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Works influenced by Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass have continuously had a large cultural influence since they were published. Even today, Alice and the rest of Wonderland continue to inspire or influence many other works of art—sometimes indirectly; via the Disney movie, for example.
Works Infrastructure Works Infrastructure Limited is a New Zealand engineering and construction company owned by the Australian Downer EDI company. It was acquired from the former New Zealand Ministry of Works (established as the Public Works Department in 1870 and at the time known as 'Works Civil Construction'), when it was corporatized in 1996.
Works of Aleister Crowley Aleister Crowley (1875-1947)—mystic, occultist, and mountaineer—was a highly prolific writer, not only on the topic of Thelema and magick, but on philosophy, politics, and culture. He was also a published poet and playwright and left behind a countless number of personal letters and daily journal entries.
Works of Demosthenes Demosthenes (384–322 BC, Greek: ΔημοĎθÎνης) was a prominent Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens. His orations constitute the last significant expression of Athenian intellectual prowess and provide a thorough insight into the politics and culture of ancient Greece.
Works of John Cage John Milton Cage was a writer, visual artist and American experimental music composer – undeniably one of the most important contemporary composers of the twentieth century. He used instruments in some very unusual ways, and was later one of the earliest composers of aleatoric music – music where some elements are left up to chance.
Works of Love Works of Love (Danish:Kjerlighedens Gjerninger) is a work by Søren Kierkegaard (1847) dealing primarily with Christian love. Kierkegaard uses this value / virtue to understand the existence and relationship of man.
Works of Mercy The Works of Mercy or Acts of Mercy are actions and practices which the Catholic Church considers expectations to be fulfilled by believers. These works, it is believed, express mercy, and are thus expected to be performed by believers insofar as they are able in accordance with the Beatitude, "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy" (Matthew 5:7).
Works Progress Administration The Works Progress Administration (later Work Projects Administration, abbreviated WPA), was created in May 1935 by Presidential order (Congress funded it annually but did not set it up). It was the largest and most comprehensive New Deal agency, employing millions of people and affecting every locality.
Worksheet A worksheet, also referred to as a spreadsheet, is a computerized page allowing the user to manipulate many columns and rows of numbers. The worksheet can contain formulas so that if one number is changed, the entire worksheet is automatically updated, based on those formulas.
WorksheetMaker WorksheetMaker was a series of applications written by Jim Waller, an American public middle school teacher, for the purpose of producing math worksheets. Over the program's nearly twenty-year history, the unique problem generation routines were ported from one platform and language to another as technology continued to develop.
Workshop A workshop is a room or building which provides both the area and tools (or machinery) that may be required for the manufacture or repair of manufactured goods. Apart from the larger factories, workshops were the only places of production in the days before industrialisation.
Workshop of the Telescopes (2-disc set) Workshop of the Telescopes is a 2-cd pack released by Sony Music/Columbia Entertainment in 1995. It is a compilation album of material before Imaginos, with some of the material being either previously issued as promo only versions (shown below by (*)) and some of the tracks first appeared on CD with this album (shown below by(+)).
Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas The Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) is an annual linguistics conference, which started in 1995. The central objective of WSCLA is to bring together linguists who are engaged in research on the formal study of the Aboriginal languages of the Americas in order to exchange ideas across theories, language families, generations of scholars, and across the academic and non-academic communities who are involved in language maintenance and revitalization.
Workshop production Workshop production is a term used to describe the first performance of a theatre production, similar to the term premiere, the difference being that a workshop production often pays less for the rights to perform the play, in exchange for losing the right to call its performance a premiere. This is done to allow the next theatre group that performs the play to call its production the premiere, giving the theatre better press.
WorkshopLive WorkshopLive is an online music education company based in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA. The brain-child of its CEO, David Smolover, WorkshopLive launched its web site in December of 2005 with five-hundred guitar lessons in various genres.
Worksop Worksop is a town in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, England on the River Ryton at the northern edge of Sherwood Forest. It is about 19 miles ESE of the City of Sheffield and its population is estimated (mid-2004) to be 39,800.
Worksop College Worksop College is a co-educational day and boarding school for those aged 13 to 18 and is one of the select public schools in England. Worksop is split into seven houses - Talbot House, Mason House, Portland House and Pelham House for boys, Gibbs House and Derry House for girls and Shirley House which is co-educational.
Worksop Town F.C. Worksop Town Football Club are a semi-professional English football club from Worksop, Nottinghamshire who currently play in the Conference North. The club have been based at their current ground, Sandy Lane, since 1992.
Workspace Whiz Workspace Whiz (WWhiz) is a Microsoft Visual Studio add-in by Joshua Jensen. Workspace Whiz significantly extends the functionality of Visual Studio with a number of features that aid in application development.
Workstation A workstation, such as a Unix workstation, RISC workstation or engineering workstation, is a high-end desktop or deskside microcomputer designed for technical applications. Workstations are intended primarily to be used by one person at a time, although they can usually also be accessed remotely by other users when necessary.
Workweek The legal workweek varies from nation to nation, and its definition is usually heavily influenced by the predominant religion of the country, or by colonial history. Most countries in Europe, the Americas, and East Asia have a business week defined as Monday through Friday.
World The World is a name for the planet Earth seen from a human point of view, as a place inhabited by human beings. It is often used to mean the sum of human experience and history, or the 'human condition' in general.
World (band) World is an experimental, psychedelic rock duo that features Yume Bitsu's Adam Forkner and Honey Owens (of Nudge and Jackie-O Motherfucker). Their music is influenced by various flavours of folk music from across the globe.
World (philosophy) The world is, in a philosophical sense, everything that makes up reality; similar to the layman's definition of the world or the universe. Although the very concept of world is debatable for some adherents to philosophical worldviews such as followers of solipsism, the vast majority of people agree that we are experiencing an external world of which we form a part.
World aeronautical chart A World Aeronautical Chart (WAC) is a type of aeronautical chart used for navigation by pilots flying primarily moderate speed aircraft under visual flight rules. They are produced at a scale of 1:1,000,000 (1 inch = 13.
World and Time Enough World and Time Enough is a 1994 independent gay-themed romantic comedy-drama. Written and directed by Eric Mueller and filmed on location in Edina and Minneapolis, Minnesota, the film stars Gregory Giles, Matt Guidry and Kraig Swartz.
World at Your Feet "World at Your Feet" is a song by British rock band Embrace, and is featured on the re-released version of album, This New Day. It is also the official song of the England World Cup squad in the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and was released on 5 June 2006 (see 2006 in British music).
World Academy of Art & Science The World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS) is a non-official international network of individual fellows elected for eminence in the natural and social sciences, arts and humanities. The activities of the Academy focus on the social consequences and policy implications of knowledge.
World Administrative Radio Conference The World administrative radio conference was a technical conference of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) where delegates from member nations of the ITU met to revise or amend the entire international Radio Regulations pertaining to all telecommunication services throughout the world. The conference was held in Geneva, Switzerland, with preparatory conferences held in Panama City, Panama.
World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth The World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth is a non-profit, non-partisan international affairs organization based in Dallas, Texas. It was formed by the 2006 unification of the World Affairs Councils of Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, which were founded in 1951 and 1961, respectively.
World Affairs Council of Northern California The World Affairs Council of Northern California is an international-affairs organization based in San Francisco, and is the largest such organization on the West Coast. It was founded in 1947, out of the interest generated by the founding of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945.
World Affairs Program The World Affairs Program is a student program at Florida State University (FSU) that focuses on learning and teaching about international diplomacy, politics, history and current affairs through debate. The program was founded by Robert D.
World Agroforestry Centre The World Agroforestry Centre (formerly known as the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, ICRAF), is an international institute headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. The Centre specializes in the sustainable management, protection and regulation of tropical rainforest and natural reserves.
World Agudath Israel World Agudath Israel (The World Israeli Union) was established in the early twentieth century as the political arm of Ashkenazi Torah Judaism. Its base was in Eastern Europe where the Torah and it's principles were strong before the Second World War and was undergoing a revivial due to the Hasidic movement.
World Airways Flight 30 World Airways Flight 30 was a DC-10 airplane flying from Newark International Airport to Boston Logan International Airport (KBOS) in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 23, 1982. The plane crashed into shallow water at the end of Logan runway 15R following a landing too far down the runway (2800 feet past the threshold).
World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) is a network of people working on a global scale to eliminate obstacles to breastfeeding and to act on the Innocenti Declaration. The groups within this alliance tackle the problems from a variety of perspectives or point of views, such as consumer advocates, mothers, and lactation consultants.
World Allround Speed Skating Championships The World Allround Speed Skating Championships are a series of speed skating events held annually to determine the best allround speed skater of the world. The International Skating Union has organised the World Allround Championships for Men since 1893 (unofficial Championships were held in the years 1889-1892) and the World Allround Championships for Women since 1936 (unofficial Championships were held in the years 1933-1935).
World Almanac The World Almanac and Book of Facts is a well-known American published reference work which conveys information to the general public about such subjects as world changes, tragedies, sports feats, etc. The almanac can be found in homes, libraries, schools, businesses, and media outlets throughout the United States and to a more limited degree in other parts of the world.
World Amateur Boxing Championships The World Amateur Boxing Championships is the highest competition for boxing amateurs, organised by world's governing body AIBA, which stands for the Association International de Boxe Amateur. The first edition of the tournament took place in Havana, Cuba, from August 17 to 30, 1974.
World Amateur Golf Ranking The World Amateur Golf Ranking for men was introduced by the R&A, the governing body of amateur golf outside the United States and Mexico, on 23 January 2007. It is based on the results of 450 amateur tournaments and is updated weekly.
World Amateur Poker Tour The World Amateur Poker Tour is where amateur poker players can play Texas Hold'em Poker against opponents from all over the world in a competitive, organized environment with the best amateur poker players in the world. Tour Members can establish their amateur world ranking on the World Ranking Point System™, compete for Amateur Player of the Year, play for their country's national team.
World Anti-Communist League The World Anti-Communist League (WACL) (now known as the World League for Freedom and Democracy) is an international right-wing political organization founded in 1966 in Taipei, Taiwan, under the initiative of Chiang Kai-Shek. It was founded with the aim of opposing Communism around the world through "unconventional" methods.
World Anti-Doping Agency The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is an independent foundation created through a collective initiative led by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It was set up on November 10, 1999 in Lausanne, Switzerland to coordinate the fight against drugs in sport.
World Area Forecast Center A World Area Forecast Center (WAFC) is a meteorological center that provides real-time meteorological information broadcasts for aviation purposes. These broadcasts are supervised by ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organisation) in order to fulfill requirements of the ICAO Annex 3 covering meteorological information which is necessary for flights.
World Assembly of Muslim Youth The World Assembly of Muslim Youth is an Islamic organization whose stated purpose is to establish a platform where Muslim youth can get together in an Islamic environment. In addition to Football Tournaments WAMY organizes European Muslim Scouts camps for Muslim youth in Europe.
World Association of Belarusians The World Association of Belarusians "BaćkaĹščyna" (Batskaushchyna, or "Fatherland") (Belarusian: Đ—ĐłŃртаваньне БеларŃŃĐ°Ńž ĐˇŃŚĐ˛ĐµŃ‚Ń "БацькаўŃчына" ) is an international organisation uniting people of Belarusian descent globally. Currently 135 organisations from 28 countries are members of BaćkaĹščyna.
World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (French: Association Mondiale Des Radiodiffuseurs Communautaires, AMARC) is the international umbrella organization of community radio broadcasters founded in 1983, with nearly 3,000 members in 110 countries.
World Association of Copepodologists The World Association of Copepodologists (WAC) is a non-profit organization created to promote research on copepods by facilitating communication among interested specialists.Introduction to Website of the World Association of Copepodologists
World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts is a global association supporting the female-oriented and female-only Scouting organizations in 144 countries. It was established in 1928 and has its headquarters in London, England.
World Association of Newspapers The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization made up of 72 national newspaper associations, 13 news agencies, nine regional press organisations and individual newspaper executives in 100 countries.
World Association of Newspapers' Golden Pen of Freedom Award The Golden Pen of Freedom Award is a prestigious International Journalism award, given annually by the World Association of Newspapers to individuals or organisations that have made an outstanding contribution to the defence and promotion of press freedom.
World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists The World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC) is a scholarly association founded in 1982 "in order to encourage the development and application of theoretical methods" in chemistry, particularly quantum chemistry and computational chemistry. It was originally called the World Association of Theoretical Organic Chemists, but was later renamed the World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists, and then renamed once more to the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists.
World Association of Universities and Colleges The World Association of Universities and Colleges, WAUC, is an institutional accrediting body not recognized by the United States Department of Education. It is run by Maxine Asher, director of the American World University, an unaccredited school.
World Association of Zoos and Aquariums The World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) is the "umbrella" organisation for the world zoo and aquarium community. Members of WAZA include leading zoos and aquariums, regional and national Associations of Zoos and Aquariums, and some affiliate organisations, such as zoo veterinarians or zoo educators, from all around the world.
World Asthma Day World Asthma Day is designed to increase awareness of asthma as a global health problem. In Dallas, they are showcasing DAC’s effort to unite the Dallas medical community to solve the problem of asthma and its impact on children and adults in the city.
World Athletic Association Pat O'Grady, a Maverick's boxing promoter, formed the World Athletic Association in Oklahoma, after the World Boxing Association withdrew recognition as world lightweight champion from his son, Sean O'Grady, in July 1981.
World Award The World Awards were founded by writer Georg Kindel; Mikhail Gorbachev is their president. An international jury selects extraordinary individuals for their achievements in a variety of areas such as acting, arts, business, media, health and others.
World Bank Building, Asmara The World Bank Building of Asmara, Eritrea is a large old Italian villa which was bought by the world bank to house its headquarters in that country. It is an impressive mixture of Futurist and Art Deco architectural styles.
World Bank Group The World Bank Group is a group of five international organizations responsible for providing finance and advice to countries for the purposes of economic development and eliminating poverty. The Bank came into formal existence on 27 December 1945 following international ratification of the Bretton Woods agreements, where the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference that led to their establishment took place (1 July-22 July 1944).
World Baseball Classic The World Baseball Classic, sometimes abbreviated WBC, is an international baseball tournament, first held in March 2006. It is sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation and created by Major League Baseball, the Major League Baseball Players Association, and other professional baseball leagues and their players associations around the world.
World Basketball League World Basketball League or WBL was a minor professional basketball league in the United States and Canada. It was founded as the International Basketball Association in November, 1987, before changing its name prior to the 1988 season.
World Blackjack Tour The World Blackjack Tour is an original GSN program that premiered September 4, 2006. Broadcast from the Las Vegas Hilton, five players representing five different nations play 21 hands of blackjack for a first prize of $10,000.
World Board Established in 1927, the World Board originally World Committee is a governing board for the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS). Today, it is made up of seventeen active members of WAGGGS, all of whom are elected democratically by all member organizations at the World Conference.
World Book and Copyright Day World Book and Copyright Day (also known as International Day of the Book or World Book Day) is a yearly event on 23 April, organised by UNESCO to promote reading, publishing and the protection of intellectual property through copyright. The Day was first celebrated in 1995.
World Book Dictionary The World Book Dictionary is a two volume English dictionary published as a supplement to the World Book Encyclopedia. It was originally published in 1963 under the editorship of Clarence Barnhart, who wrote definitions for the Thorndike-Barnhart graded dictionary series for children.
World Botanical Gardens World Botanical Gardens and Umauma Falls are commercial botanical gardens with a large waterfall, located in Umauma, 1/2 mile off Highway 19 (near mile marker 16), north of Hilo, Hawaii (island), Hawaii. The gardens are open daily with an admission fee.
World Bowl II World Bowl '92 (or World Bowl II) was the WLAF's second championship game. It was played at Olympic Stadium on June 6, 1992 in Montreal, Quebec and the match-up pitted the 8-2 Sacramento Surge against the 8-2 Orlando Thunder.
World Bowl III World Bowl '95 (or World Bowl III) was the World League's third World Bowl and the first World Bowl that was played, ever since the league suspended operations in 1993. The game was played at Olympisch Stadion in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on June 17, 1995.
World Bowl IV World Bowl '96 (or World Bowl IV), the championship game of American football's WLAF, took place at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland on June 23 1996. The 7-3 Scottish Claymores defeated the 7-3 Frankfurt Galaxy (the defending champions) 32-27 and, led by head coach Jim Criner, completed the league's first ever worst to first turnaround.
World Bowl VI World Bowl '98 (or World Bowl VI) was NFL Europe's 1998 championship game, located at Waldstadion in Frankfurt, Germany. On June 14, 1998, the 7-3 Rhein Fire went up against the 7-3 Frankfurt Galaxy for the NFL Europe title.
World Bowl VIII World Bowl 2000 (or World Bowl VIII) was NFL Europe's championship game, which would bring an end to the 2000 NFL Europe season. Played at Waldstadion in Frankfurt, Germany on June 25, 2000, the match-up was between the 6-4 Scottish Claymores and the 7-3 Rhein Fire.
World Boxing Council The World Boxing Council was initially created by 12 countries: the United States, Argentina, United Kingdom, France, Mexico, Philippines, Panama, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, Puerto Rico and Brazil met in Mexico City on February 14, 1963, upon invitation of the then President of the Mexican Republic, Adolfo LĂłpez Mateos, to create an international boxing organization that would achieve the unity of all commissions of the world to control the expansion of boxing.
World Boxing Empire The World Boxing Empire (WBE) is a lightly regarded boxing sanctioning body founded in 2001, then under the name World Boxing Syndicate (WBS). Its inaugural title fight took place in Annandale, VA, USA on March 09, 2002, between Mitch Green 19-6-1 (12ko's) and trailhorse Danny Wofford 17-101-2 (10ko's).
World Boxing Hall of Fame The modern World Boxing Hall of Fame (WBHF) is located in Riverside, California, United States, in Southern California. The WBHF is one of two recognized international boxing hall of fames, with the other being the International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF), with the IBHOF being the more widely recognized boxing hall of fame.
World Boxing Union The World Boxing Union (WBU) is a lightly regarded boxing sanctioning body whose "world champions" often lack widespread recognition. WBU titles are often a stepping-stone for fighters who progress to more prestigious titles.
World Bridge Federation World Bridge Federation (WBF) is the governing body of world contract bridge. Under WBF jurisdiction are organizations of world championships, most important being Bermuda Bowl – open teams championships, Venice Cup – women team championships, and World Bridge Olympiads.
World Bridge Championships The World Bridge Championships is an open competition organised every four years by the World Bridge Federation. The World Bridge Championships were initiated in 1962, under the name World Pair Olympiad which comprised the World Open Pairs Championship, the World Women Pairs Championships, as well as the World Mixed Teams Championship.
World Brotherhood Colonies World Brotherhood Colonies are an idea for cooperative spiritual living promoted by Paramahansa Yogananda, the Hindu yogi and author of Autobiography of a Yogi. Beginning in 1932 (long before the intentional community movement of the late 1960's), and continuing to the end of his life in 1952, Yogananda urged young people in the U.
World Buddhist Sangha Council The World Buddhist Sangha Council (WBSC) is an international non-government organisation (NGO) whose objectives are to develop the exchanges of the Buddhist religious and monastic communities of the different traditions worldwide, and help to carry out activities for the transmission of Buddhism. It was founded in Colombo, Sri Lanka in May 1966.
World Builder World Builder is an authoring system for point-and-click adventure games, probably the first of its kind. It was released in 1986 by Silicon Beach Software and had already been used for creating Enchanted Scepters in 1984.
World Burns To Death World Burns to Death are a hardcore punk band from Austin, Texas. Formed in 2000, the current lineup (as of June, 2006) consists of: Jack Control, vocals; Zac Tew, guitar; Craig Merritt, bass; and Jon Guerinot, drums.
World Business Council for Sustainable Development The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) brings together some 180 international companies in a shared commitment to sustainable development through economic growth, ecological balance and social progress.
World Business Dialogue The World Business Dialogue connects students from all five continents with leading personalities from business, sciences and politics. The event is organized by the volunteer student initiative "Organisationsforum Wirtschaftskongress" (OFW).
World Business Review World Business Review is an American television news magazine that airs on both CNBC and Bravo as "paid programming" in the United States. It was hosted for six years by Alexander Haig, and is now hosted by Norman Schwarzkopf.
World cinema World cinema is a term used primarily in the West to refer to the films and film industries of non-English language speaking countries (those outside of the Anglosphere). It is therefore often used interchangeably with the term Foreign film.
World citizen World citizen is a term with a variety of meanings, often referring to a person who disapproves of traditional geopolitical divisions derived from national citizenship and approves world government and democracy.
World class standards World class standards refers to the level of achievement, mainly in math and science, attained by students in the four countries that make up the East Asian Tigers; South Korea, Singapore, Japan, and Taiwan, as well as in Europe. There is no published standard, so this is just a concept and object of debate in the US.
World climate research programme The World Climate Resarch Programme (WCRP) was established in 1980, under the joint sponsorship of International Council for Science and the World Meteorological Organization and also been sponsored by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO since 1993. The objectives of the programme are to develop the fundamental scientific understanding of the physical climate system and climate processes needed to determine to what extent climate can be predicted and the extent of human influence on climate.
World community The term is used primarily in political and humanitarian contexts to describe an international aggregate of nation states of widely varying types. In most connotations, the term is used to convey meanings attached to consensus or inclusion of all people in all lands and their governments.
World cup A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities - usually national teams or individuals representing their nation - compete for the title of world champion. A world cup is generally considered the premier competition in its sport, with the victor attaining the highest honour in that sport and able to lay claim to the title of their sport's best.
World currency In the foreign exchange market and international finance, a world currency or global currency refers to a currency in which the vast majority of international transactions take place and which serves as the world's primary reserve currency.
World Cafe World Cafe is a two-hour long nationally syndicated music radio program that originates from WXPN, a non-commercial station on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. It began in 1991 and was originally distributed by Public Radio International.
World Camp World Camp is a 501(c)(3) non-profit volunteer organization in the United States and a registered Non-governmental organization (NGO) in the country of Malawi. World Camp was founded in 2000 by students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), and continues to be led, funded, managed, and operated by young adults.
World Car of the Year The World Car of the Year is an automobile award selected by a jury of 48 international automotive journalists. Cars considered must be sold in at least five countries on at least two continents prior to January 1 of the year of the award.
World Carrot Museum The World Carrot Museum is a virtual museum that attempts to collect and present information on all aspects of carrots. The museum does not currently have a brick and mortar existence but operates only as a website.
World Carshare The World CarShare Consortium is an open, cooperative, independent, international forum supporting carsharing projects, programs and planning, world wide. Since 1997 it offers a convenient place on the web to gather and share information and independent views on projects and approaches, past, present and planned future, freely and easily available to all comers.
World Center for Birds of Prey The World Center for Birds of Prey, located in Boise Idaho, is known through out the globe for its conservation and recovery efforts of several rare and endangered species. Thanks largely to their efforts and skilled staff the Peregrine falcon now has a fighting chance at survival and is one of only a small handful of species that have been removed from the Endangered Species list.
World Cinema: Diary of a Day World Cinema: Diary of a Day is a collection of journals from filmmakers around the world. It includes entries from filmmakers as famous as Terry Gilliam to accomplished but little-known independents, such as Jurgen Vsych.
World Class Heavyweight Championship The World Class Heavyweight Championship was the major title in World Class Championship Wrestling. It started out as the NWA American Heavyweight Championship and was also called the WCCW American Heavyweight Championship.
World Class Championship Wrestling World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW), also called the World Class Wrestling Association (WCWA), was a popular regional professional wrestling promotion run out of Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. Originally owned by promoter Ed McLemore, by 1966 it was run by Southwest Sports, Inc.
Works Infrastructure Works Infrastructure Limited is a New Zealand engineering and construction company owned by the Australian Downer EDI company. It was acquired from the former New Zealand Ministry of Works (established as the Public Works Department in 1870 and at the time known as 'Works Civil Construction'), when it was corporatized in 1996.
Works of Aleister Crowley Aleister Crowley (1875-1947)—mystic, occultist, and mountaineer—was a highly prolific writer, not only on the topic of Thelema and magick, but on philosophy, politics, and culture. He was also a published poet and playwright and left behind a countless number of personal letters and daily journal entries.
Works of Demosthenes Demosthenes (384–322 BC, Greek: ΔημοĎθÎνης) was a prominent Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens. His orations constitute the last significant expression of Athenian intellectual prowess and provide a thorough insight into the politics and culture of ancient Greece.
Works of John Cage John Milton Cage was a writer, visual artist and American experimental music composer – undeniably one of the most important contemporary composers of the twentieth century. He used instruments in some very unusual ways, and was later one of the earliest composers of aleatoric music – music where some elements are left up to chance.
Works of Love Works of Love (Danish:Kjerlighedens Gjerninger) is a work by Søren Kierkegaard (1847) dealing primarily with Christian love. Kierkegaard uses this value / virtue to understand the existence and relationship of man.
Works of Mercy The Works of Mercy or Acts of Mercy are actions and practices which the Catholic Church considers expectations to be fulfilled by believers. These works, it is believed, express mercy, and are thus expected to be performed by believers insofar as they are able in accordance with the Beatitude, "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy" (Matthew 5:7).
Works Progress Administration The Works Progress Administration (later Work Projects Administration, abbreviated WPA), was created in May 1935 by Presidential order (Congress funded it annually but did not set it up). It was the largest and most comprehensive New Deal agency, employing millions of people and affecting every locality.
Worksheet A worksheet, also referred to as a spreadsheet, is a computerized page allowing the user to manipulate many columns and rows of numbers. The worksheet can contain formulas so that if one number is changed, the entire worksheet is automatically updated, based on those formulas.
WorksheetMaker WorksheetMaker was a series of applications written by Jim Waller, an American public middle school teacher, for the purpose of producing math worksheets. Over the program's nearly twenty-year history, the unique problem generation routines were ported from one platform and language to another as technology continued to develop.
Workshop A workshop is a room or building which provides both the area and tools (or machinery) that may be required for the manufacture or repair of manufactured goods. Apart from the larger factories, workshops were the only places of production in the days before industrialisation.
Workshop of the Telescopes (2-disc set) Workshop of the Telescopes is a 2-cd pack released by Sony Music/Columbia Entertainment in 1995. It is a compilation album of material before Imaginos, with some of the material being either previously issued as promo only versions (shown below by (*)) and some of the tracks first appeared on CD with this album (shown below by(+)).
Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas The Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) is an annual linguistics conference, which started in 1995. The central objective of WSCLA is to bring together linguists who are engaged in research on the formal study of the Aboriginal languages of the Americas in order to exchange ideas across theories, language families, generations of scholars, and across the academic and non-academic communities who are involved in language maintenance and revitalization.
Workshop production Workshop production is a term used to describe the first performance of a theatre production, similar to the term premiere, the difference being that a workshop production often pays less for the rights to perform the play, in exchange for losing the right to call its performance a premiere. This is done to allow the next theatre group that performs the play to call its production the premiere, giving the theatre better press.
WorkshopLive WorkshopLive is an online music education company based in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA. The brain-child of its CEO, David Smolover, WorkshopLive launched its web site in December of 2005 with five-hundred guitar lessons in various genres.
Worksop Worksop is a town in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, England on the River Ryton at the northern edge of Sherwood Forest. It is about 19 miles ESE of the City of Sheffield and its population is estimated (mid-2004) to be 39,800.
Worksop College Worksop College is a co-educational day and boarding school for those aged 13 to 18 and is one of the select public schools in England. Worksop is split into seven houses - Talbot House, Mason House, Portland House and Pelham House for boys, Gibbs House and Derry House for girls and Shirley House which is co-educational.
Worksop Town F.C. Worksop Town Football Club are a semi-professional English football club from Worksop, Nottinghamshire who currently play in the Conference North. The club have been based at their current ground, Sandy Lane, since 1992.
Workspace Whiz Workspace Whiz (WWhiz) is a Microsoft Visual Studio add-in by Joshua Jensen. Workspace Whiz significantly extends the functionality of Visual Studio with a number of features that aid in application development.
Workstation A workstation, such as a Unix workstation, RISC workstation or engineering workstation, is a high-end desktop or deskside microcomputer designed for technical applications. Workstations are intended primarily to be used by one person at a time, although they can usually also be accessed remotely by other users when necessary.
Workweek The legal workweek varies from nation to nation, and its definition is usually heavily influenced by the predominant religion of the country, or by colonial history. Most countries in Europe, the Americas, and East Asia have a business week defined as Monday through Friday.
World The World is a name for the planet Earth seen from a human point of view, as a place inhabited by human beings. It is often used to mean the sum of human experience and history, or the 'human condition' in general.
World (band) World is an experimental, psychedelic rock duo that features Yume Bitsu's Adam Forkner and Honey Owens (of Nudge and Jackie-O Motherfucker). Their music is influenced by various flavours of folk music from across the globe.
World (philosophy) The world is, in a philosophical sense, everything that makes up reality; similar to the layman's definition of the world or the universe. Although the very concept of world is debatable for some adherents to philosophical worldviews such as followers of solipsism, the vast majority of people agree that we are experiencing an external world of which we form a part.
World aeronautical chart A World Aeronautical Chart (WAC) is a type of aeronautical chart used for navigation by pilots flying primarily moderate speed aircraft under visual flight rules. They are produced at a scale of 1:1,000,000 (1 inch = 13.
World and Time Enough World and Time Enough is a 1994 independent gay-themed romantic comedy-drama. Written and directed by Eric Mueller and filmed on location in Edina and Minneapolis, Minnesota, the film stars Gregory Giles, Matt Guidry and Kraig Swartz.
World at Your Feet "World at Your Feet" is a song by British rock band Embrace, and is featured on the re-released version of album, This New Day. It is also the official song of the England World Cup squad in the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and was released on 5 June 2006 (see 2006 in British music).
World Academy of Art & Science The World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS) is a non-official international network of individual fellows elected for eminence in the natural and social sciences, arts and humanities. The activities of the Academy focus on the social consequences and policy implications of knowledge.
World Administrative Radio Conference The World administrative radio conference was a technical conference of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) where delegates from member nations of the ITU met to revise or amend the entire international Radio Regulations pertaining to all telecommunication services throughout the world. The conference was held in Geneva, Switzerland, with preparatory conferences held in Panama City, Panama.
World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth The World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth is a non-profit, non-partisan international affairs organization based in Dallas, Texas. It was formed by the 2006 unification of the World Affairs Councils of Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, which were founded in 1951 and 1961, respectively.
World Affairs Council of Northern California The World Affairs Council of Northern California is an international-affairs organization based in San Francisco, and is the largest such organization on the West Coast. It was founded in 1947, out of the interest generated by the founding of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945.
World Affairs Program The World Affairs Program is a student program at Florida State University (FSU) that focuses on learning and teaching about international diplomacy, politics, history and current affairs through debate. The program was founded by Robert D.
World Agroforestry Centre The World Agroforestry Centre (formerly known as the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, ICRAF), is an international institute headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. The Centre specializes in the sustainable management, protection and regulation of tropical rainforest and natural reserves.
World Agudath Israel World Agudath Israel (The World Israeli Union) was established in the early twentieth century as the political arm of Ashkenazi Torah Judaism. Its base was in Eastern Europe where the Torah and it's principles were strong before the Second World War and was undergoing a revivial due to the Hasidic movement.
World Airways Flight 30 World Airways Flight 30 was a DC-10 airplane flying from Newark International Airport to Boston Logan International Airport (KBOS) in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 23, 1982. The plane crashed into shallow water at the end of Logan runway 15R following a landing too far down the runway (2800 feet past the threshold).
World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) is a network of people working on a global scale to eliminate obstacles to breastfeeding and to act on the Innocenti Declaration. The groups within this alliance tackle the problems from a variety of perspectives or point of views, such as consumer advocates, mothers, and lactation consultants.
World Allround Speed Skating Championships The World Allround Speed Skating Championships are a series of speed skating events held annually to determine the best allround speed skater of the world. The International Skating Union has organised the World Allround Championships for Men since 1893 (unofficial Championships were held in the years 1889-1892) and the World Allround Championships for Women since 1936 (unofficial Championships were held in the years 1933-1935).
World Almanac The World Almanac and Book of Facts is a well-known American published reference work which conveys information to the general public about such subjects as world changes, tragedies, sports feats, etc. The almanac can be found in homes, libraries, schools, businesses, and media outlets throughout the United States and to a more limited degree in other parts of the world.
World Amateur Boxing Championships The World Amateur Boxing Championships is the highest competition for boxing amateurs, organised by world's governing body AIBA, which stands for the Association International de Boxe Amateur. The first edition of the tournament took place in Havana, Cuba, from August 17 to 30, 1974.
World Amateur Golf Ranking The World Amateur Golf Ranking for men was introduced by the R&A, the governing body of amateur golf outside the United States and Mexico, on 23 January 2007. It is based on the results of 450 amateur tournaments and is updated weekly.
World Amateur Poker Tour The World Amateur Poker Tour is where amateur poker players can play Texas Hold'em Poker against opponents from all over the world in a competitive, organized environment with the best amateur poker players in the world. Tour Members can establish their amateur world ranking on the World Ranking Point System™, compete for Amateur Player of the Year, play for their country's national team.
World Anti-Communist League The World Anti-Communist League (WACL) (now known as the World League for Freedom and Democracy) is an international right-wing political organization founded in 1966 in Taipei, Taiwan, under the initiative of Chiang Kai-Shek. It was founded with the aim of opposing Communism around the world through "unconventional" methods.
World Anti-Doping Agency The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is an independent foundation created through a collective initiative led by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It was set up on November 10, 1999 in Lausanne, Switzerland to coordinate the fight against drugs in sport.
World Area Forecast Center A World Area Forecast Center (WAFC) is a meteorological center that provides real-time meteorological information broadcasts for aviation purposes. These broadcasts are supervised by ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organisation) in order to fulfill requirements of the ICAO Annex 3 covering meteorological information which is necessary for flights.
World Assembly of Muslim Youth The World Assembly of Muslim Youth is an Islamic organization whose stated purpose is to establish a platform where Muslim youth can get together in an Islamic environment. In addition to Football Tournaments WAMY organizes European Muslim Scouts camps for Muslim youth in Europe.
World Association of Belarusians The World Association of Belarusians "BaćkaĹščyna" (Batskaushchyna, or "Fatherland") (Belarusian: Đ—ĐłŃртаваньне БеларŃŃĐ°Ńž ĐˇŃŚĐ˛ĐµŃ‚Ń "БацькаўŃчына" ) is an international organisation uniting people of Belarusian descent globally. Currently 135 organisations from 28 countries are members of BaćkaĹščyna.
World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (French: Association Mondiale Des Radiodiffuseurs Communautaires, AMARC) is the international umbrella organization of community radio broadcasters founded in 1983, with nearly 3,000 members in 110 countries.
World Association of Copepodologists The World Association of Copepodologists (WAC) is a non-profit organization created to promote research on copepods by facilitating communication among interested specialists.Introduction to Website of the World Association of Copepodologists
World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts is a global association supporting the female-oriented and female-only Scouting organizations in 144 countries. It was established in 1928 and has its headquarters in London, England.
World Association of Newspapers The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization made up of 72 national newspaper associations, 13 news agencies, nine regional press organisations and individual newspaper executives in 100 countries.
World Association of Newspapers' Golden Pen of Freedom Award The Golden Pen of Freedom Award is a prestigious International Journalism award, given annually by the World Association of Newspapers to individuals or organisations that have made an outstanding contribution to the defence and promotion of press freedom.
World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists The World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC) is a scholarly association founded in 1982 "in order to encourage the development and application of theoretical methods" in chemistry, particularly quantum chemistry and computational chemistry. It was originally called the World Association of Theoretical Organic Chemists, but was later renamed the World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists, and then renamed once more to the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists.
World Association of Universities and Colleges The World Association of Universities and Colleges, WAUC, is an institutional accrediting body not recognized by the United States Department of Education. It is run by Maxine Asher, director of the American World University, an unaccredited school.
World Association of Zoos and Aquariums The World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) is the "umbrella" organisation for the world zoo and aquarium community. Members of WAZA include leading zoos and aquariums, regional and national Associations of Zoos and Aquariums, and some affiliate organisations, such as zoo veterinarians or zoo educators, from all around the world.
World Asthma Day World Asthma Day is designed to increase awareness of asthma as a global health problem. In Dallas, they are showcasing DAC’s effort to unite the Dallas medical community to solve the problem of asthma and its impact on children and adults in the city.
World Athletic Association Pat O'Grady, a Maverick's boxing promoter, formed the World Athletic Association in Oklahoma, after the World Boxing Association withdrew recognition as world lightweight champion from his son, Sean O'Grady, in July 1981.
World Award The World Awards were founded by writer Georg Kindel; Mikhail Gorbachev is their president. An international jury selects extraordinary individuals for their achievements in a variety of areas such as acting, arts, business, media, health and others.
World Bank Building, Asmara The World Bank Building of Asmara, Eritrea is a large old Italian villa which was bought by the world bank to house its headquarters in that country. It is an impressive mixture of Futurist and Art Deco architectural styles.
World Bank Group The World Bank Group is a group of five international organizations responsible for providing finance and advice to countries for the purposes of economic development and eliminating poverty. The Bank came into formal existence on 27 December 1945 following international ratification of the Bretton Woods agreements, where the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference that led to their establishment took place (1 July-22 July 1944).
World Baseball Classic The World Baseball Classic, sometimes abbreviated WBC, is an international baseball tournament, first held in March 2006. It is sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation and created by Major League Baseball, the Major League Baseball Players Association, and other professional baseball leagues and their players associations around the world.
World Basketball League World Basketball League or WBL was a minor professional basketball league in the United States and Canada. It was founded as the International Basketball Association in November, 1987, before changing its name prior to the 1988 season.
World Blackjack Tour The World Blackjack Tour is an original GSN program that premiered September 4, 2006. Broadcast from the Las Vegas Hilton, five players representing five different nations play 21 hands of blackjack for a first prize of $10,000.
World Board Established in 1927, the World Board originally World Committee is a governing board for the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS). Today, it is made up of seventeen active members of WAGGGS, all of whom are elected democratically by all member organizations at the World Conference.
World Book and Copyright Day World Book and Copyright Day (also known as International Day of the Book or World Book Day) is a yearly event on 23 April, organised by UNESCO to promote reading, publishing and the protection of intellectual property through copyright. The Day was first celebrated in 1995.
World Book Dictionary The World Book Dictionary is a two volume English dictionary published as a supplement to the World Book Encyclopedia. It was originally published in 1963 under the editorship of Clarence Barnhart, who wrote definitions for the Thorndike-Barnhart graded dictionary series for children.
World Botanical Gardens World Botanical Gardens and Umauma Falls are commercial botanical gardens with a large waterfall, located in Umauma, 1/2 mile off Highway 19 (near mile marker 16), north of Hilo, Hawaii (island), Hawaii. The gardens are open daily with an admission fee.
World Bowl II World Bowl '92 (or World Bowl II) was the WLAF's second championship game. It was played at Olympic Stadium on June 6, 1992 in Montreal, Quebec and the match-up pitted the 8-2 Sacramento Surge against the 8-2 Orlando Thunder.
World Bowl III World Bowl '95 (or World Bowl III) was the World League's third World Bowl and the first World Bowl that was played, ever since the league suspended operations in 1993. The game was played at Olympisch Stadion in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on June 17, 1995.
World Bowl IV World Bowl '96 (or World Bowl IV), the championship game of American football's WLAF, took place at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland on June 23 1996. The 7-3 Scottish Claymores defeated the 7-3 Frankfurt Galaxy (the defending champions) 32-27 and, led by head coach Jim Criner, completed the league's first ever worst to first turnaround.
World Bowl VI World Bowl '98 (or World Bowl VI) was NFL Europe's 1998 championship game, located at Waldstadion in Frankfurt, Germany. On June 14, 1998, the 7-3 Rhein Fire went up against the 7-3 Frankfurt Galaxy for the NFL Europe title.
World Bowl VIII World Bowl 2000 (or World Bowl VIII) was NFL Europe's championship game, which would bring an end to the 2000 NFL Europe season. Played at Waldstadion in Frankfurt, Germany on June 25, 2000, the match-up was between the 6-4 Scottish Claymores and the 7-3 Rhein Fire.
World Boxing Council The World Boxing Council was initially created by 12 countries: the United States, Argentina, United Kingdom, France, Mexico, Philippines, Panama, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, Puerto Rico and Brazil met in Mexico City on February 14, 1963, upon invitation of the then President of the Mexican Republic, Adolfo LĂłpez Mateos, to create an international boxing organization that would achieve the unity of all commissions of the world to control the expansion of boxing.
World Boxing Empire The World Boxing Empire (WBE) is a lightly regarded boxing sanctioning body founded in 2001, then under the name World Boxing Syndicate (WBS). Its inaugural title fight took place in Annandale, VA, USA on March 09, 2002, between Mitch Green 19-6-1 (12ko's) and trailhorse Danny Wofford 17-101-2 (10ko's).
World Boxing Hall of Fame The modern World Boxing Hall of Fame (WBHF) is located in Riverside, California, United States, in Southern California. The WBHF is one of two recognized international boxing hall of fames, with the other being the International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF), with the IBHOF being the more widely recognized boxing hall of fame.
World Boxing Union The World Boxing Union (WBU) is a lightly regarded boxing sanctioning body whose "world champions" often lack widespread recognition. WBU titles are often a stepping-stone for fighters who progress to more prestigious titles.
World Bridge Federation World Bridge Federation (WBF) is the governing body of world contract bridge. Under WBF jurisdiction are organizations of world championships, most important being Bermuda Bowl – open teams championships, Venice Cup – women team championships, and World Bridge Olympiads.
World Bridge Championships The World Bridge Championships is an open competition organised every four years by the World Bridge Federation. The World Bridge Championships were initiated in 1962, under the name World Pair Olympiad which comprised the World Open Pairs Championship, the World Women Pairs Championships, as well as the World Mixed Teams Championship.
World Brotherhood Colonies World Brotherhood Colonies are an idea for cooperative spiritual living promoted by Paramahansa Yogananda, the Hindu yogi and author of Autobiography of a Yogi. Beginning in 1932 (long before the intentional community movement of the late 1960's), and continuing to the end of his life in 1952, Yogananda urged young people in the U.
World Buddhist Sangha Council The World Buddhist Sangha Council (WBSC) is an international non-government organisation (NGO) whose objectives are to develop the exchanges of the Buddhist religious and monastic communities of the different traditions worldwide, and help to carry out activities for the transmission of Buddhism. It was founded in Colombo, Sri Lanka in May 1966.
World Builder World Builder is an authoring system for point-and-click adventure games, probably the first of its kind. It was released in 1986 by Silicon Beach Software and had already been used for creating Enchanted Scepters in 1984.
World Burns To Death World Burns to Death are a hardcore punk band from Austin, Texas. Formed in 2000, the current lineup (as of June, 2006) consists of: Jack Control, vocals; Zac Tew, guitar; Craig Merritt, bass; and Jon Guerinot, drums.
World Business Council for Sustainable Development The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) brings together some 180 international companies in a shared commitment to sustainable development through economic growth, ecological balance and social progress.
World Business Dialogue The World Business Dialogue connects students from all five continents with leading personalities from business, sciences and politics. The event is organized by the volunteer student initiative "Organisationsforum Wirtschaftskongress" (OFW).
World Business Review World Business Review is an American television news magazine that airs on both CNBC and Bravo as "paid programming" in the United States. It was hosted for six years by Alexander Haig, and is now hosted by Norman Schwarzkopf.
World cinema World cinema is a term used primarily in the West to refer to the films and film industries of non-English language speaking countries (those outside of the Anglosphere). It is therefore often used interchangeably with the term Foreign film.
World citizen World citizen is a term with a variety of meanings, often referring to a person who disapproves of traditional geopolitical divisions derived from national citizenship and approves world government and democracy.
World class standards World class standards refers to the level of achievement, mainly in math and science, attained by students in the four countries that make up the East Asian Tigers; South Korea, Singapore, Japan, and Taiwan, as well as in Europe. There is no published standard, so this is just a concept and object of debate in the US.
World climate research programme The World Climate Resarch Programme (WCRP) was established in 1980, under the joint sponsorship of International Council for Science and the World Meteorological Organization and also been sponsored by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO since 1993. The objectives of the programme are to develop the fundamental scientific understanding of the physical climate system and climate processes needed to determine to what extent climate can be predicted and the extent of human influence on climate.
World community The term is used primarily in political and humanitarian contexts to describe an international aggregate of nation states of widely varying types. In most connotations, the term is used to convey meanings attached to consensus or inclusion of all people in all lands and their governments.
World cup A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities - usually national teams or individuals representing their nation - compete for the title of world champion. A world cup is generally considered the premier competition in its sport, with the victor attaining the highest honour in that sport and able to lay claim to the title of their sport's best.
World currency In the foreign exchange market and international finance, a world currency or global currency refers to a currency in which the vast majority of international transactions take place and which serves as the world's primary reserve currency.
World Cafe World Cafe is a two-hour long nationally syndicated music radio program that originates from WXPN, a non-commercial station on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. It began in 1991 and was originally distributed by Public Radio International.
World Camp World Camp is a 501(c)(3) non-profit volunteer organization in the United States and a registered Non-governmental organization (NGO) in the country of Malawi. World Camp was founded in 2000 by students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), and continues to be led, funded, managed, and operated by young adults.
World Car of the Year The World Car of the Year is an automobile award selected by a jury of 48 international automotive journalists. Cars considered must be sold in at least five countries on at least two continents prior to January 1 of the year of the award.
World Carrot Museum The World Carrot Museum is a virtual museum that attempts to collect and present information on all aspects of carrots. The museum does not currently have a brick and mortar existence but operates only as a website.
World Carshare The World CarShare Consortium is an open, cooperative, independent, international forum supporting carsharing projects, programs and planning, world wide. Since 1997 it offers a convenient place on the web to gather and share information and independent views on projects and approaches, past, present and planned future, freely and easily available to all comers.
World Center for Birds of Prey The World Center for Birds of Prey, located in Boise Idaho, is known through out the globe for its conservation and recovery efforts of several rare and endangered species. Thanks largely to their efforts and skilled staff the Peregrine falcon now has a fighting chance at survival and is one of only a small handful of species that have been removed from the Endangered Species list.
World Cinema: Diary of a Day World Cinema: Diary of a Day is a collection of journals from filmmakers around the world. It includes entries from filmmakers as famous as Terry Gilliam to accomplished but little-known independents, such as Jurgen Vsych.
World Class Heavyweight Championship The World Class Heavyweight Championship was the major title in World Class Championship Wrestling. It started out as the NWA American Heavyweight Championship and was also called the WCCW American Heavyweight Championship.
World Class Championship Wrestling World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW), also called the World Class Wrestling Association (WCWA), was a popular regional professional wrestling promotion run out of Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. Originally owned by promoter Ed McLemore, by 1966 it was run by Southwest Sports, Inc.
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