| William AlstonWilliam P. Alston is a Syracuse University philosophy professor, and has been influential as a Christian epistemologist of the twentieth century. His views on Foundationalism and Internalism vs. Externalism, among many other topics, have been very influen | Wim WendersWilhelm Ernst ("Wim") Wenders (born August 14, 1945) is a German-born film director, author and producer. Wenders received Palme d'Or in 1985 for his movie: Paris, Texas in 1985 and was awarded a honorary doctoral at Sorbonne, Paris in 1989. Films include | WikipediaWikipedia is a multilingual " copyleft" encyclopedia designed to be read and edited by anyone. It is collaboratively edited and maintained by thousands of users via wiki software, and is hosted and supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. In addi |
| WineThis article is about the beverage. See WINE for an article about the software of the same name. Wine is an alcoholic beverage typically made by fermentation of grapes. The word comes from Greek omicron;ινο&sigmaf through Latin vinum, (bot | Winter solsticeIn astronomy, the winter solstice is the moment when the earth is in that point of its orbit at which one of the earth's hemispheres is most tilted away from the sun. This causes the sun to appear at its farthest below the celestial equator when viewed fr | William WitheringWilliam Withering ( March 17, 1741 October 6, 1799) was a British physician and the discoverer of digitalis. Trained as a doctor at Edinburgh University, he worked at Birmingham General Hospital from 1779. The story is that one of his patients with dropsy |
| Wilhelm von HumboldtKarl Wilhelm von Humboldt ( June 22 1767 April 8 1835), government functionary, foreign diplomat, philosopher, founder of Humboldt Universitat in Berlin, friend of Goethe and especially of Schiller, is especially remembered as a German linguist who introd | William BarnesWilliam Barnes ( 1801 1886) was an English writer, poet, minister, and philologist. He was a friend of Thomas Hardy and Gerard Manley Hopkins. He is known for his Dorset dialect poems. Barnes had a strong interest in language; he was fluent in Greek, Lati | William Gibson (novelist)William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an author, mostly of science fiction novels, who lives in Canada. He is one of the leading members of the cyberpunk movement. Gibson was born in Conway, South Carolina, USA. In 1968, he moved to Canada, and in |