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The Wheel of Fortune The Wheel of Fortune is a concept in medieval and ancient philosophy referring to the capricious nature of Fate. The wheel belongs to the goddess Fortuna, who spins it at random, changing the positions of those on the wheel - some suffer great misfortune, others gain windfalls.
The Wheel of Time The Wheel of Time (abbreviated WoT or less commonly, tWoT) is a bestselling fantasy book series written by Robert Jordan. It is known for the extreme density of its plot, the intricate detail of its imaginary world, and complexity of relationships and interactions among characters.
The Wheel of Time Roleplaying Game The Wheel of Time Roleplaying Game is a role-playing game based on The Wheel of Time, a twelve-volume epic fantasy series by American author Robert Jordan. The game consists of two publications by Wizards of the Coast, a core rulebook published in October 2001 and an expansion, The Prophecies of the Dragon, which followed in April 2002.
The Wheel/The Wheal This 7" vinyl single was released by Coil packaged with along with initial copies of the first pressing of Gold Is The Metal With The Broadest Shoulders, as was The Wheal/Keelhauler. The edition is believed to belimited to 500 copies, however the single was later included with a special edition of Gold Is The Metal With The Broadest Shoulders, which was limited to 55, so that pressing number may or may not be inclusive.
The Wheeler Dealers The Wheeler Dealers (released as Separate Beds in the UK) is a 1963 comedy film starring James Garner and Lee Remick and featuring Chill Wills and Jim Backus. Garner portrays an oil tycoon, speaking in a thick southern accent and wearing a cowboy hat with his business suit, while Remick plays an extremely cooperative stock market analyst.
The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club was a British television variety show made by Granada Television in the mid 1970s. It was set in a fictional working men's club in the North of England and was hosted by comedian Colin Crompton.
The Whiffenpoofs The Yale Whiffenpoofs are the oldest collegiate a cappella group in the US, established in 1909. Best known for "The Whiffenpoof Song," the group is comprised of senior men who compete in the spring of their junior year for 14 coveted spots.
The Whims of the Butterfly The Whims of the Butterfly (AKA The Caprices of a Butterfly, or Les Caprices du Papillon) - ballet in 1 Act, with choreography by Marius Petipa, and music by Nikolai Krotkov. Libretto by Marius Petipa, based on the poem The Grasshopper Musician by Yakov Polonsky.
The Whiners The Whiners were possibly the most (intentionally) annoying characters to ever recur on Saturday Night Live. Joe Piscopo, playing Doug Whiner, and Robin Duke, playing Wendy Whiner, spoke all their lines in a nasal whining tone.
The Whip The Whip is a play first performed in 1909 at the Drury Lane Theatre in London. A melodrama with intricate scenery and spectacular stage effects including a horse race and a train crash, the production would tour overseas and inspire a 1917 film by the same name.
The Whipping Boy The Whipping Boy is a Newbery Medal winning book by Sid Fleischman, published in 1986. Jemmy stands in for the punishments of Prince "Brat" and the story takes off along the lines of Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper though the plot twist is not based on a physical resemblance.
The Whispering Land The Whispering Land is an autobiographical account of the 8 months Gerald Durrell spent travelling in Argentina during the late 1950's, collecting animals for his then recently founded Jersey Zoo. The book is divided into 2 parts; In the first, Durrell travels south from Buenos Aires to the arid scrublands of Patagonia and in the second he is based at a small town in the north western province of Jujuy.
The Whistler The Whistler was one of radio's most popular mystery dramas, with a 13-year run from May 16, 1942 until September 22, 1955.The Whistler was the most popular West-Coast originated program with its listeners for many years.
The White The White is the term used for the five avatars of the Pantheon of Five Gods in the Age of the Five series of books by Trudi Canavan. They are called such as their preferred style of dress is a pure white tunic, denouncing any fashionable or decorative ties, symbolising their devotion to the Gods.
The White Bone The White Bone is a Canadian novel written by Barbara Gowdy and published by HarperCollins in 1999. Sometimes compared to Richard Adams's Watership Down, it is an adult fantasy story about animals--in this case, African elephants--in a realistic natural setting but given the ability to speak to one another throughout the book.
The White Diamond The White Diamond is a documentary film by Werner Herzog. It illustrates the history of aviation and depicts the struggles and triumphs of Graham Dorrington, an aeronautical engineer, who has designed and built a teardrop-shaped airship which he plans to fly over the canopies of Guyana.
The White Disease The White Disease (Bílá nemoc in the original Czech) is a play written by Czech novelist Karel Čapek in 1937. Written at a time of increasing threat from Nazi Germany to Czechoslovakia, it portrays a human response to a tense, pre-war situation in an unnamed country that greatly resembles Germany with one extra, somewhat absurd addition: an uncurable white disease, a mysterious form of leprosy, is selectively killing off people older than 30.
The White Goddess The author and poet Robert Graves' book-length essay upon the nature of poetic myth-making, The White Goddess, first published in 1948, and revised, amended and enlarged in 1966, represents an approach to the study of mythology from a decidedly creative yet idiosyncratic perspective. It proposes the existence of a European deity, the "White Goddess of Birth, Love and Death," inspired and represented by the phases of the moon, and who, Graves argues, lies behind the faces of the diverse goddesses of various European mythologies.
The White Horse The White Horse is a large, imposing Victorian building lying at the northern end of Parsons Green in Fulham, London. In the past it had been both a coaching inn with rooms for travellers and a gin palace with a billiard room and extensive cellars.
The White Horses The White Horses is a 1965 television series co-produced by RTS of Yugoslavia and BR-TV of Germany. It follows the adventures of a teenage girl (played by Helga Anders) who visits a farm run by her Uncle Dimitri (played by Helmuth Schneider) where white Lipizzaner horses are raised.
The White Chocolate Farm The White Chocolate Farm was a pseudonym used by Thom Yorke of the British musical group Radiohead for all artwork done on the releases for the bands OK Computer era which comprised of 1997 and 1998. You may take notice of the first letter of the first word, second letter of the second word, third letter of the third word, and fourth letter of the fourth word.
The White Chrysanthemum The White Chrysanthemum is an English musical in three acts by Arthur Anderson and Leedham Bantock, with lyrics by Anderson and music by Howard Talbot). It opened at the Criterion Theatre, produced by Frank Curzon, on 31 August 1905 and ran for 179 performances.
The White Masai The White Masai (Die weiĂźe Massai), directed by Hermine Huntgeburth, is a 2005 movie about Swiss woman Carola (Nina Hoss) falling in love in Kenya with Masai Lemalian (Jacky Ido). The film is based upon an autobiographical novel by Swiss writer Corinne Hofmann.
The White Noise Supremacists The White Noise Supremacists is the stage name of Nigerian-American singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Iféoluwa Babalola. Her trademark is her unique and distinctive blend of British rock, American soul music, indie pop, folk and blues.
The White Paper In the 1966 the National Academy of Sciences - National Research Committee on Trauma and Shock, a federally funded department of the United States government, released research and a report entitled “Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Modern Society,” (1966), also known as the "White Paper", which concluded, in part, that both the public and their government were “insensitive to the magnitude of the problem of accidental death and injury”; that the standards to which ambulance services were held were diverse and “often low”; and that “most ambulances used in this country are unsuitable, have incomplete … equipment, carry inadequate supplies, and are manned by untrained attendants.” The research lead to the design an implementation of the United States first federally qualified ambulance services and personnel.
The White Party The White Party is a yearly circuit party event held in cities in South Florida with large gay populations. The party, co-founded by fashion designer Frank Wager, started as a small fundraising event for the Health Crisis Network in 1985, bringing in a total of $16,000 to help the fight against HIV/AIDS.
The White Plague The White Plague is a 1982 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert. It is about a molecular biologist, John Roe O'Neill, whose wife and children are killed when a bomb planted by the IRA goes off in May 20, 1996.
The White Room (band) The White Room is a alternative rock band from Geelong, Victoria, Australia. Originally named Plunja they were formed in Melbourne by brother and sister Marc Collis (lead vocalist/guitarist) and Steph Collis (drums/backing vocalist).
The White Rose (novel) The White Rose is the third novel in Glen Cook's ongoing series, The Black Company. The series combines elements of epic fantasy and dark fantasy as it follows an elite mercenary unit, The Black Company, through roughly forty years of its approximately four hundred year history.
The White Shadow The White Shadow was a television series that ran on the CBS network from November 27, 1978 to March 16, 1981. It starred Ken Howard as a White ex-NBA basketball player (per the storyline, previously with the Chicago Bulls) who was hired as head basketball coach at a mostly Black and Hispanic urban high school in South Central Los Angeles.
The White Sheik The White Sheik (Italian:Lo Sceicco Bianco) is a 1952 semi-autobiographical film by Federico Fellini. Only Fellini's second film upon its release, it failed with both critics and moviegoers and was a commercial flop.
The White Songbook The White Songbook is the fifth studio album by Joy Electric, and the first in the band's ongoing Legacy series. The album has a "book" theme, with the songs logically divided into "chapters," which are also songs.
The White Spider The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger is a non-fictional book by Heinrich Harrer and Hugh Merrick documenting the first attempts to climb the Eiger Nordwand alpine face. The title of the book is derived from a spider-shaped ice field high on the north face of the mountain, towering above the town of Grindelwald, Switzerland.
The White Terror (France) The name White Terror was applied to a movement started in the south of France against the French Revolution by a group calling themselves The Companions of Jehu. They planned a double uprising to coincide with invasions by the United Kingdom on the west and Austria in the east.
The Whiteboard The Whiteboard is a paintball webcomic created by "Doc" Nickel, an Alaskan airsmith. It has been collected into two print books to date; "The Whiteboard: Digitally Remastered" (2005) [ISBN: 1-59971-219-9] and "The Whiteboard: Untapped Potential" (2006).
The Whites The Whites are an American country music vocal group consisting of Buck White and his daughters Sharon and Cheryl. In the 1980s they scored hits with songs including "Pins and Needles" and "When the New Wears Off of Our Love.
The Whitlams The Whitlams are an Australian band, best known for their songs "No Aphrodisiac" and "Blow Up The Pokies". The Whitlams sound can best be described as 'Piano rock' founded in 'lyrics of charming cynicism '.
The Whiz (comics) The Whiz was a member of the All-Star Winners Squadron during the Golden Age, and a founding member alongside Human Lantern and Aqua Mariner who first appeared in Super Soldier: Man of War #1, though his metafictional appearance in Amalgam Comics continuity is most likely to have been in the All-Star Winners Comics series.
The Whiz Kids The Whiz Kids are a production, DJ, and editing team popular in the late 1980s American underground dance music scene. The team was made up of Wayne "Cutmaster Crash" Walters, and Kevin "Boy Wonder" Fluornoy.
The Who Channel The Who Channel plays music from The Who on SIRIUS Satellite Radio channel 98 and DISH Network channel 6098. The channel was a temporary replacement for The Bridge on channel 10 and started on September 21, 2006.
The Who in popular culture English rock band The Who have been featured and referenced frequently in popular culture in a number of different media since their formation in the early 1960s, but particularly since the 1990s. This page is a collection of the various references and appearances of the band in various media thoughout the years.
The Who, What, Or Where Game The Who, What, or Where Game was an American television game show, broadcast weekdays by NBC from December 29, 1969 to January 4, 1974. The host was Art James, and the announcer was Mike Darrow; Ron Greenberg packaged the show, which was recorded at the NBC studios in Rockefeller Plaza in New York City.
The Who: Then and Now The Who: Then and Now (2004) is an album by The Who aimed to support their comeback singles, "Real Good-Looking Boy" and "Old Red Wine." The set includes hit singles from the 60's, 70's, and 80's.
The Whole Family The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors (1908) is a collaborative novel told in twelve chapters, each by a different author. This unusual project was conceived by novelist William Dean Howells and carried out under the direction of Harper's Bazaar editor Elizabeth Jordan, who (like Howells) would write one of the chapters herself.
The Whoopee Party The Whoopee Party was a Mickey Mouse short first released in 1932 on September, the 17th. In this short Mickey and friends have a party which in Minnie is playing the piano while Mickey Goofy and Horace are preparing some snacks.
The Why Store The Why Store is a band formed in Muncie, Indiana in the late 1980's. While attending Ball State University vocalist/guitarists Chris Shaffer and Michael David Smith met up with Greg Gardner, a local drummer, and played a few gigs as Emerald City.
The Why Why Family The Why Why Family (French: Les Kikekoi and also known as Saban's The Why Why Family) is a French cartoon television series for children, which originally aired in 1996, written by Annabelle Perrichon and François-Emmanuel Porché and produced by Saban Entertainment. Later, in 1998, the show was broadcasted in the United States by FOX.
The Wicked Lady The Wicked Lady was a 1945 film starring Margaret Lockwood in the title role as a woman marrying into nobility (Barbara Worth aka Lady Barbara Skelton) who turns to highway robbery for enjoyment, and to repay gambling debts.
The Wicker Man The Wicker Man is a cult 1973 British film combining thriller, horror and musical, directed by Robin Hardy and written by Anthony Shaffer. The film stars Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt and Britt Ekland.
The Widow's Investment The Widow's Investment was a 1914 American silent popular short film starring Charlotte Burton, Sydney Ayres, Chick Morrison (as Caroline Cooke), Jack Richardson (actor), Perry Banks, Edith Borella, Caroline Cooke, Vivian Rich and Harry von Meter
The Wife of Martin Guerre The Wife of Martin Guerre (first published 1941) is a short novel by an American writer Janet Lewis. The novel speculates how the life of Bertrande, Martin Guerre’s wife, copes with exceptional circumstances in 16th century France.
The Wife of Usher's Well "The Wife of Usher's Well" is a traditional ballad, catalogued as Child Ballad 79, originally from Britain, but also popular in North America. No complete original version has survived, but the song as been "remade" in America in a cohesive form.
The Wife's Lament The Wife's Lament is a short Old English poem of 53 verses found in the Exeter Book and generally treated as an elegy in the manner of the Old English frauenlied, or woman's song. The poem has been relatively well-preserved and requires few if any emendations in order to be properly read and understood.
The Wichita Massacre The Wichita Massacre, also known as The Wichita Horror, was a murder/assault/rape/robbery spree perpetrated by two brothers in the city of Wichita, Kansas in the winter of 2000. The brutal crimes they committed in just under a week shocked Wichitans.
The Wiki Way The Wiki Way: Quick collaboration on the Web by Bo Leuf and Ward Cunningham is a book about the WikiWiki collaborative editing system, such as that used on Wikipedia. Ward Cunningham is the creator of the original Wiki software (today there are many different wiki engines).
The Wilberforce Wanderers A.F.C. The Wilberforce Wanderers AFC are an amateur English football club based in North London. The Wanderers were founded at a meeting held on 6th August 2002 by Daniel Taylor, Peter Ramsay and Colin Read in the Chandos Public House, Trafalgar Square.
The Wilco Book The Wilco Book (2004) is an exploration of the artistic statement presented by the band Wilco. Artwork created by the band, photographer Michael Schmelling, and mixed media artist Fred Tomaselli is interspersed with comments from the band, technicians, and managers, as well as essays by Henry Miller and Rick Moody, and poetry from Bern Porter's collection Found Poetry.
The Wild Angels The Wild Angels (1966) is a Roger Corman film, made on location in Southern California. The Wild Angels was made two years before Easy Rider and was the first film to associate actor Peter Fonda with Harley-Davidson motorcycles and 1960s counterculture.
The Wild Boys (song) "The Wild Boys" is the twelfth single from the band Duran Duran, released on the live album Arena in October of 1984. It reached #2 on the UK Singles Chart, the American Billboard Hot 100, and the Canadian CHUM Chart, and reached #1 on the German charts.
The Wild Bunch The Wild Bunch is a 1969 English language western film directed by Sam Peckinpah, in which an aging group of outlaws hope to have one more score while the West is turning into a modern society. It stars William Holden, Alfonso Arau, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates, Jaime Sánchez, Ben Johnson, Strother Martin, L.
The Wild Bunch (sound system) The Wild Bunch were a sound system outfit based in the St Pauls district of Bristol, England from 1983 to 1986. The group was renowned for spinning sets that drew large crowds on the club scene, and had performed shows as far away as London.
The Wild Center The Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks (self-titled as The Wild Center) is a natural history museum that opened July 4, 2006 in New York state's Adirondack Park. The Museum was designed by Hellmuth Obata + Kassabaum, the same firm that designed the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, DC, in collaboration with The Office of Charles P.
The Wild Colonial Boy The Wild Colonial Boy is a traditional Irish/Australian ballad about a young emigrant, named Jack Duggan, who left the town of Castlemaine, County Kerry, Ireland, for Australia in the 1800s. According to the song, he spent his time there 'robbing from the rich to feed the poor'.
The Wild East The Wild East (, Dikiy vostok, Dikij vostok) is a Russian-language film created in Kazakhstan shortly after the dissolution of the Soviet Union released in 1993. It was written and directed by Rashid Nugmanov and was inspired by The Magnificent Seven, an American remake of Akira Kurosawa's film Seven Samurai.
The Wild Geese (novel) Mori Ogai's classical novel, The Wild Geese or The Wild Goose (1911–13, 雁 Gan) was first published in serial form in Japan, and tells the story of unfulfilled love set against a background of social change. The story is set to 1881 Tokyo, where a girl who becomes the mistress of an old bill collector, but falls in love with a medical student.
The Wild House The Wild House was a serialised children's series produced between 1997 and 1999 broadcast by the BBC, written partially by Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. It follows the life of Natalie Wild (played by Ellie Beaven) and the other members of the Wild family.
The Wild Child The Wild Child (title of the film in the United States; it was released in the United Kingdom as The Wild Boy; originally released in France as L'Enfant sauvage) was a film by the French director François Truffaut, which was released in 1970.
The Wild Life "The Wild Life" is a song written and performed by English girl group Bananarama. Written in two days, the track was composed for and included in the 1984 American film of the same name The Wild Life, (starring Christopher Penn) and on its soundtrack.
The Wild Ones The Wild Ones is the second single off the album Dog Man Star by Suede, released on November 14, 1994 on Nude Records. It is considered a favorite among fans and is certainly one of their most notable songs of this period.
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill is a 2005 documentary film about a population of feral parrots (the majority are Red-masked Parakeets) in San Francisco, and about Mark Bittner, the man who takes care of them. The movie was directed, produced, and edited by Judy Irving.
The Wild Ride The Wild Ride is a 1960 film starring Jack Nicholson as a rebellious punk named Johnny, of the Beat generation, who spends his days as an amateur dirt track driver in between partying and troublemaking. This is considered by some to be a cult classic.
The Wild Swans (band) The Wild Swans were a Post-punk band from Liverpool, England, which formed in 1980 shortly after Paul Simpson (ex-keyboards) left The Teardrop Explodes and teamed up (on vocals) with Jeremy Kelly (guitar), Gerard Quinn (keyboards) and Justin Stavely (drums). Stavely was later replaced by Alan Wills and although bass players came and went, Joseph Fearon played on both of the studio albums, recorded by a reincarnated Mark II version of the band.
The Wild Thornberrys The Wild Thornberrys is an American animated television series produced by Klasky Csupo for Nickelodeon. The series follows the adventures of a fictional wildlife-documentary-making family, the Thornberrys, and particularly of Eliza Thornberry, who can talk to animals.
The Wild Wild West The Wild Wild West was an American television series that ran on CBS for four seasons (104 episodes) from September 17, 1965 to April 4, 1969. Developed at a time when the television western was losing ground to the spy genre, this show was conceived by its creator, Michael Garrison, as "James Bond on horseback.
The Wilderness Society (Australia) The Wilderness Society is an Australian not-for-profit non-governmental organisation that now fights environmental issues, such as logging in Old Growth Forests, destruction of endangered species habitats and protecting Queensland Wild Riversand Cape York Peninsula. It spent considerable energy in its first decades of existence arguing that wilderness was a specific quality in parts of Australia's environment that was vital to preseve for future generations.
The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales is one of 47 Wildlife Trusts across the UK. It is the fourth largest in area, covering from Cardiff and Caerphilly in the east to Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire in the west, and includes four of the west Wales islands amongst its 90 or so nature reserves.
The Wildparty Sheiks The Wildparty Sheiks were a band based in New York City from approximately the mid-1990s until 2002. They specialized in music originally performed by African-American musicians or Caucasians in blackface in the minstrel genre and related works, primarily from the early twentieth century.
The Wildwoods The Wildwoods are a group of five municipalities in Cape May County, New Jersey, all of which are situated on a barrier island facing the Atlantic Ocean. These Jersey shore communities have relatively small year-round populations and swell significantly during the summer with vacationers.
The Will of D In the One Piece fictional universe, many characters have the middle initial "D". This mysterious middle initial has been called "the will of the D" or "D's will" by several characters in One Piece.
The Will to Power The will to power (German: "Der Wille zur Macht") is a concept prominent in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. The term of Wille zur Macht first appeared in the posthume fragment 23 [63] of 1876-1877, and has been read since Heidegger in relation with the Übermensch and the thought of eternal recurrence — although this reading itself has been criticized by Mazzino Montinari as a "macroscopic Nietzsche" Mazzino Montinari, Friedrich Nietzsche (1974; transl.
The Willard(band) The Willard was an early Japanese Punk band that started in the 80's and has continued to play to this day with the exception of a different line-up since they started. The Willard was known for there popish songs fused with punk but has since changed their sound over the years, from Punk to Goth to Indie.
The William Penn Society The William Penn Society is a local fraternity at Whittier College in Whittier, California. Known on the campus as "the Penns," it was founded by Frank Alexander in 1934 as a social club, but transformed into a social fraternity over the years.
The Williams School The Williams School is a coeducational independent high school located on the campus of Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut. Founded in 1891 as the Williams Memorial Institute, a high school for girls, the school became co-ed in 1971.
The Williamsburg Charter The Williamsburg Charter is a document that was drafted in 1986 by several Americans, each a member of a prominent religious community and/or non-religious philosophy in the United States. The Charter was signed by 100 nationally prominent figures on June 22nd 1988, in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Virginia's call for a Bill of Rights.
The Williamsburg Winery The Williamsburg Winery is Virginia's, largest winery with an annual production of some 60,000 cases. With approximately 100 wineries in Virginia, the Williamsburg Winery accounts for almost one-quarter of all wine production in Virginia.
The Williamson Brothers Arnold and Irving Williamson (better known as The Williamson Brothers) were folk musicians based in Logan County, West Virginia, USA active in the 1920s and 30s. Arnold played the fiddle while Irving played the guitar.
The Willing Flesh The Willing Flesh is the English Language edition of Das Geduldige Fleisch, a book written by Willi Heinrich about the experiences of a platoon on the Eastern Front during the German withdrawal from the Taman Peninsula, Crimea, in 1943. It was first published in 1956.
The Willing Well IV: The Final Cut "The Willing Well IV: The Final Cut" is the last song on progressive rock quartet Coheed and Cambria's album Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness. In the Final Cut, the character Ambellina dies.
The Willow Pattern (book) The Willow Pattern is a detective novel writen by Robert van Gulik and set in Imperial China (rougly speaking the Tang Dynasty). It is a fiction based on the real character of Judge Dee (Ti Jen-chieh or Di Renjie), a magistrate and statesman of the Tang court, who lived roughly 630–700.
The Willows Shopping Center The Willows Shopping Center is located in one of the fastest growing areas of the East Bay in Concord, California. The center boasts a strong line up of national retailers including Old Navy, Cost Plus World Market, REI, CompUSA, Claim Jumper, Benihana and the newest member in holiday 2006, Pier One.
The Willy Wonka Candy Company The Willy Wonka Candy Company is a brand of candy owned by the Nestlé company using licensed materials from the Roald Dahl books for their packaging and marketing. The brand is used on a range of candies in the United States and a range of chocolate bars in the United Kingdom.
The Willy-Nicky Correspondence The Willy-Nicky Correspondence is a phrase derived from a book by Herman Bernstein in January of 1918. The book was based on a set of telegrams that revealed the secret relations between Wilhelm II of the German Empire and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.
The Wind The Wind is a 1928 film in which a woman from the East moves to West Texas and must live with the constant blowing wind, sand, and brutal men. It stars Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love and Dorothy Cumming.
The Wind Done Gone The Wind Done Gone is the first novel written by Alice Randall. The novel is a reinterpretation of Gone with the Wind (1936), a famous American novel written by Margaret Mitchell, which was also adapted into one of the most popular American films of all time.
The Wind in the Willows The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature written in 1908 by Kenneth Grahame. The story is alternately slow-moving and fast-paced, focusing on four heavily anthropomorphised animal characters in a bucolic version of England.
The Wind in the Willows (TV series) The Wind in the Willows is a 52-episode TV series that aired between 1984 and 1990, based on characters from Kenneth Grahame's classic story The Wind in the Willows and following the 1983 film The Wind in the Willows.
The Winding Sheet The Winding Sheet is an album by American musician Mark Lanegan that was released in 1990. It was Lanegan's first solo work, and is notable in its departure from the characteristic sound of Screaming Trees, the band he fronted from 1985 until 1996.
The Window The Window is a 1949 black-and-white suspense film based on the short story "The Boy Who Cried Murder" by Cornell Woolrich. The film, which was a critical success, was produced by Frederic Ullman, Jr.
The Wine Group The Wine Group, known for its Franzia "wine in a box", is the third largest wine company in the world, by volume, behind Constellation Brands and the E & J Gallo Winery. The company was first founded in 1981 with a management buyout of the wine assets of the Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
The Wine Rematch of the Century The Wine Rematch of the Century, officially known as "The Tasting that Changed the Wine World: 'The Judgment of Paris' 30th Anniversary," was conducted on May 24, 2006.In the Paris Wine Tasting of 1976], leading [[French wine experts blind tasted both red and white wines.

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