Wallace, Lewis. 1827-1905. US soldier, author. Ben Hur 1880.

Wang Wei. 699-759. Chinese poet, landscape painter.

Warhol, Andy. 1925-87. US Pop artist. Campbell’s Soup Cans 200 1962. Marilyn 1967.

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

Warsaw. 1596 Polish capital. 1655 Sweden destroys. 1795 Prussia. 1807 Napoleon creates Duchy. 1813 Russia. 1815 Kingdom of Poland. 1939-45 Germany occupies.

Warsaw Pact. 1955-91. USSR, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, E Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania. Treaty for the combined defence of Eastern Europe under Soviet supreme command.

Warsaw Uprising. 1830-1. Czartoryski attempt to oust Russians crushed. 1944. Polish underground army defeats Germans but Soviet delay allows German reinforcements to defeat Poles, destroying potential opposition to later Soviet control.

Warwick, Earl of. 1428-71. “The Kingmaker”-. Helped York Edward IV, then restored Lancaster Henry VI.

Washington, Booker T. 1856-1915. US black educator: Up from Slavery 1901.

Washington, Treaty. 1871. Britain/US recognize Canada, regulate Great Lakes navigation.

Watergate. 1972-4. US political scandal over burglary of Democratic headquarters. Cover up led to Nixon’s resignation.

Watling Street. Roman road from London to NW England. Part still in use.

Watson, James. 1928-. US discoverer of DNA structure 1953 with Crick.

Weather Forecasts. 1860. First regularly issued by British Admiralty Office.

Webster-Ashburton, Treaty. 1842. Britain, US settle Eastern US-Canada border, suppress slave trade.

Wedmore, Treaty. 878. Alfred the Great, Danes divide England.

Wehlau, Treaty. 1657. Poland renounces suzerainty over Prussia.

Weimar Republic. 1919-33. Post WWI Germany. Hyperinflation, unemployment, instability. Rise of Nazism.

Weismann, August. 1834-1914. German. Germ-plasm theory of heredity.

Wenceslas. 1361-1419. German king 1378-1400. Deposed. King of Bohemia 1378-. Hussite Wars.

Wenceslaus, St. 907-29. Patron saint of Czechs. Murdered by brother Boleslav I.

Wendover, Roger of. English historian. Flores Historiarum 1235 recorded Godiva’s ride.

Wends. Sorbs. Slavic tribes of Pomerania, east Germany.

Wergeland, Henrick. 1808-45. Norwegian Nationalist writer. Creation 1830.

Wesley, John. 1703-91. English founder of Methodism 1729. Direct preaching, often outdoors, to reach the uneducated working class. Sunday schools.

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