Veronica, St. Legendary woman who gave kerchief to Christ at Calvary.

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène. 1814-79. French Gothic Revival architect. Restored Notre-Dame 1841-54, Vincennes. Ste-Chapelle.

Vivian. Wanton. Captured Merlin in Arthurian legend.

Waldheim, Kurt. 1918-. Austrian. UN Secretary General 1972-82. Austrian president 1986-92. German officer WWII.

Wallenstein, Albrecht von. 1583-1634. Bohemian HRE general in Thirty Years War.

Warlords. 1916-49. China generals seized local power on Yüan Shih-K’ai’s death. Last eliminated by communists.

Wegener, Alfred. 1880-1930. Theory of Continental Drift 1910.

Wellesley, Richard. 1760-1842. British Governor General to India 1798-1805. Expanded British power. Wellington’s brother.

Wellington, Duke of. 1769-1852. English general, victor at Waterloo. Prime Minister 1828-30.

West, Benjamin. 1738-1820. US/English historical painter. Death of General Wolfe 1771.

Weygand, Maxime. 1867-1965. French general. Foch’s Chief of Staff. Advised Pétain capitulation. WWI.

Whitlam, Gough. 1916-. Australian Labour Prime Minister 1972-5. Quit Vietnam War. Dismissed by Governor General. Reduced immigration restrictions. White Australia.

Whittington, Richard. 1358-1423. London Lord Mayor. Legend of merchant selling his cat for fortune to rat- plagued Moroccan ruler, he marries merchant’s daughter, becomes Lord Mayor.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. 1889-1951. Austrian/English linguistic philosopher: Philosophical Investigations 1953. Logical Positivism 1921.

Wolfe, James. 1727-59. British general. Captured Quebec in Seven Years War 1759.

World Bank. 1944. United Nations agency established at Bretton Woods.

Wright, Frank Lloyd. 1869-1959. US “organic” architect. Introduced glass and steel forms. Guggenhem Museum 1943-59. Taliesin West 1938.

Xenophon. 431-350BC. Greek general/historian. Expedition of Ten Thousand. Anabasis. Hellenica.

Yeoman. English class between labourers and gentry.

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny. 1933-. Russian poet. Babiy Yar 1961.

Yggdrasill. Ash tree of existence, life and knowledge in Scandinavian legend.

York. Branch of the Anjou-Plantegenet family, Edward IV, Edward V, and Richard III. War of Roses.

Yü the Great. -2197BC. Legendary founder of First Chinese dynasty, Hsia.