- Walk the Line (film by Mangold [2005])
T Bone Burnett: …of the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line (2005). In 2009 Burnett received three Grammys for his work on the Alison Krauss and Roger Plant album Raising Sand and one award for B.B. King’s One Kind Favor.
- Walk This Way (song by Tyler and Perry)
Aerosmith: …the band’s 1975 hit “Walk This Way.” Converted to sobriety, Aerosmith produced the multiplatinum-selling albums Permanent Vacation (1987) and Pump (1989). The latter featured the Grammy Award-winning “Janie’s Got a Gun,” and it marked a return to the hard rock success of Toys in the Attic. The band followed…
- Walk to Paradise Garden, The (photograph by Smith)
W. Eugene Smith: Entitled The Walk to Paradise Garden, this view of his own children entering a forest clearing became one of his most famous photographs. It concluded the landmark photographic exhibition “The Family of Man,” which Edward Steichen organized for the Museum of Modern Art in New York…
- Walk to Remember, A (novel by Sparks)
Nicholas Sparks: …in a Bottle (1998) and A Walk to Remember (1999), had already arrived in cinemas, in 1999 and 2002, respectively. Sparks saw a number of other novels adapted for the screen, including Nights in Rodanthe (2002; film 2008), Dear John (2006; film 2010), The Choice (2007; film 2016), The Last…
- Walk Under Ladders (album by Armatrading)
Joan Armatrading: …Me Myself I (1980), and Walk Under Ladders (1981). Such recordings featured a beguiling blend of folk, reggae, jazz, and rock, the latter of which prevailed on The Key (1983).
- Walk with Contrapposto (work by Nauman)
Bruce Nauman: …with Changing Rhythms (1967–68) and Walk with Contrapposto (1968). In the latter he strutted within a narrow corridor he had constructed, exaggerating the contrapposto pose of Classical sculptures. Soon after, he repurposed the hallway into a series of installations that invited observers to experience the space for themselves. Some of…
- Walk with Love and Death, A (film by Huston [1969])
John Huston: Films of the 1960s of John Huston: …of lacklustre films continued with A Walk with Love and Death (1969), a forgettable medieval drama that is most-notable today for having provided daughter Anjelica Huston with her first lead role in a movie; Sinful Davey (1969), with John Hurt; and the Cold War thriller The Kremlin Letter (1970).
- Walk, Don’t Run (film by Walters [1966])
Charles Walters: …film was the romantic comedy Walk, Don’t Run (1966), a pleasant remake of George Stevens’s The More the Merrier (1943); Cary Grant, in his last movie role, portrayed a businessman in Tokyo who ends up playing matchmaker during the Olympics. Made for Columbia, it was the only motion picture Walters…
- Walk, The (film by Zemeckis [2015])
Robert Zemeckis: …of his substance abuse, and The Walk (2015), about Frenchman Philippe Petit’s (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) 1974 high-wire walk between the towers of the World Trade Center.
- Walk—Don’t Run (song by the Ventures)
the Ventures: …1960 when the single “Walk—Don’t Run” became a hit. In 1964 the song was reworked with a more distinct “surf” sound and again was a success. Although the Ventures became identified as a surf band by featuring tremolo guitar and driving drums and bass, the band also adapted to…
- Walkabout (film by Roeg [1971])
Nicolas Roeg: …his solo directorial debut with Walkabout (1971), which was filmed in the Australian Outback and told the tale of two abandoned schoolchildren and the teenage Aboriginal person who guides them through the wilderness. Roeg also performed cinematography duties on Walkabout, which is renowned for its stunning colour-saturated visuals. Roeg went…
- Walken, Christopher (American actor)
Christopher Walken is an American actor who is known for intense, eccentric performances in a wide variety of roles that won him enduring popularity and critical respect. Walken took dancing lessons as a young child and auditioned for the many bit parts that were open to children in live television
- Walken, Ronald (American actor)
Christopher Walken is an American actor who is known for intense, eccentric performances in a wide variety of roles that won him enduring popularity and critical respect. Walken took dancing lessons as a young child and auditioned for the many bit parts that were open to children in live television
- Walker Art Center (museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States)
Abraham Cruzvillegas: …installed in 2013 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Empty Lot was an installation for the inaugural Hyundai Commission at Tate Modern in London. The artist did not regard it finished until the exhibition closed on April 3, 2016. Six months earlier his team had collected earth from…
- Walker Basin (ecological project, Nevada, United States)
ecological restoration: Walker Basin: Since 2005, legislators, private stakeholders, researchers, and restoration specialists have been working together to restore and maintain a desert lake in western Nevada. Walker Lake is unusual because it is a terminal lake; it has many inlets but no outlet. The long-term survival…
- Walker Cup (golf trophy)
Walker Cup, golf trophy awarded to the winner of a competition between amateur men’s teams from the United States and the British Isles, held biennially since 1922 on sites alternating between the United States and Britain. The cup is named for George H. Walker, a president of the United States
- Walker family (American family)
military intelligence: Human agents: In the United States, the Walker family sold the Soviet Union classified reports on the tracking of Soviet submarines and surface ships. Operating from 1968 until it was broken up in 1985, this spy ring did irreparable damage to the submarine warfare capabilities of the U.S. Navy.
- Walker Lake (lake, Nevada, United States)
ecological restoration: Walker Basin: Walker Lake is unusual because it is a terminal lake; it has many inlets but no outlet. The long-term survival of Walker Lake’s ecosystem, fishery, and associated economy are threatened by water diversions that lowered the water level by approximately 46 metres (about 150 feet)…
- Walker Law (United States [1920])
Walker Law, (1920), first significant U.S. legislation concerning the sport of boxing, enacted in the state of New York under the sponsorship of James J. Walker, speaker of the state senate. The bill legalized professional boxing in New York, and its code of boxing rules, for the most part written
- Walker Tariff Act (United States [1846])
James K. Polk: Presidency of James K. Polk: …and the passage of the Walker Tariff Act of 1846, which lowered import duties and did much to pacify British public opinion that had been inflamed over the Oregon compromise of 1846. As these measures helped foreign trade, so the reenactment of the independent treasury system in 1846 helped in…
- Walker, A’Lelia (American businesswoman)
A’Lelia Walker was an American businesswoman associated with the Harlem Renaissance as a patron of the arts who provided an intellectual forum for the Black literati of New York City during the 1920s. Walker grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and attended Knoxville College in Tennessee before going to
- Walker, Aaron Thibeaux (American musician)
T-Bone Walker was an American musician and songwriter who was a major figure in modern blues. He was the first important electric guitar soloist in the blues and one of the most influential players in the idiom’s history. The son of musical parents, Walker grew up in Dallas, Texas, where he led
- Walker, Adam (British inventor)
keyboard instrument: Related stringed keyboard instruments: …a celestina was patented by Adam Walker of London; it employed a continuous horsehair ribbon (kept in motion by a treadle) to rub the strings of a harpsichord. Thomas Jefferson, who ordered a harpsichord equipped with a celestina in 1786, commented that it was suitable for use in slow movements…
- Walker, Alice (American writer)
Alice Walker is an American writer whose novels, short stories, and poems are noted for their insightful treatment of African American culture. Her novels, most notably The Color Purple (1982), focus particularly on women. Walker was the eighth child of African American sharecroppers. While growing
- Walker, Alice Malsenior (American writer)
Alice Walker is an American writer whose novels, short stories, and poems are noted for their insightful treatment of African American culture. Her novels, most notably The Color Purple (1982), focus particularly on women. Walker was the eighth child of African American sharecroppers. While growing
- Walker, Arthur G. (English mathematician)
astronomy: Development of the big-bang theory: …were obtained by English mathematician Arthur G. Walker, so this metric is called the Robertson-Walker metric. The Robertson-Walker metric and the expansion of the universe (as revealed by the galactic redshifts) were the twin foundations on which much of 20th-century cosmology was constructed.
- Walker, Chet (American basketball player)
Chicago Bulls: Led by standouts Bob Love, Chet Walker, Jerry Sloan, and Norm Van Lier, the Bulls qualified for the play-offs every year between the 1969–70 and 1974–75 seasons, but they advanced past the first round only twice. After the talented foursome left the team, the Bulls slid into mediocrity and posted…
- Walker, David (American abolitionist)
David Walker was an African American abolitionist whose pamphlet Appeal…to the Colored Citizens of the World… (1829), urging enslaved people to fight for their freedom, was one of the most radical documents of the antislavery movement. Born of an enslaved father and a free mother, Walker grew up
- Walker, Edwin (United States general)
Edwin Walker was a U.S. Army general who served valiantly in World War II and the Korean War but later resigned (1961) with the rank of major general after receiving a public admonishment for having circulated right-wing literature to his troops in Germany and for publicly asserting that former
- Walker, Edwin Anderson (United States general)
Edwin Walker was a U.S. Army general who served valiantly in World War II and the Korean War but later resigned (1961) with the rank of major general after receiving a public admonishment for having circulated right-wing literature to his troops in Germany and for publicly asserting that former
- Walker, Fleet (American baseball player)
baseball: Segregation: They were Moses Fleetwood (“Fleet”) Walker, a catcher for the Association’s Toledo team, and his brother Welday, an outfielder who appeared in six games for Toledo.
- Walker, Francis A. (American economist)
Francis A. Walker was an American economist and statistician who broadened and helped modernize the character and scope of economics. Walker was educated at Amherst College and in 1861 enlisted in the Union Army. He was discharged with the rank of brevet brigadier general. In 1869, after having
- Walker, Francis Amasa (American economist)
Francis A. Walker was an American economist and statistician who broadened and helped modernize the character and scope of economics. Walker was educated at Amherst College and in 1861 enlisted in the Union Army. He was discharged with the rank of brevet brigadier general. In 1869, after having
- Walker, George (Canadian playwright)
Canadian literature: Drama: …forms and their attendant ideologies, George Walker produced an impressive body of work, including Nothing Sacred (1988), an adaptation of Turgenev’s Father and Sons; Criminals in Love (1985), set in Toronto’s working-class east end; and Suburban Motel (1997), a cycle of six plays set in a motel room. Playwright and…
- Walker, George Herbert (American banker)
Prescott S. Bush: Business career, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., and association with Nazi Germany: Her father, George Herbert Walker, had founded one of the Midwest’s first investment banks and became even wealthier heading up the Wall Street investment firm founded by brothers Roland and W. Averell Harriman with money inherited from their father, railroad magnate Edward Henry Harriman. In 1921 Bush…
- Walker, George W. (American comedian)
Bert Williams: In 1895 his partnership with George W. Walker began. They became one of the most successful comedy teams of their era; within a year they were appearing in New York City, where their song “Good Morning Carrie” became famous. In 1903 the partnership had graduated to full-scale musical comedy. The…
- Walker, Harold Bridgwood (British general)
Battle of Lone Pine: Brigadier General Harold Walker, commander of 1st Australian Brigade, had no desire to assault well-constructed Turkish trenches as a sideshow to the concurrent landings at Suvla Bay, but his soldiers were keen for action. Much was done to help the Australians cross the 100 yards…
- Walker, Herschel (American football player and politician)
Minnesota Vikings: …netted Minnesota underachieving running back Herschel Walker and gave Dallas draft choices that were used to select future NFL superstars Emmitt Smith and Darren Woodson, among others. The Vikings teams of the late 1990s and early 2000s featured an explosive offense, which starred running back Robert Smith and wide receivers…
- Walker, James (American attorney)
Jim Crow law: Challenging the Separate Car Act: A white lawyer, James Walker, finally agreed to take the case in December 1891. Martinet did not consider any of the Black lawyers in New Orleans competent to raise a constitutional question, since, as he explained, they practiced almost entirely in the police courts.
- Walker, James John (mayor of New York City)
James J. Walker was the flamboyant mayor of New York City from 1925 to 1932. He was known for his love of Broadway theater and his progressive reforms of city government. Ultimately, he left office amid charges of corruption. The son of Irish Catholic immigrants who lived in New York’s Greenwich
- Walker, JamesJ (mayor of New York City)
James J. Walker was the flamboyant mayor of New York City from 1925 to 1932. He was known for his love of Broadway theater and his progressive reforms of city government. Ultimately, he left office amid charges of corruption. The son of Irish Catholic immigrants who lived in New York’s Greenwich
- Walker, Jimmy (mayor of New York City)
James J. Walker was the flamboyant mayor of New York City from 1925 to 1932. He was known for his love of Broadway theater and his progressive reforms of city government. Ultimately, he left office amid charges of corruption. The son of Irish Catholic immigrants who lived in New York’s Greenwich
- Walker, John (English actor)
rhetoric: The Renaissance and after: …such as Thomas Sheridan and John Walker, both of whom acted in London and went on to write dictionaries in the late 18th century. At first glance, their efforts to describe or prescribe the oral delivery of written or printed discourse (poems, plays, as well as speeches) appear to operate…
- Walker, John (British chemist)
John Walker is a British chemist who was corecipient, with Paul D. Boyer, of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1997 for their explanation of the enzymatic process that creates adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Walker and Boyer’s findings offer insight into the way life-forms produce energy. (Danish
- Walker, John (English chemist and apothecary)
match: …friction matches were invented by John Walker, an English chemist and apothecary, whose ledger of April 7, 1827, records the first sale of such matches. Walker’s “Friction Lights” had tips coated with a potassium chloride–antimony sulfide paste, which ignited when scraped between a fold of sandpaper. He never patented them.…
- Walker, John (American spy)
John Walker was a U.S. Navy communications specialist who for almost two decades (1967–85) passed classified documents, including navy code books and reports on movements of submarines and surface ships, to agents of the Soviet Union. At first obtaining the documents himself while on active duty,
- Walker, John Anthony, Jr. (American spy)
John Walker was a U.S. Navy communications specialist who for almost two decades (1967–85) passed classified documents, including navy code books and reports on movements of submarines and surface ships, to agents of the Soviet Union. At first obtaining the documents himself while on active duty,
- Walker, John Brisben (American editor and publisher)
history of publishing: General periodicals: John Brisben Walker, who was building up Cosmopolitan (founded 1886) after acquiring it in 1889, cut his price to 12 12 cents, and in October 1893 Frank A. Munsey reduced the price of Munsey’s Magazine (1889–1929) to 10 cents. All three saw that, by keeping…
- Walker, Johnny (Indian actor)
Johnny Walker was an Indian actor who was one of Hindi cinema’s earliest and best-known stand-up comedians. He regaled audiences with comic expressions and quirky dialogue delivered with an inimitable nasal inflection. Qazi arrived in Bombay (now Mumbai) in the early 1940s, and the responsibility
- Walker, Johnny (British radio personality)
radio: Pirates and public-service radio: Johnny Walker, for example, became popular on Radio Caroline and later shifted to BBC’s Radio 1; in the mid-1970s, he even worked on American radio. Doing it the other way around, John Peel began in American radio in the 1960s, later joining pirate Radio London…
- Walker, Joseph A. (American playwright)
African American literature: The turn of the 21st century: …to Be Somebody (produced 1969), Joseph A. Walker earned a prestigious Tony Award (presented by two American theater organizations) for the best play of 1973 for the smash Broadway hit The River Niger (produced 1972), and Charles H. Fuller, Jr., claimed a Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics…
- Walker, Kara (American artist)
Kara Walker is an American installation artist who uses intricate cut-paper silhouettes, together with collage, drawing, painting, performance, film, video, shadow puppetry, light projection, and animation, to comment on power, race, and gender relations. Her father, Larry Walker, was an artist and
- Walker, Kath (Australian author)
Oodgeroo Noonuccal was an Australian Aboriginal writer and political activist, considered the first of the modern-day Aboriginal protest writers. Her first volume of poetry, We Are Going (1964), is the first book by an Aboriginal woman to be published. Raised on Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah), off
- Walker, Larry (Canadian baseball player)
Washington Nationals: Moises Alou, Marquis Grissom, and Larry Walker, as well as pitcher Pedro Martínez—that led to a rapid ascent toward the top of the divisional standings. After finishing the 1993 season three games out of first place, Montreal posted a league-best 74–40 record in 1994 only to have the remainder of…
- Walker, Madam C.J. (American businesswoman and philanthropist)
Madam C.J. Walker was an American businesswoman and philanthropist who was one of the first African American female millionaires in the United States. The first child in her family born after the Emancipation Proclamation, Sarah Breedlove was born on the same cotton plantation where her parents,
- Walker, Maggie Lena Draper (American entrepreneur)
Maggie Lena Draper Walker was an American businesswoman, who played a major role in the organizational and commercial life of Richmond’s African American community in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Maggie Draper was the daughter of a former slave. She graduated from the Armstrong Normal
- Walker, Margaret (American author and poet)
Margaret Walker was an American novelist and poet who was one of the leading black woman writers of the mid-20th century. After graduating from Northwestern University (B.A., 1935), Walker joined the Federal Writers’ Project in Chicago, where she began a brief literary relationship with novelist
- Walker, Margaret Abigail (American author and poet)
Margaret Walker was an American novelist and poet who was one of the leading black woman writers of the mid-20th century. After graduating from Northwestern University (B.A., 1935), Walker joined the Federal Writers’ Project in Chicago, where she began a brief literary relationship with novelist
- Walker, Mary Edwards (American physician and reformer)
Mary Edwards Walker was an American physician and reformer who is thought to have been the first female surgeon formally engaged for field duty during the Civil War. She is the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor. Walker overcame many obstacles in graduating from the Syracuse (New York)
- Walker, Mickey (American boxer)
Mickey Walker was an American professional boxer, a colourful sports figure of the 1920s and early 1930s, who held the world welterweight and middleweight championships and was a leading contender for the light-heavyweight and heavyweight titles. Walker, who began his professional career in 1919,
- Walker, Moses (American baseball player)
baseball: Segregation: They were Moses Fleetwood (“Fleet”) Walker, a catcher for the Association’s Toledo team, and his brother Welday, an outfielder who appeared in six games for Toledo.
- Walker, Peter (American architect)
September 11 attacks: One World Trade Center and the National September 11 Memorial and Museum: …by architects Michael Arad and Peter Walker, winners of a design competition that featured 5,201 submissions from 63 countries.
- Walker, Rebecca (American feminist)
feminism: Foundations: …were founded by (among others) Rebecca Walker, the daughter of the novelist and second-waver Alice Walker. Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards, authors of Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future (2000), were both born in 1970 and raised by second wavers who had belonged to organized feminist groups, questioned the…
- Walker, Robert (English artist)
Western painting: The Spanish Netherlands: …the portraitists William Dobson and Robert Walker, in the troubled years 1641–60 the only painters of note active in England, reveal a considerable debt to him. Jacob Jordaens also worked as an assistant in Rubens’ workshop in Antwerp and took it over after his death. His handling of the Rubensian…
- Walker, Robert (American actor)
Strangers on a Train: …a stranger, Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker), on a train. The two men swap their life stories and commiserate over their personal troubles, whereupon Anthony suggests an idea for the perfect murder: each man will kill the bothersome person in the other man’s life. Since the men are strangers, no…
- Walker, Robert Clemente (American baseball player)
Roberto Clemente was a professional baseball player who was an idol in his native Puerto Rico and one of the first Latin American baseball stars in the United States (see also Sidebar: Latin Americans in Major League Baseball). Clemente was originally signed to a professional contract by the
- Walker, Robert J (American statesman)
Robert J. Walker was a U.S. Senator from Mississippi (1835–45), secretary of the treasury (1845–49) during the Mexican War, and governor of Kansas Territory (April–December 1857) during the violent struggle over slavery there. As senator he advocated the annexation of Texas and helped to make
- Walker, Robert James (American statesman)
Robert J. Walker was a U.S. Senator from Mississippi (1835–45), secretary of the treasury (1845–49) during the Mexican War, and governor of Kansas Territory (April–December 1857) during the violent struggle over slavery there. As senator he advocated the annexation of Texas and helped to make
- Walker, Robert John (American statesman)
Robert J. Walker was a U.S. Senator from Mississippi (1835–45), secretary of the treasury (1845–49) during the Mexican War, and governor of Kansas Territory (April–December 1857) during the violent struggle over slavery there. As senator he advocated the annexation of Texas and helped to make
- Walker, Scott (American politician)
Scott Walker is an American politician who was governor of Wisconsin (2011–19). He sought the Republican Party’s nomination in the U.S. presidential election race of 2016. Walker’s father was a pastor, and the family lived in several cities before settling (1977) in Delavan, Wisconsin. Scott
- Walker, Sir Emery (English printer)
Sir Emery Walker was an engraver and printer associated with the revival of fine printing in England in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Walker’s formal schooling ended when he was 13. From 1873 to 1883 he was employed by the Typographic Etching Company in London, whose founder had developed
- Walker, Sir Gilbert (British climatologist)
El Niño: Beginning with the work of Sir Gilbert Walker in the 1930s, climatologists recognized a similar interannual change in the tropical atmosphere, which Walker termed the Southern Oscillation (SO). El Niño and the Southern Oscillation appear to be the oceanic and atmospheric components of a single large-scale, coupled interaction—the El Niño/Southern…
- Walker, Sir John Ernest (British chemist)
John Walker is a British chemist who was corecipient, with Paul D. Boyer, of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1997 for their explanation of the enzymatic process that creates adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Walker and Boyer’s findings offer insight into the way life-forms produce energy. (Danish
- Walker, T-Bone (American musician)
T-Bone Walker was an American musician and songwriter who was a major figure in modern blues. He was the first important electric guitar soloist in the blues and one of the most influential players in the idiom’s history. The son of musical parents, Walker grew up in Dallas, Texas, where he led
- Walker, Thomas (British inventor)
navigation: Distance and speed measurements: …at any time; another Englishman, Thomas Walker, introduced successive refinements of the patent log beginning in 1861. This form of log is still in use.
- Walker, Thomas (American physician)
Kentucky: Exploration and settlement: …1750s and ’60s, Virginian physician Thomas Walker and a survey party in 1750 established the region’s southern boundary—the so-called “Walker Line,” at 36°30′ N—as an extension of the Virginia–North Carolina boundary. (Kentucky was to remain part of Virginia until 1792.) The French and Indian War (1754–63) secured the Ohio River…
- Walker, Walton H. (American military officer)
Walton H. Walker was an American army officer, commander of the U.S. Eighth Army during the difficult opening months of the Korean War. Walker attended the Virginia Military Institute (1907–08) and then entered the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, graduating in 1912 and
- Walker, Walton Harris (American military officer)
Walton H. Walker was an American army officer, commander of the U.S. Eighth Army during the difficult opening months of the Korean War. Walker attended the Virginia Military Institute (1907–08) and then entered the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, graduating in 1912 and
- Walker, Welday (American baseball player)
baseball: Segregation: …Toledo team, and his brother Welday, an outfielder who appeared in six games for Toledo.
- Walker, William (American adventurer)
William Walker was an adventurer, filibuster, and revolutionary leader who succeeded in making himself president of Nicaragua (1856–57). In 1850 he migrated to California, where his interest in a colonization scheme in Lower California developed into filibustering plans. On Oct. 15, 1853, he sailed
- Walkeswar Temple (temple, Mumbai, India)
Mumbai: History of Mumbai: The Walkeswar Temple at Malabar Point was probably built during the rule of Shilahara chiefs from the Konkan coast (9th–13th century). Under the Yadavas of Devagiri (later Daulatabad; 1187–1318), the settlement of Mahikavati (Mahim) on Bombay Island was founded in response to raids from the north…
- Walkie-Talkie (communications)
Motorola, Inc.: Founding as Galvin Manufacturing: …Galvin Manufacturing invented the FM Walkie-Talkie. This device was carried by battlefield soldiers in special backpacks and could communicate over longer distances and with far less static interference than its AM-based predecessor. The two-way radio saw action on all fronts during the war and is credited as being a decisive…
- Walkin’ After Midnight (recording by Cline)
Patsy Cline: Singing “Walkin’ After Midnight” as a contestant on the CBS television show Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts, Cline took first prize—the opportunity to appear on Godfrey’s morning show for two weeks. She thereby gained national exposure both for herself and for her song. Three years later she…
- walking (form of locomotion)
locomotion: Walking and running: Only arthropods (e.g., insects, spiders, and crustaceans) and vertebrates have developed a means of rapid surface locomotion. In both groups, the body is raised above the ground and moved forward by means of a series of jointed appendages, the legs. Because the…
- walking (recreation)
walking, activity that ranges from a competitive sport, usually known as race walking, to a primary and popular form of outdoor recreation and mild aerobic exercise. The technique followed in the track-and-field sport of racewalking requires that a competitor’s advancing foot touch the ground
- walking ataxia (pathology)
cerebellar ataxia: Manifestations of ataxia and other symptoms: Gait ataxia, or walking incoordination, is often described as a “drunken gait,” with distinctive features including variable foot placement, irregular foot trajectories, a widened stance, a veering path of movement, and poor overall coordination of the legs. Thus, walking tends to look clumsy and unstable.
- walking beam
petroleum production: Primary recovery: natural drive and artificial lift: …by a motor and a “walking beam” (an arm that rises and falls like a seesaw) on the surface. A string of solid metal “sucker rods” connects the walking beam to the piston of the pump. Another method, called gas lift, uses gas bubbles to lower the density of the…
- walking catfish (fish)
walking catfish, Species (Clarias batrachus) of Asian and African catfish that can progress remarkable distances over dry land. It uses its pectoral-fin spines as anchors to prevent jackknifing as its body musculature produces snakelike movements. Treelike respiratory structures extending above the
- Walking Dead, The (American television series)
Danai Gurira: Early screen roles and The Walking Dead: …Gurira joined the cast of The Walking Dead, the popular television series about a zombie apocalypse, which premiered in 2010. Gurira’s portrayal of the sword-wielding character Michonne helped to catapult her to stardom. She remained with the show until 2020, by which time her character had grown from a wary…
- walking fern (plant)
walking fern, fern that is a member either of the species Asplenium rhizophyllum, of eastern North America, or of A. sibiricum, of eastern Asia, in the family Aspleniaceae. The common name derives from the fact that new plantlets sprout wherever the tips of parent plant’s arching leaves touch the
- walking fish (fish)
climbing perch, (Anabas testudineus), small Asian freshwater fish of the family Anabantidae (order Perciformes) noted for its ability to live and walk about out of water. The climbing perch is an air-breathing labyrinth fish. Rather oblong, brownish or green, it grows to about 25 cm (10 inches). It
- Walking Hills, The (film by Sturges [1949])
John Sturges: Early work: …first of his many westerns, The Walking Hills. The box-office hit starred Randolph Scott and Ella Raines as treasure hunters searching for buried gold in Death Valley. Next was The Capture (1950), a crime drama set in the American West, with Lew Ayres as a man who kills a coworker…
- Walking Home (memoir by Armitage)
Simon Armitage: Other works: …a Rock-Star Fantasist (2009), and Walking Home (2012), which recounts his experience walking the Pennine Way in England. He also has penned plays, an opera libretto, and the script for a puppet opera. Other projects include a sequence of poetry installations in which six of Armitage’s poems were carved into…
- walking leaf (insect)
leaf insect, (family Phylliidae), any of more than 50 species of flat, usually green insects (order Phasmida, or Phasmatodea) that are known for their striking leaflike appearance. Leaf insects feed on plants and typically inhabit densely vegetated areas. Their natural range extends from islands in
- Walking Purchase (United States history)
Walking Purchase, (Aug. 25, 1737), land swindle perpetrated by Pennsylvania authorities on the Delaware Indians, who had been the tribe most friendly to William Penn when he founded the colony in the previous century. Colonial authorities claimed to have found a lost treaty, of 1686, ceding a tract
- walking race (athletics)
athletics: Walking: This event, also called race walking, is relatively minor. Aside from the Olympic and other multinational competitions, it is seldom a part of track meets. Olympic competition is over 20,000 and 50,000 meters, while other distances are used in individual competitions.
- Walking Tall (film by Karlson [1973])
Phil Karlson: Later films: …Karlson found box-office success with Walking Tall (1973). The sleeper hit was based on the crusade of real-life sheriff Buford Pusser (played by Joe Don Baker) to clean up his corrupt Tennessee town using any means necessary. Karlson reteamed with Baker on Framed (1975), in which a gambler seeks revenge…
- walking tractor (vehicle)
tractor: …types of tractors is the single-axle, or walking, tractor. It is a small tractor carried on a pair of wheels fixed to a single-drive axle; the operator usually walks behind, gripping a pair of handles. The engine is usually in front of the axle, and the tools are on a…
- Walking Wall (art installation by Goldsworthy)
Andy Goldsworthy: Permanent artworks: Goldsworthy also constructed Walking Wall (2019) at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. The dry stone structure meanders from the nearby sculpture park and enters the museum via a glass wall.
- Walking with the Enemy (film by Schmidt [2014])
Ben Kingsley: …the World War II drama Walking with the Enemy (2013). In 2014 Kingsley voiced a scrofulous cross-dressing pest exterminator in the animated adventure The Boxtrolls and joined the ensemble of Ridley Scott’s biblical epic Exodus: Gods and Kings as the Jewish elder Nun. In director Robert Zemeckis’s The Walk (2015),…