W. C. Fields
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~ United States comedian and film actor (1880-1946)
W. H. Auden
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~ United States poet (born in England) (1907-1973)
W. K. Kellogg
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~ United States food manufacturer who (with his brother) developed a breakfast cereal of crisp flakes of rolled and toasted wheat and corn; he established a company to manufacture the cereal (1860-1951)
W. W. Jacobs
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~ English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943)
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~ a unit of power equal to 1 joule per second; the power dissipated by a current of 1 ampere flowing across a resistance of 1 ohm
W. H. Hudson
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~ English naturalist (born in Argentina) (1841-1922)
W. E. B. Du Bois
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~ United States civil rights leader and political activist who campaigned for equality for Black Americans (1868-1963)
W. Somerset Maugham
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~ English writer (born in France) of novels and short stories (1874-1965)
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~ a heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite
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~ the 23rd letter of the Roman alphabet
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~ the cardinal compass point that is a 270 degrees
W. V. Quine
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~ United States philosopher and logician who championed an empirical view of knowledge that depended on language (1908-2001)
W. C. Handy
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~ United States blues musician who transcribed and published traditional blues music (1873-1958)