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Wendy Sherman Wendy R. Sherman is a Principal at the Albright Group; Former Counselor of the State Department, Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State on North Korea, and Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs
Wendy Sly Wendy Sly (born 5 November, 1959) is a former British athlete who competed mainly in the 3,000 metres. She represented Great Britain at the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, USA in the 3,000 metres where she won the silver medal.
Wendy Strehlow Wendy Strehlow is an Australian actress, probably best known for her role as Judy Loveday in the television soap opera A Country Practice. Since mid 2005, Wendy has been playing the role of Paramedic Lorraine Tanner in All Saints
Wendy Swanscombe Wendy Swanscombe is an erotic writer from England published by Nexus Books. She writes stories involving both female submission and female dominance and including graphic descriptions of many forms of paraphilia and heavy S&M, including flagellation, spanking, erotic lactation, water-sports, and bondage.
Wendy Testaburger Wendy Testaburger is a fictional character in the animated series South Park. Wendy has been voiced by four people during the series' run: Mary Kay Bergman, Mona Marshall, Eliza Schneider, and recently April Stewart.
Wendy Turnbull Wendy Turnbull, MBE (born November 26, 1952 in Brisbane, Australia) was an Australian female professional tennis player who was nicknamed "Rabbit" by her peers because of her footspeed around the court. She was ranked in the year-end world top 20 for ten consecutive years (1977 through 1986) and in the year-end world top 10 for eight consecutive years (1977 through 1984).
Wendy Venturini Wendy Venturini (born in Chicago, Illinois) is a reporter for SPEED's pre-race show, NASCAR Raceday. Along with her pre race interviews around the garage, Wendy is also featured in a segment of the show called "The Real Deal" where she goes one on one with a driver, crew chief or car owner.
Wendy Wasserstein Wendy Wasserstein (October 18, 1950 – January 30, 2006) was an award-winning American playwright and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. She was the recipient of the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Wendy Wilde Wendy Wilde (her legal name is Wendy Pareene) is a Minnesota radio host and was the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party-endorsed candidate for the United States House of Representatives representing the state's 3rd District. (map).
Wendy Wilson Wendy Wilson (born October 16 1969 in Los Angeles, California) is a singer and member of the pop singing trio Wilson Phillips. She is the daughter of Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson and his first wife Marilyn, a member of girl group The Honeys, and she is the younger sister of Carnie Wilson.
Wendy Wood Wendy Wood (born Gwendoline Meacham) (1892-June, 1981) was a well-known campaigner for Scottish independence and founder of the Scottish Patriots. An eccentric and colourful figure, she was also an artist and writer, and her antics often created controversy.
Wendy's Wendy's is a chain of fast food restaurants founded by Dave Thomas based in Dublin, Ohio and owned by the American corporation Wendy's International, Inc. There are over 6,700 Wendy's restaurants worldwideA typical Wendy's location in Windsor, Ontario] (Canada)
Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge The Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge is an unofficial golf event held every November at the Lake Las Vegas Resort in Henderson, Nevada. The tournament is a unique strokeplay event, and, as the name suggests, pits three-member teams from the PGA TOUR, the LPGA Tour, and Champions Tour (known as the Senior PGA Tour prior to 2001) against each other for a purse of $900,000.
Wendy's High School Heisman The Wendy's High School Heisman Memorial Trophy Award (also known simply as the Wendy's High School Heisman), named after former college football player and coach John Heisman, is a very prestigious award in American high school athletics. It is sponsored by Wendy's Restaurants.
Wendy's Championship for Children The Wendy's Championship for Children was an annual golf tournament for professional female golfers on the LPGA Tour that took place in Dublin, Ohio from 1999 through 2006. In 1999 and 2000 the tournament was known as the New Albany Golf Classic.
Wenecja Wenecja (Polish Venice) is a small village approximately 5 km south of Żnin in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodship (Kujawsko-Pomorskie) in Poland. Its picturesque location among three lakes (Biskupinskie, Weneckie, Skrzynka) resulted in its name according to location of Italian Venice.
Wenedyk Wenedyk (in English: Venedic) is a constructed language of the naturalistic kind, created by the Dutch translator Jan van Steenbergen. It is used in the fictional Republic of the Two Crowns (based on the Republic of Two Nations), in the alternate timeline of Ill Bethisad.
Wengen Wengen is a village in the Bernese Oberland situated at the foot of the Jungfrau mountain in central Switzerland. It is one of very few car-free resort villages in Europe, although there are the few necessary electric vehicles for taxiing to and from the train station.
Wengernalpbahn The Wengernalpbahn (or WAB) is a 19.091 km long, gauge rack railway line in Switzerland, which runs from Lauterbrunnen and Grindelwald (two branches) to Kleine Scheidegg, making it the world's longest continuous cogwheel railway.
WengoPhone WengoPhone is free software and is a VoIP service developed by the OpenWengo community under the GNU GPL license. It allows users to speak at no cost from one's computer to other users of SIP compliant VoIP software.
Wenham Lake Wenham Lake (224 acres), also known as Wenham Pond or Wenham Great Pond, is a lake located in Wenham, Massachusetts at (elevation 32 feet). In the 1800s the lake was famous for its ice, reputed to be Queen Victoria's favorite.
Wenham Lake Ice Company The Wenham Lake Ice Company, operating out of Wenham Lake in Wenham, Massachusetts, harvested ice and exported it all around the world before the advent of factory-made ice. Wenham-lake ice was highly prized and was even awarded a royal warrant from Queen Victoria.
Wenhua Qiaoliang Trilingual National School Wenhua Qiaoliang Trilingual National School (文化桥梁三语国民学校 Wenhua Qiaoliang Sanyu Guomin Xuexiao, literally "Cultural Bridge Three-language National School") in Bali, Indonesia, is the first government-established Chinese-using school in Indonesia. It was founded with some 300 students in 1966.
Wenhui-Xinmin United Press Group The Wenhui-Xinmin United Press Group, which publishes the Chinese language newspapers Wen Wei Po and Shanghai Xinmin Evening News, was established on July 25 1998. It publishes foreign editions of its newspapers and magazines in ten countries, including a US and Australian editions of Xinmin Evening News.
Wenchang Satellite Launch Center Wenchang Satellite Launch Center (WSLC) () located at , is a former sub-orbital test center and currently under expansion. It is the fourth and southernmost space vehicle launch facility (spaceport) of the People's Republic of China.
Wenche Myhre Wenche Synnøve Myhre (born August 15, 1947, in Kjelsås, Oslo) is a Norwegian singer and actress who has had a great number of hit songs since the 1960s in the Norwegian, German as well as the Swedish markets and languages.
Wenlin Software for learning Chinese Wenlin Software for Learning Chinese () is a software application designed by Tom Bishop, based on his experience of the needs of learners of the Chinese language, predominantly Mandarin. It contains a dictionary function as well as a text reader/writer function for reading and creating Chinese text files.
Wenlock Group Wenlock Group (Wenlockian), in geology, is the middle series of strata in the Silurian (Upper Silurian) of Great Britain. This group in the typical area in the Welsh border counties contains the following formations: Wenlock or Dudley limestone, 90-300 ft.
Wenlock Series lagerstätte The Silurian lagerstätte preserved in the limestone Wenlock Series of Herefordshire, UK, offers paleontologists a rare snapshot of a moment in time, about 420 Mya. The soft-bodied animals and delicate, lightly-sclerotized chitinous shells are often preserved in three dimensions, as calcitic fossilizations within calcareous nodules.
Wenlock, Craven Arms and Lightmoor Extension railway The Wenlock, Craven Arms and Lightmoor Extension railway was a railway in Shropshire, England. It was built as two portions either end of the Much Wenlock and Severn Junction Railway between 1864 and 1867 and formed part of the Wellington to Craven Arms Railway.
Wenn du da bist Wenn du da bist (English translation: "When You're Here", although it can also be rendered "When You're There", but this is not in keeping with the other lyrics) was the Austrian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1981, performed in German by Marty Brem (who also represented Austria the previous year as a member of Blue Danube). The song is a love ballad, in which Brem compares how he feels when his lover is with him with how he feels when she is not.
Wenn Der Letzte Schatten Fällt (album) Wenn Der Letzte Schatten Fällt is an album from Austrian electrogoth band L'Âme Immortelle. The 2004 North American re-release featured three additional live tracks that were not available on the original Trisol release.
Wenno Wenno (Vinno, Winne), from Kassel-Naumburg, was the first Master of the Order of Brothers of the Sword, leading the Order from 1204 to 1209. He was killed by brother Wickbert with an axe, in a quarrel whose reason is unknown.
Weno Weno is the largest city in the Federated States of Micronesia in the State of Chuuk. This city island located in the Western Central Pacific Ocean just north of the equator has its own airport, hotel accommodations, restaurants, and natural caves for divers.
Wenona School Wenona School, Sydney, formerly known as Woodstock, is a non-selective, non-denominational, day and boarding school for girls in the suburb of North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Founded in 1886, Wenona is the smallest K-12 independent girls' school in Sydney, with 765 day girls and 50 boarders.
Wensley Clarkson Wensley Clarkson (born 1956) is a British tabloid writer. He is the author of screenplays and television documentaries plus more than two dozen novels in the true crime genre and "quickie" celebrity biographies.
Wensleydale Railway In 2003, Wensleydale Railway plc (WR plc) started running passenger trains on a portion of the railway that previously linked Northallerton with Garsdale railway station on the Settle-Carlisle Railway. The railway had been almost closed apart from very occasional Ministry of Defence freight trains to Redmire for the transport of tanks to/from Catterick Garrison.
Wente Vineyards Wente Vineyards is a winery in Livermore, California and holds the distinction of being "the oldest continuously operating, family-owned winery in California." The Wente Estate is registered as California Historical Landmark #957.
Wentloog (hundred) The cantref or hundred of Wentloog is a division of the traditional county of Monmouthshire. It is situated in the western part of the county, and is bounded on the north by Brecknockshire; on the east by the hundreds of Abergavenny, Usk and Caldicot; on the south by the Bristol Channel, and on the west by Glamorganshire.
Wentworth and Dearne (UK Parliament constituency) Wentworth and Dearne will be a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. At the next United Kingdom general election, it will elect one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Wentworth College Wentworth College is a college of the University of York. Originally opened in 1972, since 2002 it has had the distinction of being the only college exclusively housing postgraduate students; though postgraduates can be resident in all colleges at the University.
Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists The Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists (in short, the Wentworth Group) is a group of Australian scientists concerned with the environment, that in November 2002 released a statement, Blueprint for a Living Continent. This calls for significant
Wentworth Institute of Technology Wentworth Institute of Technology is a technical college located in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1904, it offers fifteen bachelor's degree programs in such areas as architecture, computer science, and engineering.
Wentworth Park Wentworth Park was a rugby league park in the Glebe area of New South Wales, Australia. It was originally the home ground of the Glebe Dirty Reds who were a part of the New South Wales Rugby League premiership back in its inception.
Wentworth Park MLR station, Sydney Wentworth Park is a light rail stop located next to the synonymous park, and the Wentworth Park Racecourse (a greyhound racing track), in the suburb of Pyrmont, on the Metro Light Rail line in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The station has two platforms, one for services to Lilyfield, the other for services to Central.
Wentworth Shire Council Wentworth Shire is a Local Government Area in the far south west of New South Wales, Australia, just over the river from Mildura, on the Victorian side. Its major roads are the Sturt and the Silver City Highways.
Wenvoe Wenvoe () is a Welsh village between Barry and Cardiff in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. It is located near the Wenvoe Transmitter at the old HTV national headquarters in Culverhouse Cross in the suburbs of Cardiff.
Wenvoe transmitting station The Wenvoe transmitting station is a facility for broadcasting and telecommunications situated at Wenvoe in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales in the UK. It comprises a 225 metre (738 ft) guyed mast with antennas attached at various heights, giving average height above sea level of 353 metres for the television antennas.
Wenyi Wang Doctor Wang Wenyi (; born October 26, 1958 in Jilin) is a pathologist"China and Its President Greeted by a Host of Indignities", Dana Milbank, The Washington Post, Friday, April 21, 2006; Page A02 and journalist for the Falun Gong-affiliated newspaper The Epoch Times. Wang Wenyi is a Chinese national who has lived in the United States for 20 years of her life.
Wenyukela Wenyukela is an album by the South African isicathamiya group Ladysmith Black Mambazo. It was released on March 5, 2003 and was re-released in North America under the English title Raise Your Spirit Higher on Headsup International.
Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz (en: Count Wenceslaus Anthony von Kaunitz, cz: Václav Antonín hrabě Kounic-Rietberg) (Vienna, February 2, 1711 – Vienna, June 27, 1794), born into an old Bohemian noble family settled in Moravia, was an Austrian statesman. In 1764 he was styled Reichsfürst von Kaunitz-Rietberg (Imperial Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg), his father having been Maximilian Ulrich von Kaunitz, and his mother having been Marie Ernestine von Ostfriesland-Rietberg.
Wenzel Jamitzer Wenzel Jamitzer (sometimes Jamitzer Jamnitzer or Wenzel Gemniczer) (1508 to 1585) was a German engraver and goldsmith, who worked in Nuremberg. Examples of his work can be seen in the Louvre gallery in France and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Wenzel Jamnitzer Wenzel Jamnitzer (sometimes Jamitzer, or Wenzel Gemniczer) born 1507/1508 in Vienna, died December 19, 1585, in NĂĽrnberg) was a Austrian-German engraver and goldsmith, who worked in Nuremberg; the best known goldsmith of his era.
Wenzel Pichl Wenzel Pichl (25 September 1741, Bechyne, Bohemia – 23 January 1805, Vienna, Austria; known in his native language as Vaclav Pichl) was a classical Czech composer of the 18th Century. He was also a violinist, music director and writer.
Wenzel Raimund Birck Wenzel Raimund Johann Birck (1718-1763)Klassika:Wenzel Raimund Johann Birck was one of the early proponents of Symphonic music in Vienna, along with Georg Christoph Wagenseil and Georg Matthias Monn, and an early tutor for MozartThe Mozart Project, Characters on the periphery. Birck was also, along with Georg Christoph Wagenseil tutored a young Joseph Haydn.
Wenzhou Wenzhou () is a prefecture-level city with a population of 873,000 in southeastern Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. It borders Lishui to the west, Taizhou to the north, and looks out to the East China Sea to the east.
Weohstan Weohstan (Proto-Norse *Wīhastainaz, meaning "sacred stone"Peterson, Lena: Lexikon över urnordiska personnamn, PDF) is a legendary character in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf. He is a (probably) Swedish champion, the father of Wiglaf, and he belongs to a clan called the Wægmundings.
Weplab Weplab is a tool designed to teach how the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) wireless encryption protocol works, explain the security vulnerabilities in the protocol, and demonstrate attacks that can be used to compromise a WEP protected wireless network. Weplab is designed not only to crack WEP keys but to analyze the wireless security of a network from an educational point of view.
Wepwawet In Egyptian mythology, Wepwawet (also spelt Upuaut, Wep-wawet, and Ophois) was originally a war god, whose cult centre was Lycopolis, in Upper Egypt. In particular Wepwawet was seen as a scout, going out to clear routes for the army to proceed forward, thus his name, which means opener of the ways, indeed, Wepwawet is depicted on the shedshed, a standard that led armies to battle.
Wera Kostrzewa Maria Koszutska (ps Wera Kostrzewa) (1876-1939) was a leader and theoretician of the Polish Socialist Party - Left (Polska Partia Socialistyczna, PPS - Lewica) and the Communist Party of Poland (KPP). She joined the PPS in 1902 and was a member of the executive of the splinter PPS-Left, and the KPP from 1918.
Werauhia Werauhia is a genus of epiphytic bromeliads, native to the neotropics. Based on molecular evidence, a number of species previously classified within other bromeliad genera, especially Vriesea and Tillandsia, have been placed in Werauhia instead.
Werckmeister temperament Werckmeister temperament refers to any of the tuning systems described by Andreas Werckmeister in his writings Andreas Werckmeister: Orgel-Probe (Frankfurt & Leipzig 1681), excerpts in Mark Lindley, "Stimmung und Temperatur", in Hören, messen und rechnen in der frühen Neuzeit pp. 109-331, Frieder Zaminer (ed.
Werder (Havel) Werder, also called Werder (Havel) or Werder upon Havel, is a city in Germany, located in the Potsdam-Mittelmark Kreis (district) of Brandenburg, one of Germany's sixteen Bundesländer (federal states), just west of the region's capital city of Potsdam.
Were Babu Were Babu is one of the 105 woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Debub Wollo Zone, Were Babu is bordered on the south by Kalu, on the west by Tehuledere, on the north by the Semien Wollo Zone, on the east by the Afar Region, and on the southeast by the Oromia Zone.
Were Ilu (woreda) Were Ilu is one of the 105 woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Debub Wollo Zone, Were Ilu is bordered on the southwest by Jama, on the west by Kelala, on the northwest by Legambo, on the north by the Dessie Zuria, on the east by the Oromia Zone, and on the southeast by Semien Shewa Zone.
Were music Were music is an indigenous Yoruba music, which, like ajisari, is a way of using music to arouse the Islamic faithful to pray and feast during Ramadan festival in Yorubaland. Ajiwere or oniwere means "one who performs were music.
WereBear WereBears were plush stuffed toy bears, created by George Nicholas Creations in 1983. Their heads and paws were reversible, allowing them to change from "nice" to "nasty", much the same as a werewolf.
Werecat In folklore and fantasy fiction, Werecats are shapeshifters who are similar to werewolves, except that they turn into creatures that are based on some species of feline instead of being based on a wolf. The species involved can be a domestic cat, a tiger, a lion, a leopard, a lynx, or any other type, including some that are purely fantastical felines.
Weregild Weregild (alternative spellings: wergild, wergeld, weregeld, etc.) was a reparational payment usually demanded of a person guilty of homicide or other wrongful death, although it could also be demanded in other cases of serious crime.
Weremo Wajetuna Midarema Weremo Wajetuna Midarema is one of the 105 woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Semien Shewa Zone, Weremo Wajetuna Midarema is bordered on the south by Lay Betna Tach Bet, on the west by the Oromia Region, and on the north and east by the Debub Wollo Zone.
Wererat A wererat is a fictional creature akin to a werewolf, but shapeshifting into the form of a rat instead of a wolf. This type of lycanthrope is rare in historical legends, but has become common in modern role playing games and fantasy fiction inspired by them.
Weret Hekau Weret Hekau was the name of an ancient Egyptian goddess associated with the protection of the sun god and was considered the wet nurse of the pharaohs. Because of this, and the fact the pharaonic succession was matrilineal, the mother of a future pharaoh was sometimes considered a personification of Weret Hekau.
Wereth 11 The Wereth 11 were 11 African-American soldiers who were brutally murdered in Wereth, Belgium on December 17th, 1944. They had become separated from their unit after being ordered to evacuate their positions during the Battle of the Bulge.
Werewolf A werewolf (also lycanthrope or wolfman) in folklore and mythology is a person who shapeshifts into a wolf or wolflike creature, either purposely, by using magic, or after being placed under a curse. The medieval chronicler Gervase of Tilbury associated the transformation with the appearance of the full moon, but this concept was rarely associated with the werewolf until the idea was picked up by modern fiction writers.
Werewolf (Doctor Who) Werewolves have featured a number of times in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its other media tie-ins. The canonicity of the non-television stories in relation to the television series is unclear, and the various media may not even be consistent with respect to each other.
Werewolf by Night Werewolf by Night (birth name Jacob Russoff, legal name Jack Russell) is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe. The Werewolf by Night (usually referred to by other characters simply as the Werewolf) is an anti-heroic werewolf.
Werewolf fiction Werewolf fiction denotes the portrayal of werewolves in the media of literature, drama and film. Werewolf literature includes folklore, legend, saga, fairy tales, Gothic and Horror fiction, fantasy fiction and poetry.
Werewolf of London Werewolf of London was the first Hollywood werewolf movie, filmed in 1935 by Universal Pictures and featuring Henry Hull as Wilfred Glendon, a scientist bitten by a werewolf (played by Warner Oland) in Tibet. Jack Pierce's eerie werewolf make-up was simpler than his version that appeared six years later for The Wolf Man but, according to film historians, remains strikingly effective as worn by Hull.
Werewolf Woman (film) Werewolf Woman,(in original Italian, La Lupa Mannara also known as The Legend of the Wolf Woman, She-Wolf, Terror of the She Wolf and Naked Werewolf Woman, is a 1976 Italian horror film directed by Rino Di Silvestro.
Werewolf: The Apocalypse Werewolf: The Apocalypse is a role-playing game from the old World of Darkness line by White Wolf. In this game, players take the role of werewolves known as Garou (as well as other lycanthropes), warriors who are locked in a two-front war against (on the one hand) the spiritual desolation of urban civilization and (on the other) supernatural forces of corruption that seek to bring about the Apocalypse.
Werewolf: The Forsaken Werewolf: The Forsaken is a role-playing game set in the new World of Darkness created by White Wolf Game Studio. It is the successor to Werewolf: The Apocalypse, the "game of savage horror" from the original World of Darkness line of games.
Werewolf: The Wild West Werewolf: The Wild West is a role-playing game from the World of Darkness line by White Wolf Game Studio. The setting is similar to Werewolf: The Apocalypse but is taking place in the Wild West in the 19th century.
Werewolves of London "Werewolves of London" is a song composed by LeRoy Marinell, Waddy Wachtel, and Warren Zevon and performed by Zevon. Included on Zevon's album Excitable Boy, it featured accompaniment by bassist John McVie and drummer Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac.
Werie Lehe Werie Lehe is one of the 36 woredas in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Mehakelegnaw Zone, Werie Lehe is bordered on the south by Kola Tembien, on the southwest by Naeder Adet, on the west by La'ilay Maychew, on the north by Adwa, on the northeast by Enticho, and on the east by the Misraqawi (Eastern) Zone.
Weriyeng Weriyeng, is one of the last two schools of traditional navigation found in Central Carolinan Islands in Micronesia, the other being Faaluush. By tradition these two schools were considered to be the most high of all the schools of navigation that once dotted the islands of Central Carolinan Islands.
Werkbund Exhibition (1914) The Werkbund Exhibition of 1914 was held in Cologne, Germany. Bruno Taut's best-known single building, the prismatic dome of the Glass Pavilion familiar from black and white reproduction, was a brightly colored landmark.
Werknesh Kidane Werknesh Kidane (born November 21, 1981), is an Ethiopian long distance track and field athlete and winner of various world wide championships running both 5,000 and 10,000 meters. She was born in the historic town of Maychew, Tigray.
Werl Werl is a small city located in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It belongs to the district of Soest in the administrative region of Arnsberg, and is easily accessible because it is located between the Sauerland, MĂĽnsterland, and the Ruhr Area.
Wermund Wermund or Garmund is an ancestor of the Mercian royal family, a son of Wihtlaeg and father of Offa. Mythology claims him to be a grandson of Odin, but the Danish histories written by Saxo Grammaticus disagree with this concept.
Werner (crater) Werner is a prominent lunar impact crater that lies in the rugged south-central highlands of the Moon. It is almost joined with Aliacensis crater to the southeast, and the pair form a rugged valley in the intervening gap.
Werner Arber Werner Arber (born June 3, 1929) is a Swiss microbiologist and geneticist. Along with American researchers Hamilton Smith and Daniel Nathans, Werner Arber shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of restriction endonucleases.
Werner Best Werner Best (July 10, 1903 – June 23, 1989) was a German jurist, police chief and National Socialist. Best served as civilian administrator of France and Denmark while Nazi Germany occupied those countries during World War II.
Werner Bruschke Werner Bruschke (1898 - 1995) was an East German politician and member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. He was Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt from August 13 1949 until the state was abolished on July 23 1952.
Werner Catel Werner Catel (1894-1981), Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Leipzig, was one of three doctors considered an expert on the programme of euthanasia for children and participated in the T-4 Program for the Nazis, the other two being Hans Heinze and Ernst Wentzler. He was also tied to Hellmuth Unger.
Werner dankwort Carl Werner Dankwort (1895) born in Gumbinnen, Germany, served a major role in bringing Germany into the league of Nations in 1926 prior to representing the German contingent in the Organization for European Economic Cooperation, the post-World War II effort known as the Marshall Plan. He received a doctor of jurisprudence degree in 1920 from the University of Wuerzburg.
Werner Daehn Werner Daehn, born 1967 in Worms am Rhein, Germany, is a German/international actor, who has worked with Vin Diesel and Samuel L Jackson in "xXx", with Jason Priestley in "Colditz" an ITV1 2005 miniseries, with Bill Pullman in "Revelations" and with Steven Seagal in "Shadow Man". In addition he has also worked in German productions like "Stauffenberg - Rebellion of Conscience" (also titled "Valkeryie" on the German DVD) and "King of Thieves" (nominated in Germany for the Grimme Prize).
Werner Drechsler Werner Drechsler (born January 17, 1923, in MĂĽhlberg, Germany - died March 12, 1944 in Papago Park, Arizona) was a German U-boat crewman during World War II. He was stationed on U-118 which was sunk off the Azores in 1943.
Werner Drewes Werner Drewes (1899-1985) was a German-American painter and printmaker, born in 1899 in Canig, Germany. Since his death in 1985, recognition of Drewes's important role and impact on twentieth century American art has steadily grown among collectors and curators.
Werner Eggerath Werner Eggerath (March 16, 1900 - 1977) was an East German author and communist politician. He was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and its first secretary in Thuringia from April 21 1946 to 1947, already having held that position in the Communist Party of Germany before its merger into the SED.
Werner FĂĽrbringer Werner "Fips" Furbringer was a successful U-Boat commander in the German Navy during World War I. He was present on the U-Boat that sank the Lusitania in 1915, and after 3 years in the post as a commander was captured as a British Prisoner Of War.

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