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| Thomas Pynchon Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist based in New York City, noted for his dense and complex works of fiction. Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon spent two years in the United States Navy and earned an English degree from Cornell University. Thomas_Pynchon | |
| Tate Modern The Tate Modern in London is Britain's national museum of international modern art and is, with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, Tate St Ives, and Tate Online, part of the group now known simply as Tate. Tate_Modern | |
| Tudor dynasty The House of Tudor was a prominent European royal house that ruled the Kingdom of England and its realms from 1485 until 1603. Its first monarch Henry Tudor, descended paternally from the rulers of the Welsh principality of Deheubarth, and maternally from a legitimized branch of the English royal House of Lancaster. Tudor_dynasty | |
| Taliban treatment of women While in power in Afghanistan, the Taliban became notorious internationally for their treatment of women. Their stated aim was to create "secure environments where the chasteness and dignity of women may once again be sacrosanct," reportedly based on Pashtunwali beliefs about living in purdah. Taliban_treatment_of_women | |
| Thabo Mbeki Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki (born 18 June 1942) is a South African politician who served almost two terms as the second democratically elected President of South Africa from 14 June 1999 to 24 September 2008. On 20 September 2008, he announced his resignation after being recalled by the African National Congress's National Executive Committee, Thabo_Mbeki | |
| Thermobaric weapon Thermobaric weapons distinguish themselves from conventional explosive weapons by using atmospheric oxygen, instead of carrying an oxidizer in their explosives. They are also called high-impulse thermobaric weapons (HITs), fuel-air explosives (FAE or FAX) or sometimes fuel-air munitions, heat and pressure weapons, or vacuum bombs. Thermobaric_weapon | |
| Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo (Hebrew:תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ; , Tal ʼAbīb), commonly called Tel Aviv, is the second largest city in Israel, with an estimated population of 391,300. Tel_Aviv | |
| The Good, the Bad and the Ugly The Good, the Bad and the Ugly () is a 1966 Italian epic spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach in the title roles. The screenplay was written by Age & Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni and Leone, based on a story by Vincenzoni and Leone. The_Good,_the_Bad_and_the_Ugly | |
| United Kingdom United_Kingdom | |
| British Armed Forces The armed forces of the United Kingdom, commonly known as the British Armed Forces or His/Her Majesty's Armed Forces, and sometimes legally the Armed Forces of the Crown, encompasses a navy, an army, and an air force. The British Armed Forces are a purely professional and volunteer force with a reported personnel strength of 425,500 in 2006 (191,900 regular force, 191,300 regular reserve, and 42,300 volunteer reserve), the British Armed Forces constitutes one of the largest militaries in Europe, though only the 26th largest in the world by number of troops. British_Armed_Forces | |
| United Nations The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achieving world peace. The UN was founded in 1945 after World War II to replace the League of Nations, to stop wars between countries, and to provide a platform for dialogue.There are currently 192 member states, including nearly every recognized independent state in the world. United_Nations | |
| University of Cambridge University_of_Cambridge | |
| University of Oxford University_of_Oxford | |
| Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is one of the 31 constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 160 Fellows - however, counting only the student body (ie not Fellows), it has somewhat fewer than Homerton. Trinity_College,_Cambridge | |
| Peterhouse, Cambridge Peterhouse is the oldest college in the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1284 by Hugo de Balsham, Bishop of Ely. Peterhouse has 284 undergraduates, 130 graduate students and 45 fellows, making it the smallest college in Cambridge, except for certain colleges that admit only women, graduates, or mature students and which are smaller because of their restricted membership. The modern name of the college does not include the word "college". Peterhouse,_Cambridge | |
| University of California, Berkeley University_of_California,_Berkeley | |
| Economy of the United States Economy_of_the_United_States | |
| University of Sussex University_of_Sussex | |
| Durham University Durham_University | |
| United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Talk:United_Nations_Framework_Convention_on_Climate_Change | |
| Virgil Publius Vergilius Maro (also known by the Anglicised forms of his name as Virgil or Vergil) (October 15, 70 BCE Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics and the Aeneid—although several minor poems are also attributed to him. The son of a farmer, Virgil came to be regarded as one of Rome's greatest poets. His Aeneid can be considered a national epic of Rome and has been extremely popular from its publication to the present day. Virgil | |
| Military of Venezuela , the National Armed Forces of Venezuela (FAN, ) is roughly made up of 600,000 soldiers in four service branches--the Army, Navy (including the Marine Corps), Air Force, and the Armed Forces of Cooperation (FAC), commonly known as the National Guard. Military_of_Venezuela | |
| Vaccination Talk:Vaccination | |
| Veganism Veganism is a diet and lifestyle that seeks to exclude the use of animals for food, clothing, or any other purpose. Veganism | |
| Vegemite Vegemite ( ) is a dark brown food paste made from yeast extract, used mainly as a spread on sandwiches, toast and cracker biscuits, as well as a filling of pastries like Cheesymite scroll, in Australia. It is similar to British and New Zealand Marmite and to Swiss Cenovis. Vegemite | |
| Virtual reality Virtual reality (VR) is a technology which allows a user to interact with a computer-simulated environment, whether that environment is a simulation of the real world or an imaginary world. Most current virtual reality environments are primarily visual experiences, displayed either on a computer screen or through special or stereoscopic displays, but some simulations include additional sensory information, such as sound through speakers or headphones. Virtual_reality | |
| Vince Foster Talk:Vince_Foster | |
| Videos of Osama bin Laden Osama bin Laden. Many of the Osama bin Laden tapes have been released directly (by mail or messenger) to Arabic language satellite television networks like Al Jazeera. Videos_of_Osama_bin_Laden | |
| Vinegar Vinegar is an acidic liquid processed from the fermentation of ethanol in a process that yields its key ingredient, acetic acid (also called ethanoic acid). It also may come in a diluted form. The acetic acid concentration typically ranges from 4 to 8 percent by volume for table vinegar (typically 5%) and higher concentrations for pickling (up to 18%). Vinegar | |
| Victorian era The Victorian Era of the United Kingdom was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from June 1837 to January 1901. This was a long period of prosperity for the British people, as profits gained from the overseas British Empire, as well as from industrial improvements at home, allowed a large, educated middle class to develop. Some scholars would extend the beginning of the periodReform Act 1832. Victorian_era | |
| Vladimir Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (, ; born 7 October 1952 in Leningrad, USSR; now Saint Petersburg, Russia) was the second President of Russia and is the current Prime Minister of Russia as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus. Vladimir_Putin | |
| Vincent Ward For the New Zealand politician see Vincent WardVincent Ward, ONZM (born 16 February 1956) is a film director and screenwriter. Vincent_Ward | |
| Woody Allen Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, comedian, writer, musician and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to screwball sex comedies, have made him one of the most respected living American directors. Woody_Allen | |
| Eddie Chapman For the West Ham United player and club secretary, see Eddie Chapman (footballer)Edward Arnold "Eddie" Chapman (November 16 1914, Burnopfield, County Durham, December 11 1997) was a habitual criminal who became a British double agent (code named ZigZag) during World War II. He had a number of aliases which were known to the British police, amongst them Edward Edwards, Arnold Thompson and Edward Simpson. His German codename was Fritz or later its diminutive, Fritzchen. Eddie_Chapman | |
| William Shakespeare Talk:William_Shakespeare | |
| Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He served as Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, historian, writer, and artist. He is the only British Prime Minister who has ever received the Nobel Prize in Literature and the second person to be made an Honorary Citizen of the United States. Winston_Churchill | |
| William Empson William Empson (27 September 1906 – 15 April 1984) was an English literary critic and poet.He is sometimes praised as the greatest English literary critic after Samuel Johnson and William Hazlitt, and widely influential for his practice of closely reading literary works, fundamental to the New Critics. Jonathan Bate has claimed that the three greatest English Literary critics of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries are, respectively, Johnson, Hazlitt and Empson, "not least because they are the funniest". William_Empson | |
| Whaling Whaling is the hunting of whales which can be dated as a human activity to at least 6,000 BC. The evolution of traditional Arctic whaling developed with increasing rapidity by early organ International Whaling Commission (IWC) for its consensus-based emphasis on conservation, resource management, and international cooperative standards. Whaling | |
| Blog A blog (a contraction of the term "weblog") is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. Blog | |
| Wok A wok (in Standard Cantonese as ; Jyutping:6) is a versatile round-bottomed cooking vessel originating in China. It is used especially in East and Southeast Asia. South Asia also uses a similarly-shaped vessel known as a karahi. Wok | |
| Wal-Mart Talk:Wal-Mart | |
| William Wordsworth William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semiautobiographical poem of his early years which the poet revised and expanded a number of times. William_Wordsworth | |
| Witchcraft Witchcraft, in various historical, anthropological, religious and mythological contexts, is the use of certain kinds of supernatural or magical powers. Witchcraft can refer to the use of such powers in order to inflict harm or damage upon members of a community or their property. Witchcraft | |
| Winona Ryder Winona Laura Horowitz (born October 29, 1971), better known under her professional name Winona Ryder, is an American actress. She started her career in 1986. Although Ryder made her screen debut in Lucas (1986), her first significant role came in 1988 with Beetlejuice as Lydia Deetz, a Goth teenager, in a performance that gained her critical and commercial recognition. Winona_Ryder | |
| W. G. Grace Dr William Gilbert ("WG") Grace, MRCS, LRCP (born 18 July 1848 at Downend, Bristol; died 23 October 1915 at Mottingham, Kent) was an English amateur cricketer who captained England and Gloucestershire. He is universally known as "WG", his initials, which became a sobriquet.Right-handed as both batsman and bowler, he played first-class cricket for a record-equalling 44 seasons, from 1865 to 1908, and is widely regarded as one of the most important players in the history of the game, having dominated the sport during his career and left, through his enormous influence, a lasting legacy. W._G._Grace | |
| Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (Serbo-Croatian, Bosnian, Croatian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Slovene:Jugoslavija; Cyrillic script:South Slavs") is a term that describes three political entities that existed successively on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe, during most of the 20th century. Yugoslavia | |
| Yiddish language Yiddish ( yidish or idish, literally "Jewish") is a non-territorial High German language of Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. Unlike other Germanic languages, Yiddish is written with the Hebrew alphabet as opposed to a Latin alphabet.The language originated in the Ashkenazi culture that developed from about the 10th century in the Rhineland and then spread to central and eastern Europe and eventually to other continents. Yiddish_language | |
| Yasser Arafat Yasser_Arafat | |
| Zimbabwe Zimbabwe | |
| Zambia "ZMB" redirects here. This can also refer to the Berlin Zoological Museum. Zambia |
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