darts: …the founder member of the World Darts Federation (WDF), which represents more than 500,000 darts players in 50 countries. The major championships are the Winmau World Masters, the WDF World Cup, and the Embassy World Professional Darts Championship.

World Development Indicators (WDI), comprehensive set of data and statistics published annually by the World Bank that allows for the evaluation of the development of most countries in the world. The availability of World Development Indicators (WDI) enables more-informed public and private policy

WDIA: Black Music Mother Station: When WDIA went on the air in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1948, its white owners, Bert Ferguson and John R. Pepper, were anything but blues aficionados; however, deejay Nat D. Williams was. A former high-school history teacher and journalist, Williams brought his own records and his…

When WDIA went on the air in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1948, its white owners, Bert Ferguson and John R. Pepper, were anything but blues aficionados; however, deejay Nat D. Williams was. A former high-school history teacher and journalist, Williams brought his own records and his familiarity with

Library of Congress: … proposed a project called the World Digital Library. Its goal was to make available to anyone with access to the Internet digitized texts and images of “unique and rare materials from libraries and other cultural institutions around the world.” It was designed to be searchable in seven languages—Arabic, Chinese, English,…

Cologne: Cultural life: …the concert hall of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR; “West German Radio”), the high reputation of the latter being largely due to the WDR’s encouragement of contemporary music. A full repertoire is offered in theatre and opera as well, and the municipal theatre has its own ballet ensemble.

Mesopotamian religion: Myths: …one of their number—the god We, apparently the ringleader who “had the idea”—be killed and humankind created from clay mixed with his flesh and blood, so that the toil of the gods could be laid on humankind and the gods left to go free. But after Enki and the birth…

Brave New World: Historical context: …accused of plagiarizing the novel My by Yevgeny Zamyatin, written in 1920 and published in English as We in the United States in 1924. Huxley denied having read the book, and the similarities between the novels can be seen as an expression of common fears surrounding the rapid advancement of…

African art: Dan-We: The Dan-We complex of styles is named after two extremes of stylistic variation: the smooth, restrained style of the Dan, the De, and the Diomande and the grotesque style of the We (the Guere, the Wobe, and the Kran), a less-extreme form of which…

Wael Ghonim: …the administrator of the “We Are All Khaled Said” page. He praised the Egyptian protesters’ courage and wept when he was shown pictures of protesters who had been killed. The interview is often credited with having reenergized the Egyptian protest movement after a week of violent reprisals by the…

Marilyn Manson: Marilyn Manson, the band: …Age of Grotesque (2003), and We Are Chaos (2020), were relatively less successful.

Malala Yousafzai: Shooting and Nobel Peace Prize: …as her own displacement in We Are Displaced (2019).

disco: Queer culture and political themes: …Now” and Sister Sledge’s “We Are Family” (both 1979), and feminism—in particular, Black women’s liberation as expressed by African American divas such as Candi Staton in “Young Hearts Run Free” (1976) and Chaka Khan in “I’m Every Woman” (1978).

Australian literature: Literature from 1970 to 2000: …her first volume of poetry, We Are Going, in 1964. Mudrooroo Narogin (Colin Johnson, whose Aboriginal identity, however, was questioned) published his first novel, Wild Cat Falling, in 1965. Jack Davis wrote several acclaimed plays. Sally Morgan’s autobiography, My Place (1987), is a moving account of her discovery of her…

Harry Connick, Jr.: …1990 he released two albums, We Are in Love, a big-band sound with vocals, and Lofty’s Roach Soufflé, showcasing instrumental jazz. Connick won a second Grammy Award for best jazz vocal performance for We Are in Love. Connick’s subsequent albums included Blue Light, Red Light (1991), 25 (1992), She (1994),…

Matthew McConaughey: …Sahara (2005), the football drama We Are Marshall (2006), and the Hollywood satire Tropic Thunder (2008).

Taylor Swift: Kanye West incident at the VMAs, Red, and 1989: …lead single, the gleeful “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” gave Swift her first number-one hit on the Billboard pop singles chart.

Daniel Handler: …a futuristic San Francisco, and We Are Pirates (2015), about a contemporary teenager who develops an interest in piracy. Handler later explored teeenage sexuality in All the Dirty Parts (2017), which centres on a 17-year-old boy. The dark comedy Bottle Grove was published in 2019. He also wrote Why We…

Queen: …followed in 1977 with “We Are the Champions” and “We Will Rock You”—which became ubiquitous anthems at sporting events in Britain and the United States. The Game (1980), featuring “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” and “Another One Bites the Dust,” was Queen’s first number one album in the United…

the Chemical Brothers: …Push the Button (2005) and We Are the Night (2007) earned Grammy Awards for best dance/electronic albums. Later releases included Further (2010), Don’t Think (2012), and Born in the Echoes (2015). In addition, the Chemical Brothers created the soundtrack for the 2011 thriller movie Hanna and wrote and performed

Alice Walker: Later work and controversies: …Trade Center and Pentagon (2001), We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness (2006), and The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm’s Way (2013). Walker also wrote juvenile fiction and critical essays…

Kadir Nelson: Author and illustrator: …debut as a writer was We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball (2008), which chronicles Negro league baseball from its beginnings in the 1920s to its decline in the late 1940s; Nelson also illustrated the work. In 2009 he received the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal…

On January 28, 1985, more than 45 of the era’s most popular singers and songwriters gathered to record a song to raise funds for the charity USA for Africa. The song, “We Are the World,” released on March 7 that year, was an immediate media sensation. It sold an astonishing 800,000 copies in three

Kurt Vonnegut: Posthumous works: We Are What We Pretend to Be (2012) comprised an early unpublished novella and a fragment of a novel unfinished at his death. A selection of his correspondence was published as Letters (2012). Complete Stories (2017) collects all of his short fiction.

Luca Guadagnino: …directing the 2020 HBO series We Are Who We Are, about teenagers on a U.S. military base in Italy, he again collaborated with Chalamet on Bones and All (2022). The film, which also stars Taylor Russell, tells the story of two teenage cannibals and is based on the 2015 novel…

Lionel Barrymore: We Barrymores (1951), by Lionel Barrymore as told to Cameron Shipp, is basically an autobiography but contains much information on his famous siblings, John and Ethel.

Randy Newman: …Oscar, for the song “We Belong Together” from the latter film. He also scored Cars 3 (2017) and Toy Story 4 (2019). His song (“I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away”) for the latter film and his score for the drama Marriage Story (2019) earned Newman his 21st and…

Matt Damon: The Departed, Invictus, and True Grit: …about a deadly virus; and We Bought a Zoo, adapted from a memoir about a family who moves to a wildlife park. Damon then wrote with costar John Krasinski the drama Promised Land (2012), in which Damon played a gas-company representative seeking to obtain drilling rights in a rural community.

Steve Bannon: Association with Trump: Bannon subsequently became involved with We Build the Wall, a nonprofit organization that solicited donations to construct a wall along the southern border of the United States. By August 2020 it had raised more than $25 million. However, that month he and three other men were arrested, accused of defrauding…

Grace Slick: Jefferson Starship, Starship, and later years: …in the 1980s, including “We Built This City” and “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now,” featuring Slick on colead vocals with American singer Mickey Thomas.

Priyanka Chopra Jonas: …in original films such as We Can Be Heroes (2020) and The White Tiger (2021).

Rosie the Riveter: …but it was titled “We Can Do It!” and had no association with anyone named Rosie. It is believed that this initial drawing was part of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation’s wartime production campaign to recruit female workers. Miller’s drawing portrayed a woman in a red bandana with her bent…

Philip K. Dick: …adapted for film, including “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” (filmed as Total Recall [1990 and 2012]), “Second Variety” (filmed as Screamers [1995]), “The Minority Report” (filmed as Minority Report [2002]), and A Scanner Darkly (1977; film 2006). The Man in the High Castle was loosely adapted as…

In choosing to remove monuments honoring figures now viewed as objectionable, contemporary Americans are in a world-historical majority. Removing statues is a recourse with a long history. Popular revolutions often bring down statues of hated rulers—one recalls the destruction of Saddam Hussein’s

Arthur Ransome: …children’s literature; however, its successor, We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea (1937), is widely considered Ransome’s masterpiece.

Han Kang: Novels: …in English in 2025 as We Do Not Part) is a work of historical fiction that centers on the impact of a massacre committed by the South Korean government during a rebellion on Jeju Island in the 1940s.

Faith Ringgold: Her memoirs, We Flew over the Bridge, were published in 1995.

the Animals: …such as “I’m Crying,” “We Gotta Get Out of This Place,” and “It’s My Life,” developed a formula of tough, dramatic, hard-driving rock shaped by an awareness of folk music and the blues.

Yo La Tengo: We Have Amnesia Sometimes (2020) featured extended instrumental improvisation of ambient music recorded on a single microphone.

Rouben Mamoulian: Films of the 1930s: Although We Live Again (1934) was a generally undistinguished adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novel Resurrection (1899), Mamoulian had a much firmer grasp on William Makepeace Thackeray’s comedy of manners Vanity Fair (1847–48), which he brought to the screen as Becky Sharp (1935). That film also had…

Florence Pugh: Don’t Worry Darling and Oppenheimer: …starred with Andrew Garfield in We Live in Time, a romantic drama in which she played a chef who is diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Julio Cortázar: …Glenda, y otros relatos (1981; We Love Glenda So Much, and Other Tales). Cortázar also wrote poetry and plays and published numerous volumes of essays.

the Rolling Stones: First original hits: (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction and Get Off of My Cloud: …with its accompanying single “We Love You,” was a comparatively feeble riposte to the Beatles’ all-conquering Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and contributed little beyond its title to their legend. Furthermore, they were hampered by seemingly spending as much time in court and jail as they did in…

Gudmundur Kamban: …“Marble”) and Vi mordere (1920; We Murderers), as well as in his first novel, Ragnar Finnsson (1922), all of which are set in America, attention is focused on crime and punishment. Questions about societal versus personal responsibility are posed with compassion for the human individual and are closely linked to…

Tilda Swinton: Michael Clayton, Snowpiercer, and The French Dispatch: …ranging from the wrenching drama We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) to the dystopian thrillers Snowpiercer and The Zero Theorem (both 2013). Her performances in Burn After Reading (2008), Trainwreck (2015), and Hail, Caesar! (2016) revealed a talent for broad comedy as well.

Gwendolyn Brooks: The Bean Eaters: …her most famous poem, “We Real Cool.” Consisting of four short stanzas, each made up of two lines of one-syllable words, the poem describes seven boys who have skipped school to play pool.

antisemitism: Antisemitism after the Holocaust: …published a document titled “We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah,” which called upon the faithful to reflect upon the lessons of the Shoah (the Holocaust). In presenting that document, Edward Idris Cardinal Cassidy, president of the Holy See’s Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, said, “Whenever there…

Bruce Springsteen: Back with the E Street Band and into the 21st century: We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (2006) took a turn unanticipated by even the closest Springsteen observers. He made the recording over a period of 10 years with a folk-roots band and a horn section. It features traditional American folk songs (“Oh, Mary, Don’t You…

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: We Should All Be Feminists, Dream Count, and other works: Adichie’s nonfiction includes We Should All Be Feminists (2014), an essay adapted from a talk she gave at a TEDx event in 2012; parts of her talk are also featured in Beyoncé’s song “Flawless” (2013). Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions was published in 2017.…

H.E.R.: Acting: …helped write the Netflix show We the People (2021), which was coproduced by Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, among others. For her work on the series, H.E.R. won a Children’s and Family Emmy Award for outstanding short-form program in 2022.

Danh Vo: …as well, as seen in We the People (2010–13), for which he commissioned a full-scale copper replica, in fragments, of Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi’s iconic Liberty Enlightening the World (informally the Statue of Liberty) that he simultaneously installed at sites spanning the globe. Rather than reassemble the replica for future exhibits, Danh…

Jerry Brown: …he operated the political organization We the People, which sponsored programs and initiatives aimed at education and sustainable food production, including a daily radio program hosted by Brown. It was also the base for Brown’s successful 1998 mayoral campaign. He served two terms as mayor of Oakland and was considered…

Robert Z. Leonard: Later films: We Were Dancing (1942), a laboured adaptation of Noël Coward’s Tonight at 8:30, was notable for being one of Shearer’s last pictures. Leonard made a rare foray into the war genre with Stand By for Action (1942), a patriotic World War II yarn featuring Taylor…

the Smiths: …contributed to its hit album We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (2007)—and British rockers the Cribs before issuing his first official solo release, The Messenger, in 2013. His solo career continued with Playland (2014) and Call the Comet (2018).

Ta-Nehisi Coates: Books: In the essay collection We Were Eight Years in Power (2017), which includes work previously published in The Atlantic, Coates explores the presidency of Barack Obama as well as the subsequent election of Donald Trump.

Tadeusz Borowski: …recollections Byliśmy w Oświęcimiu (1946; We Were in Auschwitz). After his return to Poland he published two collections of short stories, Pożegnanie z Marią (1948; “Farewell to Maria”) and Kamienny świat (1948; “The World of Stone”), that explored the depths of human degradation in the Nazi concentration camps. (Both collections…

John Huston: Films of the 1940s: …was then the setting for We Were Strangers (1949), an atmospheric account of revolutionaries’ attempt to overthrow the government, which starred Jennifer Jones and John Garfield.

Joyce Carol Oates: …Girl Gang (1993), Zombie (1995), We Were the Mulvaneys (1996), Broke Heart Blues (1999), The Falls (2004), My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike (2008), Mudwoman (2012), Daddy Love (2013), Carthage (2014), Jack of Spades

Queen: …Are the Champions” and “We Will Rock You”—which became ubiquitous anthems at sporting events in Britain and the United States. The Game (1980), featuring “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” and “Another One Bites the Dust,” was Queen’s first number one album in the United States.

Vera Lynn: …would become her trademark song—“We’ll Meet Again,” written earlier that year by two young composers—on the show. The wistful tune, as interpreted by Lynn in her characteristic low pitch, articulated the longings of families and lovers separated by the war and thus became a touchstone to many. Lynn was…

Mary Higgins Clark: …My Pretty One Sleeps (1989), We’ll Meet Again (1999), Daddy’s Gone a Hunting (2013), and I’ve Got My Eyes on You (2018). Several of Clark’s novels and stories were adapted into films.

Édouard Dujardin: …“The Laurels Are Cut Down”; We’ll to the Woods No More), which was the first work to employ the interior monologue from which James Joyce derived the stream-of-consciousness technique he used in Ulysses.

Michael Curtiz: Last films of Michael Curtiz: …Island prison in the whimsical We’re No Angels, Curtiz’s effort for his new studio in 1955.

Norman Taurog: Musical comedies and Boys Town: …stayed in that genre for We’re Not Dressing (1934), which was one of his best efforts at Paramount. It starred Bing Crosby as a sailor who takes charge of a group of shipwrecked socialites (Carole Lombard and Merman, among others); George Burns and Gracie Allen appeared as anthropologists. Mrs. Wiggs…

Edmund Goulding: The 1950s: …elderly counterfeiter (Edmund Gwenn), and We’re Not Married (1952) was a Nunnally Johnson-penned concoction about five couples who discover that their wedding ceremonies were not performed legally; the cast included Eve Arden, Fred Allen, Eddie Bracken, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and Marilyn Monroe. After directing the musical Down Among the Sheltering…

Tom Wilson: Work at MGM/Verve and beyond: …Invention: Absolutely Free (1967) and We’re Only in It for the Money (1968).

Jennifer Aniston: Rom-coms: In We’re the Millers (2013), she portrayed an exotic dancer who poses as a mother in a scheme to smuggle marijuana from Mexico into the United States. She appeared as a kidnapping victim in the comedy Life of Crime (2013), based on the novel The Switch…

We’wha was a potter, textile artist, weaver, spiritual leader, and A:Shiwi (Zuni) cultural ambassador who is perhaps the most well-known lhamana. The A:Shiwi people’s term for “two-spirit,” a lhamana is an individual who takes on attributes of men and women. Like other lhamanas, We’wha was born

We’wha was a potter, textile artist, weaver, spiritual leader, and A:Shiwi (Zuni) cultural ambassador who is perhaps the most well-known lhamana. The A:Shiwi people’s term for “two-spirit,” a lhamana is an individual who takes on attributes of men and women. Like other lhamanas, We’wha was born

Ayn Rand: The Fountainhead: Her first published novel, We the Living (1936), was a romantic tragedy in which Soviet totalitarianism epitomized the inherent evils of collectivism, which she understood as the subordination of individual interests to those of the state. A subsequent novella, Anthem (1938), portrayed a future collectivist dystopia in which the…

We’wha was a potter, textile artist, weaver, spiritual leader, and A:Shiwi (Zuni) cultural ambassador who is perhaps the most well-known lhamana. The A:Shiwi people’s term for “two-spirit,” a lhamana is an individual who takes on attributes of men and women. Like other lhamanas, We’wha was born

World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), international fellowship of organizations that hold biblically conservative interpretations of the Christian faith. From 1846 until the mid-1900s, the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) was primarily the venture of its founding member, the British Evangelical

Albert Mansbridge: …the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA; originally called An Association to Promote the Higher Education of Working Men). The WEA was quickly recognized by most British universities, and in 1905 Mansbridge abandoned clerical work to become its full-time general secretary.

Davenport v. Washington Education Association: …other nonunion members of the Washington Education Association (WEA), the state’s largest teacher union, filed a lawsuit against the WEA, claiming that it had failed to obtain the affirmative authorization required in Section 760; the state of Washington also brought a similar suit against the WEA (Washington v. Washington Education…

radio: The role of advertising: …New York City radio station, WEAF, began selling time for “toll broadcasting.” Its first radio commercial, broadcast on August 22, 1922, was a 15-minute real-estate ad offering apartments in Jackson Heights, Queens. But acceptance of radio advertising was slow, as broadcasters did not want to offend listeners. Early ads promoted…

George Weah is a Liberian politician and a former football (soccer) player who served as president of Liberia from 2018 to 2024. Before entering politics, his impressive football career included being named African, European, and World Player of the Year in 1995—an unprecedented achievement. Weah

George Weah is a Liberian politician and a former football (soccer) player who served as president of Liberia from 2018 to 2024. Before entering politics, his impressive football career included being named African, European, and World Player of the Year in 1995—an unprecedented achievement. Weah

anthropic principle: Forms of the anthropic principle: The weak anthropic principle (WAP) is the truism that the universe must be found to possess those properties necessary for the existence of observers. The WAP is not a theory of physics. Rather, it is a methodological principle. It is therefore not appropriate to ask if…

intermediate vector boson, type of boson associated with the electromagnetic and weak forces in unified form. See W

formal logic: Axiomatization of PC: …is complete (or, more specifically, weakly complete) if every valid wff is a theorem. The axiomatic system PM can be shown to be both sound and complete relative to the criterion of validity already given (see above Validity in PC).

liquid: Weak electrolytes: While classification under the heading electrolyte-solution or nonelectrolyte-solution is often useful, some solutions have properties near the boundary between these two broad classes. Although such substances as ordinary salt and hydrogen chloride are strong electrolytes—i.e., they dissociate completely in an ionizing solvent—there are…

cereal processing: Wheat: varieties and characteristics: …preferred for bread manufacture and weak flours for cakes and biscuits. Strong flours are high in protein content, and their gluten has a pleasing elasticity; weak flours are low in protein, and their weak, flowy gluten produces a soft, flowy dough.

particle accelerator: Synchrotrons: This arrangement resulted in a weak focusing effect that was adequate for machines in which the dimensions of the magnet gap could be appreciable in comparison with the radius of the orbit. The magnitude of the magnetic fields that may be used is limited by the saturation of the iron…

weak interaction, a fundamental force of nature that underlies some forms of radioactivity, governs the decay of unstable subatomic particles such as mesons, and initiates the nuclear fusion reaction that fuels the Sun. The weak interaction acts upon left-handed fermions—i.e., elementary particles

intermediate vector boson, type of boson associated with the electromagnetic and weak forces in unified form. See W

weak interaction, a fundamental force of nature that underlies some forms of radioactivity, governs the decay of unstable subatomic particles such as mesons, and initiates the nuclear fusion reaction that fuels the Sun. The weak interaction acts upon left-handed fermions—i.e., elementary particles

law of large numbers, in statistics, the theorem that, as the number of identically distributed, randomly generated variables increases, their sample mean (average) approaches their theoretical mean. The law of large numbers was first proved by the Swiss mathematician Jakob Bernoulli in 1713. He

dark energy: …a phenomenon known as “weak lensing.” At some point in the last few billion years, dark energy became dominant in the universe and thus prevented more galaxies and clusters of galaxies from forming. This change in the structure of the universe is revealed by weak lensing. Another measure comes…

weak interaction, a fundamental force of nature that underlies some forms of radioactivity, governs the decay of unstable subatomic particles such as mesons, and initiates the nuclear fusion reaction that fuels the Sun. The weak interaction acts upon left-handed fermions—i.e., elementary particles

weak interaction, a fundamental force of nature that underlies some forms of radioactivity, governs the decay of unstable subatomic particles such as mesons, and initiates the nuclear fusion reaction that fuels the Sun. The weak interaction acts upon left-handed fermions—i.e., elementary particles

gravity: Gravitational fields and the theory of general relativity: The first is the weak principle of equivalence. Newton himself performed experiments with pendulums that demonstrated the principle to better than one part in 1,000 for a variety of materials, and, at the beginning of the 20th century, the Hungarian physicist Roland, Baron von Eötvös, showed that different materials…

intermediate vector boson, type of boson associated with the electromagnetic and weak forces in unified form. See W

rhyme: Weakened, or unaccented, rhyme occurs when the relevant syllable of the rhyming word is unstressed (bend / frightened). Because of the way in which lack of stress affects the sound, a rhyme of this kind may often be regarded as consonance, which occurs when the…

Jane Lynch: …of the reality game show Weakest Link. In addition, Lynch hosted the Emmy Awards ceremony in 2011. She returned to Broadway in 2022, appearing in a revival of the musical Funny Girl.

weakfish, (genus Cynoscion), any member of a group of fishes in the croaker family, Sciaenidae (order Perciformes). A half dozen species inhabit the coastal regions of North America. The weakfish (Cynoscion regalis) is a marine sport fish but is usually less than 60 cm (2 feet) long. Much larger

weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP), heavy, electromagnetically neutral subatomic particle that is hypothesized to make up most dark matter and therefore some 22 percent of the universe. These particles are thought to be heavy and slow moving because if the dark matter particles were light

intermediate vector boson, type of boson associated with the electromagnetic and weak forces in unified form. See W

Women’s Equity Action League (WEAL), former national women’s organization committed to improving the status of women in the United States through legal action and lobbying for institutional and legislative change. Established and incorporated in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1968 by Elizabeth Boyer and local

The Weald, ancient raised tract of forest nearly 40 miles (64 km) wide in southeastern England, separating the London basin from the English Channel coast. The Weald (Saxon: Andredsweald) is developed on an eroded dome of varied rock strata, and the chalk Downs (both North and South) compose a

Wealden, district, administrative county of East Sussex, historic county of Sussex, southeastern England. Hailsham, in the south-central part of the district, is the administrative centre. The district takes its name from The Weald, a region of forested ridges that lies between the chalk hills of