Waynesboro, city, administratively independent of, but located in, Augusta county, north-central Virginia, U.S. It lies in the Shenandoah Valley along the South River, near the junction of Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway, 28 miles (45 km) west of Charlottesville. The original settlement of

William of Waynflete was an English lord chancellor and bishop of Winchester who founded Magdalen College of the University of Oxford. Little is known of his early years, but he evidently earned a reputation as a scholar before becoming master of Winchester College in 1429. He became a fellow at

huayño, couple dance of the Quechua and Aymara Indians and of many mestizos (people of Spanish-Indian descent) of Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador. It antedates the Spanish conquest and was possibly an Inca funeral dance; today it is purely festive. A circle of dancing couples surrounds the musicians,

ship construction: Launching: Standing structures called ways, constructed of concrete and wooden blocks, spaced about one-third of the vessel’s beam apart, support the ship under construction. The slope of the standing ways—which are often cambered (slightly curved upward toward the middle or slightly curved downward toward the ends) in the fore…

Xenophon: Other writings: Also Athenocentric is Ways and Means, a plan to alleviate the city’s financial problems (and remove excuses for aggressive imperialism) by paying citizens a dole from taxes on foreign residents and from the profits generated by using state-owned slaves in the silver mines.

government budget: The United States: …under the jurisdiction of the Ways and Means Committee of the House and are considered separately and possibly even at a different time from appropriations. The upper house of Congress, the Senate, plays a secondary role with respect to the budget. Its Appropriations Committee acts as a kind of court…

map: The Middle Ages: Ibn Haukal wrote a Book of Ways and Provinces illustrated with maps, and al-Idrīsī constructed a world map in 1154 for the Christian king Roger of Sicily, showing better information on Asian areas than had been available theretofore. In Baghdad astronomers used the compass long before Europeans, studied the…

Hermann Oberth: Oberth’s Wege zur Raumschiffahrt (1929; Ways to Spaceflight) won the first annual Robert Esnault-Pelterie–André Hirsch Prize of 10,000 francs, enabling him to finance his research on liquid-propellant rocket motors. The book anticipated by 30 years the development of electric propulsion and of the ion rocket. In 1931 Oberth received a…

bridge: Early bridges: …Hennebique and the German engineer G.A. Wayss, who bought the Monier patents. Hennebique’s Vienne River Bridge at Châtellerault, France, built in 1899, was the longest-spanning reinforced arch bridge of the 19th century. Built low to the river—typical of many reinforced-concrete bridges whose goal of safe passage across a small river…

Cameroon: Plant and animal life: Waza National Park in the north, which was originally created for the protection of elephants, giraffes, and antelope, abounds in both forest and savanna animals, including monkeys, baboons, lions, leopards, and birds that range from white and gray pelicans to spotted waders. To the south…

Osage, North American Indian tribe of the Dhegiha branch of the Siouan linguistic stock. The name Osage is an English rendering of the French phonetic version of the name the French understood to be that of the entire tribe. It was thereafter applied to all members of the tribe. The name Wa-zha-zhe

Haya, East African people who speak a Bantu language (also called Haya) and inhabit the northwestern corner of Tanzania between the Kagera River and Lake Victoria. Two main ethnic elements exist in the population—the pastoral Hima, who are probably descendants of wandering Nilotes, and the more

vizier, originally the chief minister or representative of the ʿAbbāsid caliphs and later a high administrative officer in various Muslim countries, among Arabs, Persians, Turks, Mongols, and other eastern peoples. The office took shape during its tenure by the Barmakid (Barmecide) family in the

Khalīl Ibrāhīm al-Wazīr was a Palestinian leader who became the military strategist and second in command of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Wazīr fled from Ramla with his family during the 1948 war that followed the creation of the State of Israel. He grew up in the Gaza Strip, where

Wazīrābād, town, northern Punjab province, Pakistan, just east of the Chenāb River. It is an important rail junction, with the Siālkot and Faisalābād (formerly Lyallpur) lines of the Pakistan Western Railway branching off and crossing the Chenāb River at the Alexandra Bridge. Industries include

Waziristan, geographic region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. It is a barren, mountainous country occupied by part of the Sulaiman Range and bounded north by the Kurram River, south by the Gumal River, and west by Afghanistan. The region’s rivers, which flow toward the Indus River,

Adam Ważyk was a Polish poet and novelist who began his career as a propagandist for Stalinism but ended as one of its opponents. Ważyk’s earliest volumes of poetry, Semafory (1924; “Semaphores”) and Oczy i usta (1926; “Eyes and Lips”), were written between the ages of 17 and 20 and reflect the

weber, unit of magnetic flux in the International System of Units (SI), defined as the amount of flux that, linking an electrical circuit of one turn (one loop of wire), produces in it an electromotive force of one volt as the flux is reduced to zero at a uniform rate in one second. It was named in

boxing: Professional organizations: …two organizations were established: the National Boxing Association, a private body, and the New York State Athletic Commission, a state agency. Divided control led to competing organizations’ sometimes recognizing different boxers as world champions at the same time. In Europe the ruling body was the International Boxing Union, which in…

Pacifica Radio: …KPFK in Los Angeles (1959); WBAI in New York City (1960); KPFT in Houston (1970); and WPFW in Washington, D.C. (1977). Pacifica also funds and promotes news and public affairs programs, most notably Democracy Now! and Free Speech Radio News, for its own and nearly 100 affiliated community radio stations.…

boxing: Professional organizations: In the early 1960s the World Boxing Council (WBC) was formed, and the National Boxing Association changed its name to the World Boxing Association (WBA). The International Boxing Federation (IBF) was established in 1983, which added to an already convoluted situation. Since the 1980s it has been common for most…

Westboro Baptist Church, church in Topeka, Kansas, that became well known for its strident opposition to homosexuality and the gay rights movement, as expressed on picket signs carried by church members at funerals and other events. The church also demonstrated against other religions, most notably

World Baseball Classic (WBC), international baseball tournament, first held in 2006, in which many of the world’s best players compete on behalf of national teams. The initial rounds are played on different continents. It was the first international baseball tournament to feature players currently

While many progressive rock stations died painful, public deaths, one of the first—WBCN in Boston, Massachusetts—carried on. Founded in 1967 by Ray Riepen, club owner (the Boston Tea Party) and later underground newspaper publisher (The Phoenix), WBCN quickly grew in popularity and power. Its most

WBCN: While many progressive rock stations died painful, public deaths, one of the first—WBCN in Boston, Massachusetts—carried on. Founded in 1967 by Ray Riepen, club owner (the Boston Tea Party) and later underground newspaper publisher (The Phoenix), WBCN quickly grew in popularity and power. Its most…

wet-bulb temperature (WBT), lowest temperature to which a person or an object can be cooled solely by the evaporation of water, given a constant barometric pressure. It is so named because its approximate value is obtained from a wet-bulb thermometer. Whereas a normal, dry-bulb thermometer measures

World Council of Churches (WCC), Christian ecumenical organization founded in 1948 in Amsterdam as “a fellowship of Churches which accept Jesus Christ our Lord as God and Saviour.” The WCC is not a church, nor does it issue orders or directions to the churches. It works for the unity and renewal of

International Society of Christian Endeavor: The World’s Christian Endeavor Union, (WCEU), organized in 1895, is a cooperative organization for Christian Endeavor groups in more than 75 countries. It holds conventions every four years. Headquarters for both organizations are in Columbus, Ohio.

Bertha, baroness von Suttner was an Austrian novelist who was one of the first notable woman pacifists. She is credited with influencing Alfred Nobel in the establishment of the Nobel Prize for Peace, of which she was the recipient in 1905. Her major novel, Die Waffen nieder! (1889; Lay Down Your

José Andrés: World Central Kitchen: Andrés began to feel the need to give back, and he started volunteering at DC Central Kitchen, an organization that takes food that otherwise would be thrown away and uses it to train food service workers and feed underserved people in Washington.…

World Confederation of Labour (WCL), labour confederation founded as the International Federation of Christian Trade Unions in 1920 to represent the interests of Christian labour unions in western Europe and Latin America. It was reconstituted under its present name in 1968. Although the

World Customs Organization (WCO), intergovernmental organization established as the Customs Co-operation Council (CCC) in 1952 to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of customs administrations worldwide. In 1948 a study group of the Committee for European Economic Cooperation, a precursor of

tennis: Professional and open tennis: …Cup captain George MacCall, and World Championship Tennis (WCT), founded by New Orleans promoter Dave Dixon and funded by Dallas oil and football tycoon Lamar Hunt. Between them they signed a significant number of the world’s top players, professional and amateur.

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), American temperance organization, founded in November 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio, in response to the “Woman’s Crusade,” a series of temperance demonstrations that swept through New York and much of the Midwest in 1873–74. Annie Wittenmyer, an experienced

Vince McMahon: Early life and the WWE: …magnate Ted Turner and renamed World Championship Wrestling [WCW]) experienced a resurgence, and its cable broadcasts soon surpassed those of the WWF in viewership. McMahon responded by hiring new writers to create soap-opera-like story lines. Skimpily clad female wrestlers became prominent, as did “colorful language” (profanity) and “sign language” (obscene…

darts: …the founder member of the World Darts Federation (WDF), which represents more than 500,000 darts players in 50 countries. The major championships are the Winmau World Masters, the WDF World Cup, and the Embassy World Professional Darts Championship.

World Development Indicators (WDI), comprehensive set of data and statistics published annually by the World Bank that allows for the evaluation of the development of most countries in the world. The availability of World Development Indicators (WDI) enables more-informed public and private policy

WDIA: Black Music Mother Station: When WDIA went on the air in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1948, its white owners, Bert Ferguson and John R. Pepper, were anything but blues aficionados; however, deejay Nat D. Williams was. A former high-school history teacher and journalist, Williams brought his own records and his…

When WDIA went on the air in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1948, its white owners, Bert Ferguson and John R. Pepper, were anything but blues aficionados; however, deejay Nat D. Williams was. A former high-school history teacher and journalist, Williams brought his own records and his familiarity with

Library of Congress: … proposed a project called the World Digital Library. Its goal was to make available to anyone with access to the Internet digitized texts and images of “unique and rare materials from libraries and other cultural institutions around the world.” It was designed to be searchable in seven languages—Arabic, Chinese, English,…

Cologne: Cultural life: …the concert hall of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR; “West German Radio”), the high reputation of the latter being largely due to the WDR’s encouragement of contemporary music. A full repertoire is offered in theatre and opera as well, and the municipal theatre has its own ballet ensemble.

African art: Dan-We: The Dan-We complex of styles is named after two extremes of stylistic variation: the smooth, restrained style of the Dan, the De, and the Diomande and the grotesque style of the We (the Guere, the Wobe, and the Kran), a less-extreme form of which…

10 Devastating Dystopias: My (1920; We), by Yevgeny Zamyatin: Yevgeny Zamyatin, one of the most subversive authors to hail from Russia, penned perhaps the most fundamental dystopian text in 1920. Although Russia forbade its publication until 1988, My (or We in English) circulated throughout the nation in manuscript…

Mesopotamian religion: Myths: …one of their number—the god We, apparently the ringleader who “had the idea”—be killed and humankind created from clay mixed with his flesh and blood, so that the toil of the gods could be laid on humankind and the gods left to go free. But after Enki and the birth…

Wael Ghonim: …the administrator of the “We Are All Khaled Said” page. He praised the Egyptian protesters’ courage and wept when he was shown pictures of protesters who had been killed. The interview is often credited with having reenergized the Egyptian protest movement after a week of violent reprisals by the…

Marilyn Manson: Marilyn Manson, the band: …Age of Grotesque (2003), and We Are Chaos (2020), were relatively less successful.

Malala Yousafzai: Shooting and Nobel Peace Prize: …as her own displacement in We Are Displaced (2019).

disco: Queer culture and political themes: …Now” and Sister Sledge’s “We Are Family” (both 1979), and feminism—in particular, Black women’s liberation as expressed by African American divas such as Candi Staton in “Young Hearts Run Free” (1976) and Chaka Khan in “I’m Every Woman” (1978).

Australian literature: Literature from 1970 to 2000: …her first volume of poetry, We Are Going, in 1964. Mudrooroo Narogin (Colin Johnson, whose Aboriginal identity, however, was questioned) published his first novel, Wild Cat Falling, in 1965. Jack Davis wrote several acclaimed plays. Sally Morgan’s autobiography, My Place (1987), is a moving account of her discovery of her…

Harry Connick, Jr.: …1990 he released two albums, We Are in Love, a big-band sound with vocals, and Lofty’s Roach Soufflé, showcasing instrumental jazz. Connick won a second Grammy Award for best jazz vocal performance for We Are in Love. Connick’s subsequent albums included Blue Light, Red Light (1991), 25 (1992), She (1994),…

Matthew McConaughey: …Sahara (2005), the football drama We Are Marshall (2006), and the Hollywood satire Tropic Thunder (2008).

Taylor Swift: Kanye West incident at the VMAs, Red, and 1989: …lead single, the gleeful “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” gave Swift her first number-one hit on the Billboard pop singles chart.

Daniel Handler: …a futuristic San Francisco, and We Are Pirates (2015), about a contemporary teenager who develops an interest in piracy. Handler later explored teeenage sexuality in All the Dirty Parts (2017), which centres on a 17-year-old boy. The dark comedy Bottle Grove was published in 2019. He also wrote Why We…

Queen: Anthem rockers and Live Aid: …followed in 1977 with “We Are the Champions” and “We Will Rock You”—which became ubiquitous anthems at sporting events in Britain and the United States. The Game (1980), featuring “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” and “Another One Bites the Dust,” was Queen’s first number one album in the United…

the Chemical Brothers: …Push the Button (2005) and We Are the Night (2007) earned Grammy Awards for best dance/electronic albums. Later releases included Further (2010), Don’t Think (2012), and Born in the Echoes (2015). In addition, the Chemical Brothers created the soundtrack for the 2011 thriller movie Hanna and wrote and performed

Alice Walker: Later work and controversies: …Trade Center and Pentagon (2001), We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness (2006), and The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm’s Way (2013). Walker also wrote juvenile fiction and critical essays…

Kadir Nelson: Author and illustrator: …debut as a writer was We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball (2008), which chronicles Negro league baseball from its beginnings in the 1920s to its decline in the late 1940s; Nelson also illustrated the work. In 2009 he received the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal…

On January 28, 1985, more than 45 of the era’s most popular singers and songwriters gathered to record a song to raise funds for the charity USA for Africa. The song, “We Are the World,” released on March 7 that year, was an immediate media sensation. It sold an astonishing 800,000 copies in three

Kurt Vonnegut: Posthumous works: We Are What We Pretend to Be (2012) comprised an early unpublished novella and a fragment of a novel unfinished at his death. A selection of his correspondence was published as Letters (2012). Complete Stories (2017) collects all of his short fiction.

Luca Guadagnino: …directing the 2020 HBO series We Are Who We Are, about teenagers on a U.S. military base in Italy, he again collaborated with Chalamet on Bones and All (2022). The film, which also stars Taylor Russell, tells the story of two teenage cannibals and is based on the 2015 novel…

Lionel Barrymore: We Barrymores (1951), by Lionel Barrymore as told to Cameron Shipp, is basically an autobiography but contains much information on his famous siblings, John and Ethel.

Randy Newman: …Oscar, for the song “We Belong Together” from the latter film. He also scored Cars 3 (2017) and Toy Story 4 (2019). His song (“I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away”) for the latter film and his score for the drama Marriage Story (2019) earned Newman his 21st and…

Matt Damon: The Departed, Invictus, and True Grit: …about a deadly virus; and We Bought a Zoo, adapted from a memoir about a family who moves to a wildlife park. Damon then wrote with costar John Krasinski the drama Promised Land (2012), in which Damon played a gas-company representative seeking to obtain drilling rights in a rural community.

Steve Bannon: Association with Trump: Bannon subsequently became involved with We Build the Wall, a nonprofit organization that solicited donations to construct a wall along the southern border of the United States. By August 2020 it had raised more than $25 million. However, that month he and three other men were arrested, accused of defrauding…

Grace Slick: Jefferson Starship, Starship, and later years: …in the 1980s, including “We Built This City” and “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now,” featuring Slick on colead vocals with American singer Mickey Thomas.

Priyanka Chopra Jonas: International fame: …was in the superhero film We Can Be Heroes (2020). Her later acting credits include the crime drama The White Tiger (2021), the science fiction film The Matrix Resurrections (2021), and the romantic drama Love Again (2023).

Rosie the Riveter: …but it was titled “We Can Do It!” and had no association with anyone named Rosie. It is believed that this initial drawing was part of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation’s wartime production campaign to recruit female workers. Miller’s drawing portrayed a woman in a red bandana with her bent…

Philip K. Dick: …adapted for film, including “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” (filmed as Total Recall [1990 and 2012]), “Second Variety” (filmed as Screamers [1995]), “The Minority Report” (filmed as Minority Report [2002]), and A Scanner Darkly (1977; film 2006). The Man in the High Castle was loosely adapted as…

In choosing to remove monuments honoring figures now viewed as objectionable, contemporary Americans are in a world-historical majority. Removing statues is a recourse with a long history. Popular revolutions often bring down statues of hated rulers—one recalls the destruction of Saddam Hussein’s

Arthur Ransome: …children’s literature; however, its successor, We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea (1937), is widely considered Ransome’s masterpiece.

All 119 References in “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” Explained: …Billboard Hot 100 hit “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” American songwriter Billy Joel rattles off a list of historical references in order to argue that his generation…well, like the title says, didn’t “start the fire” of global tragedy, scandal, and screw-ups. Some items in his list are obvious—the names…

Han Kang: Novels: Jakbyeolhaji anneunda (2021; We Do Not Part) is a work of historical fiction that centers on the impact of a massacre committed by the South Korean government during a rebellion on Jeju Island in the 1940s.

Faith Ringgold: Her memoirs, We Flew over the Bridge, were published in 1995.

the Animals: …such as “I’m Crying,” “We Gotta Get Out of This Place,” and “It’s My Life,” developed a formula of tough, dramatic, hard-driving rock shaped by an awareness of folk music and the blues.

Yo La Tengo: We Have Amnesia Sometimes (2020) featured extended instrumental improvisation of ambient music recorded on a single microphone.

Rouben Mamoulian: Films of the 1930s: Although We Live Again (1934) was a generally undistinguished adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novel Resurrection (1899), Mamoulian had a much firmer grasp on William Makepeace Thackeray’s comedy of manners Vanity Fair (1847–48), which he brought to the screen as Becky Sharp (1935). That film also had…

Florence Pugh: Don’t Worry Darling and Oppenheimer: …starred with Andrew Garfield in We Live in Time, a romantic drama in which she played a chef who is diagnosed with terminal cancer. The following year she reprised the role of Yelena Belova in Thunderbolts*, about a group of antiheroes.

Julio Cortázar: …Glenda, y otros relatos (1981; We Love Glenda So Much, and Other Tales). Cortázar also wrote poetry and plays and published numerous volumes of essays.

the Rolling Stones: First original hits: (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction and Get Off of My Cloud: …with its accompanying single “We Love You,” was a comparatively feeble riposte to the Beatles’ all-conquering Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and contributed little beyond its title to their legend. Furthermore, they were hampered by seemingly spending as much time in court and jail as they did in…

Gudmundur Kamban: …“Marble”) and Vi mordere (1920; We Murderers), as well as in his first novel, Ragnar Finnsson (1922), all of which are set in America, attention is focused on crime and punishment. Questions about societal versus personal responsibility are posed with compassion for the human individual and are closely linked to…

Tilda Swinton: Michael Clayton, Snowpiercer, and The French Dispatch: …ranging from the wrenching drama We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) to the dystopian thrillers Snowpiercer and The Zero Theorem (both 2013). Her performances in Burn After Reading (2008), Trainwreck (2015), and Hail, Caesar! (2016) revealed a talent for broad comedy as well.

Gwendolyn Brooks: The Bean Eaters: …her most famous poem, “We Real Cool.” Consisting of four short stanzas, each made up of two lines of one-syllable words, the poem describes seven boys who have skipped school to play pool.

antisemitism: Antisemitism after the Holocaust: …published a document titled “We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah,” which called upon the faithful to reflect upon the lessons of the Shoah (the Holocaust). In presenting that document, Edward Idris Cardinal Cassidy, president of the Holy See’s Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, said, “Whenever there…

We Shall Overcome, protest song that became an anthem of the American civil rights movement in the 1950s and ’60s. The modern version of the song derives from the folk music of enslaved people in the United States and an early 20th-century gospel song written by minister Charles Albert Tindley.

Bruce Springsteen: Back with the E Street Band: We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (2006) took a turn unanticipated by even the closest Springsteen observers. He made the recording over a period of 10 years with a folk-roots band and a horn section. It features traditional American folk songs (“Oh, Mary, Don’t You…

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: We Should All Be Feminists, Dream Count, and other works: Adichie’s nonfiction includes We Should All Be Feminists (2014), an essay adapted from a talk she gave at a TEDx event in 2012; parts of her talk are also featured in Beyoncé’s song “Flawless” (2013). Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions was published in 2017.…

Jerry Brown: …he operated the political organization We the People, which sponsored programs and initiatives aimed at education and sustainable food production, including a daily radio program hosted by Brown. It was also the base for Brown’s successful 1998 mayoral campaign. He served two terms as mayor of Oakland and was considered…

Danh Vo: …as well, as seen in We the People (2010–13), for which he commissioned a full-scale copper replica, in fragments, of Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi’s iconic Liberty Enlightening the World (informally the Statue of Liberty) that he simultaneously installed at sites spanning the globe. Rather than reassemble the replica for future exhibits, Danh…

H.E.R.: Acting: …helped write the Netflix show We the People (2021), which was coproduced by Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, among others. For her work on the series, H.E.R. won a Children’s and Family Emmy Award for outstanding short-form program in 2022.

Robert Z. Leonard: Later films: We Were Dancing (1942), a laboured adaptation of Noël Coward’s Tonight at 8:30, was notable for being one of Shearer’s last pictures. Leonard made a rare foray into the war genre with Stand By for Action (1942), a patriotic World War II yarn featuring Taylor…

the Smiths: …contributed to its hit album We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (2007)—and British rockers the Cribs before issuing his first official solo release, The Messenger, in 2013. His solo career continued with Playland (2014) and Call the Comet (2018).

Ta-Nehisi Coates: Books: In the essay collection We Were Eight Years in Power (2017), which includes work previously published in The Atlantic, Coates explores the presidency of Barack Obama as well as the subsequent election of Donald Trump.

Tadeusz Borowski: …recollections Byliśmy w Oświęcimiu (1946; We Were in Auschwitz). After his return to Poland he published two collections of short stories, Pożegnanie z Marią (1948; “Farewell to Maria”) and Kamienny świat (1948; “The World of Stone”), that explored the depths of human degradation in the Nazi concentration camps. (Both collections…

John Huston: Films of the 1940s: …was then the setting for We Were Strangers (1949), an atmospheric account of revolutionaries’ attempt to overthrow the government, which starred Jennifer Jones and John Garfield.

Joyce Carol Oates: Novels and short stories: …Girl Gang (1993), Zombie (1995), We Were the Mulvaneys (1996), Broke Heart Blues (1999), The Falls (2004), My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike (2008), Mudwoman (2012), Daddy Love (2013), Carthage (2014), Jack of Spades

Queen: Anthem rockers and Live Aid: …Are the Champions” and “We Will Rock You”—which became ubiquitous anthems at sporting events in Britain and the United States. The Game (1980), featuring “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” and “Another One Bites the Dust,” was Queen’s first number one album in the United States.

Vera Lynn: …would become her trademark song—“We’ll Meet Again,” written earlier that year by two young composers—on the show. The wistful tune, as interpreted by Lynn in her characteristic low pitch, articulated the longings of families and lovers separated by the war and thus became a touchstone to many. Lynn was…

Mary Higgins Clark: …My Pretty One Sleeps (1989), We’ll Meet Again (1999), Daddy’s Gone a Hunting (2013), and I’ve Got My Eyes on You (2018). Several of Clark’s novels and stories were adapted into films.

Édouard Dujardin: …“The Laurels Are Cut Down”; We’ll to the Woods No More), which was the first work to employ the interior monologue from which James Joyce derived the stream-of-consciousness technique he used in Ulysses.

Michael Curtiz: Last films of Michael Curtiz: …Island prison in the whimsical We’re No Angels, Curtiz’s effort for his new studio in 1955.