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The Wings of Rean is a light novel series by Yoshiyuki Tomino published from 1983 to 1986, and a 6-episode ONA, broadcast by Bandai Channel online beginning on December 12, 2005, with the final episode starting on August 18, 2006. It is a spinoff of another series, Aura Battler Dunbine, and is set in modern Japan and Byston Well.
The Wings of the Dove The Wings of the Dove is a 1902 novel by Henry James. One of the masterpieces of James' final period, this novel tells the story of Milly Theale, an American heiress stricken with a serious disease, and her impact on the people around her.
The Wings of the Dove (film) The Wings of the Dove was filmed in 1997 and adapted from Henry James' novel with the same name. Iain Softley directed, with Helena Bonham Carter as Kate Croy, Alison Elliott as Milly Theale, and Linus Roache as Merton Densher.
The Winjin Pom The Winjin' Pom is a television puppet series about a talking British caravan, renowned for his moaning, and five Australians who live and travel in him. The travellers; who include Adalaide, Bruce, Darwin and Sydney (a wallaby, an ostrich, a spider and a wombat), are members of the Gullagaloona backpackers club and are on a mission to travel the world.
The Winner (cartoon) The Winner is a cult 2D animation created, written and voiced by 3D animator / designer John S Barnard and poet/songwriter Graham Heathcliff Pierrepoint. The series revolves around the running gag of it being a poor Winnie the Pooh imitation, and stars twisted caricatures of the characters created by A.
The Winner (film) The Winner is a 1996 film, directed by Alex Cox. Most noted for its quirky cast (Michael Madsen, Vincent D'Onofrio, Frank Whaley, and Billy Bob Thornton, among others) and fine art department: the designer was Cecilia Montiel, who went on to design the movies of Robert Rodriguez and Antonio Banderas' Zorro films.
The Winner (TV series) The Winner is a new television series scheduled to premiere on Fox as a midseason replacement on March 4, 2007. It is a comedy about a successful man named Glen (played by Rob Corddry) looking back to the time when he was in his thirties and living with his parents.
The Winner Takes It All "The Winner Takes It All" is a song recorded by Swedish group ABBA and was the first single to be released from the Super Trouper album. Over twenty-five years after its release, it still remains a favourite among music listeners and reviewers.
The Winner's Journey The Winner's Journey is a live album and DVD based on Australian Idol 2006 winner Damien Leith's performances on the show. The full-length album features remastered versions of Leith's live performances from the show, along with the studio version of his debut single "Night of My Life" and two of his original tracks, "Come to Me" and "Sky".
The Winning Side The Winning Side is the first in the series of Time Hunter novellas and features the characters Honoré Lechasseur and Emily Blandish from Daniel O'Mahony's Doctor Who novella The Cabinet of Light. It is written by Lance Parkin, author of several Doctor Who spin-offs.
The Winslow The Winslow is a small, cute, furry, and fictional reptilian creature measuring 66 centimeters in length that plays a prominent role in many of comics artist Phil Foglio's various graphic novels, most notably Buck Godot and MythAdventures (with occasional guest appearances in the Girl Genius strip Winslow is technically sentient] and capable of [[speech, though rarely says anything more than the informal, colloquial greeting "Hi!", which it often enjoys repeating ad nauseam.
The Winsor School Founded in 1886, The Winsor School is a girls' college prep school for day students in grades 5-12. The school is located in Boston, Massachusetts and has approximately 428 students representing 57 communities in Massachusetts.
The Winstons The Winstons are a funk and soul music outfit from the 1960s who are most notable for recording a track called "Amen, Brother" (a B-side to the single "Color Him Father" edited in 1969). "Amen, Brother" is probably the most sampled record of all time.
The Winter Hill Gang The Winter Hill Gang is some what of an Irish Mafia based primarily out of Somerville, South Boston and Charlestown Massachusettes. In it's history there has been five bosses, with the first being James "Buddy" McLean and the latest and current reigning boss being George "Georgie Boy" Hogan.
The Winter of Our Discontent (album) The Winter of Our Discontent is the name of an album by The Echoing Green, originally released on April 14, 2003, on A Different Drum. The album was released to Europe with a slightly different track listing in 2004 through Infacted Recordings, and through BEC Recordings on December 142004, with another slightly different track listing.
The Winter Queen (novel) The Winter Queen (Russian: Азазель, Azazel) is the first novel from the Erast Fandorin series of detective fiction novels, written by Russian author Boris Akunin. It was subtitled конспирологический детектив ("conspiracy novel").
The Winter Room The Winter Room is a short novel by Newbery Honor award winning author Gary Paulsen, intended for children from ages 9 to 12. It is a mythical story about Vikings, elves, but primarily logging, narrated in the first person to two boys by their Norwegian uncle in the "winter room" of a farm in northern Minnesota (U.
The Wire (DS9 episode) "The Wire" is an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the 22nd episode of the second season. This was the first time viewers received a look at Garak's past and it sowed the seeds for several later plotlines involving Enabran Tain.
The Wire (The Wire episode) "The Wire" is the sixth episode of the first season of the HBO original series, The Wire. The episode was written by David Simon from a story by David Simon & Ed Burns and was directed by Ed Bianchi.
The Wire Tapper The Wire Tapper is a long running series of CD compilations issued with editions of The Wire Magazine. The compilation is not always released with newsagent copies of the magazine; subscribers receive the compilation on a much more frequent basis.
The Wired CD The Wired CD is an album that was released in 2004 as a collaborative effort between Wired magazine, Creative Commons, and sixteen musicians and groups. The Wired CD was distributed inside the front cover of the November 2004 issue of Wired, which also featured a variety of interviews and bios of the performers.
The Wired CD: Ripped. Sampled. Mashed. Shared. In 2005, Creative Commons and Wired Magazine launched The Fine Art of Sampling Contest in which contestants sampled the tracks from The Wired CD to create their own composition. The top winning entries were subsequently compiled onto a CD entitled The Wired CD: Ripped.
The Wirth Companies The Wirth Companies, located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, most notably owns and operates the Minneapolis Grand Hotel, the Grand Rios Indoor Water Park Hotel, and Water Park of America. It also owns a wireless infrastructure company and numerous other commercial properties that it leases.
The Wisden Cricketer The Wisden Cricketer is a monthly cricket magazine published by the specialist cricket publisher Wisden in England. It was created in 2003 by a merger between The Cricketer magazine and Wisden Cricket Monthly.
The Wisdom of Crowds The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations, first published in 2004, is a book written by James Surowiecki about the aggregation of information in groups, resulting in decisions that, he argues, are often better than could have been made by any single member of the group. The book presents numerous case studies and anecdotes to illustrate its argument, and touches on several fields, primarily economics and psychology.
The Wise Men The Wise Men were a group of six government officials, who during the Truman administration developed the containment policy of dealing with the Communist bloc. They were featured in a book by that title written by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, published in 1986.
The Wiseguys The Wiseguys was a British electronica hip hop band that was responsible for creating the song "Start the Commotion" that was in a Mitsubishi TV advertisement; and "Ooh La La", which was used in Budweiser commercials. Both tracks of which came from The Wiseguys second album The Antidote.
The Wish Giver The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree is a 1983 book by Bill Brittain. The "wish giver" in the title refers to the enigmatic man who gives three children a wish to make their deepest dreams come true.
The Wish List The Wish List is a fantasy novel by Eoin Colfer. It chronicles the adventures of Meg Finn, a spirit who has struck a perfect balance between good and evil and as such, is barred from entering either heaven or hell.
The Wish List (political organization) The Wish List is an organization whose acronym for Women In the Senate and House. It is a political action committee devoted to getting pro-choice Republican women elected to the House of Representatives and Senate, The Wish List was founded in 1992.
The Wish to Be An Indian The Wish to Be an Indian () is a minor work by Franz Kafka focusing primarily on the subject of social repression in English gentry society. The work is notable for early use of experimental writing techniques, though often considered incomprehensible by literary scholars.
The Witch (album) The Witch is the second album by Ambar, and collaboration between actress and singer Maria Conchita Alonso and Italo-Venezuelan producer Rudy La Scala. It was released in 1980 and was their second and final collaboration with together.
The Witch House The Witch House (also called The Jonathan Corwin House), was the home of Judge Jonathan Corwin and is the only structure still standing in Salem, Massachusetts with direct ties to the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.
The Witch of BotoĹźani The Witch of BotoĹźani or simply The Witch or The Sorceress (original Yiddish title Di Kishefmakhern) was an 1878, or possibly 1887, play by Abraham Goldfaden. Like most of Goldfaden's major works, it was an operetta.
The Witcher (computer game) The Witcher is a computer role-playing game in development for the PC by CD Projekt. Based on the book series of the same name by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, the game utilizes BioWare's proprietary Aurora Engine and is currently slated for release in 2007.
The Witches of Eastwick (musical) The Witches of Eastwick is a 2000 stage musical, based on the novel by John Updike. It opened originally at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (approx 2200 seats) and transferred half way through its run to the much smaller Prince of Wales Theatre (1100 seats approx).
The Witches' Voice The Witches' Voice (WitchVox) is an online information and networking resource for the modern Wiccan and Pagan (Paganism) community. It is a non-profit organization founded and run by Wren Walker and Fritz Jung in 1997.
The Witchwood The Witchwood is a public house and live venue situated in Ashton-under-Lyne, a town in Greater Manchester, England. The venue is well known locally and its fame even stretches both nationally and internationally.
The Witling The Witling is an early novel by Vernor Vinge, and is about a planet populated by a race of nearly human aliens who have the ability to teleport with their minds. This ability varies from person to person: those without the talent at all are called witlings and are the lowest class of person in the planet's primitive societies.
The Witness for the Prosecution The Witness for the Prosecution is a short story written by Agatha Christie and published for the first time as Traitor Hands in Flynn's Weekly edition of January 31, 1925. In 1933 the story was published for the first time in the collection The Hound of Death that appeared only in the United Kingdom.
The Wiz (store) The Wiz was the name of a chain of electronic stores in the northeastern United States, primarily in New York and New Jersey. The chain, which was founded by Lawrence Jemal in New York City in 1977, was sometimes referred to by its primary advertising slogan, Nobody Beats The Wiz.
The Wizard (film) The Wizard is a 1989 movie about a boy (Fred Savage) and his emotionally disturbed brother (Luke Edwards) who run away from their Utah home to go to California. Along the way they meet a girl named Haley (Jenny Lewis) who convinces them to compete in the ultimate video game championship.
The Wizard Knight The Wizard Knight is a series of epistolary novels written by fantasy and science fiction author Gene Wolfe. It chronicles the journey of Able of the High Heart, an American boy transported to a magical world and supernaturally aged to adulthood.
The Wizard of Oz (1982 film) The Wizard of Oz (Japanese: オズの魔法使い , Ozu no Mahōtsukai) is a 1982 anime feature film directed by Fumihiko Takayama, from a screenplay by Yoshimitsu Banno and Akira Miyazaki based on the novel by L. Frank Baum, produced by Banno and Katsumi Ueno for Toho Co.
The Wizard of Oz on television The enormous popularity of the 1939 MGM film The Wizard of Oz is primarily due today to the large number of times it has been shown on television, although it was a well-loved film even before then. It has been a television tradition since 1959, and through these showings, it has become one of the most famous (possibly the most famous) films ever made, although Gone with the Wind (film) and Casablanca (film) are strong competitors for that honor.
The Wizard of the Emerald City The Wizard of the Emerald City (Russian: Волшебник Изумрудного Города) is a 1939 children's novel by Russian writer Alexander Melentyevich Volkov. The book is a loose translation of L.
The Wizard's Chosen Few The Wizard's Chosen Few is the first and only 'Best of' compilation album, which is not orientated around ballads, by German Heavy Metal Guitarist Axel Rudi Pell. Unlike most 'best of' albums by most bands, Pell decided it would be unfair on the customers to buy an album in which they can find all of the material on his other CDs, he decided to add some unreleased live songs as well as some released only to the Japanese market as bonus tracks.
The Woes The Woes are a band based out of New York City, formed in 2002 by frontman Osei Essed and his long-time collaborator Cicero Jones. Their sound is a mix of blues, country, and folk, topped off with Essed's gruff voice, often compared to that of Tom Waits.
The Wog Boy The Wog Boy was a 2000 Australian motion picture comedy starring Nick Giannopoulos, Vince Colosimo, Lucy Bell, Abi Tucker, John Barresi, Stephen Curry, Hung Le, Geraldine Turner, Tony Nikolakopoulos and Derryn Hinch.
The Wolds The Wolds is a term used to in England to describe a range of hills which consists of open country overlying a base of limestone or chalk. There are at least two such areas, both remnants of a much larger chalk system.
The Wolf Cub's Handbook The Wolf Cub's Handbook is an instruction handbook written by Baden-Powell (B-P) for Wolf Cubs (present-day Cub Scouts) and pack leaders. The book is based on the theme of the jungle in described in a story book, The Jungle Book, written by B-P's friend Rudyard Kipling.
The Wolf Man The Wolf Man is a 1941 horror film written by Curt Siodmak and produced and directed by George Waggner, starring Lon Chaney Jr, Claude Rains, Evelyn Ankers, Ralph Bellamy, Patric Knowles, Bela Lugosi, and Maria Ouspenskaya. It introduced a character that stands alongside Frankenstein and Dracula as one of the most recognized of the Universal Studios monsters and has had a great deal of influence on Hollywood's depictions of the legend of the werewolf.
The Wolfen The Wolfen (1978), the debut novel by Whitley Strieber, tells the story of two police detectives in New York City who, while investigating the violent deaths of two policemen in a junk yard, discovers that there is a pack of intelligent and savage wolf creatures. These predators are almost like werewolves, stalking the asphalt jungle of Manhattan and quickly killing anyone who learns about their existence.
The Wolfhounds The Wolfhounds were an indie rock band formed in Romford, Essex, England in 1985 by Dave Callahan, Paul Clark, Andy Golding, Andy Bolton and Frank Stebbing. They began as a slightly askew pop/rock band, and signed to the Pink label in 1986.
The Woman in Red (film) The Woman in Red is a 1984 romantic comedy directed by Gene Wilder and written by Jean-Loup Dabadie, Yves Robert and Wilder, starring Wilder as a happily married man who fantasizes about having an affair with a sexy mystery woman (Kelly LeBrock). His attempts to actually initiate the affair, however, are repeatedly thwarted by various comic circumstances, most notably by a secretary (Gilda Radner) who mistakenly believes that she is the object of his affection.
The Woman in Red Soundtrack The Woman In Red Soundtrack is the second soundtrack album released by Motown singing great Stevie Wonder on the Tamla (Motown) label in 1984. It featured Wonder's biggest hit, "I Just Called To Say I Love You", which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, and also featured the follow-up hit, "Love Light in Flight" and "Don't Drive Drunk".
The Woman in White (novel) The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859-1860, and first published in book form in 1860. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of 'sensation novels'.
The Woman with the Whip The Woman with the Whip is a 1952 biography of Eva PerĂłn, the late First Lady of Argentina. Published in England and the United States shortly after Eva PerĂłn's death, it was the first hostile biography of Eva PerĂłn to be published and it has therefore been used by her detractors ever since.
The Woman Who Rides Like a Man The Woman Who Rides Like a Man is a fantasy novel by Tamora Pierce, the third in a series of four books, The Song of the Lioness. It details the knighthood of Alanna of Trebond as she lives in the Bazhir desert after her becoming a knight.
The Woman's Prize The Woman's Prize, or the Tamer Tamed is a Jacobean comedy written by John Fletcher. Its initial publication occurred in the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1647, though it was obviously written much earlier (Fletcher died in 1625).
The Woman-Identified Woman "The Woman-Identified Woman" was a ten-paragraph manifesto, written by the Radicalesbians in 1970. It was first distributed during the "Lavender Menace" protest at the Second Congress to Unite Women, on May 1, 1970 in New York City.
The Wombles The Wombles are fictional characters created by British author Elisabeth Beresford, originally appearing in a series of children's novels from 1968. The characters later became nationally famous in the mid 1970s as a result of a popular BBC children's television show using stop motion animation.
The Wombles (band) The Wombles were a pop group featuring musicians dressed as the characters from childrens' TV show The Wombles. Songwriter and producer Mike Batt wrote the series' theme tune, and later went on to perform and produce a number of highly successful novelty singles as The Wombles.
The Women (film) The Women is a 1939 comedy film directed by George Cukor. The film was based on Clare Boothe Luce's play of the same name, and was adapted for the screen by Anita Loos and Jane Murfin, who toned down the innuendo for a movie audience.
The Women's Development Bank The Women's Development Bank, or Banjumer, was established in Venezuela in 2001 to remedy the political, economic, and social disadvantages faced by women. The Bank offers both financial and non-financial services to women.
The Women's History of the World The Women's History of the World (ISBN 0-586-08886-5) is a book about women's history written by British author Rosalind Miles and first published in 1988. Later editions, including the paperback versions of the book use a variation on this title, Who Cooked The Last Supper: The Women's History of the World.
The Women's Library (London) The Women's Library in London is Britain's main library and museum resource on women and the women's movement, especially concentrating on Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Library has over 60,000 books and pamphlets.
The Wonder Book of Bible Stories The Wonder Book of Bible Stories is a 1904 children's literature by Logan Marshall printed in the United States. The book popularised biblical stories from both the Old and New Testaments for children by illustrating them with rich woodcuts and color plates.
The Wonder of It All "The Wonder of It All", released on January 22, 2005, marked Kristine W's ninth consecutive Billboard Dance Chart number one hit single. This was made more remarkable by the fact that "The Wonder of It All" was her ninth release.
The Wonder of Women The Wonder of Women, or The Tragedy of Sophonisba is an early Jacobean stage play written by the satiric dramatist John Marston in 1606. It was first performed by the Children of the Revels, one of the troupes of boy actors popular at the time, in the Blackfriars Theatre.
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige (The Wonderful Adventures of Nils) is a famous work of fiction by the Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf, published in two parts in 1906 and 1907. The background for publication was a commission from the National Teachers Association in 1902 to write a geography reader for the public schools.
The Wonderful Barn The Wonderful Barn is a barn built on the edge of Castletown House Estate which borders Leixlip and Celbridge, Ireland. It is built on the Leixlip side of the Castletown Estate, with its purpose not entirely clear, like Connolly's Folly (an Obelisk), most historians believe the two projects served as a way to keep the local poor employed.
The Wonderful Galaxy of Oz The Wonderful Galaxy of Oz is a 1990 futuristic adaptation of the classic story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It was originally released in the 1990s in Japan as a television series, Supēsu Ozu no Bōken, and consists of 26 episodes.
The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit is a 1998 feature film set in East Los Angeles directed by Stuart Gordon, written by Ray Bradbury and starring five famous Latino actors, including Edward James Olmos, Joe Mantegna, Esai Morales, Clifton Collins Jr. (credited as Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez), and Gregory Sierra.
The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit and Other Plays The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit and Other Plays (1972) is a collection of three plays by Ray Bradbury: The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, The Veldt, and To the Chicago Abyss. All are adaptations of his short stories by the same names.
The Wonderful Musician The Wonderful Musician or The Strange Musician or The Marvellous Musician is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm as tale number 8 in their Grimm's Fairy Tales. It is Aarne-Thompson type 151, music lessons for wild animals.
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More is a collection of seven short stories written by Roald Dahl. They are generally regarded as being aimed for a slightly older audience than many of his other children's books.
The Wonderful Thing about Tiggers "The Wonderful Thing about Tiggers" is the theme song and personal anthem of Tigger, a fictional tiger from the childrens' book series Winnie-the-Pooh. Although Tigger's birthday is believed to be in October of 1928, the year that The House at Pooh Corner was first published, on Tigger-related merchandise, Disney often indicates Tigger's birthyear as 1968, a reference to the first year that Tigger appeared in a Disney production, Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day.
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962) is a Cinerama film directed by Henry Levin, who had a long career directing movies such as Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) and the television series Knots Landing in the late 1970s and early 1990s. George Pál was the producer and was also in charge of the stop motion animation.
The Wonderful World of the Pursuit of Happiness The Wonderful World of the Pursuit of Happiness was the fifth and, to date, last studio album by Canadian college rock band The Pursuit of Happiness, released in 1996. The band have never officially broken up, but after this release their new recordings have been restricted to individual songs for compilation albums, including "Edmonton Block Heater" on A Tribute to Hard Core Logo.
The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (Die Macht der Bilder: Leni Riefenstahl) is a 1993 German documentary film about the life of German film director Leni Riefenstahl. She is best known for her films' use by Nazi propaganda.
The Wood Brothers Oliver and Christopher Wood were born in California before moving with their parents to Boulder, Colorado. Their father, Bill Wood, is a Harvard-trained microbiologist—but in the late Fifties, he also was active as a singer and guitarist on the Boston-Cambridge folk revival scene.
The Wood Wife The Wood Wife by Terri Windling was published by Tor Books in 1996, and won the Mythopoeic Award for Novel of the Year. Set in the mountain outskirts of contemporary Tucson, Arizona, the novel could equally be described as magical realism, contemporary fantasy, or mythic fiction.
The Woodbox Gang The Woodbox Gang is a band formerly based in Herod, Illinois, now out of Makanda, Illinois. They play an eclectic, unique style of bluegrass music labeled by some as "insurgent Americana," "jug-punk," "y'allternative," and "funk-a-billy;" though they prefer the terms "caustic acoustic" and "trashcan Americana" (also the name of one of their albums).
The Woodcraft Folk The Woodcraft Folk is a UK-based educational movement for children and young people, considered the youth arm of the co-operative movement. The aims of this youth organisation are to develop self-confidence and activity in society, with the intention of working towards "a world based on equality, peace, social justice and co-operation".
The Woodentops The Woodentops were a British independent label rock band that enjoyed considerable critical acclaim, and moderate popularity in the mid-1980s. Taking their name from a slang expression referring to an acoustic guitar, the band formed in South London, England, in 1983.
The Woodlands High School The Woodlands High School is the largest high school in Texas, United States in area (it extends over two campuses), and it once had the second largest number of students (over 4,900) before the opening of The Woodlands College Park High School. The school's mascot is the Highlander.
The Woodlands, Texas The Woodlands is a census-designated place (CDP) and master-planned community located in the the counties of Montgomery and Harris in the state of Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 55,649.
The Woods The Woods is a film directed by Lucky McKee. A psychological horror story set in 1965, the plot is about an all-girls private school which deals with the mysterious incident in the woods that surround the school.
The Woodsman The Woodsman is a 2004 film directed by Nicole Kassell. It was nominated for the "Grand Jury Prize" award at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, and was a featured film at the 2005 Traverse City Film Festival.
The Word (TV series) The Word was a 1990s Channel 4 television programme in the United Kingdom. Its presenters included Mancunian radio presenter Terry Christian, comedian Mark Lamarr, Dani Behr, Katie Puckrik, Alan Connor, Amanda de Cadenet and "Hufty".
The Word and the World The Word and the World Project of the Stanford University's Learning Lab developed a large lecture, Introduction to Humanities (IHUM) course adopting pedagogical strategies and technologies designed to enhance learning. The course was given in 1997 and 1998.
The Word of the Lord Brought to Mankind by an Angel The Word of the Lord Brought to Mankind by an Angel is subtitled, A warning to all people on the second coming of Jesus Christ, revelations on the building of the temple, and instructions to the Church of Christ: The Lord has spoken and revealed his purpose by the mouth of his servant John the Baptist.
The Words Get Stuck In My Throat "The Words Get Stuck in My Throat" is a song by rock band Devo, sung by Booji Boy. A long time concert favorite, it was finally recorded in the studio and released on the anthology Pioneers Who Got Scalped.
The Work and The Glory (film) The Work and the Glory is a 2004 historical fiction drama film directed by Russell Holt. It tells the story of the fictional Steed family in the 1820s and their struggles trying to adopt the then new Mormon religion and explores their relationship with their community, with its founder, Joseph Smith and the rest of the Smith family.
The Work and The Glory: American Zion (film) The Work and the Glory: American Zion is the sequel to the 2004 film The Work and The Glory and continues the struggle of the Steed's family's conversion to the then new Mormon religion. The film also explores the family's relationship with their community and its founder, Joseph Smith.
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction is a 1935/1936 essay by German cultural critic Walter Benjamin, which has been influential in the fields of cultural studies and media theory. It was produced, Benjamin wrote, in the effort to describe a theory of art that would be "useful for the formulation of revolutionary demands in the politics of art".
The Workhouse, Southwell [Workhouse, in the town of Southwell], [[Nottinghamshire, England, is a museum operated by the National Trust. It is a typical 19th century workhouse, built in response to the New Poor Law of 1834, and is described by the National Trust as the best-preserved workhouse in England.
The Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring The Arbeter Ring (אַרבעטער־רינג) (Workmen’s Circle) is a Yiddish language-oriented American Jewish fraternal organization loosely connected to the Humanistic Judaism movement. Rooted in the proto-nationalism of Yiddishist and largely socialist Jewish movements of late 19th Century Eastern Europe.
The Works (film) The Works was to be the first entirely 3D computer animated film, created by the Computer Graphics Lab, but it was never completed. The name was inspired by the original meaning of the word "robot", which means "work" in Czech.
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