Crossword clues for wallis
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 455
Land area (2000): 1.526624 sq. miles (3.953939 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.011577 sq. miles (0.029983 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.538201 sq. miles (3.983922 sq. km)
FIPS code: 76240
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 29.630649 N, 96.062751 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 77485
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Wallis
Wikipedia
Wallis (derived from Wallace) may refer to:
Wallis ( Wallisian: Uvea) is a Polynesian island in the Pacific Ocean belonging to the French overseas collectivity ( collectivité d'outre-mer, or COM) of Wallis and Futuna. It lies north of Tonga, northeast of Fiji, east-northeast of the Hoorn islands, east of Fiji's Rotuma, southeast of Tuvalu, southwest of Tokelau and west of Samoa. Its area is almost 100 km with almost 11,000 people. Its capital is Matāutu. Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion. Its highest point is Mount Lulu Fakahega (131 m). Wallis is of volcanic origin with fertile soil and some remaining lakes. Rainfall is plentiful.
Wallis is a British women's clothing retailer. The brand operates from 134 stores and 126 concessions across the UK and Republic of Ireland. Wallis is a subsidiary of the Arcadia Group and one of the many companies under ownership of Philip Green.
Wallis may refer to:
- Alfred Wallis (1855–1942), a Cornish fisherman and artist.
- Barnes Wallis (1887–1979), a British scientist - inventor of the bouncing bomb
- Douglas T. Wallis (1901–1968) son of Thomas Wallis (below) British Art Deco architect
- Diana Wallis, a British politician
- E. A. Wallis Budge (1857–1954), an Egyptologist
- Gary Wallis, percussionist for rock group Pink Floyd
- George Olivier, count of Wallis (1671–1743), a Habsburg Austrian field marshal
- Gustav Wallis (1830–1878), a German plant collector
- Hal B. Wallis (1898–1986), an American motion picture producer
- Henry Wallis (1830–1916), a British painter
- Hilda Wallis (1900–1979), Irish tennis player
- Jim Wallis, an American social justice Christian activist
- Jimmy Wallis, a British athlete
- John Wallis (1616–1703), a British mathematician
- John Braithwaite Wallis (1877–1961), a Canadian entomologist
- Jon Wallis, a British professional footballer
- Ken Wallis, a British pilot
- Larry Wallis, a British rock musician
- Olivier, Count of Wallis (1742–1799), a Habsburg Austrian general
- Provo Wallis (1791–1892), a British Naval officer
- Quvenzhané Wallis, born in 2003, an American child actress
- Ruth Wallis, an American singer
- Samuel Wallis (1720–1795), an English navigator, for whom Wallis Island is named
- Shani Wallis, a British actress and singer
- Stewart Wallis, an advocate for transition to a new economic system
- Thomas Wallis, (1873–1953), British Art Deco architect. Established Wallis, Gilbert and Partners
- W. Allen Wallis (1912–1998), an American economist and statistician
- Wallis Giunta, an Irish-Canadian opera singer
- Wallis Bird, an Irish singer
- Wallis Currie-Wood, an American actress
- Wallis Mathias (1935–1994), a Pakistani athlete
- Wallis Simpson (1896–1986), who became Duchess of Windsor
Usage examples of "wallis".
But then Wallis pressed a switch, and these fragments of Armageddon were banished, as he made his record of the Rota-Mine run through again.
I asked Wallis why the Park had not simply been given over to concrete.
At first Wallis demurred: "Gödel is a difficult man—I'm not sure what you'd gain out of the meeting—and the security arrangements are pretty elaborate.
We passed through several gates, at each of which Wallis had his lapel-badge checked, was required to produce various papers, provide thumb and finger-prints, have his face compared to photographs, and so forth.
He decided Wallis didn’t use such additions and didn’t care that others might.
That’s why she basically favored Wallis, in spite of her occasional naughtinesses.
Plainly Wallis deemed him to be both of particular potential value and in particular need of convincing.
While Wallis employed some gadgets developed in the High Years, he and his lieutenants were nineteenth-century men who had organized an essentially nineteenth-century operation.
I had to make sure that what I did would be so hard to trace that Wallis wouldn’t assign the necessary man-years to the task.
Evidently it didn’t seem worth mentionin’ to the earlier Wallis, on his inspection tour.
That is, Wallis believes his organization, modified but basically the thing he founded, he believes it will be in essential charge of the post-Maurai world.
Anyhow, like many time travelers, it seems, Wallis didn’t stay around to share the experiences of his birth era.
To the intelligent, Wallis offered power, grandeur, a chance--a duty, if you let yourself be convinced, which is gruesomely easy to do--to become part of destiny.
Captain Wallis commanded her and had orders from Sir Hyde Parker at Jamaica to patrol the Mona Passage for seven weeks with the Alert and Reliance in company.
They murdered Wallis and all his officers and sailed the ship to La Guaira, on the Main.