Nehemiah. Judaea governor. Rebuilt walls of Jerusalem 444BC.

Philippe Auguste Wall. 1210. First defensive wall around Paris.

Remus. Twin brother of Romulus; legendary founders of Rome. Killed by Romulus after jumping over town wall.

Schiller, Friedrich. 1759-1805. German Romantic writer of historical dramas and lyric poetry. Popularized William Tell 1804. -“inner direction” Wallenstein 1800.

Shih Huang-ti. c259-210BC. Emperor 246-. Unified China. Great Wall. Burning of Books 213.

Simpson, Wallis. 1896-1986. American divorcée for whom Edward VIII abdicated.

Sistine Chapel. 1473. Vatican. Walls by Botticelli, Ghirlandaio; ceiling by Michelangelo 1508-12. Last Judgement 1534-41.

Thiers, Adolphe. 1797-1877. French. Led July Revolution. Paris wall 1841. Crushed Paris Commune 1871. First president of Third Republic 1871-3.

Ulbricht, Walter. 1893-1973. East German Stalinist General Secretary 1950-71. Head of State 1960-. Ordered Berlin Wall.

Wailing Wall, Battle. 1929. Jews battle Moslems.

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.