One of television's most illustrious westerns, Wagon Train wedded the cowboy genre to the anthology show format. Premiering in 1957, when the western first conquered prime time, Wagon Train told a different story each week about travelers ...

Among the poets who have adopted and reimagined the William Carlos Williams-Robert Duncan line in Canada, none has so thoroughly sustained and extended the American school's commitment to the local as Fred Wah. The nature of that commitmen...

Jeffrey Wainwright has become widely respected as a poet and critic since his work first appeared in periodicals during the 1960s. His poetry has developed with an unswerving self-conscious discipline that has gone hand in hand with the cr...

Waiting... is a 2005 film about servers in a restaurant. Written and Directed by Rob McKittrick. Contents 1 Motto/Sloan 2 Floyd 3 Mitch 4 Monty 5 Naomi 6 Nick 7 Theodore 8 Serena 9 Raddimus 10 ShenaniganZ Customers // Motto/Sloan What happ...

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Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy is a 2003 book by Carlos Eire and winner of the National Book Award. Author Carlos Eire Professor Eire, who received his PhD from Yale in 1979, specializes in the social, intellectual, ...

What would you do if your teacher said "Blonde students, come and sit in the front of the room, you will all receive A's this quarter. Red heads come and sit in the middle rows; you will all receive B's this quarter. Brunette's sit in the b...

(2002 est. pop. 1.2 million). Japan's Wakayama Prefecture is situated in the central part of the island of Honshu. Its 4,723 square kilometers encompass the almost completely mountainous terrain of the western Kii Peninsula. Wakaya...

Does the right to bear children also give you the right to do as you want while you are pregnant, despite the outcome? Does your right to free will also give you the right to give birth to a child with an addiction or defect, just because y...

Waking Life was an astonishing film directed by Richard Linklater with lead actor Wiley Wiggins. This is a movie which explores the blurring of dreams and reality, playing on the idea that we may be actually dreaming even in our most consci...

Waking Up from the American Dream Throughout history there has been a quest for a better life. Bill Clinton himself said, "We are a nation of immigrants", and one of the first things an American learns as a schoolchild is the phrase writt...

Walahfrid Strabo--the second part of his name means "the squinter"--was born in Swabia in poor circumstances and educated at the monastery of the Reichenau on Lake Constance, which he remembered fondly in verses in the Sapphic meter that h...

Thoreau's masterpiece work of writing, Walden, deeply portrays the notion of transcendentalism. Transcendentalism meaning a whole series of things: preeminence of nature, individualism, anti-materialism, nonconformity, intellectual independ...

Walden Two (1948) is a novel by behaviorist psychologist B.F. Skinner written in and about the United States soon after World War II[1]. It describes an ideal Utopian society, and figures as one of many pieces of Utopian/dystopian literatur...

Waldeyer-Hartz was born in Hehlen, Germany, on October 6, 1836. He began his college education in the natural sciences at Göttingen in 1856, but later moved to Greifswald and eventually to Berlin to complete his studies. Under the inf...

WALDMAN, MARILYN ROBINSON (1943–1996), was an American-born historian of religion with unusually strong commitments, knowledge, and convictions regarding Islam and Muslims. Born in Dallas, Texas, Marilyn Robinson Waldman was of East...

The film career of Waldo Salt may be broken into three periods. During the first period he was a professional, competent but unexceptional writer. In 1951 he testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee and was consequently ...

Waldorf education is a world-wide system of education founded by Rudolf Steiner in 1919 . There are now nearly 1,000 Waldorf schools as well as numerous independent Waldorf pre-school programs. Sourced Waldorf education places the developm...

Walid Jumblatt (Arabic: وليد جنبلاط‎) (born August 7 , 1949 ) is the current leader of the Progressive Socialist Party of Lebanon and the most prominent leader of the Druze community. Sourced We are facing someone [Iran] who ha...

is a comedic 2007 film about a fictional musician, Dewey Cox, and his rise to fame. Along the way, he gets caught up with drugs and other temptations of fame (including cheating on his wife with multiple partners), eventually resolving to ...

What distinguishes La Guma's work is that it shows real people waging a bloody contest with the forces of oppression: they celebrate their few short moments of victory, credibly enough, in sex, cheap Cape wines and stupid fights with one an...