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Walter Victor Lay (January 21, 1924 – January 20, 1983) was an American politician. He resigned from the Missouri House of Representatives in 1954, during...

William Ellsworth "Elzy" Lay (November 25, 1869 – November 10, 1934) was an outlaw of the Old West in the United States. He was a member of Butch Cassidy's...

terminology understood only by a professional. Terms such as lay priest, lay clergy and lay nun were once used in certain Buddhist cultures, especially...

Victor Lay (26 August 1897 – 1 March 1979) was a British wrestler. He competed in the freestyle light heavyweight event at the 1924 Summer Olympics. Victor...

Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Paul Butterfield, and many others. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015. Samuel Julian Lay was born...

The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805) is a narrative poem in six cantos with copious antiquarian notes by Walter Scott. Set in the Scottish Borders in the...

Scott's The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805). In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), the protagonist's brother is made to read Walter Scott's book...

The laying on of hands is a religious practice. In Judaism semikhah (Hebrew: סמיכה, "leaning [of the hands]") accompanies the conferring of a blessing...

Walter's parents were Christine Collins (born in 1888 as Christine Ida Dunne) and Walter J. Collins (an ex-convict born Walter Joseph Anson). Walter B...

Sir Walter Raleigh (/ˈrɔːli, ˈræli, ˈrɑːli/; c. 1553 – 29 October 1618) was an English statesman, soldier, writer and explorer. One of the most notable...

Thomas Dale DeLay (/dəˈleɪ/; born April 8, 1947) is an American author and retired politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives...

Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is an American retired actor. He achieved fame with a leading role on the comedy-drama series Moonlighting (1985–1989)...

tactic include "dumb CEO defense", "dummy defense", "ostrich defense", "Ken Lay defense", and "Sergeant Schultz defense". The first known instance of the...

Walter Horten (born 13 November 1913 in Bonn; died 9 December 1998 in Baden-Baden, Germany) and Reimar Horten (born 12 March 1915 in Bonn; died 14 March...

Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Lay summary. "Let Them Eat Diversity" (Jacobin, Winter 2011). "Michaels, Walter Benn | English | University of Illinois...

Walter John de la Mare OM CH (/ˈdɛləˌmɛər/; 25 April 1873 – 22 June 1956) was an English poet, short story writer and novelist. He is probably best remembered...

new publication of the late 19th-century translation by Walter Skeat is available as The Lay of Havelock the Dane. Havelok is often categorized as belonging...

Walter Anthony Rodney (23 March 1942 – 13 June 1980) was a Guyanese historian, political activist and academic. His notable works include How Europe Underdeveloped...

Otto Moritz Walter Model (IPA: [ˈmoːdəl]; 24 January 1891 – 21 April 1945) was a German Generalfeldmarschall during World War II. Although he was a hard-driving...

Sir Walter Llewellyn Lewis (13 November 1849 – 26 September 1930) was an advocate, magistrate of Trinidad and Chief Justice of British Honduras. Lewis...