High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wade Dominguez (May 10, 1966 - August 26, 1998) was an American Hollywood actor, model, singer and dancer, best known for his role as Emilio Ramirez in Dangerous Minds.Dominguez was born in Santa Clara County, California. In 1985, he graduated from Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill. He worked as a go go dancer for several years and became a fixture on the nightclub scene. He also sold clothes at the Beverly Center Mall where he was spotted by a photographer and soon began a modelling career.He moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career and enrolled in classes taught by former Oscar-Nominee Jeannie Berlin. Berlin's mother, the famous writer-director performer Elaine May was so impressed...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wade Christian McElwain (born June 1, 1972) is a Canadian comedian, writer, and TV producer.Wade was born in Mississauga, Ontario to Mary (Hosier) and Harvie McElwain. At the age of 5 Wade and his older siblings Brad and sister Leslie moved to the rural acclimes of Heidelberg where he lived in a predominantly Mennonite community. Three years later Wade's father moved them to a farm outside of New Dundee, Ontario so that they could 'be away from the distractions of a big city'. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Wadsworth Atheneum is the oldest public art museum in the United States, with significant holdings of French and American Impressionist paintings, Hudson River School landscapes, modernist masterpieces and contemporary works, as well as extensive holdings in early American furniture and decorative arts. It is located at 600 Main Street in a distinctive castle-like building in downtown Hartford, Connecticut, the state's capital. It easily accessible from I-91 and I-84, as well as by train. With 196,000 square feet (18,200 m2), the museum is the largest art museum in the state of Connecticut. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wafaa Bilal (born June 10, 1966) is an Iraqi American artist, a former professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and currently an assistant professor at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He is best known for his work Domestic Tension, a performance piece in which he lived in a gallery for a month and was shot by paintballs remotely by internet users watching from a webcam.Bilal's family is from Najaf, Iraq. He dreamed of becoming an artist but was prohibited from studying art in a university in Iraq, because of the alleged disloyalty of a member of his family; he studied geography instead. He continued to work on art and was arrested as a dissident for his art...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wah Yan Dramatic Society is an organisation in Hong Kong which performs Cantonese opera using English, also called "Cantonese Opera in English".Wah Yan Dramatic Society was established in 1947 by Wong Chin Wah, an alumnus from Wah Yan College, in order to allow foreigners to appreciate the culture of Cantonese opera. It started with an attempt by Father Sheridan to fit English lyrics into Cantonese operas improvisationally. The attempt was welcomed, so Wong, Sheridan and some other alumni established the Wah Yan Dramatic Society. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Waikato Museum is situated in Hamilton, New Zealand. Previously called the Waikato Museum of Art and History, the full name has been shortened in recent years due to the incorporation Exscite, an interactive science centre, and the emphasis on Tangata Whenua or Maori Studies. Its current address is 1 Grantham Street, in the south end of the main CBD of Hamilton, where it has been based since 1987. It sits on land gifted to the Hamilton City Council by the Tainui Tribe, and there is a strong Tainui presence in the museum. Previously the museum was based in London Street. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wainscot is a term used in fantasy fiction to describe societies that are concealed ('hidden in the wainscotting') and secretly working in the real world. It was first coined by The Encyclopedia of Fantasy in 1997.Such concealed societies typically have a special insight into the mechanics of the world, such as an understanding of magical forces or knowledge of supernatural beings. Wainscot societies may seek to hide this information from outsiders, or they may be disbelieved due to ignorance, conspiracies, or consensus reality.A significant feature of wainscot fiction is that it does not take place in fantasy realms only accessible via some kind of magical portal (e.g. Narnia). Wainscot...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wait for me, Daddy is a photo taken by Claude P. Dettloff on October 1, 1940 of The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles) marching down Eighth Street at the Columbia Avenue intersection, New Westminster, Canada. While Dettloff was taking the photo, Warren "Whitey" Bernard ran away from his mother to his father, Private Jack Bernard. The picture got extensive exposure and was used in war-bond drives. The picture Dettloff captured was picked up all over the world, getting exposure in Life; it hung in every school in British Columbia during the war. The secret destination turned out to be Nanaimo, only three hours away. Later, after years of training the regiment was sent out...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Waiting in the Wings" is the thirteenth episode of season 3 in the television show Angel. Written and directed by series creator Joss Whedon, it was originally broadcast on February 4, 2002 on the WB network. In "Waiting in the Wings", Angel takes the gang out for an evening at the ballet but becomes suspicious when the prima ballerina (Summer Glau) is the same one he saw dance more than 100 years ago. When Cordelia and Angel sneak backstage to investigate, they are consumed by overwhelming passion for each other as they are possessed by spirits of unrequited ballet lovers held captive by the sinister ballet troupe leader. Also, Fred finds that both Wesley and Gunn have feelings for her too,...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wakako Yamauchi (born 1924) is a Nisei Asian American female writer. Her plays are considered pioneering works in Asian American theatre.Wakako Yamauchi was born in Westmorland, California. Her mother and father, both Issei, or first-generation immigrants from Japan, were farmers in California's Imperial Valley. Many of her stories and her two plays, And the Soul Shall Dance and The Music Lessons, are set in the same dusty, isolated settings. In 1942, Yamauchi and her family were interned at the concentration camp in Poston, Arizona. Her first play, And the Soul Shall Dance, adapted from her short story of the same title, was first performed at the East West Players in Los Angeles and won the...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wakin Chau is a Hong Kong singer and actor popular in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Mainland China. He was known as Emil Chau through the 1980s and 1990s, and by 2000 he reverted to his given name Wakin. As of August 2007, he has released more than 40 albums and held several international concert tours.Wakin Chau was born in a rice store owned by his family in Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong. Growing up as the fourth son in his seven-member family, Wakin learned to play the guitar when he was about 13 years old. In 1979, he left for Taipei to major in mathematics at National Taiwan University. During his college years, he sang and played folk songs in local coffee shops. This activity was a tradition among...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wakonda's Dream is an English-language opera written by Anthony Davis with a libretto by Yusef Komunyakaa. It premiered March 7, 2007 at Omaha, Nebraska's Orpheum. The premiere was a huge success and the work has been compared to that of Stephen Sondheim due to the emotion and complexity of the music as well as the lack of a "hummable showtune."It has involved several well-known people in the world of opera and other musical and theatrical works. These people who have performed or directed it include Rhoda Levine, Eugene Perry, Patrick Kilcoyne, Arnold Rawls, William Ferguson, Kristopher Irmiter, Mara Bonde, Phyllis Pancella, Joe Fitzgerald, Earl Howard and several other opera veterans....

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walasse Ting (born 1929) is a Chinese-American visual artist and poet. His colorful paintings have attracted critical admiration and a popular following. Common subjects include nude women and cats, birds and other animals.He was born in Shanghai in 1929. He left China in 1946 and lived for a while in Hong Kong, then settled in Paris in 1952. Here he associated with artists such as Karel Appel, Asger Jorn, and Pierre Alechinsky, members of the avant-garde group, CcBrA.In 1957 he moved to America, and settled in New York where his work was influenced by pop art and abstract expressionism. He began primarily as an abstract artist, but the bulk of his work since the mid- 1970's has been described...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Waldeen (von) Falkenstein Brooke de Zatz better known as "Waldeen" (born February 1, 1913 - died August 18, 1993) was an American-born dancer and choreographer. Together with Anna Sokolow, Alicia Markova, Anton Dolin and Michel Descombey she belongs to the great precursors of modern Mexican dance.Waldeen was born in Dallas and joined the Japanese choreographer Seki Sano when he moved to Mexico. Afterwards she left Mexico but returned together with the dancer Winifred Widener to Mexico City in 1939, where they danced at the theater of fine arts (Spanish: Teatro de Bellas Artes). She was ordered to establish the Ballet de Bellas Artes, the ballet group of the theater, which she led until it was...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Gustav Waldemar Sjolander (b. Gothenburg, January 6, 1908 – d. 1988) was a Swedish painter, printmaker and sculptor.Sjolander moved to Cuba and then to Mexico after World War II, where he exhibited in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City for his first time. He taught painting at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and sculpture at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda". Some of his works are part of the collections of the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, and of the Goteborgs Konstmuseum, Gothenburg. He also participated in the 1960 and 1972 International Biennial of Sculpture in Tokyo, as well as in the...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Waldemar Baeger (* 12. Marz 1920 in Treysa; † 10. November 1995 in Neustrelitz) war ein deutscher Schauspieler und Kabarettist. Nach seiner Schauspielausbildung folgte 1951 sein Buhnendebut am Staatsschauspiel Dresden. Weitere Stationen seiner Tatigkeit waren das Naturtheater Felsenbuhne Rathen, das Theater Nordhausen und das Meininger Theater, ehe er ab 1967 zum Ensemble des Friedrich-Wolf-Theater in Neustrelitz gehorte. Baeger ubernahm zeitweilig auch die Leitung des Ensembles und wird von 1975 bis 1985 Direktor des Kreiskabinetts fur Kulturarbeit. Seit den 1950er Jahren wirkte er in einigen Fernsehproduktionen des DFF an der Seite seiner Frau, der Sangerin und Schauspielerin Greta Baeger...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Waldemar Grzimek (December 5, 1918 – May 26, 1984) was a German sculptor.Grzimek was born in Rastenburg, East Prussia (now K?trzyn, Warmia-Masuria) to a Silesian family, which moved to Berlin in 1925 when Grzimek's father Gunther Grzimek was elected to the Preussischer Landtag.As a child, Grzimek enjoyed the exotic animals of the Berlin Zoo, which is also where he met Hugo Lederer, a professor at Berlin's Akademie der Kunste (Academy of Arts), who inspired Grzimek to take up sculpting. During his adolescent years he produced sculptures of an American Bison, an African rhinoceros, busts of his parents heads, and a pet Skye Terrier. Данное издание не является...

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Alexander Wiktorowitsch Dedjuschko (russ. Александр Викторович Дедюшко; weissruss. Аляксанд(а)р Дзядзюшка; * 20. Mai 1962 in Waukawysk, Weissrussische SSR; † 3. November 2007 in Petuschki, Oblast Wladimir, Russland) war ein russischer Schauspieler. Von 1989 bis 1995 spielte Dedjuschko am Theater von Wladimir. Danach begann eine Karriere als Filmschauspieler, Sanger und Moderator von Fernsehsendungen, unter anderem von „Танцы со звёздами“ (Tanzy so swosdami), der russischen Version von Dancing with the Stars. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Waldemar Januszczak (born 12 January 1954) is a British art critic. Formerly the art critic of The Guardian, he now writes for The Sunday Times, and has twice won the Critic of the Year award. Januszczak is also a film maker of television arts documentaries and the Director of ZCZ Films.Waldemar Januszczak was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire to Polish refugees who had arrived in Britain after World War II. His father, a policeman in Poland, whose job had included exposing Communists, found work as a railway carriage cleaner and died, aged 57, when a train ran over him at Basingstoke station. His widow, then aged 33, found work as a dairymaid. Waldemar was one year old. Данное...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Waldo Diaz-Balart (born Waldo Diaz-Balart y Gutierrez on February 10, 1931 in Holguin, Cuba) is a Cuban painter living in Madrid, Spain.Diaz-Balart studied accounting and political science and economics in Havana before moving to New York to pursue art studies in 1959. From 1959 to 1962 studied art in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA. Professionally, on 1967 he develops as lecturer in many cultural centres and universities of USA, Poland, Spain, Germany and Netherlands. He acted in two movies by Andy Warhol, The Life of Juanita Castro in 1965 and The Loves of Ondine in 1968. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Waldo Peirce (December 17, 1884 – March 8, 1970) was an American painter, born in Bangor, Maine.For many years, until his death, Peirce was both a prominent painter and a well-known character. He belonged to no particular school of art, which may have diminished his long-term reputation, but was sometimes called "the American Renoir". His style was basically representational, colorful, and lusty, clearly denoting his Rabelaisian love of life. A long-time friend of Ernest Hemingway, of whom he painted the cover picture for Time magazine in 1937, he was once called "the Ernest Hemingway of American painters." To which he replied, "They'll never call Ernest Hemingway the Waldo Peirce of American...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wale Adenuga, MFR, (born September 24, 1950, Ile-Ife) is a Nigerian former cartoonist/publisher, and currently a series producer, best known for the publications Ikebe Super, Binta and Super Story, and their televised versions.Adenuga, whose father was a tobacco merchant, was raised in Ibadan and attended the Ibadan City Academy where he obtained he O-Level certificate, before proceeding to Kings College Lagos for his higher school certificate,where he formed a pop band which later disbanded.Adenuga gained admission into the University of Lagos in 1971 where he studied Business Administration. As a student who was interested in art and drawing, he worked for the cartoon section of the...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walead Beshty (born London, UK, 1976) is a Los Angeles-based photographer.Beshty earned a Bachelor of Arts from Bard College in 1999, and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University School of Art in 2002. His first solo exhibition debuted in New York in 2004 where he "quickly captured the attention of the international art world with his probing meditations on political and social conditions."Beshty is best known in the photographic community for a series of eleven photograms that he created in 2006. Each photogram was titled Picture Made by My Hand with the Assistance of Light, 2006, and reviews compared the series to the experimental photography of Man Ray and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy.Beshty is...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wales Millennium Centre (Welsh: Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru) is an arts centre located in the Cardiff Bay area of Cardiff, Wales. The site covers a total area of 4.7 acres (1.9 ha). Phase 1 of the building was opened during the weekend of the 26–28 November 2004 and phase 2 opened on 22 January 2009 with an inaugural concert. The centre has hosted performances of opera, ballet, dance, comedy and musicals.The venue, which also has a nickname locally as the Armadillo, comprises one large theatre and two smaller halls. It also includes shops, bars and restaurants. The Centre is home to the national opera, dance, theatre and literature companies of Wales, as well as the national orchestra. In total,...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walid Raad (Ra'ad) (born 1967 in Chbanieh, Lebanon) is a contemporary media artist.His works to date include video, photography and literary essays. All, in one way or another, deal with the contemporary history of Lebanon with particular emphasis on the wars in Lebanon between 1975 to 1991. The work is also often concerned with the representation of traumatic events of collective historical dimensions; and the ways film, video, and photography function as documents of physical and psychological violence. He is also a member of the Arab Image Foundation.Raad received his BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1989. He went on to complete his MA and Ph.D. in Cultural and Visual...

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