Walker, William. 1824-60. American filibuster. Nicaraguan president. 1856-7.

Walking Purchase. 1737. Americans cheat Indians in buying Delaware land by running instead of walking to determine land size. French-Indian Wars 1754-63.

Wallace, Alfred. 1823-1913. British naturalist. Theory of natural selection, 1838, independent of Darwin.

Wallace, George. 1919-98. Alabama segregationist governor, presidential candidate. Shot 1972.

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

Wallenberg, Raoul. 1912-47?. Swedish diplomat. Saved thousands of Jews in WWII Budapest. Jailed by Soviets. Holocaust.

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

Wallis, Barnes. 1887-1979. British armament inventor.

Wallis, John. 1616-1703. English mathematician. Calculus, cryptography. Infinitesimals 1655.

Walloon. French dialect of south Belgium. Flemings.

Walpole, Horace. 1717-97. English writer, connoisseur. First Gothic Romance. Castle of Otranto 1765.

Walpole, Robert. 1676-1745. English Whig. First Prime Minister 1721-42. Free trade and peace.

Walsh, Thomas. 1859-1933. US senator. Exposed Teapot Dome.

Walter, Hubert. -1205. English Archbishop of Canterbury. Ransomed Richard I, 1193. First Income Tax. Governed during king’s absences.

Walter, John. 1739-1812. English entrepreuner. Founded Times 1785. Jailed for libel.

Walter the Penniless. -1097. French knight. Led Peasants’ Crusade with Peter the Hermit.

Walther von der Vogelwelde. 1170-1230. German lyric poet.

Walton, Izaak. 1593-1683. English author. Compleat Angler 1653.

Walton, William. 1902-83. British composer influenced by Jazz, Elgar, Stravinsky.

Wandiwash, Battle. 1760. British defeat French at Madras. French leave India.

Wang Ching-wei. 1883-1944. Chiang Kai-shek rival. Governor of Japanese China 1938-44.

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

Wang Yang-ming. 1472-1529. Chinese Idealist neo-Confucianist philosopher.

War of 1812. Anglo-American War.

Warbeck, Perkin. 1474-99. Flemish. Posed as Richard, Duke of York, pretender to the English throne. Executed.

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