Uncle Tom’s Cabin 8, 579
Underground Railroad (slaves’
escape route) 8, 317, 532
underground trains 527
unemployment 158
UNICEF 542
unicorn 260
Union (American) 123-124,
317, 532
union flag 540
United Arab Emirates 348
United Kingdom (Britain) 536-
541
history 540-541
Industrial Revolution 274-275
see also Britain, ancient;
British Empire;
Commonwealth, British;
England; Northern Ireland;
Scotland; Wales
United Nations 259, 305, 445,
534, 542 , 563
United Nations Environment
Program 142
United States of America 381-
384, 543-548, 555
borders 266, 343
cities 121
Cold War 49, 128-129, 532
Congress 140 , 312
Depression (1930s) 158
exploration in 131, 314, 565
history 547-548
independence 8, 154 , 296,
505, 555
national symbol 383
natural resources 383
original 13 states 131
and Pacific islands 396
Pilgrims 131, 407
presidents 238, 300, 317, 425 ,
445, 555
Protestantism 119
slavery 8, 467-468
soil erosion 472
space program 129, 494, 495,
543
Vietnam War 128, 548, 552
women’s rights 570-571
and world wars 574, 575, 576
see also African-Americans;
American Revolution; Civil
War; Colonial America;
Constitution, US; Native
Americans
universal time 522
universe 52, 72, 549
upthrust 463
Ur 83, 509
Urals 39, 42, 357
uranium 54, 58, 385, 427, 490
Uranus 410
urbanization 382
urinary system 263
Uruguay 477
UT see universal time
uterus 434, 435
Uzbekistan 110
vaccinations 248, 339
vagina 434
Vakhsh Gorge 111
Valentine’s Day 258
Valentino, Rudolph 359
Valley of the Kings 31, 178
valleys 438
vampire bats 67
Vancouver, Canada 92
Vandals 63
Van, Lake 534
variable stars 504
vase paintings 246
vassals 341
Vatican City 119, 290, 291
St. Peter’s 291, 433
Sistine Chapel 398, 401
vault (architecture) 32
VCR see videocassette recorderVE day 576
vegetable oils 392
vegetables 249, 287, 411, 412
veins 250, 263
Velasquez, Diego 498
Venezuela 478
Venice, Italy 200, 290
venomous snakes 470
ventricles 250
Venus 48, 146, 409 , 410
Venus’s flytrap 412
vertebrae 466
vertebrates 23-24, 330, 466
Vesalius 338, 339, 456
Vespucci, Amerigo 200
Vesuvius, Mount 554
Veteran’s Day 258
viaducts 82
Victoria Falls 490
Victoria, Lake 13, 174
Victorians 550-551
video cameras 518, 519
videocassette recorders 518,
519
video-phone calls 281
Vienna, Austria 59, 247
Viet Cong 552
Vietnam 483
Vietnam War 128, 548, 552
Vikings 94, 199, 284, 378, 553
villages 205, 340, 536
villi 161
violets 142, 213
violins 366
viperfish 155
vipers, pit 26
Virgil 321
Virginia 185
Virunga National Park 106
viruses 164, 346
viscachas 241
Vishnu 255
Visigoths 63
vitamin C 226
viziers 178
Vlad the Impaler 486
vocal cords 326
Volcán Iztaccihuatl 344
volcanic lakes 309
volcanoes 125, 145, 169, 170,
251, 357, 554
Africa 106, 174
Atlantic Ocean 49, 153
Central America 108
Etna, Sicily 291, 292
Japan 293, 294, 295
Martinique 95
New Zealand 376
North America 383, 384
Philippines 484
predicting 231
and rock formation 441
underwater 388
Volga River 448
Volta, Alessandro 182 , 457
Volta, Lake 563
volume 560
voting 157, 264, 541, 570
see also elections
Voting Rights Act 122
Voyager spacecraft 410
wagons, covered 314
wagtails 374
Wailing Wall 289, 430
Wake Island 396
Wales 536, 538 , 540
Wales, Prince of 538
walking 528, 529
Wallace, Alfred 153
Wallenberg, Raoul 259
Wall Street Crash 158
walnuts 226
Wannsee Conference 259
wars
Afghanistan 110, 111
Africa 11, 13, 15
British Empire 551Europe 194, 195, 196, 298,
369, 429
Falklands 37
Korea 304, 305
Middle East 348
Southeast Asia 482
USA 548
Vietnam 128, 548, 552
see also American Revolution;
armies; battles; civil wars;
World War I; World War II
Warsaw Pact 128
Warsaw, Poland 259
warthogs 515
Washington, D.C. 121, 140, 144,
238, 240, 301, 425, 546
Washington, George 22, 223,
258, 296, 425, 546, 547, 555
wasps 69 , 280
waste dumping 417
watches 126 , 328, 512
stopwatches 560
water 52, 113, 215, 228, 395,
555-557
boiling point 251
and light 316
Water Babies 551
water boatman 308
water clocks 126
watercolor painting 401
water cycle 428
waterfalls 81, 186, 438, 478, 490
water lilies 227, 308
watermelons 489
water pressure 557
watershed 438
water snakes 308
water solutions 557
waterspouts 507
water treatment 557
water vapor 51, 556
waterways 419
see also canals; rivers
waterweeds 307
Watson, James 73
Watt, James 188, 456
waves (oceans) 388
waves (physics) 48, 186, 315
sound 72, 186, 406, 473
weaning 102, 331
weapons 9, 493, 508, 513, 514
Native American 372
prehistoric 83, 286, 287, 506
Viking 553
see also nuclear weapons
weather 51, 251, 558-559
forecasting 558, 559 , 569
mountains 357, 358
rain and snow 428
rain forest 80
satellites 451
storms 507
tornadoes and hurricanes 523
wind 569
see also climate
weather stations 558
weaving 267, 268, 344, 380
webs 500
wedge 327
Wedgwood, Josiah 468
weeds 412
weever fish 458
weevils 70, 279, 280
Wegener, Alfred 145, 231
weight 243
weightlessness 46
weightlifting 186
weights and measures 560
welding 342, 395
welfare state 541
Wellington, New Zealand 375
West Africa 11, 71, 561-564
Western expansion 565
West Indies 95-96, 467-468
Westminster Abbey 136
weta crickets 142
wetlands 176, 334whales 28, 389, 414, 415, 566-
567
whale sharks 461
whaling 208, 377
wheat 204, 227, 546
Wheatley, Phillis 144
wheelbarrows 328
Wheel of Life 84
wheels 61, 83, 276, 456, 513,
528, 568
axles 328, 568
whelks 459
whirlwinds see tornadoes
whiskers 25, 168
white blood cells 250
White House 425
Whitman, Walt 321
Whittle, Frank 188
Wi-Fi technology 139
Wilberforce, William 468
wildebeest 241, 350
wildlife
Africa 13, 173, 475
Bhutan 269
Canada 92
deserts 159-160, 254, 374, 383
forests 216-217
grasslands 241-242
lakes and rivers 307-308
marshes and swamps 334 , 382
mountains 358
national parks 173, 370 , 475
North America 381, 382, 383,
384
oceans and seas 155-156, 389-
391
polar regions 414-415
rain forests 80, 130
seashore 458-459
Southeast Asia 482, 483
see also animals; plants
William the Conqueror 378, 540
willow trees 308
willows, dwarf 415
Wills, William 58
winches 328
Winchester, England 340
wind 227, 507, 558, 569
monsoons 272, 569
windmills 324, 340, 513, 569
windsocks 569
wind turbines 569
Windward Islands 96
wine 36, 219, 232, 234, 420,
474, 486
wings
aircraft 18
of animals and birds 67, 74,
210-211
of insects 86, 211
wisdom teeth 515
“witch doctors” 475
Wodaabe people 561
wolverines 216
wolves 165-166
women
abolitionists 8
and basketball 66
medieval 341
Muslim 283, 288, 394
Native American 371
pirates 408
politicians 140, 571
and reproduction 434-435
rights of 224, 264, 377, 492,
570-571
Spartan 245
Viking 553
workers 268, 306 , 448, 550,
570, 574
women’s liberation movement
570, 571
Women’s Rights National
Historical Park 571
Wonders of the Ancient World
61, 572
wood see timberwood-boring beetle 70
woodlice 148
woodwind instruments 366
work 186
workers
Chinese 265
Japanese 293
labor movement 306
Soviet 492
women 268, 306 , 448, 550,
570, 574
World Cup, FIFA 471, 477
World Health Organization 248
World War I 64, 196, 247, 325,
542, 548, 570, 573-574
World War II 158, 194, 196,
232, 445, 542, 575-576, 578
Baltic States 62
battle of Midway 396, 576
Churchill 120
French resistance 298
Germany 232, 233, 259, 575-
576
Holocaust 259 , 576
Kennedy in 300
Japan 44, 295
Soviet Union 448, 492, 493, 535
USA 548
V-2 rockets 440
World Wide Web 281
worm lizards 436
worms 24, 465, 466, 577
Wounded Knee, SD 264
wrestling 502
Wright, Frank Lloyd 32
Wright, Orville and Wilbur 18 ,
457, 529
writers 578-579
writing 20, 61, 83, 116, 179,
276, 336, 509
wurst 232X
.
Y.
ZXochimilco, Lake 308
X-rays 48 , 515, 580
yachts 50, 464
Yakut people 447
Yalta Conference 445
Yangtze River 40, 42, 117
“Yanks” 124
Yeager, Chuck 18
years 522
yeast 73, 363
yellow fever 209
Yellowstone 370
Yeltsin, Boris 129, 493
Yerevan, Armenia 103
Yogyakarta, Indonesia 484
Yom Kippur 258
Yorkshire terriers 166
Yorktown, VA 22
Yoruba people 562
Ypres, Belgium 573
Yucatan, Mexico 336, 383
yucca plant 160
Yugoslavia 193, 196 , 247, 486, 488
Yukon Territory, Canada 92
yurts 110, 352
Zagreb, Croatia 488
zebras 241, 260-261
zebu 203
Zen gardens 294
Zeus, statue of 572
ziggurats 61, 509
Zimbabwe 490
Great Zimbabwe 14
zodiac 504
zoology 73, 455
see also animals
zoos 581
Zoroastrianism 402
Zulus 15, 474
Zworykin, Vladimir 519593
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