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Wackett Punches
53; used to quiet cattle or horses

Wagwheel, Tansy
178;

Walker, Foley
31; special assistant to Scarsdale Vibe, 99; substitute conscript for Vibes during the Civil War, subsequently taking a bullet to the head, which gives him the ability to hear "communications from far, far away," 100ff; 156; 330-333; "righteous men who believed it was God they heard whispering" 334; in Göttingen, 619;

Wall o' Death
476; town in Missouri

Wall of Death
184;

Wardenclyffe
326; on Long Island, where Tesla built his Tower

Washoe process
375;

Wave functions
426; 536;

Waziri's from Waziristan
23;

Weedon
495; at Cambridge

Weierstrass, Karl (1815-1897)
500; a German mathematician who is often cited as the "father of modern analysis"; Weierstrass functions, 594; Wikipedia entry

Wells, Buck
179; "mine manager and cavalry commander at Telluride"

Wells, H. G.
398; 407; 412;

Wensleydale
37; confronts Baslight

Werfner, Dr.
226; Renfrew's "opposite number"; 499; 602; 680; 719;

Western Reserve
59; in Ohio

Whiskey Hill
60; in Cleveland; 62;

Whistler
578;

Whitechapel
678; Whitechapel is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, England. It is a built-up inner city district located 3.4 miles (5.5 km) east of Charing Cross and roughly bounded by the Bishopsgate thoroughfare on the west, Hanbury Street on the north, Brady Street and Cavell Street on the east and Commercial Road on the south. Jack the Ripper, the unidentified serial killer (or killers), was active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London in the latter half of 1888. The name "Jack the Ripper" is taken from a letter to the Central News Agency by someone claiming to be the murderer, published at the time of the killings; Rippercetta, 680; Wikipedia entry]

White City, The

3; Costing over a half billion in today's dollars and covering 686 acres, the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and Fair in Chicago was a grand sight to its 27 million visitors -- a planned layout of large, classically inspired buildings (what we now call the Beaux Arts style) all built on the same scale and all painted white -- hence, the nickname of "The White City." And within and around those white buildings was the most amazing display of 65,000 exhibits depicting (to quote the Exposition promoters) "all of the highest and best achievements of modern civilization; all that was strange, beautiful, artistic, and inspiring; a vast and wonderful university of the arts and sciences, teaching a noble lesson in history, art, science, discovery and invention, designed to stimulate the youth of this and future generations to greater and more heroic endeavor." 10; 36; Dally think about, in Chicago, 336; More from the "Encyclopedia of Chicago"

White City Investigations
36;

Whitehall
444; Whitehall is a road in Westminster in London, the capital of the United Kingdom. It is the main artery running north from Parliament Square, centre of national government, towards the traditional Charing Cross, now at the southern end of Trafalgar Square and marked by the statue of Charles I, which is often regarded as the heart of London for its residents and tourists. Along its way it is lined by many government ministries; "Whitehall" is therefore also frequently used as a metonym for governmental administration, as well as being a geographic name for the surrounding district; Wikipedia entry

White Wings
150;

Whittaker, Edmund
542; English mathematician;

Wilde, Oscar
185; 536;

Wilhelm
543;

Wilhelmstrausse
686; 690;

Williams and Walker
344; "coon review"; Bert Williams and George Walker, in the first decade of the twentieth century, became the most famous black entertainers in the world. They had teamed up in California in 1893, came to New York in 1896 as "Two Real Coons," and two years later were making a dance called the cakewalk all the rage. Williams and Walker, as they were then known, made American theatrical history by bringing the first black musical, In Dahomey, to Broadway in 1902.

Windy City
3; aka Chicago — the origins of the nickname are in dispute and they are explored in this Wikipedia entry.

Woevre, Piet
540; formerly of the Force Publique; 558;

Wolf-Ferrari
512;

Wordsworth
535'

Workers' Own Songbook
49;

World-System
33; Tesla's free power; Read Tesla's "World System of Wireless Transmission of Energy"

World War I
578;