Viola Davis: The Help and How to Get Away with Murder: Davis’s later credits include Won’t Back Down (2012), which examined conflicts in American public education; Prisoners (2013), a crime drama about missing children; and Ender’s Game (2013), a science-fiction adventure movie.

Pete Townshend: The Who: …included the rock anthems “Won’t Get Fooled Again” and “Baba O’Riley,” and the double-album rock opera Quadrophenia (1973), featuring the tracks “The Real Me” and “Love, Reign o’er Me.” Townshend released his first solo album, Who Came First, in 1972, opening with the track “Pure and Easy,” which also…

Fred Rogers: …the subject of the documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor (2018) and the feature film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), starring Tom Hanks.

creativity: Individual qualities of creative persons: A third crucial characteristic combines curiosity and problem seeking. Creative individuals seem to have a need to seek novelty and an ability to pose unique questions. In Defying the Crowd (1995), for example, the American psychologists Robert Sternberg and Todd Lubart likened the combined traits of autonomy and problem solving…

Lloyd Bacon: Warner Brothers: Wonder Bar (1934) transported the Warner Brothers musical formula to a Parisian nightclub with uneven results, the nadir being Jolson’s number “Goin’ to Heaven on a Mule,” sung in blackface to 200 black children dressed as angels. Bacon could not elevate either Here Comes the…

David Joris: In addition to his Wonder Boeck (1542, 1551; “Wonder Book”), a ponderous volume of fantasy and allegory, he produced innumerable tracts. He became a wealthy and respected citizen who professed Reformed beliefs, and he moved from visions of his messianic role to more personal mystical experiences. Deprecating dogmatic disputes,…

maternal imagination: …sensationally cataloged in publications called wonder books, which captured the attention of audiences interested in observing disability. French physician Ambroise Paré’s Des monstres et prodiges (1573; Of Monsters and Marvels) is an example that gained wide renown. Although they seem fanciful to modern-day viewers, wonder books anchored developing empirical systems…

Bob Dylan: Elder statesman of folk and rock: …Have Changed,” from the film Wonder Boys. Another Grammy (for best contemporary folk album) came Dylan’s way in 2002, for Love and Theft (2001).

Michael Chabon: His next novel, Wonder Boys (1995; film 2000), centres on a weekend in the life of a stymied creative writing professor as he wrangles with his various personal and professional failures. Chabon conceived the novel on the heels of his own inability to refine the massive manuscript that…

Dezső Kosztolányi: Édes Anna (1926; Wonder Maid, 1947), the tale of a servant girl, is perhaps his best novel. He translated poetry from several European languages and also from Chinese and Japanese. In his later years he devoted much effort to the preservation of the purity of the Hungarian language.…

Will Eisner: Partnership with Iger and the Wonder Man lawsuit: In 1939 Eisner created Wonder Man for the Fox Feature Syndicate. Wonder Man was, uniquely, powered by a magic ring but had many similarities to the then-popular DC Comics character Superman. DC Comics (known as Detective Comics, Inc.) sued and won what is considered the first lawsuit in the…

fairy tale, wonder tale involving marvelous elements and occurrences, though not necessarily about fairies. The term embraces such popular folktales (Märchen, q.v.) as “Cinderella” and “Puss-in-Boots” and art fairy tales (Kunstmärchen) of later invention, such as The Happy Prince (1888), by the

Woody Allen: The 2010s, 2020s, and renewed controversy: …to the big screen with Wonder Wheel (2017), which starred Kate Winslet as a bored waitress on Coney Island in the 1950s who has an affair with a younger man, a lifeguard studying to be a playwright (Justin Timberlake).

Wonder Woman: The Silver Age and television success: …character in the live action Wonder Woman. The statuesque former beauty queen so perfectly embodied the Amazon princess that, although the show ran for just three seasons, Carter would become the face of the character for a generation. Early scripts tended to be very faithful to the World War II-era…

Wonder Woman, American comic book heroine created for DC Comics by psychologist William Moulton Marston (under the pseudonym Charles Moulton) and artist Harry G. Peter. Wonder Woman first appeared in a backup story in All Star Comics no. 8 (December 1941) before receiving fuller treatment in

Wonder Woman: Post-Crisis Wonder Woman and film success: …for Patty Jenkins’s 2017 film Wonder Woman. Studio executives had long questioned whether Wonder Woman could generate enough interest for a major Hollywood release, but those concerns were demolished by the critical and audience response to Gal Gadot’s star-making portrayal as the Amazon princess. By far the best-received entry in…

Wonder Woman: Post-Crisis Wonder Woman and film success: Jenkins and Gadot returned for Wonder Woman 1984 (2020), a visually stunning film that saw comic actress Kristen Wiig cast against type as Diana’s archnemesis, the Cheetah. The second entry in the Wonder Woman franchise met a lackluster response from fans and critics, however, and its box office performance was…

David Schwimmer: Friends: …on television shows such as The Wonder Years, Monty, and NYPD Blue before being cast as Ross Geller on Friends, a comedy about a group of six young adults who are either roommates or neighbours in New York City’s Greenwich Village. Friends first aired in 1994, and it quickly became…

Stevie Wonder is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, a child prodigy who developed into one of the most creative musical figures of the late 20th century. Blind from birth and raised in inner-city Detroit, he was a skilled musician by age eight. Renamed Little Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, a child prodigy who developed into one of the most creative musical figures of the late 20th century. Blind from birth and raised in inner-city Detroit, he was a skilled musician by age eight. Renamed Little Stevie Wonder

tree: Trees of special interest: The wonderboom (F. salicifolia) of Africa grows in a similar manner; a specimen at Pretoria has a spread of 50 meters (55 yards). Because of their unusual growth habits, some tropical ficuses are called strangler figs. Often they begin life high in a palm or some…

Selma Lagerlöf: …powerfully told historical tale; and Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige, 2 vol. (1906–07; The Wonderful Adventures of Nils and Further Adventures of Nils), a geography reader for children.

Elton John: Later career and albums: …duet album with Leon Russell), Wonderful Crazy Night (2016), and Who Believes in Angels? (2025, with country performer Brandi Carlile). He also contributed soundtracks to the animated movies The Road to El Dorado (2000) and Gnomeo & Juliet (2011).

Marcel Aymé: …were published in English as The Wonderful Farm (1951).

Stephen Jay Gould: …Arrow, Time’s Cycle (1987), and Wonderful Life (1989), he traced the course and significance of various controversies in the history of evolutionary biology, intelligence testing, geology, and paleontology. From 1974 Gould regularly contributed essays to the periodical Natural History, and these were collected in several volumes, including Ever Since Darwin…

The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay, poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes, published in his “Breakfast-Table” column in The Atlantic Monthly (September 1858). Often interpreted as a satire on the breakdown of Calvinism in America, the poem concerns a “one-hoss shay” (i.e., one-horse chaise) constructed logically

Wes Anderson: That same year he released The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, an adaptation of a 1977 Roald Dahl short story by the same name. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Ralph Fiennes, and Dev Patel, the film was awarded an Oscar for best live-action short film—Anderson’s first Academy Award.

Betty Comden and Adolph Green: …wrote another musical with Bernstein, Wonderful Town (1953), which won them their first Tony Award; they won six others, for Hallelujah, Baby!, Applause (1970), On the Twentieth Century (1978), and The Will Rogers Follies (1991). They also wrote several film scripts, including that of Auntie Mame (1958) and Singin’ in…

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, children’s book written by L. Frank Baum and first published in 1900. A modern fairy tale with a distinctly American setting, a delightfully levelheaded and assertive heroine, and engaging fantasy characters, the story was enormously popular and became a classic of

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, American drama and fantasy film, released in 1962, that fictionalized the lives of famed German storytellers the Brothers Grimm. The film combined live action with segments of animation and was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning for best costume

Jimmy Cliff: Move to London, The Harder They Come, and reggae stardom: …song “Waterfall”), and his album Wonderful World, Beautiful People (1970) was an international hit as well as the record that prompted Paul Simon to investigate reggae. As the star of The Harder They Come—he contributed to its soundtrack the classics “Many Rivers to Cross,” “Sitting in Limbo,” and the title…

Johnny Mathis: Chances Are and other timeless classics: …with the lushly orchestrated “Wonderful! Wonderful!” (1956). The dreamily romantic tunes “It’s Not for Me to Say” (1957) and “Chances Are” (1957) further highlighted his smooth and precisely controlled tenor. Mathis found additional success with the albums Johnny’s Greatest Hits (1958)—believed to be the first-ever compilation of an artist’s…

Elfriede Jelinek: …the satiric Die Ausgesperrten (1980; Wonderful, Wonderful Times, 1990), Lust (1989; Lust, 1992), and Gier (2000; Greed, 2006). Her most notable plays included Was geschah, nachdem Nora ihren Mann verlassen hatte; oder, Stützen der Gesellschaften (1980; What Happened After Nora Left Her Husband; or, Pillars of Society, 1994), which she…

Real estate investing offers a range of ways to own an alternative asset (that is, an investment outside the traditional world of stocks and bonds). Whether it’s owning your own home, buying rental property, or investing in securities, the best way to invest in real estate depends on the type of

American literature: New fictional modes: …later experimented with Surrealism in Wonderland (1971) and Gothic fantasy in Bellefleur (1980) before returning in works such as Marya (1986) to the bleak blue-collar world of her youth in upstate New York. Among her later works was Blonde: A Novel (2000), a fictional biography of Marilyn Monroe. While Mailer…

Val Kilmer: Later work and health issues: In the true crime drama Wonderland (2003), Kilmer played John Holmes, a porn star who was allegedly involved in several brutal murders. He later reunited with Oliver Stone on Alexander (2004), a biopic about the legendary leader of Macedonia, playing Alexander’s father, Philip II. In 2005 Kilmer portrayed a private…

Osa Johnson: … (1928), Across the World (1930), Wonders of the Congo (1931), Congorilla (1932), Baboona (1935), and Borneo (1937), along with numerous short features. They also collaborated on several books: Cannibal-Land (1922), Camera Trails in Africa (1924), Lion (1929), Congorilla (1931), and Over African Jungles (1935). On her own Johnson wrote Jungle

Fitz-James O’Brien: …sense but sight; and “The Wondersmith,” in which robots are fashioned only to turn upon their creators. These three stories appeared in periodicals in 1858 and 1859.

Todd Haynes: Carol, Wonderstruck, Dark Waters, and The Velvet Underground: He followed with Wonderstruck (2017), which was based on the best-selling children’s book about two children living in different eras with a secret connection. Dark Waters, a fact-based legal thriller about a chemical company’s alleged pollution of a community, appeared in 2019. Two years later Haynes wrote and…

George Harrison: …work in 1968 with the soundtrack to the psychedelic film Wonderwall. Following the breakup of the Beatles in 1970, he continued to put out solo recordings—notably the highly successful triple album All Things Must Pass (1970), which included the memorable “My Sweet Lord.” Other popular songs included “Give Me Love…

wandjina style: …have been painted by the Wondjinas, prehistoric inhabitants of the Kimberley region in northwest Australia, the only area where cave paintings in the wandjina style have been found. Among the Aborigines, each wandjina image is renovated, or repainted, by the oldest living member supposedly descended from its originator.

wandjina style, type of depiction in Australian cave paintings of figures that represent mythological beings associated with the creation of the world. Called wandjina figures, the images are believed by modern Aborigines to have been painted by the Wondjinas, prehistoric inhabitants of the

Jet Li: …1991 film Wong Fei-hung (Once Upon a Time in China), Li played his most famous character, the historical martial arts master Wong Fei-hung, who fought against injustice and foreign encroachment at the end of the Qing dynasty. Li became a top star in Hong Kong and played Wong in…

Wong Kar-Wai is a Chinese film director noted for his atmospheric films about memory, longing, and the passage of time. Wong’s family emigrated from Shanghai to Hong Kong in 1963. For many Shanghainese, assimilation of Hong Kong’s different dialect and culture was difficult. Wong’s early

Anna May Wong was an American actress who overcame discrimination and racism to become one of the first Asian Americans to have a successful film career in Hollywood. She appeared in more than 60 movies and also acted on television and on the stage. She was born Wong Liu Tsong in the Chinatown area

James Wong Howe was one of the greatest cinematographers of the American film industry, known for his innovative techniques. Brought by his parents to the United States at the age of five, he lived in the states of Washington and Oregon until 1916, when he went to southern California. Howe worked

Ali Wong is a comedian, writer, and actress whose irreverent and incisive work explores themes of cultural identity, motherhood, and sexuality from a feminist perspective. In 2024 she won a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award for her explosive performance as entrepreneur Amy Lau in the rage-fueled

Ali Wong is a comedian, writer, and actress whose irreverent and incisive work explores themes of cultural identity, motherhood, and sexuality from a feminist perspective. In 2024 she won a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award for her explosive performance as entrepreneur Amy Lau in the rage-fueled

Anna May Wong was an American actress who overcame discrimination and racism to become one of the first Asian Americans to have a successful film career in Hollywood. She appeared in more than 60 movies and also acted on television and on the stage. She was born Wong Liu Tsong in the Chinatown area

Lawrence Wong is the current and fourth prime minister of Singapore (2024–). An economist by training, he served in several government ministries before becoming deputy prime minister under Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Wong was chosen by Lee to be his successor prior to Lee’s stepping down from

the Dreaming, mythological period of time that had a beginning but no foreseeable end, during which the natural environment was shaped and humanized by the actions of mythic beings. Many of these beings took the form of human beings or of animals (“totemic”); some changed their forms. They were

Wong Kar-Wai: Wonggok ka moon (1988; As Tears Go By) was Wong’s first film as a director. A young man is torn between his love for his cousin and his friendship with his impetuous Triad “brother.” The film is Wong’s most conventional in terms of style and narrative but presents some…

Wŏnhyo was a Buddhist priest who is considered the greatest of the ancient Korean religious teachers. A renowned theoretician, Wŏnhyo was the first to systematize Korean Buddhism, bringing the various Buddhist doctrines into a unity that was sensible to both the philosophers and the common people.

Wŏnhyo was a Buddhist priest who is considered the greatest of the ancient Korean religious teachers. A renowned theoretician, Wŏnhyo was the first to systematize Korean Buddhism, bringing the various Buddhist doctrines into a unity that was sensible to both the philosophers and the common people.

Wŏnhyo was a Buddhist priest who is considered the greatest of the ancient Korean religious teachers. A renowned theoretician, Wŏnhyo was the first to systematize Korean Buddhism, bringing the various Buddhist doctrines into a unity that was sensible to both the philosophers and the common people.

Hani, an official nationality of China. The Hani live mainly on the high southwestern plateau of Yunnan province, China, specifically concentrated in the southwestern corner. There are also several thousands of Hani or related peoples in northern Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam and in eastern Myanmar

Wonju, city, Gangwon do (province), north-central South Korea. Historically, its location in the eroded basin of the Taebaek Mountains on the South Han River has been militarily strategic. After the Korean War (1950–53) it developed as a military base. Wonju, a transportation junction, is connected

Wonju, city, Gangwon do (province), north-central South Korea. Historically, its location in the eroded basin of the Taebaek Mountains on the South Han River has been militarily strategic. After the Korean War (1950–53) it developed as a military base. Wonju, a transportation junction, is connected

Timothée Chalamet: Dune and other movies from the 2020s: …Willy Wonka in the musical Wonka, based on the Roald Dahl character. The following year Chalamet played singer-songwriter Bob Dylan in the biopic A Complete Unknown, which depicts Dylan’s rise as a folk music sensation and culminates in his controversial electrified set

Iksan: …are located there, as is Wonkwang University (1953). Pop. (2020) 285,312.

Wŏnsan, city, capital of Kangwŏn do (province), southeastern North Korea. Situated on the coast of the East Sea (Sea of Japan), about 80 miles (130 km) east of P’yŏngyang, it is protected by two promontories and 20 islands in the Yŏnghŭng Bay and has the best natural harbour along the east coast of

Wonthaggi, town, southern Victoria, Australia. It lies 5 miles (8 km) inland from the coast on Bass Strait. The explorer William Hovell discovered black coal deposits at nearby Cape Paterson in 1826, but early attempts at mining were unsuccessful. Coal deposits at Wonthaggi were known by the 1850s,

John Woo is a Chinese film director noted for action movies that combine copious stylized violence with lyrical melodramatic depictions of male bonding. Woo was born in China, though the exact date of his birth is uncertain. In 1950 Woo and his family immigrated to Hong Kong, where they lived in a

bowls: …a ball (known as a bowl) is rolled toward a smaller stationary ball, called a jack. The object is to roll one’s bowls so that they come to rest nearer to the jack than those of an opponent; this is sometimes achieved by knocking aside an opponent’s bowl or the…

wood, the principal strengthening and nutrient-conducting tissue of trees and other plants and one of the most abundant and versatile natural materials. Produced by many botanical species, including both gymnosperms and angiosperms, wood is available in various colours and grain patterns. It is

methanol (CH3OH), the simplest of a long series of organic compounds called alcohols, consisting of a methyl group (CH3) linked with a hydroxy group (OH). Methanol was formerly produced by the destructive distillation of wood. The modern method of preparing methanol is based on the direct

anemone: The wood anemone of Europe, A. nemorosa, which bears white flowers, causes blistering of the skin and was formerly used as an ingredient in medicines. In North America, wood anemone refers to A. quinquefolia, a delicate plant with deeply cut leaves. Windflower, the English version of…

bison: bison bison) and the wood bison (B. bison athabascae), though the differences between them are minor. The plains bison formerly inhabited most of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains provinces of Canada. It greatly outnumbered the wood bison, which lived in northwestern Canada…

bivalve: Food and feeding: Shipworms are wood borers and are both protected and nourished by the wood they inhabit. They possess ctenidia and are capable of filtering food from the sea. When elongating the burrow, they digest the wood as well. In the Tridacnidae, symbiotic zooxanthellae (minute algal cells) are contained…

Fort McMurray: …form the specialized municipality of Wood Buffalo, which also includes the communities of Anzac, Conklin, Draper, Fort Chipewyan, Fort Fitzgerald, Fort MacKay, Gregoire Lake Estates, Janvier, Mariana Lake, and Saprae Creek Estates. Pop. (2006) mun., 52,643; (2011) 66,896.

Wood Buffalo National Park, park in northern Alberta and southern Northwest Territories, Canada, between Athabasca and Great Slave lakes. It has an area of 17,300 sq mi (44,807 sq km) and was established in 1922 as a refuge to protect the few remaining bison herds in northern Canada. A vast region

lacquerwork: Chinese carved lacquer: The carved lacquer of China (diaoqi) is particularly noteworthy. In this the lacquer was built up in the method described above, but to a considerable thickness. When several colours were used, successive layers of each colour of uniform thickness were arranged in the order in which…

Anton Chekhov: Literary maturity: His Wood Demon (1888–89) is a long-winded and ineptly facetious four-act play, which somehow, by a miracle of art, became converted—largely by cutting—into Dyadya Vanya (Uncle Vanya), one of his greatest stage masterpieces. The conversion—to a superb study of aimlessness in a rural manor house—took place…

wood duck, (Aix sponsa), small colourful North American perching duck (family Anatidae), a popular game bird. Once in danger of extinction from overhunting and habitat destruction, the species has been saved by diligent conservation efforts. Wood ducks nest in tree cavities up to 15 metres (50

wood engraving, a printmaking technique in which a print is made from a design incised on the transverse section, or end, of a hardwood block. The technique was developed in England in the last half of the 18th century, and its first master was the printmaker Thomas Bewick, whose illustrations for

Wood Family, celebrated English family of Staffordshire potters, a major force in the development of Staffordshire wares from peasant pottery to an organized industry. The family’s most prominent members were Ralph Wood (1715–72), the “miller of Burslem”; his brother Aaron (1717–85); and his son

shield fern, any of about 250 species of the fern genus Dryopteris, in the family Dryopteridaceae, with worldwide distribution. Shield ferns are medium-sized woodland plants with bright green, leathery leaves that are several times divided. They have numerous round spore clusters (sori) attached

wood frog, (Rana sylvatica), terrestrial frog (family Ranidae) of forests and woodlands. It is a cool-climate species that occurs from the northeastern quarter of the United States and throughout most of Canada to central and southern Alaska. The wood frog is tan to brown with a distinctly dark

wood hoopoe, (family Phoeniculidae), any of eight species of tropical African birds included in two genera, Rhinopomastus and Phoeniculus, order Coraciiformes. They range in length from 22 to 38 cm (8.5 to 15 inches), and all are predominately greenish or purplish black, with long graduated tails

horsetail: Wood horsetail (E. sylvaticum) grows in moist, cool woods and has many delicate branches that circle the shoots. Variegated horsetail (E. variegatum) is evergreen and has black markings on the sheaths. Common scouring rush (E. hyemale), occurring in moist woods and on riverbanks, reaches well…

ciconiiform: …the Scopidae), typical storks and wood storks (Ciconiidae), ibis and spoonbills (Threskiornithidae), and, according to some authorities, flamingos (Phoenicopteridae).

lemming: The wood lemming (Myopus schisticolor) and steppe lemming (Lagurus lagurus) are the smallest, measuring 8 to 12 cm (3.1 to 4.7 inches) in body length and weighing 20 to 30 grams (0.7 to 1.0 ounce). The other species are larger, weighing 30 to 112 grams, with…

wood louse, either of two related terrestrial crustaceans, the pill bug (q.v.) and the sow bug

lily: Physical description: …bowl shape, as in the wood lily (L. philadelphicum) and goldband lily (L. auratum). The flowers of some species are quite fragrant, and they occur in a wide variety of colours. Plants of most species range in height from 30 to 120 cm (1 to 4 feet); plants of certain…

Andy Goldsworthy: Permanent artworks: …San Francisco, including Spire (2008), Wood Line (2010–11), Tree Fall (2013), and Earth Wall (2014). Spire, a towering sculpture made from locally felled tree trunks and surrounded by saplings, was damaged in a fire in 2020, but it remained standing. Goldsworthy also constructed Walking Wall (2019) at the Nelson-Atkins Museum…

loosestrife: Yellow pimpernel, or wood loosestrife (L. nemorum), a low plant with a slender spreading stem and solitary yellow flowers, is common in England. Many species of Lysimachia are visited by bees for the oil contained in hairs on the flowers rather than for nectar or…

wood louse, either of two related terrestrial crustaceans, the pill bug (q.v.) and the sow bug

wood mouse, (genus Apodemus), any of about 20 species of small-bodied rodents found from northern Europe eastward to southern China and the Himalayas. Body size varies; different species weigh from 15 to 50 grams (0.5 to 1.8 ounces) and measure from 6 to 15 cm (2.4 to 5.9 inches) long excluding the

John Wood the Elder was an English architect and town planner who established the physical character of the resort city of Bath. Wood the Elder transformed Bath by adapting the town layout to a sort of Roman plan, emphasizing the processional aspect of social life during the period. Though some of

tung oil, pale-yellow, pungent drying oil obtained from the seeds of the tung tree. On long standing or on heating, tung oil polymerizes to a hard, waterproof gel that is highly resistant to acids and alkalies. It is used in quick-drying varnishes and paints, as a waterproofing agent, and in making

varnish tree, any of various trees whose milky juice is used to make a varnish or lacquer. The term is applied particularly to an Asian tree (Toxicodendron vernicifluum), related to poison ivy, that is highly irritating to the skin. On being tapped, the tree exudes a thick, milky emulsion that was

wood owl, (genus Strix), any of approximately 20 species of birds of prey of the genus Strix, family Strigidae, characterized by a conspicuous facial disk but lacking ear tufts. Wood owls occur in woodlands and forests in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The name wood owl is also applied to members

paneling, in architecture and design, decorative treatment of walls, ceilings, doors, and furniture consisting of a series of wide, thin sheets of wood, called panels, framed together by narrower, thicker strips of wood. The latter are called styles (the external vertical strips), muntins (the

piddock: The wood piddock (Martesia striata), up to 2.5 centimetres long, commonly occurs in waterlogged timbers cast up on the beach and ranges from North Carolina to Brazil. M. pusilla and M. cuneiformis have similar habits and distribution. Smith’s martesia (M. smithi), which resembles a fat, gray…

wood pigeon, (species Columba palumbus), bird of the subfamily Columbinae (in the pigeon family, Columbidae), found from the forested areas of Europe, North Africa, and western Asia east to the mountains of Sikkim state in India. It is about 40 cm (16 inches) long, grayish with a white collar and

wood: Pulp and paper: Wood is the main source of pulp and paper. Preliminary production steps are debarking and chipping. Pulping processes are of three principal types: mechanical, or grinding; chemical, or cooking with added chemicals; and semichemical, or a combination of heat or chemical pretreatment…

quail: Wood quail—large birds of the genus Odontophorus—are the only phasianids widely distributed in South America; they are forest dwellers.

Wood River, city, Madison county, southwestern Illinois, U.S. Part of the St. Louis, Missouri, metropolitan area, it lies on the Mississippi River near the confluence of the Wood and Missouri rivers. It was from this site that Meriwether Lewis and William Clark embarked on their trip to the Pacific

rot: Types of rot: Wood rot destroys economically significant amounts of timber each year. It is caused by hundreds of fungi, including species of Daedalea, Fomes, Lenzites, Polyporus, Poria, and Stereum. Affected wood is often discoloured or stained, lightweight, soft, crumbly, or powdery. Damage usually occurs slowly, often over…

germander: …naturalized in North America is wood sage, or woodland germander (T. scorodonia), which bears yellow flowers. Bush germander (T. fruticans), a shrub growing to 1.5 metres (5 feet), has scattered pale blue to lilac flowers and lance-shaped leaves. It is native on hillsides of coastal Europe.