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Wally Amos
Wally Amos 1937– Business entrepreneur At a Gl... Read more |
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Wallis Warfield Duchess of Windsor Simpson
Wallis Simpson The romance between Wallis Simpson (1896-1986) and the Duke of Windsor caused one of the biggest scandals in the history of the British monarchy. She was a twice-divorced American, and "David," as she called the man who briefly reigned as King Edward VIII, was forced to abdicate... Read more |
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John Wallis
John Wallis , 1616-1703, English mathematician. He was Savilian professor of geometry at Oxford from 1649. He systematized the use of formulas, introduced the symbol ∞ for infinity, and made a study of the quadrature of curves, which he recorded in Arithmetica infinitorum (1655). His... Read more |
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Wallis and Futuna Islands
Wallis and Futuna Islands , officially Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands, French overseas territory (2005 est. pop. 16,000), 106 sq mi (274 sq km), S Pacific, W of Samoa and NE of Fiji. Comprising two small groups, the Wallis Islands and the Hoorn (or Horne) Islands, which are c.120 mi (190... Read more |
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Alfred Wallis
Wallis, Alfred (1855–1942). British naive painter of sailing ships and landscapes, born in Devonport. He went to sea as a cabin boy and cook at the age of 9, and from 1880 worked as a fisherman in Cornwall. In 1890 he opened a rag-and-bone store in St Ives, and after retiring from this did a... Read more |
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Mrs Wallis Simpson
Simpson, Mrs Wallis (1896–1986). Wife of Edward, duke of Windsor. Born into a Baltimore family, Bessie Wallis Warfield first married an aviator, Earl Winfield Spencer, but his fondness for drink led to separation and ultimately divorce. Mrs Spencer travelled the world, but on... Read more |
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Uvea
Uvea ETHNONYMS: East Uvean, Uvean, Wallis Island Uvea, like its twin island Futuna, is culturally and linguistically closely related to Tonga. Uvea is a volcanic high Island located 180 kilometers northeast of Futuna at 13 Read more |
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Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow
Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow , 1811-78, German writer. He entered journalism in 1831 and became a leader of the antiromantic and nationally conscious literary movement known as Young Germany. For his Wally die Zweiflerin [Wally the doubter] (1835), an attack on marriage and religious orthodoxy, he was... Read more |
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Futuna
Futuna ETHNONYMS: East Futuna, Hoorn Islands, Horn Islands Orientation Identification. Futuna and its neighboring island of Alofi (or Tua) are politically joined to Wallis Island under French administration as overseas territories. They were named the "Hoorn [or Horn] Islands" after... Read more |
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Maitland
Maitland, Australia, Canada 1. Australia (New South Wales): founded as a settlement for convicts in 1818, it was first known simply as The Camp, then Molly Morgan Plains and then Wallis Plains. In 1829 a new town was surveyed nearby and called Maitland. This became East Maitland when Wallis Plains... Read more |
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