A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 0-9 Women of All Red Nations ... woodcut Women of All Red Nations American organization, founded in 1974, that developed out of a group of women supporting the ... Women of Russia (from the article "Russia") ...such as Grigory Yavlinsky's Yabloko (Apple) party, found themselves unable to secure a firm base ... Women Strike for Peace organization that evolved out of an international protest against atmospheric nuclear testing held on November ... Women's Alliance (from the article "Iceland") ...feminist movement may seem uniquely strong in Iceland. A woman, Vigdis Finnbogadottir, served as president ... Women's Armed Services Integration Act law enacted in 1948 that permitted women to serve as full members of the U.S. ... Women's Army Corps U.S. Army unit created during World War II to enable women to serve in noncombat ... [3 Related Articles] Women's British Open (from the article "Golf") ...2005 and finished second and third (in a tie with South Korea's Young Kim), respectively, ... Women's Cricket Association (from the article "cricket") In 1926 the Women's Cricket Association was founded, and in 1934-35 it sent a team ... Women's Educational Association of Boston (from the article "Marine Biological Laboratory") independent international research and educational organization founded at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, U.S., in 1888. It ... Women's Equality Day annual event in the United States, observed on August 26 since its inception in 1971, ... Women's Health Study (from the article "Health and Disease") ...not lower their risk of stroke to any substantial degree), and many women therefore also ... Women's International Bowling Congress (from the article "bowling") In 1901 the ABC started its national tournament. The Women's International Bowling Congress (WIBC) was ... Women's International League for Peace and Freedom organization whose opposition to war dates from World War I, which makes it the oldest ... [2 Related Articles] Women's International Tennis Association (from the article "tennis") ...had become a big-money sport. Both male and female players formed guilds-the men's Association of ... Women's Land Army U.S. federally established organization that from 1943 to 1947 recruited and trained women to work ... women's magazine (from the article "publishing, history of") Women's magazines frequently reflect the changing view of women's role in society. In the 18th ... women's movement diverse social movement, largely based in the United States, seeking equal rights and opportunities for ... [55 Related Articles] Women's National Basketball Association (from the article "Basketball") The Detroit Shock won the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) championship for the second time ... Women's National Indian Association (from the article "Quinton, Amelia Stone") ...personally written by Quinton calling for a new federal Indian policy that would provide Indians ... Women's National Loyal League organization formed on May 14, 1863, by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton that ... [1 Related Articles] Women's Political Union (from the article "Blatch, Harriot Eaton Stanton") ...public demonstrations. Older and more conservative suffragist leaders feared a backlash, but the new vigour ... Women's Prison Association and Home (from the article "Gibbons, Abigail Hopper") ...house (later the Isaac T. Hopper Home, named for her father) for discharged women prisoners. ... Women's Professional Basketball League (from the article "basketball") ...stars have been heavily recruited by colleges, but the players frequently found that there was ... Women's Professional Billiard Association (from the article "Billiard Games") At the beginning of the year, England's Allison Fisher, the top-ranked player in the Women's ... Women's Social and Political Union (from the article "Pankhurst, Dame Christabel Harriette") ...activist Emmeline Pankhurst and a sister of Sylvia Pankhurst, Christabel Pankhurst advocated the use of ... Women's Sports Foundation (from the article "de Varona, Donna") ...Senate from 1976 to 1978, she also became involved with the legislative development of the ... Women's Strike for Equality (from the article "Friedan, Betty") ...in the women's movement. Friedan stepped down from the presidency in March 1970 but continued ... Women's Trade Union League American organization, the first national association dedicated to organizing women workers. Founded in 1903, the ... [4 Related Articles] Women's United Soccer Association (from the article "football (soccer)") ...won the Women's World Cup finals in 1999, attracting enthusiastic local support. The success of ... won monetary units of South Korea and North Korea. The Bank of Korea has the exclusive ... Wonder Woman American comic-book heroine who was a perennially popular character and a feminist icon. Wonder, Stevie American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, a child prodigy who developed into one of the most ... [2 Related Articles] wonderboom (from the article "tree") ...develop into secondary trunks that support the widespreading head of massive, constantly extending branches. One ... Wondjina (from the article "wandjina style") ...of figures that represent mythological beings associated with the creation of the world. Called wandjina ... Wong Kampo (from the article "Cycling") ...track championships in Palma, Majorca, Anna Meares of Australia set a new world record of ... Wong Kar Wai (from the article "Performing Arts") The range and freedom of films from China continued to expand, particularly in co-productions with ... Wong, Penny (from the article "Australia") ...featured seven women, including Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard. Reacting to the environmental concerns of ... Wonhyo Daisa also called Wonhyo Buddhist priest who is considered the greatest of the ancient Korean religious ... [1 Related Articles] Wonju city, Kangwon do (province), north-central South Korea. Historically, its location in the ... Wonsan city, southeastern North Korea. Situated on the coast of the Sea of Japan (East Sea), ... Wonthaggi town, southern Victoria, Australia. It lies 5 miles (8 km) inland from the coast on ... Woo, John (from the article "Chow Yun-Fat") In 1986 Chow teamed up with noted action-film director John Woo in Woo, William Franklin American editor (b. Oct. 4, 1936, Shanghai, China-d. April 12, 2006, Palo Alto, Calif.), presided ... wood the principal strengthening and nutrient-conducting tissue of trees and other plants and one of the ... [66 Related Articles] wood anemone (from the article "anemone") The wood anemone of Europe, A. nemorosa, which bears white flowers, causes blistering of the ... wood borer (from the article "bivalve") Two groups of bivalves have exploited other food sources. These are the shipworms (family Teredinidae) ... Wood Buffalo (from the article "Fort McMurray") ...tar sands. Fort McMurray is the seat of Keyano College. Inc. town, 1948; city, 1980; ... Wood Buffalo National Park park in northern Alberta and southern Northwest Territories, Canada, between Athabasca and Great Slave lakes. ... [1 Related Articles] wood duck (Aix sponsa), small colourful North American perching duck (family Anatidae), a popular game bird. Once ... wood engraving a printmaking technique in which a print is made from a design incised on the ... [6 Related Articles] Wood Family celebrated English family of Staffordshire potters, a major force in the development of Staffordshire wares ... wood frog (Rana sylvatica), terrestrial frog (family Ranidae) of forest and woodlands. It is a cool-climate species, ... [1 Related Articles] wood hoopoe any of eight species of tropical African birds included in two genera, Rhinopomastus and Phoeniculus, ... [2 Related Articles] wood horsetail (from the article "horsetail") ...branches arise from below the sheaths, circling the shoots like spokes on a wheel. Stems ... wood lemming (from the article "lemming") ...Northern Hemisphere. They have short, stocky bodies with short legs and stumpy tails, a bluntly ... wood louse (from the article "wood louse") either of two related terrestrial crustaceans, the pill bug (q.v.) and the sow bug (q.v.).characteristics Wood Mountain (from the article "Saskatchewan") ...Saskatchewan, include the provincial summit: 4,816 feet (1,468 metres) above sea level. The hills constitute ... wood mouse any of about 20 species of small-bodied rodents found from northern Europe eastward to southern ... wood owl any of 11 species of birds of prey of the genus Strix, family Strigidae, characterized ... [1 Related Articles] wood piddock (from the article "piddock") The wood piddock (Martesia striata), up to 2.5 centimetres long, commonly occurs in waterlogged timbers ... wood pigeon (species Columba palumbus), bird of the subfamily Columbinae (in the pigeon family, Columbidae), found from ... [4 Related Articles] wood quail (from the article "quail") ...of Central America, has a musical call. The tree quail, or long-tailed partridge (Dendrortyx macroura), ... Wood River city, Madison county, southwestern Illinois, U.S. Part of the St. Louis, Missouri, metropolitan area, it ... wood rot (from the article "rot") Wood rot destroys more timber each year than fire does: some 20,000,000,000 board feet in ... wood sage (from the article "germander") ...Lamiales. American germander (T. canadense) of North America has slender spikes of purple to cream ... wood snake (from the article "snake") ...present. Lays eggs. Superfamily Tropidophioidea Family Tropidophiidae (dwarf boas or wood snakes)35 species in 4 ... wood sorrel any plant of the genus Oxalis, numbering several hundred species, within the family Oxalidaceae. The ... [2 Related Articles] wood stork (from the article "ciconiiform") ...of the five or six families of storklike birds: herons and bitterns (Ardeidae), the shoebill ... wood tar liquid obtained as one of the products of the carbonization, or destructive distillation, of wood. ... [1 Related Articles] wood thrush (from the article "nightingale thrush") ...18 cm (7 inches) long, a famous singer that is found in Canadian and U.S. ... wood tick (from the article "Colorado tick fever") acute, febrile viral infection usually transmitted to humans by the bite of the tick Dermacentor ... wood turpentine (from the article "turpentine") ...Sulfate turpentine, used widely in the chemicals industry, is obtained as a by-product of the ... wood turtle (Clemmys insculpta), a woodland streamside turtle of the family Emydidae, found from Nova Scotia through ... [1 Related Articles] wood warbler any of about 120 species in the songbird subfamily Parulinae, within the huge family Emberizidae. ... [1 Related Articles] wood wasp primitive insect belonging to any of three families in the suborder Symphyta (order Hymenoptera): Xiphydriidae, ... Wood's Halfpence (from the article "Ireland") ...first quarter of the 18th century, resentment at this subordination had grown sufficiently to enable ... Wood's metal (from the article "alloy") ...at 90-100° C (194-212° F); for example, Darcet's alloy (50 parts bismuth, 25 lead, 25 ... Wood, Aaron (from the article "Wood Family") ...of Staffordshire wares from peasant pottery to an organized industry. The family's most prominent members ... Wood, Anthony English antiquarian whose life was devoted to collecting and publishing the history of Oxford and ... [2 Related Articles] Wood, Beatrice American ceramicist who was dubbed the "mama of Dada" as a result of her relationship ... Wood, Ed Jr. (from the article "Lugosi, Bela") ...In 1955 he voluntarily committed himself to the state hospital in Norwalk, California, as a ... Wood, Enoch (from the article "Wood Family") William Wood (1746-1808), son of Aaron, was employed as a modeler by Wedgwood. His brilliant ... Wood, Evelyn American educator who developed a widely used system of high-speed reading. [1 Related Articles] Wood, Fernando American congressional representative and mayor of New York City who led the Northern peace Democrats-or ... Wood, Fiona On Jan. 25, 2005, British-born Australian plastic surgeon Fiona Wood was honoured as Australian of ... Wood, Gar(field Arthur) U.S. driver and builder of racing motorboats, also credited with devising the small, swift PT ... Wood, Grant American painter who was one of the major exponents of Midwestern Regionalism, a movement that ... [1 Related Articles] Wood, John (from the article "Wood Family") For some years Ralph, Jr., was in partnership with his brother John (1746-97), but in ... Wood, John Turtle (from the article "Ephesus") J.T. Wood, working at Ephesus for the British Museum between 1863 and 1874, excavated the ... Wood, John, the Elder English architect and town planner who fixed the physical character of the resort city of ... [2 Related Articles] Wood, John, the Younger British architect whose work at Bath represents the culmination of the Palladian tradition initiated there ... [1 Related Articles] Wood, Leonard medical officer who became chief of staff of the U.S. Army and governor general of ... [5 Related Articles] Wood, Mary Elizabeth American librarian and missionary, whose efforts brought numerous libraries to China and established a strong ... Wood, Mervyn Thomas Australian rower and police commissioner (b. April 30, 1917, Sydney, Australia-d. Aug. 19?, 2006, Australia), ... Wood, Mrs. Henry English novelist who wrote the sensational and extremely popular East Lynne (1861), a melodramatic and ... Wood, Ralph, III (from the article "Wood Family") ...Jr., was in partnership with his brother John (1746-97), but in 1787 John started his ... Wood, Ralph, Jr. (from the article "Staffordshire figure") ...grays-was used. Musicians, animals, shepherds, classical deities, allegorical figures, and portraits were in the repertoire. ... Wood, Ralph, Sr. (from the article "pottery") Coloured glazes were also used by Ralph Wood I (1715-72) of Burslem, Staffordshire, for decorating ... Wood, Robert (from the article "Western architecture") ...stream of similar works followed from Piranesi's workshop. The first of a long and significant ... Wood, Robert E U.S. business executive under whose leadership Sears, Roebuck and Co. grew to become the world's ... [1 Related Articles] Wood, Robert Williams U.S. physicist who extended the technique of Raman spectroscopy, a useful method of studying matter ... Wood, Ron (from the article "Stewart, Rod") ...he was a member of two relatively obscure London-based bands (Steampacket and Shotgun Express) in ... Wood, Sir Charles (from the article "education") The next step in the history of Indian education is marked by Sir Charles Wood's ... Wood, Sir Henry J. conductor, the principal figure in the popularization of orchestral music in England in his time. Wood, William (from the article "Boston") ...sea for a livelihood and became shipbuilders, merchants, seamen, and fishermen. The Shawmut Peninsula, on ... Wood, William (from the article "Ireland") ...century, resentment at this subordination had grown sufficiently to enable the celebrated pamphleteer Jonathan Swift ... Wood-Forbes Mission (1921), fact-finding commission sent to the Philippines by newly elected U.S. president Warren Harding in ... Woodall Mountain highest point in Mississippi, U.S., reaching an elevation of 806 feet (246 metres) above sea ... Woodard, Nathaniel Anglican priest and founder of middle class public schools. An Oxford graduate (1840), he was ... woodbine (from the article "woodbine") any of many species of vines belonging to a number of flowering-plant families, especially the ... woodbine honeysuckle (from the article "sweetbrier") ...is frequently alluded to in the writings of English poets, from Chaucer onward. John Milton, ... Woodbridge town (parish) in Suffolk Coastal district, administrative and historic county of Suffolk, England, at the ... Woodbridge township, Middlesex county, eastern New Jersey, U.S. It lies across the Arthur Kill (a narrow ... Woodbridge, George Charles American cartoonist and illustrator (b. Oct. 3, 1930, Flushing, Queens, N.Y.-d. Jan. 20, 2004, Staten ... Woodbury, Helen Laura Sumner American economist whose investigative work centred largely on historical and contemporary labour issues, particularly in ... Woodbury, Levi American politician who was an associate justice of the Supreme Court from 1846 to 1851. woodburytype process (from the article "photography, history of") ...and John Thomson, included facsimile reproductions of Thomson's photographs and produced a much more persuasive ... woodcarving (from the article "lacquerwork") The carved lacquer of China (tiao-ch'i), which was imitated but never equalled in Japan (as ... woodchuck one of 14 species of marmots, the woodchuck is basically a giant North American ground ... [2 Related Articles] woodcock any of five species of squat-bodied, long-billed birds of damp, dense woodlands, allied to the ... [5 Related Articles] Woodcock, George Canadian poet, critic, historian, travel writer, playwright, scriptwriter, and editor, whose work, particularly his poetry, ... [1 Related Articles] Woodcock, George English labour leader who was general secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) from 1960 ... Woodcock, Leonard Freel American labour leader and diplomat (b. Feb. 15, 1911, Providence, R.I.-d. Jan. 16, 2001, Ann ... woodcraft (from the article "woodcraft") Daniel Carter Beard is remembered as a founding leader of the Boy Scouts of America. ... woodcreeper any of about 48 species of tropical American birds comprising the subfamily Dendrocolaptinae, family Furnariidae, ... [1 Related Articles] woodcut technique of printing designs from planks of wood incised parallel to the vertical axis of ... [18 Related Articles]

© 2006, Encyclopædia Universalis France S.A. Tous droits de propriété industrielle et intellectuelle réservés.