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  • warm-based glacier
    ...its mass for the entire year; a subpolar (or polythermal) glacier contains ice below the freezing temperature, except for surface melting in the summer and a basal layer of temperate ice; and a temperate glacier is at the melting temperature throughout its mass, but surface freezing occurs in winter. A polar or subpolar glacier may be frozen to its bed (cold-based), or it may be at the......
  • warm-bloodedness (physiology)
    in animals, the ability to maintain a relatively constant internal temperature (about 37° C [99° F] for mammals, about 40° C [104° F] for birds), regardless of the environmental temperature. The ability to maintain an internal temperature distinguishes these animals from cold-blooded, or poikilothermic, animals, which usually have about the same temperature as their env...
  • warm-core low (meteorology)
    ...with the upper-level cyclones and warm air is colocated with the upper-level anticyclones, according to (3), both circulation patterns increase in intensity with height and are called cold-core and warm-core systems, respectively. Tropical cyclones, on the other hand, are warm-core systems that are most intense at the surface and that decrease in intensity with height....
  • warm-up (physiology)
    Another important practice to follow in an exercise program is to gradually start the exercise session and gradually taper off at the end. The warm-up allows various body systems to adjust to increased metabolic demands. The heart rate increases, blood flow increases, and muscle temperatures rise. Warming up is certainly a more comfortable way to begin an exercise session and is probably safer.......
  • Warmerdam, Cornelius (American athlete)
    American pole-vaulter, the first to attain 15 feet (4.57 metres) and the last to set major records with a bamboo pole....
  • Warmerdam, Cornelius Anthony (American athlete)
    American pole-vaulter, the first to attain 15 feet (4.57 metres) and the last to set major records with a bamboo pole....
  • Warmerdam, Dutch (American athlete)
    American pole-vaulter, the first to attain 15 feet (4.57 metres) and the last to set major records with a bamboo pole....
  • warming, global (Earth science)
    the phenomenon of increasing average air temperatures near the surface of Earth over the past one to two centuries. Since the mid-20th century, climate scientists have gathered detailed observations of various weather phenomena (such as temperature, precipitation, and storms) and of related influences on climate...
  • Warming, Johannes Eugenius Bülow (Danish botanist)
    Danish botanist whose work on the relations between living plants and their surroundings made him a founder of plant ecology....
  • Warmińsko-Mazurskie (province, Poland)
    województwo (province), northern Poland. It is bordered by Russia to the north, by the provinces of Podlaskie to the east, Mazowieckie to the south, Kujawsko-Pomorskie to the southwest, and Pomorskie to the west, and by the Baltic Sea to the northwest. It was created as one of 16 new provinces in 1999 and is composed of the former province of Olsztyn, ...
  • warmth (sound)
    “Warmth” and “brilliance” refer to the reverberation time at low frequencies relative to that at higher frequencies. Above about 500 hertz, the reverberation time should be the same for all frequencies. But at low frequencies an increase in the reverberation time creates a warm sound, while, if the reverberation time increased less at low frequencies, the room would be....
  • WARN (American organization)
    American organization, founded in 1974, that developed out of a group of women supporting the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the early 1970s. Though both men and women were involved in AIM’s activism, only the former were severely punished for their participation in militant acts against federal authorities. Realizing that they were essentially being ignored because th...
  • Warna (Bulgaria)
    seaport and third largest city in Bulgaria. Lying on the north shore of Varna Bay on the Black Sea coast, the city is sheltered by the Dobrudzhansko plateau, which rises to more than 1,000 feet (300 m) above sea level. A narrow canal (1907) links Varna Lake—a drowned valley into which the Provadiyska River flows—to the Black Sea. The city is an important administra...
  • Warne, Shane Keith (Australian cricketer)
    If any sportsman could be said to have made his name in an instant, it was cricketer Shane Warne, the Australian leg-spinner whose love of taking wickets was equaled only by his love of surfing. During 1995 Warne confirmed himself as a bowler of guile, accuracy, and devastating spin, defying critics who feared he might be more of a passing comet than a permanent star in cricket’s firmament,...
  • Warner, Albert (American producer)
    American motion-picture studio that introduced the first genuine talking picture (1927). The company was founded by four brothers, Harry, Albert, Samuel, and Jack Warner, who were the sons of Benjamin Eichelbaum, an immigrant Polish cobbler and peddler. The brothers began their careers showing moving pictures in Ohio and Pennsylvania on a traveling basis. Beginning in 1903 they started......
  • Warner, Anna (American patriot)
    American patriot, the subject of heroic tales of the Revolutionary War and early America....
  • Warner, Anna Bartlett (American writer)
    ...sold in several translations and was reputedly the first book by an American author to sell one million copies. Susan followed with Queechy (under her own name) in 1852, and in that year Anna published Dollars and Cents. Anna had earlier invented an educational game called Robinson Crusoe’s Farmyard, played with coloured cards painted by both sisters; for many years the gam...
  • Warner Bros. Inc. (American film studio)
    American motion-picture studio that introduced the first genuine talking picture (1927). The company was founded by four brothers, Harry, Albert, Samuel, and Jack Warner, who were the sons of Benjamin Eichelbaum, an immigrant Polish cobbler and peddler. The brothers began their careers showing moving pictures in Ohio and Pennsylvania on a traveling basis. Begi...
  • Warner Brothers (American film studio)
    American motion-picture studio that introduced the first genuine talking picture (1927). The company was founded by four brothers, Harry, Albert, Samuel, and Jack Warner, who were the sons of Benjamin Eichelbaum, an immigrant Polish cobbler and peddler. The brothers began their careers showing moving pictures in Ohio and Pennsylvania on a traveling basis. Begi...
  • Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. (American film studio)
    American motion-picture studio that introduced the first genuine talking picture (1927). The company was founded by four brothers, Harry, Albert, Samuel, and Jack Warner, who were the sons of Benjamin Eichelbaum, an immigrant Polish cobbler and peddler. The brothers began their careers showing moving pictures in Ohio and Pennsylvania on a traveling basis. Begi...
  • Warner, Carol (American author)
    American-born Canadian author whose work explores the lives of ordinary people. Her masterpiece, The Stone Diaries (1993), won a Pulitzer Prize in 1995....
  • Warner, Daniel Sidney (American minister)
    The fellowship developed from the work of Daniel Sidney Warner, a minister of the General Eldership of the Churches of God in North America. In 1881 Warner and five others left that church and began the new movement, an open fellowship of a community of believers not restricted by creeds or organizations. The fellowship, Warner believed, reestablished the situation of the very early Christians.......
  • Warner, Glenn Scobey (American football coach)
    American college gridiron football coach who devised the dominant offensive systems used over the first half of the 20th century. Over a 44-year career as coach (1895–1938), Warner won 319 games, the most in the NCAA until the 1980s. He also is remembered for having given his name to one of the country’s major football organizations for young boys, the Pop Warner Youth Football Leagu...
  • Warner, Harry M. (American producer)
    ...BandSong: “Thanks for the Memory” from The Big Broadcast of 1938; music by Ralph Rainger, lyrics by Leo RobinHonorary Award: J. Arthur Ball, Deanna Durbin, Mickey Rooney, Harry M. WarnerHonorary Award: Walt Disney for Snow White and the Seven DwarfsHonorary Award: Jan Domela, Farciot Edouart, Loyal Griggs,......
  • Warner, Jack (American producer)
    American motion-picture producer, best known of the four brothers—Harry (1881–1958), Albert (1884–1967), Samuel (1888–1927), and Jack—who founded Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc., which became one of Hollywood’s Big Five studios....
  • Warner, Jack Leonard (American producer)
    American motion-picture producer, best known of the four brothers—Harry (1881–1958), Albert (1884–1967), Samuel (1888–1927), and Jack—who founded Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc., which became one of Hollywood’s Big Five studios....
  • Warner, Kurt (American athlete)
    With 1 minute 54 seconds left to play and the score tied 16–16 in Super Bowl XXXIV on Jan. 30, 2000, St. Louis Rams quarterback Kurt Warner lofted a 73-yd touchdown pass to wide receiver Isaac Bruce. The play led to a 23–16 victory for the Rams over the Tennessee Titans and was a fitting climax to a storybook year for the 28-year-old Warner, who only a few years before had been worki...
  • Warner, Margaret (American journalist)
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  • Warner, Pop (American football coach)
    American college gridiron football coach who devised the dominant offensive systems used over the first half of the 20th century. Over a 44-year career as coach (1895–1938), Warner won 319 games, the most in the NCAA until the 1980s. He also is remembered for having given his name to one of the country’s major football organizations for young boys, the Pop Warner Youth Football Leagu...
  • Warner, Rex Ernest (British writer)
    British novelist, Greek scholar, poet, translator, and critic who in his fictional work warned—in nightmarish allegory—against the evils of a capitalist society....
  • Warner Robins (Georgia, United States)
    city, Houston county, central Georgia, U.S., 10 miles (16 km) south of Macon. It originated as the small railside village of Wellston, which rapidly developed after the establishment in 1941 of Robins Air Force Base, once the home of the 14th Air Force “Flying Tigers” and now headquarters for the Air Force Reserve Command. The city’s name ...
  • Warner, Samuel (American producer)
    American motion-picture studio that introduced the first genuine talking picture (1927). The company was founded by four brothers, Harry, Albert, Samuel, and Jack Warner, who were the sons of Benjamin Eichelbaum, an immigrant Polish cobbler and peddler. The brothers began their careers showing moving pictures in Ohio and Pennsylvania on a traveling basis. Beginning in 1903 they started......
  • Warner, Sir Thomas (English colonist)
    ...to the Americas. Columbus named the island for the abbey of Montserrat in Spain. It was colonized in 1632 by Irish Catholics from nearby Saint Kitts (Saint Christopher), who were sent there by Sir Thomas Warner, the first British governor of Saint Kitts. More Irish immigrants subsequently arrived from Virginia. Plantations were set up to grow tobacco and indigo, followed eventually by......
  • Warner, Susan Bogert (American writer)
    In 1851 Susan published a novel entitled The Wide, Wide World under the pseudonym Elizabeth Wetherell. Sentimental and moralistic, the book proved highly popular; it was widely sold in several translations and was reputedly the first book by an American author to sell one million copies. Susan followed with Queechy (under her own name) in 1852, and in that year Anna published......
  • Warner, Susan Bogert; and Warner, Anna Bartlett (American authors)
    American writers who, together and individually, wrote a number of highly popular novels, hymns, and nonfiction works....
  • Warner, Sylvia Townsend (British author)
    English writer who began her self-proclaimed “accidental career” as a poet after she was given paper with a “particularly tempting surface” and who wrote her first novel, Lolly Willowes; or, The Loving Huntsman (1926), because she “happened to find very agreeable thin lined paper in a job lot.”...
  • Warner, W. Lloyd (American sociologist)
    influential American sociologist and anthropologist who was noted for his studies on class structure....
  • Warner, William Lloyd (American sociologist)
    influential American sociologist and anthropologist who was noted for his studies on class structure....
  • Warner-Lambert Company (American company)
    former diversified American corporation that manufactured products ranging from pharmaceuticals to candy. It became part of U.S. pharmaceutical conglomerate Pfizer Inc. in 2000....
  • Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Company (American company)
    former diversified American corporation that manufactured products ranging from pharmaceuticals to candy. It became part of U.S. pharmaceutical conglomerate Pfizer Inc. in 2000....
  • Warner-Reprise Records (American company)
    ...a record subsidiary that achieved its early success mainly through out-of-town artists including the Everly Brothers (from Nashville, Tennessee) and Peter, Paul and Mary (from the East Coast). Warner-Reprise resulted from a merger with the label founded by Frank Sinatra, whose accountant, Mo Ostin, became managing director of the company, which became a leading player in the new field of......
  • Warnerius (Italian legal scholar)
    one of the scholars who revived Roman legal studies in Italy and the first of a long series of noted legal glossators and teachers of law (late 11th–middle 13th century) at the University of Bologna....
  • warning (meteorology)
    Weather warnings are a special kind of short-range forecast; the protection of human life is the forecaster’s greatest challenge and source of pride. The first national weather forecasting service in the United States (the predecessor of the Weather Bureau) was in fact formed, in 1870, in response to the need for storm warnings on the Great Lakes. Increase Lapham of Milwaukee urged Congress...
  • Warning Europe (work by Mann)
    ...Paul Valéry, in Glimpses of the Modern World (1931), warned Europeans against abandoning intellectual discipline and embracing chauvinism, fanaticism, and war. Thomas Mann, in Warning Europe (1938), asked: “Has European humanism become incapable of resurrection?” “For the moment,” wrote Carl J. Burckhardt, “it . . . seems that the world......
  • warning mechanism (biology)
    biological means by which a dangerous, or noxious, organism advertises its dangerous nature to potential predators. The predator, having recognized the dangerous organism as an unfavourable prey, thereupon desists from attacking it. Aposematic, or warning, mechanisms have evolved along with protective systems; it is advantageous for the protected organism not to risk the injury...
  • Warning, Mount (mountain, Queensland-New South Wales, Australia)
    ...region, the range rises to its highest point at West Barney Peak, 4,459 feet (1,359 m). In 1770 the British navigator Captain James Cook sighted the range from the coast; he named the peak he saw Mount Warning. In 1827 Captain Patrick Logan became the first European to explore the interior of the range, which was named for Major Duncan McPherson....
  • warning period (psychology)
    Although individuals read widely different meanings into disaster warnings, the striking feature of this initial stage is the slowness to believe and the reluctance to act upon warnings. People often remain in their houses in spite of imminent flooding and remain on familiar low ground in the face of tidal wave warnings. The surface calm that each person seeks to maintain in the presence of......
  • warning sign
    ...hazards and navigation. They are classified as regulatory signs, which provide notice of traffic laws and regulations (e.g., signs for speed limits and for stop, yield or give-way, and no entry); warning signs, which call attention to hazardous conditions (e.g., sharp curves, steep grades, low vertical clearances, and slippery surfaces); and guide signs, which give route information (e.g.,......
  • warning system (military technology)
    in military science, any method used to detect the situation or intention of an enemy so that warning can be given....
  • Warnke, Paul Culliton (American government official)
    American lawyer and government figure (b. Jan. 31, 1920, Webster, Mass.—d. Oct. 31, 2001, Washington, D.C.), while serving as assistant defense secretary for international security affairs—the Pentagon’s third highest position—under Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson, became the highest-ranking official in the department to question U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War publicly. He...
  • Warnlöf, Anna Lisa (Swedish author)
    ...developed by Maria Gripe, whose Hugo and Josephine trilogy may become classic; Gunnel Linde’s Tacka vet jag Skorstensgränd (1959; Eng. trans., Chimney-Top Lane, 1965); and Anna Lisa Warnlöf, writing under the pseudonym of “Claque,” whose two series about Pella and Fredrika show an intuitive understanding of lonely and misunderstood childre...
  • Warnock, John (American computer scientist)
    The company was founded in 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke. While employed at Xerox Corporation’s Palo Alto (California) Research Center (PARC), the two computer scientists had developed a programming language specially designed to describe the precise position, shape, and size of objects on a computer-generated page. This page description language, later known as PostScript, descr...
  • warp (weaving)
    ...a woven textile with those of animal fleece. Knotted pile is constructed on the loom on a foundation of woven yarns, of which the horizontal yarns are called weft yarns and the vertical are called warp yarns. Coloured pile yarns, from which the pattern is formed, are firmly knotted around two warp yarns in such a way that their free ends rise above the woven foundation to form a tufted pile or....
  • warp (geomorphology)
    in geology, broad regional upwarp of the cratonic (stable interior) portions of continents. In contrast to orogeny, epeirogeny takes place over broad, nonlinear areas, is relatively slow, and results in only mild deformation. Phenomena accompanying epeirogeny include the development of regional disconformities that gently bevel underlying strata and the formation of regressive ...
  • warp knit (textile)
    ...can generally be stretched to a greater degree than woven types. The two basic types of knits are the weft, or filling knits—including plain, rib, purl, pattern, and double knits—and the warp knits—including tricot, raschel, and milanese. In knitting, a wale is a column of loops running lengthwise, corresponding to the warp of woven fabric; a course is a crosswise row of lo...
  • warp-pile fabric
    In warp-pile fabrics the pile is formed by an extra set of warp yarns. To create such a fabric, first one set (sheet) of ground warps is raised, and the weft makes its first interlacing with the ground warp. Next, pile warps are raised, and a rod is inserted through the entire width of the web. The remaining ground warps are raised to form the third shed; then the ground weft is shot across......
  • warp-weighted loom
    In addition to the horizontal two-bar loom, there are two other primitive varieties, the warp-weighted and the vertical two-bar loom. The warp-weighted loom consists of a crossbar supported by two vertical posts. The warp threads hang from the crossbar and are held taut by weights of clay, ceramic, or chalk tied to their free ends. Loom weights have been found at archaeological sites dating......
  • warping (wood)
    Dimensional changes in wood caused by shrinkage and swelling can result in opening or tightening of joints, change of cross-sectional shape, warping, checking (formation of cracks), case-hardening (release of stresses in resawing or other machining, with consequent warping), honeycombing (internal checking), and collapse (distortion of cells, causing a corrugated appearance of the surface of......
  • warping (geomorphology)
    in geology, broad regional upwarp of the cratonic (stable interior) portions of continents. In contrast to orogeny, epeirogeny takes place over broad, nonlinear areas, is relatively slow, and results in only mild deformation. Phenomena accompanying epeirogeny include the development of regional disconformities that gently bevel underlying strata and the formation of regressive ...
  • Warr, Thomas West De La (English colonist)
    one of the English founders of Virginia, for whom Delaware Bay, the Delaware River, and the state of Delaware were named....
  • Warragamba Dam (dam, New South Wales, Australia)
    ...With a surface area of about 34 square miles (88 square km) and an average depth of 76 feet (23 m), the lake holds 1,696,000 acre-feet (2,092,000,000 cubic m) of water. It is contained behind Warragamba Dam (completed 1960), which lies 15 miles (24 km) upstream from Penrith and 20 miles (32 km) west of Sydney. The dam is 449 feet (137 m) high and 1,152 feet (351 m) along its crest. The......
  • Warragul (Victoria, Australia)
    town, south-central Victoria, Australia. It is situated in Gippsland, 64 miles (103 km) east-southeast of Melbourne. European settlement was established first about 1865 at Brandy Creek, about a mile from the present townsite. Warragul, which takes its name from an Aboriginal word for the dingo, was proclaimed a shire in 1881. The town is the service centre for a region of ferti...
  • warrant (law)
    in law, authorization in writing empowering a person to perform an act or to execute an office. The term is applied to a great variety of documents, most commonly judicial or quasi-judicial warrants, of which the most common are for arrest or search....
  • Warrant Design (architectural plan for Saint Paul’s, London, United Kingdom)
    ...satisfy the canons of St. Paul’s and clerical opinion generally, however, and Wren was compelled to withdraw from the ideal and compromise with the traditional. In 1675 he proposed the rather meagre Classical-Gothic Warrant Design, which was at once accepted by the king, and within months building started....
  • warrant of commitment (law)
    ...Statutes ordinarily define the types of property subject to seizure; many of them restrict these categories to such objects as stolen property, weapons, and gambling equipment. Other judicial warrants include escape warrants, issued for the recapture of escaped prisoners, and warrants of commitment, issued to incarcerate a prisoner either before or after trial....
  • warranty (law)
    In the field of ocean marine insurance there are two general types of warranties that must be considered: express and implied. Express warranties are promises written into the contract. There are also three implied warranties, which do not appear in written form but bind the parties nevertheless....
  • Warrau (people)
    nomadic South American Indians speaking a language of the Macro-Chibchan group and, in modern times, inhabiting the swampy Orinoco River delta in Venezuela and areas eastward to the Pomeroon River of Guyana. Some Warao also live in Suriname. The tribe was estimated to number about 20,000 in the late 20th century....
  • Warrawoona belt (geological region, Australia)
    ...belts of Zimbabwe; the Yellowknife belts in the Slave province of Canada; the Abitibi, Wawa, Wabigoon, and Quetico belts of the Superior province of Canada; the Dharwar belts in India; and the Warrawoona and Yilgarn belts in Australia....
  • Warren (county, Pennsylvania, United States)
    county, northwestern Pennsylvania, U.S., bounded to the north by New York state. It consists of a hilly region on the Allegheny Plateau drained by the Allegheny River and Brokenstraw, Caldwell, and Conewango creeks. The county contains Chapman State Park and parts of Allegheny Reservoir and Allegheny National Forest....
  • Warren (Pennsylvania, United States)
    city, seat (1800) of Warren county, northwestern Pennsylvania, U.S., on the Allegheny River near the mouth of the Conewango Creek, 21 miles (34 km) south of Jamestown, New York. Laid out in 1795, it was named for General Joseph Warren, who was killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill. A lumber boom in the mid...
  • Warren (Michigan, United States)
    city, northern suburb of Detroit, Macomb county, southeastern Michigan, U.S. Organized in 1837 as Hickory township, it was called Aba (or Alba, 1838) until renamed (1839) for Gen. Joseph Warren, a hero of the American Revolution. The village of Warren was incorporated in 1893; from its initial settlement, the community remained rural in char...
  • Warren (county, New Jersey, United States)
    county, northwestern New Jersey, U.S., bordered by Pennsylvania to the west and northwest (the Delaware River constituting the boundary) and the Musconetcong River to the east and southeast. The rugged terrain includes Kittatinny Mountain to the northwest. In addition to the Delaware and Musconetcong, the other major waterways are the Pohatcong, Pequest, and P...
  • Warren (county, New York, United States)
    county, northeastern New York state, U.S., consisting of a mountainous region bounded by Lake George to the east and the Hudson River to the south. The Hudson, which bisects the county north-south, is the main drainage system. Other waterways include the Schroon River and Brant, Loon, and Friends lakes. The county is almost entirely occupied...
  • Warren (Ohio, United States)
    city, Trumbull county, northeastern Ohio, U.S. It lies along the Mahoning River and is part of the Youngstown metropolitan complex. Settled (1799) by Ephraim Quinby, a stockholder in the Connecticut Land Company, it was named for Moses Warren, a surveyor. Warren became the seat of the Western Reserve, and in 1803 it was made the county seat. After the completion (1840) of the Pe...
  • Warren, Bertram Eugene (American crystallographer)
    American crystallographer whose X-ray studies contributed to an understanding of both crystalline and noncrystalline materials and of the transition from the amorphous to the crystalline state....
  • Warren Commission
    commission appointed by U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson on Nov. 29, 1963, to investigate the circumstances surrounding the assassination of his predecessor, John F. Kennedy, in Dallas, Texas, on Nov. 22, 1963, and the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin, two days later. The chairman of the commission was the chief justice of the United States, Earl Warr...
  • Warren, Earl (chief justice of United States)
    American jurist, the 14th chief justice of the United States (1953–69), who presided over the Supreme Court during a period of sweeping changes in U.S. constitutional law, especially in the areas of race relations, criminal procedure, and legislative apportionment....
  • Warren, Harry (American composer)
    ...Dark AngelScoring: RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Max Steiner, head of department, for The InformerSong: “Lullaby Of Broadway” from Gold Diggers of 1935; music by Harry Warren, lyrics by Al DubinHonorary Award: David Wark Griffith...
  • Warren, Harry (American artist)
    American songwriter who, by his own estimate, produced 300 to 400 songs from 1922 through 1960, many for Hollywood films and Broadway musical productions....
  • Warren, J. Robin (Australian physician)
    Australian pathologist who was corecipient, with Barry J. Marshall, of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discovery that stomach ulcers are an infectious disease caused by bacteria....
  • Warren, Joseph (American politician)
    soldier and leader in the American Revolution, who on April 18, 1775, sent Paul Revere and William Dawes to Lexington and Concord on their famous ride to warn local patriots that British troops were being sent against them (see Lexington and Concord, Battles of)....
  • Warren, Lavinia (American performer)
    ...him for his museum, but Barnum publicized him as General Tom Thumb, an 11-year-old dwarf from England; he quickly became a celebrated figure in the United States and abroad. In 1863 Stratton married Lavinia Warren (1841–1919)—another of Barnum’s performers, known as the “Little Queen of Beauty”—in an elaborately staged ceremony at Grace Episcopal Church...
  • Warren, Leonard (American singer)
    American operatic baritone known for his work in operas of Ruggero Leoncavallo and Giacomo Puccini....
  • Warren, Marjory (British sociologist)
    Marjory Warren in Britain in the 1930s demonstrated that specific care plans for chronically ill older patients, previously considered to have “irremediable” conditions, could prevent many of the worst consequences of aging. As people older than 65 came to constitute an increasing proportion of the population in developed nations in the 20th century, it became apparent that......
  • Warren, Martin (American patriot)
    city, seat (1836) of Johnson county, west-central Missouri, U.S. It lies 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Kansas City. Named for Martin Warren, an American Revolutionary War soldier and blacksmith who settled in the area in 1833, the town developed as an agricultural trade centre. The arrival of the Missouri Pacific Railroad (1864) stimulated its growth, and flour and woolen mills, grain......
  • Warren, Mercy Otis (American writer and historian)
    American poet, dramatist, and historian whose proximity to political leaders and events of her day gives particular value to her writing on the American Revolutionary period....
  • Warren, Mount (mountain, Wyoming, United States)
    ...The range extends for 100 miles (160 km) northwest-southeast to the Sweetwater River and is part of the Continental Divide. Many peaks in the range are above 12,000 feet (3,658 metres), including Mount Warren (13,720 feet [4,182 metres]), Fremont Peak (13,730 feet [4,185 metres]), and the highest point in Wyoming, Gannett Peak (13,804 feet [4,207 metres]). In the north is Togwotee Pass (9,662.....
  • Warren, Rick (American clergyman)
    The phenomenal influence of a book titled The Purpose-Driven Life won its author, Rick Warren, a reputation in 2004 as perhaps the most influential pastor in the U.S. Within two years of its publication in 2002, the book had sold some 16 million copies and spurred 40-day studies in more than 20,000 congregations representing 80 denominations. Warren’s own congregation, Saddleback Chu...
  • Warren, Robert Penn (American writer)
    American novelist, poet, critic, and teacher, best-known for his treatment of moral dilemmas in a South beset by the erosion of its traditional, rural values. He became the first poet laureate of the United States in 1986....
  • Warrensburg (Missouri, United States)
    city, seat (1836) of Johnson county, west-central Missouri, U.S. It lies 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Kansas City. Named for Martin Warren, an American Revolutionary War soldier and blacksmith who settled in the area in 1833, the town developed as an agricultural trade centre. The arrival of the Missouri Pacific Railroad (1864) stimulated its growth, and flour and woolen mills, grain elevators, a...
  • Warri (Nigeria)
    town and port, Delta state, southern Nigeria. It lies along the Warri River in the western Niger River delta, 30 miles (48 km) upstream from the port of Forcados on the Bight of Benin. Founded by Prince Ginuwa from Benin (60 miles [97 km] north) in the late 15th century, it grew to become the political and trading capital of the Itsekiri kingdom of Warri (Ouwerre). From the 15th...
  • Warrick, Ruth (American actress)
    American actress (b. June 29, 1916, St. Joseph, Mo.—d. Jan. 15, 2005, New York, N.Y.), had her best screen role in the first of her more than 30 films when she played the frosty first wife of newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane in Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane (1941). She later became better known as Phoebe Tyler Wallingford on the television daytime soap opera All My Child...
  • warrigal (mammal)
    feral canine (member of the family Canidae) native to Australia. Most authorities regard dingos as either a subspecies of the domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris dingo) or a subspecies of the wolf (C. lupus dingo); however, some authorities consider dingos to be their own species (C. dingo). The name dingo is also used to describe ...
  • Warring States (Chinese history)
    (475–221 bc), designation forseven or more small feuding Chinese kingdoms whose careers collectively constitute an era in Chinese history. The Warring States period was one of the most fertile and influential in Chinese history. It not only saw the rise of many of the great philosophers of Chinese civilization, including the Confucian thinkers Mencius and Xunzi, but also witne...
  • Warrington (city and unitary authority, England, United Kingdom)
    urban area and unitary authority, geographic county of Cheshire, England. It lies along the River Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal between Liverpool and Manchester. The historic core of Warrington and the rest of the unitary authority north of the River Mersey lie in the historic county of Lancashire, while the areas south of the Mersey belong to the histo...
  • warrior (person)
    The new lords of the land identified themselves primarily as warriors. Because new technologies of warfare, including heavy cavalry, were expensive, fighting men required substantial material resources as well as considerable leisure to train. The economic and political transformation of the countryside filled these two needs. The old armies of free men of different levels of wealth were......
  • Warrior (armoured vehicle)
    ...Vehicle, introduced in the 1980s. This 10-man vehicle weighed 22.6 tons and had a two-man turret with a 25-millimetre cannon and a TOW antitank missile launcher. Its British equivalent was the Warrior Mechanized Combat Vehicle, produced since 1986. This was also a 10-man vehicle of 24.5 tons with a 30-millimetre cannon in a two-man turret....
  • Warrior (ship)
    ...hull designs based on his researches. Moving to London (1844), he became a shipbuilder on the Thames, designing or codesigning many ships, including the Great Eastern (1856) and HMS Warrior (1860), the world’s first wholly ironclad battleship. He wrote several books, including On the Nature, Properties, and Applications of Steam, and on Steam Navigation (1841)...
  • warrior caste
    ...the clearest form of social stratification, which, although pre-Spanish, crystallized with the coming of the horse and the intensification of warfare. Caduveo society became stratified into nobles, warriors, serfs, and slaves. The nobles were divided into those who inherited their titles and those upon whom titles were bestowed for lifetime only. The warrior class was basically hereditary, but....
  • Warrior on Horseback (work by Riccio)
    ...Antico at Mantua, Riccio’s are romantic in treatment, with marked individuality and expressive character. Outstanding examples are the “Boy Milking a Goat” in the Bargello, Florence, the “Warrior on Horseback” in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the “Arion” in the Louvre....
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