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Wall's ice cream Wall's is the brand name of Unilever's Heartbrand ice cream business, used originally in the United Kingdom and also currently (2006) in Hong Kong, China, India Indonesia], [[Jordan, Lebanon, Malaysia Maldives], [[Pakistan Qatar], [[Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, United Arab Emirates and Vietnam.
Wall2Wall Soccer Wall2Wall Soccer is an indoor multi-purpose sports facility in Mason, Ohio. With a seating capacity of 850 (and a plan to expand to 6,500 seats in two years), it currently hosts youth indoor soccer as well as other youth sports programs.
Walla In American radio, film, and television, walla is a sound effect imitating the murmur of a crowd in the background. A group of actors brought together in the post-production stage of film production to create this murmur is known as a walla group.
Walla Walla (tribe) Walla Walla is a Native American group that lives on the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. The Walla Walla share land and a governmental structure with the Cayuse and the Umatilla tribes as part of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla.
Walla Walla Basin Watershed Council The Walla Walla Basin Watershed Council (WWBWC) is a non-profit grass-roots organization that fosters education and cooperation among all parties with interests in the Walla Walla Watershed. Such cooperation and education leads to efforts that improve and maintain a healthy watershed for fish, invertebrates, plants, and people.
Walla Walla College Walla Walla College, to be known as Walla Walla University starting September 2007, is a college offering liberal arts, professional, and technical programs. It is affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Walla Walla Football Club The Walla Walla Football Club is an Australian rules football club that plays in the Hume Football League in southern New South Wales. The club's nickname is the Hoppers (short for grasshopper), the current guernsey design consists of green and white stripes on the front with an all green rear.
Wallabout Bay Wallabout Bay is small body of water in Upper New York Bay along the northwest shore of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, between the present Williamsburg and Manhattan bridges, opposite Corlears Hook on Manhattan to the west, across the East River.
Wallaby A wallaby (sometimes spelled wallabee or whallabee, though these are generally considered misspellings) is any of about thirty species of macropod (Family Macropodidae). Essentially, a wallaby is any macropod that isn't large enough to be considered a kangaroo and has not been given some other name.
Wallaby Team of the Decade To celebrate 10 years of professional rugby union, Australian Rugby celebrated the occasion with the announcement of the Wallaby Team of the Decade. A Judging panel of 30 journalists and commentators voted on a starting XV and a bench, with 6 players (in italics below) being unanimous selections, the rest being selected in their respective positions.
Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo is a 2003 video game featuring Aardman Animations' popular characters Wallace & Gromit. The game was developed by Frontier Developments for the PC, PS2, Xbox and GameCube.
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is a 2005 British, Academy Award-winning stop-motion animated film, the first feature-length Wallace and Gromit film. It was produced by DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Animations, and released by DreamWorks Pictures.
Wallace and Gromit Wallace & Gromit are the main characters in a series of three British animated short films, a series of ten short animated sequences, and a feature-length film by Nick Park of Aardman Animations. All the characters were made from moulded Plasticine modelling clay on wire frames, and filmed with stop motion clay animation.
Wallace Art Awards The annual Wallace Art Awards are the biggest and longest-surviving art awards in New Zealand. They are for contemporary painting, sculpture and photography and are run by the James Wallace Charitable Arts Trust.
Wallace Beery Wallace Beery (April 1, 1885 – April 15, 1949) was an American actor, best known for his portrayal of Long John Silver in Treasure Island (1934) as well as more than 200 other movie roles over a 36-year span.
Wallace Breem Wallace Breem (1926–1990) was a British librarian and author, the Librarian and Keeper of Manuscripts of the Inner Temple Law Library at his death, but perhaps more widely known for his historical novels, including the classic Eagle in the Snow (1970).
Wallace Breen Doctor Wallace Breen is a fictional character from the 2004 first-person shooter computer game Half-Life 2, produced by Valve Software. He is the primary antagonist in Half-Life 2 and also the ruler of the Earth from his headquarters in the Citadel, the Combine stronghold in City 17.
Wallace C. Miller Wallace Conrad Miller (born February 7, 1896 in Waterloo County, Ontario; died October 4, 1959) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1936 to 1959, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Douglas L.
Wallace Clement Sabine Wallace Clement Sabine (June 131868 - January 101919) was an American physicist who founded the field of architectural acoustics. He graduated from Ohio State University in 1886 at the age of 18 before joining Harvard University for graduate study and remaining as a faculty member.
Wallace Duffield Wright Brigadier General Wallace Duffield Wright VC, CB, CMG, DSO (20 September 1875 – 25 March 1953) was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Wallace fountain Wallace fountains are public drinking fountains that appear in the form of small cast-iron sculptures scattered throughout the city of Paris, mainly along the most-frequented sidewalks. They are named after the Englishman Richard Wallace, who financed their construction.
Wallace Ford Wallace Ford (February 12, 1898 - June 11, 1966) was a movie and television actor who, with his friendly appearance and stocky build, appeared in a number of movie westerns and B-movies. Ford, born Samuel Jones in England, began as a vaudeville actor before performing on Broadway.
Wallace G. Wilkinson Wallace Glenn Wilkinson (December 12, 1941–July 5, 2002) was a Kentucky businessman who made a fortune with college bookstores. Born in Casey County, Kentucky, he was graduated from Liberty High School in 1959.
Wallace Hartley [Henry Hartley (June 2], [[1878 - April 15, 1912) was a violinist who led the Wallace Hartley band, on the RMS Titanic on its maiden voyage. He became famous for leading the eight member band as the ship sank on April 15 1912.
Wallace Ignatius "Bucky" Williams Wallace “Bucky” Williams, (December 15, 1906 at Baltimore, Maryland) 100 year old former Negro League Baseball player, and second oldest living former Negro League Player behind Emilio Navarro age 101. Wallace was a team member for the Pittsburgh Crawfords(1927-1932) and Homestead Grays in 1936.
Wallace Islet (Queensland) Wallace Islet is a small islands in the Boydong cays Shelburne Bay in far north Queensland, Australia about 100 km North of Cape Grenville, Cape York Peninsula in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Queensland, Australia.
Wallace Lloyd Algie Wallace Lloyd Algie, VC (June 10, 1891 - October 11, 1918) was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Wallace Markfield Wallace Markfield (August 12, 1926, Brooklyn, New York, USA — May 24, 2002, Roslyn, New York) was an American comic novelist best known for his first novel, To An Early Grave (1964), about four men who spend the day driving across Brooklyn to their friend's funeral, and 1970's Teitlebaum's Window. Teitlebaum's Window is a comic novel of a Jewish boy growing up in Brooklyn in the 1930s and 1940s.
Wallace Monument The Wallace National Monument (generally known as the Wallace Monument) is a tower standing on the summit of Abbey Craig, a hilltop near Stirling in Scotland. It commemorates William Wallace, the 13th century Scottish hero.
Wallace Nelson Wallace Alexander Nelson (1856-1943) was the first member to represent Hannans under the Redistribution of Seats Bill in the Legislative Assembly in Western Australia from 1904 to 1905. He was described as the wit and humorist of the Labor Party in those days, having much experience at oration and writing.
Wallace Reed Guthrie Wallace Reed Guthrie, born 1922 to Skyler and Lucille (VanDyke) Guthrie in Paris Tennessee. Wallace was a hard throwning pitcher who played for his hometown team, the Paris Eagles (later known as the Paris Giants).
Wallace Reyburn Wallace Reyburn is a humorist author who is responsible for a number of well-known urban legends, including the widespread belief that the flush toilet was invented by Thomas Crapper and that the brassiere was invented by Otto Titzling. Reyborn is the author of a number of books, some humorous and some not, including multiple books on rugby and on Canadian armed forces as well as humorous yarns of pseudo-historical nonsense.
Wallace Rider Farrington Wallace Rider Farrington (May 3 1871–October 6 1933) was the sixth Territorial Governor of Hawaii, serving from 1921 to 1929. Prior to his term, he was editor of the Honolulu Advertiser and Honolulu Star-Bulletin newspapers.
Wallace S. Broecker Wallace S. Broecker ("Wally") (1931-) is the Newberry Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University and a scientist at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
Wallace Stevens Award The Wallace Stevens Award is a major annual American literary award for mastery of poetry in the English language. It is awarded by the Academy of American Poets, and honors Wallace Stevens, who was one of the most distinguished American poets of the 20th century.
Wallace Thurman Wallace Henry Thurman (1902-1934) was an African American novelist during the Harlem Renaissance. He is best known for his novel The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life, which describes discrimination based on skin color among black people.
Wallace Tillinghast Wallace Tillinghast, was a prominent Worcester Massachusetts businessman, who in the year of December 1909, announced the creation of the first, "heavier-than-air" flying craft. He explained that he had done more than one-hundred flights with this machine under the cover of darkness.
Wallace Wolodarsky Wallace Wolodarsky was a writer for the Simpsons during the first four seasons, all of his episodes were co-written with former writing partner Jay Kogen. Since he left, he has directed several films (the most notable being Sorority Boys).
Wallace's Fruit-dove The Wallace's Fruit-dove, Ptilinopus wallacii is a medium-sized, up to 26cm long, green fruit-dove with a scarlet crown and forehead, whitish throat, orange shoulder patch, yellow bill, purplish feet and long green tail. It has a pale bluish grey breast and neck, an orange belly, with a white patch in between.
Wallace, Idaho Wallace is a historic city in northern Idaho and the county seat of Shoshone County in the Silver Valley mining district. Wallace sits alongside the South Fork of the Coeur d'Alene River (and Interstate 90) and the town's population was 960 at the 2000 census.
Wallacea Wallacea is a biogeographical designation for a group of Indonesian islands separated by deep water from the Asian and Australian continental shelves. The islands of Wallacea lie between Sundaland (the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Java, and Bali) to the west, and Near Oceania including Australia and New Guinea to the south and east.
Wallah (arabic) By Allah (Arabic: Wallah) is Arabic expression meaning "[I promise] by God" used to make a promise or express great credibility on an expression. It is considered a sin among Muslim to use this phrase and follow it up with a lie.
Wallach (crater) Wallach is a tiny lunar impact crater located in the eastern Mare Tranquillitatis. It is a circular, bowl-shaped feature with a negligible interior floor; the inner walls just slope down to the mid-point of the crater.
Wallach Hall Wallach Hall is the second oldest residence hall (or dormitory) on the campus of Columbia University, and currently houses undergraduate students from Columbia College as well as the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. It opened in 1905 as as "Livingston Hall" after Robert Livingston, a Founding Father of the United States and alumnus of King's College, Columbia's predecessor, but its name was changed after a large donation was made to the school by Ira D.
Wallach IX Wallach IX is a notable fictional planet in Frank Herbert's science fiction universe of Dune. Wallach is the ninth planet of Laoujin, and best known for being the site of the Mother School of the Bene Gesserit.
Wallach rearrangement The Wallach rearrangement is an organic reaction and a rearrangement reaction converting an aromatic azoxy compound with sulfuric acid to an azo compound with one arene ring substituted by an hydroxyl group in the aromatic para position 0. Wallach and E.
Wallachia Wallachia (also spelled Walachia; Romanian: Ţara Românească or "The Romanian Land") is a historical and geographical region of Romania. It is sometimes referred to as Muntenia, through identification with the larger of its two traditional sections.
Wallaman Falls Wallaman Falls (coordinates: ) is a waterfall located in the northeast tropics region of Queensland, Australia, approximately 50 km West of the township of Ingham, and Northwest of Townsville and Thuringowa. The falls have two main drops, the second of which is commonly cited to be Australia's largest single drop, between 268 and 305 m in height (sources vary).
Wallaroo A wallaroo is any of three closely related species of moderately large macropod, intermediate in size between the kangaroos and the wallabies. The name "wallaroo" is a portmanteau of wallaby and kangaroo.
Wallasea Wetlands Wallasea Wetlands is a reclaimed wetlands area located in Essex, England. It has been created as part of a government-funded wetlands scheme to halt the decline of wild and endangered birds caused by the drainage and development of former wetland sites.
Wallasey Pool Wallasey Pool is a natural inlet of water and separates the towns of Wallasey and Birkenhead on the Wirral, Merseyside, England. The pool was converted into the sophisticated Birkenhead Dock system from the 1820's onwards.
Wallcreeper The Wallcreeper (Tichodroma muraria) is a small bird found throughout the high mountains of southern Eurasia, including the Pyrenees, the Alps and the Altay Mountains. It is the only member of the genus Tichodroma.
Walled City of Lahore The Walled City of Lahore, also known as the "Old City", or "Anderoon Shehr (اندرون شهر)", is the section of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan that was fortified by a city wall during the Mughal era. Much of the wall remains intact today and is a popular tourist spot in Lahore.
Walled garden (media) A walled garden, with regards to media content, refers to a closed set or exclusive set of information services provided for users (a method of creating a monopoly or securing an information system). This is in contrast to providing consumers access to the open Internet for content and e-commerce.
Walled Obelisk The Walled Obelisk (also known as Constantine Obelisk) is situated near Serpentine Column at the southern side of the Hippodrome of Constantinople (now Sultanahmet Square). The 32 meter-high obelisk was constructed of roughly cut stones by Constantine VII.
Wallenburg Set Wallenburg, also known as the Wallenburg Four, is a popular gap among the skateboard community which is located in a San Francisco school. It first appeared in an early 90's video by Blind skateboards named "Video Days".
Wallenstein (board game) Wallenstein is a medium-weight German-style board game designed by Dirk Henn and published by Queen Games in 2002. Though set during the Thirty Years' War, Wallenstein should not be confused with a complex wargame.
Walley jump A Walley jump is a full rotation jump in figure skating where the skater jumps off of the backward inside edge, makes one full rotation in the air, and then lands on the backward outside edge of the same foot. For a counterclockwise jump, the takeoff and landing are on the right foot.
Walleye The Walleye (Sander vitreus vitreus, formerly Stizostedion vitreum vitreum) is a freshwater perciform fish native to most of Canada and to the northern United States. It is a North American close relative of the European pikeperch.
Wallflower The genus Erysimum includes the wallflowers, which include both popular garden species and many wild forms. There are about 80 species, native to southwest Asia, the Mediterranean region, Macaronesia, and North America.
Wallflower (comics) Wallflower, real name Laurie Collins, is a fictional character, a mutant in the Marvel Universe, one of the student body in the Xavier Institute, and a member of the former New Mutants squad therein. After the events of M-day transpired, she was one of a handful of mutants to keep her powers.
Wallflower (people) In social situations, a wallflower is a slang term used to describe shy or unpopular individuals who do not socialize or participate in activities at social events. It is most often used to describe someone who stays close to a wall and out of the main area of social activity.
Wallhacking Wallhacking is the use of various methods for cheating in multiplayer first-person shooters by changing the properties of walls. Wallhacking allows cheating players to see things they normally wouldn't be able to, such as the exact location of another player hiding behind a wall, giving the cheater an advantage.
Wallia Wallia or Valia (in Spanish Walia, in Portuguese Vália) was king of the Visigoths from 415 to 419, earning a reputation as a great warrior and prudent ruler. He was elected to the throne after Ataulf and then Sigeric were assassinated in 415.
Wallid Ismail Wallid Ismail (born January 22, 1964) is a Brazilian mixed martial arts fighter, promoter, and pro wrestler. He holds a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Carlson Gracie, and is an eight-time Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu Champion.
Wallich German family which probably derived its name from the Hebrew transcription of "Falk" (ולק). The earliest known members of it are Joseph ben Meïr Wallich, a physician, and Moses Joshua Wallich, both of whom lived at Worms in the sixteenth century.
Wallingford By-pass Bridge Wallingford By-pass Bridge was built in 1993 as part of a by-pass round Wallingford, Oxfordshire, relieving the single-track Wallingford Bridge, and is believed to be the newest bridge on the non-tidal Thames. It forms part of the A4130.
Wallingford-Swarthmore School District Wallingford-Swarthmore School District is a school district in southeastern Delaware County, Pennsylvania in the United States. It serves the boroughs of Swarthmore and Rutledge, the township of Nether Providence (consisting largely of the unincorporated community of Wallingford), and parts of the boroughs of Media and Rose Valley.
Wallington High School Wallington High School is a six-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in seventh through twelfth grade from Wallington, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Wallington Public Schools.
Wallis (retailer) Wallis is one of the many companies under ownership of Philip Green, a British retailing icon. It is one of the smaller groups but in proportion does as well as Topshop, the brand with the highest profit margin overall.
Wallis Original Records Wallis Original Records was a record label which was started in 1952 by Joel Leibowitz & Hy Pastman to release records by Ruth Wallis, the "queen of the double entendre". Their last release was Ruth Wallis' Greatest Hits — Boobs on December 1 1998.
Wallis, Gilbert and Partners Wallis, Gilbert and Partners was a British architectural partnership responsible for the design of many Art Deco buildings in the UK in the 1920s and 1930s. It was established by Thomas Wallis (1873-1953) in 1914.
Wallis, The Duchess of Windsor Wallis, The Duchess of Windsor (Bessie Wallis Windsor, née Warfield; later Spencer and Simpson) June 19 1896 – April 24, 1986) was the wife of Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor. The desire of the Duke, as King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, to marry the then Wallis Simpson, an American divorcée, caused a constitutional crisis in the United Kingdom and the British Empire which ultimately led to his abdication in order to marry "the woman I love".
Walliser German The Walliser German (Walliserdeutsch in German) is a group of Highest Alemannic dialects spoken in Switzerland, specifically in the German-speaking part of the Canton of Wallis (in French: Valais), in the uppermost RhĂ´ne valley. (The lower part of this canton is French-speaking; see Canton Valais.
Wallkill River The Wallkill River, a tributary of the Hudson, drains Lake Mohawk near Sparta, New Jersey, flowing from there generally northeasterly more than 90 miles (144 km) into New York, where it drains into Rondout Creek near Rosendale, with the combined flows reaching the Hudson at Kingston.
Wallkill Senior High School Wallkill Senior High School, located in Wallkill, New York, educates students in grades 9 through 12 in the Wallkill Central School District. The building is located in residential neighborhoods on Robinson Drive in the northern end of the hamlet, a few blocks west of NY 208.
Wallkill Valley Regional High School Wallkill Valley Regional High School is a four-year public high school and regional school district in New Jersey serving approximately 900 students from four municipalities in Sussex County, approximately forty miles northwest of New York City. The school is located in Hamburg Borough, at 10 Grumm Road.
Wallkill, Ulster County, New York Wallkill is a hamlet (and census-designated place), generally identified as coterminous with ZIP code 12589, telephone exchange 895 in the 845 area code and most of the Wallkill Central School District located mostly in the eastern half of the Town of Shawangunk, Ulster County, New York but partly spilling over into adjacent regions of the Orange County towns of Newburgh and Montgomery. The population was 2,143 at the 2000 census.
Wallonie Libre Wallonie Libre or Free Wallonia is a small political movement in Belgium. It is believed to be founded on June 18th, 1940 on the battlegrounds of Waterloo in the Walloon Brabant province, the place where Napoleon was defeated in 1815 by the British, Prussian and Russian armies.
Walloomsac River The Walloomsac River (pronunciation: WALL-oom-sak) is a tributary of the Hoosic River, 30 miles (48 km) in length, in the northeastern United States. It rises in southeastern Vermont, in the Green Mountains east of the town Pownal and flows north and west past Bennington to join the Hoosic below Hoosick Falls, New York.
Walloon Aeronautical Cluster The Walloon Aeronautical Cluster (French: Entreprises Wallonnes de l'AĂ©ronautique or EWA) is the Wallonian (south part of Belgium) official cluster of companies which are active in the global aeronautical supply chain. The goal of the cluster is to promote the technological advance of the Walloon aeronautics sector and its ability to supply competitive products and services, which are the mainstay of business development.
Walloon Brabant Walloon Brabant (French: Brabant Wallon, Dutch: Waals-Brabant) is a province of the Walloon Region in Belgium. It borders on (clockwise from the North) the province of Flemish Brabant (Flemish Region) and the provinces of Liège, Namur and Hainaut (Walloon Region).
Walloon language Walloon (walon) is a regional Romance language spoken as a second language by some in Wallonia (Belgium). It belongs to the langue d'oĂŻl language family, whose most prominent member is the French language, and is sometimes erroneously considered a French dialect.
Walloon Nutrition cluster The Walloon Nutrition cluster is the official cluster of universities, industries, and laboratories working in the field of nutrition and health in Wallonia (south part of Belgium). The goal of the cluster is to develop a nutritional approach that responds to the needs of the modern-day consumer.
Walloon Parliament The Walloon Parliament, or Walloon Regional Parliament (French: Parlement wallon or Parlement régional wallon; formerly Walloon Regional Council or Conseil régional wallon), is the parliament of Wallonia, the southern region of Belgium. Its seat is in Namur.
Walloon Space Cluster The Walloon Space Cluster or Space Cluster of the Walloon Region (French: Wallonie Espace) is the official Walloon (south part of Belgium) cluster (industries, universities, laboratories) working on space research and development in Wallonia and in Brussels.
Walloon Transport & Logistics Cluster The Transport & Logistics Cluster (French: Cluster Transport & Logistique) is the official cluster of the transport and logistics sector (conveyors, logisticians, managers of infrastructures and the training organizations) in Wallonia (south part of Belgium). The goal of the cluster is to contribute to the development of the sector of transport and logistics in the Walloon Area.
Walloons The term Walloons (French: Wallons, Walloon: Walons) refers, in daily speech, to French-speaking Belgians from Wallonia, though when referring to its inhabitants with the meaning of citizen of Wallonia, the term "Wallonian" is more common. Many non-French-speaking observers (over)generalize Walloons as a term of convenience for all (even born and living in the Brussels Region) Belgian French-speakers, who are one of the two major groups in Belgium, the other being the Dutch-speaking Flemish.
Wallooskee River The Wallooskee River is a tributary of the Youngs River, approximately 6 mi (10 km) long, in northwest Oregon in the United States. It drains a small area of the foothills of the Coast Range near the mouth of the Columbia River.
Wallops Flight Facility Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) , located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, is operated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center primarily as a rocket launch site to support science and exploration missions for NASA and other federal agencies. WFF includes an extensively instrumented range to support launches of more than a dozen typesof sounding rocket]s, small expendable suborbital and orbital rocketshttp://www.
Wallowa Mountains The Wallowa Mountains are a mountain range located in the Columbia Plateau of northeastern Oregon in the United States. The range runs approximately 40 mi (64 km) northwest to southeast in southwestern Wallowa County between the Blue Mountains to the west and the Snake River to the east.
Wallowa River The Wallowa River is a tributary of the Grande Ronde River, approximately 30 miles (48 km) long, in northeastern Oregon in the United States. It drains a valley on the Columbia Plateau in the northeast corner of the state north of Wallowa Mountains.
Wallpaper Wallpaper is material which is used to cover and decorate the interior walls of homes, offices, and other buildings; it is one aspect of interior decoration. Wallpapers are usually sold in rolls and are put onto a wall using wallpaper paste.
Wallpaper group A wallpaper group (or plane symmetry group or plane crystallographic group) is a mathematical classification of a two-dimensional repetitive pattern, based on the symmetries in the pattern. Such patterns occur frequently in architecture and decorative art.
Wallrow A wallrow is a combination of a field boundary, dry stone wall and the spontaneous regeneration of scrubland brought about by the shelter of that wall, often containing species of trees, woody shrubs, herbaceous growth and other flora.
Walls And Mirrors Walls And Mirrors is an influential computer science textbook, for undergraduates taking a second computer science course (typically on the subject of data structures and algorithms), written by Paul Helman and Robert Veroff. The book has endured as a standard textbook through many editions because it strikes a balance between being too mathematically rigorous and formal - such as (for example) The Art of Computer Programming or MIT's Introduction to Algorithms - and also being so informal, practical, and hands-on that computer science theory is not taught.
Walls of Constantinople The Walls of Constantinople are a series of stone walls that have surrounded and protected the city of Constantinople (today Istanbul in Turkey) since its founding as the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire by Constantine the Great to the present day. With numerous additions and modifications during their history, they are one of the greatest and most complex fortification systems ever built.
Walls of Jericho Walls of Jericho are a female-fronted metalcore band formed in 1998 from Detroit, Michigan named after power metal band Helloween's album of the same name. Their first release was an EP entitled A Day and a Thousand Years (EP) (1999).
Walls, Boxes, & Jars Walls, Boxes, & Jars (2001), featuring the popular songs "Tidal Wave Goodbye" and "Ligeia", was the debut album of singer and pianist Raven Oak. Written while facing the constraints of college music classes, this album explores the depths of the categories, labels, and boxes society often forces upon survivors.
Wallsend Boys Club Wallsend Boys Club is a football club based in Wallsend, near Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It is famous for producing professional English footballers including Alan Shearer, Robbie Elliott, Lee Clark, Michael Carrick, Peter Beardsley, Steve Watson and many others.

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