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U.M.C.
Ucla Rebellion, The
Uhlenbeck, George Eugene
Ukrainian Poetry
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher (1938–) - Colonial u.s. history, biography
Ultimate Betrayal (1993) - Overview, Synopsis, Critique
Ultraism
Uncle Tom
Uncle Tom's Cabin. 1903, 1914, 1927, 1969, 1987
Undercover with the KKK
Underwater Photography - Introduction, Historical background, Challenges and opportunities
Ungaro, Emanuel
Union, Gabrielle (1973–)
Unity
Universal Multimedia Access - Content adaptation, Resource adaptation, Standardization
Unlocking E-Customer Loyalty - A brief literature review
Unparliamentary Language
Unparliamentary Language
Urey, Harold Clayton
Ursula, Saint
User Modeling in MPEG-7
Ut Pictura Poesis
Valence-Driven Conquest
Valentine
Valentino (Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani)
Vampire
Van Allen, James
Van Allen, James (Alfred)
Van Andel, Jay - Overview, Personal life, Career details, Social and economic impact, Chronology: jay van andel
Van de Graaff, Robert (Jemison)
Van Horne, Mahlon(1840–1910) - Diplomat, consul, Educator and minister, Chronology, Emerges as civic and political leader, Loses diplomatic post despite praise
Van Peebles, Melvin (1932–)
Van Rensselaer, Mariana Alley Griswold (1851–1934) - Popular history
Van Runkle, Theadora
Van Surly DeGrasse, John(1825–?) - Physician, surgeon, Admitted to massachusetts medical society, Chronology
Van Vleck, John (Hasbrouck)
Vanderbilt, Cornelius - Overview, Personal life, Career details, Chronology: cornelius vanderbilt, Social and economic impact
Vanderbilt, Gloria
Vanderbilt, Gloria - Overview, Personal life, Career details, Chronology: gloria vanderbilt, Social and economic impact
Vanished
Variable Foot
Variation
Vates
Vauquelin, Louis Nicolas
Vavilov, Nikolai Ivanovitch
VC-1 Video Compression - Simple and main profiles for vc-1 video, Advanced profile for vc-value, Vc-1 video specific semantics and syntax
Vector Edge Detectors
Vega$
Vening Meinesz, Felix Andries
Venter, Craig
Venus And Adonis Stanza
Vergil, Polydore (c. 1470–1555) - Biography, Major works and themes, Critical reception
Verisimilitude
Vernon, Lillian - Overview, Personal life, Career details, Chronology: lillian vernon, Social and economic impact
Veronica, Saint
Vers Impair
Vers Libéré
Vers Libre
Vers Libres Classiques
Vers Mesurés
Versace, Gianni
Versace, Gianni - Overview, Personal life, Career details, Social and economic impact, Chronology: gianni versace
Verse And Prose - I. distinctions, Ii. essence and form, Iii. interanimations, Iv. history
Verse Epistle
Verse Paragraph
Verset
Versi Sciolti
Versification - I. etymology, Ii. composition as praxis, Iii. technique
Vesalius, Andreas
Veterinarian - From parakeets to palominos, What it takes to be a veterinarian, In the clinic and at the zoo, Meet a veterinarian, For further exploration, About the author
Vices
Victor, Frances Auretta Fuller (1826–1902) - Local history
Victorian Age
Victory at Entebbe
Video Automatic Annotation - Shot and scene detection, Low level content annotation,
Video card - History of the video card, The evolution of the video card, Components of the video card
Video Coding Techniques and Standards - Introduction, The need for compression, Perceptual redundancies, The human visual system, Sensitivity to temporal frequencies, Sensitivity to spatial frequencies
Video Conferencing
Video Content Analysis Using Machine Learning Tools - Introduction, Overview of machine learning techniques, Models for simple data entities vs. models for complex data entities, Generative models vs. discriminative models, Maximum entropy model, Baseball
Video Databases - Video data models, Video extraction, Video query language, Video index structures
Video Delivery Over Wireless Multi-Hop Networks
Video Inpainting
Video Over Ip - Introduction, Video requirements, Video compression standards, Session setup, Video distribution, Quality of service (qos
Video Search - Semiotic video, Phencestetic video
Video Summarization - ,
Video Transcoding - Reduced complexity transcoding, Receiver aware transcoding, Quality vs complexity
Video Usage Mining - Introduction, Related work, Proposed approach, Future work and research
Video Watermarking - Benchmarking of video watermarking
Video-Based Face Recognition
Viète, François
Vietnamese Poetry
Villain
Villanelle
Vincent of Beauvais
Vine, Vineyard
Vionnet, Madeleine
Virago
Virchow, Rudolf (Ludwig Carl)
Virelai
Virtanen, Arthuri Ilmari
Virtual and Augmented Reality - Introduction, Desktop vr, Augmented reality, Immersive vr, Vr graphics rendering and modeling, Opengl
Virtual Broadway, Virtual Orchestra: De Forest and Vitaphone - Other talkies
Virtual Reality
Virtues
Virutal Presence
Vision
Vision-Based Interaction
Visitation
Visual Arts and Poetry
Visual Cryptography
Visual Poetry - I. functions, Ii. development, Iii. free verse, Iv. video poetry
Vivian, C. T.(1924–) - Minister, civil rights activist, Becomes an active participant for equality and justice, Becomes part of america’s second reconstruction, Chronology, Joins nashville’s civil rights movement, Leaves nashville; joins king’s sclc staff
Vivier, Roger
Voice
Volta
Volta, Alessandro (Giuseppe Anastasio), Count
Von Furstenberg, Diane
Von Neumann, John (János)
Vorticism
Vries, Hugo de
Vuitton, Louis
Waals, Johannes Diderik van der
Wachner, Linda - Overview, Personal life, Career details, Social and economic impact, Chronology: linda wachner
Wade, Dwyane - Professional basketball player, Career, Sidelights
Waitt, Ted - Overview, Personal life, Career details, Social and economic impact, Chronology: ted waitt
Waksman, Selman (Abraham)
Walcott, Charles (Doolittle)
Waldeyer-Hartz, Wilhelm
Walgreen, Charles - Overview, Personal life, Career details, Social and economic impact, Chronology: charles walgreen, Social and economic impact
Walker, George(1922–) - Composer, Gets late start composing, Refers to poet for orchestral piece, Pulitzer piece one of many, Chronology
Walker, Hal(c. 1934–2003) - Television journalist, Chronology, Above all else, a professional
Walker, Matthew(1906–1978) - Physician, surgeon, Chronology, Final years and legacy
Walker, Sir John (Ernest)
Walker, Wyatt T.(1929–) - Minister, civil rights activist, Becomes minister and civil rights leader, Heads civil rights organization, Chronology, Gains fame as preacher and humanitarian
Walking on Water (2002) - Overview, Synopsis, Critique
Walking Through the Fire
Walkowitz, Judith Rosenberg (1945–) - History of women and sexuality
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Wallace, DeWitt - Overview, Personal life, Career details, Chronology: dewitt wallace, Social and economic impact
Wallace, Lila - Overview, Personal life, Career details, Social and economic impact, Chronology: lila wallace
Wallis, John
Wallis, Sir Barnes (Neville)
Walls, Josiah(1842–1905) - Congressman, Launches political career, Chronology
Walton, Lester A.(1882–1965) - Diplomat, journalist, Career as journalist, Begins political career, Chronology, Explores the entertainment sphere, Community interests
Walton, Sam - Overview, Personal life, Career details, Social and economic impact, Chronology: sam walton
Walworth, Ellen Hardin (1832–1915) - Historic preservation
Wang, An - Overview, Personal life, Career details, Social and economic impact, Chronology: an wang
Wang, Charles B. - Overview, Personal life, Career details, Chronology: charles b. wang, Social and economic impact
Wang, Vera
Wang, Vera - Overview, Personal life, Career details, Social and economic impact, Chronology: vera wang
Wankel, Felix
War
War and Violence
Warburg, Otto (Heinrich)
Ward, (Aaron) Montgomery
Ward, Aaron Montgomery - Overview, Personal life, Career details, Social and economic impact, Chronology: aaron montgomery ward
Ward, Richard (1915–1979)
Warden, Jack
Ware, Caroline F. (1899–1990) - Economic history
Warhol, Andy - Overview, Personal life, Career details, Chronology: andy warhol, Social and economic impact
Warner, Jack - Overview, Personal life, Career details, Chronology: jack warner, Social and economic impact
Warner, Sam - Overview, Personal life, Career details, Chronology: sam warner, Social and economic impact
Warren, Mercy Otis (1728–1814) - History of the american revolution
Wartime Stars, Genres, and Production Trends - Hollywood’s on-screen conversion, The war film, The world war ii combat film, Nonfiction war films , documentary realism, and the hollywood combat film, Case study : air force and since you went away
Washing of the Feet
Washington, Augustus(1820–1875) - Daguerreotypist, politician, educator, Becomes daguerreotypist, Emigration to liberia, Chronology
Washington, Denzel (1954–)
Washington, Freddie (1903–1994)
Washington, Isaiah (1963–)
Washington, Paul M.(1921–2002) - Religious reformer, minister, Chronology
Washington: Behind Closed Doors
Watching of the Rods
Watching the Screen - Fan magazines, Trade papers, The mppda
Watermarking, Audio - Challenges, attacks and benchmarking, Applications
Watermarking, Video - Benchmarking of video watermarks
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement (1834–1916) - Art history
Waters, Ethel (1900–1977)
Watetkhethor - King’s daughter, Sources
Watson, James (Dewey)
Watson, Thomas J. - Overview, Personal life, Career details, Chronology: thomas j. watson, Social and economic impact
Watson-Watt, Sir Robert Alexander
Watt, James
Watts, J. C.(1957–) - Congressman, Chronology, Becomes canadian football star, Switches political parties, Elected to first office
Wayans, Damon (1960–)
Waylon Jennings - Biography, Career highlights
Weather - Basic mechanism, Terrestrial weather, Forecasting
Webber, Andrew Lloyd - Overview, Personal life, Career details, Social and economic impact, Chronology: andrew lloyd webber
Webster and His Dictionaries
Webster, Milton P.(1887–1965) - Labor leader, Chronology, The pullman company develops
Wedding Photography
Wedgwood, Thomas
Wegener, Alfred (Lothar)
Weierstrass, Karl Wilhelm Theodor
Weinberg, Steven
Weinberger, Caspar
Weismann, August
Weizmann, Chaim
Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich, Freiherr
Welch, Jack - Overview, Personal life, Career details, Chronology: jack welch, Social and economic impact
Weldon, William - Chief executive officer and chairman of johnson & johnson, Career, Sidelights
Welsbach, Carl Auer, Baron von
Welsh
Welsh Poetry
Wenamun - Merchant, Sources
Wergeland, Agnes Mathilde (1857–1914) - World history
Werner, Abraham Gottlob
Werner, Alfred
Werner, Helmut - Overview, Personal life, Career details, Social and economic impact, Chronology: helmut werner
Wertheimer, Barbara Mayer (1926–1983) - U.s. labor history
West Indian Poetry
West Side Story (1961) - Overview, Synopsis, Critique
Westwood, Vivienne
Wexner, Leslie - Overview, Personal life, Career details, Chronology: leslie wexner, Social and economic impact
Weyl, Hermann
Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth (1845–1928) - Popular history
Wharton, Clifton R.(1926–) - Enters foreign economic development, Serves in asia, Chronology, Becomes president at michigan state, Becomes chancellor at suny
What's a Nice Girl Like You
Wheatstone, Sir Charles
Whelan, Tensie - Executive director of the rainforest alliance, Career, Sidelights
When Every Day Was the Fourth of July
When Hell Was in Session
When Innocence Is Lost (1997) - Overview, Synopsis, Critique
When She Was Bad
Whewell, William
Whipper, Leigh (1877–1975)
Whipple, George Hoyt
Whipple, Prince(c.1750–1797) - Slave, Accompanies master to war, Legend results from confusing records, Chronology, Leutze paints crossing with license, Gains emancipation years after war
Whitaker, Forest (1961–)
White Girl, The. 1988
White, Gilbert
Whitehouse, Mrs. Mary
Whiting and Davis
Whiting, Susan - Chief executive officer of nielsen media research, Career, Sidelights
Whitney, Eli - Overview, Personal life, Career details, Social and economic impact, Chronology: eli whitney
Whittle, Sir Frank
Who Is the Black Dahlia?
Who'll Save Our Children?
Whore and Whoreson
Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981) - Overview, Synopsis, Critique
Widdowson, Elsie
Wieland, Heinrich Otto
Wien, Wilhelm
Wiener, Norbert
Wigner, Eugene Paul
Wilcots, Joseph M. (1939–)
Wild and Wooly
Wild Women
Wiles, Sir Andrew John
Wilkens, Lenny(1937–) - Basketball coach, basketball player, Early life, Chronology, First taste of intolerance, Another shot at the olympics
Wilkes, Maurice Vincent
Wilkinson, Sir Geoffrey
Willa
Williams, Amelia Worthington (1876–1958) - History of texas
Williams, Catharine Read Arnold (1787–1872) - Local history
Williams, Cicely
Williams, Clarence, III (1939–)
Williams, Dick Anthony (1938–)
Williams, Gregalan
Williams, Mary Wilhelmine (1878–1944) - History of latin america
Williams, Peter, Jr.(c. 1780–1840) - Minister, orator, writer, abolitionist, Organizes african american episcopalians, Chronology
Williams, Peter, Sr.(c. 1755–1823) - Religious leader, Buys freedom, Founds african methodist episcopal zion church, Chronology
Williams, Spencer, Jr. (1893–1969)
Williams, Steven (1949–)
Williams, Vanessa L. (1963–)
Williams, Wilberforce A.(1865–1940) - Physician, surgeon, Chronology
Williams, William Taylor Burwell(1869–1941) - Educator, Chronology, Further successes
Williamson, Fred (1938–)
Williamson, Mykelti (1960–)
Willis, Thomas
Willstätter, Richard
Wilma
Wilmut, Ian
Wilson, Charles Kemmons - Overview, Personal life, Career details, Chronology: charles kemmons wilson, Social and economic impact
Wilson, Charles Thomson Rees
Wilson, Edward Osborne
Wilson, John Tuzo
Wilson, Kenneth Geddes
Wilson, Robert Woodrow
Wilson, Thomas (1523–1581) - Biography, Critical reception
Wilson, William Julius(1935–) - Sociologist, educator, writer, Early years and education, Influenced by roles models and mentors, Joins the “dream team” at harvard, Chronology, Awards and honors
Winans, BeBe(1962–) - Singer, songwriter, music producer, The bright lights, Going solo, Chronology
Winchester '73
Windows Server 2003 - Overview, Variants of the windows server 2003
Winfield, Paul (1941–2004)
Winfrey, Oprah (1954–)
Winfrey, Oprah - Overview, Personal life, Career details, Chronology: oprah winfrey, Social and economic impact
Winner Take All
Winslow, Ola Elizabeth (1885?–1977) - Colonial religious history
Winter Kill
Winters, Shelley
Wireless Video - Introduction, Rate constraints, Energy constraints, Encoding complexity and encoder power consumption, Video compression and transmission under energy constraints, Wireless multi-hop delivery, video adaptation, and security issues
Wireless Video Adaptation
Wischnitzer, Rachel Bernstein (1885–1989) - Jewish architectural history
Wisdom
Wise and Foolish Virgins
Wit
Witch
With This Ring
Withering, William
Witherspoon, John (1942–)
WMV-9 Video Compression - Key compression tools for wmv-9, Wmv-9 video specific semantics and syntax
Woertz, Patricia A. - President and chief executive officer of archer daniels midland, Career, Sidelights
Wog
Wöhler, Friedrich
Wolfe, George C.(1954–) - Playwright, director, producer, Chronology
Wolfe, Kenneth - Overview, Personal life, Career details, Chronology: kenneth wolfe, Social and economic impact
Wollaston, William Hyde
Woman of Samaria
Woman of the Year
Woman on the Beach (1947) - Overview, Synopsis, Critique
Woman Taken in Adultery
Woman with an Issue of Blood
Women at West Point
Women in White
Women's Issues—Current
Women's Issues—Past
Women, Stereotypes of
Women, Swearing in
Wonder Woman
Woodard, Alfre (1953–)
Woodbury, Helen Laura Sumner (1876–1933) - U.s. labor history
Woodward, Robert Burns
Woolworth, F. W. - Overview, Personal life, Career details, Social and economic impact, Chronology: f. w. woolworth
Word Magic
Word of Honor
Word-Field of Swearing
Work
Work Songs - Agricultural call and response songs, Harvest songs in paheri’s tomb, Plowing and hoeing songs, The story behind the song, Songs from paheri’s tomb, Hunting
Workflow Computing
Worlds of the Deaf and Blind
Wormley, James(1819–1884) - Entrepreneur, Chronology, Opens elegant hotel
Worth, Charles Frederick
Wozniak, Stephen Gary - Overview, Personal life, Career details, Chronology: stephen gary wozniak, Social and economic impact
Wren, John - President and chief executive officer of omnicom, Career, Sidelights
Wretch
Wright, Edward Herbert(1863–1930) - Politician, Chronology, Political power broker
Wright, Frank Lloyd - Overview, Personal life, Career details, Chronology: frank lloyd wright, Social and economic impact
Wright, Irene Aloha (1879–1972) - Caribbean history
Wright, Jonathan Jasper(1840–1885) - Lawyer, judge, politician, Career as associate justice, Chronology
Wright, Marcia (1935–) - African history
Wright, Mary Clabaugh (1917–1970) - Chinese history
Wright, Muriel Hazel (1889–1975) - Local history
Wright, Orville & Wright, Wilbur - Overview, Personal life, Career details, Chronology: orville wright wilbur wright, Social and economic impact
Wright, Wilbur
Wrigley, William, Jr. - Overview, Personal life, Career details, Social and economic impact, Chronology: william wrigley, jr
Writer - Types of writers, What it takes to be a writer, What writers do, Meet a writer, For further exploration, About the author
Wroth, Lady Mary (c. 1584–1653) - Biography, Major works and themes, Critical reception
Wu, Chien-Shiung
Wurtz, Charles Adolphe
Wurtzel, Samuel & Wurtzel, Alan L. - Overview, Personal life, Career details, Chronology: samuel wurtzel alan l. wurtzel, Social and economic impact
Wyatt, Thomas, The Elder (1503–1542) - Biography, Critical reception
Wynne-Edwards, Vero Copner
Xenophobia
Yalow, Rosalyn,
Yamamoto, Yohji
Yang, Chen Ning
Yankee
Yanofsky, Charles
Yerby, Frank(1916–1991) - Novelist, poet, Literary career, The costume novel, Chronology
Yiddish Poetry - I. pre-19th century verse, Ii. the 19th century, Iii. the 20th century
York(c. 1772–?) - Explorer, slave, Chronology, Joins in expedition
You Can't Go Home Again
Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy
Young Love, First Love
Young, Mary (1929–) - Native american history
Young, Thomas
Yugoslav Poetry
Yukawa, Hideki
Yunus, Muhammad - Economist and microfinancier, Career, Sidelights
Yurman, David
Zanuck, Darryl - Overview, Personal life, Career details, Social and economic impact, Chronology: darryl zanuck
Zeeman, Pieter
ZÉJEL
Zeugma
Zhang Heng
Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
Zoran (Ladicorbic Zoran)
Zounds
Zsigmondy, Richard Adolf
Zuma Beach
Zworykin, Vladimir (Kosma)