What is "wallace"

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Wallace is the remains of a lunar crater that has been flooded by lava. It lies in the southeastern part of Mare Imbrium, to the northeast of the crater Eratosthenes. The crater rim forms a somewhat polygonal outline, and is broken in the southeast. The floor is flat and devoid of significant features, but it is overlain by ray material from Copernicus to the southwest. The rim ascends to an altitude of 0.4 km above the lunar mare.

Wallace was a New Zealand parliamentary electorate. It was established in 1858, the first election held in 1859, and existed until 1996. For a time, it was represented by two members. In total, there were 18 Members of Parliament from the Wallace electorate.

Wallace Crater is an impact crater in the Hellas quadrangle on Mars at 52.9°S and 249.4°W and is 173.0 km in diameter. Its name was approved in 1973 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN), and it was named after Alfred Russel Wallace.

Wallace is the protagonist of Hell and Back, the longest of the Sin City yarns written by Frank Miller.

Wallace starts off as an ex-military civilian. He is a more upright, middle class citizen than Marv or Dwight McCarthy, but also not an epitome of righteousness like John Hartigan, none of whom he has any contact with.

A demobilized Navy SEAL who received the Medal of Honor, he lives a life of relative peace and solitude against the backdrop of crime-ridden Basin City. Having left the Navy years prior, he makes a living as an artist (usually for sleazy magazines, to his great disgust) and as a short order cook. His life changes drastically when he saves a suicidal woman named Esther from drowning. She is kidnapped and enslaved by the Colonel, one of Basin City's most powerful crime bosses, sending Wallace on a single-minded journey to rescue her and take down those responsible, no matter who gets in his way.

Wallace is a Scottish surname derived from the Anglo-Norman French waleis, which is in turn derived from a cognate of the Old English wylisc (pronounced "wullish") meaning "foreigner" or "Welshman" (etymology; see also Wallach and Walhaz). The original surname may have denoted someone from the former Kingdom of Strathclyde who spoke Cumbric, a close relative of the Welsh language, or possibly an incomer from Wales, or the Welsh Marches. The Kingdom of Strathclyde was originally a part of the Hen Ogledd, its people speaking a Brythonic language distinct from Scots Gaelic and the English derived from Lothian. In modern times, in the 19th and 20th centuries, the surname has been used as an Americanization of numerous Ashkenazic Jewish surnames.

Wallace is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Michael B. Jordan. Wallace is a 16-year-old drug dealer for the Barksdale Organization, who works in the low-rise projects crew known as "The Pit" with his friends and fellow dealers Bodie and Poot. When information he provides leads to the brutal death of Brandon Wright, the boyfriend of stick-up artist Omar Little, Wallace feels guilty and tries to leave the drug trade. He informs on the Barksdale Organization to the police, and as a result is killed by Bodie and Poot under orders by drug kingpin Stringer Bell.

Wallace may be used as a given name to refer to

• Wallace W. Andrew (1850-1919), American politician
• Wallace Beery (1885–1949), American actor
• Wallace Carothers (1896–1937), inventor of nylon
• Wallace da Silva, (born 1989), Brazilian football, most recently played for Rapid Bucharest
• Wallace de Souza (born 1987), Brazilian volleyball player generally known simply as "Wallace"
• Wallace E. Johnson (1901–1988), co-founder of Holiday Inn
• Wallace F. Johnson (1889–1971), American tennis player
• Wallace H. Graham (1910-1996), White House Physician 1945-1953
• Wallace Wilson Graham (1815–1898), American lawyer and legislator from Wisconsin
• Wallace Johnson (disambiguation), several people
• Wallace Oliveira dos Santos (born 1994), Brazilian footballer, currently playing for Vitesse on loan from Chelsea
• Wallace Reid (1891–1923), American actor during the silent-film era
• Wallace Shawn (born 1943), American comedian
• W. E. "Pete" Snelson (Wallace Eugene Snelson, 1923-2014), American politician
• Wallace Stegner (1909–1993), American environmentalist and fiction writer
• Wallace Stevens (1879–1955), American poet
• Wallace Thayer (1866–1944), New York assemblyman
• Wallace Thompson (1896-1952), American lawyer and legislator

"Wallace" is a song recorded by American rapper Azealia Banks for her debut studio album Broke with Expensive Taste (2014). The song was written by Banks, Kevin James, Filip Nikolic and Trevor McFedries, while production of the song was provided by the latter two. Lyrically, the track describes a man with a rottweiler head and depicts Banks killing him. Musically, the song is of both R&B and hardcore hip hop origins. "Wallace" received positive reviews from critics, with many deeming it as an album highlight. In 2015, Banks released a music video for "Wallace" directed by Rob Soucy and Nick Ace. The video for "Wallace" received critical acclaim from reviewers, due to its interactive uniqueness provided by its release via the Google Cloud Platform. Banks performed the song during the 2015 Coachella Festival and on her Broke with Expensive Taste Tour.