobic exercise.
fern that is a member either of the species Camptosorus rhizophyllus, of eastern North America, or of C. sibiricus, of eastern Asia, the only two species of the genus, in the family Aspleniaceae. The common name derives from the fact ...
(Aug. 25, 1737), land swindle perpetrated by Pennsylvania authorities on the Delaware Indians, who had been the tribe most friendly to William Penn when he founded the colony in the previous century. Colonial authorities claimed to have found a lost ...
any of about 2,000 species of slow-moving green- or brown-coloured insect belonging to the family Phasmatidae (order Phasmatodea). Its resemblance to twigs is a protective device; some species may also have sharp spines, an offensive odour, or eggs that closely ...
structural element used to divide or enclose, and, in building construction, to form the periphery of a room or a building. In traditional masonry construction, walls supported the weight of floors and roofs, but modern steel and reinforced concrete frames, ...
(Tichodroma muraria), bird of the mountains of southern Europe to central Asia, largest member of the family Sittidae (order Passeriformes). About 17 cm (6 12 inches) long and mostly gray with broad, rounded black wings having central red patches, it ...
newspaper produced for display on walls or in other prominent places in cities, towns, and villages, usually in developing countries. The practice is not new; in ancient Rome the Acta newspapers were regularly posted. Wall newspapers may serve a single ...
street in the southern section of the borough of Manhattan, in New York City, which has been the location of some of the chief financial institutions of the United States. The street is narrow and short and extends only about ...
daily business and financial newspaper edited in New York City and sold throughout the United States. Other daily editions include The Asian Wall Street Journal, edited in Hong Kong, and The Wall Street Journal ...
city, seat (1859) of Walla Walla county, southeastern Washington, U.S. It lies along the Walla Walla River, near the Oregon state line. The American pioneer Marcus Whitman established a medical mission in the locality in 1836 and worked with the ...
any of several middle-sized marsupial mammals belonging to the kangaroo family, Macropodidae (see kangaroo). They are found chiefly in Australia. The 11 species of brush wallabies (genus Macropus, subgenus Protemnodon) are built like the big kangaroos but differ somewhat in ...
in London, England, a collection of fine and decorative artworks bequeathed to the British government in 1897. It is housed in Hertford House at Manchester Square, in Westminster.
hypothetical boundary between the Oriental and Australasian faunal regions, proposed by the 19th-century British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace. The line extends from the Indian Ocean through the Lombok Strait (between the islands of Bali and Lombok), northward through the Makasar ...
British humanist, naturalist, geographer, and social critic. He became a public figure in England during the second half of the 19th century, known for his courageous views on scientific, social, and spiritualist subjects. His formulation of the theory of evolution ...
U.S. Democratic Party politician and four-time governor of Alabama who led the South's fight against federally ordered racial integration in the 1960s.
33rd vice president of the United States (1941-45) in the Democratic administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who epitomized the "common man" philosophy of the New Deal Democratic Party. He shaped the administration's controversial farm policy throughout the 1930s but broke ...
British art collector and philanthropist whose name is perpetuated by the famous art collection, the Wallace Collection (q.v.), at Hertford House, London.
one of Scotland's greatest national heroes, leader of the Scottish resistance forces during the first years of the long, and ultimately successful, struggle to free Scotland from English rule.
town, Kent county, southern Ontario, Canada. It lies at the confluence of the north and east branches of the Sydenham River, 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Detroit, Mich. The town was called The Forks until it was renamed for ...
leading British-American actor and manager of New York theatres, from whose acting company (continued by his son, Lester Wallack) developed many of the important American stage performers of the 19th century.
outstanding British-American actor of tragedy and melodrama, best known for his performances in such Shakespearean roles as Iago in Othello and the title roles in Macbeth and Richard III.
actor, playwright, and manager of the Wallack Theatre Company, the training ground of virtually every important American stage performer of the 19th century.
British educator, public official, and political scientist known for his contributions to the development of an empirical approach to the study of human behaviour.
any of various large, rigid sheets of finishing material used in drywall construction to face the interior walls of dwellings and other buildings. Drywall construction is the application of walls without the use of mortar or plaster.
Swedish businessman and diplomat who became legendary through his efforts to rescue Hungarian Jews during World War II and through his disappearance while a prisoner in the Soviet Union.
Bohemian soldier and statesman, commanding general of the armies of the Holy Roman emperor Ferdinand II during the Thirty Years' War. His alienation from the Emperor and his political-military conspiracies led to his assassination.
English poet whose adoption of smooth, regular versification prepared the way for the heroic couplet's emergence by the end of the century as the dominant form of poetic expression. His importance was fully recognized by his age. "Mr. Waller reformed ...
American pianist and composer who was one of the few outstanding jazz musicians to win wide commercial fame, though this was achieved at a cost of obscuring his purely musical ability under a cloak of broad comedy.
any of several plants belonging to the genera Cheiranthus and Erysimum of the mustard family (Brassicaceae), so named for their habit of growing from chinks in walls. Some golden- or brown-flowering species are widely cultivated. The European wallflower (C. cheiri), ...
urban town (township), New Haven county, south-central Connecticut, U.S. It lies along the Quinnipiac River northeast of New Haven. The land was purchased from Montowese, son of an Indian chief, in 1638 for 12 cloth coats. It was set off ...
self-governing overseas territory of France consisting of two island groups in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The territory is a part of western Polynesia. It includes Wallis (Uvea) Island and the islands of Futuna and Alofi (together known as the Horne, ...
